#beasley gloom

[polkadotpatterson]

Moist Talkers as text posts, part 21! Art by HetreaSky!

[orbleglorb]

[ID: a drawing of polkadot patterson, workman gloom, and beasley gloom. dot and workman are holding beasley together, while smiling and petting him. dot is a short, white, woman-adjacent person with yellow tentacles for hair, the first two pinned back. she has peach-colored skin and blue eyes, and is wearing a red sweater and jeans. workman is a tall(er) black man with his hair in short dreads, dyed blue at the ends, and black eyes. he is wearing a grey hoodie with blue sweatpants. beasley is an unimpressed looking orange-and-white bulldog. /end ID]

i don't think i ever posted this here. at least, it's not in my art tag :P

[cryinginblaseball]

I made one for the Talkers lol

Anyone else miss Blaseball? I certainly do. Found some old propaganda I made

Art by HetreaSky on the bird app

[cryinginblaseball]

Some gift art!

First is Saturday Elder and Jan Via for @mossy-kit. Saturday is based on KeCh’s design, and Jan is based on Iznj’s design.

Second is the Patterson-Gloom family for @polkadotpatterson. Workman Gloom is based on Horsizontal’s pic of them. Alto Patterson is based on @flamebunnyy’s design. And Beasley is based off of Kyle Armstrong’s design.

[flamebunnyy]

Dot does a little silly and tries to out shoe thief the former shoe thieves.

[cryinginblaseball]

#so who wants to tell me who's who in this picture

i got you blestie. this is the Moist Talkers at the first Grand Siesta, between seasons 11 and 12.

Jenkins Good

Greer Lott

Fish Summer

Mooney Doctor

PolkaDot Patterson

Commissioner Vapor (6a. Buddy)

Jesùs Koch

Lachlan Shelton

York Silk

Ziwa Mueller

(Beans) McBlase (11a. Beans)

Cedrick Spliff

Alston Cervesa (13a. ngl i forgot this little guy’s name)

Eugenia Garbage

Beasley Gloom

A. Hobbs Cain and Richmond Harrison B. Mooney and her wife The Moon C. ORB

my piece for the Moist Talkers zine! the team taking a well deserved day off 💙💦

[chezforshire]

splorts news: three dorks get tons of flowers and gives them to their team mates for valentines. more at 9

(links to design credits on notes)

[kyl-armstrong]

[iamdeadafterreadingmyoldposts]

I wish i was a flower, bloom, gloom and laugh, honeybee 🐝 would be my best friend, giving her nectar, I'll take warmth as my paycheck. wind would kiss my alluring petals, I'll  give protection to so many ants, I wish i was a flower.

my diary 

[ourkicks]

Beasley Gloom

Art by @kipperbip

[polkadotpatterson]

The moist talkers make a sandwich :) Art by HetreaSky

[vickysaurus]

The Shoe Thieves on their latest heist. Yes, Beasley came along for old times’ sake.

[qqueenofhades]

Another optimistic result from last night. Michigan's state legislature went blue for the first time since the Reagan administration. Dems were a superminority four years ago and now we run the entire state government, thanks in no small part to the independent redistricting commission that was created via a statewide ballot proposal in 2018.

We also passed a measure to protect abortion rights and broaden/strengthen voting rights. Basically, last night I had stress dreams all night about the end of democracy and I woke up to some good news. Things still aren't great and I'm anxious about races across the country, but I'm hopeful for the first time in a long time.

Michigan, Colorado, and Pennsylvania all had particularly good nights. Michigan Democrats won the governor and secretary of state races against cuckoo crazypants Q-challengers, protected abortion access, flipped the legislature, and expanded voting rights and access. In Colorado, all the Democratic incumbents won in a walk and might get an extra House seat from newly created CO-8. The biggest news there is that MAGA Barbie Lauren Boebert is still behind by about ~3500 votes in CO-3 with almost all the votes in. This is a R+9 district and shouldn't even be close. In Pennsylvania, Fetterman picked up a Senate seat for the Democrats despite all the doom and gloom and the intense GOP focus on Dr. Quack, Democrat Josh Shapiro easily beat MAGA lunatic Doug Mastriano for governor, and the state legislature is agonisingly close to flipping Democrat or at least almost even control.

Other morning-after thoughts from about four and a half hours of sleep:

As I said last night, the Democrats and Florida are Charlie Brown and the football. This isn't entirely their fault, as DeSantis has made it into his personal fiefdom and redrew the already-red maps to be EVEN MORE RED, threatened voters with his own goon squad, and otherwise turned it into Fascist Disneyland, literally. He cruised to re-election (ugh), but we still don't know how that plays outside his carefully curated media bubble where he only does interviews with right wing hacks like Fox and never answers tough questions. Lil Marco Rubio likewise beat Val Demings. Double ugh. So yeah, Florida Democrats are MIA. At least we got the first Gen Z member of Congress, 25 year old Democrat Maxwell Frost.

Whatever its untapped demographics, and unfair restrictions from obviously nonsensical voting laws, on the institutional level, Texas is not a blue state either. It just isn't. Beto ran a good campaign, but yet again, it wasn't close and Texas is just... Texas.

Hey anyone else think we should just let Florida and Texas secede?

However, my heartfelt sympathies to sane Floridans and Texans who worked hard but still had to see the same old crazy win.

Ohio and North Carolina also had Republicans win their Senate races. Tim Ryan and Cherie Beasley ran strong campaigns but it wasn't enough to overcome the increasing reddish tilt of those states (especially Ohio, which is also starting to look lost for the foreseeable future). However, they were both replacing retiring Republicans, so no change as far as the balance of power. Still despicable that that carpetbagging hack JD Vance is in the Senate, though.

Jury is still out in Arizona, where both Democratic governor and Senate candidates have narrow leads (governor more narrow), but if Katie Hobbs and Mark Kelly can pull this out, every single MAGA election denier candidate for governor/SOS will have lost.

That is GOOD NEWS for democracy.

Swingy Nevada is still looking dicey, though. As expected, its Democratic governor and Senate incumbent are behind after Election Day vote counting. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto is in a slightly better position than Governor Steve Sisolak. If big blue Clark County (Vegas) delivers its usual tranches of Democratic mail vote, they could both still probably win (CCM somewhat more likely since her deficit is smaller), but Nevada kept us anxiously waiting for days on end and seems fully set to do it again.

If Senate control comes down to yet another Georgia runoff between Raphael Warnock and Herschel "Me Good At Concussions And Abortions" Walker, I am going to scream.

Warnock is ahead but probably not enough to avoid a runoff under Georgia's ludicrous Jim Crow Senate rules where a candidate has to reach 50% to win outright.

Stacey Abrams also lost again to Brian Kemp. Ugh.

New York Democrats won the governor, AG, and Senate races, in not too much surprise but some of the late polling was close. They've had some struggles in suburban and rural NY, though managed to keep Pat Ryan's seat from the recent special election.

Way too many white people are still voting for Republicans, with the noted exception of 18-29 year olds, the only white age demographic to vote Democratic (by almost 2 to 1).

Looking at the data, 18-29 year olds from all demographics voting Blue are quite probably the only reason there wasn't a red wave. Good job, guys. I give you a lot of stick on here, but well done.

God, when will all those old white Republicans finally croak. They vote like clockwork every time and it's always bad.

Abortion access won everywhere it was on the ballot, including in deep red Kentucky (not overturning the current ban, alas, but rejecting a state constitutional amendment to ban it). Abortion rights are popular! Who knew.

This is an absolutely stunningly good result for an incumbent president's first midterm in any year, let alone with 8.5% inflation, economic pain, crazy fascists, and all the rest. Obama lost 63 House seats in 2010. So far, there hasn't really been a major change, and we still don't know who will control the House, after a lot of doomsters were insisting it would be Republican by 9pm ET on election night.

Democratic incumbents also won several tough re-election races in seats they would probably have lost in a red wave year.

Sarah Palin appears likely to lose in Alaska for the second time in three months. HA.

Trump was by no means the kingmaker. Almost all of his handpicked candidates have lost, with the exception of Vance in Ohio. Jury still out on Laxalt in Nevada (come THROUGH for CCM, Vegas, PLEASE).

Midterms are now not quite over, but at least moving to the rear view mirror. So when is Trump gonna get fucking indicted. That is the major next step on the Save Democracy checklist.

I likewise didn't think it would happen right after the midterms, regardless of who won; early 2023 remains my best guess. But also, like. Soon, please??

Anyway. If we lose the House (still not for sure) but keep the Senate, we can at least continue to confirm judges and other such important things. Having a tiny Republican majority (bleck) in the House would at least make it more difficult for them to do anything outrageously stupid, or at least have it succeed, as they would be sure to waste everyone's time with pointless stunts anyway.

Meh.

Still, though. By any metric, a big failure for Republicans, considering what their expectations were and how goddamn hard the media tried to help them at every turn, and a good showing for democracy as Democratic control was retained in key swing states and election deniers did not win any of their targets.

Stay tuned for more Election PutinDestielNevadaNovember5th...uh...8th redux!!!

UGH, NOT AGAIN.

[cryinginblaseball]

Come to the Moist Talkers, we have:

Garbage

Gremlins

Critically Acclaimed MMOs

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Squid kids

Scientist (hot)

Dogs

minis by @/hetreasky

[flamebunnyy]

Retirement... or as close as you could call it.

I'm also going to call out @polkadotpatterson's work specifically for being the main basis of this piece.

[dabidagoose]

Hi I'm the blaseball friend and WHAT

Here’s a memoir from the perspective of someone who’s friend is into blaseball:

He pops in twice a week or so with something. This week it was “the sun is going out”. It was also “oh the breath mints are dead”. What do you mean the breath mints are dead. What do you mean the sun is going out.

Other times he’s like “a week is nine days”. “There are multiple different suns”. “You win by losing the game”. And then my brain has to do a hard reboot.

Also apparently people ascended when they won? And people got married? With ceremonial wedding bats???

Every day he wakes up and chooses chaos. I am genuinely concerned for his sanity.