aria/lethe. adult. it/its for all + (s)he for friends
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about me:
mcyt sideblog. passionate about mcrp/yt as an artform wrt narrativisation, building, and its possible intersections with & explorations of trauma, but returning to the medium after a multi-year hiatus. also deeply invested in the spectral presence of rene girard. interested in game studies but poorly read. you'll find the life series, hermitcraft, lifesteal, and @divorcesteal on here. I'm also playing on community life! you can find my other lifers under the tag #communitycraft on tumblr :D
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expectations:
I don't respond to bait and don't do internet arguments. this is a boundary I set instead of eschewing all discourse because I believe in facilitating productive discourse that is expansive and inclusive as opposed to reductive and exclusionary. be civil on my posts and in my inbox, and approach people in good faith as best you can.
disclaimer:
I don't tend to follow people back unless we know each other, but I follow tags and am interested in connecting! please approach with caution as you would a stray and skittish cat (because i am one). it may take me some time to respond, and often I may not respond at all. this doesn't mean I don't want to talk! I am physically and psychiatrically disabled as well as autistic, and this affects how I socialise online.
hi everybody i would just like to remind you that if you're one of the skin artists that makes tens to hundreds of skins for FREE for all of the comp mc events out there, some that are even used by creators who make money off of playing said events, that there is a DEADLINE that you should be aware of if you want to voluntarily submit any skin designs to have a chance for your work SHOWCASED on the BIG STAGE and maybe even get a SHOUT OUT for your UNPAID WORK ! xx
(i would recommend checking out the profiles and galleries of work that the skin artists have. the following is by no means a comprehensive list, but i'm hoping this can be even a little bit insightful and introduce you to some of the people who spend so much time making skins for creators who sometimes won't even pronounce their usernames correctly. that is, if they even remember to mention their username.
perhaps notable is how young these people tend to be, and how some of them have donation goals on their own pinned. keep in mind also how skins essentially function as a cc's Brand in these space.)
@/magmaSt0rm
@/KingfishingMike
@/nokiwis_
@/spacebr0wnies
@/Paraclipse_
@/maskyzee
@/TotallyVelvet
@/FurryLIDL
@/stefaniaa_mc
@/fruityautumn
@/enderara
@/dovi_pi
i am aware that cam is one of the more conscious players wrt consistently crediting skin artists for any skins that he and his teams use, and he tends to take the time to give actual proper shoutouts to them over the course of his streams, but this still puts a sour taste in my mouth for many, many reasons (unpaid fan labour. it's about the unpaid fan labour..)
of course, some of the artists do get paid for their skins, but that is rarer of an occurrence than i would prefer it to be :(
Concience, Optimism, Creativity, Kindness...is this anything?
My personal Joe Hills Experience fresh out the oven under the cut:
I've started drawing this Joe piece (Jiece?) yesterday after work but the migrane did me in halfway so I conked out early. Woke up at 4 am, checked if anybody's streaming and lo and behold - Joe Hills just started. (Somehow I am already following him on twitch? I have no memory of ever being on his stream before) Joe's talking about a new book from my favorite at the moment author, immediate bonding moment. No webcam on the screen, wait no, there is a webcam it's a tiny 80px Joe on top of a green glass in the last hotbar slot. Someone sent a tip and Joe gets bigger, he is on greenscreen, in a green cap and green glasses, he picks up an abaccus to count the tip??
I get my first morning coffee and decide to also send some. He. He reads it aloud and then sings a happy song to me specifically!! Pure Delight! Meanwhile Joe is building a Mardi Gras float that throws dispensers at you, in front of his flint build in the shopping district that throws arrows if you remove armor, the mardi gras float involves lots of armor stands and armors, arrows keep shooting and he picks them and puts back into the dispenser, sysyphus is taking notes. Did i mention he's building a mardi gras float an hour before mardi gras starts?
Frenetic energy of homework due tomorrow fills the air, even though it's 5 am on a tuesday and I'm like, 34, I feel it too. More tips come in and Joe keeps getting bigger on screen, which is good for me specifically actually since I am actively drawing him at this very moment, the reference is spectacular. Joe goes on a lil break and plays a couple of his songs while away. Certifed bops and bangers, both of them! Someone in chat writes the funniest thing ever and I audibly yell, Joe shares a lot of wisdom which I agree with.
It's 6 am, DocM77 logs in and comes in to check out the build. I am in the same timezone as Doc, why is he on a regular tuesday online at 6am?? Doesnt matter, everyone is having a deligfhtful time. Joe makes a haiku, as he does, as he finishes the Mardi Gras float at midnight right on time for the Mardi Gras. Stream ends. It is 7 am, I have to go to work now I guess? After having a Joesperience??? Anyway, if you ever have some income you dont mind sparing - keep it hidden until you somehow end up on Joe stream and send him a tip, a Joespirience is something anyone could benefit from.
The mardigras video is up on his channel right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epoATDqjJDQ
“Some jerk made a thing that im going to make fun of! Please be cobblestone please be cobblestone…”
First of all. Etho mention 1 minute 45 seconds in. SECOND OF ALL- you didnt have time to look at the random thing that appeared in your forest but you set time out of you schedule for this???
idt dsmp can be accurately categorized as a "read watch for culture" type of media-object for mcyt but i really would love to say that it is whenever i recommend mcyt things yk
"dsmp is insane for a first read and you could get a similar grasp of mcrp through something lighter and more polished. it's a read for culture imo." kinda addicting as fuck no?
Dude, I just wanted to tell you that I think you’re a genius 😅. I just saw your Ethubs poem? You are a master of what you do. The word choices? The way the longing is woven into the words effortlessly? And like, the way that even without any context it would still be powerful and still almost hurt in a good way, and still be a testament to online friendship, but *with* context, knowing who it’s about?? Ouch!?!? My favorite part was about showing the grin through the cubito’s crouch because OHHH MY GOD YEAH HE DOES DO THAT??!?? You’ve just weaved 15 years of friendship into this beautiful tapestry of words. You’re incredible!!
oh this is wonderfully sweet; thank you very much! I'm quite lucky to be working with such evocative material already, I think :P
CLEO: You're a millennial. And you DON'T know about He-Man?
SCAR: I'm in the bottom- I'm in the bottom- I'm in the bottom of the millennials. Like my brothers are more in the middle-ish. And I'm in the bottom part.
CLEO: Sure. Sure. With that moustache? [CLEO refers to SCAR's monopoly man Minecraft skin, that can be seen with a big fluffy white moustache]
SCAR: What?!
CLEO: With that moustache, and you're saying you're at the bottom of the millennials, sure.
SCAR: I'm at the bottom! I'm at the bottom!
CLEO: "I'm young! I'm hip!"
SCAR: I'm young! I'm young! I'm a bottom! I'm- you know, I'm down there, at the bottom of the millennials.
CLEO, laughing: You're a bottom?
SCAR: Yes!! I said I'm there at the bottom of it, jeez.
[CLEO laughs even harder]
SCAR: I'm not old!.. Ish. Kind of now, I feel old now!
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