19 Works by mossy_kit
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When Lachlan first fell away into the sky, felt the Black Hole (Black Hole)’s inevitable gravity dragging him out of the tentative calm of Atlantis’ shadows in the Vault and into a maelstrom of shadows, his first thought had been, well, at least it can’t get any worse.
He was right, like he usually was, but he was wrong too.
(Lachlan Shelton screams at the sky in the Black Hole (Black Hole))
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According to physics, hitting water at terminal velocity exerts about the same amount of force as hitting concrete.
Russo Slugger falls to the Moist Talkers and meets their new captain. -
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In another life, instead of leaving with Ziwa for Halifax, Tyler Violet left their hometown alone in the middle of the night and took a bus, and another bus, and another bus, and wound up in a ski town in Colorado. The last place she ever expected to meet them again was on a blaseball field in Canada, years afterwards.
(written as part of Sonder's Shuffle AU zine, Salmon and Snake)
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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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- Part 1 of The Salt
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The first sound that the entity who would later be known as Saturday Elder hears in a very long time is the sound of a song.
Saturday Elder's last faithful worshipper finds him on a lonely floating rock, and tries to convince him to go back with them.
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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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Somewhere far below the airship/stadium that's now her home, there is a little suburban house, locked up, table still set for a dinner that will never be served.
(Carin Burns calls her son, the night she finally leaves the city she spent most of her life in)
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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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a couple of short scenes from a few days before season 24, and the possible end of the world, begins.
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Ziwa & Eugenia take a few quiet moments to themselves at Ziwa's new cabin in Yellowstone.
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ten short scenes for Waveridden's WIP amnesty event!
two PolkaDots get lunch, the CEO PM takes the stairs, a team tries to quit, a revenant stays alive, a different (soggier) team takes a risk, a newly unshelled pitcher has nightmares, and an old friend spends a night above ground.
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PolkaDot Patterson has been through a lot over their sixteen seasons in the ILB, but the one thing they never expected was to be pulled entirely from their own plane and thrown into another; a new plane that offers a strange simulation of the peace they so desperately craved, long ago. They do their best to adjust.
(Dot retires from the ILB, and makes a decision.)
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- Part 5 of (The Pitcher Must) Throw the Ball
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York is gone, and he is mourned, and eventually, he Returns.
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The Talkers watch the election together as a team, and one of their own goes somewhere new.
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- Part 4 of (The Pitcher Must) Throw the Ball
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You wake up with no memories in a doorless facility with 13 strangers, and you play ball.
(an AU where nothing exists outside blaseball itself)
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Something’s wrong again, something new is changing, something’s always changing, isn’t it?
(Baltimore tries to claim its newest player.)Series
- Part 2 of (The Pitcher Must) Throw the Ball
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Jenkins Good arrives in Halifax and lets the currents carry them where they may. And if that ends up taking them to a strange, abandoned blaseball field, well, that certainly is an adventure, isn't it?
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It's game 4 of the Coffee Cup when Eugenia Garbage steps up to the mound for her very first game as pitcher. After ten percolations in the last three games, everyone knows that there will be more. Dot knows they're not always the best at comforting people, but they know what it feels like to feel responsible, even a little, for pitching a game where someone dies.
So it's up to them to figure out what to say.Series
- Part 3 of (The Pitcher Must) Throw the Ball
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Polkadot Patterson reflects on a long blaseball career.
A bit of a character study following Dot from zero star rookie to superstar pitcher to shelled-but-not-forgotten. Seasons 1-9.
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- Part 1 of (The Pitcher Must) Throw the Ball