yumesakura97
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Scar can't find his hat- Follow up to the previous one
Mermay 03 - Desert duo (again (・ω・))
Gone back to my roots as a trad artist ✍(◔◡◔) Learning to draw Centaurs (Unitaurs???idk) for future projects !! Reference by lovely @otterward
Tiny rant below- I gotta say though, I am at that phase where I'm still experimenting with my artstyle, so it's gonna be kinda inconsistent, especially my chibi artstyle. sometimes the nose shapes might be different or the hands are gonna look weird etc. So I hope people don't mind that. Also, I kinda suck at body anatomy so it would be lovely if people could give me tips to improve :D
Anyways.. HORSE GIRL !!!
I turned the bird into fish :p Anyways, a gift for the Scarian lovers <3
Mermay 02 - Desert duo :D
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 - Episode 18
I know "What happened to Mean Gills?" was an oorp joke not even made in the Life Series but I'm incorporating it into my character analysis anyways because it is so indicative of one of the most fascinating character traits of Martyn to me.
That being, Martyn always wants people to be simultaneously stable and disposable in his life.
"What happened to Mean Gills?" you happened to Mean Gills, Martyn. You poured a bucket of lava on Scott and stabbed him in the back. You killed him, before what was meant to be a fair fight, and then in victory you proclaimed to the world that allegiances don't matter. That's what happened to Mean Gills.
Martyn often talks about people like they're disposable, he claims to have no issue with using and betraying people, with lying to them, because his survival and victory is all that matters. And to a point this is how he treats people. Martyn will lie to the people who trust him, Martyn will stab them in the back, Martyn will do what it takes to survive, because Martyn is a survivor.
But Martyn is a lot more attached to people than he likes to admit- His King, His Mean Gill, His Big Dog, His, His, His, Martyn is deeply attached to his people, both possessively and protectively, more dependent on them than he likes to admit. There's a reason he keeps lingering, keeps getting drawn back to the same people, he cares about them, whether he'll often admit it outright or not.
I have a lot of sympathy for Martyn being someone who I think is torn between the very human desire for survival and independence and the equally human desire for connection and stability. I have a lot of sympathy for the way Martyn breaks his own heart over and over just to feel like he's free and capable enough to do so even though he loses so much in the process.
But this is a behavior pattern that impacts other people too, and a person is fundamentally not an object to pick up and drop as is comfortable. Martyn cannot have his cake and eat it too, he cannot betray and lie to people over and over and still expect them to be His Person, a fact Martyn often struggles to internalize. His own connection draws him back to people he's hurt in the past and it's hard for him when they have walls up now even though he did this.
(interestingly, i think mean gills might be an exception to the "you can't have your cake and eat it too" rule to an extent- scott isn't naive enough to trust martyn, but he's often very okay with being treated like an asset by people he loves. scott has a very special brand of self dehumanization where he'll spend seasons carving off pieces of himself to give to his partners, calculating how much to give until it's more economic to just die for them. so like. martyn could honestly probably just grab onto scott again and they'd be back like martyn never stabbed him in the back. but despite the fact that i think scott specifically would probably be remarkably tolerant of martyn's more destructive relationship habits, i still think "what happened to mean gills?" is a good showcase of martyn's view on things)
Anyways yeah I just think Martyn is fascinating he is so destructive to himself and others and it makes me so sad.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR
I am still stuck in the coral isles ಥ_ಥ
Mermay 01 - Mean gills <3
Always Watching
Clean version below
Have you ever wondered "Hey, which person is this Hermitcraft fanart actually depicting?" and didn't want to just scroll down to read the tags?
Behold. My magnum opus. The Hermitcraft fanart flowchart! Please click for legibillity.
The scene where Martyn and Ren kill Scott actually plays on my mind so much.
Well, first they killed Joel, and Scott lunged at them in retribution, so they kill him too, put him down to his red life. Scott tries to come back, to see if he can get any of his things, and he's spotted. Scott doesn't come close, but Martyn and Ren see him watching nearby, and they know he can't do anything, they already took his stuff, he can't fight them off, and he can't run. "Should we take him out of the series?" Ren asks, because it's not a matter of if they can. They know Scott is an easy kill. So they chase him, into the forest.
Martyn taunting Scott, "I wanna cuddle before you die", which is a terrifying thing to say. And then he brings up Jimmy, says he didn't want him to die? Whether this is a sincere sentiment is up for debate, but regardless, is such a thing to say while hunting Jimmy's grieving widow like prey. And something about the imagery of how Martyn just hovered around Scott and joked while waiting for Ren to kill him really felt like a mockery. And they slaughter Scott like an animal while he had no real means to fight back, because he would never have won and he would never have gotten away from them.
And Martyn doesn't sound remorseful. He doesn't sound as happy as he could, but he continues on with business and makes a joking comment about how Ren's "working". Ren, on the other hand, has a bit of a breakdown; "The blood is dripping into these eyes! I can't see, I've been blinded by my violence! ...We've become stone cold killers!". Martyn comforts him, briefly, but is quick to distance himself with "Well, you have (become a killer), I haven't really done that much. So, should we burn this stuff?" and then it's back to business.
And it gnaws at me how little Scott's death was about Scott. He was hunted and slaughtered for just being there, just because he was an easy mark. Martyn is pretty much remorseless. Ren shows remorse, but it's important to note that his guilt seems less focused around the actual person they just killed but rather is more for himself and the fact that he's "a killer" now. And then back to business. They burn Scott's stuff and don't think about him anymore.
Now, obviously, Ren and Martyn weren't obligated to feel bad for killing someone in a death game (although i think each final death meant more in a lot of ways in third life than any other series), I'm not saying it reflects poorly on them per say. But it is chilling to me how much of a non entity Scott was in this, how (other than martyn's personalized taunting while he was chasing scott which were just kinda cruel on their own) they barely seemed to think about the human person they were killing at all.
Scott easily could have been switched out for a literal actual deer in that scene and very little about the scene would need to be changed.
And I feel like that probably has something to do with Scott's fixation on personal agency (especially over how he dies), right?
It's also deeply fascinating how the different gimmicks or context for each season sets the tone and culture of the server during it.
Third Life was a uniquely "serious" season when it comes to the depth of the emotional weight put on things, I'd argue. It was the first season, and presumably the last. It wasn't a looping endless death game at the time, it was their only life (well, only three lives) and everyone built real roots. Kingdoms and marriages, things they wanted to genuinely protect, things they wanted to last. There was this thought that if they were to die, that would be the end. There was this thought that if they- and their allies- were to live, they could be happy together. There was this idea that they could live, that there was a world where they keep what they've earned in this place. Which isn't to say emotional stakes don't exist in later series, but Third Life is the one time where permanence and ending were both real tangible concepts to be sought after or feared, unlike now, where there's always last time and next time hovering over the players.
Last Life, on the other hand, was a season of remarkable instability. I've credited this in the past to two core mechanics within the season: the Boogeyman Curse, and the new rule that red names have to leave their teams. These two rules made teams practically impossible to keep. There was the constant fear of betrayal from the Boogeyman, and the constant knowledge that friend could turn into enemy within a second, that the only constant for you to rely on is yourself. Teams were flimsy this season, most people were fundamentally lonely, and distrust permeated most relationships. Beyond the mechanic changes, though, there's also the grief to be talked about. This was the second season, the first time they came back. And with that, came the full reality of impermanence. All their walls and castles and forts and tunnels, even the graves they dug for fallen friends, were gone now, as if they never existed. Nothing in this world is theirs to hold onto, no matter what they do. All they truly have forever is themselves. Last Life is the first time they grapple with this.
Double Life is a server I've talked about a lot because of the sheer cultural isolation promoted by its gimmick. Each player was assigned one other person who was linked to them, who they were forced to rely on for their survival, and, very quickly, an attitude formed that posed soulmate bonds as the most important- no, in some ways the only important- relationship one can have. There was an obligation to be with your soulmate and stay with them and want them and noone else. Alliances outside of soulmate pairs were flimsy, if they existed at all, as the server fell into an isolationist mindset, each soulmate pair an island. People who didn't conform to the soulmate system, people who wanted to choose their own soulmates, or who were alone, or weren't interested in soulmates, were often looked at strangely. With pity or judgment or sometimes aggression. Double Life was just deeply isolating because there was very little community. It was you and your soulmate, and everyone else is the enemy, or at least an outsider.
Limited Life, surprisingly, felt like a series with a lot of freedom. You would expect the constraint of twenty four hours to live to feel like a cage, a limitation, it's literally called Limited Life. But in practice I think you actually got the opposite feeling a lot, because lives were in hours, which meant instead of dying 3-6 times, you could hypothetically die 20+ times. Because of this, I feel like you got a lot more playing around and taking risks and petty rivalries and side storylines in this season, people being less cautious because there was less to lose with an individual death. The fact that you can gain time for killing in this series helped as well, making time feel like a renewable resource, something that's running out in theory, but that you can really just replenish, if you have the competence for it. This made people possibly even more aggressive than in past seasons too, I'd argue, because there was very real incentive to kill, because you will always gain something for it (as long as the kill is legal). This is how we ended up with winding sky paths and tnt falling from the sky every five seconds. Because people were simultaneously more aggressive and less afraid than usual.
Secret Life's another interesting one. I feel like the secret tasks had the capacity to be isolating- and in some cases they were- but I kind of feel like Secret Life had a pretty good sense of community overall, not in spite of, but in many cases because of the secret tasks. Most tasks were funny, tasks were conversation starters in a way (obviously you couldn't talk about them outright, but people would follow someone around to tease them while they're doing their task plenty), tasks typically forced people out of their bases and into going around the server where they'd inevitably talk to people, many tasks even outright involved mandatory interaction with people (often people outside your alliances). And sure, everyone had secrets they couldn't tell, but the non-red tasks (usually) weren't anything harmful, and everyone could have some kind of solidarity in the fact that they all had tasks of their own. And sure, the yellow names being able to guess tasks added some 'tension', but that gave yellow names solidarity with each other and a reason to talk amongst themselves and to the greens. I just feel like Secret Life was an especially social season because of the tasks themselves and how a lot of them mandated communication outside your own alliance.
And then there's Wild Life. This..is another season I think was pretty social, for very similar reasons to Secret Life. The Wild Cards were fun, they gave people something to bond over (because they all have to deal with the wild cards), and they'd often offer an excuse to leave your base and go around the server instead of spending whole episodes working at your own base with your preexisting alliance. People still tried to kill each other of course (particularly when there were dark greens alive to get lives from), but there was also often more focus on the wild cards than on the battle royale aspect of the game. I mean, it took shockingly long for people to even start really killing each other in the finale, I remember sitting through practically half the session and wondering how they were going to wrap it up this session because noone was killing each other for a good chunk of it. This season also had the zombies (both in the super power episode and in the finale), which I think gave some more levity, because even if you die, you're not even gone from the series, you get to pop back up and be silly for a little bit, which I think also lightened the pressure to play too intensely.
I just feel like every season had a very unique culture caused by the gimmicks and context surrounding them and that's fascinating to me.
Galaxy duo my beloved <3
A bit of Lighting practice （*＾-＾*）
calm down guys, it's only the 8th
Okay so I've been seeing a lot of takes on the Life series winners version of Epic!God games and now I want to make an animatic (but I'm lazy and have exams so idk if i can do it or not). I do not have a very well-defined idea of the full plot for an epic!au so I only focused on the order of the characters and events in god games.
So basically the synopsis is that Gem would go to the winners to convince them to let Joel join the winners lobby with his car. As simple as that (●'◡'●)
Athena-Gem : She just passes the vibe check. Also Joel 's family so she has to present all the reasons as to why Joel is a good candidate. Zeus-Grian : Cause he is the first winner and I think he would like to make it a game just for funsies(watcher instincts) Apollo-Cleo : Originally Apollo was supposed to be Grian because of his celestial symbol but then I changed it to Cleo because she would be the most unbothered about Joel becoming a winner Hephaestus-Pearl : Pearl has trust issues through double life and being soulmates with Scott. (similar to how Aphrodite and Hephaestus were in an arranged marriage) At the same time, she would not put up much fight and can be easily reasoned with cause Gem is here (Shiny duo!!!) Aphrodite-Scott : Just like Gem he passes the vibe check. He is the one who cares a lot about allies and relationships and would be the one who is most against Joel joining the winners thingy. (also he could have angst with Pearl and Martyn) Ares-Martyn : I don't think I need to explain this, it is very obvious because of how he won and his celestial symbol. Also Aphrodite and Ares are lovers and Scott and Martyn can be mean gills together. Hera-Scar : He is very flashy and dramatic and also would respect anyone who doesn't cheat on their partners (looking at you Grian) Oddyseus-Joel : again he passes the vibe check and can be very bloodthirsty and reckless but also loves his wife a lot (Lizzie is Penelope obv but idk about Telemachus maybe hermes)
P.S. : I just wanted to put this out there cause I spent hours thinking about this and I need someone to see my vision. On second note the voices would sound so wrong /pos
where’s that tweet of tangotek saying “im so full of cheese and i have no idea what day it is” because that’s how i feel rn
Danger approaching
winter flowers ft. unicorn scott & dragon martyn
Hello Hello o/ Welcome to my blog :D I am an aspiring artist (I'm still learning) I have been on tumblr for a while and decided to finally do some stuff.
About me- *She/her_ They/them *Aroace *am a minor
Fandoms- * Life series, Hermitcraft, Empires and other related mcyt fandoms * Anime/manga (Apothecary dairies, Oshi no ko, soul eater, ouran highschool hc, Sk8 etc) * Alien Stage * Vocaloid
Hope to have a lovely time here <333
POV: Your beautiful tall wife is looking down at you <3
First time learning Digital art :) Wish me luck I have not finished her design yet, especially her dress but I wanted to draw her like an anime protagonist so here she is <333
3rd Life Character Themes | SIDE A
This started as a small composition exercise that has turned into an actual project. I've been attempting to capture the character essence of the 3rd life members in short little rpg-style themes. Since I have completed 10 I've collected what I've done so far. Feedback is greatly appreciated :)
Dunno if I did this already but here’s 3/? Completed page sets of hermitcraft season 10 builds. I have a big painting planned and intend to continue these mini paintings for a while!
Have a Grian + 0.5 Grian who's capable of more chaos <3
@noxlotl Happy birthday my fav art Streamer <3 I drew this doodle a while back in your stream
