Joel Week Day 4!!!!!! I Made Another Silly One, Just Trying To Make Up For Whatever Angst Fest My Day

fanart of etho being arrested for tax fraud

I’ve been working on this drawing for a while and was planning to do a background but kinda lost patience with it lol so uhh here

It for a story I have in my head that is somewhere in the space between an au and headcannons about winner Joel. Also it was really fun imagining what sort of pajamas c!joel would wear. My favorite part is the fuzzy socks, and also yes those are *technically* his swim trunks but whatever he seems like he would wear swim trunks to bed anyway lol. It’s meant to be like him waking back up on Hermitcraft after he won. If anyone is interested in hearing about this au/complicated series of headcannons I will happily ramble!

everyone better compliment me I’m looking at u person reading this I was gonna demand you all notice one specific part but actually I’m proud of all of this. Also he has a Mohawk because Risi is obsessed with bald Joel and I like drawing him with long hair so compromise! /sily also Mohawk oriental-cyberpunk Joel is cool as heck. Also the crown says wild life but tumblr killed the quality.

so. I may or may not have watched. The thing. You know which one. The shonen anime in Minecraft. The takedown of capitalism and the meritocracy. The thing where they say stuff like “I attack you with a three block vertical jump” and you go “no wayyyyyy!” and remain fully immersed. Yeah. That one. And then I went ahead and watched the second one. Just cause.

anyway,

(Also the image quality is terrible sorry lol)

look at my boooooys!!!! LOOK. AT. THEM. The power of umm power compels you!!

I’m currently in my biggri obsession arc. Missing them fr.

collab with the AMAZING @bluetbluish!!!!!!!!!!! Go look at her art!!!!!!!

We drew hot guy and cute guy, aka the duo ever. The fabulous drawing on the left is bluet’s and I drew Cuteguy! This collab was super fun and I really enjoyed working with Bluet, you should go look at her art some more!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Also in case it’s not clear that’s meant to be, like, a visor with a littlej projected Grian eyeball ig but it’s blorbo-accurate shaped)

some Oc art I did!

*insert interesting caption here* um, the lore is cool. I’m too lazy to explain it all here, so you’ll have to take my word for it.

what if… dnd au but instead of them being heroes and adventures within the dnd universe, they are just a bunch of nerds playing tabletops rpgs together?

like, Tango is the dm who has spent forever crafting the perfect home brew campaign and is determined to make it the most amazing campaign any of them have ever been part of. He’s got the custom maps and characters figures and costumes and voices and one session he even brings in a fog machine for ambience. He’s like the perfect dm to a bunch of perfectly terrible players who will only encourage each others worst dnd habits.

Etho is the one whose been playing dnd since, like, edition 1, and who shows up to the first session of the campaign and starts describing his character and someone’s like “are you playing kakashi from naruto?” And Etho’s like “oh is that who this is? I just found it premade online and thought it sounded cool” and he’s got the emo backstory and looks real cool but is in reality not actually that good of a character and whoever made it horribly messed up the stat distribution but for some reason he always avoids death and it stuck with the underpowered not-kakashi for forever.

Joel is the murder hobo (it’s a dnd term guys trust) who tries to kill everything who also renames all his spells and weapons on dnd beyond to really silly things and then forgets what they were originally and needs someone to translate for him. He will always make sure things get out of hand, accidentally starting cults, making sure the party is always at least mildly morally gray, killing people left and right, aggressively shipping his character with other peoples jus because. He is the embodiment of chaotic neutral. (He says he is chaotic evil in the life series but I think he is more chaotic neutral because chaotic evil will cause chaos for the sake of evil and chaotic neutral will cause evil for the sake of chaos)

Bdubs is the one constantly trying to befriend everything, who also unnecessarily narrates everything he is doing (ex. “I Am RAISING my EYEBROWS at you!!!!”) and he has a million pets and always makes Tango explain what each one is doing at that moment every five seconds and is constantly yelling at Joel for killing everything while Joel is always yelling at him for befriending everything. He will argue that the dice are rigged if he rolls badly and 100% has one of those dice time out chairs and will be extremely superstitious about which dice he uses.

Jimmy is the one who keeps having really great ideas but really terrible luck with the dice rolls, and always manages to stumble into traps. He’s also the only one trying to actually follow the rules and remain completely in character, like everyone’s like “oh it’s probably over here!” And Jimmy’d be like “yeah WE know that but guys our characters wouldn’t!!!!!!!!” And he’s like the perfect player in terms of how nice and easy he makes it for Tango to dm but is terrible at the actual gameplay. He will loudly boast to the enemy that they are about to “get WRECKED, FOOLS!” And pulls out a spell that should kill them instantly if he rolls anything but a nat 1, and guess what he rolls lol.

Scar is the one whose character dies first session and he just picks up a pen, writes “jr” next to the character name, and shouts “I’ve come to avenge my father!” he’d also name his character something like “Hotstuff McSexyman” (if Joel doesn’t take that name first) but actually be surprisingly wholesome and moral, if kinda bad at combat. Extremely oblivious as a player, Tango has to spell out the answer for each puzzle and he will kill an ally genuinely thinking that it’s an enemy.

Grian is the one playing a firmly non-human character who has just the most normal guy core backstory, like “yeah I’m Clarence, I’m 45 with a wife and kids and I’m going on this adventure to celebrate my retirement.” But he’s like a lizard guy or something

Gem is the one who makes a really nice and sweet and normal dnd character and then combat starts and she takes out a magical great sword powerful enough to one shot the BBEG (it stands for big bad evil guy and it’s real dnd term. Gotta love nerd culture) and rolls a nat 20. She is also the only reliably sane one here (Grian goes about managing his sanity like he does shifts at the permit office, and Etho is sane but his character turns out actually to be pretty ineffective at, like, everything so there’s not much he can do except have the privilege of being driven insane rather than already being so. Everyone else is a maniac, some just their characters but not in real life, some are just as crazy “irl” [as in within the au] as their characters)

there is a lot more that could be done with this and a bunch of other people to include these are just the initial thoughts I had.

pov u realize ur mutual had the same idea you did long before u and did it a million times better. Also I think this is the greatest take on Bdubs to ever exist and I’ve actually quoted this daily since I found it several years ago before I became a tumblr-er. He is really down with those kids.

there should be even more roommates aus lol. double life is perfect material really. and besides who better to dye etho's hair than joel "green stripe" smallishbeans himself?

bdubs is the best lol

dandelionnsss! cause i had that one song on repeat.

guys I will actually explode if I don’t share this RN, but basically the band *repeat repeat has an album called the floral canyon and the following songs in the following order are so boat-boys-through-double-life-to-current-day coded to me it’s crazy:

Everybody’s Falling in Love

Be This Way

Ghost

Mostly

Hooks

Hang it Low

Girlfriend (<-this one is mostly self indulgent, but still)

no I will not change my mind. yes I will elaborate. I may or may not have written a literal essay on this. Like, not even exaggerating in is actually an essay. Guys I’m actually going insane help.

btw feel free to ignore this post lol.

You asked for doodle reqs…so…boat boys, mayhaps? /nf

I think ur art is real neat

The boys the boatin'