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All information in this post is compiled from the following 2 vods:

[Etho Lore Stream 5/9/25 | 27:30 - 35:30]

[Hermit Hangout and Bank Interior! 6/3/26 | 2:59:50]

Skizz: "Who hurt you?!" Scar: "My brother's ex-wife..."

Before the wedding, Scar's brother told him to get fitted for a tux and that he would pay for it, but at the last minute he changed his mind, and Scar (who was broke at the time) had to pay $400.

Scar wasn’t able to fly at the time, so they had to to drive from California, to Washington, to Minnesota (4-5 day long trip) on a longer route to avoid elevation to keep his breathing stable.

Scar was a big introvert, especially back then, and when he got to the rehearsal wedding before the rest of his family, the bride’s family questioned him in an accusing manner about where the others were. He said "I think they're in traffic," and the bride got mad and proceeded to yell at him (which apparently happened to several other people throughout the wedding).

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The rehearsal dinner was held at a family member’s house (from the bride’s side) and the bride’s family were apparently big smokers and loved cigars. His brother told them specifically not to light up their cigars since Scar was only 2 years off a ventilator, saying, “You’re gonna suffocate him.”

Everyone in the wedding party went downstairs into the basement to do gifts, completely forgetting about Scar and leaving him to awkwardly sit in the corner with his parents and his aunt.

About an hour in, a waft of cigar smoke hit Scar all at once and gassed him out of the house. Scar’s dad went “and with that, we're going back to the hotel." His brother tried to convince them to come back inside, saying, “Well, come back, it's ok, they’ll put them out!” but Scar’s dad said “Look at him, does he look like he can stay?” It took Scar an hour to get his breathing somewhat under control again.

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Scar was supposed to be the best man, but his brother's ex-wife didn’t want him to because “it would mess up with the wheelchair” and Scar was moved to the bottom because “they didn’t want to change something.” It’s unclear exactly what Scar means here, but I’m assuming he’s talking about the couple, bridesmaids, and groomsmen being on a platform of some kind that wasn’t accessible, so he had to be on the ground floor.

Scar was paired with the bride’s sister who “absolutely did not want to be associated with the wheelchair person.” He said she complained, “Why did I have to be the one that goes down the aisle with the wheelchair person?” And she was apparently so upset she literally never said a word to him, and refused to push him down the aisle (his arms were too weak to roll himself down the carpet at the time) so his uncle had to step in and do it.

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Scar could eat to a small extent at the time, but after they were seated at the reception, everyone got up to get food and left him behind. The carpet in the room was very plush, and his arms were very weak at the time, so he couldn’t push himself anywhere in that room. After half an hour his aunt noticed he didn’t have any food and got him some.

Scar’s brother hyped up the photo-booth they were going to have at the reception, and he was really excited and looking forward to it, until he got there and saw it was up 3 stairs and there was no way to fit a wheelchair inside.

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This next bit has slightly different accounts. In the first stream, Scar says that when he wheeled over to the "party bus" and saw it was inaccessible, someone (it's unclear who) looked at it and went, “...yeah he's not gonna be able to get in there, it's ok, he'll find another ride.”

But in the most recent stream, Scar describes the exchange as his brother’s ex-wife saying, “Sorry, no wheelchairs can get in this bus,” his brother adding, “Don’t worry, he’s not coming anyway,” and his grandma saying, “it's ok, you can come with us.”

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Scar says there was only 1 photo of the wedding party that included him, all the other photos were taken in a place he physically couldn't get to. He has a feeling this may have been deliberate, but he tries not to think about it.

There was one person in the wedding party that had spent time in a wheelchair for a few years after hurting their back, and Scar said they looked out for him and always tried to keep him included and made sure he wasn't left behind. He said they were super nice, "There's always a good person somewhere in the mix of a bunch of fools."

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[x] with extra [x]

An intensifier. Usually styled as “flee with extra flee” but can be utilized with any word.

-ificator

Suffix indicating “machine that does [x]”. A “bonemeal-ificator”, for instance, is a machine that makes bonemeal.

niner

Used in place of any large number (“ten million bazillion niner stacks of wool”) or to punctuate the end of a statement in an affirmative way, similar to the phrase “ten-four”.

I’m not a builder/redstoner/gamer

An action word roughly synonymous with “move” and/or “operate” (as in “we’re just gonna skadoodle that over here”).

skadoodler - noun

The noun form of “skadoodle”, meaning “that which skadoodles”. Can occasionally be shorted to “skadoodle” which may cause some confusion with the verb form.

dunga dunga dunga

An onomatopoeia depicting movement, usually the footsteps of a large and heavy creature.

happy fun sauce - noun

[x] harder

An imperative phrase. Normally [x] is a noun (which is not grammatically correct in English but is in Tango-isms). Similar use case to “lock in”, with [x] being used as a placeholder for the task that needs to be completed (eg. “wheat harder”).

[x] of eternal joy and happiness

A literal saw trap. Will probably be said with sadistic glee and whimsy. Exact wording may vary.

pancakes

45% chance this is a filler word

45% chance it’s another murder monster machine scheme

8% chance it’s literally just pancakes

It was a surprise for Tango’s birthday! He’d caught wind that ice skating was on the docket as a possibility earlier on, but he didn’t think anything was planned for certain and he was worried that it would be public skate. Turns out the other Hermits had rented out the ENTIRE rink for an hour, just for themselves! And they kept it on the down low until they could surprise him day-of. According to Tango, it was Gem’s idea, and Grian and Skizz put it together.

Gem and Tango finally had their skate-off! Tango admits defeat and relents that Gem is the better skater. Might be because she was outpacing him going backwards.

The last time Impulse had gone skating was ten years ago, and upon hearing that he was gonna get back on the ice, his wife had so much faith in him that she immediately looked up the nearest hospital. Yep.

As expected, when he first got on the ice, Impulse initially sucked at it, but by the end of the hour he was COOKING. And even going backwards! Gem complimented him and said he did great.

Gem also said that Impulse gets flaily and spins when he feels like he’s about to fall which is hilarious.

Tango had a boomer moment: Impulse asked him to record a video of him skating so he could show his wife, and Tango ended up recording two or three laps of his own stupid mug. LOL

Impulse was beaming ear to ear the entire time. He had so much fun!

EDIT thank you Inferna: Impulse has expressed very strong interest in joining Tango’s hockey team. The season has already started, so it’s a bit late to sign up, but Tango said he’ll talk to the coach. Stay tuned ;-)

Despite not being on the ice in ten years, Gem can still figure skate! She was doing jumps and spins and stuff and wowing everyone else. She herself described it as “I can still skate as well as a 6-year-old. But I impressed my coworkers, so that’s what matters.”

Gem had so much fun on the ice that it might as well have been a treat for her specifically. “It feels like it’s my birthday too.”

This video. Nuff said.

Martyn, to the surprise of no one, is good at everything and was immediately a natural on the ice despite skating maybe only once before, years ago. Tango called him a jerk.

There is an adorable photo of Tango helping Pearl learn to skate for the first time which I’ll include below. Skizz says this is possibly his favorite picture from the entire day, because it displays what a wonderful family dynamic the Hermits have with each other.

EDIT: This tweet from Pearl. Featuring video!

Tango fell ONCE because he was going too fast, started spinning and almost hit the boards.

The Hermits made good use of the plastic seals that are used as training supports for kids. Skizz said he had to bend all the way down to hold on to the thing. He’s gigantic. You can imagine how that looked.

At one point Skizz was sitting on one of the seals and Tango was pushing him around. Skizz fell off.

Reportedly, there was a game of Mario Kart using the seals. Grian sat on a seal with Tango pushing him, and Jimmy, Gem, and Martyn were also apparently involved. Two laps. Miraculously no injuries. Cleo has footage.

Cleo took ten steps onto the ice and biffed it. And apparently fell a second time as well. Skating does not appear to be their sport.

Most of the group broke away at one point to play broomball, but Tango, Gem, Impulse, and Martyn kept the skates on until the end of the hour.

The broomball players were encouraged to wear helmets. Skizz did not take a helmet. He fell and nearly ate ice and his own front teeth. Zed begged him to get a helmet. He got a helmet.

Tango admitted that he was possibly the happiest he’s ever happied. “There was whimsy coming out everywhere.”

for your reference, i tracked down one of my original posts; which had a notes section that looked like this:

and here is what it looks like now:

holy shit. by my math, that is not even two percent of the amount of aggregate notes my writing actually has. i am not able to see any of the literal hundreds of replies, comments, or tags.

maybe this is a bit presumptuous but i consider myself to be fairly popular on this site. i still remember the first time a large blog "picked up" my work - how quickly all of a sudden i was getting seen. notes on my poetry jumped from like 10 to 300 to 3k. overnight. that was the magic of tumblr, and the incredible writing community i found here.

but now if i answer any of my fellow writers, if i say please go check this out or even if i add additional context to my own work - the artist is removed completely from their own content.

do you want to reply to an "ask game"? do you want to reply to a story prompt? do you want to just make a funny joke with your friends? well, that sucks - you might be depriving them of literally 98% of their notes.

it isn't about clout chasing. it is about giving creators control over their own materials. even a silly post deserves to be connected directly with the person that thought it up.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

ScarWorlds: The Movie!

The protagonist: Scar, the villain: Scar, the damsel: Scar, the sage: Scar.

More movies need sets on motion rigs. More directors need to toss their actors around. I'm not kidding.

Something that made Iron Lung so unsettling is the realness in it. Yes, it's incredibly science fiction set in an alternate universe on a blood moon, it is incredibly far from reality. BUT the psychosis, the ambient lighting, the Actual movement, left me glued to the screen.

How can you NOT hear the ableism in that?? That's fucking eugenics.

I know I'm getting too worked up over "just a minecraft horse" but Scar saw himself in Puddin'. He talked about "making sure Puddin' took his medicine before bed" and how "he's old and barely hanging on, he's like me- except I'm not old."

Tango and Skizz actively tried to get Puddin' killed because he was "useless" despite how attached Scar was, and Tango cried laughing when Bdubs killed him.

I sent Scar a dono after Puddin' was killed expressing how I saw Puddin' as a metaphor for disabled people, and Scar read it out and said "That's exactly right! We cherished Puddin'!"

If there's one thing I want to get across with this post, it's that I implore everyone to check themselves on their attitudes towards any being they perceive as "less adequate." Does that mean they're less deserving of life?

some moments of scar's session 7 that i couldnt get out of my brain...