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Day 159

[dabihaul666]

im so sad i feel so over caedrel lr and his stream and he doenst know jack shit about the lpl he just pmo at this point talking what he doesnt know about and i turn it off

[rellbot]

gyros (swedish remix)

[meteosgasm]

my first thought when caedrel talked about them doing a los ratones cafe

[puckpocketed]

Van Puckpocketed how does one get into esports

i am not the best person to be asking this one HELP

i get into esports because i play the games myself and enjoy seeing them played at a very high level. easy part: esports is, generally, free to stream. if you play a video game with a competitive ladder or an aspect of pvp there’s gonna be esports about it probably!! card games, fighting games, autochess (tft), arena/hero/tac shooters, mobas, everything…. esports is like a million games and communities in a trench coat.

beyond that: no easy answers here. i would say check out valorant or CS because those are better spectator sports -> “click head” remains the same no matter what, objectives are singular per round and easy to follow (bomb plant -> bomb diffuse) and first person pov is analogous to many other video games.

on lol esports:

please note that league of legends is a different animal. its deeeply inaccessible imo unless you’re a bit familiar with the game. you can absolutely understand the broader rhythms of a game like laning and objectives, but it gets significant map/item changes season to season, it has the crazy overlay, and there are 170 champions and their abilities/interactions to figure out <- all of this is very overwhelming at first glance if you’ve got nothing to relate it to. im not saying knowledge from playing the game yourself is required, but its very helpful. and i’m also saying Do Not Play League of Legends. nobody who plays league of legends recommends league of legends. if u do play. good luck have fun and keep the /mute all command in your pocket

i like Psychopathic Poro on yt for lol esports catch ups/power rankings/previews??? Caedrel also does structured previews of tournaments on his channel when not uploading clip compilations/highlights of his co-streams. there are many written resources to start understanding tournament formats, brackets, power rankings….. just like trad sports there will be podcasts, forums, hashtags on twitter, and various communities on tumblr/discord. i keep to the periphery of these bc i’ve got a lot on my plate and i am a dedicated casual but if you go digging you’ll probably find people.

uhh and there’s regional rivalries. you pick one and you just Go. i am an LPL supremacist and have been since JackeyLove + IG won worlds in 2018 by always flashing forward <- they were my first world champs and i imprinted on the region. they also play at a time thats convenient to watch.

gently pinging @boxenstopp @hexburn @tjarry @somejoyinmudville @cerona10 @weiseccs and ummm whoever else appears in my notes when i esportspost. no pressure but please help me out this is above my pay grade 😭🫶

[baronvontribble]

hi yes this is my way of saying i've once again been dragged into the esports swamp. there's just something super compelling about los ratones, caedrel's really cooking something here

i made a WHOLE PILE of tracks (first time i've made music since the vocaloid days) and i've done a bunch of fancomics too but i'm waiting to post those. happy share the tunes tho. the tunes are good regardless

[pinkcaraz]

ok short summary of things taylor talked about during his just chatting portion of the stream (11/27/24). i definitely missed some stuff bc his stream was super quiet and i was doing other stuff but yea i summarized most of the points. also i left out a few parts about details on league since i didn't rly think anyone would care that much about it LOL.

taylor got home 5 days ago, had training today, will probs start hitting tmr, said he should have maybe taken more days off

he saw the novandy news, said it'll be super nice to have andy back and that he was def not expecting it

he hasn't finished arcane yet, he's waiting for morgan to watch it together

he bought a custom (?) cloud pendant (i think from an anime i'm not sure) for a chain

talking about watching faker at worlds and how insane it is bc he could see his screen and see that he was tabbing around watching all the different perspectives

wants caedrel to coach him LOL told chat to spam him to coach him in league

scuffed stream 😭 he's fumbling w his mic and facecam

he said hes former top 100 NA fifa player, said team italy should have invited them so he could smoke them at fifa LMAO

got asked why does he take off left shoe during breaks? theres a spot that hurts when he slides around so taking his shoe off to let it chill helps relieve the pain

jealous of jannik and iga for being able to slide into backhands (he was more specific about the type of shot but i missed it)

bragging about his win rate in league (again)

talking about frances' serve time violations in shanghai thought the first 2 calls of time violation were bs, but def thought the one where he faked the ball toss was valid

said he'd answer controversial tennis questions LOL

got asked why sour cream and guac? bc he doesn't like spicy that much

london airbnb incident - they booked the airbnb the day before they got there, he thought the people trying to rob the airbnb probs thought they weren't there, morgan noticed sketchy people walking up to the door in the middle of the night, he tried to bolt the door but there wasn't a bolt so he held it shut w his body, he had his racket w him and said he would have hit the intruders w a slice forehand if they got in LMAO

thoughts on racket smashing - thinks it's entertaining, ok if not putting others in danger/at risk, thinks it's entertaining for people/fans to see, somewhat humanizing effect on the player, not healthy to keep anger in, don't do it on grass tho bc it ruins the court

talking about his match v daniil - thought that one game was funny but didn't think he was intentionally throwing the match

tommy and frances playing mind games by overcomplimenting their opponent (thinking about the laver cup fed '05 moment)

hits ohbhs in practice sometimes bc he thinks his "one-y" is unbelievable, rule is he's allowed to hit it until he hits a bad one then goes back to normal

any profits he gets from the stream will go to charity ! he's interested in donating to things that help kids

players don't pay for hotels while they're in tournaments but pay for everything else

thinks michael (his coach) should def win best coach, sportsmanship award will probs go to carlos or casper

thinks most improved award should consider older players more like draper, popyrin, musetti, himself, also jasmine paolini, etc. bc it's more impressive when older players improve compared to younger guys who have more time - for ex, gmp improved a lot this yr in ranking bc he was alrdy good and finally got time to actually play to raise his ranking

preference on armstrong vs ashe - more of a preference about which times to play, armstrong has better times for him

can go through like 5 pairs of shoes during a hard court major bc of all the sliding around

said he heard a lot of positive feedback about the wta finals from the players - players were taken care of well, knows that the previous wta finals tournaments have been rough

was gonna go to usc for college if he went to college, he verbally committed to usc, but didn't really plan on going to college

taylor bought and had flowers sent to morgan in LA

said watching worlds was super sick and he thought the opening ceremony was amazing, gumayushi's pose went hard

he doesn't save vods bc he doesn't want people to clip stuff and pull stuff he said, said he feels it allows him to be more authentic on stream

slkjhfajkf he talked about the liking a homophobic tweet on accident and said he freaked out bc he was having a chill no phone day and when he went to check socmed he was like "omg i'm canceled" IM DEAD

favorite league character to play rn is viego, he wins a lot of games on him

thinks the tennis calendar should def be shorter

[rimeiii]

WHB as random esports-related moments

So. I have a new obsession right now (League of Legends and Valorant esports), which naturally means I'm brainrotting a lot about them. I've been watching a bit too much of the players, the games, and the streams, and I have an entire list of players and teams I support (very extensive list but Chovy and Oner are pretty much at the top). And ignoring some of the worse things going on in particular (holy fucking shit T1 LoL management + coaches PLEASE get your shit together) pro play is actually Really Cool! That first Gen G vs T1 match this LCK season was so hype it's insane tbh. Same with T1 vs G2 on Masters Bangkok (Valo).

One thing that I've definitely noticed is that a lot of the players are just...really funny and cool people! A lot of them have very clippable moments (looking at you Oner, Doran, ShowMaker, stax, t3xture, and more), plus their team's YouTube accounts and their own personal accounts (if they have one) often do a good job of compiling their moments. So I might be linking some of their vids too ahaha-

Which means...more tier lists, with explanations to boot. Based on vibes too, since it's been a while since I actually caught up on the main story of WHB. Apart from esports, Touhou is a VERY dangerous rabbit hole to enter yo.

Without further ado...

WHB characters' reactions to getting their pentakill stolen

A bit of context: since League of Legends is a 5v5 team game, one of the most impressive achievements one can get is a pentakill (often shortened to penta) - where someone gets the killing blow on every single member of the enemy team. A penta is 'stolen' when a teammate accidentally lands the killing blow on one member of the enemy team while their teammate is close to a penta (often when they're on their fourth kill).

Tier 1: self-explanatory, and probably the least toxic reaction out of everything else

Tier 2: self-explanatory, I'll let you imagine how bad their plotting gets

Tier 3: the LoL GOAT himself, midlaner Lee "Faker" Sanghyeok of T1 did this during their 2022 LCK Spring season match against KDF, when T1's jungler Mun "Oner" Hyeonjun stole his penta. No damage is done, sure, but still...

Tier 4: self-explanatory, also another non-toxic reaction

Tier 5: Gen G's ADC/botlaner Park "Ruler" Jaehyeok is INFAMOUS for having his teammates actively aim to steal his pentas and cursing his teammates out when his penta is inevitably stolen. Pretty much a meme now as shown in 2025 LCK Cup Quiz Ep 1, where several players (namely Gen G's toplaner Kim "Kiin" Giin and support Joo "Duro" Minkyu, HLE's ADC/botlaner Park "Viper" Dohyeon, Nongshim's support Son "Lehends" Siwoo, and KT's midlaner Gwak "Bdd" Boseong) had something to say during the question about LCK pentas about his tendency to demand pentas...and their dedication to stealing his pentas.

Tier 6: midlaner Son "ucal" Woohyeon of DRX, during the 2025 LCK Cup match against DNF, pretty much fell off his chair after he got his penta stolen and actually fired off a teleport while ON THE FLOOR before getting back up to his chair, all while apologizing.

Tiers 7 and 8: self-explanatory

2. WHB as moments in official LoL and Valo contents

So. I will preface this by saying that the LCK (Korean League circuit) and VCT Pacific (Asia-Pacific Valorant circuit) have some of the best official content within their reapective esports scenes. Part of this is due to their players being Absolutely Fucking Unhinged, as we will see right here...

Tier 1: the LCK season opening for 2025 is a for-fun tournament (not really because the pride of each role is on the line /j) involving all 10 LCK teams, with teams for the tournament being formed based on the individual players' roles. There are five roles in League, which are Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC/Bot, and Support. Team Mid's leader, Faker, drafted Gen G's midlaner Jeong "Chovy" Jihoon (who's a pretty flexible player known to be good at multiple roles - notably Top), with the translation for his reasoning sounding so incredibly wrong out of context (Faker means to say Chovy was a good toplaner and listens to his shotcalls when they played together on 2024's season opening, which was a similar format to 2025's season opening). Like they HAD to know, right...

Tier 2: the ZERO/point challenge (VCT Pacific) is a just-for-fun faceoff between two teams where they essentially play with some silly challenges in place, randomly selected using a roulette wheel and only revealed to the other team at the end of the match. T1's Lee "carpe" Jaehyeok's aim with Chamber's skill wasn't the best, and as a result he ended up getting heckled by pretty much everybody (both T1 and Gen G), up until the end of the challenge, which T1 lost.

Tier 3: Know Your Enemy (VCT Pacific) is a mini-series where players that have something in common are put in a room together to chat and talk. Very chill and wholesome vibes overall. In the Young Guns episode, which involves some of the youngest players in VCT Pacific (and the youngest in their respective teams), DFM's Ibuki "Meiy" Seki reveals that he's a fanboy of DRX's Cho "Flashback" Minhyeok. Meiy requested that Flashback tell him if he ever changes his PC settings, and Flashback promised to tell Meiy about the complete details of his settings after the shoot. And, well, they're all just very sweet and wholesome, with Meiy being just so happy that they had the opportunity to talk like friends.

Tier 4: Talk-Back Time (LCK) is a mini-series released in 2025 where players new to each team's roster are interviewed with two of their teammates - only possible because for the first time in three years, every single LCK team had a roster change (prior to 2025, T1 had the ZOFGK lineup from 2022 up until 2024). And with Gen G being Gen G, Ruler being a yapper and menace combo, plus Kiin being more or less a tsundere? Chaos, as Ruler and Kiin ended up arguing about the etiquette of eating out with teammates (it makes sense in context) while Chovy closes his eyes as he tries to ignore the argument between Kim "Ruler is Gen G's dog" Giin and Park "Kiin straight-up curses at me now" Jaehyeok. The editors even edited in little Zs on top of Chovy's head!

Tier 5: Arena: Duo of Destiny (LCK) is a mini-series filmed near the end of 2025's LCK Cup (as in, only the finals between Gen G and HLE left), where eight former pro League players (whose identities were initially kept secret) were randomly paired with representatives of the eight eliminated teams from the 2025 LCK Cup to play the updated Arena mode. After the first match, the former pro players were revealed to the current pro players, with a possibility of having any existing pairs changed for match 2 by correctly guessing who the former pro was. Former pro player and current analyst Shin "Helios" Dongjin got last place while paired with T1's Oner during the first match, so he made a declaration of war against Oner for match 2 while paired with DNF's jungler Hong "Pyosik" Changhyeon.

Tier 6: the 2024 VCT Pacific Stage 1 teaser essentially had them all in an elevator leading up to the VCT Pacific floor with a brief stop at the Valorant Masters Madrid floor (IT MAKES SENSE IN CONTEXT I SWEAR), and Kim "stax" Gutaek (current T1 player who was playing for DRX at the time) yelling at commentator Clinton "Paperthin" Bader about how he "always goes" during that brief stop at Masters Madrid (DRX always qualifies for Masters). Unfortunately, stax (like at least 50% of VCT Pacific players) has a pretty severe case of ijbol-itis, so there were several outtakes of his ijbol-itis acting up, causing a chain reaction of ijbol-itis moments for EVERYONE (including, but not limited to, TS's Jessie "JessieVash" Cristy, now-former DFM player An "Medusa" Mincheol, and now-former TLN player Peter "Governor" No).

3. WHB as pro LoL and Valo player's rage and/or toxic moments

Listen. They're gamers, of course they're going to have toxic moments. Though do note that some players might be more toxic than others and VCT Pacific is generally much more toxic compared to the LCK. It's all in good fun though, because otherwise these clips wouldn't be so widespread.

Tier 1: pretty high tier rage/toxicity, and also one of the quintessential 2HJ moments (LoL). T1's Oner was in a solo queue match with HLE's support Yoo "Delight" Hwanjoong in the opponent's team. Several missed attacks later (which cost him the game), Oner ended up raging so hard he left his chair to yell while punching and kicking the wall behind him. Unfortunately, his toplaner teammate Choi "Doran" Hyeonjoon was in the streaming room right beside Oner's, and his stream picked up Oner's raging. Doran ended up closing the door to his streaming room because of that.

Tier 2: less toxic and rage, but with an added touch of despair (LoL). The Gen G LoL roster in general had difficulty just getting into a solo queue ranked match in the 2023 off-season (even HLE's current jungler Han "Peanut" Wangho, who was playing for Gen G at the time, mentioned his queue had a 14-minute estimated wait time), so when Chovy finally got a match after a 28-minute wait, he was SO happy despite playing a role he wasn't particularly fond of (ADC/bot). Unfortunately for him, Doran (who was playing for Gen G at the time) was in the same team as Chovy and was forced to play support while he wasn't feeling it, so he dodged the game - much to Chovy's despair. His screaming only came later, after he confronted Doran on-stream for his match dodging. Also, why catdespair? Chovy's often represented with a yellow cat emoji, and just take a look at the thumbnail to this stream moment + his reaction to Doran's match dodging.

Tier 3: more frustration than anything, honestly (Valo). Gen G's Kim "t3xture" Nara invited his teammates to play 5-stack League of Legends in queue. Unfortunately, these Valorant pros forgot that they were playing League, which led to them entering the fight for the dragon objective essentially one at a time. Byeon "Munchkin" Sangbeom, the In-Game Leader/IGL of Gen G's Valorant team and jungler in this particular League match, ended up yelling out his frustrations at his teammates. They somehow won, which is honestly a wonder considering the dragon was killed by the enemy team. As a fun fact, the roles were as follows - Kim "Karon" Wontae as toplaner, Munchkin as jungler, Kim "Meteor" Tae-oh (playing for Gen G at the time, now playing for T1) as midlaner, t3xture as ADC/botlaner, and Kim "Lakia" Jongmin as support.

Tier 4: a show of supremacy at the end of the day, perhaps a bit toxic though (VCT). Regardless, it's an iconic quote from T1's Yu "BuZz" Byeongcheol during Masters Bangkok (Valo), who yelled it out while playing against DRX in the loser's bracket. BuZz had been playing with DRX until the end of the 2024 season, where for some reason his contract wasn't renewed for 2025. T1 picked him up and reunited him with his longtime teammate stax, former DRX player whom T1 signed halfway into the 2024 season. DRX prior to this was often known as the best team in Korea and one of the best teams in VCT Pacific, so...

Tier 5: it's toxic, yes, but oddly...wholesome, somehow, in a sense (VCT)? We welcome PRX, a SEA-based esports organization, and two of their younger members in their Valorant team - Wang "Jinggg" Jing Jie from Singapore and Jason "f0rsakeN" Susanto from Indonesia. During PRX's match against DRX in 2024's VCT Pacific Stage 1, f0rsakeN stole Jinggg's Ace (think of an Ace like a penta in League terms), leading to Jinggg complaining to f0rsakeN in Indonesian using those exact words. A rough translation of what Jinggg said is "Bro, my Ace! Fuck you! Ei, you bastard, my Ace!" ('bangsat lu' can be roughly translated as both 'fuck you' and 'you bastard'). Which is doubly hilarious when you realize that it's likely f0rsakeN HIMSELF who taught Jinggg all those curse words (and maybe Aaron "mindfreak" Leonhart as well since he's also Indonesian, but f0rsakeN is more toxic).

Tier 6: toxicity, followed by self-awareness (Valo). During a week where most of T1's players (in both LoL and Valo) were streaming at T1 HQ, stax was streaming Valorant ranked as a duo with his coach CheongGak, with their first game as a duo being an abject loss. He got so pissed at his other teammates that he ended up yelling incredibly loudly in response to a teammate's missed shots, before realizing just where he was - at T1 HQ, with his streaming room located right beside the much calmer and more soft-spoken Lee "Gumayusi" Minhyung's, ADC/Bot of T1's LoL team. Which is an issue because remember, Oner's raging and wall-punching shenanigans could be heard over in Doran's stream. So stax immediately started apologizing on-stream...

[crowisnotinteresting]

Sorry for dumping this on you. But you are the only other person I know who write fanfiction, and i'm too shy to post this anywhere and It's 3am so it's not done.

"It's a boot camp. Things get tense. It's a close environment, and there's going to be a lot going on. It'll be okay to take a break from a tense situation! And remember, it's not on you to fix things if there's a problem. Let things resolve on their own." Rekkles remembered this throughout the bootcamp. His therapist and him went over the boot camp with his therapist prior to arrival. He outlined what he expected would happen, and the two of them worked together to brain storm the potential unexpected things that might throw him off routine. The therapist could NOT predict this. As hours got longer, VOD reviews stretched into full debates and the banter during meals became sparse. It was a particularly rough day.

He recalled after the tension broke that this all started with him enabling Baus during champ select. To be fair, everyone wanted to see Backshot Jhin. But that wasn't the right call this time. "Baussi, just do what you want. At this point pick something you'll enjoy and be comfortable with. It's last game of the day and we're all a bit tilted." He remembers Baus hovering Jhin and some protests from Crownie and Nemesis, begging for something more serious, but the champion select counted down to 0, and it was backshot Jhin.

Then it was some kills he secured in the game. He was trying to give them to Crownie! Every time he accidentally took a kill Rekkles' "sorry" became smaller and smaller as he slumped into his chair. He'd glance to the side at the bot laner, but Crownie didn't look at him back - despite Crownie being on a grey screen. Rekkles couldn't help but wonder if he was in trouble with his teammate, or if he was reading too much into it.

Once the game completed, the VOD review was... Hectic. Baus went 0/14/2, and his backshot technology did not secure kills. Maybe it was the comp, and the pick was still viable. "Whose idea was it anyways to let Baus play this pick top anyways?" Nemesis grumbled. Rekkles zipped up his hoodie to the top.

"Sorry." He mumbled from behind the fabric. He doesn't look to see if his team mates acknowledged his apology, because almost instantly they move on to how the game resources were managed. "This game, I'm the win condition. I need to snowball and get kills. Rekkles, you and Velja need to cover for me." Crownie and Nemesis get in a heated discussion. Soon Velja is asking Caedrel to pull up the VODs to see if he actually pinged and said he'd cover bot. Rekkles' apologies got smaller and smaller until he wasn't even sure if he was saying anything, or just mouthing 'sorry' against the fabric of his sweater.

At one point Caedrel tries to break things up. Slow things down for the boys and get them to break the tension, but he's not sure if it worked. "Let's call the discussion for today. We can have Odo and Molecule look at the VOD, do a nice powerpoint, and court will be in session tomorrow for the game." Velja, though he stopped talking began to speed-eat a tube of pringles. Nemesis and Crownie were still reviewing the VODs, in silence -- Marking down time stamps of where they felt things went wrong. Baus was typing into the chat to 1v1

on Jhin, which did not help.

Again, there was some awareness, he did want to leave and take a break, but he felt like some kind of insect incased in amber. The more and more he willed himself to stand up and excuse himself for the day. Just say that he needed to recharge, and that he was horribly sorry for all the fuck ups today... Somehow he was less able to do it. His body felt like lead. And maybe... Just maybe, that heaviness was what possessed him to do what he did next.

Rekkles, out of seemlingly no where knelt to the floor. Caedrel is the first to notice, but not soon after the others come to realize the unsual actions of the support. Caedrel approached Rekkles, moving slow and reaching out to make sure he was ok. "Rekky you good?" Caedrel thought for a moment that Rekkles might have fallen from his chair, but his posture is too straight for that. "Don't feel sorrry Rekkles, the game was bad, and it was a Sally Draft." Rekkles felt the blood rush to his ears, face hot.

"I'm sorry." He choked out. "I just want to fix things if I can have the chance. I can be good." Rekkles shook as he continued to kneel. He let Caedrel touch his shoulder, and he wanted to get up, but that incased feeling of interia came back. Instead he leant into the touch. "I can make up for this. I put everyone in a bad mood." Rekkles began to ramble as his teammates began to stand to help him up. He felt an overwhelming sense of guilt as they to tell him it wasn't his fault for the bad day, though Rekkles could tell the, step by step all the mistakes he personally made to lead them to this exact moment. He could tell them if he could move. He could fix the tension if he would let them. "Please, let me make it up." Rekkles spoke softly. At this point he is no longer kneeling, but he is being half hugged and supported between Crownie and Caedrel. They are all shuffling to an Uber back to the hotel. Nemesis and Baus were grabbing backpacks in a hurry. Velja ordered the uber.

The uber ride was hard to remember. Everyone was silent. Rekkles was sure there was some kind of non-verbal communication in the air, that he wasn't picking up. In the XL uber, he was laying down across three laps. Someone was carding their fingers through his hair. Rekkles remained still. His fingers pulled absently at his sleeves as he thought about how horrifically awkward he made things and spiraled.

They bring him to his hotel room. Rekkles doesn't make it to the bed, and they couldn't force him on there. He instead kneels on the floor of the room. He is incredibly hot and sticky. Caedrel crouches beside Rekkles. "What can we do to support you right now."

Rekkles looked up. He looked and saw the earnest look in Caedrel's eyes. There was some barely hidden concern and sympathy mixed into that gaze. "Lemme make it up to everyone. Please?" Rekkles looked up at the group and they all knew. Maybe the spanking jokes had rotted their brains. Perhaps it was that they all at some point had some varied level of intimate history with each other.

Caedrel let out a sigh. "Yeah, sure Rekky. If that's what you need. But after you HAVE to let us take care of you too yeah?" Rekkles nodded as Caedrel pulled Rekkles into him. The coach could feel the heat off the support. He was wearing a black long sleeved compression top under the sweater. Caedrel conducted, the team followed in tandem. He helped Rekkles out of his top first and then Baus helped for the bottoms. Nemesis grabbed a pillow from Rekkles' bed and handed it to Rekkles to prop himself up grabbed towels from the bathroom.

"Okay Rekky. You gotta tell us what you think you did wrong though. We can't read your mind. And if we are going to dish out some punishment we have to know the crime." Caedrel and Velja are supporting Rekkles' body. Caedrel at his head and Velja knelt beside the support to help the support tuck his knees into his chest. Velja drew light circles with his hands over the small of the man's back as he spoke.

"I... started today bad... I came in and I told Baus to pick Jhin top. And I think I pressured him." Rekkles stammered out. Baus looked like he was going to counter, however Caedrel gave him a look that said to go along with it, if this was what the support needed to unwind from the day. "Baussi, how many spanks do you think he should get for peer pressure." Baus hummed "It's small and I wanted to do it secretly, so I think two." Caedrel stroked Rekkles' head. "Okay two from Baus. What do you think you did to Neme?"

"He said that we were going in and I missed the flash combo." Neme, who admittedly had a bit of a mean streak rose his brow at this, as he actually forgot that this even happened. "That play was 5 hours ago. I think 5."

"That's seven."

"I didn't shadow Velja's timing and I messed up the tempo."

"Three, because I was eating while we were playing and should have also focused."

" Ten."

"I kept stealing from Crownie." This one Rekkles was able to say at a normal tone. This one he was SURE he was in trouble for with his duo, since he got the cold shoulder for it.

Crownie looked at the support, who was all but being coddled by their coach and jungler. He looked soft, when they made eye contact there was a need for this confirmation that things were ok.

"Fine. 3 from me. Then we are even."

"Seventeen."

Rekkles is hugged the pillow. He lets out a breathy "Yeah". His bones feel light as he feels a sense of relief now that there is a plan to rid the awful tension.

"And you're forgetting Rekky. As your coach, I expect if you're too in your head to play, you gotta let me know. i'll sub in. Odo can sub in. We got you. I'm going to give you three for that. Okay?"

"Okay." He is breathy here, as the boys help him to the edge of the bed and bend him over. he continues to be breathless once the boys start the spankings. Baus not putting his all into it, but as they counted down, and saw how much he needed this. How much they ALL needed this, they hit in earnest. By twenty his breathing was wracking. He was sure he had tears running down his cheeks, it was hard to apologize between the gasps for air.

His ass hurt. It felt hot, and stinging, but it made the rest of him feel light. "Thank you for letting me make it up to you guys." Rekkles cuddled up with the pillow Neme handed him earlier. He felt like he could doze off, but he also could not ignore the different tension that built up... Or perhaps was always here.

"Nuh-uh Rekky. No sleep yet. Remember? We let you make up this, now you have to let us take care of you." Caedrel slid into the bed next to him and rolled Rekkles onto his back, fulling displaying the other man to the rest of the team. He was half hard from the spanking, the vulnerabilty... He noticed his teammates. They were all in varied states of tenting. Rekkles being the only naked one, and having his still sore butt graze against the cool sheets felt electricity shoot up his spine. "How do you want us to take care of you?"

This was it. This was the out if he wanted it. But... He felt a longing. This was something that was started a long time ago and was already on the track. He has momentum on this. "Yeah, I want all of you to take care of me." Rekkles' hand travels down to his hard-on. "Make me forget about today and make me feel useful."

Crownie smirked. "Yeah baby, I can do that for you." He refrained from calling himself the sexmaster, only as it was way too cheesy for even this group of rats. "You're really an IRL Support you know that?" Nemesis and Crownie got on the bed with Rekkles and Caedrel. Caedrel felt glad he sprung for king sized hotel rooms for all the boys.

TBC?

[Anon sent me in this fic, and confirmed yesterday while sending in the second part that they were okay with it being shared. I am sorry if this long post fucks up your dash idk how to do a read more on an ask lmao]

[archpseudos]

Worlds 2023 was so special... Maybe it's a biased take because it was the first esports event that I bothered to watch live, but every second of it felt so memorable.

I remember play-ins, and everyone was coming off the high of the DRX miracle, and nobody really said anything, but you could feel all those eyes pointed at BDS and their wacky picks and the way they were winning games they shouldn't, that series against PSG, how everyone was thinking, can they do it?

Of course, swiss stage came around, and EU's collective delusions died in a ditch, and we all remembered that DRX might've been a 4th seed but they were still Korean, after all.

I remember mr. ref, how it seemed like he'd been contracted by some higher power to draw all the worst possible outcomes, how we all loved to hate it together, how he bravely kept his stoic face after every single disaster he caused, and it wouldn't have been the same without him.

I remember rooting for DK, and for TL, because DRX 2022 was what convinced me to finally watch esports after 6 or so years of playing the damn game, and now all the pieces were scattered.

I remember Pyosik on Lee Sin solo killing faker, I remember Pyosik crying after TL got taken out, how fucking much it meant to him, I remember his interview with Deft, where he said that this time he would be the main character, how much belief and faith, and how much God (Mr. Ref) abandoned them afterwards.

I remember Kellin's horrible Alistar performances, Deft's Aphelios ults, lying in bed losing my mind, because just how was it possible to draw KT, 1st place summer KT, twice in a row?

I remember the jokes, how everything started when KT chose T1, all the karmic forces at play, I remember wishing they would lose because I was so sure that Deft would win worlds again and now without him, what was the point in watching?

Turns out, the point was that despite having never been too invested in esports, as a european league of legends player, my hatred for NA was alreaady written in my DNA, and I remember, foolishly, deciding to root for G2.

I remember their endearing skits, their scrim results (scrim world champs WOOHOO), the first time I huffed some EU hopium (it has been but downhill ever since), and alas I remember that NRG series better than I remember my first day at school.

I remember thinking, Dhokla must be the best toplaner in the world, only for him to get absolutely flattened by TheShy only a single series later, and I would lie if I said it wasn't just a little bit satisfying.

I remember finding Caedrel's reaction to the G2-Weibo series on my fyp, sifting through his videos, thinking, woah, he might be a clown, but he's pretty smart about the game.

I would leave his stream open next to the official, and tune in when it was time for draft, because I enjoyed his rambling so much, and then, after the series was over, I would watch the replay on his channel, because I wanted to understand what'd happened again.

I remember being at work, earplugs hidden behind my purposely messy hair while I cleaned toucan shit off the sand, when I first listened to GenG almost reverse-sweep BLG. I couldn't see a thing, but by game 5, I was sweating out of my mind, despite knowing but the bare minimum about those two teams, I remember how much emotion the cast put into it, how I could picture it clear as day before my eyes.

I remember KT Rolster. I didn't know I would become a fan, but I did know that JDG was the best team in the world, and if there is anything that feels good in this world, it's rooting for an underdog and watching them succeed.

Spoiler: they did not. They chose T1, and so, of all teams they could've drawn for quarterfinals, they drew the superteam to end all superteams, Ruler staking another claim to the crown. It was close enough. They did take one game.

I remember, then, those semifinals, the moment Faker became the demon king again.

I must've watched that Azir shuffle at least 500 times by now, from every different perspective, every different reaction. I just could not believe my eyes.

This was the Faker in the legends, the one that, despite not watching esports, would get you typing "are you Faker or what?" in all chat after getting outplayed. I couldn't believe I was so lucky to see him on the first time that I decided to watch.

I couldn't believe Gumayusi either, how his Varus was still as good, or even better than in those 2022 finals, how it felt like ultimate redemption, those effortless outplays against Ruler, the one that had come into the tournament as the best player in the world.

Zeus, Keria, Oner on Rell (what a thing of beauty), how it felt like the Demon King had found true Demon Heirs, a little makeshift family that wanted to take over the world, and they did, JDG had fallen, and then there were just finals left.

It seemed almost scripted: a 4th seed, battling their way through playoffs against the team they hadn't taken a single game against all year.

The day I left Germany was also the day of the finals, and I was cleaning up my guest room with Caedrel's stream open on my phone, waving awkward goodbyes to coworkers that I hadn't quite gotten to know just yet.

I remember the absolute chills.

The 4th is for my teammates.

That was the moment I knew I would root for them.

I was in the train on my way to the airport when Zeus on Aatrox, of all champions, tore through the last nexus, I remember the sigh of relief, redemption at last, toplane, FMVP yet again.

The 4th was for his teammates. It seemed scripted, and it wasn't, and it was so beautiful.

I remember feeling so so sad when the stream was over, thinking, shit, what is my life now? Realizing I'd spent a month of my life living on edge over guys playing videogames and, fuck, it was so stressful, but everything else felt dull in comparison.

Did I really have to wait until next worlds?

The answer was, of course not, and that was the first time I logged into reddit to look at offseason gossip.

I really can't say if it all went downhill or uphill from there, I don't even know why I'm writing all of this, but I guess this is a love letter to the tournament that defined the last year or so of my life, to how many things I've learned and felt and experienced along the way, and how I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

If you've read up to this point idrk what to say except wow, why? And also thank you for being part of the esports community, of this little bubble that has given me so much joy over the last year and a half, also so much despair, but the good kind, the one that builds character I guess.

With all said and done, what can I say but #IGWIN #FNCWIN (delusionally)

[endercasts]

first odo just grabs ender. not just his shoulder like the rest of the analysts. no, odo grabs his arm and touches his waist. then drakos and caedrel go right to ender. who cares about the others, ender is their focus. drakos nudges caedrel out of the way so he can be right next to ender. drakos is already lifting his arm to put it around ender before he's even finished walking next to him. drakos just envelops him, arm around his chest, over his shoulder. ender is his to cuddle. and then drakos trying to put is hat on ender's head and ender lowers his head for him and their smiles and the way ender turns to him and his smile widens and the whole time drakos is wrapped around him

[dabihaul666]

deleting a 3 paragraph post but let it suffice to say

[rellbot]

why can everyone in this world say polska górą wtf

[dimethief]

Hiiiiii

I FINALLY GOT MY FIRST LR FIC OUT

Ship:

Tim "Nemesis" Lipovšek/Marc Robert "Caedrel" Lamont

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