World of Stories and Blocks

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[archivist-historian-blocks]

[ Introduction ]

[ WIP ]

[underratedmcyts]

a new blog? FOR UNDERRATED MCYTS?

OUTTA MY WAY GAYBOY IM BOUTTA GET IT!

GO WATCH CONTENT BY IVORYTV (prev. known as MYTHRODAK). i love her so much GEHEHBRHSAGBRR.

she blew up mainly for her prison escape series that actually started to have a story (and esp for the video of her escaping the dsmp vault) and Gwuahbedbdh theyre all so good. EVERY day i think abt the Escaping the minecraft abyss video. its stuck in my brain. WATCH HER FOREVER . OR ELSE !!!!

SECONDED!!! Ivory's old videos are a classic and extremely iconic - they're great to rewatch and you keep coming back to them because the storytelling is just that good! The video editing may have set a new standard in my& eyes for how good Minecraft videos can be, and for many Ivory was an introduction into the wonderful and fun scene of Minecraft prison escapes! And let's not forget the absolutely gorgeous skin that I& still foam at the mouth every time about-

I& would also like to point out that Ivory's newer videos are just as enjoyable to watch as the old ones, if not more - her second channel in particular has a few faves :]

[waddei]

playing in the water again after so long

[carpboy3000]

even the moon wants you to move on

what a journey! this piece isn't even super complicated, but its such a departure in so many ways from what i'm used to that it ended up taking about a month to finish, just because I could never get it to look right. i think im proud of the final result though :)

the original name of this piece was "condolences, and then life goes on." great song, heartbreaking vibes. gave me many ideas for symbolism (^^)v

[mother-of-platypus]

So like, Grian and Pearl often depicted with wings, but Gem has no wings. I imagine between the sessions, they make a makeshift wings for Gem so she doesn't feel left out. They also tied some sticks on their head to match Gem.

[valeriapryanikova]

see all evil

[cocoabats]

back to the past

[archivist-historian-blocks]

PAST LIFE!??!

It should have been so fucking obvious to me in the first place!

The three hearts melting into a clock, turning counterclockwise, turning into an infinite symbol before it transformed into the Watcher eye with a slightly slowed down version of the signature intro music for Grian's Evo series.

Fuck it. This series is just a casual enjoyment and I'll dive in the meaty aspects someday.

[cerealsnail]

all the little people

[great-axepectations]

I'm imagining the next Life Series (EVO 2 electric boogaloo) to start like

Everyone else: Wow, we're starting with a very old version of minecraft and each week we're moving forward in time through versions! What a unique gimmick! This should be an interesting challenge and make some great nostalgic content! ^-^

Grian and Martyn and Jimmy and Pearl and BigB:

[millastaria]

Could you draw mini fella watcher!Grian? I would love to see if a heldrge horror creature could be made cute!

today's mini fella is watcher grian! 💚💛❤️👁️

[naio-j]

i’m still catching up on Hermitcraft, i need to continue Misadventures, I NEVER FINISHED EVO! And you’re telling ME! that there’s a new season of the Life Series potentially two weeks away?!

i mean i’m excited but also i was used to the schedule. The schedule guys….

[archivist-historian-blocks]

Honestly, I feel like there's not much of a fanbase for Evo SMP, not just the Watchers, Grian, the Listeners, but any fanart to the other creators of their builds, shenanigans, hijinks and all of the usual SMP life, even including creators that are not Hermits or Life Series participants or even in the MCYT space.

How's about we change that by pretending that Evo SMP just started recently.

Make fanworks of their builds, the shenanigans, maybe some little non-Watcher/Listener lore of the different creators, ramble about why and how something you like stuck out to you, makes memes and whatever!

Evo SMP needs more love and appreciation. 💜

[xelqua-the-jester]

NOBODY FUCKING MOVE.

SOURCE: GRIAN'S INSTAGRAM

OH MY GOD.

[livstudioss]

I DIDN'T KNOW THE MUSIC FROM THE END WAS FROM EVO???? I'M SHAKINH OH MY GOD

[artofthevoid]

I. WHAT??!!!

[artofthevoid]

I need to come back and analyze this later.

[artofthevoid]

Ok. First things first: the hearts are backwards. The clock is also turning backwards.

This makes me think that the new season is going to be a "rewind" in some way. Past Life? Reverse Life? I'm guessing a repeat of previous seasons' mechanics, possibly all of them individually on a per-episode basis, maybe even with a big finale where all/most of them are active in the same episode. (This deduction is partially based off the trailer, partially based off what happened in Wild Life, and partially just a wild guess because I think it would be cool.)

Adding to this, the video itself seems to rewind at the end, and there's a soft ticking in the first piece of music. I'm not sure if that first music has any significance beyond that, but, yeah, the second part is evo music.

The evo symbol in the middle there has been noted several times already, but I still think it's worth mentioning. And then of course the eye, which is the most obviously interesting part of all of this, and also the most blatant watcher reference that's been presented like this so far.

Conclusion: With all of the rewind effects and the references to evo and the watchers, I suspect this season is going to go through all the previous "versions" of the life series and have a heavy amount of lore. So yeah big day for the life series fandom

[demons-art-hell]

Don't you love watching yourself grow more and more inhuman?

Do you fear seeing what you've become when you look in the mirror? And yet you can't look away

Sometimes when you're drawing, 'I'm going to make all of the eyes look at him because he's horrified of what he has become. He can't look away' turns into 'Wow! This art really redirects your gaze to Grian's eyes!' Sometimes drawing meaning turns into creating artistic symbolism. On accident

Broken mirror versions + versions with anaglyph effect below the cut (red/blue glitch effect)

If you noticed the detail of the golden feather tips turning into the watcher eyes I am in love with you

[hybbart]

The hosts of the games (minus Grian, who hosted 3rd life himself) Each one was hosted by a watcher inspired by the original game to host their own.

lore below

The Boogieman (he/she) loves bloodsports and the drama of betrayal, so she created a game in which curses were bestowed upon players (some more permanent than others) and gave them the ability to gain and lose more hearts in order to encourage violence. He hosted Last Life after seeing how Grian's game ended and wanted more red life drama.

The Spinner (they/them) loves the relationship drama and tragedy of the games, so made a mechanic to pair up the players. Their favourite biome is the Ancient City because of its horror movie (the true romantic genre supposedly) like atmosphere, so they built the arena atop one. They cursed golden apples to break bonds and put them in the game hoping at least one of the pairs would participate int he drama of consuming them, but the planned failed to their annoyance.

The Clockmaker (any) is a control freak who interfered the most forwardly with their games. They wanted the most chances possible for stories and gaming, so created a mechanic to allow for more deaths and strategies. They ended up breaking Limited Life more often than not with their strange mechanics. They wanted a centrepiece to their arena similar in danger to the pillager outpost Double Life incidentally had, but broke it while attempting to make resources more plentiful to minimize time resource gathering.

The Secret Keeper (it/its) wanted to create a more relaxed game with more ridiculous and silly situations, so inserted itself into the game to hand out tasks to do instead of mull around until the players kill each other and mechanics to discourage hurting each other directly. It doesn't care for the drama the others before it loved so much, and didn't both maintaining the curses Boogieman placed leading to some of them breaking.

[calocreek]

Grian is a human!! (part 1 possibly)

(my minecraft + mcyt tag)