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25 years ago an unknown Chinese protester stood in front of a tank in defiance of the government. No one knows the identity of the man but he was given the nick name “Tank Man”. This is one of the most iconic photographs of the century.
It’s actually been 27 years now since the incident known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre occurred.
The picture above, famously referred to as “The Tank Man” was actually taken on June 5, the day after the massacre.
(Which honestly makes him the one of the bravest person, to go back and stand up to a regime after such a terrible event transpired)
So what happened?
I’m gonna give the TL;DR version:
April 15, 1989. Hu Yaobang, a former Communist Party Chief dies.
Many people, including workers, laborer, students and some officials come to mourn. You see, those protestors were originally there to mourn, not protest.
Time passed and there were some hunger strikes, and protests, and a call for accountability and reform from the government.
Eventually, things went south, because the communist party doesn’t have time to deal with these sorts of “demands” and grievances.
Keep in mind, the people wanted not the end of the Communist Party, but for the party to stop with the official corruption, rule of law, and the gross monopoly of information and power.
Incidentally, China still suffers from all of these SAME problems to this day…
June 3, 1989. The massacre started at night to disperse the crowd. Many were shot, wounded, and killed.
June 4, 1989. Some of the parents of the protestors who never came home went looking for them. It was still total mayhem.
June 5, 1989. The iconic image of the tank man was taken. To this day, no one knows what became of this person.
Content Warning for video: blood
“Tell the world…”
I cannot stress how important it is that people remember and know about this event.
Do you know how China responded? With lies and censorship.
Even now, in 2016, we do not have an official death toll on the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Chinese government doesn’t even acknowledge the event as a “massacre”. And they weaves these cover stories of “counter revolutionaries trying to overthrow the government”. Therefore, the violence was necessary to ~protect~ the people. (Or some bullshit like that)
The amount of lying and censorship in China is, quite frankly, scary amazing.
Tumblr, which somehow managed to fly under their radar, found itself being blocked in that country.
After all, tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
And those who remember the incident in China?
…………well, you tell me.
Please at least REMEMBER this tragedy. Untold innocent lives were lost, and a nation has been fed a lie for almost three decades now from their oppressive af regime.
Tiananmen Square happened when I was seven, and let’s just say children have a really interesting way of interpreting information.
I just remember thinking it was a happy event, because all these people were out on the street, and at first the army were interacting with these people. And it almost looked like a festival because people were singing and talking, and hopeful. And then tv coverage for the events got cut off.
The blocking of the live coverage had all the adults anxious, nobody said anything for ages, I just remember my grandmother saying, “Just be glad your father isn’t in China, now.”
And that stuck with me to this day. Because yeah, if dad had been in China then he would have been in Beijing studying, he would have been on those streets with those other students.
It was the first time I knew that something horrible had happened to all those people I saw on the television. I don’t even remember how I knew that the army must have shot at the civilians, I just knew. Because when you grow up in China, especially in the 80s you knew there were things you don’t say, that you can’t express in a public forum, because that can get you and your family in trouble. You just knew, and it didn’t fucking matter if your were a child or an adult.
To this day I don’t remember how I found out what happened in Tiananmen Square, because the news covered it up, but people found out. My grandparents knew, my uncles and aunts knew. Extended family visited my grandparents, I remember people telling my mother not to mention my father’s name because my father was a Chinese Beijing University graduate, who had gone overseas. Because there were people who died in the protests that my dad knew.
And it was all just so frightening because nobody was telling me directly what was happening, but I just knew that all the people on the streets was probably dead.
Looking back on it, Tiananmen Square instilled in a me a life long distrust of governments, but especially the Chinese government. I’m ethnically Chinese but I never want to return to China, not even for a holiday, and this has been my attitude even before Xi Jinping took power. Because Tiananmen Square was a peaceful protest that ended up with the army using heavy artillery against their own people. How can you trust in a system, in a government like that? Because if my dad had delayed further studies overseas by two years he would have been one of those students, one of those fucking kids on the streets that would have died.
And you know, when the Umbrella movement was happening in Hong Kong I was deeply panicked and just anxious because I kept on thinking all those people, all those kids are going to be killed. And when that didn’t happen it was such a relief.
When I found out years later that Chinese people a few years younger than me didn’t know what happened in Tiananmen Square I was so fucking angry. I can’t even articulate the rage and the sheer tiredness of it all.
Dad and I talked about Tiananmen Square a few times through the years, broadly, politically, and at times with sheer rage on dad’s part. I don’t even know what I wanted to say, but just fuck this fucking regime.
I was In Hong Kong when Tiananamen Square Massacre happened. Hong Kong was still a British colony then and had full freedom of press, and its reporters were there recording live footage while trying to stay as long as possible when tanks rolled in and shots were fired, when students lay in blood and their fellow students piled the injured bodies on those wooden plank carts to get them to the hospitals, while asking the Hong Kongers who were there to support the movement to please remember that night and spread the story of the massacre far and wide, because they already knew they would be silenced, if not imprisoned or murdered.
That night, and in the upcoming months, Hong Kong was in perpetual tears, and in literal shock.
Hong Kongers were mostly Chinese, just south of the border with people traveling back and forth. It also shared a language, and so HKers could follow the whole movement and hear news that western media had little access to without the distorting effect of translations. And they followed very closely, because by then, Hong Kong was already scheduled to be returned to China in 8 years time. How the Chinese government dealt with the movement would be a sign of how it’d treat dissent, how it’d treat people who’re used to the idea and practice of freedom.
What they saw was deadly. Ugly. It broke the hearts of millions of Hong Kongers who trusted that The Chinese Government had left its Great Leap Forward, its Cultural Revolution days behind. Those who could leave, left. Everyday the airport was filled with families about to be torn apart, who decided to trade the life they had in one of the richest, most vibrant and freest city at the time with the unknown, just so their own children would have the freedom to speak their minds, to have a higher education and not to be seen as the enemy of the state because higher education always led to independent thinking, to questioning, to asking for a better government as those university students in Beijing in the spring and summer of 1989 did.
The heartbreak and fear was almost palpable in its intensity. Most HKers were refugees from China or 1st generation of them. Unlike the HK youths now protesting who are more generations removed, they felt much more connected to the people in China. They still saw themselves as Chinese, like those students in Beijing. They mourned. They cried and cried and cried. They wore black or white everyday like it was the death of their closest relatives. TV stations played these Tiananmen Square clips all day. I can still play many of them out of my memory, can still recite what the students and government officials said (for example, they didn’t use tear gas because they only had three), the songs played — I know every word of China’s national anthem for that reason; the students were singing it. They were patriotic. They demanded reforms because they wanted their country to do better. 8964 was and still is, etched in my psyche. It is just one of the long list of atrocities this government has done against its people, but this one, I was close enough to feel it.
China censored the June 4th Massacre quickly and thoroughly — if you believe China has censored queer material, for example, I’d say this — the extent of that censorship is not even close to what a true China censorship does. A true Chinese censorship is you can’t find the info, or a hint of that info anywhere. You can’t talk about it in a roundabout away. You can’t change some elements of time/place/person and pretend it’s fictional. It would literally ban the numbers 8,9,6,4 from search results, even though the searcher may really be just be interested in the numbers themselves. Whoever speaks of it may be sent to the police station for a “discussion”; their family would be sent, if the speaker is outside China; the speaker may be arrested, and may never be seen again.
The western worlds pretended to be enraged about the massacre for a while and soon forgot about it, kept its diplomatic relations with China and did business with its government as usual. UK returned Hong Kong to China as scheduled, on July 1st, 1997. The city has been the only place that insisted on the mourning the victims and had done so insistently, consistently for 30 years, holding a yearly candlelight vigil in Victoria Park until this year, when because of the protests, the Chinese government decided to not even pretend to honour the international treaty they signed that promised HK its freedom until 2047 anymore. They shut the vigil down in the name of the pandemic (there were <10 cases/day then). Still, some people risked being arrested to go to Victoria park and lit their candles.
The Chinese government fears HKers for this reason. They are outside their iron curtain / firewall but have always been close enough geographically, culturally and ethnically to know and more so, to care. And there’s nothing more a government like China’s fear than people who insist on remembering the truth. With the National Security Law in place in Hong Kong now, probably the yearly vigils can’t continue. To understand how insane that law is, by writing this reblog, by saying things that make you dislike the Chinese government, I’m already in violation of its Article 38. It doesn’t matter I’m writing it in a foreign country. It doesn’t matter I’m a foreign citizen. That law includes everyone on Earth.
Yes, that includes you. And you. And you. And you. They can arrest you for trying to overthrow the Chinese government if you pass the borders of Hong Kong.
Please help remember 8964 Tiananmen Square Massacre. That summer day, Beijing citizens asked Hong Kongers to please remember this event for them because they knew they wouldn’t be able to afford to remember it themselves. Now that Hong Kongers can’t afford to remember it anymore, I’m hoping that everyone who reads this to please remember it, for the students who perished only because they wanted their government to be better, for the Tank Man who, on his way home with his groceries, decided to stand in front of a tank all by himself because it was the right thing to do.
Someone drew a picture of Tank Man’s perspective. Not of being seen from above with the tanks so small, but of someone looking up at the tanks looming over him as malicious giants. I wish I had tagged it.
As we Americans celebrate and appreciate this day of our freedom, let us remember how good we have it compared to our cousins in humanity who suffer under tyranny. And let us resolve to never allow our government to become our ruler rather than our servant.
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i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls
I often wonder if this is why you so commonly see the sentiment that we are in an era of uniquely bad literature, or at least that the fact that most books don't have artistic aspirations and are not aiming to be anything other than mindless entertainment is new. In fact what's new is the idea that everything is worth preserving (and also the internet making it easier to preserve it). The dumb artistically unambitious trash books of the past have survived only sporadically, because people thought of them as literally disposable.
When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.
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partially-managed mental illness is so fucking funny i'll be sitting around doing my job and suddenly think "wow i hate myself" and immediately get confused because, like, that's not TRUE! i love myself so much. who are you to talk to me like that
when your mutual reblogs something with a full page of tags its like. girl (gender neutral) i am filling my mug with coffee and reading this like the morning paper. i am so interested in your thoughts on this post. i love you.
There are some recurring themes in mcyt, and there are pieces of lore that unite to make a web of connections between different concepts... Let's look at them.
And since I mentioned I would make this post on a watcher lore post let us begin with
EYES
The first few connections are the easiest. The Watchers who first arrived in the mcyt sphere during Evo and stayed in our minds rent free are the first and most obvious and their presence connects then to Grian who is canonically one of their members.
This is however an unnecessary connection as Grian himself has a constant association with eyes, specifically his eyes being empty like the void. His expression being soulless as Mumbo said in Secret Life. His eyes staring into your soul. Recently he has even added the void texture to his eyes. Keep the void in mind, it will important later. Though, small correction to be done, the "void eyes" texture is actually the end portal texture, not the void texture...still the connections between the two concepts are strong enough and Grian has been described as having empty eyes and the void eyes thing has been said so much it might as well...it doesn't really change much.
Other Hermits also have strong connections with eye. Keralis, who is known for his phrase "look into my eyes, nothing but my eyes" and Bdubs who is known for having the biggest largest anime eyes in any minecraft skin are also to be considered.
The Life series in general can't be ignored, as it was created by the watchers and Grian with Grian also as It's admin and Bdubs as one of it's players. In this case I used the Third Life title card to represent ALL life series.
Moving then from watchers there is a second major connection, the creaking and the enderman.
The creaking is a monster with many glowing yellow eyes who can only move when not being observed. They have a connection to the eye blossoms, magical flowers that live in the same biome as creakings and share their colour scheme and have one single glowing orange eye in their centers.
The enderman is a monster with glowing purple eyes that will become violent if looked in the eye and who's dropped is used to craft an "eye of ender".
And of course, the eyes of ender are used to step into the end. The most mysterious of minecraft dimensions and the home dimension of the endermen.
Now, moving on, the watchers and the End have a strong connections. The Watchers are for one the ones who in the Evolution smp server messed with the End portal to split the players up and it is trough the end portal that Grian was made into a watcher.
The Creaking instead opens up some connections with other servers like Bannerfall who was for a while under threat by The Creaking King. A powerful figure hellbent on taking over the world and becoming a god... And it also opens up a connection back to the life series. After all Scott and BigB, two regular players of the series both spent a season as creakings.
We can also add the Corruption from The Realm SMP and the Eye Ritual in the Flight Smp as they are both magical purple eyes emerging in the air. The two are also connected to eachother by virtue of their connection with the concept of corruption. One is called "The Corruption" and the other is a ritual made to detect corruption in people.
There is also The King In Yellow who in DAWTDE appeared at the end in the form of golden eyes in a large room.
Coming back to Hermitcraft and The Life Series there is another player to consider, Zombiecleo. Not only she was the winner of Real Life, a meta series where everyone was playing in vr by covering their eyes. But her season 10 build had mysterious glowing purple eyes beneath it.
Then, the QSMP had a figure known as "The Watcher", a black figure with only one singular eye. I wouldn't connect it to the watchers though, there is nothing to imply them to work together... I would however connect it to Purgatory, a special QSMP event that it organized and that had an eye as a symbol.
Speaking of the QSMP, there is a strong connection between it and The End. The entire premise of one of the major arcs of that series were ender dragon eggs, each player had adopted one with a partner... And of course ender dragon eggs come from the ender dragon who guards the end.
The introduction of the dragon adds a few more important connections. For one the dragons of The Flight Smp which are dragons (duh), for two Grian forms a new connection as he was the one to steal the dragon egg in s8 and start the tegg event.
Grian in general seems to have a weird connection with eggs. He was Poultryman and he threw eggs as his weapon, he got attached to the gregg, took the dragon egg in season 8, built a giant egg as a base in Secret Life, started team EGG in Hermitcraft... It's definitely weird.
There's also something to be said about white eyes specifically... It's an important part of the story of DSMP's Eret and of course Herobrine
Now, let's move on to a more specific connection...
Before that, let's make one thing clear. The void is space, and space is void. The void is endless empty darkness where life cannot exist on It's own, what's far above and below the earth. The essence between the various dimensions. Where the sun, moon and stars are. To survive in it the boatem crew had to put on suits similiars to those of austronauts. Whatever the void is exactly it is also the emptyness of space in the Minecraft world.
Now, let's start with a simple line of connections. Eyes connect to watchers, connect to the end, connect to the void/space.
Let's talk about Grian, he's a watcher, that I already said but when talking about him I also mentioned the connection his eyes have with the void. This connection is made stronger now that Grian's base is an observatory, used to both watch the stars and other players.
Also let's add three new important symbols: The Sun, the Stars and The Moon. They each connect to eachother and to space.
Let's start with the sun. Grian also to the sun as his name is the irish translation of the sun and because after Third Life the fandom assigned him to the sun so much It's basically part of most creation It's basically been incorporated into canon because of how prevalent it is. Another Life series and Hermitcraft player who is connected to the sun is Bdubs who is literally a god of the sun.
Another connection to the sun is through the eye ritual in The Flight Smp as it seems to be connected to that worlds sun god. After all it was sun god who told callum not to perform the ritual.
Then, for the stars. Grian's observatory connects him to them as he's planning to have a starry sky in it, Grian's season 8 base also had a starry sky inside his base. And of course by having the "void eyes" he has stars in them as stars are part of that end portal/void texture.
There is also Scott who like Grian was assigned the stars as a symbol after winning, he specifically has a connection with the watchers though as according to Martyn's conversation with the watchers in last life he defied them... Also Scott has his own eye-fuckery going on for reasons already explained...and, something else too! In Empires smp his character famously had one of his eyes taken away by a magical skull.
Finally to perform the Eye ritual in the Flight SMP It's necessary to use a specific item called a "fallen star".
Then the moon... Pearlescentmoon, the winner of Double Life who was assigned the satellite because of her name. The one who claimed that the literal moon was her cousin. Pearl also has direct connections to space as in season 9 she was an alien and had lore about that.
There is also the Mooner cult that Grian was part of when the season 8 moon fell down from the sky.
And the fact that on the one april fools update in which it became possible to go onto the moon the texture of the ground there was the same as the endstone texture found in the end but desaturated... This one is less strong but might as well include it.
Then a few more connections to complete it.
The Corruption appeared first as an eye replacing celestial objects.
Geminitay, a life series player was the princess of Dawn and started the church of the sun and had the void corrupt her in Secret Life.
Pearl is also connected to the sun, when worshipped as Saint Pearl she was represented with sunflowers and in Hermitcraft season 10 her base's theme was Solarpunk.
The Watchers in Evo were able to summon meteors, a strong connection to space.
And finally a quote that has been said so often in many server. "You stare into the void, the void stares back." A direct connection between eyes and the void, the void is identifies as something that observes. Something that stares from below within hidden eyes.
There's another concept to be connected to eyes, ones that connects with almost all that which we already discussed: Divinity.
First trough the watchers, who are divine in nature as it has been strongly implied.
Then through Bdubs who as mentioned before is a god. And the Eye ritual which is connected to a god which I already explained.
Then there is the Watcher from the QSMP who is connected to the weird system of gods, angels and demons of that series, or might straight up be one of them. I don't remember with 100% certainty.
Then, let's consider the creaking king who is called out by the Bannerfall gods as someone who thinks of himself as one of them and his objective is related to his want to be a god.
And the king in yellow, a god from another plane searching for an host for It's essence to bring chaos to the world.
Finally, the concept of white eyes being connected to divinity has been around since Herobrine appeared. Since Herobrine is canonically Notch's brother and Notch is kinda a divine figure in Minecraft it only makes sense.
... In short it seems eyes are in some way connected to divinity. Eyes are doors to the souls so what does it mean if you're something as big and vast as a god? Glowing eyes, Big eyes, countless eyes.
Let's make a little aside here, something I won't put down in drawing. And that's Sausage... This man has a very very weird connection to divinity for someone who's not a god. He was there when Pearl died and ascended, in Afterlife he was an angel that worked for Pearl, in Empires 2 he started the church of Saint Pearl and he was the one the gods were fighting over and he literally had a child with god!Joel. In Bannerfall he was working for the goddess of death and then died while helping the pretender god that is the creaking king. Then he was the one to first call mr.Madsky sun god, one of the first to call out Graecie's weird cult, the only one who seems to canonically know of sun god as a god on The Flight Smp and the other players consider him insane whenever he talks about it. He seems to be very aware of "lore" a concept that is extremely meta and that on Empires 2 was implied by Joel as something divine in nature that he specifically could wield as a god. He also has weird multiverse stuff going on which includes his Empires 1 self that was kinda corrupted by the god Exor's influence and sun god Bdubs and he seems to be aware of watchers and that side of the lore as he references them when finding the sword called "the watcher" in that fantasy smp server and when seeing the eye ritual on the Flight....
Ok but to regular program.
Now that we've analysed eyes completely let's look at The Sun, The Moon and The Stars individually.
The Sun.
First the connections I already described: With Bdubs the sun god, with Grian whose name means sun, with Gem who ruled Dawn and created the church of the sun, to the void/space as it is where the sun is. I will avoid the Moon and stars as connections since they are obvious.
Pearlescentmoon that was associated with sun flowers and was involved in a god competition with Bdubs.
There is then Mr.Madspy who is the one called sun god/sun guard, tf!Sausage who is the sun mage and in general The Flight Smp which takes place in The Sun Empire/The Kingdom of Eternal Summer. (Both names have been used).
And Sausage of course was the man who both venerated Bdubs and Pearl, as well as the one who created the church of Saint Pearl.
Then let's also add two symbols Eyes as we have seen before already and Light for obvious reasons. Then from Light let's add Angrec, the goddess of Light.
There are also connections through the creakings. After all creakings disappear when the sun rises and eye blossoms close up at the same time. There are also things like the previously mentioned sunflowers and daylight detectors who have closed associations to the sun.
Also, the sun has connection to mobs as they can't spawn when light is present and skeletons and zombies both will die when under the sun. Specifically the sun has the power to burn mobs and therefore has a strong connection to fire which was kinda obvious since the sun is generally considered to be very very hot. It seems thought that the undead specifically are the ones effected, like the sun has a natural opposition to undeath. In Vampires Smp tier 3 vampires all were debuff when standing in sunlight... The sun and fire specifically seem associated to holyness and therefore divinity once more. The undead are burned by the sun, the vampires are weakened by the sun and driven out by fire, Louis was burnt on a pyre and in Afterlife SMP the angels were glowing golden figures of light.
... Plus, when putting together undeath and fire there is one person that comes to mind.
Another thing to mention is the connection between the Nether and The Sun: Both connected to fire and heat, when Bdubs is in his sun god form his coat has the glowstone texture, daylight sensors are made with quartz and it is with wither skulls that you can get nether stars and beacons...
Which then also connects back to divinity as vsmp had their own brand of holy beacons that looked like normal beacons... And the nether itself is connected to divinity trough the Blaze Empress and Dianite and Exor which are gods with strong associations with it.
There is also another connection to consider between Bdubs, The sun and Eyes. Was it not Bdubs first law as the god of the sun that people should always wear sunglasses?
Then the End and the Nether are connected both for being different dimensions and for their connection to obsidian which is the material necessary for creating nether portals and is also found in the main End island.
And finally... New Life Shelby was the sun girl as one of her lives.
The Stars
First is Scott for reasons I've already described AND his Origin Smp as a Starborn. There's The End whose portal's texture is one of many stars.Then there is the void, both for It's connection to space and It's connection to The End.
There is also Grian who connects with basically all of the previously mentioned for reasons already explained before.
Then there is Light, The Nether Star and The beacons. There is also the fallen star which looks like a dimmed down nether star and can be used for the eye ritual in The Flight and for another ritual used to create actual wither stars.
Then there is connections to magic. Both Bertha and Shelby in Witchcraft had stars in their design, in Bannerfall the goddess of magic has her horns shaped in both a star shape and a moon shape and her clothes are covered in constellations, Grian's magic alley had a sky of stars, Illagers have dots in their texture which are probably also stars, Rendog the wizard has sparking stars around his magical tome and the language known as "galactic" whose name comes from the word galaxy is the one that appears in enchanting tables.
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I don't think however that magic is necessarily of the stars. I think they are connected to eachother trough their shared connection to the End and the Void and possibly dimensional energy of some kind.
Galactic is not only a connection to stars but also one to space. Teleportation and levitation are magics necessarily connected to the end as It's only they who pratice it. Dragon breath is a potion ingredient. Enchanting tables are made of obsidian, so are portals and the texture of the dragon egg and so are the towers of the end. In the end are end crystals crystals with glowing runes on them which can only be placed on bedrock (the block that separates the world from the void) and obsidian and which float above said obsidian the same way book do on enchanting tables.
Or at least Arcane magic is. According to Rens lore all magic can be divided into: Arcane, Wild and Abyssal. Now this can't be perfectly accurate as none of those include the innate magics that various origins have nor the innate magic dragon riders have...but any kind of learned magic does fit. Arcane is stuff like potions and enchanting and portals and spells and rituals and magical machinery, Wild is the magic that comes from flowers and mushrooms and storms and winds and ice and water and earth and sky and nature as a whole ... Abyssal as he so described is the magic of "fire and death". Now with Wild magic being so obviously of the overworld and Abyssal magic being almost definitely of the Nether...it only makes sense for Arcane magic to be of the end.
There's also something to be said about runes. Galactic, the runes on the emd crystals and the runes Ren is using for his magic lore are all different... but they have also a lot of similiarities and It's almost like there may be multiple languages of rune that can work for magic.
And of course the fact dragons can activate innate magic in the Flight is interesting with The End connection... speaking of the Flight SMP. Zam, the star mage, whose species is called a Stella which is a name that literally means star.
Then there is again the connection to the Nether. Obsidian to reach it, blaze rods to craft the eye of ender, ghast tears and eyes of ender to craft end crystals, dragon breath and glowstone being both potion ingredients, clocks and beds both not working correctly... And from The Nether is Glowstone and surprise surprise It's Bdubs again. Bdubs that of course also made the "star gazers" shop in season 7... You'll find he finds a way to get into every celestial object... Also might as well add Geminitay since she's named after a literal constellation/Star sign (Gemini).
The Moon
Let's start with the easy:
Pearlescentmoon who is named after the moon, who was chosen as the winner with the moon as their symbol by fandom, as the one who claimed the s8 moon to be their cousin, as the one whose teammates wore a moon on their skin after she died and as one of the members of the mooners.
There are Mumbo and Grian who were the first members of the mooners. Also? Mumbo is the moon big?
(I won't put it in the scheme but the theme of fire as something destroying the unholy appears again here, the mooners were supposed to burn the beds that so angered the moon)
There is Bdubs, the one who was most antithetical to the mooners as they were trying to stop people from sleeping...but that in that same season made his starter base a moon.
Then again is the Void/Space for obvious reasons already explained... And the End too! While working on this post I checked Tango's s8 finale and in that video too the moon's surface was made of endstone. So that's at least two references to the moon being made of endstone. Three if you count Lunar Phase SMP happening on a land covered in endstone.
And the mage goddess again who also prominently has her horns shaped like a crescent.
Also the moon connects to Light, shocking I know. And daylight sensors because of their moonlight mode.
There is a specific variation of moon that seems to have It's own implications, the red moon.
It connects to Pearl's victory, she became 5AM Pearl and went with a red skin while green. This skin has then be called the Scarlet Pearl and in Secret Life Grian shouted that the red moon was coming when Pearl went red.
Then there's Vampires Smp where the moon being red was considered an important thing to have. Like the moon was in some way reacting to the vampires... And looking into how minecraft works you start to realize the connection runs deep. Different phases of the moon increase mob spawn, specifically the fuller the moon the stronger mobs are.
There is also the blood moon, a mod that has appeared in multiple SMP's over the years. Including Mianite s2 as the first thing that comes to mind. This mod makes it so during a blood moon mobs are stronger and the night is longer. Basically a buffed up version of the effects of the regular moon.
So I wonder. If the moon strenghtens mobs and the undead, and fire is something that purifies and destroys those creatures... Is there something there with Pearlescentmoon being a firefighter and living next to the undead Cleo? ... Probably not but it's interesting to think about.
And It's not just undead mobs that are connected to the moon. In Tango's Hermitcraft 8's finale we see that moon killer bunnies too seem to be connected to it... As they live on it?? Also in that same episode Tango found a cow on the moon and in the april fools update that added being able to land on the moon had it populated with cows... Also wolves have strong connection to the moon, especially werewolves and Pearl has strong connections trough both mostly because of Tilly and the fact that in Vampires she was werewolfed...
...Which means Renthedog is also associated with the moon...is the red winter king just Ren's version of the Scarlet Pearl? The red moon version?
Also the Watchers are directly connected to the moon, that's the vessel they used to talk to Martyn trough. Between the meteor, Grian being the sun and speaking trough the moon they are starting to stack the celestial associations...
Then there are cats too, specifically black cats, as they can only appear in villages when the moon is at full. They also spawn in witch huts which means the moon is connected to witchcraft too...shocker... We knew that ever since the mage goddess had her horns like that.
Then there's Lunar Phase SMP.... I won't elaborate on that, I don't think I need to explain why they might connect... and Lunar SMP is played in a map that has endstone instead of earth... Amd there's also The Problem, primordial of spite and resident of the server.
Then there's the Flight SMP. The Double Soul ritual book called talked about the Moon forgetting It's shadow (The full moon?) and the ritual Bubbles performed required Moon soul dust. Both of these seem to imply a connection between souls and the moon... Ehich is interesting.
Bubbles own Moonclaw spell which is described as claws as bright as moonlight is also relevant as It's again a connection between cats and The Moon. Then there's their predecessor book describing the old cat mage as walking trough moonlight halls, of silvery steps and of moonlight spells and finally dying and leaving behind a black cat.
Finally last for this first part:
The Void/Space
First, again why do I consider the two concept to be the same?
One, they both serve the same purpose. Space divides planets and moonnamd stars, The void divides the planes of End, Overworld and Nether.
Two, they are the same. Vast spaces that are dark and completely empty and they both are dangerous to humans because of that.
Three, in season 8 the Boatem crew had to put suits akin to astronaut suits to survive in it.
Four, if you've ever been in a skyblock you'll know that the sun and moon and stars travel trough the void. Knowing both sun and moon exist in some form of space then that space must be the same as the void.
Five, even if they were technically different they are pratically the same because of the previous reasons and many of their connections connect to both of them...
Let's talk of the connections... The End, The Watchers, Grian, Bedrock and Galactic come first. Then all the associations that can be assigned to them.
Gem who calls herself a celestial and was claimed by the void in Secret Life.
Xisumavoid... for obvious reasons.
The Corruption which appears into the sky in the space of celestial objects.
And the Sun, Moon and Stars as we have already discussed.
Then there is Light. The void is where the celestial objects lie, in the End it also glows purple at regular intervals.
There is also Darkness. The void is endless and pitch black, falling in it is like falling into a pitch black room.
There's Ldshadowlady who fell into the void in Secret Life and who wielded shadows in Wild Life.
There's the World Historian from Mianite, the god that seems to find himself representing the the triple point between Death, Darkness and Emptyness.
There's also Lukey the mage of void, whose book describes his magic as dark but separate from actual Darkness and Shadow. Describing it more as emptyness instead. So the void is dark but not darkness itself, It's simply empty. And It's not even always dark, the white void made by using white maps in a room is also called "the Void" despite being so bright.
Then the Flight also gives Boa the Shadow mage, Ashwag the Darkness mage and Michela the Eclipse mage.
Also Lukey's book about the previous mage said that they ended up being erased from reality and being forgotten... so the Void is also connected to memory amd existance. Amd is that not what happened after the corrupted rituals too? The people responsible for a while were erased from everyone's knowledge? ... Very Gastery vibes here.
So what we have is a primordial emptyness which is on some way alive enough to observe you, which comes in both Light and Dark without being either, which has a connection to magic and the arcane field specifically, which is able to erase you from memory if misused.
The void appears in Mystreet as a borderline malevolent and hungry force trying to consume the universe, very similiar to how Darkness seems to be in the Mianite series. This corruptive force is capable of leaving burns... Black burns with random purple pixels... Like Ashwag has.
The void appears in Parkour civilization technically and in many skyblock series across all of mcyt... because It's skyblock, by definition It's in the void. I wouldn't put too much weight into this.
The void kinda appears in sfawtde and dawtde but it's not relevant to the story until the very end... Though maybe there's something that could be said about how even divinity is not able to really do anything about the void. Lady Irene could not force the void away, the main three Mianite gods struggled against the Darkness and The King Yellow can no longer reach Avery after he's pushed in the void.
In the Dsmp the void was relevant when it was Tommy's Limbo but that version of Limbo was different for each soul residing in it... Meaning It's not relevant to the void as an actual force.
Evil X is somewhat important to Hermitcraft but his connection to the void is from being Xisumavoid's evil other self.
And that's all for part 1.
In part 2 we'll look at Death, the afterlives, the concept of demonic and holy in a multiverse of many gods and goddesses.
In Part 3: We'll then take a look at connections with the elements and the concepts each element seem connected to.
In Part 4: Continuation to the elements, there's a lot there.
In Part 5: Any corrections and additions suggested by you guys.
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