hey guys remember when
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hey guys remember when
Does creature Jimmy put his bad boys under his wings? Do they have a big warm soft cuddle pile? Is Joel warm bc dragon or coldblooded bc dragon=lizard and he snuggles with bad boys and other lifers bc he cannot generate his own heat? I have so many questions
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its always on the crafting table
Joel at the start of Jimmy's last video punching him repeatedly through the portal, and then at the end of the video, Jimmy saying he deserves to punch Joel this time, and Joel saying ok and just letting him means so much to me
I'm probably not gonna get invested in this SMP whatsoever unless another maid Jimmy incident happens (in which case I kill myself) but I just wanted to say that Joel jumping up and down while looking at Jimmy is oddly uncharcteristic considering how they are but really really cute. Like it hit me how Joel does not usually do shit like this unlike Jimmy (more often than not Joel seems to stim by hitting him unfortunately) and now it's important to me. Mimicking Jimmy's body language
What if Joel, having Jimmy in his time travelling car, realizing that he can't actually change the past and that the timeline will be restored; instead of choking up on his feelings, finds the courage to lay them out bare, knowing that nothing he says here will be remembered. What then
Haven't been able to stop entertaining the thought of competition being Joel's love language. Most people that he loves or has amazing chemistry with at least in recent times are ones he's in or had friendly rivalries with (Pearl, Bdubs, Jimmy, Lizzie; Etho can count too. Scott is a wildly different case) and it makes me ill all over again about smallidarity
Jimmy has never had much opportunity to even think of his own comfort aside from a very basic and childish idea of it, so their relationship is built upon Joel's. Joel likes to tease and bully and he likes when it's reciprocated, he likes when he's challenged to help initiate a back-and-forth and although he can get very competitive, it's ultimately friendly. He probably doesn't know how to act when he oversteps, especially in Jimmy's case because he likes Jimmy (and Jimmy likes him) so it's not like he's gonna leave him alone and the upset he causes inevitably repeats. It's not like Jimmy makes it very explicit when he's genuinely hurt (though not for lack of trying), and that's when he's not dismissing his feelings altogether to basically smile through it, so it must be fine (You could also spin it into Joel wanting to "toughen Jimmy up" but that would've probably been an unintentional excuse on his part at most to push down anything he doesn't want to think about regarding their relationship)
With that lens, Joel's gradual change in demenour becomes even more affectionate to me. Jimmy hasn't tended to gain the upper hand over Joel - hasn't been able to reciprocate - so Joel's started letting him. He doesn't bite back as hard or make as harsh of a quip, if anything at all. As much as he does still push Jimmy around, he's helped Jimmy become comfortable where they're on more or less equal footing (or at least getting there). I'd like to think of it as Joel learning to meet Jimmy at a middle ground that's tailored to both their comfort, where they may continue to tease and compete and be little shits, but Joel can also be gentle and encouraging (and learn that he also likes that kind of affection and also that he doesn't need to hate himself for it. I hope). It's not that Jimmy was ever necessarily incapable of keeping up with him, it's their environment that's pushed his own wants and needs down, but Joel could offer a (hopefully permanent) space different from that via his opposition to the norm and his protectiveness and belief in Jimmy
I think his need to mock and compete is something he can learn to put aside for the sake of someone he cares about that much, as much as it goes against his toxic masculinity complex and as much as he'd refuse to admit to or acknowledge it. His past bad treatment of Jimmy is still something he needs to grapple with but sigh. He's doing his best whilst battling his demons. Truly the poster child of "he bullies you because he likes you"
"I'm following you Joel" "Let's just hold each other Joel" whatever Jimmy