why am i emotional about blocks

Ezra - they/he - I cannot believe I'm back in mcyt rp fandom in the year 2021. this is a sideblog of @damnedtreasure bc I needed somewhere to be emotional about blocks!

[hahafunnyblockgame]

I can't believe I'm back in a fandom for a Minecraft roleplay server in the year of 2021 2024 C fuckin E. What the fuck.

(eta: which one? Good question! Mostly QSMP, the last life series, Empires, hermitcraft, actually just assume all the servers surrounding those kinda groups. And MCC. Once in a blue moon I will return to my roots and blog about mianite.)

Anyways I'm here for the Lore, the writing, the watching-people-grow-their-acting-skills, the emotional rollercoaster of having a heart wrenching scene with the word penis written in the sky overhead. (Edit, through tears: and the family dynamics, I guess) (Edit the second: and to study these characters look at how funky and fascinating they all are!)

This blog is NOT spoiler free, I will be yelling about lore whenever I watch it! I don't currently have a spoiler tag but if asked I probably will start one.

This is a sideblog of @damnedtreasure.

[lectern-fullcauldron]

in this sunset age of season 10, here's your moment to appreciate Joe Hills, the original new guy. Joe's been here since five weeks into season 1 and is one of the 'hermitcraft council' (the hermits who tend to take on more of the admin work). Joe does hermitcraft slightly differently, but still with the mad ambition of any hermit.

You'll find Joe's builds are matched to maps and blueprints and built to a calculated scale (Castle Ravenloft, The Evergiven, Wizards of Wine Winery, Deepfield Pinball Machine, Castle Hohenzollern, Bell Hooks Laboratory).

Joe's art is not about building, however (it's not content, it's art). Joe is the master of malicious compliance and finds an obscure place in many hermitcraft events and stories. He outplayed Grian in the S6 prank war by calling in an IOU banning Grian from retaliating. He ran season 7 without diamond gear, season 8 without elytra.

It's not about the challenge either, however. Joe cut his Minecraft teeth with ultra hardcore maps, but before that he was streaming art for the webcomic he wrote (Jacque of all blades) on the channel he set up to practice stand up comedy.

Joe has spoken often about curating a community, about ensuring bigots know that they are not welcome. He has spoken about ensuring he's paying his mods, his project manager and any artists he works with fairly (recently he paid a community member to help him accurately depict the way light refracts in a prism). He has mid roll ads turned off and has substituted them with a patreon tier that replaces ads with either a poem or a poetry prompt of Joe's own devising.

This is the Joe Hills difference, a focus on presenting a way of building an ethical community, of streaming in a style that makes it seem possible for anyone to stream, a focus on the hermitcraft community.

Joe Hills is your hermit if you like community areas, thankless tasks, and stubborn determination. Joe Hills is your hermit if you like Cleo's eternal torment (and partner in crime). Joe Hills is your hermit if you want to see someone with the worst luck in the world commit to putting 6 million armour stands into Cleo's storage system off the back of a joke.

Joe Hills (former tyrannous ruler of the hermitcraft server) is often overlooked, despite being Tumblr's duly elected MCYT sexyman. Joe Hills dropped the embargo on the ending of season ten by posting it on linkedin. Joe Hills is putting together the images for the guest streams. Joe Hills threw a coup to get us season two, Mumbo Jumbo, and ZombieCleo.

Joe hasn't gone quiet in the dying days of the server (she never does). So give their recent videos a watch and see how much thought he and Cleo have put into helping Impulse with Metro Mayhem season 2.

[chipjrwibignaturals]

so does past life give paternity leave or

[chipjrwibignaturals]

[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

mumbo-life. its typical 3rd life rules but at random times throughout the session mumbo jumbo will possess a random player for a random length of time, trying to mess up as much of their plans as possible without outright killing them. all the other players must pretend that they don't know this is mumbo.

if mumbo makes a promise when possessing a player, they must fulfil that promise by the end of the session or go red immediately

I fear life series Mumbo is going to have a chokehold on this fandom by the end of this current series

[sappharim]

this is how i hope it goes tomorrow

[cocoabats]

back to the past

[squiddleknitted]

some notable moments from docs stream so far

he reads hermitcraft ship fanfic but exclusively the yaoi

"grian and scar are canonically gay and hooking up all the time"

none of the hermits are sleeping together which hes very disappointed about because he thinks a hermitcraft wedding at the courthouse would be fun and so would a hermitcraft baby and the divorce would be decided by coinflip

hes thought a lot about it and decided hes not into men

his way of deciding this was by imagining himself passionately tongue kissing handsome men

however ren could turn him gay especially if his hair grows out

[shirahoshiumi]

Not all from the stream but some more amazing things

- was sad he couldnt go to pride this month bcs lesbians make the best mojitos

- took us to a gay bar in Rotterdam after Twitchcon

- his hc character is gay (bcs he thinks its really weird to be shipped with the woman on hc)

- and to add to the last post of op he was def thirtsting over my Rendog art with the long hair

[cluemily]

From Cleo's stream today (6/6/2025). I'm sure some people would like to hear this this pride month. <3

(Note: I cut some brief moments where Cleo read out some subs/donations, or slightly long pauses. But this is pretty much the entire clip.)

[Transcription:

Cleo: Do you know what I've not talked about for a while? I don't think- I think I got sick literally at the beginning of Pride Month. I think I did. Like, genuinely. So I think I have not pride, I have not said glory to you and your identity at all this month yet! So- like-

[CleoOWO redeem triggers, Cleo laughs]

Cleo [in high-pitched CleOWO voice]: Okay, sure, we can do it like this. I'll put in the hearts as well. [Cleo triggers the blush and hearts on their Vtuber model] Pride! Well, congratulations, I appreciate everybody here. And this is a safe, welcoming community. Doesn't matter if you're gay, or straight, or lesbian, or something else. Or, like, bisexual like me, or pansexual, or asexual, or trans, or I'm- I'm coming up- I'm not doing well with the whole list of things. You are welcome if you're not a bigot! Not for bigots!

So uh trans rights, gay rights- uh, hm- having a think. Uhm- I mean I like you as long as you... rights, woo! We appreciate pride month in all its forms. Hashtag not for bigots. If anybody in this chat has decided that they do not approve of the LGBTQ- alphabet mafia- get out! Uhm- yeah! Yay! [Cleo claps]

[responding to chat member] Aw, you're here strawberry, we're good! You and me, we're good!

[talking to entire chat again] I hope that you have a happy pride month and a happy rest of the year. And I know things- uhm- around the world are a bit tough and problematic and... uhm- we need to lock in. And I know that's hard. But you guys take care of yourselves and each other. Very important, okay? Take care of the community, make sure that if someone's fighting they're not fighting alone.

[CleOWO redeem ends, Cleo talks normally again.]

Yeah, I think that's a thing that I want to say to everyone. Like- the reason why we fight is because we have to. It would be nice not to have to fight but make sure we don't fight alone. Okay? Uhm-

[reading chat message] I'm glad we got to experience this during a CleOWO- Valid.

[reading another chat message] This is simultaneously the most heartwarming and terrifying experience in my life. Uhm, I think I embody that, that's valid.

[Cleo addresses the full chat again] All I'm saying is that there has been some backsliding in the world and you need to make sure that you do not let it go. But, also, people are more accepting now than ever. It is literally a small- like- there are people who are very pro-LGBT. Plus.

Uhm- most of the universe is just sort of like 'what, I don't care. You do you, I support you you do you it's fine'. And then you have the outright bigots. The outright bigot fraction is getting smaller and louder, okay? It is happening, they are smaller and louder than they've ever been. But still take care of yourselves.

[responding to chat] Yeah they're scared. They realise they're in their last throes of bigotry- I think- In most of the world's places. They're trying to make you more scared to be yourself, and I'm saying protect yourselves first. Make sure you are safe and that is the key thing. If you are not safe, I'm sorry just- just stay closeted until you can be safe. Because there's no poiint coming out and somebody hurting you. Get to safety first, okay? And then- and then fight. You can fight after you're safe, okay? And there is a whole community out there rooting for you.

End Transcript]

[atthebell]

so many people in my notes who don't watch bdubs listen if you're a hermitcraft fan you probably like watching people build and there is genuinely no one i've ever seen who approaches building in minecraft the way bdubs does. he is quite literally a painter, he understands color and shading and light and shapes in a way no one else does, and you should already be watching his videos, but if you're not, now is a good time to start.

edit: ^^ added a few screenshots of some of his builds just this season!!

[smoozie]

This thumbnail is so funny to me. Scar said his favorite part of the day was making bracelets with Gem, so he made that his thumbnail. That would be so sweet (and it is). But he also. Needed Grian to be there ig. So he just. Made a little Grian panel, but Grian looks so unimpressed and is making direct eye contact with the bracelet being passed between Gem and Scar, so it looks like Grian is just really judging that bracelet. Live Grian reaction.

[collierose1]

last thing you see before being exiled

[orangeocelotmartyn]

Jimmy's fake task in Permit Master

Grian: Okay, are we ready for our next task? Gem: I think we're ready. Grian: (sighs) Um…before we actually start, um, have you ever wondered how long it takes to cut up and line one hundred blades of grass? Gem: No, that's-that's not possible. Grian: Oh, I think it is. Gem: Okay. --- Jimmy: Hey, there's me! This is me! (A video of Jimmy from before) Jimmy: So I tried to get as many strands as I can, to make up to the hundred. We will see. (snazzy timelapse music for ten seconds) Guys, this might be the stupidest thing I've ever done, ever. This is horrendous. And, guys, at this point, I know I've lost. None of them. None of them match. I'm wasting--how much have I been record--I've been recording for eight minutes. Right. I've got my hundred, I've got my one hundo. None of them match up. Oh, oh, I've breathed, I've breathed too much. Let me snip this one a little bit, make me feel a little bit better. (timelapse music for five seconds) Jimmy: (current times) That's pretty good, right? That's pretty good! (five seconds of dead silence) Right? (Martyn laughing loudly in the background) What? 'Cuse me? --- Gem: Thank you Jimmy. Grian: Thanks Jimmy. Gem: That was-that was enlightening, truly. Grian: That was truly enlightening. Right. Let's get on with the next cli--uh, the next task.

[simplydm]

See, here’s the thing. During the great Joe hills chase sequence (over like 2 weeks), the Poe members were all thinking “wow, this Joe hills guy is always thinking five steps ahead. He’s deadly, cunning, and a mastermind.” Then you watch Joe Hills and he’s like cartoonishly stumbling his way to victory without even knowing it. We know this. We love him for it.

But we are forgetting that Joe was thinking the same thing about the Poe. Trying to psychoanalyze their movements when they were just blundering about. Guessing where they may lay traps (and being wrong almost every time). He thought an egg lying on the ground in skizz’s storage room was a five minute egg timer to see if he’d been there. Skizz just had a rogue chicken.

Truely, a cartoonish bit all around

[simplydm]

Everyone was thinking the other was 5 steps ahead while running straight into a wall painted to look like a tunnel

[isthemoonbig]

fave parts of hermitcraft charity stream so far:

grian tormenting everyone with the cat piano

skizz's foot sock drawing that definitely looked like Nothing Else

martyn hyping ren up after ren played good riddance by green day

ren playing green day

rendog

everyone on my dashboard fagging it up for rendog

cleo and scar racing

cub bob ross and grian shooting him

false making just the worst grumbot i have ever seen in my life

grian's lip twitching seconds before he started smacking jimmy with something and jimmy forcing him to sit in a chair after wailing about drawing feet

pearl guessing all of gem's guess the build stuff and gem getting so offended when she gets it wrong

gem looking like her soul was leaving her body when she had to draw feet

gem saying that she's always nice except for when she steals jimmy's girlfriend?? bicon

robocleo. again. i just really like her man

everything about scar and grian. this being their first meetup. scar tearing up when saying it's so important they're meeting. everything everything everything everything.

ender pearl/pearl with the enderman

rendog robo penguin quiet game + that. iykyk

jimmy running amuck joel's base homophobic dog meme

them asking etho to auction off his tissue box and him declining because he STILL NEEDS IT

scar pointing out the artist page of all the jellies on the scarland art book...... ueueueueueue

grian continuously shocking impulse the entire time trying to get a reaction and getting mad when he doesn't get one like a cat

pearl and gem arguing "fluffy bunnies" "dust bunnies" during guess the build

joe hills green suit

jimmy and grian beatboxing and playing the cat piano

gem being pretty. sue me. She's really pretty

everyone making faces whenever they made noise in the quiet game because i think i saw peoples souls leave their body when they stepped on chickens

feel free to add more

[vexcite]

the quiet games are killing me 😭😭 heres grian and timmys 2nd round (party poppers)

[rendogdomesticated]

in the desert again

[rendogdomesticated]

theres sand

[rendogdomesticated]

cactus

[rendogdomesticated]

those two men, theyre...... i shant say

[poppyberry]

Grian and Scar's combined technology breaking abilities in the same place trying to run a stream together is unreasonably hilarious. Can't keep the sound on. Can't get the camera to focus. Can't control the snails. Doc is mocking them in chat. Somebody get Cub in the room, he needs to chaperone this.