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It will pass:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61559695

"Pretty" is so simple to say:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/67350835

Seeking Eye Contact:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/68083516

gemdom

And for the character…the greatest honor I can bestow…*headcanons as aromantic*

#Pearl

kllem

Yeah

kllem

puppy <3

minceraftyuri

now kith

ao3femslashtop100-tournament

AO3 Femslash Top 100: Round 1

Beidou/Ningguang (Genshin Impact) vs GeminiTay/PearlescentMoon (Hermitcraft SMP)

Beidou/Ningguang (Genshin Impact)

Gem/Pearl (Hermitcraft SMP)

Remaining time: 10 hours 47 minutes

tiredfoxtf

Gempearlies. 🌸

errorryx

there are a lot of ways to interpret gem's rejection of pearl in wild life. i'm obviously only interested in the interpretations that acknowledge it as being unfair. you could leave it simple, say she really was upset about what she saw as a betrayal and is letting it carry over to the next season because she's new to this and doesn't quite grasp that it's just the way things are. you could say she had an idea of pearl in her mind that would always do what gem wanted, and that proved to be untrue, so she's lashing out. neither of those are bad or wrong interpretations, but i don't think they capture the full story.

the wild life gempearl animosity bears a striking resemblance to the end of pearl's first episode of double life. from pearl's perspective, both rejections are utterly undeserved, and any rationalizations that scott/gem give her seem to have been invented after the fact to justify their choice. neither of them allow pearl to reason with them. out of character, both decisions were made to create interesting content (if i remember right, both gem and scott have admitted to this directly), which leaves quite a bit of interpretive wiggle room.

considering the overall dynamic of both scott and gem's relationships with pearl, i prefer to characterize these decisions as deliberately manipulative. in scott's case, there was no betrayal on pearl's end. he was merely bored of her. he'd learned everything she had to offer him last season, and the only thing left was to see what she'd do if he pushed her away and intentionally tormented her while telling everyone who would listen about how it was the other way around. he had his internal justifications set up already—if he treated her in such a way that it would guarantee a retaliation, he could emphasize her actions while skating over his own wrongdoing. he invented a problem, established his rejection of pearl as a reaction instead of an initiation of conflict, and got to work spinning a narrative.

gem uses a few similar tactics in wild life. she sets herself as the wronged party, provoking pearl into retaliation so she can take issue with anything pearl does to wrong her. she ropes scott into the position of her cross-team ally in the effort to belittle pearl, correctly identifying his inclination to scold pearl anyway. (sidenote: watching scott oblige gem when they're not even allies, purely because he knows she's powerful and can beat him at his own game, is extremely satisfying.) gem does all of this to put pearl in the position of having to make it up to her, but she also inevitably starts believing her own lie. and in any case, what she really wants, what she's always wanted, is to bring out scarlet pearl.

after all, just last season gem hunted pearl down and killed her, and then pearl was her friend. it would only stand to reason that the same trick would work again—treat pearl badly, then encourage her violent side, and reach that murder camel high again. what could go wrong?

girllegundo

interesting phenomenon

tomorrowillbeyou

Fun fact: you do not have an inalienable human right to be a minecraft youtuber or anything like you can at any point just stop doing that you can in fact just not be a minecraft youtuber you are not owed being a minecraft youtuber

tomorrowillbeyou

also this IS a job making whatever "content" or whatever is a job for most of these people maybe it's a job with a very personal side but they are still in fact creating a product for an audience that they get money for they are not your friends you do not need to coddle them from criticism or defend them like you know them you are not hyping up each others ocs together they are the creator and you are the audience and you are allowed to complain or say anything you like about what they made. btw.

tomorrowillbeyou

people get accused of being "parasocial" (meaning in these ppls language having an abnormal attachment to creators i guess) for treating creators like public figures with jobs and the videos they make like . idk. media created for money. but not for acting like they know them personally and have to defend them from evil random people online and competing to get noticed by them and notifying them when random users do things they don't like. Riddle me this

gemdom

I guess if a content creator came out and was like “hey guys I appreciate all the fanart you make of me but from this point forward I won’t be engaging with any ship content from fans because it makes my partner uncomfortable” I would be like fucking awesome I didn’t want you to be engaging in the ship stuff anyways but it’s never that is it? It’s always an enforcement of control over their fanbase that they depend on for their livelihood. You have to appreciate my art the correct way. If you don’t appreciate my art the correct way you’re not allowed to appreciate my art. Anish Kapoor ass behavior

hallowedlaboratory

hey, I really hate to ask for help like this, but I recently got fired for what I can only assume was being nonbinary, as they gave no reason. I've been looking for another job for a couple weeks, but getting nowhere.

the thing is, I have two cats.

and I'm running out of cat food and litter.

I honestly don't even care about myself. I care about making sure I can feed my babies...

so here's an Amazon wishlist with cat food and litter. please, help. if I can't get more food for them, I'm going to have to give them up, and while I'd really prefer to not to, I will, for their health. please... help me with my babies while I keep trying to find another job?