#Third life

[soggywert]

ALLIES OR ENEMIES - LIFE SERIES MAP | MY PART (part 12)

YESS ITS FINALLY OUT! HUGE THANK YOU TO @indigo_dingo FOR BEING AN AMAZING HOST AND MAKING THIS OPPORTUNITY POSSIBLE, AND A HUGE CONGRATS TO THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR AMAZING PARTS

loved working with this group, go support the whole project here! vvv

[phantomsalamander]

imagine being normal about minecraft block people

[moonbigs]

hello! my name is cedar and im a life series fanartist. wanted to kind of get my name out there on tumblr (ex. twitter fanartist...)

you might know of my animations from different map parts but if not, ive been a part of the everything moves map and the tongues and teeth map on youtube!! hope you like my work :)

i have no idea if people do promo posts on tumblr. sorry. is this bad tumblr etiquette. someone TEACH ME ive been a twitter fanartist for like 4 years.........elon musk bought the site and my reach has been dead ever since. please i just want people to see my funny grian drawings and stuff

[lucylu-art]

Hey guys, I’m coming at you with some new art celebrating the third anniversary of Third Life (can’t believe it’s been that long!) This drawing is of the lovely desert duo, Grian and Scar! Enjoy! :)

[frozenjokes]

ok time to make a relaxed, low effort animatic (<- me, two hours ago)

me now, covered in blood:

[birrdies]

I actually really want to hear about it so I’m here to ask about Grian and shrikes…

(Also fun fact there’s a type of shrike in Australia we call a butcherbird because they’re known for taking their prey and, uh, making use of rose thorns)

rubs hands together ohh boy. I am So glad you asked (:

we actually also call them butcherbirds!! and this is exactly what makes me so insane about it when applying it to grian, ESPECIALLY third life grian. the shrike is a passerine (song-bird), but deceptively so. it’s ferocious, it spikes their prey on thorns. something about it being a songbird and a bird of prey at the same time are what gets me. im gonna bullet point some stuff out bc i can’t find a way to organize this coherently

grian, on the surface, is not necessarily formidable. he’s a bit goofy, plays pranks, doesn’t exactly know what he’s getting into at the start of 3L. he’s the songbird

plus they have a shrill cry which… lets be honest… that’s So grian, he’s very shrill

but we all know how 3L ends. grian kills scar. and while scar let him win, I don’t think grian ever fully forgives either of them for it. his hand was forced, but he also killed the one person in the series he trusted and cares for. the shrike.

HOWEVER. if you consider it in a more metaphorical sense, I like to apply the lyrics of hozier’s song “shrike” to 3L desert duo. ‘remember me, love, when i’m reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”. 3L desert duo are the villains from so many perspectives. scar is just as willing to kill and cause mayhem as grian— if not more so. but grian is his lackey. scar is the thorn, grian is the shrike. together they are deadly

shrikes NEED the thorns. shrikes don’t have the talons of a bird of prey, they need a tool to help them kill and hunt. grian NEEDS scar. he doesn’t have the bloodlust at first, but as the series goes on grian is more and more willing to attack, trap, kill, and since he’s green most of the time he NEEDS scar to do it for him.

and maybe that’s why grian always ends up in scar’s orbit, one way or another, in these series.

bonus… thinking about… cactus thorns…

they’re also very territorial which I think fits very nicely with grian. especially in 3L.

tldr: if you haven’t cried thinking about desert duo while listening to ‘shrike’ by hozier I highly highly suggest it

[elizaisdunn]

how I imagine Grian telling the gang it’s time for a new season

[fishymom-art]

A birdie on his shoulder told him that he owes him his first life.

[marblegroves]

Choice 💚💛❤️ - Life Series

Happy third life anniversary, everyone! 🎉

The song used is Choice by Jack Stauber ^^

Here are some of the still images I used for the vid 🕺

[spoonmoment119]

i love the life series i wish gay people were real....

[tommyfuur]

Bad boys doodles

[astericias]

rewatched 3rd life today and decided to redraw my first desert duo drawing ever

from 2021...

[impscar]

you won

[cytrynnnn]

Really enjoyed this season of Life! It’s been on my mind a lot, but since Bdubs’ Earth is made out of wool, I headcanon it’s just a woollen blanket thrown over wooden support beams. Also them using the blanket for comfort was just to wholesome not to draw.

[kai-inkkun]

Something, something desert

[astrowarr]

i just watched scott's session 7 and noticed a pattern: every single person forgot about grian.

grian hasn't been caught yet, cleo and scott establish. barely a minute later, scott is leading cleo and bigb by the hands to his secret spot and saying "i think we're the last three." like the name has slipped right out of his hands.

as etho tells the other zombies that no, actually, he doesn't want to kill cleo, it occurs to him suddenly. "actually, i kind of want grian to succeed on this, don't i? he's my teammate," he says, not like he doesn't care for grian, but like he's shocked he even forgot in the first place. (seconds later, he lifts his gaze to the sky, and he sees where grian is hiding. he's the only one who sees. he carries this secret with him as he watches grian run, an apology of sorts; sorry I forgot. I hope this makes it better.)

but it got me thinking: this is what grian does, isn't it? even since 3rd life, where he hid in the shadow of scar, whose face was always, always in the light, as he burrowed under doorways, covered in redstone and days-old blood. no one thinks of him as scar sells them the coffins grian will put them in.

grian has mastered the art of becoming nothing. he's so nothing, in fact, that his presence glances off the skin of even his friends. his name slips away from them. he disappears time and time again, falling through their fingers like sand. there are brief moments: "where's grian?" someone asks, but their blood is boiling and their fingers are itching. the image is a mirage and the sand crumbles at their fingertips. it's gone as soon as it comes; back to cleo, green cleo, uninfected cleo.

a reminder, perhaps from the universe itself. he is nothing but a ghost of a memory, a whisper of a promise. this is by design. the universe is telling him this, as it strings grian up limb by limb: you were only ever meant to watch.