#and somehow that bled through to a Minecraft server???? somehow?????

[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.)

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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!

[proudfreakmetarusonniku]

Ok the Dream SMP citizenship trend going around is amazing but let me present my alternate headcanon.

The thirty-four (so far) people on the server are the only people there. Everyone on the server was hand invited by Dream (with a few exceptions), all for his own desires.

It started out innocently enough. The first eight were him and his friends (back when he believed in those.) The Minecraft family was infamous, so it made sense to invite them too. The ram-horned boy who came with their youngest wasn’t invited, but the two were inseparable. Getting rid of one would result in the other leaving (and for some reason, the idea of Tommy leaving grips Dream with a sense of terror he hasn’t felt in thousands, maybe even millions of years.)

Mercenaries would be useful, just in case, so the prodigy Purpled and the renowned Punz find a letter written in green cursive promising untold riches in this new land. Eventually, another one of the Minecraft’s joins, the father of the young fox (though the youthfulness of his face makes this a surprise.) More importantly, Tommy somehow manages to let some bigshot business man Dream has no interest in through his intensive security. Of course, Dream banishes him (yet, he gets the feeling some day he’ll return.)

Skeppy’s arrival was inevitable, from the moment Bad joined. It was another case of them coming as a package deal (for some reason, the thought of Bad leaving terrifies Dream less). The youth with the pure white eyes is not someone Dream knows, but he knows those eyes, and he knows what they mean. A link to a long-deceased god. Dream is curious about the origins of this youth, and who said he wasn’t allowed to indulge in his curiosities every once in a while?

It is after a war when Dream accepts two travellers into the borders, youthful and useful. They remain unswayed to his cause. A shame. He must have lost his touch, indulging in friendship and trying to play the good guy for once. Still, it’s an interesting game, and he’ll continue until he grows bored. The boy he’ll never grow bored of asks him if he can add a friend, a duck winged man with a lazy smile and a glint of ambition in his eyes, and Dream relents. (Later, when he finds himself in a pool of his own blood, staring up at the same lazy grin, Dream will regret this decision.)

Karl shows up one day, like he’d been in the server for years. Dream recognises his face, from an old town when he went by a different name. He stays, as a reminder of a past time. The cat hybrid in a lumberjack outfit seemed naïve, an easy target for someone to get on his side at a politically... interesting time, but Dream barely even sees his face after he arrives and he gets the feeling he underestimated him.

A visitor returns, the same bigshot as before, and he proves to be interesting. Dream plays along, though he feels this role start to grow stale. He always preferred playing the villain. Technoblade, his arch rival for thousands of years, gets tangled in the plot, too. (Somehow, that thought doesn’t interest him as much as it should. Instead his thoughts are on a blond haired boy, how fascinating the look of pure betrayal on his face was.)

Another old friend joins, looking worse than Dream had ever seen him, his tail flicking sadly and the red-headed boy always by his side gone. When Dream started the server, this would move him. Now, it is simply another observation. The world burns, and an immortal rushes in to fail to save his son. It’s not the traditional arrival, but hey, he was invited, and the look on his face as his son bled out in his arms was certainly entertainment enough for Dream to forgive.

A hedgehog boy shows up one day, following Karl. Dream swears he’s seen him before too, and curses his sentimentality for letting him stay. The woman who once long ago called him her duckling washes up on the shore, no memory, with the curse he’d placed long ago. Dream allows himself in peacetime to follow her and pretend that hasn’t changed. Dream allows himself to draft an invite to the star Tommy (his Tommy) admired, and his friend too. The look of excitement on the boys face was almost as good as the looks of fear Dream cherished.

Somehow, a boy even younger than the one with ram horns and burns finds a way to sneak around his security. Dream first wants him dead, but soon realises his value. He’s intelligent, and his strange states, times where he seems like he’s sleepwalking and others where his eyes shine purple and he listens makes him useful. (Besides, there’s an uncanny resemblance to the boy and himself, and it’s not weakness if it’s for kin.)

The boy- Ranboo- visits him in prison every once in a while, and passes on notes written in shaky green. One to a god he knew long ago, of great power and anger. Dream is disappointed to find out he’d long gave up his ways. Disappointing, and a waste of effort. He invites a younger goddess of roses, and doesn’t hear back much from her either. Power seemed to fail to find a way out, so he sends out an invite to a man he once called a friend, who’s obsession with him was obvious. It was easy to manipulate attachments when you’re the attachment.

He only finds out about the slime when the boy with a lazy smile and a messy tie slips up and says something in front of him, when he thinks he’s too delirious from the blood loss to hear. When Dream gets out of prison, he swears he’ll hunt down that slime and kill him, slowly, and make his tormentor watch.

#dream smp #dsmp #dream Smp headcanon #dsmp headcanon #c!dream character study #kind of #this is dumb I wrote it at 11 sorry #tw torture mention #tw abuse mention #tw obsession #tw possessive behaviour #tw implied death #tw manipulation