spacegandalf

Hello!! Thank you for agreeing to write something for me. <3 I'm signed up as facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf) and if you're writing me a treat, please gift it there. Optional details are optional, of course, and I'd love to see whatever you come up with! Some of these have more stuff about them than others but that's not because I'm less enthusiastic about the others! My brain is just so very empty. I’ve put my preferences for pronouns in brackets after character names but ultimately those, too, are optional details.

I am open to crossovers (see +here for a list of fandoms I'm familiar with and anything I've written or bookmarked except for Hibike! Euphonium and Supergirl) and interactive fiction.

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General Likes
DNWs
Discipline Era Garages Ensemble
Seattle Garages Hot Dog Vendor/Seattle Garages Mascot(s)
The Big Garage
Chorby Soul
Jaylen Hotdogfingers
Lenny Marijuana
Mike Townsend

General Likes

Worldbuilding
Cultural differences
Roleswaps
Fix-its
Character studies
Canon divergence
People finding something soft and/or something that makes them happy even when the world is going to shit
Hurt/Comfort
Humour
Tenderness
Politics
Plottiness
Angst
Fluff
Outsider POV
Time travel, time loops
Queer characters
Found Family
Unconventional formats
Comedy of errors
Crack treated seriously
Judaism

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Do Not Wants

Omegaverse
Pregnancy
Unrequited love
Mundane AUs (e.g. Highschool/college)
Permanent amnesia
Readerfic (2nd person is fine as long as it's meant to be a specific character)
Cancer/other terminal illness
Romance/shipfic (background is fine)
Christmas and Christianity
Covid

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Discipline Era Garages Ensemble
Thanks to the tireless work of incognito8#3055, we have season recaps of every season of the discipline era in the navigation thingy at the bottom of the wiki page! The Discipline Era Sure Did Happen to the Garages, huh. From Jaylen being the first incinerated to Necromancy to having to watch Jaylen do… you know, everything Jaylen did (from all the Debt shenanigans to the Saboteur stuff on Day X), the four incinerations in Season 3 (including up-and-comer Tiana Cash), being top of the division in the regular season and then choking in the playoffs, etc. etc.

I would love an exploration of how the team dealt with any of that, I guess! I’d just be thrilled with anything that explores the relationships in the locker room. Or perhaps something about their career as a band! The possibilities are endless.

I’d also be very open to an Outsider POV fic from, say, the KGAR radio hosts or a die-hard fan or something like that!

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Seattle Garages Hot Dog Vendor/Seattle Garages Mascot(s) (any pronouns)
I’m combining these two not because I want you to ship them (though… I’m happy to waive my no romance DNW if you did want to ship them!) but because they have… a similar flavour, as it were. They’re kind of baked-in Outsider POV, you know?

How do the various mods and weather effects (and stadium mods perhaps!) affect what they do/how they live?
Any of the eras would be so much fun to explore, I think! Perhaps the Hot Dog Vendor in Short Circuits is the only one who remembers from circuit to circuit?
There's some existing fan lore about the mascot(s) which would be fun but don't feel bound by that! Perhaps the mascot is a giant, playable guitar! Perhaps it's something closer to the IRL hockey mascot Gritty! Perhaps the person in the mascot is a randomly selected shadows player!

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The Big Garage (any pronouns)
What if the stadium were sentient!!! That’s basically the concept underlying this.

How does weather affect the Big Garage?
Does it have Opinions about games? Does it hate umpires?
Does it cause trouble for people it doesn't like? Or help people it likes?
What effect do stadium mods have on it?
Does it memorialise incinerated players? If so, how?
As the song says, does it miss us when we're gone?

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Chorby Soul (they or neopronouns or she, please)
Chorby my belorby!! Chorb had one tragic season with us, and boy howdy was it a season. While for everyone else I'd rather you focused on their time with the Garages (well, Jaylen is the only one who's ever left the Garages, but you know what I mean), feel free to write about any point in Chorby's existence.

It's commonly lored that Chorby's initial incineration was a sacrifice to save Dominic Marijuana. All those seasons later, Chorby ends up on a team with Lenny Marijuana -- regardless of what relationship you imagine between the Marijuanas, what was that like? Did it come up?
What was it like returning to Blaseball in s15 after being incinerated in s3? Things changed so much.
Getting chomped constantly!! Did Chorby have feelings about being an edensity mammoth? What was their relationship with the team, considering Chorby painted a target on the team's back for consumers?
Was part of Chorby in the replicas?
What is a soulscream and why is Chorby's so long?

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Jaylen Hotdogfingers (she or they please)

Jaylen has so many songs about her. Anything based on any of these would be amazing!
What was it like beaning people, particularly during Season 7, when it became clear Jaylen was marking them for death?
What was Jaylen's relationship with Mike Townsend, who retreated into the shadows when Jaylen returned from the dead? Did it change over time?
What was Jaylen's relationship with the Microphone, who refinanced/consolidated/etc. the debt?
Something about Jaylen, NaN and Sixpack Dogwalker, perhaps? Or even just NaN, if NaN and the Microphone have some kind of connection (or if they don't).
What was it like swapping with Tillman and returning to the Hall of Flame? What was Jaylen's relationship to the Hall Monitor?

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Lenny Marijuana (he please)

I love the lore on Lenny's wiki about making a deal with some eldritch entity to give his sons success. Any exploration of this would be wonderful!
Whatever Lenny's relationship to the other Marijuanas, how did it feel that by the time he joined the league in Season 10, they were both dead?
It's commonly lored that Chorby's initial incineration was a sacrifice to save Dominic Marijuana. All those seasons later, Chorby ends up on a team with Lenny Marijuana -- what was that like? Did it come up?

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Mike Townsend (any pronouns)

There are so many songs about Mike Townsend, with a bunch of different interpretations of his character. Anything about any of these would be wonderful!
What were the Shadows like? Was it tragic? Unpleasant? Relaxing to no longer have to play ball? Could he still contact the other members of the team?
What was returning to Blaseball from the Shadows like? He performed incredibly poorly in S10 -- was he hard on himself about it? What was the reaction of the team? The reaction of the fans?
What about that last season when he was redacted? We all saw it coming, what was that fear like? What IS redaction? Where did he go?
What was his relationship with the other Garages like? How did he go from a Disappointment to a Credit to the Team?
Or perhaps if you wanted to go in a different direction altogether -- what if Mike's a woman and she really leans in to being a Disappointment?
What would an AU where Mike was incinerated rather than Jaylen? Would he still be necromanced as the first to die, first to return, or would they be happy he's gone because he performed terribly? What would that incineration be like?

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Theodore Duende (any pronouns)

Teddy is commonly lored as the captain of the Garages -- what's that like? There's a song about how much that weighs on him; any exploration of that would be wonderful.
What were the shadows like?
What was it like being on the Garages and watching so many people come and go? Eventually, Teddy was one of the only five garages who had been there the whole time since the beginning; what's his relationship with the players who have been alongside him since the return of the ILB?

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