The Niche fandom tournament ☆

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Parahumans Series:

Worm and Ward are a pair of webserials which began publishing in 2011 and completed in 2020. The fandom, particularly for Worm, is relatively small and scattered across platforms but pretty active! Fan culture encourages a lot of discourse over how trauma is handled, character interpretation, and creative sandbox use.

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

The Silt Verses:

it’s peak carpenter shrue and paige u will always be famous

Literally best podcast ever made

Blaseball vs The Silt Verses

Parahumans Series:

Worm and Ward are a pair of webserials which began publishing in 2011 and completed in 2020. The fandom, particularly for Worm, is relatively small and scattered across platforms but pretty active! Fan culture encourages a lot of discourse over how trauma is handled, character interpretation, and creative sandbox use.

Castle:

Blasphemous:

Gritty 13th century horror game about a monk so mad and guilty about being excommunicated that he’s going to throw hands with the pope and also god. Rich story and art, fun gameplay and memorable characters. Nobody really fandomizes it because every character talks like they’re from a particularly gory version of the Bible and the main character never speaks, so despite being a well reputed game, the fandom is somewhat obscure.

Pulp Musicals:

Pulp Musicals my best friend Pulp Musicals. An audio-only musical following the adventures of its core four characters with a sci-fi inspiration for each connected episode, whether you're following the fictional Stratford siblings as they write the Great Moon Hoax, the group participating in fictionalized John Herschel's project to build a brick satellite (inspired by Edward Everett Hale's "The Brick Moon"), fictionalized Margaret Cavendish's multi-episode pursuit of something she knows she's missing or any of the other stories in this wonderful series. Also the songs HIT. More Than This is the one song consistently available on Youtube and it's a very good taste of the music

Blaseball:

Blaseball my bleloved gone from us too soon. A baseball sim where people got to vote on modifications to teams and game rules at the end of every week. This was fun in and of itself, but the real game was finding the loopholes in every rule that allowed for players to be brought back to life, infinite peanuts, and putting your entire pitching lineup on strike by sealing them all inside giant peanut shells. Fantastic story told over a number of social media platforms and largely driven by fans. Hello to the tumblr blesties that keep the memory of blaseball alive!

Additional propaganda by anon

Elsworld:

Dead 2007 MMORPG I played all the time when I was, like, twelve. I'm sure nostalgia and the fact that I was a preteen has probably softened the flaws of this game in my perception, but it has a charming art style and from what I remember had a pretty interesting cast and story. It was one of only a few 3D games I could get to run on the shitty family laptop. I'm also pretty sure Rena (the elf with green hair) was little me's first lesbian fictional crush, which surely counts for something? There is sort of a fandom on Tumblr but it's very small.

Root, The Board Game and ttrpg:

cute woodland critters wage war and do espionage and realpolitik and sabotage and so on. please play root with me

extra propaganda by @/ratzmatazz

The Silt Verses:

it’s peak carpenter shrue and paige u will always be famous

Literally best podcast ever made