Comic 4.9: Whiskey ✨ checkpleasecomic.com ✨ 

god i’m so excited to see holster and ransom and shitty and lardo again w the exception of jackbits i only care about those four in this comic anymore lmao

haven’t been here in years but is n*rseydex finally done. are we finished

wheres the plot tho

well that was a lot of nothing

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.

okay this is. wow.

first off, my original post wasn’t talking about bitty coming out it was talking about how differently coach and suzanne are going to react to learning that bitty had kept something from them. 

secondly, bitty had a /panic attack/ when he tried coming out to his mother recently. he might not feel unsafe, but he is 10000% not comfortable with the concept of coming out, and that’s okay. i could have members of my family tell me to my FACE that they aren’t homophobic and i still wouldn’t want to come out to them because i know it would change our relationship. but no go ahead and tell me, a  bi person, more about how coming out is complex. 

bitty is from a small town in southern georgia. saying the south is more likely to be homophobic and racist is not “painting it with a broad brush” or whatever the shit its just reality? im not saying the /entire/ south is homophobic. also i literally am not throwing suzanne under the bus at all and i literally said that i didn’t think she was homophobic? i love suzanne. she’s a fantastic mom if a little overbearing. coach might be distant but nowhere ever did i say that his family wasn’t supportive of him, or wouldn’t be supportive of him coming out. that’s not the point

“he never gave her a chance” ... again, he almost came out to her and then panicked before he could. there’s a reason, logical or not, behind why he didn’t want to come out to suzanne. also, someone doesn’t deserve your coming out. you don’t owe it to another person to come out to them. suzanne from what we see has been nothing but supportive of her son but that doesn’t = bitty being forced/expected to tell her that he’s gay. 

the summer thing is a stupid argument i’m sorry but bitty is a senior in college he doesn’t owe his parents staying at home? i only went home for the summer one time when i was at school. it’s fine if suzanne is hurt by that but bitty isn’t being a dick by not going home during the summer. hes 20/21 years old, he’s an adult who can make his own decisions. her seeing him hug the parents of his boyfriend who were literally at the game because their son is on the team shouldn’t be that big of a deal, and it probably isn’t to her. 

i’m not saying suzanne’s feelings are invalid. but when you’re an lgbtq+ person, you simply don’t know how the people around you are going to react if you come out, even if they aren’t homophobic. it’s ok for suzanne to feel upset that bitty didn’t come out to her, but that doesn’t automatically mean that bitty needs to apologize for it or feel bad that he didnt. you wanted to use love simon as an example, ok, lets. “coming out was supposed to be my thing” => suzanne is not entitled to have a personal moment when bitty came out to her. bitty came out his way and he doesn’t need to apologize for that? 

im not saying it’s all suzanne’s fault. im not saying it’s all bitty’s fault. reducing it to a “its his fault or her fault!” storyline is incredibly reductive and doesn’t do justice to the storyline. its a complicated situation that they are going to need to work through because there are individual issues on both sides that need to be worked out

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

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

YES

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

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

.............. wait that’s it???

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: 

N said on Twitter that year 4 is starting Monday!!!!!!!!

yeah i just saw the post! im p excited, idk i still like check please but its really hard for me to continue being engaged in something that doesn’t have consistent content rip

n: HEY HERES ALL THESE KICKSTARTERS AND STUFF ABOUT YEAR THREE AND NO NEWS ABOUT YEAR FOUR BUT ALSO BUY ALL THIS STUFF

me, broke and tired: can i get a year 4 update? can i PLEASE get a year 4 update?

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??

is cp ever gonna update again or….?

is cp ever gonna update again or....?

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