#wtf omgcp

[thefrizz13]

Nurseydex

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[horribleprotagonist]

dex pining after openly out nursey, it's a classic we all love it okay BUT!!!!!!!! have we considered the far superior nursey pining after an openly queer dex??? will comes to Samwell after growing up in small town conservative Maine and dealing with homophobia on his Jr hockey teams and he decides he's not gonna hide at college he wants to be the role model he needed as a kid. and he absolutely Thrives!!! he's open and out and Radiant and he makes casual queer jokes with bitty and nursey (who is either closeted or hasn't realized his own identity yet) is just obsessed with him but doesn't understand Why so he just continues sulking and maybe staring a dex a bit too long during practice......

[ginalinettiofficial]

good morning i’m having an omgcp revival moment ❤️❤️❤️ have u ever seen a baby (18 year old) start on your city’s NHL team and been inundated with so many emotions about it that it tossed you headfirst back into an old fandom of yours ❤️❤️❤️ because i have!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[omgzineplease]

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[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.

[griffther]

there’s so many ppl enabling me in the notes of this post, so here enjoy some Thoughts i’ve had about the nurseydex maine road trip so far:

they do a road trip up the coast of maine over fall break their senior year so that nursey can see acadia national park while the leaves are changing

william “acts of service” poindexter decides that it is his Responsibility as nursey’s captain and fellow d-man to become maine’s official tour guide barbie. he plans the entire thing out and even prints them little itineraries and maps and shit because this boy is nothing is not Efficient

nursey makes them stop to see every single lighthouse they go anywhere near just to be a little shit (there are 65 lighthouses in maine, this would take So Long even if you just stopped at like a quarter of them)

the only canonical reference i could find for any actual locations in maine in the comic is that dex said his uncle who owned the lobster fishing boat he worked on over the summers lived in portland

(a side note to the above, i find this hilarious. portland is an pretty solidly liberal urban city - imagine a very small boston - and not somewhere you’re very likely to find small family-owned lobster fishing boats, at least in my experience. it would make way more sense for his uncle to live somewhere like rockland but i digress)

dex is 100% positive that nursey would Love portland so he carves out two whole days of their trip for them to stay with his uncle and explore. they go to the art museum and old port and the port head lighthouse and the top of the world lookout at fort sumner park and all the little shops and hidden places dex had found from living there every summer for years

nursey does end up loving portland but it might be more about the boy that shows it to him

even though his uncle lives in portland, i am still personally convinced that dex’s family mostly lives around the rockland area. i will go on a rant about nursey meeting dex’s close family another time, but while they’re in rockland, nursey continues his dedication to seeing all the lighthouses he can by forcing dex to make the almost mile long trek out to the breakwater lighthouse with him (don’t think about them standing alone next to this little building almost a mile out from land. the wind is chilly and strong and it makes dex’s hair look ridiculous and his cheeks flush and nursey definitely doesn’t want to kiss him ITS FINE ITS CHILL)

dex has them make a detour up to bangor and surprises nursey with going to see stephen king’s house. he doesnt understand why people are interested in looking at some dudes house At All but he does know nursey would love it so he does it anyways. the fence is cool and nursey gets so excited he almost face plants jumping out of the car, so dex counts it as a success

some random places i feel like dex would make them stop at along the way: freeport (nursey is both so confused and so delighted by just Everything about that place, but he loses his mind over the mcdonald’s and the ll bean outlet), ogunquit (dex purposefully takes highway 1 instead of the maine turnpike going towards portland so that they drive through ogunquit and he can see nursey’s face when he realizes they’re driving through the single gayest town he’s ever seen in his life and it’s in southern maine), moose point state park (there are a billion lil state parks in maine but i just randomly like this one in particular idk i think it’s cute), camden hills state park (it’s too foggy when they get there to drive up to the top so nursey makes them go on a hike instead so they didn’t “waste their time.” they get lost within like 10 minutes and are wet from the fog by the time they make it back to the car like 2 hours later), the desert of maine (it’s kinda boring to dex bc he’s seen it a dozen times since he was a kid, but nursey gets enthralled by the science behind it so it’s worth it), cushing (this is where the famous painter andrew wyeth lived at the olson house and was the subject of a lot of his work and i just feel like nursey would have fun seeing this place)

when they eventually make it to acadia, nursey ends up spending like two solid hours just sitting at sargent peak staring out over everything and desperately scrawling out lines of poetry into his notebook (dex spends most of those 2 hours staring at nursey but somehow doesn’t notice that nursey definitely isn’t writing about the scenery)

[parseisflat]

nurseydex meet ugly au where nursey rear ends dex

[zimms]

thinking about ford and tango sharing the attic in their junior year. thinking about ford and tango reluctantly getting rid of the double bed and giving it to nursey, so that he's not just sleeping on the bunkbeds anymore. thinking about ford and tango who stop bringing hookups back to the haus the second junior year begins. thinking about ford and tango who constantly push their beds together because they're both 'tactile people who sleep better with another person in the bed.' thinking about ford and tango who constantly dance around defining what they are to each other. ford and tango who slowly fall in love with each other over the year.

but then ford and tango who both feel like there's something missing. ford and tango who subconsciously leave a bit of space between them on the mega bed they make every night. thinking about ford and tango who drag whiskey up to the attic at every chance, hanging out there into the early hours of the morning as often as possible. thinking about ford and tango, who when whiskey says he needs to head downstairs, just flop onto the bed and tell him to stay. ford and tango who shuffle aside when whiskey comes up onto the bed between them and come back together to hold him just as they've wanted to all year. ford and tango and whiskey finally figuring out what they want from each other.

[parvuls]

au where everything is the same except jack is captain of the football team instead of the hockey team and he spends his last school semester before joining the nfl kind of badly hitting on bitty on several occasions (and not being completely aware that that's in fact what he's doing by constantly finding himself next to the speedy winger from the loud men's hockey team)

the punchline: not only is bitty as oblivious to jack's queerness as his canon self, but he's also pretty resistant to jack's attempts because -- a big football player trying to be extraordinarily nice to him? the alarm bells in bitty's head are Ringing

[somethingnurseywoulddo]

you know what? fuck it, omgcp track & field au:

lets start with our beloved main character: bitty. now, it’s canon he’s got hops on hops on hops, so i’m going to naturally dub him a jumper. he doesn’t high jump though. that’s because while he can jump high, he doesn’t apply it very well to that event. he’s great at long jump, it’s got speed and vertical jump, without being as finicky as high jump.

additionally, bitty is fast. not just a one and done kinda guy, but he’s got endurance. if you don’t think he’s on the 4x4 you need to rethink some things. he can do a 200, and enjoys them, but if he triple jumps at a meet he won’t do the 200.

and you may be wondering “yo op, why not have him pole vault?” because i said so. i just don’t think he would want to. (however i do understand the zimbits perspective of All American pole vaulter jack zimmermann taking on newbie potential eric bittle and a relationship grows from there)

next up is captain of all captains, jack zimmermann. as much as i want this GOD of a man to pole vault, his body type is simply not cut out for it. even in the multi-event where you don’t have to be as good, he simply cannot fling that much weight over a pole 15 feet in the air

i think he’s a 800, 400, and ofc 4x4 runner. incase you’re wondering, he hands off to bitty ;)

his favorite event is the 800, and although he’s equally good at the 400, he’s more technically sound in the 400. these two events are so challenging and take a lot of skill and drive, which he’s definitely got the heart for.

i think he used to do every event under the sun in high school (main in 400) but really grew into a solid mid distance runner that the team can rely of for big points.

now for ransom, i’m very torn. i almost want to make him and holster multis but i’m leaning toward ransom long jumping and/or hurdles??? i’m feeling 100 hurdles, long jump, 4x4????? he’s fast, really aware of his body and i think that bodes well for these events. especially because, believe it or not, long jump and hurdles have very similar mechanics

he jokes about doing distance all the time though and holster is quick to add “you did one cross country season freshman year of highschool you are not a distance runner”

his favorite event is 100 hurdles hands down.

holster.. my boy… you want to be a jumper so bad don’t you? too bad. you’re a 400 runner through and through and guess who your biggest rival is?! it’s jack! yay.

i think he runs open 400 and 4x4 (making the starting team jack, bitty, ransom, and holster (not necessarily in that order))

i don’t see him running anything much faster or much longer but sometimes some people can only do the event in that one distance, not the entire event group as a whole. it pisses holster off that he can’t run more than 400 well.

also oh my god??? his foot contact is so strong and heavy you hear him coming up from behind you and think you’re gonna die. you shit your pants.

this post is getting kinda long but i do have room for The shitty knight. we can all agree he’s a mile runner. this bitch is crazy as fuck and he’s got the build for some short distance stuff. the mile and 800 are his best.

don’t be surprised if you see him somehow also pole vaulting. i don’t care how rare it is for distance to jump as well. “look how cool my flow is when i fall down bros” and that’s his argument.

in omgcp canon shitty is not the best player and not the worst, he’s fairly average and can hold his ground and throw in some cool tricks. he’s a solid foundation. i think here, while he’s still a solid foundation, he really finds himself a stand out runner, especially in the mile. there’s something very vibrant about his running.

also the team has socks for days

[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]

[omgzimbitsplease]

The more "Lardo and Jack could only ever be platonic friends" posts I see, the closer I get to genuinely shipping them.

[zimboniiiiii]

Things that are canon that’s currently rocking my world

Lardo and Bitty’s relationship consisting of them bonding over boys being stupid

Chowder being more of a sunshine boy than I thought

Tango being a Criminal Science major, and it just makes so much damn sense

Jack taking over Bitty’s Twitter for periods of time so Bitty could student lmaaaoooooo

Whiskey=Nursey, Ford= Dex, Tango= Chowder

The Shruti and Bitty friendship is everything I’ve ever needed

Dex loving Lardo so much that he freaks out when she has to find a new manager

Holster’s name in Bitty’s phone being “Adam 😡”

Lardo and Chowder being a duo

Shitty’s real fucking name I- 💀

[cricketnationrise]

bowling legends

Written for day 5 of Friendship Week! prompt: sport other than hockey / the tadpoles @birlcholtz you rock

_X_

“Alright I give up, why are we going to this sketchy strip mall?” Ford asks while Tango looks for a parking spot.

“We’re going bowling, and this is the closest place,” Whiskey answers. “We looked it up, they’re having a five dollar pitcher and three dollar wing special tonight. Plus shoe rentals are only ten per person.”

“That is surprisingly thrifty of y’all, Whiskey.”

“Well, we are also using sin bin money tonight.”

“You guys! That’s supposed to go toward the team stuff!”

“It is for the team!” Tango protests, pulling into a spot.

“Captain’s orders,” Whiskey adds.

“Captain’s orders? To take me bowling with fine money?” Ford looks doubtful.

“Well, the bowling part was us, but Dex definitely said to take you somewhere to unwind.”

“I don’t need to unwind I have a million things to get done for the spring musical and prep for playoffs and -”

“And you’ve been snappish at the whole team for the last week.”

Ford’s mouth snaps shut with an audible click of her teeth.

“...I have?”

Whiskey nods gently. “We hoped it was just an off day, but it was all week, Foxy.”

She hangs her head. “Sorry guys, I’m just stressed.”

“Hence us taking you bowling!” Tango says with a smile. “We figured it was sufficiently active slash violent to let out your stress with minimal damage to people or property. Plus lots of sitting and beer. We’ll even keep the bumpers up for maximum amusement.”

“I do like beer.”

“That’s the spirit,” Tango says. “Shall we go then?”

The trio troops inside and Tango takes a second in the lobby to just breathe in his surroundings. He loves bowling: the UV light hitting the space carpet, the clatter of pins falling, the sound of the attached arcade games, even the slightly gross smell of bowling shoes, old pizza and spilled beer, all trying to be masked by Pine-Sol. Eh, he’s smelled worse at the Haus. Somewhere in his room at home are three separate birthday party pins all signed by his friends. Bowling rocks.

They grab food and beer, rent their shoes, and settle in for a relaxing night of chucking balls at pins. Whiskey, predictably, takes bowling the most seriously, and consequently is losing by a large margin at the end of six frames. Tango knows the secret of bowling is to think about literally anything else. If you focus too hard you’ll end up overcorrecting. In the immortal words of Jack Black in School of Rock: Loosey goosey baby. Loosey. Goosey.

But Foxtrot looks remarkably relaxed. She’s in second, only a little behind Tango, but she’s got a huge grin on her face as she watches Whiskey do his super stiff robot bowling and snacks on the basket of wings.

“This was a good idea, Tango. Thank you for dragging me out tonight.”

He slings his arm around her shoulder and tugs her closer. “Literally any time Foxy. Well, not during hockey practice, or your rehearsal, or during classes, I guess. But anytime we are both free, I’ll be here with bells on.”

Ford giggles at him and goes to take her turn. She and Whiskey do their secret handshake as they pass each other. Legends Only.

“We did good,” Whiskey comments as he takes a seat and a sip of his beer.

“Literally thank god,” Tango says, “I think she was about to explode from the stress.”

“No one likes a stressed out manager, that’s for sure.”

“She’s gonna be a mess next year when we have to find her replacement before we graduate.”

Whiskey shudders. “Let’s not borrow trouble, bro.”

“Fair enough.” Tango looks around at the other people bowling at nine on a Thursday for the first time, and notices a group of women a few lanes down. They’re all wearing the same lavender bowling shirt. He squints and sees that they say ‘Samwell Bowling Babes.’ He grins, and points them out to Whiskey. Whiskey just raises his eyebrows at Tango.

“You’re not seriously trying to wheel now, are you?”

“It’s for Ford!” Tango protests.

“What’s for Ford?” she asks, coming back. “You’re up Tango.”

“I was just pointing out that group over there,” he says, pointing.

“Samwell Bowling Babes?” Ford looks doubtful.

“You should go talk to them, I’ll bet they could use someone new on their team,” says Tango.

“I don’t know, I’m so busy already…”

“Can’t hurt to try, Foxy,” Whiskey says.

“Are you guys going to let me not talk to them?” she asks.

“Probably not,” Tango admits.

“Ugh fine. Don’t bowl for me, I’ll only be a few minutes.”

“Aye aye, captain.”

Tango goes to bowl his frame, keeping an eye on Ford as she goes up to the purple-clad women, bow bouncing.

He flings the bowling ball down the lane and watches as it bounces no less than six times on the bumpers and ends up with nine pins getting knocked down. He manages some bowling magic to get the spare and when he sits down again, Ford is coming back over.

“How the fuck do you do that,” Whiskey grumbles as he trudges up to the ball return for his next frame.

“Natural talent,” he chirps back.

“Turns out they aren’t so much a team as an informal gathering that likes to have matching shirts,” says Ford, before taking another drink of her beer. “But they said they’re super flexible on time and meet a few times a week to accommodate as many people as possible. They’re gonna send me a schedule. Also one of them gave me this for you.” She hands over a small piece of paper with a name and number written on it.

He takes it and pockets it without looking at it. Tonight’s about Denice.

“Alright Foxtrot!” Tango picks her up in a huge hug. “All grown up and getting friends that have nothing to do with hockey or theater. I’m so proud!”

“Alright, alright, put me down!” she laughs. He sets her down gently. “But yeah, yeah, you were right, bowling is great, I need stress relief, and being around people that don’t know anything about pucks or actors is probably a really good idea. Thanks Tango.”

“Got your back.”

“Oh COME ON,” Whiskey wails from in front of them. Tango and Ford look around to see Whiskey looking utterly defeated at the pins. Tango looks at the end of the lane and bursts out laughing, joined a second later by Ford. He’s somehow managed to only knock down a single pin with his first ball. And his second ball rolled into the exact same hole without hitting anything else. One point.

“Oh Whiskey,” she giggles.

“I just don’t understand,” he groans and finishes off his beer.

“I already told you to loosen up, you’re too stiff,” Tango says.

“Don’t make fun of my culture,” Whiskey sniffs, nose in the air.

“Ah yes, we shouldn’t make fun of our future robot overlords if we want to live,” Ford says, nodding.

“Good point, Ford. We tease out of affection, not malice, please don’t kill us when Skynet takes over.”

Whiskey glares at them through his fingers over his face. “You two are the worst ever.”

“Pshh, we’re the best,” says Ford.

“If you go get another round of food, and actually loosen up, Whiskey, I’ll get you whatever prize you want out of the claw machine.”

“No one is good at those,” Whiskey says grumpily.

“I am. I’m freakishly good at them,” he says proudly. “Lots of time spent on the Jersey Shore boardwalk games.”

“Fine. I want the stuffed octopus.”

“Bet. Let’s go, Whisk. Ford - hold down the lane.”

“You got it. Bring me back a giant pretzel.”

“Your wish is my command,” Tango says with a salute as he drags Whiskey toward the arcade and the food counter.

Ford’s relaxed laughter follows them across the aisle, and they fist bump in victory when they hear it.

[juusesarosrex]

me vs twt

[uncleshits]

ATTENTION: I'm thinking about ADHD bisexual Chowder