#Secrets & Wives

[nezhanetwork]

all the words i couldn't say to you, oh, the damage i have wrought

#life series #secret life #pearlescentmoon #bdoubleo100 #bdubs #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #mumbo jumbo #(in spirit) #the mounders #my art #STREAM THE WELL BY THE CRANE WIVES #the colours are very much intentional yeah #pearl my girl... :')

[isjasz]

[Day 161]

(Let it fade away)

Previous part | also reference to this ;)

#dddaily4sherin #grian #goodtimeswithscar #desert duo #namemc spoilers #secret life #secret life smp #secret life spoilers #traffic smp #trafficblr #my art #the song is ancient history by the crane wives :D #i apologize if i just end up drawing the skin straight until friday its very possible HAJSHAJSHA

[aviomons]

a ready army in my throat. i taste blood, i’m sick of swallowing stones

thought i’d draw the newest crane wives song + the newest life series member! the crane lives/idea from @cherrifire

#geminitay #geminitay fanart #secret life #secret life smp #secret life fanart #secret life spoilers #the crane lives #the life series x the crane wives #life series #life series smo #life series fanart #the well - the crane wives

[morickkk]

Discarded remnants of former times

( I hate them so much guys!! )

#desert duo #secret life #trafficblr #life series #slsmp #grian fanart #goodtimeswithscar fanart #morarts #the lyric is ancient history by the crane wives yes yes

[hajrukta]

did I miss boat boys? no. no I did not, please just forgive and forget so I can stop thinking abt you guys with that one crane wives song please

#my art #secretlife fanart #secret life fanart #secret life smp #secret life #smallishbeans fanart #smallishbeans #etho slab #etho slab fanart #ethoslab fanart #etho fanart #violently shakes them #and yes I am talking about ‘never love an anchor’ by the crane wives

[azyledel]

A ready army in my throat, I taste blood I’m sick of swallowing stones ,so I’ll wave the flag-tell the boys to go home

The Well and Gem go so well together

#life series #secret life #trafficblr #geminitay #the crane wives #mcyt fanart #mcyt

[candyqueensugar]

#sunbathing #dubaimarina #black undies #lingiere #naughty wives #exhibtionist #silk satin #victoria secret #naughty woman #mum bod #show off #dd cup #sexuality #mature lingerie #over 40 #sexy costumes #sexy mama #sexy tease

[natowe]

kiss with a fist is better than none (toxic yuri etc etc etc)

[additional Ed & Stede's reaction under the cut]

during the dinner with Anne & Mary:

and because they would be (they already are lol) one of those couples who talk over their double date with their less functional coupled friends in details, here's a glimpse of some future meet ups with the wives bc i couldn't help myself:

couple goals - soft mlm and unhinged wlw

#mary read #anne bonny #what's their ship name? #pirate wives #??? #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd fanart #is the last drawing based on me and my gf and our behaviour? that's a secret I'll never tell #i'm still terribly artblocked but i had to draw those unhinged lesbians #how could i not #only 3 episodes left jshdkasjdk #art #fan art #2023 #nat art #natart

[basils-beehive]

Late night grian sketches

#grian #made these while listening to the oh hellos and the crane wives #grian fanart #mcyt #secret life fanart #secret life #hermitcraft #sl smp #traffic smp #trafficblr #traffic series #life series lore #limited life #double life

[psstitsnynx]

I got bored asf and dandelion husbands flooded my brain @life-winners-liveblog

Would you believe me if I said I made this on traditional? As well as many of the previous ones I did-

I’ve been told many a times that my coloured drawings look printed LMAO- but yes most of my drawings come from my art book :3 The only digital ones were the kingdom dance inspired drawing & the little doodles of small SL!Jimmy & DL!Scott- Anyways I’m sure it’s obvious but I like yapping so I’ll yap

*update* here’s a Better lighting photo but you can see more of the background

#traffic life series #trafficblr #life series #the life series #secret life #double life #jimmy solidarity #scott smajor #dandelion duo #dandelion husbands #trafficshipping? #song/lyrics is from ( Easier - The crane wives ) <3 #my art <3 #it’s a sign that there needs to be more dandelion husbands 👀

[fisticufffs]

" The moon will sing a song for me

I loved you like the sun

Bore the shadows that you made

With no light of my own

I shine only with the light you gave me "

(this took so long to make hshshs Reblogs and Likes are greatly appreciated !! :D

EDIT: if you think it changed it did, i changed the orientation a bit hehe

#grian #pearlescentmoon #life smp #traffic series #secret life #mcyt fanart #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #pearlescentmoon fanart #grian fanart #watcher grian #skyblings #sky duo #skyduo #sky siblings #the moon will sing #crane wives #pearlecentmoon #mcytblr #mcyt #hermitblr #trafficblr

[annoyinglandmagazine]

Me *about to hyperfixate on a new thing*: Well this looks sort of interesting, let’s just go over there and check it out, see what the fuss is, it’ll take like an hour at most-

Me *after falling asleep at 4 am and waking up to go further down the rabbit hole*: I don’t know what I was expecting to be honest. I should know better by now.

#silmarillion #Tolkien #the secret history #the crane wives #hamilton #sleeping at last #the iliad #the song of achilles #girl genius #six of crows

[trafficlife]

And I Am Left Here Withering

"Can this day get any worse?" Joel had asked. The universe responded yes, three different times, each response more heartbreaking than the last. Joel would've preferred the universe proving him wrong.

word count: 1250 ao3 link

The first thing Joel heard was an explosion.

And his first instinct was to look up. Needless to say, he hadn’t completely moved on from Skynet and the TNT minecart traps. But no TNT could be spotted, thankfully. He didn’t think anybody would risk their hearts by creating a Skynet 3.0.

His second instinct was to assume that it was the Wither. If only he knew how badly that would come back to bite him later on.

His third instinct was to check his communicator, in case someone died. He didn’t see any lightning flash in the sky, which he thought was weird.

Joel pulled out his communicator, just in case he missed something, and—

Oh.

Oh, no.

For a moment, he thought he was experiencing déjà vu. He gritted his teeth and he tightened his grip on the communicator, nearly destroying it. Hot red blood pumped through his veins, speeding up his heart rate and he thought he was going to go snap. Joel behaved this way when Jimmy died first in Limited Life. When he had failed to sacrifice himself for him. But there were two major differences this time: 1) Joel wasn’t a red name (yet); and 2) it was Lizzie who died first.

He blinked rapidly. Once, twice, five times, because he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He didn’t even see the death message in the chat. Does anybody even know what’s happened to her?

Joel sent a few messages, alerting everyone of Lizzie’s sudden departure. He was right: nobody knew what happened and responded with shock. Jimmy responded with happiness. 

Joel wanted to be angry at Jimmy’s inconsiderate response but he couldn’t be. For the first time since these games started, Jimmy wasn’t the first one out. He remembered the last game. Joel wanted to sacrifice himself for Jimmy, he wanted so badly to free him from that cycle. And he failed.

He failed and he went insane and it ended up being his downfall. 

Joel was happy for Jimmy, he really was. However, it was difficult to express his happiness considering the news he just received. 

He had a suspicion that Scott was somehow involved in Lizzie’s death and that just made him feel even worse. Because, like the idiot he was, Joel just had to send his wife to kill Scott. He didn’t see lightning in the sky, so she didn’t even die in the overworld.

He remembers Lizzie telling Joel that she’d lure Scott into the End and try to push him into the void. Now it only seemed reasonable to assume that Lizzie fell into the void instead. Joel would’ve felt better if Lizzie dragged Scott down with her.

So, Lizzie was dead, Jimmy was celebrating, and Joel was craving vengeance even more than before. Though he failed his task, he would kill Scott. He was only a yellow name for now. And, there was a somewhat bright side: the canary could finally escape the mines.

—----------------------------

Unfortunately, the canary could not escape a warden and a Wither. At the same place. At the exact same time.

Joel, trying to calm down after hearing about Lizzie’s death, was killing some zombies. Mainly for experience, but also because mobs were the only things Joel could legally kill. Then, a series of explosions and some muffled shouting could be heard on the surface. Now, this has to be the Wither, he thought. Secretly, Joel hoped he would be wrong. But when went up to the surface, he found that he was, unfortunately, 100% correct. A Wither was flying in the dark sky, hot on Scar’s heels and firing skulls at him. The fact that Scar was still alive and not taking any wither damage was pretty remarkable. If only he wasn’t luring the bloody Wither to Joel. 

So Joel had to run from Scar and the Wither, hoping they’d both leave him alone. As he ran, Joel wanted to say “could things get any more chaotic?”

And then he saw a warden chasing Etho.

Apparently, the universe felt “bad” for always proving Joel wrong so it wanted to prove him right for once. He’d rather be wrong for the rest of his life. 

He just wanted to breathe for a moment and collect himself. But obviously, the universe can’t let him catch a break. Lightning flashed in the sky and Joel felt his already-fracturing heart crumble into pieces. He didn’t want to check his communicator, he just didn’t want to because he didn’t know if he could handle the truth. He saw Tango pull out his communicator, shock written all over his face. And Joel just had to look over and see—

“JIMMY!” 

Once again, he felt his sanity slipping. He was already in a horrible state but to lose his wife and his best friend, barely ten minutes apart from each other… Joel wanted to curse this world and its twisted sense of humor. 

Tears stung Joel’s eyes and his breathing became more ragged. This wasn’t happening, this wasn’t happening. He nearly fell to his knees in despair but he knew he had to keep running. And, as if the universe wasn’t already having a blast, Joel heard Grian scream.

“Mumbo, LEAVE!” Grian cried, followed by a flash of lightning and Grian screaming Mumbo’s name in distress.

If Joel had any sanity left in him, it had disintegrated the moment the second lightning bolt struck. The only reason why he was still keeping himself together was because he wasn’t red, and the bloodlust hadn’t kicked in. Never has he wanted to be red so badly, to hurt someone and get revenge and take out the rest of this bloody world. 

How could he lose three of the people he cared about in rapid succession? Lizzie died trying to kill Scott (the fact that Joel was responsible for it left a horrible taste in his mouth); Jimmy couldn’t run from the warden fast enough; and Joel barely even got to know Mumbo and he was already gone. They barely had any time to spend together because of the stupid task mechanics that separated the Mounders more than it brought them together.

He had surpassed his breaking point. He wasn’t even red but he tasted blood in his mouth and his heart was pounding in his ears. 

(Everyone he loved had withered away but Joel was still here. But he didn’t know if he wanted to be here.)

—----------------------------

The Wither was defeated but that didn’t mean shit to Joel. Not when it felt like he’d lost everything. 

Part of him wanted to wither away as well. But that would mean giving up. Joel was a lot of things but he sure as hell wasn’t a quitter. 

Skizz told Joel to win for Lizzie. Well, Joel was going to take it a few steps further and win for Lizzie, Jimmy, and Mumbo. He’d rise above this somehow. 

Exhausted and on the verge of tears, Joel walked back to his fairground, clutching a wither rose in his hand. He doesn't remember when or why he picked it up, but holding the stem gave him a little bit of stability. He couldn’t tell if he was bleeding from the withering effect, the thorns in the rose, or from his nails digging into his palms but it didn’t bother him. He had more important things to worry about, such as finding a way to kill Scott.

In the end, the florist could only send regards to himself. 

#꒰☆彡꒱— karma speaks #꒰➳꒱— writings #secret life spoilers #secret life #trafficblr #trafficsmp #life series smp #secret life fanfic #smallishbeans #joel smallishbeans #(others are mentioned but i wont tag them here) #so... session 6 was something wasnt it? #(title from unraveling by the crane wives) #i was thinking how much the song fitted joel in this session + how he responded to the deaths

[warpedstal]

Thinking about how perfect Take me to war could be used for a Life Series /traffic series animation

#hermitblr #hermitcraft #trafficblr #traffic series #life series #double life #third life #last life #limited life #secret life #the crane wives

[such-a-character-song]

Can't Have It All by The Crane Wives is such a GoodTimesWithScar (Secret Life SMP) song!

#cant have it all #can't have it all #cant have it all the crane wives #can't have it all the crane wives #cant have it all tcw #can't have it all tcw #the crane wives #goodtimeswithscar #gtwscar #secret life smp #secret life #slsmp #lifesmp #life smp #sl!scar #slscar #blug ronner's opinion

[fullyfazed]

I keep thinking about the possibilities for the next* life series so now you all get to be subjected to my thoughts.

*not confirmed yet, just based on hope and an implied future for the series

Like I said in my other post I would LOVE for there to be a large snow biome on the map, but that got me thinking about other biomes and land features which have been under-repped in seasons past.

So I made a topographical map. Of course.

The big feature would be the stony peaks which would surround spawn (located on an island in a lake). The mountains could be used as a wall for those living inside, a lookout point for anyone living on it, and it would serve as a natural terrain challenge when it came to brawls and inter-faction attacks.

The other large geological feature would be the cavern/ravine. Another feature which could work as a base and/or difficult terrain, but could also be a good entry point for mines and the deep dark.

As for the biomes themselves I think it would be cool to use them not only because they haven't really shown up yet, but because of the aesthetics, dynamics, and building styles associated with them would be so fun to see in a season (plus the fanart would be sick)

These are just some examples but it could be interesting if there was a tree house village in the jungle, a secure winter base in the mountains, or maybe even an apocalyptic wasteland in the badlands. Obviously there are tons of other variations of bases that could be built in these areas, but these were the first that came to mind.

But Fazed, you cry, what will the gimmick be?

Well I'm so glad you asked because I have two main ideas, both of which involve an aspect of randomness. They'd be built off the original 3rd life system, so keep that in mind :)

The first idea is that every session, there's a random server-wide event. The event could be anything, like every player turns invisible, a random green turns red for the session, or a tornado shows up. Something that will bring an aspect of chaos to the server as a whole, and could potentially increase in dangerousness as the series progresses. There would only be one event per session, and there would be no way to predict what it will be, so they'd have to be handled in a similar way that the secrets are handled in Secret Life.

The second idea steams from double life, but instead of 2 players being connected, the server is split into teams, each with 3-6 players. Teams are randomized at the start of the series, and players switch teams (also randomized) when they die. So there's a real chance that someone could be caught in a trap and then forced to join their killers teams. Health wouldn't be linked for obvious reasons, but I think there could be potential in having shared status effects, inventories, or team synergy bonuses (couple seconds of resistance if your whole team is together, strength boost when all members attack one enemy, regen when eating together, things like that).

Personally I could see both of these ideas working in tandem but I understand how that could be overwhelming when it comes to the creation and execution of the series, so seeing them on their own should also work.

That's about it, I don't really have a good name for this yet but if you like any of the ideas in here please consider adopting them into your psyche.

#life series #trafficblr #3rd life #last life #secret life #double life #limited life #random life #<- bad name i know #begging everyone to imagine rancher duo but winter core #think of the embroidery. think of all the crane wives and oh hello songs we could put to it #originally the team idea would also have a randomly rolled leader but i thought that might mess with the dynamics a little too much