Madison & More!

☀️ Happy September 1st y’all! And happy Creator Reveal Day! ☀️

A huge thank you to everyone who has participated in any way: whether writing, recording, drawing, prompting, commenting, or reblogging, you’ve certainly brightened our summer! 💛

Without further ado, here are our amazing creators!

(Creators, please reach out if your tumblr handle below is incorrect or missed)

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A Sandy Situation by maanorchidee (@forabeatofadrum)

amphibious creatures by HowOldAreWe

Cowabunga by Mernium (@zimbits-my-love)

Crashing Into You by functionalgaypointdexter (forheart)

Eelgrass by perhapsajacket (@perhapsajacket)

Heard the Mermaids Singing by Humbuggy (@checkdeezpucks)

Hot-lanta by JustLookFrightenedAndScuttle (@justlookfrightened)

i'm starvin', darlin by Local_Queer (@a-very-gay-disaster)

like an ice cream cone by WrathoftheStag (@wrathofthestag)

Making My Head Spin by JustLookFrightenedAndScuttle (@justlookfrightened)

[podfic] getting used to letting go by hullomoon (@hullomoon)

[Podfic] shall i compare thee to a summer's day? by ChaosKiro (@chaoskiro)

Salt Water Hearts by Humbuggy (@checkdeezpucks)

sloshed with gold by nostalgicplant (@ohyoufool)

Stargazing, Skinny Dipping, and Slideshows by lincyclopedia (@the-lincyclopedia)

suddenly this summer it's clear by dessertwaffles (@dessertwaffles)

Summer Gothic by nurseysbeanie (chryysalis) (@nurseysbeanie)

tales of the off-season by Local_Queer (@a-very-gay-disaster)

The Way Way North by McBangle (@mcbangle)

Unnameable Truth by thefiveboxingwizards (@thefiveboxingwizards)

Wasteland Baby by Humbuggy (@checkdeezpucks)

we'll make out and take a mouthful of the summer time by RabbitRunnah (@doggernaut)

Hey y’all!

Creators will be revealed on Friday, September 1st. In the meantime, let’s have some more summer fun!!

As you enjoy all of the ‘swawesome works in the fest, feel free to check off squares on this bingo card. Once you get bingo, reblog this post with the list of works that got you your bingo!

Grab your swimsuits and get ready to dive into the last day of reveals, courtesy of our amazing creators!!!

Creators, if your work was revealed today make sure to update the published date to today so that your work will show up in the most recent Check Please works on AO3!

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we'll make out and take a mouthful of the summer time (9,629 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Working at the beachfront snack shack isn't the most glamorous job, but at least Eric has a great view of the hot surfing instructor to help him pass the time.

Too bad said surfing instructor is Jack Zimmermann, the most miserable man on the beach.

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Unnameable Truth (4,153 words)

Featuring: William "Dex" Poindexter/Original Female Character(s)

Summary: "Will inhales sharply and tenses up. He feels like he’s watching a train wreck and he can’t look away no matter how much he wants to...He feels with every fiber of his being the cautious reverence that the blond actor wears on his face."

Will makes some revelations about himself the summer before he starts college.

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i'm starvin', darlin (4,670 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/William "Dex" Poindexter, Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann, Chris "Chowder" Chow/Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter

Summary: And the thing is, it looks as good as it had sounded, which is precisely the problem. Bitty is a vision of lithe muscle in his swim trunks and nearly see-through tank top. Dex knows this is just his normal swim attire, but the context, the context makes all the difference. He’s allowed to look his fill and it’s almost intoxicating.

We’re taking this slow, he reminds himself, cool your fucking jets.

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Summer Gothic (4,924 words, WIP with 2 chapters posted)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, Chris "Chowder" Chow/Caitlin Farmer, Chris "Chowder" Chow/Caitlin Farmer/Derek "Nursey" Nurse/Will "Dex" Poindexter

Summary: The SMH team have been hauled to the remote Canadian wilderness for a week or two of summer camp, and Nursey might be going out of his mind with all this nature.

Nursey whispered, "It isn't the creepy trees bothering you, is it?"

Dex quirked an eyebrow up at him and then followed Nursey's gaze.

"It's like they're watching us."

"Huh..? You mean the white pines?" Dex said pointedly, his left eye half-closing in confusion.

"Is that what they are?" Nursey made a disgusted expression, "Terrifying." Had they inched closer, he wondered? "Beware the Thane of Fife," he mouthed.

"They're beautiful is what they are," Dex stated, ignoring him. His brow ridge was in now in permanent angry-man crumple position, Nursey observed. "Have you tried really looking at them, man?"

It's time to cool down with some ice cream, sweetheart! We're ready to scoop out the fourth day of works from our incredible creators!

Creators, if your work was revealed today make sure to update the published date to today so that your work will show up in the most recent Check Please works on AO3!

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Wild and beautiful and drenched in sun (art)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: In which Jack is a lifeguard and start noticing the lively guy selling ice cream at the snack shack. He starts to make time to pass by and, maybe, stay over for a little.

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Hot-lanta (8,162 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Bitty helps Jack when he sees him suffering from heat exhaustion. Jack is smitten.

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suddenly this summer it's clear (3,774 words)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter

Summary: The summer before senior year, Nursey and Dex become closer than ever.

Or, Nursey and Dex's developing relationship, as told through their text messages.

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Wasteland Baby (3,668 words)

Featuring: Alexei "Tater" Mashkov/Kent "Parse" Parson

Summary: Kent pushed his foot deeper on the accelerator and kept the needle steady on the miles. The saltpan stretched before them, white and vicious. The distance shimmered mercury-sliver with heat, and beyond that the mountains loomed. There was a long way to go before night, and even then, there would be no rest till they came home.

// In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, winning the Winmuca rally is a matter of survival. Kent must team up with Tater, a handsome and unknown stranger, to have a chance at making it.

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A Sandy Situation (2,429 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Jack falls asleep on a beach. He's woken up by someone yelling and Jack realises that some children have buried him in the sand.

Hey sugar, put on your shades! It's about to get bright in here thanks to the works we have for the third day from our fantastic creators!

Creators, if your work was revealed today make sure to update the published date to today so that your work will show up in the most recent Check Please works on AO3!

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[Podfic] shall i compare thee to a summer's day? (22 minutes)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter

Summary: Contrary to popular opinion, Dex was usually not a fan of summers. There was no hockey (either to play or watch), it’s hot as balls out, and every Sunday morning he’s stuck out in that heat selling pies to the pretentious customers at the farmers market because Bitty asked and it’s impossible to say no to Bitty.

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amphibious creatures (7,583 words)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter

Summary: It's the summer before they start college. Nursey's cursed by a sea witch. Dex is shipwrecked on an island. Chowder is just happy to be here.

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Stargazing, Skinny Dipping, and Slideshows (5,569 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Immediately following the events of "Kitchen Work and Line Dances," Jack and Bitty get to know each other better while working at a French-immersion summer camp. Eventually, things get romantic. (This will not make much sense unless you read "Kitchen Work and Line Dances" first.)

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tales of the off-season (3,963 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Five off-seasons during Jack's career and the first after his retirement.

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like an ice cream cone (1,522 words)

Featuring: Larissa "Lardo" Duan/Shitty Knight, Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: “Life is like an ice cream cone; you have to lick it one day at a time.” - Charles M. Schulz

Honey, those sandcastles may look good, but it's time to grab your buckets and shovels to dig out our second day of works courtesy of our awesome creators!!!

Creators, if your work was revealed today make sure to update the published date to today so that your work will show up in the most recent Check Please works on AO3!

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Cowabunga (art)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Artwork for a madison & more prompt! Jack and Bitty are surfboarders!!

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Making My Head Spin (24,347 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Jack and Bitty never kissed after Jack's graduation and then fell out of contact. Until Bitty turns up at the Falconers' development camp a few weeks after his graduation.

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Heard the Mermaids Singing (1,230 words)

Featuring: Camilla Collins/Larissa "Lardo" Duan

Summary: Her hands shook in her pockets. What she was doing was a bad idea. The wind turned, blowing in from the water, meeting her where she was. The was a croon carried on it - like whale song. Like a siren's call. // In Boston harbor, the mermaid sings. Lardo has heard it in her dreams for months. On a summer's night, she follows it down to the water.

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Crashing Into You (669 words, chapter 1 of 15)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter

Summary: William Pointdexter is mortified when his young Pitbull mix becomes obsessed with the shih-tzu at the dog park.

Get out the sunscreen, y'all, because our first day of sunny works is finally here, thanks to our fabulous creators!!!

[podfic] getting used to letting go (4 hours, 4 minutes)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, Chris "Chowder" Chow/Caitlin Farmer

Summary: Dex was supposed to have a fancy job in some city upon graduation, but his plans changed once his uncle died and left the family home in Maine to him. Without immediate obligations of their own, Nursey, Chowder and Farmer follow Dex up there to help him clear it out and clean it up.

[podfic of getting used to letting go]

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The Way Way North (14,027 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Shitty Knight, Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Jack Zimmermann, Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Richard "Coach" Bittle, Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Suzanne Bittle, Eric "Bitty" Bittle & Samwell Men's Hockey Team

Summary: 15 year old Eric Bittle felt like he didn't fit in anywhere: the kids in his new high school didn't like him, his parents didn't understand him, and he recently had to give up his beloved figure skating. When his parents decided to rent a beach house at Cape Cod instead of their usual vacation spot, he was sure it would be a painfully boring summer vacation. But when he met the quirky staff of a nearby waterpark and the cute boy next door, the vacation started to seem a bit more promising...

Inspired by The Way Way Back (2013)

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Eelgrass (5,040 words, Chapter 1 of 3)

Featuring: Derek "Nursey" Nurse/William "Dex" Poindexter, William "Dex" Poindexter & Original Female Character(s)

Summary: Porter Bay, Maine, tends to stay the same, and Will likes it like that. But when a very attractive stranger opens a bookstore (of all things) in town, Will realizes that maybe it's time for him to change a bit himself.

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Salt Water Hearts (4,318 words)

Featuring: Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann

Summary: Jack should still be out on the water now, scrubbed alive with salt water and carving up the waves. Instead, he was on the sand, his wetsuit peeled down to his hips, a spare beginners board beside his own as he waited for his goddamn client that was goddamn late.

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Well, sugar, today's the deadline for posting works!!!

Please touch base with us here on tumblr today if you are still planning to participate in the fest and have not yet posted your work (or a placeholder work) to the fest collection!

Hey y'all! Works for Madison & More are due tomorrow!