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upcoming life series, time to binge watch all the simple life episodes i didn't get to watch months ago

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small little (big) life update on this! i just graduated from my masters (it wasn't with a geotech concentration, just general civil because of some changes in my school). and i have officially been hired as a geotechnical engineer

yay me!!!

What do you think is the weirdest job a hermit has mentioned having? I only know of a few of them like Bdubs worked construction and Gem went through nursing school during covid (a bad time)

this isnt a job directly but i still think its wild that joe almost joined the military. like yeah wels is a vet but i can imagine wels doing that he's got a calm energy and the whole knight persona. can you imagine joe hills at war /lh

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Joe: This is why it took me ten years to go from “getting started” to full-time streamer. This is not the way to make it big.

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hey this is a bit random, but do you have a working link to the picrew you used in this post: https://www.tumblr.com/rotten-vivs/770548110529363968/i-made-all-my-life-series-ships-with-this-picrew-i ? I tried the link on the post but it sends me to a 404 error page :(

sure! here's the link for it: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2578443

if it doesn't work, look up the artist (kanahaniART) on picrew and it should be one of the first options

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no one hates minecraft youtube fans like a different, more pretentious minecraft youtube fan

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gem gets a stick and suddenly every impulse starts looking like a nail or whatever the saying is

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The Double Life social climate is so fascinating because like you said, the dynamics were very much "me and my soulmates against everyone else" (which was encouraged by the mechanic obviously). There’s no real web of alliances like we see in other seasons, more like a bunch of isolated islands constituted by each pairs.

-Pearl obviously is the most isolated of them all, having no soulmate to fall back on and being perceived as an unstable and dangerous wildcard that was best to avoid as much as possible.

-Desert Duo comes next, them being the last green isolated them by default, and they both played a very solo game, not moving as a unit and instead having internal tension, which made others not want to get into their mess.

-Like you said, Cleo and Scott (Scott especially) were not very liked by the others, the whole chosen soulmate move being seen as going against the soulbound status quo and creating unnecessary unstability (of the Pearl variety) in their ecosystem. Plus, like DD, their late yellow status made them outsiders.

-Box Boys are similar to DD in the way that they had trouble functioning as a unit. They each had some allies on their own but not any in common, and kept to themselves a lot.

-Ranchers are in the middle because while they were often hanging out around others, half of that time was them being bullied by their peers, and no one really cared for them much.

-Boat Boys were on good terms with most people but turned red early and immediately became very hostile which made the other pairs fear them more than wanting to get close to them. They were mostly seen as a threat that you’re cordial with so it won’t turn against you.

-Homewreckers are the pair with the best social standing, even if their gossiping made them seem untrustworthy in the eyes of other, their base was still very much a social hub on numerous occasions and they had no real beef with anyone.

-Ironically the person most integrated within the social dynamics of Double Life is probably Martyn. As he had no soulmate he was seen as an outsider, but unlike Pearl he had an okay relationship with Cleo and instead of being seen as someone to avoid, he was just that guy who’s kinda around. Because he was alone and didn’t turn red until the end, he wasn’t seen as dangerous or threat.

Double Life's social climate is just absolutely fascinating to me.

In every other season, alliances and friendships are complex webs. Most teams have more than two players within them, most teams have alliances with other teams, and most individual players have their own personal friendships with people in other teams.

This can lead to messy loyalties and rough breakups, of course. But more often, I see this as a very positive- necessary, even!- aspect of how social groups form in this game, because that interconnected web means players rarely end up completely isolated- or trapped in a group they aren't happy in- if they don't want to be.

Double Life breaks this entirely. As you pointed out, each soulmate pair functioned as an 'isolated island', all but mandating full loyalty within groups and treating anyone outside their assigned pairing as 'other', someone to be mistrusted and held at arms length.

Which is a nightmare when you think about it.

Two people- exactly two, with no third party to buffer..anything- forced together, whether they want to be together or not, with the expectation that they cannot leave and will not form connections outside of each other.

It was so bad for everyone, both people who stuck with their soulmates and people who didn't. The way anyone outside of the standard soulmate setup was looked down on, shamed, or at the very least isolated, the way human connection and friendships were snipped off by isolationist paranoia and/or jealousy, the way leaving an unhappy partnership was extremely discouraged (or, depending on how you look at it, outright impossible, because your health is tied to theirs no matter what).

I just can't help but see it all as a social system that traps people who conform to the soulmate pair formula and isolates people who don't, with nowhere to go and noone to fall back on outside that one person who is 'supposed' to be your one support.

You're absolutely right on how isolated Double Life was, how there functionally weren't any alliances outside of soulmate pairs- and those that did exist were shamed- and it's so fascinating to me. It was such a unique social climate.

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look i know he's not technically a life series member, but he did the voice for the snails in wild life so that's close enough

oli as hermes

im trying and falling so hard to make a life series epic au, so far i got:

etho as hephaustus (because hephaustus would look cool with a mask and a red eye)

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April fool's winners

Got inspired by someone's suggestion to draw Scott and Cleo with tragedy and comedy masks, I tired that but it didn't quite work. So i changed to idea to venetian masks / fools / clowns... Idk it looks cool and i just locked in painting. Don't know if i'll ever have the time to finish this one so enjoy this wip in the meantime

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HELLLLP

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JIM'S FACE WHEN THEYRE EXPLAINING THE STICK

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SHES SO SILLYY

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Here are the links to the campaign where you can donate and the auction house

Some cool things that are (or will be) on the Hermitcraft Charity Auction:

A custom guitar that Ren will be playing and the Hermits are going to sign (not yet up since Ren hasn't played it yet and they need to sign it)

A mini model of Permit Office

Custom vinyl record of Please Hold, only Please Hold

Signed TCG cards, a wide variety

Wild Life Snail RC cars: Gary, Escargo, and Quiz Bot

Scarland Artbook signed by the Hermits

More stuff will be added throughout the weekend

Also, types out links:

Campaign: https://tiltify.com/@hermitcraftgo/hermitcraft-2025?origin=dashboard

Auction House: https://tiltify.com/@hermitcraftgo/auctions/hermitcraft-auction-2025?origin=dashboard

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the quiet games have me dying

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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redraw of this from april 2022 -w-