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Find rendog challenge, difficulty: impossible

Every other week, doc will say something insane(-ly gay) and suddenly my entire dashboard will be flooded with rendoc, and i think that's hilarious.

Like, i rarely see rendoc on tumblr, but as SOON as i do, it almost always means something gay happened. Which ofc means the silly tumblr ppl are loosing their shit again /pos

I want to make a space au inspired by rens gigaverse lore SO bad.

But i have like... 5 other wip AU, that actually have a plot n story n stuff. My only idea for this one is "Zedaph does human experiments and ren explores space!!!" 😭

[Day 31]: Rendog!

Decided to make a lil animation of our favorite Gigacorp employee for today's hermitaday :D He's exploring the recently discovered planet he build his base on.

Oh! What's that??? Looks like he got spooked by something... It was probably just the wind or something, right? I'm sure its fine... :)

(closeups/non animated version below!)

Goodness gracious, i can't believe hermitaday 2024 is over??? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE COMPLETED AN ART CHALLANGE LIKE THIS LMFAO-

Everyone say thank you to my adhd meds!!! Are they working properly??? Nope. Not at all. But they r making me hyperfixate on things 24/7, mainly art, which is probably the only reason i completed this LMFAO (my grades on the other hand... Are suffering... Oop-)

Adding more onto this:

Grian and scar didn't realize doc was ACTUALLY afraid of cats at first, they just left some in his base as a joke/threat. (similarly to the whole buttercup thing)

Once they realized he was unironically terrified of them, they stopped doing it, except for scar occasionally bringing jellie along for negotiations, as an "intimidation tactic"

Whenever Doc threatens them, Scar just holds out jellie as a warning. It usually works kwhekwhe

Oh my god you all don't understand how insane i am about doc being a creeper and thus probably being afraid of cats

@angelonasher

FIRSTLY, ajfoxships, YES GIMME ANY AND ALL FICS W/ THIS!!! PLSPLSPLSPLS-

Secondly, here's some of my head cannons which i will probably turn into a comic once i get the chance:

-scar and grian used jellie during season 9 when they destroyed docs tunnel bore. Doc was yelling at them and then scar just held out jelly towards him and doc was like *scared creeper noises* "...ok fine u can go BUT I WILL DESTROY UR ENTIRE BLOODLINE LATER-"

-the theme park jellie ears scar left doc as a gift during s9 after breaking the tunnel bore? Those weren't a gift, they were a threat

-one of the reasons doc asked ren for help is bc Grian Scar and Mumbo kept leaving cats in his base and docs thought process was "cats scare creeper, dogs scare cats -> time to ask the local furry for help"

-Ren scares away any and all cats that come close to doc by aggressively barking at them

-cleo added cats to her cafe(/bookstore) in s10, bc she knew doc wouldn't be able to retaliate after she stole her villagers if she had enough cats to scare him

-bdubs considered putting doc in a catjail as a punishment instead of airjail, but he realized last minute that that was just a wee bit too cruel

(also, Im quite busy w/ other art projects rn, so it might take a while till i post this, incase anyone wants to be tagged once its done just let me know!)

Oh my god you all don't understand how insane i am about doc being a creeper and thus probably being afraid of cats

Am i surprised that Doc is fighting off the homophobes during pride month? Nahhh that's classic Doc behavior, but it IS rly fun to watch.

Did i, however, expect (c!)Doc to propose to (c!)Ren during Pride month? Wait what-

And did i expect Ren to just go along with it??? Yes, Ren is basically the personification of the improf "yes and-" at this point wkdhwkej

Slightly edited this cause i noticed a lil mistake (one of the frames was longer than it should be)

Does this change anything big or noticeable about the animation? ...yesss? Uh. Definitely. Mhm. I'm not just being a perfectionist for absolutely no reason. Yep! /s/j

[Day 31]: Rendog!

Decided to make a lil animation of our favorite Gigacorp employee for today's hermitaday :D He's exploring the recently discovered planet he build his base on.

Oh! What's that??? Looks like he got spooked by something... It was probably just the wind or something, right? I'm sure its fine... :)

(closeups/non animated version below!)

Goodness gracious, i can't believe hermitaday 2024 is over??? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE COMPLETED AN ART CHALLANGE LIKE THIS LMFAO-

Everyone say thank you to my adhd meds!!! Are they working properly??? Nope. Not at all. But they r making me hyperfixate on things 24/7, mainly art, which is probably the only reason i completed this LMFAO (my grades on the other hand... Are suffering... Oop-)

[Day 31]: Rendog!

Decided to make a lil animation of our favorite Gigacorp employee for today's hermitaday :D He's exploring the recently discovered planet he build his base on.

Oh! What's that??? Looks like he got spooked by something... It was probably just the wind or something, right? I'm sure its fine... :)

(closeups/non animated version below!)

Goodness gracious, i can't believe hermitaday 2024 is over??? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE COMPLETED AN ART CHALLANGE LIKE THIS LMFAO-

Everyone say thank you to my adhd meds!!! Are they working properly??? Nope. Not at all. But they r making me hyperfixate on things 24/7, mainly art, which is probably the only reason i completed this LMFAO (my grades on the other hand... Are suffering... Oop-)

Neighborhood & poe poe lore be like:

"Local communists* decided to get involved in capitalism recently, but upon trying to create their own monopoly on terracotta, they somehow managed to imideatly piss off the police. Now, they are planning to become mob bosses in order to retaliate against law enforcement**. This decision might lead to conflict between them, since one of them seems to already be part of the big salmon mafia-"

*still calling them "communists participating in capitalism (shopping district)" bc their jobs/minister positions outside of the shopping district aren't controlled by supply & demand and they all get equal pay (aka none). might rant about this more in a reblogg

**Quote from Cleo: "My first reaction to this was turning into a mob boss for some reason, [...]"

[Day 31]: Rendog!

Decided to make a lil animation of our favorite Gigacorp employee for today's hermitaday :D He's exploring the recently discovered planet he build his base on.

Oh! What's that??? Looks like he got spooked by something... It was probably just the wind or something, right? I'm sure its fine... :)

(closeups/non animated version below!)

Goodness gracious, i can't believe hermitaday 2024 is over??? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE COMPLETED AN ART CHALLANGE LIKE THIS LMFAO-

Everyone say thank you to my adhd meds!!! Are they working properly??? Nope. Not at all. But they r making me hyperfixate on things 24/7, mainly art, which is probably the only reason i completed this LMFAO (my grades on the other hand... Are suffering... Oop-)

First sketch for that day that i ended up putting discarding:

I started this on the 31st, since it was my original idea for Rens prompt. However, I quickly realized it would take WAYYYY too long to draw & animate all of this, so instead i decided to just draw a simple standing pose of him in a gigacorp inspired outfit and post the walk animation a little later. Except, as i often do, i kept coming up with "small" things i could add to it while drawing...

....Until i suddenly had an animated and shaded piece with a background??? Which. Defeated the whole purpose of drawing sth different???? Anyways, the finished one i posted that day gave me an idea for a Hermitcraft AU and now i lowkey wanna work on that instead of finishing the walk animation LMFAO

Thought id post the WIP on here since im probably not gona finish it anyways

[Day 31]: Rendog!

Decided to make a lil animation of our favorite Gigacorp employee for today's hermitaday :D He's exploring the recently discovered planet he build his base on.

Oh! What's that??? Looks like he got spooked by something... It was probably just the wind or something, right? I'm sure its fine... :)

(closeups/non animated version below!)

Goodness gracious, i can't believe hermitaday 2024 is over??? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE COMPLETED AN ART CHALLANGE LIKE THIS LMFAO-

Everyone say thank you to my adhd meds!!! Are they working properly??? Nope. Not at all. But they r making me hyperfixate on things 24/7, mainly art, which is probably the only reason i completed this LMFAO (my grades on the other hand... Are suffering... Oop-)

[Day 31]: Rendog!

Decided to make a lil animation of our favorite Gigacorp employee for today's hermitaday :D He's exploring the recently discovered planet he build his base on.

Oh! What's that??? Looks like he got spooked by something... It was probably just the wind or something, right? I'm sure its fine... :)

(closeups/non animated version below!)

Goodness gracious, i can't believe hermitaday 2024 is over??? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE COMPLETED AN ART CHALLANGE LIKE THIS LMFAO-

Everyone say thank you to my adhd meds!!! Are they working properly??? Nope. Not at all. But they r making me hyperfixate on things 24/7, mainly art, which is probably the only reason i completed this LMFAO (my grades on the other hand... Are suffering... Oop-)

Congrats Iskall on winning Demise~💚

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I want Pewds and Mumbo to collab

hello!!! may I pretty please request a treebark? ^^ /nf

of course !!

I had a vision... I just don't know if it is visioning

(also just saying, I didn't trace this! I drew it with a reference and that's it)

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

Theories and Headconnans Pt. 28

So this weekly theory stems from the purposeful similarities and differences between a moment in Third Life and Wild Life. That particular moment in session three of Wild Life and session five of Third Life that resulted in a sacrifical death between Ren and another blonde, traumatised players. Which include Jimmy and Martyn respectively.

Beginning with Ren's sacrifice to Jimmy in Wild Life, this death was mainly a transactional death to regain his yellow status in exchange for undying loyalty soaked in the blood of Renthedog. An animal commonly characterised as loyal or faithful to friends or someone(s) trusted. This death unified some fraction of the Bamboozlers and the Renwood Mount and could symbolise new beginnings as Ren's returning season after Double Life. Back in Third Life, the Flower husbands were known as enemies of Dogwarts and with this sacrifice for a life, it could be known as rebuilding a bridge burned with war and detest.

This death mirrors the tragic moment in session five of Third Life where Martyn executed Ren before reborning as the Red King and bringing harvoc to the players as a red name. Losing his first life to Grian's unsuccessful-successful TNT minecart trap, Ren swore vengance to the Desert Duo as a red name who are able to initiate violence upon any life but risk being permanently dead. Regardless of this gamble, Ren was slayed by his Hand (Marytn). One of his most trusted allies who was also by when Ren orchestrated each war and battle against the Desert Alliance.

These then connects with Jimmy and Martyn who both teamed as the Big Dogs relating the trio of dogs and loyalty and making the webbing of teams, allies and enemiess across all seasons even more complicated.

Theories and Headcannons Pt. 22

So new week, new theory about Doc's new poker game and the hermits decided to be used as the monarchs and joker for each type of deck. Innovated from the French-suited playing cards, Doc's poker deck has four suits, diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades, and each suiting having three court cards, King, Queen and Jack. This results in only twelve available spaces considering one hermit takes one court card each and leaves fifteen hermits unable to be represented by the cards. Nethertheless even with the limited representation of the hermits, each cards has its depth and lore.

Starting with the suit of diamond, has Doc representing its King, Gem representing its Queen and Scar representing its Jack. As diamonds is represented as a valuable material considering its bartering and trading value in Hermitcraft, being the main currency for shops, it's reasonable that Doc would be the face of Kings of Diamonds. Gem's reasoning is also obvious due to her talent considering both PVP and her building skills. Finally Scar, being the Jack of Diamonds is poetic due to his bartering (scamming) skills built from his charisma to trade for "diamond" tiered items with common items.

The court of Hearts is a different story considering its representatives are Rendog for the King, Falsesymmetry for the Queen and Bdubs as its Jack. With the symbol of Hearts often depicted as red and hearts in general epitomising the living flesh of a person, Ren as the King is perfect. As RentheKing in Hermitcraft Season Nine and the Red King back in Third Life, Ren deserves the position of King of Hearts. Second to the King of Hearts, is Falsesymmetry, the winner of Season's 10 demise. With hearts also depicting the life and soul of a person, it's also fitting for the winner to recieve the mantle of Queen of Hearts. The final court of Jacks is Bdubs, who in Season Nine of Hermitcraft was the assistant or right-hand man to RentheKing. Resulting in his title of the rank below the King, Jacks of Hearts.

With the court of Spades, majority of its court was already explained by Doc in his previous Hermitcraft 10 episode, (29) with the Jack of Spades being Mumbo, a spoon, Etho being definitively cool and the suit of Spades being objectively cool (in Doc's perspective), and Pearl fitting the role of Queen of Spades. But the reasonings run deeper than this besides Mumbo's spoon reasoning. Take Pearl, the Queen of Spades. Back in Season Nine, she was the Cleaning Lady, taking on jobs of cleaning chestmonsters and other messes with a price. Spades is often linked with the concept of cleaning so it was natural to pick Pearl. The final court card, Kings of Spades, is given to Etho and rightfully so because of his connections to Shade-E-E. Originally Shade-E-E was a "subscription service" and later evolved to a "gardening service" which entailed him using dirt and other blocks to create pixel artworks for the other hermits in saeson seven. And what else is connected to dirt, spades, hence the King of Spades being Ethoslab.

The final suit, Clubs, consist of King of Clubs being Xisumavoid, Queen of Clubs being ZombieCleo and Jack of Clubs being Grian. Although the listed hermits' connections to the suit of Clubs may be vague, there is a connection hidden between the layers of history the deck of cards retains. With majority depictions of a deck of cards using French-suited playing cards, other versions of the standard 52-card deck is found throughout multiple continents with German depications of the Club being an acorn. Acorns also being a symbol of strength and resilience, a trait Xisuma has constantly demonstrated throughout the decade Hermitcraft has been running. Cleo's connections of the suit of Clubs includes her role as an enforcing monarchy, the Queen, with a royal baton otherwise known as a sceptre being a symbol of royalty. Finally, Grian's relation to the Club are the multiple depictions of the suit of Clubs being of a plant. Plants and weeds like the clover and acorns are all edible to a range of bird species, both domestic and wild and with the fandom's collective decision to represent Grian has a human with avian features, it's his connections to birds that create his relationship with the Jack of Clubs.

These twelve court cards all with their representative hermits all have depth and lore leading their portrayal as the monarchs and Jacks of each suit.

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So this theory is finally here and I hope it made up for the multiple weeks without theories. Still have to cope with exams but soon I will be free from these shackles.

Aight ranting time, can we appreciate how revolutionary Double Life was for the Life Series fandom.

The introduction of the soulbound mechanic introduced another potential method to interact and collaborate with different members of the community. In the previous canon Life Seires, most alliances were built of the members previously collaborating or being close friends (for majority of alliances, and this is not discounting that all the participants of the Life Series weren't already friends), but with the randomized pairing of Double Life, it forced new collaborations and interactions. Resulting in the mechanic transferring into the fandom's version of their Double Life, Woven Life.

Involving dozens of participants from authors, artists and animators such as rusty_courage, cherrifire, xmaruu, kitsuneisi, mudboowl etc.

(Non RPF)

But what stirred up the fandom into an absolute frenzy was the shipping potential of Double Life. We had Box Boys (Ren and BigB), the Homewreckers (Bdubs and Impulse) which were previously a ship in Hermitcraft and the Divorce Quartet (Pearl, Martyn, Scott and Cleo) which were pretty substanial new pairs but don't scale to the sheer amount of popularity the subsequent pairing recieved/s.

We got Scarlet Pearl which is not a ship but a fan favourite persona with her pairing with Tilly.

We got Boat Boys which are Joel and Etho which was a due no one initially expected but blew up to the fascinating dynamic they had.

Then we got Desert Duo again after the escapades of Third Life which produced lore upon lore of angst and tension which further fueled the shipping train for Scarian.

And finally we got the Ranchers, Team Ranchers or Rancher Duo consisting of Tango and Jimmy. Another pair the fandom did not expect but are instantly attached to. The amount of potential and ideas from this duo grew in number from their light-hearted dynamic to the angsty moments in the subsequent sessions was intense. Lore-wise, their pairings were eventually reunited during the Hermits x Empires Crossover in Season 9.

So basically Double Life was big for the Life Series fandom.