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I finished the roughs for my Joel animation! While this is far from finished, I would still appreciate if you threw this a look as it'll take awhile to finish proper and is already 600+ unique frames, at the very least the last minute I'm very proud of 👉 👈

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Heh...I guess you could say I'm a pretty tuff guy😼

I fucking love the whole watchers protecting joel and creating wild life for him theory (forgot who originally made this but once I find the post again I'll update this with credits to them:]) Because do you know how pissed they must have been to get not a single bit of bloodthirst, anguish or anger, or any any reaction they were able to feed on? He was content and calm and laughing around with the ghosts when his trap didn't work. The watchers wasted their energy on the mad dog, the wolf. Without realising that he had domesticated himself.

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I fucking love the whole watchers protecting joel and creating wild life for him theory (forgot who originally made this but once I find the post again I'll update this with credits to them:]) Because do you know how pissed they must have been to get not a single bit of bloodthirst, anguish or anger, or any any reaction they were able to feed on? He was content and calm and laughing around with the ghosts when his trap didn't work. The watchers wasted their energy on the mad dog, the wolf. Without realising that he had domesticated himself.

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Heh... this is 100% totally out of character for me... but I made a wild life joel playlist!! 👀(It's still in the works, tho)

Art belongs to @selurr :]]]

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I'm not an avid scar pov watcher, but whilst looking at songs to put in my wild life joel playlist I found this and it kinda reminds me of all the lore people did for scar? Idk do with it what you will... and if everyone already knew about this song and its in every scar playlist then erm shush 😾

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WL!Winner Imagery Thoughts

Since the Wild Life finale was yesterday I thought I would share my thoughts on what the winner’s celestial symbolism should be in the form of a very long tumblr post, because what else do I have to do with my time?

Spoilers for the Wild Life SMP finale and winner + long post

Firstly a big congrats to Joel for winning!!! It's very deserved and he worked so hard for it, so GG!!

Like I said above, I’ve got some thoughts about what celestial body we should use to represent him as a winner and so I’m going to share them with whoever stumbles upon this.

[NOTE: Anything I say here is not meant to attack anyone who has different opinions or belittle anyone. I’m doing this for fun and to share my thoughts, not to hurt anyone's feelings. I love you all, do whatever you want forever.]

Now as funny as all of the “he should be car” jokes are (seriously they’re hilarious to me), I don't want to take away from his win by making it a joke, especially since we already have someone who isn’t fully accepted as a serious winner. (IDC if it was April Fools, Cleo you will always be a winner in my heart)

So far for each of the winners we have;

Sun - Grian

Stars - Scott

Moon - Pearl

Mars - Martyn (some people say Comet/Meteor but Mars is the most popular)

Earth - Scar

Pluto - Cleo (this depends on your personal headcanons as well but I like it, and this post isn’t about the intricacies of mine)

I’ve also seen a few people say Mars or Meteor, but this becomes confusing with Martyn’s symbolism and takes away from Joel’s win as well. I want to avoid that as much as possible because he deserves the same respect as the other winners.

Other ones I’ve seen are; Chariot, Supernova, White Dwarf, Shooting Star, Neutron Star, Jupiter, Mercury, and I’m sure there are more. None of these really stick for me so I’m going to go ahead and add to the list.

Usually, I’ve stayed out of discussions about winner symbolism in the past and left it up to the more brainy fans, but I have thought about what different players could be from time to time since I absolutely love space. When my older sibling said Venus it got my mental hamster going on its wheel.

Venus has been a popular planet in history for an incredibly long time and in many different cultures. It’s the second brightest object in the night sky (second to the Moon) and has a fascinating synodic cycle (how it moves through the sky). This movement causes it to get to a certain distance from the Sun to make it look like it’s disappearing from the sky for several days and then reappearing on the other side of it. Because of this, Venus can appear before sunrise in the morning or after sunset in the evening, but it never seems to reach the top of the sky. This has led to it being known by two other names, Morning Star and Evening Star. It also has many other names in different cultures and it wasn’t until the 13th century that it was given the name Venus, but I won't go into all of that today.

Venus has lots and lots of history around it mythologically, having been portrayed as both feminine and masculine and even as two figures at once. It’s known for representing love, war, beauty, and relationships—and it just isn’t quite right for Joel.

So after doing my extra research on Venus, I found that it wasn’t really the best fit (sorry Kat, not enough talk about family for it to cut it /hj). Even with the interesting parallel of Grian and Joel’s dynamic and how Venus goes from one side of the Sun and ends up on the other, it was too much of a stretch. I was going to stop here but then I got thinking about other planets and my mind wandered to the seventh planet from the sun.

You all know and love to make jokes about his name, Uranus! (a little pet peeve of mine, it’s pronounced your-un-us NOT your-anus)

Uranus is one of two Ice Giants and has the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It’s named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky, the father of Kronos, but it has been argued that it has more mythological relevance with my favorite boy Prometheus. You know, the Titan that ticked off the gods by stealing fire for mortals and now has to have his liver eaten by eagles for eternity? Yeah, my boy.

This planet is known for being the planet of freedom and revolutionary vision. It represents the urge for change, the ability to visualize new possibilities, and “breaking through”. Much like how Joel was trying a new tactic for winning this season, Uranus is known symbolically for defying tradition and embracing change and originality.

So, it’s known for breakthroughs, extremes, innovation, and rebellion. Sounds about right for Joel, but I didn’t want to stop there. Doing more digging I looked for other similarities between the two of them.

A lot of what I found fit Joel’s character pretty well, but mostly from past seasons; eccentric, strange, unique, unpredictable, and untamed (although Joel is always strange /lh) but I was looking for something more current, something that was all about family. I did find the word wild used and referred to a few times though which was great.

My search was getting repetitive, everyone had the same things to say about Uranus’s symbolism and I was looking for someone to go more in-depth. But eventually, I made a breakthrough (how fitting)—the word “reformation”, which Oxford defines as “the action or process of reforming an institution or practice”. Bingo baby!

I looked further into this side of Uranus, the sort of things that use the wild aspects of this sort of personality in meaningful and productive ways. Lots of people were saying that negative expressions of Uranus include irresponsibility and rebelliousness without a cause—things that kept Joel from winning in the past—but I found someone who said this;

“Uranus asks us to adopt a humanitarian spirit and global mindset, allowing us to live as one unified being.”

This implies that to reach the positive expressions of Uranus—things like progressiveness, ingenuity, and enlightenment—a person under this planet would need to start looking beyond themselves as a singular goal and to care for and support others. To “live as one unified being” the way one might say a family should work together as a unit for the benefit of everyone involved. In other words, to use their eccentric and wild personality to help others as well as themself.

So that is why I propose that we start using the planet Uranus to symbolize Joel’s victory—an equally wild and unpredictable symbol that can step up and help others to help himself.

And what was Joel’s entire Wild Life PoV about? Dom Toretto Flipping his previous tactic of being an insane loner /j on its head and making friends by helping everyone else as well as himself. He used his wild nature and ability to commit to the bit to his advantage and won the whole series as the last green name, last yellow name, and last man standing.

Now, I know it doesn't fit the rhyme that’s been going around, but I can’t think of anything else that fits better and there's always next season for more rhyming words. (Grian did say see you next season, if it doesn't happen IDK what to say about your rhyme, shrug)

Also, not important to characterization but a fun bit of trivia anyway, Uranus was the sixth planet discovered by the ancient Greeks and Romans and it’s the seventh planet from the Sun. So regardless of whether you consider Joel the sixth or seventh winner, there’s a fun number coincidence.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense or fit, I wrote it all on minimal sleep and without my glasses. Also, I haven't watched all of Joel’s life series PoV yet so maybe someone with better qualifications should do this. Anyway, if you made it this far I love you and I wish you well. Have a doodle that I also did without my glasses for your patience and to maybe sway you some more.

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I have this really great idea, that I'm posting here cuz my memory is so dog shit and I need to have it somewhere or else It'll fall into the black void that's in my brain😔🤚 okay so like yknow how the wild life symbol is a dice, and yknow how theres 6 seasons of the life series (I do believe cleo counts as a winner however real life only being an episode means I don't count it as a series lol) anyway I wanna have all the different joels on the cube 😼 this idea isn't original at all like I know alot of people do this for their favourite characters in fandoms (I think?) But it's still an idea I wanna do😁😁😁

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I would like to share my thoughts on this as I relistened to all these songs just to make sure I was right lmao. Whilst I do believe all these songs represent c joel in some way, I believe only bitter medicine, unravelling, icarus, the garden and sleeping giants represent wild life joel 😼😼

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lost a bet to @longlivethedragons and here’s joel’s victory fanart. welcome to the winners gang, joel!

(lizzie, you’ve won in my mind)

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Lmao

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References/Details:

The Chariot is the 7th Major Arcana, and Wild Life is arguably the 7th Life Series

Upright Chariot: Victory, overcoming conflict, and moving forward

The constellation "The Charioteer" is next to the constellation "Gemini"

Two creepers to represent Joel's two deaths to creeper eggs

Enderpearl to represent how he ended the series

Reins to show his control over chaos

Dripstone, snails, and triviabot on the chariot

Cars

Lightning bolt because of Jupiter associations

[spooksthenoodles]

The winner of Wild Life is a…Rocketship?

Anyways I’m so happy that Joel won but now I have to come up with something fun for his mural

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it was always about FAMILY

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I think he enjoyed the game 💚

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I don't anything about this celestial symbols stuff but reading everyone disagreeing has made me come to a realisation this is 100 joels symbol:

No but seriously guys the symbols aren't cannon so think what you want to think like joel can be Saturn,jupiter,Mars,an asteroid,a comet,one of a planets moons or a bloody car he could even be a spaceship, just remember to have fun :]]

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HAPPY WIN KING YOU DESERVED IT.