#simon ted lasso

[lunar-years]

I love thinking about Simon and Jamie. In my head Georgie dates a lot of like, loser guys, guys who are very clearly in it for the short term, guys who pretend to take an interest in Jamie until their fun with Georgie has run its course, and who never stick around. Plus, she gets back together with Jamie’s dad a couple times in there, which is its own special brand of terrible. Thus teenage Jamie not only very much doesn’t want a new “father figure” in his life, he’s also gotten used to not expecting there not to be one.

So when Simon comes around it’s very very startling, because he comes around and is scarily (nauseatingly, in Jamie’s opinion) nice, and then he stays. And I could totally see James making one more last ditch effort to “win Georgie back” when he sees her dating someone seriously. So Georgie’s putting her foot down and setting new boundaries with James, whilst dating a man who irks Jamie just by virtue of being there and not leaving and seemingly not planning to leave, which is very definitely not okay, whilst James is putting a lot of shit in Jamie’s head because he’s always rambling on about how Georgie should be with him and Simon is terrible. Meanwhile Simon’s taking notice of Jamie’s football posters and working overtime to bond with him over his interests. Except Jamie already thinks of football as the thing he’s got in common with his actual dad, and rejects Simon’s efforts point blank on that alone.

Anyway. I could definitely see all that occurring when Jamie is an older teen, and it being a big part of the rift that I assume grows between Georgie and Jamie at some point. I could even see moving out in anger before he’s really able to. Like, he knows the money’s coming, but he’s not quite playing for City *yet.* Still, to get out of his mum’s house that is quickly becoming mum and Simon’s house, he thinks it’s worth it to move in with dad, just for the short term and all.

The whole while Simon is still there, supporting Georgie and waiting patiently for Jamie to respond to his efforts for a relationship. I can’t imagine how thrilled Simon was when Jamie finally came home (in my head, when he leaves Richmond in s1), and clears the air with Georgie and is a little more open to him. And how quickly that grows into the type of relationship between them we see in Mom City. <333

[secretsoftheuniverse1987]

Not to spoil all the fun parts of thumbs before it's even drafted, but I am kind of obsessed with the idea that Roy is a great cook but maybe not the best baker, so when he goes up to Manchester with Jamie, Simon teaches him how to make some dietician-approved pastries (and maybe some that aren't dietician-approved but which Jamie really loves; it is the off-season after all).

[abubblingcandle]

baby jamie and simon!! 🌷

Yay thank you anon!

So the fandom a lot of the time has the opinion that Little Jam Tartt hated Simon and was a pain in the neck to test his mum's new boyfriend to make sure he was a good fit.

This fic explores the idea that Baby Jamie saw his mum's revolving door of bad boyfriends and knows his dad wasn't in the picture so makes it his life's mission to get his mum a good husband who will look after her because his mummy is perfect and she needs someone who is perfect! He meets one of the librarians at the local library when he's there for a summer project and the guy is really nice to him. He keeps going back to the library when he doesn't have anywhere to go while his mum is at work. He gets to know Simon and decides this man is perfect for his mum and tries to set them up.

A little snippet for you -

“When’s your mum off work today kiddo?” Simon asked after an hour of Jamie simmering in silence. He was on his second lollipop and was shuffling around on his stool as he read. “Seven,” Jamie muttered, flicking over a page. Simon’s eyes flickered up to the large clock above the door. One and a half hours plus the time it would take Georgie to get from work. “Ok. You bring any food with you for tea?” he sighed. He would not be able to sit here with Jamie wallowing for another two hours and yes he had only known little Jamie for a few months but he did know that Jamie wasn’t going to be able to sit still for that long no matter what the book was he was reading. Jamie’s jaw ground in contemplation as his brow furrowed. Eventually, he nodded and hopped down off the chair and rummaged in his bag pulling out a bottle of apple juice and a container of cheesy tomato pasta, placing them on the shelf between himself and Simon. “Good, you can have it whenever you want,” Simon smiled softly. “Can’t eat in the library can ya?” Jamie bit back chest puffing out. Simon chuckled at the little smug smile from Jamie and slowly shook his head, “as long as you put the book away while you do then I won’t tell anyone.”

[fanficfanattic]

I’m thinking of including a few lines in Chapter 10 of the Family Curse fic. It’s the one where 9 yo Jamie shows up, and so does James, who thinks that baby Jamie is Jamie’s son. And Roy is the one who demands to know precisely why the fuck James would think his 23 yo son could have a 9 yo son.

And it would be a short blip where Georgie makes Simon promise not to have James killed. And everyone is looking at this giant clumsy Labrador stepdad with skepticism. And he just sort of waves the questions off by saying he was part of a gang when he was a youth.

Cause I like absurdist humor.

[jamiesfootball]

In the kitchen Simon pointed proudly to a shared calendar on the fridge that had all their game days circled in blue. ("I'm not one to shirk my civic duties, but I've been known to skip the occasional council meeting when it conflicts with the schedule!") He offered them a drink, going out of his way to reassure Roy that he could ignore the City mugs stored above the fridge. ("We only drink from Richmond mugs these days, and they're all in the wash!") As they marched down the short hallway, he even cheerfully pointed out a dent above the baseboards where Jamie had once bounced a football off the wall too hard. ('He was only a little lad then, but Georgie dearest says that's when she knew he had the bug!') On one of those café chalkboards, a running tally of Richmond's points for the season sat printed above a grocery list for a 'Winning Bakewell Tartt.' Keeley giggled, whipping her phone out to take a picture. Simon put a finger to his lips and promised not to tell, smiling so sincerely that if it hadn't been for regular exposure to Ted Lasso, Roy would've thought he was taking the piss.

[faramirsonofgondor]

“They should really write songs about it”

“I think they do”

-2x08 (Man City)

AND THEN THEY HAVE FATHER & SONS PLAYING DURING THE FINALE????

THE WRITERS WERE LITERALLY SO DIABOLICAL AND SICK FOR THIS.

JAMES TARTT SR. DID NOT DESERVE THIS REDEMPTION ARC.

SIMON AND GEORGIE SHOULDVE HAD A MOMENT LIKE THIS IN THE FINALE. HELL EVEN HIGGINS WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER OPTION.

WHAT WAS THE REASON.

[gracie-b-33]

So since I’ve apparently been betrayed by Apple 👀

Something occurred to me last night that hadn’t before (at least not in the context of everything we’ve learned in Season 3).

The Christmas Episode from Season 2.

I assumed Jamie did the round trip up to Manchester to see his mum (or that she came down to him) which seems to track.

But guys…. Simon 😍

Can you image?!?! Like he seems to be the kind of guy who would go ALL OUT (like Monroe from Grimm).

Like how elaborate would the gingerbread house me. Does he recreate historic buildings/churches? Does Jamie help?

DO THEY HAVE MATCHING APRONS?!?!

[deardarlingthings]

i still adore them, thanks. will always adore them.

Heyyy! Jamie!

[samwpmarleau]

jamie’s two teds

[its-a-show-stoppin-number]

Just a few more headcanons (all jamie/royjamie ones this time)

Jamie read the Percy Jackson books when he was young and was fully convinced he was a demigod

(extension of the last one) Jamie is not neurotypical

Jamie’s mom has never called him by his full name (James) because she didn’t want him to think that she was associating him with his dad

Jamie recreated the “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” scene from 10 Things I Hate About You to try to win Roy over/ask him out and got all of the guys to participate

Jamie is a Griffindor

Jamie likes Noah Kahan and Sam Fender’s music

Sometimes (not even intentionally) Jamie sings his own chant because it’s stuck in his head

he also does Roy’s chant (he’s given Phoebe so much money because of how many times he’s done Roy’s chant in front of her)

Simon taught Jamie how to bake and Jamie regularly brings in treats for the team and the coaches

after Mom City, Jamie tries to dedicate at least a couple days a month to go visit his mom and Simon

this is definitely me projecting on Jamie but he has sensory issues with certain textures and the sound of chewing

Jamie’s dad’s friends called him “junior” when he was younger

Random Ted Lasso headcanons because…why not:

Roy is an absolutely PHENOMENAL cook

On the other hand, Isaac can’t cook for shit like my guy burns water EXCEPT for breakfast foods. Isaac makes the best pancakes, waffles, French toast, etc.

Ted and Higgins both go to pride every year and wear a “Free Dad Hugs” shirt

When Frozen came out, Phoebe forced Roy to watch it so many times that he could’ve probably quoted it word for word (he took her to see Frozen 2 and ended up running into Trent and his daughter)

Whenever Trent’s daughter plays pretend with him and hands him an imaginary phone, he always comes up with the WILDEST scenarios for their game

One time at team karaoke (which became a pretty regular thing after the Everton F.C. match), Jamie and Colin sang Agony from Into the Woods and Jamie did the choreography (he definitely didn’t learn it because he rewatched the musical so. many. times. because he had a crush on Chris Pine *wink* *wink*)

Ted made the mistake of showing Me Before You at a team movie night one time and the entire team was sobbing by the end

Bumbercatch is the jumpiest mf ever but LOVES horror movies

One of Jamie’s favorite movies is Dead Poets Society and his favorite character was Neil (he was inconsolable when he watched it the first time and Neil died)

Beard knew about Trent’s crush on Ted and teased him about it every time he got flustered around Ted

The only times Roy isn’t the princess when he plays Princess and Dragon with Phoebe is when Jamie plays with her (Roy has SO MANY pictures of Jamie dressed as the princess on his phone and one is his wallpaper)

We all know that Jamie’s bi awakening was Roy and Keeley but Will’s was Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars movies

Will was raised by a single mom who he loves more than anything (I saw someone else hc this and it makes so much sense)

Bumbercatch LOVES Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime/BU Supernatural and low key religiously listens to a true crime podcast

[abubblingcandle]

For the Whumptober ask game, how about

7/11

(Does the UK have 7/11s? The joke might not work as well for you if you don’t lololol)

Thank you darlin!! We don't have 7/11s but I have been in them in different countries so I know what they are 💕💕💕

This is from my Whumptober ask game (send me a number between 1-31 and I'll give you some info and a snippet from that fic) which I am still accepting numbers for!

Day 7 - Magic with a Cost - Star Player in a Twisted Game

In my head I am referring to this as Jamie Tartt Gets Christmas Carol-ed 😂 During the Zava period Jamie wishes that he never came back to Richmond one night when he's struggling with no one caring about the team and being alienated as he won't join the Zava Personality Cult. He wakes up in his house but it's owned by someone else and no one can see him. Imaginary Simon guides him through the impact he has had on other people and what his life would be like if he hadn't made that decision

“Hey Jam Tartt.” Jamie pulled his head up from his knees and blinked sluggishly as he came back into his body. As the mist clears, the light navy blue suede sambas come into focus at the bottom of long, chinos clad legs. Jamie knew those shoes. He had bought them, and then the first time he had come home and seen them there was already a little stain on the toe cap that had never been cleaned. “You seem a little shook up there duck?” Jamie followed the legs up and let out a choked whine of relief at Simon’s soft smile looking down at him. The piercing electric light of the Nelson Road corridor cast an abrasive halo around his head, he was an angel sent to save Jamie from whatever hellscape he had got himself trapped in. This wasn’t real and Simon was here to fix it for him.

Day 11 - "Leave no trace behind, like you didn't even exist" - Counting Up My Karma Ch1

This one is ... well it's a a lot for poor Jamie. About six months ago I was lamenting that I had 49 ideas on my WIP list and so threw out the net to the whump crew for another idea to make it a round 50 ... and not going to lie, we cooked. The initial idea came from @jamiesfootball and it is based around Jamie arriving to Richmond after Ted and when the team has started to buy into the Lasso Way. Which leaves Jamie in a horrible position of being "needed" but not being the star and he's getting contrasting instructions from all sides. There's no winning. Plus he was Rebecca's attempt at unwitting sabotage and so gets gaslit into thinking he is cursed as she tries to get him to flip and ruin the team spirit. I saw this prompt and just had to dust it off for this!

“You must be Jamie Tartt!” Jamie is startled out of his grinning stare at Roy’s departing not as quickly as he used to be able to back by a chipper exclamation behind him. “Fucking yeah, good to be recognised by a fan,” Jamie replies with a scoff before turning and finding himself face to face with the one player he hoped he wouldn’t be seeing today. “Oh I am a fan,” Dani Rojas beams, shuffling his crutches into one hand to over his right hand out for Jamie to take. “Hey, good to hear yeah mate. Sorry bout the knee,” Jamie stumbles over his words. He still remembers it. Ferran had brushed Jamie off when he pointed out that wouldn’t it be super awkward to loan out a replacement for an injured player from the team that injured him but he had been laughed out of the office and told to go pack his shit. Stevie wasn’t the cleanest player on the best of days but to his credit he got the ball and there was nothing in the sliding contact with Rojas. If Jamie was feeling particularly Sky Blue he would point out that Dani could have easily avoided the contact but that didn’t seem like the right thing to say when the lad’s warm hand was pressed in his. The sound when his knee hit the turf, you didn’t need a pitchside microphone to pick that up. “Oh there is no worries Jamie Tartt. It was an accident and it wasn’t even you that committed the tackle. I would be a fool to blame you for the wills of the universe,” Dani shrugged. Jamie nodded tentatively, managing to free his hand from Dani’s with more force than he thought would be required.

[fanficfanattic]

Family Curse????

From this WIP Title ask game.

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Listen, everyone knows curses aren’t real. They’re part of bedtime stories to scare children into behaving. Magic isn’t real. It’s all hogwash.

Except…

All of Jamie’s family from his mom side, back and back generations and generations, have all had their time with the curse come. Jamie was old enough to remember when his mummy had hers at age 29.

And that was part of it. Every generation had it come to them younger and younger. No one knew what would happen when the ages converged. It’s one of the reasons Jamie has sworn to never have kids.

It’s part of what makes it a curse rather than a blessing. Cause even as they enjoy it…they wonder. Why did it start? How will it end?

Coming to you THIS whumptober…

[faramirsonofgondor]

I love that we have collectively agreed that Jamie is bi. But also… imagine bisexual Georgie Tartt. Like it just kind of makes sense. I can picture her maybe having a girlfriend or two when Jamie is younger before his dad comes back into the picture. I can picture them all going to an aquarium or something. I can see Georgie sticking with dating women for a while, because she’s still wary after leaving Jamie’s dad. And like the women she goes out with happen to be more understanding of her situation than the men. And they all love Jamie to pieces. But maybe she ends up breaking it off with them due to being busy. Or like maybe her girlfriend ends up moving away for work or something, but Georgie doesn’t want to leave.

And maybe James knows and he’s angry but not really worried, until he hears that she’s going on dates with girls and guys again. And then he feels threatened because he didn’t really see the women she went out with as anything serious. But the men definitely threatened his position in her (and Jamie’s) life. He didn’t want another man raising his son. He probably came with the scheme to get back in Georgie’s life because he realized he didn’t have control over her anymore. But he also knew he couldn’t be a dick at first or she wouldn’t let him back in. He was also probably a bit worried about whatever “soft bullshit” Georgie was putting in Jamie’s head. He didn’t want Jamie to end up queer just because Georgie made it seem like it was okay.

So when Georgie finally trusts him enough to let Jamie start spending time alone with him, he makes sure that his son knows that he can’t be soft, that needs to dominate and act like a real man. He takes him to Amsterdam to make sure any ideas Georgie put in Jamie’s head about being queer were stomped out. And then one day when he’s going on a misogynistic rant to Jamie, he brings up how he knew he had to try and win Georgie back once she decided to pursue more serious relationships. But Jamie is confused because she’s been dating other people for years. And when he brings that up, James just explains that those weren’t deal and didn’t count cause they were women. And Jamie just goes home confused and mentions it to Georgie, who gets reasonably pissed off. And then she kicks James to the curb for real.

And then on her first real date after all this, she gets stood up. But she ends up making friends with the pastry chef at the bakery she went to, whose name is Simon. And she ends up in a happy and supportive relationship, with a man who understands that her liking both is not a phase or wrong. And a man who does his best to show Jamie that it’s alright to be soft.

[fanficfanattic]

Roy is once again in Jamie Tartt’s childhood home, this time sitting at a real table having tea with the whole family.

Well. They’re about to have tea. Jamie and Simon are still in the kitchen, probably fucking about the two muppets. So Roy is sitting with Georgie, who he maybe might have the tiniest crush on. And instead of unpacking that in any way, he nods at her commemorative Diana plates.

Based on his own family, it looks like she has every single one of them. Which means Jamie, like himself, had to hire someone to track down and buy the really rare ones.

More likely, Jamie did the work himself. Both because he’s secretly a thoughtful gift-giver but also he’s still young enough that he hasn’t realized you can hire someone to do almost anything.

He nods in approval at the collection. Mind mostly on Jamie, so he misses Georgie’s smile. He looks over when she starts talking.

“I loved her so. The People’s Princess. I never really thought that I could someday marry a prince. Even with her having done it. But even just a frisson of possibility was enough for me.”

Roy gave his I Have Heard You grunt, and he got to see first hand how easily Georgie learned to read him. No wonder Jamie did it so quickly once they spent real time together. He inherited good genes and a witnessed a master at her craft.

“If Jamie had been a girl, I was going to name him after her.”

“If Jamie had been born a girl, you were going to name him Diana?”

Simon and Jamie walk in -just in time- to Jamie’s horror, to hear Georgie put a nail in the coffin of Jamie’s reputation. With a smile on her face and a song in her heart. With no shame.

“What! No. I’d have named him Princess!”

As someone who was a teen when Diana died, I can absolutely support the fact that Georgie as a teen or young adult would have been ruined by Diana's death, but Jamie was already born when Diana died! The October 1997 birthdate on whatever fan wiki is a total lie/math error, he has to have been born by Feb 1997 at the latest for him to have been 23 at the time the show tells us he's 23. However, she may well have wanted to name him after her even when Diana was still alive. I can see her going for Princess, like the absurdly named little girl in Trying.

Inch resting however I will unfortunately continue to believe the FIFA/wiki birthday because I simply want Jamie to be my Libra twin + he is such a Libra to me 🩷 I choose not to see it lol

[marvelling-at-marvel-blog]

I know it was meant to be a joke, but it kind of breaks my heart that S2 Jamie thinks the best way to make friends is to buy all his teammates PS5s. The way his logoc

Like he really thinks his likeability is tied to his talent, money and looks. The way he says what better thing to spend money on than love just screams to me low self value.

I really think he struggled to make friends his whole life and most of the people who came in his life like him for his talent, star potential and what he could do for them.

Which means when Zava comes along in season 3 he probably legit thought he was going to lose all his friends. Now, they didn't need him on the pitch. So now I just want to give him a great big hug.

His S3 storyline really helps him learn what true friendship is.