[CURRENTLY ON HIATUS] The first thing a Pirate has to know is learn how to fall. The Granite Hills Pirates, a high school exy team, who are specialists in falling and failing, upholding the reputation of a lazy team full of losers. After the previous captain graduated, a new one full of desire to win replaced him, determined to change the team's reputation. James Fletcher, an english boy with more curses in his vocabulary than Shane has ever seen in his life, is also willing to wake the entire team up at 7pm everyday to make it happen. Shane McCarty, on the other hand, is not so thirsty for the victory per se, he just wants to see his captain happy. And maybe also gain a little bit of dignity. With the help of Coach Danielle Wilds, and a team full of fierce girls and angry boys, the Pirates will burn their way to the top. Or get burnt trying.
Follow our heroes' quest to the victory, including sweaty boys kissing in the lockers, girls kicking ass, awesome LGBTQ+ people, and a #tired coach who knows better.
In the day-to-day trenches of high school, it is almost the default-setting to believe we are the main character of our own coming-of-age story.
This is not wrong. It's just ours isn't the only story there is.
The jocks, the nerds, the cheerleaders, the losers, the stoners, the fangirls, the skaters. Everyone's the realest most important person in existence, all of them, at the same time, first-person narrators to their own stories, stumbling into each other's plot lines, defying the status-quo, catalysts to ups and downs.
A deconstruction of all the high school tropes and cliches written over the years, a deep-dive into the psyche of students trying to finish high school while going through irrevocable self-discovery, the most improbable of connections, and the insufferable pains of growing up.