#gnfcatcowboy

[gogtopia]

hi Jules I just finished reading ur dnf baseball fic and it was really really epic and fun and emotional I enjoyed it a lot I’ve grown up surrounded by baseball and going to mlb games but have never been interested at all either watching or playing like it just wasn’t smth I could get into but ur fic fr just helped a lot w understanding the fundamentals and potential passion and stuff that goes into the sport which I think is really cool I’ve reads lots of sports aus in diff fandoms but this was the first baseball au and I liked it a lot also I lovedddd gnfs characterization ough I need to hug him ok sorry for the random paragraph I loved ur fic a lot ok that’s all love u goodnight :3

ACE THANK YOU SO MUCH <3<3<3 it's a fic that really meant a lot to me to write so i'm glad it could be somewhat meaningful to you too. and the gnf comment specifically means a lot to me bc i loveee how i wrote him in this au specifically

i had a few other plans for that universe that have kinda been derailed by cc drama or whatever including a sapnap centric fic that i started writing already LOL idk if i'll resurrect this project in some capacity and change things around but here's the first scene of that fic since i like it a lot and george is fun in it

Sapnap is quite literally living the dream. If the 11-year-old version of himself could see him now, just ten years later, his jaw would drop to the floor in amazement. Who would’ve thought that the short nerdy kid who they shoved behind the plate because nobody else wanted to don all the equipment every inning would be here now— the starting catcher for a Major League Baseball team?

He hopes all the kids that used to shit on him when he was younger are eating their words every time they turn on ESPN. Realistically, they’re probably just using the fact that they went to school together as a fun fact during company icebreakers, having forgotten about their years in school together entirely.

It’s been three years since he was crowned Rookie of the Year in a hectic season that changed his fucking life but most of the time, he still feels like he’s on top of the world. Last season was probably his best so far and he feels pretty good about this season, even if it’s nearly June and his batting average is barely breaking .260. He can do better and he’s going to. If he really applies himself, he can still break .300.

And, as much as Dream claims he has the yips, he doesn’t. There’s no reason for him to be having any sort of performance anxiety, not when everything has been going so well. He gets to play with his best friends in the fucking world, including George who is like his baseball soulmate and there are little kids in the audience wearing jerseys with his name on the back that genuinely look up to him as an openly bisexual athlete in the MLB.

He plays for them, really. As much as Sapnap loves the game, he also likes that it gives him a chance to be a role model for kids that might feel alone as he did, especially for the queer kids that need to know they have as much of a place in professional sports as everyone else.

In the years since Sapnap and his friends have been out, plenty of other players across the league as well as in other sports have followed in their footsteps. They’ve made a difference, solely by being themselves. It’s kinda epic, as George might say.

Except, of course, when it isn’t.

They’re playing the Yankees because of course it’s the fucking Yankees, which means that the ballpark is fucking packed. They always pull a bigger crowd when they play New York. Something about big cities being connected or something like that.

Even though the Yankees are damn good this year, they’re up 3-0. It’s not a surprise really. Not when George is on the mound, their top starter by far now that he’s really hit his stride in the league. Even if he’s already pitched four innings, he doesn’t seem all that tired and he’s still throwing strikes, so it seems like he’ll have a few more with him.

It’s one of the Yankees outfielders that says it, some tall guy that hits good enough to validate his fucking ego, and he whispers it under his breath, just loud enough for Sapnap to hear.

“Surprised his hand hasn’t given out yet,” he mutters. “Gotta be tired from stroking Dream’s tiny dick all night.”

For a moment, Sapnap glances back to the umpire, who had surely heard what he said since it’s pretty packed around the plate. The ump looks at him with a frown, as if he’s disrespecting his time with the mere act of glancing back over such fucking brazen unsportsmanlike conduct.

Fuck that. Sapnap motions for a time-out and steps back from behind the plate, running toward the mound.

Dream shoots him a questioning look from third base and he waves him off. He can feel his coach glaring at his back, probably confused as to why he’s calling a time-out while George is still on top of his game.

George furrows his eyebrows when he got there, shoving the ball into his glove. “What’s the issue? I thought I was pitching well. One single this inning isn’t enough to take me off the mound.”

“It’s not that,” he tells him, glancing back at the batter for a moment. The asshole is fucking smirking from his place on the plate. “Fuckface over there said something douchey.”

He snorts and lifts his cap for a moment, running his hand through his short hair, which has gone a little curly with sweat. “You don’t need to tattle on annoying batters to me, Sapnap. What am I meant to do about it? I’ll try my best to strike him out, just as I always do.”

“He said your hand must be tired from stroking Dream’s dick all night.”

George’s jaw tenses and his free hand balls up into a fist. It’s definitely not the first time that he’s heard this sort of thing— not even the first time that it’s happened in a game— but usually, it comes from leering fans rather than players who have reputations at stake. “He said that?”

Sapnap nods. “Yeah. And I believe he called it tiny.”

“Well, he’s simply incorrect about that part. I’d bet $100 that Dream is more gifted than him down there, so to speak,” George says with a cursory glance at the guy, making Sapnap wrinkle his nose. He wants to get George pissed off so he’s more motivated to strike this asshole out, not hear about his other best friend’s dick size.

“Just strike him out for me,” Sapnap says, patting him on the back. “And for Dream.”

“Sure.”

George purses his lips and something unreadable crosses his eyes. Sapnap hopes that he didn’t accidentally make him nervous rather than motivated. Confidence is an essential part of George’s success as a pitcher. He doesn’t choke very often but it’s almost always because he gets stuck in his own head.

Sapnap runs back behind the plate and crouches down into that familiar stance, signaling the next pitch to George. A curveball.

Except, George doesn’t pitch a curveball. With fire in his eyes, he sends the ball hurtling directly toward the batter and, when he tries to jump out of the way and dodge it, it slams straight into his back, making him scream out in pain.

“Oops!” George calls out, loud enough for anyone in the infield to hear. “I suppose my hand just got tired or something.”

A medic and the Yankees coach start running onto the field to check on the batter, but he ignores them, stalking toward the mound instead and drawing his hand back. The batter, in his full muscular 6’2” glory, punches George squarely in the face before he has a chance to duck out of the way. George stumbles back and nearly falls to the ground, barely sticking out a hand to catch himself in time as blood drips from his nose, small droplets of crimson littering the dirt on the mound.

“George!” Dream shouts, running toward him from third base. George jumps back up and punches the other player in the jaw before he can reach him. George is generally a pacifist, despite being a shit-stirrer with his friends,  and it takes a lot to piss him off. The fact he threw that pitch in the first place is shocking. But physically fighting somebody? Sapnap has never seen him like this in their three years of friendship.

The runner on first starts to get into a screaming match with Punz and suddenly, Yankees come piling off the bench with gritted teeth and wild eyes, rearing for a fight.

The guy on deck comes for Sapnap and, even though he has a few inches on him in terms of height, Sapnap is the stockier guy. He throws his helmet on the ground so he can see better and tackles the guy to the ground, throwing a punch at him that barely hits the dirt instead of his face.

The Yankees player uses the momentum from the punch to flip them around so he’s on top of him, straddling his waist in a way he might find erotic if it wasn’t some ugly second baseman that sprays a little spit out of his mouth every time he yells, and he throws a punch of his own, which Sapnap is barely able to block with his arm before thrusting his knee up into his gut. He hopes the plastic from his leg guards make it hurt just a little bit more. Now that he’s been roped into an actual fight, his catcher’s gear feels a little bit like armor.

The player winces and falls backward, allowing Sapnap to stagger to his feet. He looks out to the field for a moment to see if they’re winning this brawl.

It’s a fucking frenzy. Half of the players on both teams are throwing punches at somebody and pretty much everyone else is screaming and swearing. Dream is desperately trying to pull George away from his particularly nasty rumble while another Yankees player tries to pick a fight with him at the same time, only to be absently swatted away. There are definitely no winners here right now: just blood and obscenities being hurled all over the place.

Sapnap turns back toward the guy he was fighting just quick enough to see the first hurtling toward his face. He isn’t able to stop it this time and the hit sends a burst of pain flashing through his face as he falls back onto the ground with a puff of dirt rising up around him.

A sickening smile spread’s across the guy’s face and he’s about to reach down to hit him again when the umpire started wildly blowing his whistle and pulls the guy off by the back of his shirt.

Once the rumble simmers down to a mixture of shame and dirty looks, the umpire points toward George and motions for him to get off of the field even though the batter was the one to throw the first punch. The stadium boos him loudly. It isn’t fair that George is getting booted from the game but the guy who threw the first punch still gets to jog over to first.

George is covered in dirt from head to toe as blood drips from his nose and seeps into his black jersey, invisible save for the few droplets that hit the 17 stitched onto his chest. Even though he should be pissed off, he snatches his hat off the ground with a wild grin. George turns toward where he knows a camera is fixed on him and winks, blowing it a kiss as he struts confidently off the field.

What the fuck? Dream mouths to Sapnap as he marches back to third base.

Sapnap waves him off. George’ll explain it to him as soon as he gets back to the dugout anyway, even if that might be a while, judging by the mediocre pitcher that’s being tasked with relieving him.

[amphitritebaby]

lemony snicket is my fucjing HUSBAND unfortunate events who could be out at this hour OHHH MY GODDDDDD

unfortunate events was everything to me in like second grade i was OBSESSED !! and now whenever i ask people if they read it as a kid they usually say it was to depressing well. that maybe says something about me as a child but oh well :)

[dreamiara]

omg midsommer is one of my favs it’s so pretty but also pre gruesome lmao also I’ve heard such weird reviews of beau is afraid do you think it’s worth the watch ??

midsommar was so gorey and jumpscarey and for what 😭 but the foreshadowings etc were nice. and i think there are weird reviews of beau because it is a weird fucking movie hahah but honestly i think it is worth watching if you like unconventional movies! and it's not as gruesome as the other one and the plot is not as linear and obvious (quite the opposite actually hahah) but yeah :3 it's really long too and kinda tiring but i had fun!

[stonersap]

what great oracle was it that made my favorite post (snf fuck raw in la)…

[dodgebolts]

💌🫶🏻

ACE!! You’re such a sweetheart and one of the cornerstones of my dash and while I know u are not gnfcatcowboy anymore but you own the cat in a cowboy hat to me. I love u lots and I’m vv glad u are on priv now. also ur v real as an oikawa fan he is my best fucking friend

[vadergf]

what's this? another friend has arrived, this one a pretty kitty! they'd like to know who some of your favorite bloggers are!

omg this is epic I have so many favorite blogs here and wonderful friends and I love them so so so much!!! NOT A FULL LIST I'll probably forget so many people: Bella @calamitydaze , Jenna @badboyslaylo, iny @sapybara , El @qbdream , lyss @dodgebolts , jules @gogtopia, nick @dwttv , Lucas @axolotldrevm , jo @tinynap , leyton @selvish , Leigh Ann @prettygnf , salty @toxicsapolo , Sally @gogienotfound , celestial @sweetcelestialdreams , Amaya @bastardbvby , luxx @respiteresponse , ace @gnfcatcowboy , blaze @sapnapgirlie , chips @dreamnotnapss , neb @catboydweam , Alex's @tiredfoxtf @yellumina and my best friends lomls alexia @gogystyle and aru @puran-poli. Also shoutout to @f4c3 one of the oldest and best blogs here and loyal @simplepotatofarmer ily <3

[sapybara]

what's this? another friend has arrived, this one a pretty kitty! they'd like to know who some of your favorite bloggers are!

Oh god there's so many. Basically everyone I follow from here (so around 90 people 😭) but ummm from the top of my head I would say Rey @vadergf Lyss @dodgebolts Jenna @badboyslaylo Neb @catboydweam Bella @calamitydaze Jules @gogtopia Jocelyn @tinynap Ace @gnfcatcowboy Aria @100blocks Miffy @gogciety Veri @tinamybeloved Liv @everybodywhamwham Leigh Ann @prettygnf Leyton @selvish El @qbdream Salty @toxicsapolo and Moss @foolishhappy

AND THERES SO MANY MORE I love you all mwah

[cantofworms]

what if I rebrand to gnfcatcowboy for summer…..

[dodgebolts]

what's this? another friend has arrived, this one a pretty kitty! they'd like to know who some of your favorite bloggers are!

ok this one is going to not be comprehensive at all but I went and listed all of my mutuals and it looked like a massive wall of text so I picked out the people I interact with the most BUT I LOVE U ALL DEARLY

jo @tinynap, salty @toxicsapolo, blaze @sapnapgirlie, rey @vadergf, alexia @gogystyle, milky @honkkarl, phoenix @honktales, liv, @everybodywhamwham, aria @100blocks, cello @princeandreis, jenna @badboyslaylo, lucas @axolotldrevm, friday @georgeeehd, sally @gogienotfound, nick @dwttv, iny @sapybara, bella @calamitydaze and jules @gogtopia are some of my fav people to chat with, they're some of my oldest mutuals and I love them loads ^_^

and ofc I can't forget about my gnf and punz mains bc we are all holding hands ace @gnfcatcowboy, em @georgelore, basch @speedrunnercrafting, kit @kaustic, @rivalsjoy, leigh ann @prettygnf, miffy @gogciety, sage @powergnf, nyx @hashtagdnf, riv @gogchat, and claire @choconotfound <333

also my lovely dnf and general dteam posters, y'all make the dash such a fun place :D veri @tinamybeloved, celestial @sweetcelestialdreams, @georgenotfoundeyebags, rosie @ouchgnf, charlie @primeboysbffs, mandragora @minecraftdog, mar @patchesjam, nov @suenitos, cam @tooshisms, teana @patchesbeanie, kaya @dreamiara, meme @dnfblr, skeasy @dnfed, cliff @709-404, and lee @dreamhot!!

special shoutout to the two people who always entertain and level with me about my valo esports insaneisms @dnfingtons and @churchprime u guys are the real ones bc we all managed to flip over sen swapping marved and tenz on the roster today at different times LMAOOO

finally I don't think I can tag everyone here but everyone who I didn't mention above but I absolutely love seeing y'alls' art, fics, edits, gifs, or clips—you guys carry us whenever the boys are inactive and even moreso when they are active <33 ty for all u guys do -> demonstars, catsinstem, stonersap, respiteresponse, curoopeez, mahikamihan, traidyy, amethystcove, nervouswaltz, ourillusions, ourwaterfalls, sappymix1, yellumina, selvish, gologie, orkidays, fooshogie, milktea-green, carpedzem, tinogie, nonoqy, xomoosexo, urlwasfound, foolishhappy, bastardbvby, dreambaited

[dodgebolts]

i’ve decided to purge my dash of everyone i find annoying and/or negpilled because it was making me miserable and after i was done the results were so disheartening, would you mind giving some blog recs?? (also i’m desperately in need of more sapnap, i know the sapnap mains exist but where are they 😭)

AAAA I missed this earlier I’m so sorry I’m proud of u for takin that step!! Before I start though I would highly recommend filtering negative tags like negative, negativity, neg, and discourse because at some point or another they’re likely to come up, and I’ve found it really useful when avoiding stuff that I know is gonna annoy me!

Now for blogs this is not a comprehensive list by any means and is probably hindered by my shit memory, but some of my favorite discourse-light blogs are: aria @100blocks, moss @foolishhappy, ace @gnfcatcowboy, el @qbdream, jo @tinynap, celestial @sweetcelestialdreams, leigh ann @prettygnf, jules @gogtopia, veri @tinamybeloved, alex @yellumina, sage @powergnf , miffy @gogciety, jenna @badboyslaylo, lucky @traidyy, blaze @sapnapgirlie, yumi @mahikamihan, and more that I’m definitely missing but I’m blanking on rn

As for more sapnap blogs, I’d highly rec you check out the participants in the pandasblr hunger games sim salty ran a few weeks ago (link here) since that’ll be most of the people I know that constantly and consistently post about Sap :>

[stonersap]

omg cuuutteee tag game ty ty @traidyy

picrews literally still give me struggle hair even after I cut it all off I had to make do but look how cuuuttteee.

tagging: @tinynap @pandascanpvp @vadergf @gnfcatcowboy @sapybara

[stonersap]

Mr. Beast has kidnapped you! However, instead of taking you to his basement, he's taking you to a deserted island. On this deserted island, you're allowed to spend 5 minutes a day looking at 3 blogs to stay entertained. Which blogs are you choosing?

obsessed w ur vision here first of all. but ONLY THREE why can’t I take all of pandasblr w me..

@tinynap jo OBVIOUSLY because when the dehydration starts getting to us we can have shared mirages abt sapnap. @vadergf as well I HEART REY MWAH. and last but not least @gnfcatcowboy for the FUNNIESSS and the VIBES we’re turning this ish into a beach vacay.