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Formerly @celsfandomrave | Cel | she/her | 25 | Ted Lasso Costume Breakdowns | tedependent

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I think I have whatever the opposite of gifted kid burnout is.

I was a deeply average to below average child that no one really expected anything out of, but I went to college and figured out what I liked and was good at and I was the best at something for the first time in my life. And after I got to keep doing that and I was still one of the best so I got promoted into a new role. And now I am deeply average at this new role and I miss being the best, but also I get frustrated because being average at things used to not bother me as much.

And to top it off, to get the new role I moved across the country away from everyone who remembers I’m the best, so maybe I’m just a fraud.

Anyway…that’s what it looks like inside the brain of a Leo…

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I’ve got his Project Hail Mary head cannon going that it was actually easier to get heroin for Ilyukhina than Grace’s ADHD meds. Eva had to buy them off 3 college students and 1 high schooler. Even then she only ended up with 37 days.

Grace: so… um… in the next couple of days I might be more distracted than usual. And that’s just how I’m going to be from now on… Rocky: Grace not sleep question? Grace sick question? Grace: No, no, I mean kinda, but no! Rocky: Oh Grace is...need word. Eridians have time when they stop laying eggs, get cranky, very distracted. Grace: MENOPAUSE?! No Rocky I'm not that old yet and besides- Rocky: Humans have short short life, short short mating period. Rocky help Grace with menopause.

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I’ve realized I have a troubling amount of Dustin epilogue headcannons that all conflict so bear with me:

On one hand: Dustin is a Midwest boy and anyone who says you can’t do big things from Indiana clearly didn’t help build the internet like Dustin did. Basically he moved to Indianapolis mostly for convenience because he’s constantly flying out for conferences but he and some college buddies built some really famous and enormously popular video game and made infinite money and he could live anywhere in the world but he chose Indiana. He once used his Midwest gaming connections to set up a dinner with Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and he told them the whole story of Hawkins, NDAs be damned.

Alternatively: The Bay Area kid inside of me who knew about a thousand grown up Dustin Hendersons growing up wants him to experience the Silicon Valley golden age so bad. He moves there in the early 90s straight from MIT or Georgia Tech or something. He does run into Susie out there and they don’t get back together, but it is the valley’s worst kept secret that they dated in middle school. He’s now one of the Silicon Valley dad’s who didn’t get in it for the money but because he truly loves computers and doesn’t care about his kids grades as long as their learning.

But really: I think would have just become Adam Savage. He ended up in the Bay Area making props for Star Wars movies (already his dream) and then for Jamie Hyneman and they start making a little show called Mythbusters. Dustin teaches science and engineering to millions and eventually gets to build the world’s most impressive workshop and share his builds on YouTube. (Unclear what happened to the real Adam Savage in the universe, maybe they share a shop and a YouTube channel?)

This is my love letter to Dustin I will miss him, but I’ve got a lot of people in my life who will keep reminding me of him.

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You guys! Robin gets to listen to the indigo girls! That’s all I wanted, was for Robin Buckley to live long enough to listen to the Indigo Girls

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Tonight’s episode may well be the straw that broke the camel’s back and got me to never open tiktok again. Here people are civil. I don’t want to know what they are saying. Let me be blissfully ignorant.

Like do you know how fucked your fandom has to be for tumblr to be the civil part?!?!?!?

Let two consenting adults have a fun night together jfc

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I broke my promise almost immediately and went back on the devil app. My main take away is that Aisha Hinds should be directing every single episode. It’s bringing the fandom together.

Like I’ve still seen some very stupid takes, it’s so much less than I thought

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I would however like to talk about Ravi’s POV of this episode:

1. Boss keeps calling you your old coworker’s name.

2. Find out your boss’s mom is some kind of famous faith healer?!

3. Coworker who once chased you with a chainsaw is being weirdly nice to you and is clearly trying to replace old coworker with you.

4. You give in and go out to drinks with coworker. Coworker will not shut up about his bff. He’s also drinking way more than you were planning for.

5. You run into your coworker’s ex at the bar.

6. You bring your coworker’s ex over to your coworker.

7. You leave.

8. You go to help an old man who fell in his garden and his wife rises up out of the flower bed.

What a wild week with wild choices

[celisconfused]

Tonight’s episode may well be the straw that broke the camel’s back and got me to never open tiktok again. Here people are civil. I don’t want to know what they are saying. Let me be blissfully ignorant.

Like do you know how fucked your fandom has to be for tumblr to be the civil part?!?!?!?

Let two consenting adults have a fun night together jfc

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If a vote in California is a sneeze, a vote in Wyoming is an orgasm

[alright--cowboy]

i do not come on here and appreciate maddie buckley han as much as i should but i would literally go to war for her

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Hey, Question for the class?

Has anyone else noticed that Steve Harrington and Nick Nelson have the same poster in their rooms? I feel like I cannot possibly be the first person to notice this.

Ok so there not like exactly the same and I don't know enough about cars to even tell you if this is significant. Is this a boy thing? Is this a bisexual thing?

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Hey, remember me, probably not. I think I want to get back on tumblr after like a year and a half off. I got busy and just kinda out of the habit. Plus I’m like super dyslexic so I often gravitate away from text based social media but I have been getting way too much from fandom TikTok and I think it’s made me worse.

Probably don’t have much to say about Ted Lasso anymore. I am watching 9-1-1 but the discourse in that fandom kinda scares me (famous last words). I’m also getting into some Stevie fanfic again because my god that fandom is so talented. I’d also love to do more costume design breakdowns for shows and movies and stuff, so if anyone has requests by all means.

I also know that there is a very long and annoying rant about sewing machine brands that is begging for the light of day, because you know what this app needs, discourse about the Singer Heavy Duty.

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So Ted “mercury stache” Lasso remembers watching the Live Aid Queen show and now we’re going to acknowledge his greatest talent (Turning Straights), play Fat Bottomed Girls and move on?!

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I’ve been so busy moving and starting a new job that I forgot it was Tuesday and I am absolutely not emotionally prepared for another episode.

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So, if being a Denver Broncos fan is being gay and Broncos fans eat seven layer dip, what is the seven layer dip that Ted wants in on?

Just saying

[callforhelp]

are they… you know… a denver broncos fan?

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Sport is quite the metaphor

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As a Gay Denver Broncos fan, I don’t even know where to start with episode 9. I’m in awe.

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I'm in the middle of moving so I might not get to watch tonights episode for a full 24 hours and I'm a little devastated. Giving me some empathy for fans outside the Americas who get the episode at like 4am though