#zimbits

[madlori]

sometimes I remember that this was a real actual thing that happened and it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

[omgzineplease]

OMG, ZINE PLEASE! VOLUME 3: #TRIPLETROUBLE IS NOW LIVE!

Explore the shenanigans, celebrate the triumphs, and dive into the inner workings and dynamics of all your favorite trios. Got some PolyFrogs ideas? Want some Tadpoles content? How about an unlikely trio you think the world should know about? It's all welcome for this issue! Go forth and wreck havoc with #TripleTrouble!

To our contributors, thank you for your months of hard work to pull together another year of Zine, Please!! This zine would not be possible without your captivating stories and beautiful artwork. And to our readers, thank you for your months of patience and continuing to drum up hype to keep motivated.

With that being said, you can now read #TripleTrouble NOW at the link below! Again, thank you all oh-so much, and we hope to see you in the next one!

-- Zine, Please! Admin Team

🏒 🥧 READ VOLUME THREE HERE! 🥧 🏒

[omgpoindexter]

1:30am and i’m thinking about them

[notnotravenpond]

yes i did another animatic to check bc i have free will!

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Simon Snow/Tyrannus Basilton (Baz) Grimm-Pitch- Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Eric “Bitty” Bittle/Jack Zimmermann- Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu

[zzzbittle]

Often I forget Zimbits started as enemies and are technically enemies to lovers because in my brain they're just the cutest, sweetest couple ever

[b1ttle]

this man was fully about to say i love you barely a month after their first kiss. he is insane.

[porcupine-girl]

I’ve seen (and written) NHL!Bitty, but has anyone written NHL!Bitty/Social media manager!Jack?

This is not a Jack who enjoys social media, mind you - just one who is good at it, and so does it as his job, but probably doesn’t even have personal accounts except to post photos. He probably quit hockey entirely after the overdose and got a marketing degree. His least favorite part of his job is going through the personal accounts of the rookies the Falcs are looking at and making lists of things they’ll need to delete when they sign - if he doesn’t make them just delete their account and start fresh.

And now they’re courting this openly gay captain of a team who made it to the frozen four, who is the first rookie he’s had to deal with who actually comes with his own following both on Twitter and YT. Which means Jack only has so much control over any of it - he can tell Bittle to delete things but if he makes him delete too much it’ll get noticed and maybe even set off some kind of Streisand effect, and he can tell Bittle there are things he’s not allowed to post about but he can’t really control the content because again, Bittle’s followers will notice if his style changes.

Jack does not like having so little control over a rookie’s accounts.

[zimbits-my-love]

campfire

[ohyoufool]

I just know that retired Jack Zimmermann does NOT play about pickleball.

[parvuls]

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.

[aristocrating]

bitty: how was the hangout with kent, honey?

jack: oh, it was good. he had a friend over. doja, i think her name was? she seemed nice.

bitty: doja... cat?

jack: i think that was her last name, yeah.

bitty:

[firstdayasadumpling]

late night studyin …. pray for bitty please 🙏

[omgpoindexter]

if i don’t get to see this interaction play out in a tv show before i die then i WILL be doing something drastic. btw.

[forfuckssakejim]

The first Falconers game after Bitty and Jack get married, the falconers pull off a big prank on them. In which every player on the starting line (and everyone else) is introduced as [Last Name]-Bittle. Like in that friends episode where Courtney gets married and asked for the opening credits to be changed to CoxArquette to show it and instead they changed everyones last name to Arquette

And they all have jerseys made special for that first game and Jack is laughing the whole game and Bittle’s in the line up just cheering on everyone.

At the end the Falconers social media channel posts a picture with everyone in their Bittle jersey and the caption is like “The Falconers and their husband, food network star and author Eric Bittle”

[nursedexy]