*the sound of continual primal screaming for 2.82 minutes*
jack’s apartment being trashed. like, really trashed. what a sign of true friendship!!! (also did they print out flyers with jack’s baby photos?? holy shit)
is that holster sleeping under his hat? for shame, boy, go to bed! you’re like 25!
my close personal friends Marty & Thirdy being the good good supportive friends they are!!
Is that George’s Husband and daughter WOW (goodbye gay george headcanon, long live bi george headcanon)
THE RETURN OF PARSE AND THE PINK LIGHTING OF TRIBULATIONS
fuck right the fuck off Carl
ransom and lardo…the most beautiful selfie combo
OH NOOOOOO SUZANNE
It was overtime!!! Jack got the OT goal in game 7 of the scf…my boy…i’m so proud
Coach is SO into it ;___; i love him
ERIC RICHARD BITTLE YOU CALL YOUR MOTHER RIGHT THIS INSTANT
i am full of emotions wow, ngozi i love you so much
Just making myself cry while we drive to my dad’s house…
We know that the I Love You came after the boyfriend talk because of Jack’s minifig. What happened right before the boyfriend talk?
Jack saying that he and Parse had an expiration date, and Bitty clearly assuming that that applies to him as well. Preparing himself for the inevitable: Jack can’t be out, so eventually hockey will take precedence and he’ll break up with Bitty, so clearly their relationship can’t get all that serious.
Then – later that same week – Bitty tries to say what he thinks he’s supposed to say: oops, I don’t mean love like LOVE, and obviously I shouldn’t leave notes, that’s too public–
And what does Jack cut in to say? Not JUST “I love you,” which is like so much more than Bitty thought he could hope for, so much more than he’d resigned himself to. No, Jack freaking compares how he feels about Bitty to how he feels about hockey!!!! Like holy shit. Just a couple days ago Bitty thought that Jack had basically said that hockey had to be first in his life, and instead here he is saying that Bitty is like hockey to him.
And then it hits Bitty that this is what he’s going to have to hide. Not some fling, not something where he might have fallen too hard but Jack is just having some fun with a good friend. They’re in love. This is real.
jack “runs across campus to kiss his crush” zimmermann says I love you 0.02 seconds after it’s official why are we surprised
can’t believe that in one day Ngozi gave us:
-an update featuring -zimbits saying “I love you” to each other for the first time -pb&j backstory -Jack winning the cup!! -Bitty being supportive -(probably) kissing and in the process coming out to the world!?!?!?!!!!
one of my favorite parts of the update are that bitty was initially so hesitant about the PB&J notes, because he didn’t want to embarrass jack and was worried about outing him, and jack “110%” zimmerman was immediately like, “fuck that lol” and started hanging them on his fridge because he fuckin’ loves those notes damn it, and he super hella loves the person who wrote them and literally try and pry those PB&J notes from his cold, dead hands because those are his PB&J love notes >:|
okay wow so…i have a lot of feelings about bitty’s “why can’t we?” and i’ve already seen a lot of great meta about what that means thematically and in the context of the broader lgbtq+ community but for a sec i just want to talk about what that means to me personally.
so i’ve definitely never come out on the ice after my partner won a stanley cup, but i’ve come out a lot of times in my life. to friends, family, acquaintances. and wow, why can’t we.
because there’s this thing about coming out, okay—no matter how many times you’ve done it, no matter how much you have or haven’t planned it beforehand, there’s this split second right before you say the words that’ll out you, the “i’m gay” or “i have a girlfriend, actually”or sometimes just a single pointed pronoun. it’s this moment of fuck it and freefall and a swoop in your stomach. it’s nerves, but something else, too. something that feels like you’re being liberated.
and why can’t we. to me, this is bitty’s screw-it-all moment, this is the tip over the edge, this is the blind leap, no safety net. because yes, it’s a risk, but sometimes when you’re queer, you decide there are risks you’re just tired of not taking. they just don’t outweigh the reward anymore.
so bitty says why can’t we. by which he means i’m ready and i’m tired of hiding and being able to kiss you right now is more important to me than the past 21 years i’ve spent trying to keep half of me a secret.
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