#blb: ✨

[bread--quest]

[IDs: Three different digital drawings, all in a simple, cartoony style. The drawings are of personifications of various Blaseball teams. The first image is a 3-panel comic showing the Millennials and the Garages, the second is an edited XKCD comic showing the Magic and the Spies, and the third is a collection of various drawings, with tumblr posts assigned to the characters who are "saying" them.

The Millennials are a person with light pink and blue hair in a half-ponytail, wearing a hoodie and with a visor displaying emojis on it over their eyes. They say "girl u r (caps) killing it!", making finger guns and smiling while the emojis displayed on their visor are the double exclamation marks, fire, and 100. They then cross their arms and say "girl idt its (caps) moving anymore" as the visor emojis switch to the fire and two different question marks. In the final panel, they hold out their hands with an expression of distress, visor emojis now the exclamation mark, raised hand, and stop sign, and say "girl u can stop biting", with "girl" and "stop biting" in caps. The third panel also shows the Garages, who have blue sideshaved hair and are surrounded by blue fire, angrily biting at the png of the melted Coin/Boss.

The Magic are a person with dark brown skin and dark green, braided hair, wearing a light yellow ranger's uniform and a pink wizard's cloak and hat. They stand next to a tree and speak into a walkie-talkie, saying "the eagle has left the nest!" with a look of delight. The comic then shows the Spies, who are a person with pale skin and black hair with lavender streaks, wearing a trenchcoat, fedora, scarf, and sunglasses, so their features are almost entirely obscured. They are also holding a walkie-talkie, and say "*khhkht* roger that. alert the agents." *khhhkht*" The Magic turn to them with a look of annoyance, throwing their hands in the air and saying "will you stop that?" (stop that is italicized). The Spies are then drawn in only lineart, with the lines being partially erased and the caption/sound effect "*abscond*".

The various characters shown saying posts are: 1: the Firefighters, who are a person with pale skin, fire hair in a high bun, and blurred fire emojis for eyes, holding a piece of paper that is shown in an inset to read "you have mental illinois" and happily saying "i have been diagnosed with chicago". 2: the Sunbeams, who are a person with light brown skin, short yellow hair, multiple arms and eyes, a slight yellow glow behind their head, sitting in a red area with white bones jabbing up from the ground and saying with a happy expression "(sitting in the pit) you guys really make this hell-hole a hell-home [blushing emoji]". 3: The Jazz Hands, who are a person with light skin and short light blue hair that fades to white wearing a bowtie and top hat, pointing at a purple card reading "xvi" while saying with an angry expression "Pilots, if you keep this shit up you're going to find out why the tower is considered the most evil tarot card". 4: The Crabs, a person with brown skin, short brown hair in a ponytail, a crab claw in place of their right hand, crab-colored patches on their face, and antennae, are smiling while saying "well i can comprehend these manmade horrors perfectly so idk skill issue". 5: The Tigers, a person with light brown skin, short orange hair, and a tiger tail and ears, wearing sunglasses and sitting in an inner tube, grinning and saying "floating down the river styx on an inflatable donut and high-fiving all the lost souls i pass. i'm on vacation". They have one hand raised to high-five another, ghostly hand. End IDs.]

now that we know a team is canonically a Thing that can Do Stuff (like become an Ace??? maybe?? listen just go with it) i feel justified in posting these. also i've been getting too many followers anyway, i need to thin the pack with some good old-fashioned Weird Cringe Nonsense (proud)

[eso-z-rukavu]

Na parkovišti u Kauflandu nějaký blb zaparkoval vedle mýho auta tak blízko a nakřivo, že jsem nemohla ani otevřít dveře dost na to, abych vlezla dovnitř a nedej bohové mohla odjet. Tak jsem šla ještě do nějakýho obchodu asi na 20min ale to auto tam furt bylo, když jsem přišla zpátky. A jediný co mi probíhalo hlavou (kromě dost explicitního sborníku českejch i zahraničních nadávek) bylo:

✨ Nikam vole ✨

Co mi to Čumblr udělal?

[thehallstara]

🦋 ✨ 🌷 🍰

🦋 tell us about your current wip

i am almost always rotating through like. 3 wips at all times ngl?? atm my main fic ones are photometry (chapters 2+3), a 12x100 abt post-blb and edric tosser, and a 12x100 about ollie mueller that i recently resurrected for the first time in months skdjs

✨ newest wip

the post blaseball edric 12x100!!! thinking about doing a nerdfamous one and a haruta one along with it just to like. finish off those stories in my head lol

🌷 writing achievement you want to brag about

oh, i mean. i have to brag about ablaze with all the people you've been and cards fall where they may. i don't really think i'll ever do a blaseball twine again (they take. so much time for so little response and also i have. bigger games to focus on these days sdkjfks) but these two silly little fics opened up a whole other world to me, in so many ways. and they still hold up, in my opinion, which is no easy task a year+ out yk?? check them out if you haven't i promise they're worth it

🍰 where you like to write

i absolutely write more in bed than i do anywhere else lmao it's the nature of needing to be more horizontal than not a lot of days what can i say!!!

[leonstamatis]

🤩⌛🤯 + ✨

Who is your favorite character to write?

answered this a bit ago, but for non-blb fics i’ve had a lot of fun writing es from sangfielle. her voice is very particular in a way that is very fun for me, and i love playing in her head.

What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)?

anything heavily physical! certainly fights, and also anything about physical affection. i feel like the characters I write don’t often touch, and that’s because i never quite know how to write it when they do. interacting with things is easy and interacting with other people is hard.

How long does it take you to write a fic, or a chapter?

depends on the fic! anything less than 4k, I can usually turn around in a couple hours. anything more than 8k will take a couple days. more than 10-15k could take a few weeks. in some cases i work on things for months or even a year or so before they’re done. there’s always a lot open and ongoing but whether it’ll get done and when is another question.

Give you and your writing a compliment.

hi, me! you have gotten a lot better with dialogue in the last year or so. good job!

[reaperoftheseas]

blub blub blb!!!

-🐟✨

"Ya sure are interestin' to stick near, heh."

(M!A asks left: 2)

[sunken-and-silenced]

blb blubb.. blub.

a demon-adjacent being with fishlike features wandered up to sunkenhammer. they looked slightly intimidated, albeit curious...

-🐟✨

*bubble bubble clank*

|{ "hm? Who are you?" }|

[takjdidoprdele]

I have seen some people who were amazed/in shock by Czech words with no vowels and decided to spam you with some

Vlk, skrz, krk, strč, tvrz, prs, blb, brk, chrstl, chrt, cvrnk, čtvrť, čtvrt, hrb, mrkl, mrskl, srp, srst, trh and waaaay more. I love our language lol.

Honorable mention: ✨zmrd✨ my favorite. 🤌

[serendipitous-magic]

this may be disrespectful and u don’t have to answer but how r u queer/sapphic and also writing BLB or gay fanfics? A lot of it smut? If you have no physical attraction to men?

It doesn't read as disrespectful to me, just confused :) And that's okay!

Yes, I am queer! And I am generally not interested in romantic or sexual relationships with men. (There have been exceptions but they are very very VERY few. The human brain is complicated.) However, as a writer I empathize with my characters. I also just appreciate men for their existence because while I'm not really looking to get with them, they're still lovely. Men are adorable and handsome and gorgeous and sexy, not to mention caring and intelligent and hilarious - everything that women are. We're all just human! I write mlm ships the same way I read them: while that's not my personal life experience, I can see why and how someone would want a relationship with a guy.

Plus, I'm more invested in byeler as a relationship and a dynamic and a friendhsip etc. than I am in what their genders are. That's not to say that I don’t enjoy it more because it's gay than I would if it was a straight ship, because the "young gays in the 1980s" angle really brings another dimension to it, and gives us queers a really powerful story to empathize with and experience catharsis and wish fulfillment. But I'd ship them if they were Willma and Michelle, and heck, I'd probably still ship them if they were f/m (if maybe not as much - see above).

I suspect this is mainly about the smut, since straight and queer women read mlm fic for enjoyment all the time. (I guess there's a whole essay to be written there, but not now.) So, how can I write mlm smut if I'm not generally physically attracted to men?

If you want the light answer, see above. I empathize with characters. While I'm not really into the ol' penis, some people are. Writing is about getting into other types of people's heads. I could also write from a serial killers' pov despite not wanting to murder people. Plus, I find erotica hot even if I don't want to be in the characters' shoes IRL.

Want the slightly darker answer? I have sexual trauma from some situations of questionable consent that I went through in years past, and writing about sexual situations involving the female body (aka a body like mine, which experienced said trauma) can trigger me. So while I am a queer woman, my chucks generally have to come from mlm "situations" in order to avoid sending me into a ✨trauma memory✨.

Sorry if you didn't want that much personal detail, but you asked so I answered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[smms333]

BLB！食べられるうちにたくさん食べたいBLB🥪🤤✨ おかげで今日も捗りました💪 とてもハイペースでスコーンスタンプが貯まってしまい、申し訳なさとうれしさと。笑 いくらでも食べられちゃう至高のスコーン、いつ食べても大正解の味がする…！ #onomichi #omeshi #エスキーナ https://www.instagram.com/p/CaHx7rupt_G/?utm_medium=tumblr

[reaperoftheseas]

pphh. pill bebe :3 blub blb..

-🐟✨

"Don't exactly know who gave me it, but it's somethin'."

(M!A asks left: 4)

[reaperoftheseas]

yya!!! blb :)

-🐟✨

"Been some time since I been complimented like that, heh."

[thehallstara]

hi i’m stealing this idea from @idonthaveanyurlideas​ but!!! do you like blaseball??? do you like interactive fiction/games?? do you not like blaseball but like very coolly formatted stories about grief and lose and regret?? well let me introduce you to my ✨blaseball twines✨ (and one bitsy):

run from me and rip me open was written in the immediate aftermath of season 18, and follows justice spoon in the lead up to her second alteration. jumping between past and present, you’re given a glimpse of the worlds that built her– and all that she has to lose. (6k, cws: fire, death by fire/incineration, description of drowning, death, grief/mourning, panic attacks)

ablaze with all the people you’ve been is a magnum opus of sorts; we get a look at several possible pasts and futures of edric tosser that never came to be as he’s trapped in the hazy in between of the hall and the black hole. it’s a story about his grief, and how he copes with it (or doesn’t) and is still one of my favourite things i’ve made despite being a full year old at this point. (35k, overall cws: unreality, death, swearing, smoking, grief)

cards fall where they may is a tarot themed trio of blaseball stories, centring on morrow doyle, peanutiel duffy, and gerund pantheocide respectively. i learned css during this one and you can tell!!! so if you just want to see some cool ass formatting, this one’s for you lol. it’s also full of so much heart, and i’m very proud of it. (12k, Overall CWs: Minor flickering/animation/eyestrain, Unreality, Death/Incineration, Swearing)

what might have been lost (don’t bother me) is a fairly short twine i made for my beloved @tigerquoii​ as part of the FFs fic exchange!! it’s about baby triumphant, complicated sibling relationships, and new beginnings. simple, but sweet! (3k, CWs: brief mentions of drowning and burns, swearing, fire)

the end is near is a short bitsy i made for crabjam2022, a sort of soliloquy about the end of the universe. while not quite a blb piece, you can absolutely see bits and pieces of s24 in there, and i think it’s a lovely little ode to the feelings that season invoked.

and so concludes the roundup of the stara david (non)cinematic blaseball games universe! if any of these descriptions piqued your interests, take a look and happy fall ball!!!!

[thehallstara]

🔁💯✨!

🔁 A fic you’ve re-read several times it is so hard to find blb fics for you bc i feel like we've probably read a lot of the same stuff so instead i'm gonna give you my favourite tua fic/possibly fic ever? tethered mind free from the lies is just like. 20k of pure healing and exploration and growth and i can't count the amount of times i've read it

💯 A fic that makes you think #writergoals okay one of these i KNOW you've read but both babytriumphant's deep, where the tides are turning and moonfrompluto's ORPHEUS both make me want to sit down and start writing every time i read them they make my brain spin

✨ A fic you wish you could read again for the first time lucky people by marn!!! i zoomed through this at breakneck speed and i so wish i could relive that last chapter again for the first time

[smms333]

BLB(ベーコンレタスブルーチーズ)サンドと聞いて、早速食べに駆けつけてしまった₍₍ (ง ˙ω˙)ว ⁾⁾🥪✨ ブルーチーズ、たまに無性に食べたくなるけどなかなか自分では買わないやつ…！ たっぷりレタス&ベーコンの超王道ペアに差し込まれた、パンチと捻りの効いた風味が最高でした🤤 合わせて出てきたスープも、スパイスとレモンが大変いい安牌🥦あったまるー 店主さんおススメのエチオピアが、またベストマッチすぎて驚いた。 味わいの発見が多い、この幸せな日々よ🍽 食レポブログ感あふれるテキストになってしまった。いつもこんなこと脳内で喋りながら味わってます。孤独のグルメのあれはリアルだよね。 #omeshi #onomichi #カフェエスキーナ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZi5lC-pswQ/?utm_medium=tumblr