[Hermitcraft group chat]
Jevin: Guys I found a lost dog, can one of you grab some food?
Beef: What size dog?
Wels: Send pics! We want to see the puppy!
Jevin: [dog.jpg]
Beef: . . . Jevin, that's a coyote. You have a coyote sitting on your couch
Xisuma: Damn it, Jevin, not again
After the Darkest Day incident with Macro Cosmo Oleana needed to find a new job, and had all the qualifications for a management position in a different kinda shady highly influential conservation organization. Lucky for her after Faba’s demotion the Aether foundation had an opening!
I think Oleana’s awesome lol, definitely one of the stand out characters from Swsh, but the rest of Macro Cosmo was kinda underwhelming so I wanted to try putting her in a cooler evil team! I think she’d get along with Lusamine quite well, I’d love to see them girl bossing their way across the regions!
Cannot believe at this late stage of my life I'm becoming a Gabriel fucker. Local mean jock doesn't want to be evil now, he wants to be loved. I'm slightly annoyed they didn't make Beelzebub more unhinged because the "plot" should have been at least half about them fucking up shit on an absolute rampage trying to find Gabriel, a thing everyone assumes they are doing to fry him with hellfire so they can kick off the war in a way that's advantageous to hell, BUT ACTUALLY!!! true love.
Some more late night after stream thoughts. I’m watching Tina now while getting ready to sleep and she was just talking about how Cucurucho was so nice and silly and idk if she’s being serious cuz I rarely watch her but it’s got me thinking about how so many people dismiss Cellbit’s experience with Cucurucho because their personal experience was either delightful or neutral/positive.
Tw discussions of abuse and manipulation
It reminds me of real life abusers and people who abuse systems of power. They get away with their abuse for so long because their external persona with everyone but their victims is pleasant and reasonable and often times kind and helpful. No one believes or takes their victims seriously because their stories don’t line up with their personal experiences with this person.
This happens so often in real life it’s kinda bizarre seeing it happen so openly on the qsmp with so many of the characters choosing to turn a blind eye, q!Jaiden being the most extreme example - but q!Jaiden is also a victim of the federation just in a vastly different way than the Brazilians.
Oh this terrible thing happened to this person? Well Cucurucho is so nice to me and always blows bubbles and gives me things and is just silly and whimsy so… either this person is exaggerating or they probably did something to deserve it.
Which leads to another thing many abusers do: turn their victims against each other. Q!Jaiden had been isolated by the cucuruchos and spent a month with only them in which it can be inferred they spent the entire time manipulating her into favoring them even more than she already did, to the point where she said she doesn’t care what they did to Cellbit. Turning victims against each other to keep the focus away from the fact that they are the ones causing everyone’s pain.
That is also exactly what the election was intended to accomplish and it did, as we are seeing with Forever and Bad. The rift between them is only going to grow and there is nothing either of them can do to stop it because their core ideologies are incompatible. Bad is doing his damndist to give forever the benefit of the doubt and try to help him but nothing Forever does will ever satisfy Bad’s hatred of systems of government so this rift between them will never be healed.
This is how governments and abusers both keep their power. Turning people against each other. Giving privileges to some as an example of how benign they are while actively hurting others behind closed doors. Isolating their victims from the outside world so the abuser is the only person they can turn to. It’s all text book and it’s working on many of the islanders. Hell, people go missing every other day and no one blinks an eye anymore. They’ve become so desensitized to the federation’s abusive tactics because they don’t know how to fight back, not really.
At this point, the main method of resistance they can show is true unity within their community. The islanders built a community without the federation - who initially tried to separate them via the wall - and that community is theirs. They need to unite against cucurucho and the federation or they’ve already lost. There is no working with the federation because compliance is taking part in your own oppression.
the twitter take about how “pomme spends too much time with bad and not enough time with her REAL— I mean… her french parents” … it’s just like the worst take I think I’ve seen come out of the cesspool that is QSMPtwt in a while . like . just … the idea that bad should mean less to pomme because he wasn’t assigned as her parent originally? how pomme openly despises when people act like she picks favorites between her parents (like she’s been VERY vocal about this and has told people off for it… I thought twitter loved ‘respecting boundaries’ 🤨)? or how bad is online more often than literally anyone else on the server (HE HAS AN ESTIMATED 2110 HOURS OF PLAYTIME) and so pomme simply gets more opportunities to hang out with him, but she will literally always choose to spend time with her french parents over bad if she has to choose between who’s online? how when her french parents joke about how they rarely get to see her because of her sleep schedule, they’re literally just that– JOKES? how bad will hold off on feeding her cookies because he would rather let her be fed by her french parents (because with how often he’s on, if he did give her her cookies every week, no on else would ever get a chance to)
and there is, of course, how it treats pomme’s admin like she isn’t actually a real human person who can make her own decisions about who she hangs out with . pomme isn’t JUST a character in a story . there’s a real person playing her and it’s kind of really gross to treat her like this . have a little fucking respect for her !!!
Haven’t seen a vampire horror movie in ages so this was a huge ass delight and Jay and I were having a blast!
I don’t wanna say any spoilers but has anyone else seen it? I’d LOVE to talk about it because this is starting to bring back my elementary school vampire phase—
since derek has been acknowledged as a named magma grunt i’m here to show all my current “derek coded” grunt dialogue and mindless headcanons i pulled from thin air
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seems like a derek thing to say
he coined the title mistress courtney BUT
HES ALSO THIS GUY, SO IT COMES FULL CIRCLE
this is also derek
i firmly believe derek is like the only person who knew zinnia was suspicious but instead of reporting her when she infiltrated team magma he just became her “wingman”
i feel like derek worked with courtney but moved to working under tabitha because he couldn’t handle her
this is what i imagine derek is like working with courtney
that is all, possible future derek posting someday