#nursehc

Derek “Nursey” Malik Nurse 

YESSSSS thanks!!

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When I started shipping it if I did: i only joined this fandom like, a month and a half ago. so idk, a month ago?

My thoughts: We really don’t know too too much about them, so they’re fun to play with and force into stress-tests to see how authors write them reacting to that. Also I have a thing for red-heads. And I relate to Dex because I’m also angry and from a small coastal fishing town.

What makes me happy about them: The juxtaposition between their two personalities!! I have a ~type~ for my OTPs. My HP OTP has been Deamus since 2010 because Seamus is pretty much angry all the time and Dean is portrayed as this, like, paper boat floating on a calm pond. I REALLY like when Dex is all ragey and ranty and sarcastic in front of others but around Nursey kind of lets down his guard and stops caring so much, and vice versa, where Nursey tries to put up this ~calm cool collected~ demeanour but around Dex allows himself to freak out when people are late or when he has too much homework, etc.

What makes me sad about them: Uh. Hm. There’s like a collective agreement that Dex’s family is inherently homophobic and Awful, and often Nursey’s parents are portrayed as distant, and that makes me sad. I’d like to see more fic explore different dynamics, or idk how they grew up to be independent/confident/self-assured despite all that.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Okay so aside from a few cliché things in this bingo sheet (though I don’t mind most of those tbh), I dislike when people forget that they’re just 18/19 year old boys? Let them be vulgar. Let them fight. Let them insult each other. Let them get fucking drunk and high. Give them realistic dialogue. They’re not going to magically stop fighting and disagreeing as soon as they touch each other’s genitals and they don’t have to fall in love and be together forever at that age – that’s like, abnormal. IDK and I think I’m guilty for sometimes writing them like that, especially from from Nursey’s point of view, but yeah. ALSO THE ROMANTICIZATION OF LOBSTER FISHING ew

Things I look for in fanfic: Huh. At this point I can hardly be picky? Because it’s not like there’s a ton of nurseydex out there. But I guess I look for things that aren’t too fluffy right off the bat, or that are realistic enough. I like simple, I guess. My very favourite nurseydex fic is Idiot (derek nurse, spoken word, 2016) by Euphorion which I’ve already read twice and think about a lot, especially Nursey’s “rock-hard conception of gender” which I think is wonderful.  

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Uhh I don’t think we have enough characters available for me to decide. There was a Dex/Kent in the rarepairs zine that I was surprised to enjoy, especially since I HC that Dex is going to get drafted to the Aces eventually (seriously… he asks about Kent WAY too much for there not to be any foreshadowing there). But it’s not like, endgame-worthy.

My happily ever after for them: Like I said, I feel like Dex is going to get drafted into the NHL or the AHL soo idk they have a fancy modern apartment somewhere and they get two dogs and Nursey’s done his B/Ed and is doing his M/Ed in counselling so he can eventually open up a practice for athletes with mental health issues and also he’s published some novels on the side.

Who is the big spoon/little spoon: I think they switch up depending on who needs what the most. But neither of them can sleep that way. They just spoon for a bit then sleep apart in their bed (once they have a bigger bed ofc, those boys are huge).

First of all, “I guess I had poop on the brain today” is a simultaneously wonderful and disturbing sentence and I think that’s a hard balance to achieve, so congratulations.

Also, thank you. I also read it again today and laughed at work, which really brightened up my boring ol’ desk job. Wish I had some animals around.

On to bizness: - Chowder is lactose intolerant for sure (he grew up in Cali drinking like almond milk so whenever he has real dairy it is not pretty, hence the eggy farts). (full disclosure: i’m sensitive to lactose and my dairy farts smell like eggs.) However he can’t really help himself around Bitty’s desserts so he is the least regular person ever and poos when he has to, where he has to -- I POOED THE BUS was a direct consequence of eating Bitty’s coconut cream pie.- Lardo convinces herself that her body can handle dairy when really it can’t but she’ll never tell anyone

- Nursey probably would be sensitive when consuming dairy in higher doses, but he’s mostly vegan (i say mostly because, again, pie)