Grian's Room

This would be a lot but is it possible we could do both the eras tour and do you want to tell a story?

First of all, I’m cracking up at the fact that people are using the silly names I came up for the different genres of zine, thank you. To people who are confused, anon is referring to this poll. To answer your question: I was actually just thinking about this! My plan is basically, given that currently the overwhelming majority of people want to do eras tour, that’s probably going to be the winning one, but, if too many people apply (and I’m still figuring out exactly what counts as too many, but the general idea is : more than the number of smp/worlds that Joel has done to art/write about, but that also depends on who wants to do what and a million other things and honestly it might come down to just looking at a number and then evaluating how much anxiety I feel about modding that many people) then rather than telling people no, we can have people who maybe are less interested in doing a piece based on canon work together to make a story! I’ve been doing some brainstorming on how things can work and how to make this zine the best possible experience for as many people as possible, so here is a vague plan for how things will work:

This next part is extremely important zine info!! Please read it!! I’m looking at you, person about to scroll past!! Read!!

-once we know how many people are going to be participating and who those people will be, we’ll try to get everyone together on a discord server so that I can contact everyone with ease. If you don’t have discord and can’t get it for whatever reason, we’ll do our best to allow you to still participate, but you may have less of a say on what sort of piece you’ll be doing. -From there, hopefully with the help of other mods, I’ll send out like a million bajillion polls (important note: I don’t know how discord works. Everything will be chaotic) to figure out what everyone wants to do, how much structure they want for their pieces, if they want to do something more collaborative or individual, etc, etc.

-Then, me and the other mods will get together and try to figure out a game plan for how everything is going to work. This zine is likely going to be very different from other zines people may have done in the past, because I’m hoping that we go in less with a specific vision of what the end product is going to look like and then assign everyone part of it to make, but rather we go in with just the plan of “let’s create something fun and interesting about this shared interest of ours” and the end result will be a chaotic but passionately made scrapbook of art and writing dedicated to this weird little guy on the internet who makes us laugh and smile and inspires us to create. I’m being very vague, so here’s an example of how I’m kinda envisioning the process to work:

okay, we have X amount of people, and Y amount of them want to do a Joel eras tour zine. A bunch of people want to do a piece for this one thing, and none of them said they were against working with others and many said they were for it, so we’ll offer them the option of doing a scarland-artbook style collaboration on this one thing. The remaining eras people mostly said that they weren’t really interested in collabing with anyone, and we’re not seeing any major conflicts on who wants to do what, so they should be set. Z amount of the people remaining want to work on a story together, and many of them expressed that they had an idea for what to write/draw, so we’ll work with them to figure out the general plot, and make sure that it still stays connected to Joel. There are a few people who don’t really know what they want to work on, or would like to know the options before making a decision, so we’ll work with them to find something their interested in contributing to.

Then we’ll have a mod to monitor each group to help them stay on track within the scope of the zine, and it is my hope that things should be very collaborative for those who are interested in that and open to that, and that its an enjoyable experience and an opportunity to meet other people interested in the same thing.

this doesn’t mean that 100% we’ll be able to do both, but (and this is a little bit personal bias cause I’m definitely most interested in do you want to tell a story) if enough people there are interested in that, then we’ll do our best to make it happen!

-mod Dinn

a very magnificent screenshot of these idiots (affectionate)

it’s the roomies!!!

This is a Secret Life Roommates teamup appreciation post, go appreciate them!!! (Also, unrelated but I enjoy imagining everyone having little mementos to past things in their lives which is why Grian is wearing a hermempires crossover tee shirt wow I hope I sure hope I didn’t get my timelines mixed up lol that would be embarrassing)

some designs I doodled for a random au that I never ended up writing which I had come up with mainly an excuse to have the three of them attempt a bajillion piece puzzle and go absolutely insane trying to finish it (they lost like ten pieces)

The gist was: nosey journalist and local conspiracy theorist meet cryptid in the woods who turns out to have the most normal guy core personality. Like 60% of the au was just the three of them chilling and pursuing their interests and hobbies (which consist of being extremely unsettling and weird at people, and puzzles). Also Pearl’s shirt says Ekko Astral (it’s a band) because in the au she listens to them a lot.

uhh I sketched this a month ago and forgor to post. But um here have them. Ignore the terrible quality I know this is a really bad drawing.

I just think that they are all neat. Idk man it came to me in a dream or whatever. Also I was rewatching esmp season 1 this time from Jimmy’s pov so now he is a fish. To me. And also to a lot of other people but I’m now one of them. Anyway yea idk what happened to Joel lol he just looks off and I can’t figure out why. I think maybe his head is too small. Or too big. One of the two, probably.

Loved this part of Scar's video so much that I had to draw it

I’ve been having a really terrible week health wise so to cheer myself up I drew more of Gem and Joel as chaotic sibling energy photos of the Way brothers. Idk if this genre of fanart has an audience but tbh I don’t really care because I had fun drawing it lol. Also for context for non-MCR fans (psh imagine lol/silly /not serious) my chemical romance is a band, a really good band, and the lead singer and the bassist are brothers and also really silly and there are many photos of them sillying together. This is part two of my drawing Gem and Joel as some of said photos.

This is, admittedly, one of the less silly photos from my collection, but they are usually very silly trust! Og photo under cut vv

Imagine, for one glorious moment, across time and space and what is both plausible and possible, a crossover.

it’s day two!!!! Prompt: obsession! I think you all can predict what Mr. Boat Boys Brainrot thought of for this lol…

I put in 7 Etho references in Joel’s outfit lol, see if you can catch them all (you might have to click to unblurify the image lol)

also that’s meant to be pix during Hermitcraft recap, hopefully that’s clear what with all the “Hermitcraft recap”s all over. Also I’m really proud of that background behind Joel, I based it off a reference picture of his base and I think it came out really nicely.

also bonus sketch:

I know it’s sideways but oh well, I still think it’s funny even if it didn’t get used lol.

Edit I totally forgot to tag lol that’s embarrassing

there has been some improvement, methinks

I love being at the curvy part of the artist learning curve.

When the boat boys turned red, Joel “green stripe” smallishbeans probably dyed his hair with ease, but Etho might’ve needed a little help. I mean, when you die and come back from the dead as evil murderers, you’ve got to get your makeover just right before you go back and kill everyone!

Someone should write a fic about this where they have to stand really close to each other for Joel to dye Ethos hair properly and they’re weird and gay about it. <- whoa who said that.