#omgcheckplease

[zimbits-my-love]

shitposting today.. choose your fighter

[randomnoteforfuturereference]

Nothing more British than getting... "inspiration" from a creator who's Nigerian and American without asking her permission.

[parvuls]

First + Last

[nursedexy]

[madlori]

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

[omgpostsplease]

number one sees an opening, he lines up the shot...

inspired by

@notallthosewhowander jack: backhand forehand backhand aaand that’s a slapshot— redirected on smith’s blade— goes in glove side! *shoves peas into laughing toddler’s mouth* (x)

[luminarai]

for your drawing requests - shitty knight from check please? <3

this came to me like a vision that I had to bring to life immediately, mr shits my beloved <3 and bonus ransom and lardo ofc

[heresthepomegranate]

best boys

[b1ttle]

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

[skinneybonboni]

Its the big mans birthday! (Its still 11pm here in California so technically its still august 3rd.)

[zimbits-my-love]

editing panels is kinda fun

[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.

[loveintvworlds]

right now jack zimmermann is watching his husband pack a suitcase to fly home to georgia so he can drive around some fields in his truck blasting beyoncé’s new country music in the south like she intended

[achromic-red-dreams-doze-angrily]

Also I cannot BELIEVE that we finally know what felonious things happened to the pie

from the AUTHOR'S COMMENT on the 1.2 WEBTOON UPLOAD

[samwellgalpal]

we need some sort of nepo baby with tinseltown connections to hook us up with a tv adaptation because what do you mean the 1000 cockroaches vs one person in the attic joke breached containment

[luminarai]

you’re on your own kid / yeah you can face this

I started this Parse comic almost a year ago (!) but I’ve only just managed to put it together now. I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Kent and how he mostly exists in bits and pieces as seen through the eyes of other characters.

There’s just something about being haunted and defined by your past (mistakes) but also finding strength on your own. (And how there can still a hopeful ending despite it all.)