Frequently lost in my own mind

As usual, one just goes ahead and gets used to things, more or less.

( war and life )

TV: Am all caught up on Shrinking, The Pitt, Grey's (yes, still), most other shows I'm following. Started Young Sherlock, will probably continue. Started Vladimir, will probably not.

Raading: I have finished all of Ari Baran's books, have downloaded samples of basically every sports romance I could find recommended anywhere and am starting to explore them one by one, currently finishing E. L. Massey's Like Real People Do. Am definitely in the market for (a) sports romances you've loved recently, (b) general romances you've loved recently, (c) general novels you've loved recently that will kick me off this sports romance binge, and (d) your absolute heart-clenchingly favorite 20k+ Heated Rivalry fics.

(I read a bunch of HR fic after the show finished airing, and not really since. It's hard to find by kudos simply due to the massive volumes of kudos in this fandom and the bias towards popular fic posted earlier; I enjoyed various WAG-group-chat and epistolary/online media fics that I read early on, but at some point they started feeling a little repetitive and at this point what I'd really like is just: really fucking good long or semi-long fics that make you feel a lot of feels.)

What Are the Chances? (6282 words) by dreamlittleyo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Ted Lasso & Jamie Tartt, Ted Lasso & Rebecca Welton, Coach Beard & Ted Lasso
Additional Tags: Season/Series 02, Past Ted Lasso/Jamie Tartt, Angst, Guilt, Protectiveness, Bad Decisions and Their Consequences, Awkward Coaching Dynamics, Jamie Tartt Is a Walking Disaster, And Ted Lasso Is a Mess

Series: Part 2 of Burning and Building Bridges

Summary: Three conversations about bringing Jamie back to Richmond.

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I have gone back and fixed the typos in my last post which were not due to anything but tiredness last night but they were driving me crazy /o\

( Today was much better than yesterday, after middle sis arrived and I could see she really was okay. )

My plan for today was to go see some flowers since we're at the very tail end of winter flower season, catch up with middle sis who returned from a few weeks abroad, and do a virtual escape room with friends in the evening.

( How the day went )

Nature continues to progress! New developments from the past two-ish weeks include ( shortly )

OTHERWISE:
-Winter Olympics were amazing, why do we only get them once every few years, how are snow and ice sports so beautiful and fascinating and aesthetically pleasing.

-I would like to read fic but honestly I have just fallen down the rabbit hole of m/m sports romance novels, starting with everything Rachel Reid has to offer, then KD Casey, now Ari Baran, and who knows what's next, with a slight detour into warm and cozy Kind by Hannah Leigh. I feel like at SOME POINT I should stop. If you ask me to tell apart all the different couples I've read about in the past 2 weeks I would be hard pressed to explain all the different characters and plots. And yet.

-Enjoying the new season of The Pitt and a few other show's I'm following, but nothing makes me as happy (and heartbroken, but mostly happy) entertainment-wise as watching a new episode of Shrinking every week. Just, how is that show so good.

-Nature! It's one of the warmest winters I can recall, less rain and warmer weather and a shorter green period, but there are still winter flowers, and I do my best to hike and picnic on the weekends as much as I can. This past weekend I went up to the Golan with a friend, just 2 days of walking around the peace and quiet of the green green north, which was incredibly lovely. The weather makes it constantly feel like Passover is just around the corner, which is disorienting and kind of nice and kind of not.

On Saturday I went to an incredible production of Cabaret. It's one of my favorite musicals to see in live theater, and this production really was incredibly, 360-stage Kit Kat Club and all, and I might have written more if I weren't falling asleep but I very much am, alas.

Burning Bridges (4823 words) by dreamlittleyo
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Ted Lasso/Jamie Tartt
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Angst, Bad Decisions, First Time, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Non-Consensual Kissing, Processing Emotions (Badly) Through Sex, Jamie Tartt Has No Idea What He Wants, And Fuck Knows What Ted Is Thinking

Series: Part 1 of Burning and Building Bridges

Summary: After the final game of the season, Jamie has a lot of confusing feelings about the note from his former coach. Maybe confronting Ted will help, if only Jamie can figure out what the hell he wants to say.

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