Still stuck in Gilded Helianthia

She/her! You can call me Avocado or Avo. I'm an adult who still cries over minecraft

[goingdownorup]

Actually hater moment bc if I see one more “can I confess something, idk what lifesteal is but now that Joel Smallishbeans is in it I will be tuning in🥺” I think I’m going to crash the fuck out but can we lock in? Can the life series/hermitcraft community look outside their bubble for five fucking seconds? You can see the beauty in so many different spaces if you decide to branch out and simply consider that Grian Minecraft isn’t as into the game as he once was. Like, we got some deadass good gamers that put their souls into the game with speedrunning and ARGS and scripted concepts but noooo “I can’t venture out of my bubble bc who else will fulfill my daily white man dose I have to take” FUCKING HELL MAN

[oh-snapperss]

[whereispearlescentmoon]

A collection of Pearl photos we've gotten so far. These are gathered from various Instagrams and Twitters

[whereispearlescentmoon]

More pearl from various places

[maniacwatchestheworld]

#8th Lifesteal World guest announcement! :p

The most that I know is that one of these people is from Hermitcraft. But hey! I always like hearing about people's faves in the reblogs and replies, so feel free to freak out about who you recognize in this announcement! ^.^

[scaredofavocado]

If Smallishbeans is actually joining lifesteal... I'll go crazy. I'm scratching the bars of time and begging them to release the video

[codflesh29]

Life series!Jimmy is so fascinating to me because you could argue Jimmy has learned to trust the bit more than the people around him since he has been the butt of the joke for so long.

This is why people who precieve him as someone clueless/incapable is frustrating. Jimmy is NOT clueless, he is prideful. He’s the series’ jester and has cultivated that into his character. A core flaw of his is the fact that he doesn’t know when to quit, taking a bit so far that it damages trust from other players.

…Until he’s with Joel.

For some reason, Jimmy is obsessed with Joel and only keeps his loyalty if it’s him. Which is crazy because Joel, who holds excessive ego, reciprocates this. Both will mention former allies (Jimmy with Scott or Tango, Joel with Etho) but that devotion doesn’t shine unless it’s between those two specifically.

Joel calling Jimmy (correct me if it was the other way around) his liege in Nice Life, Joel declaring how this was meant to be Jimmy’s win that same season. Joel constantly worrying over Jimmy in Secret Life. Joel latched to Jimmy’s hip, to the point where his dying words were hopes that Jimmy wins in Past Life. The fact that you can’t help but feel Joel and Jimmy would’ve paired in Double Life if it was any other season. The entirety of Joel and Jimmy throughout Limited Life.

Smallidarity can really be boiled down to: “Hey, what if this playboy (Joel) and jester (Jimmy)—who have become so normal to the idea of keeping their alliance shallow—find themselves unconsciously devoting every once of their being for one another, to the point of self-sacrifice.”

[mythicalprinz]

Jimmy really got to choose between a healthy, supportive, nice boyfriend teammate who cared about his wellbeing vs a hydrogen bomb

and he didn't blink twice as he went and chose the bomb with the biggest smile in his face

[scaredofavocado]

Fuck cute vsmp moonrot. MY TOXIC LIFE SERIES IS BACK

[scaredofavocado]

I'm so normal about smallidarity until they talk to each other or about each other. Why did my toxic gays sudenly become probably the most sweetest heartwarming couple in all of life series?

[renat11soldman3]

Remember when it all started?

PLEASE VOTE MOONROT FOR THE VSMP SHIPPING SHOWDOWN ON TWITTER!!! MAY THE CAT-DOG YURI WIN

[mithartu]

in all honesty i should be more of a lifesteal fan than i am but their fuckass video upload schedule simply prevents me from crossing that barrier. it's such a shame bc they toy with so much that i'm interested in, particularly the intense bleedthrough from sustained longform deceptive relationships being formed both in and out of game (all the groupchats being made! multiple people leaving bc keeping up the lies genuinely stressed them out so much!). commanders and warfare and trust and and power and niche (often obnoxious) mechanics abuse and minecraft !! but they're currently uploading videos on three different seasons simultaneously so that's awesome.

[beacon-lamp]

hello beloveds ☺️

[iceslushii]

made an alternate version for the mutuals ive never spoken to

[thetreeofliberty]

You are appreciated

[scaredofavocado]

I love my charecters who are pecirved as angry by the general fandom but are in actuality so full of love it hurts them <3

[hermitshell]

reverse unpopular opinion meme : fanon pearl vs. how you perceive her characterization :D

To be honest I'm not entirely sure what general consenus fanon Pearl is like much these days because I stay mostly firmly situated in my circle of pearl mutuals. Moontuals.

I enjoy that she is often strong and tall? Fanon tends to lean very tall now which is good because I think they're correct and I think that she should get an inch of height everytime you aren't looking directly at her. I tend to draw my perception of Pearl with short hair but I also enjoy when people draw her with really long flowing hair.

Pearl characters are often working in ways that do a service for others. Her roles as pathmaker, cleaning lady, postmaster, fireman, harvest queen, god, and incredibly loyal and protective teammate all fall into this category. And I think that some people can find it easy to construe this in a way that makes her a caretaker to others. And Pearl cares, she cares a lot, but often characterizations that lean too far into these strip her of all her nuance. Augh I don't know it's complicated to explain because she does have a deep loyalty to people and she enjoys helping people and digging into things to fix them and organize them out neatly. But she's not a mother figure and she's not a sister figure. She is your coworker who's gotten really really into scheduling since the last time you saw her and has scheduled out the entire rest of the work schedule for the month. For fun. She is your neighbor who one day knew next to nothing about mechanical engineering and then the next you go outside and she's built an entire mini wind turbine attached to her house that plays a fun song and she tells you with a smile that she got a new hobby. She's smarter then you think and less powerful then you idealize her to be. She is never what you expect and she will always surprise you.

[hermitshell]

Does she know she will never stop thinking about double life pearl. Even three years later

[scaredofavocado]

Cleo just made a 6-7 joke and now I think I need to block Scott Smajor or something

[rellamzk]

im not a vsmp watcher believe it or not i just really like her skin and the idea of drawing a vampire. is she a vampire guys

[whereispearlescentmoon]

My most controversial opinion about the Life Series (among my many hot takes) is that Scar counts more as a winner of 3rd Life than Scott counts as a winner of Double Life. Which is to say, Scar kind of counts as a winner of 3rd Life and Scott didn’t win Double Life even a little bit.

Scar and Grian literally agreed that they were both really the winner and the duel at the end only happened so there would only be one. By their own words, Scar won Third Life. They were allies who made it to the end together.

By contrast, Scott and Pearl were only ‘allies’ because they had to be. They worked together a couple of times in the last two episodes, but overall Pearl was really on her own for most of the season and Scott’s ally was Cleo. Not to mention, unlike Scar and Grian who agreed that they were both winners, Scott and Pearl had it officially established by the rules that whoever’s name came up last in chat was the winner. They never agreed that they both won the way Desert Duo did and they never would have because they weren’t that kind of allies. The whole point of Scott blowing himself up is that it meant Pearl was the one and only winner. It was his apology to her for how he treated her all season, making her win easier. When you call it a double win, you undermine the fact that Pearl had basically already won by taking everyone else out, that Scott intentionally died the way he did so Pearl would be the only winner, and the fact that the rules officially established that she was the only winner.

The fact that the fandom at large ignores this fact and does not consider Scar a winner shows a preference for the rules over verbal agreements, which is fine, but then why does the fandom then ignore the officially established rules (and the lack of a verbal agreement saying otherwise because Scott and Pearl never ever said that Scott was also a winner and in fact have affirmed the opposite) in order to give Scott the win for Double Life?