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the nether is terrifying because it is hell and monsters live there who want to hurt you. however, it gets even more terrifying when you think about Intentional Game Design. a world where you'll die if you try to sleep. you could get stuck there, growing wearier and wearier, until your eyes start to blur with the waves of heat rising from the earth. when you cave in and lay your head to rest the ground will explode. the souls trapped in the dirt will scream with you. you will never be heard. this world will rip you apart for the crime of being human. you cannot win. you cannot rest now. there are always monsters nearby.

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more stories where falling in love is a horrifying fate worse than death rather than a source of comfort and hope. more stories where love is understood as a terminal affliction.

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ren and sausage discuss false (and her cartoonishly large goggles) in rats :3 and ren says falserat has distracted his brain

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Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive

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I love the Martren thing because it was player agency in the face of gimmicks. Ren went through the superpowers session, lost Martyn, turned into him at the last second, then lost his superpowers. But lore-wise, he made it have an impact. Ren actually did something. The superpowers gimmick made him do something that allowed it to stretch beyond its intended life span (ie. its own session). Of course Ren will blatantly lore his way into that making sense. If he wants Martyn in the finale, he’ll just rewrite the story because he has player agency.

Ren has the improv ability to talk like Martren!Martyn half of the time and goes around making a deal out of it… then snails come back and he’s instantly distracted and reverts to normal Ren voice.

Ren reacted to the gimmick by owning it and roleplaying having control over it, like it’s an actual superpower that his character gained outside of fun buttons that the CC pressed. It was definitely a decision he made that fits in with his character arc and relationship arc with Martyn. The gimmicks were supposed to be temporary, but because he’s a storyteller, he tells the story of them having an effect on him. He’s telling us a story.

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This comment has me in tears omg they absolutely are

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"Grian's being more Watcher-y this season! He created all the twists and he's manipulating the other players! He's using his knowledge of the wildcards to--"

annoy Jimmy. he's using his power to annoy Jimmy.

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I pronounce you husband and wife, you may now take the war-marked axe and cut the head off the groom

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Art request for some treebark? 👉👈

This one goes out to all of the treebark askers (there were a lot of them)

It's a silly one, but i hope it satisfies ur treebark needs👍

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Links:

Martyn makes the Dogwarts Red Winter axe in Rats SMP

Ren reacts to the above axe: “A horrible sacrifice for his loyal hand” (and the lore implications of 3L and Rats being in the same universe)

Ren wants to do a "wife swap" with Gem in WL, implying Martyn is his wife

Yellow!Ren getting a kill in WL so he can turn green and live with Martyn because it’s not “proper” otherwise

Martyn is jealous of his captain’s blonde lover in Rats

Ren to Martyn on Rats: Let me paint you like one of my French girls

False tells Ren and Martyn to get a room

Martyn puts a Ren TCG card in his Pokemon TCG tweet

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the transition from people needing each other to wanting each other is literally one of my greatest weaknesses that shit makes me want to walk into the sea and sit on the ocean floor for a thousand years

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hmm

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I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

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Some doodles from last friday's Tango stream (might color them in the future)

It was just so fun watching these guys having so much fun flying into pots and testing all the different methods to break them. It was like watching a bunch of kids at a funfair.

In fact they were having so much fun that they ignored poor Cub

Bdubs would totally approve their after stream looks

On a side note: I can't wait to see these lovable idiots get stuck in traffic 💚💛❤️

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IN HONOR OF THE PI-RATS OF RATS S2!!!!!!!

PUT HIM IN PIRATES SMP OR I'M PULLING OUT THE BLUNDERBUSS

(based off this clip from @ani-craft)

bonus martyn encounter:

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big fan of 'i'd find you in every universe'. BIGGER fan of 'there are maybe five universes where we find each other and in four of them it ends badly i think we're some kind of anomaly i think every law of everything points towards this being the death of us. but we could try to save it anyway.' THATS the good shit.