#fandomfrolics

Oh fandomfrolics, we’re really in it now 🥺

This is so hard to choose because so many of his charming (to me) moments are just little laughs and eyebrow lifts so I’m going to shamelessly pull some gifs and try to credit people as best I can on here (or resort to screen grabs that don’t do him justice). Also this is not well-curated, just stuff that popped into my head when I read this 😂

Ted doing close up magic with the captain’s band in season 1. credit: tedxlasso

2. Ted batting his eyes at Roy at the end of 3x2 (this whole scene in Ted’s office is actually my current favorite scene of the series and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I first saw it) credit: ledtasso

3. Ted being very cute after apologizing to Dr Sharon for being a therapy turd (also Ted trying to get comfy on the therapy couch like a doofus). credit: ledtasso

4. Jammy Ted 🥰 credit: dailysudeikis (it said the gif was too big lol so click through to see it)

5. Ted during the last game of season 1 credit: dailysudeikis

(And also whatever the fuck this was about)

5b. Ted with his little notebook (left handed is hot) at the back of the Amsterdam bus. (Can’t find a credit but I think this might be your gif??)

Hello! Strings is an abandoned Grace and Frankie fic idea based on the moment in s6 (?) when Grace says she might like to be tied up and Nick says he’s going to Postmates a headboard. I have basically one messy paragraph about bondage in the doc and of course it would have ended w/her and Frankie but I almost certainly won’t ever write more.

Ahhh I wrote a quick list right after you sent this and then kept meaning to go back to make sure I felt good about the list? Anyway. I'm going to go ahead and listen to my gut (hey-o, Teddy boy!) with my original list:

“Thank you, fuck you” convo and everything surrounding it. I had one of those not so long ago and they’re not “fun” but man do they do something for the soul. 

Ted’s speech after ripping the sign: “Well, you know what I wanna mess around with? The belief that I matter, you know? Regardless of what I do or don't achieve. Or the belief that we all deserve to be loved, whether we've been hurt or maybe we've hurt somebody else.” It’s just so !!!! No offense to Ted’s speeches in season 1 or 2, but this felt the most relatable? Not that relatable is the goal but…I felt fired up afterwards?? It was nice. Like, the Tan Lines speech is nice but it’s a little like…martyr-y (okay, it’s a lot martyr-y) and I just like how much more raw and honest Ted is in this speech. He’s tired of the team's violence in the name of the sign and tired of getting in his own way and tired of worrying so much about certain things. It’s very human and I think that’s why it feels more like a pep talk than his other talks. 

“Problems, they’re like mushrooms. The longer you leave them in the dark, the bigger they get.” It’s such a simple little way of explaining that idea, but it’s sooo true and good to remember (especially when you have anxiety). I think of it often!

The idea of never letting someone hurting get by you, how being sad and together is better than sad and alone, and how you gotta try. They’re all cheesy sayings, but together they make a really good point about continuing to try and do better by each other. I feel like during the season 1 hiatus there was a lot of talk about “what do we owe each other” and that’s the thing I’ve always found most inspiring about Ted. I know in the end he’s learned he can’t help everyone all the time (and also he is very tired), but I think that’s the message he’s imparted on everyone around him (including the audience). It's inspired me to be better to the people around me.

the first snowfall of the season that properly sticks to the ground and makes everything feel quiet

rain that is light and warm and refreshing enough to just not bother going inside for

when the air is cool and crisp but it's completely blue sky sunny

an evening or late-night summer thunderstorm

from this ask meme, thank you anisha <3<3

10. how has writing positively impacted your mental health or overall mood?

oh BOY that's a big question. Sorry about the longwinded answer

it's an outlet! On the lighter side of things, I need a creative outlet or I start shrivelling up. It's really nice to just be able to sit there and create a thing that didn't exist before, and it's really nice to be able to share that with people and know that even for five minutes other people existed in a similar headspace as me. I like that it's kind of an escape, it's all fictional so I can try out as many different things as I want and they don't need to be seen by anyone if I don't want. Like I wrote a trans Henry fic that I've maybe shown one person, and it was truly,,,, just for me. I really like that freedom. And then those fics are permanently available to me and only exist for me! I think that's really cool. I've got a lot in drafts that only exists for me that I return to pretty frequently.

On the,,, not so light side of things, I had an Incredibly rough 2021. My mental health was in the shitter to be frank. And on some of those days I went on full lockdown and all I could do was write, and you'll see that in September I was,,,, producing a frankly astounding amount of fic.

An Asymptote To Which We Are Ceaselessly Striving was the first of these. Reading it back I find the end of it so preachy and annoying lmao, but at the time I really fucking needed to write about people making mistakes, being open and honest about that, and moving on. And moving on not necessarily in a direction that everyone thinks is upwards. Ted still having a network rallying around him after isolating himself, Sharon finding a new family after making a career mistake. I'm obviously trying to skirt around some personal stuff but I just want to say that most of that fic I put out in September last year was absolutely me using fic as a coping strategy when everything else had burnt out - and to see that not only did I produce something, but people read it and it resonated with them!! It would have been enough to know that I could still make something, but it meant the world that other people got something out of those fics too.

These are all fics I consider part of that Era (12-16th September, five days where I published 19,957 words of fic):

No, I Don't Have Any Plans Tomorrow

The last chapter of intimacy is about truth will always be frustrating to me because I hate it lmfao, I know I needed to write it at the time but fuck me I'm so disappointed in how I ended it lmfao. I really liked that world I made and I hope to find peace with it one day.

15) something you learned this year

Okay I’m gonna go print this out and stick it on my door because SHIT IS GETTING REAL

Falcon:Which fictional character would you like to hang out with?

Marvel - Tony mother-fucking Stark oh my fucking god, that asshole would be so much fun to fuck around with. And Rhodey. And Pepper. Also Carol Danvers. AND THOR. Actually, can I hang out with all of them at once because yes. (I’d say Bucky but I suspect that neither 616 nor MCU Bucky would find me terribly interesting company)