#i love blaseball that was so fun

[disco-cat]

Saw this post and was inspired to draw Hades Miku. This was an absolute blast to make and I’m tempted to draw more Tigers now in some casual outfits

As always, click for better quality

[elifinchsart]

30 minute sketch for @xxhentaibootytomhardyblowme of Aliyah Inkwell!

[waveridden]

either yusei or Lenny in 40 (exact sentences)?

[ID: digital art of lenny marijuana from blaseball, done in a limited palette of shades of blue and purple. she's standing in front of a window, facing away from the viewer, smoking and looking concerned. /end ID]

i miss her every day

[glassgob]

late again but welcome amos!

[Image ID: Digital illustration of Amos Melon on a Baltimore Crabs Tlopps card. Amos is an Ashkenazi and Javanese plus-size woman with melon butterflyfish and flower crab motifs. She is wearing reflective sunglasses and has her jersey tied off at the chest. She is smiling, holding a blaseball in her left hand. End ID.]

[blazeball]

i can't wait to put the breath mints in deadball. this is gonna be so so so awesome

[whales-are-gay]

ok so like, i havent watched a single game this era. i only bet on them. that’s like, the only thing in this new interface i tolerate doing.

[wayslidecool]

my dream is to one day be able to infodump extensively about the new georgias as much as i can about the expansion era georgias

[ojirocardigansniper]

completely incidentally to derricksweep i did listen to discipline for the first time today. my executive dysfunctioned ass hadnt listened to any garages newer than fuckin percolate because i somehow decided i wanted to listen in order and shit piled up. jokes on me Anyway discipline is fully a shrimp emotions album dear godge. blaseball my friend blaseball

[killerforthepies]

i once did a 2 hour long blaseball explanation presentation and by the end of it my friends still did not know it was a website.

Round 1

Note: before voting for the first option please leave a detailed explanation of what Blaseball even is in the notes, cause I have no idea. Also votes for the first option count for Jaylen Hotdogfingers

Propaganda Under The Cut

Jaylen Hotdogfingers:

The greatest came-back-wrong character ever. She's the mayor of Seattle. She's was the best pitcher in the league. She was murdered by an umpire in an act of divine retribution for the fanbase's transgression. The fanbase exploited game mechanics to bring her back to life. Immediately she murdered 12 people. She died again and got revived a second time as part of a team of undead players that killed god. She's a really awful batter. She has, like, 16 songs written about her and they're all really good. I thought about her every single day for a period of six consecutive months. I love her.

I'll be real. I'm an outsider to the Blaseball fandom. I don't understand it. I think they've crowdfunded characters from fictionalized fucked-up Baseball stats and a dream. I love seeing what the fuck they're doing in their eldritch sandbox just so much.

Bruce Wayne (Batman):

he's babygirl your honour! single father of 6 (ish), world's least likable manwhore, he's obsessive and mean and cares a lot and is an asshole

he’s a whore. he’s batman. he’s terrified of bats. he’ll fuck villains he’ll fuck heroes he’ll fuck any consenting adult. he’s a dad. he’s traumatised. he beats the shit out of people. he can do anything with enough prep time. he creeps people out on purpose. he lives and dies by the bit. he is everything to me. truly the character of all time

[phrawger]

i do not know how to tell blaseball fans that i am the person who originated "i am now participating in the cultural event of blaseball" for a couple reasons:

who cares

i deleted my twitter so the OG tweet can't even be used to verify it

WHO cares

i don't want to brag, i just love that my phrasing made it stupid far. it's like all the fun of being turned into a meme (seeing it in places you don't expect) without any of the bad stuff

[siredisco]

I love having a Surface Level knowledge of Media and getting really obsessed with it. I get shown a Small Amount of things and Blaseball and suddenly I'm drawing things on paper for it. Do I know anything? No. Do I want to appreciate it? Yes. Always. Do I know the whole GTFO story? No! Well, mostly no. But I love it. It's so fun and enjoyable to have things that I know nothing and and just like to go and appreciate because it's in my mind. I used to know Nothing about Half-Life lore and the deeper, non-surface things, and now it's core to my life. :]

Just smiling thoughts. That's all :]

[blockbusterclosed]

For @elifinchsart !! From the blaseball gift exchange! I had so much fun drawing these guys because I’ve wanted to draw them for a while :p very lovely designs!

[callibones]

#hmmm i put distinct person but maybe it is secret fifth option. i think they're like a weird replica kind of thing #specifically like. replica of how people perceived megan ito #not of who megan ito actually was

- @bread--quest

okay everyone else including me is wrong. oh my GOD?? GO ON????

actually speakin of megan ito i wanna know peoples headcanons

reblog. i need to find all of the 19 megan ito superfans. infodump to me

[thehallstara]

year in review

wanted to reflect on the things i've made this year. here goes nothing!

Games

ghost story is a point-and-click mystery made in unity as my final project for code coven's IGM course!! I genuinely think we managed a pretty solid concept and execution in two weeks, and if you like murder mysteries, this is for you!

lungs to burn is a short poem game made for the may 2023 bitsy jam, talking about wildfires, grief, and queer connection. featured in both indiepocalypse #43 and hand eye society's SUPERFestival. in general, the response i got for this one was kinda overwhelming (and a little confusing), but i'm glad it resonated with people! still very proud of it.

no postage required is another bitsy game, this time made for the trans game dev server jam. a somewhat-sequel to the end is near; or a letter to a lost love. there are definitely things i'd redo with this one but all in all, not too bad!

Zines

Kriah: a personal zine about some of my experiences with antisemitism over the years. definitely a heavy read but honestly i stand by it just as much as when i wrote it? idk as someone who has a lot of trauma from years of antisemitic harassment, this has been a WEIRD fucking year, and it's weird to revisit something i wrote at the beginning of the year that feels even more relevant now.

how to the hold the pain is a collage/web weaving zine i did for this year's blaseball zine jam, using blaseball narratives as a way to view crip theory and vice versa. i spent a LOT of time reading through articles for this (both academic and other) and every second of it was worth it. genuinely one of my favourite things i made all year.

Fic

i wrote a lot less fic this year than the previous two for a multitude of reasons but i still put out a few bangers!! here's a brief selection of my favourites:

swallow your guilt (blaseball, 13.2k), a story about the new seattle garages, the old chicago firefighters, grief, and finally growing up, all through the biased eyes of one baby "ruthless" triumphant

spectroscopy, or a snapshot of a light and that which it absorbs (blaseball, 2.6k), the coda to my bright zimmerman series. i technically wrote this in the fall of 2022 but posted it in march so it still counts.

somewhere there's a fire burning (rogue one, 1k), a character study of bohdi rook between the destructions of nijedha and scarif. my first non-blb fic! and still a banger imo

i play dead, come alive (hatchetfield, 12x100), character study of stephanie lauter during the events of npmd. now officially my most popular fic and honestly i'm good with that!!! i think it's a solid little fic.

just all of corona borealis. i did some good stuff about grief and growth this year y'all.

the back half of this year was mostly filled with portfolio updating, job hunting, and just generally struggling with everything lol but!!! i still made some cool stuff and am hoping to get more back to making stuff next year! it's where i feel most at home. have fun checking these out if you do!

[blazeball]

listening to the blaseball roundups. god i wish i couldve personally helped necromance jaylen

i do NOT MEAN TO BRAG but. oh my god. it was so cool and fun. and INSANE!! i remember being in the discord in my own little mints corner and then someone asked in the questions channel if them still being able to idolize an incinerated player was like, a bug. and the devs were like nope 👍 everything is working as intended. :) <- ominous smile. and. GOD. that was the most coordinated i'd ever seen the blaseball community get, aside from the snackrifice, maybe? but was that going on at the same time or was that a separate season? i do NOT remember. oh well. anon if you don't know what the snackrifice is send another ask and i'll explain. ANYWAY. it was such a perfect plan and. GOD. it was so cool when it came to fruition. and then it. Well. gestures at the carnage. have you listened to dead ringer? go listen to dead ringer

anyway anon i'm glad your watching the blaseball roundup vids :) i love the anchor he's so fun

[waveridden]

fic writers self rec

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let's spread the self-love 💞

@cedardivine tagged me in this a couple days ago and i have been sitting here stewing over what constitutes my favorite things that i've written, and whether i wanted to go single-fandom or recent or deep cut or what. in the end i went through basically everything on my ao3 and pulled the stuff that felt right today. ask again tomorrow and you'll probably get a different top five.

in no particular order:

where the light won't find you (blaseball) took over six months to write, most of which was stewing in the back of my brain instead of actual writing. it's a story about hell, and loneliness, and body horror, and i think it's going to be one of my favorite things for a very very long time.

nurture and the fear of nature (succession) was written for a gift exchange and i love it because it is a prompt i never would've thought of. it's a sophie roy character study and it's rough around the edges and includes a couple insights that i am really proud of. i never imagined myself being a succession fic girlie but if i'm gonna be one, i'm glad that this is the thing i landed on.

what's left of the world (blaseball) was written in a fit of passion. imo it's one of my least lore-y blaseball fics, all you need to know is that blaseball is baseball that kills you, and that this fic is a tour of an art gallery after the artist's death. in a lot of ways it's my tribute to within the wires, a very formative piece of media for me.

dynamite in progress (original fic) is also a gift exchange piece. i am on the record as a superhero enjoyer and i ended up doing this prompt because it pushed me outside of a lot of the tropes that i tend to fall back on; it made me think about superheroes (and supervillains!) differently, and i also really dearly love the characters i came up with.

where the world begins (life series) is my most recent pride and joy. it's a ghost au and a love story and about 90% of the way through it i messaged my partner/beta and was like "is this... about long distance relationships" and they laughed at me. it was a lot of fun, it's my first big project after a lot of small ones, and i'm so happy with it.

if you see this and you want to, please do a self-rec and please tag me in it! it's fun