#needed vampire grian

[wyrmswyrds]

Mumby....

[mbirnsings-71]

and a Merry Crisis to @cannimochi my dear friend who has had to hear me sob about my au for hours on end- THANK YOU ILYSM AND I HOPE THESE GIFTS ARE SILLY ENOUGH FOR YOU

[mooseyspooky]

Me all alone in my shared hostel room at 2pm in Chicago working on vampire Johnny, curled up in my bunk, before I have to get ready to go see Fontaines tonight

[beefjumper]

Life Series but beefburgered

Hello my tumblr 👋 I'm not dead, I've just been fandom jumping then felt the urge to make somewhat of a reference sheet for the lifers for future use. Yap session about the designs below:

Grian: Very standard Grian. You can smell the Cherrifire influence in this one. I imagine the turtleneck being wide enough to hide his mouth behind as he stares menacingly into the distance. His eyebrows are practically fused with his eyes but it's probably best not to think about it too much. I have considered placing a literal waffle on the back of his head but it might be tedious to draw continuously.

Scar: Everytime I draw Scar he looks weird. It might be because I'm not too good with longer faces, but that's how I'd imagine the character looks like. I think I'll switch up this design a lot as his eyes and hair bug me sometimes. Maybe experiment with the scars too. Artists make him look really cool as an explosion victim.

Mumbo: The slicked back hair looks right. Extra strand sticking out to make him look a bit disheveled. I wonder if I should commit to making him look more goth/vampire-like. He gets a tiny mullet because it fits.

Jimmy: Wanted to make him look a bit bird-like so I tried to express that with the back of his head. I hope he looks pathetic enough.

Joel: Fairly shrek-like. I wanted to make him look grumpy so he has a shorter and broader build. Also decided that one green hair streak wasn't enough for my satisfaction. His brown coat has a honeycomb pattern, but that's not too obvious. Also, he is shorter than Lizzie.

Scott: Pretty sparkly guy. I wanted him to look quite friendly. He actually has thick eyelashes here instead of eyeshadow but I'm not against that idea either. Kind of miss his Last Life skin.

Impulse: I don't watch Impulse too much so this design was based on some common interpretations of him. The horns are a cute idea.

Skizz: Very standard Skizzleman design. The ripped sleeves and the arms are probably my favorite thing. Maybe I should add more hair on the arms.

Tango: People tend to draw him really different, so I took aspects from designs I liked and put it here. Both his sclera and shades ended up being red, but I thought the sclera was iconic and the design looks more interesting with shades on. I'm not sure if I'd prefer for Tango's hair to literally be made out of fire. I tried making it resemble fire instead.

Etho: Attempted to make him a contender for Top 10 Hottest Anime Men. I'm always interested to see how people work around his definitely unrecognizable Minecraft skin (sarcastic). Like other designs, I think I'll add a maple leaf on his clothes or something.

Bdubs: He looks more terrifying than I intended but that might be the point. Might change his hairstyle here. I'd like to draw his white-haired skin at some point.

Cleo: Very standard ZombieCleo design. The hair was based on their VTuber but I decided to use the clothes from their Minecraft skin. The stitches are the fun part. I might make her hair curlier.

Martyn: Very standard InTheLittleWood design. You can smell the Cherrifire influence in this one ×2. The little beard is a wonderful addition I think.

Ren: Picking between black or cyan shades was tough. He also gets an obligatory ponytail because uhm. Tail. Dog. Get it? I also took a good while figuring out how I should go about his ears. I wasn't satisfied with human ears but I needed the shades to fit somehow. You can smell the Cherrifire influence in this one ×3

Lizzie: Yes, I have watched Empires S1 and S2 and it shows. Whoever first decided to give Lizzie cat-like buns should be given an award. I like the idea of heart-shaped buns too so maybe I'll alternate on that.

BigB: Very standard Bigbst4tz2 design. Don't let his friendly interaction with Lizzie fool you but he tends to stare into your soul for uncomfortably long periods of time. The highlights in his eyes come and go.

Gem: Very standard GeminiTay design. She probably has my favorite skin among this batch. I heard there was a shortage of elf Gem (there isn't) and I have decided to contribute to that (because there's no such thing as too many elf Gems).

Pearl: Inside Pearl are two wolves and I decided to draw the one that's sopping wet. Her hair has a few crescent-shaped curls. I'm definitely looking forward to drawing her more intimidating side sometime.

Overall I was hoping to make the designs simple and mostly accurate to skins/pfps. Nothing too special, other than a few pointy ears I sprinkled around here and there. I might add more to the designs the more I draw them.

[tibby-art]

rotating fire emblem 3 houses au in my brain.. silly

[oddly-specific-hermit-headcanons]

Mumbo is a shapeshifter,he usually takes the form of a moth person, during season 8 he didn't, but for a while people thought he was a vampire, and he let them believe that, because it was easier to let them think he drinks blood, than to tell them he was eating a lot of redstone. Only his fellow redstoners know about this habit.

Also, shapeshifter mumbo eats rocks, just about any rock, diorite has a bitter aftertaste, netherack is spicy, he considers basalt to also be spicy, it's not, he's slightly allergic, but only to eating it. Redstone is his favorite, followed by amythest, diamonds, and calcite. Amythest, and calcite are sweet, diamonds taste like candy. Emeralds kinda taste like sour apple to him. Iron and copper are okay, they are a bit sour, gold is pretty good, it has a caramel taste.

Scar also eats rocks, but that's just because he's weird. He only eats precious minerals though, his favorites are quartz and amythest.

Mumbo knows Scar eats rocks. He also knows Scar shouldn't eat rocks. He has however, sent Scar boxes of quartz and amythest in the mailbox, claiming he had some spare quartz after making observers, or that he thought scar might need some more amythest shards for spyglasses.

He knows Scar just eats them, but it makes him happy. Grian, Cleo, bdubs, Joel, Jimmy, and Lizzie also know that he eats rocks because he did it during the life series. Cleo and Joel still scold him about it on hermitcraft, grian just pretends it doesn't happen, bdubs, Lizzie and Jimmy don't know it still happens.

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[syneester]

hiii do you have any scarian fic recomendations maybeee? (i've finished TAMN and i need more stuff to read-)

YES I DO!

believing in the country of me and you by remrose E • Complete • 18k words Part of fireworks exploding in the distance > A classic to me! It adds Scarian scenes to the canon Life Series & Hermitcraft seasons up to the start of Double Life, following their rocky relationship.

closer to another shore by remrose T • Complete • 56k words Part of reach me out here > Scar needs to participate in a Vex tradition that bounds him to another person, a supposed romantic partner. The thought of it stresses him out and he calls his ex, Grian, to calm down. They end up agreeing to do this together as a fake couple.

my ever after / is holding you by LovesickPrince T • Complete • 18k words > Royalty AU! After escaping the Watchers, Grian became King Scar's servant. One day someone decides kidnapping Grian was a good idea.

Nobody Feels Like You by LovesickPrince T • On Going • 189,5k words > After winning 3rd Life, Grian is thrown in there again, events repeating themselves. He decides he'll make Scar win this time.

Silver Bullet by PuckParty E • Complete • 109k words > Omegaverse. Scar works in an institution that helps hormonally destabilized alphas and omegas. One of them is the son of a prestigious family and also a pretty tough case that landed on Scar's desk - Grian.

and like an arrow, you broke me down by mochiwrites T • On Going • 143k words > Grian wins 3rd Life. He dies. And then, somehow... ends in the middle of Last Life. Naturally, he goes to find Scar. And sticks to him.

Be The Death Of Me by Mitos T • Complete • 71k words > Grian destroys a temple in the middle of nowhere and almost dies. Scar - the god of said temple - saves Grian. But now Grian owes Scar a life debt and must rebuild the temple, all while thinking Scar is only a priest. And slowly falling for him.

pale in a liminal moon by cornflowerdye E • On Going (on hiatus) • 116k words > Steampunk AU. Scar is a successful businessman that gets offered a selkie's skin to study it for any potential technological advancements. A selkie's skin does come along with a selkie, though - in this case, Grian. I made fanart for it.

wearing thin by sparxwrites T • Complete • 3k words > Grian and Scar decide to win together and stay on the 3rd Life server. A bit haunting. I also made fanart for it.

Baby, just let me bleed in peace by mossman_mothman T • Complete • 8,5k words > Scar has PTSD from 3rd Life and Last Life. He asks Grian to cut his hair.

AND!! AS A BONUS!! rapidfire pwp smut under the cut

gently now, said the moon by Raichett > Beautifully written. 3rd Life setting, Transmasc Grian.

blood // lust by Raichett > Modern AU. Vampire Scar.

at the invitation of any desire by sillyfairygarden > 3rd Life Scar/Hermitcraft Grian/Hermitcraft Scar threesome, Transmasc Grian.

Into You by uhohbestie > Modern AU, Drag Ariana Griande/Scar.

the taste of strawberry lemonade (with a side of spirit) by lavendernlilac > Modern AU, Incubus Scar.

Love me Love me Love me by ClownCar420 > 3rd Life setting.

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

Hermitcraft / Life Series Fic Recs

Because I love so many of them...

I'll split the fics into completed and updating fics, and try to only recommend currently updating fics (i.e., not abandoned). I'm going to write a little about why I like each fic and what the general vibes are - so this is also a kind of review I guess?

I've tried to @ the authors if they have a public tumblr. Sorry to anyone who didn't want to be tagged, I can remove any @ if you ask (or if I have embarrassingly tagged the wrong person). Anyway, enjoy, and I appreciate reblogs because I want as many people to see these fics as possible!!

This ended up being incredibly long so I'm putting a divider here. Click to keep reading!!! Also, fair warning: shipping ahead! Some fics will have mild sexual content, please read the tags if you are unsure <3

Updating Fics

I have already recommended Help Me To Breathe, lost in the dark (he's got a heavy heart), and There Are Monsters Nearby in this post, so I won't explain why I like them a second time, but definitely check them out!!

Death's A Good Gig by @mawofthemagnetar is probably going to be finished by the time this post gets to you, reader, but I'm putting it here anyway. It's short and sweet, one of my favourite representations of Zedaph (or, Zedeath) I've read, and just a joy to experience. If you like grim reapers and discussions of unions, this one is for you. Also I need more Zedaph in my life.

Look, I'm Sorry, Please Stop Scaring Everyone by @cat-in-the-desert reminds me a lot of a particular TV drama I liked when I was younger, which followed a similar premise. This fic follows Mumbo (vampire) and Grian (ghost) as they get up to various housemate shenanigans and meet their local magic-expert and salesman Scar. This fic is fun, but still includes a nice amount of Feelings and hinted-at Angst which I really love. It's lighthearted, but never boring.

It Hurts To Hope by Inquillitory is my favourite of the "Grian crash lands into Hermitcraft and causes problems for everyone" genre. Seeing how many fics there are with that premise, I think that says a lot. It handles Grian's weird Watcher stuff really well. Honestly, I just want to know what happens next!

killing the boy in the tv by @raspberrystruck is like a sickfic on steroids. If you want Grian with so much past trauma he forgets how to function in society, this is basically the fic for you. I really love how hybrid traits affect the characters' interactions in this fic, and how everyone is kind of messed up because of the imbalance Grian brings. It is wonderfully descriptive in all the right places!

Love Me Like I'm Dead by @daniofcrows is such a gem. You know how hard it is to find good Xisuma whump? It's impossible. I absolutely love how Xisuma and Evil X are characterised in this, and I am obsessed with the unique take on hanahaki disease which I have never seen handled in this way before. The balance between flashbacks and present day is maintained wonderfully and I cannot wait to continue reading this one. Wow.

Oh, you wanted me to do a verse? by @bugbbear is... kind of indescribable. It's horror. It's comedy. It's the apocalypse. It's boatem. Scar eats someone. One of the most interesting and unique apocalypse stories I have read. Slowly updating but worth the wait, in my opinion. This one NEEDS more attention.

So Much For Stardust by @a-plethora-of-peters is basically one of my all-time favourites. Which is a damn good achievement seeing as I don't usually read ZITS fics. Like, ever. In this fic, Skizz is a human abducted and hurt badly by aliens, now recovering in the care of good aliens who don't know how 'sentient' he is. Every update of this one makes me smile, it is wonderful. I love how the characters are written and how the different perspectives are shown. It is just great.

Solar Waltz by @raspberrystruck and aroundtheclock is a brilliant and very very sad regression fic. I love fluffy regression fics as much as the next guy, but this one just... hits different. The hurt/comfort levels are off the charts. Grian is so damn cute the whole time, while also being harrowingly complicated and sad. I am so ready for whatever comes next.

Tango's Castle of Cards by @evilrat-sabre is the one where Tango is a BUG. He's just a little guy (horror). This one is so beautifully written, with poetry-type interludes and perspective changes that really make everything feel so much more impactful. Finding out your buddy is a murder bug isn't the easiest thing in the world. I love this so much.

Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU} (series) by @amethystfairy1 is basically one of the series of all time. I know I keep saying that but it really really is. I love a good fantasy au, and I love an au with hybrids even more. In this world, hybrids are treated like slaves, but it isn't all doom and gloom for the main characters of each installment. There is a lot of hurt/comfort and the different stories feed into each other in really interesting ways. I try to read as much as I can, though I've missed a few because my emails are buggy. Definitely worth reading these fics, especially since now they're all starting to come together!

Completed Fics

Solving Counting Sheep by @theminecraftbee might have rearranged my brain chemistry a little. Another strong contender for 'fics that inspire me to kill Grian', this time with a more concrete notion of "replacement". Three is my favourite fucked up living weapon. It's so rare to find Evo fics in this day and age, too. This fic had me immediately clicking on every update as soon as I got the emails.

Rescue Fire by @imaginethat0327 is one of the most unique takes on a fictionalised life series game that I have ever read. The whole concept is explained in a realistic and easy-to-follow way, as we learn what's happening with the characters. There are several brilliant storylines happening in this one, but my particular favourites are Jimmy & Tango, Joel, and of course Scar & Grian. This fic is full of whump and, well, read the tags, it isn't always pleasant, but those are my favourite things ever. Definitely worth checking out this fic and its currently updating sequel.

don't you know about me? by takenbadgering is a wonderful comedy of errors with just the right amount of angst for a realistic setting type of fic. If you enjoy polyamory miscommunications, rave aesthetics, kandi, school teacher dynamics, and a lovely blend between grumbo, cubscar, and mumscar, this is the one.

Eventually the Birds Must Land by @milo-hypno follows a polyam ship I would have never thought of, and I cannot believe how much I loved it. This married-as-friends fic premise is wonderful, and captures the main trio (Grian, Mumbo, Impulse)'s personalities so well, while balancing them with the incredibly terrifying descriptions of the Watchers and their power. There's a lot of angst here, but it is ultimately hurt/comfort to the maximum degree. I loved reading it as it updated. Yay for gay marriage!

From The Archives (series) by @sixteenth-days was the absolute inspiration for my own Comms AU, and I will never forget its influence on me. As someone basically unfamiliar with TMA, I thought this series might be hard to follow, but it was not! I read all 57 parts in the span of two days, and I think it altered my brain chemistry. Please read it, even if (especially if) you don't know anything about TMA. The Cleo and Grian storyline lives in my head rent free. I mean it. This is horror at its finest. Also there's an audio series of this fic being released rn, which is very cool.

SUPERCRITICAL by @masque-of-plague hits different. It is such a wonderful take on the superhero/HotGuy trope, and it gets so super dark at some points! This one really takes swings at it's fictional government, which of course I love, while at the same time building this brilliantly emotional relationship between Scar and Grian. I do enjoy a bit of enemies to lovers, but the actual plot mixed into the story makes this one extra special. It is thrilling, with action that I don't get to see too often! Great work.

I am weary with contending! is one of the mumscarian fics of all time. From 'this house has people in it'-type horror, to magic gone wrong, to childhood trauma, to attempted assassination, to gender fuckery, this fic has it all. Usually I don't go for convex siblings, but this one is good enough to get a pass from me. Amazingly detailed worldbuilding alongside a brilliantly creative story.

It Spreads by @foxxology may not count as a fic, actually. It's a comic. But it's posted on ao3 so it counts. I was obsessed with this one as it was updating, honestly. It rocked me to my core. The art is phenomenal. The writing is brilliant. I love sculk.

Luck of the sea by Sleepy_Duck is a lovely take on mermaid and human interactions, with Grian as a marine life conservator and Scar as a very neglected mer. This one takes us emotionally in all sorts of directions, and offers lots of hope for the future of the characters. I heavily enjoyed this fic - if you like mermaids and marine biology, check it out.

there are many downsides to being a marine biologist by donnerstag is another mermaid fic but with a pretty different vibe. First of all, it follows what I would consider a rarepair Doc/Martyn. Second of all, reading this as it updated was a thrilling experience that nearly made me cry at certain points. I love how the relationship builds in this fic. It is honestly amazing. The whole idea of experimenting on a sentient sea creature, learning that he can communicate, then losing funding and having to save him from being dissected?!?! It's crazy. I love it.

Thus concludes my fic recommendations. I hope you enjoy at least some of these, and consider reblogging to spread these wonderful fics around <3

[frozenjokes]

Cub and mumbo is a ship I really want to like extremely badly but it hasn’t quite clicked in my brain how they would work so I just need to take a moment to ramble and brainstorm and make it happen.

I think they have a kind of vibe that’s like ‘I saw cub at the ‘eating people’ club!’ ‘what were YOU doing that the ‘eating people’ club?’ I imagine cub being charmed by S8 mumbo and his quite frankly insane workaround to stealing Grian’s soul instead of just cannibalism normal style. Cub might keep tabs on Mumbo after that, just curiosity with little interaction, and he ends up witnessing multiple instances of Technically Not Cannibalism? that leave him kind of baffled?? mumbo jumbo why are you jumping through hoops like this. I am fascinated by you but I think also you are in desperate need of tearing someone apart (and god I’d love to watch). They’ve said a total of five words to each other when cub wanders over to him and is like hey. if you wanted to 👉👈 you could ✌️ rip scar into a million pieces with me :) for fun :)

mumbo goes ?????????no????????"? and cub comes away from this interaction dejected and also with the impression that the issue here is that mumbo is simply repressed and is in desperate need of help and nothing else. commence slutfan135 (attraction and eating people are integrally linked which is a universal for everyone cub has decided)

from Mumbo’s perspective this is coming out of fucking nowhere and he’s deeply deeply confused until he’s chatting with scar one day and the subject comes up and scar’s like oh yeah lol he wants you to eat him soooooo bad he’s been talking my ear off about for weeks and mumbo goes Why. W hy. And scar shrugs. (Unhinged cubfan monologue would not have been understandable to anyone especially not scar but he’s just happy to listen to cub talk. Nothing is more fun than listening to an autistic person go off the rails about something insane.)

Mumbo just approaches cub the next day and goes dude I do not want to eat you and I’m not going to. And cub goes 🥺 please? Somehow this leads to a conversation about desire and carnal attraction and gore and shit and it’s nice probably. Mumbo doesn’t really want to hurt people so instead he chooses to hurt people in extremely convoluted ways instead. Cub suggests he go apeshit instead. you’ve been cannibalism edging me for weeks mumbo jumbo I am begging you. Something something guilt and shame and it’s all an extremely poorly disguised allegory for catholic guilt and shame in regards to sex. maybe it ends with mumbo suggesting cub eat him instead. This might fix him??? I enjoy a predator hunter/hunted dynamic so I think that would go hard with cub being like okay :3 only if I can chase you through my gay little labyrinth. Even better if the turns get tabled on cub and mumbo ends up killing him instead. I haven’t mentioned mumbo is a vampire yet but he is. Then they eat each other the end. cumbo win

[thetomorrowshow]

love is such a drag ch. 4

oki i posted this on ao3 almost two weeks ago but forgot to post it here so uhhhhh

enjoy some scariana griande

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Scott: hey grian

Scott: do you know how much drag queens cost?

Scott: bc i just found out

Scott: and oh boy

Scott: that is not in the budget

Me: what?

Scott: so the activities board is doing a pride week in march

Scott: and we're planning a drag show for the last day

Me: ohhh

Scott: but wow you guys are kinda expensive

Me: we know our worth, scott

Scott: please sir

Scott: spare a free drag show for the poor? 🥺

Me: -_-

Scott: i'll buy you lunch

Me: you know that a good drag show usually requires more than one drag queen, right?

Me: like. several drag queens

Scott: i know that… now

Scott: ok what if we do an amateur drag show

Scott: mostly students who are interested in drag getting to perform

Scott: but with one real drag queen?

Scott: whose name may or may not be grian??

Scott: 😣🙏🙏🙏

Scott: pleek

Me: students you say

Me: i'll do it

Scott: oh thank mumbo

Me: but

Scott: uh oh

Me: sorry did you just curse by mumbo's name?

Scott: no comment

Me: ???

Me: ok anyways

Me: i'll do it

Me: but

Me: you have to do it, too

Scott: oh DEAL

Scott: i want to sing let it go

Scott: oh my mumbo i need to think of a drag name

Me: right. have fun with that

Me: when in march?

Scott: first week. the drag show should be that friday

Me: right i'll put it in my calendar

Grian does put it in his calendar, set right on March 5th. That isn’t too far away, really, but gives him plenty of time to prepare.

Then his phone buzzes—another notification from Scar, which immediately sends his heart into his throat as he swipes it away without even reading it.

He might make a noise, also. That would make sense, judging by how both Mumbo and Pearl start, looking up at him.

“You good?” Mumbo asks, then, before Grian can respond, he checks his watch. “Oh, dear—”

Mumbo jumps up from his chair, frantically stuffing his laptop and papers into his shoulder bag faster than Grian’s ever seen anyone do it. “I forgot—study group—”

“Have fun,” Pearl calls. Mumbo, already halfway out the door, simply waves a harried hand and hurries out, a dry erase marker still stuck behind his ear.

“Ah,” Pearl says drily. “He took the marker. Librarians aren’t going to be happy.”

Grian had been planning on using that marker, too. Not for anything important, but he’d had half a mind to draw something stupid on the dry erase board before they checked out of their library study room. Hatsune Miku, probably.

Then he remembers the text message with a jolt, and this time he hears when he yelps. It sounds kind of like Mumbo does when gets caught eating carrots out of the fridge at two in the morning. Just a little ah!

Pearl raises an eyebrow at him.

Grian sighs. “The guy I went on a date with keeps texting me.”

“Okay?”

“I—” Grian wrings his hands— “he’s a really nice guy,” he says reluctantly. “I feel bad for ghosting him.”

According to the barkeep, he’s not just a typical nice guy. Scar is everything that he seems: kind hearted, passionate, funny, a little ridiculous. He doesn’t deserve the hurt that Grian is surely causing him.

“Then don’t,” Pearl shrugs.

“Don’t—don’t what?”

“Ghost him.”

“I’m already doing that.”

“No, like—don’t ghost him.”

Grian blinks. Don’t ghost him? How can he do that while still getting out of this situation?

“Meet up with him again, tell him you don’t think it’ll work out, then block his number,” Pearl says, as if it’s that simple.

Is it?

And. . . .

Well, he’ll get another free meal out of it. Not in a vampire way.

It feels kind of sleazy, but no worse than he already feels for ghosting him. “Maybe you have good ideas sometimes,” he says idly. Pearl chucks a pencil at him, which is quite rude to do to your only brother.

So Grian unlocks his phone, and. . . .

He will text him back. He will.

But not—not yet. He needs a minute to gather his courage.

And how better to gather his courage than scroll through memes for a while?

-

Scar has sent seven messages to Ariana since the date. All of them entirely reasonable.

The first two were to express what a good time he had, and make sure she got home safe. The next two were asking her out on a second date. And the final three were daily check-ins, to make sure his messages didn't get buried.

She has not responded to a single one.

That isn't the end of the world. It can’t be. Because for some reason, the world is still turning and Scar is still found upon it, so it can’t have ended; it isn’t even the remotest possibility! The world definitely hasn’t ended.

But it sure feels like it has.

It’s three days later and he’s in his so-called math class, but he simply cannot force himself to pay attention. They really ought to devise some way to make boring classes more pay-attentionable. Perhaps they can adopt a school cat to frolic about on the table, causing comical cat catastrophes and being given the final say on issues of debate. It would also be nice for student government meetings. Oh, then he would be able to carry cat toys, of which he already has plenty due to his excitement to one day adopt a cat.

It would keep his mind off the angel, too. Otherwise, he can only focus on every little thing that he must have done wrong on the date.

He didn’t offer her his arm when they went in. That has to have marked him down at least three points, if not more. After all, it’s the chivalrous thing to do, and instead he just followed along behind her! Practical, perhaps, to give him more time to check for ice on the sidewalk and not slip, but not how a date should behave, especially on the first outing.

He tried to pressure her into alcohol too, didn’t he? Oh, that was a trainwreck—she wasn’t at all interested in the drink he had picked out, and had elected her own! Of course, Scar wasn’t exactly aware that the drink was alcoholic, but he was the one who tried to order it and he should have made sure first.

And he barely even let her talk! He talked all about himself practically all date, giving her no chance to talk about something interesting to her. How could he even imagine himself so intriguing as to hold her attention for so long? Nobody likes to listen to his Disney rants in a normal situation—Cub always tells him that they’re far too long-winded and he brings them up too often, clearly one of his main flaws, and he’d just flaunted his Disney knowledge all over her without even asking if it was okay!

She probably hadn’t even liked the flowers, no matter what she said. She probably didn’t even want to go on the date in the first place.

Scar sighs. To his dismay, nobody asks him what’s wrong.

He sighs again, slightly louder.

When nobody asks what’s wrong a second time, Scar huffs, glances around for someone to console him.

He’s the only person in the room.

He checks his phone.

Ah. Class ended several minutes ago. The last thing he clearly remembers about the class is the professor writing the agenda on the board—he’d entirely zoned out by the time the first formulas were being copied down.

He should probably go to that study group of Impulse’s, given his track record of paying attention. It does meet today, and fairly soon, right? And in this building, in a study room down by the exit. It’s basically on his way!

Perhaps Impulse’s study group will provide a suitable distraction for his heartbreak. He needs one, and desperately. Even imagining a cat hasn’t worked.

“Er, Scar?”

Scar looks up; Scott’s standing in the doorway, his backpack only half on his shoulders. Oh, good! Someone to opine to!

“What are you doing in my stats class?” Scott asks. Scar doesn’t answer that question and instead slides his phone across the table toward Scott, still open on the text thread with Ariana.

“Am I coming on too strong?” he asks, terrified of the answer.

Scott looks vaguely like he still wants to figure out why Scar’s here, but the opportunity to insert himself in someone else’s relationship drama is too tempting and he picks up the phone.

“‘Sorry if I made you uncomfortable, I just want to make sure you’re okay and not kidnapped or unable to speak due to some terrible accident, because if you got hit by a car as soon as you left after our date I would feel really bad forever and ever, so just text me if you’re alive because you’re very attractive and I think someone would probably want to kidnap you (BUT NOT ME) and I just want to know that you’re safe,’” Scott reads aloud. “You sent this?”

“Yes. Is it too much?”

“I mean . . . yeah.”

“Which part?” Scar asks, leaning forward. Scott gives him his phone back.

“The whole thing. It’s giving desperate,” Scott says. “You want her to chase you too—or, him, I mean.”

Scar chuckles. Oh, Scott. “An angel.”

“Did not clarify the gender.”

“A girl, Scott,” Scar says, a little affronted, though he isn’t sure why. “I’m not gay.”

Scott puts his hands up. “Geez, sorry. I just heard you tell Impulse the other day that Bdubs is super cute, so I didn’t want to assume.”

“Well, yeah, but every man finds men attractive.”

“No . . . no, I . . . I don’t think they do?” says Scott. “Guys who find guys attractive are . . . into guys.”

“Well, no. Every man has another man that they would, you know, go for! On principle! Like—like Ryan Reynolds!”

Scott looks at him. His eyebrows are raised, mouth a thin line.

Scar isn’t sure what that look means.

“How many men have you found attractive this week?”

Scar rolls his eyes. “Well, that’s impossible to count. You might as well ask how many animators work on any given film! There was the guy serving mashed potatoes yesterday, a real looker in the restroom this morning, a very pretty boy in make-up the other night, Bdubs, a blond boy playing soccer on the quad, this boy in the library, a—”

“Yeah,” Scott says. “Most men only have, like, one guy ever. Not every other man they pass.”

“Okay, but, I’m just as attracted to girls!” Scar protests. “So I can’t be gay, I must be straight. You’re either gay or straight, Scott!”

“Not remotely true.”

“I have to get to my study group,” Scar says loudly, snatching his phone off the table and grabbing his cane. “Thank you, Mr. Smajor, for your opinion. It will be recycled as soon as is convenient.”

“Gee, thanks.”

Scar raises his cane to him, then begins the trek downstairs to Impulse’s study group. He barely debates a moment before heading toward the elevator rather than the stairs. Maybe a year ago he would have chosen the stairs, but he doesn’t want to push himself any more than necessary.

“Scar! Good to have you,” Impulse says when he walks into the right study room (after walking into the wrong one twice). “Take a seat, man, right here.”

Scar isn’t the first person to show up, but he is surprisingly early. He takes the proferred seat, setting his cane up against the table.

“We’re actually going to split into two rooms,” Impulse tells him, leaning against the table. “I’ll be helping with more advanced concepts here, and Mumbo will be taking the easier stuff in the other room.”

“And trig is. . . ?”

Impulse laughs. “Definitely advanced, bud. How ya been?”

That’s a loaded question. Scar sighs dramatically and lets his head fall on the table. “Terrible. I took the most perfect angel on a date last week, and I haven’t gotten a single text back!”

“Who, Bdubs?”

Scar blinks. “What? No. You and Scott, I swear. . . .”

“You told me he’s cute!”

“Lots of guys are cute,” Scar waves off. “I’m straight, though. Not that anything else is relevant, because it was the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen, and now I’ll never see her again!”

“Aw, come on, buddy,” Impulse says encouragingly, laying a hand on his shoulder. “There’s someone out there for you! And you know what? That’s what math is all about—finding what’s missing to make you whole!”

“I thought it was about finding x,” says Mumbo, poking his head into the room. Despite the potential of witnessing Mumbo’s beautiful mustache, Scar doesn’t lift his head, grimacing as he considers Mumbo’s suggestion.

“I don’t want to find my ex, Impulse, I can’t believe you talked me into this—”

“Nope,” Impulse says firmly. “Nope. It’s about finding a missing number.”

Her number isn’t missing, though. It’s right there in Scar’s phone, ten digits that will never respond to him, ten fingers he’ll never be able to clasp between his own again, ten children they’ll never have. . . .

Scar’s phone buzzes, sitting, as it is, on the table beside his head.

Scar straightens up immediately, scrambling for his phone. In his haste, he actually pushes it further away, then right up to the edge, teetering, tottering—

Scar practically throws himself across the table to grab it, and he manages to wrap his fingers around it, thank Mumbo—

But, as a result of the sudden exertion, Scar’s hands are suddenly sweaty, and his phone slips out of his hand and lands face-down on the tile floor.

“It probably wasn’t even her,” he says morosely, staring at the phone below. “It was probably another text from that lost dog poster I put up.” “Oh, you have a dog?” Mumbo asks, while Impulse steps around the table to pick up the phone.

“No.”

“What?”

Impulse, phone in hand, places it back on the table—then seems to think better and picks it back up, placing it directly into Scar’s hand. “I don’t know if all those cracks were already there,” he says. “I think you need a new phone, buddy.”

There aren’t any new cracks, luckily, and Scar turns on his phone to see—

Yep. Another text from one of the lost dog posters.

Just as he begins to return to being a puddle of gloop on this table, his phone buzzes again. His heart leaps into his mouth, he frantically fumbles for the button—

Another lost dog text.

From the same number, actually. Something about the picture on the poster being a picture of their own dog, clearly taken while it was in their backyard. Scar isn’t trying to read all that, so he’s not entirely sure what their problem is.

Well, that was possibly the biggest disappointment of his life. And now he has to do math? Why, he might as well just be put out of his misery right now! Just taken out back and put down, like a sad dog, preferably a cute one like the ones he used for the posters, but a sad one nonetheless—

Wait.

Another message pops up, hidden under the first two that he had carelessly swiped away.

Ariana: lol no worries i’m alive

Ariana: a date on thursday maybe?

With any luck, Scar will get used to the gymnastics that his heart surely oughtn’t be performing.

Even if some part of him doesn’t ever want to get used to her.

[d0not-disturb]

Vampire Mumbo and Grian possible holding hands and or kissing (I need for research purposes for Grumbo vampire fic)

Mkay bookie

[hi-im-still-in-multiple-fandoms]

Mumbo Scar Grian ship idea (thanks to someone on my dash saying arrows in chests were hot)

I personally am a mumbscrian shipper, but feel free to take this however way you want if you use this! :)

This is like a brand new idea (coming up with as I type kinda new) so please add onto/correct anything here if you know more about fae and magic stuff

Vampire!Mumbo is in a relationship with this cute human (Grian), and naturally, he has fear about the whole being immortal with a mortal lover thing.

When Grian finds the ring that Mumbo was planning to use to propose, that's when he disappears. Mumbo finds his tracks and smell lead out into the woods when seemingly disappear.

Anxiety kicks in. *Clearly, he's running away from Mumbo. He is a vampire. Surprise, surprise.*

Mumbo keeps getting like letters or summons or whatever from this fae leader up... somewhere. He's only been on the throne for the last 200 years or something. Why would Mumbo know his name? These summons keep getting more and more insistent until one day a Fae man turns up at his door...

With Grian...

Who smells like Fae and is acting weird, and not just in the "back at my exes place" kind of way either.

The guy asks to come in, Mumbo thinks he doesn't look that scary and... he doubts Grian would hurt him. Once they're all in the lounge room, the explanations start.

Scar is the current Fae leader, and Grian, who Scar keeps calling his "little birdie" making Mumbo feel strangely jealous - *He didn't seriously move on that quick, did he?* - and then they proceed to explain that actually Grian didn't leave Mumbo, he left the house. To go into Fae territory and go looking for magic to make himself immortal since magic's more prevalent up there anyway.

Mumbo is immediately like "wth why???? You didn't need to change!!!" All the summons ranged from; "hello, I have your boyfriend and he wants to see you" to "well, if you won't take him" and they finally came here, Grian to ask Mumbo why he never answered and Scar to double check he isn't stealing someone's boyfriend before asking Grian out.

After all the drama is mostly sorted out, Scar brings up how cold it is in Mumbos house again and does that thing where he begs for something only to make it seem like they asked him and he's playing hard to get. This time, it's coming home with him.

Grians happy too, some weird magic thing in his new fae brain wants to be around Scar or in his lands again and Mumbos just willing to come along in the hope he can sort things out with Grian.

It's maybe a slowburn type thing - though not to slow lol - since it's basically just Grian and Mumbo trying to reconcile while Scar throws the wrecking ball in their plans with no shirt on and a flower in his teeth lol

[tiredfoxtf]

I was drawing this and then I was visited by ocd demons and asked what people disliked about my art (that I totally didn’t need to know and think about) and I feel very discouraged from continuing to draw because it gives me anxiety so intense my stomach turns into knots. 👍

Anyway, yappage incoming, because this is an au idea.

Okay, everything started when Gri found his mysterious book while looking at cool furniture in antique store. Something about it called out to him almost to the point of hypnosis and without checking its contents first he goes to check out to ask about it. The owner does not recognize it and has no idea where he got it so he lets G have it for a low price. Grian quickly recognizes the value of the book when he gets home. It documented various types of ghosts, rituals and other notes. Grian quickly becomes obsessed with it and takes it to Impulse, who is, amongst other things believed in existence of supernatural since he was a kid. So naturally they have to try some rituals. Impulse calls Skizz for it too because he wants his buddy to be here for it too and Scar overhears about it and wanted to come with. The ritual works, the incident was not great, but that literally proves to them that the stuff in the book is no joke and that's how they start their own "supernatural gigs", which is mostly ghosts because the book had more information on them than anything. Gem gets dragged in by Grian because her van she uses for work (and where she lives when can't crash at someone's place or get a hotel room) is perfect to set up some of the tech Impulse made. Gem, of course, agrees but on several of her own conditions. They all agreed to keep it between them. Which meant they had to be secretive and lie to multiple people, but at least it was a coordinated lie.

It gets pretty casual fast: Skizz would research some urban legends, news, forums — anything that could have any hint of a ghost presence on site. And they would go there, Gem sits in the van and coordinates them Impulse and Skizz both work with the tech, Scar tries to get as much fun as he can and Grian with his book trying to understand what kind of ghost it is and how to stop it from haunting the place.

It also goes out of control pretty quickly. Besides the ghosts in the world exist demons, angels, vampires, shifters, witches, undead and other monsters. Sometimes their "ghost lead" is actually a witch ritual that they have to run from, sometimes it's ghouls and other undead presence for which Scar brings a gun and they still try somewhat to figure out how to send it in the afterlife too. But it's basically was just a question of time when they get their noses in too deep and find a vampire club where they proudly kill humans for fun or a succubus sex workers who drain human life out of them and suddenly ghosts and witches are the least of their problems.

I still have like a lot of miscellaneous thoughts, like the person Gem's looking for is Joel and she needs to find him. Etho kills vampires and demons. Witches and angels too if they cross the line in his opinion. Tango is not awakened witch, who is trying to live his life, but things just keep happening. Pearl, Mumbo and reluctantly Bdubs have their own investigation trying to find Joel by themselves, about which they don't tell giggs crew, but that gets them into so much shit too.

[oddly-specific-hermit-headcanons]

The first half of this is Why X made Hermitcraft and where everyone came from and then the second half is watcher stuff which I think is really cool.

Ok so I Hc that there are multiple different reasons Xisuma created Hermitcraft 1) was because he wanted somewhere safe where misfits alike could band together as a weird mishmash family 2) a place he knew was safe and 3) to make a place were individuals who were running from their pasts could stay safe

- JoeHills is hiding from a couple of crazy obsessive Exs

- Doc is hiding from mojang

- Scar is escaped his insanely toxic religious family and some people he got on the wrong sides of.

- XB is there after a messy server corruption that was blamed on him and is a wanted criminal.

- Etho and Mumbo are running from scientists

- Impuse and Ren were running from the military cause they deserted.

- Skizz was running from actual gods but they gave up a while ago.

- Joel is trying to find his wife but stuck around on hermtcraft.

- Pearl was trying to escape Evo and really needed help

- Gem is actually a magical princess who ran from an arranged marriage to live out her life as a strong independent individual and since then her kingdom is crumbled and no one knows where the she went and was titled The Lost Princess

- Grian well we all know why he's there

- Cub was part of a super secret government project but left after the scientist lost the subjects and because of conflicting morals

- Bdubs commited war crimes while trying to save someone's life but ultimately he failed

- iJevin was running from the Watchers who had taken a bit of a liking to him.

I have more that I will build upon cause writing this is cool

Now Little bit of context for the watcher stuff I mentioned

Watchers are like god-like deities that were worshipped long before they became corrupt and evil with power, now only followed by cults. Some players still pray to the Watcher Xelqua since they are the only watcher to have gone against watcher code. Anyways They would prey on players scouting out the most talented ones and experiment on them. Seeing how they could change them, they took Grian because he was a promising young admin, they watched the players of Evolution and when the time came they took Grian made him a watcher and he escapes into Hermitcraft.

Xisuma specifically designed Hermitcraft to be watcher proof as 1) he hates them with every fiber of his being and 2) majority of the hermits (himself included) have a possibility of being kidnapped by the watchers if found by Them, for example Doc and Scar they would be seen as extremely powerful potential Watchers.

Doc because of his genius, technological skills and the fact he fought a mojang admin and lived to tell the tale.

Scar because of his strength in magic and that he's part vex.

So when Grian, Mr escaped watcher guy, drops in they're all in fight or flight mode, though most of them are ready to behead G. Obviously Xisuma is the one who handles it and all is good in the end.

The reason why the Watchers would want the Hermits is because they are all 'pure' their raw skills and determination alone is what makes them such a good group,

- Pearl because of her magic and her connection to the moon

- Mumbo and his experiences with cults and the fact that he's a vampire

- Gem and her otherworldly abilities,

- iJevin because his strength and smarts,

- Scar with his magical abilities and vex stuff

- Doc because his technology genius and cause he survived a fight with a mojang admin (he's the first and only one recorded to have lived substantially afterwards)

- Xisuma because of his admin powers and voidwalker power

- Ex same reasons as X

- Skizz cause of his angel counterpart

- Grian cause he's one of the strongest player turned watcher they've made and they want him back

- Etho cause of his cryptic eldritch powers and unknown hybrid status (there is reason to believe he is from the void)

- Cleo because of their skills in necromancy and magic.

And so on

They mainly aim for those who have magic already since they can enhance it and they're less likely to die but that's not always the case.

And that's all I have for now

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[theburrowss]

Solar Event [Chapter 3]

Pair: Scar/Grian [DesertDuo]

Tags: Space AU, Space Cowboys, Eventual Romance, Fluff and Angst, Comfort

Summary: Grian immediately clicks with their new friend Mumbo, and Scar feels complicated about it.

A perilous moment forces Grian to relive old wounds and gets the comfort he needs from a good friend—or co-pilot? Maybe.

Words: 23.7k

Link: Solar Event Chapter 3 on Ao3!

An excerpt from the chapter:

“Hello! I’m Mumbo.”

The tall lanky creature stood before Grian, bug eyes petrifying through him with a sort of kind look to those brown pupils. Mumbo leaned backward to pull the lenses off of his eyes, revealing the normal sized orbs beneath with a slim face and a button nose, almost like Scar’s. Tufts of white and red fur lined the man’s sideburns, blending into the black hair on his head. Antenna waves around curiously, examining the air. Grian thought he’d looked similar to what Alerion described as a vampire, with a white streak running through the man’s strands.

So the silliness ensued.

Grian smiled the moment he shook hands with Mumbo, their conversation flowed so naturally it was rather comical how well they’d bonded.

“Hello, I’m Grian.”

[hermitlife-fanblog]

ranting abt Life Series/Hermitcraft species types cuz I’m bored

Warning: most of this is headcanons!!

Hermitcraft

Moss Man (Bdoubleo100) - I can see him being like a glare, short and loves moss

Convex part 1 (Cubfan135) - Vex on Hermitcraft but I headcanon him being a warden on Empires cuz of the shulk thing that happened

Goat Man (Docm77) - Creeper, Goat, and Robot without any humans parts, he has horns, front legs, and ears of a goat. I headcanon him having the back legs of a Creeper cuz Creepers have four feet. Half of his face along with half his torso and one arm being part robot, along with on of his horns and on his back legs, the right foot is robotic

A Canadian with secrets (Ethoslab) - Mostly human but on rare occasions I make him a winter fox, mostly just for season 9, but other than that he’s human

One of the more stable Hermits (FalseSymmetry) - Part eagle having the wings, sometimes I’ll have her have eagle legs or human legs but I prefer just the human legs most times

Girlboss Canadian with 3 dads, Geminislay (Geminitay) - Deer mostly but in the Life Series I headcanon her to be a bull, mostly cuz of Wild Life and I feel like she would be cooler like that. I’ll also sometimes have bull Gem when she’s not on Hermitcraft just to be silly

Out of Context Deserted Hippie, Convex Part 2 (GoodTimesWithScar) - Vex for the most part but during Life Series I feel like he would just be human, but specifically for Double Life I feel like he would be part Jellie Cat, have four legs just like a cat, like a human-cat-centaur thing

Deserted lore parrot (Grian) - 100% a parrot at all times but because of the watcher thing he is able to make his wings and head wings purple

Silly guy (Hypnotizd) - Human for the most part but sometimes I’ll give him a tail bc I think it looks nice

Blue Slimecicle (iJevin) - Blue Slime when good, Green Slime when bad

Married couple part 1 (ImpulseSV) - Demon bc I love demon imp

A Guy and his Puppet Boy (JoeHills) - I headcanon there are two joes, the human one, H!Joe, and the puppet one, P!Joe. P!Joe is alive bc Xisuma messed with his coding one day bc Xisuma wanted to see if he could make animate things come alive. Unfortunately, P!Joe is only alive in Hermitcraft since that was the only place Xisuma messed with his code at. P!Joe did go to Empires SMP with H!Joe but he was just hanging in H!Joe’s backpack the whole time. So you could imagine the empires members’s reaction when P!Joe suddenly ran up to them and hugged Shelby’s leg.

Accent or Lisp? (Keralis) - Human

Dracula does Redstone (Mumbo Jumbo) - Vampire bc this man would rather stay inside with his Redstone contraptions than go outside

Australian Girlfail (Pearlescentmoon) - Mostly a wolf for me but the moth one I like bc I just like moths and I think her being one makes a lot of sense. I also headcanon her to be a watcher

Gooiest Boy, best king (Rendog) - Do I even need to say it??

Old married couple part 2 (Skizzleman) - Angel bc Demon n Angel ImpnSkizz lives in my mind rent free

Wife Lover and Etho Obsessor (Smallishbeans) - Mostly an ogre but season 9 he’s a tanuki bc it fits so well with his base and I just love Tanuki Joel. He would be a bull in Wild Life cuz Bull Gem n Bull Joel

Of the tek variety (Tangotek) - Blazeborn, hair is always on fire but I headcanon his whole head to be on fire when he’s furious, and while working/living in colder temperatures, his fire is blue and after spending so much time on decked out, there’s always a hint of blue in his hair fire now, and one of his eyes and a pupil are both blue

Hermitcraft: We have the Beef (VintageBeef) - I don’t know much about him but I know him enough that I feel like he would be a bull 100%

Golden Knight (Welsknight) - Human

Thought it was xP at first (xBCrafted) - Don’t watch him as often but I love him being a guardian and it lives in my head rent free

Looks like could you, is a cinnamon roll (Xisumavoid) - I mostly see him being a dragon, maybe an enderdragon. But I love Axolotl Xisuma too but I feel like Axolotl Xisuma would be a different person to Xisuma like Evil X along with Bee Xisuma. So I feel like there would be Xisuma, Evil X, Beesuma, and Axosuma would all either be different AUs or Siblings, I like the siblings aspect but it changes for me.

Sheep Boi (Zedaph) - Sheep boi <333

Step on me Queen (ZombieCleo) - It’s in the name

Cookie Monster (Bigbst4tz2) - A creaking for the most part but sometimes human cuz I like both aspects

Cannot keep his hands off his king (InTheLittleWood) - Human but in Secret Life he would be a dog and in Limited Life he would be a fish or something.

Magical Anime Girl, but better (LDShadowLady) - I headcanon her to switch her species between being a Mermaid, Siren, Fairy, and Human bc I feel like she would have magical anime girl transformation powers <33

I have nothing for him (Scott Smajor1995) - Starborn but has a tail with a star at the end and crystals floating around his head

Man of many husbands (SolidarityGaming) - Canary