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So some of you might know and some of you might not but Baseball RPF was one of my first fandoms, although I never finished/posted anything for it.

That all CHANGED this year and oddly enough it wasn’t either of my Two Main OTPs but a sidepiece ship that’s been sorta just there for twenty years.

AJ Pierzynski/Scott Podsednik

It was kind of a joke when it happened - when Podsednik hit his walk-off home run in the 2005 World Series, and the photos that followed being the most blatantly homoerotic baseball pics I’d seen at the time.

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(Shout-out Mark Buehrle representing yaoi fangirls everywhere ✌️)

But damn if these photos haven’t stuck with me all this time, and upon doing a mass rewatch of the Sox’s 05 postseason, I do like the dynamic they seem to have.

Thus, my first fic: “Everybody Wants a Thrill”, where they hook up for the first time.

The infamous 2006 incident between AJ and Michael Barrett only solidified my interest in them, with Scott being the first to go after Barrett, going full feral and tackling him to defend AJ.

Which inspired my second fic, “(I Don’t Give a Damn if) I’m Your Villain”, also about them hooking up, albeit with a slightly different flavor, following this game.

They’re friends, but not besties, and have very different personalities off the field but on the field are both absolute gamers. There’s something there that clicks for me to ship them in a FWB sense so that’s what I ran with. (Plus I do find both of them attractive for different reasons so like. The idea of them getting it on is very tasty.)

If you’re familiar with the entity known as AJ Pierzynski and/or these photos/videos appeal to you in any way and/or you like moderately freak Friends With Benefits without any romantic feelings developing, please consider checking out my fics, (which also do happen to feature one of my aforementioned Main OTPs in the background, in AJ/Doug Mientkiewicz.)

More under the cut, from the World Series and from afterwards, to further the AJ/Scotty agenda

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[WIP Wednesday] More Baseball Yaoi - the ACTUAL OTP Edition

FR tho I’ve written almost 5k of them in the past 3 weeks because uh…??? idk man rl has gone to shit; you gotta do what you gotta do, and sometimes that’s going back to a WIP you started 15+ years ago, with more experience and a fresh perspective, and just purge your thoughts into writing the OTP fic you were always meant to write.

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baseball rpf wip wednesday like I'm certain i started this while I still lived in PA so it's definitely That Old and parts of it are ??? like i have no clue what i was doing/thinking but other parts are like Oh Yes >:3 and other parts are Brand New that I'm just adding now because I'm a better writer and also not a Coward not tagging the ship/team IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW please do not ask how they became my otp there is simultaneous a very long explanation and absolutely no explanation at all

purplemonkeypuppet asked:

5 10 and 11 for the writing asks


Thank you so much for the asks! :3

5. What’s a topic/genre/trope you know you will NEVER write?

Off the top of my head, Omega-verse? I just don’t get it, lol.

10. Preferred font to write in?

11 pt Times New Roman baybee

11. Favorite thing you’ve written?

This is tough because as of answering this, I have 119 fics posted, and Obviously I like them all in some way or else I wouldn’t have written them. But Top 3, that come to mind immediately, are “Round and Round”, “Truth or Dairy” and “Blessed are Those”.