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[ersatzcontorta]

vermin/dog/fuck it ersatz is fine too - it/they

- non mcyt blog @autopsiedsage, interacts from @verminty.

- we post rpf and suggestive to outright explicit shit here sir, your viewer discretion is advised. there’s a heavy bias towards etho and bdubs but not an exclusive one. anti skizz and grian at times, skizz for ideological reasons and grian for little hater reasons.

- discourse/mcyt critical shit is going to be found here too, tagged under #block drama. this will include kvetching about fans/fandom itself. (generalized, not specific people)

- and also art if the inclination strikes me, tagged under #ersatzart

- no dni for this blog specifically, just don’t be a dick, i block (heh) liberally.

transfem ethoposting master primer

^ compiled by the lovely and indomitable @/a-phantasiac, this is required reading for my blog i tfem ethopost a fucking Lot.

free pdf + audiobook of whipping girl by julia serano

under the cut is just etho centric cute moments vvv

[fipindustries]

[shulkersneow]

decked out gay house?

[femtho]

trying to really nail down and simplify the core ideas of the life series as a whole, bc i'm very interested in trying to look at these "goals" and how they tend to be affected by the introduced mechanics n such each season. but like ive been looking at my screen for so long and i feel like i can still reduce them some more

[femtho]

a reply so awesome im now making up some bullshit that isnt even true maybe......anyways yeah i think i was stuck on that separation between social and virtual (virtual being specific to the mechanics of minecraft itself) whereas both fit the definition of a resource. so #WIN

so now im just like. vaguely figuring out how i want to propose the way these two goals tend fo affect each other, or at the very least how the "world goal" itself inspires players to act - and i think a lot of it just revolves around balancing (with the goal of maximising?) social and virtual rewards.

because while i do propose the split, i think its important to see how the two constantly feed into each other (a lot of which can be credited to multiplayer minecraft itself, and less so 3rd life). As, even with going gathering for purely "virtual" resources, i.e. going caving, gathering wood, or anything like that, the design of the world necessitates exploring, and therein pushes you towards a potential social reward, too: finding other players.

this can then be tied back to both our "world" and "player" goals: inviting collaboration and the potential for improv or narrative, AND then opening up new routes for the player to either gain social or virtual rewards.

i think the sticking point of what im throwing around here though is that i'm describing, again, a lot of the mechanics of multiplayer minecraft, and less so 3rd life. and im gonna throw rocks at a few walls in my head for a bit to see if i can get anything moving there, because while i think the added ruleset of "outlast all other players" changes the way that people fundamentally engage with the game, something about pushing that ruleset into the kind of structure i've suggested here makes my brain grind to a halt

[ersatzcontorta]

i think the answer you’re looking for when investigating The Life Series and also somewhat just the overarching genre collaborative smps itself like this is genuinely Metrics. Youtube is a game mechanic.

the question is what is the Purpose or intended core design of the life series, but many intended structures that all players obey were decided off of factors imposed by youtube as a system. every “round” of the life series is played simultaneously by all players within a strict time limit where everyone is aware everyone else is filming them at all times. narrativized performance is a game mechanic in the life series and this is due to youtube being a simultaneous system/game they’re participating in.

things that drive both plot and the battle royale gameplay forwards are primarily motivated by what would be good narrative decisions/feeling out satisfying hooks, not necessarily in a scripting way but just due to televised drama being the starting point and the goal. and it turns out spinning out soap opera esque interpersonal drama and also murdering cubitos gets you there.

[evilryx]

they're calling pearl the most daughterzonable minecraft youtuber of the decade (remembers people do nonincestuous family hcs) but like in a sex way (remembers past life) but it's not okay when jakey does it

[eatsroad]

can anyone get behind chaser bdubs with me. hello. anyone. okau

[eatsroad]

etho would let it slip during an LNC session that hes thought about being a girl but Every guy does that and the chaser neuron activates in bdubs' brain

[draculism]

'huffing on that bdoubleblunt' is a phrase i think about near daily but i look for it and it seems the post has vanished out of existence like a beautiful ghost

[bellshazes]

etho talking bdubs into pvp and he does sotf in vanilla ohhhhhhhhhh of fucking course.

[bellshazes]

one can really truly imagine etho and bdubs talking abt their season plans and etho going well you know that game i'd been working on in season 10, i'm kind of feeling like this is the time. and bdubs says well if you need building help just say the word! might even be willing to fix your shoddy redstone when you get stuck, if you treat me right. so etho says uh-huh and then they get sidetracked for like five minutes complimenting/demeaning each other abt their moss farms. but then etho's like but bdubs what's your big project this season. you gonna have time for me? and bdubs talks about the chateau-chalet whatever. that valley's no good for crastles, though. it's got a good shape though! and etho mhms and waits. bdubs admits well i've been thinking for a while, about - remember survival of the fittest? and etho says oh yeah but he means of course. so bdubs says you think it could be possible in vanilla, now? i've been wondering. and etho says i think you could do it. i think you should do it - we don't have any pvp games on the server! when was the last time we had one, really... bdubs waffles; i don't know, what if i can't. it's so big, and we're already this far into the season. so etho suggests like, well, i'll commit to my big project and you can commit to yours. we'll do it together. bdubs says or we'll fail together! and they laugh. it's true. etho says you can teach me how to build good redstone for it. help me out some. bdubs says he'll think about it and then spends his entire fucking episode that isn't about golf saying what he and etho talked about and not showing it. so here we are.

[averuin]

👍👍😁 >:]

[bigboobyhalo]

it's so like. when someone who's never been into MCYT says they hate MCYT I roll my eyes sooo bad because like you don't GET IT you were never invested in this YOU DON'T GET IT AND YOU NEVER WILL... but when someone who obviously dearly loved MCYT like I did says they hate MCYT I hold them closely in solidarity because yeah man. fuck all minecraft youtubers and streamers

[failedzerocyclepervert]

to be so serious for a moment though i do think viewing them as siblings actually adds a really interesting dimension to gems reaction to etho transitioning. like gem to me has such a need for control over how she's seen and the images she has of the people around her and a tendency to kind of put people into boxes? and i think it would really fuck with her head in beautiful ways to have the person she's put in the "protective older brother who i idolise but also make fun of and bicker with" box actually turn out to be a girl like it just starts to open up a rift between her image of etho and the reality that's getting harder to ignore. and i think she would have kind of a crisis about it at first and then push really hard to fit etho into a different box and try hard to play the role of the supportive younger sister guiding etho into womanhood with her wisdom. and make all kinds of suggestions that arent really suggestions and give etho her clothes to wear and give her tips on how to dress or style herself based on how gem dresses because they're sisters so if it suits gem it must suit etho too! and snort and call etho a weirdo when she doesnt listen! also i think they would have really weird sex about it.

[failedzerocyclepervert]

THESE TAGS LIKE YESSSS YOU WORDED IT SO PERFECTLY

[ethubbie]

the “etho wears 32 36 jeans” “bdubs is actually 5’8” combo attack really destroyed me. perfect storm to make me go insane

[hermitsex]

rearranged anatomy

[hermitsex]

wanted to see how this would look when coloured

[eatsroad]

etho stretches for the depraved

[eatsroad]

you take the lead right? so i dont have to think?

[kllem]

Cleo's puppy.