*crashes Into Ur Dash Three Months Late*

it’s 2028. trump is dead. elon is dead. zuckerberg is dead bezos is dead they’re all dead

I think- Pearl, you deserve this more.

Might be a weird compliment but I think part of why Cleo and Scott are such an effective team in the life series is because they're both really really good at bluffing.

Cleo is very outright with the fact that she doesn't consider herself very strong at pvp, even compared to other members of the server. But people are still very consistently scared of them. Why? Well, I think a lot of it is that Cleo acts like someone who is really good at pvp. They're often very threatening, very overtly aggressive, as a preventative measure, just to make sure they're never seen as an easy target. Cleo tells everyone that she can and will ruin them at the first slight against her, and frankly, people aren't interested in testing that. Even if Cleo doesn't actually consider themself to be the strongest fighter, it matters more how they're perceived by other people. Fire- which Cleo is very famous for using as an easy punishment for any wrongdoing against her- is also a very good threat display. Usually minecraft fire is, honestly, not that hard to deal with, and the damage is usually superficial (unless you're joel and just kinda stand in the fire until you die), but the thing about fire is that it's big and dramatic. Surround yourself in flames twice your size and make sure you don't flinch when they point their weapons at you and people will be scared of you without you having to fight, because you look like more effort than you're worth.

Scott isn't overtly threatening in the same way most of the time, but he achieves a very similar effect with his ability to keep consistently calm and collected. I've watched multiple scenes where people come to kill Scott just to literally panic and backtrack as soon as he acknowledges with calm amusement or irritation instead of seeming threatened (i also think this is how mumbo got him in wild life- scott is literally so used to startling people with a mostly calm acknowledgment of their murder attempts that he genuinely didn't expect mumbo to actually still activate his trap, even when scott was standing on it). I've watched multiple scenes where Scott is objectively outmatched or even outnumbered in a fight just for the others involved to falter or outright retreat because Scott wasn't acting like someone in any danger, because even if he's on four hunger and one heart, he often still talks like he isn't scared. If you he just smile or roll your eyes and don't flinch back from them, people will eventually get really confused, wary, or tired, and will, again, decide you are more effort than you're worth.

It's honestly a testament to their intelligence, social and situational awareness, and emotional control, that both Cleo and Scott are so good at bluffing (albeit with slightly different forms of it). I don't know how to wrap up this post, they're just really good at this competition, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

This is a scene that is going in the fanfic immediately

It might not make it till the end cause of what I have planned

But goddamn it's going in there

CUTIES

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

Broski you can't just leave it here, plz plz tag me if it happens O_O I need it so bad

Got an idea for a fic where X loses his memory and gets found by Ex, who he thinks is someone he used to trust. Ex keeps up the ruse because there's so much damage he can do to the server like this, but is quickly thrown off by X treating him like a loved one. For the first time someone's acting like they love him, and he pushes back his plans, telling themself that he'll do them later. But the longer X stays the less they want to hurt people, leading to them resolving to keep a simple life with the two of them. And then X starts regaining his memories, and Ex is sweating in the background because he knows that the moment X remembers who he is, all of this is going to fall apart and he'll go back to having nothing.

spin this wheel of all the pokemon. you now have to fight this pokemon. just you and it, bare-knuckle

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭