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4. Children of the Machine — CG5, Dagames

Follow me, we are children of the machine (We've built this machine!) Barely human in a city built on broken dreams

Ohhh I'm so so so excited to finally share my thoughts about this song!! I've been drawing and redrawing scenes and images I associate with Children of the Machine for... well over a year now, because some of these (the last one, especially) are images I had actually planned to post for last year's Spotify wrapped. The more the story developed over the past year, the more I imagined, and I think I'm finally really happy with my portrayal of these events from Xisuma and Doc's perspectives.

I always imagined this song as the opener to dbhc!Xisuma's Season 9 arc, but it’s also a great follow-up to Don’t Let It Reach the Heart, since it gives us a little more context about Xisuma’s state of mind going into a new season (given everything that happened in Season 8) and throughout the events of Destruction. I also loved the idea that the voice who sings the second verse and the bridge belongs to Doc, reflecting on Xisuma's struggles from the secondhand perspective of someone who is still slowly, painfully putting the pieces together.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[Pt 1] [Pt 2] [Pt 3] [Pt 4] [Pt 5] [Pt 6] [Pt 7] [Don’t Let it Reach the Heart]

Doc and Xisuma despairingly endure the fallout of Etho’s violent boot up at the dawn of a new season—but only barely.

[This fic concludes the Destruction short comic series, which follows the chaos and panic that erupts after Doc and Xisuma try to get Etho back online at the start of Hermitcraft Season 9 after a very rough Season 8 finale leaves him glitched and broken. The comic is set to Joywave's Destruction, but this fic is inspired loosely by Overwerk and Jordan Macdonald’s Feedback and Bassea’s fever dreams / by your side.]

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I am. So full of shrimp emotions

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HI SHEP

Just read all 3 chapters in one sitting and I'm. I'm insane. I have the urge to spin uncontrollably and explode,,

They way you write the interactions between Doc and X is perfect, they are so easy to imagine and visualize in my head while reading IT'S MAKING ME SICK IN A GOOD WAY

Also the way Xisuma's stress is described??? Wonderful!!! You can feel the anxiety, the fear of losing another hermit (and specifically his lab partner) everything about him shaking and feeling physically sick from the stress ough,,, love that

Also getting some info on the helmet too,,,

I could be horribly wrong about this, but when I read the part about Doc's mysterious wound my mind brought me back to these parts of the Destruction comic, that feel like a flashback to something we haven't seen yet (different coloring, Doc's design is a bit different)

from the looks of it Doc's the one holding the shard(?) thing in the last image which could mean nothing

anyways back to the fic appreciation

I love how Doc keeps joking around as he's nearing a death-like state, this guy

and the fact that he cares so much for X, and X worrying so much for him too checking if he's alright I'm going to explode af jfkksaffj

Doc is so funny and lame/pos I love him

killing you for this one personally, putting bombs under your house

I can feel this scene with my heart Xisuma,,,,,,,,,,,, whenever he talks to Doc I can just imagine how he sounds, someone give this man a break,,,

you were right when you said they'll need blankets, hugs and hot tea after this

There's so many things I enjoyed about this fic, genuinely your docsuma content is top tier and I can't get over how good you are both at drawing them and their body language as well as writing them! Truly impressed, this fic made my day (and night after a re-read!) your dbhc au is so interesting and I abolutely love everything about it

anyways going to spin these two in my head like they are in a microwave I'm so insane

WUWAWUWUW MAY MARIGOLD!!!! Your breakdown asks never fail to make me spin around one million times, perceptive eye as ever >:3 AND TYSM FOR READING AND ENJOYING!!!! <3

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SHEP I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS DROP ARGRGRHRGGGH /pos

ME TOOO!!!!! This is like, the first big fic I’ve ever published/put out there so I’m like. Vibrating outta my skin fgbjsrtbjcggnkcghnm I’m like so so excited because I’m really happy with how it came out but I’m also so terrified. I don’t share writing that’s not my Thing yknow aaaa a a aa. Aaaa. Aaa

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”the countdown begins :)” Shep, w-what countdown? What countdown Shep? Shep we need to know. We need to know before we start jumping off the walls. SHEP- /lh /silly

One of these things is not like the others....

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GHDHHFHDHF. SOON. FHHFHDHD. SHEP AHHHHHHHH. GRRRR. FJFHDHHDJSJS.

ME. ME RN