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Absolutely no one:
Shitty at his first trial:
Anyone who says this isn’t canon is a liar
Ngozi Ukazu absolutely nailed hockey culture
Seriously, my friend sent me this interview with a hockey captain from a few years ago, and I just... From the nicknames to the chirps, it just reads like @ngoziu wrote it for the @omgcheckplease Samwell team!
[Interview Transcript:
Title: Ten questions with captain Shirley
Collin Shirley led the Kamloops Blazers in scoring last season, registering 79 points, 37 of them goals. The 20-year-old forward from Saskatoon was named captain last month. KTW reporter Marty Hastings got to know Shirley and his teammates in this 10-question survey.
KTW: What’s on your iPod?
CS: I probably have the biggest mix you can find, but I love my country like a good Saskatchewan boy. [Cam] Reagan has got me into the rap lately. I usually rip him in our interviews, but it’s kind of catchy, so I like what he’s got.
KTW: What’s your favourite movie?
CS: It’s probably Endless Love. Me, Daws [Dawson Davidson], Nolan [Kneen] and Millzy [Erik Miller], we watch it probably three or four time a year. It’s unreal. We shed a few tears.
KTW: What team in the B.C. Division do you dislike the most and why?
CS: That’s a pretty easy question. It’s Kelowna for sure. It’s not even a dislike. It’s just the rivalry we have, especially after last year, losing in Game 7. It still hits pretty close to home. I like the battle.
KTW: What is your pre-game ritual?
CS: I’m always knocking on wood. Benjy [Quinn Benjafield] always makes fun of me. And I listen to music before the game.
KTW: Who is the most romantic Kamloops Blazer?
CS: Come on. That’s not even a question. Cam Reagan. He’s always got a new girl or getting over another girl. He likes talking about the dates and taking girls out. We like getting on his case about it.
KTW: If you were going to go to one person on the team for life advice, who would it be?
CS: Joe Gatenby. I’ve got to know him a little bit since he’s been traded here. He’s a serious guy and he’s really down to earth. He’s got his head screwed on right. The last guy I would go to is Cam Reagan.
KTW: What’s your favourite food?
CS: Steak, potatoes and cheesecake. I could have a bath in cheesecake. It’s unbelievable. The biggest appetite on the team is probably Jermaine [Loewen] or Reags. We always have our trips to A&W. They guys will have a burger, root beer and fries, but Reags is always getting the Chubby Chicken wraps. I have a lot of fun with him. I hope he doesn’t get too upset with me.
KTW: Who are the best- and worst-dressed Blazers?
CS: The best-dressed Blazer is, besides myself, would have to be Reags. He’s got the cool bracelets, hats and always with the nice shoes. He’s high maintenance when it comes to that stuff. The worst is Connor Ingram. It’ll be plus-25 and he wears sweatpants and a hoodie. When he stops 40 pucks a night, we’ll let him do his thing.
KTW: If you could trade lives with anyone, who would it be and why?
CS: Probably the One Direction boys, just to see how life is on the road for them and how they go about their business. Me, Daws, Needer [Matt Needham] and Millzy made a music video and threw it in the group chat. We’re pretty good. I’m right there in the mix with them. I wouldn’t be ashamed of having it out there.
KTW: If you had access to a time machine, where would you go and why?
CS: I’d probably go back to the 1980 Olympics, with the USA and the Soviets. That’s another movie I love. It would be kind of cool to see how that played out, watch the game and the events of those Olympics.]
Check Please Should Be An Animated Series
Honestly, with the fact that there are so many animated series now that a) have an older audience following and b) have an LGBT audience following, this is kind of the perfect series to adapt!
Just imagine:
Ransom and Holster have an actual theme song for “Hockey Shit with Random and Holster”! I can picture exactly how it sounds in my head, and Jack’s still the only one who can hear it
Not enough material for a full season? ANIMATE BITTY’S TWEETS/THE EXTRAS!!!
Wait, ANIMATE ASK A WELLIE! Make it another segment like “Hockey Shit”!
Also we could totally include the ghosts haunting Ransom, poor guy
John Johnson the existential goalie 110% has all of his dialogue appear in a speech bubble as he talks (though we don’t see him), but the words are Star Wars intro style
Also I just want Ollie and Wicks randomly appearing throughout the series and commenting on things
IMAGINE HEARING JACK’S VOICE WITH A FRENCH CANADIAN ACCENT
JACK SPEAKING FRENCH
JACK AS AN UGLY BABY
JACK JACK JACK JACK JACK
Bitty and his accent!!!
I’ll probably think of more later (and please add more!), but just - Check Please: the Animated Series!!!
Now you’ve got me curious! I don’t know if I matched the characters to the accents correctly, so please forgive me. I googled some accent videos just for the ones in your tags (might not all be accurate because there can be multiple accents in one state/province), and I deduced that the Haus soundscape is CHAOTIC
Jack (Montreal) - if he is a native French speaker over English (sorry I could only find a woman)
Jack (Montreal) - if he is a native English speaker over French (though this voice is WAAAAY deeper than I imagine for him)
Bitty (Georgia) - Jefferson is apparently pretty close to Madison, so I assume it’s similar?
Not sure which character actually? (Boston)
Dex (Maine) - complete with lobsters!
Holster/Nursey (New York)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwny52Ncatk
Some of these still could be wrong, and to be fair, a lot of regional accents are dying out/faded especially when it comes to younger generations. But, in conclusion, the accents that may be bouncing off each other in the Haus are C H A O T I C
Check Please Should Be An Animated Series
Honestly, with the fact that there are so many animated series now that a) have an older audience following and b) have an LGBT audience following, this is kind of the perfect series to adapt!
Just imagine:
Ransom and Holster have an actual theme song for “Hockey Shit with Random and Holster”! I can picture exactly how it sounds in my head, and Jack’s still the only one who can hear it
Not enough material for a full season? ANIMATE BITTY’S TWEETS/THE EXTRAS!!!
Wait, ANIMATE ASK A WELLIE! Make it another segment like “Hockey Shit”!
Also we could totally include the ghosts haunting Ransom, poor guy
John Johnson the existential goalie 110% has all of his dialogue appear in a speech bubble as he talks (though we don’t see him), but the words are Star Wars intro style
Also I just want Ollie and Wicks randomly appearing throughout the series and commenting on things
IMAGINE HEARING JACK’S VOICE WITH A FRENCH CANADIAN ACCENT
JACK SPEAKING FRENCH
JACK AS AN UGLY BABY
JACK JACK JACK JACK JACK
Bitty and his accent!!!
I’ll probably think of more later (and please add more!), but just - Check Please: the Animated Series!!!
AH!!! I THINK IT’S TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!
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a signed copy of CHECK, PLEASE!: STICKS AND SCONES
a Samwell University mini-pennant
a falcs keychain & falcs enamel pin
And one winner will receive a signed copy of CHECK, PLEASE!: STICKS AND SCONES!
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Check, Please! follows Eric Bittle, a former figure skater who joins his college’s ice hockey team. It’s a queer romance, coming-of-age story, and has fun found family vibes! Read on checkpleasecomic.com or over at @omgcheckplease.
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He said Kissy. That is so sweet. Hahahah
Ransom/Holster, anyone?
Need me one
DON’T YOU JUST LOVE HOW MANY AU’S SHE BLESSES US WITH?? WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE HER??
being Southern at Samwell probably gets lonely
I grew up the child of progressive Northern parents in the American South. In high school, I distanced myself from/protested the homophobic constitutional amendments and gun culture and Confederate flags and Christian supremacy all around me. But my image of the South’s complexity, and my understanding and respect for where I grew up even with all its flaws, has grown as I’ve lived in other countries and regions. I keep coming back to my home state. So naturally I’ve started thinking of how Bitty handles his white Southern identity.
We know most students at Samwell would never dream of teasing Bitty for being gay or for how he presents his gender. We know Bitty adores Samwell and is super secure in loving his Mama Bittle and making jokes about culture clashes. But I’m wondering if sometimes Bitty gets this wave of feeling really different from the people around him. There’s so much stereotyping of Southerners as dumb, and poor, and bigoted, of white Southerners as all completely racist (as way more racist than white Northerners). Bitty’s accent is not exactly prestigious, even though fandom and Bitty’s friends think it’s charming. And Bitty’s grown up around people who fit those stereotypes, has been locked into closets and misunderstood by those people! But not everybody he knows is like that, and some of those who are are still his family, you know?
Headcanons:
Bitty getting tired of how basic aspects of his family’s traditions and his high school’s culture seem baffling and weird to everybody else.
Bitty’s teammates thinking they’re chirping him good-naturedly, but saying something that actually kinda stings. / Bitty making a joke that falls totally flat and tweeting about it (has this happened in canon?).
Bitty learns Québécois history and bonds with Jack over being seen as the hicks of their respective countries. (Then he gets good enough at French and they play “Speak White” by Michèle Lalonde in one of his classes, and it suddenly hits him how he’s been watching his own language presentation in internship interviews.)
It turns out Bitty knows more about the Civil Rights Movement than Jack does, just from stories and state history lessons - but every now and then Bitty tells a story about his high school and Jack points out how something that seemed normal was actually pretty racist, or a manifestation of structural racism.
The day Bitty gets this unfamiliar rush of defensiveness when someone makes a joke about redneck Trump supporters–even though he would totally have said the same thing with friends back home! It’s weird! Bitty talks with his parents about it that week and it turns into a really good, nuanced conversation about politics.
I know, right? I have a feeling it’s about Kent, too. And with an OC.
O My Favorite Tumblr Librarian/Content Curator (which can be also read as Slash Content Curator, which would be fair), I have one of those brain itches that will. not. leave. and I wonder if it rings a bell for you? I have a memory of reading a fic, I think Check, Please!, in which a male character who is a closeted famous person does something public with the guy he's dating, like a kiss. And there is a meme that's like "This is how you ally, right?" about him. I've searched for 2 hours...o_O
Yyyyyes, I think I’ve read that, although I can’t remember if it’s a Jack/Bitty or a Kent/OMC, or Kent in a Jack/Bitty, or …?
Somebody’s bound to remember, though!
I’m a proud member of the bitty is cute without a tooth club shitty come at me bro
Fuck all romance except for what that canada hockey guy and that boy who makes pies had going on
A lot of reposting
Today I will arbitrarily reblog posts related to Check Please. Why? Because despite the fact that I’ve never once posted about it I will gladly spend a day looking for and loving posts about my favorite group of hockey playing, frat boys.
Check Please as a secret Supernatural hunters AU
A while ago I had the idea of a group of amicable bros who hunt supernatural stuff for fun, protection, advancement of human knowledge and then eat and Denny’s after or something. The actual story involved some farm boy asking for their help regarding a werewolf and him becoming close friends with them. This never fully panned out (just one of those story ideas you get in a burst of creativity and than have a hard time fleshing out) but I realized I basically imagined the supernatural group as the cast of Check Please. So I figure why not make some related head-canons (good god why was this opening so long).
•So basically a lot of supernatural crap happens in Samwell Massachusetts (it is New England after all), so many groups have been formed in the past, but most couldn’t quite work together well or were just friends who knew jack about beasts and magic.
• That is until we get a perfect combination to start a paranormal investigation business: a metaphysical and superstitious jock type guy, a foul mouthed Bostonian who doesn’t know a whole lot of supernatural stuff but who’s loyal to a daily and will literally do anything, and a stoic yet caring French Canadian who has that classic “legacy of monster hunters” (like in this AU Bad Bob killed vampires) and a prolific Journal.
• So anyway say Shitty and Johnson are already friends and say a witch or something is really messing with their lives. They try to deal with it themselves but they bite off more than they can chew and almost die, that is until mysterious Jack Zimmerman shows up out of nowhere and pulls some cool supernatural stuff to get the witch, but it doesn’t quite work.
•Shitty and Johnson thank Jack (Johnson probably says some crap about how the story can finally start getting good), but Jack is all angry and stoic cuz this is Year 1 Jack mixed with your typical “monster Hunter who probably has a super sad backstory involving his parents and monsters” so yeah things are slow at first but Shitty and Johnson insist on working with him since the Witch was really pissing them off (and Johnson needs this AU to go somewhere).
•cue an epic series where the three of them work together to hunt down the witch and all bond over random crap, and Jack opens up about his tragic backstory a little bit, and there’s world building regarding how they hunt monsters. Eventually they track the witch down to some crazy looking house and after an epic and very emotional battle they banish her using the same thing Jack tried earlier but it works cuz it’s with all three of them since teamworks cures all. After that they decide that they should do this more often and decide to make the old, decrepit house into an old decrepit Haus.
That’s all I got, I know it’s painfully unoriginal but I had a lot of fun and like the AU (who knows maybe I may actually write it someday). And then I can make sequels that bring in Ransom, Holster, Lardo, Bitty, Olly and Wicky, the Frogs, the Tadpoles, Waffles, Tater probably, and Kent Parson cuz of course he’s involved somehow.
CheckPleaseTV
I know this was freaking months ago but I don’t care!!!!
I need a Check Please show in my life, it could be live action or animated I really don’t care (although animation generally has more merits). I need to see Bitty’s vlogs, Hockey Shit with Ransom and Holster, a more fleshed out Samwell, random plot lines featuring random side characters, a Halloween special every year so we can see Jenny and Mandy (and also Shitty’s Year 1 Wrecking Ball costume), I need Halo to bookend Year 2, I need the Falconers in my life ALL OF THEM: Marty and Thirdy being hot as heck (Suzanne I totally get it), Snowy always being injured, Tater being Tater, George being the coolest, Poots being hilariously inept, and just Guy. I need the Waffles, I need Ford, I need to see the 2013-2017 college era be represented despite being too young to appreciate it, I need the show to have tons of funny in jokes only the people who religiously read the tweets and extras would know, I need Johnson, I just need more out of this beautiful offshoot of the Hockey obsession gained by a fan girl who just graduated college and wrote a “dark” screenplay about some gay dude named Hardy.
Ye I don’t know where this was going either.
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday, to our favorite chill poet who can’t safely walk down a flight of stairs.
Check Please is on Webtoons
I haven’t really read Webtoons, but Check Please is one of my favorite things ever, and Ngozi is making new notes to the comics and I’ll take Ngozi talking about Check Please tidbits any day. Also it might expand the audience and could make the show more of a reality. Or at least get more people to recognize my Samwell Hockey shirt.
Literally the entire time that was all I thought about.
Inside Out 2 is if Pixar made an AU about Jack.
I know, it’s so devastating to think about, like that was probably Jack throughout all of Juniors, the draft, his first few years at Samwell, even during the finals.
Inside Out 2 is if Pixar made an AU about Jack.