#I'm watching Joe's stream currently

[theminecraftbee]

so, you've been considering getting into hermitcraft.

that's great! welcome! we are an extremely enthusiastic fandom, i admit, but we are very happy to have you watching the hermits! however, with over a decade of existence and twenty-seven current hermits, it can feel very intimidating to get into hermitcraft. luckily, as of the time of this posting--january 31st, 2024--it's also the BEST time to get into hermitcraft, because a new season starts on february 3rd! (and if you're reading this later: don't worry. this is ALSO the best time to get into hermitcraft. don't worry about it i'll get into that.)

the shortest version of this advice is: start wherever you want, with whoever you want. it doesn't matter, you can catch up.

still, it can seem like a lot. so, from someone who's been around since mid season seven, here is a more detailed guide on how to start watching hermitcraft!

what is hermitcraft?

hermitcraft is a collection of people who all play on the same survival multiplayer minecraft server. that server is a mostly vanilla minecraft server; i don't really call hermitcraft "vanilla" anymore, as they rely on a number of largely cosmetic mods, but the things they do on hermitcraft should, broadly, all be possible in vanilla minecraft, and the server still "feels" vanilla, so. vanilla minecraft. they do this in "seasons", which are periods of time between a year and two years, after which they reset and start on a fresh server.

in comparison to something like qsmp or even the life series, hermitcraft leans heavily on the "building cool things and hanging out" side of the spectrum as opposed to the roleplay side. however, at least once a season the hermits like to do a big storyline; sometimes, it's more frequent. many of the storylines are more natural escalations of things like server prank wars or a failing server economy, though, as opposed to things that are clearly in-universe roleplaying. don't worry, though; you'll know a hermitcraft storyline when you see it. by everyone's bad acting. also, by rendog putting on a silly accent.

if your only impression of hermitcraft has been from the fandom, you... probably have a somewhat mistaken impression. my bad. in my defense, i am a horror writer at heart, and in the fandom's defense, a LOT of crossover has happened with the life series fandom, which leads to both sort of leaking into each other. in general, expect things to be on the lighthearted goofy shenanigans side with very few exceptions when you're actually watching hermitcraft, despite the way the fandom tends to be.

where is hermitcraft?

broadly, youtube! hermitcraft is an almost entirely video series, and if you want to watch a hermitcrafter, you will almost certainly need to watch them on youtube. there are only very rarely streamed hermitcraft events, and these are normally announced ahead of time.

what if i prefer twitch?

skip the rest of this and just watch joe hills. i promise i'm not saying that because i'm a joe hills guy; i'm saying it because he's the only hermit that consistently streams from hermitcraft. impulse, tango, cleo, pearl, xisuma, iskall, and hypno all also appear to stream fairly regularly, but it's not always from hermitcraft.

where should i start?

now, that's the real question, isn't it? my answer is simple: start Now. if you're reading this as i post it, that means start this saturday on everyone's episode one. if you're reading this long after i post it, though, just... go ahead and start with whoever you want to watch's latest episode! the nice thing about hermitcraft is that you can GENERALLY jump in wherever you want.

but what about old seasons?

you do not need to watch older seasons of hermitcraft. unless you want to, of course; the world is your oyster and they are very good! however, there's also a LOT of old hermitcraft, and if you want to join in with what hermitcraft is doing now, old seasons aren't necessary. very little carries over from season to season. while sometimes old "lore" or recurring bits can carry references over, and the relationships between hermits will often carry over to some extent (if often not in the same patterns), it is never to an extent that you need the old seasons for context. each season is a clean new slate, and where "lore" carries over, the relevant hermit will almost always explain it to you.

what about helsknight/evil x/hotguy/boatem/convex/some other thing i've been hearing about?

i promise, if they are relevant to this season, they will explain it to you in the relevant episode and/or it will be easy enough to pick up. do not worry about it. each season is a soft reset for a reason, and one of those reasons is to make it easier on new viewers! and if you're here because you WANTED one of those specific things... ask an older fan! they'll be able to direct you to the places they're from.

do i need to watch all the hermits?

absolutely not! in fact, i strongly recommend you don't. there are going to be... hold on let me count... twenty-seven hermits? (i am bad at counting don't quote me on this) in this season alone. keeping up with all those videos is too much for basically anyone! instead, pick a few hermits that you like best, and if you want to keep up with everyone else, go to the hermitcraft recap youtube channel and watch that! it is a vital hermitcraft resource where pixlriffs, zloyxp, and lyarrah all watch every single hermit so that we don't have to. honor their sacrifice and don't try to watch everyone.

but how do i pick someone?

few ways! there exist, if you google, plenty of "choosing your hermit pov" quizzes; if you head over to the hermitcraft subreddit, for example, i'll be SHOCKED if they don't have one, and if you go over to the recap channel, they had one of those for a while too. this is the starting place for many people.

another way is to watch the recap and choose whoever's project interests you most. for early episodes, this may be hard, but since hermits tend to go hard for their first episode, you'll normally at least be able to pick up a sense of pace and build style.

just watching whoever it is your friends are obsessed with is also a tried and true method of finding your first hermit; frequently, like with the recap, this is a good method for then figuring out whose style you like best, and switching to them, if you don't end up clicking with the same people your friends click with.

finally, you can just... click a random hermit's channel! try a few out! maybe you heard about decked out and want to watch tango; maybe there's a storyline you want to start watching because the dash has been rambling about it; maybe you just want to know who this grain character is. clicking around until you find the guy whose editing you click with is a totally valid strategy!

that sounds hard. just pick someone for me.

if you like well-edited shenanigans: grian or mumbo jumbo. (these are also good starter hermits in general, i've found; if you aren't sure where else to start, start with one of them.)

if you like long background noise-type videos: docm77

if you like minigames: tangotek.

if you like a chill video: xbcrafted or, if the texture pack gets you, vintagebeef.

if you like storylines: rendog or grian, again. (i was trying not to double-up, but if you're here from an rp-heavy server, grian remains a great entry point in that regards.)

if you like to see something new and bizarre: zedaph if you prefer highly-edited videos, joe hills if you prefer lightly edited videos.

if you want the best building on hermitcraft: pearlescentmoon or bdoubleo100, special mention to goodtimeswithscar.

if you want someone as new as you: i'll come back and edit in whoever the new hermits are once we know! but them.

if you just want one of my favorites: zombiecleo or iskall85.

thank you! what if i DO want to know what the fandom is always on about?

that, i'm afraid, i don't know how to help you with. you'll just have to watch hermitcraft from here--and maybe read some of the fanworks that have intrigued you--and find out for yourself!

good luck out there, and i hope this has helped someone!

[avelera]

Oh GOD you, too, are an online lectures geek pls consider this your invitation to talk about favs--ones that stuck with you, current obsessions--the more the better! In trade, I'll tell you the two things I'm currently adoring: Yale's Open Course podcast on The Civil War to Reconstruction done by David Blight (man forgot more than ten other civil war historians know even if he mumbles *constantly*) and A History of Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch (so! worth the Prime BBC free trial <3)

Hiya! Don't mind if I do!

So 99% of the lectures I've watched lately are on the Great Courses Plus which was recently and stupidly renamed "Wondrium", which I find profoundly stupid because instead of just saying, "Hey, check out the Great Courses, yeah you can kinda guess what the streaming service offers," I have to instead explain what this nonsense term "Wondrium" means, ANYWAY, they've got lectures about basically everything.

Essentially, it's Netflix but for college lectures. YouTube has become so unreliable as far as what's actual information and what's completely made up or even racist conspiracy theory BS that I find it completely untrustworthy. Also, most documentaries are trying to prove something new, or offer a new angle on something, OR they're SO rudimentary and 101 that even for topics I know less about in history I tend to already know everything they're going to say.

So I pivoted to college lectures because 1) it's a whole series so like, dozens of hours I can just throw on in the background while doing something mindless and 2) I know it's going to be trustworthy, reliable, and provide me a baseline on a topic instead of some "new controversial spin" on it. Like, goddammit, sometimes I just want to better understand the history of Ancient Egypt, not your stupid theory about how they were secretly all space aliens or that we've got the carbon dating all wrong or whatever made up nonsense.

So, here's a list of some of my favorites!

Hannibal: The Military Genius Who Almost Conquered Rome - I consider myself about as near an expert as a non-academic can get on Rome and this lecture actually taught me some things, which is rare, so I recommend it as a fantastic deep dive!

How the Crusades Changed History is a pretty good short version that I recommend to anyone who enjoyed The Old Guard's Nicky and Joe BUT, for the best Crusades lecture, I'd recommend this History of the Crusades podcast. Sharyn Eastaugh is not just insanely informative, but her dry wit made me laugh out loud at least once an episode at the sheer hapless ineptitude of the Crusaders.

In the Wake of the Plague is a fantastic new lecture by Wondrium, the lecturer is amazing and it provides a lot of objective insights into how humans react to plagues that is VERY relevant to current events, BUT their lecture on **The Black Death in general is the one that got me obsessed with their lecture series. I watched it in the first week of Covid lockdown and let me tell you, having this super in-depth, objective look into how people behaved during the Black Death was incredibly valuable (and chilling) going into those years because it all played out with astonishing similarity. Also, anything by that lecturer, Dorsey Armstrong, is awesome. She's a Medievalist of the highest order. I also recommend her lecture on King Arthur.

**The Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries - this one wins the award for "Lecture I thought most likely to bore me to tears that ended up being the single most fascinating I've heard in YEARS." Seriously, the way it explores the evolution of how we think in the modern era, through the philosophers who first conceived of these ideas, was jaw-droppingly fascinating. I also recommend it to writers of historical fiction and fantasy for a crash course, by proxy, of how to write people who think differently than you.

The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World - I once had beef with a post here on Tumblr that claimed that academic Classicists don't care about slaves or normal people during the Roman Empire, which is just profoundly absurd. I pointed out this lecture to them if they actually wanted to learn more about the subject instead of complaining that an art history professor may not have been prepped for a lecture about the lives of enslaved people in Ancient Rome. If that is a subject of interest, this lecture is great.

The Real History of Pirates - a must-listen for OFMD fans who want to get an introduction to historical pirates and the history of pirates in literature, which "Our Flag Means Death" owes as much if not more to than the historical figures.

**Turning Points in Middle Eastern History - One of the first lectures I listened to and still one of my enduring favorites. It's the first one I picked up for writing my Old Guard fic, Lights Out, when I wanted to write Joe from a more informed angle and I learned so much.

Understanding Japan: A Cultural History - One of my favorite lectures based on format, the lecturer picks a literary work or cultural concept as the entry point to explore the timeline of Japanese history. It's a fantastic way to give a wider and more holistic look at each era, pairing it with a cultural touchstone.

Shout-out to "The Mysterious Etruscans" because I just think they're neat. The lecturer is also very good and I highly recommend his lecture on ancient cities as well which taught me a lot that I didn't know.

Also a shout out to, "Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400" for its subject and the lecturer who is great and she also has a really fascinating talk about the history of Spain.

Ok, I THINK that's some of the top ones! ;D

[panelshowsource]

Happy holidays!! Thank you so much for all that you do, you are a lifesaver for those of us abroad! If there is any way, could you please share the Brassic Christmas special with Greg Davies? I'm just a bit obsessed with the man 😄 Merry Christmas to you and yours!

hello happy holidays! thank you for the nice message :)

yes i put the brassic episode here for you! i'm not going to leave this up for more than a couple of weeks since it's not panel show content and i just don't have a ton of extra space atm, so please take a moment to stream or download it at your convenience sometime shortly :') if i delete it before you get it feel free to send another message!

yes! you can find it on the non-panel show masterpost here :)

my fave screenshot from the episode lmao

i do have quite a few but only for the people in the collections folder — so any episode featuring alex horne, david tennant, joe wilkinson, michael sheen, and/or victoria coren mitchell should be there! otherwise, i am not currently hosting more last leg, but check out r/panelshow & r/tv_bunny (i see the christmas special is there!), and lmk if you need more help finding anything specific :)

having something fun to watch is a tenant (see what i did there) of the holiday season 🥹 enjoy and happy christmas as well!

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as well, you can find the new christmas episodes of qi, wilty, buzzcocks, late night lycett, and more updated on the masterposts :)

btw is anyone else PISSING that frankie boyle and lucy beaumont will be on the new year wilty?

hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season!

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[one0p1nk]

What do you love the most about your current friends group?

//No order, I'm mentioning people from mundo server and some other servers btw

Beth -> I love my wife's gentle, softspoken nature. I hope Bethy can feel confident enough to tell me about almost anything because talking with her in the chat is always a blessing to me and i really want her to know that. It was never awkward when I'm with her even when she doesn't speak or not. I love her fav ships they're always so sweet/ih/not sure if it should be pun intended JDBDBDB🥰

Klai -> My henchwoman is incredible, idk but I feel like she has a lot of patience too when interacting with me--- always so understanding with everyone and would try her best to make everyone feel better despite of her own struggles. She's very generous, yes, and how she likes keeping up silly ramblings with me about worlds is what I mostly adore about her. Even solsticea has a special spot in my heart 🥺

Joe -> I love joey/p. They feed me art, they're my supportive dogboy/ih, and I'm glad they existed or else communion and doomed yaoi wouldn't have been in my dictionary DJHDDHDB in other words, I love their humor and friendliness makes me wanna keep them like a pocket friend/ih

Yami -> I love her vibes, I love her art, I love her art streams, I love when I talk to her, and I love her bc she's my angelfish/p🥰 She helps me walk away from dangers that try to reach me sometimes, is fun when she brings me to McDonalds while at it sniffles;;; thanks to her I'm very absorbed to ToD sometimes and still do that, how long was it since HDDBFBFB

Tae -> some of Shrimpy's humor stuck into me/ih and I love hearing her talk. Her voice is very calming to me that it makes me feel quite safe, it really sounds very friendly....;;; Her voice is also iconic i would wish to watch it in a lot of kinds of anime genres no matter if is piece of life or horror, it's incredible the way she narrates or voice acts dialogues in games on stream dhfbfbffb

Sleepy -> I like her art pieces. I want to draw as fast as her but I'd rather polish quality over time in my case since art styles really vary JDBFFBB- I like the moments when she’s glad to try and help people, and try to stay cheerful sometimes despite of the pressure she has to experience at times. I hope in the future these can flourish well and that she gets to achieve her goals somehow no matter how bumpy the road can be for her.

Lupi -> Lupita is supportive and wouldn't hurt me in any form;; despite that I don't see her as often as the others, I feel safe around her like I've never seeing her judge me before or is probably because I don't remember sobs;;; but yeah, she brings good vibes when we're hanging out heheheheh

Al -> I love Al/p for listening to me about Hana's reversed harem stuff and trying to learn dyanthus lore from me back at the lore wide discord server/ih. I love the times we gush over fnaf together too <3/ih and also freaking like how for some reason I imagine you as a squishy entity idk why/lh

Emma -> I love Emma and Tatya and Bartholomew and Georgie and everytime we interact really I love you/p, she has such great charisma and attitude it boosts my confidence and self-esteem a bit sometimes djnnddn saranghae pookie 🫶🌸

Fifi -> Fifita, my precious rat friend and portable incinerator room/hj, I thank her for letting me love and ship her blorbos and draw them JDDBBD her art makes me smile a lot even when she draws her scrunkles, Dreams of delirium is chef's kiss;;;

Anwyll -> Anwy is a new friend I just met, and I'm already holding hands gently with him/p. I love how we have this mutual agreement about pretty blonde boys BDDBFBFBFB--- I love their blorbos too, especially Nevi(hes so pretty i like making Lau rizz him a bit/ih) and Edvin (I love farmers, I think they're so neat as heck)

Mango -> He has a nice sense of humor, I'll take that---/ih I love his art, the way he drew my goofy son once, and how he named almost everyone in dinosaur parody(I'm still sobbing from that JDBDBDB;;) and he's nice to talk with when he's not sus and... confusing, I don't understand what he says sometimes but its best to not know 🤔😊/lh

Kory -> I nearly lost my friend, Korita. It could have been one of my greatest regrets 😔 but anyway, I love her blorbos, but what I mostly love is her been spoody as usual and just taking every problem like a tough one(she's trying her best okay/lh). A nice spooder. 🥺/pos

Mandika -> I get excited when talking to Mandita, it's either neat or concerning/pos. But nonetheless I like receiving these rare art requests from her, it's my excuse to laugh and cry internally at the same time as I enjoy seeing her giggles and go silly JDDBBFFB

Clown -> I love payasito's craziness, that's a very Clown thing to do- even if I can be skeptical when she’s acting 'normal' around their spouse Law sometimes/ih/j

Orange -> magical girl Naranja save me magical girl Naranja;;; SHES TECHNICALLY AN ORANGE!!! A POG, GOOD VIBES ORANGE;; sobs sobs 😭✨️ I love her ideas and her art feels like a cool fresco snacks, and her blorbos are so well designed and written I can distinguished them well JDBFNFN

Nakki -> My brother Nakki is not often around lately, but I appreciate the times he has the patience to teach me and help me with Minecraft/lh. I love his pink lemonade recipe even tho I feel like the way he makes it will be the one overuling my amateur lemonade skills anyway JDBFNFB

Skye -> turns out Skye is held dead and half alive??? But well I love them anyway, still o' glorious in my heart/p. They're the perfect definition of a laid back, modest pookie/ih

Sam -> I love Samito's writings and drawings they make me giggle and kick my feet hehehehehe.... and I recently discovered his Gepard rp interpretation--- I have mixed feelings but at least leaning positive because I love a good humor Geoard once in a while JFBFBGN they really inspired me to ship Orpehmi more often and ngl, it feels nice to covert into it/ih

I feel like I have more friends I haven't mentioned, but just so you know to all of them. I'm glad I've met you guys, you've helped me learn new things and understand from the lessons I have to take myself better with your support, understanding, and patience despite my occasional autistic awkwardness.🥰/lh

[hoennislands]

ALLIE HIIIIII who’s your favourite wrestlers (TELL ME EVERYTHING) also do you pay for ppv or just pirate shit

HIIIIII EM, omg okay so this is going to be a bit long. But as of right now, I do pay for njpw world (njpw's streaming service) but, for past non-njpw matches, I've been trying to find them online. I love wrestling but, I haven't really gotten the burning urge to sit and watch a show lately :/ I'm going to put the rest under read more

I do loosely follow other promotions but, I don't reallly sit down and watch them, just watching clips and reading results.

For American promotions, I really like Mustafa Ali, I have loved him since 205 Live and I'm rooting for him because he's so cool and talented. I don't really have to many faves in wwe because I don't really follow it rip but, I have always loved Bayley and I like the members of Damage CTRL. Tiffany is sooooo talented I'm very impressed. I've always rooted for Naomi too. I also always like Kevin and Sami. When I was younger I loved, John Cena and Randy and the Shield, Finn Balor lol. My past faves were Layla, Eve Torres. I liked Ricochet from when he was in Lucha Underground. The Rey Mysterio of course. Carmelo and Trick have peaked my interest!

For AEW, I really like Takeshita! He's fantastic! Ospreay is good but I'm hot and cold about him. I've been mostly interested in Japanese wrestling lately. So of course I like Okada, Shibata, Riho, Hikaru Shida. Willow and Kris Stat are wonderful too. Queen Aminata has been really awesome lately. Thunder Rosa, I will always root for her. I really like Swerve and Hangman and of course this champion Joe. I do somewhat like BCC (Yuta especially I miss him!!) I like DG and Lee Moriarty. The Lucha Bros and Pac are a;so great. I also almost always root for fellow nyers like Eddie Kingston!

My main promotion rn is NJPW and they've been going through a transitional phase rn so you'll hear a lot of people say how it sucks but, I don't really agree. My faves are LIJ currently and I think BC War Dogs are cool. My main faves right now are the Reiwa 3 Musketeers who are (Shota, Ren, and Tsuji). Shota makes my brain go brrr I can't help it he's captivated me :)

[dolphelecat]

Tag Game

tagged by @notes-from-sarah (Thank you so much!!)

Tag game: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better.

Last song: Talk Me Down by Troye Sivan

Currently watching: Live Stream in the Namib Desert by a water hole

Three ships: Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, Yusuf Al-Kaysani (Joe)/Nicolo di Genova (Nicky), Aziraphale/Crowley

Favorite color: Purple, especially darker purples

Currently consuming: Cheese

First ship: I know I had one that I was thinking about not that long ago, but I can't remember, so I'm going with Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (original ACD canon) because that was my first ship when I was getting into online fandom.

Relationship status: Single!!

Last movie: The Gods Must Be Crazy (I know)

Currently working on: It's a secret, but it's a BIG project

tagging @goodtobealunatic @the-irrelevant-trumpeter @maramahan @greed-the-dorkalicious @sol1loqu1st @godaweful @clairdelun @coatntails @personinthepalace

[noxsoulmate]

9 people you want to get to know better!!

Thank you for the tag @shadesofdeviant - I'm also always so happy to be tagged in these, even if it sometimes takes a while until I get to them 😅

3 Ships: Tarlos... uhm 🤔 ... Destiel, I guess... oh and I recently found my love for Stucky. (And I bet once the 2nd Old Guard movie finally gets released, I'll be fully back in Joe/Nicky-land...)

1st Ship:

Without being aware of what "shipping" and "fandom" even were: Ranger/Charmer from that old kid's show The Animals of Farthing Wood (I had it all, the books, the comics, the whole TV show, all of it!)

Being aware of actually "shipping" them: Dramione

Last Song: The Story by Brandi Carlile (thanks, Grey's Anatomy)

Last Movie:

Cinema: Top Gun: Maverick (a special showing a few months ago)

Streaming: Elemental (sooo cute!!)

TV: Prince of Persia (one of my favs, I always watch it when it's on TV again)

Currently Reading: Ahh, too many fics all at once, trying to get a few more tasks in for the @fanfic-reading-challenge before the end of the year 🥰

Currently Watching: Right now, nothing, but in the middle of binging Grey's Anatomy, soon starting on Station 19. Also following the Rugby World Cup and I love watching American Football - sports on TV are the perfect background for writing!

Currently Consuming: lots of water, as I'm having a headache

Currently Craving: Tea. I always crave my black tea... but it's past 11pm and I will just be wide awake again if I drink it now 😭

I'm once again late to the party, I think, so just some no-pressure tagging: @detective-giggles, @sgirl18, @firstprince-history-huh, @beautifulhigh, @wtfuckevenknows, @actuallysara, @carlos-in-glasses, @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut, @lightningboltreader, @meditating-honey-badger, @bonheur-cafe, @heartstringsduet, @catanisspicy, @lemonlyman-dotcom, @whatsintheboxmh

[lifeisstarcraft]

bio post / tags directory

english: he/they, deutsch: er/ihm, français: il/lui

main: @vodkahorse

tags:

i usually tag hermits by username, except i use #rendog, #keralis, #ethoslab (as opposed to #etho), and #joe hills

#hermitclip - clip or video

#hermitchat - screenshots of in-game chat

#hermitscellanea - random hermitcraft stuff (often strangely niche)

#hermitpressions - hermits doing impressions of each other

#iskall yells about stuff - what it says on the tin. iskall ranting and yelling

#cross interest posting - posts that feature both hermitcraft and another of my interests.

#doodleralis - keralis doodles :-)

#LIS doth speaketh - sometimes i do just want to yap. this is the tag for that

hermits

i don't watch grian, mumbo, skizz, and joel videos as much as i do the rest.

i can never catch a stream, but i watch vods from nearly everyone who streams. if the thing i want to share from a stream contains spoilers, i'll probably post it after the episode comes out.

i will always drop everything for a new keralis video :)

the part about LIS

here's why this blog is called lifeisstarcraft:

i think life is more like EVE online anyways...

i doodle and maybe occasionally try to make better arts (i don't think it is my prowess, though, lol)

i have watched seasons 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, and currently am watching 10. i used to watch almost entirely from keralis's perspective... so i did miss quite a bit of 6. i might not get all the references. sorry!

i do my best to keep this blog safe for everyone, but there may be a scattered swear. especially if i am rewatching older seasons!

i don't know anything about any other mcyt, so i might make a fool of myself sometimes. the only other minecraft i watch is gneiss name :-)

one time i got reblogged by haiku bot and i'm still happy about it

haunted by hippies, capitalism, and gambling. it's just the way of the server!

love and diamonds! <3 keep on trianglin'!

[theminecraftbee]

howdy, everyone! i'm second.

(aka bee_4, secondfifth, sheepyseconds on my main, sometimes bee if you just read my url, it's a whole thing, i'm not super consistent,)

joe hills guy, technoblade main, watches way too much hermitcraft, will actually beat a vault hunters world one of these days, i have range,

i also write a lot! check out my writing (ao3 is more 'finished', fic tag has a lot of stuff i don't put on the ao3):

ao3 | a bee fic (fic tag) | masterpost

you are always free to make derivative works from any of my ideas, as well as translations or podfics. please do not directly repost anything i've written to another site, and please use AO3’s related works function for any translations or podfics, but beyond that, it's fair game! feel free to tag me in it, i love to fanboy about that kinda stuff. (and i genuinely mean it: go nuts show nuts please steal my ideas i want to see it!)

original posts are normally tagged with one of the below tags (or similar if the smp in question is not listed); reblogs are untagged unless i have a comment (please don't ask me to i won't remember):

hermitcraft | empires smp | secret life smp | answered (ask tag) | stream liveblogging (liveblogging tag)

a number of other possible relevant tags, mostly to collect aus or fics i've worked on, are tagged on this post. i try to keep those current to either large/popular projects or whatever i'm currently working on.

my ask box is constantly full and i'm bad about answering asks, i'm sorry - it's almost certainly not you, it's me! i do like getting asks though so don't worry about sending me them. i also tend not to post/answer asks/reblog things about discourse unless i personally have a strong opinion on it, as i don't like dealing with that stuff publicly.

my queue is long so if you saw a like from sheepyseconds, don't worry about it, it'll happen eventually!

as always, hope you enjoy hanging around!

[boltcreature]

I know I haven't posted non art stuff here in a long long time but I wanna try and use this more as a general social media too what with everything at the other one. I have always sort of liked the set up of tumblr more anyway but a fear of being annoying and posting things people don't care about when they probably follow me for a fandom I haven't drawn fanart for in 2 years lol.

So maybe time for a re-introduction?

Hello! I'm BoltCreature. I do a lot of thinking about drawing and SOME actual drawing. Mostly chibi/SD stuff cause I have that issue where if I can't finish something in one burst of drawing I don't wanna finish it (this is only 50% a joke).

As far as hobbies go I love tokusatsu, manga and anime, video games, horror movies and gunpla mostly.

My favourites of these things are off the top of my head.

Toku: Kamen Rider 555, Avataro Sentai Donbrothers, Kamen Rider Den-O, Choujinki Metalder, Kamen Rider OOO. (Special extra shout outs to Kamen Rider Hibiki)

Manga: Alita Last Order, Chainsaw Man, Eyeshield 21, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, xxxHolic.

Anime: Durarara!!, Baccano!, Laid Back Camp, A Place Further than the Universe, Mobile Suit Gundam.

Video Games: Final Fantasy XIV, Dark Souls, Animal Crossing, Super Mario World, Raging Loop.

I'm currently playing VA-11 Hall-A and loving it.

Horror movies: Ring, Noroi, The Blair Witch Project, Halloween (1978), Shadow of the Vampire

Gunpla feels a little silly to make a top 5 of cause I do love it but I'm not hardcore by any means. I recently build a HGUC Guncanon (my special little guy) and the HG Ariel and they were both very good!

I also stream occasionally at twitch.tv/boltcreature - mostly art stuff.

The header of my tumblr page is from episode 3 of season 1 of Joe Para Talks With You. It's a very good episode of television that everyone should watch, it's very important to me.

I think my ask box is open(?) If anyone has anything to ask!

[not-quitenormal]

Thank you, @toiletpotato, for tagging me!! This one looks like fun!!

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current time: 9:05 PM Eastern Standard

anything you've been doing lately: Since June 1, my waking hours and moments of sleep are spent obsessing over numbers and formulas and math. July 1 cannot come soon enough. (Apparently shit goes dead quiet for a couple of weeks after we close the books for the year.)

anything you intend to do later: I don't have a life for the next two days, but this weekend? Spending Joe's Sabbath with him, when we will watch more Dead Like Me as I write more of my fanfic. :3

anything you recently watched or played: Joe and I are almost done watching Dead Like Me (Bryan Fuller is my favorite TV creator, hands down). Devon and I watched the recent Dungeons & Dragons movie - and we both adored it. I'm nearly done playing the newest Zelda game, too, and after that I might play Skyward Sword. Been on a Legend of Zelda kick lately. It's been fun to play in my off time.

anything you want to watch or play: Besides the Zelda games? Lol. As soon as the new Miles Morales movie hits streaming, I'm all over it. (I don't have epilepsy, but flashing lights triggers major migraines. I prefer to watch movies with strobe effects and the like in a lit room so that I have something else to focus on if things get too intense.) I saw the first film in theaters twice. I am chomping at the bit to see the sequel!

anything else you'd like to say: Things may be rough, but life is still good. Just gotta keep rolling with it. ✌💜

tagging: @iscariotmilf @pinkie-satan @sassysnowglobe @wheresmulder @intheinkpot @theanxiousenglishmajor @elphabaoftheopera and anyone else who would like to! (Lack of sleep is making me forgetful. I know I'm forgetting people and I'm so sorry. 😭)

[constellation-sapphic]

Hi I’m making a pinned post for the first time in my history on the internet

Here on Tumblr people can refer to me as ‘G’ ‘Gray’ or ‘Grayski’ (I am also the Grayski commonly seen in Joe Hills’ various stream chats) and I currently use she/they pronouns but I don’t think I really care about being called anything but ‘it’ so just not that please

This page was originally made in like 2020 to be one of those aesthetic textposts blogs that get reposted on instagram; that lasted for about three months

My main interests are in Hermitcraft (specifically with Joe Hills and Zombiecleo), MCC (always rooting for False to win), The Life Series, and JRWI Riptide AND NOW SHOOT FROM THE HIP IMPROV as of 2024 (and probably more that I’m forgetting at the moment)

I have a YouTube playlist of Grian’s MCC vods since he always unlists them and I want to be able to watch them

I'm exmormon and I talk about that from time to time

I’m currently in the middle of getting a degree in robotics, that doesn’t have anything to do with my tumblr page I just want people to know because robots are SO FUCKING COOL (join your school’s robotics club if it has one and you are still in school) (especially if it runs with FIRST robotics they’re literally the best)

I sometimes talk about personal life stuff here so if you don’t want to see that block the tag “G’s diary”

If you’re a dream stan or like any of his friends get tf off of my blog and off tumblr as a whole you fucking weirdo. Goes for Wilbur Soot fans as well

[popculturebuffet]

So looking at how much Hasbro has been trying to revitalize animated reboots since 2010, thoughts on modern Hasbro 2010s reboots MLP Friendship is Magic, Pound Puppies 2010, Transformers Prime, Littlest Pet Shop 2012, Equestria Girls, GI Joe Renegades, Transformers Rescue Bots, Transformers Robots in Disguise, Littlest Pet Shop A World of Our Own, Transformers Cyberverse, Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, Pony Life, Transformers EarthSpark, MLP Tell Your Tale, and MLP Make Your Mark?

Who boy.. settle in folks this is going to be a while. Friendship is Magic: A show I honestly want to go back and finish once the streaming weirdness is cleared up. (It's currently weirdly bisected with the middle missing), as my discomfort with the more extreme side of the fandom (and a manipulative asshole getting into my head, very long story), I dropped it around late season 2. Granted how they intially brought discord back didn't really sell me on returning but I still at least kept tabs on everyone and honestly.. wanted to return at some point I just never did. I watched most of the discord episodes because he's my boy, but that's about it. Still a good show.

Dan Vs: Technically dosen't count.. but i'm throwing it in as the only other show on the hub and because I loved it and need to rewatch it. Dan VS is an awesome little adult sitcom that was weirdly on this hasbro based family network. It was one of the best shows of it's time and had a simple but hilarious premise of a very angry man trying to get revenge on some inconveince he's faced, sometimes justifably sometimes because he's a sad strange little man. With the dream trinity of curtis armstrong (who really shoudl do more va work besides this and american dad) dave foely and paget brester, it really worked and while i'm sad it only got three seasons the fact it did and you can still watch it today (it's on youtube, tubi and the roku channel for free baby!) I highly recommend it.

Pound Puppies: Since I had the hub around the time all this happened, I did see most of these early reboots. Pound Puppies.. is adorable. Not entirely my speed, but still a lot of fun... and not suprising given it was developed by the guys who created recess. Transformers Prime: Another show I need to watch more of. At the time I thought it was okay, but just didn't get into it, but I hear it only got better and better with age. I also think the animation wasn't for me and I still think it's not entirely, but it's not bad by any stretch. LIttlest Pet Shop: I really loved this one at the time and even now a bunch of animals at an animal daycare getting into slice of life shenanigans just hits the spot. I also had ships because of course I did, i ncluding sunil and that one cat. But it was a lot of fun. Russel was my easy faviorite. And even if I didn't really care for blythe as a charcter I respect that they had her wear a new outfit each episode and put care into the deisgns given she IS a designer. Solid show.

Equestria Girls, Rescue Bots, Rescue Bots Academy, Pony Life: Haven't seen any of it

GI Joe Renegades: ANOTHER ONE I regret not watching more of but in this case I was interested I just could never catch it and never thought to you know, dvr it, even more now i've read the truly awesome larry hama comics. Still really good.

Robots In DIsguise: I only saw an episode of this but I liked the premise, It was just clear if you hadn't seen prime, even as a soft reboot this was going to be hard to follow. Which is a shame as it had he, grimlock as a main character. Granted I didn't REALLY like painting him green but still dinosaur man!

A World of Our Own: Say it with me now "I wish i'd seen more of it", though in this case by this point I didn't have satalite tv anymore, so I watched it while babysitting a few times. It was neat though and I wa sintrested.

Cyberverse; About the same with me also forgetting it was on netflix. New Gen MLP: I've seen the movie, which was decent, and me and a friend PLANNED to watch the series, we just haven't yet. It looks good though.

EarthSpark: I REALLY fucking want to watch this one. It has a stacked voice cast a brilliant premise that FINALLY breaks away from autobot decepticon war for the first time since armada (Though Animated at least had a fresh take on it), by showing what comes after, I haven't seen it but I really want to I just keep forgetting.

(Phew) Okay next time maybe don't pack so many shows into one of these.

[adultswim2021]

Metalocalypse #34: “Dethsources” | July 7, 2008 - 12:00AM | S02E14

Dethklok want new management, so they take on a second manager on some kind of trial basis. He’s a “cool” manager, unlike their stick-in-the-mud current guy. He has long hair, for instance, and smokes freaking JOINTS while working. He’s also voiced by Brian Posehn from comedy. Dethklok really like this guy, because he’s chilled out and parties with them. It becomes very clear that the new guy intends to get rid of the old guy (side-note: I really wish that this show had simple-to-remember-and-type names, because I despise having to copy and paste character names so gosh darn much with this gosh darn show). 

The source of the conflict is Dethklok’s dwindling cash. They haven’t finished their next record, and their money is running out. They never feel this crunch for even a second, because they are stupid idiot dumb-dumbs. They simply can not learn lessons or be nice.

This one has a lot of great scenes that have little to do with the main plot. It’s bookended by scenes of new Kloketeer recruits (their hooded servants). First we see them being weeded out by a fight to the death in the opening (not actually shown). We also see them being sworn in and branded during the show’s climax, which involves a fencing match between the two managers. The ending didn’t completely work for me, but it was fine. They had to get out of the episode somehow! 

The aforementioned “great scenes” include a pretty simple gag where Nathan texts Toki an incredibly lame joke. They are clearly extremely enchanted with texting technology. Their easily-impressed laughter is infectious, and Nathan being so proud of himself for pulling off such mild humor is so great. It’s all about the performance and the character animation (as limited as that is). There’s also a great bit with the health inspector who keeps asking if various terrible things happening due to their health code violations are “metal” or not (asked indignantly as a way to scold them) and they just shrug and go “yeah” because they all sorta are. This is the first scene in which their new manager pulls out a joint and starts smoking it and they are all childishly impressed by it. Any episode that drives home the point that Dethklok are all big dumb babies is doing it's job. This episode is doing jobs.

MAIL BAG

Remember the lady who screamed in her car for Joe Biden. She was screaming like BUCKO and CHAMP and shit like that. Well I just found out they died. Self-inflicted. See you later, sport.

This fake message caused me to find they/them on tiktok and after seeing them with various hairlengths and different outfits and stuff uhhhh, would. Please stay alive for me babythem. I need you

Have you seen skibidi toilet? it's what all the kids are into these days. makes adult swim look like barney the purple dinosaur

my friends (twitch streamers who don't know I exist) forced me to watch it (they played it on their reaction stream) and to quote my favorite racist cosmo kramer "that's spooky, man"

Quymn wasn't that good but I still find myself quoting "Go Team Boobies" from time to time

To be fair to that line, I actually did write that line down in my notes but I failed to highlight it in my write-up.

another tasty tuesday doon the fookin drain

I simply will not abide your terroistic mail bags. I'm calling the military on your ass pal. EFF YOU

[jvstheworld]

The Buffy Re-watch: S1E8 (part 1)

I, Robot, You, Jane

Also known as the perils of online dating

The title itself is a play on 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane'. The only version of Tarzan I've seen is the 1999 Disney one, Does anyone remember the TV show they did of it? And did anyone like it when it was a playable world in the first Kingdom Hearts game? For me it was kind of meh.

Straight away we know who our monster of the week is. Moloch. A demon that was around in 1400s Italy corrupting people to love him before he kills them. Sort of a Jim Jones vibe here.

Circle of Kayless. Huh, sounds kind of Klingon to me.

Evil demon is trapped in a book and kept in storage for 500 years until it happens to be in the possession of our favourite librarian. Question is: how did he get?

The first appearance of Jenny Calender. And is the complete opposite of Giles. Those tend to attract.

Giles in this season is hesitant to scan his books for easy access, but this is something he tries to do at the beginning of season 5 when he is making plans to leave for England. But the project was probably never finished as when he does leave in season 6 the gang still use the books.

Fritz's speech on the greatness of virtual vs paper is kind of true, but in a very annoying way. We currently have everything an our finger tips, news, books, TV, film, any info we want we can find by going online, and get it quicker than we can brew tea. it's convenient, anyone can access it as long as it's not behind paywall, and it is often cheaper than a physical copy. However, you don't own it. With what we are seeing with streaming services removing films and shows from their libraries is that nothing is permanent. Companies like HBO do it so they can save money. It's imperative, now more than ever, to own physic copies of the things you like because it may disappear virtually. Tech is great and using it can make lives easier, but in some cases just because you paid for it, doesn't mean you own it. Physical copies my cost more and take up space but it will still be there for later.

Giles is horrified that more interactions take place digitally that face to face. Yeah, it just gets worse over time. Giles would hate social media.

Jenny is flirting with Giles, so cute.

How is Willow scanning anything. She's holding the scanner so close to the book that she's missing both sides of the page and she did like 2 pages. What was the point of that?

Demon is a computer? Oh shit!

Chad Lindberg- also starred in Supernatural as Ash, the guy who lived at The Roadhouse with Joe and Ellen in season 2. There are a few Buffy actor who appeared in Supernatural, including Charisma Carpenter who was in season 7 episode 5 playing Maggie Stark, the wife of Don Stark who was played by James Marsters.

Did you notice that Willow has a photo of her and Giles in her locker door? When did they take that? Also gives more credence to her admission that she had a crush on him in season 4 episode 18.

Buffy has a good reason to be mistrustful about Malcolm. This was back when internet dating wasn't as prevalent as it is now. Nowadays it's more widely accepted, hell my dad met my step-mum through a dating site. The internet was still in its infancy here and Buffy just wants to make sure that Willow isn't getting catfished. I mean she is, but they don't know that yet.

An extra is talking about how his history report got messed up to say things that should not be said. We get a few details like this throughout the episode to show the scope of what Moloch is capable of.

Okay, okay, okay. I went on a couple of tangents and turned one point into a slight rant. Won't guarantee it won't happen again because it most definitely will. These posts I'm doing are in order of what happens in each episode and what I think of while watching them, so tangents happen and so long, drawn out thoughts.

Part 2 tomorrow.

[toeveryenemy]

@endureandsurvives thank you for tagging me! 1. Three ships: Mona & Plague Knight, Shovel Knight, Dark Knight & Shield Knight (polyam relationship) and i don't really have a third.

2. First ever ship: Honestly I don't even remember lol I'm not a huge shipper at all I don't care about them that much

3. Last song: "Hymn #101" by Joe Pug which played during WTNV's ep 137 - The Mudstone Abyss Part 3.

4. Last movie: I don't remember ;_; I barely watch movies

5. Currently reading: Traumasporen in lichaam, brein en geest - Dutch Translation of 'The Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel van der Kolk. I put it on hold as I am going through Trauma therapy myself and the book might get too triggering for me.

6. Currently watching: I want to watch some wayneradiotv stream. probably among us proximity audio bc those make me laugh a lot

7. Currently consuming: Tea! :o)

8. Currently craving: noodle soupy..... im hungy tagging @thedeca @annickemiek @how-ll @juuriihebi @thefourthsword @chaosismything @oneirophagy @stinkypolar feel free to do this - but you don't have to