#mention of unus annus

[emolionsrawr]

*responding to a call*

eddie: oh-

buck: are you chill with dying?? wait we aren't gonna kill you don't worry!

eddie: go, go and calm her down

buck: listen i gotta be honest, i didn't take my ADD meds today and reading is NOT my strong suit so reading those computer things, i, i, none of the information is being processed, he's the big brain, he'll take care of it, rest assured, he's an idiot but he can read well, i will make sure nothing bad-

woman trapped in a vending machine: oh my god my life is in the hands of an idiot!

buck: no no no no no no no, TWO idiots!

bobby: for god sake you two-

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2510

Bone apple teeth. (Dialogue from tumblr.)

[starlyte-writes]

5 years later Ethan's making sure sex toys are still relevant to Unus Annus day

[su1c1d3wh0r3z]

Did YOU know that I'm ON medication currently?

.....and I think i need a higher dose :)

[rotteneldritchhorror]

One thing I will never forget about unus annus is during the Definitely not shibari video of Ethan tying Mark “the bear” up they briefly pan to the site that they’re using and I IMMEDIATELY recognised it as a site I browsed through when I first hyperfixated on kink and found out about shibari and the proper ropes to get and proper ties

[cmdonovann]

I FINISHED CORSET NIMBUS. he is so hot for real oh my god. have i mentioned he is SIX FOOT NINE?? and wait till you hear about his DICK- [i am dragged offstage by a comically large hook]

anyway shouts out to @chemicalcain for designing both this character and the cool partially-transparent corset. i love him <3

(only one of the dnd party left... i will finish corset luvo soon i promise...)

[cuddlycryptid]

one of my best friends did the music for this season of Vox Machina, and we got to watch s3 early w him!!

my other bestie writes for Magic the Gathering and gives me cool Magic cards :3 they also wrote an episode of magnus protocol thats coming out in a few weeks!!

anyways my friends are the coolest people on the planet and i love and cherish them all so much im so lucky

[critterbutt]

someone at the grocery store recognized my unus annus hoodie today!!

[raika-kiara]

After THREE YEARS (is it almost 4 at this point? wow) I got recommended this again. I have been looking for it passively for most of that time, and I just want to say that this hits Hard.

To the +15 million people who were there at the last moment, thank you all. I know this isn't the anniversary but I think for that I'm just gonna celebrate by crying.

In honor of them, it will not be tears of the sadness of that it died,

but the joy I felt when it was alive.

I like posting funny things. This is a side blog, and where I put the things that I think I can allow myself to share. I just really want everyone, all zero people who are following me and the one person (maybe two?) who has ever RB'ed my posts,

nothing will ever compare to this. I wouldn't wish this kind of happiness on anyone.

Out of (stupidity? wishful thinking?) I was thinking about tagging Markiplier and maybe happybirthday-unusannus, but no. Never mind. Anyone who understands this post probably knows exactly how impactful this was to me, a kid in middle school at the time was, and how impactful it is to me now, making college applications and figuring who I want to be.

I just keep dragging this on, but nothing will ever describe how powerful knowing exactly when something (someone) will die.

Thank you for being there.

[crescentmp3]

oooohhuh you wanna check my pronouns page sooo bad . oooooUuHhuhhhh *black and white spiral to hypnotize you*

[scentedluminarysoul]

There is just something inherently funny about two doofuses drinking their own piss

Or maybe it's because I grew up watching Jackass idk

[hyp3rst4r]

I remember vividly that tumblr did have groupchat based of anything and I remember I joined one that it was based of markiplier & unus annus.... (or am I thinking of smth else)

[elliestoybox]

I dont mean to be mean, and i usually wouldnt make this kinda reaction, but i think youbare causing yourself a lot of unnecessary grief by misinterpreting the message of unus annus.

Unus annus was an exercise in loss and grief in a safe way. To experience a loved one dying and learning how to live with that loss.

It was never about NOT preserving media.

The reason mark and ethan insisted we dont archive the channel was so we can allow it to die for real. And we were, in fact, allowed to archive it/parts of it PRIVATELY (thats how we are allowed to get more out of context clips post mortem, which they both said they were ok with.)

The difference between private and public archives for unus annus is the difference between having a photo album of a dead family member and parading the corpse around for years after.

What streaming companies are doing now is analogous to someone coming up to your friend and shooting them in the head and telling you to not be sad or mad because we're all gonna die at some point.

Archiving these shows is something that does not go against unus annus' point and i believe mark and ethan would both agree. (In the same way that if youtube nuked either of their main accounts i believe they might be glad if someone would have an archive of those in case they couldnt get them back)

Tldr; archive shows you like and dont worry about it conflicting with the message of unus annus, because they do not contradict.

Y'know, Unus Annus holds a spot near and dear to my heart. I miss those videos every single day. But I appreciate Mark and Ethan's message, that nothing lasts forever so you have to cherish the good things you have while you have them. I respect that message.

That being said, they never could have known that less than five years later we'd be sinking further into the corporate capitalist dystopia where all our favorite medias and memories are trapped behind streaming services and monthly fees and ads that nearly outweigh the quantity of the media we're trying to view.

I really do love Mark and Ethan's message, and I think it was a good one because I know they didn't just mean it about digital media, they meant it about your job and your hobbies and your friends and family and pets. But it's getting harder to follow when it feels like everything I own can be taken away from me at any moment.

Sometimes I fret over that idea, and I think about Mark and Ethan's message, and I tell myself maybe the message doesn't apply anymore and I miss their content so much. In an age where piracy is becoming more common again, I'm sure if I looked hard enough I could find reuploads of their videos. But I don't, because I remember that Mark and Ethan had our best interests at heart, and these corporations like Max and Youtube and Hulu and Netflix and all the others don't. They're for profit, not joy or wonder or kindness or human decency.

I guess all I'm trying to say is memento mori. Remember the good things you have and cherish those things while you have them. But don't fool yourself for a second that just because you know nothing lasts forever and you're prepared for finite possibilities means that someone or something can just take the good things away from you. You deserve good things, and you deserve to be respected, and have your property, digital or physical, respected.

[crackedegotheories]

Between Mark's treatment of Helpy during Help Wanted 2 and his comments during Momiplier's let's play of Pizzeria Simulator, I can't be the only one thinking...

Mark should absolutely voice Helpy if the animatronic shows up in a future FNAF movie, right?

Hear me out, he has experience voice acting a cartoon bear (hi 505!), and if Helpy is a character the audience/other characters in universe are meant to trust, what better (and funnier) way to do it than to give him a surprisingly deep, charismatic voice?

Not to mention he just really seems to get the character of Helpy in a way that most people who are taken in by that "demon animatronic's" cute exterior don't. He even points out that Helpy's role of helping is fulfilled by showing the dangers of how NOT to do things, which what is that if not Markiplier Makes and many an Unus Annus video in a nutshell?

I'm just saying, it could definitely work and this idea is not completely built on Mark telling his mom that Helpy is a masochist who likes pain.

[death-himself]

does anyone else think about just how often how the grinch stole christmas was mentioned on unus annus?

like the grinch was talked about an insane amount even outside of the christmas videos

you can’t talk about unus annus in full without also bringing up martha maywho

kind of sidenote: we don’t talk enough about mark’s excessive knowledge about how the grinch stole christmas and i think that’s a real shame

[peppermint-whiskers]

Ah yes, the day we all knew we were doomed

Happy 4th Birthday to

“Beer Sauna: Turning a Portable Sauna into a Portable Hell”