resilient!!

pregame April 21, 2026 @ LAA

links: 1, 2

getting near that modern spirit: alejandro kirk in celebration

also available on ao3 (archive locked)

Collage made on cardstock with old magazines, newspapers, catalogues, and other discarded paper. There are 206 pieces (if I counted right) and it took me just over 21 hours in total.

Photo used to make my template. This is from the last game of the regular season, when Kirk hit 2 home runs to help the Jays clinch the division. It was incredible.

“I don’t look for [Kelenic] to not [run out a double], because he plays with his hair on fire all the time”

Like. One of these players has torn two ACLs because he tries so fucking hard and it sure as hell isn’t Jarred Kelenic. What an insane thing to admit, that you hold the (Afro-Latino) stars of your team to a different standard than a (white) platoon outfielder with a career OPS+ of 85 because you think that guy hustles more. It’s so absurdly blatant that even when deflecting the conversation off of race/nationality as every official coverage seems to be doing, journalists like Ken “dogwhistling the Padres for fun and profit” Rosenthal are siding with Acuña.

ok jaysblr this is quite the sad week for us but I've drawn vladdy so here take this