Hi! Thanks For The Tag, Not Entirely Sure What’s Going On? But I’ll Try My Best.

This is how the golden age of piracy ended.

The watchers finally thinking they're gonna get a meal from Smajor as they find him full on sobbing in the void. Only to take a bite and recoil in absolute disgust as they find pure love. He's so so happy GGG is on the mend, he's clutching Pearl's jacket so hard, he's star blush glittering happy and full of absolute love for those woman!!!!

The rule in Last Life about players leaving their alliances when they turn red led to a lot of tragic scenes, but one that sticks with me in particular is when Scott turns red.

Scott rolls boogeyman, and immediately he sits down the other non-reds and tells them he's the boogeyman and he isn't going to hurt any of them. He sticks to that too.

All episode Scott helps them get resources, fortify their defenses against reds, escape and protect themselves from red attacks. He has chances to kill the others. He never does. And then, finally, he turns red, a result of his decision not to hurt anyone.

They don't hesitate to tell him to leave.

He isn't even resentful.

yall if Joel goes to exile we get jevin and joel interactions. Jevin’s already embracing the insane what happens when we add Mr. Mania Man

team send joel to exile so he joins the cult

It's being normal(tm) about Scott hours again.

Do you guys ever think about how Scott sees death as a solution? How Scott sees death as peace?

It's the way he finds his way home, the way he makes people like him, the gift he gives his allies, the apology he gives when someone is angry with him.

The players don't have much agency in this game, but if nothing else, Scott always has control over his own body, his life. So..it's become a tool. Something to trade away, something to break apart in a million different ways.

And it's not a big deal (not to him, and certainly not to the ones he does it for)

It'll always come back. Reform the same as ever. Maybe not this season, but he doesn't want to win again anyways (he exists to push his teammates along).

Of course, that's not the whole truth. It's difficult, to dehumanize yourself so much you see your own life as something to give away at a moments notice. Sometimes you see..hesitance, almost, the sparks of whatever part of him knows he doesn't just live to die again.

But death always solves his problems, doesn't it? Scott dies and he gets to see his husband again, Scott dies and he's not alone anymore, Scott dies and he's formed a new alliance, Scott dies so his teammates can win, Scott dies and he's forgiven, Scott dies and at least he was useful.

Scott's (perceived) worth is in his death. This is something the people around him contribute to (often they're just as eager to take as he is to give), but it's even moreso something Scott believes and enforces on himself.

A gift, a sign of love, a way to prove he cares, and a way to assure himself that whoever he's dying for cares too.

Because to bring an animal to slaughter is to prove you value them in some way.

Have you ever thought of something in your own worldbuilding that you didn't intentionally plan, but just connect the dots afterwards like "wait, that actually checks out"?

Like in the story of the Book I Am Not Working On, there's the fisher folk. They don't fish, actually, they live in diaspora and nobody really knows why they're called that, anymore. They're more known for their numerous, strict and often seemingly random and nonsensical ritual purity rules, and stereotypically having absurdly large numbers of children. The twist is, they don't actually have more children than any other peoples of the Empire, their purity rules just ensure that they maintain higher levels of physical hygiene in everything to do with childbirth and handling infants - and therefore have a lower infant mortality than other peoples.

The "why do these people have huge families" thing also had another side: Fetishisation. The fisher folk's purity rules also involve no sex outside of marriage, and there's a myth on top of the stereotype that the reason why they seem to have a massive amount of kids is because their husbands are so good in bed that their wives cannot turn them down even if they're 100% done having kids. And since fisher folk do not have sexual relations outside of marriage, no outsider has had enough fisher dick to verify this.

But while they are loyal to partners, they are also polygamous, both ways around. A perfectly normal fisher marriage arrangement may feature a man and his two wives, and his second wife's first husband. One household may cover seven married partners, and all their mutual children. It's considered taboo to pry into which kids are "really" whose, paternity is unknowable and unless you were close enough to the family to know which one of the wives gave birth, the biological mother is none of your business either. Every partner in the marriage is equally a parent to each child born within it.

And this is where my own "wait hold on" comes in. Besides the lower mortality, the illusion of fishers having insane amounts of kids may also partially come from the way their families are structured. If you've just met a group of five people you don't know anything about, and they all claim that they have nine children each, it wouldn't cross your mind that they might all be claiming the same nine children.

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some new designs for Wild Life!! :}

@tvvigjuice @imahumandumpling even if you know literally nothing about this, please just vote Cleo, okay?

ZombieCleo:

Submitted for: Hermitcraft, Pirates SMP, Witchcraft SMP, Third Life, Last Life, Double Life, Limited Life, Secret Life, Wild Life

Headcanons: Transfem Nonbinary, she/they; Demi-girl, pronouns not specified

Propaganda: Uses she/they irl and has identified with the nonbinary flag

“T4T cletho. They’re both nonbinary and divorced (in an active relationship) and take turns on who's the ex wife and who's the ex husband.”

Ivorycello:

Submitted for: Whitepine

Headcanons: Trans woman, she/her; Genderfluid, pronouns not specified

Propaganda: Is a trans woman irl

“Ivorycello is very autistic coded in [Whitepine] (but never outright said that she is autistic) and [the submitter] love[s] it so much, you just gotta watch the series to understand what [they] mean.”