#charlestonshoethieves

[waveridden]

also for the other way do you have any thoughts on majoume/chazz and/or johan/jesse

so in the past month i've been thinking about this and i would like to propose a general idea that is the gx players as shadows for various teams. i think it fits well with the "next generation" thing as well as the whole idea of them trying to become pro duelists. anyways with that in mind,

chazz is one of those "high stars but super borked fk" shadows players where it's like, he would be okay but a single shinfuse would make him great

it's just that that's constantly the fifth most important thing going on at any given moment

he is really mad about this. why won't they let him play. don't they see he's a four star batter.

meanwhile jesse wins one of those blessings that's like "bedazzle a player in your shadows" and like nobody knows what the fuck bedazzled means but they all vote for it

jesse definitely is also, like, a semi-beloved late-discipline replacement player who got foreshadowed in early expansion because he's just not that good. but people still love him.

[killerforthepies]

the shoe thieves were my og team, feeling drawn back to them..

simultaneously becoming more of a dale hahn fox fan every day

[glassgob]

[ID: Digital Illustration of Rigby Peacelily from the video game Blaseball. Rigby is a Black woman who wears ‘70s disco fashion. She is facing forward, holding a spear with a metal tip shaped like a peace lily. Behind her are more peace lilies. The illustration is a warm peach-tone. End ID.] 

rigby peacelily for @charlestonshoethieves 💖

[orthgodlove]

okay but do i go for shoethieves or charlestonshoethieves

[waveridden]

for yugioh. val hitherto

@leonstamatis asked: val hitherto

first of all you know how every series is about a different type of summoning. like gx has all the fusions and 5ds has the synchros and whatever. i think val for sure has versions of his deck set up for every type of summoning and he tries to pick ones that his opponent can't necessarily counter

anyways this is on the nose so in the spirit of yugioh i'm running with it, this bitch DEFINITELY runs a time-thief deck. like especially with these cards being well suited to spamming the field, a move that feels very val to me. in terms of support he favors machine-types bc those work well with the deck and also you can go with all types of aesthetic. cyber shit. ancient gear shit. all of the above

[waveridden]

Oh!! Can i ask abt the spears & richardson rivalry scene in downswing? Or the ending where dickson goes back to planning out their bloodsucking

MAN THE DOWNSWING. this is going to be so long

so a lot of the time when i write something with blaseball, i have a specific narrative in mind, and also certain events. with the downswing, i had just been thinking a lot about siphons, and i went "you know what would be fun? writing about siphons." i didn't know who to write about but i knew from early on that i wanted it to be something nasty, both in terms of bloodiness and characterization, so i was ready to take some characters and make them into just... real motherfuckers. (sorry, yeong-ho benitez likers.)

the incredible @charlestonshoethieves had a list of all siphon blooddrains, something that reblase didn't track for some reason, so i immediately went to that and started looking for patterns that i thought were interesting. i had a couple criteria in mind - ideally i wanted a siphon who had previously been blooddrained, but i don't think there was one - and eventually narrowed it down to cory ross on the steaks, or dickson games.

all this to say, the spears/dix sequence is actually part of the reason i picked dix! i was looking through all the drains and saw that there was a lot of back-and-forth with the fridays, and i was immediately interested in that. there's something really compelling to me about these two people caught up on their own power trips at basically all costs. people got hurt, but it's easy to view that as temporary, especially when you are inflicting that hurt.

the ending was something i came up with pretty early on, and actually something i wrote pretty early on. i wanted those last couple paragraphs of dix's hit list to be dense. i wanted it to be hard to read and parse out everyone on the list, because they are at a point where anything and everything is cause enough to get on the drain list. and the total lack of self awareness re: "blaseball is a mess" came to me so easily, because... how can it be messy when they're so satisfied with what they're doing?

in closing after i wrote this @leonstamatis said to me that between s11 and the grand siesta dix probably had some withdrawal but corn syrup is a good blood substitute, so siphons probably just straight drink corn syrup now. i bequeath this mental image unto you. use it well.