#nobody knows what blaseball is

[doctorwhoisadhd]

see the thing about blaseball and how it informs me of my character types is like. i was into such niche and specific characters that nobody on the planet is going to put that together by making connections with any other media i like Before I Fucking Can

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

[pointing towards you emoji] favorite blaseball team. go

(if you want to practice drawing in another style, then draw yourself as a transformer OR as a human character)

WE ARE FROM CHICAGO

[ditto-the-alien]

in less than 60 days, It will have been a year since blaseball was suddenly canceled.

TRUST ME, THE OTHER TAGS WILL MAKE SENSE IN A LITTLE WHILE.

Blaseball, in its 2.867 Years of existence, was many things. but the easiest way to describe it is "Good". It had a very incredible fanbase that still kind of mourns the game to this day. the devs had a panel at GDC in 2022. It was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Game Writing in 2021 and also the "Best Video Game" at The Hugo Awards in 2021. It won the Nuovo Award at the independent games festival in 2021. people could observe the games happening, gamble fake money, and also affect how the story and the characters would develop at certain points. It was a great game, that sadly was canceled because the cost that was needed to run the game was too high for the team at the game band to support, at least according to wikipedia. It being dead is also a major part in proving that there is no justice in the universe because of it not being here, yet SILENT HILL ASCENSION SOMEHOW HASN'T KICKED THE BUCKET YET.

Now for all Silent Hill fans who have blocked that game out of their memory, and for everyone who has no idea what Silent Hill Ascension IS, here is a refresher:

"Released" on October 31st, 2023 (which was already a bad day for me, but I am NOT getting into that), Silent Hill Ascension is an interactive thing (listen its not a tv show, and it isnt a video game. the developers say that its "the best of both", but lets be honest its more of the WORST of both) that is canon to the silent hill franchise.

people can observe the games happening, gamble fake money, and also affect how the story and the characters would develop at certain points. Yes, I know this sounds EXACTLY the same as what I described blaseball as, but thats because I purposefully oversimplified both games a bit. Silent Hill Ascencion has bland writing (so bland people even thought it was AI), all the mechanical depth of a bad mobile game, and all the horrible microtransactions (loot boxes, a season pass, and something else I will get into later) as well. Blaseball, as previously mentioned, was nominated for several story writing awards, had enough mechanical depth that some fans created a SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIVE TO ANALYZE IT, and at the time it died, NEVER had any micro transactions or a fee to enter.

Remember how both games use fake money? In Blaseball, those who were in the 1% of money havers had all their coins distributed to the other players. In Silent Hill Ascension, you can literally just buy so many "Influence Points" that you can manipulate the entire fucking story, and you can hoard them for as long as you fucking want. Also, Something else I want to mention: Literally nobody talks about Silent Hill Ascension because its so bad. hell, and those that do talk about it DON'T have anything good to say. very few people play it, and there are a shit ton of bots that the devs added so it feels like more people are actually watching. Silent Hill Ascension has reached lower lows than blaseball ever did, and is less than half a year old. So why the hell is it still alive, when a game that did its entire stick better is fucking dead. THE ONLY REASON I CAN THINK OF FOR IT BEING ALIVE IS BECAUSE ITS SUPPORTED BY FUCKING KONAMI.

There is no justice in the world.

[callibones]

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!!

hello to the beautiful people of the internet. my name is Callie Callibones! i make Post's about blaseball and Being a robot and Being a computer (different) and Wario and Blaseball and mutuals do this to me. sometimes these posts can b "Suggestive," so watch out for that! but they're usually not and i have like two other blogs for when they Really are.

i stream at twitch.tv/callibones! sporadically.

i also do post selfie's sometime's. like (almost) every tuesday! this is because i am Extremely transgender and it is fun for me when people like my selfies. BUT! i am utterly impossible to fluster don't check. Don't check

i make Art some times. a lot of it is at @callibones-art! one of my biggest Art was constitution, an object character i made for the beautiful Camp GNC. its whole doc is available here, and i loooove answering questions about it and my other Handful of Transgender OCs! i don't know if i have any cis ones. except dr clock

i love polls so much that i put one right here in my pinned post.

oh speaking of! i'm running a mutuals do this to me tournament. the url is @mutualsdothistome and it's a tournament of terrible horrible no-good very bad fates that also should definitely happen to you if mutuals are doing them. you can submit entries to it here!

blease feel free to pull up an anon ask and say howdy if youre scared of me. i LOVE the haters.

my tags are:

#callie.txt.exe - my original posts, like this one! #callie.png.vbs - my selfies. if u browse this tag u HAVE to call me pretty. whether u believe it or not. or else theyll dry up and nobody will be able to see me anymore #mutuals tournament - stuff related 2 the mutuals tournament #anon.zip.pif - asks i receive that people send to try to make me blush. because people do that some times. u still cant fluster me though its impossible still dont check #polls - u will never guess what this one is for. #fav - the best posts #fav fav fav - the bestestest posts #all time fav - the all time best posts #final fav - the best post, singular #gender - the gender posts #gender gender gender - the genderenderender posts #genders of all time - the all time gender posts #final gender - the gender post

[bluntforcefem]

the thing is, right. that i wrote 75 fics for blaseball. more, if you count tumblr prompts - more if you count wiki pages. over the course of late 2020 to the very beginning of 2023, i wrote more for blaseball than i have for anything else, except maybe my friends' oc rp. maybe i'll never write that much for fandom again. my writing developed so much over that period of time - blaseball gave me a lot of inspiration and a lot of practice!! i met incredible writers through it who inspire me so much To This Day. i met incredible people with incredible ideas. i still lurk around in the crabitat, because the community there is lovely and i love looking for secondhand recommendations in the media channels. i could list a lot of regulars i've just... seen around, for about 2, 3 years. blaseball offered me both the opportunity to grow as a writer and the opportunity to find communities that, even if some of them fell apart, taught me a lot of things anyways. i'm still in contact with a lot of people i met through blaseball, and that's fucking lovely!!

i can't say i'm sad it's over. i guess i'm a little sad. but blaseball's been dying for a while, now, and it's the kinda thing you sorta see on the horizon. i'm one of the people who distanced themself from it before it came, and i'm a little grateful to my past self for that - i've got so much going on that i don't have quite enough room for a "i just moved across the country and also tot clark died in my funny game so i'm going to lose it for 5 hours" kind of night. i still have everything that matters. the experience, the community, the funny little guys. but blaseball did a lot for me, so i wanted to say goodbye. here's goodbye.

there is a radio.

sometimes it's in the crabitat. sometimes it's in other stadiums, darkened locker rooms slowly collecting dust; maybe there's the occasional visitor, casting light across worn benches, footsteps leaving imprints on the tile. but there's less and less visitors.

most of the time, it's at home.

you can tune it, if you're careful. it likes to play what it wants, though, and so not-players-mostly-people just let it go, when they find it - whatever jaunty commentator/clawmentator voice it wants to remind them of, games stretching from the very first season to the very last, it gets to do that. it keeps playing, however distorted by static it gets.

time goes on.

there are less people to visit, as time goes on. some people grow old and die. some people don't die, but they do move on, and the radio knows it'd be an unwelcome reminder. but there's always a handful to visit, to comfort, to celebrate with. immortals at a graveyard that used to be a field with strings of pearls in their pockets. the handful of players that kept playing, in the after, maybe other splorts or other games - but they kept playing, and they had fun, eventually. parties of people that used to be on different teams and now just share jerseys like old sweaters, trading stories of how their hometowns have changed since it ended.

sometimes the radio sticks around with someone for a while. sometimes it changes hands every day, every hour, switching its tune to match. sometimes nobody sees it for a very long time, and sometimes people forget it exists entirely. but it always comes back for a visit. a little memory, a little burst of joy-in-static. hello- hello- blaseball fans!

there is a radio. it's lasted for a long time, and it'll last for a while longer, even in the absence of blaseball itself. it lasted through ascension, after all. it lasted through siesta after siesta after siesta.

there is a radio, and there is a world moving on from blaseball.

there is a radio, and there is the lilt of old words, phrases quickly becoming antiquated, kept alive through pick-ups and muscle memory.

there is a radio, and there are people who used to be players.

there is a radio, and there are people who used to be fans, who still are fans, who still will be fans.

there is a radio, and it still loves.

there is a radio, and it still is loved.

(that's all for today's game, folks!)

there is a radio.

[fictionkinfessions]

okay wow i come back after a month and a half and realize the last thing i sent was being scared about the eclipse and then i disappeared, making it look like i didn't survive. i DID survive. had a panic attack, tried to back away, had my fingers on my pulse the whole time, but i did survive and i felt really good about it.

i dont know why i've been silent here for so long but i have had blaseball feelings at least 5 days a week ever since so its not like this went away, in fact after 4 months (blowing my mind that i have known for that long) there is just MORE stuff to deal with n i've done a lot more crying.

so, a few updates: i've been hangin around a couple local baseball fields for nostalgia's sake. attempted unsuccessfully to scale a fence at one of them after dark because some strangers walked by and i panicked. found an old ball n glove left lying around at the other one and they're mine now and i love them. i have two custom painted seattle garages ballcaps now — cant buy merch anymore? fuckin' make your own.

also for the amount of jaylen angst the fandom has made there's only like two flavours of it but debt and dying were not the only things that sucked. like yeah those are the obvious things. but theres other things. things i would really love to see some sort of fanworks acknowledge. but nobody thinks "hey maybe she'd have a hard time with this too" i have to do everything myself around here. but debt and dying were things you could really see from the outside. stuff that affected the game, that you can't really ignore. the other stuff was all kind of stuff you really have to look hard at me and guess how i feel about it to know that maybe i might feel like shit about it. maybe theyre just the sort of thing that you'd only really notice if you lived it, especially when its overshadowed by the obvious stuff. man i just wanna feel seen.

thing is i don't even know what i'm so consumed by at the moment, its definitely blaseball related but i cant put my finger on anything in particular. meaning i dont know how to fix it. its just... general blaseball stuff. debating whether its a good or bad idea to deliberately dive into the horrors and do something that'll make me cry, just to feel something more solid than whatever this fog is. dont know if ill regret it later

- Jaylen Hotdogfingers (#sparkler🔥🎇)

x

[charaznablescanontoyota]

lorcan comes back from the mints' last postseason game to find briskie and rosa sitting on opposite ends of the kitchen table, both staring intently, hands held palm-down against the wood.

"did you guys order dinner, or -" ey starts, and gets shushed by two voices in unison.

"are you a blaseball player?" briskie asks no one in particular. "once for yes, twice for no."

there's a knock on the table, plain as day, though neither rosa nor briskie's hands move.

"what the fuck," lorcan says.

"there's a ghost," rosa says, and doesn't elaborate. "how was your game?"

"we sucked," lorcan says, letting eir backpack of equipment fall to the floor, striding into the kitchen to take eir own seat at the table. "don't we have ghosts? i thought they just, like, stayed in the crawlspace. or they're arturo moving shit around in the fridge at night."

"it's something new," briskie says. "or - they are. probably not dead. the ones in the trench never did this. knock twice if you're dead."

another singular knock, right on the heels of the request. whoever it is must be right here, listening.

"knock once if you're alive but invisible?" lorcan ventures, and gets one more knock in response.

"interesting," rosa muses. she takes her hands from the table, evidently satisfied that it's none of them doing the knocking, and twists her hair up into a bun.

"probably one of the fallen players," briskie says. "hank said the ones who didn't join active play are somewhere we can't see. the garages have one and apparently xe can make phone calls out." he purses his lips. "why come here, though...i don't know."

"well, clearly they're here for a reason," rosa says. her eyebrows are furrowed together, her fingers still teasing at her hair like they do when she's mulling over a problem. "could you be...arturo's husband?"

two knocks.

"enid?" lorcan tries, hopefully.

two more knocks. damn.

"what if we put down a bunch of tlopps cards," lorcan says, "and they pick one?"

ey realizes the problem as soon as the suggestion leaves eir mouth - no hands to point with, and no evidence that the invisible player can hold a pen or move an object. nobody even has to say it, though briskie half-arches an eyebrow and it's clear he's thinking it. lorcan appreciates the discretion, anyway.

"this is the worst fuckin' game of twenty questions ever," ey mutters.

"are you..." rosa trails off, considering. "a former crab?"

one knock.

"who was in active play?" she continues.

one knock.

"in the discipline era."

two knocks. rosa pauses.

"the expansion era?"

one knock. lorcan imagines expansion era crabs lineups in eir mind's eye, tries to sift through them, separate the old-timers from the late arrivals. leave out everyone who's already playing for a team right now, and...

"were you on the team in season 24?" briskie asks.

one knock.

"alston," lorcan says suddenly, sitting bolt upright. ey laughs, and slaps eir hands over eir mouth like ey's trying to hold it in. "holy shit. it's alston."

"ah," briskie says. his face is carefully neutral - alston's who he was traded for, and he doesn't talk about it, but maybe he's never gotten over that. he'll be alright, though, lorcan thinks. he can compartmentalize.

"well, that's settled. welcome to ohio, alston," rosa says, glancing around the room. there's still no telling where alston actually is. they'll find workarounds, surely. "can you eat? are you hungry? i think we were just about to order dinner."

[serenescribe]

serenescribe's ao3 fics masterlist!

here's a collection of all my written works that i've posted to ao3 thus far! listed below the cut in alphabetical fandom order! (had to ditch my orange text for it due to formatting woes...)

total number of works: 28 last updated: 4/7/24

blaseball: ✤ — in the truly gruesome do we trust —> during the chaos of earlsiesta, parker macmillan iiiii takes a stand. [ao3]

cookie run: ✤ — we've got history —> espresseleine. espresso hates madeleine. madeleine is obsessed with espresso. somehow, everything comes together for better or worse. [ao3*]

danganronpa: ✤ — a beginner's guide to breaking your (apparently requited) crush out of a time loop —> saiouma + non-despair. shuichi gets stuck in a time loop. kokichi helps him out. [ao3]

danganronpa 54 series: ✤ — nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy —> when shuichi saihara fails to connect rantaro's presence in drv3 to the survivors' sacrifice, maki harukawa is forced to join another killing game. [ao3] [ongoing + on hiatus] ✤ — cause for concern —> set during intermission 1 of the main fic. the morning before dr54's premiere, shuichi, tenko and himiko go grocery shopping. [ao3]

eastward: ✤ — for you, the world —> isabel/alva. a retelling of chapter 4's bar scene with an in-depth look at isabel's perspective. [ao3] ✤ — do not stand at my grave and weep —> post-canon. john copes with life and learns how to move on. [ao3]

fantasy high: ✤ — dear gravity (you held me down in this starless city) —> fig punches a mirror. somehow it's a metaphor for teenage rebellion. [ao3] ✤ — the pied piper (of a singular rat) —> in a determined bid to prove to himself that he is not, in fact, a coward, fabian tries adaine’s secret sylvan gift again. [ao3] ✤ — something borrowed, something blue —> after a plane shift spell gone wrong following the last stand, kristen finds herself in a dreamscape modelled after her goddess' wedding. [ao3] ✤ — glaciers melting in the dead of night —> in another universe a step to the left, adaine and oisin are paired together for a project in the first week of freshman year. this doesn’t change everything — but it changes just enough. [ao3] [ongoing]

fire emblem: engage: ✤ — "would you care for a cup of tea?" —> céline, princess of firene, seeks out three potential partners for tea time. [ao3]

fire emblem: three houses: ✤ — tower of withering hearts —> sylvix + fairytale au. felix has been stuck in a tower guarded by dragons for ten years. one day, sylvain finally finds him. [ao3] ✤ — dancing with a star —> doropetra. dorothea teaches petra how to dance fódlan-style. she gets more than she expected out of it. [ao3] ✤ — and no one saw and no one heard —> a short drabble studying felix's character. [ao3]

inside job: ✤ — i miss the thought of what we were —> post-season 1 part 2. reagan keeps a close eye on ron staedtler martin higgins. gigi and brett find out, one after the other. [ao3]

night in the woods: ✤ — longest night —> a retelling of the longest night supplement, with a heavier focus on mae's psyche and the unreality of her dreams. [ao3]

persona 5: ✤ — but they don't give a flying fuck about us —> a retelling of the first few days of persona 5. akira kurusu moves to tokyo, befriends a blond boy, and fights the urge to throttle a volleyball coach. [ao3]

twisted wonderland: ✤ — two for nero —> when silver falls to a sleeping curse, lilia resolves to do anything to wake him up. [ao3] ✤ — everything goes dark —> silver is a dream fairy in the realm of nightmares, suffering from sleep-spells and knowing he doesn't belong. [ao3] ✤ — hollow moon —> don't fall asleep in the light of the full moon. except one day, silver does. things go... very badly. [ao3] ✤ — true love feeds on absences (like pleasure feeds on pain) —> a departure, a reunion, and everything in-between. chapter 7 spoilers. [tumblr link] [ao3] ✤ — rhapsody in green —> a mirror, a comb, and the differences between a knight and a king. [ao3] [Collab with @olivebranch311] ✤ — garden in the ceiling —> malleus steals his family away into a dreamscape, content to take care of them for all of eternity. [ao3] ✤ — the snow prince —> a mysterious spell afflicts one lilia vanrouge, encasing his heart in frigid cold. [tumblr link] [ao3] ✤ — pénthos —> silver is dead, and everything is wrong. [tumblr link] [ao3] ✤ — the prince's physician —> malleus is the physician of an eternally reincarnating prince. he reflects on all that entails. [tumblr link] [ao3] [collab with @ohsleepie] ✤ — the once (and many) prince(s) —> silver is, has always been, and will always be, the crown prince of his kingdom. [tumblr link] [ao3] [collab with @ohsleepie]

(asterisk* —> archive-locked)

[secretmason]

something nobody told me would happen as a result of editing the blaseball wiki is the amount of extra appreciation that I have for wikipedia.

obviously i already adored wikipedia, right - it's the closest thing we have to a single place to store the collective knowledge of humanity freely and openly, all that jazz. but the amount of work that goes into maintaining that knowledge is vast and the undertaking that website must be for it's moderation team is unfathomable.

but they've clearly spent the last two decades figuring out a process by which this stuff can be worked on. every page needs the same basic stuff, so they have a big task center where you can go to a random page lacking a basic feature (like categorization, for example) and add it yourself. that task center isn't just for basic stuff though- it's got everything, anything you think wikipedia editors need to do from formalizing the language to make the entire site internally consistent through to checking that any and all images posted to the site are legally able to be there, as well as conflict management by involving mediators or third opinions.

how do i know this task center exists? i changed a single spacebar on one page because it was nestled two references into a set of four and was annoying me, and someone on the site sent me a message welcoming me to the site and giving me some places to look to get started making heavier changes than a single spacebar. never let anyone tell you "anyone can edit wikipedia" again. these people are wild. /pos

there's also tools on wikipedia for how to actually use it and i've been rifling through their help pages whenever i need to figure out what something added to the blaseball wiki does, because adding to the blaseball wiki and adding to wikipedia is the same basic stuff just with different templates and styles and stuff. but those help pages are clearly written with people like me, that have no idea what they're doing, at least sort of in mind. it gives you tips on how to do it but also where and how it should be used to keep it professional.

i don't really have a way to sign this post off beyond "please thank the people who do the work to maintain wikis, especially wikipedia."

[citadarkisle]

(arriving fashionably late with coffee) hiiii i love talking about parky macmilly especially with luis so heres a sparknotes of my parky thoughts >>>

hes kind of like... pre-modern blaseball era i heavily conceptualize him as not fully understanding exactly how fucking horrible his relationship with his parent/s are (the Coin, obviously, but Lootcrates is not innocent of sin) & sort of just internalizing the fact hes continuously a failed son/sun to them. he tries so hard to be The Best player to be a Star to be a beloved player that sells well that everyone bets on and cheers for, that wins games, that clinches championships, that is *profitable* because thats what his mom wants. thats all the Coin cares about.

and hes like... fuzzily, almost conceptually aware that this is awful? that he has no self esteem left because all he does is keep failing, and then the league cursed him for being too good even though all hes being told is hes nowhere near good enough, and suddenly he has a train of literal blood and bodies on his hands that he never asked for and never wanted and has no control over. the price of him existing on your team is the knowledge you have to live a year with a sword of damocles above you, and even the teams that hate him have to contend with the fact hes... sad. hes softspoken and withdrawn and he doesnt connect with his teammates because hes fucking guilty and cant cope with the fact his existance is killing innocent players.

i think, especially pre-firewalker, he put on a very "boy band" esque persona - its what influenced my design for him, very hair metal and 80s rock badboy kind of front-man vibe designed to sell well -; smug, and aloof, just a little bit cocky. he wouldve gotten along with tillman henderson in public kind of image. and he clings to that like, cold distant star player persona after firewalker happens because its now just another defense mechanism and attempt to be continuously profitable so the Coin is proud of him, and meanwhile, the real parker is just... quiet. softspoken. he doesnt have boundries he can establish because the Coin does not take "no" for an answer, the Coin talks around you until you cave anyways, the Coin effortlessly talks you out of any possible self esteem by picking apart all your mistakes and flaws and then going "oopsie! well you know i mean well i just want you to do better you know nobody else cares more than me!" and parker is just like.. yeah. that makes sense. < has no ability anymore to differentiate when his perception of events are true or not

hes withdrawn and tries not to get close to anyone because every team incineration sort of shreds his mental state further, hes too guilty and feels too much like a weapon to cope with it especially because the Coin immediately moved to monetize the Literal Deaths Hes Causing just because. so the force field is like... the first time hes had any reprieve from like, 1 of the myriad of things ruining his fucking life. he isnt roaming and being a living grim reaper anymore, he gets to stay on one team again and sort of awkwardly starts trying to make friends?

i think thats the thing about him and megan. megan pities him, megan sees all of the fixability and how horrible his situation is, megan befriends him even if it isnt really the best of intentions or a healthy friendship, and parker accepts it because he doesnt know what he wants and he hasnt had friends in years and hes trying to settle in a new team, and maybe his roommate insists that he doesnt have to live like this. maybe his roommate insists hes a tool and he should break free. maybe he thinks shes insane, because yes, everything hurts and everything the Coin says makes him feel worse, but thats just how the world is, right?

megan focuses just as much on him as an object but in a different way, and its that level of familiarity yet wrong that makes him especially just... sort of... break down so easily even though he keeps pushing back in his own way. he doesnt want to lose the force field. he doesnt want to acknowledge that the Coin treats him horribly. he doesnt want to acknowledge that the league and Outside Forces cursed him the most terribly of literally any player in the league. he wants to keep it all in a box and shove it under their squeaking too-small bedframe and never touch it ever again. hes got nothing and hes so content because for once having nothing means hes stable again, not causing deaths, the Coin is just fully ignoring him now because hes useless to her and it aches but it somehow is better? he doesnt know how to branch out of the team further and he doesnt have an interest in it anymore. its like disassociation but bass boosted.

i also think his relationship with new megan ito is way, way more complicated and toxic and bitter afterwards because its a mixture of like. Raw Unadulterated Horror And Guilt from being the cause of megan not just dying but essentially getting fucking erased from the universe? but also hes bitter and shocked and upset that she stole the force field. but also hes in fucking agony, because why would she do that? why would she take away the thing protecting everyone? but also hes so fucking guilty, that maybe he shouldve listened to her more, that maybe the few things he put his foot down were the problem. but also, hes so fucking angry, because how dare she rip the one thing he wanted out of his hands and make that choice for him, that he should be a tool to riot against the Coin? but also that makes him more guilty. and so on and so forth its just... a mess.

centennial era parker goes through like every stage of grief speedran after he gets unvaulted and nmegan steals the force field again because now hes reliving literally the worst event of his life AGAIN but also he then has to find out that not only was he not good enough? the Coin then made FOUR REPLICAS of him, all equally not good enough and/or dead. he speedruns the stages of grief about all of this and skips directly to like raw unadulterated hate and anger towards the Coin and towards nmegan and i think like Literally post-release the guy is still trying to work out like a fraction of how he has actually felt about any of this since day X

tldr what if you were disassociating and isolating all the time to cope with an abusive god-who-is-also-your-mother and the fact an entire league hated you enough to make you a weapon of mass murder involuntarily, and then you were given an item that undoes that second part and meet your first and only friend who is a close friend but also sort of superficially a friend just wants to fix you and make choices in your life against a system thats unfair that she hates but youre apathetic to. and then she gets murdered because of you but also because she literally refuses to let you just exist in your bubble, and then you have to put up with someone who looks-and-sounds-like-her-but-isnt-her until youre put in cryostasis for centuries as a "reward" in a Vault and the next time you fully come to and get to be alive again she immediately reenacts the most traumatic day of your life. and then the world is ending. what then

i miss parker do you also miss parker (this is a request to hear more about your megan + parker interps)

omg...thank you for handing me the mic im so touched

the answer is yes! i do miss parker macmillan. i also miss megan ito! i miss them both so much. (also i feel deranged how it is confirmed that the book was the reader but im keeping my megan ito as reader thoughts forever!!!!)

i mainly focus on their relationship / megan ito more than just solely parker, but thats just how i go i suppose! parker to me kinda works in my brain how i believe that megan ito would exactly see him, and its kinda fitting in that way? (i do feel bad for that though) (im also paging @citadarkisle because hes my fiance and my parker interp is *heavily* based off his! he got more indepth thoughts on parker than i could ever muster)

so the way megan would describe parker would be this: a broken player who is a rival both and a friend, and full of *potential* melded up in one ball! with one issue: the parent issues. at least, thats how megan ito summarizes him and his issues. she kinda molds him into her narrative and makes him ripe for the saving and for the salvation that she truly believes she can bring to him.

parker in the meanwhile is kinda...passive to this? she isnt particularly harmful to him, and just having his boundaries be, as he would maybe describe, *gently* walked and trampled all over isnt really as bad compared to the literal hell his life is with being pulled at ten million directions and somehow being hated and revered at the same time... so like megan? yeah shes kinda like...maybe agreeable to that.

they have a roommates situation at megans place which is kinda pathetic-sad. awkward, quiet nights sleeping in the same bed because their relationship is like........ .............. incalculable. there is admiration there, but wrong? its to the left. there are arguments and boundaries crossed, but never to the point where they ever break off their friendship. and even saying *friendship* is odd. they were friends, yes! but then they got into a weird grey area........

i dont think theyve ever held hands or kissed or brushed arms or anything like that, actually. i dont think theyve had the silent-love filled room moments where they lock eyes and are smitten or like, believe that each other held love for each other. i think they knew they were in some *position* but not sure what it was. i mean they sure as hell were something more than basic friends. i think parker had normal friends somewhere in his teams! and megan too! but oh my god i think they were just in an interlocked battle that parker want *nothing* with but megan just had the fixation to keep holding him on.

i believe that megan is at heart a kind person and didnt mastermind the stolen forcefield out of ill will. i saw that action as a last resort for her. that she was willing to put their friendship on the line to make *visible* change in parkers life. she had an infatuation with fixing his issues, to finally pull him out of his shell, and to be *right* most of all. its kinda why i draw megans gaze towards the symbolic *orb* whenever i draw them together. i just love the symbolism of her being so fixated on something that doesnt exist, or doesnt need to exist, or that she never really properly took his words or history or anything truly to heart because she *felt* for his *situation* more than *him*.

you ever feel compelled to solve something for someone else? a problem that is so deep and beyond your means but feels so *tangible*? that youd do anything and would throw yourself into it to finally have it accomplished? to solve it *for* them, because you think you can see it from the outside and that gives you the authority and allows you to rob them their agency? these are the sort of questions that i play around with the parker + megan relationship as a whole....

i hope this wasnt too long!!! id love to elaborate more on specific details if anyones curious, but yeah! thank you ; - ;

[doctorwhoisadhd]

what are your thomas england thoughts? like what do u think thomas was like b4 they died

ok so thomas england is DEFINITELY one of the players who i imagine as part of the Prehistory Fridays Gang. so first he was around for everything in prehistory (along with fletcher berger, sebastian diaz and his partner, erickson hendricks, rhonda elliott, our lady of perpetual friday, fenry marlow and their dog homer, fitzgerald massey, jessi wise, and mrs silk who was then miss silk. and then also baby york and his dad parker, who was dating miss silk. obv not all of these people were necessarily fridays players at the time though maybe they worked behind the scenes). so THAT was a whole thing.

honestly part of the problem of being LITERALLY retconned out of the game is nobody remembers you anymore. thomas england was only around long enough to get joke lore, we were only really just starting to flesh out relationships between the players when he got incinerated, and he didnt get any of that. and what adds to this problem is, well in the fridays style of lore, we dont necessarily think about what a player does outside of blaseball, or at least we DEFINITELY didnt early on (and didnt get ANY new entirely unlored players until relatively late af in the game — so like, after sixpack on s4d86 our next two were fenry and yass statter jr in the s13 and s19 elections respectively). so as a result there isnt any kind of a precedent to fall back on for what i think about what he did?

but here's what i DO know;

i disagree with the wiki on this one: neither of his parents are from the UK (there is no way). i like to think like, at least one of his parents is native, and hes lived there his entire life

his legal name is thomas england + thats whats on all his blaseball stuff, but typically with other islanders he'd use pelekane (which is what some of the last few members of the hawaiian royal family called england in ʻolelo hawaiʻi). so its like, his career name is thomas england

hes transmasc B) also ADHD

he played first base

he loves doctor who, and not just because its from the UK. like, hes seen the TV movie and at least one of the peter cushing movies and most of classic who, listened to a whole bunch of audios, reads the comics and the novels and like every EDA, has a subscription to dwmag, his bar for media quality is on the fucking GROUND so its literally all good he just loves dr who so much. he also probably has a cosplay of literally every doctor (including the shalka doctor and like the curse of fatal death ones too)

despite this he DOES. NOT. know ANYTHING about UK culture. he is constantly having amelia bedelia type misunderstandings of what things are. (ex: beans on toast = toast, peanut butter, jelly beans / "the tube" = "big pneumatic tube like the one for salmon, except people sized" / thinks john lennon's name was actually "john lemon")

he cant tell a single british accent apart he just identifies all of it as "british accent". fitz massey is from australia and is completely unaware that he thinks they are british. it is extremely lucky that he has never met anyone from ireland because they would probably strangle him. (weirdly though: despite him identifying approximately 50% of kiwis as british seemingly completely at random (absolutely no common criteria has been found at all. not looks not age not location nothing), he identifies 100% of scottish accents as "aotearoan")

he plays ʻukulele! maybe he worked at a ʻukulele store for a time at some point, even if it was like a summer job during high school... i like to think he's what got heat into playing :')

obsessed with choose your own adventure stories. he loves them.

(fridays angst train incoming) so york grew up with the whole Prehistory Fridays Gang as his family, and when york was really really little he couldnt say "thomas" (or england or pelekane, for that matter) but would ask him if they could play "docka who" all the time, so eventually what stuck for thomas england was he became york's "uncle who"

[courfeyracs-swordcane]

Tagged by Wyatt @orbleglorb AND @nosongunsung11 wow! I don’t actually have that many writing wips so I will also include the list of images in my brain to make since that exists as of recently

RULES: Reveal the titles of the documents in your WIP folder and tag as many people as there are documents. Let others ask questions about the ones that interest them and post snippets or explain the contents as you see fit!

(I bolded the ones that are especially snippetable please ask me about my wips)

WRITING:

Snow White is something that can be so twink death (FF robobs fic about what if your boss gave you a fucked up little son that you hate)(also you lobotomized your ex in a weird power play thing)

Ballet au setlist (not really a fic but compilation of the ancient robobs ballet au)

If you couldn’t be a king (Underhill!Jay sleepaway manifesto that���s probably about as done as it’s gonna get but could definitely use some editing so it’s still in the wip folder)

Here We Fucking Go Again (ditto ballet au but it’s the Mamma Mia au of the Anastasia au in which Kismet and Catalyzer robobs wind up raising Moonshadow and nobody dies)

Souvisel Theseus Hadestown Timeloop (pretty much what it says on the tin! Sleepaway ship of Theseus polycule reimagined as my dream impossible doublecasting of Hadestown)

These Are A Few Of My Favorite Milfs (prequel to the 100k enemies to lovers road-trip slowburn I’m never gonna write abt ailermaid robobs)

(Doesn’t have a title bc it’s just in my notes app but there’s about 200 words in there trying to flesh out the Ricosquad dynamic)

(Ditto no title but there’s also like three sentences of CJ sleepaway in there that I wrote at like 1am yesterday and I don’t remember where they were going)

ART: (technically only a couple of these (bolded) is actually a wip. But if they’re rotating in my brain that counts.)

From Eden comic (ancients robobs)

I know a lady animatic (Kismet and Moonshadow robobs)

Echo CJ classical piece (Sleepaway)

Night we met animation (Joel oscu)

Ancients lineup I started years ago (robobs)

Azalea and Sat running to cope (Memphis guys blaseball)

EQ and Mercy roller derby image (robobs)

EQ and Mercy good omens au (robobs)

Blood Guy (🤫)

Two Birds and a Wire (Rico Dyker Hazard robobs)

Okay I literally do not know that many people to tag especially ppl I know who actively write and shit and also between Wyatt and Pallas y’all got most of them BUT @nplutonian @whoisthisboy @frosteee-variation @lovelandfrogman maybe?? and anybody else if you want to do this just say I tagged you

[callibones]

uhhh hh ..... hello! this is the same anon who sent in that ask about object camps. the camps you suggested sound really interesting! im a little too scared to join them for now haha but they sound really cool. they will rotate in my mind for a while i think HGFDSFGHJGFDSDFGH other than that .. 1 . i came across the wiki camp two and it looked so creative and interesting to me! i dont program in css that often anymore but the site makes me wanna go over and put in a bunch of pages. problem is.. i don't know how to Apply? or Do Anything? rn the site is locked for voting but just in general i tried reading the rules but still couldn't understand how it worked. if you knew anything about it that'd be nice. it also seems to have a discord server..? again im scared to check myself but if youre in it i wanna know whether it's a nice space to be in.

2 . uhhghgfdghj i peered through the rest of the blog and found the shelled one blaseball fic you posted ? and i think im really Normal about it. So after reading that i now trust your fanfic opinions. are there any other blaseball fics you'd strongly recommend? and uh general.. uh, evil mind controlly fics would be really nice too (the book of bill is also sort of ruining me along with this so i am truly looking for ANYTHING and like omg hbdxszexrdcfdsxrctvdxszaf) and thats all i wanted to ask you! sorry this is getting REALLY LONG i wish you well and i am So Sorry for bothering you!

HELLO AGAIN! not botherin me at all. :-] i was hopin youd find that answer.... i made sure to answer it at the same time u sent the question so you'd have a MAXIMUM CHANCE of findin it, and u Did! so Yay! welcome back. im going to tag my answers to your Post's with 🩸🟪 so we Never Get Separated Again. but i want you to know.... i don't bite! i literally can't on account of my face is a monitor. so if you wanna chat, feel free to dm me! you seem like a really fun person and we clearly have a lotta interest's in common so Consider That: An Option.

ANYHOO.

1) the wiki camp 2 is ABSOLUTELY a welcoming community. in fact, check this out: here's an index of plainly written explanations of various community in-jokes, to ensure nobody's left confused! while i'm not super active on the discord due to hyperfixating on single spaces at a time like some sort of cryptid, i have a lot of wonderful friends in the community and i'd wholeheartedly call it nice.

you don't have to apply to write, either! while i don't think there's an ETA yet on when the wiki's re-opening, whenever it does you'll be able to make an account for free and start creating to your heart's content! sometimes people who do that even get roped into the camp due to Token Shenanigans....

2) look. i get it. how much do i get it? the post you're talking about was written by my bill cipher fictive. and guess what book made me pick THAT thing up? we're in the same boat. i'm (RELATIVELY) normal 'round these parts, but if you do end up dropping me a line, maybe you'll happen upon some of my stuff? just sayin'. but as for what i can do for ya at the desk here...

thing is, i actually haven't read that much blaseball fanfic. i know! i WANT to. i have a list, which i'll reblog with your special tag right after this. but my brain doesn't let me read a lotta long stuff these days, which is SUCKS! i might poke around some tags and see what i can find, but that spectacular shelled one fic's the only one of its kind i know.

if you wanna read something Long and Serious and Really Really Good that's haunted me for years, put your eyes on Oil and Water, the shoe thieves disaster marriage classic about grief and autism and family and other such things.

then read everything else that catches your fancy, and send me your picks! and hey. if anyone reading this wants to help a cute anon out and knows some fics (or wrote some fics) that fit the Bill i mean the bill, PLEASE lemme know!! i Understand wanting more evil mind control. it's kind of my whole thing. PLUS i'm literally the shelled one's favorite

[burningcrab]

parker voice what

uh. fanteam yeah hold on lemme get my old discord messages.

uh so the 🍝 niagara falls meatballs r a blaseball team that plays under contract for a swanky dining establishment bridging the niagara river. theyre sorta real dicks. bc reservations for niagara falls fine dining r hella expensive. the menu is full of the stupidest rich-person shit ever too like u know all those $20,000 foods with real edible gold leaf? like that. but yk they needed more than just good food to attract customers. so people who eat there can also look out the floor-to-ceiling & wall-to-wall windows and watch blaseball lmao close.

and then like. the restaurant bridges the river yeah? yea. they play in the river. and theyve made it a lil more traversable but like still. on good days they just gotta hop around on wet slippery rocks to get around, on bad days theyre just straight up fighting raging currents that reach their knees. so fuckin nobody likes playing there lmao. to make up for the rest of the league having to deal with all that the opposition always gets a postgame meal on the house. but theres no game and the owners gotta stick to the brand right? so instead they watch the meatballs work thru a contractually-obligated postgame practice that happens no matter the weather :)

anyway shit sucks for them lmao

this doesn't have to be about the wip specifically, but please tell me about the niagara falls meatballs

Ok they’re actually not mine! They’re the mirrorverse counterpart of @burningcrab’s fanteam, the Great Lakes Pancakes (I think?)! I had an idea YEARS ago and it just was one sentence never to be touched again

(Crab crab crab talk about ur guys I love ur guys)

[doctor--lobster]

OOOOOOO BLASEBALL’S COMIN BACK BABEY

[loamsome]

Blesties, it's been an honor 🤝 07