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[lunaticalis]

I JUST SAW THE DOC REPLY ON TWT hello???? NICE LUN . also the matador thing .... does that mean that scar doesn't actually have long hair and that's some sort of collar thing and we've all completely misinterpreted it LMAO

YEA THAT SURPRISED ME TOO,,,,

see the thing is i dont know if doc is joking or not

because there’s this scar’s tweet that he might be referencing

but if he actually turned out to be a matador and we’re all misinterpreted his skin it would be funny

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ok hear me out so i feel like grian is like ketchup, everyone likes it, it's very good, its very accessible and palatable so like its kinda everyones go to condiment. like every burger and fries comes with ketchup. then etho is like fuckin mayonnaise. first time you try it on something ur like wtf is this its kinda tangy its kinda odd why does it taste like that. sort of an acquired taste. then u keep eating it and ur like gjgmmgmgmgmhhmmm mayonnaise i sorta like it and then eventually ur like putting it on ur sandwich ur drizzling it on ur beans ur eating it straight out of the jar with ur bare hands u never wanna eat a meal again without mayonnaise. ya. hope that makes sense

rio this is genuinely objectively the funniest thing to wake up to but what can i even say because it's TRUE... etho my little mayonnaise guy

[bellshazes]

hi peter^_^as a meta enjoyer and also as someone who cant stop thinking abt do it again i just wanted to know if there was any kind of symbolism or subtext or just anything at all u purposely added that you don't think anyone has picked up on yet? take this as a free pass to ramble as much as u want abt ur writing

oh man this is such an indulgent question to wake up to, oh my goodness. a lot of stuff that comes to mind is stuff I haven't finished writing yet, but a few things:

when Etho says dreams just reflect what's on your waking mind, that's the breaking point for bdubs to thinking Etho's out to get him. he only becomes sure after the stair critique, but re-interprets Etho getting death coffee to stay awake to see him as a threat as well.

Etho's face being lit orange from the courage crystal is my obligatory Blaze Of Glory motif reference

Technically someone called this in a comment but the crystals do work and each do the opposite of what they're intended; the courage crystal is making Bdubs paranoid, Etho goes to the hospital after the danger detection crystal, and [redacted for spoilers]

The people who remember first or most are those who received or gave lives in LL. Scar and Bdubs, obviously, but this is partially why Tango reacts to Bdubs' references without knowing why. Etho never did either, as we all know.

Bdubs' failed flour trap and ineffective fishing rod ploy are nods to his abysmal red traps.

There's a couple things I haven't fully gotten to yet that boil down to the central thesis of the fic, which is more or less the intersection of "How do you know another person?" and "What ties a person to someone else?" So much of the fic is about different kinds of debts, and loneliness, and the sense of knowing someone being a comfort (Cleo) or a ball and chain (Scar) or a possible misjudgement (Bdubs and Etho). In c5, "That’s the problem with putting your heart into one person’s hands: when they’re gone, you’re left heartless. A clock, a life, a question - whatever the promise, he’ll always take it if it means an end to loneliness" is the central problem, and Etho'll have to deal with his own version of it in c6.

It's not a story about destiny or fate, though. I want it to be a story about how the person we are is understood through our relationships to other people, and those relationships are made of all the choices the people involved make. It doesn't have to be unhealthily codependent for it to be true that without each other, Etho and Bdubs have difficulty knowing who they are because they always choose each other in some form or fashion. That's why it matters so little if this iteration ends well; they'll choose a different configuration next time. Point, counterpoint; a compass, a binary orbit, whatever. In each other's absence, they find themselves different people. The weight of all those previous choices might feel like fate now, but it's always been a choice.

[ethotv-archived]

CRIMSON forsure. for the second ask game

listen ok its really easy to be a hater its called "finding something to be mad about so you dont punch the next person who calls you a slur irl and get arrested"

[pigrank]

whats new in soot world. answer honestly

rdr2 is whasts new illt ell you that. I know i said this to kel but its the TRUTH!!!!! Anyway i was realy sick two weeks ago so thats fun and i wont lie im still feeling it i think god hates me... ummm easter holidays rn is fun and my bed is comfy

[jungledubs-archive]

oooh thoughts on bdubs' s5? it's been a while since i watched so curious what you think of it!

oh YES it’s very good very very very good [points at self. is s5 bdubs fictive] we started watching it AGES ago but took a break after i formed bc it was kinda weird but then we restarted again recently bc it stopped being weird and now i only have a few episodes left to finish it :P

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some more duo name brainstorming: can u imagine if quackity and beef were on an smp together. that is all

rio i need you to log off right now

[bellshazes]

grian and/or martyn for the ask game -_o

Grian - Which game rules/mechanics would you like to keep, and which ones would you like to change/take away?

It really feels like they were testing out no chat notifications during 100hr since it's the same server and all and I think that would absolutely rule in some way. More lying, more misinformation, more stupid decisions based on incomplete info please and thank you <3 You could still see if someone'd died by tabbing but I love the potential to lie about cause of death and more.

I do think the no red friendships rule needs tweaking. If that's kept in some way, it needs to be balanced because the potential dynamics of red-green alliances and backdoor dealings are too good to ban entirely. Even if it's like... no public red-green alliances. But you can have secret ones! Or you get a government assigned partner and you're stuck with them. Randomly assigned teams isn't likely but I think that could be really fun too, since a lot of what I (& likely y'all) find compelling is the tension between self-preservation and the need to rely on someone else to survive, someone who now or later may use your alliance to ruin you. Putting random teams out into the universe as my s4 prediction, just for fun.

Martyn InTheLittleWood - Share a headcanon you have about the world of Last Life that somehow includes Season 3 (eg. something that’s relevant throughout all the seasons, something that ties previous seasons into season three, etc.)

I'm not sure I have any headcanons that would qualify, esp better than you yourself put it LOL. I love the recurring themes as well, but something I'm think about often is how Bdubs has played to two wildly different poles of playstyle, because at the center is the fact that he is unwavering loyal to exactly one person, his chosen partner, and fuck all else. He does this in 3L on both ends of the recklessness spectrum with Cleo, which is part of what's so good about the Crastle - they each take turns being reckless and a bit bloodthirsty, and then trying to keep the other one safe and sane. But she's the generally more bloodthirsty, so he builds a perfect tower with impenetrable defenses to keep them both as safe as he knows how, and it alone stands tall at the end, outliving them both.

With Etho, he knows Etho likes to take risks but calculated ones; he can't offer better skills and he had designed them a base that could never be burned down, not like Etho's woollen disaster in 3L, but bad luck meant they couldn't even get that. He doesn't have the relative skill to be a sword for Etho - or perhaps, not the patience, as he dies for the last time trying - so he leans into the recklessness because the one thing between them they have in spades is trust.

This, I think, is what makes "I trusted you because Bdubs trusted you" so sweet and heartwrenching. Cleo, whose arrival in the snow fort made Bdubs say finally, now it feels like home, quietly breaks a rule in solidarity with Etho to say, I remember last time. I know what it's like to have Bdubs' trust, and there's an air of weight to that. Tango calls Etho a survivalist when Bdubs insists Etho loves him, and when Etho's talking to Cleo after Bdubs dies, that's what they are. Lonely, but not quite alone.

So if there's a head canon in here, it's maybe that... Bdubs remembers. And his partners do, too, a little - I don't know how much detail or consciously, but people want to break the rules a little bit for him, the way he tugs at whatever threads need tugged. The slate might get cleaned, but Bdubs' partnerships are indelible, and by some strange grace or skill, he gets away with that. I can't wait to see what new fucked-up things he does out of loyalty in season 3.