A fan-run Life Series event! (Mods are @merthaevelynk, @sunshine-snake, @sparkleblast73, @phoenixrainsfire413, @peskybirdonyx, @strawbxrrypies, and @toadfree)
Hello all, and welcome to Third life Lifer a day June!!
Calendar text description under cut at bottom!
How this event works:
1. Look at the calendar and draw, write, craft, or something else creative about the prompt of the day! We have days for the individual Lifers themselves, but also some fun Special Days, too!
2. If you want your work to be shown in this blog (we're going to try to reblog pieces as much as possible), tag this blog ( @liferadayjune ), or tag your post '#liferadayjune' or '#liferadayjune2026'!
3. Keep things PG-13 (no NFWF, unless it is things like injuries, and in that case, make sure to tag it accordingly)! More mature themes will not been shown on this blog so that everyone can enjoy (so if it is triggering at all, then it won't be reblogged here).
4. NO tracing, using + claiming it as yours, or any other crap like that with other people's art.
5. And ABSOLUTELY NO AI!! This event is for your art (whether it's digital, traditional, writing, poetry, crafts, or anything else creative), and is a celebration of YOU and the community, and most definitely not for AI.
6. If you ever have any questions, need something cleared up, or anything else, just reach out to us! We're here to help, and make this go as smoothly as possible :)
Ao3 and writers: Mod Berry has made a Ao3 collection to put all the writing in and this is the link you can tell us if you want or don't want your writing in this.
Meet the Mods!:
@merthaevelynk:
Hi, I'm the founder of this, im Evee! And I go by any/all pronouns ◍•ᴗ•◍
@sunshine-snake:
Hii!! I'm Sunshine (or Sunnie), and I go by 'She/They' pronouns , and I love to answer asks ;))
@peskybirdonyx:
Mod Onyx, 'she/her/they/them/xey/xem/fae/faer/star/it' pronouns.
@sparkleblast73:
Hi! I’m sparkle I use 'She/Her' pronouns.
@phoenixrainsfire413:
Hey there! I'm Phoenix! But you can call me Nix or Ember or Rain. I go by she/her (<-factory default gal)
@strawbxrrypies:
Hiya I'm berry, she/her <3
@toadfree:
Hello! I'm Toad (or Hailey), and I use She/They ;)
Have fun!!
Calendar:
LDShadowLady
Favourite Winner/ Finale Day
TangoTek
Mumbo Jumbo
Favourite Team Day
ZombieCleo
Skizzleman (his birthday)
3rd Life Day (the finale was on June 8th)
ImpulseSV
Last Life Day
Grian
Smajor1995
PearlescentMoon (her birthday)
Favourite Duo Day
BdoubleO100
EthosLab
Double Life Day (the premier was on June 17th)
GeminiTay
Limited Life Day
SolidarityGaming
Secret Life Day
Bigbst4tz2
Wild Life Day
ReNDoG
Past Life Day
InTheLittleWood
GoodTimesWithScar
Pride Day (LGBTQIAPN+ Lifers)
SmallishBeans (his birthday)
Final(e) Day: A group photo of the Lifers!
(this blog was heavily inspired by the @/hermitadaymay blog :])
Everyone on the team is at a different timezone but we update each day at 12 am pst with the next day's prompt (🧋= PST (UTC-8:00) /🌻= PDT (UTC-7:00) ✨= N/A / 🦜= EDT (UTC:-4:00) / 🌚= EST (UTC-5:00) /🍓= GMT/IST ("UTC"/UTC +01:00) /🔥= N/A)
Blog pfp by @sunshine-snake / @disoriented-sunshine
Calendar graphic by @merthaevelynk
Calendar dates by @merthaevelynk & @sunshine-snake / @disoriented-sunshine
Day graphics by Assorted
I was very, very tempted to make him autistic, cause that's how the silly little boy just feels, but I'm not sure if it looks like that.
Also! I'm trying to convey how the character acts via how the format is set up! For example, in one of the fics I've written (cause I have to write some of them early), Scott never capitalizes 'watchers', unlike Grian or Mumbo do.
FIC UNDER CUT!!!
Most people didn’t know Mumbo’s middle name. Less people knew that he was a half shapeshifter. Even less people knew he had won a season.
Since that one test that The Watchers had made, Mumbo appeared in the winner’s lounge, an iron depiction of the dwarf planet Eris shone in far edges of the ceiling, Mumbo’s name carved into it.
Mumbo Jumbo, winner of the broken season of the Life Games.
Currently, the half shapeshifter was sitting in the corner of the winner’s longue, alone. He had been the first to die this season, but he was allowed to watch his teammates. He was watching Skizz as he was talking to Impulse, before his gaze drifted over to the ceiling.
The Watchers were no doubt mad at him for losing so quickly. One had already came to scold him, telling him that he shouldn’t be taking the place of the canary, telling him things should stay how they were when Jimmy was weaker.
Mumbo had tried to remind them that Jimmy was actually stronger than him, but they didn’t listen.
They told him not to backtalk them, unless he wanted to punished like Scott was. Mumbo didn’t know what they had done to him, but Mumbo didn’t want part in it.
Instead, he was fine to sit and watch as his friends fought for their lives against each other, especially if he had no part in any of the conflict. Second Life had been an accident. Second Life wasn’t his fault, no matter how many times the Watchers had tried to tell him that it was.
The other winners had understood why he didn’t like talking about Second Life. Grian told him it wasn’t supposed to be a season, and since he technically didn’t hurt anyone, he won by default. Scott expressed that he also didn’t like the whole killing thing, but he did it to survive. Pearl was also not the most comfortable talking about her win, and expressed that when Mumbo had brought it up. Martyn said he didn’t remember most of what had happened during Limited Life’s finale, that all he could remember was the overwhelming sense of bloodlust. Cleo hardly even counted themselves as a winner, but they were still brought to the winner’s lounge, so they didn’t question it. Scar admitted that he also technically didn’t win, cause Lizzie never stopped falling in the void, so the both of them didn’t count themselves.
Through all the advice he had been given, Mumbo saw one thing in common: None of them had really wanted to win either. They cared for their friends, and most of them didn’t like the whole killing part of it. Even with all of that, Mumbo couldn’t help but feel out of place here. Everyone else had won by besting everyone else, whether through persuasion or by plain strength. Scar had probably won by luck, thinking back on it.
Through all of his thoughts, Mumbo hadn’t realized what was happening.
Skizz had just died, and his screen switched to view Grian. The avian had his head in his hands, his clipped wings curled around him. Mumbo frowned, drawing circles on his knees. It was another loser who would never remember the events of this season, nor any of the seasons prior. It was another weight on Grian’s shoulders, another death he would feel guilty for due to his curse.
So, so many curses involved in these games. Jimmy’s, which Mumbo had hopefully broken, Grian’s, the one that Pearl had claimed Scott had, just so many. Mumbo was begging that no one else had any other ones the winners had missed.
But this time, Mumbo’s communicator buzzed, and it was a message from Skizz.
“Hey buddy? Can we call? I want to talk to you about something important.”
HOW I TRIED WRITING MUMBO:
I like to think Mumbo is someone who tries to get alllll of the details, so he has big bodies of text so he can explain everything!
EXPLANATION:
There was a season that technically, Mumbo did win! Everyone else had glitched out into the world border and suffocated, leaving only Mumbo! Also, I mentioned how Lizzie was a winner in this, and that's because of a fan made theory I saw that the reason Scar was trapped in Secret Life was because Lizzie was still trapped in the void. So, Grian decided that they could both be winners and brought them both to the winners' longue.
The reason Skizz asks Mumbo to talk at the end, or even how they can communicate, is because of another fan made theory! In the Trivia Bot session, since they had to answer questions about previous seasons, the Watchers gave them their memories back. However, Grian decided to do a little sneaky thing and make sure everyone remembered EVERYTHING, even after their loss. So, Skizz wants to talk to Mumbo about the earlier seasons!
LiferADayJune day 4 - mumbo jumbo
idk why but he looks like he just ran out of anti-depressants
also YAY I CAN FINALLY DRAW HIS HAIR WITHOUT STARING AT A REFERENCE FOR AN HOUR WOOOOO
Hit the ground running. That was the only way to survive. Look in the mirror and search through his memory for the right cadence of speech, for the right way to hold himself, for the right way to be.
And pretend. Never ever let the truth slip. Even if they started squinting, even if they asked questions. Brush off and deny and be who he now was. He wasn’t Mumbo. This wasn’t Mumbo’s face and Mumbo’s body. How could it ever be him?
Ignore that wanting, ignore that desire to think and act and be, that was someone else now, be quiet.
Hit the ground and run and run and run and run and run and don’t ever fall.
Why? Don’t ask questions. He looked in the mirror and he had a green streak in his hair and he was someone else. He looked in the mirror and he was aflame and he was someone else. Be someone else. This was the only way to get close.
Pretend to feel that hate because certainly it must be somewhere in this blood. Pretend to know because certainly it must be somewhere in these bones.
Mumbo wasn’t here. Mumbo never had been. Mumbo was somewhere else. In the back of this mangled mind. Feel it. Hear it. See it. Be instinct. Lie and lie and don’t fall and only tell the truth. It wasn’t him. Be this body and this blood and these bones.
as I said, I don't have the draft done on Tumblr, and I don't have time to do it rn, because it pastes weird and then I have to do the italics and yk exams in an hour's and a bit sooo.... take the ao3 link for now and I'll pop it up soon.
on ao3 here
mild tw for blood, but I think it's pretty canon typical violence :)
