#want to reblog with an epic comeback

[scholarhect]

i will never outgrow responding to people in confusing ways but it will be ok because people are patient :)

[burnintomemories]

Rules

I'm a generally chill person, but I still need these here.

General:

This is a fun and safe space for me, let's keep it that way.

No godmodding. You can bump the story along, but no controlling Blaze.

For fights, I'd like to use a roll of a d20 to determine how the fight goes. This way, it's fun! A fail (1) roll could be super comical, while a crit (20) would have an epic comeback.

I'll reblog icon and aesthetic posts, but please do not reblog them from me! Please reblog from the creator. Same goes with memes.

I won't RP smut. This is just uncomfortable for me to write.

I will use ((...)) or Espeon icons to designate that a post is OoC. I'll try to keep them to a minimum.

I have absolute zero tolerance for vague blogging. Talk to me. Talk to whoever it is. Vaguing only serves to create anxiety and drama. I will block you if you do this.

Feel free to message me if you want to plot! I'm always open for even just chatting.

Please do not badger me for responses. Reminders after a couple weeks are okay.

On Shipping:

I am open to shipping! This blog is multiship, with each ship being a separate verse.

I will not RP cheating plots ever.

Do not force a ship on me. I'll ship with chemistry and communication.

[lights-in-the-clouds]

The Girl I Never knew, but Loved

Summary: Seungcheol is celebrating the highest of point of his long running career as a leader of a Korean pop group. He couldn’t help this feeling of floating loneliness. This woman occupying a space of his mind that always left him with more questions every time they’d meet. Now he’ll receive news that finally answer all of his questions, but is he ready to know them? If you liked this, feel free to heart and reblog this. It really helps the algorithm and my confidence.

Warnings: this story is about kidnapping, so mentions of rape, alcohol, and death are in this story. As well as an emotional Seungcheol. Alcohol consumption. Beware and Enjoy!

Author’s Note: I just want to go ahead and say thank you picking this short story to read. I’d like to introduce myself as one of the writers for this blog “Lights In The Clouds” you can call me Travesty. This inspiration was to see Seungcheol in a more vulnerable role, as we always see him as this strong leader. I hope you enjoy it.

Seungcheol’s fingers ran up and down the sides of a small glass that held soju. His eyes weighed heavily on the gloss of alcohol, but he still glided them lazily across each member. It was late October, tour was done, a promise of another comeback, and talks of dramas for some members. Exactly seventeen years of brotherhood, success, and lives spent together. Suddenly Hoshi shifted the mood to a somber one; a reflective one by just one question. “Is there someone you miss?” His voice carried this lazy slur that strained to be hurried from his burnt throat from the alcohol and his question open to anyone. Seungcheol mildly pondered if Hoshi was thinking of someone like he had been for years.

A soft mummer of the members who thought out loud, Seungcheol lifted the small glass to his lips to drink the last remnants of the clear liquid. He swallowed it, then he set the glass down. He needed the liquid courage to to speak on the matter. He watched the group of men, that had been through just about everything with him. The feeling in his stomach seemed to hover just over the edge of a bottomless hole. He felt like this all day, yet he couldn’t give any explanation for the feeling. As a matter of fact, he’d noted this feeling occurred too frequently for him in recent years. It was as if he’d been pending doom. Here, they all stared at him almost in disbelief, as if he could never experience such an epic love tale. That the Seungcheol they knew could never have a love that impacted him so much. Maybe he didn’t…then why did his heart tell him otherwise.

A hand raked through his thick mass of chocolate brown hair, “I-uh…I do. I have someone.” He used present tense because she was still on his mind just as freshly as she had been in his childhood. He began, as his heavy, glossed, and red eyes raked on each member. He closed his eyes to relieve himself of the dizziness, before he began. “She popped into my life a few times…the strangest thing is her name was never the same.” He swallowed the pool of saliva, his eyes drooped, as though he was drifting away to different time. “The first time I met her was when I was seven. She was the sweetest girl I had ever met.” A love drunk smile pulled at his lips, as he rested an elbow on the table.

His head slowly falling into his hand, as he spoke. “She spoke to everyone, she helped everyone, and played with everyone. It’s like she had a knack in making sure each and every person knew her on a personal level. She was so bright. The sweetest smile too.” His heavy eyebrows moved as he described her. “Her name was Y/N, strange though I don’t remember her after that year.” He furrowed his brows. Jeonghan spooned a bit of the tofu soup soaked rice into Seungcheol’s mouth, he chewed a few bits, then “did she ever come back?” Jeonghan asked, as he shoveled some lettuce wraps into his mouth.

“she re-appeared when I was sixteen, but with a different name. She insisted on it being her name and that she’d never seen me before, but I couldn’t ever get her eyes out of my mind.” He swallowed the bite. “Her eyes were so dark, but dark because she held this sadness in them.” He paused to get his glass re-filled by Dino. Everyone seemed to be paying attention now. Wonwoo and Mingyu seemed to be imagining such a girl in their minds. Seungkwan, Vernon, and Dino all watching their older brother re-live a story before them. Seokmin, Hoshi and Joshua seemed to be passing the several side dishes, as they listened.

A finger traced his chin, “she was so intelligent too. Top of the class…cheerleading, Journalism, and she hung out with me.” A tone of admiration took over his drunk lazy voice. “I went on one date with her and it truly was the most amazing date.” He let out a soft chuckle, his shoulders shook with every chuckle, “it was so simple. I couldn’t afford to take her anywhere because I was a trainee. We just went to the Han river and shared a bowl of Ramyeon and a drink.” Another laugh of reminiscing bubbled out of him. Joshua took a drink from his glass, “one date? Why one date, if it was so perfect?” The drunk flush covered his neck, ears, and slowly spread across his cheeks.

Seungcheol let out a deep sigh, as his eyes opened to meet Joshua’s glazed eyes. “She left again. She didn’t even stay for the music festival, she promised she was going to see me perform in.” A frown appeared on his face on the mention of the festival. “Last time I saw her was in Busan, two years ago.” He drank in one big gulp the soju in his glass, as if he would numb the pain that would be accompanied with these next words. “She told me her name was yet something else and she and her daughter were waiting for her husband.” He clenched his jaw, as he put his face in his hands. He rubbed away the pain from his face, his eyelids lowered to hide the pain of loss, then he attempted to blow out the knot in his throat.

Silence fell upon them, as they began to speak about the moral of the story; waste no time on loved ones. Seungcheol’s shoulders slumped with the pain he’d endured for so long, his mind replayed every moment he spent with Y/N, and tears welled in his eyes. The moment was interrupted by a soft knock on the glass door of the dinning hall. Seungcheol closed his eyes, as he braced himself for a scolding from staff. He’d given too much information or maybe they had hoped he would’ve kept it family friendly. “Excuse me…Seungcheol there’s a police officer here, they would like to speak with you.” The manager said meekly, nervous, and anxious.

Sobriety hit him hard, as he pushed himself up from his seat. He was wrong; the dizziness hit the second he stood on his wobbly feet. His steps were clumsy, he questioned the manager of any information she would know about the police. His brain couldn’t bring anything to the forefront, she sighed softly, “it’s an investigation of a disappearance.” Just then a pair of detectives sat in the empty office, an empty chair across from them, as they rested their arms on a white table. He could tell then, one was police, the other a journalist. He bowed respectfully, as they stood to greet them. The manager placed a comforting hand on Seungcheol’s arm, as they welcomed him to sit.

His large eyes filled with fear and questions, as they switched between the two of them . “Before we begin, I want to let you know that there was a case that caught my our attention, but we have questions on the last time you were able to come in contact with Y/N.” The female detective explained. Her slender hands slid over a picture of a woman, the world stopped for Seungcheol, his head swam, as his eyes took in the beauty of Y/N. Those same sad eyes stared back at him. “What’s happened?” He asked immediately, “I was a sort of a friend.” The journalist and officer exchanged a look between each other. “While we’ve been following this story, we saw that she’d gone to the same sch-“

The emotions inside of him exploded from the lack of straightforward answers, “what’s happened?” His voice found the volume that seemed to shake everyone in the room. He couldn’t care for anything else but to know what’s happened to Y/N. The same female journalist visibly took a breath to relax, “the story is long, but Y/N was a victim of kidnapping at a young age. The perpetrator passed himself off as her father years until she was too old to pass off as his daughter.” The information was too much for Seungcheol. The burning sense behind his eyes returned.

His stomach dropped finally dropped from the edge, the tears spilled out, and his hands tenderly traced the photograph. The journalists took a moment for Seungcheol’s emotions, then continued. “Unfortunately she…was murdered. Her body was discovered about a year ago.” Seungcheol balled his hand in to a fist, then he brought it to his mouth. His eyes glued to the photograph, “and her daughter?” He asked; his eyes dart up at the journalists. “Her body was recovered just this past month.” The news crumpled the remainder of his heart, the tears were too stunned to come out, but his breath was ragged.

“Why are you here?” He asked his voice held the despair he felt. The loneliness, the guilt, and shame he shouldered for so long. How could he not see it? The sadness in her eyes, the sudden disappearance from his life, and the change of identity every time he run into her. He always believed everything Y/N would tell him. He was so stupid. “We just want a statement. Maybe how you feel about all of this?” Seungcheol heard the question, but his mind swirled about his entire life with Y/N. The manager stepped in now, her hands gentle on his shoulders, as she gave a statement. She then helped usher Seungcheol out of the room.

He held on to the picture. It was the only thing he could hold on to. Seungcheol numbly let the manager guide him back to the group, his eyes memorized every detail of Y/N, and his eyes burned to cry. His chest heavy and ready to yell out his agony. His expression must of read something of complete torment, as Seokmin engulfed him into an embrace. The tears that he thought couldn’t come out finally made their escape. The strangled sobs that huffed out of his mouth. His legs weakened by the wave of emotion that he released.

[thessalian]

Thess vs TLoVM Ep 11

So for the various people who’ve been liking, reblogging, and occasionally following me because of these - hello, and welcome to Thess vs the World. Grab a beanbag, grab a drink (wet bar and kettle off to your left), and enjoy. And for now, liveblogging Ep 11.

Nice clock. Betting Ripley built that thing. Which is kind of awful when you think about it, given Percy wanted to be a clockmaker. Ripley is what Percy could have been, could still be. They are the perfect foil for each other. Which is probably why she’s the one that killed him ... what, three times?

...Oh that ain’t good. Scanlan has the right idea. ...SCANLAN YOU KNOW ABOUT THE FUCKING PLANES SHUT UP. I mean, yay Keyleth having a moment, but COME ON.

Yeah, the Briarwoods are like if Gomez and Morticia Addams went 100% hardcore. I’m just saying.

...Okay, so I have to wonder if that’s Grog not really wanting to take on Sylas again after what happened the last time they did battle. I mean, he probably does and doesn’t. I guess that’s why Pike’s giving him a bit of encouragement. Grog often seems to figure in this that if he’s got Pike with him, he can do anything. ...And all things considered, he’s probably right.

Oh. Oh, that struggle with Orthax is awesome. I wish I’d been sitting in whatever writer’s room the gang shared with the writers to hear what Taliesin’s input was on this one. Wait - who did write this one? ...Eugene Son, works on a lot of Marvel animation and comics ... and Travis. Oh gods, now I want to meet Travis even more; the man can write too? I love writers. I want to talk shop with them and ask them questions about specifics and ... well, generally hug them to bits. Do not underestimate the amount I appreciate the people who give me my best-loved entertainment. Stories are my thing. Anyway.

Oh, Cassandra, ouch. Since I do know you survive this, I imagine any lover or spouse you ever take is going to have to stay away from neck-nibbles or you’re going to go demented with PTSD flashbacks. That or you’ll end up being way more into it than you want to be and that’s a whole different bunch of problems. Tal’dorei needs therapists.

This is actually a phenomenal fight scene. Good showcase of people’s abilities and ... nice visual representation of the Silence spell! Also ... get fucked, Briarwoods.

Yeah, Scanlan, the crush on Pike always made sense but right now? Total, perfect, unbelievable sense. That - even by my untrained ace eye - is hot.

Okay, yeah, the coming to her senses briefly, there may or may not be tears.

(No, okay, there are totally tears and there is no shame in that.)

Oh FUCK YOU SYLAS THEY WERE HAVING A MOMENT.

Go, Keyleth! That was epic. And yeah, on balance, I’m glad we don’t have Stoner-Bro Sun Tree. Loved it in game; but when it’s condensed like this, it’d do weird things to the narrative flow and mood.

“Will you stop hitting me?!?” I’m sorry, Vax, but I think she deserves at least one or two good punches for that dagger through the shoulder. And, y’know, retroactive payback for some armour thievery resulting in the wreck of a resort hotel room a year or so from now.

Grog learns from Vax, apparently. I admit I kind of love how playing on latant homophobia has let them win over two opponents so far in this, just by sheer confusion if nothing else.

Yeah, don’t like the taste of your own medicine that much, do you, Delilah? And Scanlan ... perfect comeback. Not too much, not overegging the pudding. Brilliant.

Well. That’s a sunburn. Poor Grog. Then again, I’m a little unhappy that we still don’t get to see “I want to make him eat a bag of holy dicks”.

...Oh, come on, Percthax. Kill-stealing is not a thing in team PVP unless you’re an asshole who uses their kill count as compensation for ... other, more pants-related deficiencies. Just be happy he’s dead. Not sure a bullet could have killed him anyway.

Aw, they kept “I broke the world for us”. Good.

Starting to regret some of the bullshit you were talking about Kiki now, aren’t you, Vex? Also NOOOO. (I mean, I know she’s gonna be okay but still.)

Oh, right, this is the “There is no magic in this room now because spinny black death ball so heals not a thing” thing. If I recall correctly, it was Vex who was nearly dead and Marisha banging on the table chanting “Get her out of the room - get her out of the room - get her out of the room” so this is an interesting take on that. Then again, cartoon - in RPGs, things just happen (sometimes more narratively appropriate than others, but more often more narratively appropriate than others would think improv RPG stuff could be, though that’s generally the sign of a good DM and good players all with a good feel for a narrative line); in cartoons, writers tend to like being a little more direct. Something to do with a compressed time scale.

I wonder how or if they’re going to manage that bit where Vex shot a clairvoyance arrow through that thing and a Nat 20 gave her a clue that they could keep in their minds for the Whispered One Ascened arc later. I kind of hope they don’t include the bit where Keyleth touched the spinny death orb and nearly ripped her godsdamned hand off. Keyleth’s had enough today.

Right! Short break, possibly food, definitely more coffee, and then the finale.

[thebitetheapple]

January 2024 update to the BiteTheApple 🍎fanfic master-list to add my work-in-progress ‘Rise & Fall of Shame’. Link here

Click the titles ⬇️for links to AO3

New! 🌟 OLeever fic (CMBYN Oliver with Bones & All Lee)

it works, trust me🖤

Rise & Fall of Shame It’s 1983 and Oliver is about to leave for Italy but he’s going to miss his new boyfriend Lee. Lee wants to be good people. They both have dark secrets wip

Charmie (Armie/Timmy) fics:

He Becomes Much More Still - Paris 2018 CMBYN premier - the truth behind the chair-swivel-jacket-incident (word count 3346)

The Conversation - Armie & Timmy have an open, honest convo following the AirMail article (word count 500)

Szeptember in Budapest - inspired by September In LA by @dalyankiz1981 - Timmy can’t bring himself to read a message from a certain someone (word count 1146)

From Out Of Nowhere - It’s September 2023 and Timmy has vanished without a trace in England. Very Dark. Sometimes funny. Sometimes heartbreaking. But always Charmie (word count 62,708)

Too Hot To Handle - Charmie for the ‘Cruel Summer’ drabble challenge (word count 379)

Delightful Motherf*cker - inspired by Armie’s bike riding skills. Little sexy one-shot set in Crema 🚲 (word count 1350)

I’ve Seen With Your Eyes - 100-word microfic. Armie makes an emotional call to Timmy

The Return - 100 word micro-fic. Armie makes his comeback on a popular chat show

PostSecret💌 Timmy is lonely in London… but has an idea (word count 500)

Elio/Oliver fics:

This - a sexy, intimate moment between Elio & Oliver in the garden at Villa Albergoni ☀️ (word count 1000)

There’s a Part of Me in You - EliOliver. Love, loss & heartbreak in Italy (word count 267)

Maschera 🎭(Mask) - EliOliver CMBYN fix-it. A tense conversation from Crema to New England and a twist in the tale (word count 403)

Lay 🛁 EliOliver. A sexy moment in the villa bathroom (word count 500)

SERIES:

(Forever) Chasing Rainbows 🌈 - Timmy is a struggling actor trapped in a locked-down York, England. Armie has escaped from LA to start a new life. Yorkshire shenanigans aplenty - funny, sexy, educational.

Chasing Rainbows 🌈- Season 1: Timmy has to resort to using the local foodbank. A sexy volunteer catches his eye. (word count 28,023)

(Still) Chasing Rainbows 🌈- Season 2: Timmy moves into Armie’s house. What could go wrong? (word count 43,767)

A Rainbow Coloured 🎄 🌈 - Season 3: Timmy returns from the US and things are a little tense (word count 6573)

Where Boys Fear To Tread - sweet, angsty, sexy, sort-of following a loose real life timeline:

Part 1: Stand Inside Your Love - Timmy & Armie meet on the set of CMBYN and stars collide (word count 13,608)

Part 2: This Time - Can their love survive long-distance? Armie has tough decisions to make (word count 18,025)

Part 3: Glass - the epilogue - things get steaming at the apartment viewing (word count 1501)

These Things Take Time - in the Aid & Comfort universe created by onlyastoryteller - teenaged friends confused about their changing feelings. Sweet and angsty.

Wound: Teenage Master Timmy’s pov - is his helper Armie more than just a best friend? (word count 3618)

Hurt: Teenage Helper Armie’s pov - how will he cope without his beloved Timmy? (word count 2752)

Perfect: The boys are on borrowed time before Armie leaves for Helper Training (word count 6021)

& LAST BUT NOT LEAST…

The Secret Diary of Timmy C Aged 23 and a Bit : the EPIC re-telling of what really happened in 2019 (funny, sexy, angsty, REAL!) 📔 ✍️📝 (word count 92,106)

Thank you SO much to my readers for every single kudos, comment, reblog & share

I really do appreciate it MWAH!😘

[heavennozetsubou]

ReActivation Update!

Alright so this is going to be a big update note for our comeback to this project for the people on Tumblr who haven’t been around to get the news in Discord, let’s do this!

Let’s begin with: I AM indeed back, I am announcing that this project, parenthesis UDR:HoD, has OFFICIALLY been reactivated! Sorry, but you can't get rid of me and this project that easily, I'm here and I'm here to stay. M8. I had a lot of time to think about many things these past months, and I got a lot of new directions for this reopening.

First thing first, we're going to have a

𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓥𝓲𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓱𝓪𝓾𝓵

Yes, it's going to be *everything* visual. Splash, CG, sprite, the overall artstyle in general, are to receive one massive upgrade. If you think these arts can't get any better then boy you wrong cuz I'm about to do just that. And this would also include a few changes and adjustments to the character designs as well, don't worry they would stay aesthetically the same, I'd just like to make a tweak to them and polish them up a notch.

It's going to be big, I can tell you that much.

Now, I've been thinking about this a lot, as you probably might or might not know, this project still lacking in staff. I didn't mean it in like arts and stuff, those are pretty fine as it is, but other categories, say, video editing, 3D modeling, animating, music composing, which I'd love to do all of them, but obviously I can't you know I'm just a one person. So I decided to hey maybe it's time for me to open a spot for some talented hands who're willing to do it for the good of this project. But again, I really lack the experience and knowledge on how to effectively manage any of this, I pretty much only know art and basic idea on what to do to make a good story, and I'm going to need help into bringing all of that to life. So in short, I'm in need of staff that specialized in the categories above, I don't have any other detail more than that right now, I'll get back to this once I do.

I also have to mention the character voice's audition. The last time was, well, it was a mistake. I had literally no past experience with this sort of thing like at ALL, and it ended up being pretty messy as one would expect, good thing I only opened up just one position to test the water so not too much was going on. I have to apologize for you guys who submitted your performance to the last auditions, it was very overwhelmingly underprepared, I just didn't know how to manage it, but lesson learned and I'll try to do better next time whenever the project's ready for another round! For now, you be patient, aight?

So here's the basis of what's going to happen to this project:

The project is now officially active again! Means more content!

We're going to remaster the art/visual direction and designs.

We're going to start slowly but steadily scouting for potential new staff members to help work on the project.

The voice audition will be officially postponed for the time being. I don't know when we're going to have one again, it's just sooner or later once everything's ready.

There, of course, might be something else that I haven't stated in this announcement, and will come up in the future, so keep your eyes open.

I'm really excited about this new direction and I'm wholeheartedly looking forward to this project's future. I can't express it enough how much I care about this project, it's now and always will be like a part of me. Sometimes I care about it too much and end up damaging everything else about me, my health, my education, and even my moral, I need to find a comfortable balance in all of this. I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, while maintaining balance in my life, I won't have that much time for this passion project as before, but I will always find time for it whenever I can, because this is what I wanted.

I love this world and the characters I've created, and I want you all to be able to feel the same way.

Thanks a lot if you've read all of this, and well I wouldn't blame the people who didn't, but what matters is the people who did. Thank you every single one of you who is still by my side all this time, a loyal follower is the best thing a creator like me could ever ask for.

I guess that's it for our super epic comeback, I hope you like that poster I've made for this occasion alongside my Uni's final, you can tell me what you think about it, and if you like it so much you can reblog the post and share it with your friends! It would mean the world to me.

It took me like 5 hours to come up with the script for this so I hope this is worth it, it's always difficult for me to find a right for whatever I wanted to say but I'm trying my best to be as genuine as possible and not a pretentious generic corporate speech. It is who I am and there's no point in hiding anything right? We're all friends after all.

I guess this is going on for long enough. I'll take this as a wrap for the time being, next I'm going to have a talk with my staffs and discuss our next move.

So yeah, see you around. I will be seeing you.

[bookdancerfics]

Baseball Jargon Glossary

This is specifically for my WinterHawk Big Bang fic, Love Pitch, but if anyone else wants to reblog this or needs to look something up then go for it. More complicated stuff (like OPS, WAR, or BABIP) won’t be listed because it either didn’t have relevance in the fic or I purposefully steered away from it in-fic because it’s complicated.

Everything’s listed alphabetically.

American League (AL) - the worst league (jk i’m kidding). unlike the National League, the AL has designated hitters. teams in the AL can face teams in the NL, but they’re more likely to have games with other AL teams

batting average - the number of hits a player gets divided by their number of at-bats. so a player who gets 2 hits in 5 at-bats would have a .400 average. if a player has the same number of hits as they do at-bats (this can happen in the beginning of the season) then their average is 1.000. the higher the average the better. an average batting average is .240-.270. a player is doing well if they’re batting .270-.299. anything over .300 is really good

side note: most pitchers don’t have high batting averages, but some do (see: Shohei Ohtani (Angels), who’s actually the designated hitter even when he’s not pitching). and surprise, Babe Ruth, the home run king, was both an outfielder and a pitcher. most pitchers have batting averages between .000 and .200

bench players (the bench) - players who don’t start the game, they’re literally on the bench until they get called in

bunt - a batter bunts by squatting into a pitch and holding their bat out horizontally. one hand grips the barrel of the bat while the other holds the regular handle. hitting the ball like this helps to control the pitch. done correctly, the ball will drop to the grass and roll towards third base

usually done to advance a runner already on base. even if it’s done correctly, the batter is typically out, so it’s used strategically

bunting a ball foul on 2 strikes means that the batter is automatically out, so you have to be really confident in your bunting skills to bunt on 2 strikes

some batters (fast ones) will occasionally try to bunt for a hit, as in they bunt with no one on base and attempt to outrun the throw. it can be a successful move, but is typically only done when the batter isn’t batting particularly well, and is also generally looked down on because it’s such a risky move

championship series - there’s one championship series per league, and they’re the third part of the postseason (post-division series, pre-world series). each series lasts seven games, or until one team has won 4 games (so a team could win the series in 4, 5, 6, or 7 games). the winners of each division series play each other based on league (so AL v AL, NL v NL). the winners of the championship series go on to the world series

clean-up - the fourth batter in a lineup. aka the four-hole. aka one of the best batters in the lineup. when the clean-up comes up to bat, something’s expected to happen

designated hitter (DH) - only in the AL. a hitter that takes the pitcher’s spot on the hitting rotation. supposed to make the game more interesting (imo they don’t, but opinions are opinions). when an AL team plays an away game with an NL team, they aren’t allowed to use designated hitters. when an NL team plays an away game with an AL team, they’re allowed to use the DH but not required. frequently used to prolong a player’s career because they don’t actually need to field, just bat

disabled list (DL) - an injured player can be put on the DL to make room for a healthy player on the 25 man roster. once the player returns to the roster, though, someone always has to go back down to the minors

divisions - every league has three divisions. every division has five teams (six in my fic to allow for the extra, fictional teams). the team with the most wins in each division wins the division title each season

division series - there’s two division series per league, and they’re the second part of the postseason (post-wildcard games, pre-championship series). each series lasts five games, or until one team has won 3 games (so a team could win the series in 3, 4, or 5 games). the team with the best league record plays the wildcard winner, while the other two division winners play each other

free agent - players not affiliated with any team. their contract ran out without them being re-signed

hit by pitch (hbp) - when the batter gets beaned by a baseball thrown by the pitcher. sometimes intentional (see ‘intentional hbp’) and sometimes not

intentional hit by pitch (intentional hbp) - they pop up every now and then, although a lot of the time no team or pitcher actually admits that they did it on purpose. other times they don’t even try to hide it (see: cole hamels (phillies) intentionally hitting bryce harper (nationals) to “welcome him to the big leagues” (side note: bryce paid him back by stealing home, which is pretty much the most epic thing he could have done in this situation))

honestly it’s been a part of baseball for so long that you really could argue about it all day, and it’s mostly seen as a way to pay players back (usually for watching a homer too long). but hitting someone is never meant to injure them. any intentional hbp’s should always be aimed at the thigh because it may bruise, but it won’t actually put them on the DL

in the hole - where the batter is before they go into the on-deck circle. aka there’s the batter at bat, the batter in the on-deck circle, and then the batter in the hole

Major League Baseball (MLB) - as high as a player can get in American baseball

Minor League Baseball (MiLB) - different affiliates of the major league teams. also known to house the “farm system”, aka up-and-coming players

Single A (A), Double A (AA), Triple A (AAA) - different divisions of the minors, the more A’s there are, the higher up players are and the better chance they have of making the majors. previously injured players (just off the DL) will typically play a few games here to readjust before heading back to the majors

National League (NL) - the best league (i’m not joking this time). unlike the AL, they don’t use designated hitters. teams in the NL can face teams in the AL, but they’re more likely to have games with other NL teams

no-decision - because pitchers’ wins and losses are recorded, no-decisions come into play in certain instances. they’re only used for starting pitchers

so: if a pitcher starts the game, but exits when the game is tied, they automatically get a no-decision because they didn’t give up more runs than the opposing pitcher

or: if a pitcher starts the game, exits while their team is in the lead, and the team then loses the lead, they get a no-decision because they weren’t responsible for the lost lead

or: if a pitcher starts the game, exits while their team is behind, and the team then gains the lead, they get a no-decision because they weren’t pitching during the comeback

even if a reliever is pitching when these instances occur, the reliever will be assigned the win or loss instead of the starter

on-deck circle - where the next batter stands and practices their swing

pinch hitter - a hitter who replaces someone else in the lineup

usually used to switch out pitchers

pinch runner - someone who replaces a runner on base. rarely used, especially since the person who gets replaced can’t return to the game

relief pitcher (reliever) - pitchers who usually only pitch one or two innings a game. they come in to close the game out and hopefully get the starter the win. long relievers can go for three to five innings

rosin bag - small white bags filled with rosin powder. they’re kept on the mound throughout the whole game, usually behind the pitcher, and pitchers use them to keep their grips on the baseballs

rotation - every team has a pitching rotation. if you’re lucky, this rotation has five strong starters. if you’re not lucky… well. things can get interesting. (apparently there was a 4 man rotation on a team this season? and they used the bullpen for the 5th “starter”? i can’t remember who it is but like… ouch). it’s called a rotation because the pitchers rotate on a schedule, so every pitcher pitches every fifth game

or they should. off days can cause trouble, because you want to keep the rotation but you also don’t want every starter getting an extra day off (this sounds good in theory but it actually disrupts their training: not good!), so sometimes what teams will do is skip whoever would have pitched on the off day and just keep going. this means that every pitcher (with the one exception) keeps their training schedule, and only one of them is disrupted instead of all five

save - a reliever gets the save if they pitch the final half-inning without giving up the losing runs. a save situation only occurs if the run difference is between 0-3 runs and the pitcher’s team is in the lead

Spring Training - starts in February and goes through March. players get invitations to come to Spring Training and try to make the major league team. they play games with other teams and train in preparation for the season (which starts in late March/early April), but there’s always those minor league players who get invited. this is their chance to show the team that they can make it in the majors

starting pitcher - one of five pitchers who start games on a rotation. top three starters are usually the best of the five, but the goal is to have a solid five starters

starters - not to be confused with starting pitchers, starters are the players who literally start the game. they’re not on the bench

walk - a pitcher walks a batter when they throw 4 balls in the same at-bat. the batter immediately takes first base

wildcard - if a team doesn’t win their division, they still have a chance to make the postseason: by being one of the two teams with the best records behind the division winners (this means that, technically, both wildcard teams could have better records than one or two of the division winners, because the division takes precedence over the record. it all depends on the division). if a team gets a wildcard spot, they then play a one game series against the other wildcard team before the division series begin. the winner of the wildcard game continues on to the division series, the loser is immediately eliminated from the post season

world series - there’s only one world series, and it’s the fourth and final part of the postseason (post-championship series). each series lasts seven games, or until one team has won 4 games (so a team could win the series in 4, 5, 6, or 7 games). the championship series winners play each other, and the winner of the world series is the final, ultimate winner. there’s nothing better than winning the world series

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The AMAZING @rainbowd00dles is going to provide us with some of their incredible AFTG art, and I couldn't be happier! Hopefully no reposting will happen. It's their art, after all, and they literally own it. They made it, and they deserve the credit as much as Michelangelo deserves the credit for the Sixtine Chapel. So please, to whoever comes across this reblog: DO NOT REPOST. Let's make the internet a safe space for artists to publish their content, free from the fear that it will be stolen from them and used without giving them credit. (Or, even worse, saying that you created said content when you didn't)

Many times, people don't give the artist credit because they don't know how important that is. You come across an image you like, and you say, okay, this will make a fine addition to my feed! Kudos to whoever drew it, dunno who it was tho and I'm not gonna bother trying to find out. Okay. You didn't know that that's wrong, but your not knowing doesn't change the fact that it's wrong. So when someone asks to be given credit for their art, don't turn a blind eye.

Some other times, people deliberately steal content and repost it without giving credit to its rightful creator. It may be because they want all the likes and follows the artwork will get, it may be because they don't care about why that's wrong.

Sometimes, even, reposters will say something along the lines "Hey, but they posted it on the internet for everyone to see! When you upload something and make it publicly available to others, you're basically giving it away. If you don't want reposts, then don't post at all lol". It's basically the same crooked reasoning that assumes that a girl wearing a dress, or shorts, or a crop top, is "asking for it". "If she didn't want men to look at her, she wouldn't have dressed that way!" See the point?

When someone decides to show something to the world, it doesn't mean they are giving it away. They are SHOWING something THEY made, felt, created, etc. They are SHARING it. But they are still the creators of that content, and they deserve to be recognised as such. Imagine putting your whole heart and soul in your content, only to see how others go around showing it off without mentioning the fact that you created it. Or, even worse, outright lying by claiming that it was them.

Don't do that to artists. It's basically like being the leech classmate who, when there's a group assignment, does nothing and gets away with the group mark. Only, in this case you're stealing the mark from the other person, leaving them stuck without any mark at all. Don't be the leech classmate, guys. ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGE THE EFFORT THAT CONTENT CREATORS MAKE BY GIVING THEM CREDIT.

and that's it, that's the tweet, please reblog the hell outta @rainbowd00dles art because they're one of the BEST artists here on Tumblr and they deserve to pull an epic comeback to the AFTG fandom

WIP

i’m making a return to aftg art with a mini comic based on a text post 

all you reposters better not ruin this for me 😖😖

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I keep seeing this everywhere. I mean everywhere. I’ve seen it four or five times in the past two days, I can’t go on Facebook without someone slapping it around. I just had to take a closer look.

Bologna. What’s the deal with Bologna? I always thought bologna tasted disgusting. Was eating it a requirement for growing up as a Good, Honest American? Are folks suddenly freaking out about the contents of bologna, is that the issue? …yet measles are making a comeback because people are afraid of the chemicals in vaccines. Why is bologna on here and not that? Bologna is what we want to feel superior about? Okay, how about: I HAVE CONSUMED THE CHEMICALS IN THE MMR VACCINE AND I TURNED OUT JUST FINE. PROBABLY WITH THE HELP OF THE MMR VACCINE, COME TO THINK OF IT.

What’s with the bizarrely specific Pepsi product placement? Anyway, I drank COKE. Because Coke is a superior taste sensation, OBVIOUSLY. My father drank Pepsi because he is a heathen. Either way, I see some of the people who've told me that it’s AWFUL and BAD FOR ME (and that I’m going to GET CANCER because it’s not ORGANIC) reblogging this meme and they can biiiitteeeee mmeeeee.

Played in the dirt just fine. We had dirt in the 80’s too, who knew? Do I get points for that? How many points for the dirt?

Never got spanked because 1. I didn’t act like an idiot, 2. My mother was a teacher with an actual educated understanding of childhood development and could control a room full of 5th graders with a look, so needing to hit her own child would have been an epic parenting fail, and 3. She knew what it was like growing up with a parent who liked to hit so we didn’t play that fucking game. (Also 4. I didn’t act like an idiot. Did I already mention that?)

WTF does the location of the TV antenna have to do with anything? At? All??? Can someone explain that one to me?? As far as I knew when I was a kid, faeries were beaming the TV signal into the house on dandelion fluff.

Had more than three TV channels (and it was GREAT, bite me) so I guess I lose points there? …but then, the Internet also happened. And I didn’t spend my life harboring a willful fear and disgust of it and consequently am NOT part of the population that sat ignorantly by while online bullying, hate speech and white supremacist radicalism attacked a whole generation of kids who needed guidance but had none because, “Uugh, I just don’t GET that internet stuff!��

Anyway.

School started with the pledge and yet our country is a fucking laughingstock these days. *shrug*

You had a bedtime? Good for you!! So did I. I don’t know any kids NOW that don’t have a bedtime so…??? If anything, I see Baby Boomers complaining that their kids are too strict and obsessive about their grandchildren’s sleep and meal schedules. (Now, I was in bed by 8 but also have hereditary anxiety disorder so my 6-year-old ass habitually lay awake until 12 thinking in excruciating detail about what it would be like if my whole family died or our house burned down. Fun times. Does that negate my bedtime points?)

Rode in the back of a pickup? Where, on the roads in South Florida? No and it’s why I’m ALIVE TODAY. But a kid did get SHOT TO DEATH while sitting in the back of one outside our high school’s front entrance.

Of course I recorded songs off the radio, why’s that even on here like anyone thinks it’s scandalous? And why do I keep seeing 70-year-olds on Facebook reposting this like cassette tapes even existed when they were kids.

Why the hell would I drink from the hose, it was connected to a well. My mother worked, she didn’t have time to be dragging me into the doctor because I picked up a stomach parasite chugging well water out of a rusty hose spigot when the tap was 4 feet away in the kitchen. Now, kids in Flint, Michigan can’t even drink from the tap. We going to keep sharing memes about everyone’s (questionably) idyllic childhoods while their babies die of lead poisoning? How about we require that anyone who wants to repost this donates a pallet of bottled water to Flint.

No creek nearby, just a bunch of mildly polluted canals and backyard pools with the occasional alligator splashing around in it. Our whole neighborhood flooded in a stiff rainstorm, though. Bad sewer system. That was fun. Does that count? Honestly I think gator-infested canals should score me extra.

Sure, I said Sir and Ma'am. I was stuck working a Crappy First Retail Job like every other kid, getting shouted at by spoiled old white folks, and that’s what you call spoiled old folks who are having temper tantrums because They Can’t Have What They Want RIGHT NOW So They’re Going To Call Corporate And Get You Fired! Anyway. What’s my score? I’m still alive. Happily married, with a baby and a house and a job. Does that count as ‘turning out ok’??? Though…I do say ‘fuck’ a lot. That’s either the internet’s fault or the lack of bologna.