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I previously made a post badly summarizing my WIPS, and one of my TBITB projects was this one:

Step Up or Shut Up: Local Short Guy is mad at his teammates for being 1) not as motivated by rowing as he is and 2) raging dickhead assholes. Also he can't help but notice the cute freshman that just started rowing in one of the other boats.

If that spoke to you at all, I've got great news, chapter 1 is out! With a somewhat calmer title and hopefully better summary.

Bobby wants a crew he can trust. He wants a stroke he respects, and who respects him. He wants crewmates ready to work for greatness. Instead he gets Wink Winslow’s crew and Bo Billings, a spoiled asshole who cares more about making a point than about rowing and who is determined to make Bobby quit so he can get his old cox back. So now Bobby has to scheme and plot just to win over his own crew and convince Ulbrickson he does deserve to be coxing an eight, thank you very much. Meanwhile, he can’t stop noticing the really cute and impossibly talented stroke in the new freshman boat. As if he doesn’t have enough on his plate.

#bobby moch #my fics #tbitb #the boys in the boat #my posts #don and bobby #coxstroke #sox #tbitb fanfiction

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Had the idea that post-slow burn, once Bobby and Don are finally together, Bobby would never shut up about it...

#immaculate vibes on this post #don and bobby #bobby moch #the boys in the boat

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Robert Moch...tell me something

Every other member of crew was either making time with their lady or dancing or generally carousing at the celebration. In order for you to intervene with Don's wallflower act, you had to be watching Don and notice he wasn't participating in the frivolity.

So tell me, Bobbby my dear, why were you not dancing? Not making time with a pretty girl? Not carousing? No, Sir, you were watching Don. Making an excuse to sit next to Don. Not in fact telling Don to ask the girl next to him to dance, or indeed telling him to ask any girl, simply telling him that that night was his night to make a move, yet girls are oddly absent from your instruction, as you purse your lips at your future boyfriend friend. You then successfully show off your man friend while managing to winkle him away from any girl that might ask him to dance, ensuring no moves can be made.

At least by them.

So tell me, Robert Gaston Moch, what the frick frack paddy whack was that ?!?!?!

I'm not even gonna touch on you sitting facing where Don was talking with Gordy on the train while playing poker. Always gotta sit opposite your boy, huh?

#truly has me 👀👀👀👀 #don and bobby #bobby moch #the boys in the boat #tbitb

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Yeah he is so thin in those pics. :(

You can hear the announcer saying that at the very end of the Boys of '36 documentary! (timestamp 49:12 for anyone who wants to hear it) I had to go check what he said exactly because I only remembered he basically called Don skinny.

And it might just be a matter of preference and coaching style, but the two "really good" strokes we hear about on Cal's team are Dick Burnley ("gigantic, gangly but enormously strong, 6'5") and Eugene Berkenkamp (no details but he is called "Cal's big stroke" so he can't have been tiny), so it seems that even before losing the weight, Don was already on the shorter and lighter side for a stroke oar.

So yeah, with fourteen pounds off his frame at the Olympics he must have looked absolutely waifish.

people keep calling Don a “big guy” and sure he’s tall and maybe that’s what qualifies him as “big.” but I don’t think everyone realizes how much weight Jack lost to play this role. he went from a big, athletic, and shapely guy to having a flat, verging concave stomach and having visible vertebrae. it completely changed his face too, it didn’t take his cuteness away, but it made it slightly severe and tired.

I want to point this out because it shows Jack’s dedication, but also it reveals something about Don.

Don Hume was a HUNGRY role.

#don hume #the boys in the boat #rowing #is waifish even right in this context #thoughts #tbitb #jack mulhern

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Of course I'm glad he was Don because I can't picture anyone else now... but I wish such dramatic weight loss wasn't such a normalized thing for actors

people keep calling Don a “big guy” and sure he’s tall and maybe that’s what qualifies him as “big.” but I don’t think everyone realizes how much weight Jack lost to play this role. he went from a big, athletic, and shapely guy to halving a flat, verging concave stomach and having visible vertebras. it completely changed his face too, it didn’t take his cuteness away, but it made it slightly severe and tired.

I want to point this out because it shows Jack’s dedication, but also it reveals something about Don.

Don Hume was a HUNGRY role.

#the boys in the boat #don hume #jack mulhern #thoughts

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silly fluff fic idea:

Don decides to buzz his hair off (like Jack did) and Bobby loses his fucking mind about.

at first, in anger. then later, because he thinks the feeling when he runs his hands over it is sexy.

#absolutely adorable idea. love it #don and bobby

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people keep calling Don a “big guy” and sure he’s tall and maybe that’s what qualifies him as “big.” but I don’t think everyone realizes how much weight Jack lost to play this role. he went from a big, athletic, and shapely guy to halving a flat, verging concave stomach and having visible vertebras. it completely changed his face too, it didn’t take his cuteness away, but it made it slightly severe and tired.

I want to point this out because it shows Jack’s dedication, but also it reveals something about Don.

Don Hume was a HUNGRY role.

#oh I did NOT have that information? #I did think it was really strange how different he looked from his role in odd man rush #I thought it was because of working out #I didn't even realize how much weight he'd lost but it's so obvious now that I know #I mean his thighs as Don are ALL muscle... he was much thicker in OMR #fuck #I hope it wasn't too hard on him #jack mulhern #don hume #the boys in the boat #odd man rush #oh and I just remembered #Don got called “the very light stroke on the American crew” during the Olympics by the radio/TV guy #who even mentioned how much weight he'd lost #like even to him the fact that Don was out there being this skinny and still rowing like that was incredibly impressive.

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iykyk

#so real it hurts #don and bobby #the boys in the boat

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he mostly feels this way because they can’t hear him in the back and therefore do not LISTEN!!

#made me laugh out loud ngl #bobby moch #don hume #don and bobby #joe rantz #roger morris #chuck day #gordy adam #the boys in the boat

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Fun fact, the number of stripes on the sweater sleeves correspond to the number of years a player spent on varsity.

#oooooh so interesting #bobby moch #the boys in the boat

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Just as he bosses them about in the shell, Bobby bosses the boys around on land, and not just verbally. You don't move fast enough, and he'll just grab you and move you, which is surprising given relative sizes.

But when Don, in his own little world, doesn't hear Bobby's demand request to move, finds himself with Bobby's hands tight on his hips physically moving him aside, hands firm and sure, well, epiphany is had.

He doesn't just want Bobby's eyes boring into his, his voice in his ear, he wants those hands, those surprisingly strong hands, all over him, holding him together and letting him fly apart, the closest to the feel of that medal hanging against his chest as he'll ever feel again

#oh bobby absolutely would #this is canon to me now #don and bobby #don hume #bobby moch #the boys in the boat #hc

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Scene study

#holy FUCK dude??? this is so good #the boys in the boat #don hume #fanart #jack mulhern

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The hardest part about writing fiction about a guy named Don is that now when I go to write the word "don't" on my phone my predictive text suggests Don first and I often click on it by mistake

#I'm sorry for the hardship but also that is extremely funny 😆 #the boys in the boat #about writing

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Bobby: “Hey, I know I’m amazing at like everything but even I have a weakness.”

The Boys: “And what’s that?”

Bobby, probably: “Breathing. Haven’t quite mastered that one yet.”

#stop omg 😂 #bobby moch #the boys in the boat

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Don Hume and Bobby Moch + textposts 10

(#9)

#the third one? I'm crying 😂 #don hume #don and bobby #bobby moch #the boys in the boat #text posts

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It’s one year after the Olympics. Bobby, now assistant coach, watches his old crew in the varsity race against Cal in Oakland... of course he wishes it was still him sitting in that shell with his boys, but he’s got more important things to do than dwell on that.

Namely, find one Don Hume and tell him exactly how Bobby felt about his performance on the water.

aka the one where they make out in a storage closet ☺️✨

#don and bobby #coxstroke #sox #the boys in the boat #my fics #tbitb #don hume #bobby moch #tbitb fanfiction

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Sun and moon symbolism or w/e you know how it is

#yesssssss #don and bobby #the boys in the boat #don hume #bobby moch