Loyal Jeremy, ardent disciple of the way of the bean. If you don't know what that means, imma be honest this blog will not unconfuse you. If you do, welcome, I assure you we will get along splendidly.Pfp with permission from milkwithalittlebitofsadnessCurrently I am the head mod bossman guy of Smallishzine which I'm saying here for bragging rights and purposes
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thisss a million times this! The thing that people forget about the secret soulmates ordeal is that Grian chose BigB, but he did not choose to be paired with Scar. He made it clear from the beginning how he didn’t want to be with Scar. (Interjection: this is all c!s, and not hating on scarian also a valid ship just me rambling about how I like to interpret it and also it’s very grammatically incorrect and probably pretty repetitive because I didn’t really read through it lol) He was forced to team with him by their shared health, but the term “cheating” implies that Grian chose to be with Scar and then later went back on that. Secret Soulmates, meanwhile, was purely for Grian’s emotional benefit. They gave each other hearts and cookies and there was nothing in particular about the two of them that screamed alliance made for practical reasons. They were just kind of keeping each other company, BigB needing it because his soulmate was away so often that the guy had joined a singles support group, and Grian needing it because well if I write all my thoughts on why in this one sentence it’ll go on forever. Even from third life, Grian shows bias toward Bigb, commenting that if it comes down to it he doesn’t think he’ll be able to kill him even though Bigb is on the opposite side.
But back to my point about why I think Grian is lonely: in double life, Scar behaves with Grian the same way that he behaves with him in third life, where he was reckless and Grian just had to go along with whatever scar said because he was indebted. This in contrast to double life, where the soul bound puts each partner on equal standing, but Scar, probably without realizing, takes the lead, but Grian is no longer content to follow. Scar takes for granted that Grian will always follow him, hence the reason he seems more inclined towards petty vengeance than actual anger or even worry when he finds out about BigB. He is confident that Grian will always come back to him, which, when Grian doesn’t want to, makes things. Complicated. Really, he builds himself a panda reserve, Grian made it very clear that he’s not super fond of the pandas, but Scar is operating on how he knew Grian in third life, before Grian joined the south lands where equality (sometimes rather than equity even when thats not really good, but that’s it whole own shebang) was like their whole shtick, so he thinks that everything he builds for him is for both of them, because in the past he was in charge and had to take the lead. So Grian seeks out someone he wanted from the beginning of both that season and of the series who is, as prev stated, very calm. Scar wanders off to go do something dangerous expecting Grian to follow because that’s what he would have done in third life, but Grian is like okay, you go do that, and goes over to go do arts n’ crafts with BigB. BigB, also, has been constantly on the outside of groups and rarely having an alliance of his own because other people find him creepy or scary or unnerving, which is something he encourages, and even seems to enjoy, but Grian is usually the only one to not be scared off by BigB’s bigbness, like in secret life when he was like this base is scary but it’s also cool, hey is that your initial in the roof and he is literally the only one to notice that and Bigb is just so excited that someone noticed something about his base that wasn’t hey this place is terrifying. They just genuinely enjoy each other company. They can just be silly and definitely not bossy together and have fun! They, for all their fanon characterization, and actually probably one of the healthiest c!relationships in the whole series, because they actually like each other, chose each others company out of their own free will and for no other reason than their affection for the other, and are not toxicly codependent. Idk this is a pretty long and probably incoherent ramble, but I felt compelled because please for the love of all that is sculk someone put some biggri on ao3 that is literally anything other than cheating in scarian angst fics. Thank you prev for reminding me how much I love this pairing.
I know that Grian said “Bigb treated me right” just to get a rise out of Scar but I feel like this is a good opportunity to talk about how much (in my opinion) Grian and Bigb as a pairing are slept on
They both have this chaotic energy that feels complimentary, Grian’s pesky bird-ness and BigB’s whimsy. They both have this quiet rebellion or discontent against the games. BigB knows that it’s all for nothing and doesn’t play into the Watchers’ emotional manipulation, whereas Grian (up until wild life) tries to escape and fight the Watchers’ hold on him.
I feel like BigB’s calm energy is a sigh of relief for Grian. That he can trust someone, and be trusted, without it being another game. That he doesn’t need to constantly worry about survival, and can just enjoy existing. They just want to frolic in a meadow and have a nice picnic your honor
I feel like there’s so much more to this pairing beyond the secret soulmates thing and that their chemistry is actually reall nice! And have a lot of potential for AUs and fanfics!
silly thing I drew
This is them. To me.
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a very magnificent screenshot of these idiots (affectionate)
I’m loving this session’s never-before-seen levels of Joel patheticness/silly
Between family man Joel and tuff guy Etho…it’s like they literally switched places from limited life lol
I drew this because I am literally incapable of being normal about them interacting for any length of time.
This is just a silly doodle that I made mostly to express my absolute love for the moment when Etho compliments the gramophone and you can actively hear Joel taking damage trying to resist calling him old lol.
I am losing MY MIND from this interaction.
The fact that Joel still tries. He still tries to mend things. The fact that Tango kills him twice and all he has to say is the words of respect and encouragement. That he patches holes in his car, his HOME. That he welcomes Etho, that he will be with Gem until the end. The way he tries to survive his series on green, to be peaceful. HE TRIES SO HARD TO MEND IT. HE WAS IN EVERY SEASON. WORSE. HE KNOWS HOW ABSOLUTELY HOPELESS THEY ARE SOMETIMES. HE WAS THE PITIFUL ONE. IN THIRD LIFE HE BURNED. HE HAD THE SADDEST TIMES IN LAST LIFE. HE AND ETHO HAD THE MOST DRAMATIC STORY AFTER DIVORCE QUARTET IN DOUBLE LIFE. HE IS THE ONE WHO KEEPS DYING TO SCOTT, HE MAKES STUPID DECISIONS, HE MAKES ENEMIES.
But he still tries. He still has hope that if he just fix it one more time it will stay there if he looks away.
I hear Jimmy’s been getting superstitious lately… :)
this can only end well…/sarc
(This drawing is in reference to the video Jimmy posted of him jokingly praying to a piece of cardstock he had drawn the watcher symbol on, that I decided to misinterpret for fun)
Minus background and weird shading below the cut:
gh,,, shadowrot or shiny duo for the soul perchance .... (or a false symmetry if you're feeling special)
(if you're still doing recs ofc !! sorry mobile tumblr hates when i look at your page i haven't a clue why 😭)
Edit since the cut is in an inconvenient spot: all the stuff I tagged is there I promise guys just scroll down
Absolutely I am! Here’s shiny duo:
Shadow rot: (this one is still kinda a sketch lol)
and False!
Also because I’m really proud of it, here’s the shiny duo drawing without the background and stuff:
Anyway sorry it took me so long to get to these, but thank you for the reqs!
I know you’ve probably seen this but it’s still funny
It’s like this video was tailor made to cater to my interests specifically.
i can't even caption this clip from jimmy's video rn. why can he not be normal. why are all of joel and etho's friends borderline shipping them. why aren't They normal. I'm DONE
Hello! Is there a particular way you'd like art request to be sent? Ask or DM message? Are OCs allowed or fandom characters only? thank you for the answers :)
Of course! I love getting asks! I’d prefer art reqs be sent in ask form, and, OCs are totally allowed!! If you want me to draw an Oc, though, make sure to include either a reference image for the design or a description of it, either works, though I can’t promise complete and total accuracy if only a description is included just cause I can’t see what you mean. But yeah, feel free to send Oc art reqs! (Although if you do, just as a heads up, I might not get to it tonight, just cause I have other stuff that needs to get done lol, but I will get to it unless the ask is eaten by tumblr)
do u do anything other then minecraft yter art?
In general, I rarely draw non mcyt related art, but I’ll draw the occasional MCR or magic the gathering fanart. However, I do take requests, and they don’t necessarily have to be Minecraft related! If you send in a drawing ask, as long as it’s within reason, I’ll draw it! Unless of course tumblr eats the ask, which it has already eaten five of them and I have no idea how to retrieve them, so, to anyone reading this post who may have sent in any sort of ask, but I haven’t responded, please try sending it again! But yeah, OCs, sonas, other fandoms- I’m open to pretty much any req.
just two boys in boats, boying and boating.
That’s all! (Also I know the anatomy and stuff is real…funky, on this one, but idk life is short and I’ve kinda realized that people aren’t really going to react more positively if it’s more polished, so I figure that making everything look perfect isn’t really a great use of my time lol)
This would be a lot but is it possible we could do both the eras tour and do you want to tell a story?
First of all, I’m cracking up at the fact that people are using the silly names I came up for the different genres of zine, thank you. To people who are confused, anon is referring to this poll. To answer your question: I was actually just thinking about this! My plan is basically, given that currently the overwhelming majority of people want to do eras tour, that’s probably going to be the winning one, but, if too many people apply (and I’m still figuring out exactly what counts as too many, but the general idea is : more than the number of smp/worlds that Joel has done to art/write about, but that also depends on who wants to do what and a million other things and honestly it might come down to just looking at a number and then evaluating how much anxiety I feel about modding that many people) then rather than telling people no, we can have people who maybe are less interested in doing a piece based on canon work together to make a story! I’ve been doing some brainstorming on how things can work and how to make this zine the best possible experience for as many people as possible, so here is a vague plan for how things will work:
This next part is extremely important zine info!! Please read it!! I’m looking at you, person about to scroll past!! Read!!
-once we know how many people are going to be participating and who those people will be, we’ll try to get everyone together on a discord server so that I can contact everyone with ease. If you don’t have discord and can’t get it for whatever reason, we’ll do our best to allow you to still participate, but you may have less of a say on what sort of piece you’ll be doing. -From there, hopefully with the help of other mods, I’ll send out like a million bajillion polls (important note: I don’t know how discord works. Everything will be chaotic) to figure out what everyone wants to do, how much structure they want for their pieces, if they want to do something more collaborative or individual, etc, etc.
-Then, me and the other mods will get together and try to figure out a game plan for how everything is going to work. This zine is likely going to be very different from other zines people may have done in the past, because I’m hoping that we go in less with a specific vision of what the end product is going to look like and then assign everyone part of it to make, but rather we go in with just the plan of “let’s create something fun and interesting about this shared interest of ours” and the end result will be a chaotic but passionately made scrapbook of art and writing dedicated to this weird little guy on the internet who makes us laugh and smile and inspires us to create. I’m being very vague, so here’s an example of how I’m kinda envisioning the process to work:
okay, we have X amount of people, and Y amount of them want to do a Joel eras tour zine. A bunch of people want to do a piece for this one thing, and none of them said they were against working with others and many said they were for it, so we’ll offer them the option of doing a scarland-artbook style collaboration on this one thing. The remaining eras people mostly said that they weren’t really interested in collabing with anyone, and we’re not seeing any major conflicts on who wants to do what, so they should be set. Z amount of the people remaining want to work on a story together, and many of them expressed that they had an idea for what to write/draw, so we’ll work with them to figure out the general plot, and make sure that it still stays connected to Joel. There are a few people who don’t really know what they want to work on, or would like to know the options before making a decision, so we’ll work with them to find something their interested in contributing to.
Then we’ll have a mod to monitor each group to help them stay on track within the scope of the zine, and it is my hope that things should be very collaborative for those who are interested in that and open to that, and that its an enjoyable experience and an opportunity to meet other people interested in the same thing.
this doesn’t mean that 100% we’ll be able to do both, but (and this is a little bit personal bias cause I’m definitely most interested in do you want to tell a story) if enough people there are interested in that, then we’ll do our best to make it happen!
-mod Dinn
every so often I redraw them to show how much I’ve progressed in my art, and since mcr5 was confirmed, which, btw, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!freaking the heck out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I thought this was a great opportunity to do another redraw
This is just a sketchy thing, I didn’t even fully shade it or anything cause I’m really tired, but I think it came out alright! Also I know Gerard “spent half his career denying vampire allegations” way is definitely a pasty boy basement dweller if there ever was one, but the killjoys lived in the desert their whole lives and were descended from people who lived in the desert their whole lives, so I figured that poison would have a darker complexion than Gee.
I was doodling to mess around with different designs I have for different hermits, and I had a thought: what if bdubs’s giant anime eyes are actually because he has terrible vision and wears really thick glasses? So I tried to draw that, and then for some reason I added braces, because idk gender-neutral-man, it just felt right. And now he looks. Actually adorable.
I don’t even know if I’m gonna keep this as my design, but he’s just such a cutie, and I get such joy from looking at him, that I felt the need to share.
also thank you to everyone interacting with my real life smp Cleo fanart that is literally my favorite thing I’ve ever drawn so it makes me so happy every time I see it pop up in my notifs. (Special thanks to bluet for the really nice tags, I was having a rough day and so I literally sobbed at that like one of my friends saw my art! lol)
edit: btw the little scribble in the background says “something you can sue, however, is Docm77” and that is an official Bdubs quote from season X that you can take to the bank! I just scribbled it down for unclear reasons and forgot to erase it before posting lol
we realized we haven’t asked you what you want this zine to be, so here is poll with some different options for things we could do, but this still won’t set things in stone cause we’re aware that we’re working with a relatively small albeit amazing awesome and extremely appreciated audience, but it’ll give us a good idea for what direction you want the zine to go in.
some examples of what we mean for added coherence, please read before voting unless you wanna be like that guy in the Simpsons movie:
an eras tour zine (yes this is a Taylor swift joke shut up if you’re judging us you’re wrong) would be like different pieces dedicated to each, for lack of a better word, “thing” that Joel has done. @/inthelittlezine is a great example of this concept, except the mod has far better organizational skills than we ever could hope to
tourism brochure would be like we pick a specific thing Joel, such as esmp 1 or 2, or x life, or one of his hardcore/survival worlds (I haven’t listed Hermitcraft season 10 cause that’s still in progress but if you guys really really wanna, that too), and make an in universe guide to it expanding upon the lore and characters and builds and stuff. @/scarland-artbook is an amazing example of this, though of course we would be a much smaller scale of a project.
do you wanna tell a story? Or ride our bikes around the halls? We can’t help with the second one, we’re not very sporty people, but this option is both the most difficult and dangerous to the success of the zine, and the one that intrigues me specifically the most. Like, guys, I know I’m polling this, but I’m secretly hoping that this one wins. Like all the hoping. Ever. But I’m not gonna just say yeah let’s do this because if like only three people also wanna this zine will never get made and I will be really, really sad. This option is basically do we wanna take something Joel has done and work together to create an original universe/story based off of it, each contributing a small part of the story in comic or writing form. Unless you’ve been living under a rock and/or this post broke containment sorry if it did I assure I’m usually mostly sane, you probably know where I’m shamelessly stealing taking inspiration from. We heart you @/hotguycomiczine. If we went with this we would obviously create our own universe and storyline, and we’d try to base it off of one of Joel’s characters if possible. Also, if we went with this, we’d start the mod and application process and stuff and once we knew everyone who was going to be in the zine then we’d all get together and start working on the story, and this is the part I’m worried about because if we’re all stumped then I guess the zine is out of luck and I’d be sad. Also even if we did do this, like preemptively temper your expectations I am no where near as good as the legends at hotguycomiczine at organization and promotion and story writing and all that good stuff. However, if you have an idea for a story and want to share, send us an ask cause we might just end up using it.
I think the last two are mostly self explanatory.
please reblog for reach.
One very angry trip from The Relation before disaster.
(Not pictured : Etho’s knees snapping in half and then he too vanishes)
I love this screenshot so much. Perfectly timed.
extremely late to the party but anyway here’s tal wife smol husband
I forgor Joel’s antenna oh well.
What a. Completely normal distance to stand apart.
also I drew this and retrospectively it looks a lot more suspicious than I meant it to lol I just meant to put their faces really close together for sillys. Also for people seeing this who are looking at the og picture and saying wow are you sure that’s actually them should give a big round of applause to obscurettafficscreencaps for verifying that this is indeed a screenshot of my two favorite idiots based solely upon their shoes. If they took the screenshot then double applauding for picking this specific moment to immortalize on the internet forever.
also again this is only for sillys I just couldn’t resist when I saw the og picture.
hey guys so this is actually literally my favorite thing I’ve ever drawn so I am in fact going to keep reblogging it.
also in other news fill out the Smallishzine interest form please I need this zine to happen. I need to be in it.
I’ve spent an insert adjective here amount of time crafting a real life!zombiecleo fanart to make a magic the gathering pun that no one in a million years will get.
It says unstitched. I am a winner Cleo truther, and I love the un- sets, and I decided to put those two things together. This also ties into my unintelligible headcannons about the life series. Anyway I hope you enjoyed or at least weren’t disgusted by this drawing of Cleo coming apart at the seams ^^
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what up losers? We’re not smallishbeans but we think he’s real neat and today we’re gonna stand in front of a chicken killing machine and not acknowledge it in the slightest while giving important info!!
Are you interested in a zine dedicated to Joel Smallishbeans being made, read, or used as a coaster? Well then I’ve got good news for you! (Except you coaster people. Go buy one off of Etsy or something. Jeez.)
please fill out THIS interest form if you answered the above question with yes! If you answered with no, please kindly go back to making toast or putting on your socks or whatever it is people who aren’t Jeremys do. This may be the wrong blog for you.
If I’ve made a horrible mistake in the interest form, please kindly let me know so I can fix it and then lie awake thinking about it at night for the rest of my life.
If you have questions, I assure that I do too. Answers will come along as I figure out what the heck is going on.
Guys I’ve found my life’s calling. I must be in this zine. Go fill out the form!!!
what up losers? We’re not smallishbeans but we think he’s real neat and today we’re gonna stand in front of a chicken killing machine and not acknowledge it in the slightest while giving important info!!
Are you interested in a zine dedicated to Joel Smallishbeans being made, read, or used as a coaster? Well then I’ve got good news for you! (Except you coaster people. Go buy one off of Etsy or something. Jeez.)
please fill out THIS interest form if you answered the above question with yes! If you answered with no, please kindly go back to making toast or putting on your socks or whatever it is people who aren’t Jeremys do. This may be the wrong blog for you.
If I’ve made a horrible mistake in the interest form, please kindly let me know so I can fix it and then lie awake thinking about it at night for the rest of my life.
If you have questions, I assure that I do too. Answers will come along as I figure out what the heck is going on.
I. Am in shock. They cannot keep getting away with this. /silly
Edit: whoops I accidentally drew Joel taller than Jimmy lol. Just imagine that Joel is just, idk, standing on a step stool or smthn out of frame, idk
I’ve spent an insert adjective here amount of time crafting a real life!zombiecleo fanart to make a magic the gathering pun that no one in a million years will get.
It says unstitched. I am a winner Cleo truther, and I love the un- sets, and I decided to put those two things together. This also ties into my unintelligible headcannons about the life series. Anyway I hope you enjoyed or at least weren’t disgusted by this drawing of Cleo coming apart at the seams ^^
Alt versions (text overlayed on top, textless and backgroundless) below the cut vvv
I’ve spent an insert adjective here amount of time crafting a real life!zombiecleo fanart to make a magic the gathering pun that no one in a million years will get.
It says unstitched. I am a winner Cleo truther, and I love the un- sets, and I decided to put those two things together. This also ties into my unintelligible headcannons about the life series. Anyway I hope you enjoyed or at least weren’t disgusted by this drawing of Cleo coming apart at the seams ^^
Alt versions (text overlayed on top, textless and backgroundless) below the cut vvv
I hear you op
also I accidentally drew their totk designs instead of botw but um it’s a sequel so it’s probably fine sorry lol.
Anyway for the like past day one question has consumed me: would Scott be Sidon because of limited life or would Jimmy be Sidon because of Empires season 1?
Treebark botw au IS ANYONE HEARING ME