#deathmason

[autisticlalna]

if there's a garages song in there pick the top one and an appropriate blorbo of your choice

breaking the rules a little bit because i dont have a garages song on here this year BUT judging by my other songs i would've had this if i had the time and energy to do all my jukebox pieces. this is a nightmares!Avid song and it haunts me.

[patchdotexe]

snuuic

love this hog. the snuuy

[daekie]

🍅, i am declaring trip your oc today

honestly? fair

🍅 [TOMATO] How misunderstood is your OC? In-universe or IRL.: in-universe, honestly, like. trip hates talking to people. if it was up to them they would have other wyatts play translator all the time and just stand there while their siblings go EXCUSE ME THEY ASKED FOR NO PICKLES, they hate talking out loud when compared to communicating via link. also they don’t emote outwardly, physically or facially, very much.

this is to say: nobody trip doesn’t like has any goddamn sense of who they are as a person or what they want or even what they do. they just sort of ghost in, laugh at you when you get reverbed in the stadium from their hangout in the soundsystem, and evaporate when the game’s done. they hang out almost exclusively with their siblings, or with their few friends, and glare at anyone who tries to talk to them face-to-face.  

they kind of love this because it means they can do something at someone and then go no one will ever believe you. it’s their favorite. 

[skychased]

@deathmason replied to your post “what if i ate pizza leftovers”:

you wouldn't have any more leftovers

​THIS IS SO TRUE.......... unfortunately i have already inhaled the pizza leftovers. maybe this will fix me

[burningcrab]

tagged by @sol-shines

Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most! i think @waveridden started this

there are yet more but alas. poll limit

tagging uh. @deathmason @suitablysolemn @azemthewanderer @bread--quest @samglyph and anyone else who wants to. if you already did it then whoops

[suitablysolemn]

@deathmason

Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.

What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket

[veilk]

hello gamers. i have been tagged by @poltergeisz

last song: daisy bell ft terminal 99 by bingo, alternatively kiss me (kill me) by jerryterry (cws for parasites and general horror-y stuff)

currently watching: a lot of things? mostly due to having like, three family watching tv show nights a week. currently they areeee amphibia, fma:b, once upon a time, dr who, and the x files

currently reading: ive been meaning to read the city we became and wonderstruck but keep forgetting bc adhd. ive also been wanting to reread house of leaves and harrow the ninth but who knows when ill get around to that.

current obsession: hmm. inscryption, i have been rotating it around in my brain very much lately. very fun game which scratches my brain exactly right. i also have my silly little extremely obscure blorbo from it who has like, -2 canon lore (james my beloved) also art fight as well i will admit ive been staring at the website waiting for then to let me choose my team longer than i should the past few days

tagging @butchexe @aabblleeddnntt @stilledbrain @aroplush @deathmason @kittygenderz uhhhhh i don't have the energy to thnk of more people to tag my head is hurties so if you're mutuals with me consider yourself tagged

[autisticlalna]

someone's joining the coldplay fandom i see

i have a problem and its that whenever i think of that song my brain starts playing the FIAB happy hardcore remix instead

[patchdotexe]

smumy

that's like emotionally the same as a wurmple i think

^ smumy

[suitablysolemn]

@deathmason you with siffrin

you know how it is

[burningcrab]

tagged by @samglyph

last song: neon bible by arcade fire

currently (re)reading: we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson

currently watching: mariners baseball games? no tv shows right now, i rewatched severance recently though

tagging @deathmason @suitablysolemn @bread--quest @azuregodhead @search-queery and whoever else wants to. no pressure tho

[polkadotpatterson]

fic writer ask game: 7, 16, 17, 30, 42, 50. one or any or all :p

ALL. I do not back down from a challenge

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

Worldbuilding has always been one of my weaknesses, and I can honestly say I don't think I've ever really been proud of my worldbuilding until The Salt. I can't take credit for creating the world itself, and it's very much been a collaborative effort, but I've contributed so much more to it than I ever thought I could! I'm really proud of how I’ve helped shape the Salt as a place that is also An Entity who is very much alive, and come up with concepts like “what if there was fog when there shouldn't be fog, and a fucked up lighthouse that used people's life force as a beacon” and “okay so you know how there are actually a bunch of cars that got dumped into the real-world Halifax Harbour? what if there's a weird car salesman who tries to sell the old rusty salt cars to people” and “what if there was a cat. but, like, a MYSTERIOUS cat”

like. I love writing about it so much it's so weird and messed up and I love it dearly. look at my strange place-child (that I have shared custody of):

There's a strange, aching loneliness to the Salt, and yet Weston always feels as if they're being watched every time they step out there. In some ways, it's not unlike the prairie; a vast flat expanse, cold and still and silent under the stars, but the quiet of the prairie is comforting. It always made them feel as if they were a part of something, as if they belonged out there with all the other creatures that wandered beneath the open sky, wild and free.

The Salt feels almost hostile, as if it's waiting to decide whether or not they're worthy. They don't want to find out what might happen if it decides they aren't.

All the same, she walks it at night, not wanting to disturb the stillness with the roar of a motorcycle engine. She can be quiet, when the situation calls for it. Respectful. This is her home now, and she will not fear it. The stars are dusted across the sky like little fragments of the Salt itself, white and desolate. There is no warmth to them, or to the lights that flicker here on earth as she walks, signals in the dark that she always ignores. She knows better than to poke a rattlesnake.

No, it's not alive like the prairie. It's… comatose, perhaps. Waiting to die, or to be revived, uncertain of which it would prefer, lashing out in its dreams.

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

one of the AUs that lives rent free in my head is the one where Workman survives the instability but CV ends up forming out of their cloud anyway, and they're like “huh okay I guess I have a vapour child now” and end up in a strange sort of co-parenting situation with Mooney. And then Dot gets unshelled and York falls to the Talkers and the teen squad happens and Dot & Workman happens and Mooney’s wife gets sucked into a black hole and over the grand siesta they’re like hey. let's get a house. so the Patterson-Gloom-TeenSquad-Doctor family gets a nice big house by the sea with a nice big yard for Beasley and Budy to run around in and a lab in the basement for Mooney to do her work and everything is good and happy :)

until the return and York dying and CV running onto the field to take his place

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

This is probably the weirdest possible answer but @mossy-kit came up with this idea of a cheesy hallmark holiday movie AU for the Talkers that I think is just such a fun concept… everyone's in this cute little winter town like “ah yes this is our nice normal everyday lives” except for Lachlan who knows that something is Strange and Wrong here even if he doesn't know exactly what or why… for everyone else it's a happy romcom but for him it's kind of a horror movie because he's trapped in this strange and unsettling place with people who insist that Everything Is Fine And Normal, but it’s not! He knows normal and this isn't it!

Meanwhile, Dot knows exactly what's going on but they're just kind of vaguely amused by it and vibing in Workman’s shoe store. 

(We have so many other assorted silly ideas but this post is long enough already lol)

30. Already answered!

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

I genuinely treasure every comment I get, the blaseball community is so supportive and wonderful and I always appreciate when people take the time to say something about my writing and feel very blessed that they do <3 Special thanks to:

everyone who's ever said that my writing is what made them care about Dot or the Patterson-Gloom family

My blesties Kit and Kosmo for all their incredibly kind words

pretty much every comment I got on my blaseball-only fic 

Crab saying that The Salt is one of the coolest blaseball fanworks ever

But if I had to pick one, it would be Hayden’s comment on apsides: “the love with which you wrote this is astounding. this is the kind of thing where i care about it because you care about it so much, built this whole thing so carefully, and it was phenomenal to read. just... fantastic.”

It reminds me of my favourite comment I ever got on a pokemon fic, where someone said “it feels like i’m reading love” on my PMD fic. bc that’s what it’s all about to me! I want to write things that are full of love even if there’s bad stuff going on too, because that's how you get through it! blaseball in particular is about people sticking together and supporting each other through incredible tragedy and chaos. Yes, I write angsty things, but I want them to be hopeful, too! I want them to be full of love because it's worth fighting for! And I'm so glad when it comes across and people appreciate it <3

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

okay I lied I can't think of anything else so here’s my favourite out of context lines from the hallmark conversation

siblings with a very wacky uncle who definitely never did any murders

the greernch

tony is a halloween decoration that someone left outside and he eventually gained sentience through the magic of christmas

Jasper was Late To Elf Practice

Quack the Reinduck

"Workman, did we....make elf shoes?" "...no?"

HOT FISH WINTER

they come back through the magic of christmas and/or necromancy

[suitablysolemn]

@deathmason

"they should be at the club" "they should be at the farmers market" "they should be at the public library" well i should be in my lovers arms but im not am i. life is full of disappointments

[daftpunkselectroma]

🌻

after daft punk broke up thomas bangalter scored a ballet called mythologies as his first big main project :] apparently it’s really good though i haven’t heard it myself since i don’t think there’s a recording online

[autisticlalna]

beating them with hammers

when are we starting usmp (1 more than t)

ASDZSHDGDHGLKXDFG WE DONT NEED TO BEAT THEM WITH HAMMERS. like, im disappointed but ill manage? and ill still be streaming and ~experimenting~ with stuff

i do need to play with you again though. its been forever. the u in usmp stands for unawball

[patchdotexe]

@deathmason replied to your post “i have become wretched”:

like tomatoes???

​just like tomatoes