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the lilacs where I live are in full bloom and that means it is time for me to release this into the wild >:D the this in question is a fic I wrote about a year ago, but I wanted to post it on ao3, so here we are

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Charles | Grian & Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar Characters: Charles | Grian, Ryan | GoodTimesWithScar Additional Tags: Charles | Grian-centric, Charles | Grian Needs a Hug, Blood and Violence, not much but still, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Grief/Mourning, Flashbacks, no beta we die in the cactus ring Summary:

The game has ended. The curtains are about to draw. Yet the winner stands in the middle of the sandy stage, wishing he could go back. Wishing he could hear him again.

Or: It's the end of 3rd Life and Grian remembers a superstition Scar has told him about.

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Happy pride month everyone! :D

Unlike seemingly popular belief among my friends, I'm not dead, life's just been kicking my ass. ESPECIALLY the month of May. That combined with several months long art block meant that I couldn't post anything for that duration. However! It looks like both the art block and my other irl struggles are lifting now, so hopefully I can get back to posting. That said, I'll probably start posting other stuff like BOTW and TOTK since those two were practically the main pillars of the remnants of my sanity these past few months. Don't get me wrong, I'm not quitting the MCYT fandoms, I'm just really out of the loop and my hyperfixation shifted. But I do have something MCYT-related that I've been planning for almost a year now and will release into the wild soon >:)

TLDR; I'm (hopefully) back, not quitting MCYT, but will probably start posting BOTW/TOTK. Also an MCYT thing™ coming soon (like a-couple-of-days soon).

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IT MY BIRTHDAY!!! :D

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an overcast morning

thoughts below the cut vvvvvvv

ngl I just took my glasses off and kinda went wild with it lol

I think the biggest challenge was the background, fully blurry it just looked out of place, but when I tried adding raindrops they turned out to be too much

I like how this turned out and it was quite a lot of fun to make :D (probably not gonna use this technique often tho)

also if you want bonus experience, here's the track I was listening to while making it :3

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a rare ZombieCleo appearance

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YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND <3

so, let's start with the thing that gave me most trouble: colour choices :,D

going in I knew from the text that her clothes would be primarily pink with purple and yellow accents, but also I envisioned her with pink hair and skin that looks quite pink, but can pass off as just a normal skintone. now, as you might've noticed, while the skin does fit that idea (at least I hope), the hair doesn't. and that's because I just couldn't make it look good :,). I played around with the options quite a lot, but it just kept bouncing around between "that looks overwhelmingly pink in a bad way" and "I somehow managed to design a demonic version of pinkie pie by accident yet again" (I mean, with the latter I guess it would've been fine, but when I tried out golden hair I liked it waaaaay more). so I decided to lean into her hair being more golden and even tried matching it to her eyes >:3 (not 1 to 1 obv, but I aimed for both kinda having glowing effect to them). and since I cannot stop coming up with lore whenever I do designs, I reasoned that maybe she kinda shows her status even through her hair. because even if she's standing with her back to you and you can't see her eyes, your gaze will still be met with that golden yellow. the rest of the colours kinda came intuitively, I just had to play around with brightness and saturation a bit lol

now, next up. the horns :). I remember the text describing her as having "horns too tall, teeth too sharp" and I might've taken that a bit too seriously lol. I think they're about as tall as her head? but also they don't look overwhelmingly tall (at least to me), which I really like. from the moment I first imagined her I knew I wanted her horns to kinda be more ornate, with them splitting into different sections and going different ways. and I think I did pretty well at that. and again, to make up lore where there wasn't any given, I feel like she'd try to set herself apart from and higher than other demons even through appearance. that includes horns. because as far as I can tell, even if some demons choose to wear jewelry on their horns, it's not many (maybe it's cost-related idk). so maybe she sees horns as part of the "animalistic nature of demons" and sets herself apart from it and most demons by adorning them. I also added the kinda teardrop shaped gems to kinda show her silently saying "if you go against me that's what your blood is gonna look like :)"

now some miscellaneous parts :D !

starting with the teeth. I fr went "oh they're sharp?" *gives shark teeth* (although I'm now imagining her like a shark with several rows of them and omg). I do imagine her showing them as intimidation tactic most of the time except when she's trying to play being more innocent than she is.

next up is the dagger. I'm not sure if this classifies as a kris, but that's the only wavy dagger I could find. I remember seeing her described as "a dagger coated in honey" and decided that this is gonna be her weapon of choice (although if I'm gonna continue with that line of thought Two is gonna give me one hell of a time, my only guess for now doesn't really suit his personality :,) ). and it's wavy because I imagine that'd be a lot more painful and do a lot more damage this way (I imagine that out of the big three she is the one who'd deal with interrogations and stuff)

and finally the tattoo. ngl it came to my mind rather randomly, but I like the thought of the Big Three having their numbers on their bodies (although ngl I have NO idea where it'd be for Three)

also here's live footage of me every time you answer to my posts :3

spoilers for Finale - Part 2 of When The Dawn Breaks made by @cedar-scented-soap

(if you haven't read it I highly recommend you go do that :3)

so, I was reading it and had a vision, a meme that I could make. but then I realized that I'd need visual design concepts for the Big Three, so I decided to have a go at it myself >:3

starting with One!

now, you may notice that I've yet again forgotten to give a character from wtdb their wings. and I've actually noticed it back when I was doing lineart, but couldn't fit it in nicely, so just imagine they're there. I'll probably make the wing designs into another post, but we'll see

and ngl, I started writing out my thoughts on design choices, but I have too many of those for this post, so I shall hold myself back :,) (if even just ONE (1) person asks me about those I'm writing a whole damn essay)

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spoilers for Finale - Part 2 of When The Dawn Breaks made by @cedar-scented-soap

(if you haven't read it I highly recommend you go do that :3)

so, I was reading it and had a vision, a meme that I could make. but then I realized that I'd need visual design concepts for the Big Three, so I decided to have a go at it myself >:3

starting with One!

now, you may notice that I've yet again forgotten to give a character from wtdb their wings. and I've actually noticed it back when I was doing lineart, but couldn't fit it in nicely, so just imagine they're there. I'll probably make the wing designs into another post, but we'll see

and ngl, I started writing out my thoughts on design choices, but I have too many of those for this post, so I shall hold myself back :,) (if even just ONE (1) person asks me about those I'm writing a whole damn essay)

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🦐🦐

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THE SHRIMPER!!!! 🫵🦐🦐🦐🦐

I remember seeing you before on other blogs >:3

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do you really believe scott “gave” pearl a win? like seriously? pearl got a quad kill on everyone else who was left but them. in any other series she won right there. she would have killed scott with her dogs. he didn’t give her anything except the headache of the fandom constantly invalidating her win. if letting yourself die so another person can win means you gave it to them, scar got given his win too. good art but ruined by that detail.

ah, I had a feeling my wording would be misinterpreted. I fully believe she deserved that win, through and through. the "gave" part comes in more in lore sense than anything I guess? every other winner took out the 2nd place themselves, but scott didn't give her the option to, so I just decided to put that as a detail, even gave scott a matching eye, which imo should indicate that "given" the win or not, they're ALL equal winners to me, I just liked the concept

but I struggle with wording in general and when I wrote the post I was very tired, so I can't really blame anyone for misunderstanding my ramblings lol

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winner pearl design

closeups and explanations under the cut vvvvvvv

FINALLY managed to make a design I actually like, it took me months I think ;-;

anyway here's my insight:

mostly what's been bugging me about my designs is how the cape would make it less interesting, but there have been other on-spot changes too for example, the hairstyle. idk if anyone noticed, but the hairstyle I give to her depends on the context (so if it's siitw it's short and fluffy and if it's just hc it tends to be long and straight, but honestly it depends on the season lol). and here I was debating on what hairstyle to give her when I went "wait, why not AURORA's hairstyle since running with the wolves is the song I associate with her the most", but I made it wavy from other miscellaneous changes, she now has stars on the ends of shoelaces cuz I thought it'd be cool and moon hairpins for the same reason

this one will actually be relevant even beyond this post cuz I've had the winners have necklaces with their symbols for a while now, but I think I never actually posted anything that would actually show that ajhjdsjgsafkg

and last but not least, a headcannon I came up with pretty much on the spot: under certain circumstances (don't ask what those are) "freckles" that depict the stars in the sky show up and along with her left eye glow purple (normally for a winner both eyes would glow, but since the win was "given" to her it's only one (hopefully I'll make Scott's design soon, but if I don't - for him only his right eye glows))

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feels kinda refreshing going from watching wild life finale where I was pretty much rooting for a specific winner to mcc party where I was watching pink parrots with full faith they wouldn't make it to the dodgeball part, very relaxing

although I did start very much rooting for orange by the end there, but still, it was a lot of fun and very chill

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I call this "Improvise, Adapt, overcome"

(turns out I can't make twitch a pop-up window, so I had to find a workaround)

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Wild Life Finale Spoilers Ahead

😀

ngl at this point I've forgotten what it feels like hunting down the winner POV (watched in the order of Impulse -> Etho -> Joel)

and yeah, I'm a bit sad that Impulse didn't win, BUT!!! still very happy for Joel! he was actually one of my 2 top picks for Secret Life phphph (the other one was Gem)

anyway, now I gotta think about the lore, the implications!!! especially what his celestial symbol might be

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Wild Life NameMC Spoilers Ahead

I'm losing my mind over here

okay, so I needed some references for something and went to namemc to look at Gem's skin

"Oh cool, she's matching hoodies with Pearl and Scott" I thought and almost went on my marry way

but then I decided to also check out Martyn's skin since I also kinda need references for him

"Huh" I thought, "maybe he switched to it during session 7? I haven't watched his POV so I've got no idea"

but then I looked at the time and date he used it

it was for the recording of session 8

fuelled by my curiosity I went on checking on other people, first of which was Pearl

my brain started coming up with angst scenarios (Pearl and Impulse are my winners POV pick lol)

but then I noticed that like 2 minutes later (if I saw it right) she was back to her red skin???

and she wasn't the only one, from which I remember people like Scott and Scar also went from gray to red

which brings me to my question

what in the hell is gonna be this session

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IMPORTANT -ish

There's an account (fairly certain a bot with how quick they're posting) stealing other people posts and spamming them in the goodtimeswithscar and wild life smp tag.

From their user and profile its clear that they are not part of this community, and there's a glaring link underneath the stolen post. I checked their profile, and they're staging as a news blog with a dodgy link in their bio. Please do not click it!! First rule of the internet, but please report them, especially since they're stealing posts and claiming them as their own.

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what if we had matching eyes that were "given" to us by the same person who has sacrificed himself for us multiple times in the past and we were cosplaying divorce

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was reading chapter 37 of When The Dawn Breaks made by @cedar-scented-soap (specifically Scar's part) when this came to my mind and refused to leave

ignore the fact that I clearly don't know what Scar and Fuzzy are supposed to look like (and that I clearly forgor to give Scar vex wings)