#chris chow
for day 3 of @chowderweek: future (kinda?); builds off of this (sorry this is kinda rough)
thank you so much to @chrisfranklinchow and my mom haha for helping me figure out some chinese names!!! glossary for some canto (just family member titles) & notes on each of the chows’ chinese names under the cut!
The first thing Chris learns about Dad in their musty basement surrounded by dusty boxes is that Dad has not thrown anything out in atleast thirty years.
The second thing Chris learns about Dad on that hot August afternoon the summer before his last year at Samwell is that Dad has signed a lot of checks in his lifetime, some at least ten years before Chris was even born, and that he’s kept them all this time. Chris knows that Dad kept them all because Chris has two piles of them sitting by his feet to go through to confirm they can be shredded before he can give them to Kay, who’s manning their really old paper shredder, which has two years on Kay, making Chris older than it by just one measly year.
The third thing Chris learns about Dad while he’s being made to help Dad finally clean out everything for the first time in his fifty-odd years of existence for Lunar New Year—even though he won’t even be home for it because he’ll be at Samwell, but does that matter? No. Not to Mom, and especially not to a smug, delighted Kay—is that Dad has apparently been writing in the small, blocky way Chris has never been able to emulate since at least high school, which is when Dad immigrated here from Hong Kong. For someone like Chris, whose handwriting varies on a day-to-day basis, that is just amazing, especially because Dad didn’t start using English so heavily until he got here, because it means that Dad has been writing like this for forty years.
The fourth thing Chris learns—well, despite feeling alienated from Chinese culture, and all the guilt that comes with that, four will always be the unluckiest, most cursed number on the planet, so there is no fourth thing.
The fifth thing Chris learns about Dad while he scans each of the shark-themed (looks like Dad’s predilection for sharks as the hockey team and the animal is genetic) checks for anything related to Liberty Mutual to save is, well, he’s not sure. The moment feels significant though, even if he’s not sure why he’s still smoothing his fingers over this one check and hasn’t moved on to the next. Ignoring the steadfast humming of the paper shredder that Kay’s enthusiastically feeding paper to, he runs his thumb over the check again, feeling the indentations most likely made by the Bic ballpoint pen that’s always in Dad’s front shirt pocket.
Y'all know about Dex using 2-in-1.
Allow me to present Chowder simply using the body wash for everything.
Commissioned@virgosfreckles and she came through in creating this lovely piece of the Frogs in their high school years when they aren’t playing hockey.
Dex’s on the track team as a vaulter during spring. Nursey’s part of an equestrian club at Andover, and Chowder surfs competitively.
Thanks, G!
Merry Christmas! For Chris “Chowder” Chow, my fave Wellie, prince of babs, fictional goalie of my heart, a gift of holiday-appropriate SJ Sharks apparel (◡‿◡✿) 3 guesses which Samwell men’s hockey team upperclassman gifted him that (Bitty, it’s Bitty)
for those heretofore unacquainted, a gift from me to you: Check, Please! treat yourself and go read it, merry xmas, you’re welcome
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if you think Chowder isn’t emotionally available and keeps everyones secrets YOU ARE WRONG MY FRIEND
Chowder is EVERYONES best friend, that one guy you can always count on to be there through thick and thin
AMEN
if you think Chowder isn’t emotionally available and keeps everyones secrets YOU ARE WRONG MY FRIEND
jack & bitty|lardo & shitty|ransom & holster|parse & tater
- Chowder loves the Sharks. This we know. He also loves his Chinese heritage, so of course he has dumplings, a feng shui charm, and a token for his chinese zodiac sign, the year of the rat. (which makes him ambitious, charming, and tenacious!)
- He also has a toothbrush, because as anyone who’s worn braces for years will tell you, proper oral care is necessary if you don’t want junk stuck in the wires all day…
- Dex of course has lobster fishing gear, the tools from his tool box and the fine jar. He will get that dryer y’all.
- He also has sunscreen. He’s ginger, he burns if he even thinks about the sun.
- Nursey is the king of the hipsters. ‘Nuff said.
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I got a new graphics tablet yesterday (!!!!!!!) and I decided to celebrate/test it by drawing some Californian sunshine
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picking up what you’re putting down @greenishbucket
Ransom/Holster/Chowder, rated M, 5.3k, on AO3
Rans takes a gulping breath. “Holtzy, I don’t wanna freak you out,” he says, unsteady in a way that definitely freaks Holster out, “but I think I’m legit hallucinating things. Like, I honestly thought I saw Chris Chow in our fucking laundry room.”
Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Hockey, NHL Player Chris “Chowder” Chow, Getting Together, Polyamory.
Preview #13:
picking up what you’re putting down
- a Ransom/Holster/Chowder fic!
“I’m only here for a bit, you know?” Chow is saying with a gloomy shrug when Holster successfully checks back into reality without having actually screeched out loud.
“Uh, wow, hey now,” Holster says, automatic. “I don’t know about that.”
At the exact same time, with just as much outraged bluster, Ransom starts, “I think you’ll find with a save percentage like–”
They both realise at the same moment that they are defending Chris Chow to Chris Chow, not to some dumb bro who doesn’t get the artistry of being a goalie, and Holster can feel his entire upper body flush. Ransom’s teeth clack he shuts his mouth so fast.
Posting for the FYFW event starts on April 5th, stay tuned !
So Caitlin Farmer is tall (and she’s trans). She plays volleyball and is VERY TALL. She’s taller than Chowder (who is also trans everybody’s trans I don’t make the rules) for sure.
But don’t think for one second that that stops Chowder from picking her up/giving her piggyback rides literally all the time he loves picking up his big beautiful ripped girlfriend and making her laugh and feel like a fucking princess.
Chowder has his insecurities, but being shorter than Farmer is not one of them. To him, she is literally a Viking goddess come down from Valhalla he loves her tallness and her body and everything about her so much
Farmer used to be a lot more insecure about her height and build, but then this really sweet goalie falls head over heels for her exactly the way she is. It doesn’t solve her height dysphoria, but it sure does help when Chowder whispers in her ear how gorgeous and perfect she is whenever they’re cuddling or kissing in bed
you know how everyone is so proud of his nigh imperceptible playoff beard and how ransom has a spreadsheet for his chin hairs ??? the hrt is finally giving him facial hair and everyone is so excited for him and he is so happy
sophomore year, when chowder keeps talking about how he wishes he could afford top surgery, bitty calls a haus meeting (sans chowder), plus caitlin w/jack and shitty skyping in. he proposes that the sin bin become chowder’s secret top surgery fund, and the team agrees. caitlin tears up she’s so happy; she knows how chowder worries about whether or not the team really does love and accept him, and now she’s sure they do. after the meeting, every time caitilin has to reassure him that the team really does care about him and accept him, she knows it’s true.
pda levels go through the roof once the sin bin becomes the top surgery fund. when shitty visits, he is an absolute menace; it’s like he came just to kiss lardo/be naked in the haus living room. when jack visits, he does not take his hands off of bitty. caitlin goes out of her way to be as sappy and cute and gross with chowder in front of smh as possible. when chowder tries to pay the fine, caitlin argues that she started it, so she pays. the team starts charging a dollar entrance fee for kegsters. and maaaybe ransom, haus treasurer, moves a few numbers around to get some extra funding from samwell every semester to put in chowder’s fund.
junior year, it’s chowder’s birthday, and he just got his braces off; he can’t wait to kiss caitlin without all the wires in the way.
the smh has raised $4251. the whole team gathers in the haus, even jack, shitty, ransom, and holster have come to celebrate. when holster declares it’s “present time,” bitty puts a box on the table in front of chowder. “it’s from all of us.”
once he’s torn through the wrapping paper, and sees the box is labeled “for your transition,” chris already feels the tears coming. caitlin sits down next to him, rubs his back, and lays her head on his shoulder. his hands shaking, chowder opens the box, and sees an index card labeled $4251 sitting on top of a pile of mostly 100s and 20s. he bursts into tears, and turns to hug caitlin; everyone else moves in to hug him and suddenly it’s a very emotional dogpile.
senior year, chowder wakes up to caitlin taking pictures of him.
“whaaaat,” he calls out in a groggy voice.
“you’re too cute, i can’t help myself.” caitlin smiles, and keeps taking pictures.
“if you’re going to take pictures, at least let me pose!” he hops out of bed and flexes. caitlin giggles, and takes one last picture. “how do i look?”
“you look perfect,” caitlin says as she wraps her arms around chowder’s waist and leans in to kiss him.
you know how everyone is so proud of his nigh imperceptible playoff beard and how ransom has a spreadsheet for his chin hairs ??? the hrt is finally giving him facial hair and everyone is so excited for him and he is so happy
Okay but this really hit me.
This first panel from right at the beginning when he was just getting to know and meet everyone and now he has this big family he’s made here at Samwell!
chris chow n caitlin farmer are t4t ❤️
