#parse/jack

[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.)

[90kvp]

Girls, Gays and Theys, I introduce you to Jack “flirts with hockey” Zimmerman. I can’t believe this man 🤣 who told him that complimenting his bf’s hockey is good pillow talk 🤦🏻

[emotioncrj]

there were a couple days between the 2009 memorial cup and the draft when everything was perfect

[fauvester]

I feel in my heart of hearts that jack and parse did each other dirty back in the day. both of then were stupid emotionally immature teenagers. and parse already got his ass whooped by the narrative. so maybe jack can be slow basal-level tortured by his worstie ex hooking up with his bestie teammate

[nursedexy]

What if Kent joins the falcs and Jack quickly realises just how much he's been repressing the feelings he still had for him and it completely breaks down his relationship with Bitty, but he's not too bothered by that because he's making amends with Kent and they're finally becoming friends again and right when he's thinking about asking Kent to give him another chance, Kent confides in him that he's been dating and has fallen in love.. with Tater

[atlasthemayor]

What if we forgot all our past history and just kissed in Terraria? Haha, just kidding!:-) (Unless..?)

[checkdeezpucks]

Lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship.

[dykeseinfeld]

me when we got a whole lotta history & we could be the greatest team that the world has ever seen but the guy i'm in love with says it's in the past

not to be like they were just boys but they were literally just boys and kent has never been able to grow out of that because of the stunting of success and oppressive spotlight

[somethingnurseywoulddo]

but no because parse says “good luck with the falconers. i’m sure that’ll make your dad proud.” as a jab into jacks deepest anxieties but bob is actually proud. he’s so proud jack found himself, can live a life outside of hockey, that the falconers just add a little bit more zest into his life. that the falconers are a team that’ll change the league forever.

[lunar-nebulari]

actually thank u for posting about kent/pimms! i was here years ago when a subset of parse fans started a racist hate campaign against ngozi, which led to a lot of folks sharing how uncomfortable they were that he's even that popular of a character?? i rlly thought the parseposting would die out after that but ig only the olds remember ;o;

How… does one even have the GALL to start a racist campaign against the CREATOR of the character they like- I often find myself wondering HOW and WHY Parse is such a popular character, because he’s very clearly a bad person. But y’know ppl can do whatever they want, they can like characters that are bad people, and he is a pretty interesting character from a writer’s perspective. But the fact that those people started a hate campaign is what makes things no longer okay. It’s funny because I feel like the only omgcp posting that HASN’T died out is the parse posting. It’s kinda crazy.

[sergeifyodorov]

is jhughes masc AF

to him yes... in his head he's tom of finland butch like buff cockprint in the leather pants Butch. like thats his self image when hes feeling himself he knows hes like the pinnacle of malegender hes doing it like nobody else.

when hes not feeling himself (or when nico is looking at him or when he's standing next to someone taller that isn't luke (dorky little brother by default and therefore exempt from fighting 4 masc socialstatus) or when hes existing next to an attractive woman that isn't impressed by him) he's Not masc hes sooo skinny and barefaced and TOTALLY 5'11 and like he's still in this "i'm masc and the best" era Outwardly but like he knows. he Knows he's a twink who can't grow a beard as good as quinn or nico and that like. hurts him. and he's always been this kind of hypersexual fratboy (the tzegras effect) so that kind of layers into it. like im kind of girly -> but all the girls wanna fuck me -> but do they? bc i look like a girl -> but all the guys wanna fuck the ppl that look like girls -> AM I GAY AND/OR A GIRLGUY

[ronandhermy]

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Chapter 61: The Drums

[bitty-smol]

sometimes i like to make myself sad by thinking about how kent thought he had a solid family structure with bob and alicia around and when jack cut him out, he lost all of it :)))

[nixiecat]

ok so I've come back to thinking about the futch thing and how I kinda resonate with it even tho it's not really a real thing or whatever, anyway here's where I'm at (ramblings under the cut)

I think I am butch but I'm not sure. it's kinda complicated? I feel like I relate to the identity and social aspects of butchness but like. I usually present more of the feminine side of things and I like my makeup and long hair and skirts and dresses and cute little outfits. but I feel like especially in my relationship to my gf I am really starting to lean into the butch identity in a lot of ways too.

anyway idk what to call myself or if I'm even allowed to label myself as butch when I don't necessarily perfectly fit the bill. are feminine sub bottom butches still butch or do I need to come up with something else to label myself as

[checkdeezpucks]

imagine the angst potential of this singular chemistry being kenny's perspective, and he talks about it to jack like 'can you believe how good we were back then i felt like i could read your mind'....and jack responds by saying he feels that way about anyone he plays with at an elite level and kent was never special.... ;_;

Ohohoh. Yes. Oh YES.

Like, to kent, here's the boy who knows him like no other - who sees him to the truth of his closest athlete core and like, forget breathing in sync, it's almost as if where Jack breathes out, Kent inhales. There's the thread of zinging awareness between them, an energy that verberates between the core of their being. Jack knows what kent will do before kent does, and vice versa.

And Kent's trying to explain allll that, his heart in his mouth, his guts spilling between them. And Jack just looks at Kent and all he says is that Kent wasn't that special.

Jack might have been everything (hockey, love, understanding, the one person unlike any other who Kent knew and was known by) to Kent - but to Jack, that feeling was just ... hockey. Replaceable, and not unique.

Ooohoh, anyway, I read your ask and have been sitting on the bus typing this out with this exact expression on my face

[dykeseinfeld]

crack fic covering the entirety of holster and jack's brief situationship called "5 times holster almost outed jack and 1 time jack outed holster"