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[doingmylevelbest]

My roommate and I are lying in our beds making country related puns and absolutely dying.

[valeriapryanikova]

game master

[motherofplatypus]

[fence-time]

[syneester]

you.... YOUU!!

back in my humble beginnings (aka returning to mcyt and getting roped into hc/life series right away), i first saw your art on pinterest.

ykyk THE VERY FIRST VERSION of double life scarian being all sexy, "you can be the match and i can be the fuse, boom" moment and I. WAS. OBSESSED. even more so now when you dropped the REMAKE of it LIKE- DHFSJFHS?!?! something something, your previous style looked kind of round-ish before (not the best explanation I KNOW)? but now the lines are DEFINED and grian, scar, pearl and everyone you drew in your style got HOTTER AND CUTER. I will make out with your scar design and marry your grian design ty and farewell

tl;dr i gobbled up your stuff on pinterest until i decided that i needed the myth and the legend themself.

here's the part where id ask a humble request (a sketch will do honestly): YOUR VERSION OF SUNFLOWER OR POPPY/LILAC SECRET LIFE SCAR

-🦋

Oh my gosh my HEART <3 That means so much to me <3 giggling and blushing

Have sunflower Secret Life Scar ~

[1-marigold-1]

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I would like to thank you @ickmick for putting this vision in my head

[yoshiintheweb]

Grian The Reversed Sun: Card of false optimism, the illusion of double victory that they could never have, the echo of its time a tragedy pathed with love;

Scott The Upright Star: Card of faith, a champion raised from alliance of trust, first of the place of healing from betrayals, a testament to his skills;

Pearl The Upright Moon: Card of complicated relationships, of the pair that never was, of the story cut too short, a story that didn't bloom, uncertain they stood victorious and still apart;

Martyn The Upright Tower, the card of violence, a winner of swift end, chaos and destruction, untrustworthy force that plays dirty, shifting the perception of one in the eye of the audience, the song of betrayal in the middle of madness;

Scar The Reversed Devil, the card of independence, the one who's been forced to stay alone, seen as liability, takes the spot as the survivor, after a season of isolation he reclaims control of his own narrative showing his true power;

Joel The Reversed Temperance, the card of imbalance, in the world of discord he thrives, a wild card of his own, the story of recklessness and haste paints the picture of the winner, seeing the warnings he chooses a new path that leads to brighter future, for love is worth nothing less then extreme, he burns bright, he burns quick, and at the end his in a rush, to fight, to trap, to win, and even in victory the imperfection is still his downfall.

[mxmarsbars]

kitty kitty meow meow ^.^

[corviddrawsstuff]

And I try my best, to prove that nothing’s out to get you.

[calciumyum]

Secret Life Players with Cat Energy

phone wallpaper version under the cut!

[doingmylevelbest]

A meme I made after my adoptive dad died the other day:

[krashlite]

Martyn Concepts!

Design notes under the cut!

Animal: kitsune

FACE/HEAD

Square! Not much justification for this, it just looked right

I wanted him to have nose crinkles for more foxlike expressions

^^^ playing off of this, most of his expressions center on the corners of his mouth

The little scraps of a mustache at the corners of his lip are meant to mimic the black markings on a fox's muzzle

Hair has 7 segments and his sash(?) adds the last two for a total of "9 tails"

Top two segments can also translate into "ears" (<- shape/concept that comes from Genrih's Martyn design!) while the ones around his face are meant to invoke the same "fang" imagery I used for Pearl's design

^^^ likewise, the scraps of beard are meant to look like lower incisors

His hair also moves in one piece in the same way a cosplay wig would (it is not a cosplay wig, but hilariously he has been accused of wearing one in the past)

He does dye his hair blonde, but is naturally a redhead (hence his roots showing and his facial hair being darker)

BODY TYPE

Soft muscle! Reads as fat a lot of the time so it's hard to gauge his strength until he's in a fight

Hands/feet are proportionally a lot smaller than his arms/legs to hopefully translate his shape back to being foxlike (he was looking like a cat for a lot of the design process)

CLOTHES

The body suit under his outfit is meant to look like the black legs that foxes have

one lighter glove to pay homage to "the hand" from 3L

Zipper "teeth" are stylized to look more jagged so they look like actual teeth (don't know if this translated though!)

MANY POCKETS. He's very resourceful and needs something to hold his things (with some extra room for "borrowed" trinkets)

No shoes! He thinks it helps with his agility (remains to be seen)

He does have the little wind spiral on the back of his shirt, but I forgot to include it in the ref OTL

ADDITIONAL

With him being a "shapeshifter," a lot of his mannerisms come from outside sources. This either means from other players or from other pieces of media (like the hand gestures on the ref coming from Reigen MP100)

A lot of his design is also based on the "trickster" aspect of kitsunes. His outfit has 3 hidden zippers, he barely shows any skin, this isn't his natural hair color, and his shirt pattern disguises the shape of his torso. It's a way to trick the eye :]

[ooooo-mcyt]

what is your opinion on people who are always like "omg it's us, but it's desertduo" as in they're happy thing think their relationship is like desertrduo

cause when I see that, I laugh, because desertduo in my eyes is doomed to fail. one of the single most important things in a relationship is communication

which is the thing they do not have, and are worst at.

communication.

i think this is a thing I have noticed in shinyduo as well. they both are bad at communicating.

To me I think the biggest problem between Scar and Grian will always be their differing ways of showing affection and their struggles to understand/communicate with each other about this difference.

Grian struggles with verbally showing he cares, so he'll often express his love through actions. Grian will make other people his responsibility and will work and work and work tirelessly for those people. The problem with this, though, is twofold.

The first problem is that Grian can come across as overbearing, giving people the impression he's nagging or undervaluing them because he doesn't verbalize his concern or affection. Grian can take care of Scar all day, but when all Scar hears are complaints, he'll feel like Grian doesn't care. Grian struggles with verbally affirming his care for other people, but sometimes it's needed, and it damages his relationships that he often can't do that.

The second problem is that Grian builds underlying resentment for the fact that people rarely seem to appreciate how much he does for them. He isn't completely wrong to feel this way, because, frankly, I do wish people would pay more attention to his caretaking behavior. But Grian actively sabotages himself as well by never communicating that he feels unappreciated in a productive way.

Plus, because of his self imposed caretaker role, Grian will often make unilateral decisions for a team without minding his partners input, which leads to a further lack of trust from both sides of the relationship.

Scar, on the other hand, usually expresses his affection and care upfront. He's friendly, approachable, he won't hesitate to tell people he loves them, or say what someone means to him. Scar is good at making people feel good and affirming his affection for them.

That being said, his affection can come across as "shallow" at times. Scar is often very bad at picking up on, let alone fulfilling, the needs of his partner. While Grian absolutely needs to work on communicating what he wants from Scar, that doesn't take away from the fact that Scar very much should be putting an effort into making sure Grian feels like the labor in their relationship is equal when they team, because generally it's not.

Scar is a very verbal person, he's upfront with his own feelings most of the time, so he also expects to be told when his partner needs something, not just emotionally, but also with tasks that need to get done). Which is understandable, but frankly, genuinely shouldn't be Grian's responsibility half as often as it is.

Scar isn't off the hook for selfish decision making either, because he will often struggle to see other people's viewpoints or understand that not everyone feels the same way he does about certain things, which can lead to him talking over or ignoring his partners wishes when he thinks he knows what's best for them.

Desert Duo have a lot of problems with how they express affection and communicate their needs.

However. Do I think they're inherently doomed? No.

Firstly, I think it largely depends on the setting. The gaps in their understanding of each other or how to be good partners to one another are widened by the life or death high stakes fast pace of the Life Series, but are bridged much more easily within the slow comfy safety of Hermitcraft. It's easy to look at their worst moments and say, there, that's why they can't work- but people don't have to be defined by their worst moments, and everyone's flaws look so much bigger when held under the lens of a death game. I think it's just as important to look at how Scar and Grian are when they're in a healthy setting as it is to look at them when they're in the most high stakes setting you can put two people into.

Plus, it's worth noting that a positive peaceful place like Hermitcraft isn't the only place they can work.

Sure, Scar and Grian absolutely had issues in Third Life, but I think it means something that they both made it to the end. That they got their fair fight. That they did it in their home. Giggling. Apologizing. It wasn't perfect, but it was theirs- and their "doom" didn't come from themselves, it came from an outside force. An outside force made them destroy themselves, and they did it in the kindest way they could, loving each other all the way down.

That isn't to minimize their issues, because they both have issues. They both hurt each other, and sometimes neither of them know how to stitch it back together. But they try, right? Sometimes their relationship is like stitching up a quilt. And it comes out kinda uneven and slightly off-color, but it's still nice enough to look at, and warm enough to keep them cozy at night, and they both like it so so much.

Scar and Grian get each other, they counteract each others worst insecurities and fears, they gravitate toward each other, they make each other laugh, they just plain like each other. That may not sound like much sometimes, but it's often enough for them, and I think that's important. I think their relationship is good for them more often than it's bad for them. Even if they don't always know how to reach each other.

[its-me-frankie]

Grian, the type of man who abandoned his Instagram a year ago but somehow shows up in EVERYONE ELSE'S stories. What insane digital footprint is he leaving this time.

Of course he knows how to braid hair.

From GeminiTay's Instagram stories. I think they're in Sweden for some type of Minecraft event.

[great-axepectations]

So people have noticed that BigB's secret task logo was red, right? No one seems to know why it was red or what it indicates, but BigB sounded pretty shocked to see it. He seems to have a simple task and executes it normally, but he acts strange in his episode. He's lying for no reason and gaslighting people all session. Unless he's decided to make it a bit this season, why would he do that for no reason? Grian says "I think I know what's going on but they'd never confirm it." Who's 'they'?

What if the red task is a 'decoy' task? Only one person gets the red task, just like the boogeyman. What if his real task was to lie and gaslight and act 'sus', and he has to keep it secret from the audience?

[auriidae]

won't you kiss me on the mouth and love me like a sailor