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i adore being confronted with the staggering breadth of what individual people can get obsessed with. there's nothing better than having That One Mutual with an advanced degree in ancient greek tragedy who writes minecraft youtube fanfiction to remind you that anyone can love anything

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Here's my piece for the @flowerhusbandszine :]

i love festival settings and i love gays 🫶

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imagine you’re a tiny thing. your mama is big and strong so you follow her everywhere. she’s very strong, which is why when she falls asleep on the floor you sit with her. you sit with her until she starts to fall apart. but its ok because she’s strong. and then you get really, really, really thirsty, and you think if you sleep it’ll be okay. and then you wake up surrounded by water and you see a face beyond the water and its blurry and you dont know how to feel about it so you go back to sleep and then you keep seeing the face beyond the water and they talk to you in soft words you dont understand and you’re still so small and confused but you know the face beyond the water is helping you. maybe it loves you. but you’re a tiny thing. and then one day you decide you’ve had enough water, and then you start to move. and you see the face beyond the water, who is so happy to see you and they do something you’ve never seen a face do, their mouth curls at the end in a smile and youve never seen it so you do it too and you keep doing it because you love the face beyond the water so much and they love you too and they’re strong like mama and they feed you and pet you and love you and one day you grow so big they can ride you. and they make you a hat and goggles to protect your eyes and they show you all sorts of wonderful things and YES this is about the happy ghast from minecraft im OBSESSED

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i made this meme in a blind rage

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The Tomb of the Red King

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a last-minute pinch hit to @mistymountainsmc for @esmp-gift-exchange! always a delight to draw wra, love these guys <3

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This photo (taken by Oli) from Pearl's twitter is so amazing. Cool setting, great subject, professional-level framing, angle, and focus. She looks epic.

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IM SCREAMING IM CRYING IM CACKLING LIKE A FUCKING WITCH OLI IS INSANE

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i dont play a lot of modded minecraft unless my friends want me to which creates a dynamic in which i feel like the grandpa who doesnt understand how phones work. i brought like 9 stacks of netherrack to go end city hunting and my friends were like oh you can juse borrow one of our planes and im like. ah yes. the plane. a thing that exists in minecraft. of course. i knew this.

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i’m never the biggest fan of playing on minecraft servers which put too much emphasis on shops and shopping centers—i way prefer simply being able to ask your servermates for items/resource gathering help, and on making sure to help gather/offer items in turn when other ppl need em—but i do appreciate that Being Able To Have Shops says a lot about your server being generally fairly trustworthy. you can’t really have shops on a server where you think even one player is going to just steal shit without paying on an even remotely regular basis

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It’s Over, Isn’t It?

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I discovered the ability to play on "hardcore" mode in Minecraft, which is where the difficulty is set to hard and if you die, that's it. Which is weirdly enticing, so I gave it a shot.

The first time I tried it, I pretty immediately died. Like, I did not last an entire hour.

But, I recently had a world where I survived over 100 days, and almost all of those day were spent in a Dark Oak Forest biome, which is one of the more dangerous ones. I built a 3-story house with a greenhouse, a wine cellar, a mine shaft, agriculture and livestock farming and more. I was slowly exploring the verdant cave below my home. I stepped backward into lava and couldn't get out again, while I was on the phone with a friend. Don't chat and play, I suppose lol

I restarted on a random seed, and there were several nice biomes within view (jungle, flower, desert, badlands, birch forest). I could see a village in the distance, so I headed that way first and found a massive abandoned mine just outside of town. I didn't go too far in, but there were some chests of goodies near some of the entrances. I tamed a few wolves and a cat, and I just took off into the distance. I spent the first 20+ days just kind of wandering the wilderness with my dogs, camping out at night. I picked a random nice spot in a broad Birch Forest to toss down my stuff and build a home, mostly because my hands were full.

I'm close to 50 "days" in, and I've spent most of it out gallivanting. I went out to find a village to tame a second cat, so I could have more at-will, and to find a Striped Wolf out in those badlands (successful). I spent days looking for a Spotted Dog in the savannas that looked like plateaus (unsuccessful, and I lost my cat and had to go BACK and get ANOTHER one). I finally returned home and this is the view from my front windows, just before I logged for the evening.

Something about only having one life makes the game a little more charming than usual. I mean, it's always charming, but I've been taking more time to look around at the worlds I won't be returning to when I finally bite it. Making sure I take a minute to appreciate the views, pat the doggos, look in the nooks and crannies for things I might like, since I won't get to come back. I mean, I can come back but I can't Come Back, y'know?

The same is true of real life, obviously. There are an increasing number of things that want us dead, but there are still sunsets out the window, and doggos to be pat, and little treasures to be found if we're looking for them. I think that's worth sticking around as long as I can.

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been watching legundo videos and 1) holy shit this mans multiverse lore is insane 2) the skulk apocalypse ones are better than any movie ive ever seen. the story of a man desperately trying to push back an all-consuming hivemind? sign me up! he gets so into it as well, like telling the villagers to flee before the horde arrives, and there's a super chilling moment in one of them where he murders some pillagers and tells them thats the easy way out. like holy shit man.

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The different answers to one single question.

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If I had a nickel for every time Scott sacrificed himself for pearl… that would be three, actually!