#canon jewish holster

[uncleshits]

specifically headcanons that people have been convinced/convinced themselves its actually canon

[appalamutte]

things i honest to god believed were canon at one point:

kitt purrson

holster’s knee injury

tater being younger than jack

chowder being a legacy student at samwell

jeff “swoops” troy’s entire character

things i know aren’t canon but y’all make me second guess myself:

holster being jewish

kent being the one to find jack after he overdosed

jack and kent playing for rimouski in the qmjhl

jeff “swoops” troy’s entire character

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (7-13 Apr 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 If This Is As Far As We Go (BeauRadley) - 124K, stucky no-powers AU - after a year of being phenomenal hookup buddies, bucky ends their arrangement & throws steve into a tailspin - slow burn, angsty, oblivious steve slowly realizing his true feelings, good supporting cast

😊 Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid (Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert) - cute graphic novel about art students forming a softball team to exploit a financial aid loophole

😍 Death in the Spires (KJ Charles, author; Tom Lawrence, narrator) - historical murder mystery set in 1905 Oxford - another KJC absolute banger: incredible sense of place, fantastic characters, perfectly done 'whodunnit' tension and a HIGHLY SATISFACTORY resolution. Loved every word

💖💖 +76K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

The Man, the Myth, the Legend (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: gen, 2.9K - Holster's beatboxing skills brings all the a capella groups to the Haus - a short, fun, funny, outsider POV fic

Say it louder for the people in the back (redhook) - MCU: shrinkyclinks, 14K - reread, forever fave - sometimes you just get a yearning to reread the best glory hole fic ever written

In Focus (sparklyslug) - Check Please!: zimbits, 6K - Jack's photography eye knows what's up before his conscious brain does

Entering Orbit (museaway) - Star Trek AOS: spirk, 30K - good post-AOS canon-divergent fic where Jim goes home to Iowa to escape the press & Spock joins him

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Hot Ones - Conan O'Brien

QI - series S, ep 13

Game Changer - s6, e5 {Bingoception}

Um, Actually - s9, e4

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Dawn of Justice" (s21, e14)

D20: Adventuring Party - "We're Running on 200%" (s16, e14)

Death In Paradise - s11, e4-8; s12 e0-8, s13 e0-8

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Working - How to Be Both a Critic and a Creator

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #10: Of the Reaching Green

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep10 "Of the Reaching Green"

Short Wave - How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

Consider This from NPR - Bad Omens Or The Cycle of Nature? How The Ancient World Viewed Eclipses

⭐ Armchair Expert - Anna Kendrick [Rerelease from 1/9/23]

Today, Explained - Is college still worth it?

The Sporkful - Jewish Food Is More Than Matzoh Balls

WikiHole - BEYONCÉ (with Zoë Chao, Nat Faxon and Poppy Liu)

⭐ All Songs Considered - Songs to make you laugh, with 'Weird Al' Yankovic

In Defense of Fandom - Season 2 Episode 2: Putting my theory to the test

Dinner’s on Me - Orville Peck

⭐ Switched on Pop - Chasing old sounds: Djo's "End of Beginning" with Joe Keery

⭐ 99% Invisible #577 - The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons

⭐ Vibe Check - A Special Conversation with Ada Limón

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Brown Mountain Lights

Short Wave - The Order Your Siblings Were Born in May Play a Role in Identity and Sexuality

⭐ Code Switch - How Frederick Douglass launched generations of Black and Irish solidarity

⭐ Decoder Ring - Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

⭐ Imaginary Worlds - African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #11: Promises Promises

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep11 "Promises Promises"

What Next: TBD - Does Google Suck Now?

Short Wave - What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

Code Switch - Reflecting on the legacy of O.J. Simpson

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Atlas Obscura Live: Two Places And A Lie

Dear Prudence - I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

It's Been a Minute - The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars

Endless Thread - RIP Lil Miquela

Shedunnit - You Probably Imagined It!

Armchair Expert - John Cena

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - [One Shot] A County Affair: Prologue

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Presenting Bonnie Raitt

Lowrider Oldies

Huge House Anthems

Djo

Classic Soul BBQ

A LA SALA [Khruangbin] {2024}

Presenting Khruangbin

Happy Beats

'80s One-Hit Wonders

Feel-Good Classic Rock

[doggernaut]

Holster is canonically Jewish, but in my heart of hearts I know he celebrates Festivus and forces everybody to suffer through his overly dramatic airing of grievances every single year.

[canonicallyginger]

I hate how ppl interpret Jack and Holster's relationship. They are friends and they're also both absolutely bitches to each other because they know how to push each other's buttons and they have poor restraint bc its turned into a competition (and they're both ridiculously competitive). Holster is Jack's type except he's obnoxious on purpose bc its funny. Jack is Holster's type but that doesn't matter bc Jack chirps him too much. Holster likes to think he has a thick skin, but Jack proves him wrong and he hates it. He'd do almost anything for Jack, but that's also true of all his friends (with the exception of Ransom, for whom its not an almost). He and Ransom canonically filmed Jack's ass without permission, and Jack was probably like "what is wrong with you two" and left it at that. R&H are connoisseurs of Jack x Parse fanfic, likely unaware that there was anything to that relationship for real. Jack will never let Holster live down whatever happened with Esther, but only bc Holster has moved on in every way except for this chirping. Holster can never tell if Jack is affected by his chirps bc Holster is awful at reading expressions and Jack doesn't emote as obviously as other people do. They hooked up once but both of them have forgotten abt it somehow. Holster is aware that he's Jack's type, but it doesn't matter bc they aren't friends (even though they are). Jack has never flirted with Holster on purpose and Holster would never flirt with Jack directly bc its easier to talk about his ass to other people than to admit he cares about Jack. He sometimes dreams about dating Jack and wakes up irrationally angry at him. Jack sometimes dreams about Holster but it's always competitive. One time he had a dream where they were contestants on Jeopardy, but he woke up before finding out who won and spent the whole morning smugly proud of his history knowledge and annoyed at Holster's pop culture knowledge. Jack would probably have hooked up with Holster for the first time again if he'd asked, but Holster is proud of himself for never having tried to hook up, even if he sometimes thinks about how he probably wouldn't know how Jack's body fits against his, or the texture of jack's skin, or how long Jack lasts. He dismisses these thoughts because he would remember sleeping with Jack, right? How could someone forget that? Holster once told Jack that if they were trapped in a timeloop, Jack could rely on him. Jack has no idea what the hell that means. Ransom is the only person who knows about the JackHoltz hookup. Shitty probably thought it happened more than once, but is completely wrong about when it would have been. Jack and Holster originally thought theyd bond over being jewish, but Jack speaks hebrew in a quebecois accent and Holster can't stand it. Alicia Zimmermann sometimes asks Jack about the "nice jewish boy on the team" and Jack hasn't put together that she means Holster. Holster is a better singer than Bitty but his taste in music is a lot of showtunes, and Jack doesn't understand. Jack once punched Holster in the nose by accident and Holster was low-key turned on by it. Jack didn't learn most of his teammates' first names until a couple months into his sophomore year, but Holster is the only one who knows. Holster thinks Jack should dress a little more slutty, but he's only told this to Bitty (who agreed wholeheartedly). Ever since Jack proposed to Bitty, Holster exclusively calls him Mr. Bitty bc he knows how much Jack loves tying his identity to the man he loves

[booboothedude]

shoutout to n for the lil hanukkiah in the bg for the holster pic

look at this baby jewish bro i love him

[coffee-at-annies]

Love everyone saying “no Holster is hot” in the notes of Ngozi’s post from the official omgcheckplease account saying he’s ugly but it feels a way that the author is saying that the only canonically Jewish character is supposed to be ugly.

[prepnursey]

I FORGET ITS NOT CANON TOO

this could be a good place for a serious discussion about representation in the comic and how the only canonical representation of other religions than christianity is one (1) extra that shows holster's home having a menorah and a christmas tree

but yeah IT'S WEIRD!!

i'll be reading a fic and jack will mention going to mass as a child or he'll eat pork chops or something (i am aware that not all jewish people keep kosher) and i just have to stop for a moment to blink like "i guess you're not technically wrong???"

[lardosducks]

...Is Jewish Holster canon? There's also an Xmas tree in that picture.

i mean yes there is a tree but why would there be a prominent menorah if he wasn’t even a little jewish

[zim-tits]

I know this is like,,, two years late, feel free to disregard this, but holster is canonically Jewish, and golems are a Jew thing... golem holster....

I KNOW I ALMOST DID GOLEM HOLS FOR MY MONSTER AU but I couldn't get it to look right and the pumpkinhead was already there. Somewhere in the bowels of this blog is an old sketch of golem holster where he accidentally washes off his aleph in the shower

[biandnotreadytotry]

I know it’s been like 3 months since the series finale, but dammit I commited to this fic so I’m gonna finish it.  This is the only thing keeping me sane in the midst of this permanent hiatus.  The premise is simple, Canon Tyrus moments from the POV of TJ(well mostly canon, obviously I had to fill in some blanks).  It’s been so fun digging into his pysche, and I’m so excited I finally got to the Shiva/Challah chapter.  I present to you a boy, his adventures in making homemade Challah, and some protective friends.  Enjoy!

Cy: I'm not okay.

The text had been random, sent in shortly before bedtime on Thursday.  It immediately set me on edge.  I nearly sat up in my bed as I read it.

TJ: What's going on??

Cy: My Bubbe just passed away  😭😭😭

He always talked about his grandma.  This old woman seemingly full of stories and adventures, and honestly—it sounded like—a shock that she survived as long as she did.

Evidently her time actually had been numbered.  I was deeply sorry for Cyrus and his family.

I was lucky not to really know death.  I mean, my grandparents on my mom's side had passed, but I never really knew them so I didn't know any better.  I can't even begin to imagine what Cyrus and his family were going through.  I didn't even know what to do, or what to say.

TJ: Oh no, Cy, I’m so so sorry! Is there anything I can do for you?

Cy: Well, we’re having a Minyan in a couple days.  It’s like a memorial.  At my mom’s house  It would mean a lot if you came.

TJ: Of course, I’ll try to be there

Of course that was my ‘cool’ and 'collected' answer, that I’d try to be there.

The truth was, it was the morning of the Minyan now, a Saturday, and I'd somehow roped Billie into driving me around town for the past hour.

And here I was, searching on my phone desperately for every grocery store within a 30 mile radius, while I fielded texts from my teammates.

I guess I was thankful that I had finally started to make genuine friendships with my other teammates—a side effect of actually speaking to them—and I was equally thankful they actively attempted to involve me in their pick up games.  Things were looking up, things were going to be okay.  And for that, I was happy that things were starting to feel normal again.

But my formerly made plans to play pickup basketball with them every Saturday afternoon until the end of time would have to wait, because it would mean a lot if I came.

Of course, I couldn't think of a good lie, and I couldn't just not show up— because pickup basketball was a sacred art, especially when it involved 2v2—so instead of saying the truth I decided to come up with an elaborate lie that involved being grounded.

I'd feel bad about making their game uneven later.

“This kid always gets you in a mood,” Billie chuckled as we stopped at what felt like the 50th bakery in Shadyside.  After an hour of this, she was clearly done with me; but I think she so genuinely enjoyed seeing me so riled up, that she went along with it just to see how long it would take me to crack.

“Why don’t they have Challah?!” I groaned as I stomped back to her car.  I was honestly getting so frustrated.  Why did it have to be Challah that I chose?  Why couldn't I just go with a different bread?  Or a different food?  And why didn't they sell it anywhere?

“Maybe because it’s a Jewish bread." Billie chuckled, laughing even harder as my eyes widened in realization, "You’d have better luck at a Kosher store.”

“So we should go to a Kosher store?” I glared at her for laughing at me but I quickly jumped into the car, ready for my new mission of finding a Kosher store.  I can't believe I didn’t even think of it, “We should go before I end up being super late to this thing.”

Billie slowly entered the car, sat down quietly, and inched her seat-belt into the holster.   After what felt like an eternity of her taking her time, she very calmly sighed at me, “We can’t go to a Kosher store, TJ.”

Admittedly overly emotional about it all because I was stressed, and annoyed at her dramatic way of telling me, I immediately snapped at her, “Why not?!”

“Because it’s Shabbat.  The Jewish Sabbath.  Those stores are closed today.”

Who was she?  “How the heck do you know this?”

“Sarah?  One of my best friends is Jewish, dude.” She flicked my bicep, “One of your best friends is Jewish now too, you should learn these things.” She paused, “I mean…the fact that you took the time to find a Jewish bread  on the internet but didn’t take the time to realize it was Shabbat is like super hilarious though.”

“So what do I do?” I snapped at her, flustered, “I was gonna’ head over in an hour.”

She shrugged, “I don’t know.  Make some, homemade?”

I glared at her.

“What?  Like the two of us mutually haven’t baked enough with dad we can’t figure this thing out?  What else are you gonna’ do?  You clearly already committed to this bread.”

I groaned at her, because she was right.  I had committed.  I could do it.  We could do it.

But also?  I was shocked she was even remotely willing enough to help me at all.  I know she needed to leave in like an hour.  She had things to do today.

Thankfully, I had one less thing to worry about because we ended up finding all the ingredients we needed in the small grocery store around the corner from our house.

Within a half hour of this plan coming together we were already getting to work.

Well mostly Billie, who was trying to get as much set up as possible so that she could leave me without having me be completely helpless.

Not that I would be, I mean, I've made bread a couple times before.

Except like not alone, so that part sort of scared me.

I groaned when we read the directions after we finished kneading the dough.  Like realistically I should have known better because I’ve made bread with dad before, but my anxiety made the concept of waiting seem so completely unreasonable I couldn’t even begin to figure out how long I actually had to wait.

And what's worse, Billie even told me how long it would take and my brain refused to process what an hour and a half even meant.  It was a meaningless number to me, and that frustrated me too.  God, I hated having Dyscalculia.  It was so inconvenient.

I hated it got worse when I was stressed.  After trying to conceptualize the number for nearly two minutes I finally groaned at her, "I have to let it rise for a whole hour and a half?!  What time is that, anyways?!”

Billie shrugged, and I suddenly realized she had her small vanity mirror and all her makeup set out on the kitchen table.  She was doing her makeup in the kitchen while watching me freak out.  She sounded so casual in her response to me, “You could always go without it.”

In other words, it would take forever.

Far too committed to this thing now, I snapped at her, “No I can’t Billie!  I've committed!”

“I appreciate your dedication, but…uh, I gotta finish getting ready." She laughed at me, " So uh, good luck with the Challah and being super late to your friends thing and…” she paused, and I suddenly realized she wasn’t even talking about the challah anymore, “don’t freak out, okay?  I watched you set all the timers on your phone, so you shouldn’t have any issues with getting the times wrong.  Just follow your timers and read the directions, easy.  There’s like no way you can burn it.”

I glared at her for that.

Though I did appreciate the energy she took into making sure I could handle all the mental math after she left.

When I was younger I had a reputation of burning things when I baked things—but it was only when I was alone.  At the time we figured it was just because I was young and still needed help.  Now that we realized it was the dyscalculia, we made sure that I had safeguards in place—like pre-measured ingredients—so I wouldn’t have to rely on the numbers so much.

It was sort of annoying that they had to make accommodations for me, but at least my family members never made me feel like they were accommodating.

Billie chuckled at me as she stood up, “This whole situation will be really funny in like a day when you’re not looking like you’re gonna’ kill me.”

[babbushka]

Hello! I wanted to ask why Flip is your favorite character? What do you think of his personality? I really enjoy your take on him and I wanted to know your thoughts.

I have been waiting a lifetime to talk about why I love Flip!!!! 

This is gonna get long so be prepared (I’m putting the rest of this under a cut :)

There are a lot of factors that contribute to why Flip is myfavorite. The superficial ones are of course he looks damn fine in plaid (whichis my personal favorite print aka why I have so many plaid dresses and tops andthe like) and he looks even better with that holster of his. Not to mention Ithink he has the best hair out of any Adam character lol. I really reallylove that he’s canonically Jewish, because I’m Jewish, and we will havebeautiful Jewish babies – but all joking aside, I really admire his journey toaccepting himself.

Flip is so well written. He’s so well written! Ifind, that there aren’t many characters like him who go through such a personalarc with as little selfishness as he does. If we look at just Flip, we see himgo from a grumpy, jaded, stubborn grouch, to someone who is open and acceptingof ideas and understanding. He has moments of deep reflection in the film, wherehe sits down and examines himself not only for his own sake, but for the sakeof society. Identity is such a big part of the film, and how you identify issomething that gets talked about a lot in BKM, but with Flip so much of it isinternal -- and it’s because he’s put in situations where he really has tothink about what he wants. He really has to get introspective and figure outhow he is going to identify. Here he is at the beginning of the movie,practically changing the subject anytime his Jewish heritage is brought up, andtowards the middle and end of the movie, he’s the one admitting he’s nowthinking about it constantly.

He recognizes his privilege in being able to pass the waythat he does, and I really do believe that by the end of the film, he’s come tofully accept himself as a Jewish man – which he didn’t have to! He could haveeasily buried that part even deeper into himself, locked it away never to berevisited again, after the trauma of being held at gun-point. Because that istraumatic, and it’s only one small drop in a very big ocean ofinter-generational trauma that Jewish people are born with. He could have hadthat experience in the basement with Felix and walked away deciding to neverever be outwardly or recognizably Jewish again – and yet he doesn’t. He talksabout it, he works through it, and he decides for himself that that’s not whathe wants to do.

Other than that, I think he has a beautiful arc in hisfriendship with Ron, going from being generally reluctant, to vehementlysupportive of Ron’s case. That’s a really wonderful thing to witness, just thesheer friendship between them that builds up over the course of the movie. Andall of that aside, he’s so funny! He’s funny in that sarcastic way of his, but Ilike that he can laugh. I like that he can crack a smile and tell a joke, evenif it’s deadpan, maybe even especially so!

Idk, I’m sure there’s more that I’m forgetting now. The mainthing is that his arc as a person is just so beautifully written. Very fewscenes have stuck with me more than the one where he and Ron are talking whilelooking at the KKK membership card, because it’s a conversation that I’ve hadwith my Jewish family and friends. So many people I know, myself included,pretended to be not-Jewish for so long, or downplayed our Jewishness, orignored it altogether, out of fear for societal rejection or hatred. Do we wantto be ourselves when the entire world wants us dead? And there is such strengthin deciding yes, I do want to be as much myself as I can be, and there isbravery in choosing to be yourself in a world that wants so desperately for youto be anything else. I think that scene alone, that moment of reflection abouthis own identity and what that means has him as my favorite.

[mysecretcheckpleasesideblog]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi Characters: Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Adam "Holster" Birkholtz Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jewish Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, seriously so much fluff, Dorks in Love, Realization, Bromance to Romance Summary:

“Holy shit, we’re basically married.” Adam finally says. He gets up. He’s going to need something stronger than beer for this revelation.

[omgrarepairs]

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[ao3feed-holsom]

chasing cars

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2DNez5L

by jjcofeesa

a character study in adam birkholtz.

Words: 1090, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of check, please tumblr fics

Fandoms: Check Please! (Webcomic)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz, Justin "Ransom" Oluransi, Shitty Knight, Jack Zimmermann, Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s)

Relationships: Adam "Holster" Birkholtz/Justin "Ransom" Oluransi

Additional Tags: Homophobic Language, Anxiety Attacks, hard of hearing character, HoH Holster, Canon Jewish Character, hebrew written with english letters, Character Study

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2DNez5L

[prepnursey]

while we're on the topic of what is canon (re: lardo's sexuality), i want to talk about holster's religion.

He's not canonically Jewish. The only "proof" we have is word of god, an extra of him as a kid with a menorah and a Christmas tree behind him, but nowhere in the comic itself is he confirmed Jewish.

This isn't to say that we shouldn't as a fandom consider him Jewish, absolutely not! But it is a reminder that actually, there is no representation of non-Christian religions in the comic.

Due to the large amount of extra content published by Ngozi and her frequent interactions with the fandom, the line between actual canon and word of god is especially blurry in the Check, Please! fandom, but just like Dumbledore isn't gay in the books, Holster isn't Jewish in the comic