spark hunters swap au??? idfk

In a c!twinsduo swap au, I don’t think L’Manberg would get founded tbh

GORDON RAMSAY: Right mate, I had a look at the walk-in and it's a fucking disgrace. How often did you say you swap out the imprisoned child whose continual suffering is the bedrock of your patrons' happiness MANAGER: The suffering child? Once a year, chef GORDON RAMSAY: My eye you do! Yours's been in there so long he's gone beardy! Fuck me, he looks like he could just rent a car and drive off any day now. No wonder everybody who sees this place walks away from it

i adored the eldritch cleo and voidwalker pearl ficlets so maybe… mayhaps.. eldritch pearl please?

(beware, mild rambling follows) it’s fascinating to see what elements of common characterization people keep vs get rid of when doing this fanon swap, and it’s making me reconsider how much of my perception has been filtered by these almost omnipresent ideas of species matched so closely to certain hermits. but i think it’s neat too, to see how cleo almost always retains some aspect of being a zombie, for example. x tends to keep his armour. it’s just. fascinating as… maybe a fandom study, in the vein of character studies. i adore all of this so much. also it’s wonderful to see how people are exploring the prompts!

At any given time, most of Pearl is not here. At least ninety percent, if she had to put a number on it, though she doesn't really like to do that, because it always feels strange, doesn't it, to try to quantify what she knows innately is not quantifiable.

The numbers aren't important. What's important is: most of Pearl isn't here. It's somewhere else.

"Okay, but where?" Gem says slowly. She's looking at Pearl like if she just stares hard enough, and tilts her head just right, she might be able to see the rest of her hiding behind her narrow shoulders and long neck. Pearl doesn't fault her- Gem, she's learning, has a tendency to map out threats, a habitual leeriness of predators- but she doesn't think she's going to get anywhere with it.

Pearl shrugs, looks up at the sky. "Up there, maybe? Or..." she kicks at the dirt, thinks of the hole that goes miles and miles down to bedrock. "Under there. Or both? I'm not really sure."

What Pearl is trying to explain to Gem is that sometimes, when she blinks, she loses track of herself.

The sensations of the world, as soon as they're not pressing up insistently against her mind and orienting her in space, are gone as if they never were. Sometimes she closes her eyes and forgets to open them again, because when the life and sound of the world fade from her mind it's the only time she can remember everything else, all the vastnesses of her true body and the comfortable blackness of its habitat.

One time Mumbo found her like that, standing at the edge of the Boatem Hole and humming to herself, right at the lip of the swallowing nothing that feels like home.

"It's like sleepwalking," Pearl says, finally. "No harm in it. Just a little scare sometimes."

"But that sounds dangerous," Gem says, brow furrowed. "What if something happened?"

Pearl waves it off. "I'm not worried about it," she says. "Someone always wakes me up before long."

Above, in the sky, the moon hangs.

what?? dsmp? how??

some requests from my friend yay (you can also ask any if you want to i guess!)

puffy and niki :)

tntduo outfit swap? so swag

bedrock bros hehehe

False idea?

Oh she’s definitely well-meaning, but mysterious. Like she’s friendly, kind, nice, etc. But whenever she’s asked about her magic, how she got it, and why her eyes are always so dark, she’ll smile softly and change the subject.

One time when Pearl was exploring at night, she saw False in a clearing, kneeling. Pearl hid behind a tree and watched as False turned her eyes towards…not the moon? Like you said, supernaturals usually worship the moon, but the moon wasn’t there (new moon phase). False was looking at the place where it should be, but now it was just a empty spot of dark, dark sky.

when Pearl looked for the stars, she couldn’t see any. She immediately turned tail and ran home.

The truth was, False was mourning. Years ago, she had been a young, power-hungry fae. She stole names, swapped babies, and caused general chaos. But it wasn’t enough. So when the moon went dark, she made a sacrifice for ultimate power.

In pure blackness, False killed her twin sister.

You see, void magic fills the spot in one’s soul where there was previously love. And it grants control over non-supernaturals (mostly humans and animals). So those with that magic are almost constantly in grief and regret.

that’s why she won’t tell you her past.

uh yeah that’s it haha, e!false lore x false’s weird bedrock hole obsession.

OH NONNY THIS IS SO SO COOL...

I love it so much, False on her redemption arc now perhaps? The poor girl...

I'm gonna go ahead and say this is pretty much canon... I might change a bit as I figure out more story but I love this so so much oh my gosh

random rundown of fic ideas I have on the docket for at some point in the future, if anyone is curious (or wants to take from these concepts to use themselves because these are Long Bois so I’m probably saving them for november):

in a timeline where ren’s kingship immediately goes horrible dictatorship, joe hills accidentally discovers he has the superpower of Time Loop, and sets out to figure out what went wrong, fix it, and save his friends. the trick with this fic, however, is that it would be a single king oneshot taking place entirely over one of the loops, at least a dozen attempts in, and ending with the end of another failed loop. it’s all about the middle bits here.

pearl wakes up as a horrible monster in an unknown laboratory with no idea how she’s gotten there, what she is, how to talk, or what to do from here. fic is about her escaping, piecing together what happened to get her into the situation she wakes up in, and getting back home again, somehow.

xisuma tries to deal with his emotions about season eight. bluntly this one would be about abuse, and reconciling that is the word that describes what happened to you. I’ve wanted to write this for months. we’ll see.

double life cast is mysteriously swapped with their hermitcraft selves, as told from cleo’s perspective as she’s suddenly in a world with a person who claims to be her best friend that she doesn’t remember, on this massive ocean base that she doesn’t understand, trying to just… deal with that. this would be a very focused on “joe and cleo as friends” fic, but with the angle of “cleo wakes up suddenly not knowing who joe is and joe is faced with a cleo who doesn’t have a decade of history with him”. really want to write this in some ways.

vague “something about helsknight because I have ideas about what helsknight is but I have since ditched the fic concept I originally had for the helsknight interpretation I wanted to use so I need to figure out where else I can get it to work and also NOT have him be too much like the man in the striped suit in my recent fic”

rare new techno/sort of sbi fic from me, recycling aspects of a VERY old bedrock bros concept I never wrote. set in a world where people have various minor magical gifts/superpowers, old war god/demon technoblade is retired, thank you very much, and largely haunts a farmer’s market where he’s in a totally normal competition with the other local potato salesman and is maybe friends with the farmer’s market gang (featuring niki and sophie and probably connor along with obviously squid, amongst others). one day however one of his regular customers, out of desperation, summons techno to make a pact, a thing techno hasn’t done in decades. this person is tommy. wilbur is missing. he wants techno to help save him. cue adventure. at some point in my head this was supposed to be a superhero sbi fic send-up so there MAY be superheroes in the background but this has turned way more into the magical realism wheelhouse I reside in over time so you know. maybe not. anyway this is a BIG maybe since I largely sit in hermitcraft these days but I am still fondly attached to “old god techno and tommy, desperate regular human, end up bonding” because I came up with the basics back in november 2020 and have just never have successfully written it and also it’s morphed actual plots and basically every beat but that part like twelve times so we’ll see.

false ends up back in her homeworld, but fwhip and I think maybe shelby also end up there accidentally with her and also it turns out that false’s old world kind of sucks so they have to try to get fwhip and shelby home while false faces internal conflict over whether she stays in her homeworld or goes back to empires. this one relies on knowing a BIT more about false before I’m comfortable writing it though.

anyway I think those are all the main docket ideas for “next big thing second tries to write” but this guarantees none of them because, like, you never know if a new idea will take over my brain between now and november or anything else,

Group E Round 1

[image ID: the first image is a black and white picture of Akama, a Japanese man with short black hair, a bandana or scarf tied around his neck, a long sleeve shirt or jacket, holding what appears to be a small glass of alcohol. the second image is of No Significant Harassment, a shadowy figure standing behind a sleeping pink-red, fox-like creature. their green hands seem to be holding up the floating creature. end ID]

Akama

Look, I'm a big Dostoevsky fan and when reading "The Idiot" I didn't like Rogozhin one bit. But watching the Japanese adaptation and the new/different version of his character Akama? Suddenly I understood why Nastasya/Taeko was willing to go to him. Look he's a little crazy and also definitely bisexual. Like very bisexual. I think if him, Taeko, and Kameda got together it would be the world's worst trouple but also incredibly powerful and great. Who talks to his love rival and suddenly go "swap with me your charm even though mine is very fancy and expensive and yours isnt and it will be sign of our brotherhood and connection and also now you have to meet my mother and wow she likes you and also i'm going to try to kill you but won't be able to do it and even though you know that I want to kill you you'll refuse to think less of me and now i'm going to kill the woman we're both in love with and you and i are going to spend the whole night up together taking turns watching her body and you're going to ask me to go into detail about how i killed her and you also knew i would kill her and wow does the fact that I was able to kill her but not you prove that I loved her more or less than how much i loved you and I know i've just damned myself to prison but please don't leave me until the morning and you're so so good so much that Taeko was scared to ruin you but i don't care if i ruin you too but also you're a lamb and you need to be careful about wolves like me and even though I killed the woman you love you're still lying next to me under all these blankets because there's a blizzard out and we have to keep the room cold to keep her body from decomposing and smelling because she looks so beautiful and you should go look at her too when the sun comes up and wow my life is worse for having met you but i can't curse you in any way because you are so so good." anyways i'm normal about him

No Significant Harassment

They're just a silly little guy. A jokester. Significant harassment if you will. Anyway, a more in depth run down: They're a city sized supercomputer built by a Buddhist adjacent society to figure out how to transcend the 'Great Cycle' (semi-metaphorical cycle of death and rebirth) in a safer way than the previous method (submerging oneself in the 'void sea' which is a mysterious golden liquid that dissolves whatever it touches). Despite being built for this express purpose NSH never really shows a pressing interest in ascension, even cracking jokes about those who are still looking for a solution. Whether this is due to indifference, dislike of, or humor to cope with being unable to ascend is not clear and really up to interpretation. Example: NSH: I wish them super good luck in that endeavor. How is it going to happen? Have the overseers gnaw through bedrock until their entire can crashes down in the void sea? BSM: Please be respectful when speaking of the Void Sea. Grey Wind, where did you hear this? CW: I really shouldn't say. He's going to attempt some sort of breeding program. Thought you might want to know. NSH: Haha with the slimers, lizards and etceteras? Surely the answer was in a lizard skull all along! He's very flippant, but does care very intensely for those close to him. NSH: Moon? It's me again. NSH: I do not know if you are receiving these. Please signal in any way you can. NSH: I need to talk to you. I need to know you're okay. NSH: … NSH: Its difficult for us to assist you over this distance. NSH: Even more difficult for us to do anything in the midst of these tantrums. NSH: Were going to try everything that we can. NSH: Just hold on a little longer. (Context for previous convo: They genetically engineered a super organism of a slugcat (the species you play as in Rain World) to help reset his coworker/sibling after her collapse and restart her systems. He was so desperate to fix her that he accidentally messed up the slugcat's (Hunter) genetic code and as a result it became riddle with the Rot (relatively similar to aggressive cancer) :( which parallels his other coworker/siblings condition who also has the rot. ) He canonically uses he/they pronouns too! Nonbinary swag! NSH has major internet troll vibes. He has sent a data pearl of "something distasteful" to his neighbors on several(?) occasions and causes chaos. If he had access to the wider internet he'd probably be an influencer So…yeah! Vote NSH this website likes the allure of heavy machinery and stuff like that so… there you go. Kind of a blorbo. End post.

Just found out i can swap the blue axolotls for green axolotls in bedrock. Imma set how it looks

the tester pack is now live! this is NOT the full release of cornbread's music fixer 1.3. this is a TEST pack to figure out whether swamp music (which plays exclusively in mangrove swamps in this pack) sounds better at 10% or 20% volume. for context, the tracks from volume alpha range from 10 to 30% volume. [extra context: link 1, link 2, link 3]

this test pack is for bedrock only, but the full release will be for both bedrock and java edition.

use the subpacks to swap between the volumes.

please try to keep in mind how swamp music transitions from other biomes. especially deserts. mangrove swamps tend to generate next to deserts for some reason.

have this little drawling of briar in her usual pjs bc i am so sleepy rn

Currently Known Hozier "Unreal Unearth" Lyrics (Part Two)

PART ONE: "Currently Known Hozier "Unreal Unearth" Lyrics (Part One)"

This is part two of all the currently known lyrics from Hozier's upcoming album; I spent ages finding these so I thought I'd collect them in one place and share in case anyone else was curious !! (Note: All of these leaks have been from Hozier himself, I wouldn't post them if they weren't! All sources will be linked above each song.)

This post is huge, sorry in advance before you click "keep reading" !!

DISCLAIMER: Sorry if any of the lyrics end up being incorrect! It's hard to hear what's being said through some concert videos at times, but, nevertheless, enjoy!

Source: Hozier's Youtube !!

(10) "All Things End" A two-tonne weight around my chest feels like It just dropped a twenty-storey height. If there was anyone to ever get through this life With their heart still intact, they didn't do it right. The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said, "We didn't get it right, but, love, we did out best." And we will again. Moving on in time and taking more from Everything that ends. And all things end. All that we intend is scrawled in sand And slips right through our hands. And just knowing That everything will end Should not change our plans When we begin again. I have never known a silence like the one fallen here, Never watched my future darken in a single tear. I know we want this to go easy by being somebody's fault, But we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want, And that isn't always bad. When people say that something is forever, Either way, it ends. And all things end. All that we intend is scrawled in sand And slips right through our hands. And just knowing That everything will end Should not change our plans When we begin again. Source: A Pre-Sale Postcard !!

(11) "To Someone From A Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe)" The feel of coldness only water brings. There are some things no-one teaches you, love, That come natural as a dream You didn't know you were in. And, darling, all my dreaming Is only put to shame. And, darling, all my dreaming Has only been given a name. Source: Hozier Live Show !!

(12) "Butchered Tongue" As a child, it was the place names, Singing at me as the first thing. How the mouth must be employed in Every corner of itself to say 'Apachiacola', Or 'Hushpeckena', like 'Gweebarra', A promise sung of somewhere else. And, as a young man, bless to pass so many road signs And have my foreign ears made fresh again On each unlikely sound, But feel home hearing the music That few still understand; A butchered tongue, still singing here Above the ground. And ears were chopped from young men If the pitch cap didn't kill them. They are buried without scalp In the shattered bedrock of our home. You may never know your fortune Until the distance has been shown Between what is lost forever And what can still be known. So far from home To have a stranger call you 'darlin' And have your guarded heart be lifted Like a child took by the hand. In some town that just means home to them, With no translator left to sound, A butchered tongue, still singing here Above the ground. Source: A Pre-Sale Postcard !!

(13) "Anything But" In a shot, I'd swap my body for a body of water, Worry the cliffside top as a wave crashing over. I'd lower the world in a flood, Or, better yet, I'd cause a drought. If I was a riptide, I wouldn't take you out. Source: A Pre-Sale Postcard !!

(14) "Abstract (Psychopomp)" The poor thing in the road, Its eye still glistening. The cold wet of your nose, The earth from a distance: See how it shines, See how it shines. Source: Hozier's Youtube !!

(15) "Unknown / Nth" You know the distance never made a difference to me. I swam a lake of fire, I'd have walked across the floor of any sea, Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen And all that we believe. So, I thought you were like an angel to me. Funny how true colours shine in darkness and in secrecy. If there were scarlet flags, they washed out in the mind of me, Where a blindin' light shone on you every night And either side of my sleep, Where you were held frozen like an angel to me. It ain't the being alone. It ain't the empty home, baby. You know I'm good on my own. Sha-la-la, baby, you know, it's more the being unknown. So much of the livin'. love, is the being unknown. You called me angel for the first time, my heart leapt from me. You smile, now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth. And, what's left of it, I listen to it tick, Every tedious beat, Going unknown as any angel to me. Do you know I could break beneath the weight Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you? That I'd walk so far just to take The injury of finally knowing you? It ain't the being alone. It ain't the empty home, baby. You know I'm good on my own. Sha-la-la, baby, you know, it's more the being unknown. And there are some people, love, who are better unknown.

We have nothing for the closing track, "First Light", but that's all the more exciting !! REMEMBER TO STREAM ON THE 18TH OF AUGUST !!!!!!!!! okay, cool, bye :]

i really don't understand people who claim touch controls are holding bedrock back from having duel wielding (yes i am including mojang in this). the only part of the feature that i can *maybe* see being an issue on touch controls is swapping hands during gameplay, which not only isn't necessary, but they could just add the offhand slot to the hud like on java and have players tap that to swap. but you wanna know what i understand even less?

people who claim controllers are holding bedrock back from having duel wielding.

literally, all mojang would have to do in that situation is just implement it as it is on java, except with triggers instead of clicks, and that's it. swapping hands is even less of an issue here since, not only are there unused buttons on the controller, it's also not a super necessary action. not-necessaries are typically not mapped on controller by default: pick block, for example.

this post is longer than i meant it to be.

Okay so that SaB S2 ending! The show runner—Eric Heisserer(sp?)—is a big crows fan but he said that they just loved Jessie so much. Alina and she have really become the “bedrock” of their mother show—Shadow and Bone and they had to keep her. I’m sure they had other reasons. One of them being that they know how lame her ending was in book 3 but they’ll never admit that. He also said that Mal needs to go find himself, now that he’s lost his purpose. I laughed because dude, just admit that he had no personality beyond nice guy who helps Alina. Not to mention bland love interest. Finally, he said that regarding Alina’s turn for the dark, the Darkling has been “quite honest with her” about the cost of power and that she’ll realize that everything he’s prophesied that will happen to her very well could come true.

Whatever the reasons behind the change, I’m happy for the change because it opens the door for so much—including Darklina! Just imagine, in S3, as she grapples with the corruption and darkness growing in her, she starts yearning for Aleksander, maybe reluctantly but she still starts looking for him. She could go back to that fountain, hold his ring, visit his old chambers etc etc, thinking about him, what he would say, the advice he’d give and just generally wishing he was there because he’s the only one who truly KNOWS, though she’d never admit her longing. Even if Nikolai is also infected, no one will truly truly know other than Aleksander. It’s the whole no one is like us thing. Think of the possibilities! The angst! The drama! Not to mention the possibility for a darklina endgame! Or do you think they’ll have her overcome that darkness (with or without Aleksander’s help) and ultimately still end up with Mal? I do think that the Darkling will be back because Ben Barnes is the most popular fan favorite on that show even more so than Alina or the crows and besides, it’s canon that he comes back in KoS. But still I think they’ll go for the latter unfortunately and have Mal and Alina reconnect in the end. Eugh. I mean why even keep Mal around? But who knows! I never imagined that they’d change the ending for book 3 so much and hint at a corruption arc for Alina. That’s pretty ballsy! So…maybe? Maybe they’re down for a complete endgame change. I dunno, what do you think?

(Ok weird spoiler alert but spoiler alert for vampire diaries, roswell/roswell new mexico and shadowhunters books and shows ships and endgames. It'll make sense when you read it I promise.)

I think anything is possible. They did drastically change the ending of the third book for the show so that does kind of leave it up in the air. I do think that the showrunners are aware of how unpopular the ending was which likely influenced their decision, of course they can't say that. But I also think they are aware that malina is not a very popular ship that doesn't generate much or any buzz really, not like darklina and other ships on the show do. Its also worth noting that there are other shows that changed the end games from their book counter parts. The Vampire diaries books for example, as written by the og author, ends with stefan and elena together but the show went for a delena endgame, which I believe was the more popular ship. In shadowhunters Luke ends up with Maryse Lightwood in the show but in the books its Jocelyn he ends up with. Then you've got the Roswell books and tv shows who take the cake for swapping ships about all over the place. In the books Max ends up with Liz, Michael with Maria, and Isabel has something going on with Micheal's brother trevor who doesn't appear in the show. There are other love interests in the books that don't show up in the og show as well, nikolas, adam and cameron for example. Then you have the og show where the ships end kind of similar with max and liz, Micheal and maria but Isabel is married to Jesse although similar to isabel and trevor in the books Isabel and jessie though they love each other go their separate ways, there is also a whole romance between Max and Tessa who is a character that was not from the books. Honestly when it comes to the newer Roswell New Mexico series I don't know what's going on with it anymore because I stopped watching it like halfway through season 2, but that adds new ships as well like Alex and Michael. The point is when it comes to shows and ships you never know what they are going to do. Sometimes they stick with the books, sometimes they put characters that are in the books together but in different pairings and sometimes they invent whole new characters to act as love interests.

I don't know whether they will go for a darklina end game but I don't think its out of the question especially if they are going with the corruption arc for Alina. It really could go either way they could have Alina and darkling go down a darker path together but then both redeem themselves at the end by sacrificing themselves for ravka, it could be just Aleks sacrificing himself, it could be that Alina is redeemed and ends up with mal after all, after he's gone off and discovered himself. It really is a anything could go situation so I would say don't give up hope for a darklina endgame. I won't until I see the last scene of the last season.

Irregardless I do think the change at the end of season 2 is going to open the door for alot of darklina content which I am really excited about. I did like what you said about Alina pining for Aleks and revisiting the fountain, the war room, his chambers and playing with his rings, honestly I would love to see that. If she also thinks she keeps seeing him about the place or even dreams about him, it would be even better.

"There's really just one thing that we have in common; neither of us will be missed..." (x)

---

New Dog's Life chapter today!

Chapter 2 - “Embers (Impulse)”

Read on AO3

Start from Chapter 1

---

Impulse is allowed to be POV character for both the pre-game and the rules chapters, not because I split the opening in several pieces but because he specifically can do whatever he wants <3

Dog's Life doesn't have a boogeyman, but it sure has hunting hounds! Grian's got rules to explain, everybody scrambles, folks start taking on mob traits, and Impulse gets his quarry roll. Check it out!

(First 1,000 words under the cut)

---

[ImpulseSV - Player]

Quarry: TBA

Hunter: Unknown

💚  💛  ❤️

Seed 125. It's such an innocuous number, that. Just a sliver of a thing. You could almost personify it like a little fairy. What's that TV show where the letters of the alphabet form words and come alive? If there's a spin-off for numbers, this is exactly that. The number 125 is too ridiculously quaint and pretty to be "randomly selected," which makes it feel ethereal and fey. Does that make sense?

Listen to me. I really do sound like a guy whose friend group has been mostly other parents for the last dozen years.

Smajor gets it, though. Er… Scott. He's all-in on the freckly, pointy eared woodland fey aesthetic this time around- glittery and mystical with iridescent white fairy wings printed down the back of his bright green jacket. Someone call the Summer Court, because Tam Lin's in big trouble. That's him.

You know, just the name alone is hilarious. "Seed 125" sounds like a tourist trap or government lab, like Area 51 or something (at least in all the memes). The air here is warm and smells of salt and mucky sand. It's night, but no one's shivering… even those among the crowd of 17 (like Impulse) whose base code currently depicts them in shorts and a T-shirt. Skizz's suit vest doesn't even have sleeves. Cleo has her arms crossed, hands running up and down her skin, but she sort of always does that. You know: stands off to one side, watchful and aloof. Then she settles with a fwump on the edge of Ren's melon.

(Funny story about the staring. 16 of the 17 players gathered around the melon circle are tailed by "ghosts." They're not normally spoken of- invisible to each other's camera eyes, here only if you squint. HumanCleo betrays all the emotions of life and fear that ZombieCleo does not. The ghostly figure shivers, shifting from foot to foot. She presses her palms to her face. She's transparent, so it does very little to hide her. Impulse can see her beady camera eye staring blearily at the bedrock ground.)

Tango's red-blond hair flickers in the dark. His flames burn low. Since their center torch is pretty pathetic, he alone is lighting up the darkness of their inner circle. Well… Skizz has his halo and Scar decorated his cane with a glowing red orb, which rests in his lap, but there's no telling what that's about. Impulse squints.

Is Scar made of wood?

That'll be interesting. Scar always goes overboard with his skin swaps and roleplay in the death games, and clearly he's already built the bare bones of a plan. Doesn't wood rot near the seaside? This is the seaside, right? Slight waves slap against the shore down the hill from where they sit. Stalks of bamboo leer over them like skyscrapers and the bedrock Grian admin'd in around spawn is freckled with roaming pigs.

Seed 125 is too pretty of a place to be brutally murdered in a death loop. And this time, the realization of that cuts Impulse to the core. He jolts upright, gripping the edges of his melon chair.

Why are we doing all this? For the 'entertainment' of those whose faces we never see? Can't we just have a beach episode and enjoy building together in a tropical survival paradise?

Would that be good content? Maybe not, but it'd be a well-deserved vacation. Impulse rubs behind his neck, tracing out the ghosts of old scars and the ache of this morning's Skyblock stream with Skizz. Ooh. Is he really up for this?

I really shouldn't have spent an hour skimming through the void.

His cam twin moves instinctively to rub his shoulders. His misty hands pass straight through.

"So Grian," Scar calls, cupping his hands around his mouth. "Explain to us in your soothing British accent what the rules of this Life game are."

"Welcome to Dog's Life," Grian recites, spinning around like a king. He wobbles his arms, leaning his weight on just one leg. Gets his balance back. Exhales. They're all standing on random melons gathered around the bedrock spawn point, although there weren't enough for everyone, so some are on the ground. Actually, Smajor (Scott) and BigB have their arms wrapped around each other, tongues poking out uncertainly as they fight gravity and each other to keep themselves upright. Scott, a little squashed and frumpy, looks like he might step down in a second or two. While their melon is square, it's a little lumpy on one side. BigB grips Scott like a life preserver as though the grass is lava.

Beside them is Mumbo, fiddling with his tie. He stares at his shoes, but lifts his gaze as Impulse's eyes bear into him. This is only Mumbo's second round in the death game, so it's no wonder he's nervous. He looks out of his element - like a dolphin in Arizona - like he's debating if he ought to surrender his own melon to one of the senior players. Impulse tries to smile, but it comes out like a grimace. Mumbo fidgets with the hems of his coat. The skeletons on the fringes of their circle are noisy, bones clicking. Pigs snort. The zombies are the loudest of all… enough to make Impulse wonder whether they're standing just above a cave. How grateful he is for the bedrock that prevents death loops from trapping spawn.

One skeleton twists around, making Mumbo jump. But Ren shoots him a reassuring look, waving a dismissive hand. He's sitting on his melon, one leg crossed over the other. He looks relaxed. Cleo's doing the exact same thing, having apparently decided - quite stubbornly - that they won't stray far from spawn while the stars are out. They're in no rush to get moving.

Can't blame her, Impulse thinks, watching the skeleton keep its distance. He taps his fingers against the melon's side, starting up a beat (Skizz instinctively picks it up, drumming too). There's almost no point in foraging at night during Hardcore.

[Cnt'd on AO3 - Link at top]

Everybody, I have important news. I am now officially a minecraft gamer >:}

(also know as I finally got around to downloading Java because of the free copy mojang give all bedrock players a few months ago when they official merged the games into one purchase on pcs)

I should note I did this because my laptop was lagging and I figured better do it while I want to and if it crashed it then oh well. That's item number 1 on the checklist done! All that's left is... download firefox and figure out how to use it, and somehow download clangen!

I think I'm very tired, good night. I'll send in another ask containing my thoughts about Java either when I wake up or after I complete this homeschool test I need to do - Voidling Anon

Yooo!! Good for you Voidling congrats on gettin Java!!! I just swapped over to firefox from Chrome/Google a few months ago and it's pretty neat! The transition for me at least was really easy so good luck on your journeys with that hope firefox treats you as well as its treated me when you get around to downloading it!

Anywhoo asdbihd you mentioning it actually reminded me that I've been meaning to download clangen so thanks for that lol!

I know I'm answering this late (as is the usual for my correspondences over tumblr) but gnight hope ya sleep well/slept well and good luck on that test! -za