Coworker: Do you want to do the thing or do you want me to do it?
Me: Do you want to do the thing?
Coworker: I don’t care. If you want to do it, that’s fine.
Me: Well, I don’t actually care who does it either, so long as it gets done. So how about whoever has a spare moment first gets to do the thing?
Coworker: Sure. That’s fine by me.
Me: [Has some free time while coworker is busy, does the thing]
Coworker: I’m mad at you because I wanted to do the thing and I went to our boss to complain about how you can’t seem to remember that you work with other people.
Me: Are you actually fucking kidding me right now?!??
There was an actual bracket, but reylo got obliterated in round one, and after the poll was done, someone suggested it would be funny to do a "bonus round" where every tournament contestant is pitted against reylo to see how many ships, if any, reylo can beat
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise.
First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.
We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.
In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that, including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.
Somehow managed to avoid the update for now so it was a bit of a shock to see people talking about what was happening and learn about it that way. Either way, I’m genuinely concerned. This truly feels like an attempt to quell the ability for us to have conversations on this site.
Now that I’ve had a little bit to think about it, I’m actually really concerned about how this site basically just nuked our ability to talk to each other and distribute critical information right before an American midterm.
Folks, for those of you who use Tumblr primarily from phones, stop everything you are doing right now and figure out how to turn off auto updates in the Tumblr app as soon as possible.
The web is fucked up, it's borderline unusable, but the apps haven't been updated yet.
Somehow managed to avoid the update for now so it was a bit of a shock to see people talking about what was happening and learn about it that way. Either way, I’m genuinely concerned. This truly feels like an attempt to quell the ability for us to have conversations on this site.
Ukazu says, a rising tide lifts all boats, including the S.S. Check, Please! She’s hopeful that the success of Heated Rivalry, as well as another queer romance graphic novel-turned-TV show Heartstopper, will make the dream of seeing her work onscreen into a reality: The book has been optioned for adaptation. — Vanity Fair
Check, Please! has been optioned for a film/television adaptation. A while ago, actually—and that’s lovely. Nevertheless, the vast majority of options do not become television because it takes a million things going right to get projects off the ground.
That being said.
Ahem.
Speaking of getting projects off the ground...
From when Bitty first stepped out into the rink at Faber, to when he kissed the ice at graduation, we've all been part of this fun, weird, magical world of Samwell hockey. But when I left the world of Samwell hockey, I left knowing Jack and Bitty's story was done. Bitty's journey as the first openly gay NCAA Division I hockey captain was done. We baked the last pie; we shut off the lights at the kegster; the story was complete.
…But as I looked around I realized, I had one more story to tell.
Which is why I'm thrilled to announce that a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. Dozens of new comics, exciting update drops, your favorite characters with brand new storylines, and characters you've yet to meet.
Hello, Internet Land—SMH is coming home.
This fifth year of Check, Please! will be filled with shenanigans, drama, hockey, pies, Haus parties, and a new message of acceptance that is near and dear to me. And it's been brewing over the last year and half! But with the latest boom in queer hockey stories, I figured, hey! ¯\(ツ)/¯ Here's another one to look forward to. :)
Marginalized athletes still face harmful bigotry, and for this reason, queer sports stories are more important than ever. I love Samwell hockey and how each of you has embraced this roster of athletes.
There's so much more to come.
Ngozi
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MORE NEWS? SURE:
I’ll be at Emerald City Comic Con 2026, and yes, I will be dropping exclusive details about Check, Please! Year Fived during my spotlight panel: Ngozi Ukazu - From Check, Please! to DC and Back! (Be there!)
Follow me on Patreon for behind-the-scenes on the making of Check, Please!: Year Five. I'm gonna livestream...a lot.
If only there were an original mm romance that you could read right now while you wait for more Year Five updates! Good news—John Rich & The Big Picture is very cute and laugh-out-loud funny and you can read it now, for free.
My latest graphic novel FLIP has made the best-of lists for the New York Public Library, the A.V. Club, Kirkus Books, School & Library Journal—and more. Get it here.
ok northies this is it. these last five days to the solstice are a motherfucker. everything feels dark and hopeless because the sun's fucked off. but you MUST. i cannot stress enough you MUST hang on until the 21st. the light will come back
Same with aros and diabolical deployment of romance tropes… we aren’t stakeholders, we’re like nasty little bird watchers with our nasty little binoculars observing courting rituals and scribbling gleeful notes
Signed, an aromantic who almost exclusively writes romance
Actually I love the two throuples in Sense8 because one is Kala in love with her husband Rajan but also kinda cheating on him emotionally (and then sexually) with her boyfriend Wolfgang that she's mentally linked with and then when Rajan finally meets his wife's boyfriend his reaction is
It’s actually really important to me that people know that this is canon. Like, it sounds like shipping nonsense and exaggeration and fun memeing but it’s not. These are canon ships, and this is literally what happened. Sense8 fucking NO ONE did it like you baby
one thing about me is that for whatever reason i thought in K-Pop Demon Hunters, that in Jinu's backstory the lady and the little girl was his wife and child and i still think that's a way more interesting interpretation than him abandoning his mom and sister
something about it just hits different. i'm more of a polytrix shipper than a rumijinu but i think the angst of jinu having been married AND having a kid adds such a delicious spice to rumijinu.
it's the spice of "i already loved once before you. and i abandoned her and destroyed everything we made together. what makes you think your love is any different than the one i already threw away"
