Going Out With A Big Bang!

Check, Please! is coming to an end 😭 but this is a time to celebrate the comic that has brought so many of us around the world together! Join us in our mini Big Bang event and create some content to be shared leading up to the book release in 2020.

[omgtranspoindexter]

Something is stalking the students of Samwell University. Nothing bad happens - until a member of the hockey team turns up dead. 

Here is my art in companion with the wonderful @erishai’s fic for the @goingoutwithabigbang event!

Read the wonderful fic here!

[omgtranspoindexter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Art by @shadowfaerieammy 😍

Written for @goingoutwithabigbang! 🏒

Rating: T for Trans (and for Teen)

Characters: William “Dex” Poindexter, Derek “Nursey” Nurse, & Chris “Chowder” Chow ft. Eric “Bitty” Bittle for one (1) phone call 

Summary:

The last time Dex talked to his parents, really talked to them, he had been sixteen and stupid. Jot that down, all sixteen-year-olds are stupid and shouldn’t be able to have life-changing conversations with their parents

Because they’re sixteen and stupid.

But that was just Dex’s opinion.

[shadowfaerieammy]

Here is my final submission for @goingoutwithabigbang

This art is for the lovely fic To Be Known by @omgtranspoindexter . It’s really good so go check it out! Their tumblr post about it is here !

Rating: T for Trans (and for Teen)

Summary: 

The last time Dex talked to his parents, really talked to them, he had been sixteen and stupid. Jot that down, all sixteen-year-olds are stupid and shouldn’t be able to have life-changing conversations with their parents

Because they’re sixteen and stupid.

But that was just Dex’s opinion.

[coyotesmokebreak]

i—

[tangotangredi]

wrestle and rage

Rated: Mature 

written as part of the @goingoutwithabigbang by @hockeydyke​

“There were the 34 days in the summer of 2009, between winning the Memorial Cup and the NHL Entry Draft in Montreal, where things were perfect. Who wouldn’t want that back?”

One week before the draft, Parse visits the Zimmermann family lake house with Jack and Bob, and he has everything going on with Jack under control because he has to. Things are fine.

(They have to be. This is his last chance.)

Tags & Content Warnings: Angst, Pre-Canon, Canon Compliant, Unreliable Narrator, Miscommunication, Mental Health Issues, Dysfunctional Relationships, Anxiety, Internalized Homophobia, Pining, Canon-Typical Alcohol Use, Substance Abuse, Camping, Almost too much foreshadowing but ultimately a reasonable amount

[hockeydyke]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Fandom: Check, Please!

Chapters: 3/3

Words: 11101

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Kent “Parse” Parson/Jack Zimmermann

Characters: Kent “Parse” Parson, Jack Zimmermann, Bob Zimmermann

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Canon Compliant, Angst, Unreliable Narrator, Mental Health Issues, Dysfunctional Relationships, Anxiety, Internalized Homophobia, Pining, Alcohol, Substance Abuse, Camping, Almost too much foreshadowing but ultimately a reasonable amount

Summary:

“There were the 34 days in the summer of 2009, between winning the Memorial Cup and the NHL Entry Draft in Montreal, where things were perfect. Who wouldn’t want that back?”

One week before the draft, Parse visits the Zimmermann family lake house with Jack and Bob, and he has everything going on with Jack under control because he has to. Things are fine.

(They have to be. This is his last chance.)

Written for @goingoutwithabigbang Going Out With a Big Bang 2020, with accompanying art by tangotangredi here!

[pretty-meris]

I have the worst luck. I was up last night coloring and then put the final touches today. I came home after work to find my laptop was dead, the charger isn't working, and I have no way of accessing any of it 😭😭

When the new charger arrives I'll finish them. Katy deserves better but this is all I have

Lardo the Vampire Slayer written for @goingoutwithabigbang

[pies-for-riley]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Larissa “Lardo” Duan/Shitty Knight, Eric “Bitty” Bittle/Jack Zimmermann (background) Characters: Larissa “Lardo” Duan, Shitty Knight, Jack Zimmermann, Eric “Bitty” Bittle, Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, Adam “Holster” Birkholtz Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fusion, Friends Supporting Friends, Non-Graphic Violence, Getting Together Summary:

Lardo already has enough on her plate fighting the things that go bump in the night and keeping up with her classes. She doesn’t need the extra drama of familiar faces from her past turning up out of the blue, vampires that have magic powers they shouldn’t, or prestigious art showcases. Too bad she’ll have to deal with all of that this semester.

This was written as a part of the @goingoutwithabigbang event!

Accompanying art by @pretty-meris is here

[tangotangredi]

Happily Ever After

Rated: Teen & Up

written as part of the @goingoutwithabigbang by @justlookfrightened

Bitty expected everything to be perfect once he graduated and moved in with Jack. So why is everything so hard?

[literaryoblivion]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Eric “Bitty” Bittle/Jack Zimmermann Characters: Eric “Bitty” Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Chris “Chowder” Chow, Adam “Holster” Birkholtz, Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, William “Dex” Poindexter, Larissa “Lardo” Duan, Shitty Knight, Alexei “Tater” Mashkov, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, POV Alternating, NHL Player Jack Zimmermann, Figure Skater Eric “Bitty” Bittle, Ice Skating, Alternate Universe - Hockey, Hockey, Alternate Universe - Bakery, Baker Eric “Bitty” Bittle, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst, Kissing, Ice Crew Member Bitty, Providence Falconers, Minor Larissa “Lardo” Duan/Shitty Knight

Summary: After much convincing and cajoling from his friends and coworkers at the bakery, Bitty decides to use his figure skating skills to audition for the Providence Falconers’ ice crew. They want to diversify their team and add men, and Bitty thinks it’s a wonderful endeavor, one that he’d be proud to be a part of. Getting to meet his long-time crush, Falconers’ Captain Jack Zimmerman, is just a bonus.

Author’s Note: This fic is part of the @goingoutwithabigbang Check Please Big Bang. The lovely edit for this fic can be found HERE (THANK YOU!).

[trans-jasontodd]

Art for Worth it all, @goingoutwithabigbang

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Fic Summary: After much convincing and cajoling from his friends and coworkers at the bakery, Bitty decides to use his figure skating skills to audition for the Providence Falconers' ice crew. They want to diversify their team and add men, and Bitty thinks it's a wonderful endeavor, one that he'd be proud to be a part of. Getting to meet his long-time crush, Falconers' Captain Jack Zimmerman, is just a bonus.

[jeanjacketbittle]

Becoming Lardo

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No archive warnings apply

Fandom: Check, Please! 

Relationships: Larissa “Lardo” Duan/Shitty Knight (hinted at), Larissa “Lardo” Duan & Jack Zimmermann, Adam “Holster” Birkholtz & Larissa “Lardo” Duan & Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, John Johnson/Kennedy McDonough (OMC)

Characters: Larissa “Lardo” Duan, Jack Zimmermann, Adam “Holster” Birkholtz, Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, Shitty Knight, John Johnson, Kennedy McDonough (OMC)

Additional Tags: found family, light angst, injury mention, marijuana, friendship, self-discovery, fluff, happy ending

Language: English

Summary: 

Larissa was different with these boys than she was with anyone else.

She had always thought that all the talk about finding yourself in college was bullshit, but these boys were making her wonder just how much of what she had previously believed might be changed by this place.

Alternatively,

SMH Origins: Lardo

This fic is a part of the @goingoutwithabigbang event!

With companion art by @pretty-meris

[sexydexynurse]

I was lucky to work with @spideylovesgwendy for the @goingoutwithabigbang. There are so many good scenes in the fic that I would love to draw (and still might), but I didn’t want to spoil the fic. So, Kent and Jeff, just a couple of friends hanging out and eating froze fruit kebabs.

Fic Title: Past Tensions

Fic Rating: T - Teen and Up

Summary:   

Graduating from Class 22-A, Kent Parson knows he has no future as a superhero. That was destroyed with the Tater supposedly captured his ancestor, disgraced superhero Nobody, robbing Samwell Laboratories. But with no interest in other job prospects, Kent decides on a simple plan: He’ll travel back to the past. He’ll prove the Tater was the real criminal. He’ll save his family’s reputation and become a successful superhero in his own right.

[loisinherlane]

Here’s my fic for @goingoutwithabigbang! I worked with @sexydexynurse, who drew a gorgeous scene from the first chapter. Be sure to check that out here!

Title: Past Tensions

Rating: T

Summary: Graduating from Class 22-A, Kent Parson knows he has no future as a superhero. That was destroyed with the Tater supposedly captured his ancestor, disgraced superhero Nobody, robbing Samwell Laboratories. But with no interest in other job prospects, Kent decides on a simple plan: He’ll travel back to the past. He’ll prove the Tater was the real criminal. He’ll save his family’s reputation and become a successful superhero in his own right.

Warnings: No archive warnings apply (though there is a small amount of violence–just not graphic), slight hints of racism

[willdexpoindexter]

I was so pleased to get to create my very first bang art for @shadowfaerieammy’s fic “Moving Forward, But Looking Back At You” for the @goingoutwithabigbang!

Rating: Teen and Up

Ships/Characters: nursey/dex, minor amount of Chowder/Farmer

Tags: soulmate au, trans dex, trans nursey, fake dating, childhood friends, enemies to lovers

Content/Trigger Warnings: mentions of (but NO depictions of) racism, transphobia, bi/panphobia

Summary: Will was a child, once, just like anyone else, and he had a best friend. He hasn’t spoken to them in years, not since he sent them that final email in high school telling them he wouldn’t be in contact anymore. It was the coward’s way out, he knows, but he was terrified they may turn on him like the rest of his transphobic town did when his truth came out. He couldn’t handle the possibility of his best friend, the person he believed could be his soulmate, abandoning him that way. So he abandoned them first.

He has new friends now. A whole team that cares about him. Chowder, the sunshine on his rainy days. Nursey, the unlikely friend that he now can’t imagine being without, someone he know probably isn’t his soulmate but hopes desperately for anyway.

There are many regrets in his heart, but he’s moving forward, and sometimes that means looking back.

read it on ao3 | tumblr link to the author’s post

[willdexpoindexter]

Things We Lost in the Fire

Rating: Mature Archive Warning: Major Character Death Categories: Gen, M/M Relationships: Adam “Holster” Birkholtz/Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, Eric “Bitty” Bittle & Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, Justin “Ransom” Oluransi & Denice “Foxtrot” Ford Characters: Justin “Ransom” Oluransi, Adam “Holster” Birkholtz, Eric “Bitty” Bittle, Denice “Foxtrot” Ford, Coach Murray (Check Please!), background SMH Additional Tags: Wingman Universe, Major character death - Freeform, Depression, Hallucinations, Suicidal Thoughts, Guardian Angels, Male-Female Friendship, Male Friendship, Time Skips, Alternate Universe - Firefighters, Accidental Death, Wakes & Funerals, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD Words: 10066 Chapters: 6/6

Summary: Adam and Justin have only been dating for a few months when they have their first fight. It’s over exactly what Justin expects it to be over: telling their crew they’re dating. Adam wants to tell people, Justin doesn’t. And then there’s a fire. And the last word Adam says is Justin’s name. ~ A story of Justin Oluransi trying to live his life after the death of his best friend and probably the love of his whole damn life.

Author Notes: WARNING: This fic takes place in the Wingman universe and deals with suicidal thoughts and depression. If you’re not familiar with Wingman, it’s a AU comic Ngozi wrote about Ransom and Holster as firefighters and Holster dies in a fire. A few lines in the first three chapters are lifted directly from the comic, which you can also read here. That said, I wrote this before the world… imploded. So I understand if people aren’t up for heavy angst right now. I cried while writing and editing and that was before this whole pandemic thing. I’m not offended if you need to come back to this later. Promise. This was written for the Going Out With A Big Bang event, and has amazing art by @missweber! And a special thank you to missweber for also beta reading this! It’s a lot and I had some trouble finding someone willing to dive into this dark subject matter. You’re the best!! Disclaimer: I’m not a firefighter and I tried to keep it as accurate as possible but if you are, please suspend your disbelief. Title is, of course, from the Bastille song of the same name.

READ IT ON AO3

[nebeauxla]

my submission for @goingoutwithabigbang​!

i just read the last ep of omgcp and im so sad now aaaaaa

also! this is an illustration for @shipalltheboats​ ‘s fic, Know That I Can Be Frustrating (Promise You My Touch Will Explain) and it is so good… we love that soulmark au… fic summary under the cut!

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