I love Team Canada's relationship so much!

Pause said he only ever opens MineCraft whenever Etho and Beef ask him if he wants to play with them and he's always down to play. And seeing the three of them constantly laugh at each other is so wholesome.

I'm so glad they're doing CTM maps together again.

[554] Todays piece is my contribution to hermitzine! It was an honor to work with such amazing talented people! This drawing was super fun to work on even though I had to kinda rush it at the end haha.

professional fallers

Just heard Etho refer to himself as ladderself. Beautiful world we.live inh

the various skills of ethoslab and how he learned them and when. the list of a man who's lived a bit longer than he should have. (inspired by this post)

field meals: it's just soup. he never makes them for anyone else, not until they lose the grainy texture they start with. he learns from a man in a village that questions why he covers his face. etho laughs, but he never tells him why. the man doesn't ask again. he tells him that if he lets the vegetables soften for longer that they won't make a gritty soup when mashed. he learns spiced pumpkin, beetroot, chicken and potato.

(he stays for two weeks. he rids the nearby temple of infestation in repayment. when the temple master tries to repay him with gold, he tells him that he only wants a written recipe of how to bake bread. the baker’s son gives him one with honey in it.)

soap making: is something he learns pretty early on in his career in machinery. it's no good just to rinse your hands in water and it's still no good just to be buying soap up-charged, and lye isn't any good alone. lye doesn't smell, or worse yet, smells heavy and thick and doesn't come off your skin or out of your clothes properly. he picks up a book somewhere about it. one part lye. one part oil. one part anything else. beeswax and honey. pine tar and coconut oil. he learns what mixtures get redstone out of his clothes and what he can use to wash his hair with so it doesn't frizz. he washes his clothes in a basin of warm water and honey and rosemary soap, as he does his blankets and his sheets until his whole home smells like rosemary and honey and lye and beeswax. he washes his hair and it smells like pine.

plant identification: it takes one bad meal. one bad berry before etho starts learning. pause gets sick in the snow, really sick. he doesn't cough up blood but the sheen of sweat never leaves his face for the entire week that he lies shivering under two coats and a blanket. every time etho and beef try to say something comforting, he says, “stop fussing over me, i'm fine, just food poisoning. beef cooked the chicken wrong.” (it wasn't the chicken. it was the elderberries. etho spends time figuring out what the ripe ones look and taste like. he learns mistletoe, nettles and hogweed, rosary peas and lily of the valley. he doesn't see any of them except the lily again. but he keeps the information for later.) pause gets better after a week of his eyes far away, glazed over, sweating, of him unable to keep down fluids, of shaking awake in the night, holding etho's hand. they get sick, but nobody gets sick like that again.

sewing: pause steadies his hands. he tells him that if he messes up he'll poke himself and beef tells him to stop fussing. etho can thread a needle, can't he? (he can't.) he stabs his index finger three times poking it through the fabric to make a crude patch with their initials on it. then he sews shut a tear on beef's jacket, then he affixes a handful of new buttons to an old shirt of bdubs'. bdubs has him sewing squares within the week, and they stitch together a quilt of scrap fabric big enough for them both. there isn't a cold night that the quilt doesn't stave away. it's in a different spot each time etho sees him: draped over a chair, lovingly folded on the bedside, pulled over his shoulders. they wear it threadbare.

braiding: his hair gets too long. he ties it back himself the first time, some loose thing that falls out as soon as he does it. he says to himself (a reminder): “you break it into three. you're always crossing over the middle most strand. right over middle, then right becomes middle, so left over the middle. and repeat. pulling tight.” he gets better at it, until he can tie a strong three strand braid that he learned from tying twine together to make a stronger rope. bdubs sees him pull it back a few times and braid it like that, and one of those times, late, when they're both tired and leaning on each other, he turns and takes his loose hair and asks if he can braid it. etho shrugs and says “sure.” (and his voice says only you can do that). bdubs says “sit still.” etho sits in front of his crossed legs and bdubs combs out his hair. he tells him as he works: “it's different than the three, but not that different. you pull an extra strand in each time. it looks like fish scales, so people call it a fishtail.” bdubs braids and pulls it tight. he leans forward into etho and etho leans back into him.

(etho spends two days knotting fraying ropes in fishtail braids so his hands learn (and he fidgets, and he fidgets, and it becomes his new fidget, to tie rope together) before he attempts it on his shoulder-blade length hair. bdubs guides his hands, starting him off until he can braid the top too. he only cuts it once—right before the second death games, and even then, bdubs manages to braid a little braid into his hair.)

tea specialist: it's methodical. that's what he learns, when he travels out further than he had in a long time and wanders into the city. he, like many adventurers, takes refuge, and he, unlike many adventurers, stumbles into the tea shop and takes it all in. steady hands (beef taught him that) keep him from crushing the leaves too fine to strain. he learns what hot water feels like in a tin kettle and how to prop it properly on the coals so it heats even and doesn't char the underside of the tin. he buys two wooden cups there, sealed with wax, and brings them with the kettle. it stays on the countertop.

(he uses it every night. later, in a snow fort in the middle of nowhere, he sets one of the wooden cups into the calloused hands of his partner and friend, and bdoubleo looks at him with eyes wide and round and red. he doesn't kill him when he sleeps.)

staving off the effects of sleep deprivation: there's a body sleeping next to him that needs him awake. there's a place someone can sit between wake and dream that makes sure that the body doesn't tire and it's here where he stays. his heart slows way down, but his eyes stay alert through a bleary haze. there are things he hears that aren't real. when his partner (partner, the word feels weird on his tongue now that bdubs is a red life. if they were anywhere else, he would be safe to sleep) wakes two hours from now, then he will rest. he will lie there and listen, waiting to hear him stop breathing. he never gets to that point, but he certainly sleeps very little. beef and pause never told him off for doing it, but when there were sections of the day that he didn't remember and he sat up and there was a coat draped over his knees with a tag that had VB written in chunky letters, he smiled to himself. he's tired now, but he's good at pretending he's not.

separating the things that are dreams from the ones that are not: he's still waiting for someone to tell him how to do that

I was today years old when I found out Etho canonically also uses ladder/ladderself pronouns [source] fic writers take note I guess

Pauses parkour skills, beefs wisdom and Ethos..

rewatching old team canada videos is self-care

some beef and pause doodles. cuz i luv them<33

TEAM CANADA LET'S GOOOOO

[413] A few people responded to my post about how I think Etho is meaner when pause is around saying that he’s doing it to impress pause. I think thats such a funny idea, I had to draw it.

Do Team Canada videos normally have swearing in them? Bc Pause saying 'Damn, this fucking spawner hurts' in Beef's newest ep took me OUT I was not expecting that

"I'm his dog" - Ethoslab

Top five normal things to say about your friends

oh my goodness tango-with-a-sausage-cold being on one heart at around the end of the session has really got my brain gears going.

this server is a game of attrition. it doesn't matter that tango had been playing the long game so carefully for the first act, the damage WILL catch up one way or another. 10 hearts will get you up and running for a bit, but only on the condition of you being able to complete increasingly convoluted and expensive tasks (time or resource-wise, same thing really).

and it's very funny to see the evolution in value of the gapple, because at this point most of the heart-loss seems to be erratic or unpredictable chip-damage that you would barely have time to prepare for with a shield. and consuming an item takes time.

so you'd either stockpile to have a guaranteed continued absorption for – if not the whole episode (because that would be like a stack and a half? guessing 3 hour sessions?) – either whole social interaction or gruelling tasks like travelling in the dark or mining or tense moments.

but who's got that kind of time and resources really.

oke so i've been out of the loop for a while, but was NOONE gonna tell me that team canada was back doing another ctm map??‽!!

its been like 6 years or so!! holy fuck!!

edit: this will in no way effect my ability to funciton,, i will definitely not binge all of their old ctm videos and whatever other content i come across after instead of studying for my exams,, i will be normal about this

WIP sneak peak :D

This team canada art may never be finished :[