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[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)

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[ID: A digital collage divided into roughly three sections. At the top, there is a heavily blurred map of America, with a yellow circle with the sun with face emoji marking Moab, Utah and a pale pink circle with the cellphone emoji marking NYC. A glowing line has been drawn between the two. Text above this reads "there are / 2,127 miles / between hellmouth, utah and new york, new york". The middle section is two images, one of a desert landscape and one of an apartment hallway. They both have a circle in the middle swapped, so it looks like there's a hole leading to the apartment hallway in the desert landscape and vice versa. The desert to apartment portal is glowing slightly pink, the apartment to desert portal is glowing slightly yellow. Text above and below the middle section reads "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line / or a portal". The bottom section is a conglomeration of smaller images: the text "Following Season 10, the teams signed a lease together and are now long-distance roommates.", a series of words resembling Google Maps directions directing someone to win the favor of Millie the Bodega Cat, a plate of eggs labeled "eggs for brunch! (normal, i promise)", a white person with pink curly hair in a ponytail and a Black person with dark pink and teal hair and small demon wings posing in front of a sign reading "Hellmouth - Oh not you guys again - really? come on", a series of texts reading "someone left their bat over here" "come back and get it pls" "1 person already injured", a text reading "wildcards again babyyyy" in all caps, and an email to "Marxism 101 HCC class" reading "am lost in new york so i will not be able to teach class tomorrow. you get an extension on homework! congratulations. sent from my Galaxy Dishwasher". In the center of the bottom image is two glowing pairs of yellow and pink circles, with yellow and pink figures jumping, cartwheeling, and leaping through them. In the upper left of the bottom image is the text "the word 'porta' derives from the latin noun 'portal', meaning 'gate'", and at the bottom right the text concludes "cognate with 'portus': haven, refuge, harbor." End ID.]

the first of 3 visual pieces i did for the blaseball zinejam, a piece for @burningcrab's travel zine about the hellennials portal!!! thanks crab for letting me post about how two entire sports teams being roommates can actually be so emotional

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[ID: A simple digital drawing. In the bottom right corner is a set of figures in various shades of red, playing various instruments. They have no details and are just silhouettes, although they are drawn smiling. There is a blue spiky shape emanating out from around them. They are surrounded by a crowd of people, also all silhouettes, done in shades of pink and red. The people also have no details, but they are all holding small blue squares, representing phones, with lights coming out, as if holding up phone flashlights at a concert. Some of these lights are arranged to form the shape of a heart. There is dark shading surrounding the image, seeming to encroach on the band. End ID.]

this is my piece for the season 24 speedrun zine, an absolutely incredible piece of work. i have yet to read it but i think its gonna tear up my heart :). this piece is called "last gig", and its about season 24, day 97, which if you know me you know why i love to yell about it.

there's also this alternate version!! wahoo!! bonuses!

[ID: The above image, but with "the garages / last gig" handwritten across it in glowing red. End ID.]