sadie

she/her | omgcp sideblog | ao3 | previously @jizzie

[pegasib]

Do you ever talk to your mutuals?

not really i just post things and hope they fall in love with me

[aristocrating]

3.7

[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

[aristocrating]

[meteortrails]

I think part of why nurseydex is so fun is like. they’re both a) SO guarded. walls fucking UP with these two baby, and b) oblivious/repressed as hell!!! how can you be perceived when you’re a mystery even to yourself. check AND mate motherfucker. and in this context a big part of the threat they initially pose to each other is in their shared ability to cut through all of that; they can both almost unfailingly provoke an honest emotional reaction in each other, can jab barbs right past all those walls and false composure to the things they most want to pretend they don’t care about. for both of them, the idea of being Seen to care about these things so much that they’ll react to it is terrifying. a reaction shows a weak spot, that this is a place where if you drive the knife in it’ll really fucking hurt. and so to have someone up in your business who can both reliably press on those weak spots and does not seem to like you enough as a person to care whether it hurts is a Bad Time!!!

but of course, this is where the real fun part comes in - with time and effort they get to a point where they know each other well enough to better know that the other person does in fact care if it hurts, and when to ease off before it does. which means now they’re stuck with someone who can bypass all their walls and protections the same as always, but who is doing their best to handle what they find there with care. this is still big and scary and makes dex want to bite nursey like a poorly trained dog, but in a way where they’re kind of falling in love with each other? this will of course take them a million bajillion years to even internally accept bc. to be frank. just bc someone else can maybe see what’s going on down there doesn’t mean THEY wanna see what’s going on down there. but it’s a bruise they can’t stop pressing, a loose tooth they just can’t leave alone; one thing about nurseydex is that they really can never leave well enough alone. and then they have really intense emotionally charged makeouts that they can’t talk about without keeling over <333 YAY ROMANCE!!!

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

don’t abandon joy because it is brief. don’t commit to solitude because happiness is fleeting. it’s okay that good things do not last forever. it’s okay to simply enjoy a thing for as long as you have it.

[nylarac]

^ relevant art by @catcrumb that legitimately rewired my brain

[ronandhermy]

"Late Youth" by Rebecca Hazelton

[kvp90]

[fraseris]

me having a weird time: man this weird time sucks! i don't feel like myself! i wish i was having a normal time!

me having a normal time: well the weird time did have a certain je ne sais quoi...

[p0ll]

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Voting ended onAug 30, 2025

[infinitelysordinary]

every time i sneeze i sneeze at least four times in a row, usually closer to 6-7. should i be concerned

[infinitelysordinary]

just sneezed 7 times in a row while on the toilet #help

[metamorphesque]

this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

[infinitelysordinary]

every time i sneeze i sneeze at least four times in a row, usually closer to 6-7. should i be concerned

[capacity2]

You can’t let this stupid ass evil world rob you of your vibe don’t let them do that to u

[capacity2]

I taught that man everything he knows

[thethingsiveseen-photography]

Red pandas! At Yorkshire Wildlife Park. 

[shittttyproblems]

are u going to make it weird or do i have to??

[lardosducks]

remember when nursey and dex left and got their own table in the middle of a team dinner just to argue

[homunculus-argument]

If you're having a private phone conversation with the phone off your ear, no headphones, and the speaker on in public, that's a public conversation now. That's an open invite, and I'm going to chime in if I have an opinion. This is now OUR disagreement about your boyfriend's spending habits.