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    You moved, did as they said. The scale of the weather was enough to encompass both of you. Two on the old bleachers, surrounded by the patter of rain on long aluminium seats, a perfect pair of strangers slowly soaking through to their centres.

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    Neither of them are very good at this, are they? For all they want to help each other, they’re not very good at being helped. They’re the kind of people who keep going as if everything is fine, who keep pitching as the world falls apart around them, who keep running as their body burns away.

    It’s the siesta. Can’t they learn to stop, for a while? Stop and let themselves be helped?

    (Three scenes from the Patterson-Gloom apartment during the Grand Siesta)

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    Elijah Bates and Hobbs Cain get along pretty well on the bench. They're not great players, they don't have a rivalry, but they keep each other company during the games. But Elijah is pretty sure those barbed jokes are becoming less sincere and more affectionate, and it sure seems like they're making more and more excuses to talk to each other... It's a good thing nothing could happen to change that! Nothing Bad Ever Happens To The Moist Talkers!

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    Assorted unfinished blaseball wips from the last few years!

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    “You came back to life so fast that you couldn’t remember how to be a person. For a moment, for hours, you just lay on the ground, gasping for air like a fish on the floor of a trawler. When you finally get your bearings, you’re in a forest. It’s quiet, not in the way the void was quiet, the stifling feeling of nothing closing around your neck. It was just… peaceful.”

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    Dot sips their tea. “The best analogy I can come up with is that the giant snowglobe we're in is about to tip upside down, crack, and start letting the snow fall out.”

    “And we’re the snow.”

    “Well. The players are the snow. Someone wants to shake them out.”

    They follow Dot’s gaze upward. “I was afraid that would be the case.”

    (A glimpse of what not-quite-life has been like in the black hole for Dot and their family)

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    The Salt is… comatose, perhaps. Waiting to die, or to be revived, uncertain of which it would prefer, lashing out in its dreams.

    (A collection of stories about a universe where the water has gone from Halifax, and what remains.)

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    You wake up in Seattle. This is the first thing that's wrong.

    (After Season 24, the world gets reset, and most things are not as they should be.)

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    Alto finally has their moment.

    ...Alto would like to stop having moments now, actually.

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    CV learns about life, love, video games, and what it means to be a person.

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    Somebody steals Dot’s shoes. Dot and Workman try to figure out who did it. Shoenanigans ensue.

    (CW: swearing, the Spearmint, somewhat unpleasant interdimensional experiences, mentions of death, bad puns, greedy lucky socks, and Hot Topic)

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    A collection of blaseball drabbles based on "casual affection" prompts from tumblr.

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    “It’s coming back.” Someone said, and they sounded… afraid. Excited. Resigned. “After all this time, after everything.”
    Acedia turned towards the speaker, to try and see their face, but the scene was already fading.
    “Blaseball is back.” They said, and then Acedia woke up.

     

    (Acedia Otherworld has a recurring dream of someone from another time, another place, right as their first season of blaseball begins.)

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    Your name is PolkaDot Patterson.

    …At least, you assume it is. Those two words are inscribed on a nameplate attached to the door of the room you woke up in, and that's all the information you have to go on.

    (Even in an AU where the players exist only to play blaseball, Dot still manages to find a family along the way.)

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    On the 24th day of the second season of the great return of Internet League Blaseball, Justice Spoon gets incinerated, and Tyreek Olive feels the very nature of the world shift.

    (an exploration of what could have been and wasn't, and what changes and what doesn't.)

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    Three stories about Blaseball, relationships, and what food does for those we care about

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    The Canada Moist Talkers burn on Day 15, one day after chaining instability from the Baltimore Crabs. Less than a week later, the Charleston Shoe Thieves go up in flames too.

    In the midst of an apocalyptic ending to everything they've ever known, Dot & Workman process an unimaginable grief. When the end of the season rolls around, and most of the league is ash, the Front Office offers one more option: a reset, right back to the beginning.

    (an AU where everything went about as tragically as possible)

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    What do you say to someone who is you and yet not, someone who was torn from their world while you got to (mostly) stay in yours, someone who has to take your place in this deadly splort and leave you even more powerless to protect anyone, someone who’s been forced into the impossible task of trying to live up to a legacy you were originally forced into all those years ago?

    Dot certainly hasn't figured it out yet.

    (A story about Dot trying to deal with the consequences of staying in their own world, working at becoming a pitching coach, getting advice from some old friends, and bonding with Alto.)

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    They're not even close to mastering moving between dimensions, if mastering such a thing can be possible at all. But they understand it a lot more than they did when they frantically clawed their way back into their own world, and that worked, so why not this? Maybe it’s not about knowing how to get somewhere, but knowing exactly where you need to be, and having the desperate will to keep stumbling towards it with all that you are.

    (So many years ago, Dot was saved by their team's faith in the Monitor. Now, with their newfound abilities, they're determined to somehow return the favour and see their team safely to the Hall.

    Fortunately, they've got plenty of help.)

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    The Fans choose to Vault Swap PolkaDot Patterson and York Silk, and Dot prepares to go into the Vault, once again For York...

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