20 Works in the stara david cinematic fic universe
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photometry, or the extinction of a star and that which it kills by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
14 Mar 2024
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Conditions
3.(e) The Player hereby acknowledges that Play Must Continue regardless of any weather effects and/or conditions, star loss, or fatalities, as well as a number of other possible occurrences. The Player also acknowledges that they may receive any Modification regardless of their consent, whether it is by the Will of the Fans or the Game itself.(Bright Zimmerman, the expansion era, and what it means to run; a play in three acts)
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- Part 3 of and one day i'll watch them burn with me
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how to pick up the pieces of a shattered life by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
14 Dec 2023
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you don't check your phone.
(to see the headline is to make what you know already real. you don't know if you're ready for that. you don't think you have a choice. you never have, really.)
it's okay to take a moment, you tell yourself. you'll need it.
(edric tosser, and the end of a story)
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- Part 10 of corona borealis
- Part 35 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
- Part 8 of we heed the call
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“Well,” Zack says, raising a glass with a tired smile on her lips, “to us, my loves. To whatever’s about to come.”
The words slip out your lips before you can stop them. “I love you so much.”
“Jesus Christ,” Edric grimaces, swallowing down his wine in one swift gulp. “Save that until I’m gone, please?”
(a story about the new seattle garages, the old chicago firefighters, grief, and finally growing up)
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- Part 9 of corona borealis
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crying out for change/i don't think I've changed by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
15 Jan 2023
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any fears or shame you had melt away the second the game ends. when you win a game and then another, you can't help but think that it feels right, in a way a bat hasn't in a long time.
(deep breath, eyes fixed front. wind your arm back like gabe showed you, exhale, throw. rinse, repeat. you'll be alright.)
(declan suzanne, and the power of acceptance)
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- Part 28 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
- Part 7 of corona borealis
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letting my hands cradle both your cheeks by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
24 Nov 2022
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when you look in the mirror on those cold nights, it is not yourself you see in the reflection. it is famous, bright, mickey, harrell; it is the face of everyone you've loved and lost.
famous said once that you're a glutton for punishment with how you bare your heart. still, all these years later, you think it's the right choice, opening up like this.
(spears taylor, and the act of letting go)
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- Part 24 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
- Part 3 of corona borealis
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petrichor rising, oil and water merging by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
08 Oct 2022
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a contract signed on a dotted line, promises too good to be true. a restaurant, in your name and no one else's if you could stick out; it turns out you draw the line at human remains.
one thing to know about sam– the gift is never ever worth the price.
(august mina, and the struggle to find a way)
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you, in all your endless years, have not loved much.
your first and greatest love has always been the stars. second was your child, fashioned from them and burned just as quick. third was your husband, forgotten and erased, and fourth was bright, despite your effort to avoid it.
(nic mora, and the effort of love)
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“why’d you do it?”
it’s a misleading question, and you both know it. she didn’t do it really, the fans did, she did it because someone had to, she did it because if someone had to, it should’ve at least been someone who gave a damn.
you don’t expect her answer. “lehua asked me.”
“māmā asked–” you sputter, not ready to process. “you talk?”
(york silk, and the weight of debt)
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heliophysics, or a study of a sun and that which it burns by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
06 Jun 2022
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“The weird thing about space is that it’s simultaneously immutable and unknowable. We can estimate the exact time a star was born, the exact time it died, but we’ll probably never know what it felt like, whether it shined down on life like ours. So let me ask you: where were you when our very own one collapsed?
Me? Well, I was busy getting consumed with it.”
(or: a picture of a life in a series of artifacts)Series
- Part 2 of and one day i'll watch them burn with me
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selenography, or the mapping of a moon and that which it lights by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
24 May 2022
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Loyalty
3.(a) The Player agrees to perform their services hereunder diligently and faithfully, to keep themself in first-class physical condition and to obey the Club’s training rules, and pledges themself to the public and to the Club to conform to high standards of personal conduct, Fair Play and Good Splortsmanship. The Player must continue playing regardless of material or physical condition, unless incinerated or otherwise incompacitated. Play Must Continue.(a story about pressure, parasociality, the Fans, and a Bright Zimmerman that tries, damn it)
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- Part 1 of and one day i'll watch them burn with me
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The Hanged Man (You are made, for the most part, out of temporal anomalies.) / Judgement (You were a real person, once. Now you're just a forgery remade in your maker's image.) / Death (Your heart still isn't beating.)
(a twine story anthology about players and gods and something more)
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- Part 4 of blaseball twines
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Their voice is haunted as they stand. “It wasn’t time yet.” They look at Craig, voice a whisper. “It will be.”
Craig goes to the shop the second they’re back home, makes an arrangement, sets it aside.
Texts Owen: You’ll know when.
(craig faucet, and what happens when you don't really die)
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- Part 12 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
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You are not a star, except in the ways that you are. Except in the ways it affects those you love.
(val games, and a legacy left through letters.)Series
- Part 9 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
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EMERGENCY ALERT
VAULT LOCKED
SANDS SHIFTED
PULSAR FLICKERED
Edric Tosser and His Pasts: A Story in Four Acts.
(a 35k word twine story about loss, regret, and what it means to try.)Series
- Part 5 of we heed the call
- Part 2 of blaseball twines
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Here’s the thing they don’t tell you about catching on fire: it only hurts until the flames reach the nerves, and it isn’t always the flames that get you so much as the smoke. So when the Hellmouth opens, it’s far more painful for Zack Sanders than it is for Miguel James.
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So here’s how it goes: They’re rapidly approaching the end of the world, and two blaseball players make a promise. It’s a promise to answer when the other one calls, no matter how late or how long. It’s a promise to check in and keep each other sane and it’s a promise to not lose the tenuous ground that they’ve made.
And that’s where our story begins.
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(baby and edric at the end of the world)
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You ask them what it’s like, to be static in the wind; and they answer in soothing words and hushed tones stories of the hall and the Fire and before. In turn, they ask you what it’s like, to be rooted to the ground; to feel every second of it, the tang of blood in the rain, the surges of immateria that swim at your feet.
In the end, it’s this: you are painfully, painfully alive.
a twine story about justice spoon, and the saga of season 18
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- Part 4 of we heed the call
- Part 1 of blaseball twines
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She is a brewing storm, dark clouds and the hum left behind after thunder cracks, the static before a lightning strike. Gita Sparrow is electric; raw unfettered power and so much more than what people may think.
(gita sparrow and a story about trying)
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- Part 3 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
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morrow goes out exactly how they lived; bright and electric, a burning effigy of passion and brilliance. you and stu brush hands at the funeral; pallbearers for a coffin holding only ashes.
(edric, stu, and morrow meet at age 12. there's no happy ending to this story.)
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- Part 2 of explorations in kind (12x100s)
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speak my name (and i'll rise into the sky) by Novelsinourheads
Fandoms: Blaseball (Video Game)
01 Feb 2021
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“It is, you suppose, your weight to carry, the gravity of what happens when the balance of the Fire shifts, and somewhere in the back of your mind you know it’s only going to continue to grow till you’re carrying the weight of the entire city on your shoulders”
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Tyreek Olive lives and dies and maybe tries to learn along the way.(an (almost) 14k exploration of the firefighter's first (and for a long time, only) incinerated player)