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xB: (gasps) Is that a baby? Are you a wee wittle babby? (Gasps) (In a voice like speaking to a baby) Oh my god! Look at you! Aw, you’re the cutest. Yeah, you’re so cute. Where’s your mommy? Is that your mommy? Hm? Am I your mommy? Am I your mommy? Look at you so cute! Ittle wittle baby! It a wittle baby. (Normal voice) Shut up. You’re an adult. (Baby voice) Is a wittle babby. (giggles) (normal voice) Ah, it’s so good. 

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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

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drawing him 5 billion times to make up for getting even a tiny bit suspicious of him in previous chapters

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Thought I'd repost this on here too ( ๑>؂•̀๑)

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Today’s rabbit plushie is:

Coniglio coccoloso di peluche ~ by lelly peluche

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my ideal life series teams except it’s just lizzie ldshadowlady

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the thing that always gets me ESPECIALLY about autistic representation in media is that we are universally portrayed as happy-go-lucky, whimsical children, completely oblivious to the fact that the world constantly judges and scorns and HATES us.

We notice. I noticed. The reason I am as messed up as I am today is because i spent 20 LONG years in an environment where every day i was subjected to that. To noticing.

what an absolutely neurotypical view of us. Coddling themselves, getting to act like the way they treat us is fine because we don't understand that our peers dont respect us. Why would we? We're so subhuman to them, it's like asking if your cat notices you playfully insulting it.

Every autistic person I've ever met is on some level bitter and angry and TRAUMATIZED at their upbringing. Of having to go through school as the laughing stock, as the weirdo with no friends who no one wants to talk to, as the animal in the corner you can make do cheap tricks so they can experience some Simulacra of what genuine human connection is.

Now tell me, does it sound like I didn't notice?

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consider: tango vocal stimming with silly noises (accompanied by appropriate hand waveys) / zed vocal stimming with fun facts

considered too hard . had to draw this into reality . they are parallel playing to the fucking max rn .

zeds the type of guy who thinks out loud or he gets confused / looses his train of thought v. tango who cannot work out loud lest he gets distracted but really enjoys having background noise

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my piece for @mcyt-couture-zine!! based on 'the flowers' series by alphonse mucha and gaultier's spring 2024 collection by simone rocha 💐✨️🌿

lineart flats + individuals :))

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"I want to be a dragon."

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From Cleo's stream today (6/6/2025). I'm sure some people would like to hear this this pride month. <3

(Note: I cut some brief moments where Cleo read out some subs/donations, or slightly long pauses. But this is pretty much the entire clip.)

[Transcription:

Cleo: Do you know what I've not talked about for a while? I don't think- I think I got sick literally at the beginning of Pride Month. I think I did. Like, genuinely. So I think I have not pride, I have not said glory to you and your identity at all this month yet! So- like-

[CleoOWO redeem triggers, Cleo laughs]

Cleo [in high-pitched CleOWO voice]: Okay, sure, we can do it like this. I'll put in the hearts as well. [Cleo triggers the blush and hearts on their Vtuber model] Pride! Well, congratulations, I appreciate everybody here. And this is a safe, welcoming community. Doesn't matter if you're gay, or straight, or lesbian, or something else. Or, like, bisexual like me, or pansexual, or asexual, or trans, or I'm- I'm coming up- I'm not doing well with the whole list of things. You are welcome if you're not a bigot! Not for bigots!

So uh trans rights, gay rights- uh, hm- having a think. Uhm- I mean I like you as long as you... rights, woo! We appreciate pride month in all its forms. Hashtag not for bigots. If anybody in this chat has decided that they do not approve of the LGBTQ- alphabet mafia- get out! Uhm- yeah! Yay! [Cleo claps]

[responding to chat member] Aw, you're here strawberry, we're good! You and me, we're good!

[talking to entire chat again] I hope that you have a happy pride month and a happy rest of the year. And I know things- uhm- around the world are a bit tough and problematic and... uhm- we need to lock in. And I know that's hard. But you guys take care of yourselves and each other. Very important, okay? Take care of the community, make sure that if someone's fighting they're not fighting alone.

[CleOWO redeem ends, Cleo talks normally again.]

Yeah, I think that's a thing that I want to say to everyone. Like- the reason why we fight is because we have to. It would be nice not to have to fight but make sure we don't fight alone. Okay? Uhm-

[reading chat message] I'm glad we got to experience this during a CleOWO- Valid.

[reading another chat message] This is simultaneously the most heartwarming and terrifying experience in my life. Uhm, I think I embody that, that's valid.

[Cleo addresses the full chat again] All I'm saying is that there has been some backsliding in the world and you need to make sure that you do not let it go. But, also, people are more accepting now than ever. It is literally a small- like- there are people who are very pro-LGBT. Plus.

Uhm- most of the universe is just sort of like 'what, I don't care. You do you, I support you you do you it's fine'. And then you have the outright bigots. The outright bigot fraction is getting smaller and louder, okay? It is happening, they are smaller and louder than they've ever been. But still take care of yourselves.

[responding to chat] Yeah they're scared. They realise they're in their last throes of bigotry- I think- In most of the world's places. They're trying to make you more scared to be yourself, and I'm saying protect yourselves first. Make sure you are safe and that is the key thing. If you are not safe, I'm sorry just- just stay closeted until you can be safe. Because there's no poiint coming out and somebody hurting you. Get to safety first, okay? And then- and then fight. You can fight after you're safe, okay? And there is a whole community out there rooting for you.

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What is your headcanon on the the way that Pearl remembers (or forgets) DL while in hermitcraft, whether in the context of your Glitch fic (which I love it so far) or just general

Bonus if you want to maybe talk about how other hermits (maybe including non-LS members) acted around her directly following it?

(I’m actually writing a proper fic with some of this concept rn lol)

My general idea for how the Life Series works is that the players remember everything that happened but their feelings about it are dulled when they aren’t actively in a game, especially as time passes. Most of the time, players’ behavior outside of the games is barely affected because it’s like remembering what happened on a TV show, like they know it happened to them logistically but they are somewhat detached. It’s a way to ensure that players are still able to live regularly between sessions and that they don’t harbor ill will towards each other after the games. They still have some feelings about it, and it is considered common courtesy to apologize to someone if you were their final killer, but stuff like betrayal or if someone stole from someone or burnt down their base doesn’t really stick on other servers.

The thing is, even with a layer of detachment, a particularly emotionally traumatizing event is still going to hurt pretty badly. And for Pearl, the whole six sessions of Double Life were emotionally traumatizing. After the first session, she had some vague sadness about the heartbreak, but was able to mostly function. But as more sessions happened and things just kept piling up, she started to have a harder time recovering between them. You can only detach so much from the memory of your friend calling you a demon that brings death wherever you go. You can only detach so much from being so heartbroken you willingly almost die from fall damage just to mess with someone. From the knowledge that no matter you do in that world, someone will hate you for it.

And so after the end, after she won and watched her soulmate blow himself up with her bow drawn, taking her out with him, she just… couldn’t, for a bit. She stayed in her base for a while, almost afraid to talk to anyone for fear that she would somehow mess it up. Sure the Life games are their own thing but everyone else is still the same person. Maybe it brought out something in them that’s always hated her. Maybe it just brought out something in her that’s always been hate-able. She didn’t really want to test it.

The first red flag for the others was when Pearl didn’t participate in the end of game dinner party they all have. She was the winner, she should be there, but while they all chatted and said their apologies for final kills and ate good food, Pearl put her head down to work on her base. The next red flag was when it had been three weeks since the game ended and Pearl never reached out to the people who she killed to say sorry. It wasn’t like her to be impolite in that way. In fact, Pearl hadn’t answered any messages on her communicator. She had it muted and tucked away somewhere in a drawer. She just couldn’t deal with anyone right now.

And it’s not like she meant to be rude. Impulse ended up dropping by her base just to check on her and Pearl apologized in person. Impulse almost wanted to tell her not to bother because well, she looked rough. Like she’d been crying, a lot. The tips of her fingers were black with frostbite. When she said sorry to him, her eyes were vacant and haunted. He actually talked to Grian, thinking maybe something went wrong and maybe Pearl wasn’t properly detached from the games but she was If she was in them, it would be a lot worse (at least the hallucinations are gone when she’s in Hermitcraft. She won’t learn that that isn’t true for the games until Limited Life starts. More on them in this fic!).

Impulse urged Bdubs and Cleo to visit Pearl in person, relaying the information about her keeping her com off. Bdubs was a little miffed at not getting his apology, only for politeness sake, though it was hard to stay mad at Pearl once he actually saw her in person and saw how wrecked she was. He gave her a hug and told her all was forgiven. Pearl cried in his arms for a little bit after that, and felt surprisingly better.

Cleo kind of didn’t expect to get an apology anyways after all that had happened. But they went to Pearl because they trusted Impulse (which is what’s supposed to happen. Cleo might care about Impulse’s betrayal in 3rd Life when the games are actually happening, but outside of them she knows he’s trustworthy and holds no ill will. The pain isn’t supposed to stay.). It shocked them that Pearl actually seemed a little afraid of them. Or at least afraid of how they would react. Pearl said sorry, both for the kill and for how long it took her to say it. Cleo forgave her nearly immediately, because contrary to popular belief she wasn’t a monster. She was barely angry at Pearl for killing her in the moment, let alone now. She remembers being mad at Pearl for torturing Scott, but the feeling was gone.

Ren is the only one who apologized to Pearl outside of the games. He didn’t mean it, he gets caught up in the thrill of the game, he had just died and he was mad and needed to someone to blame and it ain’t fair that he chose her. All of it is what Pearl wanted to hear and all of it was painful. Maybe it would hurt less if what he had said was true. Because he wasn’t the only one who rejected her over and over, no one wanted her in that game except to be a scary guard dog after everyone decided she was crazy. Maybe if she really was cursed it would explain it. But no, Ren was genuinely sorry that he said that. Of course he didn’t mean it.

The first time she opens her communicator, nearly a month after the game ends, it’s to say her final apology to Martyn. She was instantly flooded with a ton of messages from other Hermits which went from congratulating her on the win to wondering where she is to saying that Impulse warned them all that she wasn’t feeling well and they hope she feels better soon. They all missed her, they hoped to see her soon. For the first time in weeks, Pearl felt warm.

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having some big feelings abt the instability of the arts in today's climate

((so uh... heres my etsy and commissions))

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false: hey i took a cute vacation picture :)

ren: *smacks desk* CAN I GET A HOLLA BACK FROM THE GAYS

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one more pearl & tilly for the road