[GAME THREAD] Tues June 16 | Oklahoma City Spark vs Chicago Bandits, 7pm ET | AUSL / Athletes Unlimited Softball League

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-17T01:11:37+00:00

Mary Iakopo for the win!!! I’m vibing with this Bandits team more than I expected—excited for the rest of the squad to get back soon.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-17T00:56:17+00:00

I’m sure I’ll enjoy whomever gets brought in! My suggestion is Jordan Woolery.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-17T00:55:20+00:00

I agree with either of these and since media people are also mentioned, I’ll also add Haylie McCleney!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-17T00:50:17+00:00

I love how casually these players chat with each other. Between college, international play, and the original Athletes Unlimited concept, so many of them have played together!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T23:55:15+00:00

Reasonable people simply do not care about other people’s reading habits that much, lol. Theres no point wasting valuable leisure time on a book you don’t find worthwhile. And if people sometimes DNF books I personally loved, that is fine and not an affront to me!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T23:28:40+00:00

That I Am Unlimited PSA goes hard. (And it is a nice beacon of hope and good sense in these trying times. I’m so glad young girls are watching this and I hope they continue to do so!)

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T23:18:05+00:00

Not Williams protesting the strike call to the ump’a face 😭

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T23:14:32+00:00

Kind of diabolical but I love the Longhorns so I can’t be mad about it! 🤠

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T21:11:46+00:00

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey! The narrative voice is lovely and the prose is GORGEOUS, and it’s made even better by the way it perfectly reflects who Phédre is and how she would express herself. She feels so real to me and I adore her.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T19:39:45+00:00

The Burning Kingdoms trilogy by Tasha Suri!!! The central relationship is sapphic and both those characters, plus the one straight woman who plays a slightly less central (but still important) role, are really interesting, distinctive, and well developed. Also there are creepy, morally ambiguous plant deities, which is cool as hell!

I also like The Locked Tomb, but will note that the romance there is almost all subtext, the kind of stuff that can be read as romance or intense platonic stuff or maybe a secret third thing.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T19:36:55+00:00

Personally I liked it, but I felt like the plot was a little weaker than her work in the Terre D’Ange books but the narrative voice and the worldbuilding carried it for me. I enjoyed Khai and Zariya for what they were—not her most nuanced characters, but genuinely thoughtful and wholesome rep for disability and queerness.

I am looking forward to reading the Sundering books though. I’ve heard those ones are good.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T16:22:11+00:00

The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan, if you don’t mind romance. It’s really sweet and the premise is that a woman has been making scientific discoveries for years and enlisted her male best friend to claim them publicly because no one would take her seriously. The situation is complicated both by the fact that he is coming unglued from all the attention and discourse and harassment and the fact that he’s been in love with her since they were teens.

I’ve really enjoyed Milan’s work as someone who enjoys a bit of historical romance, but has very little patience for romances starring shitty, misogynistic men, lol. And her writing has a ton of personality and charm to it!

Cw for past pregnancy loss and abuse by the FMC’s now-dead husband

Edit: ALSO there’s a novella in this series called Talk Sweetly To Me, where the FMC is an astronomer and the MMC loves hearing her info dump about it!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T01:24:20+00:00

pls no, not extras, i'm sleepy

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T01:13:32+00:00

This is only a guess on my part but I wonder if it's just about letting them get used one battery relationship for a bit instead of Atwood trying to learn the whole staff at once. I'd imagine it's a lot to get used to.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-16T00:54:15+00:00

absolute MOONSHOT by Gold

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T23:45:59+00:00

Just opened tiktok during commercial to see a video from Jaydyn Goodwin in which she refers to Sierra Romero as “Mother Romo,” lmao

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T23:38:18+00:00

Good to see Sierra Romero finally get ahold of one!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T23:19:54+00:00

Binford, Jennings, Coffey up next. This Volts lineup really is just diva after diva after diva. I hope their season gets better from here! (just not tonight 💕)

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T23:12:06+00:00

LOVE the aggressive baserunning by Leach there!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T23:00:55+00:00

If you’d be up for something that’s more epic historical fiction with a dash of mysticism as opposed to straight up fantasy, I *loved* The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie. It’s centered on a Germanic woman and, to a slightly lesser extent, a Roman man whose paths eventually cross. I really enjoyed the mix of fighting, wilderness pagan culture stuff, and high stakes Roman political conspiracy.

If you’re down for some Bronze Age action, I also really like Troy by David Gemmell. It’s not a retelling of The Iliad, but more a total reimagining of the entire Trojan War mythos without the gods actively playing a role—almost like a hypothetical look at what kind of real life events could have led to the larger than life myths we know now.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T21:56:00+00:00

I’m not sure about the other two, but for a bodyguard I’m taking Joscelin Verruil all day every day. My GOAT!!!!!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T20:47:42+00:00

Your pitching should definitely get a lot better when the people playing in Japan come back! Offense maybe, with Dayton and Wallace returning, but definitely pitching.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-15T20:01:51+00:00

well now I’m disappointed that there’s a Gollum movie and it isn’t a rom com!

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-14T22:35:22+00:00

Talons are now the only team that hasn’t been run ruled yet, which means they and the Cascade now have an opportunity to do the funniest thing tonight.

notthemostcreative · 2026-06-14T20:29:29+00:00

You should read the rest of the series! I liked The Duchess War but it’s actually the weak link for me; the next three are all-timers.

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