#[and everyone elses videos which will just Keep Coming™️]

[tango-but-everywhere]

Cheering on the Dungeon Master (and the Champion)!

Etho, Hermitcraft 9 episode 13

[ID: a minecraft screenshot from hermitcraft 9, taken in the lobby and scoreboard area of Decked Out 2. Gem and Hypno are hanging out in the scoreboard itself, where Cub, Bdubs and Tango are standing on the ground. From left to right: Gem’s turned to the left of the image, standing or perhaps jumping on Grian’s head on the scoreboard. She’s wearing a mix of diamond and netherite armour with emerald and amethyst trim, and an elytra. Cub is standing in front of his own head on the scoreboard, but he’s looking to the right toward Tango. He’s in full netherite plus elytra, trimmed with copper. Hypno is standing on his own head on the scoreboard, facing the viewer. He’s only wearing diamond boots and an elytra. Bdubs is crouching close to the viewer but turned away, toward Tango. He’s the only one not wearing an elytra, instead wearing a netherite chestplate along with a mix of chainmail and netherite, trimmed with diamond and gold. Finally, Tango is armourless, missing even his dungeon master hood. All he has is an elytra. He’s holding something, but the view of what it is is obscured by Bdubs. He’s facing the left of the image but looking more toward the viewer. Finally, the very edge of Etho’s hand is visible in the bottom right corner of the image. End ID]

[anneapocalypse]

1, 6, 8, 22 👀

For the 🔥choose violence 🔥 ask game!

Disclaimer: provocative name aside, I am not actually trying to be mean here, these are just my opinions offered for Entertainment Purposes™️, and I'm not mad at anyone who has a different opinion.

1. the character everyone gets wrong

Trick question, it is not possible for everyone to be wrong about anything in Dragon Age fandom because that implies that there's something everyone agrees on. 😉

jk jk that's a cop out. But seriously, for any question that says "everyone" just assume I'm making a wobbly-hand gesture next to it and we all understand hyperbole. Okay.

I think at this point I'm probably at least somewhat known for spreading the good word of Sera. 😉 And at this point I really don't think most misconceptions about her are malicious--I remember a day when Sera was much more widely hated, but she isn't anymore, which is nice! I think some of the more out-there takes on Sera (and about the Friends of Red Jenny) just come from that fact that she actively deflects personal questions until she trusts the Inquisitor, and not everyone looks past the surface-level answers she gives to realize there's more to it. My go-to example is the idea that she magically knew archery from birth and no one ever taught her anything (she didn't, and someone did). Between her dialogue, and World of Thedas, it's possible to put together a fair amount about the timeline of her childhood, when Lady Emmald died, the history of Red Jenny, etc.

But it does take some close attention and some digging and some math (ugh), and let's be real, none of us can know everything about every character! I'll just keep writing about her, because I love her.

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

Honest to god, for me personally: no one. Maybe that'll change one day, but I hang with a lot of people who ship a lot of ships and none of them bother me. I have like one NoTP in the vast canon that is Dragon Age and you probably don't even know who it is because I don't care enough to talk about it. Hell, I have mutuals who ship it, and it doesn't bother me. You guys are cool.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

This isn't like One Opinion, but a more overarching Thing: in general I think it would be great if there was more understanding of like, How Video Games Are Made, in general. I think it would lead to more focused and productive criticism of games better targeted at where the problems in development actually are. I feel like I see a lot of things that are almost certain attributable to Process Issues attributed instead to Active Malice. On the flip side, it's frustrating to point out something cool and have people always respond with "Well Bioware is too stupid to have done that on purpose," like there aren't writers and designers in this industry who are incredibly passionate about their work and the themes they can weave into it even at the level of chaos they're forced to work within.

idk. I think perspective is a good thing. Read Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier. Check out Mark Darrah's YouTube channel.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

I think because they're such wonderfully complex and well-developed characters, and because romances, the companions are always the juggernauts in the fandom and they always will be. And I love those characters, too. But one of my favorite things about the Dragon Age universe is the many wonderful minor characters where we get to see just enough of their story to make me feel like they do have a whole life they're living just offscreen somewhere, and set my imagination off running. CAN I HEAR IT FOR MY BOY SLIM COULDRY AND HIS FIFTEEN COUSINS 💖

[camtankerous]

please please talk to us about actual canary jimmy and those flour bastards

AH. okay well. If u insist

Okay im typing this on my phone as i pass out so pls excuse any mistypes and long winding sentences. This is a stream of consciousness that youve just uncorked my friend

ANYWAY. I really really love canary-and-coal-miner team rancher art, right? And i love birds, and strip mining in minecraft, so i thought. Well! What if i came up with a funny little au where tango is a coal miner and jimmy is his little canary buddy?

Of course, actual coal mining is very scary, and i only write funny goofy things, so this is Mined Craft™️ coal mining. Anyway, tango takes up a job working for some unnamed mining company working under TFC, since i love his mining videos

I havent decided which other hermits to include yet? Im def including grian, joel, and lizzy, since theyre often featured in jimmy’s non-minecraft videos. I dont want to include too many and risk bogging down the story bc i get too caught up in writing accurate voices for everyone, but i might also write in some cameos of bdubs and etho or something. I want to include scott but im afraid i wont be able to properly balance a characterization of him hamming up on the “why yes my ex husband DID disappear under mysterious circumstances and i got most of his items. Why do you ask :)” facade while also deep down being quite sad and upset about jimmy just vanishing off the face of the earth. And then if i DID balance it properly im afraid it would come off more angsty than intended

ANYWAY. Uh. I dont know much lore about hermitcraft bc im still catching up on the lore-heavy videos (i like to just listen to people build/design things while i strip mine in my own world), but i’m thinking there’s enough wacky magic hijinks that i could justify my idea

My idea being that jimmy actually wasnt ALWAYS a canary, he wound up getting turned into one due to [redacted] (bc i havent come up with that part yet and am not particularly pressed to do so). Jimmy used to be a canary hybrid but now he’s full canary - still the same on the inside, but now he’s a tiny bird that loves to cause problems

None of his friends know this happened to him, or else they would have been working hard to get him back to normal. Instead, grian notices two things about this particular canary: he’s way more belligerent and vocal than the other canaries, hardly acting like a prey animal at all, and he seems to be prone to winding up in the parts of the mine that get gas leaks. He’s actually starting to get concerned that this poor little bastard bird has brain damage at this point and thats why hes Like That

So, anyway, grian and the others start calling this canary Timmy, bc it kind of reminds them of their missing friend who was also a canary hybrid and a little shit with terrible luck. They tend to keep timmy on the sidelines bc theyre worried hes been through too much and dont want him passing out anymore

Then, along comes tango! Tango, a blazeborn, is of course a major safety risk inside of a mine where gas leaks and combustibles are common. they trust him well enough to be careful and not blow himself up, but they also cant send him down the usual mineshafts, so they have him working mostly near the deepest parts of the cave, away from the coal veins and closer to the lava pits that he can withstand easier, so he winds up mining alone for the most part

And they think, hey, this is perfect! Now we have someone we can send timmy with so that he’s not cooped up all day. So tango winds up spending several hours a day just exploring deep caves and talking to himself, hanging out with this weird little bird that grian and joel love to bully

Anyway, long story short, this is me indulging in my own personal love of tiny animals and basically writing about tango going “ive had timmy for one day but if anything happened to him i’d blow this place up with myself in it”. Its just dumb little fluffy stuff like jimmy and tango doing back and forth whistle calls (jimmy of course being safely tucked away in an oxygen chamber the whole time), tango absolutely decking his room out with lots of perches and things bc he noticed jimmy hates cages, and tango spending his free time walking around with a bird nestled in his hair

Mostly this is just snapshot scenes in my head, stuff like grian explaining to tango how timmy got his name and what not. But yea this has been taking over my brain for weeks now!!!! Please help me i still need to finish my other wips!!!!!!!!!!

[polyamorouspunk]

Crush stuff! Just like all of it lol im nosey

Ah okay sooo this can also be a recap for everyone lol so we met at an Ice Nine Kills concert, I was standing in line and I put my earbuds in to listen to a true crime podcast because I was there super early, and like right as I hit play a truck pulled up in front of me and everyone else in line and this guy and his little brother hopped out and this guy was like kind of dressed up and vaping so I gave him a once-over, said “yup that guy looks like an asshole and is never going to talk to me” and went back to ignoring him until he opened his big mouth and started talking to everyone around me so I was like UGH fine and I pulled my earbuds out and I’m like well this guy just seems to talk to anything that moves I guess so we chatted with the people around us for a bit and I noticed his brother was a bit more socially awkward because his older brother was this kind of big presence so I, ever the one to make sure no one feels left out, started talking to his brother mostly and we got on really well. Eventually we were in line with this girl (217 my beloved) and it was the 4 of us during the show. I clearly had a huge crush on this guy, he clearly had a huge crush on 217, I talked to his brother mostly because he was really focused on 217 and not us which was totally fine but I was like lmao yeah there’s no way a guy this hot is looking at someone like me and his brother joked that he was our “dad” and I’m like haha yeah so I’m here and I have little sister vibes I guess. Ended up following 217 on social media to talk to her and then through her found him and we ended up talking every day for weeks now. Jokingly was like lol I’m going to see this movie with you which we ended up doing a double-feature where we cuddled and held hands and he played with my hair a bit which was like “so you told me you didn’t like me back so do you hold hands with all of your friends or-” and he was like yeah I like you back a bit and I’m like alright but he’s A Mess™️ and doesn’t want a relationship right now and he’s A Mess™️ and I don’t want a relationship With Him™️ right now, so we’re friends, we flirt, we hold hands, maybe we can kiss tomorrow 👉🏻👈🏻 but I keep worrying I’m going to scare him off and he keeps assuring me I’m not going to and he keeps being like idk what you see in me and I’m like idk a lot? I mean like did he make me want to smash my head against a wall today yes but boys are stupid so-. He’s Really Fucking Hot™️ he has a ton of tattoos and sends me shirtless selfies and today he sent videos of him doing screamo (yes he can scream) to whatever was playing in the background while being shirtless and I was staring at his tattoos. His favorite Disney movie is How To Train Your Dragon so I bought him a Toothless Build-A-Bear and I made a necklace for him with his chosen name in beads (he hates his birth name, I love it, he has a chosen name instead but I haven’t adjusted to using it/not sure if I’m going to). We have another date tomorrow so we’ll be doing stuff tomorrow (hopefully kissing). He’s very braggadocios and Over The Top™️ (he jokes that he’s fruity, he kind of is) like yesterday when I was on FT with him he was like see that hotel all the way over there I can hit a target from all the way over there from here in my truck I’m a really good marksman and I’m like mhm okay and then he’s like I pissed off a BUNCH of my friends today and it wasn’t my fault and I’m like mhm okay-. A lot of times when he talks I just nod and go “mhm”. We like to one-up each other. Yesterday on FT I was like my posters don’t stay on my wall and he was like use those poster stick things and I’m like they don’t work on plaster and he was like yeah they do, you’re doing it wrong and I was like fine why don’t you come over and show me how to do it and he’s like maybe I will and I’m like fine then go ahead. I don’t have much nice to say about him except that he was like honestly really polite on our last date and like It Felt Like A Date™️ and he’s hot. I mostly tell him he’s stupid. We flirt with insults (unless I’m feeling extra flirty).