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ethubs rpf is so beautiful

Bdubs having a sponsor segment for arknights endfield… get the bag but oh my god

we should get a head start on pantheon smp bad takes

leda and the swan is obviously a queer allegory

personally i'm gonna expect the characterization of the gods to be composites of all the worst media inspired by greek mythology out there. and get mad when they deviate from their various pop culture representations. which tbh they probably won't

if hades and persephone aren't portrayed as a girlboss and her golden retriever boyfriend im going to maintag an essay about how it's a betrayal of the original ancient greek oral tradition

"oh i didnt know you were gay, you can keep being sexist then man its okay" notice how no one has ever said this. some food for thought many of you could do with.

there should be a thousand year moratorium on new greek myth adaptations. that's approximately how long it will take for the culture to find something new to say.

imo etho regards his own clones as objects/empty vessels mainly & sadly just wouldn't think abt fucking his own clone. however adventures with npc stuff in his modded series suggest a) he thinks it's funny to have copies of his friends around like bdubs in the most recent season and b) willing to program a pseudo gf whatever in the first one. therefore, i think he'd be willing to fuck other people's clones. bc they're objects but interesting ones. run a simulation fine tune the scene. play it back. see how real you can make it. etc.

like i'll concede maybe he fucked around with one in the context of testing shells for future pseudo-hardcore worlds or something in the name of testing body functions but it was more work & less interesting than regular masturbation so whatever. doesn't much think about it. until he's messing with copies of other people and he remembers they can get off and do certain simple actions in loops or whatever. he'd know he should probably feel a little more gross about setting up scenes like that, silent character wearing bdubs' face or whomever, but he really doesn't at all. it's just not that different than a fantasy as long as it stays private. they're like dolls, more than anything, and the differences are obvious most of the time, but when the mental catalogue of little details from fantasies align just right with the knockoff physical forms, well, it's good. who could blame him.

a little more specifically i think he thinks making copies of his friends for modded worlds is just funny, and making a chatbot gf is also kind of funny but the tech for a long time in these unstable worlds aren't good enough to have both sentience and animation in a single body, it's supercomputer or fancy mannequin. those other ethos in the lab with the dreamworld portals weren't him, they're more like mindless beasts. so when he gets back around to the most recent modded series and the dolls are a lot more animated; you still have to script them, of course, and it's a lot like jacklin, but the bdubs he summons to staff his restaurant breathes, that long moss coat swaying as it waits for an input. the voice is all wrong, but there's a moment when it flashes that wide, wide smile at him as it hands over a drink during testing and etho flushes. it's justifiable to keep tinkering, both a test of skill to see how good he can get and how well he knows bdubs, if a little bit of code and a little bit of magic can bring this version of him to life, if he can make it close enough. when he's back on hermitcraft it's so easy to give into the temptation of quizzing bdubs - the real one, the original - so etho can break him down and build him back up from first principles. bdubs starts questioning the questioning but he's easy to placate: etho's just curious. he wonders. bdubs is so private - and there's an argument opening bdubs can't resist, and the trouble is dodged. maybe it's embarrassing, if anyone were ever to know, but he's always been willing to tolerate a lot of cringe to run a simulation like this, so if this bartending bdubs is a little out of character, a little too obliging and lingers too long when handing off the drinks, if etho takes a little advantage, if maybe he picks fantasies that can't be real anywhere else to test how good the simulation is well. nobody'll ever know.

remember when they pegged bdubs live on stream for charity

bdoubleo. beeeeedoubleo. one Hundred. bdoubloh. b and his mate doubleo. one huntred. one (1) hundred. 100.

axiom-generated egg build containing an 'eefo' with orange hair and rainbow sheep that drop from the ceiling while fart noise happy birthday plays and then it all explodes is parody levels of this specific kind of lol so random xD content. it feels incredibly self-congratulatory for something meant to be 'for' gem's birthday but it's also so etho-centric in his absence that it's a really uncanny experience.