Watcher Grian, But Instead Of Being Heavily Creature Based/angel Based, He's Instead Based On Technology,

I need to flex my writing fingers

While rewriting my WIP chapter. I need to play with the brain.

Send me 5-10 word Life Series prompts in my asks and I'll make something about the length of a drabble. No smut otherwise go wild. Also I do better with serious stuff but wouldn't be opposed to attempting something relatively cracky.

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

Want to join Project LUMEN as a script writer?

For other positions, see background artist and UI artist.

In case you don’t know, project LUMEN is an in-development indie game adaption of the Life series, a Minecraft YouTube series created by Grian. Featuring a full RPG experience: battles, a branching timeline with limitless choices, custom and unique visuals from our talented team of artists and, of course, lore: there's a path for everyone to take.

So, hello and welcome to the Writing corner, and we are looking forward to your potential application! 

Now, do not feel intimidated. While we look at examples of your fanfiction writings when considering you, we are not judging your capabilities to write for the game that harshly, because, as you may notice, a game is not fanfiction. It is a script! 

Here’s a basic guide to script writing so you’re not gonna join in blind. And once chosen, you will be guided through the ropes of learning how to write that way! This to say, don’t worry about prose. In the applications we will be mainly looking at dialogue, characterisation and maybe a bit of scene handling. 

This project is big, but I’d like to think the workload isn’t. While LUMEN has a small team of writers, we have managed to split the work between us, going at a steady pace of one seasons/timeline per month, with a week break in between. 

In our normal process, we have each of the seasons’ small and big events alike written down in bullet points and put into a Google Sheet for the Writers to claim. They are the ones to decide on what they want to write, and that usually ends up with them having a two week deadline for the writing of one thousand words-ish. Though we understand if a deadline can’t be met, more time can always be given- we aren’t monsters. That’s the Watcher’s job. Not the Speakers’. 

We also have a meeting every other Sunday to talk about progress and make sure our writings all line up, while also planning out what needs to be done next. These meetings are very fun though, trust.

So make sure to apply when applications come out on the 30th of april, and get in before they close on the 20th of may!

I think- Pearl, you deserve this more.

And here it is! My first fully completed Procreate Dreams animation. I used audio from one of Technoblade’s more famous rants during his Potato War series. I love Technoblade and miss him every day, so I hope that I was able to capture the magic of his energy in my animation.

I animated the roughs and drew the backgrounds in Procreate, but then I imported that into Dreams to do all the cleanup. It runs at 24 fps, but there’s a lot of variations to spice it up in there.

I wanted to really challenge myself so there’s a LOT going on in this short 9 second clip. There’s a camera move with multiple layers to achieve a subtle parallax scroll, there’s two lighting changes with one being a completely animated shadow layer, and there’s a warp effect on the curtains for when it opens and closes.

There’s still a lot that could be cleaned up. Some of the linework is a little more jittery than I would prefer, and the coloring process was awful. Every color was its own separate layer, which was exhausting to do. I really hope i can figure out a faster and easier way to do the coloring process because that took me over a week to complete! Yikes!

Overall I’m extremely proud of my work here. I’ve been working on this 9 second clip since Dreams released and I really wanted to showcase to everyone just how powerful Dreams is. I know a lot of people were complaining about it when it released and I wanted to do something to help reorient people’s expectations. I genuinely cannot believe that I did all of this on my iPad!

If anyone has any questions or would like to see a breakdown of this animation, please feel free to contact me!

And remember… Technoblade never dies!

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

Adding onto this, how everyone met their soulmates + current status:

Mumbo|Lizzie: Mumbo's dad got annoyed that his son was always fiddling with redstone instead of being a normal CEO's child, so sent out a search for his soulmate. Found Lizzie. Made the two meet. Lizzie doesn't work with redstone much but is quite cheerful to do anything to help annoy Mumbo's dad. They moved in with Etho and Joel and are platonic. Mumbo does freelance engineering and Lizzie works at a coffee shop + does gaming streams.

Skizz|Gem: Met in high school accidentally when Gem refused to do classwork in favor of composing music on her computer, meanwhile Skizz caused a small redstone pop whenever teachers would open classroom doors. They both got detention, made conversation, got each others' numbers and forgot about it. Years later they met by chance again in a library when they wanted to check out the same book about soulmates, checked tattoos, and realized. Platonic, Skizz is a professional troublemaker/graffiti artist with a side hobby (actual job) of marketing design for Mumbo's dad, coincidently. Gem wants to be a singer but currently works at Lizzie's cafe. (Shinyduo possibly)

Jimmy|Tango: Tango got caught in an oil fire while working construction and Jimmy got soulmate pains through the link, both ended up in the ICU and met there. They're dating and Jimmy works as a freelance journalist, Tango does gaming streams.

Ren|BigB: Met in airplane customs as they were both going on foreign exchange studies, hit it off and passed the time with small talk, got around to showing each other their tattoos and realizing they're soulmates. BigB is a photographer and Ren is unemployed, BigB's like "i can't support us both". They're platonic, Ren is dating Martyn and BigB's dating Grian (both in secret).

Grian|Scar: They tell everyone that they met in Egypt, when they got lost in the desert, and both found the same oasis. One of them passed out and the other carried them back to civilization (details depend on who's telling it) and when they woke up, they saw an angel watching them and kissed them before even knowing they were soulmates. In reality they've been classmates forever and neither of them has ever been to Africa (they want to go, though). They're dating, of course, who am I to deny the Scarian nation. Grian is an author and Scar runs a small horse and llama stable (they regularly go hiking).

Joel|Etho: They met as online friends in high school and got around to meeting irl while they were in college, compared tattoos and moved in instantly. Both their fanbases cheered and started shipping them incessantly when it happened. Eventually Mumbo and Lizzie moved in with them and Joel and Lizzie got married. They're platonic but pretend they're dating. Joel does gaming streams and Etho also does that + runs a side channel making Naruto content.

Impulse|Bdubs: Met in college, both were into spelunking as a hobby and met on a trip together. Now Impulse is a drummer for a popular band and Bdubs does gaming with Etho and Joel (the fandom is in a war over the straight-and-narrow SmallEtho vs. the rebellious "heathens" shipping Ethubs).

Cleo|Martyn: Met when Cleo and Scott moved into the same apartment building as Martyn. Martyn (for show) keeps doing a series of increasingly ridiculous stunts to try and get Cleo to move in with him. Cleo knows he's not serious, but pretends to be annoyed. Cleo doesn't really care if about being soulmates with someone, but is good enough friends with Martyn that they have a deal to get a house together with Scott if they get enough money. Cleo's in medical school and Martyn works at a martial arts place (I'm partial to karate) and also does gaming.

Scott|Pearl: I mean I already basically explained them lmao. They're platonic at the end. Pearl doesn't really care about being together based on Soulmates (doubly so if I do Shinyduo), but feels like Scott specifically is angry at her for no reason, and the others start to think she did something wrong to make him so angry at her. Plot happens, yay! Scott's an architect, and is very good at it, but ultimately he wants to be part of a band (he, Impulse, and Gem all join up eventually). Pearl runs a doggy daycare.

Enjoy I think!

Hey hey wonderful Trafficblr peeps, especially @whiver-wyverncat lovely mutual <3 love you lots

So I was rewatching Scott's Double Life, and I had a fanfiction idea that needs rating (I don't know if this has already been done, but either way I thought it could be a fun thing after I finish the Joelzzie siren AU)

Modern, Soulmates AU, where everyone's paired up like Double Life, along with Skizz & Gem and Mumbo & Lizzie. Scott is the main PoV. People who haven't found/don't reside with their soulmates after they're in their 20s are kind of seen as having failed in life, and dating someone other than your soulmate is absolutely SCANDALOUS

Soulmates share a tattoo on their hands. They'll also have any injury done to their soulmate appear on them until they meet. Scott and Jimmy dated in college before Jimmy found Tango, and they broke up on sour terms (Jimmy got sent to the ICU because of Tango, which is where they met, and Jimmy thinks Scott abandoned him there, but actually the nurse people wouldn't let Scott see Jimmy because they weren't soulmates. Scott got angry at the idea of "soulmates" after that and when he found out Jimmy found his soulmate, he got really flighty and Jimmy decided to break it off.)

A couple years later, Scott's living with his college friend Cleo, and Cleo has a girl friend group and they realized Pearl's tattoo looks similar to Scott's (Scott wears gloves but Cleo's seen it before he started wearing them) and when Scott ends up out with Cleo they stumble into her friends who insist they get Scott and Pearl to meet and check if they're soulmates

Scott gets trauma triggered and goes on a bad bender the night before they're supposed to meet and (ironically) ends up in the ICU. The Girl Group gets Pearl in there because she suddenly felt awful and they're like "alright let's get to Scott now" and the worst happens, and they're Soulmates

Enemies-to-friends with hints of will-they-won't-they (but they won't) about challenging the amatonormative society with gay and platonic shenanigans. (also Scott and Jimmy make up in the end dw)

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