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I loved the most recent episode of Wild Life. I never would have guessed with all the ominous hints at what it was that it was running away from snails for ninety minutes lol but it was super fun to watch and a super creative concept! My favorite part was when Mumbo and Grian got cornered in the mineshaft and started freaking out because the snails were coming for them.

They’re gonna get you. They’re gonna get you. The snails are coming for you. Teehee.

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.

hey guys who likes wild life *raises hand* I mean really likes it, loves it in fact *raises hand even higher, stands on tippy toes for how high I’m raising my hand* no I mean like loves it is obsessed with it it is your pride and joy *falls over from how high I am raising my hand, stands back up and goes to space with how high I’m raising my hand* yeah but can you prove it by spending 5 hours rendering grass to be almost entirely covered up? *me: bet*

First of all thank you boat boys discord and especially Risi for sponsoring this drawing lol and by sponsoring I mean loudly proclaiming the virtues of gribeans in my immediate vicinity. Anyway yeah they are meant to be standing in front of the bam hill with the wings blocking the top and the sun just peaking over them. Also the words on the explosion are lyrics from the song Don’t You Dare Forget the Sun by Get Scared which inspired the poses

Anyway as soon as I figure out how to draw cars it’s all over for you guys I will project my very specific vision that is essentially a combination of danger days good omens and back to the future onto you all I have so many thoughts!!!!! I will elaborate in the future, I will elaborate so much that you will say “Ian, shut up with your elaborating” and also I have an au based on session seven planned because the superpowers happened to coincide with an overly complex magic system I’ve been developing for about five months now lol slowly in the background. Also maybe an animatic if I can figure that out maybe possibly don’t hold me to that…? At least I know no one will take the song I’m planning to use in the meantime lol because the MCR and trafficblr fandom overlap is fairly small.

I’m really proud of this so I’m reblogging. Please give me validation not that I need it of course oh no I’m so handsome and smart and talented and humble I don’t need to ask for validation because I’m already the validest I’m only asking for it so that you guys can practice complimenting other, less confident people. You believe me.

hey guys who likes wild life *raises hand* I mean really likes it, loves it in fact *raises hand even higher, stands on tippy toes for how high I’m raising my hand* no I mean like loves it is obsessed with it it is your pride and joy *falls over from how high I am raising my hand, stands back up and goes to space with how high I’m raising my hand* yeah but can you prove it by spending 5 hours rendering grass to be almost entirely covered up? *me: bet*

First of all thank you boat boys discord and especially Risi for sponsoring this drawing lol and by sponsoring I mean loudly proclaiming the virtues of gribeans in my immediate vicinity. Anyway yeah they are meant to be standing in front of the bam hill with the wings blocking the top and the sun just peaking over them. Also the words on the explosion are lyrics from the song Don’t You Dare Forget the Sun by Get Scared which inspired the poses

Anyway as soon as I figure out how to draw cars it’s all over for you guys I will project my very specific vision that is essentially a combination of danger days good omens and back to the future onto you all I have so many thoughts!!!!! I will elaborate in the future, I will elaborate so much that you will say “Ian, shut up with your elaborating” and also I have an au based on session seven planned because the superpowers happened to coincide with an overly complex magic system I’ve been developing for about five months now lol slowly in the background. Also maybe an animatic if I can figure that out maybe possibly don’t hold me to that…? At least I know no one will take the song I’m planning to use in the meantime lol because the MCR and trafficblr fandom overlap is fairly small.

hey guys who likes wild life *raises hand* I mean really likes it, loves it in fact *raises hand even higher, stands on tippy toes for how high I’m raising my hand* no I mean like loves it is obsessed with it it is your pride and joy *falls over from how high I am raising my hand, stands back up and goes to space with how high I’m raising my hand* yeah but can you prove it by spending 5 hours rendering grass to be almost entirely covered up? *me: bet*

First of all thank you boat boys discord and especially Risi for sponsoring this drawing lol and by sponsoring I mean loudly proclaiming the virtues of gribeans in my immediate vicinity. Anyway yeah they are meant to be standing in front of the bam hill with the wings blocking the top and the sun just peaking over them. Also the words on the explosion are lyrics from the song Don’t You Dare Forget the Sun by Get Scared which inspired the poses

Anyway as soon as I figure out how to draw cars it’s all over for you guys I will project my very specific vision that is essentially a combination of danger days good omens and back to the future onto you all I have so many thoughts!!!!! I will elaborate in the future, I will elaborate so much that you will say “Ian, shut up with your elaborating” and also I have an au based on session seven planned because the superpowers happened to coincide with an overly complex magic system I’ve been developing for about five months now lol slowly in the background. Also maybe an animatic if I can figure that out maybe possibly don’t hold me to that…? At least I know no one will take the song I’m planning to use in the meantime lol because the MCR and trafficblr fandom overlap is fairly small.

thisss a million times this! The thing that people forget about the secret soulmates ordeal is that Grian chose BigB, but he did not choose to be paired with Scar. He made it clear from the beginning how he didn’t want to be with Scar. (Interjection: this is all c!s, and not hating on scarian also a valid ship just me rambling about how I like to interpret it and also it’s very grammatically incorrect and probably pretty repetitive because I didn’t really read through it lol) He was forced to team with him by their shared health, but the term “cheating” implies that Grian chose to be with Scar and then later went back on that. Secret Soulmates, meanwhile, was purely for Grian’s emotional benefit. They gave each other hearts and cookies and there was nothing in particular about the two of them that screamed alliance made for practical reasons. They were just kind of keeping each other company, BigB needing it because his soulmate was away so often that the guy had joined a singles support group, and Grian needing it because well if I write all my thoughts on why in this one sentence it’ll go on forever. Even from third life, Grian shows bias toward Bigb, commenting that if it comes down to it he doesn’t think he’ll be able to kill him even though Bigb is on the opposite side.

But back to my point about why I think Grian is lonely: in double life, Scar behaves with Grian the same way that he behaves with him in third life, where he was reckless and Grian just had to go along with whatever scar said because he was indebted. This in contrast to double life, where the soul bound puts each partner on equal standing, but Scar, probably without realizing, takes the lead, but Grian is no longer content to follow. Scar takes for granted that Grian will always follow him, hence the reason he seems more inclined towards petty vengeance than actual anger or even worry when he finds out about BigB. He is confident that Grian will always come back to him, which, when Grian doesn’t want to, makes things. Complicated. Really, he builds himself a panda reserve, Grian made it very clear that he’s not super fond of the pandas, but Scar is operating on how he knew Grian in third life, before Grian joined the south lands where equality (sometimes rather than equity even when thats not really good, but that’s it whole own shebang) was like their whole shtick, so he thinks that everything he builds for him is for both of them, because in the past he was in charge and had to take the lead. So Grian seeks out someone he wanted from the beginning of both that season and of the series who is, as prev stated, very calm. Scar wanders off to go do something dangerous expecting Grian to follow because that’s what he would have done in third life, but Grian is like okay, you go do that, and goes over to go do arts n’ crafts with BigB. BigB, also, has been constantly on the outside of groups and rarely having an alliance of his own because other people find him creepy or scary or unnerving, which is something he encourages, and even seems to enjoy, but Grian is usually the only one to not be scared off by BigB’s bigbness, like in secret life when he was like this base is scary but it’s also cool, hey is that your initial in the roof and he is literally the only one to notice that and Bigb is just so excited that someone noticed something about his base that wasn’t hey this place is terrifying. They just genuinely enjoy each other company. They can just be silly and definitely not bossy together and have fun! They, for all their fanon characterization, and actually probably one of the healthiest c!relationships in the whole series, because they actually like each other, chose each others company out of their own free will and for no other reason than their affection for the other, and are not toxicly codependent. Idk this is a pretty long and probably incoherent ramble, but I felt compelled because please for the love of all that is sculk someone put some biggri on ao3 that is literally anything other than cheating in scarian angst fics. Thank you prev for reminding me how much I love this pairing.

I know that Grian said “Bigb treated me right” just to get a rise out of Scar but I feel like this is a good opportunity to talk about how much (in my opinion) Grian and Bigb as a pairing are slept on

They both have this chaotic energy that feels complimentary, Grian’s pesky bird-ness and BigB’s whimsy. They both have this quiet rebellion or discontent against the games. BigB knows that it’s all for nothing and doesn’t play into the Watchers’ emotional manipulation, whereas Grian (up until wild life) tries to escape and fight the Watchers’ hold on him.

I feel like BigB’s calm energy is a sigh of relief for Grian. That he can trust someone, and be trusted, without it being another game. That he doesn’t need to constantly worry about survival, and can just enjoy existing. They just want to frolic in a meadow and have a nice picnic your honor

I feel like there’s so much more to this pairing beyond the secret soulmates thing and that their chemistry is actually reall nice! And have a lot of potential for AUs and fanfics!

I loved the most recent episode of Wild Life. I never would have guessed with all the ominous hints at what it was that it was running away from snails for ninety minutes lol but it was super fun to watch and a super creative concept! My favorite part was when Mumbo and Grian got cornered in the mineshaft and started freaking out because the snails were coming for them.

They’re gonna get you. They’re gonna get you. The snails are coming for you. Teehee.

Joelki B. Aka the real lore behind Joel’s bug antenna /silly

I’m tagging @risibledeer because if anyone will know what this is referencing I know she will

collab with the AMAZING @bluetbluish!!!!!!!!!!! Go look at her art!!!!!!!

We drew hot guy and cute guy, aka the duo ever. The fabulous drawing on the left is bluet’s and I drew Cuteguy! This collab was super fun and I really enjoyed working with Bluet, you should go look at her art some more!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Also in case it’s not clear that’s meant to be, like, a visor with a littlej projected Grian eyeball ig but it’s blorbo-accurate shaped)

what if… dnd au but instead of them being heroes and adventures within the dnd universe, they are just a bunch of nerds playing tabletops rpgs together?

like, Tango is the dm who has spent forever crafting the perfect home brew campaign and is determined to make it the most amazing campaign any of them have ever been part of. He’s got the custom maps and characters figures and costumes and voices and one session he even brings in a fog machine for ambience. He’s like the perfect dm to a bunch of perfectly terrible players who will only encourage each others worst dnd habits.

Etho is the one whose been playing dnd since, like, edition 1, and who shows up to the first session of the campaign and starts describing his character and someone’s like “are you playing kakashi from naruto?” And Etho’s like “oh is that who this is? I just found it premade online and thought it sounded cool” and he’s got the emo backstory and looks real cool but is in reality not actually that good of a character and whoever made it horribly messed up the stat distribution but for some reason he always avoids death and it stuck with the underpowered not-kakashi for forever.

Joel is the murder hobo (it’s a dnd term guys trust) who tries to kill everything who also renames all his spells and weapons on dnd beyond to really silly things and then forgets what they were originally and needs someone to translate for him. He will always make sure things get out of hand, accidentally starting cults, making sure the party is always at least mildly morally gray, killing people left and right, aggressively shipping his character with other peoples jus because. He is the embodiment of chaotic neutral. (He says he is chaotic evil in the life series but I think he is more chaotic neutral because chaotic evil will cause chaos for the sake of evil and chaotic neutral will cause evil for the sake of chaos)

Bdubs is the one constantly trying to befriend everything, who also unnecessarily narrates everything he is doing (ex. “I Am RAISING my EYEBROWS at you!!!!”) and he has a million pets and always makes Tango explain what each one is doing at that moment every five seconds and is constantly yelling at Joel for killing everything while Joel is always yelling at him for befriending everything. He will argue that the dice are rigged if he rolls badly and 100% has one of those dice time out chairs and will be extremely superstitious about which dice he uses.

Jimmy is the one who keeps having really great ideas but really terrible luck with the dice rolls, and always manages to stumble into traps. He’s also the only one trying to actually follow the rules and remain completely in character, like everyone’s like “oh it’s probably over here!” And Jimmy’d be like “yeah WE know that but guys our characters wouldn’t!!!!!!!!” And he’s like the perfect player in terms of how nice and easy he makes it for Tango to dm but is terrible at the actual gameplay. He will loudly boast to the enemy that they are about to “get WRECKED, FOOLS!” And pulls out a spell that should kill them instantly if he rolls anything but a nat 1, and guess what he rolls lol.

Scar is the one whose character dies first session and he just picks up a pen, writes “jr” next to the character name, and shouts “I’ve come to avenge my father!” he’d also name his character something like “Hotstuff McSexyman” (if Joel doesn’t take that name first) but actually be surprisingly wholesome and moral, if kinda bad at combat. Extremely oblivious as a player, Tango has to spell out the answer for each puzzle and he will kill an ally genuinely thinking that it’s an enemy.

Grian is the one playing a firmly non-human character who has just the most normal guy core backstory, like “yeah I’m Clarence, I’m 45 with a wife and kids and I’m going on this adventure to celebrate my retirement.” But he’s like a lizard guy or something

Gem is the one who makes a really nice and sweet and normal dnd character and then combat starts and she takes out a magical great sword powerful enough to one shot the BBEG (it stands for big bad evil guy and it’s real dnd term. Gotta love nerd culture) and rolls a nat 20. She is also the only reliably sane one here (Grian goes about managing his sanity like he does shifts at the permit office, and Etho is sane but his character turns out actually to be pretty ineffective at, like, everything so there’s not much he can do except have the privilege of being driven insane rather than already being so. Everyone else is a maniac, some just their characters but not in real life, some are just as crazy “irl” [as in within the au] as their characters)

there is a lot more that could be done with this and a bunch of other people to include these are just the initial thoughts I had.

Joel week day 4!!!!!! I made another silly one, just trying to make up for whatever angst fest my day three was lol. The prompt was headcannons, and I don’t know if I headcannon this so much as I just kinda wanted to draw this lol I was kinda out of ideas at this point. This is actually the last piece that I have pre-prepared, so idk what state the last two are going to be in.

A while ago I posted a bunch of low quality doodles and sketches of a silly idea I had of Joelina Carpenter, basically the Joel equivalent to Ariana Griande for Grian, and I wanted to draw them again, because idk they are silly and this is for silly lol

They would sing born this way by lady Gaga. Because I said so. Also Ariana is a rapper. To me.

I know we usually use the crane wives as like the go-too fandom songs, and no hate there love the crane wives, but I also think it’s fun to consider other bands for fitting the life series. Like, I would love to see everyone taking their absolute favorite band and making a metaphorical conspiracy board with red yarn and a crazed look in their eyes as they stab the thing in the middle that all the string leads to and everything for how it connects to the life series. For instance, I love My Chemical Romance and I think their music fits really well with the life series, so here are six wips that I will hopefully improve upon and color later connecting some specific songs to, well, really just the bad boys and their double life pairings at the moment, just cause it worked out that way that those are the ones I got into posting shape first, but I have tons more in the works and I’m really excited to share^^! Also sorry for the really long rambling post lol

I’m probably most proud of the boat boys one, but over all I’m really proud of these in general and hope to finish this project at some point, although given the scale that I’m going for that might not be for a while lol. Also if you wish for me to elaborate on my choices, I will gladly do so!

songs below cut vvv

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)

what if I drew the bad boys as that one photo of three out of four of the killjoys?

Bigb and Pearl voices because I think collectively they would be dr. Death defying : “Look alive sun shine! 109 in the sky…

I’m could write out the whole monologue but I’m not going to for you guys sake.

The photo vvv

*resisting the temptation to make a danger days au*

don’t mind me, just messing around with my Grian design. I have never seen any long hair Grians so I guess I’ll just have champion that idea myself. Also I added goggles because, idk man, he just looked like he needed some goggles.

I think he’s pretty neat.

@risibledeer Grian has been pied

List of things used so far

Eefo’s Canada land maple syrup

pranking brand (c) whipped cream, to be used on,y for pranks

Giga Pie, left over from season 9 (is it even still good?)

what else?

(Also I started watching Saiki k and I’m only three quarters of the way through ep 1 but wow this is the thing ever. It’s so good. Thank you for recommending ^^)

because @risibledeer asked for more toppings. Also, I’m making this a thing now. We are putting toppings on Grian’s head. What thing shall we do next?

things used so far:

-eefo’s canada land maple syrup

-pranking brand (c) whipped cream, to be used only for pranks

-your suggestion here!

this is possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever done, I’m so excited ^^

edit: guys I forgot my glasses how did I forget my glasses lol

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frog queen.

handwriting translations:

claps in the chat for this gender defying waffle bird

because they were are fireflies here we have fire-G

if I had a nickel for every time G acted gender queer about a pile of throne shaped diamonds… (I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but *is shot on the grounds for quoting overused memes*)

assorted low quality doodles:

gender blender. Also Risi if you find this ur here too.

guys I’ve been sick for days send me drawing reqs it makes my day better please I’m so bored.

We got Ariana Griande. Now we get Joelina Carpenter. Look out hermits in drag club you’ve got a new member!! (By the way this whole post in not serious. I’m making a silly pun because that’s kind of my branding)

Assorted low quality doodles:

Because I’m back in the building again (never left lol) I will probably make some Joelina related boat boys posts.

guys I think these two are neat (tumblr butchered the quality and then put it in a blender with some fruit and made a smoothie and then fed it to the trees so don’t blame me if it looks bad)

They are everything <3

Grian makes a great blorbo because he is so… blorby

He is so proud of that waffle hat and you cannot change my mind.

update: we’ve got the other one now! They are sold as pair, please don’t separate them! They will go on a murder spree and kill everyone and then each other!!!

This isn’t exactly quality photography, so I’ll clarify; scar is wearing a hat, that is not all his hair.

just a silly doodle of G-man in the style of Don’t Starve :3

He is very done with it (it being everything)

also it is sparkly because I used the wrong pens by mistake but actually they turned out to be the right pens in the end because ✨sparkles ✨

CuTeGuY! That’s it, that’s the whole post.

I gave something warm and sensible since he’s gonna be flying around up high and all.

I wanted to try drawing without outlines, and I’m not sure how I feel about the final result, but I blame that on the fact that halfway through my pencil broke on me and I had to draw the rest with my finger, which was pain and suffering. Anyway, here it is (fanart of Grian)

His hands are in his pockets because I felt lazy, alright? You try to draw hands with no outline with your finger! Anyway, um, yeah. (Real eloquent there, Ian)

here is a close up of the Grian:

(You’ll notice the very interesting choice of eye color. I wanted to include a little watcher thingy, but not something super obvious. Subtly was never my thing, but I gave it a try. How’d I do?)

just a silly doodle of G-man in the style of Don’t Starve :3

He is very done with it (it being everything)

also it is sparkly because I used the wrong pens by mistake but actually they turned out to be the right pens in the end because ✨sparkles ✨

another wip! I’ve had this idea in my head for years now, but I’ve finally decided to draw it. I haven’t added color yet, and perhaps I will later, or perhaps I won’t, but I’m super proud of what I have so far!

Every time I hear the song Immortals by Fall Out Boy all I can think of is how perfectly it fits Limited Life. This, just the line art, took me three hours, and I was just like “screw this, I’ll post this as it is anyway” because I was bored out of my skull and my brain was melting out my ears. Also, I don’t recommend looking at the tags because there are about three hundred of them because apparently everyone has to have a name, a gamer tag, three nicknames, and their name next to the smp they’re in.

The song (even if this snippet doesn’t include most of the part of the song I’m focusing on here):

You might have heard this song in the movie Big Hero 6!

edit: for some reason it only lets me have a certain amount of tags before it deletes the rest, so I guess everyone will have to settle with just one or two tags per person. Seriously. They have so many different tags that tumblr had to cut me off. Why is this fandom like this!?!!??!!? /j (but still I had to cut down on ALL the tags and it was a pain, and there’s still a bunch even majorly reduced)

I loved watching build & go seek! Grian built such a crazy tower, and it was really funny watching everyone get started and then immediately go “um…how do you get inside?” So here’s a wip of Jimmy being confronted with the world generation glitch x mad scientist lair that is the cosmic tower

There is currently no dialogue, but the idea is that Jimmy and Grian both have a walkie-talkie so that they can communicate while the game is in progress, and Grian’s just Watching Jimmy wander around the tower, throwing himself at the barrier blocks until he finds the entrance, while teasing him the whole time.

Also, yes, I have interpreted Grian’s waffle very literally. I apologize for nothing.