I lied, it is a MC side blog

getting dragged back into MCYT whether I like it or not, apparently (I do, the people are great) | pfp made by the wonderful @wraithdoge

[definitelynotamcsideblog]

Realizing I should probably make a pinned post whoops. Never done that before.

Anyways. Hi! You can call me Rouge, or Fenris. I don't particularly care which. Pronouns are he/they.

I've gotten dragged back into MCYT for reasons unknown and it's making me want to write fanfic again after nearly ten years (thank you SBK). I'm mostly making this blog for Skyblock Kingdoms and related SMPs.

Uhhh. I think that's it. Bye.

Edit: being unkind to others gets you blocked. Be good to each other.

[akcioma]

Here are my parts and check out the whole zine here: @sbks2apprzine !

[eagle-warri]

Finally got around to something quite important to the town…the Fall. (Second person ficlet under the cut, mild horror elements mostly concerned with a place eating you and supernaturally induced altered mental states)

Everyone has experienced it. Or at least, everyone considered a part of town has. No one will ever really say the name, but everyone knows what it means when they say that someone has Fallen.

They say the dark is hungry in Esbek. They say the woods can eat you. They say to not ever stray from the path.

There are warning signs. The woods will get quieter around you, the beasts know to stay away. You will check your pockets and find yourself missing something you could’ve sworn you brought or…did you? You thought you did, but. It isn’t here, and you didn’t feel it fall, so…you must not have. Your head will go light, the ground will feel less solid beneath you, vertigo like you’re at the edge of a cliff. Once it’s gone silent, it’s too late. The animals do not go here. There is no one here to save you. The dark will eat you alive here. Your stomach dropping like you are falling too far and

You wake up in your bed. Safe in your bed, even though your heart is racing and you’re covered in cold sweat and…weren’t you just in the woods? You could’ve sworn you were going out there for something…and yes you remember going in but. You don’t quite remember leaving. You must’ve left though. Maybe you had a nightmare. A nightmare you didn’t remember, but what else could it be? The jokes about the woods eating you were just jokes, after all…right?

Getting some food in you would probably help, and you want to be around people right now. So, the diner it is. The regulars look up when the bell rings over the door, and one of them raises their drink, just slightly. You sit down, at a booth or the table or the counter, and Anathra brings over your usual with a slight smile. “On the house.”

And oddly, as the conversation around the diner restarts (you didn’t quite notice…it must’ve stopped when you came in), you feel a bit more at home here than you did before.

[vampostingtime]

apoposting

[vampostingtime]

and some unsorted ones! plus one bonus one featuring ✨me✨

[thoughtsofananon]

Go my Puddleshine beam blast

[eagle-warri]

Realizing I forgot something quite important: what all the kingdoms actually are in Esbek.

acacia: A set of hot springs, run by Ruby and Acorn. They never take off their masks, part of the branding they say. The branding says it will banish your bad dreams. The fine print says to never sleep there.

bamboo: A botanical garden half set into the woods, foxes running among the grasses. You almost never see Piepie in town, seeming much more at home in the woods. Nature’s a much more common sight, but she has her own oddities about her.

birch: A museum in town, run by a pair of siblings who inherited it from a relative. There aren’t any clocks in the museum, and you can’t help but feel like time is passing differently, but Viking and Vintage don’t seem to see anything wrong so…surely it’s fine?

cherry: Two friends who recently moved to town. Devon has taken to the town much better than Doovid has. I’m sure the noises from the sewers are unrelated.

jungle: An abandoned development, half constructed and grown through with trees and ivy. The old cranes are still there, if you look close enough. Legundo says he doesn’t know anything about the development, even though he moved in almost right as construction on it stopped. M1g says he doesn’t know anything about it either, though that one makes more sense. He won’t even say anything about his brother.

mangrove: A swamp on the edge of the woods with quite a lot of rumors around it. A fish monster in the roots and an arsonist’s stash somewhere in the trees. Of course, Elffe and Kitt wouldn’t know anything about that. Even if Elffe smiles with teeth a bit too sharp and Kitt will never say how she ended up in town.

nether: A diner on the road in and out of town. Anathra seems a bit too young for his white hair, and the constant sunglasses are certainly a choice. And you’re never quite sure how many Fools there are. You could swear you’ve seen them with different hair and eyes but…even if there are more, they claim there’s only one.

oak: A pair of sailors who have lived in town as long as most can remember. Just…ignore the lack of a major body of water. And the fact that occasionally, neither Trog nor Quillbee seem quite themselves.

poak: A section of the forest that burned down, and an old factory that did the same. No one is sure which one came first. But the trees grew back ashen and the fireflies look like cinders. Skye and Milkman are a bit more…wooden around outsiders than most, and if they know what happened, they aren’t saying.

spruce: A ski resort on the nearby mountain. Quite a popular place, especially with their prime attraction, a railless ice skating and hockey rink near the peak. Nuke and Leon run the place well, even if they constantly seem to be yearning for other elements, Nuke for the air and Leon for the water.

Season 1 skyheads are citizens, and used to be seen around the town a lot more often, but those sightings have become a lot rarer. The doubled kingdoms and guests are outsiders to town, coming into this odd little place and finding it…quite hard to leave.

Feel free to send in asks to look for elaboration on a kingdom, or to suggest something that doesn’t fall into any of the kingdoms already!

(And a huge thanks to Loudn, Fenris, Arrow, Roseic, Stars, Kit, and Era for helping us come up with ideas!)

[eagle-warri]

Some more on that Old Esbek…

How old the town is really depends on who you ask and what stories they tell, but usually it’s between 100 to 200 years old. As for what happened well…not many people talk about it. The official stories claim earthquakes destroyed most of the town, rockslides from the nearby mountain taking out what was left, at least a few fires starting somewhere in the wreckage. Of course…there are unofficial stories. Murmurs in the dead of night. They say the dark can eat you alive. And that void can get oh so hungry when the lights get too bright.

[eagle-warri]

What happens if you get lost in the wonderland diner?

Or, how long until it becomes permanent?

- Coughs as I hand you wonderland eating people bait ++++

my good friend you know us too well +

You'll hear people laugh if you ever say that. Lost? It's a diner, you can't get lost in a diner. Still. People heed the warning to never go through the employees only door.

If they catch you in time, see you sneaking into that place you're not supposed to be, it's not really that bad. Sure, you'll probably end up a bit disoriented, and almost certainly with your sense of time messed up. The clock says it's only been a few minutes, even though it felt like you were wandering there for hours. But the owners will laugh it off and someone will guide you back to your seat and in a few days it will be as if it were only a bad dream.

But if they don't, late night or busy day or what have you, well...sometimes, you can make it through the maze. Even if it takes days. Even if the "Emergency Exit Only" door you find at the end of it does not take you to the woods that surrounded the diner before, but instead to sprouting fields of mushrooms in the same shade of red and teal that the diner is decked in. And you know how mushrooms can be. They love to spread, and they love to feed.

Wonderland does always have good mushroom specials.

[eagle-warri]

"There's a town deep in the woods, trees of all kinds, even those that shouldn't grow there. The town is strange, with even stranger residents. Nothing all that strange can ever be proven, but nevertheless, there's something unsettling about it.

A cute sign on the road, a cloud and a crown in a cartoon style, welcomes you to Esbek."

~~~~~

I have had a new idea and I’m making it everyone’s problem. Welcome to Esbek is an au in which the Skyblock Kingdoms you know and love is now a completely normal small town! So long as you ignore all the horrors.

The skyheads are all citizens in town, with Doak2 and Birch2 being outsiders to it. Of course, 20 people does not a town make, and so the chatters, mods, and fans fill in supporting roles and help build up the town’s life.

And of course, no normal town would be complete without the horrors, and Esbek has plenty to offer. Between the ashen trees and fireflies that look like cinders around the old factory that burnt down, the museum where time doesn’t pass quite right, the labyrinth behind the employees only door in Wonderland diner, the mangrove swamp that probably doesn’t have any monsters lurking in it, the old abandoned construction site overgrown and reclaimed by the woods, and the ski resort and hot springs always competing for the eye of travelers, there’s plenty of places for secrets to hide.

Though, do pay mind to the warnings of the townsfolk. The dark is hungry. And they are not responsible for if you Fall.

Feel free to send in asks for specifics!

[sbk-writing-zine]

The SBK writing zine is a zine dedicated to celebrating the amazing authors in the sbk community! Similar to the way special editions of books will have the main story with interspersed artworks of the characters, each kingdom will have a writer and an artist who will write a fic about a kingdom, then draw the characters from the fic.

The goal is to create an AO3 collection to send in the Skyblock Kingdoms Community Discord, with the art being posted on Tumblr. Artists and writers may post their works individually after the zine is completed. As a result we will be following creator rules regarding content, so long as the rules in question can be easily found.

(Note this is not the mods taking a moral stance on rule breaking content in fandom spaces, just that this zine is meant to be shared in creator spaces so it and it's discord will follow those rules.)

Writers are expected to write 750 to 3k words in their fic, but that is a soft range and can be discussed with the mods individually. 

Artists are expected to draw both island partners together in some way inspired by the fic, either the designs if they're different from canon, or a scene from the fic. 

Applications will begin on July 12th and close around the 19th. The goal will be to have applications sorted and responded to by the end of July, with the creating period being a minimum of beginning of August to beginning of November, with extensions going up to January if necessary. 

SBK Writing Zine Applications

Applications for the SBK Writing Zine, made by DragoPrinceStars with help from Varteeny, Teddy T, and Mossfeathers Tumblr: @sbk-writing-zin

After the writer deadline, artists will have an additional 2 weeks for finishing touches after the fic has finished.

While this zine planning started before the information came out about Marma1ade and Avidmc, we want to make it clear we do not support their actions and stand with sbk. It is difficult to remove their influence from all of sbk, especially with writing, so mentions of them are not banned, but please keep their involvement in your stories to a minimum.

We will not be including Birch2 and Doak2 in this zine because they were on the server for too short of a time for their characters to become fully developed, and mods feel as though it would be difficult for writers to get a solid grasp of the characters without drawing entirely on other series or headcanons.

[betweenlands]

basically at this point with the lines being drawn you are apparently either anti-harassment or pro-boundaries

[betweenlands]

and, to be clear, it actively disgusts us how many people have been coming out of the woodwork as proudly pro-harassment just because the person happens to have said something they especially dislike.

you should be ashamed of yourselves. don't make exceptions to who deserves grace and kindness based on how much they happen to tick you off. use your platform responsibly, not to expose people you dislike to potential harm. be better.

[testosterone-would-save-them]

my friend kit's oc Sparrow (tumblr @sparrowaces)

Testosterone would save Sparrow from sparrowaces!

[yourfavinablender]

Eugene Coli from Detective Beebo: Night at the Mansion has been put in a blender (hatefully)

[sbk-doodles-today]

[varteeny1234]

vagueposting again but hey, a dni tag has more purposes than just "stuff a cc doesnt like" and we all know this, right? shy fans who make perfectly within-rules art but dont always want cc interaction exist, fans who make cool art but dont want to accidentally spoil the cc for a lore server exist, fans who want to make a long critical analysis of a series/storyline without worrying about whether the cc gets personally offended and upset exist

[mallowbees]

came across these image- i guess you could call them edits?- we did from last year and started giggling about them again.