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Mumbo is a human but if you draw his blood for testing it comes back as redstone. Change my mind.

i feel like any and all attempts to medically examine him are doomed to cartoonish yet plausibly deniable failure. i think if anyone tried to draw his blood they’d slip on a banana peel and drop the syringe

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i always imagine scar as having scar tissue on the side of his face that pulls the edge of his mouth up slightly. not enough to look strained or uncanny, not enough to even realize that's what's happening unless you've spent a lot of time around him, but just enough so that it looks like he's constantly, always smirking a little bit

oh man so see this is Interesting, bc you honestly don’t need the scar tissue to even pull much to get this effect, just giving him a lip scar in the right place would make it look like he’s always slightly smiling

^tried to show what i mean here, literally nothing else about his expression is different between the two images, just that one tiny mouth scar

(imo a bigger scar there would actually affect his expression LESS than this, because eventually your brain goes ‘oh that’s not part of his mouth that’s something else’ and doesn’t register it as much)

[mumblesplash]

Saw your post on redstone symptoms. Really cool! Quick question though, what do you mean Mumbo 'forgot' to develop symptoms, WHAT THE HECK IS MUMBO THAT HE CAN JUST FORGET TO DO THAT?!

guys he’s been very clear on this how many times is he going to have to say it

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bold of you to assume.

well someone has to

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You're famous to me <3

FUCK YEAH LETS GO [adds another tally mark under ‘famous’ on the whiteboard i use to keep track]

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if you like scurvy you would LOVE the terror 2018

obsessed with the phrasing of this. guy who just watches shows for the diseases

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sorry if i broke a boundary by sending a pipebomb to your house =(

never apologize for being yourself 🤗💕

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hi your sculk post has me frothing at the mouth

What if it WAS warm and comfortable and soft and cosy

What if it also smelled nice, released attaching pheromones like those pitcher plants do, or the goo tasted sweet to lure creatures in

What if it wasn't a smell so much as an absence of the dank musty cave air, and it was a welcome breath of something cosy and comforting that just made you want to curl up and sleep

And then the sculk is soft underfoot, and it feels like it might be wet and slimy but it's actually kind of velvety, in that slightly coarse alive way that a living animal is soft and warm

And you're so tired from mining and exploring and damn wouldn't it be nice to just have a lie down and rest for a bit

And it's so soft and comforting, a bit weird but getting more agreeable by the second

Wouldn't it be nice to just.... Rest your eyes, and your legs.... And everything..... And just sleep.....

OH THE THING ABOUT THE SMELL IS SO GOOD

i really love the idea of it just smelling distinctly like Nothing, or just fresh air, you know that smell when you’re outside on a clear night in the summer and it’s almost-warm but not quite, that’s a smell you’d probably really miss after a long enough time underground

also the sculk does this hypnotic little animation where the little bright parts flicker in waves that could be part of the calming effect as well

but like YEAH the more i think about the more i'm into the idea that dormant sculk would be comforting. sculk not only eats the essence of formerly-living things, it grows in the shape of the places it spreads to. if you think of a more typical concept of an overgrown post-apocalyptic city you probably imagine lots of disruption, trees and vines widening cracks in streets and buildings crumbling, but sculk doesn't do that. your home could be completely eaten and it would still be standing there, you could still walk inside. and chances are that's on purpose

[mumblesplash]

What is your Hogwarts house?

i always test as entp but personally i think astrology is bullshit

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Hey this might seem a little insane but I’m currently studying how languages form in fandom and your post about how lifestealers all use crouching in different ways was really interesting to me and I just wanted to sort of ask before I just assert something about you when you look at like the crouching do you like translate it to like human person body language and like words (like when you’re learning a language and you translate it to your native language then understand) or does it sort of communicate to you inherently (like when someone speaks to you in your native language you just know what they mean)

omg i love thinking about stuff like this :D

hmm let's see...so as far as i remember this post was originally prompted by the realization that mumbo and pearl make the same movement mean basically opposite things, which definitely feels more like an inherent communication thing than a translation.

the thing is, i wouldn't say it feels like a 'native language' exactly either? one of the big barriers for me getting into mcyt was frustration with a perceived lack of expressiveness, and it took me a few months to learn how to 'read' cubito body language

basically all forms of human communication have unique strengths and limitations, but they're all lenses through which to view the same *people*, so i guess i would describe it as more analogous to my eyes adjusting to different lighting than acquisition of a new language, if that makes sense?

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wait can you explain what you mean by being a marine biologist magnet. is there evidence for this

it’s mostly a joke but also i keep becoming friends with them. it’s happened too much to be a coincidence. at this point if i really hit it off with someone i just assume they watch nautilus live streams in their free time.

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you understand mumbo like no one else on this website. i have been rewatching s6 and in episode 129 (non-chronological; he shows the results of his redstone before the process) there's bit where he says "i can't test this, but you already know how it turned out, so let me know in the comments whether i've succeeded" and then he continues, somewhat abashed as is the mumbo jumbo way, "i know that's not how time works, but still, some reassurance would be nice"

you see he is very embarrassed to be sidestepping the linear progression of time, he knows it's not the done thing, he's just anxious and could you be so kind this once? "i know that's not how time works but still" translation = he knows he's meant to follow the laws of physics - everyone does it! - but oh dear that one is very inconvenient at this particular moment, so please don't mind him.

-tgh

YES exactly exactly this man will apologize for breaking the flow of linear time as if he used the wrong fork to eat dessert (he is terribly sorry for making a scene)

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Are you mumbo jumbo

probably not

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Hey. Sorry if this is too forward but I saw your post about bones and. Would you like to do unethical experiments for the purpose of research into inventing the ability to shapeshift?

being too forward in asks: unacceptable

unethical science experiments on human subjects: okay and fine as long as you asked politely

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didn't you try to convince people you had children that one time? or did i hallucinate that?

???????? no???? i mean i have a collection of world’s greatest dad mugs i mentioned a few times but i was pretty clear about not being a father

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Every picture of mumbo inexplicably has his face covered or glitches out with him just cropped. No one knows why. Isakall has been trying to get a good photo for years with no success

i think he should be like mike wazowski

this has nothing to do with how human he is (extremely) it's just a coincidence

OTHER redstoners though? they do tend not to photograph well, for one very specific reason