#issue month: november

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Monthly ASCII Comic (月刊アスキーコミック) / ASCII (アスキー) / Nov 1993 issue

[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

[littlebluejaydraws]

Death and the Maiden- Marianne Stokes

Happy deathiversary to two absolute legends <3

Image descriptions in alt text

[saltpepperbeard]

the stark difference between this october and last october has my head spinning 360 degrees tbh.

like last october was so joyful and so rich and so beautiful and i would give anything to do it all again, whereas this october is like back to back to back horrors l m a o

[desertpirate77]

Mental health is in hell. Gonna log off for a while. Have a good one everyone ✌️❤️

[bughusbands]

(shows up 10 minutes late, with coffee) Halloween Noctowl illustration for October!

[br1ghtestlight]

IM NOT SUICIDAL BECAUSE OF THE US ELECTION IM SUICIDAL BECAUSE IM SEVERELY MENTALLY UNSTABLE😭😭😭‼️‼️

[kyouka-supremacy]

I'm sorry I didn't answer your messages The Demons got me

[smimon]

Vent post

Is it weird that my current grieving song is Non-Stop from Hamilton?

Specifically all those parts, paraphrased to make it about art, although since I'm using art for storytelling this could stay as in original, whatever

---

Why do you draw like you're running out of time?

Draw day and night like it's going out of style?

Are you running out of time?

Look at where you are

Look at where you started

The fact that you're alive is a miracle

Just stay alive, that would be enough

If this could grant you peace of mind

Would that be enough?

How do you draw like tomorrow won't arrive?

How do you draw like you need it to survive?

How do you draw ev'ry second you're alive?

Look around, isn't this enough?

---

Well, spending my early years in constant sense of threat turned me into an impulsive thrill seeker - but I know putting myself in danger would be very dumb.

When I have nothing to do, I feel something is wrong, and I will start panicking. When I am in trouble, I calm down, because this is familiar, because I know how to deal in such a case.

Instead of looking for trouble I am engaging in safe at-home art&crafts activities, setting short-distance goals, keeping myself constantly occupied - because my brain can only rest when it is busy.

Daily drawing challenges are extra helpful because of the deadlines - and I don't worry if I fail to meet them, as my prize is not the finished drawing, but the temporary calmness through the stress that comes before that.

Is this a sort of painkiller for the restlessness and not a remedy at all? Maybe. But through art I find self-discovery, and thanks to this I gradually calm down and find inner peace. Year after year, it becomes more bearable.

But how long can it last? Won't a moment come when I will be out of stories to tell? Will I find peace by then?

[shezasag]

officially promoted & like not to boast but i'm starting at $21/hr plus tips for literally not much more work than i'm already doing and i'm not even required to work 40 hrs/week so it'll probably only be ~32 hrs

also my store manager admitted what i already suspected which is that he hired me with the intention of me becoming the shitty manager's replacement from the very beginning

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Lyrica (リリカ) / Sanrio (サンリオ) / Nov 1976 issue

[apocalypticdemon]

and now my laptop is a brick. every day i consider walking into the sea

[pikslasrce]

the return of the evil nap... AND the acid reflux?????

[napo-con-fritas]

*my year is going too well individually, and the universe simply won't let me have that

[catgirl-paws]

aaaaaaaa im finally getting my hrt dosage fixed!!!!!

[lehdenlaulu]

Guess my liveblog of Jedi: Survivor (and everything else I might do on my desktop) is still on pause since my GPU looks to be defective after all and today is a bank holiday so I can't go get a new one. Fantastic.