1 - 20 of 305 Bookmarks by FriendlyLoner
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS, Eric types furiously into Twitter. THIS IS LIKE RENAMING LAKE WOEBEGONE “LAKE SCOTT WALKER.” // Or, the only person in the entirety of Canada who is upset about Jack Zimmermann’s first Stanley Cup is Eric Bittle, and by God is every single one of Eric’s 160,000 Twitter followers going to hear about it.
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
20 Feb 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Jack and Eric have done nothing but talk since graduation--and now that they're finally alone together in Madison, it turns out there's more talking left to do. Being able to touch makes it easier.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,129
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 55
- Kudos:
- 577
- Bookmarks:
- 70
- Hits:
- 5,520
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
03 Dec 2025
-
Tags
Summary
"Dude, we've got an over-competitive golf dad, a badass art freak, a pre-med lax bro on the verge of a breakdown, a chronically naked rugby player, a beat-boxing giant, and an itty-bitty, baking figure skater - there's no way we came together accidentally. This was fate."
"Or it's the normal progression of human beings making friends. Chill out, bro."
(Or, the one where no one plays hockey, but it still manages to bring them all together.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 36,946
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 521
- Kudos:
- 3,022
- Bookmarks:
- 664
- Hits:
- 29,451
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
29 Oct 2025
-
Tags
Summary
To prepare for his Intro to French course next fall, Bitty's been practicing by texting Jack, and he makes the Number One Most Common French Mistake for Beginners. Je suis excité does not mean what you think it means, Eric Bittle...
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
26 Oct 2025
-
Tags
Summary
An (ongoing) collection of Check, Please! ficlets and drabbles. Mostly centered around Bitty/Jack. Rating liable to change!
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
28 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Jack finds Bitty and takes a chance and kisses Bitty. And we all screamed. But What if Jack didn't leave, but took Bitty back to the hotel, and back to his room.
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
21 Sep 2025
-
one step, not much (but it said enough) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
29 Feb 2016
Tags
Summary
Turns out, it doesn't take an earthquake to shift the ground beneath you; sometimes all it takes is a couple of small, easy movements, the kind that don't seem all that significant while they're happening. It's not until after, when you look back and see how far you've come.
~
Eric Bittle, the day after the kiss.
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
21 Sep 2025
-
Summary
Shitty and Lardo are overly-invested and creative friends.
Jack and Bitty are just trying to figure out what's in the box.- Words:
- 110,193
- Works:
- 37
- Bookmarks:
- 149
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
18 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Dropping gloves when your bro gets hit.
Carrying your bro's bag for them.
Letting your bro wear your clothes.
Tucking your bro into your bed.
Watching over your bro while he sleeps.#justbrothings
----
A missing scene fic for the night after Bitty gets checked during the playoffs, because even the mother hen of the group needs to be looked after sometimes.
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
15 Sep 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Bitty finds a photo booth strip and almost doesn't recognize Jack because he's not sure he's ever seen him grin off-ice before, and his hair is so long it curls around his ears, and he's so, so young. It takes Bitty a few long seconds to realize the boy he's kissing is Kent Parson, with the same backwards cap and everything.
[alternate path to "touchy subject", objectively worse]
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
30 Aug 2025
-
Five First Dates by bossyicynerd (Sparcck), Sparcck for JezebelGoldstone
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
24 Dec 2016
Tags
Summary
"How was your date," Jack asks, filling a glass with tap water ("Jack, we have a Britta, gross.")
Eric rolls his eyes. "Fine, if you like listening to hour long spiels about World War II." He realizes what he's said. "Which I do," he adds hurriedly.
Jack raises his eyebrows over his glass as he takes a pull and Eric's face heats.
"I mean. Platonically. Or on a date. If you like that. History, I mean." Any day now he'll stop talking and when that day comes he'll also murder Ransom and Holster in their sleep.
Five dates other people set up for Bitty and one Bitty set up for himself.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,751
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 68
- Kudos:
- 1,388
- Bookmarks:
- 189
- Hits:
- 9,158
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
04 May 2025
-
Tags
Summary
It makes sense, his mother tells him when he's nine: Jack's such a physical person, of course his indicator would be his soulmate's pain. Jack doesn't have anything to say about it, really, he just scowls and winces as his soulmate falls down again. Alicia Zimmermann, whose heterochromia reversed itself upon laying eyes on Bob for the first time, because she’s more passionate about visual media, pats him on the shoulder with a completely insufficient amount of sympathy. Jack's backside is sore for months as the falls keep happening, and he can only think that somewhere, his soulmate must be learning how to skate.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,782
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 145
- Kudos:
- 3,798
- Bookmarks:
- 583
- Hits:
- 21,997
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
19 Apr 2025
-
Mister Hockey and the boy crying in the kitchen by Wheel_of_fortune
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
03 Jul 2017
Tags
Summary
‘Yes, you are lovely, a bit old, but I would love you, and take care of you, and create glorious things with you, oh sweetheart, if only…’
The guy was not talking to Jack. He was talking to the oven.
He was also, apparently, completely drunk.
--
AU where Bitty is a figure skater at Samwell and Jack meets him for the first time at Epikegster.Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
05 Mar 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Major life events can change your mark, that’s what they say. “Bends in the road of life,” Bitty’s Mama tells him. “It means you have control over your own future,” is Jack’s father’s take.
Jack doesn’t think about his mark until it changes when Bitty goes down hard on the ice. Bitty can’t remember who any of them are and Jack’s mark now reads, "Who is he?"
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
10 Jan 2025
-
like a little clock that trembles on the edge of the hour by sajee for missfoot
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
06 Feb 2016
Tags
Summary
The Falconers play on February 14.
It is genuinely the only weekend Bitty can make it to town.
Vanner jumps off his bike, pats Jack on the shoulder. “Of course, Zimms. Just one of those coincidental things. No deeper meaning at all.”
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 4,439
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 43
- Kudos:
- 1,216
- Bookmarks:
- 145
- Hits:
- 8,725
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
10 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Bitty’s whole body is trembling slightly. He thinks he’s managed to hide the worst of it, though, and he pulls up a determined expression. The same one he would if this were checking practice. He pulls up the same tone of voice he’d use then as well. “Kiss me again.”
(In which Bitty is nervous about physical intimacy, and is way too hard on himself about it.)
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
07 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
A late season loss has Jack feeling down.
Nothing a little one on one time with his favorite Samwell sophomore can't fix.
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
07 Jan 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Five times Jack and Bitty aren't caught and the one time they make an announcement.
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
31 Dec 2024
-
Tags
Summary
If you could do it all again, would you change anything? (The time travel fic no one asked for.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,687
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 436
- Kudos:
- 2,024
- Bookmarks:
- 398
- Hits:
- 14,786
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
07 Dec 2024
-
The Proud and the Prejudiced by Potrix for topieornottopie
Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)
04 Jul 2017
Tags
Summary
“Don’t ruin pretty face,” a familiar, accented voice drawls. “It's only thing you have going for you.”
“Fuck off, Mashkov,” Kent barks back automatically before he stills, and then slowly turns around to face the other man. “Mashkov? What the fuck are you doing here?”
Kent has annoying but well-meaning friends, a lot of (internalized) issues, and a
mildpretty bad swearing problem. But he gets to kiss a hot guy at Pride, so there's that.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,107
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 93
- Kudos:
- 1,369
- Bookmarks:
- 151
- Hits:
- 9,727
Bookmarked by FriendlyLoner
09 Nov 2024