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These Stones Remember - LXXX - Epilogue 3: Companion Reader (part 2 of 2) - STORY NOW COMPLETE

Bet you didn’t think you’d see this banner ^ again, did you? ;)

The final part of These Stones Remember has just been posted to AO3: the second of the two Companion Readers. This brings to an end the story that consumed a year of my life, and that brought me such joy as well as some wonderful new friends.

Read it in full at AO3: These Stones Remember - LXXX - Epilogue 3: Companion Reader (part 2 of 2)

Make sure you read to the very end, as not only is there some more beautiful art by Sabira (@floweroflaurelin) but there's also a special treat for you in the end notes ;-)

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asking for help can be done at any time, and it is free. you just have to let yourself accept it.

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Every day in 2024, I have been live on Twitch.

In two hours I go live one more time with a community game night to celebrate stream #366!

Come play a few rounds of Jackbox (and maybe some Mario Kart) with us!

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Yeaaa, Happy New Year, lads!

The collab of my [Local group] was arrived. I'm glad that every member liked the result^^

There is only one credit here, @cyberbeez ))

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Emergency Coms are still open

My cat has an eye infection and needs a vet visit

Good news first: the money we have would currently cover dallys vet visit

Bad news: it has spread to his other eye and the medicine, while seems to be helping some it isn't helping a ton

Here are some more art examples of mine, I can do a wide variety of styles, under the cut is what the funds will be used for. Only currently accepting through Venmo. Reposting is also appreciated, even if it's only because you enjoy the art

1: a good cat gate, I have a kitten Apollo who loves dally but plays rough. And the gate we have doesn't keep him away from dally in their separate spaces effectively

2: a cone. So dally stops wiping his face and lets us do it for him

3: any surprise bet expenses, shots, medication, or surgery.

4: eye gel

5: anything to help with dally's comfort until this is sorted.

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Doodling

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I've just spent a good 20 minutes hunting down this Zloy & Pix Lethal Company clip, because I needed it to share somewhere else.

You're welcome xD

Transcript:

Zloy: My man, I love you. I'm gonna kiss you in every orifice as soon as I'm back on ship oh my god I made it I'm alive oh my god oh my god. Pix: That sounds gross, don't touch me, but you're welcome.

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YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I LOVE HIM

aaaaaagh @akcioma this was SO SO FUN i LOVED IT!!!!!!!!! ITS SO CUTE T^T little zeds u have my heart <3 so excited do more :D mix of colored pencils and thin tip markers :]

will add more on this later but yeah :D

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Copper King yaaay

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Are ye ready Hand....

Treebarkzine is here!

Download now on itch.io for FREE!

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@twice-past is creating for Day Eighteen:

Prompt: Snowed-In

Their piece is written, featuring BigB!

Credit Links: https://www.tumblr.com/twice-past https://archiveofourown.org/users/twice_past/pseuds/twice_past

(Piece under the cut!)

Winter comes early that year, heralded by an axe, a death, a king. 

Snow presses on the glass insistently, desperate, grasping hands searching for warmth. When BigB pushes the door to the Cookie Castle experimentally, it doesn’t budge a single centimetre. From what little he can see, the rest of the server has suffered a similar fate as him.

He is glad to have a break from the chaos– the image of red eyes is burning itself into his retinas. He’s much more in favour of the Christmas shade - the one that promises joy and laughter and good cheer. It means evenings spent in the Mafia HQ dipping cookies in hot chocolates. It means snowball fights with the Property Police ‘til they all collapse laughing. It meant gifts and warmth and friendship. It seems it doesn’t anymore.

He misses Mini, misses their misadventures, their schemes, their twin grins upon a successful prank. He misses Jimmy and Martyn and Grian too, the versions of them unburdened by the Red, by this world. Grian has long been lost to the rush and bloodshed of Scar’s adoration; Jimmy’s eyes simmer with flame;. Martyn is loyal to a king draped in scarlet. 

So is BigB, of course. But he had joined for friendship and stayed for the camaraderie of the army. He can no longer tell what Martyn wants; because though his eyes shine green, his heart glows red. Perhaps he has been lost to admiration too.

BigB sometimes thinks that he’s barely holding on to himself. Sometimes he imagines that he hasn’t changed all that much. Sometimes he doesn’t recognise himself in the mirror with his diamond armour pristine, his shield shined, hair dragged out of his face by a red headband, eyes colder than they were before.

He wears green like a cloak of holly leaves and Christmas wreaths, while red surges around him, a flowing river  dancing in the eyes of his enemies, in the eyes of his friends. 

There is no use in trying to break down the door, and he’s secluded enough on the mountain that no one will find him, at least this morning. But, he might be able to sleep away the bone deep exhaustion that clings to him like frostbite if he takes a nap. He can only hope.

When he drifts off, he dreams of a swirling mass of reds and greens, a pine forest in a storm of scarlet, and opens his eyes to hear that the red has claimed three lives.

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Winter doesn’t end, but those who herald it fall under a rain of arrows, so BigB is left alone. The solitude looms above him, a hulking creature of snow and ice and frost.

He has the clarity of mind to pull the no kill pass from its frame above the staircase, gripping the lifeline as he leaves the Cookie Castle. He draws the weather around himself, a reminder of his lost friends that strengthens his resolve.

The red seethes in his veins, threatens to wrap around the throat of his enemies and  bring the server under his wrath. It’s irrational; fear and anger and isolation all braided into a single rope. BigB has seen it all before.

Is this how it ends? 

He goes out with a deception and cactus spines in his back, the no kill pass tucked into his palm.

When Grian falls, so do the first flurries of snow, flooding the grass where BigB had made his last stand, slain in the mud of the lake. With each falling flake the damage is swarmed under a miasma of crystalline snow, piling up layer by intricate layer.

A gale builds in the silence, wind howling through the castles and tunnels and the hollow absences where players once lived. Roofs are peeled away, nails ripped from wooden planks, walls crumble inwards. The snow only flurries harder and heavier.

The sun sets; the moon rises. Still the storm does not stop.

Is this how it ends? 

Rain thunders, the river swells and bursts at the banks washing away the stain of Cleo’s blood. The platform above Dogwarts splinters then cracks, sweeping their lives and livelihoods away. Snow and sand mingle, weighing upon the bunker’s roof until the pillars collapse, crushing the canary’s wings. 

It is almost as if no one had stepped foot here. A new sun beats down, erases the snow that erased the players. BigB, frozen in his ice cocoon, does not awake where he fell. He dreams of an endless void and opens his eyes in an unfamiliar world.

This is how it ends. The cycle begins again.

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thank you to all the mods and contributors for all their hard work - @treebarkzine has been such a fantastic experience

special thanks to @akcioma and @matcha-fawn - I couldn't have done this without you <3 wonderful at your crafts, wonderful as people

I cannot wait for everyone to see it, coming soon 👀👀

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Looking for something to do this Holiday Season? Perhaps something that involves Hermitcraft and Coloring? ☀️

Well, not to worry! The Coloring With Hermits Zine is available for download!

The zine includes 50 Hermitcraft-inspired coloring pages, both in a PDF-booklet and in a Google Drive to download right to your computer, for free! With a white background version or a transparent version, each piece is ready for both traditional and digital coloring.

The Google Drive, which includes each piece available for direct download, is available here!

The PDF-booklet is available here!

Want to show off your colored-in pieces? Tag us and use the hashtag #CWHart so we can see it!

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Meet @akcioma and @twice-past!

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Twitch is gonna start kinda censoring queer people and it would be really helpful if you could read the next few sentences and then also go to a link and click the word vote.

They're implementing a new rule where if you discuss "sensitive social issues" at all you have to flag your streams as such, these issues include things like war and political unrest but also any lgbtq topics (once again our existence is political).

Essentially a streamer will have to choose between never ever mentioning anything queer (or even just discussing their own life if they're queer themselves) or flagging every stream with "sensitive social issues" and scaring away 90% of viewers.

If you have a twitch account you can go here and log in and click vote. They do listen. Please vote.

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inspired by @pawwlick’s post

the wings covering his face is SO clever i just had to draw it