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to be honest, joel kind of expected it to be fancier; he’s a winner, after all- you’d probably want to have something nicer than a black void to bask in your glory. he thought- well, he’s not sure he had any specific thoughts about what it'd look like, but he guessed there'd be stuff like sofas and a snooker table or something—a party room, y’know? an endless void is a bit dull in comparison, especially considering the game he just won- although, anything would be dull in comparison to that game, wouldn’t it?
HE DID IT I KNEW HE COULD LOOK AT MY GUY GO
to be honest, joel kind of expected it to be fancier; he’s a winner, after all- you’d probably want to have something nicer than a black void to bask in your glory. he thought- well, he’s not sure he had any specific thoughts about what it'd look like, but he guessed there'd be stuff like sofas and a snooker table or something—a party room, y’know? an endless void is a bit dull in comparison, especially considering the game he just won- although, anything would be dull in comparison to that game, wouldn’t it?
there's a collection of voices that is beginning to come into range, still too far away to make out anything distinct, but they seem to be arguing over something. as he walks (though- he’s not sure he is actually walking. he’s not sure he has a physical form anymore), he can make out a word or two, none of them sensical: something about a comet and jupiter? whatever that means. joel isn’t super sure he was meant to hear it- or even understand it; the words seem to be garbled and warped, and feel far too loud for his ears even as they begin to fade out.
joel keeps walking, because honestly he’s not really sure what else to do. did he miss something? was there actually a party room at the start that he walked past by accident? he probably should have asked more questions when grian and pearl talked about winning in limited and secret life, because he’s completely lost right now- both metaphorically and literally. where exactly is he?
more voices are slowly becoming audible, and joel braces himself until he realises that he recognises them—has he finally found the game room? they'd better have a snooker table, after all he’s been through to just find the stupid place. honestly, this was harder than winning in the first place- they should put up some signs or something.
joel doesn't have time to make this complaint aloud, because all of a sudden, something bowls into him- someone apparently, as they throw their arms around him. "you did it!" grian's voice laughs, sounding genuinely happy.
joel grins, hugging him back—which is weird, when you can’t see anything. maybe it's not a void, and he’s just blind for some reason. "I won!" he crows, pride bubbling up in his chest. "I didn’t think I would- it took me long enough!"
"congratulations, beans!" scar's voice comes from somewhere in front of him, cheery, considering the context.
"thanks." joel pulls back and finds that his sight seems to have returned.
the void still surrounds them, but weirder still, everyone seems to look identical to- oh. when they won. grian's hands and face are bloodstained, scott has a lightning scar across his face, pearl's hoodie is instead a singed scarlet cloak, martyn is all piratey and bloody, scar's ebony cloak is lined with poppies and lilacs, and cleo's joints have puppet strings trailing from them.
joel glances down to see purple-tinted veins crawling up his hands and arms, and his stomach drops until he remembers that he’s already dead. "okay. weird."
"that'll be from the ender pearls." scott supplies. joel is honestly a little thankful that his creaking eyes have gone; they were creepy. "I- d'you know they’re already arguing?"
"well he’s less intuitive than us." grian shrugs, gesturing to joel as if that makes any sense at all. "they've been arguing since martyn."
cleo snorts. "they still haven't agreed on anything." they point upwards, and joel is very confused. "after you three, anyway."
"it stopped being as snappy once I came along though." martyn points out, and everyone but joel seems to understand what he's talking about. "sun, stars, moon- then what? we can’t do the whole solar system and every planet's moon."
scar laughs. "they were talking about- stages of grief or something by the time I won."
"yeah!" pearl points a finger at scar excitedly. "I overheard someone mention the seven deadly sins earlier. didn’t catch much, but you’re meant to be glutton." she elbows martyn, who scoffs indignantly.
"sounds about right." cleo says, laughing as martyn makes a noise of protest that sounds very much like a squawk.
joel blinks. "well, I have no idea what you guys are on about, but whatever I am it's a car." he folds his arms, in the hopes that no one is gonna try to argue with him, because he has absolutely no clue what he's signing up for.
there's a pause.
"a.. car?" scott frowns, apparently appalled by the concept—which joel finds hilarious and makes him want to be a car even more.
"yeah." joel says confidently. "joel toretto- fast and furious, y’know?"
grian cackles and pearl grins along. "sure- a car. i’m sure they'll all agree."
joel shrugs, still unsure about who 'they' are at all, but he appears to be signing himself up for something funny at least. "you never know. if they’re smart they'll pick a car."
Thiiiiiiiissss!^^^^^^
Why are all the Grian/Bigb fics on AO3 just Scar angst over the cheating :(
It wasn't even really angsty in canon, in fact Scar's canon view of the situation is much more interesting than the fanon angst version imo. He basically thought of it as Grian doing something frivolous and petty to get at him. Scar believed that at the end of the day it wouldn't matter because him and Grian have and always will be linked after Third Life. Which made Bigb inconsequential in Scar's eyes. He couldn't see any posssiblity that Grian may truly like Bigb. In Scar's eyes BigB was just something that was temporarily distracting Grian before he would eventually came back to Scar. Sure he still decided to make Grian feel guilty now and then, had to be petty back, but his mindset wasn't the angsty sad pining the fandom loves.
Basically Double Life Desert Duo was unhealthy but in a much more complex and mutually toxic way than the fandom likes to present in fanon. Also Biggri is just a rarepair I really enjoy and I want to read something that isn't focused on cheating or Scarian. *Sigh* I guess I'll just have to write it for myself at some point.
I’ve spent an insert adjective here amount of time crafting a real life!zombiecleo fanart to make a magic the gathering pun that no one in a million years will get.
It says unstitched. I am a winner Cleo truther, and I love the un- sets, and I decided to put those two things together. This also ties into my unintelligible headcannons about the life series. Anyway I hope you enjoyed or at least weren’t disgusted by this drawing of Cleo coming apart at the seams ^^
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Do you like Joel Smallishbeans? If you said no, you answered incorrectly. Also why are you still reading this? This post is clearly very in-favor of the yelly beans man. If you said yes, congrats, today is your lucky day, because, surprise surprise, I am also a fan. This is a propaganda poster totally normal info sheet about Joel Smallishbeans Week, otherwise known as 7 Holy Nights of Jeremy, welcoming fans new and old to participate in a week of prompts dedicated to the man himself, the smallest of beans and the tallest of Joels, Joel Smallishbeans! The event is run by @risibledeer, and uh, not to brag, but *checks nails all cool-like* I’m friends with her and stuff and she asked me to make this poster. So yeah. I’m basically really cool by proxy. Go check out Risi’s pinned post for the prompt list!
If you are a faithful Jeremy, but are only just finding out about this event and are panicking because you only have three days to put together your pieces, not to worry! We’re not gonna not enjoy your art / writing / live donkey / other thing just because it’s a little late! The more participants, the better. Spread the word of Jeremy throughout the land of tumblr, no matter how long it takes you! Or don’t, if you don’t feel like it, ig.
There is no pressure to do all the days, do whatever you want to, any level of participation is welcome, appreciated, and encouraged!
We are all very excited to see all the new Joel content, so make sure to tag any Joel Week related posts as #7 holy nights of Jeremy! (I have no idea if tags are case sensitive but just in case [puns lol] go with all lower case as that’s what is used in the prompt post) so that we can find and admire your stuff!
If you are interested in participating, first of all, great, go right ahead, second of all, make sure to reblog this post, or the prompt list, or both, so that Joel week can reach as many Jeremys and otherwise potential participants as possible!
(Also Risi does this make me one of the hosts lol?)
a quick silly doodle for Halloween!
i think they should play phasmophobia together. Also don’t ask what’s going on with Joel’s outfit I’ve got no clue lol. Also I forgot to color Etho’s other glove oh well. Happy Halloween!
My friend did the NAME THEM thingy without knowing any previous knowledge of the life series :)
in case it was hard reading:
Grian - John
Tango - Idk
Impulse - Ben 10
Etho - White hair guy
Gem - Anne
Scar - Bob
Jimmy - James (technically right ‼️)
Cleo - Sofia
Ren - Sir Lopez
Joel - Shrek (another technically right🙏)
Lizzie - Victoria
Bdubs - Jake
BigB -Kyle
Pearl, Martyn, Mumbo, and skiz they didn't name lol idk why
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Hey guys so I, surprise surprise, have a Joel playlist, but I’ve somehow ended up in a competition with some other rando’s Etho playlist on how long our respective playlists are and I know that they know we’re competing because every time either our playlists get longer we trash talk each other in the descriptions, but their playlist just jumped to like 30-something hours, leaving mine in the dust, so I need your guys’ help finding enough songs to match them, so please reblog or comment with your fav Smallishbeans-core songs so that I can win this stupid competition lol. Also yes I have heard too many “____-measuring contest” jokes whenever I bring this up, so if everyone would ever so kindly please shut up about that, that would be much appreciated. /silly
wishing everyone an extremely belated happy national dye your hair day! We’ve got all of our hair dye champ lifers celebrating the very serious and important holiday with a braid train except it’s actually a hair dye train.
Lizzie, just pick one and hop to it because Scott-with-his-roots-showing is deeply unsettling for unclear reasons. Also the reason Lizzie is dressed like that is because I headcannon that Joel got home from limited life and Lizzie was immediately like “the bad boys outfit is mine now btw”. Also Etho is paying literally zero attention to what’s going on. Also everyone currently getting dyed is wearing clothes they don’t care about as much or a towel to keep the dye from staining anything except for Joel because he can’t be bothered to change. Btw I know I’ve been falling off my bug Joel and glasses Etho game but im back, baby!
in other news I wasn’t able to go to the concert My Chem did cause it was on the literal other side of the country from me and I’m really sad like im gonna be whining about this for forever.
ahhhh thank you so much bluet sending that right back atcha I had a ton of fun wit this and would love to do it again and ur art is fabulous!!!!!!! Ily too <3 Everyone go check out Bluets blog right now!!!
(Also woah a Joel fan and an Etho girl getting along no one could’ve possibly seen this coming! /sarc I heart you bluet everyone go and look at her gorgeous art or we will continue to publicly declare our ever lasting love that is a threat)
Dropping a collab I did with the amazing incredible awesome cool sweet adorable @iandoubt !!!!!!
This was literally so much fun I would do it again in a heartbeat ily ian mwah mwah. Marry me.
Taking this time to promote ian: go follow now or we can't be friends. Amazing art, funny, generally cool....literally me reincarnated go follow now and look at the AWESOME HECKING ART !!!
Anyways we decided on Hotguy and Cuteguy because blorbos. Guess who drew who 👀👀👀???a hint that is totally not noticeable: we both signed our names
I am trying to teach myself to animate for two reasons. One; because I desperately want to and indie animation inspires awe in me and I hope to someday contribute to that genre, two; to prove that I can. I’m making it my goal to learn to animate with nothing but willpower, a seven dollar app (RoughAnimator if u are curious, I only got it today but so far I really like it!), and a bunch of YouTube tutorials. This is my first animation ever, and I’m already aware that it’s very scuffed, so plz be nice!! I’m still learning!!
Also the walk cycle diagram thingy isn’t mine I found it on google, I couldn’t find who actually made it but credit to them whoever they are.
This is just a sort of first go at messing around with the medium ft. a Grian design I have been figuring out. He’s all bundled up in his stupid hat (/aff I love that stupid hat lol) and everything because I made it for an au, but I want to try to adapt it at some point to be my design for c!grian. Some sketches vv
It’s meant to be a vaguely sun shaped birthmark type thing around his eye because idk I wanted to lol I want all the winners to have some sort of lasting scars or something to symbolize their win, mostly as an excuse for me to immortalize Joel torreto because I miss wild life </3.
a silly smalletho doodle I did. Idk what the context is, but it took me a really long time to get the anatomy reasonable, so I will not be taking criticism lol.
Joel meets Ethostrapod and Etho meets Snoel Snailishbeans. Joel is like ‘Grian said it was fine to touch other people’s snails!’ And Etho is like ‘Grian said it was fine to touch other people’s snails…’ lol he is in fear of the shrek snail. also in my heart of hearts I am a bug Joel truther and I choose to believe someone (Gem) compared him to his snail constantly. Like you know they were makin’ those ‘corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures -they’re the same picture’ memes about the snail - bean man duo back on Hermitcraft while the episode was running.
anyway I saw those snails and my first thought was that someone could make a killing on Etsy selling crocheted snail versions of people complete with pun names to the traffic fandom. Well actually my first thought was probably more along the lines of oh gosh what is that thing, but, you know, once I recovered from the shock I saw immediate business potential and can confirm I would spend all my money there. Also I really need little snailishbeans mementos to go broke buying and proudly plaster my room with lol (this entire paragraph is /silly)
Loyal Jeremy, ardent disciple of the way of the bean. If you don't know what that means, imma be honest this blog will not unconfuse you. If you do, welcome, I assure you we will get along splendidly.Pfp with permission from milkwithalittlebitofsadnessCurrently I am the head mod bossman guy of Smallishzine which I'm saying here for bragging rights and purposes
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