ALRIGHT!
Its time for MY
Welcome! This is my new project!
BALLER AU is a fan-project (made by me) inspired by Battle for Dream Island! Its simple enough! A couple fan stories and comics, pieces of art, animation if were feeling silly!
(This is basically a portfolio! I want to see my progress in writing and drawing!)
BALLER is a Snowball POV story for the most part, lovingly named "Uninhabitable Zone", but there are seperate stories from other POVs!
Blocky POV - snowy, bric-a-brac
Firey POV - somewhere burning, free fall, him and i
Gelatin POV - donut disturb
Basketball POV - like a family
Of course, all of these stories are still in progress (except snowy), but as soon as i finish them all, they are going RIGHT on to ao3, Tumblr, and Twitter! Its an exciting story that im, well, EXCITED for!!!
Ships included: Snowblock, Fireiony, Fireafy(complicated), Gelanut, Bubblepop, Leafpin, ect, ect...
There will ALSO be some gijinka art of these guys! Those aren't canon though, theyre only for fun.
Hard to say how long this will take, but hopefully i'll have the motivation to drag this out a couple years.
See you all then! Happy travels everyone!
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Idle Hands
Francisco Morales x Fem!Reader
My secret Santa gift for the ever lovely @floralpascal I do hope this follows your prompt well and that you enjoy it! Big thank you to @humanransome-note for being my editor+beta reader on this one at like 1 am lol. Also a huge thank you to @pedrostories for putting together this amazing event to begin with!!! <3
Summary: Frankie goes to you when he needs his clothes altered and each time has a revelation each time he sees you work.
Warnings: fluff, light self doubt, lots of talk about hands I just really like hands okay. Friends to lovers babeyyyy
word count: 1.2k
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Frankie’s clothes never fit him right.
The sleeves of shirts hung just a touch too long on him, but going a size under meant they’d squeeze around the bulk of his shoulders in a way that made him worry it would tear (it did. On a first date, it was very embarrassing for him). Trousers either gaped at his waist or had to be rolled up at the cuff because they were made for somebody taller, not wider to properly fit his legs.
But he didn’t complain, it gave him a reason to see you.
“It’s because clothes used to be made for the body specifically.” You told him, needle in hand as you sat at a table and pushed it through the cuff of his pants. “Everything was tailor made to your measurements, but nowadays we just buy off the rack and hope it fits right.”
“Or we take it to our incredibly talented friend who hems our pants in return for dinner?”
Sometimes he hopes they don’t fit right, just so he can see you smile.
“Yeah, that’s always an option too.”
His mother has always told him that love was found in one’s hands. Holding the door open, taking their hand in yours when you crossed the street, the gentle cradling of their face when leaning in for a gentle kiss, it was everything. Small testimonies of love and care found in everyday moments that took root in the palms of a lover.
But Francisco's hands were scarred. His fingers were calloused from hard labor and would tremble until he curled them into fists and willed them to stop. They sweat horribly when he would get nervous, leading to him shoving his hands in his pockets and praying you never noticed.
If you did, you said nothing of it.
But his hands weren’t good for nothing, despite the fact he considered them too rough for handling gentle things like you and the way his fingers fumbled with his keys, he was still skilled.
It was his hands that put in the new lock on your door after a series of break-ins took place in your neighborhood. The same fingers that fumbled with your birthday present are nimble and quick with the screwdriver in hand as he reassures you that it’ll be alright. They're the same ones that held you the night you got stood up for a date and wiped the tears from your face as he told you any man who can’t show up for you isn’t worth your fucking time. The same hand that settles on the small of your back each time you walk through a crowd together, the gentle reminder of his presence when you felt everything else closing in.
I’m here. You're safe.
“These are new.”
“I’m sorry?”
You lift your head from your work table and hold up the pair of slacks in your hand he had brought for you to hem. All black with a fine finish, something you’d wear to a wedding.
The same pair he stared at in the store for fifteen minutes before finally biting the bullet.
“The pants, I’ve never seen you wear them before.”
His hands curl, thumb pressing against the flat of his pointing finger until he hears a soft “pop” from the joint and moves to the next in hopes to keep his mind off the fact that your thumb is running along the inseam of one pant leg, a gentle back and forth, back and forth, that he’s not sure you even know you're doing it, but it's enough to make his lungs feel tight and head full of cotton.
“Right, they're uh, they're new.”
Middle finger.
Pop.
Ring finger.
Pop.
Pinkie.
Pop.
“They're real nice.”
“You think so?”
“You’ll look real sharp in those, Frankie. You got something special coming up?” You look beautiful. Your eyes are focused on your hands that weave the needle in and out of the fabric with such ease it reminds him of a conductor. There's something about it. The way your arm moves up and down, the gentle flick of your wrist when it pulls the needle through. Each separate movement that melts into one another like a connected dance. Maybe Frankie was just reading too much into it. Maybe it had just been far too fucking long since he went on a date and he was so starved he got to the point of romanticizing tailoring. Maybe he just really liked your hands.
Maybe, he just really liked you.
“Nothing in particular.”
You snip the end of the thread, tying it with quick flitting fingers before smiling at him over your shoulder.
“Well let me know when you do, I’d like to see you get all fancy.”
He scratches at the back of his neck.
“You just want a reason to get me out of my work clothes.”
There's a moment in every hug from Francisco Morales. From the moment you first met him to years later you can name it down to the very second it happens. A split second before he pulls away from you where his hand settles on your waist and curls in ever so slightly, squeezing you to his chest so softly that by the time you notice he’s already pulling away and telling you “have a good one.”
It’s the moment you want to continue. For his hands to stay on your waist and keep him flush to your chest, where you’d finally find the bravery to mumble out those words you’ve kept locked away for the past four years because you don’t know what you’d do after there or. Or what he’d do. Christ, you don’t want to imagine it.
So instead you bite your tongue. You hold back the confession that’s been nested in the crevice of your ribs since you first met him and savor the feeling of his hands on your waist and the little “mmm.” he does every time you give him a hug that just makes you feel lightheaded.
He’s halfway down the driveway when he stops in his tracks. Snipping something under his breath to himself before turning on his heel and pointing at you.
“Are you uh, are you free? This Friday?”
His hands were shaking.
“Yeah. Yeah, I’m free.”
So were yours.
“I was thinking we could get dinner. It’ll give me a reason to wear these, you know?” He holds up the pair of pants in his hands and smiles. “Plus, I’ve been meaning to ask you out for a long time. I only have so many clothes for you to fix.”
Francisco learned that his hands were full of love.
His hands could pull out your chair, pour you wine with a steady grasp. They’ll gesture during conversation that seemed to last for hours and drape his coat around your shoulders in the night air. Cradle your face when he kissed you goodnight and grip your waist when you pulled him in for another. They could hold you together and pull you apart all in the same night.
You saw the trembles in his fingertips without shame. Your lips pressed kiss after kiss to the rough skin of his palm without flinching and wrapped your hands with his each time you saw the world closing in on him, refusing to let go or be pushed away.
You saw his hands for what they were. An extension of the man they belonged to. One with scars and tremors that wouldn’t go away no matter how hard he tried to hide them.
But you held him nonetheless.
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Artist Research - David Hammons
On a snowy morning in 1983, American artist David Hammons performed his now famous ‘Bliz-aard Ball Sale’, selling snowballs on the streets of New York.
The performance piece was set up as a humorous commentary on the art market of the time, which ignored him as a black artist. Art critic Steven Stern wrote: “Hammons’ notion of an artist includes a constant flirtation with notions of the illicit and the fraudulent – the ever-present suggestion that the whole business might be a scam. What, after all, could be more of a scam than selling snowballs in winter?”
Ironically, this piece commenting on how he as an artist was ignored garnered him international notoriety as an artist.
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