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Did you call up your mother (and tell her you love her) by readinglts
Fandoms: Top Gun (Movies)
15 Apr 2025
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Bradley wakes up late on Tuesday morning. It's the third week of classes and he'd stayed up too late in the lounge with the other guys watching the game. His alarm should have gone off at 7:30, but he probably forgot to set it the night before. He wakes up to a pounding on his door at 8:50, and by 8:55 the world has changed.
Going to war. Uncle Wood says they're going to war and yeah, Bradley thinks to himself dumbly, that makes sense. But if the nation is going to war, his entire family is going with it.
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Or: Bradley hasn't spoken to his family in a year, when he stormed out and never looked back. Now, the World Trade Center is in flames and his family is being deployed. Returning home is never simple, but maybe it can start with a phone call.
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if you rewrite your life, may i still play a part? by scarlettroses
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
10 Apr 2025
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If he'd stayed a footballer, he doesn't know if he'd have made it to this age. He'd have been fucking miserable, he's rather sure— dealing with Dad, living in the public eye, pushing his body to its limits, never really getting a break. He'd not have found out that he actually is quite smart when he works for it, and that he can make proper friends who don't just follow him around because they think he's the shit. He'd not have found the sense of freedom and independence and normalcy that he's come to enjoy.
Going to uni was the right thing to do, and now he's off to work a job he loves, and he never has to fucking worry about scoring goals ever again. Life is perfect, he's quite sure.
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in which things are a little different, but some things (like roy kent) always remain.
aka. the au in which jamie is a physiotherapist, and roy is roy.
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08 Oct 2025
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The (in)Complete Guide to Britpicking and Finer Football Details by BelmotteTower, ScoatneyHall
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
16 Nov 2022
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This is not fic! This is a non-fiction resource. I hope this resource will be something that is useful to anyone in this fandom who either wants to write fic from the POV of any one of Ted Lasso’s British characters and is not British themselves, or wants to read and write fic and, like Ted, knows nothing about the ins and outs of football and the Premier League.
I've helped a number of viewer friends and writer friends with some of these things already, and I’ve also done extensive research for my own fics and had really positive responses to my author notes, so I thought it might be helpful to compile and share some details regarding Britpicking, British culture and football itself for anyone who wants to make use of this resource, either as a viewer, reader or writer!
16.11.2022: Latest update - England International Duty and the 2022 World Cup. Part one of a long update about players' potential roles in the World Cup and playing for a national team in general. Very Jamie-centric, so mainly about his future England career, but a few other details for others included, as well as some basics on the current controversy and how to potentially write around it.
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02 Oct 2025
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Jamie's trying to be good, is the thing. A good man would go visit his dad in hospital, no matter how much he'd rather not, right? If it were Jamie himself who were ill or hurt, Dad probably wouldn't come all the way to London for him... but Jamie is better than him. This proves it.
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jamie’s dad is ill.
they haven’t seen each other in a year.
things are complicated.
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12 Sep 2025
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I absolutely adore how this story characterizes Jamie and Roy. Jamie isn't too fragile/but is still obviously hurting, Roy doesn't immediately become a trauma-informed therapist but still tries his best. Love it
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It was probably Roy’s fucking fault. You see, it was probably Roy’s fucking fault, because he had stupidly assumed that Jamie had enough common sense to realize that waking up at four in the morning meant he would need to be going to bed earlier in the night unless he wanted to be running on fumes. It was on him for thinking the little prick would behave in a normal or reasonable way about anything, he should’ve known better. So, now Roy had to fucking do something about it.
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Roy decides Jamie needs a bedtime, Jamie doesn't think he needs a bedtime, shenanigans ensue. Also known as Jamie vs Bedtime.
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- Part 2 of Kindergarten Tactics
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06 Sep 2025
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Counting Sheep - basically Jamie doesn't know how to fall asleep, so Roy gives him a bedtime and enforces it. Cue hilarity but also such sweetness
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“So how’d the whole meeting your former coach and teammates after dropping off the face of the earth 5 years ago thing go?”
Jamie paused, taking a deep breath in slowly and releasing it even slower, looking towards the ceiling like it would somehow make the next words out of his mouth less embarrassing to admit out loud. “I panicked, and introduced myself to them like they’d never met me.”
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Five years after Jamie Tartt quits man city and disappears off the face of the earth, some of the players at AFC Richmond participate in an outreach program where they visit some local school, and mentor some of the children. These two events are a lot more connected than they first seem.
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06 Sep 2025
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Unsure if this will ever update again, but love Jamie as a teacher slowly reconciling life as a footballer with life after