📚 BLASEBALL FIC RECS THREAD BY MUSE 📚
to be continuously updated, and initially posted in short bursts as to hopefully not overwhelm the timeline. enjoy!

1. good grief - waveridden

27.2k, team: shadow garages?
lenny marijuana/chorby short, lenny marijuana & dominic marijuana & randy marijuana

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27650570
this has lived RENT FREE in my head for MONTHS. unquestionably my favorite blaseball fic. please read it. it’s sad and cathartic and dear to me. if you want a heavier one, pick this.

relatedly, waveridden has written two incineration studies that work well with this one as a trio, check those out as well. https://archiveofourown.org/series/1944283

2. oil and water - blacksatinpointeshoes

16.4k, team: charleston shoe thieves

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27746212
a history of the charleston shoe thieves, skillfully written and painfully grounded in reality in a way that really makes the horror pop

3. elephant joke - baliset

15.1k, team: seattle garages
mike townsend / derrick krueger

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28092198
an alternate timeline wherein necromancy is first tested on jaylen’s replacement. one who died after her. this very much earns its "blaseball is a horror game" tag

4. the price of perfection - cyndakip

40.8k series, canada moist talkers

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1969006
hey so this singlehandedly made me care about the MTs. a series of polkadot patterson character studies.

5. vulnerability is not poggers - crookedsaint

4.5k, team: n/a
tillman henderson / declan suzanne

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27422923
boys with FEELINGS at a roller skating rink. havent seen each other in a long time and also one of them used to be dead. there’s pretty art to go with this one https://vrlsrezl.tumblr.com/post/637986749448175616

6. no emotion that’s worth having - cryptidgay

7.8k, team: baltimore crabs (conceptually)
tillman henderson / declan suzanne

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27699197
homesickness, denial, getting your shit together, and gimmicky paddleboats.

7. mike townsend (has disappointing taste in men) - miketownsends

3.4k, team: seattle garages
jaylen & mike mostly.
mike/tillman but tillman isnt in this one

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27431545
mike and jaylen have a beer and gossip and i love that for them

8. careful follow my instruction (and i will show you self destruction) - elliotfromseattle

11.5k, hawai’i fridays
okay listen. jaylen hotdogfingers & tillman henderson HEAR ME OUT

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28100166
a shoe heist.two fucked up zombie pitchers in a boat. trauma, left unsaid until it Very Much Is.

9. burnout - crookedsaint

6.9k
tillman / declan

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29522637
tillman comes back to life. he’s in bad shape. classic hurt/comfort but with like, tons of body horror wow points at tillman this man is so fucked up

10. i still hear you in the bass guitar of shitty songs we wrote when we were sixteen - showzen

9.9k, seattle garages
mike / tillman, mike & jaylen

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28135671
mike townsend’s stats are maximized and it plays out the whole blaseball timeline differently. i think it’s neat