#dose of bigb

[eluminium]

I love how the big Life series "curses"/cliches surrounding BigB and Tango are just, completely nullified by Skizz. Oh BigB is forced to betray his closest ally and that ally will hate/break up the alliance with him due to it? Skizz just goes "Oh it was your task? And you completed it? Worth it then, let's get back to roping people into gambling!!!" Tango keeps having his allies dip on him/ignore him/never prioritize him when he really needs them? Skizz is just like "Okay fine I'll do your task for you together with Big Bopper and then we'll do shots at the top of Joel's cringefail MLG bucket build height tower!!!!!"

I think, perhaps, Skizzleman is the antidote to any curse/cliche that relies on a lack of loyalty. You just can't get him to compromise his loyalty no matter what you try. Can't tempt this angel to fall, even.

Now we just gotta wait and see if Tango and BigB will counteract Skizz's curse/cliche of never reaching session 8 and his rule of three stuff...

[fountainpenguin]

"No one lives forever~ Let's have a party; there's a full moon in the sky! It's the hour of the wolf and I don't wanna die..." (x)

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New Dog's Life chapter today! ~ 3rd Life series fan-season

Chapter 35 - “Incendiary (BigB, Skizz, Etho, Scott)”

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BigB visits a tipsy Scar. Skizz does paperwork. Etho sobs on the floor. Scott gets something to eat.

(First 1,000 words under the cut)

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T-rated descriptions of BigB discussing cuddles with Ren

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bigbst4tz2 - Moth (Ex-Illusioner)

Status: Increasingly concerned

City inspector, private investigator, and town crier

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This is getting intense. It's pinching at his hearts. I need a better observation post. Thank Beef for the card shop, though- and its rooftop bar. It's not exactly a night of snuggling and macaroni, but Pearl's whisper over comm gave him a good excuse to duck out. He likes Ren. But Ren's… a lot. It's charming to see him playing with the young fox hybrids. Jimmy's presence helped soak some energy too; it's easier, see, to handle Ren in small doses or with a bigger group. But it's nice to stretch. He needs time with his own thoughts now and then.

BigB lands in a fwump of wings. Not many people are up here tonight. Yeah, card games don't tend to be an instinct programmed into mob behavior. This place will be busier come new moon night. Three people sit at the barstools, talking to someone that BigB barely glanced at. They look heavily modded. No full moon pulls for them. Scar's here too. After what he glimpsed when Scar was on the floor with Scott, he'd be more surprised if he wasn't. Didn't Martyn crash through his roof? Yikes.

"Mind if I join you?" he asks over his shoulder. Scar looks up. He's drinking alone tonight. Again, don't blame him. Heavier than usual for him, isn't it? Raw binary code sparkles in his shot glass. Scar's eyes glint off-green, all dim and hazy. His soul traits haven't sprung up, though his form seems to be a little loose around the shoulders.

"Hello, BigB! No, not at all- pull up a seat if you'd like. What's the word on the streets these days?"

BigB's antennae twitch forward. He climbs on top of a short block stack at the edge of the roof- the corner spot where the fence post railing connects. Yeah, this will work. It's easier to sit on than the posts themselves and he gets a decent view of Headquarters. Scar's just two tables over, within prox chat distance. BigB gets himself situated, flapping out his wings. He cracks open the eyespots to soak in as much area as he can. "Well… Impulse and Tango got some farms approved. They're only authorized to run it for short periods of time and they're on trial to prove they can follow through with the ethics requirements, but we might get renewable iron rolling in pretty soon. Dude, that would be a game-changer."

"Oh, really?" Scar takes another sip of his drink. His vex wings flutter at his shoulders. BigB doesn't need to turn around to see that. "You know, I've always wondered why we have glowing iron golems in this dimension, but not glowing iron. It really makes you think. What a quad- quandary."

"Hmm… I guess because it's a programmed drop, not a literal part of their body."

"True!"

What a day. One of the longest ones he's experienced in a while, seeing as he had check-in work in the morning, a full two weeks of recording, and city inspection work when he went offline. BigB yawns, thrumming his wings. But Pearl asked him to keep an eye on Scott, and Scott's definitely up to something. He snuck out a window. This should be interesting.

"BigB?"

"What?"

"Do you think Grian would like me more if I was a worm?"

He rolls one of his eyespots, trying not to show expression otherwise. "I'm sure Grian likes you fine." If this is some jab at soulmates and Double Life, it's not one he's up for tonight. Though that thought does wiggle beneath his exoskeleton and bite at every heart.

I bet Ren would like me more if I were a giant world-eating worm.

Maybe he would've been into that in a way he wasn't into a soft and fluffy moth who loitered in the corners of his eyes, following instructions instead of bossing him around. And as he thinks that, he pinches his brow and rubs up and down. Ren checked every box when they were soulmates. He flirted and flounced and nuzzled while living at Box…

… but Ren's into things that BigB was never going to be able to give him, like fangs and drool and razor-sharp claws. He embraced the roleplay. Pretended there was something there. They were cuddling shirtless every night. Even carroting sometimes, foreheads pressed and mouths soft as they huffed against each other's necks. Hands sliding, fingers tracing spiracles they could both feel, even though they were only legitimate on BigB's skin. Arms wrapped around each other. Backs arched as they whispered and chased that little lip of lust and trust.

"Oh no," Scar says softly, mostly to his drink. "He might not recognize me if I'm a worm. Do you think Cub still would?" Cub loves me, Scar adds in his mind. BigB can hear that, like he can hear everything, because of the way Scar's throat constricts on individual words. It's subtle, but he can. Because BigB always listens, and he picks up everything.

He flicks an antenna, but otherwise ignores this, lost in his own thoughts and the cold hand resting on his face. It's almost not fair, you know… how everyone in Double Life got paired with someone they could learn to love. Maybe had loved in the past. And he and Ren had golden history, twirling around each other like a moth chasing flames in 3rd Life and Last Life too.

But loving Ren is a loser's game from the start, if you aren't someone like Martyn who was born with spiny wings and lashing tail and fangs and drool and claws. Ren's a performer and very good when guiding partners through a rush of carrots, but he was never going to fall in love with BigB the way BigB tried to fall in love with him.

It's not like he didn't try. He cuddled too. He responded with what felt like enthusiasm every time Ren pulled him in, licking his cheeks and running hands down his sides. Pulling him down on the bed and into his arms. Day after day, week after week, he mirrored the motions and fell in love. Even when he knew it wasn't real. When he lay his head on Ren's rising, falling chest and gazed up at his sleepy, bristle-covered face.

Ren's such a rugged and handsome man, honestly. He loves working in the dirt. Maybe it's a dog thing. Maybe he just likes plants and tiny creatures in the soil. He's got the muscles of someone who rolls huge boulders aside just to take a peek at ants and worms. Maybe a fungus.

And he's beautiful, and he loves so much, and it's all too much sometimes (because it isn't real). So with wings whispering at his back… BigB rested his cheek and curled his fingers, biting bare skin, and asked him for the truth.

"If I mod in some ears and fangs and maybe a tail, would that do something for you?"

[Full chapter on AO3 - Link at top]

[wolfclaire]

I don't remember if you mentioned this in an ask already but, moon elves in a blood moon,

We know that too much moonlight is bad psychologically but, what do different types of moons do? Like blood moons blue moons eclipses and the likes?

Hi, thank you for your ask!

So, I spend a while looking around if I did talk about these moons but it looks like that I did a bit! ( https://www.tumblr.com/wolfclaire/695033509381865472/are-cleo-and-gem-gonna-hang-out-again-also-is?source=share )

I also did mention a Blood Moon alllll the way back in chapter 4 :D

In silence, Pearl left into the night. Blood moon started rising on the horizont, the wind turned awfully cold. But Pearl didn’t notice. She didn’t feel. She didn’t even flutter her wings anymore. She could only walk and only one thought kept running inside her head: “It’s all my fault.”

So, Blood Moon did affected her. Badly. After she "caused" the death of Ren and BigB, she felt empty. Worthless. Useless. She coudln't think of anything else. She wasn't even able to talk properly when she came back to Spidey's base and if it wasn't for Spidey and Tilly, she would do a very very bad thing to herself...

Blue moon would probably work the other way than Blood one. It would give hope, it would give you a purpose, a strenght to continue...or, with too much of it, it would make you confident, cocky, reckless...a laughing mess that doesn't seem to fully understand what is happening.

Eclipses...ehhh I didn't really think of those? But I think they shouldn't really affect the Moon Elves if they manage to get their "Moon dose" the next day.

But if you spend too much time without the moon, you might start to get very sensitive to any moonlight and it might be easier for you to get "overdosed".

[fluffypotatey]

ok so to explain the nosy neighbors, i have to explain the limited life smp. here goes!

the limited life smp was the 4th season of the life series, and took place about a year ago.

the gimmick of this series was that every player had a 24-hour timer ticking down in the bottom right corner of their screen, and once that timer hits zero, their series is over. when your timer is above 16 hours, your name is green, yellow names have between 16 and 8 hours left, and red names have under 8 hours on their clock.

dying will lose you an hour of your time, and killing someone else will add 30 minutes to your own timer. (yellow names are allowed to kill green names, and red names are allowed to kill everyone)

there is also an extra mechanic recycled from the Last Life series (season 2) called the Boogeyman, in which one player with a green or yellow name is randomly selected and basically turned into an assassin- if they don’t kill another green or yellow name before the 3 hour recording session is over, their clock is set to 8 hours and they will be a vulnerable red name.

okay now for the actual nosy neighbors:

the nosy neighbors alliance was made up of two players: pearl (ign Pearlescentmoon, i’ve done a 101 on her before), and bigb (ign bigbst4tz, i don’t think i’ve mentioned him)

this is them:

^ they also had a cat named froggy btw

the nosy neighbors teamed up and built a little tower decorated with frog faces in the middle of most of the other bases (all the better to spy on their neighbors with)

these guys were Extremely silly and also rather goofy, except bigb has some trust/loyalty issues (reputation for being a loner + backstabbing his allies), and pearl was still kind of coming down from double life

so their definition of silly involves a lot of ruining their outside relationships

like every time they form an alliance with another group on the server they go out of their way to antagonize that group

bigb does this little thing where he Loves lying to ppl’s faces and confusing them. so he’ll do something, and then if someone asks him about it he proceeds to casually lie to their face while still Actively Doing It. (and other such hijinks). this pattern drives away most potential allies and has only ever ended badly for him, but he keeps doing it because he’s an impulsive guy! (i for one think he should keep doing it. god forbid sillyguys do anything) (where “anything” means “actively gaslighting your friends for shits and giggles”)

and then pearl keeps switching between being serious and wanting to protect and help bigb (because she’s already won and would rather help him out than watch another teammate die in front of her), and ruining her own outside alliances sillygoofy style (making deals with other teams and then immediately going back on them, or making a trade and turning around to steal the item back)

also both of them are kind of wary of each other and have a healthy dose of trust issues, so their own dynamic is half helping each other with those issues and half enabling each others self destructive habits. AND 100% SILLY GOOFY. AND THEY CARE EACH OTHER

we love toxic friendships that enable their self-destructive tendencies

[megabuild]

8, 9, 10

forgive me in advance for flipping between series with these answers

8: common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

this one is actually kinda tricky cause theres a lot but like also not a lot(???) IDK... OH maybe this is unfair but i dont like life!grian as a bloodthirsty freak. like he IS don't get me wrong but it very much reads to me as a survival thing and part of his tendency to make things into games and i haaate that people act like he relishes in bloodshed or enjoys it... all based on like that one triple kill in 3rd life. he has things wrong with him for sure but any enjoyment he gets from violence feels like a front to me that will immediately collapse (eg the bigb kill in dl)

9: worst part of canon

oh this one is easy it(martyn inthelittlewood approaching behind me with a comically large bat)ummm. okay actually im legally obligated to say hermitcraft season 8 finale here even though i've warmed up to it and done my piece i just think the octagon and the arg sucked it appealed only to a very niche section of reddit fans it pulled the lore for the entire thing down to two povs and even then it didn't do anything cool or unique because you could tell it was a simulation from very early on and they didn't build upon that at all it just Was. if you like it then that's fair but it literally made me stop caring about hermitcraft for. i think ever technically because even now i barely watch it. oh well

10: worst part of fanon

watchersss WATCHERRRSSS EVERYTHINGS THE FUCKING WATCHERS AND LISTENERS and this can apply to literally any series because they infect everything like a PLAGUE I DONT CAAARE and this is coming from someone who thinks some watcher stuff has merit i've seen cool headcanons (blows a kiss to my muts) but 99% of the time it's so boring. and then everything you guys do infects canon too because (martyn littlewood approaching again) .just please get better ideas okay i love you guys. they're fun in little doses but when it's constant and you also forget the entire point of what they are its like. go do some meta thinking and come back instead of just making them scary villains PLEASE

[crabbunch]

secret life thoughts (long post underneath cut)

gem:

-there's a cherry forest !!!

-impulse? can we find pearl for the soup group?

-ok gem and the two scotts is very funny as well.

-love gem just. repeatedly fulfilling the challenge. just to make sure she's got it.

-maaaan the cherry biome is just so pretty though. man.

-"lets hold hands as we jump"- joel as he lets jimmy jump without him. incredible

scar:

-joel's name is not smallishbeans last time i checked. scar. you are ove-complicating this

-oh well he's cringefailed it up beyond belief !!

-wait i wish they had just let him fail.... why are people nice i want them to fight to death for my entertainment.

-d. desert duo

-scab??? scab???

grian:

-why are you trying to tell bad jokes to mumbo, chronic giggler. dont tell bad jokes to your friends. they'll be funny anyways

-intrigued by whatever bigb is doing. gaslight i guess.

-no wait actually what is bigb doing. my guy

-of course etho would be the one not to laugh at the jokes

bigb:

-i was going to watch etho because he finally uploaded but actually i have to go find out what this guys secret was

-i understand nothing

-ok so is he. just like that?? just doing that?? i mean i. you know what. if i dont see about ten million billion people waxing poetic about the allure of a hole im going to blow this whole website up. this is the funniest thing ive ever seen and i want to write about bigb being. the absence of things now.

-THE DOOR MAZE????

etho:

-"joel you already own my heart" awwwwwwwww

-the way he just lingers around bdubs

-cletho? cletho? cletho? cletho?

-CLETHO!!!!!!!

-the way he just. never mentions the merch. keep on doing what you do king <3

joel:

-the editing. when he's promoting the merch.

-he's dying so much faster than anyone else lmao

-heavy rock timelapse music as he struggles to place a fence

-oh he's going to be the first to red again isnt he. my guy.

-just resolving not to sleep for etho... boat bois crumbs 🥰🥰🥰

-impulse my man carrying the good word of the cherry wood to everyone. thank you good sir

cleo:

-a lot of murderous music going on. and some very interesting pronunciations of fish. joe hills has had a profound influence on them

-unequal exchange <3 its ok he'll just owe her

-"it's ok it day one alliance!!! those statistically have no meaning!!!" wow that says a lot about traffic cleo. heuh.

-the shadowrot is real

-promotion of merch is an acceptable bribe <3

-just. steal moss off of the rock thing. yes good idea

-ideal roomate dynamic is throwing fish down through the hole that your roomate made as thanks??? this is so ethubs meat shower

-"dont talk about my shield hole like that"

-"we could be called the axis :D" "well maybe you shouldnt"

-the way. bdubs just knows that they're referring to etho. hello i know this has been clipped but its so bizarre to see lol

-AND pearl cleo secret alliance?? with dogs? man cleo's dynamics with everyone this season. they're all just so good

-heart foundation. ok. on love island.

-clebert

lizzie:

-cherry blossoms!!!! wahoo best wood!!!

-bdubs acting all offended about killing a horse for leather vs his season 8 horse murder stats

-every season they get a little bit better at not immediately killing all the wildlife

-every season they also get a little big better at gay marriage. this time they've even got yuri!

-lizzie: "lets take this baby down the river.. and find some sugarcane!" cleo in the distance: "hey, i've got sugarcane!"

-jimmy comes running. from nothing. average jimmy behavior

-lesbian marridge AND lesbian divorce. fantastic

overall thoughts: i think that the povs im going to keep watching in the future barring Interesting Events will be etho (i am legally obligated) cleo (daily dose of sarcasm) bigb (hole guy) and joel (his bloodthirsty swag has charmed me once again)

i think that the mechanic is interesting but also if they do a lore thing with it i WILL start killing. sorry.

i like the groups that've been established so far but i sort of think that they're a little sparcer than usual??? gem and her two scotts is a VERY fun dynamic but unfortunately i hate the way all of them edit their videos :pensive: i love the mounders and their stupid houses from what ive seen of them from other people's videos and cletho???? cletho???!?!?!? love island is also very good.

anyways. very fun. much fun. im making an effort to tag spoilers this time if you want to filter this stuff its sl spoilers 👍

[chill4234-reblogs]

Ok it’s 34 degrees Celsius here (aka HOT) so this will probably be a little messy but in short

Evo was an SMP featuring Grian, Martyn, and a few others, it wasn’t too lore heavy but the watchers were a part of it, they were mostly just server admins with a fancy name, but they also were responsible for updating the game (Evo’s whole gimmick was the server starting in early minecraft versions and getting updated every few months.)

Due to personal reasons, Grian had to leave the server, but he couldn’t just leave-leave. When evo got to the update that introduced the end, they decided to make a spectacle of Grian’s departure, if I remember correctly (which I probably don’t) the end portal wouldn’t open until Grian joined the watchers, giving him server control and this the ability to open the portal.

That’s probably not the exact reason but the point is, Grian became a watcher, even though he was busy and wasn’t uploading videos anymore, he still stayed a server admin, he still watched.

Cut to the life series, Martyn, theatrical as always, decides to inject the series with a helping dose of lore, using Evo’s watchers as a template. A large majority of the watcher lore can be understood through just watching Martyn’s last life and limited life perspective, whenever you hear the deep voice talking in rhymes, congrats! That’s the watchers. In the life series they’re not a metaphor for the server admins, instead a metaphor for us, the viewers.

Now it is a bit hard to distinguish fanon from canon as practically everyone in the fandom has their own theories, headcanons and ideas, it can get a little muddy separating what Martyn confirmed in an episode, what Martyn confirmed in a livestream and what the fans just made up. Here’s what I’m fairly certain is true.

Watchers feed off negative emotions, it’s why lifers remember past seasons but hold no animosity towards one another. All the rage and hatred has been eaten.

Gaps in-between seasons feature the lifers asleep, dreaming of empires and hermitcraft and whatever else, if they do not have this down time they will break for good, dead forever, watchers can no longer feed off them, it is also an in-universe explanation for why Ren swapped with tango in that one episode of secret life, as well as the Pearl/Lizzie and Cleo/Gem swap in limited life, those guys were breaking and needed some time off.

Grian is still a watcher, this was explicitly stated in Martyn’s last life finale. Unclear why he joined but it’s clear the watchers resent him for it. Most common fan theory is that grian brings joy to the death game, one clear example being the 3L final fight between scar and Grian, despite the undeniably tragic circumstances of the fight, they both laugh about it.

The watchers hate Scott because “his will to live [is] too strong.”

Listeners are people with the ability to hear the watchers without them having to actually join the game like grian did, Martyn is a listener and I think all of the Evo guys are too (BigB, Pearl, Jimmy, Grian) but they’ve only ever interacted with martyn.

There, probably missed something, but whatever, enjoy your lore.

Can someone please explain to me the watcher lore please 😭

[shadeswift99]

PLEASE tell me more about you Cleo please I love she.

VIBRATES. OKAY

So! Let's go from top to bottom, shall we? The stitches on her face are a pre-existing element from being a zombie, but as a Red Name she haphazardly extended them to cross over her mouth. It turns out that the red life bloodlust stacked with her innate zombie instincts, which she can usually control, but the extra dose of aggression along with the rage of betrayal makes it next to impossible to hold back now. Without an external mechanism, she's afraid she would slip and bite someone, doing a damage she cannot undo. This is also part of why she uses fire so much - it's the only thing powerful enough to express her rage, while not requiring her to be in close range drawing blood and potentially losing control.

The axe is the same axe that BigB killed her with. She doesn't have this in canon, but I think she deserves to! Very Symbolic Axe is an excellent trope no matter what season we're in. :) (Also, the red enchantment trail is vaguely implying some kind of extra magic she stacked over the usual enchantments, very possibly blood magic fueled by the life force lost when she went to yellow and then red so quickly)

The areas of exposed bone and muscle are just injuries and decay that she had from being a zombie (although the broken wrist is new from the explosion of Joel's trap). The fresher injuries are new, from trying to run away and/or block BigB's hits in her panic. Bdubs loosely implied that red lives have a reduced healing factor for injuries that helped to kill them and I am Running with it

The rest of the art decisions are purely stylistic, but there are a couple things about the stat block! Her stats are different than they would have been if I had made a non-red Cleo character sheet. Her Strength is that high because as a zombie she doesn't have the normal barriers in the brain that stop the body from unlocking its full strength, and as a red life with a vendetta she no longer cares what damage she takes by allowing those safeguards to be bypassed. In exchange, though, her Cunning is lower, which in this case basically means she no longer looks quite as much before she leaps. She is driven by one thing and one thing alone, and it'll take an awful lot of risk to hold her back.

I think that's about it. Thank you for asking!