#joelchick

[kruxband]

breathe if you ship polymedal 🫶

[champmorado]

my thoughts on all the chick hicks ships ive shipped

chuiser - shouldve been canon and i am so serious about that

stick - not really into it anymore but DAMN the angst and lore potential with this one was so good

townder - biased but theyre so sillyyyy i need more ppl to ship them

mchicks - continues to drive me insane. theyre soulmates but fucked up and weirdly enough, chick will always "value" mcqueen more than mcqueen "values" chick

salchick - god i love them. in another world they wouldve been the meanest and most iconic power couple ever

chickcal - also not into it anymore but still a cute dynamic. depending on your HCs, also has some crazy drama & angst potential

chickdoc - severely underrated. if its a crackship, theres nothing funnier than hooking up with your rival's mentor. if its serious, just read the rally race comics and you will understand

franchick - eh just a bland crackship

boostchick - HEAR ME OUT. this has to be my fave crackship on here because it literally has no dynamic

chickmore - theyre really cute,,,, may or may not be focused on this ship the most rn

bonus:

joelchick - ermmm literally the best ship ever no competition???? (this is my chick hicks selfship LOL)

[kruxband]

joelchick selfship chart yippeeee

original found here

explaining some of the stuff on here:

their song - i just realized that i havent listened to songs in a joelchick context, whoopsie 😭 they will be songless for now

"we're just friends" - chick is still fighting his internalized biphobia & aro denial :,)

silly to serious scale - joel is goofy while chick is campy so they dont really fit on this scale

cooks & cleans - they can both barely cook and there is little-to-no cleaning being done. idk how theyre surviving lmao

more experience - chick has been in more relationships than joel but joel knows more about how to navigate a qpr

[kruxband]

they didnt kiss after this btw 💀

[kruxband]

joel victor maneho (he/dude), my self insert for my cars selfships!!

hes just a chill low energy guy that loves acting obtuse to piss people off lmao. dude acts very detached but in reality he cares way too much. he was also a victim of the galaxy print trend 😔

lore with my cars F/Os under the cut ^_^

in 1999, at 20 years old, dude was going delirious in a random rice field in the philippines. then he bumped into mater, who was trying to tip over a kalabaw. the two quickly became friends and became pen pals :]

then, in 2017, he bought a random can of gas at a convenience store and ended up winning the grand prize in a raffle. the grand prize? a date with chick hicks (who joel didnt know cuz dude doesnt care about sports at all). after intentionally annoying the hell out of each other on their date, the two started hanging out as friends. eventually they became QPPs and kept their relationship open

a few months later, joel & chick went to a dinner party for retired piston cup racers and thats where joel first met strip weathers (and fell in-love at first sight lol). btw joel, chick, strip, and lynda are in a polycule :>

[kruxband]

polymedal in a nutshell

im formally introducing my silly poly selfship w/ strip, chick, and mater ^_^

theyre called polymedal since strip is "the golden boy" of dinoco, chick is "the runner-up" (so silver), mater is bronze-colored, and joel has huge participation ribbon vibes lmao

[kruxband]

its so silly how joelchick went from strangers to lovers to friends to queerplatonic partners

[kruxband]

an aspect of the joelchick dynamic i keep forgetting to talk about is that theyre like. if the main duo from a shitty 90s/2000s comedy movie were gay for each other

[kruxband]

explaining why joel victor maneho is a ford taurus:

after i "refined" my selfship with chick, i knew that i wanted my carsona/s/i to be a common & simpler-looking "standard" car to contrast chick being a unique and super decorated racecar

originally joel was a toyota vios which is a very common car in the philippines. however i struggled SO much with drawing that car so i abandoned that design 😭😭

then i watched some video that offhandedly referred to a ford taurus as being a common car in the 2000s and i was like "hey. why cant that be the model of my carsona"

and the rest is history LOL

[kruxband]

chick after selling his multi-million dollar mansion in beverly hills just so he can move into joel's shitty one bedroom apartment

[kruxband]

joel is always squinting and chick thinks its because hes "on something"

sometimes thats the case but most of the time, joel just forgot to put his glasses on (or the car equivalent of glasses that arent just big frames on top of the windshield 💀)

and/or hes super sleep-deprived

[kruxband]

chick has a tonnn of leftover unsold t-shirts from when he tried to start the "chick era"

he lets me wear some of the shirts as sleepwear and also when im just chilling at home :>

[kruxband]

chick has a 20 step skincare routine while joel just splashes some water on his face (sometimes he uses body soap on dude's face if he feels like it)

but somehow joel takes longer to finish his routine...?

[kruxband]

am i currently working on a super self-indulgent au where a 17 year old version of joel/rad (havent decided yet) travels back in time to meet a 17 year old version of chick hicks? yes, yes i am

[kruxband]

some doodles of humanized joel and chick <3

so ive talked about joel before but i havent shared his design yet, whoops! lol

his full name is joel victor maneho (ma-neh-hoh) and dude uses he/dude. victor is inspired by his brand (toyota vios) and maneho is the filipino word for "steer"!!

also i didnt intend this but him being named victor matches super well with chick, former and forever piston cup champion :0

waugh ive just been thinking about joelchick before they officially labelled their relationship as a qpr,,,, the two of them working out their aro feelings,,,, both of them being scared of having a committed relationship,,,, <////3

[kruxband]

the way that chick has black hair and brown eyes while joel has (near) black eyes and brown hair,,,, literally soulmates