#also can I just say this was SO sweet from grian and gems pov

[kitskiis]

He keeps doing this I’m gonna cry

[thecoolerliauditore]

big post now that the adrenaline is cooled down a bit. thoughts on each team so far.

overall: ohh I really didn't think I would be enraptured again I really didn't think I would be. Like don't get me wrong I'm not one for wanting the series to end or anything but I was very, very happy about the year long break after Secret Life because it was feeling like quite a lot of content to the point where it was overwhelming.

That break was crucial, I think, to the vibes since I don't know if it's just me but the players just feel like they have so much more energy and excitement for the new season. Etho and Mumbo especially are so quirky this session.

The new mechanic is. shrugs. Really no way to judge it yet seeing as we've pretty much barely seen what it can entail. The fact that everyone has six lives though is making me think some of them are gonna be crazy in future sessions cus that's a ridiculously generous number otherwise and I assume Grian doesn't intend for this season to be twice Third Life's length.

EIGHTEEN PLAYERS! EIGHTEEN PLAYERS! Lizzie, Mumbo, Rendog, Gem 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 I don't have much to add I'm just so happy we're finally getting a season with All of Them. Rendog Ren Ren Diggity Dawg I'm so happy. I'm so happy.

The lag on the server looks um ..... ? Aternos lookin ass. I hope it doesnt impact them too much beyond this episode and they get that fixed cus whoagh that is um bad. Joel being soooo fucking angry about it is so funny please never change Joel.

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Renwood Mound: First of all horrid name but I would be disappointed by anything less sexually suggestive. Second of all please check up on your Treebark mutuals this is a difficult time. Refeeding syndrome might just kill a couple of you I'm so sorry.

I'm not a big Ren/Martyn understander but my dash has been more celebrating their reunion than crying tears of anguish like the other toxic rebounds (ethubs, tango, pearl) that have popped up so I can only assume it's going to be okay we're all gonna make it.

If they do stay as a duo this season is going to be crazy for Martyn specifically I think. He's already gotten the betrayal he wants, he's already achieved the villainous role he so wants to play, and now it's just him and Ren together with no Dogwarts to lead. I genuinely have no idea where this one will go. o7

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BAM Boys: I really hope the "boys" part stays in the name despite Lizzie joining them at the end for my very specific Lizzie headcanons. It would tickle me.

Anyway we're finally freed from the grasps of blue man and get the Scar/Jimmy team up this time with added Lizzie flavour. I'm very excited and like. I've seen a lot of people doubting this team will go far which confuses me because I don't know if you guys are aware but Scar won last season. And Lizzie, despite her early death in SL, really is no pushover either (she had one of the highest body counts in LL and I wish more people talked about that).

Scar specifically is in a great spot with pretty much full diamond armour already. He gets all giddy while mining and says to himself something like "ooh I get to share some with Jimmy!" which is so sweet to me.

Scar remaking the reputation board from Third Life is actually insane. What is he doing.

All this to say I think this team looks wholesome and I'm optimistic for their future. This could be Jimmy's Mounders. Or it could be Fairy Fort 2 idk let's see.

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I think Bigb's possessed again.

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The Hobbits(???): Hilarious to me that they stole Flower Husbands' original branding. Anyway Grumbo is back idk if I know them well enough to make a statement but I'm mentally chucking them into the toxic rebound box in my head just to get the number up.

This is the POV I've seen the least of but they seem fun. I wonder if being out of the horrific environment that was the Southlanders will do any good for Grumbo's relationship. Skizz being there also tends to bring the mood up 400% (unless it's Dogwarts).

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Joel & Gem: IM SO EXCITED. This is pretty much the Bdubs/Joel team-up I wanted originally but now we get Ethubs too which is even more awesome for me. Very cringe take from me but they are both shounen anime.

Despite what Scott says I really don't think they'll "spontaneously combust". They're both high energy and aggressive but historically loyal to the people who accept them, the sample rate for Gem is not exactly scientifically viable but. Vaguely gestures to all of Secret Life.

I kind of wanna see Gem kill Pearl.

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Whatever the fuck the Ethubs + Tango team is called: Why.

No like seriously Tango I thought you hated these bitches why are you third wheeling them. He's also surprisingly Bdubspilled like he sides with him on the horse thing and tries to warn Bdubs about Etho lying later. Like, don't get me wrong I really don't think Tango has spite for Bdubs comparable to like. Pearl for Scott for example but he certainly isn't fond of him after he um Fucking Murdered Him and was completely unapologetic.

I'm not really a Tango guy so I can't speak on what's going on inside his head regarding that it's just. Interesting to observe. At least the brief ranchers interaction was cute (and really funny to see in the background of ethubs yelling at eachother).

Anyway Ethubs are insane. It's so funny to me that their horse argument literally lasted an entire in game day.

It's fun for me specifically because I always viewed Secret Life as somewhat of a soft end/reboot point for the series for multiple reasons - the year long hiatus, scars win bookending things really well, pearl and scotts arcs wrapping up (oh how naive) and, of course, the conclusion ethubs reached.

I think I've made a post before about how beautiful of an ending SL is for Ethubs. The distance allowing them to overcome their own personal issues with Bdubs learning he's capable and to care for people who aren't himself or Etho and Etho learning relationships don't have to be minefields, leading into HC10 where Bdubs moves into the rural countryside away from everything and Etho hanging out with his new coworkers at the post office. They can still talk and visit, of course, but the time away from eachother does them wonders and adds a bit of hope for how they will be in the future.

So how should I even fucking feel about Etho pulling a Limited Life and almost killing Bdubs for a prank. Or Etho asking Bdubs what he's done for him. Or Etho in general being a little shit about the horse thing and Bdubs being equally stubborn.

Bdubs even kinda?? Talks like they're a couple who've gone to therapy with the "I should express how I feel and how I feel is.." and the way he catches himself when he's halfway through yelling. Like I'm not insane you guys hear it too right.

Like don't get me wrong I'm very stuck in my ways of insisting Ethubs isn't really toxic, at least not anymore, but I can totally see someone else being horrified by them and I would cheer them on for it. This episode is especially going to be horrible for that person. At least for me it seems like Bdubs' character development is very real i.e. him rejecting Etho's chestplate with the classic "I can take care of myself", a stark contrast to LL/DL Bdubs and he bites back when Etho is weird.

I have hope for Ethubs is what I'm trying to say and it's totallyyyy not because they're my first ship and I'm biased. I need to figure out what's wrong with Etho and why he's doing this. I saw a post that theorized Etho wanted Bdubs to get mad at him and kill him this season which I'm rotating a bit but I'll have to keep watching. Ethubs girls we're in for it we really are. Tango girls I'm um sorry.

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PICS / the Islanders: My 13th reason why.

Trying to not repeat too much here from whatever happened to me emotionally last night but this is what hell looks like. It's what I expected but like. DAMN. I wasn't expecting it to be. That bad.

Seeing a lot of people say that the team is just. Pearl, The Horrors and Impulse who is just 🧍‍♂️and I don't think that's completely wrong or anything however ☝️I must say that Impulse continues to frighten me and him being here is making me personally shake like a chihuahua. Like I can't really explain his character if you put a gun to my head I just think the guy might have some issues communicating emotions and prefers to hold grudges/be passive aggressive like with the psychological horror that was the impdubs DL POV and I can't imagine him being particularly Good for Pearl. Also he's done several insane things in the past e.g. the Bdubs grudge, laughing at Tango when he tries to kill himself in SL, being excited(??) for gem to kill him in SL, trying to kill Skizz in SL wow wait maybe it's just proximity to gem and scott that fucks this guy up. Idk though I don't trust his ass.

Anyway. Yes like we are all Martyn Inthelittlewooding it up for Pearl in here. I have so many somewhat misogynistic fantasies in my head about her being saved by Gem or Bdubs or Joel or Bigb for that matter. Emotionally that's what I would want. HOWEVER I don't think that would actually be anything that would help Pearl in fact I think she'd just run back to her team because she's loyal like that. So now I kind of just want to see the consequences of her actions. Whittle her down to nothing 💥💥💥💥💥It would break me it genuinely would.

Cleo fucking catching herself and correcting "trauma" to "damage" mid sentence is insane can we kill. can we kill them.

So yeah um I'm excited for this season

[raichett]

if you're comfortable with it and still taking prompts i'd love for u to write abt scarian!! maybe an outsider's perspective on "Well It's Not Quite Narnia, But" :0? or a fun silly pre-dating thing w arm wrestling...or sumn..!! just ideas <3!

As requested, an outside POV of our beloved pair out on a date!

This flash fic can also be found as the second chapter of "Well It's Not Quite Narnia, But -" on AO3.

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COFFEE DATE

Upon first sight of the pair coming in through the door, the bell ringing above as the wind sweeps in and chills her even on the other side of the room, Sheela thinks they’re cosplayers. Or ren-faire goers. Something like that.

It’s mid-afternoon, less than two hours ‘til closing, and the wind howling through the streets of the city has sent most inside, seeking shelter in shops and homes and places of work. It’s past the lunch hour, and the dim light of late autumn has had most already complete any outings already, so it’s pretty quiet in the café. Sheela’s feet ache a little, and the shift’s been dragging long, but she puts on a polite smile anyway and goes over to the table the pair claim, digging her pad and pen out of the pocket of her apron.

They look up at her approach. One looks fairly normal, all things considered: brown-blond hair, freckles, dark eyes, more cute than hot, and smiling politely. He’s wearing red, an almost military style jacket with gleaming gold buttons, over a white shirt and black trousers, a necklace shaped like wings encircling a blue gem hung around his neck; it looks a bit steampunk, and Sheela wonders if there’s a convention in the city she hasn’t heard about, busy as she’s been with her dissertation.

The other man is – not normal. He looks unnatural in some way, like a handsome model photoshopped onto a jpeg background picture of a café interior. His face, scarred though it is, is too smooth, too sculpted, his hair too shiny and rich in colour, his eyes bright enough to give the illusion of coloured contacts rather than a natural iris, and there’s just – something about the way he moves. It’s too fluid to feel human.

He smiles at her, though, his teeth bright white. Sheela flinches a moment, a shiver flashing down her spine: Predator! her hindbrain screams. She swallows, digs into her stubborn experience of having worked in food-related retail for two years, and brings back her polite smile. “Hello, what can I get for you?”

“Ah, yes, um… Grian?” the unnatural man says, eyes leaving her to focus on his companion, uncertainty suddenly humanising him enough for Sheela’s guts to unknot themselves. A tourist, perhaps? He seems unfamiliar with what he should order, relying on his friend to help him.

The other man flicks a moment through the menu on the table. “Two hot chocolates, please,” he says. “Both with cream and marshmallows – it’s sweet, Scar, don’t worry – and…” He flips the menu over to the other side. “One carrot cake and one millionaire shortbread, please.”

“Will that be everything?” Sheela asks as she pens down the order, the script coming to her lips easily.

“Yeah, that’s everything,” the man says. He looks over to his companion – a man likewise in steampunk-like wear, though his is green and gold rather than red and gold – “Don’t worry, you’ll like this. It’ll be sweet, like the honey-fizz you showed me, all right?”

Sheela leaves the table, walking back to behind the counter. It’s impossible not to overhear their conversation, despite the way she tries to focus on pulling out the correct cakes from the display.

“I know, I know,” the strange man – Scar? – replies. “I’ve just – not been in a huma- in a city. For a while. This is a bit new for me.”

Sheela wonders where he comes from, then. It’s not like cafés are an endangered species in little towns and villages, after all.

“And your marketplace was new to me,” the other man returns. “You showed me honey-fizz and I’ll show you hot chocolate. And cakes are cakes, I’ve got to tell you; we’ll split these two between us. And if you don’t like something, we can just order something else.”

“But then you’ll be paying more – and you said my currency won’t work here; I can’t pay you back.”

Definitely a tourist, Sheela thinks as she pops both cakes onto small plates and loads them onto a tray.

“This is my treat, and I’m not going to lose the roof over my head if I buy a couple of extra cakes at the café, I assure you.”

Sheela sprays whipped cream from the container into the tops of both mugs and sprinkles mini marshmallows on top. She puts them on the tray next to the cakes, lifts it up, and brings it over to the table the men are sitting at, by the window and overlooking the street. It’s still pretty grey outside, some loose newspaper flapping in the wind by the kerb. Not the best view, but they’re in a city centre, not a country garden.

“Here you go,” Sheela says as she places the tray down. She unloads the drinks first, and then the plates, not bothering to ask who wants which one if they’re just going to split each in half anyway. “Enjoy,” she smiles, taking the tray away after adding a small pile of napkins to the table.

“Thank you, we will,” probably-Scar answers, the first direct words he’s said to her.

Sheela nods and retreats behind the counter again, busying herself with wiping down the surface there. In the corner of her eye, she sees maybe-Scar poke at the whipped cream and scoop a bit into his mouth from his finger. The other – Grain? Grayson? – rolls his eyes but hides a smile behind his mug.

“Oh! Oh wow, Gri, I love this – what plant does this come from, can we grow it over in Vex?”

“Maybe. I’ll look it up.”

They’re kinda cute together, Sheela thinks as possibly-Scar becomes animated, biting into his half of the millionaire shortbread and gesturing enthusiastically – though wordlessly, manners keeping his mouth closed while he eats – to his companion. The put-upon sigh of the other man is so old-married-couple, as is the fondness softening his eyes, visible even from the other side of the room.

I hope one day I get a partner who looks at me like that, Sheela decides. That would be nice.

[nho-jungle]

this is my addition to the hermitcraft propaganda. this is focused at dsmp fans bc i am one. 

hermitcraft is a long running smp that started in 2012. it runs in seasons, with each season lasting around a year, often just over. they are currently on season 8, and started fairly recently. 

the players on hermitcraft tend to change each season, but i have compiled a list of who i think you might enjoy, based off of your favourite dsmp member!

(feel free to add ur own suggestions too!)

IF YOU LIKE... TOMMYINNIT- 

MumboJumbo: have you got ADHD? do you love how tommyinnit says Things and other people get confused? well then MumboJumbo is the hermit for you! he's absolutely absurd. a spoon. he's also over 6ft tall and built like a brick shit house. insane. this man is an enigma. he's also a cinematographer. who even is this guy. (he also does cool redstone builds and always sounds surprised when they work even tho he's been doing this since 2012.)

BdoubleO100: a rabid chihuahua in the body of a human. truly follows that feral energy that makes up tommyinnit. mans built an entire mountain last season and he's doing it again! crazy! he's also the king of sleep. night is a rare phenomenon on hermitcraft, since bdubs starts clicking his bed at the barest hint of sunset. gotta shweep!

Grian: the stereotypical pick. he's the prankster man, everyone seems to think he's pretty childish and he often has the younger brother role even though he's not the youngest on the server. has started/been majorly involved in two wars. had an alter ego called poultry man who would fly around dropping eggs and spawning chickens everywhere.

RANBOO-

Rendog: lore man lore man!!!! he has a bunch of fun and interesting characters and he puts a lot of thought into his episodes, from his builds to his mc skin, to make sure everything comes together perfectly. I don't watch his hermitcraft stuff but I've seen him via other hermit's povs and he rlly does pick a role and throw himself into it. it's amazing.

PHILZA-

EthosLab: do you like anime kinnies? do you like old gods of minecraft? well let me introduce you to ethoslab! i want to study him in a lab. he causes problems on purposes. he builds super random redstone things. he messes with noteblocks. he was head of shennanigans. his minecraft skin is kakashi hatake from naruto. there was a block named after him in the 2013 april fools update (the EthoSlab). who is this man. i think he also has the longest running minecraft lets play. what the heck.

Grian: bird man. good at flying. chaotic bitch. idk some of the vibes are there.

SAPNAP-

Tangotek: crazy redstone man. builds crazy minigames. idk there aren't actually many similarities here other than they're both often associated with fire in fanworks despite not actually having that much to do with it.

FUNDY-

EthosLab: aforementioned anime kinnie. crazy redstone. idk. Zedaph: in season 7 he built a cave of contraptions which contained these amazing redstone machines that found the most complicated and convoluted ways to perform regular tasks, just for the hell of it. what a guy! Iskall85: they're friends :3. that is all. (actually they both just have very similar Vibes. I have no other way to describe it. it's just Vibes).

SCHLATT-

Cubfan135: (specifically season 6). evil capitalist man (/lh). ran a big corporation with scar. they made profit from a war. idk i dont watch cub, thats all i could think of. GoodTimesWithScar: evil capitalist man with cub in season 6. in season 7 he got voted mayor and then started charging the shops to allow them to be accessed from the road. there was also a big "war" over mycelium. fun times. he's actually a very genuine and sweet guy. also his cat jellie is in the game bc he won a competition or smthin. idk man he loves his cat so much. you know what builds belong to scar bc there's just jelies everywhere.

TECHNOBLADE-

FalseSymmetry: okay listen the mcc teams are being announced as I'm typing this so my brain started thinkin mcc and basically they're both well known for being good at pvp. i dont watch false but i know she has a tumblr so i'd trust her with a knife.

Grian: thinkin mcc again. they teamed for mcc pride. you can go watch that if u want to get grians Vibes while still having a dsmp member present for some familiarity. idk.

NIHACHU-

GeminiTay: a lot of ppl say they like niki's streams bc of the comforting vibes and general chill atmosphere, and I think gem matches that pretty well. cy once said she sounds like fluttershy and tbh i sorta agree. shes an awesome builder and insanely smart and even though she's new this season im already incredibly attatched to her.

TUBBO-

Zedaph: aforementioned cave of contraptions rlly fits tubbo's vibe. i think he's going the mad scientist route this season too. Docm77: another mad scientist. already early on he made this super weird lighting farm thing? i dont even know but i've seen the clip and its MAD. even if you dont watch hermitcraft you should check out that individual clip.

FOOLISH-

literally any of them bc i genuinely belive wholeheartedly that foolish would fit perfectly on hermitcraft if he could manage not to swear. (altho maybe cub bc last season he build a giant pyramid.)

[modernsuperhero]

#also can I just say this was SO sweet from grian and gems pov#gem saying ‘he’s really pathetic. but he’s a good teammate’#and then skizz and mumbo suggesting they kill joel and gem immediately jumps to his defense and calling him ‘our idiot’#and grian joining as well defending him when skizz and mumbo got mad at Joel constantly killing them#meanwhile Joel - completely unaware this is happening - talks about how he feels the need to protect them while they’re in spectator#IM GONNA CRY. THEY MAKE ME SO SICK

He keeps doing this I’m gonna cry