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"so he can't be emotional?!" justin oluransi i missed you

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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This remains the funniest thing I’ve ever texted

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gonna tell my kids this was challengers

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but actually genuinely why is the ant sad and leaving with a bindle

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I don't think it truly hit me when I first read "Check, Please!" (many years ago now) that Jack's mom is an actress/model and Jack's dad was a superstar hockey player in the 70s, 80s, and 90s(?). Now, looking at that, I'm like, "Oh, they could have totally been doing coke off of each other's naked bodies or something in their youth. Easy."

Do I think they are/were addicts? Not really. Do I think that they brought any of that party around young Jack? No. But those industries can be very sleazy, very toxic, very abusive, and they probably had the opportunity to participate in some fairly dangerous forms of "glamorous" "fun". One or both of them might have flirted with drugs. It's one possible interpretation.

And I like the potential angst of Alicia and Bob kind of brushing that wild past off as "just what some people do when you're young and stupid and beautiful and rich", of them being settled and confident and comparatively "boring" adults now in these celebrity environments that have generally treated them very well, and this contributing to them not fully realizing just how much pressure this professional sports world that eats people alive is putting on their kid. It's just the exciting hockey juniors culture for Jack and Kent to participate in all of the underage drinking and stupid bets! Bad Bob Zimmermann can be the cool dad who looks the other way.

Until Jack overdoses on anxiety meds. And Bob is sitting in a hospital waiting room while the entire hockey world speculates about his teenage son's obvious recreational drug habits because "record and rumor has it that Bad Bob liked to party pretty hard back in the day". And it's the worst day of his life.

Also, I like the potential humor of the main characters worrying about impressing Jack's elegant and classy parents, while Alicia and Bob are 99% sure that their beloved hockey robot child was conceived on a private jet while they were VERY drunk. Bitty is worried that Jack's parents will think he's some unsophiscated southern hick who does keg stands at frat parties every weekend or something, goodness gracious, until Jack reveals that there exist photos of his father naked on his knees drinking beer from the Stanley Cup, and that those photos used to be framed in the upstairs bathroom of his childhood home.

Bitty: "...Good Lord, you weren't surprised at all to meet someone like Shitty, were you?"

Jack: "The social justice stuff was new."

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There are only two jobs left in the world and it's making sandwiches or killing people

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Digital oil painting✨

I'm still figurong out how i want to paint digitally, also new brushes so i have to get used to those. I used the Perfect oils brushpack (it costs like 25€, sth like that), there's a lott of brushes it's a bit overwhelming haha. I think i used maybe 5? Different ones for this. I like how the hair turned out, not quite happy with the face tho, i think it could do with less smoothing out. I wanna go more painterly, basically.

I did listen to "Unexplainable" by Nemo on repeat while working on thsi and i did cry a lot, no i am not okay, thanks for asking lmao.

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I feel like logically, a zimbits wedding would be in Massachusetts so that all their friends wouldn't have to travel far, but my headcanon is that Coach and Suzanne Bittle are trapped at some random chalet in Quebec, watching Jack's half of the family singing some yeehaw Queb music and wondering how the hell they got there

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im sorry i literally cannot get this out of my head since last night

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Eric Richard Bittle doodle dump

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Burning Question I've Had for Years:

so which MTL neighbourhood is Jack Laurent Zimmermann from