rii

galaxy duo enjoyer | any prns | eng/ukr | about me

[cuddelv1sh]

woof

[quietwingsinthesky]

its so weird to me that cis people will dislike their name so ardently and yet. not change it. you guys know that’s an option, right. no one can make you keep the shit name your mom gave you. no, not even her.

[shaddybon]

The happiest pair of soulmates

[renat11soldman3]

back in the scottage again

[okmchi1]

so I rewatched pearls double life pov and I forgot how much I missed them

[w-0-w-z-a]

I am a sinner, you are a saint.

[ariineii]

Will you do a collab with me? 😈

perhaps ^_^ if whatever im having right now isn't gonna grow into an even bigger art block anytime soon. but yes id love to ^_^

[semifontos]

Yeah, sorry, I have never seen that thing every other person on this planet has. Yeah, it's because I've only ever watched minecraft in my entire life. Yeah, sorry. Sorry. I'm so sorry

[sevenfourteen71]

so cute

[ju5tanarti5t]

Happy anniversary double life!

[renat11soldman3]

What you must be joking! Weren't us the best gatekeep girlboss ever!? What did we do?!?!

[renat11soldman3]

the girls and the gays are fighting again

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[renat11soldman3]

never left double life award

[ink7500]

Scott and Pearl Life Series designs!

Individual drawings under the cut! :)

[carpboy3000]

at the mercy of the moon

Manimani by r-906 is very past life pearl. So past life pearl, in fact, that I got possessed by the muses and made an entire music video in a week. Go check it out! There's some bonus villies angst in it + a very cool rock :)

[renat11soldman3]

holiday season

[wyrmartie]

I often go insane over the fact that the best instance of an aromantic critique of the classic "soulmate AU" is from a minecraft series but like. Holy shit!!!!!!

An aromantic reading of Double Life is literally about how a system built on over-reliance on a singular (romantically implied) relationship, especially one you cannot choose, leads to people being ostracised and isolated because there is no built-in community to fall back on if that relatiosnhip ever goes wrong. It's a study in how amatonormativity hurts everyone in the long run and we see it play out with MULTIPLE soulmate pairings.

The most prominent example is of course that the importance of Pearl's isolation isn't even that Scott rejected her, it's that Martyn left her too (despite the fact that Cleo and Scott clearly expected the two of them to team up), it's that nobody else would give her a hand, it's that the rest of the server came to view Pearl as scary and strange and unwanted because she didn't have a soulmate, and they did, so why would they bother to take her in? That's not how the system works, she's supposed to be with her soulmate.

Then we have further examples with how pairings like Scar and Grian, or Ren and BigB stay with each other despite being unhappy and full of conflict because That's What You're Supposed To Do. We have people reacting to Scott and Cleo's choice to live together (a sort of narrative queerness) with skepticism and disdain. There develops a classic facet of amatonormativity where endurance is a virtue, where it's better to stay in an unhappy relationship than to be alone or to go against the grain.

DOUBLE LIFE ISN'T ABOUT HOW "THE SOULMATE SYSTEM WOULDVE BEEN PERFECT IF EVERYONE WAS JUST HAPPY WITH IT." IT'S ABOUT HOW THE SYSTEM IS INHERENTLY FLAWED, BUILT TO STIFLE COMMUNITY AND OSTRACISE THOSE WHO DON'T FIT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!