Now More Than Ever Is A Good Time To Learn To Make Zines.

I often analyze the Life Series through a lens of personal agency because I think it's a broadly applicable theme and it's also a theme that matters to me personally, so it's always stuck with me, maybe more than a lot of the fandom, how little agency Grian had in Third Life.

Scar and Grian's deal was in of itself was wildly unhealthy for Grian, I think. Obviously Scar didn't go out of his way try to make things hard for Grian, in fact, a lot of the things Grian did for him because of their deal were things Grian decided himself were his responsibility. But unconditional servitude is a very limiting and possibly even dehumanizing thing to agree to, and it clearly got to Grian. He frequently spoke about being unhappy, about wanting to leave, about how much he hated having to do what Scar says. And while some of that was for show, I also think there was a lot of very real regret over being caged, over giving away so much personal agency in a moment of guilt and obligation.

The first real choice Grian made was to stay with Scar, despite whatever resentment he'd built earlier, despite how much part of him wanted to leave.

This was punished quickly when Scar betrayed him, and possibly in the worst way possible. He tossed out a piece of paper, said whoever catches it lives. Grian couldn't catch it before Bdubs did, Grian couldn't convince his one ally not to help stab him to death, Grian couldn't fight back when it was two against one. He was helpless, in many ways in that moment. Nothing he did meant anything, nothing he did could have stopped it, Grian's first act of personal agency after so long being caged was to choose to stay with Scar, and Scar stabbed him for it while Grian tried (and failed, because nothing he did would have stopped it) to convince him not to.

Scar tried to make up for it (well, depending on whether you view scar's "you may slay me" as genuine or strategy) in a way I think is pretty meaningful all things considered. Scar kneeled, and he gave Grian the power to do what he would, let Grian choose. Which is possibly the best thing Scar could have done, when I see Grian feeling robbed of personal agency as such a big Thing in his Third Life pov.

But it didn't matter in the end. The spectators wanted a fight, and for one reason or another, Grian felt bound to their wishes. Maybe he would have wanted to kill Scar, or maybe he would have wanted to go home together and keep living, or maybe he would have wanted a fight if he could have chosen it. But Grian couldn't, he didn't have a choice. Grian was forced to kill Scar, and then he threw himself off the cliff, because there was no other option, nothing else to do.

I just feel like Grian is robbed of agency at so many turns in Third Life in a way we don't think about all that much.

Yoyoyo here's my round 2 entry for @mcyt-platonic-heros based of a fic by my lovely partner @rockcattomato !!

Full comic under the cut woohoo

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Phases of the PearlescentMoon

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A new post (˶‾᷄ ⁻̫ ‾᷅˵)!

Watcherthing

watcher thing

A gender that is both a watcher (from evo smp/grian’s fanon lore) and a thing

Pronoun ideas

see/seer/seers/seerself

watch/watcher/watcherself

eye/eyes/eyeself

creep/creepy/creepies/creepself

View/viewer/viewerself

grian they could never make me hate you (part 2)

WHAT WHAT I LOVE THIS WHAT

[ Alternative final. ]

[To live is to die - Metallica]

[And what if he did slay Scar for the enchanter, how bitter would that have been?]

Impossible Minecraft Designs!

I've been working on these guys since late January, I'm so happy they're finally done <33

+ Closeups!

Fav part to draw for me was their eyes :D

Enjoy^^

the sudden cut to jimmy has me crying laughing on the floor

The reason spawn is now 30 million blocks away is because Grian was testing the watcher powers and messed up and didn’t want to admit that so he said it’s for the bit.

He was casually talking to Pearl about Evo one day (as one does) and found out the other watchers moved the spawn there and he was like oh I wonder if I can do that and accidentally moved it 100,000 times farther than he was trying to (he was trying to move it to in front of the permit office) and now no one can figure out how to move it back.

They got the recap team to try and move it back (they are watchers with more training than Grian they should’ve been able to fix it) but it didn’t work and Xisuma looked through the code nonstop for like a week with no results.

So spawn is going to stay there until Grian figures out how to reverse it but unfortunately he only works 24 hours a day 7 days a month

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