I have no idea how I ended up in MCYT fandoms

Icon by @moomoorare! || Hi & welcome to my blog! New on this corner of tumblr, so there's not a lot here yet || Erda || Sideblog || I draw things sometimes || Watched hermitcraft since sometime in season six, watched empires since the beginning of season 2 || Legally an adult, for some reason

[erdasmcnonsense]

Quick intro post bc I realized I didn't have any sort of pinned post here. It is like 1am tho so this won't be anything too fancy

So like. hi!

You can call me Erda, or Erdariel. I'm not super psrticular abt pronouns so like. i usually use she/her but feel free to use whatever you think match the vibes i give off, or something. My first language doesn't do gendered pronouns anyway and I think they're kind of bullshit, so I just don't really care.

This blog is a mostly untagged mess

However my drawings /should be/ under the tag #my art (at least mostly; i'll try to ho back and check at some point when I have time)

Also if you like. need something tagged, you can send me an ask requesting I tag for that thing

This is a sideblog; i follow from elsewhere

If you want to check out my non-mcyt art (mostly for other fandoms), I post those in @erdarieldraws

If you wanna see what other fandoms I'm into, feel free to glance around at @fangirl-erdariel

[riacte]

Insert rant about how fanfic is treated as either “amazing” (literary masterpieces that are “even better” than published fiction) or “problematic” and not for what it is (literally a hobby anyone can participate in regardless of skill level). Especially in the MCYT sphere in which the CC fandom divide is ever so thinning and fans are self-mutilating their creativity to be more palatable in their own homes. The dichotomy of fanfic as either vulgar, shippy, smutty “trash” or “the few good ones” as determined arbitrarily. CCs making innuendos and going “oh, this will create some fanfics” because that’s what fanfics are only for, right? This is happening despite MCYT (as a vague and quite inaccurate collective) having a “reputation” for genfic circa 2021.

The quality of fanfic is inspected extremely harshly when it’s literally a hobby and you cannot monetise it as per Ao3. Never minding the creativity that gets to be displayed when there’s no motivation to earn money. Why does fanfic in particular have to be “good” to justify its existence. It’s a labour of love people do in their free time to connect with other fans. Why does the CC-fandom boundary feel increasingly transparent until it doesn’t seem fun to be fans anymore when you can get called out randomly on a public stage. Why does it all fucking suck

[gundreeptor]

Their stupid roleplay captivated me...

[erdasmcnonsense]

Often when sorrow and sleep together Bind the worn lonely warrior It seems in his heart that he holds and kisses The lord of the troop and lays on his knee His head and hands as he had before In times gone by at the gift-giver’s throne...

[alukslice]

Spectrogram

[autumnwhistles]

something about martyn and ren's first encounter being in a phantom attack. something about phantoms being mobs that attack you because you haven't slept, because you don't have anywhere to sleep, because you don't have a home. something about ren protecting martyn by inviting him into the space beneath soon-to-be-Renchanting, by giving him that home...

[crastlefolke]

*raises hand* joels car is representative of not just his constant refusal to play to fan desires and expectations but also what kinds of builds are deemed "acceptable" by life series fans (and potentially players). despite being a minecraft world where people can build whatever they want, the life series players typically go down the route of medieval/fantasy/"timeless" bases. joel's car therefore comes across as anachronistic even though there is no reason for a car not to exist—lifers mention modern technology all the time—and some fans come to dislike it because joel is breaking the immersion for them by living in a modern, common object they can probably see just by looking out a window. in this essay i will—

anon come back NOW i need that essay

[cherrifire]

Here are all the Past Life thumbnails I made for Martyn!

[rinzxii]

It’s still you.

[applestruda]

Time will change you

[strelitzien-gewaechs]

i think. ive seen this film before

[click for better quality]

[alsnoble]

“Well, the villains normally lose. That’s how the stories go.”

Gem’s quote really hit me this session. It’s traditional in story that the hero triumphs over the villain.

But this is the life series, and we have seen villains win. Pearl, Martyn and Scar were all a sort of “villain” in the seasons that they won (that makes three seasons in a row). Grian could very well also be seen as an antagonistic force depending on what perspective of third life you watch.

Now we have past life, and the only team that has ever actively strived to be and proudly claimed the title of Villain. At the start, it really seemed like the established pattern might continue. They killed as greens, all while avoiding any danger for themselves. The whole server turned against them, but they just couldn’t seem to die. Then there was the pitiful siege of the lighthouse. It did nothing. It seemed like they would never be brought down, unless by their own hands.

But as Gem said, like in the stories, the villains’ reign always comes to an end. And this time, as is often the case, it’s the one that seemingly least deserves it who pays the price.

This isn’t how the life series normally goes. The villains aren’t supposed to be so utterly humiliated. Maybe that’s why Pearl’s death feels like such a shock, the continuous blows dealt on her, until she had nothing left.

This isn’t how the life series go, but this is how the stories go, and this is the way Pearl’s story ends.

[prismartist]

i love trying to rationalize bigB because sometimes there is an explanation, it's just the most confusing moral compass ever. "why did bigB form an allyship with the villies" well you see with the other rejects close to being eliminated, bigB felt that they were no longer a good longterm commitment and wanted another team to fall back on. gem actually offered allyship to him earlier in the season. "why did bigB just arbitrarily lie to grian then" well you see bigB only promised the rejects that he wouldn't lie to them and grian is not a reject. "but he's trying to build trust with him??" yeah i mean bigB also lies to the rejects sometimes so like. you can't trust him to not do that. that'd be silly.

[quicksilversnails]

This screenshot is from wl but continues to be relevant. The confusingness is essential <3

[kaledo-art]

Villains base, ep. 5

Still waiting for that tnt canon on top of theirs lighthouse

[erdasmcnonsense]

Okay I am having the weirdest fucking issue with art of Past Life Pearl's newest skin that I see on my dash

I've been so conditioned to go oh white hair black clothes that's Raistlin (an evil wizard from Dragonlance Legends; technically he should have metallic golden skin but I got into Dragonlance through PI which just goes for a pale makeup instead) that I keep not recognizing her, then just going wait why does he have red eyes, and only then clocking that it's one of the mcyt blogs I follow that reblogged that and it's actually Pearl instead

[kaledo-art]

Lost Generation, ep. 5 of Past Life

this base is getting bigger and more beautiful. I hope its not prone to explode during improvisation events

[casivarn]

this bit was just cute I had to draw it

[cremdotexe]

There's something genuinely so wicked about the contrast between Scar, getting 6 kills but accidentally killed his teammates in the process because he triggered the trap too early, VS Tango, who refused to even TOUCH a hair on Impulse's head even with his insistence (tragically was never going to work) and ended up not getting a kill because he triggered his trap too late.