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[idnek83]

“Hajime wants to thank him, but can’t quite find the words to do so. Instead, he gets up and goes to the drink machine in the corner, and brings back two cups of cocoa. It isn’t good cocoa by any means, but it���s what they’ve got. He sits down, pushes one of the cups towards the other, and gives the best smile he can muster up.”

-What Comes Next by @brynfelan

(art by @metamatronic)

[otaku6337]

It’s just as free to click out of a fic as it is to click in to one.

If you don’t pay to read a fic (and you don’t, lol, unless you want to be complicit in some legal/copyright issues) then you don’t get to air your criticisms of it.

It wasn’t written for you, by you. If it was a request made by you, then arguably it was written for you but if it wasn’t written by you then it still isn’t your place to pull it apart.

Someone took time out of their lives to write that fic. They didn’t force you to read it.

It costs you nothing to click out. Don’t waste your time and the author’s own by given unasked-for criticism. It doesn’t benefit anybody. Trust me, we don’t want other people’s shoddy opinions, not when we haven’t asked for them, and even if concrit has been asked for then it’s no reason to be rude about it.

I’m fed up of seeing myself and my friends and complete strangers get lumped with dealing with ugly comments when there’s literally no need for them. Take what you’re offered, or walk away from it. We don’t want or need your announcement of it.

Not your fic? Not your damn problem, let alone your business.

[wifiwuxians]

unthawing 

a small, yet sad ficlet of the corpseyang roadtrip AU. sometimes i write little exposition fics for my AUs, this one just got a little emotional

[id: a black and white drawing of a distressed song lan, kneeling and holding xue yang in his arms. xue yang is facing away from the audience, his legs folded rather awkwardly. his sleeve falls limply, concealing nothing beneath. /end id]

[synonymroll648]

opinion on neurodivergent keefe?

nonsie. stranger. bestie. there is no way keefe isn't neurodivergent. neurotypical is simply not in the code of his character. i saw someone say that shannon even said it'd make sense if he had ADD, but i have no source, so take that with a grain of salt. still. ADHD!keefe headcanons are popular for a reason, and that reason is that his character screams neurodivergent. also autistic!keefe headcanons are vv special to me as well <33 (in fact, one of my fav fics of all time has autistic!keefe. twas my introduction to autistic!keefe and it was the best introduction i could've had.)

[goatmilksoda]

it's always so scary when you dump your heart and soul into a chapter and think "hehehehe my audience is going to think I'm so clever and they'll love this!" and you genuinely had a great time writing it so you finally put the chapter out into the world and it's like *refresh* *refresh* *refresh* (repeat x3 days) and that inbox number for comments just stays 0.

[calumsash]

fic moodboard inspired by subject line by @daydadahlias

Maybe the sunrise doesn’t matter much after all. Calum can watch the sunrise any day. How many days will he get Ashton like this? Shirtless, sporting bedhead in a hotel room, with just the two of them for a few lazy hours alone?

Soon enough, they’ll be back on the tour bus and Calum won’t be allowed to hold Ashton’s hand anymore.

[lostmykeysie]

i love my pals and will probably go and cry in a corner now

@aqua-myosotis @second-sister you’re the sweetest damn things ive ever seen

[takohebi]

this is like. super random and I promise its not my fic so its not self promoting or anything but I read this and IMMEDIATELY thought of you. its soo good and the jamizul characterization is perfect

It's always correct to send me jamiazu/azujami content!! It's always the right time to do so.

And regarding this fic, I have read and re-read it SO MANY TIMES!!!! I love it so much!! The author is a close friend and she was kind enough to let me read it when it was still incomplete and since then I have been smitten by this fic and the slow romance between azul and jamil portrayed in this fic!!

I really like that the romance is subtle but constantly prevalent, and i love the more tangible mechanics of flying and magic.

Also Azul would look so cute in a hoodie and even better when it's jamil's :3

I have made some fanart sketches too ;;A;; (which i've only shown eiko, the author)

tldr: this fic has been living rent-free in my head for months and i am so glad everyone is finally getting to read it!!!

LINKING THE FIC AGAIN BECAUSE YOU GOTTA READ IT!!!

[caligulalotus]

ok so after everything that’s been talked about with blaseball and ao3 and all that i’ve decided i’m going to post links to all of my favorite blaseball fics so that they can become other people’s favorite blaseball fics and the authors can get some love. there is not a particular order to this, just as they come to mind and as i find them, though i did try to group them a little based on tone. key word is try. i don’t know if everyone here has tumblr’s so i will just be leaving their ao3 user. if your fic is here hi i love your work.

roots by marquis-roots is just under 40k words about the boston flowers (mostly) and the hellmouth sunbeams (partially) during the expansion era, told through the eyes of margorito nava and xer sister, nagomi nava. it is truly such a good read and for all of the sadness that it has, because, well, discipline era, it has so many happy moments and is overall really amazing.

pick your punishment by AgentO-a what if scenario following the spies in the wake of the pods winning the hall stars fight. it has screenshots from this hypothetical blaseball universe. everything about the world created in this fic is horrifying in a perfectly blaseball way and i highly recommend it.

good grief by waveriden-30k words about lenny marijuana, younger sister to dominic and randall marijuana. this is the lenny characterization, i love it truly so much and this fic is exactly why. it covers her from seasons 1-10 and tells you all the lore you need to know about her whole deal. it’s excellently written and each character feels so human in a tragic way.

la vie en rose by waveridden-a much happier fic than the others i’ve recommended thus far, so never mind about trying to sort by tone, i suppose. the lovers are holding a big offseason bash and are preparing in a perfectly-lovers fashion. it’s so cute and it’s all good vibes, check it out if you want a smile.

cards fall where they may by Novelsinourheads-i actually recommend reading this one on itch.io instead of ao3, but the ao3 has the link to the itch page in it so pick whichever you like. it’s an interactive twine anthology about blaseball, with three paths. one about morrow doyle, a second about peanutiul duffy, and a third about gerund pantheocide. morrow’s chapter literally knocked the breath out of me a few times, i highly recommend even if you know nothing about the three in question because you will care about them afterwards.

dust she does not raise by baliset-this is not a full fic, nor is it on ao3, but no restrictions here folks. do you ever think about how for one season silvaire roadhouse and jaylen hotdogfingers batted back to back and silvaire, newly debted, didn’t kill anyone? here is the ficlet to make you think about it more.

the life and death of kiki familia series by cydnakip-this is one i only just read because i knew that i had to include something of their’s here to i went to their ao3 and found a series i’d managed to miss. it’s a great series, covering all of kiki’s short life and death. they get the bittersweet victory of the hall stars so perfectly right.

the most peculiar day of your life by baliset-this is a found document fic about the short circuit crabs when there were two of them at once and it broke everything. they steal a baby god, it’s great. this is the fic that really sold me on found document fics, they’re such an interesting way to present a story and it’s done really well here.

polkadot patterson enters the vault by kosmosxipo-a fic about the hypothetical where the vault swap blessing from season 23 switches york and polkadot. it’s a great fic and if i can make any of you care about dot and alto by getting you to read this fic than i will say i have succeeded.

12 funerals of mike townsend by crabmoney3-a 12x100 about mike townsend, funerals, and death. another fic that really sold me on a format i hadn’t seen before blaseball. a very solid fic about grief and death that i really really love. it’s quick and sweet and if you don’t have much time it’s one of the shortest fics on the list so please check it out.

dying to live by marquis-i just read this one last night and it actually one shot me. a fic about lenny and five interactions before she died. everything about lenny marijuana’s death makes me so sad and this fic hits every mark about just why it hurts so much. it’s really great.

ruby bloomsday by marquis-another tumblr fic, from back during blasetober. it’s about the hypothetical where the flowers resurrected caligula lotus rather than the garages resurrecting jaylen hotdogfingers and it’s SO good. blink’s cali is always so good but this is absolutely my favorite example. i have a reblog of it sitting in my drafts because i can’t bookmark it like an ao3 fic but i wanna be able to easily reread it anyways.

ok i think that is all for now, however i just know there’s fics i’ve missed or ones that i have yet to read so i will try and update this/reblog it with new editions sometimes because blaseball writers deserve to have all of their work read and loved. please feel free to reblog with your own favorites/your own work!

[gnflorida]

RED ALERT. CONTAINMENT BREACH. he picked such a good gnf clip tho 🥰

[sun-moon-stars-jedi]

Thanks to comments like this, probably never

[transhoverfish]

your fic... immaculate vibes. crying from the latest chapter but hopefully in a good way

this ask has been sitting in my inbox for probably over a year now bc ive loved it so so much that i wanted to see it everytime i opened my inbox for a quick mood increase. it literally gave me energy on bad days. i am now finally releasing into the wild just to tell u how absolutely much i love this probably random nonchalant message u sent over a year ago. thank u for reading and for my weeks long favorite sayings of "immaculate vibes" and "crying but hopefully in a good way"

[stevethehairington]

omg you guys, good for my boy hit 2k kudos and i— 🥺🥺🥺🥺 im gonna CRY what the hell that's insane!!! i can't believe it. i love yall so much, thank you thank you thank you 💕💕💕

[yellowlaboratory]

Hi US Annie! @alphinias pointed me in your direction. Lots of my favourite Jiara works are betaed by an Annie which is either you or UK Annie... probably a combination of you both. But whenever I'm about to read a Jiara fic, I always see your name in the notes and mentally I'm like, "hey, it's Annie!" So THANK YOU FOR YOUR BETA WORK ANNIE. Much appreciated by me and the fic author 😌 (You're not a fan of moths, and I'm not a fan of butterflies)

hello!!! i laughed out loud when I saw Jordan's post lmao me and uk annie try to cause as much chaos as possible as name twins💀💀💀

but i do beta for some really wonderfully talented writers!! they are kind enough to let me into their google docs so i can scream to them directly. getting early access to fics is one of my favorite things, especially since a lot of my favorite fic authors somehow trust me with their masterpieces!! it's absolutely adorable to think of you recognizing annie and I when you click on a fic akljdfhkjsdf like that is the sweetest thing ily 💛💛💛

also most of my bio is made up of references to my current favorite ships/fandoms (without too many spoilers, the moths thing is a reference to Nancy and Ace from Nancy Drew) and I actually like moths a lot more than butterflies LMAO. when I was 5, my parents took me to a butterfly sanctuary and all these monarch butterflies started landing on me. my mom said I have never screamed louder in my entire life and i've been traumatized ever since

[mishervellous]

this is the hill i’ll die on: if you don’t have anything nice to say about a fanfiction just close the tab and move along

[obaewankenope]

This just in: the back button exists and works great to leave fics you don't wanna read alone without you needing to comment and complain about said fics!! Amazing!!!