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[calocreek]

Ok so I also just really LOVE drawing dancing, although its so hard, its almost always worth the effort! So some desertduo dancing, and a few of my other favorite team-ups 💕

Headcanons ->

Scar is the first person to trip into a hole or fly face-first into a wall, but is an inexplicably natural dancer. He picks up any style effortlessly! This annoys Grian very much, who, though he can be 'graceful' in the air, is very clumsy on his feet.

Pearl and Gem's waltz is more of a duel of spinning. Who can get the other person dizzy enough to fall? This devolves into a tornado of cackling, lifting, tossing, whirling until either they both collapse or a sword fight breaks out 😂 It's fine, a sword fight has to break out at a party for either to consider it a success.

Cleo and Etho dance like they have no plan whatsoever. They are dancing with different styles to different tunes in their heads but somehow it just works? Toes are getting stepped on and elbows are getting bruised but they don't seem to notice or mind. This dance has worked for them for years, no reason to change it up now!

[shittyjakeenglish]

make him into a marketable plushie please

Day 355

id love too but i dont think he really likes the plushie life..

[hopepetal]

if ya don't mind me asking, who will arc three be centered around? arc one was scar, arc two was impulse, so that leaves mumbo, grian and pearl,

boatem hole centric.

[all54321]

hiiii I was reading your tcd scarian fic and!! and !!! TAIL SCAR AUGGHHHHHHH AKDJKAKKFJAKJF I'm sorry I'm normal I just love tail scar ahdbkwkfj

good fic btw

Thanks! Tails are fun and I really should write this version of Scar more.

[size--2--fish]

returning to my roots with this one... both mcyt and this particular thing. its been almost 2 years since i started reading it! anyway. just finished this fic. it was wonderful!!!

hii @desertduality :))

[some-spinner-in-june]

this is how you choose who you are.

web weave on @theminecraftbee's lovely work, solving counting sheep, which genuinely altered my life <3 curse the image limits of tumblr that prevent me from expanding on this as much as i want to

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credits:

solving counting sheep, bee_4 || @/valtsv || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || @/bipbopdepmop || wintergirls, laurie halse anderson || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || asofterworld, #62 || @/cutiemonster || sad machine, porter robinson || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || the accident, anne de marcken || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || an elegy for flesh, billy-ray belcourt || in the pines, alice notley || burned out, dodie || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || burned out, dodie || above ground, clint smith || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || fake god, @/hyennakim || @/boxbug || some notes on shadows, gregory orr || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || eon: dragoneye reborn, alison goodman || @/finelythreadedsky || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || @/dcvina-claires || solving counting sheep, bee_4 || the disappearing, franz wright || solving counting sheep, bee_4

[bigb-enthusiast]

Alien bigb!! Hes also a cowboy :3

For a au by me, @stiffyck , & @bipbopdepmop

[polarcornflower]

happy holidays @bipbopdepmop !!! here is zombie cleo as holiday barbie 1990 as your present for @mcytblrholidayexchange

wishing you all the best in the new year!! ❄️🐉🌟

[davejade-sometimes]

hello!! i made some matching davejade pfps :D they are free to use, just credit me at @/crookedgrifter (or @/bipbopdepmop)!!

also the two on the same picture (under the cut) if you want that for whatever reason

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consider reblogging for a bigger sample size? :D

@bipbopdepmop these are from your chat (best chat so weird)

[hopepetal]

HALLOOOO,

does pearl have any like. special names for impulse mumbo scar and grian?? since theyre sorta like parent/sibling figures to her? also. what's the like. ages? of everyone ? ?? maybe this has already been answered idk

that might be confusing. sorry the words are not wording right now

also I think your writing is really cool and good and i would like to blend it up with some strawberries and eat it :]

HELLO!!

I imagine she does give them nicknames (in my latest writing she refers to Grian as Griba and Impulse as both Impy and dad. Impulse meanwhile calls her moonshine). She does refer to them as her dads, and when she was younger probably called them "dad" a lot more. Now that she's older, usually just a nickname or by name.

Ages aren't really set in stone yet, but the general ages are Impulse being the eldest, then Scar, then Mumbo, Grian, and then Pearl being the youngest. Impulse is likely older than Scar by a few decades, and they're both older than Grian and Mumbo by about a century.

Also ahhhh thank you so much, that means a lot to me :) thank you for the ask, lovely to see you in my inbox again!

[allunatory]

@bipbopdepmop Hiya! Hope this doesn't scare you but I'm answering this ask on my minecraft-related art blog LOL

Anyways I have been staring at these asks for the past few days I hope you know that you have a special place in my heart tysm

This is so long, so I'll put it under a readmore- I have a lot to say (And spoilers for anyone who hasn't read Dreams From Within The Cage yet!)

THANK YOU SO MUCH THOUGH!!! AAAA- I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!

AND YES YES!! I have so much I can say.... First of all I have to thank random ambient noise soundtracks for carrying me through the entire fic. Without them, I definitely wouldn't have been able to keep focus for long stretches of time without getting distracted by something.

Fun fact: Fic was not titled until it was time to publish LOL- I was so indecisive

I think my original ambition with the fic when I first started was just writing an Apocalypse AU... but at the same I also wanted to write world-hopping. I was inspired by a comic I had read back when I was in the UTMV (Undertale AU) fandom that explored AUs through way of dreams, and I've been wanting to try my own spin on that for a while so this was the perfect opportunity.

Now the plot wasn't actually supposed to go so crazy, that was mainly me getting extreme brainworms over the concept of an inter-dimensional organization stepping in. Originally, it was going to be mainly exploring the grief that comes with being unable to ever see the one person you feel you connect to most. Having to either accept that fact, or find a way to let go. (Definitely way more depressing, i think)

I was so stuck on the plot for a while, how to wrap it up with everything I'd planned. For a while, I was originally planning to have Grian be the one interrogated, in which he would then hide things from Scar to keep him safe, even going so far as to say they should never talk again. And then the real reason would be revealed when GIGA stepped in.

The way that was set up though, it basically meant all the cool stuff was happening where the readers couldn't see it. So after a long conversation with my good friend @/boxofwasps, I had a stunning revelation on how to swap it around- which is where the fic stands today. I think I remember literally stopping in my tracks and going "Wait. I know how to fix this. I know what I need to do." and Sprinting for my doc to write it down. Imagine me with a cork board and a bunch of red string- that was me putting this fic together

Another fun thing was that, I had so much fun writing the apocalypse world in chapter 1 that I partially wanted to just keep writing that instead of moving on with the plot LOL. I think if I had more time I definitely would have fleshed out some of the AUs they were in, as well as Scar's travels in the waking world and his own lingering trauma

Another fun fact? Me and @/cuteiemonster actually have a whole alternate timeline tree exploring the various ways the plot could have differed if things were just ever so slightly different. There's three main ones, though. Dreams (canon timeline), Nightmares (scar's awful no-good very bad day), and Delusions (grian's awful no-good very bad day) with varying degrees of angst. Please talk to me about them, because I'll likely never write anything about them but I have so many notes.

OKAY AND NOW TO ANSWER THE SECOND PART OF YOUR QUESTION!!!

I'm guessing you're asking about the cage from the hanging cages chapter? I love that scene so much btw there's so much symbolism there.

Every one of the main characters in the fic is stuck in their own cage, in a different way. I think in that chapter in particular, the cages themselves represented the fact that Scar and Grian were both trapped in separate universes. Leaving the cage wasn't an option, there. All they could do was reach across the gap and try to make do that way. Scar fiddling with the bolts of his cage is a show of his motivations and ambitions to escape the confines of his universe to get to Grian, far before he even says it aloud.

Grian stays in his cage because to him, there is no other way out. He's weighed the options, seen the dangers- and even the smallest movements out of line cause the cage to sway. It's just not worth it to try anything different, even if it means being trapped for an eternity...

I AM SO FLATTERED THAT YOU NOT ONLY READ IT BUT RE-READ IT??? HELLO?? I'm sobbing

I am so so so excited to write more for this series, I'm not going to lie. I've been writing notes and gathering ideas for what exactly I want to focus on for a potential sequel. Thanks to help from @/cuteiemonster I have a lot of headcanons for their roommate (yes, roommate) behavior. As well as what they're up to post-fic!

I will say, there is a chance there will be something I put out before the sequel fic- depending on where my motivations lie. I've been thinking about writing the story of Scar's family, and what happened to them. After all, Scar wasn't always alone out there, in the wastelands... Ooh, just thinking about it just makes me excited

The main reason I haven't immediately jumped to write more already is mainly due to school taking up a lot of my time atm! Not to mention I've been getting into a new minecraft server I've been playing in (if you see the art I've been posting to this account LOL), which is basically just every trope I'm obsessed with (Multiversal Purgatory...)

AND!!!! INSPIRATIONS AND STUFF! The anomaly was originally going to be a Creature of uknown origins, but I felt it would be more fun to make it someone with a name and face. Mumbo was a character I've been really interested in writing, so it was a bit of a no-brainer when it came to picking him. Though, it did change things slightly, because the anomaly was originally going to be an irredeemable villain character. But the more I wrote about Mumbo, the more I was like "dude this guy is too wet of a cat to be a villain on purpose" so instead we ended up with the Mumbo in the fic, who's just ever so slightly too casual about world corruption (against his will)

As for universes? I'm going to be honest, pretty much all of the universes in this fic were pretty much straight from my own noggin. I just wrote whatever felt right! There was that Pirate AU with renchanting and navy captain Grian, the Graveyard AU with a groundskeeper Scar and vampire Grian, the Superhero AU with Hotguy and the unnamed villain Grian (who's either named Xelqua or Poultry Man lets be real). A lot of the universes I wrote in-depth about were universes that I would love to write standalone fics of, so this fic itself was partially a collage of various ideas that I may or may not ever write about.

MAN I wrote way more than I was expecting. Tbh I could've written more but I don't want to keep you for TOO long LOL! If you want to talk more about it I'm so chill to chat on discord or through tumblr messaging (im crazy)

Ok one more thing

This snippet from chapter 1 is Lizzie from Empires season 2 okay goodbye

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@bipbopdepmop

short

Reblog if you're shorter than 5'8.

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shuffling your playlist to see what 2024 has in store for you

i love these things!! i havent seen any floating around so i wanted to start one

(analysis optional)

jan - 100 bad days by ajr (going to have bad days but. be okay w it?)

feb - crush culture by conan gray (honestly so fitting for feb. i will be sick of romance and dating more than i already am)

mar - hidden in the sand by tally hall (i have no idea what this means but ill guess that someone wants to leave me)

apr - pierre by ryn weaver (either ill find someone or i will go dating a LOT of people. a lot of them)

may - i/me/myself by will wood (oh boy is this The Song Ever. im guessing more confusion is in store for me)

jun - kalmia kid by chloe moriondo (i want to go live in the forest w the little creatures. more than i already do. which is a lot)

jul - ok by wallows ("can we get up and try to be okay again?" i suppose this is about me moving forward)

aug - people watching by conan gray (mooooore romance sadness. is this me third wheeling again or is this me being sad in general)

sep - sour patch kids by bryce vine (i be vibin w life)

oct - i think ur rlly cool by carpetgarden (again will i be meeting someone?? this song also gives me night vibes)

nov - temporary fix by one direction (this song goes so hard im not even kidding. im assuming that me and whoever was in oct are kind of together? unclear)

dec - a sky full of stars by coldplay (eyy i think this romance will go decently. this is a very pretty love song so i have high hopes)

tagging time: @bipbopdepmop @whywasthissohardtomake @yoistars and anyone else who sees this!! :)

[hopepetal]

A CAFFEINATED, ANIMATED REDSTONE INNOVATOR HAS INNOVATED HIS WAY INTO YOUR ASKBOX!!

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?

CAFFEINATED, ANIMATED, REDSTONE INNOVATOR!!!!! MY BEHAVIOR'S CRAZY, CAN'T PHASE ME, IMPULSE IS NEVER LAZY!!!!! TANGO WHY WOULD YOU BETRAY ME, NOW MY SCOPE IS AIMING!!!!! BETTER RUN FOR COVER FROM ALL THE GHAST BALLS THAT I BE TAMING!!!!!! WITHOUT A SOUND, WITHOUT NO HESITATION, MY CREATIONS ARE AMAZING!!!!!!!! BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP OR THE G TEAM WILL END UP BLAZING!!!!!!!! WHO'S THE BETTER TEAM? THERE IS NO CONTROVERSY!!!!! BUT BEFORE IT'S SAID AND DONE YOU'LL BE BEGGING US FOR MERCY!!!!

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@bipbopdepmop

words of wisdom from wikipedia this evening