#emotional support bdub

[rhyzzzzzz]

Docm77 (featuring Emotional Support Bdub)

[bakuvex]

Have a sudden throw back to season 7 cause I love them too much

[most-creature-vibe-tournament]

FINALS!!!

Propaganda:

Taylor Hebert (Worm (webserial by Wildbow))

Human girl who has superpowers that let her control bugs. She shunts all emotions off into her swarm of bugs, leaving her totally blank and stoic. She outsources sensory-input to her bugs, so she never looks or reacts to anything. In a fight, she reacts to opponents there is no possible way she could see, because she sensed them with her bugs. Overall has virtually no facial tells and moves in a way that makes her seem like she isn't a person. very creature <3 she is just a bug girl

shes such a FREAK. shes completely human (tho with an eldritch alien creature extradimensionally attached to her mind) but God does she not act like it sometimes. she has the superpower to control bugs and uses it to become the worlds most terrifying hero slash villain slash warlord slash apocalyptic threat. she has her bugs crawling all over her all the time. she uses a swarm of flies to scout out areas and then leaves flies in everybodys hair so she can keep track of where they are. she practiced having her bugs make noises until she figured out how to combine their noises into human speech so now she can talk through her swarm. she makes decoys of herself out of large pillars of bugs. once she was concussed and in the hospital and subconsciously calling her bugs to her so she was just covered in insects while the doctor tried to help her. then there was ANOTHER time she was hospitalized and got bored so she made a bunch of bugs so a little dance on her chest. whenever she's in costume and talking she has her bugs make noises to distort her voice and make her sound more scary and she doesnt even realize shes doing it anymore. she surrounds herself in a swarm to disorient her enemies. she doesn't even notice when her hair covers her eyes or anything like that because shes scouting out the area using her bugs so she doesnt have to see. she once used a tide of bugs to clean herself off and dust off her dress after having sex.

#she views herself as more of a swarm of bugs with a girl-shaped computer to control them than a girl herself#her body is just an extension of her bugs which is large and inconvenient but ultimately part of the weapon

#taylor “dissociates into bugs” hebert#taylor “keeps bugs in her hair” hebert#taylor “choke them with bugs” hebert#taylor “no one could ever love me” hebert#taylor “violence is always the answer” hebert

#normally i would want a worm character to win#but#bdubs is a strange little man. he's unusual.#Taylor's just got the 'tism.

she literally is a walking superorganism comprised of one human and a lot more bugs to the point where she frequently moves her head as if she can see through walls (with her bugs, she can), talks through her bugs, has been described like a corpse whose ghost is living on in her swarm, keeps functioning thru her bugs even when her human body is out for the count, et cetera. no disrespect intended but genuinely what in the world are you talking about. She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs. And she thinks it's normal. Because the bugs are part of her. Is this thing on. I reiterate that she literally requires an emotional support cloak of bugs. She is so dissociated from being an actual person that she treats her human body like an inconvenience and her bugs like the primary operators. Is This Thing On.

#now i told myself i wouldnt comment anything on the rb... but#“She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs.” CHAT IS THAT FUCKIN REAL??? IS THAT CANON???#cause if thats just a hc thats wild and i dont know if its better or worse if its canon#propaganda

this is indeed canon! there is a scene where, after fucking her boyfriend in an abandoned building, she stands up and cleans dust/etc off her naked ass body by having her bugs run across her and clean her, which presumably translates to "they are eating the dirt/sweat/etc off her." her boyfriend smiles affectionately at this, because he also has something wrong with him. she also does things like use bugs and spider silk to deliver her toothbrush straight to her hand in the morning while monologuing about "checking in on her hive" (her hive is the people in her villain territory.) she is a walking panopticon. her friends sometimes talk to bugs under the assumption it's taylor watching them and they're always right. at one point she confusedly asks someone if he's arachnophobic because he doesn't want her 10k black widow spiders to live in his apartment with him. she is basically like if a cockroach was a girl. I would never lie to you about Taylor Hebert, Unsung Champion of Polls About Weird Characters.

#taylor ofc#wait hey those are my tags as propaganda!! cool!#i stand by it#anyways yeah one of her main character traits when looked at by an outside perspective is just how WEIRD she is#everyone thinks she's a freak#even when you're reading her POV you sometimes have to stop and be like 'hey girl what the fuck'#one time she put bugs on her boyfriend's dick

She also turns into a bug monster at one point. Not all on her own, but she very much turns into a bug monster. Literally And Physically.

And she uses this to survive like a cockroach, she had Just Been Ripped In Fucking Half and thrown in the ocean to die and BOOM. bug monster transformation (with a little help) climb out and keep fighting, against an opponent so vast and powerful a human couldn't even comprehend his true form (not eldritch cognitohazard, just planet-sized + multidimensional), who could kill her in an instant. She's always surviving against the odds she's so cockroach coded (affectionate!) #@ pollrunner if you're still accepting propaganda please take the 'turns into a bug monster' as propaganda#the rest can be ignored or trimmed to 'she's always surviving she's so cockroach coded' but pleamse. the Time she Became A Bug

#she's such a freak!!!#she kills like it's the only thing she was built how to do#she kills people and things like it's chess and she's a grandmaster#as soon as the violence is off she's just a fucked up offputting little one woman panopticon

One of my favourite descriptions of Taylor from someone else's POV, from Interlude 14.

“A figure stood behind Yan. Her costume was barely recognizable—She wore a short cape of tattered black cloth over her body armor, a skintight black suit beneath that, and there were folds of black cloth draped around her legs like a dress or a robe. The entire fabric seemed to ripple and move. It took Sierra a second to realize it was crawling with a carpet of insects.”

“The disconcerting part was the girl’s face, or lack thereof. Her expression was masked behind a shifting mass of bugs that moved in and out of her hairline. Sierra couldn’t even tell where the bugs ended and the scalp began, as the small black bodies crawled into and onto the black curls. There was a hint of something like glass where Skitter’s eyes were, but the bugs ventured far enough over her eyelids and around the frames that nothing was visible in the way of goggles, glasses or skin.”

“Skitter hadn’t made a sound as she entered. She hadn’t spoken, and her footsteps had been quiet.”

#taylor “driving while blind wasn’t as hard as I’d thought it would be” hebert#taylor “hangs out in superpowered darkness for a long time without being at all worried” hebert#taylor “fools a near-perfect lie detecting hero by offloading her emotions on her bugs” hebert#taylor “figures out how to communicate with the Dog Autism girl like right away” hebert

#taylor hebert kill them with your self-sustained insectoid dehumanity!

Jonny d’Ville (The Mechanisms)

Since we’re not technically human

He’s so feral hes canonically committed every single crime theres a name for i think he deserves to have a tail that flicks around when hes being mischevous. perhaps some horns or fangs as well. as a treat

Idk why but he's a feral creature

Have you seen the man? Especially in that one picture where he is fully on the wall.

absolutely no canon implications that he isn't human, but that man* absolutely has a tail. and sharp teeth. and creature ears. he purrs but he pretends he doesn't and if you bring it up he'll bite you. he's had rabies more times than you can count.

#Just sayin#Johnny eats people and says it's not cannibalism if you aren't human

#DID LYF SING THE PART IN SLEEPING BEAUTY? NO. VOTE JONNY

#Jonny’s a creature#vote Jonny

#sorry for that Hermitfans but my boy Jonny is feral and i think he is a creature

#chat vote jonny#HES LITERALLY JUST A LITTLE CRITTER PLEASE

#look at that face#he’s a creacher

#it's jonny d'ville i don't have any more to say

All crimes but sex crimes, because Jonny isn’t a MONSTER

#JONNY#i'm so sorry pearl you are too well adjusted for this#he's got devil in his name#(that he gave himself because he's a huge fucking nerd)

#LITERALLY LOOK AT HIM THE GREMLIN ENERGY IS OFF THE CHARTS

#voted jonny for the rabies

also. hold up. the pearl propaganda is saying to vote for her because she's an alien and a bloodthirsty fighter? BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU ABOUT JONNY FUCKING D'VILLE

five am pearl this five am pearl that, jonny's just like that all the time

#please vote jonny. i know we're pitting two bad bitches against each other but jonny has tried to eat a guitar

#CMON GUYS VOTE JONNY D’VILLE HES SUCH A CREATURE#HAVE YOU SEEN HIM??? HAVE YOU HEARD HIM TALK ABOUT THE OCTOKITTENS???#VOTE JONNY

#Jonny is such a creature

#jonny is literally THE creature

#come on vote Jonny that thing is creachur incarnate#and he can sing#his fave food is human flesh and more violence

Jonny man entire existence is teeth claws belts and trauma

#that guy is so feral#just vote jonny#also there was this one time where he found a half dead dude on the moon and brang it home to show to his gay pirate friends#just sayin#and also this harmonica solo over his father's dead body in one eyed jacks#iconic#anyway vote jonny

#literally jonny bites people and eats them regularly

[blackdiamond1038]

Secret Life Secrets

Session 6

Green- Successful

Red- Failed

Scott: There is an assassination hit out on you from a non-red. If they do at least 10 hearts of damage to you (or through another’s actions) or you die, you fail. You have one shot to guess who it is and make them fail even if they already dealt the damage. (You must still get involved in conversations.)

Pearl: You are an imposter. You must approach any or multiple reds and secretly tell them this task. They can give you any task to damage a green player. If you successfully damage 3 different green names (for any amount) from their instructions, you pass. A yellow can call you out as a traitor at any stage. 

Gem: Nothing you say can be true for 30 minutes. If you tell the truth, you must start the timer again.

Jimmy: Task 1: Replace the water under the pink diving board with blue glass. You must not be caught. You succeed if they take damage from diving off. You fail if they find it or refuse to jump. Task 2: Punch another player into lava. It can be lava you have placed. [Died before succeeding or failing]

Mumbo: You are Grian’s terrible butler. You must do anything they say, but always get some aspect of it wrong. You can tell them you are their butler, but no one else. Task 1 [as a red]: Cause any amount of damage to a non-red using an anvil. Task 2: Build a TNT cannon and successfully hit a base from at least 50 blocks. Task 3: Strike a deal with a non-red to cause at least 3 hearts of damage to another non-red. You succeed when they have dealt the damage. [Died before succeeding or failing]

Grian: You declared yourself incorrectly successful last session. You must re-roll for harder task. [Re-roll for harder task] Etho is going to get a warden to the surface. You must get a wither. Make them do battle. You can work together to make this battle happen. The fight must take place in a central location.

Etho: You ended up with Pearl’s book at the end of last session. You must re-roll for harder task as punishment. [Re-roll for harder task] Grian is going to get a wither. You must get a warden to the surface. Make them do battle. You can work together to make this battle happen. The fight must take place in a central location. Deep dark can be found at -671 -30 1875.

Lizzie: Task 1: Use redstone to damage a non-red player. You cannot hit them with the item, it must be a machine or trap of some kind. Task 2: Summon a mod using an egg to deal any damage to a green. [Succeeded, but died before pressing the button]

Impulse: You are in a game of chicken with Scar and Bdubs. You pass if you win more than 3 chicken competitions. Anyone can declare a round of chicken as long as it’s something that will cause damage.

Bdubs: You are in a game of chicken with Scar and Impulse. You pass if you win more than 3 chicken competitions. Anyone can declare a round of chicken as long as it’s something that will cause damage.

Scar: You are in a game of chicken with Bdubs and Impulse. You pass if you win more than 3 chicken competitions. Anyone can declare a round of chicken as long as it’s something that will cause damage.

Skizz: You are now the therapist of the server. For the rest of the session, you must guide and give other players advice in a professional manner. The advice does not need to be good advice. You must help players to acknowledge and negative feelings. You cannot directly solve their problems, you are there only for emotional support. You fail if called out by a yellow. You can pass early if you give therapeutic advice to every other player at least once. You can only help someone if they appear down or frustrated. 

Joel: You are Scott’s assassin. You must deal a minimum of 10 hearts of damage to them to succeed. You can use other people or any means you please. But if you are called out by them as the assassin, you fail, even if you already dealt the damage. They only have one guess.

Martyn: Task 1: Hit a green name with a sword until they block you with a shield. If you kill them, you also succeed. Task 2: Cause any amount of damage to a non-red using an anvil. Task 3: Strike a deal with a non-red to cause at least 3 hearts of damage to another non-red. You succeed when they have dealt the damage. Task 4: Summon a mod using an egg to deal any damage to a green. [Unfinished this session]

BigB: Everytime someone takes damage, tell them much too late how it could have been avoided. If you see them about to take damage, you must also warn them too late.

Tango [Ren]: You have an imaginary friend who is exactly like Tango. Talk to Tango as if they follow you around the whole session and are part of conversations. You must interact with other players. 

Cleo: Everyone else knows what your task is. Figure it out and do it. They can’t tell you what it is but they can say warmer and colder when you attempt something. A yellow cannot call out this task as everyone already knows what it is. You cannot ask, you must attempt to do it. [At the end of all non-red player’s tasks, the rules for Cleo’s task were explained. This is what it was: Cleo’s task is: “Stand in a circle of different kinds of flowers and spin” You can’t tell her what it is, but you can say warmer and colder as she tries to figure it out. You can tell her when she’s done it. The rest of the server knows her task, she does not. She has to figure it out.]

This session was absolutely insane.

Lemme know if I missed something!

[tibbycaps]

I had a dream Scar went snowboarding and he got stuck in the snow and he had to call bdubs for emotional support

i cannot imagine anyone who would be worse at giving emotional support in that time god bless

[yaolukash]

"I love you"

One day Bdubs had the strength to say it. Not only that, but also a long tirade that the teenager went on for what seemed like an eternity. All the feelings, emotions that he felt towards his friend standing right in front of him. All that he hid inside himself. Everything that he noticed about the white-haired while they were skipping the classes, sitting until late in a half-abandoned classroom next to the exit to the roof, all those memories that he had carefully collected and stored since childhood.

"I can't answer you the same way"

It hung in his head until... Until the end of his life, most likely. Etho tried to explain that he did not feel any kind of romantic attraction to anyone and was unlikely to ever feel it, tried to explain his regrets and his fault, even tried to apologize. But all that was on repeat in the thoughts of the teenager, already overwhelmed by life and most people surrounding him, was that with his stupid hopes he had lost the only important person in life.

He didn't notice how tears began to accumulate in his eyes and then roll down his cheeks. He didn’t notice how his hands began to shake. He didn’t notice how Etho, in a panic, tried to calm him down, tried to hug him, tried to apologize once again... He tried to do at least something while Bdubs felt like the most ungrateful person in the world. Etho didn't tell him to disappear, he stayed with him, he was trying to support him... So why did he feel so miserable?

Clenching his fingers into fists and making his hands shake less noticeably, Bdubs smiled brightly. Tears were still flowing down his cheeks, his whole body, following hands, was shaking, his head was filled with thoughts about how much he didn’t want to get home alive. But a wide smile still appeared on his face, through which Bdubs said something that he had long forgotten. He had long forgotten what nonsense he said to the person he loved, to the person who was experiencing no less stress than he is now, to the person... To the person who did not dare stop Bdubs when he turned around and hurriedly walked towards the exit from the roof, leaving his things lie next to Etho's bag.

It was so unimportant now, absolutely unimportant...

The next day he returned with the same smile with which he left Etho. They behaved as always, they still joked, they still smiled, they still said "oh snappers", they still skipped English class. They still lived, ignoring everything that happened yesterday. Only occasionally Bdubs noticed Etho's glances, in which only one thing was read. Guilt.

Returning home that day, tears welled up in his eyes again. He made his best friend feel guilty... But maybe it was Bdubs' imagination? Maybe he's not really in love? Or it will pass soon? Without attention, without a response to feelings, with the knowledge of how hopeless it all is... Surely this love should wither, like most flowers that cannot survive without stable watering or the sun?

After a couple of months, Bdubs realized that his love fell into the category of flowers that would survive in the least fertile soil, without water and with the least amount of sun in his life. He felt that his love was a weed, which with every week, day, hour, minute, grew more and more in his heart, not wanting to fade. No matter how hard he tried to pull it out, no matter how hard he tried to convince himself that it was hopeless... He couldn’t.

They graduated from school. They entered the same college with completely different majors. And even without almost any pairings, Etho always found time for his “best friend.” Still with the same "oh snappers", still with the same smile, still with the same search for secluded places, still with the same look full of guilt. He knew what Bdubs still felt. And he still couldn’t answer him. At least the way Bdubs would like it to be.

At some point they began spending nights together. At some point, these overnight stays grew into something more. At some point, they became more than just "best friends" who ended up renting an apartment together.

It was the usual quiet evening, in which each of them went about their routine. But unexpectedly, a quiet voice was heard from Etho, clearly intended exclusively for his neighbor: “Do you want to become my platonic partner?”

In these words, Bdubs quickly read the addition “that’s all I can offer you.” Heard unsaid “I’m sorry that this is nothing more than platonics and nights together.” And the sad “I want to do better for you.”

Bdubs agreed. Of course he agreed. Of course, he could not refuse these words when his own feelings tormented his soul and pride for many years. Of course he agreed, realizing that this would slightly ease the self-torment of someone who had already gone through too much for Bdubs' sake alone.

He still wonders what could have happened if Etho had not been born this way. That in some other world, they could be as happy as any other stable romantic couple. They could have been married, maybe they would have lived in the same apartment above the flower shop in which Bdubs now lives all alone. He doesn't know what would happen if everything was as in his dreams.

But now, after more than a decade of this cursed love, he is unlikely to say that he regrets. In the worst moments of his life, when he leans over the sink to wash away all his tears and laughs a little madly at himself and his helplessness after Etho leaves after another night - maybe. But not when he's in the flower shop, his personal chaotic paradise, when too many people in his life are counting on him, when there are too many other broken lives for him to surrender.

He still occasionally catches Etho's guilty glance. And he is still unable to answer “it’s all gone”, he can only smile widely and return to whatever he was doing, ignoring the trembling in his hands.

This is not temporary. But Bdubs resigned himself to the flower and stopped trying to pull it out.

[lavendernlilac]

I like to think that after the first time Scar dissociates during a shoot, and after he and Grian talk about why it happened + what helped, she informs Skizz, Mumbo, and Iskall on how to calm him down a bit more if she is unable to get to him at the moment for whatever reason. She doesn’t tell them why he freaks out, just general triggers so they can be aware(this is what Scar asked her to say). She knows she can trust the three to not say anything about it until Scar does after all.

The three already kind of know how to help Grian, as they’ve been with her since the start, but after seeing Scar help her in the interview, they ask him for a couple tips on how to help better just in case he absolutely cannot reach her. They manage to build a pretty decent support system for everyone involved by doing this. :)

Maybe that’s why Skizz gets her the bodypillow, it’s a half joke and mostly a comfort item for patrol nights. I like to think Scar leaves his clothes or a spare cologne bottle so Grian can apply it to the pillow when she needs extra comfort.

Loved your essay btw(and the mildly threatening warning /j /silly) they make me so soft <3

-bodypillow anon

GOOD IM GLAD YOU LIKED THE ESSAY JGKFHDGHFJK I get many a great joys out of being mildly threatening /silly <333 I have way too many emotions for an au that started as pure smut WHEEZE

anyways!

they are !!!! a family unit your honor !!!! this is totally unrelated to the ask but I was thinking yesterday about adding more characters to the au (like pearl and jim, joel, impulse, etc etc) but that'll be me braining in a separate post me thinks

there's something about like... mumbo, iskall, and skizz seeing scar like that and they don't have to know the cause, but it's very... humanizing. even hotguy has his own fears and anxieties, and they all get so wrapped up in what hotguy has done, what he can do as a superhero, that it's easy to forget. hotguy has always felt so far away from them, despite always being around grian, but it's after that moment that the distance feels reachable

grian sits down with the three of them, letting them know for the future and making them all promise to keep an eye on hotguy if she can't. if he gets like that again, make sure he isn't alone, if he doesn't answer just stay with him until he does-- cue mumbo, iskall, and skizz all side eyeing each other, because the way grian is talking, she sounds like she's in love with him (they don't know they're dating still, but mumbo and iskall have an ongoing bet on when she and hotguy will get together. skizz has a suspicion they're already together)

I think mumbo (because it has to be mumbo) later approaches scar and asks if there's anything more they can do for him. they're already incredibly mindful with grian, and well. it may sound cheesy to say, but hotguy is a part of their little ragtag crew now too, which means he's family. and maybe that's weird to say a superhero is a part of his family and he really hopes he's not crossing any unspoken boundaries and he's really just rambling now

scar's sitting there, getting all emotional on mumbo because he's... been alone for a very long time. sure, cub is his best friend, and bdubs is his manager, and they've been with him for years. bdubs helped scar get his footing in modeling and cub is the reason why being hotguy is even possible (doc helps a bit when he can as well) but scar has tried to hide so much from them. it's kind of impossible to hide anything from cub so that doesn't work much but outside of that he would just bottle everything up. push it away and move on

he's cutting off mumbo's rambling with a big hug and mumbo is. very startled by this with his little "o-oh my" before awkwardly patting scar's back

(I think at some point, after they learn scar's identity (because they do, smiles. and what a fun little plot point that is), scar tells them his story, what happened)

wahhhh and then the three of them asking scar about grian :((( I think they set up a system if something like that ever happens again during an interview, where they tell scar to do whatever he needs to do to interrupt and take the heat off grian, and they'll a) have his back and b) handle any media response

they don't ask how much scar knows, they don't pry. they do thank him for looking after her. and scar responds like it's the most obvious thing in the world, because there's nothing, no one, who means more to him than grian ;w; (cue the suspicious looks again)

IT ALL COMES BACK TO THE BODYPILLOW WHEEZE--skizz definitely gives it to her as a joke of like "maybe seeing his face around more will make you get along with him" but they both know the unspoken reason for why he gives it to her (even if grian is massively embarrassed. how is she supposed to bring it home, skizz?!)

man.... I have so many thoughts I just wanna endlessly ramble about them

[thecoolerliauditore]

What I pictured. Audience at home can place their favourite Scott moments on the Scott Smajor political compass chart

im so sorry i got this in my inbox and chuckled really hard and knew i wanted to try and do this properly but that ended up being harder than i thought it would be actually. this is so awesome i had to draw my own little scott 👍 and 👎 to be friends with urs.

behaving out of line - thought process here is that scott obvs doesn't like it when his male or female allies go out of line. i tried to put it a little closer to 🚫WOMEN🚫 because I do think he reacts more when Pearl does it vs Impulse or Martyn but he also is too scared of Gem to question her so I think it balances out a bit. the absolute craving of control overrides the internalized patriarchal mindset.

showing vulnerability - extends to shows of "weakness", specifically scott historically looks down on men who rely on their teammates, such as Jimmy with himself or Bdubs with Pearl in SL. women can show vulnerability but if said vulnerability is in contradiction to one of his stronger beliefs he will override it i.e. with Pearl who doesn't exactly do it in the most palatable way.

emotional support and validation - scott cares much more deeply for womens opinions on him and will go to them first for validation, cleo is the most obvious example but him constantly fishing for forgiveness from pearl is very similar, as is him appealing to gem at every given opportunity. jimmy is the only man he chases for validation from but to me that rings more true for validation of their romance than his actual emotions.

killing myself for - fairly self-explanatory.

sexualisation - also fair self-explanatory. usually tagged on with a haha jk

being my ally and winning a season -despite the whole "girls and the gays" reputation he has, Scott has teamed with just as many men as women and clearly is not against his male allies springboarding off of him like Martyn does in LimL. He does, however, tend to favour female allies when it comes to trying to make them win (i.e. see: his interactions with Gem vs Impulse in SL)

self sacrifice* - this one's a bit tricky but as mentioned in the vulnerability section Scott seems to be of the mindset that men should sacrifice themselves for women and not the other way around. Bdubs and Pearl being the key example here but also Gem and the Scotts' whole dynamic. His attitude towards the Nosey Neighbours is a bit harder to talk about but it's fairly clear that he Does Not Like Them. This might also tie in to his whole thing with Pearl and not acknowledging the sacrifices she made for him during LL.

being my object of desire - yeah duh. jimmy yes but scott is very open with flirting with men, including etho in the latest episode. women can be attractive but they can't be attractive specifically To Him.

[lectern-fullcauldron]

thinking about the development of server infrastructure again and how different members came in at different times and each offer the modern server new roles and inputs. The stories that they tell would not be the same without input from the hermits who shaped them, in their own special ways.

S1: Xisuma - technical admin and redstoner, Hypno - website dev, Keralis - hardware provider and community acclaimed builder, Joe Hills - democratic admin and wildcard, Bdubs - acclaimed builder and introducer of meeting powerpoints

S2: Cleo - armour stand master and administrative council member, Mumbo - redstoner and professional silly goose, TFC - grindy minecraft player with decades of wisdom to share, jevin - speedrunner with a love of the grind, false - acclaimed builder with phenomenal pvp skills, tango - community acclaimed farmbuilder (the iron titan) and server admin, xbcrafted - chill builder with a love of guardians

S3: impulse - farm builder and community organiser, etho - minecraft deity who justs wants to have fun, doc - technical groundbreaker and server lagbuster

S4: Wels - acclaimed builder and rap battle defender, iskall - game maker and rabble rouser and iskallman, scar - community acclaimed builder and event organiser, cubfan - grindy supportive troublemaker, rendog - event organiser and drama king, beef - game maker and builder

S5: stress - storyteller and builder, zedaph - wildcard redstoner, bdubs again - very talented silly goose and storyteller

S6: grian - builder and rabble rouser and storyline crafter

S8: gem - builder and headmistress of hermit get good training, pearl - builder and infrastructure worker

S10: skizz - vibe machine and zit emotional support, beans - builder and rabble rouser

[daily-bdoubleo]

[day 74] Bdubs has his emotional support bucket while he adventures on the adventure line[tm]

[all54321]

Secret Life Session 6 Tasks

<Previous Session] [Master List] [Next a session>

As always each secret is quoted directly from the book when possible.

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Bdubs: You are in a game of chicken with Impulse & Scar You pass if you win more than 3 chicken competitions. Anyone can declare a round of chicken as long as it’s something that will cause damage.

Etho: You ended up with Pearls book at the end of last session, you must re-roll for hard as punishment.

Etho Hard Task: Grian is going to get a wither, you must get a warden to the surface. Make them do a battle. You can work together to make this battle happen. The fight must take place in a central location. Deep dark can be found at -671 -30 1875

Gem: Nothing you say can be true for 30 minutes. If you tell the truth, you must start again.

Scar: You are in a game of chicken with Impulse & Bdubs You pass if you win more than 3 chicken competitions. Anyone can declare a round of chicken as long as it’s something that will cause damage.

Grian: You declared yourself incorrectly successful last session, you must re-roll for hard as punishment.

Grian’s Hard Task: Etho is going to get a warden to the surface, you must get a wither. Make them do a battle. You can work together to make this battle happen. The fight must take place in a central location.

Martyn 1st Task: Hit a green name with a sword until they block you with a shield. If you kill them, you also succeed.

Martyn 2nd Task: Cause any amount of damage to a non-red using an anvil.

Martyn 3rd Task: Strike a deal with a non-red to cause at least 3 hearts of damage to another non-red. You succeed when they have dealt the damage.

Martyn 4th Task: Summon a mob using an egg to deal any damage to any green.

Lizzie 1st Task: Use redstone to damage a non-red player. You can not hit them with the item, it must be a machine or trap of some kind.

Lizzie 2nd Task: Summon a mob using an egg to deal any damage to any green.

Mumbo: You are Grian’s terrible butler. You must do anything they say, but always get some aspect of it wrong. You can tell them you are their butler, but not anything else.

Pearl: You are an imposter, you must approach any or multiple reds and secretly tell them this task. They can give you any task to damage a green player. If you successfully damage 3 different green names (for any amount) from their instructions, you pass.

Skizz: From Audreymation: You are now the therapist of the server. For the rest of the session, you must guide and give other players advice in a professional manner. The advice does not need to be good advice. You must help players acknowledge any negative feelings. You can not directly so,ve their problems, you are there only for emotional support. You fail if you are called out by a yellow. You can pass early if you give therapeutic advice to every other player at least one. You can only help someone if they appear down or frustrated.

Scott: There is an assassination hit out on you from a non-red. If they do at least 10 hearts of damage to you (or through another’s actions) or you die, you fail. You have one shot to guess who it is to make them fail even if they already dealt the damage. (You must still get involved in conversations)

Joel: You are Smajor1995’s assassin. You must deal a minimum of 10 hearts of damage to them to succeed. You can use other people or any means you please. But if you are called out by them as the assassin, you fail, even if you already dealt the damage. They have one guess.

Jimmy 1st Task: Replace the water under the pink diving board with blue glass. You must not be caught. You succeed if they take damage from diving off. You fail if they find it or refuse to jump.

Jimmy 2nd Task: Punch another player into lava. It can be lava you have placed.

Tango: You have an imaginary friend who is exactly like Tango. Talk to Tango as if they follow you round the whole session and are part of conversations. You must interact with other players during this time.

Cleo: From jamcdonald120: Everyone else knows what your task is, figure it out and do it. They can’t tell you what it is but they can say warmer or colder when you attempt something. A yellow can not call out this task as everyone already knows what it is. You can not ask, you must attempt to do it.

BigB: From ethanschille2203: Everytime someone takes damage, tell them much too late how it could have been avoided. If you see them about to take damage, you must warn them much too late also.

Impulse: You are in a game of chicken with Impulse & Bdubs You pass if you win more than 3 chicken competitions. Anyone can declare a round of chicken as long as it’s something that will cause damage.

Everyone (but Cleo) had this at the end of their book: Cleo’s task is: “Stand in a circle of different kinds of flowers and spin” You can’t tell her what it is, but you can say warmer and colder as she tries to figure it out. You can tell her when she’s done it. The rest of the server knows her task, she does not. She has to figure it out.

[rhyzzzzzz]

I always have an emotional support Bdub in the corner of my canvas to keep me company.

[reblog-house]

Talking With the Void

Character: Bdubs (Secret Life)

Wc: 900 (under the limit this time 👈😎👈)

Written for @flashfictionfridayofficial prompt 249, "Open Your Eyes"

Ao3: Here!

His body was weightless. His legs unsupported his body — there was no need for them, floating as they, as his limbs, were. He’d ask where he was, but in some way, he knew, even if he couldn’t put a name to it. It felt familiar, but not in the way your house is familiar. Like a stranger you’d never seen before, but whose gaze was comforting, like they knew, like they understood.

Stars, a void all around him and—

Words.  

Words filled his vision.

There was no air where he was, but he didn’t feel the need for it. He was in a void, but not the Void that drags you down, that suffocates you slowly as you reach out uselessly for the islands up above, ever slowly drifting away from grasp. This was different.

And it was beautiful. 

Bdubs’ eyes moved side to side, restless, consumed by the words, the messages. He was one of three, intruding on a conversation of thoughts, a conversation about him — no, he was being included now. 

I will tell the player a story.

He couldn’t look away, not even if he wanted to. He was entranced.

Give it a body, again.

The words continued, and he felt things start to change.

Suddenly, there was air. He took a breath, as instructed. 

Then another. 

His lungs inflated, and his lungs deflated, as they were meant to. The air wasn’t colder or warmer, it just was. 

An extension of himself.

His arms returned to him. He could move his fingers now — he started even before the words told him to. His legs straightened and they supported the weight of his body now. His feet weren’t resting on anything, but that didn’t matter to his body, now under gravity. But he wasn’t falling, like he should be if gravity existed. 

He was resting atop the void, under it — inside it. He could feel it everywhere, yet it felt like nothing. Like static water, like stagnant air. If he just moved his limbs maybe���

No, no ripples formed around him, no waves, nor did the temperature appear to change slightly. 

And yet, he could feel it all around him.

Bdoubleo100.

A world flourished in front of him. Images he couldn’t explain. There it was, so close he nearly could touch it — a small ball of molten rock, small enough it could fit in his hand. He reached for it, but it slipped. A new light, far away, a giant ball of flames, easily bigger than a house. The tiny planet started on its journey around it. Bdubs let his hand fall, eyes and mouth wide open.

At some point, he had stopped reading the words. Yet he still felt them rattling inside his head.

And then, everything around him changed. Grass below him, he looked up and the horizon never seemed to end, and above, a blocky sun on a light blue sky. The sun moved rapidly. The colors started to change, welcoming the night.

Then, the void.

More and more images left impressions in his eyes.

Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen.

Let's go back. 

Atoms, grass, a river, a woman, picking up said atoms, drinking, eating, inhaling them.

And then, a child, made from nothing but milk and love. A smile he knew well.

There he was. Himself.

Everything evaporated, turned to dust and particles. The dust came together and there— a star.

Images of different worlds overlaid, one atop the other and after and deep within its smallest elements and far away so everything looked tiny.

Energy, numbers, code.

You are the player, reading words… 

Words, meaning, feelings, emotions, theories, ideas—

He breathed. He breathed. Deep and fast, and fast and he was alive. He was alive.

and the universe said I love you

Bdubs… Bdubs felt the love. Each word spoken directly into his brain was true. He knew they were true. He felt it, in his bones, in his lungs, his fingers he stretched as he felt the void around him embrace him. He was the universe. He was love.

And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.

You are the player.

Wake up.

Bdubs jumped out of bed, throwing the cover onto— the next bed. There were many beds clumped together. He was outside, looking at a small wheat field, trees over in the distance and grass everywhere. It was very obviously night and the baaing of sheep was right in his ear. The huffing of cows wasn’t any better. 

“Where am I?”

He turned around. Next to him inside their pen, there was a herd of white and blue sheep. Blue, the color he dyed Etho’s sheep so he could build his model of Earth.

“Oh, I’m back in Etho’s house.”

He started walking.

And just then it hit him.

They’d killed the ender dragon. He’d finished it off. He did it. He didn’t die. He was still alive after everything. How did it all happen so perfectly?

As he ran through the night to the Secret Keeper to claim his successful task alongside everyone, something itched inside his brain. Something he couldn’t quite place.

He glanced up at the night sky.

And he 

felt 

loved.

[most-creature-vibe-tournament]

Semifinal 1

Propaganda:

Taylor Hebert (Worm (webserial by Wildbow))

Human girl who has superpowers that let her control bugs. She shunts all emotions off into her swarm of bugs, leaving her totally blank and stoic. She outsources sensory-input to her bugs, so she never looks or reacts to anything. In a fight, she reacts to opponents there is no possible way she could see, because she sensed them with her bugs. Overall has virtually no facial tells and moves in a way that makes her seem like she isn't a person. very creature <3 she is just a bug girl

shes such a FREAK. shes completely human (tho with an eldritch alien creature extradimensionally attached to her mind) but God does she not act like it sometimes. she has the superpower to control bugs and uses it to become the worlds most terrifying hero slash villain slash warlord slash apocalyptic threat. she has her bugs crawling all over her all the time. she uses a swarm of flies to scout out areas and then leaves flies in everybodys hair so she can keep track of where they are. she practiced having her bugs make noises until she figured out how to combine their noises into human speech so now she can talk through her swarm. she makes decoys of herself out of large pillars of bugs. once she was concussed and in the hospital and subconsciously calling her bugs to her so she was just covered in insects while the doctor tried to help her. then there was ANOTHER time she was hospitalized and got bored so she made a bunch of bugs so a little dance on her chest. whenever she's in costume and talking she has her bugs make noises to distort her voice and make her sound more scary and she doesnt even realize shes doing it anymore. she surrounds herself in a swarm to disorient her enemies. she doesn't even notice when her hair covers her eyes or anything like that because shes scouting out the area using her bugs so she doesnt have to see. she once used a tide of bugs to clean herself off and dust off her dress after having sex.

#she views herself as more of a swarm of bugs with a girl-shaped computer to control them than a girl herself#her body is just an extension of her bugs which is large and inconvenient but ultimately part of the weapon

#taylor “dissociates into bugs” hebert#taylor “keeps bugs in her hair” hebert#taylor “choke them with bugs” hebert#taylor “no one could ever love me” hebert#taylor “violence is always the answer” hebert

#normally i would want a worm character to win#but#bdubs is a strange little man. he's unusual.#Taylor's just got the 'tism.

she literally is a walking superorganism comprised of one human and a lot more bugs to the point where she frequently moves her head as if she can see through walls (with her bugs, she can), talks through her bugs, has been described like a corpse whose ghost is living on in her swarm, keeps functioning thru her bugs even when her human body is out for the count, et cetera. no disrespect intended but genuinely what in the world are you talking about. She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs. And she thinks it's normal. Because the bugs are part of her. Is this thing on. I reiterate that she literally requires an emotional support cloak of bugs. She is so dissociated from being an actual person that she treats her human body like an inconvenience and her bugs like the primary operators. Is This Thing On.

#now i told myself i wouldnt comment anything on the rb... but#“She cleans her pussy off with bugs after fucking. Her pussy. With bugs.” CHAT IS THAT FUCKIN REAL??? IS THAT CANON???#cause if thats just a hc thats wild and i dont know if its better or worse if its canon#propaganda

this is indeed canon! there is a scene where, after fucking her boyfriend in an abandoned building, she stands up and cleans dust/etc off her naked ass body by having her bugs run across her and clean her, which presumably translates to "they are eating the dirt/sweat/etc off her." her boyfriend smiles affectionately at this, because he also has something wrong with him. she also does things like use bugs and spider silk to deliver her toothbrush straight to her hand in the morning while monologuing about "checking in on her hive" (her hive is the people in her villain territory.) she is a walking panopticon. her friends sometimes talk to bugs under the assumption it's taylor watching them and they're always right. at one point she confusedly asks someone if he's arachnophobic because he doesn't want her 10k black widow spiders to live in his apartment with him. she is basically like if a cockroach was a girl. I would never lie to you about Taylor Hebert, Unsung Champion of Polls About Weird Characters.

#taylor ofc#wait hey those are my tags as propaganda!! cool!#i stand by it#anyways yeah one of her main character traits when looked at by an outside perspective is just how WEIRD she is#everyone thinks she's a freak#even when you're reading her POV you sometimes have to stop and be like 'hey girl what the fuck'#one time she put bugs on her boyfriend's dick

She also turns into a bug monster at one point. Not all on her own, but she very much turns into a bug monster. Literally And Physically.

• And she uses this to survive like a cockroach, she had Just Been Ripped In Fucking Half and thrown in the ocean to die and BOOM. bug monster transformation (with a little help) climb out and keep fighting, against an opponent so vast and powerful a human couldn't even comprehend his true form (not eldritch cognitohazard, just planet-sized + multidimensional), who could kill her in an instant. She's always surviving against the odds she's so cockroach coded (affectionate!) #@ pollrunner if you're still accepting propaganda please take the 'turns into a bug monster' as propaganda#the rest can be ignored or trimmed to 'she's always surviving she's so cockroach coded' but pleamse. the Time she Became A Bug • #she's such a freak!!!#she kills like it's the only thing she was built how to do#she kills people and things like it's chess and she's a grandmaster#as soon as the violence is off she's just a fucked up offputting little one woman panopticon • One of my favourite descriptions of Taylor from someone else's POV, from Interlude 14.

“A figure stood behind Yan. Her costume was barely recognizable—She wore a short cape of tattered black cloth over her body armor, a skintight black suit beneath that, and there were folds of black cloth draped around her legs like a dress or a robe. The entire fabric seemed to ripple and move. It took Sierra a second to realize it was crawling with a carpet of insects.” “The disconcerting part was the girl’s face, or lack thereof. Her expression was masked behind a shifting mass of bugs that moved in and out of her hairline. Sierra couldn’t even tell where the bugs ended and the scalp began, as the small black bodies crawled into and onto the black curls. There was a hint of something like glass where Skitter’s eyes were, but the bugs ventured far enough over her eyelids and around the frames that nothing was visible in the way of goggles, glasses or skin.” “Skitter hadn’t made a sound as she entered. She hadn’t spoken, and her footsteps had been quiet.”

Goodtimeswithscar (Hermitcraft / life series)

Scared for life

I must say that scar, who is a vex and an elf, wins this one.

He was also a witch, but was so busy building an airplane he didn't even notice it. Probably because he is so used to shape changing, having also been a pirate, wizard, trader, superhero, and imagineer.

There were also some rumors about him being a mattress store but those have been debunked.

[megabuild]

You shall talk about bdubs whether you like it or not (for the ask thingy) - Clovis xoxo

oh don't worry i like it so much.

1: i see him as a gay man! "but scott" you cry "what about cledubs". it still happens but in a very "what if a fag and a dyke could fuck ruthlessly" way. also he's cis but his gender is simultaneously sort of all over the place in typical gay fashion.

2: recently i've been drawing him as a bat hybrid so some stuff on that- he purrs instead of snoring, he has little wings on his back that never grew in properly, his leg+feet muscles are strong enough to support his weight upside down if he so desires! but usually he doesn't do this because sleeping upside down as a full sized guy is not so great for him.

3: on the appearance front still- he is littered with scars from his time in the jungle because late on he was caught in a ton of vines and the thorns left a permanent mark. this is part of the reason his moss hoodie has big floppy sleeves, because the scarring on his arms and hands are particularly bad and sensitive to touch, plus he was just a little self conscious about it for a while (but he's getting better).

4: for some reason i always saw him as... not actually being an "official" mindcrack member? like he IS but. i think i had a dream or something at some point where he was a builder that came on world to fix something up and he ended up just staying LMFAO. a lot of mc guys in my head were like this where they weren't formally invited (even though in real life etho and doc were i still see them as just stumbling in).

5: i don't have much backstory for him compared to some other characters i think he had a pretty normal life prior to the horrors. but i do think he grew up in a pretty remote place. also he grew up with horses because of course he did, he didn't live on a farm or anything but i think there was a ranch nearby and that helped foster his love for the beasts as an adult

6: re:ethubs (predictable) i'm a strong fighter for etho fell first but bdubs fell harder but also etho is an idiot and didn't have the experience or language to understand he was in love so maybe bdubs fell first too. however, he fucking HATED etho for a long time despite also clearly having a huge crush on him and not actually disliking him that much. he's like a tsundere to me, is the best way i can explain it. pause was his wingman on mindcrack for a while but this was a situation that literally nobody was happy about or wanted to happen.

7: i think he's a good baker. not excellent but i think he should get really into baking and making little treats. they probably look way better than they taste because decoration is his favourite part. also said this before but i think he'd get really into star signs for a while but he doesn't take it that seriously he just reads his horoscope every day and then if things go wrong he'll blame that.

8: i could go in depth here about something but this is a sfw blog so i'm just going to gesture vaguely at the one post that's like "i'm into bdsm be dozin so much" and leave it at that.

9: on sleeping- he is just a generally sleepy guy and always has been, but also i think he suffers from a touch of chronic fatigue. nothing that severely impedes him but like, when he goes to bed on time it's because he literally cannot stay up past his bedtime or he will Pass Away

10: when etho left in season 5 he left his headband behind. bdubs took the decorative metal clasp from the front and wove it onto a necklace, kinda like a dog tag. still wears it to this day under his shirt where nobody can see! when etho learned this for the first time he got very. Very emotional. but anyways .

11: (bonus ethubs one because i just remembered it) he HAS watched a lot of etho's lab but didn't before meeting him. he went back and watched some early stuff, but out of respect for etho after learning about his life he never finished it.

[florshedworf]

NOT CLEO AND BDUBS GIVING SCAR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT TNT