#the amount of jokes with layers and layers of lore and context

[justalittlechocolatemilkshake]

Phil: has blonde hair and a tour bus

The US: assigned DJ at border patrol

[dykeyote]

please tell us your thoughts about jedidiah and lucille's relationship i need to know

THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME I WAS SO SAD THAT IT GOT EATEN ..... but yeah jedidiah and lucilles relationship sort of fascinates me ...... this isnt gonna have a cohesive Thesis or anything and a lot of the things i raise i dont really have answers for bc i think we're gonna get More lucille lore and so its kind of hard to like .... nail down any hard answers rn so im kinda just rambling abt my thoughts but yk . mainly the like ... Secretive nature of their relationship sort of fascinates me theres this feeling throughout that their mother-son relationship is something that needs to be ignored and kept secret . which Does make sense in the broader context that jedidiah might not wanting the kids or even his co-counselors knowing, thats fairly normal (nobody wants to be a nepo baby lol) thats not really what im talking about, im more focused on how this permeates their interpersonal dynamics, mainly in hive of anxiety. jedidiah speaks to lucille in a way that is incredibly formal - the way an employee speaks to their boss, but dialed up even higher than that, up until he starts getting emotional. the effort being put into avoiding the fact that lucille is his mom is Strong, though interestingly lucille doesnt fall into this role as much - though she does change her behavior after jedidiah calls her mom, implying that there is some amount of going w this on her end as well. calling her mom is something that is used as a last resort, and its notable that jedidiah is EXTREMELY upset before this point. before jedidiah resorts to acknowledging the fact that lucille is his mother, hes already had several angry outbursts and almost started crying. it takes him being so frustrated that he loses the ability to speak coherently in anything other than repeating jesus over and over for him to Finally resort to calling her mom. and interestingly, the one time lucille shows favor to sydney over jedidiah within the events we see in canon flips these roles: she speaks to sydney in secret and goes behind jedidiahs back, which also happens to be the one episode where lucille expresses public affection towards jedidiah. just an interesting little detail. its just really interesting to me bc it makes me wonder how long that dynamic of secrecy has been going on? theres some conflicting evidence on this - sydney references jedidiah knowing what love and care looked like, but he has a father so its not clear enough if thats really referring to lucille to be able to extrapolate it. jedidiah makes a sort of dry joke about lucille never teaching him how to hug, but lack of affection doesnt Necessarily equate this specific weird dynamic they have going on. jedidiah mentions to joshua and yvonne that he works for his mom which COULD imply that weird dynamic wasnt a thing in college so they already knew, or it COULD mean that he just said it bc he was in the middle of a rant, or it COULD mean that the counselors just know this information, or it COULD mean fifty different things . u see why jedidiah and lucilles relationship is reaaalll hard to analyze lol . anyway im sleepy so im gonna finish this here but basically im kind of fascinated in the layers of how fucked up they are and i really want to know How Long theyve been this fucked up and Why theyre this fucked up and AGH

[theinfinityofonekamincik]

Minecraft. Mine-craft. Mi ne craft. Minecra ft? Words are fun. You know what’s funner? Minecraft.

All joking aside, Minecraft! Minecraft sure is a thing. Everyone has heard about it, everyone has had an opinion on it at some point, it’s a straight up cultural fenomenon in so, so many ways. Nothing in Minecraft feels like a coincidence or out of place, it’s a culmination of so many things: sound design, game design, gameplay, lore (or lack of thereof, though I mean, gameplay? In my good Minecraft? It’s literally just a bunch of game mechanics in trenchcoat) graphics, players, ext ext.

Music in Minecraft is... Sure a thing. It has layers, a lot of layers, it’s echoed and it goes in deep. Minecraft music is all chimes and strings overlayed with some sort of tube-shaped instrument, or overlaying some sort of tube shaped instrument, plus some digital sounds, and if a part (one of the instruments) gets taken away it changes meaning. Like a puzzle of sorts. A harmonious, 3D puzzle, where each piece is a simplistic, abstract drawing of its own.

As someone on tumblr put it, Minecraft music is like knowing you can’t go home because it isn’t there anymore. It’s depressing, it weighs down, but it doesn’t lock in place. It grounds. There’s a certain hopeful ring to it, or rather, a predictable ring that has just a bit of fresh sourness to it. Acid.

It can be poison, eat through my gums and hurt my ears, make me wanna cover and cry because it’s bitter, sad, restraining, like heavy chains wrapping all around me and suffocating me with their sheer presence, or... It can be the best. It can remind that I make the rules for myself here, in the empty world of Minecraft, that I can be free, and that to each individual, that reminder is different. It unfreezes by freezing, it rises by falling, it celebrates by crying, it tears and destroys what it can’t let go to be free and makes something new out of the pieces. It’s so, so hopeful, but hope is a restraint in of itself. Hope and expectation go hand in hand. Parallel each other, hope is wanting something to happen and not knowing if it will, while expectation is demanding something to happen and knowing that it must.

Hope leaves me hanging and vulnerable, expectation rivets me in place. Hoping without trust in myself or others is impossible, as I’ll expect a hit all the way. Minecraft, including music, is a place where the only one who could hit me is myself. It helps draw a line between what’s real and what isn’t by being a canvas I can project onto, or rather, one of those paint by numbers things with no numbers. Minecraft is just a bunch of dots, everybody, we cracked the code!

It’s the most fun with other people, so I can paint on somebody else’s connections and they can paint on mine, be it in adding stuff, taking stuff, doing god knows what else with stuff or just... Watching. Watching and thinking. Minecraft is a lot like life in that regard, it’s meant to be shared. It gets boring otherwise. Predictable. It loops. Repeats itself straight into oblivion. When there isn’t enough difference around, that is bound to happen, so freedom is important.

Being able to trust is important. In a way, Minecraft teaches trust. So, it’s important, like a crutch for those of us who can’t trust even ourselves and as a playing field for those of us who can, or are willing to try.

There is also not caring, but not caring is also a form of trust. It’s a sorta trust in self, where I know what will happen, know the consequences or possible consequences or possible lack of consequences, and still do the action. It... May be fatalistic. I don’t really get it.

Anyways! Graphics! Minecraft graphics! They are cool as hell, they are squares! Need I say more. Blurry, misty, sharp and crisp, open for interpretation, cristal clear in their delivery of their purpose, contradictions that coexist in a perfect harmony that can be scaled up and scaled down with the same success. That was me describing Minecraft blocks. Dramatic. I mean, I do use words to get my meaning across, and words have

context

So I guess dramatic words are better for describing something dramatic. There are different kinds of dramatic though, and drama used to mean (still does, in some languages) a theater play, or just something emotional, and blaming anyone for the fact ‘emotional’ has negative connotations is of no use.

Recontextualizing ‘emotional’ is. Which, by the way, Minecraft is a great place to recontextualize stuff because it doesn’t have clear context. We don’t know the history of Minecraft, we know all the consequences of it in its world building (world generation, coding, updates, you name it). Or see. Or learn. Words, man.

Graphics play a role in it cause you can easily recontextualize the appearance of a block, of a skin, of the sky. Shaders are also a thing. They sure are a thing! I hadn’t delved into mods yet, but the amount of freedom with those? The ability to create those? Use them in your gameplay? Holy shit. Cheats, commands, vanilla fixes, oh my! ‘Fixes’ may not be the best name in my opinion, but the fact all of those exist? Are allowed to exist? That they can be disagreed on, but it won’t matter in the grand scheme of things?

There isn’t one way to play Minecraft, and Minecraft makes it clear with every fabric of its being. (every fabric- every cell- every part- very fabric?- the fabric- components- loop-di-loops may or may not be at play. Can circular reasoning be good? Hmmm. Nuance? Is it possible here?)

I don’t have much more to say at the moment, so bah-bye! I’m gonna go to my dads’ Minecraft server and put some jevelery on a bunch of rubber ducks floating in the ocean by a beacon on a quartz pillar now, will come back with whatever that teaches me.