I am once again analyzing the haus layout and mourning all the little nooks I haven't seen in fics. jack has his own walk-in closet?? (so does bitty, btw)
so many opportunities for bitty helps jack pick a tie/shirt and they get locked inside getting togethers
so many opportunities for year 2 au's with secret zimbits relationship where one of them has to hide in the other's closet to avoid getting caught
post-kegster game of hide and seek where jack and bitty both end up hiding in the closet (this may or may not be a real thing that happened to me)?
so many jokes about being in the closet
like, at least one scenario I can think of where shitty talks to jack through the shared wall of their closets, pretending to be the haus ghosts
Look. Bitty and Dex in a relationship?? I’m not against it, but I mostly buy it as queer platonic partners or friends with benefits, not anything romantic.
But Bitty as Dex’s gay awakening?? Dex seeing Bitty be out an proud, and being jealous without knowing why?? Maybe mistaking that jealousy for dislike/disgust, until Nursey comments that he spends a lot of time starting at Bitty?? That jealousy slowly turning into admiration as Dex starts to explore his own identity and realizes how hard and taxing being out is?? The admiration growing to something more when Dex gets an eyeful of a half-naked Bitty in the locker room, and oh shit oh fuck, he’s so much more toned than Dex thought he was?? Dex fixing Betty over and over again because he knows how much baking means to Bitty, and because he’s realized that anything that’s important to Bitty has somehow become important to him as well?? Dex learning to bake for the same reason??
Here's a thing: Derek Nurse is in love with William Poindexter.
Here's another: William Poindexter is completely, utterly, irrevocably straight.
Here's a third: When he says he's in love with one William Poindexter, what Derek Nurse really means is that he's entirely 10,020% gone on this boy.
Here's a fourth: Derek Nurse would sooner cut off his right hand than tell William Poindexter the exact and precise nature of his feelings.
Clearly, he surmises, the most intelligent thing to do about this is write a book of poetry and publish it anonymously on the internet, and then maybe make a website where he makes graphics of lines of his poetry and reads them.
The plan did not include William Poindexter finding said poems and analyzing them for a class on modern English writing.
happy birthday chad @starorbs ilysm and hope today is full of all the good feelings/vibes!! <3 hope you enjoy
nurseydex headcanons:
nursey steals his friends’ clothes always so he already had a Dex Flannel in his closet and also a Samwell Men’s Hockey Team hoodie that reads POINTDEXTER on the back when they accidentally took each other’s sweaters homes over the holidays once [the latter part from this fic]
but after they begin dating nursey acquires another flannel (a very pretty, worn in green one) and an old bruce springsteen t-shirt and regularly wears dex’s hoodies (although they all suspiciously end up in dex’s laundry basket and not nursey’s)
but also it’s not quite like the laundry thing matters bc dex is an Acts of Service person and therefore will help nursey do laundry, especially when he’s stressed or not having a great time with his mental health
when they’re away on holidays, they have google duo or discord open for as long as they can and sometimes they’re just chilling in silence like they do at the Haus and sometimes dex picks up his guitar and plays and nursey sits there quietly with his heart in his goddamn throat
falling asleep on call !!! nursey takes a semester abroad & one of them often falls asleep on call. or during holidays, if dex is having a later night than usual (this mans gets his 7-8 hours of sleep per night if he can) [inspo]
dex like ‘is it gay to want to fall asleep next to your bro and when you can’t do that, the next best thing is falling asleep on call’ and chowder is like ‘bro i love you and i am going to fine you for asking me this shit and also yes, yes it is gay’
they are holding hands and nursey lifts their intertwined hands to kiss dex’s wrist absentmindedly and dex almost combusts on the spot
they are holding hands and nursey intentionally lifts their hands to kiss dex’s wrist, looking him in the eye, and dex once again almost combusts on the spot
dex is not a fan of pda but regularly enjoys and gives out forehead kisses; likes doing the ‘arm behind the seat’ thing as he backs up the car and the ‘hand on the thigh’ thing bc he’s from a small town and that’s peak high school romance ok
nursey likes to put his feet up on the dash bc he’s a heathen and they always bicker about it
bringing extra snacks / extra gatorade for each other on road trips / away games
they watched heartstopper together and they both cried. this was expected for nursey. this was unexpected for dex
in his rare free time dex will sometimes pick up a book that nursey has lying around and read a few pages. so far he has managed to read 3/4 of hamlet, all of the ‘aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe’, 45 pages of ‘the raven boys’, almost all of a little book of neruda poems and 2 pages of dense as fuck foucault analysis
dex really loves reading the annotations nursey leaves on the pages
nursey is a ‘dog eared’ book person, a ‘writes in the margins’ person, a ‘writes on scrap paper / sticky notes if he’s rereading and reanalysing something dense’ person. sometimes there are lipstick stains and dex always blushes a bit, smudging his fingers over them. sometimes there is water damage or coffee stains and dex rolls his eyes and smiles fondly
nursey putting on makeup and dex falling down the stairs looking at him. its the eyeliner, its the lipstick, its nursey’s whole fucking face that is so goddamn attractive and dex is indeed gay and absolutely fucked
nursey with a new tattoo and dex falling down the stairs seeing it [inspo] nursey never lets him live it down, ever !
dex gets a tattoo and does not let nursey come along but they do eat some really good pie after and nursey helps him take care of it while it heals
dex with a flower crown and nursey goes over to lardo and says ‘i cannot do this i am simply too gay’ [inspo]
