#through the steel balls

[we-love-morioh-cho]

No bc why did Johnny just suffer non-stop for his entire fucking life - he was abused from a young age by his shitty dad, he saw his brother die and blamed himself for it, became disabled because of an extremely minor offense during a time period where being disabled was especially hard, was abandoned in an abusive hospital and disowned by his dad who should KILL HIMSELF, made a single (1) friend only to watch him die, had the chance to bring his friend back dangled in his face, the whole fucking ordeal with alt. Diego, fell in love and had 2 kids BUT THEN IMMEDIATELY his wife started to die, stole the corpse to heal her (going against his agreement with the only 2 people from the race he had left) but then his fucking son started to die instead, finally he died by getting his head crushed by a fucking boulder at the age of only 29????!!?!??!?!?!??!!

Like he just suffered constantly and never really won and never had the life he deserved but despite EVERYTHING he showed such remarkable resilience and KINDNESS throughout his life, he SAVED Lucy and his family and loved animals and hoped for things to get better despite it all and fought so hard and came so far and even missed and grieved for his ENEMIES because of how much the race meant to him and it was all destroyed at the end despite everything he did and his legacy continued on but they'll never know what we know and its been 100 years and he's been dead for so fucking long and has faded into an old folktale and all the characters from SBR are GONE and the world has moved on and time has passed and the inheritance of curses, burden and trauma through the bloodline and I miss Johnny so much and he unknowingly set in motion the curse of his descendants all to save his wife and then his son who he cherished despite being abused by his own father and how different would everything had been if he just received the love he deserved from his family and oh my god he's just like Jonathan and Jolyne and he acted out of pure love even if it went against everything he'd previously fought for because he is so incredibly human and even though he's gone and his descendants will never know him, his sacrifice and love and resilience persists through them and we know that but they can't and -

[goatpaste]

TUSK TUSK TUSK

id drawn act 1 a hundred times so lets give act 2 a whirl hehe ^^

[scary-monsters]

steel ball run focused blogs/fans/frequent posters.. please interact with this post, i need more sbr mutuals 🧡 especially if you’re an artist or writer or creator in general!!!

[ardentpoop]

[josephine-zeppeli]

Johnny ⭐️ and Gyro 🐴

[eldritch-bisexual]

Things that would have been cool:

-> Danyin saying "Sure, no problem, I have his number" (or something) when her father said Dongfang Qingcang was the only one capable of stopping Ronghao, then asking for help

-> The Cangyan army chanting for their Moon Queen after the (hearthwrenching) final battle is over. Lord Yunzhong's face would be PRICELESS.

[jjba-smash-or-pass]

[heavy-lobster]

SCARY MONSTERS!

Started Part 7 can. can u guess who my fav is. can u

Alt version bc I couldn't decide which one I like more

[horton-hears-a-who-cares]

This is scary cause I normally don’t post art stuff here (especially sketch book stuff)- but i sorta liked how these turned out so here it is!

Just started part 7 if you couldn’t tell! :)

[issteelballrunconfirmed]

Day 220

Steel Ball Run is not confirmed.

[contrappostoes]

was looking through the black & white version of sbr yesterday and noticed for the first time that gyro already had his gold go go zeppeli teeth back when he was doing doctor stuff.......look at my surgeon dawg I'm gonna die 😭

[mothkraft]

every day i think abt how diego and hot pants come from working class upbringings compared to johnny and gyro being closer to the upper class...like gyro existed in a bubble with a silver spoon up his ass for most of his life and diego has lived in poverty most of his and man the audacity of johnny and gyro just to despise him based on pretty much nothing

I'm just full of too many thoughts and rambles and no art and grrrrrrr

[scary-monsters]

diego redrawsssss !!!!! im smacking him on your fridge and running

real facts: when you knock on my head and open it up like a hatch, all you will see is diego brando. that's it

[amandaandangel]

I still think about the gyjo fanfic I bookmarked back in 2019 on ao3 that got deleted (I can’t find it anymore) where Johnny was married to Rina but they were both unhappy but kept up a front. Nobody died and every jojo was alive, and they were arriving at some party at this big mansion. Johnny was still disabled and used a cane (or a walker, I don’t remember) and left to a room away from everyone to relax. Gyro came in the room and they talked and Johnny told Gyro he wasn’t happy being married. It was all fluffy and I remember Diego was there too but ugh it was so good and perfectly written

[human-adjacent]

i love the little sketches in steel ball run so much

[some-french-asshole]

I'm still re-reading SBR and let me tell you once more, let me make it clear, let me explain to you oh so clearly:

Gyro, this woman hating asshole, with his stinky ass steel balls and his horrible jokes, could slap me and call me a bitch and I'd still thank him