Reading Fantasy Again, I've Started Thinking About How Odd It Is How In Books Like That, The Non-human

we usually think of mood as a scale from 1-5, but there's actually a negative scale too, where the frown turns back into a smile, but just a little insane !

autism regression needs to be talked about more.

you can lose so many skills. lose the ability to mask. lose the ability to control stimming. lose the ability to use motor functions. lose the ability to take care our yourself.

it's so hard.. it's so scary.. we just got able to write again and it's so bad. you can come out of regression, you can gain skills back in some areas or all areas affected but it's so hard and you can always be forced back. it's not fair.

some new designs for Wild Life!! :}

Zedaphstropod was not an unwelcome guest at Zed's base by any means. The little guy had proven incredibly helpful for redstone, company, but mostly science experiments.

'Alright, friend,' Zedaph called from the end of the maze he was sending his snail through. 'You are to start your journey in three... Two... Oh my goodness you're an excited little snail!' Zedaph laughed as Zedaphstropod started heading through the maze, happily cutting around corners to reach Zed. And, by all accounts, taking the intended route.

Until, with an excited whoop, Zedaphstropod burst through the glass ceiling and into Zedaph's face.

Zedaph was slain by Zedaphstropod.

'xB! xB! Sweetface come quick I have a snail!' Keralis exclaimed as xB landed in his base. He grabbed his friend's hand, pulling him along. With a giggle, xB followed.

'A snail? What kind of snail?'

'A Papa K snail! With a huge shocked face and big, beautiful eyes! You need to see him!'

The two continued through Keralis's palm tree forest, all the way to the yacht. Where a certain shocked snail was creeping towards them.

'See? My snail! Look into his eyes and tell me he's not the most adorable snail in Hermitcraft!' Keralis crouched down to the snail's height, waving him over. 'Papa Snail! Papa Snail! Come to Keralis!' The snail obeyed. 'Look, xB! He loves me! He wants to be with his favourite Papa K and no, Papa Snail! Not in the water! You have so much to live for!' Keralis coughed, choking as his poor, poor snail drowned. xB dove into the water, trying to grab it and bring him to safety.

Keralis drowned

'Keralis?!' xB swam up to the surface, tail keeping him afloat as he looked out at where his friend now definitely wasn't. 'Did the snail kill you? Did you drown with him?'

'RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!' Startled by Hypno's yell, xB yelped, turning to see him already far in the distance. But a black shelled snail with fluffy blond hair and a black bandanna was zooming along the shore in his place. xB only giggled more, realising.

xBcrafted: anyone seen my snail anywhere?

xBcrafted: XD

Falsesymmetry: I'm too focused on FalseSlimetry rn!

iJevin: omg my snail's so cute I might DIE

iJevin was slain by SlimeJevin

Tango: could see that coming from a MILE away!

cubfan135: haha me and Scar keeping an eye on snailfan135

DocM77: TF IS THIS THERE'S SLIME ALL OVER MY REDSTONE!!!!

DocM77: WHY IS THERE A SNAIL DOC??

DocM77: IM THE GOAT NOT THE SNAIL

DocM77: WHY HE SO CUTE????

Stressmonster101: OH MY GAWD MY SNAIL'S SO CUUUUTE

Stressmonster101: AAAH AND ISKALL GOT A LITTLE GEEZER WITH A BEARD!

Joehillssays: you're not feeling like you wanna Slime, Nourish, Ambulate, Invertebrate, Live today, Doc?

xBcrafted was slain by xBslimed

Grian: Having fun? :)

GoodTimeWithScar: NO

GoodTimeWithScar: BAD SNAIL

Grian: no eSCARgo here, it's just for the hermits who missed out last time

cubfan135 hit the ground too hard

cubfan135: tip: do not fall off balcony when avoiding snail

GoodTimeWithScar: LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO CUB!

Tango: True… debalconyification is no laughing matter...

Pearlescentmoon: do the hermits have a certain number of lives?

Grian: no, just snails

DocM77 was slain by DocMollusk77

DocM77: WHY

DocM77: WHY IS THERE A BLUE FABRIC SNAIL????

DocM77: WITH PIPECLEAVER GOOGLY EYES

DocM77: WIAT JOE I FOUND YOUR SNAIL

ZombieCleo: Of course Joe got a Muppet snail XD

DocM77: JOE SNAIL JSUF ATE MY DJAMKND ORE!!!!!!

cubfan135: SNAILS ARE ORESNATCHERS CONFIRMED

Xisuma was slain by Xislima

Xisuma: don't try and hug your snail :-(

Stressmonster101: NOOOO

DocM77: WY CANT I HURT IT???

DocM77: ITS BORKEN NO DAMAGE

Mumbo: it's not supposed to

Tango: they're evil like that

Tango: hook you in with the cuteification

Tango: then murder your face

xBcrafted: not immortal! Watched Keralis's snail drown

impulseSV: snails will do that.

impulseSV: oh, watch out for the propeller its adorabel

GeminiTay: all you need to do is keep your snail in sight! It's simple!

Skizzleman: SHUT UP GEM

GoodTimeWithScar: YEAH SHUT UP GEM

cubfan135 was slain by snailfan135

GoodTimeWithScar: CUB

cubfan135: I hate snails

DocM77: YES PLEASE DO

GoodTimeWithScar: BURN THE SNAILSSSSS

Skizzleman: BUEN THE SNAILS BURN THE SNAILS

Joehillssays: JOESNAILS HAS REACHED HOLMDELL. I REPEAT: JOESNAILS HAS REACHED HOLMDELL

Joehillssays was slain by Joesnailssays

Pearlescentmoon: AAAWWWW DOC YOUR SNAIL IS SO CUTE!

DocM77: HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT HATE IT

Welsknight: Just finished the Snail Obstacle Course!

Joehillssays: why congratulations!

Joehillssays: what was it like competing in a mollusk-dominated sport as a human?

Welsknight: *making the Snail Obstacle Course XD

Welsknight was slain by Shellsknight

FalseSymmetry: rip

Joehillssays: Guess Shellsknight didn’t like the idea of being forced through a small maze or series of challenges with no meaningful reward, as though they were little more than a toy or an inanimate science experiment for us easily entertained by

cubfan135: #snailgate

Welsknight: no tripped over snail

Vintagebeef: just lost an argument with my snail. TCG is getting a snail special edition

Vintagebeef was slain by Vintagesnail

Joehillssays: A continuation of our attempted dominance over the gastropods who indeed bear resemblance to oursleves and have skme level of mubuman ibtelligen

Joehillssays was slain by Joesnailssays

ZombieCleo: ah yes, mubuman ibtelligen

Joehillssays: SNAIL WAS COMING HAD TO TYPE FAST

Joehillssays was slain by Joesnailssays

Smallishbeans: snail viewing platform in shopping district. Looks like snail. For non-snail-owning players only

cubfan135: how dare you

cubfan135: #snail gatekeeping

Xisuma: all hermits with snails meet in shopping district for a meeting

Smallishbeans: all hermits without snails meet in Snailbase to watch them running around panicking

Joehillssays: based on how long it took Joesnails to reach me before, I think I'm safe there

Joehillssays was slain by Joesnailssays

Tango: you are never safe

Hypnonizd: snails will appear when you least expect them

Hypnotizd was slain by Hypnoslimd

Xisuma: SHOPPING DISTRICT

Xisuma was slain by Xislima

Xisuma was slain by Xislima

Hypnotizd: RUN AWAY

Xisuma was slain by Xislima

cubfan135 was slain by snailfan135

GoodTimeWithScar blew up

cubfan135: don’t put TNT on snails

cubfan135: they dont like that

Welsknight: Shellsknight has completed the obstacle course in record time!

iJevin: isn't he the only snail who’s attempted it?

Welsknight: doesnt mean its not a record

iJevin: i mean fair

iJevin: how do I test SlimeJevin with this?

Etho: RAVAGER RUSH HAS SNAIL UPGRADES! HIGHEST SCORE WITH A SNAIL WINS A SNAIL TROPHY

iJevin: NEVEER MIMD WE HAVE FRIGGER

cubfan135: I AM ON MY WAY

iJevin: NO ME

Xisuma was slain by Xislima

Renthedog: SEND NE ALL THE SNAIL PICS!

Renthedog: (for Martyn entertainment purposes)

Bdoubleo100: just saw Doc runnjng theough mu forest screaming about snails???

Vintagebeef: dont worry about it, he does rhat somerimes.

Bdoubleo100: WIATTHE SNAILS ARE BACK????

ZombieCleo: only non-lifersZombieCleo: which means we get to watch them dying over and over and running and screaming

ZombieCleo: which is brilliant

Xisuma: PLZ COME TO SHOPING DISTRICT ONMY ME AND HYPNO ARE THERE RN

Xisuma: AND GRIAN, EXPLAIN WHAT RHESE SNAILS ARE ANS WHEN RHEY LEAVE?

Grian: well that’s rather simple

Grian: 1: they’re immortal snails that chase you until they boop you and you die

Grian: 2: whenever I feel like it…

Grian: :)

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.

is this anything

Double Life if everyone only had two lives*.

(*two lives instead of one because when I tried with the soulbound everyone died too early for anything interesting to happen)

Tango still dies in the cave, he and Jimmy are at one life almost immediately... Ranchers still happen making Flower Ranchers complete. (Reference to my version of Last Life)

Etho and Joel also die soon to the enderman, they are also left with one life.

Scott is a strategist first, abandoning Pearl is strategically viable with three lives but with only two It's a bigger risk, a risk he doesn't take... He lets Pearl base with him and Cleo.

Cleo is much more likely to put her own enjoying her time over strategy so she stills ditches Martyn at first... Martyn considers Pearl going with Cleo and Scott to be a betrayal.

Ren and BigB are still visited by Pearl...though the situation is different they still likely die because of the enderman and still kick out Pearl for bringing death to them.

Martyn still maths wrong and pushes Cleo to her death, Cleo being Pearls teammate in this timeline makes the wedge between Pearl and Martyn deeper.

BigB still jumps in front of a creeper causing him and Ren to be the first and second players to be out of the game permanently.

Etho and Joel truly believed they wouldn't die during the fishing rod accident so they still go trough it in this timeline and still die. They are out of the game, Joel is third out while Etho is fourth out.

Etho and Joel are out and never kill Pearl for stealing their stuff, she keeps her two lifes.

Impulse is still mobbed by mobs and dies bringing himself and Bdubs to one life left.

Tango still releases a Warden, because of course he does... Pearl is much less happy about it in this timeline.

Now everyone but 4 has one life left and this where things get interesting, Grian and Scar in this timeline are both much less threatening with Scar having been out first in Third Life and Grian in Last Life... On the other hand Scott and Pearl are both winners in this timeline so they become the main target instead meaning Scar and Grian never get stuck in a tower with the ranchers meaning the ranchers don't die yet... Also Grian and Scar never have to sneak around underground meaning Scar doesn't fall into the sea of zombies so they also don't die yet.

Moreover Scott and Pearl are likely better at evading the others which added to Joel and Etho not being in the game means they probably manage to survive the session too.

Ren and BigB are dead meaning they can't kill Bdubs and Impulse, they stay at one life.

Jimmy still gets killed by the enderman, the ranchers are out of the game. Jimmy is the fifth player out and Tango is the sixth.

Etho and Joel aren't there to put the tnt trap that in our Double Life Scar died to...so Scar and Grian avoid yet another death.

Etho and Joel are also not there to kill Scott so Scott and Pearl also avoid another death.

Scar still kills Martyn and Cleo in the deep dark putting them out of the game seventh and eighth

Grian still dies to the warden, putting Scar and himself to their last lives.

At the end 3 soulbound couples remain: Bdubs and Impulse, Grian and Scar and Pearl and Scott.

Bdubs and Impulse are kilked first becoming the ninth and tenth players to loose their last lives.

Scott and Pearl are both winners who have showed little to no interest in winning again, so here when they both have already won in the end they let Scar and Grian be the finalists.

In the end only Scar and Grian remain, no secret soulmates, no betrayals in the last stretch... despite wether Scar trows the fight or not Grian is more likely to come out on top.

The Sun is crowned the winner of Double Life.

(Third Life)

(Last Life.)

(Limited Life)

I feel absolutely awful. I hate fevers and I hate illness and I hate everything like that. The second I so much as get out of bed I can feel Death staring me in the face.

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

@tvvigjuice @imahumandumpling you two are now mandated by law to help me win polls. Vote Ethoslab!

Rue:

Submitted for: Skyblock Kingdoms

Headcanons: Identity not specified, pronouns not specified

Propaganda: “Her whole character arc is a metaphor for being trans! She realized she wasn't who she was told she was and then chose her own name and made friends who saw her as HER! They're so special and wonderful and transgender!!”

“[The submitter] LITERALLY INCLUDED HER IN A PAPER [they] WROTE BECAUSE SHE IS SO TRANS.”

“Rue is not just textually trans, with she/they pronouns, she is ALSO a trans allegory! That's TWO trans aspects!”

“Rue is LITERALLY a trans allegory! They have a whole arc about realizing people are viewing them as the wrong person, creating a new identity, being hurt by that confusion, being lied to and told they need to act a certain way for people to like them.... THEYRE A CLONE OF A GUY WHO USES ALL PRONOUNS. THEY USE SHE/THEY PRONOUNS! THEY WERE TRAGICALLY KILLED BY THEIR ORIGINAL'S WIFE (possessed) AND DESERVE A WIN!!”

BigBSt4tz2:

Submitted for: Evo SMP, Third Life, Last Life, Double Life, Limited Life, Secret Life, Wild Life

Headcanons: Trans man, he/they

Propaganda:

“The vibe. They're so trans man coded. Like he would use a binder in the life series and, like, for example, Pearl would help him with it in Limited life, or Ren would help them cut their hair in Double life if he felt like being less gender ✨ He's just so trans man 😩 VOTE BIGB.”

“HE CAN BE ANY GENDER YOU'D WANT DUE TO CREATIVITY. I'VE SEEN MANY MAKE BIGB TRANSFEM OR NONBINARY!!!! YOU CAN EVEN MAKE HIM XENOGENDER OR USE NEOPRONOUNS FOR FUN.“

“C!Bigb being trans is so important. His character is very ambiguous (to [the submitter]. At least.) due to the hidden secretive nature of himself, he hides the lies, he masks his weirdness sometimes [which] can be a metaphor for a trans person not wanting to come out (also autism)((proof is [they’re] trans and autistic and [they] do this stuff)). You can color pick a makeshift trans flag from his mc skin also.”

“Every (Life) series, he changes up a lot of himself for whatever he's doing. This seems like he can't decide what exactly he is and is trying to rebrand himself as a different type of person every time, which tends to be something [the submitter has] noticed in a few trans people. The lack of clarity of who they are is definitely very genderfluid coded. It could also go for his character throughout the life series being a system, with each new series being someone else. [Their] main evidence for this is Terry (from Last Life). It can also go for being transmasc on some level because of how easy it was for him to be that character!”

“BigB's username literally has t4t in it. He's not cis [the submitter’s] sorry.”

Ethoslab:

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

Headcanons: Agender, they/them; Transfem, she/her; Nonbinary, he/they/she; Nonbinary, they/he/it; Identity not specified, ladder/ladderself

Propaganda: “[The submitter] just think[s] she deserves boobies. [They] think they would be good for her. And also it's because [they] understand the way the universe flows and the nature of all things.”

“[Quote from Etho:]‘I’m ice man also, also the ice Queen […] yep, yep both in one.’ Etho has compared himself to a pretty girl before. ‘That’s me on the inside, beautiful, but on the outside it’s just this.’ (He’s talking about Falsesymmetry’s hermit head, a female head). Bigender, genderfluid, or genderqueer Etho trust trust trust.”

“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.”

“When [the submitter] first joined hermitblr, [they were] genuinely confused about Etho’s gender for a bit because of the sheer amount of people on here that she/her him. [They] love it. Live your dreams.”

“Etho (ftm) but can be feminine. [The submitter] think[s] his vest is equal to the famous oversized trans hoodie (but with style).”