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[jube-art]

a doodle for @spookyprime‘s brithday :) their hometown au!

[butcherlarry]

Weekly Fic Recs 23

Turns out, traveling for work, and then breaking your toe when you get back home makes it hard to work out :( :( :(  I’m fine, just annoyed with myself.  I think I’m just going to rename these fic rec posts to “Weekly” instead of “Exercise” anyway.  I might also update the tags of the past ones as well to “weekly fic recs” so they are easier to search for.  If you want to see the bird pictures that I used to post at the end of these, just go over to my other blog to see some neat birds, balconybirds.  I posted some pictures from my birding adventures last week before I left for work travel, and there’s a really cool green heron I saw.  Those guys are so funky to watch with their weird alien necks.  Anyway, on to the fics!

Wrestle by SalParadiseLost  (Superbat if you squint and little Timkon, complete.  A batfam mermaid fic where Clark works in a mer habitat and brings Kon with him.  Shenanigans ensue, especially were Tim in involved.)

The Sit-Down by Ginerva_Benci  (Superbat, complete.  Clark deals with the work/personal/superhero life balance.  Bruce helps.)

savestate by TheResurrectionist  (Batlantern and a bit of Superbat, complete.  Bruce, Hal, and Clark are on a mission gone wrong, Clark is incapacitated, and they’re pretty sure they’re about to die.  Hal decides he wants to hit that (Bruce) before he dies.  Clark is Not Pleased.  Very funny!!)  

50 Shades of Bat by River9Noble  (Superbat, complete.  This was another funny one!  Clark doesn’t know Batman’s identity, and thinks Brucie is being abused by the amount of injuries he has.  Clark asks Batman to look into this.  Shenanigans ensue.)

Dad’s New Boyfriend by TheClamBeforetheStorm  (Twobats/Bruharvey, now complete!  A 5+1 fic of Bruce’s family coming to accept the fact that a reformed Harvey Dent is dating their dad.)

veracity by pomeloquat  (Superbat, complete.  Batman is captured by the bad guys and they give him a true serum so they can learn Superman’s weaknesses.  The end up learning waaaaaaaay more than that.  Very silly and fun to read!!)

Growing Up by birbteef, SalParadiseLost  (Superbat, complete.  Part of the Itty Bitty AU series.  Bruce has a handful of bitties (supernatural pets), with Dick being the oldest.  Dick is reaching the end of his lifespan, and Bruce is sad about it.  Don’t worry!  There is a happy ending!)

Where Bruce goes, Clark follows by Mawiish  (Superbat, complete.  Super fluffy, super sweet fic.  Bruce and Clark are getting ready to go to a party and Clark is nervous.  Bruce is there to support him 💖)

[spookyprime]

Hey!!!! @whatdoyewant wrote a fic based on my reverse robins au and you should read it!! It's Conner luthor and JJ!Tim breaking out lmao

I did some art for it as well

[timdrakeflipzine]

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Artist - Birb

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Fave unhinged Tim moment? his doing a dramatic face reveal for yj and then just having another mask on lmao. Or the time he convinced Brentwood to let Alfred stay in the dorms too wtf

[salparadiselost]

The bitty universe is so good omg 💜 thank you and jube and birbteef, ahh I can't wait to see where you take this universe (I mean I can and will but also know my brain is spinning it around like a yoyo)

Thank you! Thank you!

We have been having a ball writing the bitties. They are so versatile and adorable. But that underlying sense of horror… I think that’s delicious.

Here’s a small snippet! I hope you enjoy:

“You little shits, get away from that!” Bruce yelled, chasing the itty bitties away from the shoe they had begun to tear apart.

Last week he made the mistake of showing them a documentary about important inventions throughout history. He thought it was a safe, albeit maybe boring, subject for them.

He was wrong.

Now they were taking everything apart to see how it worked. Everything.

The itty bitties paused, blinked, and then scrambled with the pieces of shoe.

“No!” Bruce yelped as he watched Jason physically tear the tongue out of his $800 Italian leather loafers. Tim had the shoelaces and kept being distracted by them to hunt them despite the fact they were hanging from his mouth. Dick had the sole which he had been chewing on.

They took their bounty with them as they scampered out. They chirruped merrily and Bruce got the distinct sense they were laughing at him.

“Those little….” Bruce picked up the remnants of shoes and frowned. “I’m going to need to replace the pair.”

“Can’t you get them some training?” Clark asked from the bed shoes off and watching Bruce with a disapproving frown.

Clark… wasn’t the biggest fan of the itty bitties. Dogs and cats he was fine with, hell he even liked them, but the itty bitties…

Clark never said it outright, but Bruce could tell. Clark avoided them. He never touched them. Their antics earned frowns and annoyed eye twitches instead of the bursts of affection that their shenanigans inspired in Bruce.

Clark never hit them. He never showed them any aggression whatsoever. Bruce would kick him out the moment he dared try, but it was clear that he wished Bruce didn’t have them.

“I’ve taken them to training,” Bruce said with a sigh. “It wasn’t a good fit.”

Bruce frowned at the memory. He had tried to take Dick and Jason to training only once before he had adopted Tim.

He had shown up at the gymnasium with his two bitties both fitted into their chest harnesses because Bruce had researched that those were the best options for a lead. Dick and Jason didn’t love their harnesses. They more enjoyed playing in them and tangling each other up in the straps than actually wearing them.

But they were obedient enough to allow them, especially because harnesses meant they got to go outside or into town.

The moment Bruce had walked in holding onto the leashes that were attached to the harnesses, the trainer had immediately frowned.

“Those things are useless,” he said to Bruce’s face. His bitties crowded around his legs, chirping anxiously as a stranger got too close. “Your bitties will never be trained if you use those.”

Instead, he had given Bruce two noose collars that were spiked on the inside to intentionally cause pain.

Bruce had hated the twisting, awful feeling that curled in his stomach when he slipped the collars onto his bitties’ throats. They looked up at him with their huge eyes, so completely full of trust, and Bruce’s chest physically clenched at the sight.

“Won’t these hurt them?” He asked while staring at Dick as the bitty shook his head and scratched at the uncomfortable collar with a back leg. He was already beginning to try to pull it off. “I read that their necks are delicate and very sensitive.”

“If they follow directions, then they won’t get hurt at all.”

The rest of the class had been a complete disaster. Dick and Jason were wary of the stranger and they didn’t take well to having a lead handed over to him. They were confused by the commands. They were punished for every sign of confusion. Their curiosity was quickly turning into fear as the stranger drove spikes into their throat with every mess-up. They ended the night hiding behind Bruce’s legs absolutely refusing to come out as Bruce yelled at the so-called trainer for making his bitties bleed.

The trainer said that his bitties would never be trained. Bruce said that he didn’t want them trained if it meant beating them into submission.

Clark huffed, rolling his eyes. “Maybe you could take them to different training?”

Bruce shrugged. “I don’t mind them the way they are. I love that they get into mischief and attack the world with curiosity. Training usually destroys that.”

Because most times it breaks a bittie’s spirit into a hundred pieces.

“I mean, you’re not going to keep living with them being so wild are you? There has to be better options. statistically, most itty bitties get either in their second home or repurposed by age eight-“

“I’m not fucking giving them up,” Bruce snapped, practically growling. “Do you hear what you’re even saying? Re-purpose. Do you even know what that means?”

Clark fell silent, and Bruce heard him shift on the bed. “No,” he admitted. “Why? What does it mean?”

[dddragoni]

Oh good an excuse to gush about some of My Guys

I want to talk about Sexton Wheerer.

(Art by birbteef aka @spookyprime. Sexton is the horse. The cat is Yummy Elliott, she'll be important later.)

Blood type: Love. Coffee style: Milk Substitute. Pregame Ritual: Eating a Bird.

In Season 1, Sexton Wheeler (not a typo) was a bad pitcher for the absolutely terrible Los Angeles Tacos. Only 1.5 stars- though this did put him in a three-way tie for highest pitching stars on the rotation. Like the rest of the team, he was tricked by the Tacos' manager, Al Pastor, into joining the ILB when he thought he was signing up for an intramural klickball league.

Sexton Wheeler was, at the time, a fairly normal human man, though he claimed to be somehow responsible for- and ashamed of- the creation of the La Brea Tar Pits. Then came the Wyatt Masoning- after the Grand Unslam tore apart Los Angeles into the Infinite Cities of Los Angeli, every Tacos player took on the name of the team's worst batter, Wyatt Mason. Commissioner Parker MacMillian III attempted to repair the team, with mixed success, and Sexton Wheeler became Sexton Wheerer- a multiversal discrepancy that became clear when a season later, the Alternates decree swapped Sexton out for a version of himself from another one of the infinite Los Angeli, one populated entirely by centaurs. His name was Sexton Wheerer, though a year ago, everyone had started calling him Wheeler for no apparent reason.

So this Sexton, the centaur, is the one we're talking about today. He was an even worstle pitcher than Wheeler was, which is impressive, and largely kept to himself until Season 7- the Snackrifice. In a display of unity and an effort to break the game of Blaseball, all of the Tacos pitchers offered themselves up to take 5 of the 10 spots above the red line on the Idol Board, which would result in them being Shelled- trapped inside of giant peanut shells for an unknown length of time. Potentially forever. With the entire rotation Shelled, there would be no one to pitch the ball- and with no pitchers, there would be no Blaseball.

The league rallied behind the Tacos, and Sexton and the others were all successfully Shelled on Season 7, Day 99. The "break Blaseball" plan didn't quite pan out, since the Tacos just received a new pitcher, Pitching Machine, but they'd still shown their unity and protected 5 other players from being Shelled.

Midway through season 8, Sexton was pecked free from his shell during Bird weather. He was a little uncomfortable with the spotlight this puts on him, but he rose to the occassion, pitching two-thirds of the Tacos' games for the rest of the season. A heavy workload, but it wasn't going to be long- the others would be pecked free soon.

Except... they weren't. All of season 8 went by with none of the other Tacos being pecked free. At the end of the season, Pitching Machine was Shelled as well, leaving Sexton as the sole available pitcher. Where every other pitcher in the league had 4 days of rest between games, Sexton was out there every day, working himself past the point of exhaustion, making sure things were handled for when the others were freed. (Incidentally, this also led to him topping the idol board- even a mediocre pitcher is very lucrative when he pitches every game.)

Then, at the end of Season 9, all the Shelled players were taken by the Shelled One- leaving Sexton as the sole "survivor" of the Snackrifice.

He took this... poorly. With a mountain of survivor's guilt on his back, Sexton threw himself onto the only thing he could- pitching. With a second whole season solo ahead of him and no reprieve in sight, Sexton spent every moment either on the mound or training in the bullpen. It paid off- the Tacos had their first winning record and playoff appearance in season 10- but the strain nearly destroyed Sexton. His team ended up having to force him to rest and recover.

After Season 10 Day X, the PODS fell back to random teams. One fell to the Tacos, but it wasn't one of their wayward players- it was Peanut Bong. A second pitcher was a welcome relief, but one that was a constant reminder of what had happened? And one he was allergic to? A mixed bag.

But it was Peanut Bong's replacement once he got shadowed that really changed things for Sexton. Her name was Yummy Elliott, and she'd grown up in the Infinite Cities, idolizing the Tacos players- and Sexton in particular. Her enthusiam reignited the spark of hope Sexton thought he'd lost, and she became his protégé, eventually outpacing him to the point where he retired from pitching, taking upo a new, much less stressful role as a batter.

Sexton still hadn't quite overcome his tendency to put everything on himself, however, and after Yummy eventually took the Tacos to their frst championship in Season 17, a change was in order. He moved to Yellowstone, joining the Magic- and got savaged by consumers, returning to Los Angelia year later worse off and somewhat humbled. He remained there until the universe ended in Season 24.

okay while people are reading my blase posts i am so far behind on player lore. somebody tell the story of their favorite player so i can cheer or cry a lot or reblog it 10,000 times and hype them up to all my friends

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Hot Fish Summer

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

by birbteef

Cassie Sandsmark has one last trip with her mom before she heads off to college. When she gets to the little town in Maine she's greeted with more than she bargained for- mermaids, selkies, monsters, and more.

Words: 1620, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Cassie Sandsmark, Tim Drake, Bart Allen, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Helena Sandsmark, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Bruce Wayne

Relationships: Clark Kent/Lois Lane, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent

Additional Tags: MerMay, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Selkies, Alternate Universe, mermaid tim drake, selkie kon, mermaid bart allen

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

[ao3feed-timkon]

Hot Fish Summer

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

by birbteef

Cassie Sandsmark has one last trip with her mom before she heads off to college. When she gets to the little town in Maine she's greeted with more than she bargained for- mermaids, selkies, monsters, and more.

Words: 1620, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Cassie Sandsmark, Tim Drake, Bart Allen, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Helena Sandsmark, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Bruce Wayne

Relationships: Clark Kent/Lois Lane, Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent

Additional Tags: MerMay, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Selkies, Alternate Universe, mermaid tim drake, selkie kon, mermaid bart allen

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

[inkiwirks]

Better late than never, will be reblogged to my main account @theeinkibus , sorry for doubles. THE ILLUSTRATION AT THE BOTTOM IS SHOWING REFERENCE TO THE DTIYS these outfits are based around.

@frocktarts-official and I had other plans for halloween, but coincidentally fell in love with @spookyprime ‘ s Bad Moon Rising Good Omens Au comic. And we also hit each other with gee, we both secretly wanted to cosplay the characters. So for a very rushed job, a few pieces unfinished, and more work, here’s our job. The white feather cape is amazing in person, it hangs and flows like it should and it embroidered with little golden feathers. (!!!)

[corvoda]

Hi I ran his Twitter account, I'm about to dump everything i got about that hunk of scrap metal (most affectionate thing i can call him)

(art by Birbteef)

Simple background, i joined blaseball at the end of Season 11, and picked favorites based on names alone at first, and being a Firefighters fan, picked Joshua Butt as my fav. Season 12 rolls around and Joshy is the first player to die, lucky me, so i needed a new fav. Suddenly the stars align and they all shine upon this weirdo; Kennedy Rodgers.

I prefer Nonhuman characters. I got into blaseball because it was weird, so i am drawn towards the weird players.

I have a soft spot for clockwork themes thanks to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, my fav game ever. Kennedy Rodgers is a "clockwork automaton made of mostly gears and various time-telling instruments".

I'm an absolute SUCKER for Underdogs, and Season 12 made him the SHINING EXAMPLE of one.

During Earlsiesta, Season 12, Rodgers gained the Under Over modification as part of the Seasonal Reading.

This is the first blessing the Reader has EVER given out. Curry Aliciakeyes got "Over Under", which did the exact opposite, so it was actually a Curse. Under Over activates at the start of EVERY GAME, whether he's actually playing or not. It's pretty fitting for a robot, especially with this text at the start of every single game. He really wanted to make himself be known, even if he's just cheering from the dugout.

And then During the Season 12 elections, the Chicago Firefighters received the Organ Replacements blessing, which increased Rodgers' pitching from 1.5-Stars to 2.5-Stars. Only 2.5, boosted by 20% in most cases thanks to his ability, yeah, but still only 2.5. Look at him, he's shit.

So season 13 rolls around and he gets to show off his new shoes. We expect a decent showing, how's he do?

ONLY THE BEST SEASON OF HIS ENTIRE GODDAMN CAREER.

2.5 FUCKING STAR PITCHER

That was better than Jaylen Hotdogfingers. Better W/L Ratio than Gabriel Griffith, who had a 1.9 ERA that season. KRod's wasn't that far off. Polkadot Patterson was at 13/7 with a 2.10. he was up there with some of the greats.

It didn't last long, he went back to being Average soon after this, but he was always much better than youd expect by just looking at him. Under Over carried him hard, and the Sim's team-win-estimation didn't account for it either. If a game was estimated to be a close fight and Krod was pitching, you better bet on Krod every time.

____________________________

Lets stop talking stats for a moment and talk about him as a person.

He originally played for the Wild Wings, and joined the Firefighters after the wing's season 7 championship. Firefighters were meant to trade 3 players with the wings, but due to some classic Sim shenanigans we only got 2, Krod and Jose Haley. Jose died almost immediately after joining the Firefighters so Krod was suddenly here from out of country all on his own, in a place he's actually never been before (i dont think the wings/ffs ever had a game together up to that point due to how Divisions worked). He was really shy, and joined as the weakest pitcher in the FFs rotation.

He's often seen as one of the most Optimistic players on the team. He knew he wasn't good but he didn't let it get to him much. He took every loss as a learning opportunity. He wanted to improve himself in any way possible but i don't think he wanted the fame of being a good player. He played along side Burke Gonzales, so he knew what it could be like. Staying an underdog was the perfect spot for him. His endless Curiosity and Creativity meant even in the worst of times he'd try to find a bright side and cheer others up, and wanted to teach others everything he knew. He was a real Info-dumper kinda guy. It takes something REALLY bad to put him in a bad mood.

SUN HEIST.

Hopefully i have this story correct, but this is how i understand it went down.

The Wild Wings ballpark is called the Bucket. What do they put in a Bucket? Chicken? Wrong. it's a Sun.

Deep down in the pits of the Bucket there is a Sun. Not THE Sun, but A Sun. The Bucket was built to contain that stolen sun. A lot of things at the Bucket use this old sun as a power source. Fast Forward many years, Season 11, and Tot Fox does that thing where the actual Sun (we'll call it Sol) collapses into a black hole. Sunbeams obviously in a panic. Sol isnt dead tho, it's stuck inside. It calls out to Sandy Crossing and tells her to get the Wings to help, they'd know what to do. A few of the older wings players are like;

"oh ya, so we have this old sun in our basement. it's kinda a big deal, we don't tell many people about it, especially not you guys since we figured you wouldn't like that. We have a place for Sol if you need it, but you need to get it first."

They do this whole mission, sending Brock Watson into the black hole to rescue Sol. It's heavily condensed, small, and very weak. they rush it to the Bucket asap, and they feed The Bucket's Old Sun to Sol. The two combine into one and Sol is saved, and kept in the bucket for safe keeping.

There was a short period of time when the Bucket's old sun was just gone, eaten by Sol, so a lot of Bucket's Tech stopped working until the sun fusion finished. And that included poor K-Rod, all the way in Chicago, who had no idea of this Old Sun business. He was left in the dark about how he was powered. He was awake, doing his usual routine, making a watch, prepping for the next fire call, when he suddenly drops dead for a few hours. Everyone in the firehouse is in a panic because nobody knew how to fix K-Rod better than K-Rod himself. Eventually the Sun fusion is completed in Mexico and K-Rod wakes up, terrified and confused.

It takes a shockingly long time to hear anything from the Wild Wings about what caused this, since the Wings were still stressed over letting the Old Sun get eaten, and that whole thing about Brock going into a black hole. They hadn't even considered K-Rod until a bit later. Burke Gonzales travels all the way up to Chicago to check on K-Rod and explain the whole thing. Kennedy is incredibly upset about this whole thing, for a good number of reasons. The fact that they forgot about him, the fact that they never told him about the one thing keeping him alive, the fact that multiple wings knew about it and nobody thought he should be included in that info, and possibly also the fact that he's a firefighter now and his primary power source is A SUN!? THE FIREFIGHTERS' ENEMY NUMBER ONE?!

He has a very rough relationship with the Wings now. Mexico is still his home, and they're his home team, but He's from Chicago. Chicago is his home now. He still kinda felt like an outsider in Chicago tho, he was still fairly new to the team, and was a pretty solitary guy, so he didn't have any really close friends, just friendly work acquaintances. He looks back at CDMX in rose-tinted goggles nowadays. He only wants to remember the good old times he had there, but refuses to go back, and his love for his old team is more bitter than sweet now. He misses them a lot.

______________________________

At the end of Season 14, Firefighters get a new player. Thanks to a deal with the Lovers, they land an absolute Jackpot of a player. Gabriel Fucking Griffith.

Gabriel is the opposite of K-Rod in every conceivable way. He's got a massive ego, he's a gloat, he's loud and bombastic, wanting all focus on him at all times. He can Pitch, he can Run, he can Bat, he can Catch, he puts his blaseball career first, firefighting second, and on top of all of that, he actually has the reputation to back it up.

K-Rod keeps his distance from this guy. He keeps his eye on him to learn some new tricks for himself, but he can't stand the attitude. Especially Gabriel's destructive anger management after losing a game. Their occasional talks are friendly, and K-Rod does slowly try to teach him that winning isn't everything. Even a Pro can learn from their Losses. The best thing to do is to keep moving forward and keep trying your best. That's all anyone can ask for in the end. Blaseball is hell, and he shouldn't make it harder for himself than he needs to, especially as Firefighters. Just find a way to enjoy it. That's been K-Rod's way of going about it up to this point. Gabe really appreciated the pep talks. They slowly started to get along.

____________________

Ohohohohhoo season 19

Season 19 is when the game got turned Upside Down. Winning was now Losing, and Losing was now Winning. And you know who this hurt the most? Gabriel? You'd think but no, it was actually Kennedy.

The one thing K-Rod focused on was his improvement. He put a very large chunk of his regular free time to trying to find ways to improve himself, and knowing that all he had to do was try his best. Suddenly that's no longer a positive thing. All that effort he's put into himself is not just wasted, its a Hindrance to the team. His Under Over skill, which makes him play better, is now actively hurting the team. It feels like the game is tearing him apart piece by piece with every game he plays. Shockingly, the one person who's not upset by this is Gabriel.

Gabe sits down with K-Rod and gives him a mirror of the speech K-Rod had given him before. They don't have a choice other than to try their best, so why not keep doing it? This season sucks for everyone, not just K-Rod, so he shouldn't take anything personally. It's a learning opportunity on how to adapt to weird changes. The Tokyo Lift had that Hype-Train thing going on that season and were the best team in the league. Nothing made any sense. They should just have fun. That's all that mattered, its why people watched the games. It's why Gabe acts so bombastic. Everyone likes to see the players have fun. Learn to put on a show.

Somehow, Tokyo managed to make the playoffs, despite the Wins=Lose thing. and in the playoffs, the Wins=Lose thing did not apply. Firefighters, the worst team in the Wild High Division (best? We won a lot and that's bad), managed to make it into the playoffs as a Wildcard, facing off against the Tokyo Lift round 1. It was obvious the Lift were going to wipe the floor with us. They had max Hype-train, meaning their home games gave them such a massive advantage that it was barely a fair game. Two of the 3 games were played in Tokyo. One of which was against the Firefighters best pitcher, Lou Roseheart, and one of them against our pitcher who just suffered a major peanut allergy, and had become one of our worst players, Caleb Alvarado.

Game one, despite her best efforts, Lou Roseheart, our best pitcher, let 10.7 runs go. a 10.7 to 1 score. There was no way Caleb could win in those same conditions. Kennedy, luckily, was the pitcher who pitched the game held at the Firehouse. Wing's won their Season 7 championships as the Wildcard team and he was the worst on the team back then. Now here he is, Wildcarded back into the postseason, worst team in the division, and he's got one last chance to finally shine. To make the world know his name.

0-6. He pitched a Shutout. Half of those innings without his Under Over skill in effect. He simply refused to let them win. Sure, the Lift didn't have their ridiculous advantage in that game, and Firefighters didn't win that set. Lift went on to win all of Season 19. But it wasn't about that. It was growth. Spite. Not Spite for the Lift, but for Blaseball as a whole. Fuck this game and everything it stands for. He's here to try his best and support his friends. That's all he's here for. And he is having fun doing it.

________________

That's the end of his story. He ended up being Faxed into the shadows in season 21, and due to his low Star total, never came back out. The closest thing we have to anything after that is Anastasia Isarobot. She was a player in the Shadows of the Firefighters since season 16. the common story for her was that she was made by K-Rod and Fran Beans of the Wing. K-Rod and Fran were friends, and she didn't know about the Sun Heist stuff either, so the two of them kept in contact. K-Rod wanted to make a robot of his own, one he could keep out of Blaseball. One who could live their own life. Anastasia (Staj) was like a daughter to him. When fall-ball happened, Staj was dropped to the Wings, but K-Rod never came back. Staj was, also, the best player in the entire ILB.

Maybe all the improvement K-Rod tried to apply to himself carried over into her construction. He didn't want her to play Blaseball and now here she is, forced to play, better than her dad ever could be. And she gets snuffed out in Season 1, by the same book that caused all the hell they were in before. She never had a chance. She might go through the same hell as Jaylen Hotdogfingers. The worst fate that any player could ever endure.

And then they were all released. Thats it. Krod, Staj, everyone, finally set free. it's so sudden. I can only wish them the best. I love all these players more than you could possibly imagine. I actually drove myself to tears writing this whole thing. When i was running K-Rod's Twitter account, I wrote him a lot like myself, because he already kinda was like me. But in the end he became something much more, he became the kinda guy i wanted to be. Its very weird to look up to a guy I practically helped write, but i really do.

I had only a passive interest in Robot characters prior to Blaseball, but now here i am, V-Tubing as a Robot on the internet, with a new fascination in old computers and engineering. I even have a drawing of Staj on my office wall at work, in the same way you'd hang up a picture of your own kid.

I'll never be the same. @fintenciate im @ing you here because im sure this post will kill you as much as it kills me.

I've been sad about Blaseball lately

You should tell me about your Blaseball blorbo, especially if they aren't one that's well known. I mean, I wouldn't mind if you want to tell me why you like Jessica Telephone or Mike Townsend or PolkaDot Patterson anyway. But I especially want to hear if you have a guy (gn) that's constantly rotating in your mind.

[siskey]

Guys, do you know what I didn’t this year? These lovely dtiys. I didn’t finish them because a) I am slug and b) if I haven’t finished one drawing til one week, I never return back to. One or two of them are from previous year, I think. Oh my, I’m such a mess. 

Wish you Happy(er) New Year! /and more finished projects to me haha/

Art belongs to amazing @whiteleyfoster @ovfanart @ami-v-dragnire​ and birbteef

[jube-art]

titans, second generation, (the generation that failed)

[inpacho]

I love birbteef's comics so I made his dtiys

[spookyprime]

I'm not sure if you had spoke about it before BUT do u have any other social media besides tumblr?

Sort of but not really. I'm on Twitter and Instagram as birbteef but I don't talk on them I just post art. Even then I don't really post most of what I do because both platforms are problematic and difficult to use. If you want to talk to me the best way to reach me is discord I'm spookyprime there

[burningcrab]

12 20 and 22 for the blaseball ask meme?

12. favorite team aesthetic

oooh good question. it honestly varies day to day. garages mechanics millennials sunbeams are my top ones. i like grungy punks and huge machines and big cities and weird teeth deserts. sorry this isnt one specific team i simply contain multitudes

20. stupid character lore concept that lives in your head rent free

you know that comic birbteef did. where NaN walks in on sexton and mcdowell kissing and they try to explain homosexuality and NaN’s like “no guys i know you’re gay, what’s the wifi password” and sexton’s like “gay? NaN? you know i’m a horse, right?”

it’s that

22. question 20, but for worldbuilding

scuttles

idk why both my answers are sexton wheerer themed i guess the tacos are just like that

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