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Despite the fact that it was none of his fucking business and he was ignoring Jamie Tartt for the rest of his life, he did watch from the corner of his eye as the waitress went to the corner table with a tray full of shots and unloaded every single one. There were only three people at the table, Jamie with a man and a woman, but there were twelve shots on the table. The math didn’t work out into anything good. For one thing, Jamie was a child who drank fucking blue shit and vanilla vodka and never even enough to get fucked up. For another thing, it wasn’t good etiquette to pour booze down anybody’s throat when they were already on a leash, or in any sort of bondage situation.
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03 Sep 2026
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Tomorrow Isn't Promised (but you should still believe it's coming) by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
22 Jun 2026
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Jamie Tartt doesn't know his own birthday. He doesn't have anything on his bucket list. He doesn't think he's ever going to be as old as Roy. And he has his reasons for all of these, and those reasons don't particularly intertwine... until they do, and he's wondering if maybe this time, the hope won't kill him.
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01 Sep 2026
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When Richmond's new striker starts flirting with Jamie Tartt, Coach Roy Kent benches him for increasingly dubious "tactical reasons" until Keeley calls out his jealousy, setting the stage for a spectacular post-match meltdown that outs their secret relationship to the entire club.
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01 Sep 2026
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The altercation in the changing rooms at Wembley goes just a little differently, and the team realise exactly how much Jamie has been hiding since his return to Richmond.
[Set during S2E8, 'Man City']
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- Part 1 of Jamie Tartt needs a hug
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01 Sep 2026
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Air Buds for Life by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Ted Lasso (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
06 Jul 2026
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A one-night stand leads to an exchange of numbers that becomes six years of a life-changing friendship.
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06 Jul 2026
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“So,” Trent starts, keeping his voice mild and professional. “We have all, by now, seen the footage from the unfortunate run-in you had with your father, the night of the twenty-fifth of April in the car park at Coventry City FC’s pitch.”
It would've been traumatic enough for Jamie's father to ruin Richmond's most recent victory in front of the whole team, but when the confrontation turns violent in front of a gaggle of reporters, the ensuing social media firestorm is even worse. Over the next two and a half weeks, Jamie will have to navigate the charges against his father, walk a gauntlet of publicity that he never asked for, and prepare to give the interview of a lifetime.
Luckily, Richmond has always been there to catch him on the other side.
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05 Jun 2026
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Five plus weddings over the course of his barely 12 weeks off? He honestly didn’t even know he knew that many single people.
This does present an issue, though.
There’s no way Jamie Tartt can be seen at a wedding without a plus one. He’s got a reputation to maintain, after all. Not to mention that now that he’s barely drinking, trying to get through a whole wedding and reception without someone there to help distract him sounds like torture.
How’s he supposed to find dates to every single one?
Hmmmm I wonder how Jamie Tartt is going to solve this dilemma???
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It was probably Roy’s fucking fault. You see, it was probably Roy’s fucking fault, because he had stupidly assumed that Jamie had enough common sense to realize that waking up at four in the morning meant he would need to be going to bed earlier in the night unless he wanted to be running on fumes. It was on him for thinking the little prick would behave in a normal or reasonable way about anything, he should’ve known better. So, now Roy had to fucking do something about it.
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Roy decides Jamie needs a bedtime, Jamie doesn't think he needs a bedtime, shenanigans ensue. Also known as Jamie vs Bedtime.
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- Part 2 of Kindergarten Tactics
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30 Mar 2026
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And at last I know my love for you is here, I can see it all by llamallamaduck
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
08 Nov 2025
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Jamie Tartt is a mess, a ruin of competence and broken promises. He plays like he’s outrunning his demons, and knows they’re only ever one bad landing away. All spite, all courage, no mercy--least of all to himself.
In hindsight, Roy lost his heart, his head, and any claim on dignity about fourteen minutes into setting eyes on him. They hadn’t even spoken. The lad was at the presser announcing his transfer to Richmond, standing shoulder to shoulder with Rebecca at her most terrifyingly posh—and holding his own.
Past-him, the poor dumb idiot, had no idea. He was blissfully unaware that his life was about to go completely, irrevocably off the rails. He couldn’t have guessed that the jagged-eyed young Manc was the love of his fucking life.
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- Part 16 of Miscellaneous 'Verses
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28 Mar 2026
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He’s about to get into the driver’s seat when another flash goes off right in his face and some smirky fucker says, “So, you like taking it up the ass?”
“Love it,” Jamie’s mouth says before Jamie’s brain can get in on the action. “Feels fucking great. Have a good day!”
Or: the post-Season 1 fic where, Instead of self-destruction via reality show, Jamie tries self-destruction via public and very messy coming out. It works out better than expected.
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17 Mar 2026
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“It’ll take two seconds,” Higgins says. “I like to keep up to date with all the players, you know. I just thought, well, you moved recently. And your emergency contact.”
He pauses here, and Jamie raises an eyebrow. His emergency contact? He’d probably filled out some joke response last time, hadn’t he. Fucking Queen of England, Boris Johnson’s wife, something good.
“Oi, let’s see it then,” and Higgins passes over the paper like it’s a live bomb, and Jamie scans down to where he sees his own handwriting sitting over a few dotted lines, and, well. It sure ain’t the Queen.
or: Jamie goes through a series of unfortunate events, changes his emergency contact a few times, and considers the possibility that maybe, actually, letting other people help isn’t all bad after all.
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13 Mar 2026
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He peels his eyes open. Shit, they really must be giving him the good stuff, cause he could swear he knows that dark figure lurking in the doorway, where his old man came in a few minutes ago. He blinks a few times, waiting for it to vanish. It doesn’t.
“Roy?” he croaks.
He blinks again, and Roy…or whoever…is standing beside him, 'cept Jamie still can’t tell, cause he can only see his back, cause whoever it is isn’t looking at Jamie, he’s looking across the room. Towards that window. At Jamie’s dad.
“The fuck do you fucking think you’re fucking doing here?”
Yeah. That’s Roy.
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13 Mar 2026
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Coach Beard was observant. He noticed things.
i.e. the coaches coach
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11 Mar 2026
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Roy has noticed that Jamie and Maggie have been spending a lot of time together. Which is fine because they’re fucking adults and they can do whatever the fuck they want. But it makes him worry. Because Maggie is fucking good at her job, Roy respects her a lot, and if she and Jamie got… involved and things ended badly, he would hate for the club to lose her.
Yes, that’s why something uncomfortable stirs in him when he hears both of them giggling like kids in the treatment room. It can be so hard to find a good physio.
When a new physio starts working at AFC Richmond and she accidently lets slip her dislike for Zava, Jamie is expecting to become fast friends with her. What he's not expecting is for Maggie to clock his feelings for Roy so quickly. Shenanigans ensue.or, OC takes these two idiots and goes 'now kith'
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- Part 1 of I'd be yours if you'd be mine
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“Alright, you’re on. No proposal until we’ve won the league twice.” Jamie grins, victorious, and Roy tugs at his shirt again. “But this better not take fucking ages or you’ll never hear the end of it, Tartt.”
Jamie’s eyes flash. “Sixteen months, babe. Promise.”
Roy tilts his chin up, and they seal it with a kiss.
or,
roy, jamie, and a proposal, as told through premier league match days
(a diabetic!jamie fic)
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05 Mar 2026
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"Based on these symptoms and the tests we ran, I’m diagnosing you with type one diabetes.”
Jamie blinks once, twice. He expected— well, he doesn’t know what he expected. To have more of a reaction, maybe. Fear, relief, sorrow, something other than the sort of numbness and vague sense of confusion that he feels now. Something other than a spark of recognition, because—
“Ain’t that what Nick Jonas has?” He asks, squinting into the distance. “And Nacho?”
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jamie is diagnosed with diabetes. it changes everything, and also nothing.
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- Part 1 of the epic highs and lows of being a diabetic footballer
- Part 2 of the kind of love i've been dreaming of (RJ Bingo 2024)
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04 Mar 2026
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It's what keeps me coming back, even though I'm terrified by CherryPie0
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
18 Dec 2021
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Five times Jamie finds himself sleeping between Roy and Keeley and one time he does more than sleep.
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03 Mar 2026
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Jamie loves team parties.
He loves basking in the raucous laughter, the giddiness where everything seems funny and like a reason to sling an arm around a teammate’s shoulder.
He loves knowing that for a few hours, at least, he won’t have to go back to his empty fucking flat and its sparse fridge and the unmade bed he’ll eventually crawl into. He loves knowing that for a few hours, at least these days, he’ll be surrounded by people who properly fucking care about him. Who won’t slap him around the cheek at the slightest slip-up.
Jamie loves team parties.
And also: Jamie hates them.
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19 Feb 2026
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Whenever he says he's not feeling anything, that's when Dr. Sharon pulls out the fucking cards.
Roy can't fucking stand the fucking cards. They're plain white with plain black text, each displaying the name of a different emotion, and he's supposed to go through them and decide whether he's feeling each thing or not. It's fucking stupid, it makes him feel like a fucking toddler, and worst of all, it fucking works.
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19 Feb 2026
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i should be the poster kid for this shit by anotherlongstoryshort
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV)
29 Jul 2023
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“14.” Jamie’s voice was too loud, too sharp in this safe space that on any other day felt like home. But his fingers were clenching and unclenching, and his shoulders were coiled tight, and there was a rushing in his ears.
The vitriol pooled like acid on his tongue and Jamie couldn’t help but spew it out before it began to eat him away.
“I were 14.”
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From a Tumblr prompt: The team somehow find out about what Jamie’s dad did in Amsterdam and are horrified/furious.
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19 Feb 2026