#omgpieplease

Hey friends. I’ve been subscribed to Heyfightme’s fics on A03 for a long while now, and I usually wait for a fic to be posted as complete before reading it (if they say it’s complete and have a regular posting schedule).

I was planning to catch up on a few of their stories that I was notified had been completed a week or so ago....however it now seems that they have deleted their A03 and all of their fics? (I can’t find any as orphans either).

Did anyone happen to download any of the following before they disappeared??

- A Really Good Deal on Craigslist

- The Road Leads Back to You

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eric bittle/jack zimmermann

Eric’s counter reads 1. That’s all. Just 1. He’s eighteen years old, has not left the state of Georgia in his entire life, and his counter reads 1.

He has spent many mindless afternoons and worn out many pens in tracing it over into a 0. If the counter did read 0, the morning wouldn’t be looming like the black rainclouds that Mama used to call “omens.”

Eric is leaving for college in the morning. When he passes the state line from Georgia to North Carolina in the passenger seat of his Mama’s sedan, he’ll also be passing the last chance he has for the counter to make it to 2.

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From Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Aces Captain || #20 || Calvin West* Aces Alt. Captain || #65 || Marcus “Smithy” Smith* Aces Forward || #90 || Kent “Parse” Parson (rookie) Aces Forward || #94 || Jeff “Swoops” Troy (rookie) Aces Defense || #6 || Nathan “Goose” Chopra* (rookie) Aces Defense || #28 || Mateo “Perry” Perez* (rookie)   Ace Off  is a collaborative illustrated fic project between @abominableobriens (fic) and @omgpieplease (art) .

Presenting Jack Zimmermann, our favourite Falconer!

Look at the beauties that arrived from @omgpieplease​ yesterday! I’m just in complete awe. I cannot overstate how perfect this painting is and it’s even better than I ever pictured. I’m overjoyed that I actually get to display this in my home.

Also, bonus small potatoes! (Mashbits, you say? No, they do that after a win. Badum tshh.) What a gorgeous watercolour!

I think Matt’s still taking commissions (info on his page) so if you’re yearning for something beautiful you should check it out! I went for the Painted Portrait option but there’s a ton of great things you can get without postage. Seriously, he’s a gem.

Guess it’s time for another compilation of the fanart I’ve been doing these past couple months <3 Because I’ve done quite a bit since making this post. The first six are Check,Please! related (including a couple of Alternate Universe things like Chris Chow the goalie getting to play for his favorite team in the NHL, or the Samwell Mens Hockey team instead being a punk band called Soft Hands) Next three are some All for the Game characters and a preview of a comic that I did for a charity fanzine that comes out May 30th! Last piece is a sketchpage of two characters from The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater <3

bless you, Matt, you fuckin beaut 

2) Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*

sometimes I’m back and forth about Shardo. Not because I don’t like them together, but because my poly ass would like to see them as metamours 

4) Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*

Patater? I just? I like Hockey Ot4, but I feel like they’re shoved together. And when it’s done well I can appreciate their narrative. But I don’t want either of them to be together just for the sake of a monogamous homebase ship for Kent (my polyass saying let him have other partners) 

6) Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?* 

 I have a back and forth relationship with Zimbits. Canonically they’re so good. But I feel like it’s so very obvious when a fic is written by someone younger because a lot of nuance is left out of their dynamic. So I think when I find a good fic it makes me fall in love with them all over again. Like, I forget how much I like them until I get a good rec. 

11) Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why? 

I personally think Ransom isn’t as popular as he could be. He’s such a good character that has to navigate being the child of immigrants, being Black, having anxiety, and dealing navigating toxic masculinity and compulsory heteronormativity in the hockey world. I’ve talked about this a bit, but I think sometimes people see Holsom and they don’t see any BIG conflict in their dynamic and they happily let them sit there. So then Ransom doesn’t get any attention. Which...there’s so many other ships! for Ransom to have! NurseyRans, JackRans, BittyRans, Larson, GRAND LARSONY (not self promoting at all), 

20) What is the purest ship in the fandom?

Grand Larsony Polyfarms. Can we take a moment to appreciate Polyfarms? How they all revolve around the axis that is Christopher Franklin Chow. How soft Derek and Caitlin are together and how they can be bros but also disgustingly in love. How Chris and Dex do homework together all the time and Dex gets frustrated when he doesn’t get something but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t enjoy it any less (especially when Chris points out where he missed something). Dex and Caitlin cooking together. Derek and Chris lying in leaf piles reading assignments together before taking a study break at Annie’s. Chris and Caitlin spending the holidays together and skyping the other two. Nursey and Dex playing video games and not knowing when the chirping stops and the flirting begins. The four of them working out like the ultimate power polyship that they are. Them sleeping in a giant bed together. I love these four ok? (Also Caitlin Farmer is Chicana in my book thanks) 

22) Popular character you hate?

I don’t have one in this fandom? 

But like, prior to yesterday’s update, I would’ve said “I just don’t get Tater”.  So tbf I’ve written Tater all of once. And it was emotionally exhausting throwing so much into his immigrant narrative. I talked about how out of place he felt; I talked about English being his second language; I attempted to accurately replicate the experience of learning English and its sentence structures/colloquial. But for as much as I poured of myself into him, I’d rather expend that energy into a kid of an immigrant who’s a COC (like Ransom, Lardo, or (in my hc) Nursey). But I’m intrigued by the idea that Tater’s back story parallels Jack and I think I’d be up for writing about that story at some point. 

23) Unpopular character you love?

Kent 

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eric bittle/jack zimmermann

“So you’re just going to leave me completely unsatisfied?”

The words make the back of Bitty’s neck prickle, his fears from earlier scratching again at the periphery of his brain, but there’s nothing harsh in Jack’s tone. He sounds wholly unaggressive, his voice rather carrying the roundness of longing. Of yearning, even. Bitty turns back to him, and finds that Jack has stood as well, arms hanging listlessly at his sides and a pinched look on his face.

“Exactly what kind of satisfaction were you looking to get tonight, Mr. Zimmermann?”

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The rivalry between the men's hockey teams of Samwell and La Croix universities is long standing, thoroughly indoctrinated, and often bloody on and off the ice. With his future professional career at risk, La Croix captain Jack Zimmermann knows he needs to distance himself from the feud. Meeting Samwell's undervalued winger Eric Bittle while crashing a party, definitely isn't in his plans. Quicker than anticipated, though, it becomes clear that there's more than just hockey on the line - for both of them.