#switch!grian

[mumblesplash]

i say if you’re gonna have the mysterious entities speak in rhyme you might as well commit (EDIT: part 2!)

(posting an unprecedented Part 1 of At Least 3 bc i actually have the entire script and most of the storyboarding for this done already)

[teapot-of-tyrahn]

"right, one more attempt, and then i think we're gonna have to call it the end of the session."

mumbo died on his last attempt. right before grian would have ended the session. right before grian could have saved him.

"but i just don't want to kill jimmy..."

he could have taken the shot then and there. he could have lived.

but the miner didn't want to kill the canary. he wanted the canary to live. and he died for it. because miners aren't meant to go into the coal mines alone.

[isjasz]

[Day 246]

More background practice but it got out of hand goshdangit .png

They chilling :D

[sopuu]

1 left.

[thatstoomanysausages]

Does anyone ever think really hard about Grian's inability to team? To stick with the same people he'd allied with at first after it shows the slightest hint of going downhill? Or about everyone's knowledge to be weary with teaming with Grian as he's notoriously disloyal with his teammates?

Cause the gutting thing is, he isn't. He isn't disloyal. He doesn't have an inability. In fact, I'd argue he is one of the few people who are tragically loyal to a fault, at least in most cases.

In Last Life, although he killed both Jimmy and Mumbo, he still felt the need to return to his allies after he'd turned red, feeling betrayed when they threw him out for being red. After that, he stuck with Joel and didn't dare betray him.

In Double Life, although he cheated on Scar and constantly complained, he stuck by Scar almost obsessively. His aim to protect him, even if he said it was for his own benefit, was painful. He didn't try to leave Scar behind like Cleo or Scott, he didn't try to sever the bond between him and Scar, nothing. It was almost like he was desperate.

In Limited Life, he was beyond loyal to his boys. He was loyal until the very end. And although he immediately switched to join the Nosy Neighbours, he didn't try to team with anyone permanently until Jimmy and Joel were dead. His silence when he realised he was truly the last Bad Boy was deafening. He hid his grief by saying that he had a backup team, just to save face, even though he built a gravestone for both boys and grieved them meaningfully.

In Secret Life, it wasn't as if he was fine with having no allied, like someone would be if they truly didn't care for loyalty, he was desperate once again. Having no teammates later in the game would hurt him, yes, but his desperation felt lonely, not power hungry. He didn't dare betray Etho nor Cleo, and stuck by them until the end. He was losing his mind on his hill before he teamed with the two, he needed to have close allies to depend on.

Now, in Wild Life, Mumbo is out of the series and Grian goes to say he needs to find some more friends, even with Skizz still around. Now, I don't think this is a power play thing, it's a desperation thing. He's hiding his grief by pretending everything is fine because if it wasn't he'd be vulnerable. For the past couple sessions, he had been working tirelessly to help get Skizz a kill so he could get off of being a red life, even to his own detriment.

Grian doesn't half ass teams. He will not team with everyone. However, he gets vulnerable when the ones that he connects to die.

Because that's how it went about in 3rd Life. He allied with Scar throughout the whole game, it starting simply because Grian felt guilty about what he'd done to Scar. He felt guilty. He stuck with him the whole game, undying loyalty, and all it ended in was him standing at the top with his best friend's blood drying on his hands.

To him, being loyal to someone like he was in 3rd Life ended badly. So, to avoid that, he found a way to still stay teamed with people, but not be left at the top of that mountain again, alone, even if his teammates die.

But so far, the curse keeps following him. He will always outlive his teammates. And this season is following the pattern, again, Mumbo dying right in front of his eyes, so close, yet so far. Always in a distance where he could've done something different, and he'd still have a teammate.

He may move from person to person, but only when they are dead or reject him. He is the forever Widow, cursed to always face his consequences, over and over and over again.

[trappedinmymind]

The whole "who plays Minecraft the weirdest" debate has made me decide that I need to play Minecraft weirder

[fantasykiri5]

They’re so bad(boys)!!

[ender1821]

just realised i can do whatever i want forever and ever so have my god awful takes

hiding this under the cut because the rest of the povs i either haven’t watched or don’t have that much of an understanding to actually put them on here as accurately imo. so. they’re based on vibes (feel free to correct me on any of these btw. reading character analyses is my passion 🔥🔥🔥)

original template from here

[deepfrost-citadel]

I don't think I'm ever going to finish this but I need the world to understand my vision

Anyway: Monty Hermitty Python (Not to be confused with the Hermit, Python)

[grian-in-a-plethora-of-places]

Grian is with his brothers! (They all share a name!)

[allbornscreaming]

FONTAINES D.C. — Death Kink Live at Reading Festival 2024

[all-my-crap]

“No! I messed it up!”

“Grian, Grian it’s not going wel-!”

Lightning strikes. Desperation and panic- suddenly cut off. The water flowing from the remains of bread bridge in silence.

Grian rushing over to where Joel once was, only to find nothing there. He didn’t get to say his farewells.

[isjasz]

[Day 132]

Head in hands

There was also a scar but I could not figure out how to render him for my life so I'm giving up o7 DHSKJEKAJWKWKWLAA

[enjithequeer]

Real Life SMP

Ok so like just some weird thought that I keep on forgetting to post on Tmblr is that I feel like in RLSMP Jimmy and Grian swapped their curses, like Jimmy got Grian's curse where his allies/team-mates always die. And Grian got his Canary curse because he was the first out in Real life SMP. Like it was a April fool's EP, and it would be funny if the Watchers were like "Let's swap peoples curses" for a April fools' joke and Jimmy and Grian got their curses switched

[crystalsandbubbletea]

It's all "Freedom for everyone!" Until the people being oppressed are Arab.

I once saw a quote (Don't remember where), and it said "You can spill as much Arab blood as you want, and no one will blink."

This quote shows how racism and stereotyping dehumanized Arabs.

This is especially the case in Palestine. How much blood was spilled? Too much. Too many civilians died because Israel couldn't solve this peacefully.

Then again, has the Israeli government ever tried? Their genocide against Palestinians started WAY BEFORE October 7th.

Glory to the resistance, glory to the martyrs, glory to Palestine.

Palestine WILL be free.

[thatstoomanysausages]

Do you think Grian spends his nights away from Gem and Joel, risking his lives just so he can sit in between Skizz and Mumbo’s headstones. He wraps Mumbo’s half exploded jacket around his shoulders and tugs gently on Skizz’s tie that he’s wrapped around his neck, not tied, but just there. He lets the howling wind pass over him, content to just sit peacefully by the graves where the bodies, one fresher and less mangled than the other, lay underneath the disturbed dirt.

In a moment of delusion, he thinks he can hear Skizz’s laughter up the hill by the Bamboozlers, maybe Mumbo calling his name from one of their odd bridges. And for that moment of hallucination, he smiles and just sits, just as he has time and time again, doomed to repeat himself.