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Comic 4.9: Whiskey ✨ checkpleasecomic.com ✨ 

Imagine if you will:

Bitty’s post-kiss conversation with his parents goes better than he’d feared, though they need some time to adjust to the triple surprise of “our son is gay,” “our son is dating a rising NHL star,” AND “we learned about it on national tv.”

Yet the next time Jack’s in Madison, he and Bitty can’t help but notice that Coach’s behavior toward him has… cooled. He’s not overtly rude or dismissive, but the effusive welcome of Jack’s first visit is nowhere to be found. It hurts, knowing that Coach’s regard was conditional.

Jack tells Bitty it’s no big deal, but Bitty sees right through that, like always. He’s not up to confronting Coach directly, but he hauls Jack into the kitchen while Suzanne’s making dinner and demands to know what the heck Coach’s problem is.

Suzanne laughs and says, “Of course he’s standoffish. Oh, it was all well and good when we thought Jack was just your friend, Dicky. Now that we know he’s your boyfriend, your daddy can’t be too nice ‘til he’s sure Jack’s good enough for you.”

Bitty’s appalled. Given Jack’s challenging relationship with his own dad and the endless criticism of sports journalists, what a blow it must be to hear that his boyfriend’s father doesn’t think he’s “good enough” (to say nothing of the fact that he should be the judge of that, not Coach, thank you very much).

But, no, Jack is over the moon. Because finally, after almost two decades of being judged on something he has no control over—the fact that he’s not Bob—someone is judging him by a standard he actually has a say in. I mean, obviously he’s also terrified, because he’s not always sure he’s good enough for Bitty, either, but he gets this. He’s got this.

anyway i still think that coach is going to handle bitty’s coming out better than suzanne is and help suzanne come to grips with it and then in typical dad fashion tell bitty he loves him v gruffly and in a v roundabout way lmao

like this? 

YES

Bitty and Suzanne have stuff to work through but it’s not because he’s gay but because he has really broken their relationship.

ok uh here’s the thing. bitty hasn’t ‘really broken their relationship.’ like, ik what you’re saying here, but it’s really not that great to put the blame for this completely on bitty, when in the comic he did not feel safe or comfortable coming out to his mother. and it might not necessarily be suzanne’s fault at all, but bitty’s absolute terror re: coming out to his parents doesn’t mean that this is because of him

he grew up in the south (which is like openly homophobic), it’s understandable that even if suzanne hadn’t done anything to make him think she was homophobic bitty wouldn’t necessarily feel safe coming out to her. this isn’t bitty ‘breaking the relationship’ it’s a canonically gay character being scared to come out to his parents and then them finding out

i agree with you that bitty and suzanne are going to need to work things out and i’m 100% sure that she still loves her son dearly and would do anything for him. all i’m saying is that suzanne is definitely going to be more affected by this bc she was closer to bitty vs coach.

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We don’t have a clear reason why he didn’t come out to his mother. Just because he doesn’t want to come out doesn’t necessarily mean he doesn’t feel safe. Coming out is complex. In Simon Vs./ Love, Simon, his hesitancy to come out wasn’t because he didn’t feel safe, he was supremely loved and supported, but it was a new thing, a pretty huge new thing, and it was daunting.

South = homophobic, that’s a pretty broad brush you’re painting with there. Yeah Bitty undoubtedly dealt with homophobia, but that doesn’t automatically connote that his parents are homophobes or bigots and as far as I’ve seen in the comic, his parents haven’t said or done anything to imply that.

Bitty hurt his mom. A lot. He never gave her a chance. And now he’s kissing his boyfriend after the Stanley Cup, hugging Alicia, ignoring his mom’s calls. That would be like jamming a knife in her heart and then twisting it.

Right before this, he didn’t tell his mom that he wasn’t coming home for summer until the last minute. This was his last summer before graduation and she must have been looking forward to it and treasuring it and he just *shrug* “gonna live with a friend instead mom”. Pretty dickish.

Being afraid to come out doesn’t absolve Bitty of the collateral damage he’s done and Suzanne doesn’t deserve to be thrown under the bus like she’s some bigoted homophobe. She’s a mom who is close to her son and doesn’t understand why he’s pulling away and he didn’t give her a chance.

I don’t mind that Bitty is doing some pretty awful hurtful things. It’s good story telling and makes him real. He’s got stuff to fix. That’s okay.

okay this is. wow.

anyway i still think that coach is going to handle bitty’s coming out better than suzanne is and help suzanne come to grips with it and then in typical dad fashion tell bitty he loves him v gruffly and in a v roundabout way lmao

like this? 

YES

Bitty and Suzanne have stuff to work through but it’s not because he’s gay but because he has really broken their relationship.

ok uh here’s the thing. bitty hasn’t ‘really broken their relationship.’ like, ik what you’re saying here, but it’s really not that great to put the blame for this completely on bitty, when in the comic he did not feel safe or comfortable coming out to his mother. and it might not necessarily be suzanne’s fault at all, but bitty’s absolute terror re: coming out to his parents doesn’t mean that this is because of him

he grew up in the south (which is like openly homophobic), it’s understandable that even if suzanne hadn’t done anything to make him think she was homophobic bitty wouldn’t necessarily feel safe coming out to her. this isn’t bitty ‘breaking the relationship’ it’s a canonically gay character being scared to come out to his parents and then them finding out

i agree with you that bitty and suzanne are going to need to work things out and i’m 100% sure that she still loves her son dearly and would do anything for him. all i’m saying is that suzanne is definitely going to be more affected by this bc she was closer to bitty vs coach.

anyway i still think that coach is going to handle bitty’s coming out better than suzanne is and help suzanne come to grips with it and then in typical dad fashion tell bitty he loves him v gruffly and in a v roundabout way lmao

like this? 

YES

y’all: Bitty pressured Jack into kissing him, Jack didn’t actually want to come out, blah blah, Bitty sucks and is an evil pie seducer who ruined his boyfriend’s career aka his life, blah blah

Jack Laurent Zimmermann himself: 

is cp ever gonna update again or….?

She doesn’t even update about cp in the patreon blog,, it’s all the softball/superhero stuff

I’m well on my way to not caring anymore

Ngozi just needs more time. I’m sure she’ll update soon. Have faith, y’all.

see here’s the thing i’m like fine if she takes a while to update god knows i would never demand that a content creator make things bc i understand that people have schedules and things come up but also like. i would love any sort of communication about it lol like if she couldn’t update until october i literally wouldn’t care as long as she was like ‘hey guys shit happened i can’t update until october’ like honestly i don’t even need a reason i just need some sort of idea of when it’s going to happen??

One of the things I enjoy the most about Check, Please! is the fandom. Every other fandom I’ve been a part of (be it Supernatural, MCU, etc.) has been highly toxic and I didn’t feel like I could talk to other people for fear of being yelled at about the discourse of the day.

But the Check, Please! fandom is so kind and welcoming and approachable and creative! It’s so refreshing! Each and every person in this wonderful fandom is incredible and I appreciate the hell out of all of you.

LMAO I fear this post isn’t going to age well