It’s tough, But you’re tougher.

I'm Beli (She/They) Just a Queer Mexican living in SoCal. This is my Check, Please! sideblog. ~Mostly Zimbits~likes/follows from: @belidoodles

[doggernaut]

Happy 30th birthday, Eric Bittle! Hope you’re living your best life with VIP tickets to as many Cowboy Carter tour dates as you can justify.

[leavethebes-deactivated20230730]

hockey? like, from the fanfics? you know that's not a real thing, right?

[hockeyheritageposts]

Hockey Heritage Post

[pieandpucks]

And remember kids always download your fave fanfics on ao3. You never know when the work may be deleted.

I had not checked on my bookmarks in months. I found some zimbits fics deleted 😭 these were bookmarks from 2018. Now I’m trying to remember which ones they were 😢

Lesson learned now I’m downloading all my bookmarks.

[belidoodles]

No im not dead, work has just been kicking my ass. I should use this site more often.

[pieandpucks]

Also I haven’t been on as much. I had decided to take a break. But I’m back, I hope.

[fortressofself]

i am so about walking around museums and holding hands

[omgpostsplease]

[ngoziu]

i do think it's funny that writing Bitty is like "oh lord my mini-pies!" and writing Orion is like "you stand before the god of retribution your destiny is to battle me and die"

oh my god do i ship Bitty/Orion

[ngoziu]

Jack: euh what tis ehappening right now

#i love how Orion is like "go ahead touch my chest i'm depressed" # :( #if anyone at DC asks this is AI. #i love that evan cagle is posting the most amazing art for the New Gods series and I'm doing this

[ngoziu]

jack immediately connected to cowboy carter in a way that bitty doesn't fully understand and eric richard...is a little bit jealous...

[the-greater-grief]

Second floor hallway of the Haus at 2am

[b1ttle]

this man was fully about to say i love you barely a month after their first kiss. he is insane.

[parvuls]

no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.

[forfuckssakejim]

The first Falconers game after Bitty and Jack get married, the falconers pull off a big prank on them. In which every player on the starting line (and everyone else) is introduced as [Last Name]-Bittle. Like in that friends episode where Courtney gets married and asked for the opening credits to be changed to CoxArquette to show it and instead they changed everyones last name to Arquette

And they all have jerseys made special for that first game and Jack is laughing the whole game and Bittle’s in the line up just cheering on everyone.

At the end the Falconers social media channel posts a picture with everyone in their Bittle jersey and the caption is like “The Falconers and their husband, food network star and author Eric Bittle”

[somethingnurseywoulddo]

mom… i cried over fictional gay love.

( @artsybubbles )

[rftwfic]

I just know that as soon as that "I am going to see my husband" Beyoncé sound dropped that Bitty used it ALL the time. Every time he made an insta story of him walking into the Falcs arena it was playing in the background. There are so many tik toks of him zooming in on Jack while he's skating posted with that sound. He made a vlog of him dropping off pb&j ingredients to the team the morning before a game and it played at least 5 separate times in the video.

[rftwfic]

Been thinking about Bitty getting invited to guest star on some variety competition show where the challenge that week is to bake with those drunk goggles on. They're just making some basic vanilla cupcakes, and he's up against another baking YouTuber and a comedian who appears in every episode to add levity to the competition.

Obviously the comedian isn't doing too great, but that's kind of the whole point of him being there. The other baker isn't doing terribly, just a lot of missing things when he reaches for them or accidentally knocking things over.

Bitty, on the other hand, is absolutely crushing this baking challenge. Not only are his cupcakes fluffy and delicious, he finishes them in like half the time everyone else takes. The channel didn't give them anything to pipe the icing with so he puts his buttercream in a zip lock bag, cuts off one corner, and pipes them to perfection. The whole time he's doing this he's telling a story about how he once made eight pies in one night all between rounds of beer pong. He also talks about the time he made a perfect clafoutis (a type of French fruit tart) on the night the Falconers won the Stanley Cup despite being nearly black out drunk.

Needless to say, Bitty gets invited back three more times to do more drunk baking challenges.

[parvuls]

no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.

we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.

bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.

jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.

but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.

jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.

it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.

[planetvries]

Everyone is Here!

The piece I did for @omgzineplease’s first issue of their Check, Please! fanzine! 🏒🥅🥧

Check it out if you haven’t already! Lot of cool stuff in there!

[prinzgnomeovonchaos]

Love that the first thing in the Taylor swift tag is bitty being disgusted at the assumption hes a swifty lol

[omgcheckplease]

It begins.