#beginning of 2021

[kan-be]

so I’ve had this fantasy AU in the back of my mind since 2021 and I finally decided to draw some stuff on it

[averlym]

"yeah i'm good"

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

[kodasea]

Worse than murder

[daeyumi]

Starfall 🌠💫🌟

[Cycle of the Stars au]

[ohsweetflips]

what is it with people tagging my taz balance posts like “it’s a shame it sucks so bad it’s the worst that the only good season of taz was balance” like. at the very least dont u dare disrespect amnesty in my house. and also i (the op of these posts) can see these tags and i (the op of these posts) have liked all the taz campaigns that i’ve heard so far. yes even that one.

[h20milk]

we're a couple, aren't we? (oc x canon/yume art trades ive done)

[toshiros-hands]

Wi Ha-joon in "Shark: The Beginning" (2021)

[toefungusbrandchips]

old and new graystripe design......honorary firestar/rusty bc why did i make him an old man since birth

if didnt have a no hairstyle policy for warrior cats for some bizzare reason hed have a manbun.

greystripe is like a nonbinary bisexual to me if yall get me.

[plaguedwithlove]

Ight my crk fixations is back thanks to a certain zesty jest

Been tryna get him for a long ASS time but his bitchass didn't come home >:(

With the new update imma be gambling the shit out of the normal banner now that he's in it

If i get him i PROMISE to hop on the shadow milk x reader doodles train >:3

[chiropteracupola]

I think I've told this story on here before but once again I am thinking about how in january 2021 I was starting the aubreyad, and mentioned that to my granddad over the phone, it went something like this:

me: oh yeah granddad I've been reading those boat books you and dad like, I like them so far, we should talk when I'm further in

granddad: [old man approval mumblegrumble]

and then he died like a week later and we never got to talk about it beyond that and it was the last thing I ever said to him :) and actually that is probably okay because I doubt his takes would have been any good but even so :) aubreyad's haunted :)

[mgu-h]

Lando Review 22/? • July 2021 • Austrian GP

[shefaniquotes]

Q: “What are you the most proud of in your life outside of your career?”

Audience: “Gwen!”

Blake: “Yeah, I still can’t believe that she even talks to me.”

BSers Lounge, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2017

Blake: “I guess they [People Magazine] were like, ‘Really? She’s dating him? I guess he must be sexy.’”

John: “When you are with the right partner, it makes you look sexier by connection.”

Trailer Talk with John Legend, December 2019

Reporter: “It was mind-boggling to imagine a world in which you might not have ever started dating Gwen. I don’t want to think about that.”

Blake: “I couldn’t agree more. But at the same time, people still can't wrap their head around – including me. I can’t imagine it not happening, but how did this happen? It's one of the great mysteries of this planet, let's be honest.”

Entertainment Tonight, February 2021

“People still can't understand how this possibly happened. Like, 'How can she possibly want to be with this guy? It has to have been like a mix-up, right?'”

People Magazine, February 2021

“Nobody's more shocked about this than I am. It makes no sense. I can see that you're looking at that [engagement] picture right now and thinking, 'What the hell is happening?' […] I understand. Trust me, I understand. You can't blame me for not jumping at the opportunity though.” 

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, February 2021

Blake on Gwen choosing him, various sources

[falseren]

two streamers who have been friends for years open a dual stream to announce a “surprise” that they teased earlier that week. they’re both nervous and wearing nice clothes for it. he says she has a nice smile. then they start talking about an irl meetup where he apparently gave her a Gift and they’re both giggly about it. and then he starts going on a looong speech about how awesome and lovely she is and how they met up in london and he made plans and booked a nice restaurant. yeah man i can’t blame the chat for their misinterpretation.

[cosmonautroger]

Julia Soboleva, The Healing Can Begin, 2021

[shiraishi--kanade]

I think when I say that this fandom hates/hated An Shiraishi people assume I'm taking about like simplifying her character or tasteless jokes but what I'm actually talking about is *lights a pipe. sits on a windowsill and looks into the distance, gaze absent. sighs deeply* around like the time An2 dropped but also slightly before that there were like "fix-it Kohane realises An forced her to join VBS and leaves" fanfics and "An getting basically bullied out of VBS because she's too forceful and pushy and jealous and clingy and Kohane realises she can stand up to her and starts to hate her" aus. And people majorly didn't see a fucking problem with that because An was annoying. And for all the fucking backlash LUTF had it did humanise An in the eyes of the fandom to the point where these plots have all but vanished because it became clear that all this time she's just been alone and struggling and people have finally started to give her an ounce of sympathy and benefit of the doubt they did to everyone else but especially Tsukasa. Does anyone else remembers this