#and it's the beginning of their story <3

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

#ok ok let me see if i have the timeline correctly: #1) s8 begins in June and so does the new update announcement #2) months go by with no issue (that they’re aware of) #3) it’s in November when they realize the moon has been growing #4) does the moon crash in January??? #but gawddam #that is one apocalypse story if I’ve heard of one #also fitting bc i think it was 2021 where we were getting a LOT of asteroid/moon fall movies #idk what was in the air (possibly the pandemic that led to unforced isolation & ppl coped with apocalypse stories) #and somehow that bled through to a Minecraft server???? somehow????? #wild #this also reminds me of an apocalypse movie i watched with a friend called ‘3 Días’ #very good movie btw #highly recommend (it is a Spanish only film which i don’t think will be an issue bc subtitles) #anyway #asks #smp 101 with gumy #hermitcraft edition!

[ducktracy]

a short placing heavy emphasis on Hungarian Rhapsody No. II is a rite of passage for golden age cartoons. Bugs Bunny did it! Tom and Jerry did it! Daffy and Donald! but one thing Woody Woodpecker has above the competition is that he is held hostage by a group of gangsters and is forced to entertain, lest he get executed. amazing

#fans of Mickey's Trailer will note the similarities at the beginning of the moving van stretching out the fence--that's because #this was directed by Don Patterson who animated that absolutely BIZARRE cut in Trailer #please look it up if you haven't because it is some of the best animation you will ever see. it is insane #i'm so sad i didn't know this short existed until yesterday because i love it. i love musical cartoons and the story/hook of this one #genuinely made me laugh. and Daws Butler voices the gangsters and cop! #Hungarian Rhapsody No. II... gangster is named Mugsy... it's almost a Friz Freleng short! almost #Hugh Harman did write this one though which is bizarre to me. yes that Hugh Harman who established and ran the first 3 years of the Warner #studio with Rudy Ising #(and Herman Cohen animates on this who of course was a longtime WB animator!) #i love cartoons #ww #convict concerto #patterson #vid #also i am team Rhapsody Rabbit on the RR vs Cat Concerto debate i'm sorry Tom (and Jerry) #but one short has Bugs Bunny killing a man in cold blood and the other doesn't

[beaulesbian]

Her name is Karlach. An archdevil's soldier I swore on my good eye to kill. A devil with pure fire for a heart. I made my way to Avernus to stop her. She fled from my reach – even climbed aboard the mind flayer ship as it screeched through the Hells. I followed in close pursuit.

#baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3edit #baldursgateedit #baldurs gate #karlach #wyll #karlach bg3 #wyll bg3 #baldur's gate spoilers #bg3 spoilers #wyll x karlach #wyllach #hello??? this story line was so surprising for me?? and rlly good #and im still in the beginning so idk how it goes after this point so no spoilers !! #move over basic enemies-to-lovers tropes #this is like 'person who made a pact to hunt someone down only to disobey that pact when finding out he's been lied to' #'and as punishment he now is more similar to the other person while standing his ground about his code and morals' #'while still being bind by that deity of the pact but he knowing he did the right thing' #and the other person islike 'it was fun running away from his attempts at my life but now he's the one to let me live and suffers for that? #'what is this feeling? friendship?' #(my tiefling will try to see if they have a romance if they will travel together often.. just like dori/bull in dai lol)

[fenharel]

And to think I was ready to decorate the ground with your innards. Apologies. Apology accepted. I might have done the same were the roles reversed.

#gamingedit #bg3edit #astarion #astarion x tav #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dailygaming #userdekarios #mine #mine: bg3 #ysabel x astarion #ocs tag #ysabel do'rahel #and so the love story begins 😂 #self indulged content just for me sdfjsdfjsdf #everybody and their grandmother giffed this scene but i want ysabels version in her tag so :3333

[doriansbutt]

tfw u eat too many ghosts in chapter i and spend the rest of ur storyline trying to get rid of them before they kill u

#oc: vyxander #vyxander chandac #my oc #creations #swtor #sith inquisitor #I honestly don’t remember the beginning of this storyline lmao it’s been 10 years #but I’m finally on corellia and level 51 I’m almost done #then just 3 pub stories and I’m done w all 8! finally! #this is alecks’s brother! one of them! #he has a twin #they were kidnapped when very young and separated #one to the sith and one to the Jedi

[forourtomorrows]

haha wouldn’t it be funny if i said that i got back into an obsession i had for a rythm game in 2021… it would be hilarious riiight… haha…

#anyways got full back into enstars. this is not very good news to me. #in the last 3 weeks i have read more stories and fanfic combined that i have read books since the beginning of the year. #may i add that i am a literature student. #anyways switch master post for now expect ryusetai next because i am completely obesessed with chiaki morisawa. #delislittledrawings #enstars #ensemble stars #switch enstars #tsumugi aoba #natsume sakasaki #sora harukawa #natsumugi

[mixedup-sideblog]

Let’s talk about this scene…

I’ve seen some really unfair takes on this so far and I can only conclude it’s because some people either want completely flawless characters or cannot use a little bit of critical thinking…

First the one thing we should all agree on - this is not ok, this is misogynistic, this is unsympathetic and this is unfair.

However, it is also realistic, there are a few reasons for this:

1. His Trauma

It’s absolutely not a coincidence that we learn Kazuki never knew/met his own parents before we see this scene, it’s also not a coincidence that we know from previous episodes that he was almost a father but that horrifically his pregnant wife and unborn child were k*lled before he had the chance to even get a flavour of what it felt like to have a family.

He is being faced with a woman who has a living child, who has had the chance at family he has never been able to have and she’s rejecting it. Now I’m not saying it’s right but it’s understandable that his anger pours out here, he has these unrealistic ideals thoughts about motherhood/parenthood because he hasn’t lived them but he has so so desperately wanted to, has had that taken away from him and of course it really f*ckin hurts. Yes he disregards her reasoning, yes he’s never been a woman but if you think this traumatised man with absolutely no baseline for family values is going to say the exact right thing (or not the completely wrong thing) in a heightened emotional confrontation about family then you need to have a re-think, this was never going to be a pleasant healing encounter.

2. Miri

Something people also seem to be forgetting, he’s there to return her daughter. The little girl he is already besotted with/devoted to, the little girl he doesn’t want to give back (set up nicely in the episode by Rei repeatedly calling him a lousy liar). He’s faced with her mother saying she always wanted to hit her, no matter who you are do not tell me in the heat of the moment you wouldn’t be getting up and yelling about how they should be a better parent, his reaction is defensive, his words are lofty and that line is unfair but his empathy in the moment is not for this stranger who’s saying she wants to hit her (his) daughter, it’s for Miri, the little girl he fed breakfast and chanted ‘bananya’ with in the kitchen that morning.

I think Miri’s mother is written in a way that we are supposed to feel some empathy for her, and I do 100%, but I also think that empathy needs to be extended to Kazuki’s character here too. At the end of the day these are two flawed and deeply traumatised characters having an argument - what comes out of their mouths isn’t always going to be pretty.

This turned out way longer than I thought it would but I needed to get it off my chest! Yes it’s a bad take, but it hasn’t come from nothing. I think it’s likely a bit of a set up so we can see him move from these kind of ideals to a more realistic outlook.

#buddy daddies #kazuki kurusu #rei suwa #miri unasaka #miri’s mother #kazurei #episode 3 #anime #little rant #empathy for two characters is possible #characters aren’t flawless the story would be very boring if they were #there needs to be room for growth at the beginning #i have more to add might do another post later.

[zevrans]

+ if u want share in the tags your fav thing about them/the romance 💕

p.s. mine's fenris because apparently i love emotionally unavailable characters 😔

#polls #tumblr polls #dragon age #dragon age 2 #da2 #anders #fenris #isabela #merrill #video games #unlce gamlen's there for those who want to see the results of coursebfkfkfk #i promise this is the last one for tonight..maybevfjfjf #u see the pattern?.. it's zev then fenris both totally emotionally unavailable at the begining of the stories............... #im too sleepy to go on but just i love them both sm! #also i love merrill sm too i'd romance her if i didnt fenris and also morrigan in dao if not zev <3

[mattzerella-sticks]

So are the Big Bads of Junior Year going to be the Rat Grinders? AKA kids who leveled up 'the normal way' by doing a bunch of quests, grinding, taking on any enemy to get more powerful, but because of the 'luck' and 'opportunities' given to other kids (ie the Bad Kids) aren't being lauded or appreciated like they expected so they're taking it out on the Bad Kids, have taken advantage of it the summer they were gone, and are doing what they can to punish them for 'being rewarded despite failing at what's expected of them, despite actually saving the world'.

I wonder if all the members of Rat Grinders have classes that reflect those of the Bad Kids? We already know they have a rogue and a bard...

#d20 #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #this makes perfect sense to me story wise in terms of the past 2 seasons we had heightened tension and drama in the villains faced #from kalvaxas to the nightmare king to the night yorb at the beginning of this season #some pvp (even if the other ps is the dm) makes sense for a stripped back season focused more on relationship building #plus we've been missing the high school rival aspect of fantasy high this is a good focus for junior year #when you are now realizing you are in direct 'competition' with other kids for opps and positions in colleges and unis #and the rat grinders probably see the bad kids as having a leg up on everyone because they were able to save the world multiple times #and could parlay that into bright futures in any college they want like brennan hinted at in ep 3 #this season the rat grinders will try and separate the bad kids and put ultimate stress on them to break them apart or get them kicked out #getting rid of gilear to install a principal more aligned with their views #and yes i absolutely think those four yorkshire terriers in a sweatervest made it so gilear won a cruise #it's a very tracey glick thing to do

[iron-bullogna]

gale reading aloud to durge through the late hours of the night to help distract him from his urges 🥺

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #the dark urge #dark urge #gale of waterdeep #durgegale #gale x dark urge #bg3 spoilers #my durge 200% loves gale cause he likes to listen to him talk #his stories #his memories of friends and family and things he cant remember if he ever had to begin with

[razberrypuck]

obviously winter king is a very unique kind of fucked up in the head but I wouldn't be surprised if simon was the type of guy that'd go mad with power. I can't explain WHY. but I wouldn't be surprised.

#actually i can explain why #its simon going “can you Imagine what you could do if you could harness all that power” when talking abt golb to betty #the tone he used is the kind that would immediately give away the main villain at the beginning of a story #and then he had to go to the hospital bc his fiancee tossed a jar of cherries at his face <3 the duality of man #fionna and cake #adventure time #simon petrikov

[nocturnalazure]

#ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 story #sims story #tteot preview #this update is a whole mood people #and quite long too #we'll press the 'pause' button after all the action #what can i say? anh and laurie inspired me #and it's just the beginning of their dance together #so when should this be going up? as soon as tomorrow you think?

[blueskittlesart]

Maybe draw Ganondorf from your au?

i was sincerely hoping someone would bring up sof so i could show off all the designing ive been doing in my free time LMAO here's ganon as of rn :)

#design subject to change but not for much longer because im almost at the point where i have to make him appear in the comic lol #asks #loz: sword of fate #also he's just ganon in sof not ganondorf! dorf as a suffix is. well it's used for villages in german according to my very brief research #but yknow japanese writers i will cut them some slack. anyway since he's the first ganon i thought removing the suffix would be appropriate #like it was added onto the name in later generations or something. you get what im saying. this makes sense #anyway design things i want to point out. the mask gets flipped after link cuts it open during a miniboss fight which serves as the first #reveal that ganon is like. his age. a kid. + by the time link sees him next he's put it back together upside down. #the flipped shiekah eye is a symbol in itself obv but the 3 dots r also supposed to sort of evoke the triforce when it gets flipped #hence why the one on top (power) is white while the others are fully filled in! #and the horns when flipped are supposed to resemble boar tusks a bit irt later incarnations lol #color symbolism in his design also--as the story goes on he becomes more generally desaturated and the hair turns bright red which becomes #his dominating color. one of the first things to go as he begins to spiral are the blue elements of his outfit bc he's losing wisdom! #anyway. i put too much thought into this LMAO <3 #skribbles

[clownsuu]

No but why if your Octavio both the hottest version and most unhinged malewife

He’s just- a little bit of everything you could ever want in a dramatically large octo who totally didn’t use the same ass battle tactics for the last 3 fuckin games and is still shocked he lost every time MDHGFDHUDJDJDJ

#He’s a lil bit of everything #A supreme leader #A asshole #A chaotic dork #A grumpy grandpa #A smart and caring man #A dumb bumbling idiot #A carefree party man #A depressed leader who lost all his troops and didn’t even do anything when the ground caved and he fell through #A man who isn’t afraid to get absolutely dripped tf out #And let’s not forget malewife smhhh #Splatoon #dj octavio #captain cuttlefish #I like to think after what has happened in the beginning of 3’s story mode his tentacles uncurled #Due to being extremely stressed and terrified for losing all of his troops randomly #And only after does it start curling back slowly

[dinitride-art]

Oh fucking- Mike’s been looking for Will this entire time. He didn’t find him in season one. He found El. Brb gotta write an essay.

#I’ve connected the dots- you didn’t connect shit- I’ve connected them #I think I’ve figured out what I’ve been trying to write for months #trying to figure out a way to write this without rewatching all of stranger things #but… things aren’t looking great for me #it’s probably good to revisit the source material at this point #even if I have a concerning amount of it memorized #okay. #I’ve got something here #well- I knew I had the evidence I just didn’t know why yet #I write essays backwards fun fact about me #gather all the evidence and figure it out later #I’m just running through my mental archives of the story lol #okay. alright. okay. #this essay’s probably gonna take me a good while #but that’s not a bad thing. #also I know this sounds kinda obvious but there’s more to it than I can explain- without and essay #I’m missing other pieces to this #I know I am #but 2/3 is a pretty good start #beginning- Will goes missing middle- mike looks in the wrong direction end- mike finds Will #that’s the story? #maybe? #I’m in the brainstorming phase #wait no- that’s it. those three things. that’s why I’m missing the third piece! #I haven’t seen it yet. #I don’t want to have an entire section of it be speculation though. #that’s for the conclusion #but… I’ll figure something out

[leonsliga]

so many fetus leon posts on my dash... bri why would you remind us of his cringey fboy days 😔😭

Because if you don’t love him at his

Then you don’t deserve him at his

#ice <3 #look…we’ve all been where Leon was #we all had a teenage dirtbag phase #Leon’s a man of the people #he too came from humble beginnings (posting cringe snapchat stories for the whole world to see) #but you’ve first gotta love twinkeon so you can fully appreciate trunkeon #ya gotta respect a man with range 🤌 #also who am I kidding? he still posts cringe stories now 🤷‍♀️ #he outgrew his beanstalk build but not his insta story addiction #we all have our vices ig #leon goretzka #my asks