#bc of the pandemic

[teashadephoenix]

no okay the wildest thing about this post is that before hitting 0 i hesitated to be like 'oh wait i went and saw trixie in march'

yeah girl you saw trixie in march TWENTY TWENTY

Bonus if you list them in the tags!

[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

great news whores, i have entered the tumblr vernacular apparently

[halorvic]

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

[hychlorions]

art i drew to say goodbye to the haikyuu manga when it ended back in july 2020 (please don't mind my old username/watermark)

[segernatural]

sure it was a perfect storm of a pressure cooker but i promise destiel was about destiel

[utilitycaster]

that feeling when one of the IT'S THEIR STORY AND THEY DO WHAT THEY WANT TO MAKE THEM HAPPY folks starts talking about Essek and then suddenly what the cast chose to do isn't sacrosanct anymore huh

[goatdon]

i know robby & collins are like ultimate situationship but it’s so. interesting to think of them before they broke up.

bc i just imagine them as a very domestic couple. it’s giving robby is all but on the lease at heathers townhouse. he has his own drawer. he brings over clothes when he sleeps over and never brings them back home. there’s traces of robby everywhere at her place. when they aren’t working they spend quiet nights together inside her house. they both know they’ll end up in each others arms after a particularly hard shift.

but like they’re so intertwined that it’s genuinely painful when they break up because everything has to be reset back to factory settings. robbys car is full of heathers little things like her thermo that she brings into work that has a forever place in his cup holder, her rings that she never wears into work and the glove department has an array of crackers (and dramamine) because she gets motion sickness and likes to snack on things after a long shift. and he automatically turns the passenger seat warmer on everytime he gets in the car because heather hates the cold. still does it even after they break up.

heather comes off as neat person. she gives the type of person who’d want everything in a particular place and has a Sunday reset day. plays music all day while she cleans. but everything has its own specific place and when robby starts essentially living there there’s just little reminders of him everywhere and she doesn’t bother or mind to put them in their specific places. his glasses case on her nightstand, his favorite books left on her couch armrests or kitchen counters, his shoes left at the door and not on her shoe rack. and she stocks up on his favorite coffee brand so it’s always there whenever he’s over because yk. she only drinks tea (real)

but the container of coffee isn’t finished—not when they break up. but she leaves it in her cupboard. just in case.

idk man i just imagine them toeing the line of a real relationship. together just not with the title but still extremely domestic. apart of it because it happened so fast and they both carry their own baggage but it was safe and real because it was just a thing between them and only them. but when they have bad days and arguments—it’s bad. it sucks the air out of the room, leaves things stilted and frayed. and they never talk about it. because there’s something about talking about it that makes everything too real.

[gojonanami]

guys I passed my road test 😭 I got my license 🫣

[animentality]

it's wild to see gen alpha and zoomers out here saying that teenagers aren't allowed to be attracted to teenage anime characters like.

what.

first off, they're just ink anyway, and you're allowed to be 18 and have a crush on Bakugo or whatever.

but second, the fuck.

is wrong ... with kids these days

you really think it's not ok for you, a 16 year old, to be attracted to a 16 year old anime character and say wow he's hot...?

Jesus Christ.

what the hell has happened to you kids, I know it wasn't ME

[cowboy-robooty]

im not going to lie i have an illuminati type theory that fanfiction has gotten so fucking bad recently as yet another consequence of the pandemic

[poppy5991]

Hawks saying he wants to create a world where heroes have more free time then immediately taking a high stress, high responsibility position immediately post war where he has little free time

Is something people hate for various reasons

But is also something so fucking me-coded that I’m like honestly yeah that tracks, we would do that shit. There’s a certain type of emergency responder that likes to joke that we’ll quit or retire but then never fucking do that because we’re all secretly adrenaline junkies. His ass is too nosy to retire and my ass is gonna work a second pandemic. It just is what it is baby.

[covid-safer-hotties]

I know at least a few Canadians follow me

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[rearranging-deck-chairs]

so im listening to the potd audio commentary and jodie's talking about covid restrictions and filming flux and how the restrictions were more intense at the start of filming (was that end of 2020/start of 2021?) and she says "by the time we finished, we could hug" and damn they took that opportunity didnt they

[head---ache]

i wish i was more androgynous but also i love being girly i love makeup i love wearing skirts (tho i dont wear them super often but when i do im like i look so cute this is awesome!!!!). i guess i just want to look androgynous naturally so im able to be girly without people seeing me as a woman

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Modern Ponyboy would 100% have had a gacha phase