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Gem: I did see my favorite hate comment ever today though? I-I think it might be my fav-my favorite hate comment. And--it-it was that I'm turning Hermitcraft gay. (she laughs) It-it gave me a-a very good laugh. It--they, they meant it as hate, so genuinely, but I did not take it that way.

Gem: Like--(giggling) I. Find myself in situations so frequently, where the men are roleplaying kissing each other, and if I could stop them, I would, okay. I would be more homophobic, I would stop them! I can't! They keep going, I (through laughter) I don't know what it is.

Gem: But it's not me, it's-it's th--nobody's holding a knife to them right now and making them do that. (laughs)

Gem: They're just like it. I don't-it's not me. (laughs) God, it was one of my favorite comments I've gotten. I-I immediately sent it to Grian. (laughs)

Gem: (eight seconds of silence) I'll take credit, if I-if somebody has to take credit, I can. (laughs) But I don't think, I don't think it's me. (five seconds of silence, then, laughter) Entry (? she says a Twitch chatter's name here) thank you for the twenty-three months, I haven't, but I'll look into it. I have heard--well, I've heard of Project Hail Mary, actually--

However, Gem, an out and open bi woman, existing and playing within the space where these types of jokes are being made, recontextualizes them with a sense of empathy rather than derision. Her proximity and play-frustrated reactions to the banter makes them feel like in-jokes by people within and related to the community, rather than an ironic way of mocking the queer "other" as they usually are in the mainstream.

Additionally, Gem (and Cleo for that matter)'s overall prescence on the server and her lack of self-censorship makes open discussion of queerness—perhaps not common (it doesn't come up every episode)—but normal and casual, able to come up in conversation without fanfare at any time, rather than being some kind of "specialty topic". (Actually also wanna shoutout Joel too, he is aggressively queer friendly despite being straight, I think he brings up queerness more than Gem & Cleo sometimes lmao)

SMP so insane it makes you make a full animatic for the first time ever

I loved this moment, the duality of this team-up

Was watching a Scar VOD and Gem said something about wanting to see fanart of Etho in a frog hat, so I took that idea and ran with it. I may have also taken some liberties with his outfit haha

Alts because colours are hard:

I think @cherrifire likes TGTTOS a normal amount

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Watched the Aqua Artimators POV during MCCR and it got me into playing MCCI, where I somehow ran into Cherrifire playing TGTTOS two days in a row lmaoooo Watched her stream today, so I did this as a warm-up before my homework

Blank version:

Testing out some funky rendering techniques with a Cleo! Definitely need more practice, but I think I'm getting somewhere?

Progress shots under the cut!

Very messy doodle based off of a moment from Pearl's episode 3