#check please au

[squidgiepdx]

Okay Check, Please! fandom friends - this could totally be a no graduation kiss AU. Maybe retired Jack Zimmermann has to step in for the team he now owns. Bitty runs a food or catering empire - maybe owns all the restaurants in the arena. Jack runs into him, says he has to step in that night, and since the team isn't going to make the playoffs, Bitty offers to be Jack's liney. Jack scores, Bitty slams into him in celebration, and they FINALLY kiss.

[halfabreath]

Holster goes on Survivor after graduating, part 1

all right so think about it Holster is:

Stronk, fast, lorge

A connoisseur of reality television

A (literal) student of game theory and frequently plays board games

Empathetic, good at reading people, able to thrive in a group environment, comfortable in a team dynamic

Analytical as hell

He’s cOmPeTeTiVe

So it’s a few years after graduation, full on Haus 2.0 Times. Even though he and Ransom sit across from each other at work they're on different projects now and Holster's scared they aren't as close as they were at Samwell so when Ransom joins on Holster's chronological Survivor binge Holster's so fucking thrilled

they talk about the gameplay and drama and start making spreadsheets to rate their favorite episodes and keep track of strategies and consequences and it becomes a part of their routine

they watch an episode on their lunch break or while they're eating dinner and it feels so so so good to have something with Ransom that's special and theirs and Holster loves every single second of it

Ransom tells Holster he should audition but Holster laughs it off every time until Shitty watches an episode with them and talks the entire time about how players from Boston dominate and how good they are and Holster's like fuck that and lets Ransom put together his audition video

Holster gets the call that he was cast at work and he and Ransom run to the elevator to go to the roof to celebrate but the second the doors close they both start screaming so loud the security team has to intercept them on the next floor

For the next few months it almost feels like Holster is back at Samwell - Ransom puts together a training schedule and SMH all contribute exercise suggestions or puzzles or offer to watch old seasons with him and Holster's back in the gym 10+ hours a week and he and Ransom spend almost every second together

They're standing in Holster's bedroom an hour before he leaves for the airport when he realizes it. Ransom's staring down at the outfit options they've laid out on Holster's bed because he's rethinking the sweatshirt vs windbreaker debate they've had a hundred times and his hands are on his hips and his thick eyebrows are knitted together in thought and he's taking Holster's dream so seriously and Holster just has a realization of oh fuck I've been in love with him this whole time, haven't I? and yeah, adam. you have.

Holster's able to keep this information to himself for about fifty seven minutes

Ransom, holding Holster's car door open like a fucking Austonian gentleman: You can really win, you know?

Holster: Go big or go home, that's kind of my thing

Ransom: No, you go big and go home, Holtzy

Holster: You're my home

Ransom: Aw, bro -

Holster: No, I'm in love with you.

Ransom:

Holster:

Lyft Driver:

Holster: okay bye yikes I mean not yikes on the other thing that's - I mean I'm being honest I'm very um romantic? Romantically in love with - anyway, you get it I'll see you after

Luckily Holster has an 18 hour flight to painstakingly antagonize over every single second of this interaction and once he lands he, you know, has to play Survivor

that's a pretty excellent distraction from the fact that he confessed his love for his best friend before effectively ghosting him for a month and a half because contestants obviously don't have contact with anyone on the outside

Holster's strategy is literally to be a himbo and no I'm not joking. He knows he's an obvious physical threat and that between his strength, speed, endurance, and puzzle skills he's going to do really well in challenges and folks like that have to worry about the merge early so Holster wants the other contestants to think he's dumb as a rock and you bet your ass he's going to respect women along the way

His whole social game hinges on being underestimated mentally while being a huge physical asset so having him in an alliance feels like more of a net positive for the other player

It really wouldn't be Survivor without a giant twist right off the bat so Holster finds out from Jeff Probst himself on an Indonesian beach that the theme of his season is "No Love Lost" and the tribes are made up of pairs of exes and then Esther Shapiro steps out of a helicopter and Holster knows it's about to go the fuck down

anyway this is getting long so part 2 is coming soon

[vlueyellow]

ADHD Bitty headcanons

Now, i might be projecting but I've always seen a lot of myself in Eric, which is why one of my favorite omgcp headcanons is ADHD!Bitty.

So, here they are

Please add to them if you have some as well!

Eric got diagnosed fairly early, but still late enough that his early school years sucked

And even when he did get diagnosed his teachers either didn't care or had no idea of how to help him

And trying meds only led to really bad side effects so he quickly stopped

Safe to say he struggled a bit (and the bullying didn't help that issue either, together with the whole internalized homophobia thing and good lord, someone get this boy to therapy-)

However, as he got older he kept researching and eventually figured out where he struggled and how he could help himself deal

This is also how he got into vlogging because he saw this one youtuber with ADHD who helped him a bunch but that's a different story

Now to his ADHD

Eric has the more discreet kind of ADHD which means he's constantly in fear of people think he's faking it and doing things for attention because he passes as neurotypical most of the time

This also results in a lot of masking, to the point of where he doesn't even know he's doing it or how to stop it.

(Shitty helps him a lot with this by studying with him in either of their rooms and letting him experiment with unmasking and what unmasking actually looks like for Eric.)

(its a fun journey and he discovers that he actually stims quite a lot)

Eric is also one of those nd people who actually thrive listening to loud music

It helps him focus and he can't study without it

It also allows him to take a break from stimming which helps with doing assignment because more often than not his stims involve his hands (and you can't really write an assignment when you keep snapping your fingers and rotating your wrists in all possible directions)

Speaking of assignments

Executive dysfunction

There it is

The Big Bad gateway to self hatred and bad work ethics

Finishing assignments actually became such a struggle after his freshmen year that Eric decided to try meds again

Luckily for him, this time the side effects were much milder and they actually worked quite well for him

(The first day he took Adderal Ransom and Holster walked in on him crying while cleaning his room. It wasn't sad crying. It was oh-my-god-I-finished-my-assignment-baked-three-pies-AND-I-am-now-cleaning-my-room-I-have-never-been-this-productive-in-my-life-someone-hug-me type of crying)

Of course, the meds don't solve his problems, but they do help his overall regulation of his emotions and, for the most part, helps him keep deadlines

Now, he's still a very emotional person but at least now he doesn't have a burnout once every week

And his Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is still thriving as always

(his first year was really tough because of this. Jack meant well but it was a lot for Eric)

His hyperfixations include baking (obviously), Beyonce (also obviously), figure skating (he still keeps up with his favorites) and, funnily enough, history (His thesis was picked very carefully)

As mentioned before, Eric enjoys loud music and he's fairly okay with sounds (he thrives in the locker room and on the ice, as well as in the Haus where its never quiet), but textures both in food and fabrics are a Big Deal to him

Velvet blankets? Get that cursed witchcraft away from him

Mushrooms? He can and will spit them out

Chalk? Absolutely the fuck not

However, he's weirdly okay with touching styrofoam? And doesn't hate the sound of it rubbing together?

He likes it a lot when Chowder comes around

Chowder, his sweet handsome son, has absolutely raging ADHD, to the point where taking his daily meds is absolutely essential

Eric doesn't really have that problem, he can skip a day or two and still be fairly functioning

Chowder however-

Lets just say that him moving into the Haus was a very good thing because of supervision and people reminding him to take his meds

They bond a lot over their shared struggles, and Eric helps Chowder navigate school and hockey at the same time

This is getting off track, I can talk about ADHD!Chowder all day long

anyway

Shitty was the first person Eric told

The next day Shitty got him a stim toy and a t-shirt that had a picture of Raven from that's so Raven and text at the bottom that said "that's so ADHD"

Eric still wears it to sleep

The rest of the team reacted exactly the way Shitty told him they would, totally accepting

A few days after he told them Shitty came into his room with Jack in tow and smiled so wide while Jack said he was autistic himself so if Eric needed it he could borrow Jack's weighted blanket

After that day their relationship started to look like a friendship

And later when they finally began dating Eric got really good at revising his recipes while lying on top of Jack when he was having sensory overload, and Jack got really good at letting Eric stim with his fingers when he forgot his fidget cube

Okay I'm gonna stop

But I might add to it later

Please add something yourself if you want to!

Thanks for reading!

[thosethingstheheartbelieves]

A Check Please AU just appeared in my head fully formed.

•Celeb!Baker Bitty as a guest judge on a sports themed episode of Nailed It.

•All the contestants are professional athletes, including a certain hockey player.

•Bitty tries to tone down his thirst for Jack (which is easy because Nicole Byer is right there being thirsty enough for everyone), even if his blue apron really does bring out his piercing eyes.

• Jack is flustered that the baker he's watched for years on youtube will be tasting his bakes.

• Jack wins the Baker's Choice because his attention to detail means his sugar cookie ice rink look best (although the cookie almost breaks one of Jacques Torres' teeth)

• The Nail It or Fail It proves to be a lot harder and Jack starts to panic and Bitty has to stop himself from going over to help.

• Jacques does go over and he and Jack speak to each other in French, Jacques ribbing Jack about his version of the language, which calms him down.

• Jack's special button to distract the other bakers is the 'Pecan Button' where Bitty hosts a 4 minute debate with the other bakers about how to pronounce the word 'pecan'

• Jack laughs so hard he almost drops a cake.

• When Jack says 'Nailed It!' In his deadpan voice and reveals his cake, Nicole and Jacques almost fall over laughing and all Bitty can say is 'Bless your heart'

• But it ends up tasting the best (not great, but at least there were no egg shells and he had remembered to measure the vanilla extract instead of dumping it in)

• Wes wears a sexy referee costume to present the Nailed It trophy

• Jack wins and his money goes to the charity of his choice, You Can Play or something similar.

• They stand next to each other for the selfies once the picture is taken it's obvious they're checking each other out.

• Nicole sends it to Bitty which gives him the courage to DM Jack to ask if he wants private baking lessons.

[thelanguageoflovers]

- alex, 5' nothing, 100 pounds soaking wet, chasing down julie 'keys' molina

[heeyjuuuude]

i firmly believe that there’s a world where eric and jack made plans and then eric cheerfully went ‘it’s a date!’ and jack kinda blinked once and then grinned and nodded and said ‘it’s a date.’ and eric’s kinda like huh that was a weird reaction ... could be — no, he’s straight. but jack definitely thinks it’s a Date. so now we’ve got jack thinking they’re definitely dating and eric has no clue and oh god surely someone has written this already right

[jehbeeeh]

Friends!!!!

Do you adore this face ⬇️ and hockey and the masterpiece that is Check, Please?

Do you like Stuckony??

Do you think @betheflame is an awesome-beyond-belief writer???

Have I got a deal for you!

As part of @marveltrumpshate this year, the fabulous, flametastic, flame-boyant (I'm gonna stop the puns here, it's getting weird) Betheflame is offering up a Check, Please! AU and we have a podbid to make it happen!! You'll be getting Tony as our sweet, loveable, adorable Bitty - an adorable Italian exchange student who loves to make pasta. Steve as my darling, oh so lovable Jack, and Bucky as Parse (yes! PB&J in the HOUSE!) - I know I'm not selling you on Bucky as Parse, but Flamey Fluffwife promised what she has in mind for him will be epic.

Help us and be part of history (well, fanfic history, ish, sorta kinda) and get this amazing AU off the ground!

But really, do it for me, if nothing else 😍😘😋

Let me know if you're interested! Do it to trump hate. And even moreso for me, because - to quote Bitty - Dear Lord, I Love Hockey. And I am being deprived of it for the foreseeable future. Help me get hockey and happiness back!!!!

Thank you for you assistance, please share widely!

[gay-and-angsty]

Check Please fic idea: Jack and bitty are quarantining together during the C*ronavirus pandemic. They try to find new ways to cope with their free time but Bitty just ends up baking until they run out of supplies. Tensions run high after Jack refuses to let Eric go to the store since he was just there yesterday. Baking is the only thing that is keeping him going and apparently there is such a thing as too much sex.