A message from limonmelon

wait can we talk about Jack's former long hair as evidenced by his old ID photo?

Jack back in the Q.

He presumably got a haircut before The-Draft-That-Didn’t-Happen, but after that, during his time away from hockey (presumably coaching a peewee hockey team) he let it grow and didn’t really get a haircut until after his Samwell Photo ID was taken:

A message from weve-never-been-alive

Okay, I got this idea at like 5AM and it's kept me awake so it needs to be down so my mind can calm it. Was Jack one of those chubby kids that didn't get hot until after high school and that's why he's still awkward? Because he's trying to figure out how to be hot!Jack and not awkward shy fat!Jack and it's not really working. (Soz Jack. I love you.)

Jack Zimmermann was one of those chubby kids but then puberty hit him like a brick wall and then EVERYONE GOT REALLY CONFUSED. 

Jack’s dad was a professional hockey player and Jack’s mom was an actress/model. (More on this later!)  So when Jack came out of the womb and looked...well...

...awkward people were genuinely worried. 

But then he got his dad’s ass and his mother’s cheekbones and the entire nation of Canada breathed a sigh of relief.

A message from smallnico

ive been wondering bc im not sure if it's obvious or not but i've been wondering where samwell is supposed to be :0 like i figured it's a fictional place (or is it??) but is it in canada or north usa or have you not really thought about it? :> this ask is a mess so i'll end it now i hope you're having a lovely day

Hey! The about page has Samwell University located in Samwell Massachusetts, USA! 

But here’s a map for reference:

A message from rhymeswithazalea

I've been playing hockey for years and Check Please literally nails the entire game and its culture. How do you write it all so accurately if you've never played? I also play goalie and would love to see a main character between the pipes!

Not only have I never played, I skate like a newborn giraffe and have literally held a hockey stick in my hand once!

And I’m from Texas.

I’ll probably do a FAQ/write-up on the creation of Check,Please!, but long story short, I did 3-months of hockey research my senior year of college in order to write my first screenplay Hardy, a story about a really butch hockey player named Chris Einhardt who falls for his best friend and former teammate. It has intellectual gems like:

MALKOV

…Yeah. Not really. But I mean, everyone has like fucking random thoughts. Okay, say you have like a million thoughts in a year, so maybe like 400 thousand are about girls and stuff, and maybe 400 thousand are about hockey, and maybe 1 of them has to be randomly about a guy. Completely randomly. But that thought may not even be a full thought anyway. And you don’t act on that, because, hey. That’s pretty fucking gay. But there’s a line. Now, gay guys—your friend? Shit. Like 500, 600 thousand thoughts a year about cocks and stuff.

HARDY

Six hundred thousand.

MALKOV

Ehhh, give or take a cock.

HARDY

Okay.

For the writing of that screenplay I interviewed hockey players at Yale (one of whom plays in the AHL!) and roommates of hockey players, talked to the hockey beat reporter for the newspaper, interviewed girls who dated hockey players, watched every single of documentary about hockey ever, checked out books from the library about hockey, hit up JSTOR for scholarly articles on hockey culture, watched Miracle/Goon/Slapshot and took notes during hockey games.

Believe you me, I was paranoid about stepping into this completely foreign culture and making some horrible faux pas. But the upside of the excessive research is that I had all this leftover hockey know-how when I completed the screenplay…

which I used to create Check, Please!

A message from imma-oxymoron

Why'd you add the bunny on his bed in the two most recent comics in his room?

Aw naw son Señor Bunny makes a few cameos—like Comic 8 for example.

He also starts appearing after Bitty finishes unpacking in Comic 2…and then goes into hibernation to reemerge in the spring. I don’t know what Bitty’s going to do about SB once he moves into the Haus. It’s in serious danger of Ransom and Holster taking selfies with it???

A message from e-staffs

Hey there! Question for ya: what would Bitty do when the World Cup is on, but there are also desserts for the 4th of July to be made? I might have just been looking up how to make mini cherry pies all dressed in red, white, and blue, instead of watching the game... Just thought you might appreciate that(would the other guys get into the World Cup as well?).

I think he gave up on World Cup desserts, unfortunately:

Y’all, I wanna make some #worldcup themed cookies, but no one in my neck of the woods has got that World Cup Fever. :(

— Eric Bittle (@omgcheckplease) June 19, 2014

Oh! I’ll make some & ship ‘em up to Ransom & Holster. I wonder if Jack’s too busy with training camp…I wonder if Jack even likes cookies.

— Eric Bittle (@omgcheckplease) June 19, 2014

And according to Bitty, the Boys do in fact have World Cup fever:

Rans & Holster keep texting me about the #WorldCup2014. Y’all—I’m barely watching US games, why do you think I’m watching Mexico v.Croatia?

— Eric Bittle (@omgcheckplease) June 23, 2014

But yes. Eric Bittle has a twitter account! (•Ì€á´—•Ì)Ùˆ Ì‘Ì‘

A message from phaserburn

Were you aware your comic has a Tv Tropes page? And that it needs a lot of love? :D

Yes! ;_; It needs so much love!

The only entry is the following:

Porn Stache: Shitty. [3]

Which I mean. Is all you really NEED.

A message from kheradihr

I just want you to know that I may've had an aneurism laughing at "- When is Jack going to kiss Bitty and when is Bitty going to get to touch Jack’s butt? Yes."

How much will Jack and Bitty? Everywhere. 

Where will they? Soooo much!

Will Bitty put a pie on it? Soooo much!!!

A message from jawpopping

"in the south we don’t say “you’re a dumb fuck” we say “bless your heart” and i think that’s beautiful. the more mind-obliteratingly stupid we find you, the more descriptive we get. “bless your precious, sweet, mama-loving heart” means we’re not 100% certain how you possess enough intelligence to draw breath." is this a thing bitty does?

Walking out of Faber, Bitty sighed as he scrolled through his phone and clucked his tongue. “Well well well—Kelly Rowland’s in the news again. Oh Lord, honey, that hair.”

Bitty was used to Jack tuning out most of his pop-culture related comments, but for some bizarre reason Jack instead looked back over his shoulder and frowned.

“Kelly Rowland?” asked Jack before looking at Shitty. “Oh, wow. Doesn’t she sit next to you in our history section, Shits?”

Looking up from his phone, Shitty gave Jack his gentlest Jesus-Christ-Jack-your-embarrassingly-culturally-inept-white-dudeness-is-showing-again look.

“Um yeah, brah, I’m pretty sure I would know if Kelly fucking Rowland sat next to me in section. You’re thinking of Kelly Reynolds.”

"Oh. Jack. Bless your heart,” said Bitty. And before he could catch himself: “And lemme guess—Beyoncé is your econ professor?”

"I don’t…What does Beyoncé have to do with Kelly Rowland?” asked Jack.

Bitty made eye contact with Shitty before returning to his phone and muttering, “Bless your darling home-grown hockey-playing Canadian heart.”

A message from paxpinnae

So, does Shitty by any chance have a much-more-talented older sister who plays for Team USA?

Knight Siblings AU. That one time Hilary Knight went to visit her little brother at Samwell and spent the entire time getting dragged around the Haus with Shitty introducing her to everyone:

“Oh, shit, Hils, this is Ransom and Holster, the best defensive duo in the ECAC; Rans, Holtzy—this is my sister and Olympic medalist and internationally ranked hockey player, Hils. (She has two medals.) (Two.) Oh, oh, and this is Bitty! HEY. Bitty! Fucking come and say hi to my sister, Hilary! (You’ll love, Bitty, he’s the tits, he like, generates pies as a byproduct of his fucking existence; ‘swawesomest shit in the—) Bits, did I tell you about my sister?! She was at this year’s Winter Olympics? Like, Sochi? And we watched all her games? She was also at the last one. You know. On the US National hockey team. (She’s a two-time Olympic medalist.) Jack! Yo! You remember my sister, don’t you? She only brought one Olympic medal with her, but she could have brought another. Because she has two.”