A Belief In Invisible Cats...

Can you believe it's actually Ted Lasso season 4 time?! And not only that, but there's been whispers that we're going to see our favourite beloved ex-journalist Trent Crimm again. Dive back into it all with Lou and Balth, from Casablanca to haircuts, from Midlake to meta moments about podcasts.

My 1st attempt to draw something for Osgate❤️

Here’s the battlefield

Now, the way this goes is that I have everyone show up around 4:30pm. People show up, it's a big crowd, it's pretty warm out because the sun is still up and the mingling is great. People eat, share food, the kids run around in the trees and check out the lake, and we all just generally enjoy ourselves and catch up. Then the sun starts to go down.

People start getting under the pavilion, it starts getting a little chilly, and maybe those with really young kids start to pack up and say good-bye. This is usually when I light up the fire in the pavilion's fireplace and people will begin gathering around there. I let the grill burn down and sit down with everyone as everything gets a bit more mellow. Maybe we make s'mores or have cookies or something but this is usually were you start having more people say their good-byes and head out. That's how it goes for the next couple of hours, little dribbles of people winding up and heading on home until it's 9:30 at night and there's just a few people left in the pavilion in the woods sitting around a little fireplace quietly talking.

You know what? That's the best time at these things. Some years we'll be out there until almost midnight, just chatting quietly and staring into the coals. You learn things about people then, you hear interesting things, and you just feel closer.

So what does this have to do with fandom and moving on? Well, I see it like this. The show is still on, that's the early part of the day. Plenty of people around, lots of activity where art gets made, headcanons and meta fly fast and furious, and tons of fic gets written. Then the show ends, people are still creating but a few peel away, they have other things they have to do or just aren't interested in sticking around. Slowly but surely it goes until it's just a few people left.

That's when the interesting things really start coming out. You still have the other stuff but you start to get off the wall headcanons and wild meta, you get odd art, you get fic the person finally decided to write, and it's good. And hey, every once in a while, someone shows up late and you grab some food out of the cooler for them and warm up a burger for them over the coals while others grab a chair for them and you get them up to speed on the conversation and maybe show them some pictures from earlier in the night and they get to have some of that glow from earlier even if they missed the original.

Chapters: 3/5 Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart/Petronella Osgood/Reader, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart/Petronella Osgood Characters: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Petronella Osgood Additional Tags: Alternate Universe – Mermaids, mermaid!Kate, mermaid!Osgood, human!POV, Miscommunication, smidgen of jealousy, Smut, (in later chapters) Summary:

The coast holds more life when you look closer, that’s what you’re here to study after all – rockpools and sand dunes teeming with life if one only pauses and leans in to wait for the tell-tale signs.

- you counted the stitches correctly

- the tension is fine

- the first few rows are always going to look wonky

- you have enough yarn

- it will be easier once you have done a few centimetres