#limited life

[paddysol]

martyn in hades style anyone?

[mxmarsbars]

is he strategic or just lazy… you decide!!

[jeena-says-hi]

Still not over that ending

[forestanomaly]

Froggie and co from last year! Limited life was a year ago jesus...

[tenoart]

Hello Teno! You said for mutuals to give you drawing recs on your Codfather Jimmy art so here I am-

Perhaps Codfather Jimmy meeting LimL!Scott? I want to see how the fishy boys react to each other. Or maybe just Mean Gills art in general :o

If not, let’s play a little game- go to the last mcyt video you’ve watch, randomize a number, go to that time in the video, and draw whoever is seen/heard in that frame/scene! Or, screenshot/thumbnail redraw if the other one sucks!

Okay there are my ideas- feel free to take them or ignore them! Have fun drawing and creating your usual amazing, wonderful, spectacularly beautiful art ^^

I love the idea of this duo also cause they come from such DRASTICALLY different worlds. Scott would be surprised that Jimmy doesn't hate him and Jimmy would be surprised about literally everything else.

[wishwingalpha]

Boat boys art!! I’m going feral!!!

Where’s the next life series. I just want crumbs, I’m begging.

[kitskiis]

I think the saddest part about secret life Joel is just how futile all of his actions are in that season. On a surface level i mean stuff like all of his more careful gameplay being cancelled out by a singular failed tnt trap but on a deeper level i specifically mean how that character contrasts with last life Joel. Joel is undoubtedly at his lowest point in the life series in Last Life. He goes down to red in session 2 and spends the majority of the rest of the season alone (and when he does have allies it’s only bc of a shared bloodlust). The red bloodlust completely takes over and this festers for nearly *8 sessions*. Not only that but the one time he is given a chance to restart and go back to yellow his old alliance member goes to red, leaving him alone again, and he is made boogeyman the next session. This, overall, has lasting consequences (he actually wanted to be fairly friendly at the beginning of LL, a stark contrast to how bloodthirsty he was at the beginning of DL or Lim L), and gained him a reputation that has never fully gone away. This is especially bad bc most people agree that LL was the most violent season (despite the lower kill counts in comparison to LimL) and was generally the worst and most traumatizing experience in the games for most people involved. Compare this to secret life, which everyone agrees was definitely the happiest season for Joel (or at least the most normal. His life is a tragedy no matter the season.) he has allies that (for the most part rip mumbo) stick with him until the end, he is friendlier with a larger group of people, and when he initially has to deal with the loss of some of them he has people who can ground him (bc as much as I adore the bad boys, grian was not qualified to do that). He was so hopeful that season, and was generally in a much healthier place mentally. And yet, despite how much he seemed to have grown, those 2 seasons ended so similarly for him it was almost comical. Joel engaged in a fight at the end, watched his ally get killed by scott, and is then forced into a 2v1 against Scott and another player that results in Scott taking his final life and him finishing 5th overall. I was describing both of those seasons here. After everything he did to grow, after all the improvements he had made, everything ended *exactly the same*

Making this about the bad boys for a second (because I’m me) they kinda suffer similar fates. Grian learned in the most tragic way possible that his allies were doomed to fail as long as he was with them no matter what, that this was not something that he could control by simply avoiding killing them himself. Even when he actively tries to save them (“let Tim do it he needs the time” “Joel you can kill me!”) he’ll still lose them in the end. I think this realization is also what made him stop trying to fight it, which resulted in him killing or almost killing his allies from previous seasons immediately afterwards (stabbing scar in the back and that one scene where grian kinda ominously jumps with a sword like he was about to crit and kill bigb after finding out he had 50 seconds left on his timer). It’s sorta like a way of telling the universe “fine. You win”

Similarly Jimmy. Well. I don’t think I need to explain that one. Even when he was given hope that things could be different, that he could break the curse, he died only a few minutes later. I still hold on to the narrative that the watchers only allowed that to happen to give Jimmy false hope that things can be different only to rip the rug out from under him and drive home the point that he is in a losing battle because by the time of secret life Jimmy was one of the only few people who genuinely still believed he had a chance. Obviously this is not something that can fully be a reality until he goes out first next season so if he doesn’t that’s a little awkward but just work with me here

TLDR; here is reason number 672 on why I believe the bad boys are the most doomed motherfuckers on this server and their alliance is a modern tragedy

[frozenjokes]

hey siri <3 call us daddy

[aquinnix]

Traffic Character Analysis - Tango

Tango is very quick to act. He is propelled by his emotions and tends to let them take over. Everything that happens to him is shoved down deep inside and builds and builds until he finally bursts. He is deeply motivated by revenge, if someone wrongs him, he will get back at them tenfold. Tango is not afraid of what others think about him, he is happy to speak his mind and put his cards out on the table, just not all his cards. Tango makes a big impact in small ways that ripple and twist into waves. In reality, he holds all the cards and keeps them close to his chest. He has an interesting relationship with life and death. He uses fate as a bargaining chip without a second thought. To him, life is simply a commodity, same as any other. Tango is willing to sacrifice himself if that means that things go according to plan, fulfilling a perceived destiny. But that’s the thing, for someone so intrinsically connected with something so vital, for someone who tries to be everybody’s friend, for someone who’s alliances are ones of deep trust and reliance, Tango always ends up alone. He always takes his last breath away from the warmth of those he cares about. The fact that he is seemingly able to control life, doesn’t mean death will be so kind. 

[potatertot42]

Presenting Joelbeans

I was bored at work and had this man in mind.

[ju5tanarti5t]

Limited Life Scott! :D

[isa-ghost]

HOLY FUCK TEAM TIES IN MCC

[mcyt-said]

"Bread bridge is not political, it is simply b r e a d"

- Grain

It is true tbf...

[uxini]

I feel like we as a community need to create a podcast called "Tragic, Toxic, Traffic" where each episode we pick an alliance in the life series and debate on whether it's tragic or toxic

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The one thing about thinking about the clockers is that I don't think they work quite as well as a literal based in concrete canon and every thing that brings with it, so much as they're like. Two steps back looking at the big picture (themes and allegory or something ig. Or an AU almost. Or a story being told inside the story)

Because to an extent I don't think clockers works as well when you try to put them in with everything that happened before Limited Life, unless you see Clockers not as a literal family unit but rather a sort of... Not found family, but constructed family? Like a story they've made up for themselves as an odd round about way to cope with the Death Games.

And this would apply to and explain other relationships that pop up too, like jokes about marriage and divorce. Like Bdubs and Etho in Last Life. Because maybe it's just a bit easier to understand a divorce than it is to understand the world tearing you apart from your closest friend and demanding that you kill or be killed, and it would be so much easier if you were being separated because you were mad at each other, and it was your choice, and you could pretend you have some modicum of control over the situation

So then the clockers, the flower husbands, divorce duo, the ahasbands, would all just be constructed relationships to fill missing holes, to explain their actions and events around them, and to bring some sense of familiarity and stability to this chaos