#aug. 2022

[64-jungle-planks]

Some Hermitcraft Alts I really love to are:

- BadtimeswithScar

- Captain Angry eyes (Scar’s character in the Area 77 lore)

- Ariana Griande

- Tiny Tango (my beloved, angry little man)

- WormMan

Edit:

I also love Helsknight and Evil X!!! They are amazing and my Ex-best friend and I dressed up as the two for Halloween a year ago!

[kikizoshi]

Quick edit of all Nikolai's scenes in the first trailer!

[64-jungle-planks]

Hi!

I just wanted to share with you a drawing I made based on your headcanon (I hope this is ok with you!!).

I really liked the idea of Jed and Jimmy getting along well and I wanted to draw Jimmy's boots :]

I used the art you made of them as a reference (especially Jimmy).

OH MY GOSH

This made me happy stim really hard!!! I love your art so much so to get this drawing of Jimmy and Jed! Of course this is ok!! You and your art are amazing!!! 🧡🧡🧡!!!! This means so much to me!

[64-jungle-planks]

This was my final for my Film 1 class last year. I had a blast making it and this is what got me into Advanced Film (or Film 2) and what made my teacher ask me if I could be his TA.

The assignment was to take a clip from a movie, show, or other bit of media we liked and make it into a kinetic typography! A kinetic typography is the movement and expression of text. I picked a deleted scene from my favorite movie, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian! (@bandicoot88 posted the original scene if you’d like to see it, if not just check out their awesome blog!)

The Green text is Ivan the Terrible Awesome, the Grey text is Young Al Capone, and the Blue text is Napoleon! I used Scribblenaut characters and items for the photos too.

[64-jungle-planks]

The Daily HC prompt is going to be a little late today because I hyper focused on cosplay and decided my old boots needed to be ✨mossy✨ for my Grian cosplay that I will be using at TwitchCon!

I’m actually really proud of them and there’s moss on the back side too! I’m thinking about making the yarn laces purple because of Watcher Lore but I really like them blue because of Taurtis! (I’ve been told by some friends that it could be mistaken as lace code, I just thought that blue and purple were nice colors)

[64-jungle-planks]

One day back in 2018, I was looking through my notifications and I saw that Grian, my favorite YouTuber at the time, uploaded his first ever episode of Hermitcraft! I started watching it excitedly right away and I never stopped!

[kikizoshi]

On one hand, Nikolai is really hard to get right drawn in general, let alone animated. And from what I've seen, he just isn't the same character (the way they all just aren't the same character).

On the other hand, I think Nikolai has some of the more clear-cut characterisation out there. Yes, he's hard to understand when you look closer, but on the surface, we're looking at a "murder clown" persona-wearing, sane man who wants freedom. I feel like it can't be that hard. Just show the birdcage. I know you can't capture the same yearning in animation but you can at least capture the bird cage-

In other words, we won't have this:

...but what we do have is more of a chance than Fyodor.

And I have a lot of hope for how Nikolai's VA will portray his "sane" scenes!

[kikizoshi]

So I was talking with a friend who liked Slav lit about BSD's characterization of Dos, and my friend complained because irl Dostoevsky was a loner, grumpy quiet man who had sharp tongue but was rather nice and soft to those he considered close friends.

I went "Hey that sounds like Sigma" and then I remembered that Dostesvky has a novel called The Gambler, and Sigma is a casino manager, and Asagiri is intentionally vague about both Sigma AND Fyodor's abilities.

So here's a theory: what if Sigma is the original Fyodor Dostoevsky, and he used his ability of information transfer to erase his memories to give himself a new life while someone else takes the mantle of Fyodor Dostoevsky? What if the current Dostoevsky is the creation of Sigma's ability, but he hides his own origins by calling Sigma the artificial human?

I think Nikolai would be the only one who knows about this- which is why he saved Sigma and has conflicted feelings about Fyodor, since Sigma is the real Fyodor but "Fyodor" is Sigma's creation that was born after Sigma's metaphorical "death"

So, what do you think of this idea? As someone who's really familiar with Russian authors and literature, would it make sense?

I think this is a really interesting idea.

I've been thinking for how to answer this for a while, and... I really don't know. I read 'The Gambler' once, spaced out for a fair bit of it, generally didn't enjoy the experience, and now remember almost nothing about the story. So, on that end, I can't say much.

There's a main, BSD/Dostoyevskian themes reason I don't think this is likely to be the case, though.

For one, Sigma's Ability—as far as we know—only transfers memories. It doesn't transfer the capabilities of the mind.

So, Pre-Fyodor Sigma could transfer his memories into Fyodor the Body, so that his consciousness lives in Fyodor the Body while he, Sigma, lives his life as the wandering slave.

However, since Sigma's Ability only transfers memories, and not intelligence, looking at it from a BSD plot perspective, I'm not sure it makes sense.

Because, Fyodor had his whole rant about Sigma being "an average man", and how "a desperate, average man is the scariest thing of all".

So, from purely what we know in the BSD manga so far, I don't think it's likely for Sigma to have ever been Fyodor, since they're essentially polar opposites when it comes to how their minds work. It goes beyond a difference in personality.

However, from a 'Crime and Punishment' themes perspective, that would still make some sense, and maybe even fit.

Raskolnikov wanted, essentially, to be what Fyodor is. He wanted so desperately to be an Extraordinary Man that he convinced himself for a time that he was, and acted so (well, I'm grossly oversimplifying but... it's a fact that it happened). But, of course, he wasn't, and that brought him down.

So, it'd be interesting if Pre-Fyodor Sigma also had this issue, and decided to try to make himself an Extraordinary Man by implanting his memories into a Book Body with the mental capacity to realise his true potential, or something.

Another main issue, though, is that I don't know if Sigma has any 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Gambler', or even any Dostoyevskian themes at all.

Regarding the little I remember of 'The Gambler': Sigma fits 'The Gambler' in some ways, and not so much in others, I think. He's similar to the main character, in that he's constantly pulled this way and that to do things for people he doesn't know well. His being linked to a casino is also similar, although the main character wasn't the manager or even related to the casino in a significant way, only a patron (I think).

Internally, Sigma wants family, a home, someplace he feels he belongs. I don't remember those being themes in 'The Gambler', but... well, I wouldn't be surprised if I missed almost every theme of that book.

His Ability somewhat fits with Dostoyevsky, maybe, since it has to do with memories and how they can change perception (somewhat), but... I don't know. In the works of Dostoyevsky that I've read (and remember), trying to find or create a home in the way Sigma is hasn't been much of a theme. Moreso managing discord and turmoil within preexisting homes and relationships... Even in 'The Idiot', I don't think that was about Myshkin finding a home.

And regarding Nikolai... I think that's just way too complicated for me. I'd have to know a lot more about Pre-Fyodor Sigma's goals, how/if he knew Nikolai beforehand, how much Nikolai knows, how much Fyodor's changed since being Pre-Fyodor Sigma, if Pre-Fyodor Sigma could even understand Nikolai with the average-level intelligence... just to come up with a take that's probably wrong lol.

(I'm not including the idea that Sigma's been faking his level of intelligence, because I think there'd need to be significant foreshadowing for something so central to his character—not having the same intelligence or eccentricity as the other "demons" around him, yet coping and finding a home in spite of these odds—to be an outright lie.)

So... I don't know. There seem to be cases for and against it, and without properly reading 'The Gambler' again (which I really, really don't want to do), I don't think I can say much concretely.

But it's a very interesting theory! If you have something to add or decide to expand more on it, I'd love to hear :)