#truham Higgs sports day

[ticktockheartstop]

How did I only just now realize that Ben actually SHEDS A TEAR when Charlie tells him off after the Sports Day race!?!?!?

[swearphil]

heartstoppercentral’s 2023 pride celebration: day 7 + (school) spirit

Truham students, Higgs students. Welcome to the day I know you’ve all been waiting for, Truham and Higgs Sports Day!

[inga42]

Cutest Tao and Elle moments in Heartstopper, season one

When we first meet Charlie's friends, and Tao's missing Elle and buys her apple juice, even though she's not there.

Meanwhile, Elle's drinking her apple juice at Higgs.

Making plans to keep their friendship strong, no matter what

At the rugby match: "Is that your nightmare scenario? Watching a film you hate with people you don't like very much?"

Elle enjoying Tao's "interpretive dance" at Charlie's house

Killing aliens at Charlie's birthday, and Elle literally has stars in her eyes.

Meeting at the milkshake cafe, and walking back to the concert together

Sports Day, in the art room at Truham,

and watching Nick and Charlie walk off the field together.

[heartstoppermybeloved]

heartstopper 1x08 kiss in the hallway (sports day truham - higgs) scene (no bg music) 1080p via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XR7CES1WkM

[gooses-trenchcoat]

earth day vs truham-higgs sports day who will win

[siegestateofmind]

A not so comprehensive list of the books Isaac Henderson reads in Heartstopper

Naruto Volume 72 - Masashi Kishimoto : episode 2 (when Charlie discusses Nick with Tao and Isaac during Math class)

Quantum Mechanics - Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman: episode 3 (when Charlie tells the group chat about Harry's party)

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson: episode 4 (Tao tells Isaac about Charlie spending more time with Nick)

Proud (My Autobiography) - Gareth Thomas: episode 4 (the rugby match against St. John's)

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen: episode 5 (the monopoly game with the unexpected and "accidental" foot disruption)

Radio Silence - Alice Oseman: episode 5 (bowling on Charlie's birthday)

Gender Explorers - Juno Roche: episode 8 (math class, Charlie tries to talk to Tao)

There Is No Planet B - Mike Berners-Lee: episode 8 (Seen during the Truham-Higgs Sports day)

I missed a couple of them because they were either too blurry or out of shot haha.

This list was made mainly to extend my already lengthy tbr list.

I am completely enamored with this show and the webtoon comic, truly excited for whatever comes next!

But all in all, we stan a quiet king with taste and a big brain.

[electriclightopera]

It’s Truham-Higgs Sports Day and the Rugby King Nick Nelson leaves the field to take Charlie by the hand to kiss in the corridor. Heartstopper S01E08 [Pillows by @phoebenpiperx ]

[elenarodriiguez]

popular (i know about popular) | i.h.

summary: how imogen learns to be something more than one of the popular girls

pairing: imogen heaney character study

warnings: implied homophobia & minor violence/injury

word count: 1601

read it on ao3

For as long as she can remember, Imogen has always been one of the popular kids. Even when she was in primary school, she’d always been one of the ones to dictate how break time games would go, and she would always get first pick in Mums and Dads. And when she moved up to Higgs, well, very little changed.

Sure it was strange not going to school with Nick and Harry and Sai everyday, but she still had Poppy and Emily at her side, and if she got off the bus a stop early she could hang outside Truham with them for half an hour. By the end of year seven it’s part of her morning routine, hanging out with them before heading to Higgs and carrying on with her day. By year eleven it’s a routine as old as time itself.

She’d always thought they were all close mates, after all there aren’t many people in the world she’d risk late DTs and watch rugby matches for, but as year eleven draws to a close, it seems like that isn’t the case. Only, Nick and Harry can barely say two nice words to one another, all of Nick’s attention is with his new friend Charlie Spring, and all Imogen can make of the situation is that she doesn’t know how they all drifted apart so much.

Not that she begrudges Nick for making friends, the opposite actually, but he always seems just that little bit out of reach, and when she finds out the reason as to why he’s at odds with his best friend, she kind of gets it. Actually that’s a lie, she does get it. She really gets it. 

She hadn’t been lying when she’d told Darcy and Tara that she wasn’t homophobic, but her unintentionally performative proclamation of allyship had fallen flat, even to her own ears. It wasn’t supposed to come across that way, but with her Nick tinted glasses on it was hard for it to come across as anything but an afterthought.

Anyway, all that is to say is that when she hears from Otis the truth about the fight, she’s ready and willing to give Harry a shiner and a broken nose. This is what Nick meant when he said he’d squashed his real personality down inside of him, bearing the brunt of banter that would make the speaker (usually Harry) appear like a proper cunt if no one laughed along. But they all did, because it was normal, wasn’t it?

She brings it up with her friends later, how she hadn’t really noticed it before now, always being able to trust her girls to tell her the honest truth. And the honest truth she gets. She can’t say she’s very appreciative of the phrase ‘pick me’ being thrown in her direction, but thinking about it, they aren’t really wrong.

How many times has she laughed at one of the guys making a sexist joke that rubbed her the wrong way because she didn’t want to hear some variation of “it’s only banter”? How many times had she taken part in picking apart some other girl for no reason whatsoever? How many times did she pretend she had no makeup on and was either totally clueless or completely knowledgeable about sports just so they would continue hanging out with her?

God, Nick really was onto something there. It’s there that Imogen decides to be better, to try and become a person instead of a vapid caricature of her actual personality, but it’s by no means easy. At this point it’s second nature for her to laugh with the guys even if they say the most offensive shit, to pretend she’s not intelligent and genuinely interested in things like politics, feminism and international relations.

But slow going is better than nothing at all. And when the inter-school sports day rolls around, she gets to see just how far she’s come. As Nick and Charlie run off into the art block, Nick abandoning the rugby game without a care in the world, the smile that tugs at the corner of her lips is genuine. They seem much better suited for one another than her and the idealised version of Nick who resided in her head.

However the true test is when Harry starts mouthing off later on, Nick and Charlie still nowhere to be seen, when his usual bullying rant takes a bigoted turn. She watches Elle tug Tao back, the Truham student physically shaking in anger, and Darcy and Tara shrink into one another in fear of it being turned onto them, meanwhile Isaac glares at Harry, his book no longer keeping his attention.

The laughter that follows his commentary is sparse at best, guys like Sai and Otis and Christian who were always closer to Nick than Harry shyly trying to distance themselves, but Harry doesn’t stop. That is, until Imogen storms over to him, pushing through the hoard of guys making them part like the red sea as she gets nearer and nearer to him. 

Without thinking about it, she curls her hand into a fist (thumb wrapped around her fingers just like her cousin had taught her) and lands a punch on his nose, a satisfying cracking sound ensuing. She shakes her hand out as he cups his nose, blood slowly trickling down his arms, staining his pale skin bright red.

“For once in your life Harry just shut the fuck up and leave everyone alone! You’re not funny, you’re just a prick, it’s no wonder no one at Higgs wants to get with you!”

She can practically feel the group surrounding them’s urge to start ooh-ing at them, but fixing her glare on them stops that in a heartbeat.

“If you say anything like that again, it won’t just be your nose I break, got it?” Imogen asks, her voice going from red hot anger to the sweet bubbly sounds of her usual tone in a split second.

He nods, still cradling his nose, and she lets out a little huff before flouncing away, all eyes on her as she heads towards the gender neutral toilets in the maths block. She hears Darcy ask Tara if she was hallucinating, which ouch, she wasn’t that much of a bitch before was she? but she doesn’t make out much of anything from the other girl’s response, too far away to hear her properly. Hopefully no one who is actually decent hates her for getting involved without checking to see if it was okay first.

However when Monday comes around, and she still gets off the bus a stop too early, walking over to the usual bench to find it void of Harry and his cronies, she doesn’t seem to need to worry about it. Because replacing them are her closest friends from Higgs, who in hindsight had avoided the table like the plague for years now, Nick, Charlie, and all of their friends. Awkwardly waving at them, she doesn’t expect to be dragged into a group hug, where she’s stuck slap bang in the centre of it.

When they all pull away (far too soon for her liking) they absorb her, Poppy and Emily into their group as if they’d all been best mates for years. The conversation washes over her completely, Imogen still slightly overwhelmed at all of the attention, but Nick pulls away from Charlie’s orbit to come and sit next to her, his puppy dog grin positively infectious.

“They wouldn’t stop talking about what you did on Friday all weekend. It meant a lot to them, and me. Especially me.”

“Yeah well, I couldn’t keep letting him get away with it. Besides, he wouldn’t ever tell on me, it’d hurt his ego, but I don’t think Ms Xu would appreciate Tao getting suspended for fighting. Lesser of two evils.” Imogen shrugs, smiling at one of her closest friends.

“Hey, don’t downplay what you did. You did what most of my so-called best mates wouldn’t. Besides, now you can join the official Puncher of Harry Greene club. It’s very exclusive, you’re our third member.”

“Wow, that is an honour. You know, I didn’t get what you said that day in the park, not until recently. About hiding your true self from everyone. So thank you, for kickstarting me figuring out who I am when the mask isn’t there.”

“Anytime Imogen. Just not right now, because I’m fairly certain if we keep talking you’re all going to be late and I think Emily might kill me if that happens.”

She giggles at him, her laughter increasing tenfold when she witnesses the dirty look that Emily is sending Nick’s way. Giving him a brief but tight squeeze, she jumps off the bench and jogs over to her friends impatiently waiting for her to hurry up. Waving goodbye to the guys, Nick and Charlie already in a world of their own, she settles into the conversation, unable to wipe the smile off her face when Darcy asks if they’d like to join them in the canteen at lunch.

Her popularity might not necessarily be guaranteed from this day forward, although with the number of girls that Harry Greene had pissed off her punching him might have cemented her status further, but she no longer needs it. Not when the possibility of having real friendships were so much closer for her to reach. And the weight which had been sitting rather firmly on her chest all of these years, so long she’d forgotten life without it, is finally lifted off of her.

[elyseregan]

the most unrealistic thing in heartstopper is truham/higgs having enough bibs to clothe two schools on sports day

[thedecadenceofwar]

a long list of things from heartstopper that make me go goblin mode bc i want to jump on this bandwagon

+ nick’s N mug :’)

+ nick hanging out with charlie for hours and then immediately going home and looking at pictures of him

+ imogen’s little “yeah! yeah, definitely!” and then she turns around and implodes :’)

+ harry saying nick is “gonna have his pick of two girls” and then nick immediately looks at charlie

+ elle’s sneaky trans pride outfit when she goes over to tao’s

+ the gum on the underside of the art table LMAO

+ the st johns team uniforms being yellow and truham being blue :cry:

+ the pinky touches during form. :cry:

+ nick asking isaac what his book is about at the same time as tao goes to tell charlie to stop hanging out with him :(

+ how the claw machine signs put a big X between nick and charlie when charlie asks to kiss nick in public. there is a metaphorical kiss between them already :’)

+ nick immediately looking at his mom after the POTC scene just to see if she can tell anything is different

+ what ever the loving hell is the decor on the higgs music room walls

+ the superhero movie poster on the wall when nick punches harry

+ charlie over text like “do you still want to be with me” when the last texts they sent each other are like a gazillion red hearts

+ tara and darcy having matching blue & red face paint on sports day

+ charlie’s face paint mirroring nick’s black eye

+ the paper birds on the art table that elle and tao are lying on

+ the butterfly decorations on the door of the art room and then the animated butterflies that follow elle out as tao watches her go

+ the lovebirds at the end of episode five are the same lovebirds that are on the train art in episode eight

slay alice oseman fr

[intrikatie]

The Teachers of Heartstopper:

Mr. Lange: [creates the Hamlet 5 seating plan that will Change.The.Freaking.World.]🤌

Mr. Lange: 😎

Mr. Lange: ah yes, you're over there next to Nicholas Nelson.....I'm sure you'll get along swimmingly. Or you can just sit in silence for the rest of the year. It really doesn't affect me in anyway whatsoever. 😌

Mr. Lange: *a few weeks later* Nick and Charlie keep it down please! 😑

***

Miss Greenwood: is that a phone, Elle? We don't make exceptions, even for new students. 😚

Miss Greenwood: I could assign Tara Jones to look after you? 😕

Miss Greenwood:...😶

Elle and Tara: *on phones*

Darcy: This is a conversational lunchtime gathering we've got going on here.

Miss Greenwood: 😏

***

Madame Martin: ladies, come on. 😮‍💨

***

Miss Hyder: Tara and darcy. I know it's fun to gossip with your friends but...😒

Miss Hyder: come on, girls🙄

Miss Hyder: has anyone seen Tara and Darcy?😮‍💨

Miss Hyder: 🤘

***

Mr Budd: I've been told to remind you that the Truham-Higgs sports day is on Friday!... Sign up for an event by Thursday. 🤠

***

Coach Singh: Charlie! 😃

Coach Singh: lots of gay people are good at sports, Charlie. 😉

Coach Singh: ☔️🏉

Coach Singh: Have the boys been giving you a hard time? DO I NEED TO TALK TO ANYONE 😡

Coach Singh: TAO XU!😤

Coach Singh: Nick? 🤨

***

Mr Ajayi: No bullies I need to sort out again? 😠

Mr Ajayi: oh well...congratulations🤗

Mr Ajayi: being a teenager is terrible. 💅

Mr Ajayi: there's a boy in there... is he the secret boyfriend or the straight boy crush? 🧐

Mr Ajayi: ofcourse you did.🙄

Mr Ajayi: I'm a nice teacher.🙂

Mr Ajayi: Don't let anyone make you dissappear, Charlie. 🥺

Mr Ajayi: Nah.I'm good. 🌈

***

Headmaster Barnes: happy new year!🥳

Headmaster Barnes: if you haven't signed up for an event Ms. Singh will hunt you down and murder you!😈

Headmaster Barnes: go do sports!😁

Headmaster Barnes: sit back and watch as some teenagers crash in to each other and fall over repeatedly 🙃

Headmaster Barnes: can someone explain the rules of rugby 🤯

[weirdloverwilde]

what is the point of a truham-higgs sports day? literally all the events are gender segregated so like. it's just doing events in parallel, not together

[inga42]

More coordinating outfits from Heartstopper season one

Charlie's friends wearing blue to support Truham at the rugby match

Tao and Elle in ribbed knit

Both in brown at Charlie's birthday

Tara and Darcy in pink

Truham and Higgs uniforms

Tori and Charlie in black

Higgs Sports Day uniform

Same team

Opposite teams

Nick and Sarah in yellow