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Did you know you can just edit images

i wanted to draw a dragon

designs for the dumplings 🥟

Imagine taking a nap and waking to people playing sardines in your house… they also redecorated every corner

Turned Mumbo into a mermaid 😌

this is frying me

do you ever think about how far the hermits have come. like i started watching in season 7, which came after 5 and 6 made the hermits realize server-wide plotlines can like, happen, but before 8 and especially 9 made them realize they could also hang out with each other on purpose. and i think the style of video hermitcraft tends to do today would be mostly unrecognizable then.

you don't understand: they didn't talk to each other. sure, they did for Big Planned Things, but the vast, vast majority of episodes would only contain One Hermit, that being the guy making the episode. they might see another hermit on-camera but pre-prox chat that didn't mean they could like, talk without joining a skype call, and they often didn't (and even post-prox chat it actually takes a few months in for them to realize they could just... leave prox on and have random drive-by interactions as they may). it was really common in videos and streams to be like "damn. didn't know that was there? i guess someone's been busy? wild." or, just as often, "oh no i didn't know that was there, what if i'm not supposed to show the viewers, i should avoid accidentally learning more!"

and to be clear this was in part because the youtube "meta" was different then, right. like hermitcraft started as basically being a solo letsplay other people happened to build on and has marched steadily closer to being a place coworkers and maybe eventually friends hang from there. but i think in this season 11 world, where basically every hermitcraft video has a second hermit show up at some point, it's just... wild. they like. hang out with each other on purpose. server-wide storylines are not only now the norm but like, mostly don't have half the server ignoring them anymore. they hang out with each other on purpose.

i don't know i just think it's neat. these past years really have been an ideal world for everyone who loves watching the hermits like, hang out as a group, i think.

#it's very crazy#like before interactions were events in themselves#now it's just... normal?#like tango saying the reason he is not building far away or in the end is so that people will stop by while he's working on DO3#he EXPECTS and actively wants people to come and 'bother' him while he makes his big build#hc s11#hermitcraft (via @cat-26)

no this actually explains it so well: "do you want me to do A Collab Episode" used to be a production. it was a rare event. A Collab was like, a specifically planned thing that a hermit would do rarely, and A Collab was also normally the only time they had someone with them.

nowadays, i don't think i've heard anyone ask their audience "do you want me to do more Collabs with that hermit?" anymore. they just... go do it. by bothering them when they're online. it's great.

genuinely convinced that there is no higher tier of storytelling than multiple POVs in a minecraft smp series.

like. that is the most hilariously unserious thing to say but I am dead serious about it -- you get the same story overall, but depending on who you watch you get an entirely different tale. Editing, scoring, choices in which lines to cut or include, the simple matter of whether or not someone is present for an event or conversation... Everyone is telling their own story as the protagonist. You functionally have as many "main characters" as you have POVs.

I'm remembering Third Life, and how the Red Army seemed so villainous and powerful from the perspective of the Desert or the Flower Kingdom. But then if you watch Ren and Martyn they're the beleaguered outpost of civility, being assailed by threats without and betrayal within. From Scar's POV he's derping around and having a blast being the maniac snake oil salesman who wants your pants. From Martyn's POV Scar is a dangerous lunatic with a barbarian glint in his eye.

And both stories are true.

I'm not usually a huge fan of unreliable narrators in fiction, because it always feels a bit... gimmicky? when it comes from an author who DOES know the truth of the situation, but for one reason or another doesn't want the narrator and/or the audience to cotton on to what's happening.

But with mcyt stories, every player is an unreliable narrator -- even if it's just to the extent of them not knowing for sure why people do or say what they do and say. Things can be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Context can be missed.

Then add in someone who wants to tell a story with a specifically tinted lens and deliberately plays their character and edits their videos to fit that narrative... and it's even better. Because whatever they do still has to fit, somehow, into the context of how other people understand them. Like one of those optical illusions where it's a rabbit from one angle and a duck from another.

You literally can't do this with (almost) any other kind of media, or at least it's not usually worth the effort. I remember a YA series of (awful) books I read decades ago that had the same story but each book was from a different person's perspective. You CAN do that. TV shows do that sometimes, show the same events from different characters' POVs. But generally speaking, it's so much effort for not enough payout and no one really bothers with it. Also, when you have the same person/team doing all the different perspectives, it's still gonna be a bit samey.

mcyt storytelling with multiple POVs is an incredibly flexible and unique medium, and this may be my favorite aspect of it.

Scar naming different cameras and suddenly Mumbo's there... okay🧍🧍

welsknight jumpscare

Scar: "-I really enjoyed it, and the- base is frickin beautiful, umm-"

Wels: "Oh hi!" (Scar yelps) "I-I was AFK until literally... 10 seconds ago so perfect timing."

Scar: "Oh my god Wels you freaked me out I thought you were down in the nether still, geez!"

Wels: "No I was up there in my bedroom. You wanna tour of the house?"

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Cleo: [My cat] is a multitude of wonders. [Cat continues to intrude on Cleo's crafting space and the camera] She's also annoying as hell.

Cleo: But hey, we're used to that; I'm friends with Joe.

Joe: I know, right? And you're doing great at it. Thank you for being a friend, Cleo.

Cleo: I don't have a choice at this point.

Joe: I mean, you really could just throw me over. Like, I don't think anybody likes me more with you, and I'm fine with that, I'm 100% fine with that.

Cleo: [starts to lose their shit]

Joe: You shouldn't have any sense of obligation to me. You've really made your own way at this point, and I [would understand]

Cleo: [fights off the laughter demons] JESUS, JOE!

Joe: Whaaat? It's fine~

Cleo: [reading chat] 'I hope BADGER likes Joe more than cleo'

Joe: I mean, I'm [unintelligible] wife. (I think hes saying cleo couldn't beat badger but thats a given) I DON'T think you are stuck with ME, is my point. I was thinking about this, I'm like: "I GUESS Cleo likes being here, I should try and make this stream pleasant".

Cleo: UHHHHH..... Jesus, that's a statement, guys [continues to try and recover from what Joe said] Double ouch for Joe!

Cleo: Hey, let it never be said that Joe doesn't have a sense of humility. Jesus. [dies a little again]

Joe: I think I am really humble, I also think I'm more capable than I actually am.

Bat Grian is cool, but I raise you cave swallow Grian

Victorian (inspired) Grian!!

I wanted to draw Grian in Victorian style clothing as soon as he talked about his base

Not super (historically) accurate but mostly based on his plans for his base :v

Ps i got lazy on the wings sorryyy