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[thefirefleshedarchivist]

WHY IS JOKER LOKI KINDA FINEEEEEEEE

LIKE LOOK AT THIS MAN???????? WHAT DID HE DO TO DESERVE THAT WAIST

respectfully i just wanna

[thefirefleshedarchivist]

i have an idea for a hdg fic and loki hear me out cause i think it's banging

ok so there's this really old bloom affini who doesn't like putting implants in her florets and there's an independent that would literally do anything to avoid having an implant. Now, by chance, this old bloom happens to be from a fungal branch similar to the species of fungi Fusarium which is a large genus of filamentous fungi, widely distributed in soil and associated with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes (basically fungi that do all the hard work decomposing), and are relatively abundant members of the soil microbial community. And, funnily enough these little blighters, as ordinary looking as they might seem, spew a *lot* of spores for something underground most of the time. and what do spores typically do? that's right, they infect. So, this poor little independent who has no idea what a saprobe is let alone what the fuck a filamentous fungi is, starts hanging out with this affini almost constantly due to certain circumstances. And due to this prolonged exposure, an interesting reaction starts to take place. A type of fungi, to be exact, a Fusarium mimicry adapted to survive the poor gravity of the 3rd ring starts to develop in their lungs from the increased density of spores the independent is breathing in daily. And this infection spreads and spreads, until the pathogen is present in almost every part of their central nervous system, tinkering away silently at their brain, waiting dormant for the right time. which, of course is the second the old bloom manages to convince the usually homebound sophont to come to a humid planet on an expedition. and, with humid conditions being the perfect climate for fungi to thrive, it swarms to take over their body and consciousness, thoroughly florting them and leaving her to wait for the old bloom to claim her pet before the independent even realises that they infact do not mind having an implant, even if said implant happens to be an unusual method This was a lot longer than the usual posts i make so please tell me if i fucked up somewhere lol i wrote this in 10 minutes

[thefirefleshedarchivist]

someone called me a floofer this morning and booped my nose while i was at the park what is my life

[thefirefleshedarchivist]

idk why people struggle so much to keep their independence,

like I literally just stay isolated all the time and make sure that I work out every day and according to my hab that's enough to keep me out of affini reach and it hasn't alerted the wardship affini yet

[thefirefleshedarchivist]

i feel like a damn cat i deadass just compiled a cardboard box to sit in just for the fun of it 😭 how am i still an independetn

i should make like a nest or smth but idk how

[thefirefleshedarchivist]

gem and pearl have been doing things together for years! i believe their first shared series was legacy s1, which as far as i know was predominantly stream only, and neither one of them have the vods saved. however, most people into shiny duo these days don’t really include legacy regardless, since it was quite a few years ago and gem and pearl were both much smaller youtubers, so it’s not super known.

the next series they shared is one still talked about a good bit today, which was empires s1, starting in 2021! every creator built up their own kingdom, and gem played as the ruling wizard of the crystal cliffs while pearl was the farmer queen of gilded helianthia. just a short while into empires, hermitcraft s8 started, and gem and pearl joined as the newest members! while they weren’t proper base neighbors, the season as a whole had a lot of interactions between people, so gem and pearl hung out a fair bit. both series ran in tandem.

a few months after hermitcraft s8 ended, s9 began, and this time, gem and pearl based right next to each other as part of the soul group, along with impulse! pearl built up an alien biome while gem was am elven princess, and there are lots of fun shenanigans to be had across the different storylines in the season, such as when the soup group rebelled against king ren’s reign, or the hermitcraft x empires s2 (which gem was a part of but pearl was not) crossover.

gem and pearl were both on the short-lived new life smp, but from what i remember, they didn’t interact much. right at the end of hermitcraft s9, secret life smp started up, which was gem’s debut in the life series, and it has a TON of shiny duo content. though you don’t have to watch the life seasons in order, i’d highly recommend watching secret life first, since shiny duo’s relationships in the later seasons are built off of it.

hermitcraft s10 is the current season, and gem and pearl love nothing more than bothering each other whenever possible—seriously, there’s so much content. through s10’s run, there have also been three life seasons, though two of them were one-off april fool’s specials: real life smp and simple life smp. the latest canon life season was wild life, which ended a few months ago, and shiny duo’s dynamic within it is fantastically fun.

this got a little long, but i hope it answers your question! there are years of shiny duo content, but don’t feel intimidated—it’s far easier to approach if you take it one series/season at a time, and don’t feel obligated to watch them all! though i’d recommend watching the life series in order due to how past seasons influence later ones, the same isn’t true for hermitcraft; save for an odd joke or reference here and there, the seasons aren’t connected, and don’t need to be watched in order to understand. happy shiny duo-ing!

thank you so much XD I'm going to start watching hermitcraft s10 and then once i'm caught up i'll watch some of the life series, if i have time i'll prolly draw something for them too after i've finished watching, they seem adorable

[thefirefleshedarchivist]

does anyone know that one hdg post that was about the concept an absolute neet affini that was like stalking an independent terran through cameras n shite and there was something about pollen too idk i can't remember much of it

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does anyone else remember a fic with an affini in it with the last name digitalis as in the poisonous plant that can be used to make heart medicine or is this an OC i'm convinced existed despite having not wrote about them yet