#anyways. guess who this is about :D

[incohorace]

(consumed with lust voice) omg what a fucking weirdo

[somegrumpynerd]

For his birthday Color took Killer to see Cats the musical and he definitely wasn't extremely moved by Memory

[psilliguykai]

Happy [depending on your timezone belated-] 2nd birthday CCCC!!

I gotta eep now, but I might add some more thoughts tomorrow ^^

For now, thank you CCCC for being my intro to Chonny Jash, and thank you cj for all the awesome community and inspiration and joy you’ve brought me and so many other people. Your music and characters will always hold a special place in my Heart [haha] <33

[shepscapades]

Just realized the only "humans" during the sahara v concorp thing was scar and grian, the only non restoners of the 5 4 so how did it look/work back then?

Going back and re-writing hermitcraft history isn't something I've done a whole lot of for this au, but it's definitely really interesting to think about!

I also made this a season 8 au because that's when I started watching Hermitcraft, so it's the season I'm most knowledgeable about--this also means that I'm really not very deeply knowledgeable at all regarding previous seasons, other than their primary plots and themes/important figures. So in short, I don't have a great answer for that (and i get this question a lot about various things, so i figured i'd go ahead and respond to one hehe) But!! It's definitely one of those things that would be fun to sit down and puzzle out one day :] It's kinda how rel and I started puzzling out and re-writing 3rd life for this au afterall :D

Knowing that the server member count was basically halved for a lot of hermitcraft history really makes it feel like it's been a lot smaller of a family/community, which is honestly very interesting (and you'll have to pardon my xisuma brainrot, but thinking about it this way also makes me realize that going from a server with 10-12 ish members to a suddenly whopping 25 ish could have definitely added to Xisuma's stresses coming out of s8 and going into s9)!

[pieofdeath]

watching loa/ouaw after watching many many shorts is like playing with puzzle pieces you're not supposed to have yet

[ishgard]

"Apologies! How very discourteous of me."

The words trip over themselves and he scrambles back a step, face heated. She gawks a moment, and then - laughter. For a split second it nearly mortifies him, but then that feeling passes and it is a balm - a comfort.

How long has it been since he last heard her laugh?

"You've been playing it so cool this whole time, it's good to see you're still the same Alphi in there." She says it teasingly light-hearted, but he notes the relief in her tone.

A relief he shares.

Somehow her words are more comforting than he could have imagined. Even if it comes at the cost of his embarrassment, he is still... him.

[cosmique-oddity]

The lore i dropped is not final i may change it, twist it, do anything with it, help its 2 am and i may would have been smarter to wait a little before posting it X)

I oftenly think my work is shit when its late

[fromtheseventhhell]

"It's normal for siblings to fight" Okay well it's not normal to be extremely classist and look down on your sister for being non-conforming. Or to go to the woman who ordered the death of your pet to tell her about your father's plans, when he specifically warned you against doing so, because you want to marry the boy you saw attack your sister and her friend (contributing partially to said father's death and your sister being unable to escape on the ship he chartered). Or to think of your sibling as unsatisfactory in comparison to another when you believe her to be dead. I notice that none of the "Sansa and Arya are going to reunite and instantly have no issues" crowd ever acknowledge any of this, which makes it seem like they don't actually believe what they say about their relationship being normal and easily reconciled. People wanting them to have no issues simply because they're siblings is another example of how fandom likes to flatten complex characters and relationships. They get reduced to being bickering siblings when their conflict runs deeper than that. If the author is telling you that they have "deep issues" to work out [X], I don't understand being so adamant about ignoring said issues. I also get the sense it's about ignoring the capacity for a certain character to be flawed, but that isn't going to change the fact that her "slip of the tongue" is very likely to be revealed and a source of further conflict 🤷🏾‍♀️

[draconicapologies]

tuft of cotton candy found laying sadly in the dirt

[smile-files]

(my ii3 rewatch is going swell! i'm quite enjoying myself.)

it is sort of funny how nickel goes from blaming everything on balloon in ii2 to blaming everything on clover in ii3. he very much wants to contextualize his misfortune, wanting someone to get mad at (he doesn't like feeling in the wrong personally, and i doubt he'd like to think he's just unlucky); when he starts to get along with balloon in ii3, he needs another scapegoat, and clover's the perfect pick...

as i was saying, nickel seems to have some hidden guilt about treating balloon badly before, with his stubborn, heels-dug-in hatred of balloon fading away now that he doesn't have to save face in front of baseball and suitcase. of course, he wants to save face in front of balloon too, so he half-passes it off as box suggesting it (he always wants a passive lackey to help him push for what he really wants, huh?). nickel's caught in a limbo of not wanting to seem like he had a sudden heel-face turn/change of heart, but also wanting to express that he genuinely enjoys balloon's company (because he's actually letting himself do so now). he isn't being explicitly nice to balloon, but he's simultaneously secretive about the fact that he only did it because "box" told him to -- he doesn't want balloon to think his amicability is nothing more than obligatory, but he doesn't want to be vulnerable either. really interesting stuff.

in any event, nickel's friendlier with balloon now, so obviously balloon could no longer be his scapegoat. he still doesn't like feeling guilty for his own mistakes, nor does he enjoy his troubles being blameless, so he picks clover as his target: largely because he's cynical and can't cope with the idea of pure goodwill, happiness, and innocence which clover represents. she is everything that he isn't, but at the same time what he wants to be; he resents that. this cynicism about clover probably connects with his cynicism about balloon in ii2 -- he initially couldn't wrap his head around a manipulative person changing for the better. weirdly, he still hasn't completely gotten over balloon's heel-face turn as of now (he still doesn't believe in that kind of change, at least not fully), and yet he's still chummy with balloon. as far as i can tell, nickel is strongly projecting his own reservations onto balloon: that he himself can't change and be a good person.

[phantom-overdose]

((When I get back after this weekend... if I added Pee.ta from Hun.ger Ga.mes, Sn.ow from HG: Bal.lad, and An.akin from SW as kinda test / highly selective muses... would anyone want to write with them a tiny bit?

They wouldn't be super consistently written because this blog is meant to focus on Phantom Overdose and Black Rapture first and foremost... but, yeah, I'd like to write them some...))

[pokemonfrommemory]

He’s free!

[inkblackorchid]

Love how this outtro contains both the biggest slap in the face the show has to offer as well as arguably my favourite shot of all outtros, full stop.

[suddencolds]

~

[most-certainly-not-lennard]

i kind of want to make a videoessay about what old webcomics mean to me someday. but that'd take a load more confidence in myself so i doubt i ever will.