It's finished! The TKB-skull is done! Pics below cut (because I know some people aren't fans of skulls or snakes).
I was trying to get some natural lighting, and the only spot that didn't show off my crappy trailer was on hubby's pallet pile lol. Used a towel for underneath to help show off the colors a bit better.
I decided not to do the iridescence on the skull itself. Only Dia got the iridescence treatment (better pic to show it at end). I decided instead to 'dirtify' the skull. The scar didn't come out quite like I had hoped it would, but after adding a 'dirt' brushing over it I was a bit happier with it. I only gold 'capped' the teeth, leaving the matte behind it to really make it pop without looking too cartoony/Halloween decoration. All in all, I think he came out pretty close to what I had in my head.
We have a small pile of gravel dirt for various reasons and to help fill driveway potholes each spring. Had to take advantage of it lol.
Took a close-up indoor pic because it was hard to see the iridescence I did on Dia.
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Jimmy may have a bad memory but he is a CLEVER and hardworking boy
who pays very close attention to how other youtubers do things, and takes notes, and works so hard, and now he has 810k subscribers because he knows how to do it.
(well, sometimes clever and always hardworking)
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If anyone wants my spreadsheet just lmk. my data mostly came from the youtube wiki and MaxData's visualization of new life smp members' subs numbers. oh, i'll include that!
Jimmy was at 609k when new life started in may 27. he made a (lovely!) pink house.
Twenty one days later he's gained 201,000 subs.
Between cpk and pix now probably, having jumped ahead of oli & pearl.
Y'all when people talk about jimmy being dumb, watch and think how much is an atrocious memory, and how long is not being quick to understand things. If he settles in and works at it! If he's in a group event in mcc and not individual! If he has a strong team captain in mcc who he can listen to! (he's said the last one is how he succeeds).
Jimmy can fucking do it, just in his own way - and he doesn't care to put a lot of effort into learning some things that some viewers want. As I barely care about minecraft, I do have an interesting perspective here! <3
Jimmy can't just get by on his minecraft skills plus his winning smile, comedic timing, charisma, and skill at social rapport and interpersonal... okay I've made it sound like a lot but he has some brains. Those brains just don't know the recipe for... things I also don't care about.
Jimmy Solidarity. You appreciate him. Good.
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I've read most of your meta and I'm sure you've mentioned Marc sending Layla the divorce papers without signing them, but was that a sort of covert distress signal? Why would he force her to find him and ask for his signature if he genuinely wanted to cut ties? And then there's Steven's sweet and sincere, "I would never divorce you." Do you think maybe the divorce papers were a way for Marc to unconsciously ask for help?
I don't think he would ever say it was a distress signal, because that would mean he'd have to admit that in the moment, it wasn't really what he actually wanted. But in a way, yeah, I think you could frame it that way. Because if you get to the core of what Marc really, truly wants, if you dig out all the bullshit and the darkness mixed in, it's that.. he wants her to say no. And there's a tiny part of him that knows she'll fight him on it. Because signing those papers gives them finality, and if she sends them back with her own, well. That's it.
I think that sending those papers was one of the hardest things Marc has ever had to do, and the man has killed people on more than about a hundred occasion. He loves Layla, more than anything, and he wants her to stay. Needs her to because she's one of the only things that makes him believe there might be some good left in him. But he's already wrapped it up in his mind that this is for her own good. Protecting her (in a way that he couldn't protect her father) is more important than loving her, because it allows her to live. When the alternative is that everyone else he's ever loved has died, and that's a weight he believes is his fault alone. He'd do anything to prevent it from happening again.
The thing about Marc is, he tries so hard to commit to the things he does in the name of other people. The lengths he goes to for Steven, leaving the love of his life to keep her alive. Hell, even going to his abuser's shiva, out of a twisted sense of familial duty and desperation for love and forgiveness, no matter how much it hurt. His selflessness is so astonishing, his love so all encompassing that he slips up. He makes mistakes. He doesn't sign the papers. He leaves things in a way that lets Steven find them. And it's not on purpose, not necessarily.
Because yeah, he does genuinely want to save them. But he doesn't want to leave them either. So his heart forces him to be a little selfish, every once in awhile. And I think sometimes he notices, and that makes him feel guilty again. My mistakes could get her killed. But I think he deserves to be a little selfish, every once in awhile.
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If there are major age differences, that's treading a lot closer to it and I am sure things have happened that I wouldn't like (*cough Andrew Cushin*, and if older security/ Matt Vines etc are hooking up with very young fans rather than just locals)
What’s the andrew thing 👀👀👀
well I will be honest with you I NEVER liked Andrew Cushin his vibes are just BAD so have I at any point given him the benefit of the doubt? I have not. But... listen when you can tell you can tell, and that guy is a condescending little misogynist who definitely thinks he's too cool for us (louies) and probably the same about Louis tbh or I'll eat my fucking hat. So getting public reports of behavior that wasn't actually like ACTIONABLE, sure, was even so, to me, simply confirmation of what I already felt certain of: that if that's what he's willing to do in front of the cameras, the behind the scenes is worse, you know? But what did he actually do (that I know of), he jokingly asked fans to show ID to prove they weren't underage to come backstage (first of all the coming backstage part was real, he really was trolling the crowds for girls to give the uh special tour or whatever, and second bro if there is question, and third if it really was a joke that's not actually funny to tell you the truth) and he kissed a girl on barricade (at her request). That's it. So I might just be a hater! But I'm telling you: rancid fucking vibes from that guy. Mark my words.
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