#and no sounds of traffic

[musings-of-miss-j]

[hugsandchaos]

Here’s a list of times Danny has been spotted by the townspeople as Phantom outside of ghost fights!

1.) Laying down half asleep on a traffic light post, no one saw him fall

2.) Standing outside on the street during a big blizzard sipping what people are guessing was hot cocoa

3.) On the roof of Casper High looking at the sky

4.) In Casper High’s library browsing the outer space section

5.) In the park playing with a ghost puppy, who unfortunately kept turning into a large ghost dog and growling at anyone who tried to come close (it’s worth noting that Phantom kept trying to calm him down and apologizing, with the exception of Maddie, who seemed to make the ghost dog even angrier)

6.) Having a friendly chat with a large ghost wolf in the nearby woods

7.) On the street during a blizzard, waving at a large ghost resembling a yeti and going “Hi, dad! :D”

8.) Asleep on one of those couches in the local library with a book on astrophysics on his chest

[teddy-bear-d]

Btw did anyone else start paying attention to the snail noises after Grian asked Jimmy if he recognized them?

Because I don’t know for the rest of them but one of those sound bites sounded incredibly like Oli (Orionsound) doing his Oowiee thing and now I’m curious if the snails were just straight up voiced by Oli

Edit: Oli confirmed on his twitter that he did in fact voice act for the snails (pretty epic)

[astrowarr]

gem calling pearl her "poor red pearl" was so... GOD she's so possessive, and it's a huge part of her character!! she has no clue what she wants, or more accurately, she knows what she wants, she just can't have it all at once. she indiscriminately can't let go of anything, be it her love or her grudges. it all holds a place in the shadowed, cluttered halls of her heart; she just picks and chooses what she wants to drag to the light.

she never even let go of the feeling of the boogeyman curse, searing just under her skin. which reminds me, her referring to a yellow pearl as "red" (obviously because she can't let go of secret life) was so interesting because if anyone was closer to red, it was gem. she lured multiple people to the deadly traps on green for the fun of it, and continually promised her allies she would help them get kills. but when she "helps" them, she's setting up the trap for them, doing all the luring, all the work... it's her!!! god i'm in love with her she's so perfect she's the worst

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

wildcard idea: all of them can cuss

also the snails are still there

*insert Joel's censor tone here*

[glowsticcc]

new life series pitch: every life (also known as worst life)

it’s every gimmick from every life series all at once

there’s three lives each, lives can be gained back by killing other players

every hour a new boogeyman is chosen, the boogeyman has to kill another player by the end of the hour or risk losing a life

each player is soulbound to another player, sharing lives

each of the players has an individual timer, each counting down to the next secret challenge they have to do. if they can’t complete it within the timeframe they lose a life

at the top of every hour a new wildcard is in play

and lastly for one of the wildcards everyone switches to vr for an hour

[mayloony]

Grian and his silly little death games

[raileurta]

Somebody has got to draw Etho's washing machine as an actual washing machine that's just painted like a magma and Grian is just dragging it around. 😂

[solidaritygaming-fanblog]

You! Yes, you! It would be much appreciated if you could reblog or reply to this post with the following information:

Every single romantic mcyt ship involving Jimmy SolidarityGaming you know off the top of your head.

Every alternate name you know each pairing as.

The characters involved in each pairing.

The fandom, series, or SMP each pairing originates from (List multiple if needed).

I am conducting some research about ship popularity and similar, regarding Solidarity Gaming in particular. I am ripping some stats from ao3, but think general recognition stats should also be good for my spreadsheet.

I originally accepted poly ships, but after about 4 minutes of combing ao3 stats, I think the poly ships will be saved for a later time because there are so many oh my god...

I will stop counting reblogs or replies on this post about a week from now! Counting is currently: Closed.

If you want to hear about this when the time period finishes, follow the tag #FinnysDock. I'd appreciate it if only romantic ship names/ships were listed; please avoid duo or platonic pairing names if you are able (ie. Seablings, Rancher Duo).

[pinkflames]

Partition to rename the Window's curse to the Black Widow's curse. It just fits soo well

[intrawebs]

puppy dog eyes

inspired by this clip from mumbo's session 5:

[mxmarsbars]

my piece for the fifth edition of the @trafficzine :D

check it out here!! it would mean a lot <3

[improvapocalyps]

"Okay, yeah. If you kill a red name, killed a red name-" "I'll give you a life for that. That's the deal." "We'll be back together like buddies again, Bdubs."

In participation of Extreme Timed Challenge Gift Exchange hosted by @extremetimedchallengeexchange!

[gifs, full storyboard, behind-the-scene rambles under cut]

past 48h animatics: MCYTETC2023, ETC2023

[Red Lives-Suspicion; Prayer-Determination; Fireworks]

Fiddled with gradient maps this time for some additional colors :D I would have colored in the eyes as well, but I didn't have enough energy left when the event hit the 47th hour xD

Also played around with camera movements. Respect to people who do fan edits and other forms of video/ assets editing 'cause keyframes are so 😭

13 hours to draft storyboard this time! Last year I used 16 but with waaay more frames idk how I accomplished that. Probably bc this year I'm drawing more than three(3) characters lmao

Progress Timeline:

[13th hour] finished storyboard/ draft (plany off time...) [25th hour] lineart for the first 10 seconds (wuh oh) [36th hour] lineart for the first 25 seconds (oh shit oh fuck gotta shorten it) [45th hour] finished Bdubs' part (NOOO I DONT HAVE TIME FOR ETHO)

ngl kinda glad i cut it in half rn 'cause i'd have to spend time figuring out shadowDog's design /lh

Designs I used for Lizzie and Joel (old art from 2022 and 2021 respectively) (holy shit i've been here for 3 years???)

Joel *shakes fist* i hate u and ur stupid beard

[Lyrics vibe/scene planning; hours before disaster]

I think most of the drawn parts didn't deviate from the initial idea. Mostly timing adjustments and building upon the vibes. The parts that were changed the most was the "And you caused it (×3 combo)".

Went from "vague flashbacks" to "following Etho and co. out of the cave and back to Scott's base while implying who Etho blames with single character focus shots".

The first one is Scott because he suggested the idea. Like, obviously he's to blame. It's not like Etho went along and cemented the deal himself. Scott totally peer-pressured him into it.

The second one is Etho because... well the scene ends up kind of being like. The sight of the Snow Fortress triggering a flashback. (EthosLab the content creator deliberately turned his camera towards the Snow Fortress and holds it there for a second instead of looking at the huge lava pillar right in front of him. What is WRONG with him.)

But also like. Clocks are kind of special to Bdubs right. Whoever gave him a clock basically has his (temporary) loyalty or at the least earned a favor from him. So like. If he hadn't gifted Bdubs the clock, which signifies a closer(?) bond, maybe Bdubs wouldn't be so devoted to him (wrong). Also serves as a call-back/ reference to the "Prayer-Determination" shot ("pray with clock" in the scene planning screenshot). I like to think that Bdubs weighted his options and thought about "if he will kill/ who to kill" a lot while following the other Red Names. And in that scene he's like, convincing/ motivating himself. Remembering who/ what he's doing this for.

(It is also meant to be part of my giftee's other prompt: "an exploration of the doubt one or both of them felt during the heart transfer that didn’t happen after Bdubs killed Lizzie, and the following guilt Etho felt." The Etho section starting from "we're setting fire to our inside for fun" til the end of the animatic is based on that prompt.)

After a brief period of self-blame, it's time to shift it onto someone else! Because you're in denial! If Bdubs hadn't gone red, then Etho wouldn't have to offer the deal. If Bdubs hadn't want to stay as teammates, then he wouldn't agree to the deal. If Bdubs wasn't so devoted to Etho, then he wouldn't have attacked Lizzie and gotten himself killed.

Then the animatic ends with the end of the session :D

...That's longer than I expected but also not that long. If you read through all that, tysm :] Tell me your thoughts! Have a good day/ evening/ night :D

[kitskiis]

The most kills each player has gotten on another person in the life series (excluding real life smp)

Someone has probably already made this before but I've never seen it so I made this mainly for my own convenience but I'm posting it here anyway. Some of these kills are technicalities (and others were also excluded bc of technicalities) so some numbers on this list are debatable but I tried to make it as accurate as possible

Scott: Joel - 7 (Ngl I laughed. The entire reason I made this list was for this statistic I wish more people acknowledged how comically violent scott's retaliations are against Joel's antics sometimes. Literal tom and jerry moment)

Joel: Cleo - 6 (really surprising actually. I've watched all of Joel's povs like twice and have never realized how often he killed Cleo)

Grian: Scar - 5 Jimmy - 6? (one kill is questionable due to it being the warden kill in SL so if anyone should be credited its Etho, which is why I'm still including Scar on this list)

Scar: Etho - 6

Etho: Scar - 5 (worlds healthiest father son duo)

Martyn: Tango - 4 (this number + how much their characters clash make me think these 2 would have an incredible alliance. and by incredible I mean it would crash and burn and I would love every second of it)

Pearl: Cleo - 4

Impulse: Pearl - 3

Ren: Cleo - 3 

Bdubs: Impulse, Grian, Skizz - 2

Gem: Scott & Pearl - 2 (Technically also Etho if including LimL)

Skizz: Bdubs - 2

Bigb: Scott - 2

Jimmy: Lizzie - 2 (you could probably make some kind of canary narrative out of this but I'm kind of a vocal hater of the 'the curse got passed on to lizzie' concept so I'm not gonna be the one to do it)

Cleo: Scott - 2 (both of which were on request of Scott)

Mumbo: Joel, Bdubs, Impulse (Scott and Scar could also be included) - 1

Tango: Joel, Jimmy, Etho, Martyn, Bdubs - 1

Lizzie: Pearl, Jimmy, Bigb - 1

[zebarius]

Now that Scar's won, it's that time when everyone comes together to choose the winner's motif/symbol.

Grian is the Sun, Scott the Stars, Pearl the Moon, and Martyn is Mars.

Now what of Scar?

I definitely like the idea of Scar being the Earth, as many people have proposed.

I've also have seen some people propose Pluto.

However, I'm not a big fan of this one.

My reason for not agreeing with this option is pretty simple. Pluto, while sharing some similarities with Scar (like loneliness and being an outcast), doesn't really have enough meaningful connections or parallels for it to be used as a motif.

I think that since Scar's theme is so full of flowers this season-- Sunflowers, Poppies, and Lilacs-- this naturally connects back to the Earth, which also ties to a lot of other symbolisms as well, making it the better option out of the two.

So I've decided to throw my vote in for the Earth as Scar's symbol.

I think it just fits, in the end.

The Sun and Moon are both in close relation to Scar, with Pearl and Scar being each other's foil, and the Sun being vital to the Earth (desert duo aaaangst!!!). And the fact that all three are stuck in each other's orbits is perfect.

And on top of all this, is that the Earth is lonely. Just like Scar was this entire season.

The Earth is the only planet we know with such an overflow of life. The only one in this solar system that is covered in plants and animals and people. There is no other planet like it. It is alone in its uniqueness. And just like the Earth is alone in the solar system, Scar was alone in the game.

I think that loneliness, paired with Scar's flower themes, and the relation to the Sun and the Moon, is what makes the Earth such a perfect symbol for Scar.

I feel like any other symbol would leave out important aspects of his character and his story.

Anyways, what are your opinions on the matter? I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Don't hesitate to mercilessly poke holes in my argument. It builds character.

[thatstoomanysausages]

Still have the image of Secret Life Grian fighting desperately for his life in the 1v3.

Sword getting kicked away and him using whatever he could to tick away damage point after damage point.

Knowing that the hits he made would count. That every hit counted towards the end, and every hit made victory a step further away for them.

Knowing that Cleo had gone down during the fight. The lightning had registered vaguely in the back of his mind and he had felt something deep and gravelly in his chest.

Scratching with broken and muddied nails into Scott’s neck, gripping at rocks around and throwing them, dragging them down Gem’s skin. Sinking his teeth into Impulse’s arm when he grips him in an attempt to trap him, probably breaking skin.

Every movement frantic, like a wild animal in a cage, knowing that he was only being released because it was his end.

Fighting violently and leaving them with injuries that would’ve evolved into infections if they hadn’t of died mere hours later.