doodle request: pearl and tilly!

i got so incredibly carried away with this. oh my god

is that pink dye permanent or will it come out in a few days/weeks? and why are they sold like that?

it'll come out when the feathers come in! Unfortunately its common for vendors here to dye the chicks bright colors to attract the eye of children, especially in fairs or holidays

hello i saw u tagged jimmy solidarity on that "free my man he did none of that. he did a bunch of other shit though" post and i am incredibly compelled by the implications here. please may i have an essay on the subject

YOU MAY.

Okay so we’re gonna be specifically talking about Empires SMP Season 2 Jimmy (henceforth, Jimmy,) and the way he conducts himself, how those actions reflect on him, versus how he sees himself (and how the fandom sees him in turn). Welcome to my Ted Talk.

The most important thing to understand about Jimmy is that he lies. He lies about everything, and convinces himself that his lie is true to the point where he really thinks it is. Take, for example, a moment in Sausage’s episode 41 [full exchange from 9:10 - 19:37] where Jimmy kills Sausage, and then when Sausage, followed by fWhip, return to Tumble Town to discuss the murder, Jimmy blatantly lies about the altercation to fWhip, claiming “[Sausage] came over, and he assaulted me, fWhip!” Jimmy insists that it was Sausage who physically started it, despite that being completely untrue. Jimmy then goes on to deny having killed Sausage Sausage at all, sounding affronted at the idea and demanding to see the player head that drops on death. fWhip asks how many levels Sausage has, which is none, and Jimmy claims that Sausage must have used all his experience. Jimmy denies and lies, and when fWhip goes looking for Sausage’s things, finding them in Jimmy’s storage, Jimmy acts shocked, saying “I think I’m being set up! […] I’m gonna leave this conversation, you do what you gotta do, but I don’t think I’m the bad guy here.” As if Jimmy didn’t explicitly kill Sausage moments ago!! As if it isn’t his fault!!!

And the problem here, the core problem, is that so many people just… believe him. They take Jimmy’s words at face value and assume that he’s always a reliable narrator in his own stories, despite the fact that it couldn’t be further from the case. The issue is less that people assign New and Different problems to Jimmy, more that they strip him of any wrongdoing at all, making him out to be some sad little pathetic wet cat who didn’t deserve it. And— don’t get me wrong, he is extremely sad, but he also did it to himself.

I think one of the more interesting ways to illustrate this, is to talk about the way Jimmy perceives himself. From the start of the season, he always insists on being called “The Sheriff.” He’s not Jimmy, he’s The Sheriff, and throughout the season, he can be seen constantly insisting upon and chasing after that title. He wants respect— or, his version of respect. What he really wants is a yes man. This difference can very clearly be seen in the way he treats the two deputies he had throughout the season.

When fWhip was the deputy, it’s because he wanted to be. He sought Jimmy out because he wanted to be Jimmy’s right hand man, and Jimmy let him. fWhip consistently referred to Jimmy as The Sheriff, upholding Jimmy’s version of the laws as best he could. And, there really is something to be said about the fact that fWhip, as a goblin, inherently didn’t understand the concept of arbitrary laws, or that sort of morality at all, and was only one, upholding it because he cared about Jimmy, but two, treating the laws as Jimmy treated them— i.e, making a shrine for that which Jimmy made a church for, but that’s a whole separate essay that I want to write at some point. Either way, he was good to Jimmy, though their time together was short. He made Jimmy a home away from home in Gobland [fWhip episode 8 timestamp 20:28] and helped Jimmy win the court trial by serving as his lawyer in the case against Joel [Trial best seen in Jimmy’s episode 10 starts at 3:03]. After fWhip was fired, he went around Tumble Town noting down a bunch of “laws” that Jimmy was breaking. I wrote a whole post about this set of interactions already [here] but the short version is this: In fWhip’s episode 12 [5:54], he goes around and marks down all the laws that he’s saying Jimmy is breaking around Tumble Town. […] Of the seven instances that fWhip writes down, SIX of them almost directly relate to Jimmy not taking good care of himself or his empire. To me, it almost reads more like he cares about Jimmy, and is worried about him.

All this to say, that fWhip didn’t Respect The Sheriff as much as he Cared About Jimmy. And that’s an important distinction— he cared about Jimmy, the person. He had this whole veneer of respecting the laws— laws that he didn’t really understand— because he cared about Jimmy. And Jimmy fired him for a prank— one that wasn’t specifically targeted or malicious— because he saw that as Disrespecting The Sheriff. He didn’t want someone who Cared About Jimmy, he wanted someone who Respected The Sheriff. And fWhip wasn’t that.

Enter Scar.

During the Hermitcraft crossover, Scar started gunning for the position as deputy because he wanted the shiny deputy badge. That was it, that was the reason, and Scar acted accordingly. Everything was about acting like he Respected The Sheriff, even when he was blatantly breaking one of the core laws, wearing another player’s hat— both the sheriff hat [Jimmy episode 19 4:07] as well as trading away a sheriff hat, and being seen wearing one of Scott’s Chromia hats [Jimmy episode 22 14:27]. In this episode, Scar backhandedly compliments Jimmy, “oh, you’re just a… cute big guy, aren’t you?” to which Jimmy seems uncertain, asking “I’m real big, right?” to which Scar says he is. Jimmy then asks him about the Chromia hat Scar wears, and Scar tells him that he traded one of the sheriff hats to Scott. Jimmy gets upset at Scar, but before he can get properly mad, Scar distracts him by showing off a new section of Tumble Town that he made. Scar wears the mask of respect for just long enough to get the badge. When Jimmy gives him the badge, he says he has something else that he wants to give Scar as well. “I have found something real special for you, real special.” Scar says “I already got something special, this badge.” Jimmy says “you mean our friendship?” Which Scar dubiously agrees to. This is the last time Jimmy sees Scar before the hermits leave— Scar got what he wanted, and that was all. And yet, Jimmy hired him, because Scar put on the show. Scar was his yes man, Scar Respected The Sheriff, even if he didn’t Care About Jimmy.

He does it to himself, Jimmy does. He pushes away anyone that tries to care about him as a person, and surrounds himself with people that will be his yes men, his little sidekicks, anyone that holds the sheriff title in high regard. It’s why he takes so well to the Old Sheriff, who treats the sheriff title with the same reverence that he does, respecting the title of sheriff without actually respecting Jimmy much at all.

The thing about Jimmy is that he causes his own problems, and they’re all his fault. Yes he is crushingly lonely, and filled with self hatred, but he actively surrounds himself with it. It’s not that people are just inherently mean to him, he is almost asking them to be, by pushing away anyone that seems to care about him as a person.

I think, as my final note here, I wanna bring up a moment from Jimmy’s finale, episode 38. He and the Old sheriff, as they’re making their way to the Nether portal, discuss how fWhip only ever referred to himself as goblin fWhip, never as king. Jimmy says “I don’t think he ever held himself to the regard of being a king, and that— d’you know what? That sucks. He was my deputy for a while, he didn’t really think much of himself, I’m not gonna lie” [9:19]. I just find it interesting, that Jimmy says that it sucks how fWhip never called himself king— a title ostensibly higher than sheriff— and that fWhip was only a deputy. As if he thinks that fWhip could’ve been king, perhaps was worthy of the title, and just never took it— that he sees the taking of a title such as that to be so important, when for fWhip, it never was. I dunno, I just think there’s something to that. I think it says something about Jimmy and about the importance he places on titles that don’t really matter.

Jimmy ran away, in the end. He and the Old Sheriff ran far away from everything they ever knew. fWhip stayed, choosing to live out his days happily in the empire he helped to found. fWhip never took the title of king. Jimmy thinks he should’ve.

Isn’t that something?

i love democracy

may i get a silly little bekyamon perhaps?

Top surgery rat moment

hello i voted for your guys!! can i have (checks your blog to find out whether you post hermpirestraffic as well as dsmp/qsmp) a scott smajor please ^_^

i know nothing about empires but everyone’s skins are super pretty

fanon swap request for katherine as the monarch of dawn!

this is such a fun concept design wise,, the vibes fit so well

what kind of event were you thinking of running? (- the artist formerly known as mod ilex of yuri week)

i would love to do an mcyt aro week! i just think that we should be making more block characters arospec :3 ive had the thought for a while but seeing yuri week kind of got me thinking about Actually doing it!

i lvoe democracy

if you're taking prompts for the doodle request can i get a uhhhhhhhh rendog

I had to draw maid dress rendog ^-^

go vote maid dress tango ^-^

happy new year :D

THANK YOU!!! happy new year to you too :DDD

for fanon swap - voidwalker pearl

lawd i am not good at drawing armour

strange aeons video on "the tumblr calendar" just came out and it has reminded me that your list of memes by month is probably almost done right!

yeah! i gotta actually. put it together which will take a while but im just waiting to see what happens this month :3 it’ll probably be out first week of 2024

for the empires swap meme - sausage of gobland!

Omg he’s green now

trick or treat !!

hi ilex!!! happy halloween :D

going through deleted scenes is fun have an old deleted scene from stars (at least I think it was deleted it was in my deleted scene folder but if I just ended up rewriting it and we basically got the same thing sorry lol it's been so long I don't remember)

Gritting his teeth, Wilbur took a step back from Technoblade. “You think I don’t fucking know that? You think I like acting like this?” He scoffed. “I wish I didn’t have to act like this, but I don’t have any other choice. The last time I trusted someone, we almost got executed. I’m not making that mistake again.”  “Phil and I told you before, we’re not gonna kill you,” Technoblade reminded him.  “I- I know that,” Wilbur stammered. “But that doesn’t mean we can just trust you with everything! Okay, wow, we’re not gonna get our heads chopped off. Fucking great. But you expect me to believe that you actually give a shit about us? That you care about Tommy?” He shook his head. “I’m not falling for it.”  His words hung in the air. A declaration to his stubbornness. His refusal to fall for these lies. He waited for Technoblade to deny it. For him to insist he cared about Tommy and spout a bunch of bullshit about how he wasn’t trying to manipulate him.  Instead, Technoblade just stared at him. And Wilbur stared back.

oli and sausage matchup in ROUND ONE breaks my heart those are both my guys... guess its just how the empanada crumbles 😔 they can BOTH have a complex about the same goddess she has two hands (<- the only heaventrio fanwork maker on the planet)

FOR EEL oli is my special little guy so i am so sad knowing he is going to get his ass handed to him round one. but as i said before sausage has some genuine stuff going on with pearl and while oli certainly has a billion complexes many still unknown to man i don't think most of the ones about pearl really line up with guilt or shame. so i get it

i love democracy. would you please draw uhhh what if scott smajor was .a cat

starborn kittie

[VOTE IANITE]

shark cuddling fiscore....... do u think fis majorwood are cuddling out at sea rn beans...............

oh absolutely 🐠👍