I've been cooking up a magical girls hc au in my head for a while and yk what? I have to start posting art again. Also yes, this is an excuse to draw cute dresses
Joe: We really can't manage to pull together a Hermit Guys' Night, can we?
Scar, shirtless, covered in burns: I don't know, I think it went better than last time.
Bdubs, taped upside down to a tree: Yeah, nobody got arrested this time!
Cub, wearing smeared clown makeup: Guys, I think Wels should go to the hospital. He's complaining about "internal bleeding" or something.
After a longer silence, the girl asked: 'Would you go back? If you could?'
'You mean, without the wave?'
'Yes. Without the wave.'
'Then I'd have gone home, and everyone would have been alive, and I would be a man.'
'Would you rather be that man? Would you change places with him?' asked the ghost girl.
'And not be me? Not know about the globe? Not have met you?'
'Yes!'
Mau opened his mouth to reply and found it choked with words. He had to wait until he could see a path through them.
'How can I answer you? There is no language. There was a boy called Mau. i see him in my memory, so proud of himself because he was going to be a man. He cried for his family and turned the tears into rage. And if he could, he would say "Did not happen!" and the wave would roll backward and never have been. But there is another boy, and he is called Mau, too, and his head is on fire with new things. What does he say? He was born in the wave, and he knows that the world is round, and he met a ghost girl who is sorry she shot at him. He called himself the little blue hermit crab, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever. Will you ask him not to be? Any answer will be the wrong one. All I can be is who I am. But sometimes I hear the boy inside crying for his family.'
'Does he cry now?' asked Daphne, looking down at the ground.
'Every day. But very softly. You won't hear him.'
--Terry Pratchett, "Nation"
(Hey, if you're a Discworld fan and haven't read this book may I recommend it? Also: hey, if you've heard of this Terry Pratchett guy and how great he is, but think Discworld wouldn't be your thing for one reason or another? May I recommend this excellent book as a gateway to Pratchett's writing? It's about upheaval, and grief, and healing. It is beautifully written, and I swear it'll rip out your heart and then put it back in but different. Or, if your heart has already been stricken, it might offer some solace or hope.)
It's funny how only being given 1 minute to draw something can lead to the neatest little drawings, as you're not given any time to panic or stress about insignificant details.
Joel. Joel Joel Joel Joel Joel. Double Life. They were soulmates. Decked out 2 stream, the neck kisses bit. The obsessed bit between them on hermitcraft. The neck kisses playlist made by the real Joel, along with a second playlist related to it, which both still are actively updated.
To put it simply, YouTube is Etho’s bitch. YouTube is happy with this arrangement, clearly. It has commented on so many of Etho’s videos man. Etho is a YouTube og, he is one of the platform’s favorites.