#menaller

[pap3rcrown]

sorry still thinking about henry not hugging sparrow back bc out of all the dads henry is the only one (besides darryl i assume) that still talks to his dad. he /forgives/ thats in his nature he takes care of his dad despite everything he did. but he cannot find it in himself to be warm to his own sons like we dont know what the fallout in the 20-30 years since season one happens but what the fuck could have happened to henry, who loved so deeply to act so cold to his boys. i mean im sure he didn’t approve of how they dealt with the doodler but there has to be something else there yknow. i mean im sure ill find out next ep but fuck man.

idk i dont think ill be able to handle it if they pull a close family and go “this is the best it’ll ever be” like obviously lark will never have a strong relationship with henry but sparrow?? and at this point its not looking great for normal and sparrow (maybe sparrow and lark will somehow be good but like. i hold up little hope) god i dont fucking know theres a little but of a downward spiral going here for all of them.

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

wake up babes new fan nymph just dropped. she's the nymph of animals and she's like if gau from ffvi was a girl

once again thank you @claraknight for the PHENOMENAL (HAH!!!!!!!!!) name pun!!!!!!

[glowstone23b]

warden/ancient city thoughts …

Anicent cities aren’t actually cities, they’re actually massive temples instead that devoted themselves to a certain god (im not sure what god the old builders would worship akandk)

They laid many people to rest in those underground crypts, that a bit of their souls leaked out of the bodies and infected the glowing cave vines, resulting in a strange mutation of sculk

and as more people died and got places in those tombs,,, the more sculk spread

Eventually some worshippers caught notice of this and assumed it to be some gift from the gods, so they continued to add fuel to it, experimenting with it, etc, finding out that when a creature dies— instead of the soul ascending to an afterlife, it is instead pulled down by the sculk and merged into what was like a sentient hivemind of connected souls working together to become something akin to an organism

At some point, as evolution of the sculk furthered and sculk sensors formed, it eventually led to a sculk shrieker

and after worshippers activated it a couple times in a row,

It summoned the massive, blind hulking beast known as the warden. It harvested as many souls as it could from the worshippers as it chased after them, leaving no one in it’s wake, before retreating back into the biomass until the next time there is a significant amount of soul that alerts the shriekers once more

Ok mini rant story thing over. i like to think that sculk works in a weird sort of method

Catalyst farm and form the extra sculk needed to begin an infection —> sensors pick up on sounds made by noises that supposedly could be creatures with a soul —> shriekers sound a scream that helps determine if a warden should form —> warden harvests any nearby creatures to help the sculk spread. if killed, the warden drops a catalyst, so it can all begin again

The warden itself is a weird amalgamation of human souls stuck together fused with the sculk. the main reasoning for it being blind (other than cave animals usually being blind since low to zero light requires little need for eyes) is because detecting sound means a very high chance of something w soul

Sculk sickness …. Possibly a rare disease only picked up by deep miners. nasty no good and probably hurts as the sculk eats you from the inside out

Illagers came across the ancient cities and set up camp for a short amount of time to try and study the sculk . you can imagine what happened to them

[ i like to think every ‘living’ creature in minecraft has a soul. that keeps them alive and thinking and breathing and stuff. and undead mobs have soul residue which leaves them with very basic instincts or things they subconsciously remember how to do ITS A FUN THOUGHT ]

[ in my little au illagers love experimenting w souls . because the more you experiment the more messed up results you get (vexes being the fused collective of 2-3 allays, or creating abominations via sticking two different mob souls together… possibly how ravagers came to be since they look a bit like villagers that got turned into beasts . fun theorizing ]

Hey invention? Phanon? I love your mind, it's wonderful. Have a drawing!

I've never drawn a warden before, mostly because it's been very daunting, but I think I got it out the way I wanted it to!! Sculk itself is kind of like... a fungus-y tentacle-y mixture, and i got some inspiration from the devil's fingers fungus irl! Really cool, I suggest giving it a look-see.

In my head, sculk would start off kind of like little eggs or pips or... whatever those things are... there's a name for it, when a plant or a cell decides to split off to make a new plant or cell? Mitosis? Bulbs? Plantlets? There's a word I'm looking for. Anyways. They'd probably grow mini sculk bits off of more mature ones so they can drop off and spread on their own, kind of like some types of succulent if that makes sense? Which explains the little sticky-outy bits on the wardens' horn things. Man, there's gotta be proper terminology for this, my brain is not finding the right words today.

They'd release some sort of bioluminescence when disturbed, and have an almost tar-like substance produced to trap smaller mobs (spiders, bats, etc.) that happen to wander too close, akin to fly traps. It wouldn't work as well for humans, but it's not uncommon to have your foot tugged on by some sculk in the hopes it can digest you.

I went off "The warden itself is a weird amalgamation of human souls stuck together fused with the sculk" because it's FREAKING COOL, so !!! Yeah!! I've got some of the larger/longer sculk tendrils used as arms and 'fingers' in a sense, though they're not all that precise in use. It just opts to smack the heck out of people usually. The bones in the shoulders and feet I thought were really cool on the in-game design, so I feel that the sculk would grow around any sorts of bones it had access to to keep a more stable structure. Keeping yourself upright if you're a soft mass of plantiness/fungus-yness would be a little tough, I think. Also, keeping bones close to the sculk might make it easier to tether souls together? Who knows!

It'd be neat to see what types of matter the sculk would attach to to form a warden-- it could be enderman bones, for all we know! Big and long and short and stubby, and all of the bones are in the wrong places. Using femurs for toes, or ribs for arms... it'd definitely not be fun to see in person.

Sculk sickness sounds SO NEAT TOO!!! I imagine you might be able to inhale it, like spores? Since it feeds off of xp or souls, you just keep fueling it once you're infected whether you like it or not. Does it have any cure, or would you have to have some sort of surgery to try to remove the existing sculk from your body? That'd cause a heck of a lot of complications, if it were to block anything internally. Wild, but neat to theorize about.

And YES on the experimenting with souls thing! Especially with the update so vexes look a lot more like allays-- definitely experiment material. I wonder how many more mobs are out there that we haven't seen because they haven't been made yet? Just mish mashes of any sort of soul they could get their hands on, inhabiting a body that doesn't feel quite right. Kinda interesting!

Thank you for sharing as always ily you rule. Your theories slap, may your inventory be full of diamonds or something. May the Nether's fire guide your way, idk. More piglin-y, as per my blog, lol.

[ilovepupsomuch]

SCREAMING BC ME ME DUDE I WANT YOU I WANT RO LVOE YOU FLAWS AND ALL I WANT TO BE THERE FOR YOU I WAN TTO BE THERE NO MAYTER IF YOURE ALL FLAWS EVEN THOUGH IK YOU ARENT ARRRH YOU DUMB CUTE LITTLE IDIOT

[ballsalsda]

When the intrusive thoughts get lowkey incestuous and you have a mental breakdown over it

[cartoonishreal]

insane giggling as I throw these Karl drawings around and gnaw at them like a crack addict with rabies

[considered-the-tetrapod]

Something I've learned about myself is that if you leave me alone in your house or apartment I WILL clean your kitchen

[wisedumptruck]

I bite. I don't know why I bite. And I hate that I bite. I'm supposed to be nice. I'm supposed to be kind and treat people well. I'm supposed to handle my emotions without hurting anybody else. I'm scared of myself. I'm scared that I will end up biting the wrong person and getting myself put down. I'm scared I have hurt the people I care about to much for them to trust me, to love me. I feel like a rabid animal.

[purple-space-aliens]

just did a thinking and realized the only reason i was ever okay with certain ship/duo/whaetver was because one of the members is my partner or someone else i was really close with. because i usually get upset at seeing the other one in a ship/duo/whatever with literally anyone else that isnt one of the people i really care abt. that makes a lot more sense

[dreamdropsystem]

i am NOT sorry i cannot hide my autism and other disabilities.

we always have been disabled, and it's always been unconventional, for our family, school, peers, etc etc. we only recently got diagnosed properly for a lot of things, others we don't know. we've alway been chronic ill, with mental, physical and developmental disabilities.

cause of regression we can't mask pretty much mask at all and it's irritating for some system members but for me i feel it's freeing cause i don't care!! we are disbaled! we can't hide it and that's just it.

happy autism awareness / acceptance month - Chocolat

[milaisreading]

"But, by saying someone can't say a genocide didn't happen, u are taking away someone's freedom of speech"

☠️☠️ play on the smallest violin in the world for all I care

[jevindaily]

can you draw jevin in the tag hat from the crossover? if not, can i have an hhh :)

[95] He is going to suffocate Mythical J Sausage.

[jamminlocks]

Venti Fontaine hijicks part 2 (pt 1)

venti is in court (for drunk reasons probably). Traveler and Paimon are his attorneys. unknown to the watching audience, there is a huge amount of stress and pressure for them, along with Furina and Neivellette to not mention the fact that bard on trial is actually the archon of another nation.

venti's trail will be known as a strange trail where there was no rain outside.

[madmansmisc]

We all die in the end 

Pyramids or ovens in shame

Loving life: do you love this

Slice of pie easy as cakewalking out

Don’t look back don’t you love

Singing in the coffin at the funeral

[cupofteajones]

2025 New and Upcoming Books by Black Authors

[t4k3-m3-t0-4-th3r4p1st]

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