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Can we talk about this guy’s crocs please he wore them to hazeapalooza who is he he should be fined

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stupid ass check please conspiracy thread

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the waffles’ group chat is called waffle haus

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@omgcheckplease: he liked it so he put a ring on it 💍

don’t even try to tell me shitty didn’t gift them these t-shirts to wear for their engagement party. don’t even ATTEMPT

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Shitty teaches the tadpoles how to properly chug drinks.

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none of the aces can flirt.

y’all. little does he know that’s their future captain. Kent and the other tall brunet ace. Please love the LV Aces with me. 

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i can see jack going to open the car door for bitty but bitty running to open the car door for bc years of southern manners™ being drilled into his head make him determined to open that damn door for his bf but then they get confused as to whose driving

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holy fucking shit. chad s. and chad r. (?) are bitty and jack palette swaps. this is the funniest shit i’ve fucking seen.

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[lawyer voice] mothers and fuckers of the jury-

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one day during a locker room pep talk jack says “know your limit, play within it” and everyone is like “wow jack that’s good advice very inspiring” meanwhile ransom is screaming “that’s literally just the slogan from the ontario lottery and gambling corporation commercials????? he just?? you guys, that’s a fucking MEM E” but nobody’s listening

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i was told recently that jack might be self conscious of his beard and, for someone who grows one pretty much every playoff season hes got to deal with it pretty frequently

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i need more of Jack just putting his whole weight on Bitty. Like physically just lays on top of him. It makes Bitty fall asleep better. It’s the Good kind of senory input.maeks him feel safe. makes him feel in control. I can only draw this so many times 

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FINISH HIM

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You’ve heard of 110% Jack Zimmermann, now get ready for

0% Jack Zimmermann.

There’s a cookout at a neighboring frat house, and the hockey team plus Farmer go to hang out and drink beer. They start playing an impromptu game of volleyball in the yard, and Jack’s on Chowder’s team.

Now, Chowder is steeling himself for strategy, Jack’s murder face, and a lot of competitive bullshit.

What he gets is Jack chirping Holster, who isn’t even in the yard. The ball goes flying right past Jack’s face and this total meatball just watches it bounce out of bounds.

“Ha ha, look at it go.”

Chowder kicks Jack off his team because they are losing so bad, it’s actually pretty embarrassing. And Jack’s like, “What? Of course I can play with a Sprite in my hand.”

“Jack no.”

Also consider:

Jack studying for a class that he has zero interest in. His studying for economics looks an awful lot like amateur architecture.

“Jack, why is there a popsicle stick Eiffel Tower on the kitchen table? Wait, where did these popsicle sticks even come from?”

Jack actually gives negative fucks when it comes to cooking just for himself. His meals don’t even make sense half of the time. Bitty caught him eating a bowl of mac and cheese, tater tots, green peas and ketchup once. He still has nightmares.

There’s another cookout on Frat row that the hockey team crashes (but they bring tub juice so they get to stay). Someone set up a badminton net in the yard and Jack somehow gets roped into playing.

(Not by Chowder, though, because that’s the kind of lesson you only have to learn once.)

Bitty is playing his little Southern heart out, running up and down his side of the makeshift court. He swings at the birdie so hard it actually gets stuck in his racket.

Meanwhile, Jack is seeing if he can balance his racket on his chin.

And then he tries to see if he can whack the birdie onto the frat house’s roof. Which turns into several people cussing him out and Bitty chases him around for a few minutes with the intent of beating Jack Zimmermann’s ass.

(Jack laughs and laughs and maybe he lets Bitty catch him and then he grins up at him—there had been a leaping tackle involved in the take down—and he says “What’re you gonna do with me now, Bittle?” And Bitty is Not Amused, so he pinches Jack’s nipple hard and then he goes help the frat bros get the birdie out of the gutter.)

Jack loves history, but only some history. He gives a lengthy presentation on Colonial North America in one of his history classes, and at the end the TA raises her hand. “How did Thomas Jefferson’s contributions shift the course of United States history?”

And he just squints at her and goes, “Who the fuck is Thomas Jefferson?”

Watching TV with Jack is a gamble. He’s either on the edge of his seat, eyes trained on the screen, ready to permanently silence anyone who dares speak/interrupt his show. Or he talks over the TV, puts it on mute to better hear someone else talk over the TV, and makes fun of the various American accents on the show.

(Jack’s southern accent is so bad and he knows it, and he makes it so much worse when Bitty is around to hear it. It’s all fun and games until a French Canadian on TV has something to say, and then Jack’s all like “Wtf, Bitty? I thought we were friends!?” Bitty is really glad he sprung for throw pillows in the Haus, because otherwise he would end up concussing his captain.)

Jack took one semester of Spanish, and he remembers a surprising amount of it, considering he went to class a total of six times and did virtually none of the work. His Spanish is terrible, but he knows numbers, colors, seasons and “No bueno.” For some time, lots of things were “no bueno.”

But then Jack stumbled across ASL via YouTube and he gets super into it. By the end of the week he knows about as much ASL as he does Spanish. By the end of the month he can sign the most beautiful profanity and dad jokes. By the end of the school year it’s started rubbing off on the rest of the team.

(Their butchered ASL is somehow worse than Jack’s Spanish, and he would be more annoyed if it weren’t hilarious. For some time Ransom and Holster take to pointing at good things and then making the sign for “candy.” Sriracha? Candy. Apple pie? Candy. The mysterious orange cat that wanders along Frat Row? Candy. Chowder’s stuffed shark? Candy. The latest episode of Breaking Bad? Candy. Pretty soon everyone starts using the candy sign as a gesture of approval. One Sunday Jack walks down to the kitchen to find Bitty making those amazing sausage balls, with real maple syrup and grated sharp cheddar. Jack touches his shoulder so that Bitty’s looking at him and then he presses a finger to his jaw, candy, and points to Bitty so there’s no misunderstanding. Bitty blushes clear to the roots of his hair, even when he says, “Y’all are so weird.”)

This takes us to a new friend. Ransom and Holster and Jack and Chowder are chilling in the dining hall, and Ransom and Holster are using their terrible pidgin ASL (half the signs are made up and the rest don’t matter) which catches the eye of one Amy Willashire, who is HOH and still pretty new to Samwell.

Amy marches her happy ass up to the table and starts signing away, a mile a minute, the biggest grin on her face because sometimes it feels like she’s the only HOH student on campus. That grin slowly fades as Ransom and Holster stare at her like she’s grown a second head. (They’re actually panicking, because they understand about one word in ten and how are they going to tell her that?)

And then Jack perks up and starts signing back, so Amy is signing to him. He has to tell her twice to slow tf down, but then she sits with them and by the time the hockey crew have to go to class she’s chirping Jack for his ASL accent. (Some of his signs come out backwards, and he’ll swap hands halfway through a thought instead of using his dominant hand for most of the work. Jack flips her off with a laugh, which is a sign everyone can get right.)

So Jack and Amy are ASL buddies. Amy is super stoked that most of the hockey team knows at least some of the language, which means she can tell them something in a pinch. So the team learns even more ASL and Amy learns about hockey, and things are golden.

Until Amy invites Jack and Dex to a pool party. Everyone there is at least one beer in, and they’re playing in the pool, and someone mentions water chicken. Amy wants to play, so as a matter of course she clambers onto Jack’s shoulders.

From her vantage point, she can’t tell what Jack’s saying but she can feel him giggling like a bastard as they wipe out literally every time, to the point where everyone else is playing pool chicken and she is trying to splash Jack into next week. He’s splashing back. It’s a whole thing.

(They find Dex in the basement with a few of the stoners and a lingering smell of pot. Dex has finally found his chill.)

That is what 0% Jack Zimmermann looks like.

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I’m certain that at some point the SMH team make a game out of doing random stuff in the background of Bitty’s vlogs without him noticing. They leave him alone when he’s filming in his bedroom, but whenever he’s cooking all bets are off as long as they can carry out their plan without interrupting the video.

Some highlights include:

Ransom walking past the kitchen balancing a tower of hockey pucks on his head.

Holster miming a dramatic battle with an invisible enemy, complete with an over the top, drawn out “death”.

Dex walking into frame, lying face down on the floor and just staying there unmoving for a full minute.

Shitty doing a handstand and walking past on his hands. He’s also wearing a shirt for once, not that it makes much of a difference because it ends up falling down over his face.

Nursey walking backwards and forwards past the kitchen every 30 seconds on the dot, each time wearing a slightly different but equally bizarre outfit.

Lardo throwing paper planes across the kitchen behind Bitty, trying to land them in the rubbish bin.

Tango likes to peek around the doorway and hold up pieces of paper saying hello to Bitty’s viewers.

The team learns that Whiskey can moonwalk when he casually does so down the hallway.

At first Jack doesn’t join in much, but there was a great moment when he realised that Bitty was filming as he was walking past, froze like a deer in headlights, then tried to sneak off-camera in the most awkward way possible.

As time goes on Jack starts to participate more and more in small, simple ways like moving stuff behind Bitty. He’s also the most likely to lose by interrupting the video because he can’t resist chirping Bitty, that boy is hopeless.

But once, during a Valentine’s day video at some stage after they come out, he does manage to sneak a whole heap of roses into the kitchen one by one.

Chowder is the undeniable winner with the time he stood in the background for an entire video, acting out all of Bitty’s instructions as if he were in an infomercial, and Bitty never once noticed he was there.

I’m pretty sure in canon they still haven’t seen any of Bitty’s videos so they never know how often their antics make it onto his channel, but sometimes they can hear Bitty editing and he’ll suddenly burst into laughter and that’s enough.

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*shows up to this edit format 4 years late with starbucks*