#he would have been instantly blown up by the tnt minecart that fell with him

[desolationcleo]

ok i think i've got it

ok so picture. you're me. it's april. this is your first time ever watching a life series as it airs.

in the latest episode, jimmy lost large amounts of time and was left with the least out of anyone. he ends his video by saying "i'm afraid that the curse will continue and i will be the first one out."

you know there's barely any time left of speculation. the recording session for episode 7 already happened and you know damn well jimmy did not survive. you have been listening to canary in a coal mine (and also this) nonstop this whole week.

it's the night before the moment of truth. you are scared to go to sleep because going to sleep means tomorrow will start and you're terrified of that. you know there will be permadeaths. you're tired whether you want to be or not. you're afraid to sleep.

you wake up the next day with your heart racing. you almost immediately start feeling like you're going to explode into static. you can barely feel your hands.

you spend the entire day reloading jimmy's channel, avoiding tumblr like the plague so as to avoid spoilers. you wait hours for jimmy to upload. it's making you go insane, the waiting, the avoiding, the not knowing, the buildup to the moment of truth.

finally, he uploads, and the first thing you see is that the video is titled "the curse continues".

you have the answer, now.

i'm not gonna lie, i immediately screamed "YES" out loud.

You click so fast that you don't register the thumbnail. You see it, yes, you see jimmy on skynet with a tnt minecart, but you don't process it. you saw that thumbnail for maybe 2/3 of a second.

you only know one thing about this episode: jimmy dies at the end.

you don't know how.

you're so absorbed in watching that you don't look at how much time is left in the video, and why would you? it never even occurs to you. throughout the entire thing you don't know how close you are to the end.

etho, the boogeyman, kills jimmy. jimmy only loses half the time he should have. jimmy has barely any time left, he'll die before he makes it to scott- bdubs begs jimmy to kill him. jimmy gains time.

jimmy dies in this episode. you know this. he should already be dead. he's losing less time than he should and he's being given time by multiple other players. you know damn well that he does not survive. you know how this ends, but not how it happens. you know he will die again, and he will die first. you do not know where in the video you are, or how long is left until he dies, or how he dies. it could be any second now.

until earlier it was a matter of if. to the characters, it still is. but you've seen the title and you know it's a matter of when and how.

and that was just. such a fucking experience. watching them do everything in their power to stop the curse they all know he has, many of them believing he'll be able to break it. the characters don't know that this video is titled after the curse remaining unbroken. the things i experienced watching that. holy fuck.

tbh i think jimmy titling his video "the curse continues" thereby giving away the ending to anyone who knows anything about the series actually enhanced the experience a lot but maybe that's the went-out-of-my-way-to-watch-his-pov-first-that-day talking