#HE'S *OUR* DORK

[poohkeepsee]

[takenbtwind]

Love how we all went into season 3 like "wow we love this gay lil' dork" even though we had no confirmation that Trent was gay or a dork

But look how far we've come! s3 ep6 confirmed gay Trent and s3 ep7 confirmed dork Trent. Way to go we absolutely called it

[saywhatjessie]

Never recovering from this

[mandiffe]

you want to tell me that ted who an episode later said "it's nice to be with who are excited to be around you" didn't have a single gay thought here? not a single 'ooh now this gave me butterflies'? yeah, out of character, not my ted lasso

This was his "struck by lightning" moment, by the way. If you even care.

[egophiliac]

doylist explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: probably something about space constraints and making sure two sprites in one seat aren't covering anyone else when they're not in focus

watsonian explanation for why Gidel is only in Fellow's non-idle lesson animations: he snuck in and is hiding from the teachers, don't give him away 🤫

(I've reached my limit of unsuccessful attempts at pulling them before I need to save keys for Halloween, so I've been living vicariously through youtube videos...but the fact that Gidel just pops up from under the desk to wave his arms around happily is really testing my resolve. D: I'm gonna die when they finally get to do alchemy...)

[bizarrelittlemew]

thinking about Taika and Rhys hanging out watching the olympics on mute in Taika's on-set tent during filming of season 1 and coming up with the idea to prank people into believing they were drinking alcohol at work by walking around set drinking non-alcoholic whiskey pretending it's actual whiskey. they really couldn't have found anyone more perfect for the roles of Ed and Stede like that is absolutely something they would do

[something-about-sunflowers]

Frenchie has a cat on the back of his jacket!

I also have a shitty outlined version in case it's hard to make out:

Not sure if the face/mouth is right, it could be an open mouth off the side like a cartoon would do but the body shape I'm sure on.

[devotioncrater]

"no hints were dropped" ok not to be that person but here are the hints that were dropped regarding Colin and Trent being gay:

1. Colin mentioning Grindr in a joke

2. Trent touching the arm of a man in the background

Here is one of the hints that Keeley was bi (even though I do believe she's been canonically bi since season 1, but not everyone sees it this way)

1. Her desktop background was in the colors of the bisexual flag

Here were some of the hints that Ted was bi:

1. Bisexual flag colored triangles above his head in the hallucination sequence

2. Inverted pink triangle next to him in that same sequence (and you can't tell me the creators didn't know, when the Homomonument is based on that symbol)

3. Countless (countless!!!) comments about men's physiques ("huge muscular thighs all caked in mud", whistling at a picture of Pep, "look at that head of hair", "he's strong", "he looks like a Rodin sculpture in cleats", etc.)

4. About a man (Higgins) and a woman (Rebecca), he had to say: "that's a crowd I don't mind being smack-dab in the middle of"

5. Him checking Trent out in the pub in 2x07 (his eyes are up there, Ted!)

6. "It could go either way", "I contain multitudes" and other comments in this vein

7. Bi lighting as he entered the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn

8. Giving similar looks to the female waitress and the male waiters in that restaurant (including a waiter in a cowboy costume that looked like he belonged in a gay club, who tipped his hat at Ted when greeting him)

9. "That's cause you were put into a box", "That box ceases to exist today", the box in the hallucination sequence breaking into triangles (as in the bi triangles and the inverted pink triangke), "we've been playing too rigid", "our guys need freedom", "fast, fluid, free, with full support", the "box that one needs to break out of" being a prominent motif in season 3

10. Wishing Beard called him pet names ("Honey, is that an ingredient or something you just called me?")

11. His crush on Pep

12. The connection between Ted and Colin: "my whole life is two lives, really", both wearing orange in Sunflowers, "I just want to kiss my fella" (Colin doesn't say "fella" , but Ted says it all the time), Ted just needs to get inspired and Colin's play is "inspirational" after he comes out, as per the commentators

And so much other stuff that, had Ted not self-identified as straight (*cough* put himself into a box *cough cough*) , you could make the case that he was canonically bi.

Here are some of hints that there was a romantic connection between Ted and Trent:

1. They hit a lot of romantic beats, and not in the jokey self-aware way in which Roy and Ted hit them in "Rainbow", but in an organic and sincere way

2. They both checked each other out: Trent checked Ted out when Ted was changing in front of him, Ted checked Trent out when Trent came up to him in a pub and hit him with a pick-up line while his date that looked a lot like Ted waited for him outside

3. Did I mention that Trent was on a date with a moustachioed man who dressed in a similar style to Ted? Let's mention it again

4. In that very bar, during a 50 second long conversation, Trent managed to say the word "love" three times. I searched the word "love" in the transcripts of the episodes. There's no other instance in which its frequency is this high

5. "Love our chats" incomplete rule of threes

6. "Sport, it's quite the metaphor" (implied: a metaphor for love; see also "love's a beautiful game" from the song Ed Sheeran wrote for Ted Lasso), "Also makes for a heck of a nickname", "Good night, Ted", "Good night, sport"

7. The soft, romantic, melancholic song playing in the background of this scene, while Ted and Trent are the last ones left in the office, with lyrics such as "When your words begin to crumble like the sidewalks all around this crummy neighborhood / From the chalky cliffs of Dover / I'd come over, I'd start over if I could"

8. Trent wearing sunflower colors in the episode "Sunflowers" and in the finale; sunflowers symbolize Ted's home (it's not subtle). He's the only character dressed like that. I'm still looking for any other explanation other than "Trent is Ted's home"

9. Their constant flirting and the way they look at each other with incredible fondness

10. The entire episode "The Strings That Bind Us". It's structured around Ted and Trent's relationship, and the way Trent changed because of Ted (in season 2, Ted defined a soulmate as someone who changes your life forever). The red string metaphor. Ted points out that soulmates are connected by a string tied to their little fingers. Ted and Trent both extend their little fingers out in similar shots. They are connected by a huge block of red in their last scene of the episode. Ted makes several comments about other men that apply to Trent ("Look at that head of hair", "Frames his face nicely", "My favorite one, he was clean shaven"). Many more details that lead back to Ted and Trent: Nate tells the restaurant owner to tell Jade he said "Hello". Immediately after, Ted and Trent say "Hello" to each other. The map that Nate's father used to ask out his mom has the number 1.3 written on it and an illustration of two people at a table in a restaurant. Ted and Trent went to a restaurant together in season 1, episode 3. The last scene of the episode mimics a "Race for Love" scene from a romcom, with Trent chasing after Ted. Trent also does not say a word to anyone other than Ted in the entire episode. He is completely focused on Ted

11. "Trent, what do you love? Is it writing?" and Trent ends up writing a book about Ted and naming the manuscript after Ted and he only cares about Ted's opinion on it (he leaves the room when Beard starts reading, but stays in the office after hours just to watch Ted read. "I just wanted you to like it.")

11. Trent's crush on Ted, confirmed by Jimmy Lance (and also obvious in the show, if you ask me)

Now, why would I believe that none of these hints were intentional? Maybe some could be explained away, but all of them? The hints we got for Colin, Trent and Keeley were so much smaller than this, and those turned out to be intentional.

anon i wish i could offer you the response you deserve, but i cannot stop rereading this masterpiece & focusing on the portions of evidence you provided that i didn't even pick up on until you laid them out. holy shit

[punkcornzero]

They're trophies

I love how the amount of pens in Trent’s pocket is growing episode to episode

Where is he getting them

[poohkeepsee]

Trent Crimm wants to be part of the team so bad

[personalzombie-tv]

i fucking love minecraft role play what do you MEAN the man best remembered for asking his partner to decapitate him in order to kickstart carnage on the server in season one said, and I quote, "take my head" to the man that has died first almost every single time they do this in an act of sacrifice to keep him both alive and stave off the violence of the red names?

[ratatatastic]

dying at the little smirk he makes as he spots the little finn flag toothpick and goes "i like that" because he has to show it off to sasha and the camera huh he has to

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

not that i don't appreciate the ones that exist/the fics that do address it bc i do but i need more fix-its for the laugh police scene. ultimately this wasn't a huge deal really, but consider it hurt my feelings specifically and i want FIX-ITS

[kesakeshi]

More in-depth review/description of Estinien's lvl 100 trust glam✨

all of this was discussed at the FF14 PAX AUS Panel. I'm just re-writing this for those who don't know or aren't aware of the event, and for future reference~

So apparently Tataru sent Estinien his outfit because she figured he wasn't going to buy one himself for the Scion's vacation.

Estinien loves the shirt pattern because of the cactuar/sabotender he ate in Shaaloani (I guess dried squid isn't his only obsession now-)

Estinien wears an "Lunar Envoy's Earring of Slaying" as well. I definitely didn't notice this at first, so I'm glad they mentioned it.

Tataru probably wouldn't have given the earring to him. He definitely received this at Radz-at-Han.

He probably got this after the WoL(us) got everything we needed from Radz-at-Han. There was a lot of inventory still left over, and Estinien just so happens to appear...

(1:04:18 for Estinien's part)

[fancyingfinefabrics]

for me, i love & relate to ed so much because i’ve also been through a non mutual breakup that left me sobbing on the floor, bc nothing hurts like getting your heart broken by a dorky boy! it’s devastating

BUT if blackbeard can cry over a boy and still be saved by love, so can we all, and if that’s not beautiful and liberating idk what is

[ladypolitik]