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Revamped boatem knights designs!

(you can also find these designs over on artfight :D)

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Because theres GOTTA be a reason for some of his downright criminal fits.

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there's a parallel in last life that I don't see talked about as much as it deserves and so I'm going to dissect the ever-living hell out of it. remember the ghast farm incident? everyone remembers the ghast farm incident. Grian turns red, he starts knocking blocks of a bridge out from under Mumbo, "there's a way we can still be friends," etc etc etc. it's fantastic. WELL. two sessions earlier, there's a similar confrontation between Scar and Joel after Joel turns red, except the roles are reversed. Joel approaches and it's Scar who starts breaking blocks of the bridge, trying to put distance between the two of them. HOWEVER, the interesting difference here is that Scar is doing it not because he doesn't want to be Joel's friend anymore, but because he still wants to be. lets take a look at a transcript of part of that scene, shall we?

[Scar breaks several blocks of the bridge.] Joel: Scar, what are you doing? I know you're not my friend anymore, but come on, Scar. Not the bridge. Scar: I wanted to make an arrangement. Are- are we not friends? Joel: We can't be friends, Scar. We can't be friends.

Scar knows that Joel is a red life and that he might hurt him, but he still wants to be friends, so he's providing a way that they can be near each other while he isn't in any danger by putting a gap in the bridge. he even breaks it again when he comes by to chat later. during that chat, Joel reminds him of how dangerous he is, Scar says he "gets it," and then proceeds to let him continue living under magical mountain. Scar doesn't "get" that he needs to be cautious of Joel—what he "gets" is that he's taking a risk by letting him stay and that he's already accepted something might happen. and he's OKAY with that. Joel is red. he gets it.

now compare that to this excerpt from the ghast farm incident:

Grian: Y'know, Mumbo, there's a way we can still be friends. Mumbo: Yeah? Grian: Yeah. [he starts breaking blocks at of Mumbo's feet] You could join me.

with Joel and Scar, it's a red life choosing to step away from his friend in order to protect him, while said friend tries to find a way that they can still be near each other without placing himself in danger. with Grian and Mumbo, it's a red life choosing to try to take his friend down with him so that they can be near each other because he can't accept not being his friend. the fact that in BOTH scenarios the friendship is symbolized by a bridge being broken is a perfect illustration of one of Grian's lines from the ghast farm incident: "it was a bad idea for the wrong reasons." those friendships should have been a good idea, those bridges should have been a good idea, but now they provide a connection that isn't safe, and they all know that.

and I'm not done talking about this. no no no no no. this offers a FASCINATING insight into why desert duo is Like That. Scar would sooner let Grian kill him than have to stop being his friend. Grian would sooner kill Scar than have to stop being his friend. which is all kinds of perfectly fucked up and explains exactly why 3rd life ended the way that it did. it also makes the cactus scene from double life very interesting to think about. remember the cactus scene? it's a doozy.

Grian starts session by dropping a stalactite on Scar's head as a prank and (unintentionally) taking them down to two and a half hearts. Scar then retaliates by leaning against a cactus until Grian breaks it. he then leans against Yet Another Cactus until Grian breaks that one too, at which point they are at only one heart. a question I've been asking since that day is this: if Grian hadn't broken the cactus, would Scar have stepped away before it was too late?

using bridge theory, we can find an answer to this.

the answer is no.

this isn't necessarily because Scar is actively trying to get them killed—it's more because he knows with absolute certainty that Grian will break the cactus. he's not prepared to step away because he isn't worried he needs to. see, the difference between Grian and Scar is that Grian is willing to throw around the lives of other people to get what he wants, and Scar is willing to throw around his own life to get what he wants (the fact that what they really want out of all this is often the other's trust is an issue I will dissect another day). once again, last life is the perfect example of this. Grian steals a life from Scar right off the bat and gets another one out of him by force a few episodes later. meanwhile, Scar makes a business out of selling his soul and threatens Team BEST that he'll kill himself in order to go red life crazy on them. and they don't doubt him! and they SHOULDN'T doubt him, because Scar is the kind of guy that would do that! the same way that Grian is the kind of guy who will drop a stalactite on his soulmate's head but break the cactus he's leaning against.

Grian is willing to risk Scar's life, but he's not okay with Scar risking his own life, because he knows that he's completely willing to stand against a cactus until he dies if it makes a point. so Grian breaks it.

but Scar knows Grian as well as Grian knows him. Scar knows that this is hardly a risk at all. so he leans against the cactus a third second time.

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* I worship you Tumblr don’t remove it

A teen romcom 🖤💖

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sisterly love

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i think its so funny that the empires people know what christmas is this season. they used to only have the rivendell winter festival but i guess christianity was introduced to the land after season 1

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cool shelf

cozy vibes~ 

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i like to think in-universe the other hermits did not realise they'd taken mumbo onboard as a teenager. like he's a tall guy, has a moustache, constantly wears suits. it takes like 3 years for a him to offand mention that his 20th birthday just passed and the entire server has a mental bluescreen.

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this really is the d&d season of hermitcraft. we've got a dwarf, an elf, a gorgon, bdubs is giving out quests, doc is practicing dark magic, grian's an alchemist with two eldritch horrors, ren is ren, xb is making up lore about giants. When mumbo comes back i think he should break out the hobbit skin again

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in case anyone didnt catch it in grians recent episodes, there used to be a mumbo mustache deep inside The Rift

key words here being, “used to”

i know people have been making the jokes about “Grian opened The Rift in order to get Mumbo back in Hermitcraft, only to bring in one thats distinctively Not The Same Mumbo” for funsies, but. the rift isnt the only mumbo related thing thats changed since his return…

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18h later and this beast of a project is done!

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Scar didn't learn how to sprint until a few months ago, Mumbo uses his thumb to shift, and Grian's inventory key is F... no braincell trio fr

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"Let me pour you some tea and we're gonna make everything all better. [Thunk] [extended pause] ..... We are all out of tea."

W h e e z e

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convex liar solidarity

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hilarious to me that apparently part of the reason so many hermits have started their mega projects now and are moving out of spawn town is that spawn town got too laggy. benefits of a spawn town: everyone is so close together! so many nearby buildstyles! so many opportunities for random collaboration! downsides of a spawn town: it’s like a shopping district except you have to live there,