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I am indeed still watching baseball, and that is very exciting! Congratulations!

My favorite thing about baseball currently is that the internet seems to be dedicated, the past couple weeks, to bringing me amazing photographs of baseball players in mid-leap.

For example, here are Daniel Schneemann and Jhonkensy Noel of the Guardians making a catch at the wall together:

(My favorite fact about Jhonkensy Noel is that his nickname, for obvious reasons, is "Big Christmas." I am pretty sure those are Christmas-themed cleats he's wearing.)

And then, yesterday, the Giants swept the As in the, um, Whatever We're Calling The Bay Bridge Series Now, and the internet brought me this victory picture:

That is Willy Adames and Mike Yastrzemski jumping for joy.

I don't know that I have a favorite fact about Yaz, but last year the closed-captioning was so bad that I started keeping a list of all of the worst ways it spelled his name; I think my favorite was "Mike Insurance Key."

It's sort of hard to see it in the camera angle in the broadcast, but my favorite fact about Willy Adames is that, when Heliot Ramos got a walk-off Little League home run last month (definitely my favorite baseball thing so far this season), when he gets to third base, you can see Willy Adames leap out of the dugout and run the last ninety feet right alongside him and meet him at home. I think that's very sweet.

Unfortunately they're all on Tuesday which is one of my busy days at work 😭 I might have more chances with preschool out now though!

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

(Broken Road)

HIII bestie thank you!! questions for broken road:

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

actually yes! the original version of this fic was gen, instead of destiel. i did not think dean had room to deal with his gay thing and daddy issues in the same fic. in the end, nov 5 2020 is what made me want to start working on it again, so dean mostly compartmentalized his gay thing rather than dealing with it. i wanted a spiritual sequel to deal with all that but i got super busy and i have other commitments so that’s uhhh gonna be pending for awhile.

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

that the outcome of a “john is an abusive bastard” situation doesn’t always have top be fire and brimstone and no contact forever. in real life it’s lots more complicated than that!!!

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

that people can would and do appreciate sam if they give him a chance!!! i got a lot of comments like “wow im considering converting to samgirlism” AND GOOD. sometimes the show itself doesn’t give him a fair shake but the extra work of being a Sam Enjoyer is worth it

SO MUCH

"This weapon is your life" and he buried theirs wrapped up carefully in a little box together 😭 And at that point he still thought Anakin was actually dead so even more of an actual funeral to it and he's buried there too! (Also was he always planning to pass Anakin's lightsaber on to Luke or did that come later? Was that actually meant to be a final resting place? Does he stop keeping Anakin's saber buried because he knows he's alive?)

Me yelling at characters whispering to each other after shooting like four people in a cement room: YOU CANT HEAR THAT, YOUR EARS ARE NOW STRUGGLING.

Two minutes later: AND where’s all the tinnitus, you absolute buffoons

Thank you so much!! It's been good so far, I got a fancy tea drink, an excellent California-style bear claw, and I met a GIANT Great Dane.