the chances of a nurseydex mention on ngozi’s twitter are low but never zero

I can't believe Ngozi is reposting Check Please to Webtoons as weekly episodes. We're really gonna relive the entire comic run, revisit the complete spectrum of discourse. This is our Dracula Daily.

i'm uploading omgcp to webtoons, episode by episode

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.

ALMOST forgot to mention there's a black friday sale going on at DFTBA—it ends tomorrow! 🎄🎄🎄

Zimmermann jerseys are 10% off Samwell hockey T-shirts are 25% off Check, Please!: Years 1 - 4 are 35% off The Chirpbook is all 35% off

...A Samwell hockey t-shirt for Christmas??

page from The Chirpbook

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

It begins.

✨A DUO✨

smh finds themselves in a murder on the orient express style murder mystery but instead its on a bus on a roadie and someone ate a pie bitty brought for later. it’s dramatic as it sounds. lardo is poirot

Lardo is looking for people to draw at like. 11:23PM & Jack’s like “you could draw me?” but she’s so stressed & also borderline slaphappy and says, “break your nose so it’s interesting and then we’ll see”

fast forward 4 years & he’s in the NHL & just played a shitty chippy pushy game and got checked too hard and his phone’s blowing up when he gets off the ice but the first text he sends is a photo of his bloody nose and the words “interesting yet?”

The Goat Thing  (Part 1)

Eric gets injured right out of training camp in his second year and is on IR for a few weeks.  It isn't a big deal, it isn't something as potentially career ending like his concussion back in Samwell.  It's just you can't really play hockey that well when two of your fingers on your dominant hand are sprained.  No point in making him play injured this early in the season.  He's probably only going to be out for two weeks.  It's fine.  He's fine.  Everything is fine.  (Everything is not fine but Eric knows that's just his anxiety around hockey and his place on the team and his issues with injury talking and he's dealing.  He is.  No really Shitty, he is!)

There's a single pie in the Penguins' cafeteria counter the morning after Coach Sullivan tells him he's on IR.  The next day it's a loaf of bread, the day after that a biscuit tin of oatmeal and raisin cookies because the team nutritionist had a conversation with Eric.  Then nothing the day after because the team nutritionist had another conversation with Eric.  The day after THAT is a game day and there might have been four different pies and a container of cupcakes except the team nutritionist was waiting in the carpark when Eric arrived.