a revival of sorts

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• how to kill the american teenager by tapdancinglorax

  Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, M/M
  • Complete Work

  08 Jul 2021

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Original Female Character(s)
  • Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Original Male Character(s)
  • Original Male Character/Original Male Character
  • Eric "Bitty" Bittle
  • Richard "Coach" Bittle
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Jack Zimmermann (briefly)
  • Homophobia
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Self-Harm
  • Jack/bitty are very very very implied at the very very very end
  • this thing is. Whoo boy
  • its rough
  • a look into Eric Bittle if Eric Bittle grew up in the south and played football
  • Football
  • (the American kind)
  • High School
  • College
  • Bitty goes to Alabama in this
  • Toxic Sports Culture
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • So much angst
  • Hopeful Ending
  • Decently happy tho
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death

  Summary

  Every morning, Eric Bittle wakes up and brushes his teeth, and drives with his Daddy to football practice, and does his thing. Every day, Eric Bittle kisses on a girl in home room, and laughs at his buddies at lunch, and he walks down the hallways of Morgan County High School a goddamn hero.

  Series

  • Part 1 of a revival of sorts

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  11,803

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  22

  Kudos:

  112

  Bookmarks:

  29

  Hits:

  702

• the resurrection of eric bittle by tapdancinglorax

  Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  20 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Eric "Bitty" Bittle/Jack Zimmermann
  • Eric Bittle & Original Character
  • Eric "Bitty" Bittle
  • Jack Zimmermann
  • Original Male Character(s)
  • Minor Characters
  • Happy Ending
  • Homophobia
  • Light Angst
  • queer joy
  • American Football
  • Alternate Universe - Football
  • the five years later follow up to the utterly depressing bitty football au
  • yeah I did a whole ass undergraduate degree in the time it took to get this thing onto the page
  • I have more commentary on this one than the original fic somehow
  • lmk if you want that commentary I'll drop it tomorrow
  • Mild Hurt/Comfort
  • like the mildest of mild this is my celebration of queer joy

  Summary

  Eric Bittle is twenty-seven, and he's playing in his first Super Bowl.

  Series

  • Part 2 of a revival of sorts

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,248

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  16

  Hits:

  65