Honor’s Tea

Yeah, I have, and same here. Like jesus. I can't imagine how awful it must've been for everyone around them to live in this fractured, manufactured reality that aimed to drive people apart. There's so many statements from people all around twitter right now and I am more and more just. Appaled idk. Goes without saying that I won't be aiming to print my postcanon vsmp comic, still keeping it up, still super proud of it and i'll cherish vsmp and avid's character within it, it's still fiction, but i hope to never hear of those two as ccs again. For anyone curious what the hell is going on, super loud on twitter rn, a lot of quote retweets to the skyblock statement have details of everyones perspectives, attaching legundo's on here because i know people might ask for context

“Hmmm… TBF The last time one of Shelby’s circle wrote music, it ended very poorly.”

I was just searching for an excuse to not do a deep dive into his music after falling in love with Not Right. My first thought when I saw this news was that this fear of the MCYT music men was going to become a thing, now, likely not just for me, but for others as well.

I am horrified by Avid’s actions. My heart goes out to all of his long time friends. I’ll say what I said back then, the first time something like this happened:

It is not your fault that you were tricked by Avid. It is not your fault that you enjoyed his content and listened to his music. It is not your fault if you financially supported him in any way shape or form. It is not your fault if he still holds a special place in your brain because you got attached. It’s okay, and it isn’t your fault that he was a hyperfixation or a special interest or even just a blorbo to you.

You couldn’t have known. Most of their friends didn’t know! You didn’t even know the guy, so you couldn’t have known.

I am so sorry to those of you who were let down. I’m sorry to those of you who are going to have to pick between listening to these songs stuck in your head and not wanting to support this guy in any way. I am so so incredibly sorry to the artists and fanfiction authors and cosplayers and other creatives who have had their works tarnished by this.

So I’ll say it again: it is okay if you come to tumblr to escape upsetting news. It is okay if you’re just here for fun and fandom. It is okay if you do not want to use your tumblr as a place to read about or spread the current events that are circulating. It is okay if you need a place to decompress and just relax. There are other ways to be involved in/support causes and you are allowed to set boundaries on social media platforms without it being indicative of your belief systems. 

*Mezalea's King Joel(ESMP1), Luxintrus(Content SMP), Sacntuary's Sausage(ESMP2), Philza(DSMP), Sherrif Jimmy(ESMP2), Squiddo(Lifesteal), Ethoslab(Hermitcraft), SCU Slimecicle(The SCU), Red Life Scar(Life Series), Evbo's Master Friend(Parkour Civilisation), Saparata(States SMP), Inthelittlewood (Evo SMP/Life Series)

you don't understand: they didn't talk to each other. sure, they did for Big Planned Things, but the vast, vast majority of episodes would only contain One Hermit, that being the guy making the episode. they might see another hermit on-camera but pre-prox chat that didn't mean they could like, talk without joining a skype call, and they often didn't (and even post-prox chat it actually takes a few months in for them to realize they could just... leave prox on and have random drive-by interactions as they may). it was really common in videos and streams to be like "damn. didn't know that was there? i guess someone's been busy? wild." or, just as often, "oh no i didn't know that was there, what if i'm not supposed to show the viewers, i should avoid accidentally learning more!"

and to be clear this was in part because the youtube "meta" was different then, right. like hermitcraft started as basically being a solo letsplay other people happened to build on and has marched steadily closer to being a place coworkers and maybe eventually friends hang from there. but i think in this season 11 world, where basically every hermitcraft video has a second hermit show up at some point, it's just... wild. they like. hang out with each other on purpose. server-wide storylines are not only now the norm but like, mostly don't have half the server ignoring them anymore. they hang out with each other on purpose.