#if your post is mostly about Grian with the only references to Skizz being YOU KNOW WHAT

[eluminium]

just so y'all know if i go into the skizzleman tag this coming week and the majority of the posts are about Grian's widow curse or Grian's new team or Grian Angst in general i WILL piss in your soft drinks and eat your gay little spleens this is your One Warning

[catminecraft]

Ough I think I have. Similar feelings on wl. My friend has expressed to me that this is their favorite season because they have autism and adhd and like. Ok fair. I have Feelings about that but a good chunk of it is because I know my friend and you don't so thats irrelevant to you. I would like to see them actually get to Do Things. it felt a little bit like the April fools snapshot video Grian/Lizzie/Joel/Jimmy/gem/imp/Skizz did. I'm a Grian main so my reference points are gonna be mostly that but like. The finale. It couldve been Way more impactful if Grian and Joel had a chance to actually Ally instead of Grian kind of... floating aimlessly after the spanners died. The point of the gimmicks being intrusive I think said it best, they were so immediately present that it was like. Monster of the week to me. And that's not really why I watch the life series, and I genuinely wonder how many people DO watch it for that. Are we the outliers or what.

god this literally. i was talking about this to my friends just today too. so the thing about the gimmicks that (many people don't understand from my original post lol) i still like them. like its very important to know that the gimmicks are fun. i thought shrinking was fun, i thought superpowers were super fun. but the point of the gimmicks is to be in the background— to create a backdrop for the players to develop the series in the direction they want it to go.

people have argued for the existence of predominant gimmicks, saying that the series needs something new, that gimmicks are like jingling keys to the viewers, but i would argue specifically against this fact by looking at what made the series skyrocket to popularity in the first place, and that were fanartists and fanfiction writers who were insane about the players. desert duo, renwoods, crastle team, flower husbands; scottage, team best, magic mountain, southlanders. Those were the things we were obsessed with. those were the things that kept us coming back and back again, not the fact that There Was A Trivia Bot. I dont care if theres a trivia bot. i care if the players know or dont know the answers, i care how the players barter for the answers If they dont know it, i care how some players are willing to help eachother out with the answers.

This is also why, even though i have my criticisms towards secret life, i thought the finale was handled pretty well all things considered, because the secret tasks were turned off for the entirety of it, letting the players naturally conclude the series in the way they wanted to do it. This is why wild life finale failed so spectacularly to me— the last 15 minutes being the only time the players got to breathe, and then it was over. The gimmicks dominated the entire series from start to finish and there was very little player input that kept every single other season afloat. Its disappointing. Its frustrating.

I think its also important to note that no matter what the fandom tells you rn, youre allowed to feel this way and have these criticisms and be frustrated with the way the series has evolved. we are the audience and we pay the content creators through ad revenue and continued support. youre allowed to not like the content, no matter if we are the minority in this opinion or not. and both the content creators and the fandom need to accept the criticism towards the series because nothing exists in a vacuum 🤷!

[bananasofthorns]

please tell me about the nuances for your god au /gen

ohoho hello I am so glad you asked. 

Third Life

Martyn is sometimes the Red King's Hand (or the Hand of the Red King) instead of just the Hand

Separately, Jimmy and Scott are called the Harbinger and the Widow. Together, they're referred to as the Lovers. Sometimes they're each individually referred to as the Lover, which occasionally makes the myths unclear on who, exactly, they're talking about

Scar actually has three titles: the Silvertongue, the Scammer, and the Deal Maker. He is sometimes called the Trickster's Silvertongue, though Grian also has multiple titles, so Trickster can be interchanged with the Victor or the Profiteer.

Bdubs is the Timekeeper or the Weapon; he is sometimes called the Zombie Queen's Weapon

(Last Life is under the cut because there’s a lot more)

Last Life

pretty much everyone has multiple titles and a lot of them weren’t mentioned in the original post, so...now you get them all!

Grian is the Trickster, the Reaper, or the Redslayer

Scar is the Silvertongue, the Soul Salesman, or the Scammer

Ren is the Knight or, when he's with Martyn, the King. He is often referred to as the Fae Queen/Shadow Lady's Knight

Martyn is the Liar or, when he’s with Ren, the Hand

Etho is the Tactician, but he is also the Widow or the Devoted. The latter is used very rarely. The Widow also isn’t common and is usually only used in conjunction with one of Bdubs’s titles (for example, “the Timekeeper’s Widow”)

Similarly, Bdubs has three titles: the Timekeeper, the Fallen, and the Beloved. Like Etho’s last title, the Beloved isn’t used very often and is pretty much exclusively used in conjunction with one of Etho’s titles (ex: “the Tactician’s Beloved”)

Skizz is the Shield, the Martyr, or the Abandoned. The latter two are only used after he turns red, and the Shield mostly stops being used after that point. He’s sometimes called the Shield of all of BEST, but more often in conjunction with one of Tango’s titles (such as “the Life Dealer’s Shield”). After he dies and goes red, he’s sometimes called the Abandoned Shield