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what is this feeling, so sudden and new?

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interviewer: so, jack, what was your first big purchase after you joined the falconers? a car? vacation? 

jack, thinking about how the day after his contract was finalized he accepted a $700 venmo request from shitty with the comment “fee for making me watch a documentary on the franco-prussian war”: i got a new watch

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*chanting* CHECK PLEASE REAL! CHECK PLEASE REAL!

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good morning. zimbits honeymoon location where?

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constantly thinking about how each member of the SMH team has some sort of reality-bending power that somehow relates to their personality. ransom and holster have their own Hockey Shit pocket dimension, bitty can instant-bake, dex can macgyver anything, nursey can (seemingly?) teleport? (though its probably just related to a supernatural ability to annoy dex) and jack can just manifest hockey anywhere he goes

and johnson obviously has his whole Deadpool medium awareness thing going on

one day i will write a superhero AU centered around these stupidly specific details

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Barda (2024)

by Ngozi Ukazu

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Hi, howdy! I won't be doing THAT MUCH traveling, but just in case you're in a city I'll be visiting... www.ngoziu.com/events

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Bitty’s Fanclub

Based on these tweets:

3/18/2015 12:53:40  That moment when a massive football player corners you in the dining hall to tell you good luck on the playoffs “you guys are champs” 3/18/2015 12:55:45  file under: things 7th grade Eric Bittle would not expect to happen

It is my firm belief that a good number of the Samwell Football Team has a crush on Bitty.  When inevitably a new player falls for our favoritie #15, he has to take a picture with another teammate holding bunny ears behind his head.  

Later in the hockey season when football is over, there is an entire section that is informally reserved for the football players who come to every home game.

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On point that a British company got... "inspiration" from a Nigerian creator.

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jack immediately connected to cowboy carter in a way that bitty doesn't fully understand and eric richard...is a little bit jealous...

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for your drawing requests - shitty knight from check please? <3

this came to me like a vision that I had to bring to life immediately, mr shits my beloved <3 and bonus ransom and lardo ofc

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no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.

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on a sunny day the frogs' senior year

nursey: so we all had a crush on bitty right

chowder: little bit yea

dex: had?

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This is for Chowder, Nursey and Dex. How often do you guys have frog cuddle piles, and is it usually when you guys are happy or when you're sad?

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We Are Having A Time On Twitter Tonight

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Nursey, reading: hmm queer coding

Dex, working on his programming: ayuh. Trying to.

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