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WELCOME TO hermitcraft hunger games soulmate au DOUBLE LIFE, A BRAND NEW 1.19 MINECRAFT SERIES,

(youtube.com/watch?v=UwFbtE4YS7g for the first episode of grian’s pov)

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last year i started taking little walks around my neighborhood for enrichment and whatnot, see, and i’ve been more or less keeping up with them barring those 3 months i couldn’t walk. and there’s some pretty big hills around, so there’s some stairs on this route i like to take. and even though i know stairs are a bit of a workout, deep down it was a little embarrassing to me at first, realizing i’d let my cardio fitness slip so badly that i needed multiple breaks to catch my breath on a single staircase. it got better as i kept at it, of course, but i would still internally wince a little at the fact that i’d get so winded on those stupid stairs. they’re just some rickety old hillside stairs by my house, i thought, they shouldn’t take it out of me THIS badly

it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. they’re not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. that’s not too bad. there’s room for improvement and i still get a little winded but that’s a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, it’s one staircase but it’s kind of a long staircase. i’d always known it was kinda long.

except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out it’s a VERY long staircase. it’s ‘appears in tour guides and news articles’ long, actually. it’s ’annual citywide step challenge event’ long. it’s ’i can’t tell you the number of steps without doxxing myself’ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because it’s nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, i’ve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. i’m pretty sure i’m currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parents’ house feels like flat ground to me now.

i don’t even know where i’m going with this. i guess the point is sometimes you are not uniquely ill-equipped for a thing, sometimes that thing is actually just really difficult. and sometimes you don’t realize this and end up holding yourself to insane standards for no reason. but also this can end up benefiting you in the end? idk. maybe i should participate in that step challenge this year or something

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everyone stop calling him ryland i can't take it. that's one of his titles like doctor or captain that's not him that's not who he is if you default to ryland instead of grace you understand nothing and hate art and truth and hope and want me dead

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yes this is an unserious opinion that doesn’t matter but also i’m objectively right probably. give me a few days i’ll think of a way to rationalize it

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everyone stop calling him ryland i can't take it. that's one of his titles like doctor or captain that's not him that's not who he is if you default to ryland instead of grace you understand nothing and hate art and truth and hope and want me dead

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if i had it in me to make gifs i would want to put together a compilation of every time ryland grace tries to say no to something and ends up doing it anyway bc oh my god it happens so many more times than you notice on first watch. it starts all the way back when he tries to ‘pass’ on the petrova line question during the first classroom flashback

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in probably-not-perfectly-chronological order as shown, off the top of my head:

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

and, of course, “i’m not an astronaut”

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and it’s not even just that he can’t say no, it’s that when he caves he ends up going so far above and beyond what was remotely called for. he’s too scared to spacewalk but ends up taking a flying leap to catch the blip-c capsule. he tries to refuse to study the astrophage and ends up as eva stratt’s right hand man. he says they have to have boundaries and then lets rocky order him around for weeks. he says he won’t go to space to save the planet and then ends up saving two

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“thumbs up, baby 👎” is sort of grace’s whole deal, in a way,

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Now I’m wondering if you could climb Cardiac Hill by Torc Waterfall

haha i mean google says it’s like a thousand something stairs altogether, if there’s flat sections and/or i’m allowed to take a couple breaks then yeah i don’t see why not? i’d be interested in trying it for sure

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last year i started taking little walks around my neighborhood for enrichment and whatnot, see, and i’ve been more or less keeping up with them barring those 3 months i couldn’t walk. and there’s some pretty big hills around, so there’s some stairs on this route i like to take. and even though i know stairs are a bit of a workout, deep down it was a little embarrassing to me at first, realizing i’d let my cardio fitness slip so badly that i needed multiple breaks to catch my breath on a single staircase. it got better as i kept at it, of course, but i would still internally wince a little at the fact that i’d get so winded on those stupid stairs. they’re just some rickety old hillside stairs by my house, i thought, they shouldn’t take it out of me THIS badly

it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. they’re not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. that’s not too bad. there’s room for improvement and i still get a little winded but that’s a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, it’s one staircase but it’s kind of a long staircase. i’d always known it was kinda long.

except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out it’s a VERY long staircase. it’s ‘appears in tour guides and news articles’ long, actually. it’s ’annual citywide step challenge event’ long. it’s ’i can’t tell you the number of steps without doxxing myself’ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because it’s nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, i’ve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. i’m pretty sure i’m currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parents’ house feels like flat ground to me now.

i don’t even know where i’m going with this. i guess the point is sometimes you are not uniquely ill-equipped for a thing, sometimes that thing is actually just really difficult. and sometimes you don’t realize this and end up holding yourself to insane standards for no reason. but also this can end up benefiting you in the end? idk. maybe i should participate in that step challenge this year or something

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not nearly enough people talking about the way grace betrayed stratt too if you ask me. and tbf i get it, bc the implication is less overt (at least in the movie? still haven't read the book) but it's sooo much more interesting to me than the way she betrayed him.

bc like the way i see it she really did not need to pretend grace had a choice. those 3 hours she gave him were meaningless as far as the project itself and the fate of the world were concerned. and yes, it was in the hopes that he would come around on his own, but i don't think that was for grace's benefit. if anything, it probably would have been less painful for him if he'd never thought he had a say.

stratt wasn't asking for his consent, she knew it never mattered anyway. she was asking him to take some of the weight of his own death off her conscience, and he said no. no, i won't make the hard call for you just this once, not even with the whole world on the line. no, i won't acknowledge that you never had a choice either. no, i will not absolve you of the one sin it's in my power to forgive. that's gotta sting, even if she wasn't really expecting him to say yes, or even to recognize those 3 hours for what they were. she probably wasn't. she knows a long shot when she takes one.

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if i had it in me to make gifs i would want to put together a compilation of every time ryland grace tries to say no to something and ends up doing it anyway bc oh my god it happens so many more times than you notice on first watch. it starts all the way back when he tries to ‘pass’ on the petrova line question during the first classroom flashback

[mumblesplash]

in probably-not-perfectly-chronological order as shown, off the top of my head:

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

and, of course, “i’m not an astronaut”

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and it’s not even just that he can’t say no, it’s that when he caves he ends up going so far above and beyond what was remotely called for. he’s too scared to spacewalk but ends up taking a flying leap to catch the blip-c capsule. he tries to refuse to study the astrophage and ends up as eva stratt’s right hand man. he says they have to have boundaries and then lets rocky order him around for weeks. he says he won’t go to space to save the planet and then ends up saving two

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“thumbs up, baby 👎” is sort of grace’s whole deal, in a way,

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if i had it in me to make gifs i would want to put together a compilation of every time ryland grace tries to say no to something and ends up doing it anyway bc oh my god it happens so many more times than you notice on first watch. it starts all the way back when he tries to ‘pass’ on the petrova line question during the first classroom flashback

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in probably-not-perfectly-chronological order as shown, off the top of my head:

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

and, of course, “i’m not an astronaut”

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and it’s not even just that he can’t say no, it’s that when he caves he ends up going so far above and beyond what was remotely called for. he’s too scared to spacewalk but ends up taking a flying leap to catch the blip-c capsule. he tries to refuse to study the astrophage and ends up as eva stratt’s right hand man. he says they have to have boundaries and then lets rocky order him around for weeks. he says he won’t go to space to save the planet and then ends up saving two

[mumblesplash]

if i had it in me to make gifs i would want to put together a compilation of every time ryland grace tries to say no to something and ends up doing it anyway bc oh my god it happens so many more times than you notice on first watch. it starts all the way back when he tries to ‘pass’ on the petrova line question during the first classroom flashback

[mumblesplash]

in probably-not-perfectly-chronological order as shown, off the top of my head:

beanbag is lava petrova line question (“uhh pass.” “you can’t pass!”)

his initial refusal to examine the astrophage sample

when he tries to chicken out of spacewalking to get rocky’s message capsule and gets launched out by the tether anyway

when he tries to back out of presenting his findings on the boat

when the blip-a tunnel reconnects to the hail mary and rocky tells him to take off his spacesuit helmet

when rocky says they have to watch each other sleep

the ‘we can’t just show up in a ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. there has to be boundaries’ -> giving up half the space on the mary to xenonite tunnels you build with your own two hands pipeline

just to be mean part of me really wants to include ‘just take the compliment. that’s an order.’

and, of course, “i’m not an astronaut”

[mumblesplash]

if i had it in me to make gifs i would want to put together a compilation of every time ryland grace tries to say no to something and ends up doing it anyway bc oh my god it happens so many more times than you notice on first watch. it starts all the way back when he tries to ‘pass’ on the petrova line question during the first classroom flashback

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i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

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for reference.

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not nearly enough people talking about the way grace betrayed stratt too if you ask me. and tbf i get it, bc the implication is less overt (at least in the movie? still haven't read the book) but it's sooo much more interesting to me than the way she betrayed him.

bc like the way i see it she really did not need to pretend grace had a choice. those 3 hours she gave him were meaningless as far as the project itself and the fate of the world were concerned. and yes, it was in the hopes that he would come around on his own, but i don't think that was for grace's benefit. if anything, it probably would have been less painful for him if he'd never thought he had a say.

stratt wasn't asking for his consent, she knew it never mattered anyway. she was asking him to take some of the weight of his own death off her conscience, and he said no. no, i won't make the hard call for you just this once, not even with the whole world on the line. no, i won't acknowledge that you never had a choice either. no, i will not absolve you of the one sin it's in my power to forgive. that's gotta sting, even if she wasn't really expecting him to say yes, or even to recognize those 3 hours for what they were. she probably wasn't. she knows a long shot when she takes one.

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strattland couples tshirt idea

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ok so hear me out,

(my focus group testing indicated quote 'it's way funnier when you know the words' so any viewers who share my focus group's inability to hear song lyrics may wish to find those here)

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ok so hear me out,

(my focus group testing indicated quote 'it's way funnier when you know the words' so any viewers who share my focus group's inability to hear song lyrics may wish to find those here)