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The ultimate Ethubs Archive playlist is finished! Every Ethubs video in order from 2011 to yesterday!

I like when they do things together so here is literally every single time they've done things together... In chronological order! Will upda

Additions are welcome! Especially for the mindcrack era bc I know there’s some missing

angelbabymikaa

there is something wrong with me but together there could be something wrong with us <3

cocosdailyetho

600 // Chicago

(Ayooo 600 days no way so cool !! yay)

plantjedi

Siigghhhhh

Just another day of me being a general menace to my co-workers :3

Shout out to them for dealing with me and my accident prone self

suddenlysprite

Moving house tomorrow

theoneofwhomisblue

Be careful, I've heard they're heavy

eggshellsareneat

Not mine, mine is a

entryn17

drawing is all sbout becoming good at illustrating one character at 3/4 angle and nothing else no backgrounds no props no furniture no money no job no future

cobblestone-butch

the ethubs of silent agreement

that-house

i'm gonna be me forever and im gonna get really really good at it

eatpussypraylove

cactusringed

I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.

You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??

rooksacrifice

THIS!!! One of my favorite things to think about when writing is how you create tension to drive the narrative forward. Of course this can be done in a number of ways with interpersonal dynamics or the "surface plot" as it were, but where fanfiction really shines in this regard is DRAMATIC IRONY! Like in Romeo in Juliet where *we* as the audience know Juliet is only sleeping but Romeo thinks she's dead. As a fic writer you can operate under the assumption that your audience has a certain familiarity with the source material and you can absolutely play that to your advantage in ways you never could in original fiction.

OP's example of having a big bad we all know haunt the narrative until their reveal is a classic. One of my other faves is (especially good in an AU) recontextualizing events or dialogue from canon in unexpected ways to either give catharsis or to create an ironic plot twist.

I suppose I've seen it done where it can read as a storytelling "crutch" but in the really solid fics I've read, my all-time faves, the author does this so elegantly. In some ways I dont consider it THAT different from when a lot of 20th century and earlier authors assume their readership came to the table with a knowledge of the classics & so could be assured they would "get the reference" if they drew parallels to the Odyssey or something. Or when authors have little references or intertextuality that shows their piece is clearly in dialogue with their contemporaries. Anyway I love fanfiction as viewed as its own genre of fiction.

shadexxxx

Spreading my “etho is a fantastic kisser” agenda because I can. He’s good at everything so naturally he’d be good at kissing. Also I think that all the bottled up emotions and things that he can’t express in words (cue all the “i have trouble saying what I mean” clips…) are more easily communicated through physical affection. Anyways.

#Ethubs #I lwk headcannon this too

shadexxxx

“The chest is gonna signify to Etho and others…”

RIGHT CUZ THATS WHAT THIS ENTIRE GAME IS. ITS FOR ETHO… and the rest of them.

They make me sick.

illegitimatechildren

“nobody at this crane wives concert knows im thinking about scarian” statistically unlikely i know at LEAST ONE OF YOU GAY ASSES ARE STILL STUCK IN THE DESERT

#As an ethubser im gonna be stuck in the DAMN NETHER HUB #black hole fantasy #the crane wives #ethubs #scarian

lectern-fullcauldron

gotta say I really loved scar's storage wars. It really brought me back to how to kill a tango. I fucking love it when the hermits make opportunities for the others to showcase their creativity and skills in a silly little competition because it shows us how the hermits say I love you (just like when mumbo takes pictures and cub builds old bases and Cleo makes custom maps and xbralis play games and Joe pops in to play games and ask informed questions and everyone descends to help pearl)

mintbees

Deeply embarrassing confession during quarantine I struggled with brushing my teeth for the recommended time and so I got a “tooth brushing” song so every morning and evening for a year long I brushed my teeth to the hermitcraft rap that is excactly as bad as youd think a rap song written and performed by white people who play minecraft for a living is but it was perfect for brushing your teeth to and I’ve never found a replacement since can they get back in the booth

mintbees