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hi your sculk post has me frothing at the mouth

What if it WAS warm and comfortable and soft and cosy

What if it also smelled nice, released attaching pheromones like those pitcher plants do, or the goo tasted sweet to lure creatures in

What if it wasn't a smell so much as an absence of the dank musty cave air, and it was a welcome breath of something cosy and comforting that just made you want to curl up and sleep

And then the sculk is soft underfoot, and it feels like it might be wet and slimy but it's actually kind of velvety, in that slightly coarse alive way that a living animal is soft and warm

And you're so tired from mining and exploring and damn wouldn't it be nice to just have a lie down and rest for a bit

And it's so soft and comforting, a bit weird but getting more agreeable by the second

Wouldn't it be nice to just.... Rest your eyes, and your legs.... And everything..... And just sleep.....

OH THE THING ABOUT THE SMELL IS SO GOOD

i really love the idea of it just smelling distinctly like Nothing, or just fresh air, you know that smell when you’re outside on a clear night in the summer and it’s almost-warm but not quite, that’s a smell you’d probably really miss after a long enough time underground

also the sculk does this hypnotic little animation where the little bright parts flicker in waves that could be part of the calming effect as well

but like YEAH the more i think about the more i'm into the idea that dormant sculk would be comforting. sculk not only eats the essence of formerly-living things, it grows in the shape of the places it spreads to. if you think of a more typical concept of an overgrown post-apocalyptic city you probably imagine lots of disruption, trees and vines widening cracks in streets and buildings crumbling, but sculk doesn't do that. your home could be completely eaten and it would still be standing there, you could still walk inside. and chances are that's on purpose

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fucking. jesus i haven't been into hermitcraft in any way in roughly a year at least and was this close to jumping ship (not out of hatred or anything that happened, just the interest waned) and then you go and post that fucking viagra idea with gem and etho and FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKK i'm back in the fucking building again.

how did this happen. how do you have this power. HOW!!!

anyway.

you said you wanted fic and i like that idea and could see myself enjoying writing it, or most of it. i'm not super confident writing etho or gem perfectly but if you want to have a probably-never finished draft that you have free reign to tear apart as you please then i can certainly give it a crack.

YESSS >:) Just when you think you're free! No one ever gets to leave!

I would do HORRIBLE things for any kind of fic about this, and I would never try to tear it apart! But I also understand that inspiration is fickle and there's never any pressure <3

[australet789]

I'm sure you've seen that the new HH song gravity exists and as a lute fan I've been listening to it for 3 days straight

BUT I have also been imagining it as a music number in your TLK au style, similar to my lullaby from tlk2 and it goes so NICELY in my head I love your design for her

Oh i have been listening to it everyday hehehe

That's a good parallel, honestly! I can see Lute as a more deranged Zira. I need to wait to see what the prosthetic arm is made of so i can incorporate it in my AU

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hihihihihihihihihi i am rotating your mumscar superhero au in my head like The Micowave and consider:

grian is both cuteguy AND a hero-critical reporter and does not consider it hypocritical in the Slightest

also consider that he immediately clocks what's going on w/ mumbo and scar before they even really admit mutual feelings and he is just Revelling in the chaos of knowing everything as there's tabloids surrounding hotguy's new secret partner and mumbo comes home late a lot more with orange lipstick in his moustache (idk I'm spitballing here) and grain is just like >:3 he sees ALL

i think it would be funny hehe

also i just GAH the idea you have of their cheesy meetcute is SO ADORABLE IM GHJDFKSLSFJKGHDFJLS;FGH THATS SO SWEET i love this au so much we need more silly mumscar aus

Oh, he IMMEDIATELY clocks Mumbo because he's not nearly as subtle as he thinks he is and tends to get a bit too in his head after he comes home. Sometimes he'll stumble in at 3am and Grian is fulling sitting in the kitchen and Mumbo doesn't even notice. It's like he's fully cartoon floating through the apartment covered in kissy marks. Sickening, frankly! Grian just wants to enjoy his cereal.

I am...deeply amused by the concept that Grian is both Cuteguy AND a sort of journalist. I suppose there is truly no better way to control your public image than to become the foremost influencer about Hotguy and Cuteguy yourself. It's genius. There's no possible way this could blow up in his face.

I think he would print a bunch of teeny tiny details about Scar that would just absolutely drive him mad. Like nothing private or sensitive or something that only Grian would know, but just a little something. Like, "Hotguy talks, walks, and looks like a man who has seen Topgun more times than he's got bitches." <- this is a bad example actually but i think its funny and I'm not deleting it. Probably more something like what Scar's favorite candy bar is or something. Scar usually assumes that he must have said it at some point, but he totally hadn't.

Hotguy and Cuteguy's relationship is like, VERY silly. They work well together and undeniably compliment each other in the field but the moment they don't have a shared goal they get at each other a little bit. Not in a sincere, aggressive kind of way. You know the vibe. Just a lot of ribbing and shoving each other around.

Scar has joked multiple times that Cuteguy and That One Reporter would REALLY get along without ANY clue of how close he is to the reality. Mumbo would be the first one to get to the bottom of that mystery. It'd be promptly followed by a chewing out session for Grian because like, what the fuck, man?

[aliennopossumm]

hi did you know both jimmy and Cleo used to be teachers and I personally can See It in their limlife interactions, they are So Passive Aggressive with each other and it's so funny to me jshsjajaj

new layer to add to the zombiebird ship if you like (alternatively; bickering teachers au anyone?)

oh my gods yes thank you for reminding me of that fact. bickering teachers au will now be living in my head rent free <3

[haarleps]

HI can i draw your oc nyx please? she's so pretty especially in the human form of the bg3 design, she's so so gorgeous and im enamoured with her <3

Oh my god are you for real???? Absolutely!! Don’t mind me about to cry because someone loves Nyx this much. Yeah, of course! I’m glad you like her!

[zedif-y]

HERMITCRAFT asks game!.

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🌙 If you could join hermitcraft, would you?

Honestly? probably not KSDJGHKJSDG i don't even play minecraft regularly! i don't have the same drive they do, nor am i interested in really meeting their level. i'm content watching from the outside<3

💫 Have you met any hermits?

GOD NO,,, i've told this to some friends but . jesus christ. if i met a hermit i think i would die. LKLDSJGHSD I MEAN IM JOKING OBV BUT I HAVE TERRIBLE ANXIETY. i joined zedcraft discord server bc. patreon supporter things . and zed technically sent me a DM that was basically an intro to the server so like-- that's about as much as my heart can take . if i met any irl i would pass away on the spot .

something something i try not to put people on a pedestal because they're still People at the end of the day. but. BUT. the thought of meeting a hermit still makes me want to disintegrate into salt

i've been perceived by CCs somewhat tho KSDJGH

[chaifootsteps]

Bringing up something not directly related to ep8 - I'm very annoyed by the 'content warning' at the beginning of every episode, it just. It feels bare-minimum and like they don't actually care if literal children see the show.

And I'm not trying to say kids can't watch mature stuff, it's just. It's an animated show on YouTube with bright colours and funky non-human designs. What's the bet a tired parent has given their kid a tablet/phone and let them surf and suddenly found their five year old watching HB with all its swearing and really very degrading language (ESPECIALLY towards women which someone else pointed out recently)

It's just. It really feels like vivzie sees 'mature content' as not that big a deal because SHE isn't upset by it so anyone who thinks sex jokes in front of kids are inappropriate is just a prude! But like. It IS a mature show. It deals with some really quite nasty things aside from the swearing and sex jokes, and on top of talking about them flippantly, it doesn't really go into detail in warning about them. Like. People, kids or not, deserve to know what's happening and be warned for it, it's why we have content guidelines in the first place. Even shit like south park or archer or any other mature animated show COMES WITH A RATING ON IT, from M to R depending on what's in it (and what country you're in apparently).

Idk maybe I'm being overly cautious and I am probably coming off as someone conservative, I just do think the team should take the content warning a little more seriously?? Because there's no sensitivity team watching the episodes before they're released so there's no one outside the studio who might actually go 'hey stop this needs a real warning' before it's released.

Like the show can get as rough as it wants, go nuts, I don't care, I just think maybe it should come with a content warning a bit more serious than 'ya this is for mature audiences lol'.

Or at least have Something warning about flashing lights cos fuck the show has so much going on and I know people in real life who struggle to watch it because it's so visually busy.

I mean...a more precise warning for what's up ahead never hurt anyone, but at the same time I don't think it's Vivzie's or anyone else's job to babysit other peoples' kids. I also don't know that she could keep them out if she cared to; my little cousin, when I asked who the hell's been showing him Helluva Boss, walked me through the exact process he uses to bypass Youtube Kids behind his mom's back.

I think the abysmal way Vivzie presents female characters, transmasc characters, and consent are more dangerous to sneaky kids than the fact that there's sex and swears.