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Color/lighting practice!

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Phil: [To the tune of "Edge of the World"] We'll see if we die, we already died once for the sins of the Realm, nobody fcking cared, just like Jesus in the real world, he died for our sins then went to heaven–

Phil: Wh– if I go to heaven, can I beat up God to bring Techno back? Is that allowed? [Laughs] If I get to the gates, can I 1v1 God and then send Techno back? I think we need that as a treat, we deserve this.

Can't wait to see Phil and Technoblade 2v1 God

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I'd actually say the use of the soulmate trope in Double Life makes a great case for all the worst parts of the soulmate trope, being used to enforce a social structure around shame, heavy restriction, punishment, and isolation.

Look Scar, Grian, BigB, and Ren. At the start of the season Scar was treated like an idiot for not looking for his soulmate, like it was a personal failing that he would take more interest in animals and call them his soulmates rather than look for the person he was bound to. Meanwhile a lot of the tension between BigB and Ren came from this idea that Ren's connection with Martyn- which had existed for seasons prior- was bad because Ren was supposed to, by dictate of the universe, be with BigB.

And then Grian and BigB form a connection outside their soulmates (which, for the record, they wanted to be together in episode one from before they even found out who their soulmates were, but felt like they weren't 'allowed' to be because they weren't soulmate) and are regarded as 'cheaters' with their soulmates being pitied for it.

Scott and Cleo were also scrutinized heavily within the server, regarded with pity, confusion, or even judgment by a number of people Multiple people acted awkward around them, or tried to 'console' them with the assumption that they were miserable, or in a very extreme case you had Jimmy calling their relationship "fake" multiple times and, during an argument, taunting them with "You ain't even real soulmates- when you go to bed at night, and you fall asleep, just remember, the last thought in your heads is 'oh, we're not really soulmates'."

And honestly I heavily suspect a large part of the reason Pearl was so isolated during Double Life is because of the isolation of soulmate pairs. Because soulmates were seen as this special connection superseding and outweighing any other, forming real connections outside of the soulmate pair was heavily discouraged. This meant that while plenty of people pitied Pearl (which also reinforced the idea that she should be miserable), she was always treated as part of an out-group by soulmate pairs, making it impossible for her to find real friends after being rejected by her soulmate.

There were many times as well where, generally, soulmate pairs who weren't happy together or who were having massive issues were pressured into trying to force things to work because they felt like they had to be with their soulmate and knew there was nowhere else for them to really go outside of that one connection, even if they weren't happy with it.

Not to mention the way the soulbound itself was, in multiple cases, abused and made into a tool of punishment in of itself. This is seen most apparently in the divorce quartet in which they all hurt themselves to "punish" the other. Scott came up with the idea of axe crits to "scare" their soulmates which Cleo was happy to join in with, and Pearl used methods such as powdered snow to "torture" Scott as well as specifically growing fond of holding the idea that she could kill them both over Scott's head. But even beyond it's use in the divorce quartet, Scar also very notably participated in this. In fact, he was the one who came up with the idea to use powdered snow to "torture" your soulmate because Scar wanted a way to punish Grian for asking him to help with chores.

Like I genuinely just cannot stress enough how much Double Life was a proof of concept for the soulmate trope being a complete nightmare. Literal horror trope.

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Are you Tech?

Cus I’m falling for you

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emerald duo

emerald duo :)

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moon bunny

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(this might look Weird on desktop, But if you click on the gif, it should look better? the scaling affects dithered images weirdly like that sometimes ^_^)

static version:

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Just want yall to see this and know that Joel said “This proves women are better at surviving than us”

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On the first day of Philmas, my Streamer gave to me!

A Crow Shitting on Everything!

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Not me re-watching Potato War for the millionth time because of content deprivation, also happy birthday to our boi🎉

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The watchers looking at Impossible Minecraft SMP. Jesus christ. What the fuck. We thought our death game was bad. Jesus fuck.

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Spotify what the fuck

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Tech: Survivor

"I find your lack of armour disturbing"

This one's for all the Tech simps (and for @ghostymarni , @baddest-batchers and anon ; thanks for requesting)! Tech sure was a weird one to draw since I was practicing armour haha, but it was so much fun (and I always love a bit of a challenge)! <3 I used the gorgeous Kotobukiya figure statue as ref for the pose.

I still have quite a few clones on my blorbo-request list, but if you still like to see a specific clone, don't hesitate to shoot me a comment/ask/DM!

Cody | Fives | Fox | Vaughn | Hunter | Gregor | Echo | Wolffe | Mayday | Rex | Hound | Hardcase | Keeli | Tech

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:')

also shout out to those lovely anons

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wildest diva in the life series

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what they deserved