#even if the way tgb does things is different... i wanna hold onto hope that the current story might get continued

[library-whale]

A write-up I did on a sidecord about my take on Blaseball’s current “ending”. I don't feel like rewriting it here right now, so take a screenshot.

EDIT: Transcript for screen readers under the cut.

i was thinking about how i want my whole “premature end of coronation era and blaseball” thing to go.... and i think i want to go in a wildly different direction from what i’ve seen.

in my version of things, something has ground the league to a halt. maybe the bridge has collapsed (i headcanon that the bridge era was the longest siesta the splort has every seen... until now), maybe the umps are fighting (insert “the girls are fighting” tweet here), maybe a little piece of aequitas, of all things, has shown up and is making things difficult for everybody in general. the point is, this is not a situation in which play can resume.

even if the current players wind up getting released, the end result is still the same. play has halted until it is possible for blaseball to return... if it can at all. everything’s sort of... stagnated. (and if the players really are released, perhaps the lifespan(s) of a player, former or otherwise, might be long enough that if the league ever returns they can try their hands at being the fans and try to improve things.)

don’t get me wrong, i like the other endings people have come up with, but i also want to mourn the ending we could’ve gotten. i’m putting my sadness, disappointment and frustration with the situation into this. it isn’t really an end... just an unexpected stop.

(also i’m not that big of a fan of “the magic goes away” style endings... seeing them just makes me sadder)