Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derek “Nursey” Nurse/William “Dex” Poindexter
Characters: Derek “Nursey” Nurse, William “Dex” Poindexter, Chris “Chowder” Chow, Samwell Men’s Hockey Team
Additional Tags: Flirting, that’s like the whole fic, Bunk Bed Era, Pet Names, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Dex gets to be the chill one as a treat, is it ooc for dex to be smooth? if yes i don’t care
Summary:
Maybe it was a slip of the tongue, or an accidental admission after one too many beers, because Nursey doesn’t hear Dex compliment anybody else.
Nursey isn’t sure why he’s - so far - the exception.
A gift for @ficcinghell! This Check Please fic was written AND typeset by @tiesthatbindery and features the frogs on the Appalachian Trail. I continue to love doing layered covers and mimicked the section of the AT that the boys hiked (Katahdin to around Allenstown).
The original typeset was for folio size, but I wanted it to feel a bit like a pocket book you would have gotten in the 70s so I shrunk it down to legal quarto. My original plan was to paint the edges in bronze but the bronze paint failed miserably, so I trimmed it off and painted with green ink instead, which further contributes to that retro novel vibe.
I used Lokta paper with a fern pattern for the endpapers as well as the underlayer in the cover.
Denois' typeset was understandably perfect already, and I am very grateful I got to use it! The immaculate retro vibes are wonderful.