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quiet nights in gotham

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the one thing you need to know abt the dreamsmp is that every single character has at least one moment where they are the worst person in the room. every single one of them. there’s no avoiding it

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The Rejects are doing what the Villies should have been doing

In nearly every season, the winning team is able to unite the server against a common enemy, which is what Skizz did with the Villies

3rd Life had everyone against Dogwarts, and Last Life had the Red Names, and the "evil" teams ended up losing. Realistically, neither teams were actually the good guys, but by branding one side the heroes and the other as evil, it's easy to amass a full alliance

Double Life and Limited Life also had two sides, the Reds vs the Divorce Quartet and the Nosey Neighbors and Team IE vs the Mean Gills, but in those seasons, the "enemy" team won, but only because they had more lives to begin with

The reason the Villies did poorly this episode was all because Joel told Etho to boogey-kill Grian. If the Villies were able to fully solidify their alliance with Cabincore by creating a common enemy, Etho probably wouldn't have killed Grian and the alliance would have stayed together, meaning they would have had more protection in session 7

The problem was that the Villies were making themselves the enemy of the server, both by making Square Hole and King of the Ladder (with Etho), and by aligning with a team who always had a boogeyman (which of course couldn't be controlled, but still negatively affected their reputation). The Villy-Cabin Alliance had no main enemy, so their was nothing truly keeping the team together.

If the Villies' number one priority was winning, the best plan would have been to forgive Etho and realign with Cabincore. It would still be a rocky alliance at first, but they could have used Jimmy's triple kill and Martyn's dripstone trap as reasoning to team up against the Rejects and Lost Gen, giving the alliance the common enemy required for a strong team

The Cabin Crew does seem like they still want to team with the Villies, and Pearl's elimination might be the best reason for them to team up again

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I am once again asking all of you to look at minecraft skins dot net because the people on there are fucking hilarious. who up rockin wit mid times with scar

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Nature is beautiful ^_^

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tried to draw with a drawing tablet for the first time in 5 years,,cannot express with words how much i struggled

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i love trying to rationalize bigB because sometimes there is an explanation, it's just the most confusing moral compass ever. "why did bigB form an allyship with the villies" well you see with the other rejects close to being eliminated, bigB felt that they were no longer a good longterm commitment and wanted another team to fall back on. gem actually offered allyship to him earlier in the season. "why did bigB just arbitrarily lie to grian then" well you see bigB only promised the rejects that he wouldn't lie to them and grian is not a reject. "but he's trying to build trust with him??" yeah i mean bigB also lies to the rejects sometimes so like. you can't trust him to not do that. that'd be silly.

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One of my favourite things about Sinners is the use of colour to symbolize belonging and home vs assimilation or separation from self and the environment.

When Annie is in her home, connected to her ancestors by practicing Hoodoo and speaking Yoruba to the man she loves , her skin tone blends into the earthy, natural tones of her home. Who she is, is not at odds with her environment . She even wears the same deep blue as Smoke

When Sammie is singing the blues, filled with passion and surrounded by the love and joy of his community, his shirt matches the warm yellow glow of the lights in the Juke Joint. He fits in perfectly and effortlessly

Delta Slim is the embodiment of The Blues, every part of him is harmonious with the dark brown walls of the Juke Joint

In contrast, the church walls and the clothing of the congregation reflect the assimilating influence of whiteness to the land and people, the false binary of black and white. The pop of green of the wild, natural world beyond the stark walls stands out as a symbol of freedom and untamed passion. There is no warmth or vibrancy in this place that demands Sammie give up his music, his voice, his culture.

And this split dividing the twins is interesting to me. Stack shown with the open air behind him, foreshadowing his eventual escape and freedom from the Jim Crow South. His red hat, tie and car reflecting the blood spilled and his vampirism as the only means he has for leaving this world of division.

Then Smoke on the right is shown contained within the Juke Joint, his home and his metaphorical casket as this will be his final resting place with Annie. His blue hat and shirt are symbolic of the sky/spirit world where he will spend eternity, unnaturally separated from his brother

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all these posts about the gluten guys and lost generation teamup that include some variation of "oh and Impulse is also there" are making me think back to wild life. where it was also "three Gs and Impulse is also there". which makes me think back to last life and southlands and how that also had a "Impulse is also there" vibe.

then for a second i got mad at the fandom for being so dismissive before i remembered that perhaps we're not completely baseless here. because i thought about southlands and how when martyn does his last "making fun of mumbos intro" bit, he only made statues for jimmy and mumbo, despite impulse also having died. and i thought about wild life and how the only person who seemed to care about Impulse was Pearl, and even she was mostly focused on other matters. and i look at past life now and see how Ren says "Impulse is getting stuff for us" and Cleo going "he's our husband" before correcting themselves with "they're our husbands".

and i think about Double Life, about "I want Etho." And I think about 3rd Life, the only time this feeling of otherness was warranted. And i think about Limited Life. Impulse's best performance. The one team where he wasn't just "there".

i wonder if the phrase Impulse keeps repeating in Past Life, "I need teammates!", isn't just something he says out of strategic interest. i wonder if there's something in his heart that cries out to be valued, to feel like he's part of something, to have someone tell him they're proud of him. he always works so, so hard in making sure his team has all the resources they need. he puts himself in danger to prove that he's worth having around. he's willing to sacrifice his own lives to get kills. he reacts so badly to failure because every failure is another reason for people to ditch him. he thinks that, if he just works hard enough, he'll finally have the one thing he wants even more than winning.

and yet both fanon and canon treats him the same. He's a white sheep among black sheep. He's the tagalong. He is also there.

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i've got c!Phil's wartime outfit for y'all today!

took some inspiration from kazakh and mongolian cultures with this one. also huge thanks to @/zethsnex for suggesting giving c!Phil an aztec death whistle!

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Remember back in Double Life when Joel was complaining about some tierlist putting him as Lawful Good. He was all on about how he shouldve been Chaotic (and Evil). People would probably put him in the Chaos row these days - he's got crazy and bloodthirsty down at least.

But, like, he is the most lawful player. Death game law anyway.

He doesnt kill when he's not explicitly allowed to, even when its making him really antsy, or when his faction is losing badly. He won't do anything without undeniable permission. In Wild Life, he wouldnt leave a bolthole trap activated before he was red, so he couldnt even have used it in self defence like it was designed for.

At the same time, when the rules say kill, he sure does kill. No hesitation. He wants to be boogey, and doesnt see it as a burden or something working against him. He was THE red name of Last Life, longest red life kill streak etc. No hanging back on killing strategically to not make enemies (and he lost because of that in the end). The game says try and he tries.

Its very much about the spirit of the game not just the letter of the law. He never half-asses a task in Secret Life, even when it kills him. He never tries for loopholes in the rules. (He could have killed Impulse after he teleported Gem into Scott's 'team fight' kill. It would have been just as much of a team fight, and he specifically needed Impulse dead, but he didnt even consider it.) And he's not about sacrifices. Killing has to be done properly. He's accepted one sacrifice ever (Grian for time in Limited Life) but he didnt want it and refused to do it a second time, prefering to die trying to kill his enemies in combat.

He's very against doing anything cheap or cheat-y. He wants to earn everything right. But he's also never trying to be the good guy - the opposite usually. Its funny. Me when I want to kill and terrorize but my strong sense of justice keeps me on my own leash :(

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Skizz and Cub are like opposite and equal kinds of earnest about loving their friends. Cub will step by step document and memorialize the lore and happenings of everyone on the server, tirelessly making museums and libraries in everyone’s honor and when you ask him about it he’ll be like “haha yeah” in a monotone voice. And Skizz will deliver an emotionally charged monologue about how much the person in front of him has radically changed his life for the better and then forget the color of their hair when trying to build a small statue of them.

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First desert duo in a while huh

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Chemical overreaction / compound fracture

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went a little hard on wplace hello . im happy w how it came out though :)

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actually real talk what was up with the huge janna tunnel cover in season 2, because when it got destroyed a bunch of air rushed through. was that one of cassandra's air filtration tunnels? did she build her filtration system into zaun's religious temple???

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cause you get in people's heads, wil, alright? you go in through their ear and then you hatch a butterfly. before you know it, your brain's just colours and flying