#fic please!

We’re excited for you to join us and read fic together!

Our main platform is Discord (Fic, Please!), but we will be posting schedule-related announcements here on this tumblr, so give us a follow!

Here are our guidelines:

Who are we? We are a Check, Please! fic reading club which takes place over a designated Discord server. 

What do we read? The club will center around the main Check, Please! ships (Jack/Bitty, Nursey/Dex, Holster/Ransom). Rarepair months will be considered and would be announced in advance. 

Who can participate? Anyone 18+ years of age (as we might be reading explicit works). 

How do we choose fics? 

Mods will post criteria (ship/length/other) and occasionally monthly theme (monthly themes may also be suggested by other members in the future). 

Members can then anonymously suggest fic ideas that fit the criteria following the instructions on the Fic Suggestions channel.

Once the suggestions list is closed, members will be given a few days to anonymously vote via Google Forms for the fic they want to read. 

The fic with the most votes will be the one read by the club.

Fics may be suggested multiple times until chosen.

How does it work? 

We aim to read one long fic (50k+) or two shorter one (~25k-50k) per month. Mods will post a reading schedule divided weekly by chapters/sections. 

Members are invited and encouraged to comment, interpret or react to the fic on the reading-reactions  channel. Discussion questions (for inspiration) will be posted in advance for each fic. 

Members who prefer to read the fic in one go or are ahead of the reading schedule can use the Spoilers channel to discuss their reading. 

If the chosen fic was written by a club member, they’re asked not to comment during the reading, as to not influence other people’s interpretations of the work (and they can be assigned a different reading if they wish!) 

At the end of each month the club will gather for a group discussion of the fic. 

If possible, a conversation with the author will also be scheduled, so members can ask the author questions about the fic or the writing process directly. 

Generally: 

We trust members to keep their discussion constructive and respectful. Ship/fic bashing will not be tolerated. 

Participation in the club is a low-key commitment! Members are free to drop in and out as they please, participate or comment as little or as much as they please. 

It started when I first started reading Zelda fiction. Link has long been a favorite of mine and I found it interesting how when link was mute in those fics, he often had trouble communicating with the people he came across and had to find ways around his disability. Plus it seemed cute for some reason, how he has to use an alternate way of expressing himself, mostly through gestures or facial expresions.

Then I started getting into jak and daxter. Again jak had the over expressiveness that still clearly explained what he was thinking or trying to say, but I could actually see it on screen compared to the limited faces of link vs link in fanfiction. (Wind waker was great at using expressions, twilight stunted back a bit then skyward and botw made large strides.)

But then I got to Jak 2. When jak got his voice. After 2 years of hell. He went from a goofy toon link adventurer, to an angry rebel who tried to do batman level threats but still a bit of link’s goofy ‘lets blow this up for fun!’ vibe.

And then I got to thinking about what the reverse of that was. I started watching shows like Hetalia and Naruto, shows who have outgoing overly loud and cheerful characters. But in their quiet moments, often with help of depth in fanfiction, turn out to be rather insecure, their voices are more to protect themselves from the others, if they make the world think they’re confidant, maybe they can think that themselves someday.

But what happens when that voice disappears? Where does the barrier go? They lost their way to mask themselves. They also lost a way to keep themselves being seen. So what happens then? They loose that spotlight, people forget they’re even in the room cause they don’t talk. They get shoved aside or ignored, something they’ve been trying to prevent. They cant even ask for help when they need to, even if someone is right in the next room. They cant defend themselves or pass things off when getting torn into for mistakes.

Even with temporary muteness, like getting sick or some magic or tech or other method, their voice means that much more when it finally comes back.

So I ask you people, GIVE ME LANCE Mc CLAIN GONE MUTE!!!! (Preferably with a side of Klance andor Galra!Keith)