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falseren tag expansion bc of aufest omg

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The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

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ESMP Pinch Hitters Needed!

Hello, everyone! @esmp-gift-exchange is looking for pinch hitters!

Pinch Hit Fifteen:

MEDIUMS: Writing RELATIONSHIPS: Scott&Xornoth, Jimmy&Lizzie CHARACTERS: Pixlriffs (ESMP 1), Scott (ESMP 1), Xornoth (ESMP 1), Jimmy (ESMP 1), Shubble (ESMP 1), Lizzie (ESMP 1), Joel (ESMP 1)

Pinch Hit Seventeen

ACCEPTED MEDIUMS: Writing RELATIONSHIPS: Jimmy Solidarity (esmp 1, 2)/Scott Smajor (esmp 1, 2) CHARACTERS: Jimmy Solidarity (esmp 1, esmp 2), Scott Smajor (esmp 1, esmp 2)

Pinch Hit Twenty

MEDIUMS: Writing, Art, Playlist

RELATIONSHIPS: Scott/Jimmy, Katherine/Shubble, Lizzie&Jimmy, Scott&Katherine, Scott&Shubble, Scott&Katherine&Shubble CHARACTERS: Scott s1, Jimmy s1, Katherine s1, Shubble s1, Lizzie s1

Pinch Hit Twenty One

MEDIUMS: Art, Writing RELATIONSHIPS: Scott Smajor/Jimmy Solidarity, Lizzie, Lizzie LDShadowlady&Jimmy Solidarity CHARACTERS: Jimmy Solidarity (ESMP 1 and 2), Scott Smajor (ESMP 1 and Two), Lizzie LDShadowlady (ESMP 1),

Minimum requirements are:

1.5k words for writing

One art piece finished per artist standards

2 hours for a playlist

If you're interested in any of these, please join the Discord!

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MY SCHATTIE @toastdbanana ! WHA- WHY ! OMG I LOVE U! You're the amzing one !

Also can confirm that my wife @firequeenofficial is so fun and cool.

Just to point out ! my husbando also needs to be added here @x-ca1iber !! King's amazing too !!

IM BACK!!!

HERE ARE SOME MORE OF MY AMAZING FRIENDS THAT I ADORE THEIR DOINGSS!!

@munchkin1156 @idontneedbee

YOU GUYS ARE VERY SILLY TO TALK TO AND DO AMAZING STUFFSSSS!!!!&#&@;

OF COURSE MY AMAZING WIFE AND HER ASHY WIFE!!!!

@sweetietoppartandthoughts @firequeenofficial

THESE TWO ARE SO FUN TO HANGOUT WITH ASWELL AS FIGHT WITH!! THEY WRITE AMAZINGLY AND IZZY DRAWS INCREDIBLY!!

@munchkin1156 + @idontneedbee + @sweetietoppartandthoughts + @firequeenofficial !!!

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Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

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RESULTS!!!

Artists/other picture thingy: hc2 - @mylittlegayass hc3 - @that-fall-guy (webweaving) hc4 - @hybbart hc5 - @pseudocyance hc6 - @sweetietoppartandthoughts hc7 - @qwevy hc8 - @cedar-scented-soap hc9 - @solarjamstudios hc10 - @kaos-lyrikourai create - @mellioops third life - @munchkin1156 last life - @nyxtheeclipse Double Life - @remixsandwich Limited Life - @skaterfc Secret Life - @trash--demon Wild Life - @digitaldiscocat Simple life - @pookapufferfish Empires crossover - @thedamnlesbian

Writers: hc2 - @personalzombie-tv hc3 - @zodiacdragon334 hc4 - @arinanightlight hc5 - @watcheraurora hc6 - @cyishere hc7 - @izelthewashbear hc8 - @aris-has-a-paracosm hc9 - @butternutkrinklefry hc10 - @nerdpearls create - @autumn-arts third life - @the-arts-of-chaos last life - @froggyablogger Double Life - @antcarcasss Limited Life - @distantandgravely Secret Life - @the0dd-artist Wild Life - @blackcatinabuckethat Simple life - @firequeenofficial Empires crossover! - @oshawottarchive

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OK YEAH I'm not Okay

This fits so well 😭

I don't know who to tag, so if you see this and haven't done it, then please do !!!

pspspspsps poetry mutuals come here... new quiz... making you the patron saint of something...

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pick your tropes!

Thanks for the tag @notsticks-notsticks

coffee shop or flower girl | au or fix-it I enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historical au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt/comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute

It took a while but here it is and here's my people: please do it if you want, if u don't just ignore: @toastdbanana @firequeenofficial @katalypse @mellioops

pick your tropes!

tagged by @fellamorte and stealing this format too love u <3

coffee shop or flower girl | au or fix-it I enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historical au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt/comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute

tagging @sidebyside-withafriend and @notsticks-notsticks and @luna-cosmos24601 and whoever is reading this post right now 💛

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The Milky Speakeasy! 🐄🐄🥛

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as a loud and proud aromantic it is my lifes purpose to serve as an inspitation to all straight women who earnestly think they'll never find happiness without their deadbeat boyfriend. one of my friends moms recently hit me with the "i always thought being single was sad and lonely but you make it look fun" and im like yes. yesssss. join me on the war against amatonormativity. you can do it queen.

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legendary stream crash out... he didnt know about feeding the rats </3

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the way i see you

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ASSHHHH 😭😭

I know I've said it a million times before, but it's ending now so I need one more: @/mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes was such a fun event. I made a ton of friends through it, and met so many incredible artists and writers that I never would have otherwise. I had no idea what I was signing up for way back then - hell, I didn't even really understand the event xD - but I am so so glad I decided to go through with it. It got me back into the flow of writing regularly and gave me the chance to put so much love into my once-empty ao3. I'll never be able to find the right words to express how grateful I am for it and for every single person in it. I love you all so much, and I'm so relieved I get to keep spending time with y'all when it's all over. I honestly don't know what I'd do without it.

And a special shoutout to @sweetietoppartandthoughts @x-ca1iber and @skyspersonalhell for making it all possible and for being so awesome all of the time. Y'all are so so amazing, I love you all so much!

@mcyt-soulmate-sweepstakes + @sweetietoppartandthoughts + @x-ca1iber + @skyspersonalhell

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A Deal With the Devils - Part 1

Tws: body horror (I think? Maybe?), body mod (also maybe), a whole lot of pain, Grian is just generally having a poor time (I'm bad at tws, let me know if I missed one or one is unnecessary or smth lol)

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Grian wasn’t entirely sure how he’d made Evo, only that it had taken months and that it was so much fun! He’d gotten all his friends from every server together, wanting to share it, and it was awesome. He remembered playing on older servers as a kid, before admins started getting fancy and learning how to make their worlds more detailed, and it was nostalgic simulating them. 

Until, suddenly, it wasn’t. Until things started going… weird. He hadn’t planned the portals to update to a newer version, for example. It was just supposed to be a quick switch, like flicking a lever. It took a long time for him to realise what those were. 

He’d heard of Them before, from the older players while he was making Evo, but he’d thought They were just rumours, monsters under the bed meant to keep younger admins from being too ambitious. He learned quickly that They were very real. 

They made it clear to him, in fact. 

He was sitting in the server hub, on a tall building where he could see the sunset, when he saw it. He blinked, and the symbol - the one above the portals, the one he was only just starting to figure out - was in the sky, above the falling sun. He blinked again, and it was gone. 

“What the-” he breathed, getting to his feet. He flared his wings and jumped from the building, planning to fly towards the symbol to see where it was being projected from. 

Instead, the moment his feet left the roof, the server hub vanished. In its place was… nothing.

He was in the void. 

Grian screamed and started flapping his wings desperately, knowing that dying in the hub was permanent. He didn’t move. Neither up nor down. He was just suspended, hanging from nothing, tethered by invisible strings like some sort of puppet. 

YOU HAVE GREAT POWER, YOUNG ONE

Grian twisted, eyes wide, terror pounding his heart. There was no one else with him. It was just black, empty, silent, alone, alone, alone. 

“Hello? Who said that?”

WE CAN TEACH YOU TO USE THAT POWER

It was like the voice came straight into his head, bypassing his ears entirely. 

“Who’s there?” Grian shouted into the void, but it was like his voice stopped inches from his lips, refusing to push out into the darkness. 

He twisted the other way and saw the symbol again. It was purple, a solitary flash of light and colour in an otherwise unending gloom. A broken rectangle, with a disconnected square each in the top left and bottom right corners. As Grian watched, an almost-humanoid shape formed around it, the head where the symbol had been. 

Any face the Thing might have had was hidden under a deep hood. The cloak the hood was attached to covered the Thing’s whole body down to the feet, the sleeves hiding any hands. The Thing had three pairs of wings: one on its lower back, one on its upper back, and and on the sides of its head, pushed forward by the hood. 

But most horrifying by far were the eyes. Dozens of them, filling the void around the Thing’s face, all with that symbol where the iris and pupil would be, all watching him intently. 

Grian tried to reel back, but he couldn’t move, the invisible strings holding him tight. 

Two more of the Things emerged on either side of the first, a little smaller than it, but still several times larger than Grian himself. If they had fingers inside those sleeves, they could probably crush Grian with just one. 

Though something gave him the idea they wouldn’t even need that. They could destroy him with a thought. 

“What are you?” he breathed, terror making his voice shake. 

WE ARE WATCHERS

Oh. They were Them. They were the horror stories he’d heard and dismissed. They were the warnings he’d disregarded as old wives’ tales. 

They were standing before him, superstition made reality. 

“What do you want?” 

WE WANT YOU

Grian swallowed. “Me?”

YES

“But… why?”

YOUR SERVER REQUIRES MORE POWER THAN ANY MERE PLAYER SHOULD POSSESS. WE ARE GIVING YOU THE CHANCE TO USE IT

Grian couldn’t help the flash of excitement that ran through him at that. He loved making servers, and it was his dream to someday be good enough to make a game server. If these Things, these Watchers, could help him, he wasn’t about to say no.

“What do I have to do?” he asked.

WHATEVER WE SAY

He hesitated. He wasn’t very good at doing what he was told, but… to reach his goal, it was worth a shot, wasn’t it? It had to be. There were worse deals he could have made.

The best he could promise was, “I- I’ll try.” 

This apparently satisfied the Watchers, because the two on the sides nodded at the one in the centre, whose voice filled his head again. 

THIS WILL HURT

“Wha-” 

Before Grian could finish protesting, pain lanced through his whole body. He felt his mouth open in a scream, but no sound made it out. He was being torn apart, every pixel in his body struck with its own individual bolt of lightning, his very code shredded mercilessly. He was burning and freezing and drowning and suffocating and flying way to fast and falling far too slowly and being shot and stabbed and strangled and bitten and he was dying he was dying he was dying he was dead.

XELQUA

The pain was gone, but everything felt… wrong. This wasn’t Their body. These weren’t Their clothes. Those weren’t Their wings.

XELQUA

What was happening? What had happened? Where were They? What were They? 

XELQUA

Someone was speaking. Who was speaking? What were they saying? What was Xelqua?

XELQUA. OPEN YOUR EYES

Wait. Were They Xelqua? They did as They were told - They remembered that, They remembered making that promise - and Their eyes were immediately pierced by a bright light. But it didn’t hurt. They stood up, and They weren’t shaky. 

They looked down at Themself and saw a body that was far taller than Theirs, covered in a long purple cloak that hid Them entirely. They lifted an arm - They were glad to see fingers when Their sleeve fell away - and touched the side of Their head. Under the hood that They were sure hid Their face was a wing. When They looked up, They looked with far, far more than two eyes. 

They were one of Them. 

WELCOME, XELQUA

Xelqua looked around. There were more Watchers surrounding Them, not just the three that had greeted Them when They were Grian. Those three were standing in the centre of the crowd, directly opposite Xelqua. All the others were smaller than the main three, and two of Them were smaller than the first.

YOU WILL NEED MUCH TRAINING, YOUNG ONE

That was the centre one, the largest of the crowd, speaking directly into Xelqua’s head again. 

Xelqua tried to say something, but realised They didn’t have a mouth. They tried to speak using Their mind, but couldn’t figure it out. They were silent, Their voice stolen with Their humanity. 

Because They certainly weren’t human - or avian - anymore. Their player days were over. And though they’d never admit it, that terrified Them. 

The centre Watcher was speaking again.

FOR NOW, WE WILL SETTLE FOR INTRODUCTIONS. I AM XOLA, THE BLACK HOLE. THIS IS XANDE, THE NEBULA - Xola gestured at the Watcher to Their left - AND THIS IS XARA, THE SUPERNOVA - They gestured to the right - WE ARE THE COUNCIL. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO JOIN US IF YOU WORK WELL

Something shifted in the gathered Watchers. Xelqua realised They could feel Their emotions. Or rather, one single one. Jealousy. They sucked in a breath. Somehow, They felt strengthened by it. 

The head Watcher, Xola, repeated Their call from before, this time as an order. 

WELCOME XELQUA

The crowd of Watchers responded in kind, dozens of voice filling Their head in a way that would have made Them dizzy yesterday, but had no effect on Them now. 

WELCOME, XELQUA

RETURN TO YOUR HOME NOW, YOUNG ONE. WE WILL CALL ON YOU SOON

All three of the Council raised Their hands, and Xelqua felt a tug, pushing Them down, down, down. Before everything went dark, he heard Xola’s voice one last time. 

TELL NO ONE

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HI! This fic came out about 6k works longer than I was expecting, so I'm breaking it up into chunks. This part pretty much sets the tone for the whole rest of the fic, so brace yourself for what I have dubbed the Great Grian Traumafest. Basically, this is Grian's backstory for my "series" (collection is on my ao3, it's not really a series, more fics that mostly follow the canon of HC and the Life Series and occasionally Empires, and which have a common set of headcanons that I inflict on the blorbos). I'll post this there when it's all been posted here. I plan to do one chunk a day, so look out for that! Also, keep in mind that I have not watched Evo further than the first update, so don't expect much accuracy in terms of that lol.

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Are you planning on opening these again?:)

Hi! We absolutely would love to run this event again! However, this event ended up running far longer than we expected it to (it's been FIVE months!) so we likely will not be running until next year (2026). Mark your calendars, but nothing is set in stone yet!

We've been talking about this, and decided that we all definitely would love to run again, but things will be a bit different and hopefully smoother. We'll need time to rework our spreadsheets, systems, and everything in between before we run again. We'd love to see you in our server next year!

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Event FAQ here— send us an ask if you have any questions! Discord comes alive at 0:00 EST on the 17th, and you can pre-join the discord today to be notified when the channels open! Recruit your friends, and you can gift to them even if they don't join a team!

Less than a week to go before we launch!

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Thanks for the tag!

Favourite Colour: Provence blue, Sage green, baby pink, Yellow and lavender purple

Last song: Lovesick - Jenna Raine,, yes I was thinking about my guy

Currently reading: 360 degree leadership by Micheal J. Quicke

Currently watching: The Potato Lab

Currently craving: Strawberry Tart

tea or coffee: Uuuh can't choose i have a problem> i own like 48 types of tea but i drink like 5 cups of coffee a day. I will only tag like a few moots to do it but if y'all wanna do it then please do xx @flamingspud @skyspersonalhell @pancho-pinto @firequeenofficial @toastdbanana @munchkin1156

get to know your moots tag game!

✶ answer the questions, then tag six people

Thanks for the tag @kiraandhervibes

Favourite colour: blue and purple

Last song: the challenge from EPIC

Currently reading: I just started Silverborn

Currently watching: rewatching Series of Unfortunate Events

Currently craving: nothing in particular rn, but I’m always craving iced tea

Tea or coffee: tea!

Npt: @somanyquestions-featuringanxiety @shelbeforgotten @sparkleylittlepoo @stars-and-leather @ravensncrowsx @permetutotheworld + anyone else who wants to