concept: jack and bitty get engaged, and shitty and tater fight for the privilege to be jack’s best man the way phoebe and rachel battled it out over who would be monica’s maid of honor
they’re tied after five rounds of questions, so ransom and holster decide on a sudden death round to see who’s willing to sacrifice the most for jack.
tater promises to give up his basically-a-part-time position as host of falcstv for three months, and stop roping jack into unplanned appearances for one whole season.
shitty immediately goes into the bathroom and shaves off his ‘stache.
shitty wins.
holster: okay shitty, you’re jack’s best man. you win tater: no!! i’m take bullet for zimmboni. i’m DIE FOR ZIMMBONI. i should win. i’m be best man. ransom: dude. look at shitty. look at that hairless face. there’s already been a death in this room today. shitty wins.
lord now with this recent update and people will actually LISTEN TO ME EXPLAIN THIS unlike all the posts ive made about this before
Bitty has PTSD!
This is coming from someone who is diagnosed with PTSD and has suffered from it for the past 6-7 years! My PTSD is in relation to trauma from verbal and emotional bullying/abuse, and from what it looks like, Bitty’s is similar to mine except with less emotional abuse and more physical abuse. See here:
Basically? He was bullied. His trauma is in relation to bullying and negative physical contact, see here:
and SPEAKING OF nightmares, lets talk about his symptoms! We now have proof of recurring nightmares (as seen above), (mild?) panic attacks,
and aversion to things like rough housing, namely checking
(I’d like to argue here that he was suppressing an anxiety/panic attack)
Now you may be asking!! But Alex, he tweets about Holster and Ransom rough housing with him! He seems fine with it!
Let me tell you about something that happens when you have undiagnosed PTSD for an extended amount of years, something that I went though. I, like Bitty, experienced my trauma in 7th or 8th grade. I wasn’t properly diagnosed until my freshman year of college, so that was 5-6 years later.
You suppress your triggers. You learn to live with them and suppress them. Basically it’s either suppress them or you really fucking suffer. And hey, if we know anything about Bitty, it’s that he’s a champ at suppressing things (though he has gotten better with communication with Jack lately!).
I have a trigger of other people touching my neck. It used to be way worse, inducing panic attacks and leaving lasting arousal symptoms for a week after. (Click here for some info on PTSD symptoms including arousal symptoms!!) But because I just had to, you know, live with it for 5-6 years I just learned to suppress them. Someone touches my neck now? Yeah, I still jump a bit and have a panic response, but I’ve stopped going into full on panic attacks and instead suppress the feelings associated with it.
So basically? It’s HIGHLY possible Bitty has suppressed his triggers! Large boys picking him up? Probably have an immediate panic response and then the subsequent “no, it’s just holster and ransom. i trust them.” Jack doing the checking clinics with him was literally immersion therapy. That being said, even with immersion therapy, you know, the triggers are still there. You just have coping mechanisms. You’re numb to them. But, they’re still there.
There’s a reason Bitty is afraid of checking. And it’s because it triggers his trauma of being tackled in football.
okay i love nurseydex and i love enemies to lovers nurseydex and i love nurseydex being in love but! let’s talk about the stage in between
let’s talk about nursey and dex being best friends???
sending each other stupid memes and captioning them all “u” no matter what it is
lengthy philosophical middle of the night discussions when they stay together on roadies, talking about what they wanna do and what they think their place in the world is
watching those weird 3 am infomercials together and debating heatedly over what is more useful, the magic bullet blender or the shamwow
actually taking nice photos together very occasionally instead of just ugly ones zoomed in on like nursey’s left nostril or whatever
playfully messing up each other’s hair???
going hard af as a ping pong team at kegsters
trying to cook a fancy recipe and having to throw it all out and settle for ramen
“dude should i buy this shirt? do i look good in it?” “well nothing’s gonna fix that face but it’s a nice shirt”
making fun of each other’s regional accents (except they accidentally pick up a bit of the other’s accent after a while oops)
acting deeply personally offended when the other hasn’t watched one of their favorite movies and forcing them watch it
automatic backup singer??? (nursey: i be UP in the GYM just working on my fitness he’s my witness/dex: ooEEE)
idk they’re best friends man!!! they’re best friends
HE REMEMBERED SOMETHING!!!!! HE GOT IT RIGHT!!!!! BE PROUD OF HIM!!!!!!!!!!
(Be proud of me too, this took me a while xD I drew him on my phone, y’all)
people who dont even care about language: how can you just CHANGE grammar??? add new wORds?? unacceptable!!! language must never change!!!!!11 kids these days cant even spell!!
people who study language: ANARCHY!! ANARCHY!!!! LANGUAGE IS FLUID AND WORDS AREN’T REAL!! change! the! grammar! rules!! burn a dictionary!!! NO ONE CARES!!!!!
just moving along like everyone else 