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THE CRANE WIVES. THEY KNOW US. THEY KNOW WHO WE ARE.

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Hermit-A-Day May No. 5: False! (higher qual ver. below cut)

check out the hadm fundraiser for gamer's outreach!

I was a little worried tagging this as hadm bc I'm not doing very much of the challenge (maybe 5 days total? I can't guarantee all animation but I'm trying), but I figured it's probably fine haha

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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Scar's comment on Mumbo's minecraft movie video did something to my brain I fear

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something i keep experiencing

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REALLY hate to see these several comments under grian’s new hc ep 28 about “yeah, looks like joel left a mark with these intros on grian and mumbo”.

first of all, that’s just not, second of all, that’s just upsetting.

grian and mumbo have already had several intros before in this season, they have their own lore and own styles for these intros for a reason. grian is very sensitive to his ideas and their creation (he talked about this in the context of the ideas for the life series before), mumbo has been working as professional cinematographer for several years now. grian even had similar lore intros/outros in previous seasons. but it just so happens that both grian and joel have clearly been watching the “severance” series lately, so both their last intros referencing that. and such comments, mostly the wording, simply devalue a person's whole work because of comparison with someone else.

imagine you're doing a cool project, and then someone say about your work that “well, it’s like [name]’s style”. sure, great!

pls be more mindful about the wording of your comments.

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i reject blood bonds in minecraft because i'm a code-based life enthusiast, but you may know that i like to consider "minecraft" a sort of religious teaching in the in-game universe (here's my previous post about this), which makes the end poem a some kind of universal religious text.

and the poem reads:

The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body. And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother’s body, into the long dream. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love.

and i can't stop thinking about what a great point it can be for minecraft characters. all of them were born alone, in a singleplayer world. none of them have ever seen their mother. they had to survive and learn and grow all by themselves. but they all believe in different things.

some of them wouldn't care about the poem at all, considering it outdated and irrelevant. some of them has never read it, has never even heard of it.

some of them would believe this is fiction that exists to comfort lonely souls and give meanings to their lives. because there's a chance you'll spend your etenrity in a singleplayer world, never connecting to another soul.

some of them would believe they actually have a mother. some would try to find her across the world and the universe. some would even believe they've found her. some would lie to others that they have. some would imagine what she's like. for some this image would be comforting, as it would be discomforting for others. some would blame her for bringing them into the universe. some would talk to her in an internal monologue. some would believe this myth but slowly grow out of their attachment. and some would see parental figures in the souls they've found along the way.

some would think that the great void is their mother, and, i think, those would be the only ones who are right.

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the life series world: about the universe, minecraft, watchers and time loops

i thought you might enjoy my interpretation of life series worldbuilding (and mcyt in general), so here it is! it uses quite a lot of consepts from martyn's eyes and ears au, so it's not fully original. i just wanted to create a simplified system from my point of view. in you have any questions, my askbox is open. and enjoy! :)

the universe

an infinite matter that consists of an infinite number of worlds and dark void between them.

void is considered uninhabitable. worlds are indescribably distant from each other (by which i mean -- nobody is even near to figuring out any way to measure how), so it's impossible to travel from one to another through it. everything in the universe has its own code, inprinted into its matter.

there are trillions of worlds, and most of them are unknown to souls populating the universe. it is nearly impossible to discover a new world accidentally, as well as to meet a new soul. to keep records about everything and everyone that exists beyond the void, people use the web -- redstone-powered channel of communication that connects info through the code.

some players -- active souls -- record themselves, their friends, their world -- to show what life is like for them, at their edge of existence. those who watch them are the audience (not the watchers -- and this is important).

also, every soul in the universe can create a new world, and there is a way to open portals to the known ones (writing world's code in a book and throwing it into an existing portal -- this is the way it was done in minecraft 20w14∞ official update). they require in-depth knowlegde to open and are highly unstable, so people are unable to maintain a constant rift.

minecraft

an ideology, a philosophy or a religion -- every person decides for themself what it is -- about what a complete life in the world should be like.

it has been carried throught the universe's history from the first worlds and the first souls.

the classic vision entails that a complete life is a way from absence to prosperity that ends with a travel to the end. end is as far as any world can get near the great void without a barrier, so it symbolises the unity with the universe and every other thing. once you've killed the dragon, it's over. you 'won' minecraft. there's not much to do; the new world awaits. this is a cycle of worshipping the hard work, the craftsmenship and souls in the universe in general.

now, only a little number of playes sees minecraft as the main goal of their lives. there are many people who never killed the ender dragon (such as mumbo and grian... cough), there are people who see minecraft as an entertainment rather than ideology and try to finish it as fast as they can. so the whole minecraft stuff is quite obsolete, although 'absence to prosperity' part is still a vital part for many.

watchers

well... the truth is, void is not fully uninhabitable.

an alterntative, soulless, ancient life form -- like a virus; they are parasytes and can only live off of emotions of living creatures.

they roam the universe in search of a food source. any kind of contact with the end dimention can trigger their attention.

as they infect the world, they suck every bit of emotion out of it untill it -- or souls inside of it -- breaks.

in general, people don't know about the existence of watchers. since the web records from the infected worlds might start to change -- unusually dramatic or violent events occur, -- most people blame the audience for forcing players into this kind of behaviour. but audience has nothing to do with those cosmic parasytes. (this is the implementation of the "watchers represent the audience" confusion, created by grian's old evo interviews.)

time loops

illusions that can restart themselves again and again, creating sort of a food farm through negative narratives.

only souls can create new worlds, and watchers are soulless. looking for new food sources is tideous -- so instead they create time loops.

souls that are captured in time loops exist in the void, since there are no material world for them to be in. in order not to raise suspicion among souls, watchers create dreams about their usual habitats and peaceful life, while using them in death games, challenges, tortures and other scenarios.

and the life series?

my version is heavily inspired by martyn's.

during the evo series, grian was taken away from the end by the watchers and partially transformed into one. he continued his own life and found himself being happier then ever on hermitcraft -- with mumbo. but in season seven everything changed (i still need to make a big post about it... i won't say much for now); he was left alone, and the only reliable powers he had at the time were the watchers.

grian asked them to create a game. and they, deceiving him, created a time loop. the first iteration started well and ended tragically, but there's nothing that can stop the cycle now.

or is it?

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🚦our lucky champions !! 🚦

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new groundbreaking discoveries on etho's setup

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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average day of an ethogirl

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Dinner Is Not Over

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Haha,, cactus ring amiright

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So the new Life Series video am I right guys

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full- fully functional??? they can murder???