I Need To Read The Very Brief Foreword From Roy Like Its Very Necessary

i need to read the “very brief foreword” from roy like it’s very necessary

THE LASSO WAY. THE RICHMOND WAY.

annotations being a love language for beard means so much to me, he’s the type of person to gift an annotated book to a friend

It's a nice touch that Ted's main feedback was a (thematically necessary, imo) title change, but I love what is implied by Beard's heavily annotated copy more. He really put in the work. Heavy annotations don't imply a lot of criticism even if that's what we were led to believe, they're a conversation between the reader and the writer.

Beard is a serious reader, but the show has shown us that, in some ways, he's a very shy man who struggles with vulnerability, hence being able to reveal so many niche interests and details about his sex life while being oddly defensive when someone asks for a seemingly innocuous detail like where are you from originally? Which might lead to other questions like, how did you and Ted start working together? And we know that this particular story is still a source of shame for Beard. That's why the annotations are great: they're not personal, but they're still a precious means of communication for Beard, and they're a safe way for him to keep a conversation going with Trent, which might be especially important for Beard with Ted in another country and Beard trying to navigate that shift and a new marriage to Jane jesuschrist.

Tdlr: Beard's heavy annotations in Trent's manuscript are his way of saying he wants to be better friends.

I think a big thing that people are overlooking is how Hobie looks out for his own and how much that coincides with punk culture.

Him looking out for younger teens is so fucking punk of him. He lets Gwen stay with him because she's vulnerable and struggling, he makes her a watch, he lets her keep his shoes, etc. and it's not out of romance, it's because she's family. Same with Miles; he knows Miles is naive and wants to help him, because he's been in the spider society longer and he knows what's really going on. He sees the adults, who are supposed to mentor them, targeting Miles and he just knows it's flat-out wrong and that he wants no part of it.

Hobie takes on such a big brother role for the other characters and I love it. He's more mature than the other teens in so many aspects, and he uses his experience to teach them how to get by because that's what being punk is about

this is the most insane thing hes ever said

i love roy kent because he's so sad he just wants to play football he just wants to be around his girlfriend 24/7 he just wants to feel needed. he's angry and sad and he loves so much but he's scared of being left behind so he leaves everything before they can abandon him. he's so caught up on it being what's best for them that he doesn't consider what they actually want. he's such a complex character. he's childish and immature when he's upset and he's scared of most people seeing the real him. he's so so sad i love him so so dearly (also he's hot :)

HER FACE WAAAAHHHH

“Some of his quotes feel so modern, so of our time. I know. Powerful.” | Ted Lasso 3x08