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She loves her husband guys

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My SL!Scar cosplay this year🌻

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I've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel it's all that I can give to you, my dear

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going back to my roots drawing desduo aura farming for 3rd life’s fourth year anniversary! doubling as a redraw of the series’ first year anniversary as well.

rough turnaround & closeups under the cut

near total overhaul of my previous design, but i hope you enjoy this one better than the last

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i dont know how weird this sounds but im really tempted to write a book but its just... all of third life... like either each chapter is a different episode or a different pov. Should i watch all of third life again and type out everything they say and do? I have a lot of free time and no life...

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I think Etho and xB and Cleo should attend the next charity event.

“But Snake!” I hear you cry, “how will they protect their cherished anonymity?”

Not to worry, I’ve thought of an ideal solution. Behold:

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I want whatever they all have

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I drew all the Life Series Winners

Originally these paintings started out as distraction from school work and I also wanted to get better at cinematic composition and gradient mapping. I never imagined that this would turn into a several months long project but here we are!

I think tumblr is the one place where it’s acceptable to make a really long post just talking about the little details I hid in these pictures:

First of all everyone is looking in a very specific direction (until Joel came along but he is special let him be).

Pearl is looking at the camera, she is the only one who is aware of the viewer (you) while Cleo isn’t looking at us at all because she couldn’t actually “see” with the VR on their head. Also Cleo is surrounded by a cemetery of her previous alliances.

Technically Scott and Martyn are are looking up and down. Martyin is sinking into the sea with the hourglass in his hands, while Scott is touching the stars.

Grian and Scar who are both looking at each other technically. I also intentionally used colorschemes that were similar to one another. Oh yeah, and two certain flowers are also present…I wonder what those stand for!

And well Joel is just there currently but his has to be my favourite, color, composition and storytelling wise too. I was giggling to myself while drawing and just had the best time ever and it seems like the majority of you agree that his turned out great!

That’s all thank you for reading my yapping, I need to let this out somewhere ugshsh

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Bad Boys was a polycule

can someone reblog this with their life series hot take so that when another person sees it they can rate the prev's hot take out of ten and add their own hot take to make the chain continue?

itll be very fun and entertaining and silly and fun i promise 😭

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this took a very long time to draw i dont know whats wrong with me

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if skizz and lizzie were in double life they wouldve been soulmates and they wouldve won on account of their shared charisma, inability to play minecraft and the numerous men who would do anything for them. you agree. send post.

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I feel like control is a major theme in the life series as a whole.

Each character is in a setting where they have almost zero control. They aren't choosing to be here, they have limited time, they're bound by a number of rules, and they experience almost constant disasters with little to no way of avoiding them, and honestly, pretty much every character has experienced at least one extreme personal loss of agency at some point in the series.

Almost every character is driven massively by maintaining as much control and personal agency as they can.

Why does Scott sacrifice himself so frequently? Because it gives him control over his own death, because he goes out on his own terms rather than because someone else won over him, and even moreso, because sacrificing himself empowers him to keep his allies alive, to never feel debilitating grief again.

Why does Martyn constantly shift his allegiances and center his own victory over all else? Because he wants the personal control that comes with being a solo entity, because he doesn't want to be tied down to a sinking ship, because he wants to be able to grab victory for himself with his own two hands no matter what it costs.

Why does Cleo often act so threatening despite being inwardly very trustworthy and generous (and also not believing herself to be very good in a fight)? It's a defense mechanism, she's making herself look like a bigger target, they're trying to maintain control of the situation by threatening first so nobody thinks they're easy prey.

Why does Etho have a habit of running from personal relationships (despite having massive protective instincts)? He feels like caring too much is a threat to his stability, like it's dangerous to put his faith in someone, and he wants to feel in control, which, to him, often means backing up on instinct when he feels like someone is dangerously close to him.

Why does Joel act with so much outward aggression and antagonize other players? He wants to have an impact on people, wants to know he has the power to cause damage, wants to know he isn't weak or helpless, that he doesn't have to cower or appease other people, that he is the danger, not the victim.

I could honestly do this for every character but I've probably made my point here- every single character in the life series has suffered from a traumatic loss of agency and a lot of their major behavior patterns are directly influenced by a desire to regain control, to exercise personal agency, to empower themselves.

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I'm still stuck in the Desert.

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i saw this on tiktok and i just i had to do it okay.. it's so double life ep.1 coded (before the divorce, that is)

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Even when they weren't hard allies, when Ren was Red in Double Life, he said outloud how tempted he was to shoot off Martyn off the dirt bridge.

As if he was warning Martyn to be careful in case he couldn't control himself. But Ren didn't shoot Martyn off regardless.

When the Warden was alerted, the first name Ren shouts was Martyn's while Martyn quickly tried to guide Ren back to him to safety despite the blindness.

When Ren died, the next episode Martyn talks about the darkness (just like in Last Life) before lamenting that he misses Ren to be dramatic with. And then he sets up Bleeding Heart Bastion to explode. (He has ownership over Box now after all)

Ren's death in Third Life having broken Martyn, making him more selfish moving forward, and gaining a soul scar fragment on his cheek from shedding a tear over losing Ren. (That those scars even transcend to another version of Martyn)

Martyn wearing the Dogwarts flag and having flashbacks to Ren (even almost accidentally saying his name before correcting himself to royalty) in the season he wins. (The last scene that flashes before his eyes as he dies being Ren at Black Heart Altar)

The next season Ren still isn't around in, he's the Big Dogs and became the Hound of Hell after losing his allies. (The ShadowHound being Ren's Shadow name in Last Life)

Ren calling their home in the flower field Renwood Mound, keeping Martyn in the name unlike in Third Life.

Ren saying that he's here to cleanse the evil in Martyn's heart. Ren laughing and saying lightheartedly how Martyn made it hard to improve their reputation. (Not Martyn's. Theirs.)

Ren looking at Martyn lovingly as the sun sets behind him.

Martyn and Ren having a domestic fight due to both of them building their highly flammable watchtowers in the wrong direction. Facing each other instead of facing away like they planned.But they don't take it down regardless. After all, wasn't Renchanting made of wood too?

Ren and Martyn working together like clockwork without a single exchanged word to kill Gem so Ren can gain a life. And it worked (if Mumbo didn't steal it)

Ren asking Martyn if they ever got married in Third Life and Martyn responding "Well I did cut your head off if that counts?" as if The Beheading was a marriage ceremony for them both. (And Cleo saying "Well, the fandom thinks you did")

Martyn and Ren looking at each other at the distance and imitating each other.

When Renwood Mound burned down, Ren calls their base InTheLittleLake. Their base's namesake being only Martyn now, an inverse of Renchanting and Dogwarts.

While Ren was talking about how there's smooching going on all over the place and how inappropriate it is, Martyn jumped closer to him and asked "Why aren't we smooching?" Before catching himself and looking away from Ren in embarrassment.

Remember how Ren said he was here to cleanse the evil in Martyn's soul? Yeah, scratch that.Ren egged Martyn on to windcharge Skizz off the stone bridge.

And when Ren lost Martyn?

He couldn't let him go.

You can't take the King out of the Hand and you can't take the Hand out of the King.

Even when it physically, mentally, and emotionally hurt to cling onto Martren, Ren still parades around. Smiling and saying that they got Martyn into the finale and how Martren is the Power of Friendship!

No sane man would cling to this form that shreds him from the inside out.Both of these two are so insane for each other that they would break without the other.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!!!!!

AND HAPPY TREEBARK YEAR!!!!!