In the 7 months that I’ve been making Check,Please!, I never thought that there would be 1,000 people (or specifically 1,150. Er.) who would actually care about the lives and problems and friendships of five fictional, completely weird hockey players. (Guys, they are really so weird. Canada-hockey-royalty, pie-baking-Georgian, soul-bound best friends, mustachioed stoner weird.) But here we are, about to start the second month of 2014 and there’s a tiny corner of the Internet—who am I kidding—of Tumblr, that cares.

Thanks, you guys! It means everything.

…and holy shit 7 months that’s almost a full baby amount of time.