#brpf

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and it worked btw

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Around the Horn - a Baseball RPF Prompt Meme

drabbles, long fic, flash fiction, whatever strikes your fancy, here are 30 prompts to (hopefully) inspire you. platonic or romantic, whatever strikes your fancy! ofc you're allowed to interpret the prompts however you want, i just have some examples in order to help if youre struggling. the most important part: just get writing.

if you write anything (could be one, or the whole thing) based off this list, feel free to @ me, id love to read it!'just get writing. if you write anything (could be one, or the whole thing) based off this list, feel free to @ me, id love to read it!

Pitchers, Catchers Report - Reunion

Opening Day - Rookies perspective, fears and jitters, new beginning

First Win

First Loss

Mentoring - Struggling rookie/player, taking the time to help

Clubhouse - Moment within, dealing with loss of a teammate, feeling like you don't belong, etc

Skipper - Interaction with the manager, yelled at/talked to, maybe more intimate if you're into that

Slump - Pitchers ERA, hitters can't hit, someone's got the yips

Batterymates - Relationship between pitcher/catcher, deterioration or improvement

Hit-by-pitch - Injured specifically by a pitch, the moments in between

Rivals - Game between bitter rivals, two rival players get traded to the same team, etc.

Charging the mound - Tensions are high, bad season/rival game, make 'em fight

Airmail - Player costs the game because of a mistake, aftermath of a mistake

Team-bonding - Some sort of sporting event (not baseball), bars, at a teammate's house, etc

All Star Break

Trade Deadline - New Acquires or Goodbyes

Fitting In - Difficulty settling into a new team, can't get along with new team, etc

Health - Mental health issues

Demoted - Starter to bullpen, position player to backup, player to AAA, DFA'd

Injury - Minor, season-ending, career ending

Cheating - Doctoring the ball, sticky stuff, maybe personal infidelity

Clubhouse Cancer - Player enjoys causing problems, finally confronted, etc

Reporting - The media's not being too kind to team/player

Veterans - Retiring, HOF ceremony, meeting again after how many years

Post-Game - Player says something he shouldn't

Family - Starting one, a moment with their own, missing theirs

Waived - Player considers waving NTC to move to a (better) team, maybe DFA'd without knowing it was gonna happen, claimed by a worse team

Regular Season - End of year reflection, devastation, guilt, blame

Playoffs - Eliminated, NLCS/ALCS Champions, WS Winners or Losers

Offseason - FA, concerns about trades, maybe someone asks to keep in touch, maybe someone doesn't.

[saggeses]

born anew, bathed in rays of gold

M • Nolan Arenado/Paul Goldschmidt • word count: 2935 warnings: cannibalism, human sacrifice, temporary character death, implied possession, body mutilation

The stadium demands a sacrifice.

Willson hovered. Nolan couldn’t bring himself to look—he was already sick to his stomach, the overwhelming choking-nausea of defeat settling into his gut. They weren’t below .500 yet, but they were slowly sliding in that direction, unable to stop themselves.

The stadium was angry. The grounds itself was angry, hungry for meat and flesh and blood.

Nolan picked at a hangnail. Blood sprouted red and angry along his finger, tiny droplets falling to the hard clubhouse floor.

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minnesota twins + tumblr posts pt. 3 (pt. 1, pt. 2)

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minnesota twins + tumblr posts pt. 4 (pt. 1, pt. 2, pt. 3)

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big problem i have with brooks lee is that he always looks like he’s about to get passed around the twins clubhouse at any moment

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me: idk if i can rpf the minnesota twins

also me: eddy j laughs when he comes

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if you're ever wondering what i'm thinking about just know it's rocco baldelli calling edouard julien like a dog just to sit and hold his coffee in front of the entire team