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When Jamie Tartt gets a midnight call from the Manchester Municipal Police, he expects to post bail for his father again. What he finds is something quite different.
Or, Jamie Tartt discovers a thirteen-year-old half-brother no one ever warned him about. Luckily, Roy and Keeley are there to help them out.
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Jamie Tartt texts his Dad instead of his "Dad." His stepfather, Simon, is astonished—and yes, perhaps a *bit* concerned—to be included in Jamie and Georgie's usual post-match emoji-thread. My personal attempt at a wholesome, gen, canon-compliant oneshot.
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In which a wedding goes off without a hitch and the wedding night itself turns out to be a lot more complicated.
Part 3 of "The Iron Giant."
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- Part 3 of The Iron Giant: the Series
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In which Jamie Tartt's younger brother settles in with his new family, everybody goes to therapy, and Colin comes over for a thank-you dinner.
Part 2 of "The Iron Giant," republished in smaller and more manageable chunks. The series will update every day, to the best of my ability, and the original will continue to host new chapters and the original comment threads. Enjoy!
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- Part 2 of The Iron Giant: the Series
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A week after taking out a no-contact order against his violent and unstable father, Jamie Tartt receives a midnight phone call from his publicist. A family member—most likely James Sr., he's the only family Jamie has, to his knowledge—needs to be picked up from Manchester Municipal Police Station and taken for emergency medical care. Jamie runs out the door in mismatched shoes and the boxers he slept in, only to find himself in much deeper trouble than even his father tends to drag him into.
"The Iron Giant," retold in bite-size pieces. I couldn't find a good way to shorten the original into manageable arcs while keeping the (truly lovely) archive of comments, so I'm republishing the story as an independent series while continuing to update the original. Please refer back to the original for comments and impromptu book club discussions, or start your own comment threads with a fresh cohort of co-readers.
Contains rather an extravagant degree of swearing and every warning label one can imagine. Specific content warnings can be found in the endnotes for each chapter.
Discord server for fans can be joined here: https://discord.gg/SzeZQQEz. Hope to see some new faces!
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- Part 1 of The Iron Giant: the Series
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The Iron Giant Oneshots, Errata, and Sundry Supporting Documents by ArdenDrifter
Fandom Iron Giant (1999), Ted Lasso (TV), The Iron Giant - Fandom
30 Jan 2023
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Companion pieces to "The Iron Giant." Please read "The Iron Giant" first and refer back as necessary.
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The Sheriff of Sherwood by wendigo619
Fandoms: Ted Lasso (TV), Robin Hood - All Media Types
27 Mar 2026
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England is starving, and Nottingham is rotting from the inside out.
Sent home from the crusades with a ruined knee and an untested mandate, Sheriff Roy Kent expects little more than local unrest and a petty thief calling himself the Jay Bird.
What he finds instead is a city on the brink, a forest that watches him back, and an outlaw who steals like a performance—laughing, taunting, leaving green feathers and unanswered questions in his wake.
As Roy hunts the Jay Bird through Sherwood and the edges of court, he is drawn deeper into a web of loyalty, power, and lies—unaware that the man he is sworn to stop may be the only one protecting England’s future.
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21 Feb 2026
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Jamie from not long after the semi-final at Wembley finds himself back in the body of his younger self.
Now back in the early days of Ted Lasso's coaching days at AFC Richmond, Jamie is determined to be a better version of himself and not get sent back to Manchester.
Except, making changes when no one believes him is hard.
And now he doesn't have a therapist anymore even though he probably needs one now more than ever.
And it's not like he can just block his dad out of nowhere, is it?
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- Part 1 of When The Rain Stops
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Bookmarked by ArdenDrifter
25 Jan 2026
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Roy asked (barked), more on instinct than thought, “Fuck’s all this, then?”
The kid spun around from the security desk - he looked about sixteen, vaguely gaunt but fierce-looking, with angular features and a swollen black eye that extended out to the kid’s cheekbone. He was wearing a Man City jersey, although Roy was too busy staring at the blood on the kid’s collar to bother looking at what player was displayed. The kid practically snarled at him, spitting with a thick Mancunian accent. “I’m looking for Jamie Tartt.”
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- Part 1 of back to the old house
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17 Jan 2026
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In which someone puts up magic mistletoe in the locker room, Jamie’s got a mild sensitivity to magic, he shares a handful of kisses with Jan, and it’s really just the magic sensitivity that’s got him blushing, honestly!
AKA the obligatory magic mistletoe fic. Because I think every fandom deserves one.
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31 Dec 2025
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After their idiotic fight over Keeley, Roy and Jamie go for kebabs and Roy asks Jamie more about what he'd said at Bones & Honey about male role models in his life. Jamie realizes that he really should tell Simon how much he appreciates his stepdad, especially after putting up with him when he was a teenager. A text the next morning leads to more conversation between Jamie and Simon than they've ever had before, and Jamie starts to understand that maybe Simon isn't just the dorky guy who married his mum, that the two of them are proper family, too.
Bookmarked by ArdenDrifter
17 Nov 2025