#1 Derek Nurse Stan

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[omgpoindexter]

i love so much of omgcp canon but every time i remember dex only has one brother i’m like... no

[hockeyrobotlove]

thinking abt when Ngozi said that after bitty's youtube channel and cookbooks take off, they're not The jack zimmermann and his husband, they're The eric bittle and his husband who played hockey or something

[willdexpoindexter]

In honor of Bi Visibility Day, I present this RWRB/OMGCP crossover ft. bi disaster Jack Zimmermann and exasperated gay Kent Parson

Shoutout to the Haus server for egging me on to do this, especially Brooke :)

[kvp90]

Alexei Mashkov definitely has a fan account for himself on at least one social media site

[derekpoetssociety]

the password in question is ‘bittle15’

[smalltownwriter-deactivated2025]

Idk why the fics always give Dex a gay crisis and Nursey is like the ~cool~ queer man who totally knows who he is. Derek Nurse thinks he’s straight until he comes to Samwell I’m sorry but that boy seems like the king of denial

[smalltownwriter-deactivated2025]

There is one time, briefly, when he is a freshman and Shitty is a senior at Andover when Shitty’s rants about gender and sexual fluidity make him think “huh am I...” but just thinking about it makes him feel itchy and nervous and so he’s like “nah” and keeps going business as usual.

But then he comes to Samwell, and he meets Bitty who is openly gay and Lardo who isn’t shy when talking about being bi. And he’s like “it’s really cool that they’re so open and honest. I will support them and have their backs 100%” and thinks (not in so many words) “wow, I am such a good Straight Person for being so ~chill~ about this.”

And now he’s around Shitty more than ever before and Shitty’s talking about how many people have come out to him and how it was so FUCKED how scared Bitty was to come out to him. And it makes Nursey feel sad, thinking about Bitty being scared, and he sort of thinks to himself “why come out? if you’re that scared?” And part of him wonders if there’s anything in the world that scares him like that...eh probably not.

And there’s Dex, of course. And so “yeah this redhead with the big ears makes me feel weird and good when he gets all flustered and his cheeks get all red but like that’s just what it feels like when you one up your nemesis. It’s nbd. It’s chill, whatever.”

And yeah, he was a little surprised when Dex came out to them, but like that’s chill. That’s cool. So he can’t look at Dex for a week? So Nursey’s heart feels like it’s beating out of its chest ever since he told them because if Uptight Maybe A Republican Dex can come out then Nursey has some reevaluating to do.

Of course, he doesn’t do any reevaluating, but he stores it in the corner of his head as something to think about “later.”

Nursey’s a FLIRT though and his flirting gets to Alex Claremont-Diaz levels before Dex finally huffs (the totally irritating, not at all endearing huff) and says “you are ridiculous” and then he kisses Nursey.

And like Nursey likes girls, okay? There is no doubt about it, but, like, kissing Dex makes him feel—surprised, sure, and also good?

Shit, is Nursey bisexual?

[parvuls]

headcanon: during the playoffs, on nights when jack stays up too late watching tape, bitty pulls jack's head to his lap and scratches his nails through jack's beard to calm him down. it's like, asmr and cuddling wrapped together. it's pretty magical.

[redmoonjune]

me at an expensive 5-star restaurant: i’ll have the chicken tenders

[omgpostsplease]

[valtsv]

is there any hotter look than disheveled and slightly bloody

[omgpostsplease]

[lahallucinations]

au where kent parson is at some gas station convience store on the way to samwell and stops to pick up snacks and thinks this place sucks why the fuck am I here im in the fucking nhl i don’t even know the blonde twink jack came out with im going home and then he turns around and goes home

[zim-tits]

[omgdexnursey]

a text exchange between nursey and dex

nursey: i used to play piano when i was younger

dex: oh cool do you know chai coffee

nursey: ?????

dex: idfk how to spell his name

nursey:

nursey: do you mean

nursey: tchaikovsky

[omgcheckplease]

A bookplate for the good person at Blue Willow Bookshop! They bent over backwards to help me get copies of Check, Please!: Sticks & Scones signed and to readers last month. Thank you! 🍂!🦞!

[jewishnursey]

I love them and I am happy for them!!!!

[omgcheckplease]

When This Week is Over

[maeve-of-winter]

I think Whiskey’s storyline is more trying to be a show that coming out and self-acceptance isn’t a straight line for most. While it sucks that he’s cheating, it’s certainly accurate to a lot of people’s experiences. He’s going through his phases of denial and that can make people do some shitty things

I’m not saying you’re wrong, anon, but if that was meant to be his storyline, then I really would have enjoyed seeing that angle developed a bit more and seeing Whiskey’s struggle and hearing him talk about it more. I realize that would be a difficult feat, because he didn’t particularly seem to like Bitty most of the time, and it wouldn’t avoid the stereotypes I have a problem with, but it would let him have an arc and make it clear that being closeted is not an easy thing to deal with.

There are so many opportunities for Whiskey in terms of story. He’s Latinx in a sport that’s vastly white, and he’s secretly struggling with his sexuality in addition to already being outwardly different than his teammates in a sport that enormously emphasizes conformity. So his plot being barely developed and then ending on the note that he’s either yet another lying, cheating bisexual in a piece of media that’s intended to be queer-friendly or a closeted gay man who feels trapped in his situation and doesn’t get the happy ending Bitty gets (and us as the audience not even getting a solid conclusion as which one it is), with no hint that his situation will improve, doesn’t quite sit right with me.

Also, in all honesty, it gives me more than a little bit of pause that the storyline of “queer man struggles to accept himself” doesn’t get put on either of the white main characters and just so happens to be instead shunted onto a side POC character so he can go through the more problematic behaviors that you mentioned are typical to these scenarios, such as cheating on his partner. Check Please has never had a problem with being unrealistic before, so it’s frustrating that when it decides to be realistic, the person who has to deal with realistic struggles is the lone (? IIRC) queer man of color, rather than either of the two white mains who have been prominent in the story from Day 1, for three years before Whiskey even arrived on the scene.

That said, despite my issues with the storyline, I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts on it with me, and you’ve certainly given me various points to consider. Thanks. :)

[nurseyschilll]

why does bitty have to “man up” to overcome his internalized homophobia