#foxtrot omgcp

[baselessomgcpheadcanons]

Foxtrot completes an internship at a circus at some point between the start of her junior year and graduation.

[wipbigbang]

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[omgcpausandstuff]

Tango brings up that one of his cousins has gotten a job at a theater but can't remember what exactly they do but that it's got a weird name. He realizes that his first thought for a clue to help Ford figure this out is funny in a raunchy way and continues after a pause; "something like... the hand... job?" while making a fist and doing his best confused face.

Whiskey manages a dry response but is blushing, and it takes a second for Ford to stop laughing and tell him his cousin is probably a grip.

[zimmerdouche]

“Hey, I like your shirt!”

“Thanks!”

Two and a half months and 126 followers later, the prize for my 500 followers giveaway is finally complete. @euseevius has been so incredibly patient and I’m thrilled to gift this lovely picture of Ford being a lesbian to them! (: I hope you all enjoy it as well!

[virgoscringe]

a commission done for the delightful @squidgiepdx and his fic, I Can Make You a Man! if you like Rocky Horror, NurseyDex, and wonderful writing, check his stuff out! :D

[tangredont]

“Keep me warm?”

(Simply having) a WTF christmas time by @jeanjacketbittle for @omgcpbigbang2021

Read on AO3!

Let me hand you this very rare piece of art from me, I’ve had a ton of fun with it. The fic is so good and fun, thank you Meg<3 Everyone go read it!!

[ID: Fanart of Tango and Whiskey seemingly asleep on a couch. Ford is putting a blanket on them. The room is dark and partly lit by a window, and it’s snowing outside. There are Christmas lights in the back of the room, and two empty mugs and a lit candle by the left side of the couch. End ID]

[atlasthemayor]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY‚ here’s some polyfrogs headcanons for you:

- they sleep with Chowder in the middle

- Dex makes them sing along when he plays guitar bc he feels weird singing alone and it becomes a regular thing for them to just hang out and make music together

- Chowder asks Ford to teach him to knit so he can make his boyfriends sweaters and scarves

- Nursey tears up every time they do something remotely romantic for him‚ like even just remembering his favorite ice cream flavor

- @fffuckthelaxbros

OMG THANK YOUUUU

And YES

These are all 100% true, 'cause I said so

SPECIALLY that last one, you just know he was on the ground sobbing when they surprised him with a romantic homemade dinner for his birthday

Thank you again, this was a beautiful bday surprise 🥺🥺🥺

[cricketnationrise]

Scene Painting 303 T/TH 9AM

written for day 1 of OMGCP Friendship Week! prompt: sharing a class

_X_

Denice walks into Scene Painting 303 vibrating with excitement. She’d somehow lucked into a junior level class as a freshman, and based on the rest of her second semester course load, this one practical class will be a welcome relief.

She prefers stage managing generally, but in her high school theater department, painting the set had been an all hands on deck situation - turning into all night painting parties with good music, pizza, good friends, and ultimately, a finished set. Denice is pretty good with a brush, but she knows there’s more to learn, and having a more practical skill set certainly won’t hurt her long-term.

Denice doesn’t know anyone in the room.

She’s still a freshman after all, and there hasn’t been a ton of chances to get to know the department, what with her spending almost all her time not in the theater building getting her gen-eds out of the way. But she’s here, and she at least recognizes a few of the faces from around the theater building. As usual, she’s the shortest person in the room, but, she notices with a jolt, she’s not the only vertically challenged person in the room. The person across the room from her is intimidatingly cool. Their clothes are already covered in paint, and the shaved sides of their hair are showing off the multiple ear piercings to their best advantage.

Denice wants to be their friend immediately.

“Alright, everyone is here, so let's get into it,” says one of the two men at the front of the group. He’s got on jeans and Hawaiian shirt. “For the few of you I don’t recognize, I’m John Burgess, you should definitely call me John, I never respond to professor. I’m also the technical director here and am in the middle of designing the musical so this semester I am partnering up with Richard over here to make sure that one of us is always able to be focused on this class. Richard?”

“Hi there everyone, I’m Richard Finkelstein, please don’t be offended if it takes me a while to tell you apart, I have facial blindness.” Richard Finkelstein looks as if a walrus muppet was a person, and has on paint-covered Crocs. Denice likes him at once.

“I figured we could start with you all saying your names and majors and anything else important that the group should know so that I can start to put names and voices together and you all can meet and then John and I will do a demonstration before getting you all set up with your first assignment.”

They go around the circle, pretty evenly split between theater and art majors. There’s a surprise nursing major, so that’ll be cool. Finally, they get to the other short person in the room.

“Hey. I’m Lardo, and I use they/them pronouns, and I’m an art major.”

“Great!” says John, “Richard and I are going to demonstrate your first assignment: painting wood to look like wood.” He grins wickedly when the theater kids groan at this. “About seventy-five percent of all theatrical painting is making wood look like different wood. Another twenty percent is painting wood to look like rock. And the other five percent is painting something other than wood. But I digress. For now, you will take this sheet of luan and make it look like it’s made up of old, painted fence posts with a variety of basic techniques.”

Richard and John walk the class through scumbling and dry brushing, pointing out the different types of brushes on their sticks, and doling out tips as they go. In a matter of minutes, the empty sheet of wood is transformed.

“Holy shit, they’re fast,” Denice hears from next to her. She turns to agree and her words die in her mouth - Lardo has drifted closer to her during the demo. Denice manages to nod, at least.

“Alright, paint’s up front, your luan sheets are over there, and they are already primed so no worries there, go ahead and partner up and try to recreate what Richard and I just did. Winning duo gets bragging rights and also a tiny little target on their backs. And,” he rummages in his pocket for a second, “one dollar each. Go!”

Denice is fully prepared to look around for a partner when she finds herself being towed along already by Lardo.

“Oh-okay?”

“Short people solidarity, Denice,” Lardo says.

“Right. Right. Okay, I’ll get the sticks set if you get the paint?”

“Done, let’s motor.”

The next few minutes are a blur of paint and moving around Lardo. Despite slamming into each other once, Denice thinks their piece looks pretty darn good. There’s a few things she would do differently on a second attempt, but she knows if they keep touching it now it’ll get ruined.

“Nice work, Denice,” Lardo says, holding their hand out for a fist bump. Denice bumps back awkwardly, she’s seen her football-playing brothers do that, but the theater crowd is more about high-fives and hugs and strange intricate rituals viewed from wing to wing across a stage than fist bumps.

“I think we did a good job,” says Denice.

“Fucking right,” Lardo says.

“Excellent work indeed you two,” comes John from behind them, startling both of them. “Gather round everyone, Denice and Lardo are the winners! Take your dollars, don’t spend them all in one place, yadda yadda yadda.”

“This dry brushing is really excellent, and you two did just enough over the scumble to make it look like there are multiple layers of paint on your fence,” chimes in Richard.

“Dope,” says Lardo.

“Thank you,” says Denice, more grateful than ever for her dark skin for hiding her blush.

“Everyone else, thanks for playing. Make sure you all wash your brushes, sign your work, and get out of there, we’ll see you back on Thursday morning,” John says.

The class murmurs goodbye, some of the theatre kids hanging back to chat with John and Richard, the rest moving off to pack up and get to their next class. Denice lingers when she sees an email from her stage manager for Sweeney Todd pop up. It seems they are short of audition forms and she’ll have to go to the student center to photocopy some more. She sets off and is immediately hailed by a shout as she hits the courtyard.

“Yo, Denice! Wait up!”

“Yes?” She waits for Lardo to catch up before continuing on.

“It was a dream team in there today,” Lardo says, “Want to be my painting buddy for any other partner stuff?”

“Sure! It was fun painting with you as well.”

“Oh good, I worried that my fine art background would make this kind of painting harder.”

“Yeah, I get that, from what I understand about fine art, I think the concepts are the same, just on a bigger scale and you have to keep lighting in mind more than with traditional painting.”

“Makes sense. You said you’re a theater major?”

“Mhmm.”

“What’s your normal specialty?”

“How do you know it isn’t scenic art?” Denice asks.

“Not enough paint on your backpack,” Lardo fires back.

Denice laughs. “Fair enough. I’m normally a stage manager - looking over the script changes, calling cues, managing the cast and rehearsals and scheduling and what not. It’s a lot of paperwork.”

“Sounds a lot like my job -” Lardo starts before being cut off by a bellow from across the quad.

“LARDO YOU BEAUT GET OVER HERE! I MISS YOU! IT’S BEEN SO LONG!”

A mustachioed brunette white guy is waving Lardo over frantically. A taller black haired man stands next to him, rubbing his hand over his face in resignation.

Lardo chuckles to themselves before turning to Denice. “I have to go sort him out, but have a great rest of your day, and I’ll see you in class on Thursday?”

“I’ll be there,” Denice confirms.

“Nice, you’re chill. I’m keeping you,” says Lardo. “Later Denice!”

As they jog away Denice hears Lardo yell back to her friend, “SHITTY WOULD YOU CALM DOWN IT'S BEEN LESS THAN TWO HOURS YOU’RE UPSETTING JACK!”

She doesn’t know what’s going on there, but she’s looking forward to finding out on Thursday.

[usssamwell]

it took awhile to get him (because of customs issues) but look at these precious babies

[beautifulfreaks22]

I spent all day making this tag yourself for Check, Please because I’m in love with these weirdos. So let me know who you are!

Let me know what you think!

[zimboniiiiii]

*takes a deep breath* Ford gives me Jojo Siwa energy

[somethingnurseywoulddo]

okay so i had to work a cross country meet from very early this morning until very late in the evening but let me just say i very much appreciate the wlw/mlm ford and whiskey content that was posted i age that shit up so fast yum yum yum

[fromyourrafterstoyourrails]

What is this? a Fic Review 👀

Have you ever read a story that changed your life? Ok, I’m overexaggerating a bit, but what else is the internet for. At about 7AM EST this morning, I was in my bed looking desperately for more WTF content (the paring between Foxtrot, Tango, & Whisky). There are only 18 works listed under their tag on ao3, and it’s a tragedy. Who doesn’t love a good OT3? And these three are a match made in hockey heaven.

I consider myself an avid reader of fanfiction and published stories alike and feel I can distinguish s good story from a great one. However, I had already read the 7 fics under this tag that sounded appealing, and I was hungry for more. So against my better judgment, I clicked on the one claiming to be a Gilmore Girls au. I think I was so averse to this story initially because I had never seen Gilmore Girls. I knew very little about the story and was hesitant to jump into an account bassed around this show’s central themes.

“Samwell is the kind of town where everyone knows everyone. That’s why everybody knows that Eric “Bitty” Bittle’s bakery is the only place to get a decent pie, why everybody knows that if you want to teach your kid to dance or sing you send them to Adam Birkholtz, and why everybody in town has a bet on when single dad Derek Nurse and diner owner and purveyor of Samwell’s best coffee Will Poindexter are going to finally stop messing around and get together.”

Boy, was I ever wrong. Almost There and Nowhere Near It by shellybelle (@geniusorinsanity), Published on June 3rd, 2018, and Finished on January 1st, 2019, is one of the best fics I have had the pleasure of reading. The CheckPlease fandom is no stranger to well-written stories. Having over 10 thousand published works on Archive of Our Own, there’s bound to be some gems hidden among the dust. But the writers in this community continue to surprise me with their attention to detail and astounding character development.

Shellybelle created a story with so many twists and turn in its 7 chapter run I couldn’t put my phone down. I laughed, and I yelled so much at these characters that I had only known for a few hours. Every ‘almost’ between the central paring of Derek Nurse and Will Poindexter had me furiously delighted, making the payoff at the end all the sweeter.

The author’s use of repetition throughout the story gave it a sense of community. Enticing the reader into the world of the small town of Samwell, Connecticut; population 8,476. The brilliant idea to start every new story point off with, This is _____, let the reader know that the story had progressed without the use of consistent line breaks (a pet peeve of mine).

As previously mentioned, I have never seen Gilmore Girls. But that shouldn’t discourage any potential readers from flocking to this tale. The way the story is laid out, you never need even know Gilmore Girls existed. This story stands strong all on its own.

Another part of this story that worried me was the amount of background ship and the tag promising that “everyone in Check Please makes a cameo.” It’s difficult to craft a well-written story while jumping from viewpoint to viewpoint, letting every character have their moment to shine. But Shellybelle has done it again. Every person got a satisfying ending without being to cliche (for fanfiction based on a drama show, that is). The shift between Derek and Ford’s love lives and how they intertwined m showing the father-daughter duo learning from each other mistakes, was literary genius.

I could go on about how much I love this fic, moving it solidly into my top 10 list but I'll let you all get on with your days. I hope anyone who stuck around to read all this gives Almost There and Nowhere Near It a chance. The story is beautiful and is great to read while curled up with a cup of tea. Hears to you, Shelly, for your beautiful story crafting.

[unemployedundergraduate]

I’m so proud of this one, whiskey looks a little weird, but I still think it looks really good for being one of my first drawings

https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/WTF-OMGCP-by-amandag4/54976770.JCQM3

[virgoscringe]

hey g welcome back!!! i think u should draw ford :)

a beach trip ford! thank u annie m’love <333

[crazysexycool101]

So... I wrote a thing. It's my first fanfic, so check it out!

(y'all saw what I did there, "check" it out, hahaa never mind)