Pucks and Pies

Check Please sideblog, she/her, always accepting asks!

[heresyourchecksir]

Perfect alignment

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I WAS AT BOOKCON THIS PAST WEEKEND!

Because of this, I got to see the lovely @ngoziu talk about all things graphic novels with Adam Ellis. After this panel, there was a signing.

Of course, I did what any normal person would do and bring my books to get signed… as well as a printed copy of @connorwhisksambiguousbisexuality ‘s profile picture.

Here’s a photo of Ngozi and myself (ish) with the artifact.

[biblionerd07]

Bitty sends this to Jack and Jack tells him thick ice is slower and NHL ice is only 1.9 cm. And then he sends a follow up text that says, “I love you too, Bits. I’ll play on your thick figure skating ice for you.”

[omgcheckplease]

if you like gay hockey (books) or gay hockey (tv show) you'll love gay hockey (comics)

[omgcheckplease]

if you like gay hockey (books) or gay hockey (tv show) you'll love gay hockey (comics)

[omgcheckplease]

cr: evolverozanov

Backstage before the hockey romance panel at BookCon 2026, and Rachel tells me she loves Check, Please! and is Kickstarter backer.

HUH????

[omgcheckplease]

You can now watch the entirety of the hilarious and insightful Hockey Romance Panel over on YouTube:

[omgcheckplease]

cr: evolverozanov

Backstage before the hockey romance panel at BookCon 2026, and Rachel tells me she loves Check, Please! and is Kickstarter backer.

HUH????

[your-local-blogger]

More extra OMGCP stuff

[omgcheckplease]

OH, quick question! - how did you read Check Please! for the first time? - how do you usually re-read it?

first time reading Check, Please! vs Re-Reading...???

First time on Tumblr / Re-Read on Tumblr

First time on Tumblr / Re-Read with Physical Books

First time on Tumblr / Re-Read on checkpleasecomic.com

First time as Physical Book / Re-Read on Tumblr

First time as Physical Book / Re-Read with Physical Books

First time as Physical Book / Re-Read on checkpleasecomic.com

First time on checkpleasecomic.com / Re-Read on Tumblr

First time on checkpleasecomic.com / Re-Read with Physical Books

First time on checkpleasecomic.com / Re-read on checkpleasecomic.com

other — I'll explain!

Voting ended onApr 20

(actually one last question: how would you recommend it to a friend?? Shoving a book in their hands? Saying go to this site????)

[omgcheckplease]

raise your hand if you'd like to see Whiskey go absolutely feral in check, please! year five

[snowy-protection-squad]

Eric R. Bittle

Ok so I’m here to talk about how ridiculously talented Bitty is on ice because the fandom forgets sometimes.

•Bitty switched from figure skates to hockey skates. This is SUPER HARD TO DO. (I asked a friend who figure skates competitively about how skating with hockey skates is different. She immediately said that it was extremely hard.)

•Bitty can do twirls in hockey skates. Again VERY HARD due to hockey skates not having a pick.

•Was the captain of his Junior hockey team for two years. He was made captain after TWO YEARS of playing hockey.

•Got an assist in his first College hockey game

•Scored the winning goal in his third game on a College team(also the only goal of that game)

•After that game he was switched from third line to first line.

•Was awarded the John Carlisle award at the end of his freshmen year(the award is given to the player who’s enthusiasm and dedication best shows team spirit)

•Struggled with the fear of getting checked but woke up at 4A.M. so he could get over this fear and stay on the team (yes he grumbles about it a fair bit but he also acknowledges that it helps him)

•He balances being on a varsity team and school fairly well and takes care of his teammates too.

•He does all of this before he’s 20.

In conclusion Eric Bittle is more than just a talented gay baker, he is a strong person who is extremely talented on ice. Thank you for your time.

[packbat]

The other day, audiaphilios in the chat was talking about wanting fic of Coaches Hall and Murray, and I got to thinking about this and it’s related:

Eric Bittle is attending Samwell on a hockey scholarship. The team is spending money to have Bittle on board.

He got this scholarship based on a tape which was half ice dancing.

And, in case you missed it: in Bitty’s first two years of hockey, Samwell came out of nowhere to make the NCAA playoffs twice in a row.

Like, you add all this stuff up, and … well, I think what you’re looking at is a tiny school - the kind of school that doesn’t pay its coaches a tremendous amount of money, the kind of school that can’t count on enormous alumni/ae funding to pay for scholarships - which has found itself a pair of coaches who are doing exactly what a school in that position needs to do: start with players that their competition cannot even imagine playing hockey, and train them into the best hockey players the NCAA has ever seen.

Coaches Murray and Hall didn’t pick Bittle’s name out of a hat. They didn’t recruit him for his pecan pies. They saw an incredible natural athlete with a lot of potential to be an asset to their team. And that’s what he is.

[jacksbits]

#i also think #they recruited him #because of his similarity to kent parson #small fast strategic forwards #they knew jack needed someone who wasn’t going to try to be the star #who focused more on the collaborative aspects of the game #and was as thrilled with an assist as a goal #they recruited bitty f o r  j a c k (via @des-zimbits)

OH MY GOD.

[cryptidfuckery]

If we’re having a chickpeas renessance can I halfheateredly join and reblog cryptid dex

[cryptidfuckery]

I fucking WISH it was a chickpea renessance. I meant check please

[lilacborrower]

[parseisflat]

save him.

[lunarlapinou]

Where's my #omgcpsmutfreaks at??? Say it with me, WE! WANT! HUDDLE! 4!

[firstdayasadumpling]

they’re back !

[ngoziu]

it's very funny that in the check please universe it's like "oh poor jack zimmermann...hope he recovers" "oh he recovered and won the stanley cup" "oh he gay"

[omgcheckplease]

You Had Me at Hockey: A Look at One of Sports Romance's Hottest Genres

HI! At BookCon2026, I'll be on a panel that will certainly be a riot. Moderated by Bal Khabra!

Stephanie Archer (Pucking Around) Kate Cochrane (Wake up, Nat & Darcy) Emily Rath (The Vancouver Storm series) Rachel Reid (Heated Rivalry) Ngozi Ukazu (Check, Please!)

[bittysbetterbootybureau]

so, i made a thing!!!

I’ve decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for a long time: combine the comic, blog posts, extras, and tweets from Check, Please! into one document, because I’m crazy.

I read the main comic the night of The Sophomore Year Kiss™ and went back to read the extras shortly after. Going back and reading the extras was a daunting task back in 2016, and it’s much harder today - there’s so much stuff! Not to mention that Bitty’s Twitter was private by the time I started reading the comic, so I didn’t see most of the tweets until Chirpbook was published. Plus, I struggle to find all the blog posts on the official site, and I am a blog post truther! Sophomore Year doesn’t hit the same without the commentary! Nothing emotionally destroys me like: “The secret to drawing a younger Jack is making him smile, the end. Hahaha, now we’re all sad.” Lastly, some of my friends love the comic and find both Tumblr and the official site hard to navigate, so I wanted to make this a resource for them so they don’t miss out on all those delightful ask-a-wellies and sketch jams.

What I always wanted was to have that true multi-platform experience (comics, blogs, tweets, and extras) in order. With that, I present this slideshow.

The extras on these slides are ONLY things that (as far as I know) aren't available anywhere other than Tumblr/the website. Please buy the comic and also Chirpbook and Madison and the Huddles. They’re worth every penny!!!!!! (seriously please please please please this comic is so good you want to give Ngozi all of your money please please please you want to so bad subscribe to the patreon while you're at it)

Also, if you want to help with this project, think anything should be edited, or have ideas on how to make it more effective/better/fun, please let me know! I just love this comic so much!!! I have only done through the end of Year 2 right now.

im insane

OMG Check, Please! but it’s everything* i love being insane *only up until Year 3 is currently done