#tbf that's a very grian thing to do

[oakyadair]

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME GRIAN USED TO HAVE FROSTED TIPS ???

[smoozie]

I feel like it is disingenuous to pretend that the relationship between an actor and a character they play on screen is the same as the relationship between a minecraft content creator and their persona in game

[crystaleevee4]

just read chasing the horizon line by @1watermelontea and @nine-of-diamonds! Very good fic, take some doodles of three of these silly guys (I have more doodles but they’re uncolored so. Gotta fix that before uploading) also

WOW tumblr is determined to completely tank the quality (tbf I don’t have a very. High-quality camera)

JESUS CHRISYT FUCK MY LIFE THE ALT IMAGE DESCRIPTION IS TOO LONG. HOLD ON i'm sorry this is so long

[image ID: A doodle of Grian, Gem, and Skizz from the fanfic "chasing the horizon line". They are all merpeople of some kind. Above them all are the words "rotates Mer at top speeds in mind (from fic Chasing the Horizon Line)". Below that, the words "girl help this went from 11:27 PM to 1:24 AM…"

Grian has round glasses and fluffy, short and dark blonde hair. He is holding an enchantment book titled "NOT MENDING LOL" out in front of him with one hand while the other is on his hip. He has an unimpressed expression. He is wearing a large red sweater and his tail almost matches the shade. There are scales completely covering his tail, and a few on his neck and nose. His tail is roughly medium-sized, and he is in fact the middle ground when it comes to height in this sketch. Above him are the words "Grian - Fish mer - Unsure what kind".

Gem is the shortest of the three, with a shorter, orange tail that is slightly frilly. Her hair is reddish-orange and poofy, falling to about elbow length. She is wearing a navy-blue vest/jacket over a white shirt, and her hands are clasped together mischievously. She has green eyes, and her facial expression is incredibly gremlin-like. There are scales on her neck, and some on her tail. She has fin-like ears, and there is a lantern-like thing hanging from her head. Above her are the words "Gem - Anglerfish" and next to her are the words "So pretty and sparkly… don't you want to come a little closer?"

Skizz is the tallest of all three of them, with the longest tail. He is grinning and looking off to the side. His teeth are very sharp. Most of his body, including his tail, is covered in scars. He is waving. There are visible gills on his neck and near the upper half of his tail- which has no scales. His hair is a dark gray (intended to be black/brown) with red streaks in it. He is just wearing a binder (because I love him) and there are also the words "hits him with my transgender beam" next to him as well as the trans flag in faded color pencil. There appears to be the hints of a fin on his back, and on the sides of his tail. On his other side are the words "Skizz - Shark!" with a little heart under them. /End ID]

(I fucked up grian’s hair so bad I’ve never used colored pencils before this point in time)

(I also fucked up proportions. Again, tbf, this was late at night and I forgot to check before coloring)

[image ID: flaming text saying "if you can LIKE it, you can REBLOG it!! <3333" /End ID] (did i do that right)

this is completely /nm* by the way! slash lighthearted

*the tone tag /nm means "not mad"

[nekodere07]

I broke the code Pt. 3

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

AO3 link to the fic!

Joel we're booooooored

The soil crunches underneath Joel's boots as he beelines to the back of the wagon with a loud yawn, grabbing two empty barrels and wrapping them on either arms to his sides. Once he deems them firmly secured on his hold, he turns back to the entrance of the inn, heading to the creaking staircase that leads him to their room.

I can't believe you're doing chores of all things

what a moron

Taking a deep breath, he closes the door behind him with a soft click, having to physically suppress himself from slamming it right here and then. His eyebrow twitches as he attempts to filter out the mocking comments, rendering them into white noise whilst he heads back to their wagon.

They won't live it down if he slacks off, so he has to at least do his share of the responsibilities.

LOL

LMFAO

HAHAHA

blood

He's such a child, he should've just refused instead of listening to Etho

#obsessedmuch

Joel bites his lower lip and controls himself. If he retorts to what they're saying, he'll just be playing on the palm of their hands.

Do they even have any, considering they're disembodied voices?

tbf he's obsessed so it can't be helped

pfft

True

its fun to see you getting flustered

YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEE

That's it!

“Listen here, you losers!” Joel growls as he slams his fist beside the wagon, producing a thundering sound whilst he takes a few deep breaths. “Grian kept on insisting like an idiot that we each have to contribute! Which was why I had to comply, otherwise he'll make me sleep outside. Etho just happened to butt in when I already decided to do it, alright?”

Suuuuuuure

keep telling yourself that

just admit it… you're obsessed with etho

Joel groans painfully, grabbing a handful of his chocolate locks and pulls as hard as he can, slamming his forehead towards the wagon for good measure. He can't lose his cool. Not when they're all exhausted from the long journey. His friends can't handle his ‘mood swings’ when he eventually gives in to the voices’ call.

if only the previous patrons were this entertaining to watch

🤝

Exactly

right?!

what do you mean?

oh the newbies didnt know

Now im curious

The least he can do is to not get in their way.

all the previous ones love to keep their distances

ugh

GROSS

imagine being a loner what a loser

L

L

It was difficult to see any intriguing events outside of battle

did someone say blood?

Not now

:(

i like joel better bec of dis

one way or another hell backstab them for sure

With a huge gasp of air, he does his breathing exercises and accompanies it with stretching both of his arms above his head, lowering it when he exhales before raising it again as soon as he begins the cycle again. He's already used to the voices’ antics—taunting him for as long as they desire—so he knows what to do whenever they pester him and eventually demand for blood once more, satiating their thirst with his assistance.

“Joel!”

He jolts violently at the call, swirling around to see Impulse jogging towards him, waving his arm with a big smile on his face. No matter what the dwarf says, Joel will always think of him as some sort of teddy bear. Considering he's so good-natured and how he secretly adores the warmth of the man's hugs, he's not really beating the allegations. But that secret is only between him…

what about us???

YEAH!!

…fine, them as well.

“Hey, Impulse! What's up?” Joel greets casually with a smile, swiftly tucking his hands to his pockets.

Impulse peeks over the now empty wagon and gapes, leaning back to stand to his full height as he makes eye contact.

“I see you're already hard at work! I'm very impressed.” Impulse compliments as he nods approvingly.

“It's good to stretch these muscles every once in a while outside battle, you know?” Joel shrugs his shoulders before stifling a yawn.

Impulse's smile seems to drop for a moment before it returns. Based on how fast it was, he ignores it and treats it as a trick of the light or something.

“But it's also good to take a breather.” Impulse advices thoughtfully. “Grian is already off to hunt down for his artificer friend, and Etho is sewing another one of his masks in our room.”

Joel's clammy hands are starting to soak his pockets.

“I'm cool. I still have to gather logs for our next journey whilst it's still bright out.”

“That's fair.” Impulse stops for a moment. “Hey, how about we check out this town's tavern later?” He nudges his head to the side, giving no indicator of the specific location.

“I would love to, but it's my turn for tonight’s lookout, remember? We can't afford me being tipsy and all.”Joel explains nonchalantly.

boooooooooooooooooo

it wouldve been fun

😭😭😭

If it had been any day, he would've probably accepted the offer. It's his best opportunity to escape his responsibilities and simply fool around. Unfortunately, they've been getting more and more restless recently, so he has to steer clear of people until their slowly rising bloodlust completely subsides. As funny as it is to annoy Grian, he has to restrain himself.

He can't risk another accident to increase the list of reasons to ban him from a settlement, after all.

“Oh, man. That's such a shame.” Impulse shakes his head and turns around, facing his broad back towards Joel. “I heard that they've been offering discounts for any drink during weekdays, and I thought it was a good idea to save money and enjoy their beverages at the same time.” He slumps his shoulders with a dejected sigh.

“Wait, did you just say discount on any drink?” Joel perks up, already feeling the saliva gathering in his mouth. “You're not pulling my leg, are you?” He raises a brow sceptically.

“I would never!” Impulse gasps in disbelief and faces Joel once more. “You know about me and my hobbies, man. I would never lie about such a thing.” He points out in a serious manner.

“That's true.” Joel places a hand under his chin, considering his later plans for a moment.

“How about we play a game?”

“A game?” Joel repeats.

“Yep!” Impulse pops the p. “Whoever empties thirty tankards last gets to pay for all our drinks. Won't they taste better when free?” He leans forward and holds out his giant hand with a smirk.

“I couldn't agree more.” Joel grins. “I'm in! You're so going down, Impulse!” He shakes the offered appendage with his own small one.

He doesn't remember anything after that.

AO3 link to the fic!

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[treeba-rk]

re: fuck reddit. I m still angry at that one mcc duo tournament. Like don t get me wrong, pizzacrust was great and iconic, they ve been teamed up like 7 times total counting non canon, grian is cool, and pete is my fav s tier! So like i understabd WHY they won, but i feel like some of the most iconic duos were completely ignored. At least Techno and Phil made it to the semifinals, but imo they should have defeated pizzacrust? Scott and Shelby, and Timmy and Martyn were completely snubbed, as if they were not some of the most frequent duos inside and outside of mcc. They really completely ignored Ren and False, ffs, where is this people s sense of narrative?? I know Ren and False are your favs, but do you know who should have won the tournament, imho?? CAPTAINSPARKLEZ AND KARA CORVUS. They are roomies, they are cursed as fuck, they are pessimistic, they are besties, they hate each other. Every time they team up together, they miss in dodgebolt in the most horrible ways possible. Ffs reddit.

I ll give them this, submitting h and torches as a couple and having it take 2nd place was funny

Kara and Jardon are so iconic in MCC like girl we had the Krimson Krakens girl and the FRIENDSHIP and how Kara won the first one and it took Sparklez like forever to get his win and we were all rooting for him and the doomed narrative of the Captain's Curse and Krimson Krakens aaa. They are so doomed but like... together doomed. AND they are MCC relevant because they've been around for so long and are the subject of popular curses / patterns.

Ok tbf I knew False and Ren were gonna get out first go but at least they lost to a duo I used to deem as appropriate. To be honest, Pizzacrust is great but imo the only reason it won was because of clout </3. H + Torches should have won. Also you are very correct about Scott + Shubble and Timmy + Martyn because I was aware of them as duos before I actually knew them? Like I took a look at the MCC roster and was like "yeah these ppl are playing together again. yay pattern recognition they're friends".

I feel like one weird thing about the duo fanon is that...... people want to make up their new duos? And the long established besties duos either get snubbed (common) or it turns into stuff like Scarian yaoi in which it overshadows other things including Convex. I can go on longer but 💀

[riacte]

The MCC reddit has some pretty fantastic memes, but nothing pisses me off more than people using "support player" as a euphemism for someone being not as good! Like, if you're using it properly, Ren and Niki are actually fantastic at support and make great callouts, but most people just use it to mean bad without actually saying that

Right??? “Support” players are actually very good at their job— they glue the whole team together and boost morale. You want your leaders but you also need your followers.

I have a weird relationship with MCC Reddit because I was high key very into it at the end of S1 and during the break between S1 and S2. A lot of the times I still think like a Reddit user. Reddit has some great memes but I think my sense of humour has been completely ruined by tumblr’s frantic “our parents divorced?!1!!!1!1 /lh” bs. Everyone making memes about Grian skipping and I’m over here like “you should’ve seen us when False and Ren skipped lmao, we made a whole ass soap opera”.

There was also an era when they got too into tiermaking and they were like “guys, we gotta calm down” and made a ton of joke tiers. That was pretty good on their part.

MCC Reddit’s also like… “the players frequent here, we should all be kind”. So it’s an unspoken rule to not bitch about team composition (eg. Saying you don’t want x and y to team up will get you downvotes bc of the negativity) but it’s alright to say “well these two players are the support players and I guess they nerf the other two strong ones??”. Tbf I know LOTS of people make fun of people who talk about teams like that but it’s also like… stats and predictions and tiers are cool, just not my thing rn 😔

Now, what I basically do on Reddit is to search up names of competitors and then selectively look for posts that look like they’ll be kind and analytical.

[atherix0]

A glorious morning for me, Mumbo lover, to wake up, roll over, and see you posted a roughly 5k word chapter of Scarian. Mwah. I am choosing to believe. That got way too gay. This is scarian now.

SO FIRST OF ALL Grian waking up and realizing that A. He's in Scar's bedroom, B. Mumbo is in scar's bedroom, and C. His stomach is doing flips because he's looking down and seeing Mumbo in Scar bed and it likely smells like mumbo and scar together and his little bird brain -- god yes.

Going down, seeing Scar in the morning, as if he's his boyfriend who just woke up and is coming to give him a morning smooch is truly something. I cant believe the two of them decided it was Normal and Fine for a frumpy, sleepy Grian to just Appear. Mmm mm mmmm mmmmmmmmmmm. And that Scar made him pancakes and that Grian was just able to tear Scar away from his work and Scar isn't even putting up a fight at all oh my god. GRIAN CALLING SCAR PRETTY AND THE TWO OF THEM JUST SITTING WITH THAT. THIS IS GAY, GENTLEMEN. YOU ARE BEING BOYFRIENDS. I AM SHOUTING INTO A MEGAPHONE BUT LO, I AM A TINY FROG.

OH MY GOD THE ANTIQUE SHOP I can just. Picture. Oh to be a fly on the wall [I guess we all are tbf] watching the two of them talk about this ELVEN ENGAGEMENT JEWELRY AS IF THEY WERENT JUST THE GAYEST TWO BEINGS ALIVE IN THIS MAN'S HOUSE. Oh my god and for that to reveal so much of Grian on accident, for scar to rapidly realize so many things without either of them saying a fucking word. OOOO BOY they are gonna have to have a T A L K with this bird. I mean there's no way Scar is gonna talk to mumbo about it [unless,,,,,,] but my god do they need to have a Talk tm.

AND THEN THE WAY THAT BEAUTIFULLY TRANSITIONED TO "Well maybe you should give Mumbo some of your feathers" THE WAY THESE MEN DEFLECT DO THEY REALIZE THEY ARE BEING SO VERY GAY. oh my god scar is gonna have some of grian's feathers on day and he doesnt even realize it. oh my GOD I am SCREAMING down the BOATEM HOLE and into THE VOID.

Also the fact that Grian knows how to repair equipment. The fact that Grian has been shown to be a remarkable fighter when he's not panicking. The whole "I killed our gods" Grian pulled on Mumbo a while back only for Mumbo to be like "I dont think he's ready to talk about That so I'm not gonna bring it back up" AND NOW SCAR KNOWS WITHOUT KNOWS HE NOWS SO MUCH WITHOUT WORDS TO THAT KNOWLEDGE AND I AM MELTING. ASDFGHJKJHGFDSDFGHJHGFD GOD. G O D.

Oh man Mumbo Lover, you are about to get fed so well HA that chapter was absolutely 5k words of Scarian, no doubt <3 It got super gay

Bird brain just like <3 hhh but he just being like "haha this certainly doesn't mean anything we're fine it's cool we're okay <3" lmao

The entire time I was writing that scene I was just thinking about the people Scar was just speaking to seeing this unfamiliar man come out of the back of Scar's shop with messy hair and rumpled clothes at noon and was giggling the entire time because you KNOW they all think that is definitely his boyfriend, they're so Normal about it like it's not completely domestic-y like hjgfdjkk= Scar takes care of his guests <3 He probably made some for Mumbo too but Mumbo doesn't really think much about Human food, he just indulges every now and then lmao <3 Grian is a demanding little bird and Scar is too willing to let him have his way haha <3 LMAO THE GAY PANIC THEY BOTH HAD AT THAT MOMENT. Grian doubling down and trying to play it off as a joke and Scar taking that out but they both Know(TM). They know. They gay but oo boy-

I too love antiques so much and could spend every last dollar I have in an antique shop so. BUT YEAH LMAO I'm sure the fact that Grian is now in possession of Elven jewelry that giving basically means "I wish to court/marry you" is totally not gonna be significant in any way later down the line right? <3 Grian really said "I was taught how to fix metal things like weapons" and Scar, literal Elven prince who was born into a palace and was taught to MAKE things but never taught how to FIX things because he is a royal, went "um Birdie uh I'm about to flip your entire worldview with a single question" and just hjfdskj <3 They all need to Talk(TM), and oh boy don't they know it. Or at least Mumbo does hjkfdsljk Grian and Scar are both like "deflection and distraction is a healthy communication skill correct?"

THE DEFLECTIONS, THE "we'll unpack all that later at an undetermined point in time," THE GAY, AND YEAH HAHA I totally 100% intend for them all to have something that represents each of their cultures <3 I AM SCREAMING WITH YOU, and I'm the motherducker who's writing it <3

:) Gods they need to talk about it haha SCAR IS ONLY EVER OBSERVANT WHEN IT COMES TO OTHER PEOPLE'S INTERNAL STRUGGLE HE SAW GRIAN'S LIFE PERCEPTION SHATTER IN THREE SECONDS AND KNEW SOME SHIT WENT DOWN and now they need to talk to Mumbo because Holy Shit <3 Mumbo be like "I'll wait for Grian to be ready to talk about it" but if he waits then they'll never talk about it anf jhkfds-

[tacom-literatureu-blog]

Realized if I'm gonna send songs from my discover weekly that bonked me with Tacom thoughts it might be easier to do so with a submission bc

Tadah

I can send links directly to Spotify! Anyways, I only realized this was another fandoms song bc I was looking up the lyrics but, like, this has, so many Scar vibes (also Quackity to an extent but I view the two of them as very similar vibes tbf) it could even be rotated to Grian, a long of eye imagery and finding family and the show aspect Grian can put on at times.

Also, bench trio? Though again might be my biases I could see it being rotated to a lot of the Tacom cast but like, bench trio came to mind first. It's the little things of things getting better, and the help that comes from just being there offering tea and biscuits y'know? I like the vibes of it for em.

Oh my goodness! Sorry I just saw these and listened to them both! Holy shit you're so right! The first song could be Scar talking about Quackity OR Grian, and the second song definitely has Bench Trio vibes!! Thank you Helleborus! - Patton