my problem is I think I'm clever

Which is why it upsets me when people try to push Cub and Scar in this box. Because Cub presents you with a dynamic that hasn't been explored before: what if you thought everything Scar Goodtimes does was fucking awesome. What if you were completely down to get into any and all trouble with him without a single question asked.

What if Hotguy were the sexiest man alive. Well, he is, obviously, and Cub is gonna collect all merch of him that exists, and give him a dedicated corner in the museum, and outbid everyone for the Hotguy painting auction. Because Hotguy just makes him feel a special sort of way, you see.

What if the magic crystals were actually real. And they are. They possess secret, powerful capabilities no one can begin to understand. They bend time and space. You should totally visit the wizard in the jungle and buy everything in stock. Cub did that and Cub absolutely does not regret it.

Scar wants to abuse his authority as the POE, blowing up all shops that he deems unworthy? He should do that. Here are some TNT blocks.

Scar wants to burn down the s11 map, despite the hard work of the firefighters? He should do that. Here is a flint and steel.

I can keep going for eternity. Cub loves crazy. Cub IS crazy, he is Scar's wonderful mad scientist friend who he is a little scared of. Just because he knows how hard Cub can go. Every hermit knows how hard Cub can go. Cleo thinks Cub is the scariest hermit (despite being able to handle him herself pretty well). Doc, despite his evil theatrics, doesn't dare to mess with Cub. Cub can destroy entire Minecraft ecosystems in seconds just because he thought it would be funny. He is not no-nonsence, he is all nonsence.

And he loves his friends so much! Including Scar, especially Scar! He is an incredibly involved hermit who is always ready to help people and participate in community projects. He often laughs at Scar's jokes when no one else does. He always treats Scar with respect, seeing him as an incredible strong and capable individual. And he gets so, so worried when there is even a tiny implication that Scar might actually be in trouble.

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to get rid of it.

if you're interested in the Colorful support post i made regarding this, its under the cut. i'm livid.

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moves her base

and heres her team of builders!

go watch pearls video if you want to see how she moved her entire base across the river!

mumbo does such an excellent job of highlining all his fellow hermits bases and building abilites and i am so happy he does.

go check out his video if you want to see what he does with these

that being said☝️part of the way Watcher magic interacts w Players open to their influence is that the players species can be kind of.... fluid? the player gains power* at the cost of individual agency by opening themselves to the whims of the Watchers.

it's worldbuilding made to integrate the variety of species headcanons (and canon species changes), because i genuinely DO like integrating aspects of fanon into my personal canon!!

so how do i handle Watcher!grian then if, by my definitions, grian cannot be a Watcher? simple. hes not a Watcher, he's a watcher (non proper noun). he is Literally Some Bullshit The Watchers Made Up that they ALSO called a watcher but he isn't a Watcher Watcher (proper noun).

I've always been fascinated with how Harry Dubois can interact with objects and Revachol itself (the city he and Kim find themselves in). He speaks with objects, who have stories and histories to share, and help him on his cases. The city itself seems alive, and waiting for some kind of change (that Harry will be part of). The city loves him and its people as a parent would.

This made me think about how objects are part of us. Humans (I'd argue) are part of nature, not separate from it, and objects are made by us from things found in nature (even if we have to alter them beyond their original states). Objects have a history associated with their makeup and the people who possess them. They can also be altered or used to make up something else (through varies forms or art, for instance). So to me it makes sense we are attached to certain objects, and I also think there are anti capitalist arguments about what happens when we overconsume/throw these objects away. There is less value to an object under capitalist and overconsumption, I think.

In the Stanley Parable, the room(s) Stanley find himself in is alive. It changes, and is perhaps made human by the presence of the narrator. Is the narrator another human, or is he actually part of the space? Is the space so alive that it is inherently human? Do we make spaces human because we live in them and create them?

My one mutual mentioned that The Backrooms movie is similar, but in different ways. The Backrooms exists because of us, but aren't necessarily created for us and by us. I think the Backrooms as a concept is generally hostile to humans. We aren't meant to live in these spaces. There is something off about them. The Backrooms are shaped by the characters in the film (and more generally by humans and memory). I think memory plays a huge part in how buildings and rooms come alive, and this is so integral to the Backrooms. Especially when we get into the nostalgia of liminal spaces in general. They are shaped by human memory, but like human memory they are imperfect. Something about them is off and ever changing, like how memory is every changing and shaped by human experience. Collective memory plays a huge role in this as well.

Buildings, rooms and spaces coming alive via memory ties back to Disco Elysium too. The objects that speak to Harry have a story to tell. Of who possessed them and what they have seen. The city gives Harry snippets of the everyday lives of the people living within it, so it seems to hold a collective memory (including of more recent past events, so why not assume it holds events of the far past as well)?

All of this being said, maybe the connection objects, buildings and entire cities have to us makes them more alive then I could have ever realized. Maybe memory, and the idea that human made objects are more part of nature than we (in this case I) think, makes them alive. That isn't to say how we currently create and consume isn't harmful to the planet and the environment, but maybe shifting the way we see objects and buildings (ect) could change things.

I just want to add at the end that my post isn't formal essay writing lol, so my thoughts are probably a bit all over the place. Maybe I could write something more formal in future, but that would be much longer than a Tumblr post lol. I'm not an expert on this topic at all so if you have more to add that would be awesome! I just wanted to get the thoughts floating around in my brain out there, but this post doesn’t even scratch the surface of this topic.

"secret wizards control the government" > "[wizard equivalent] are an oppressed visible minority"

white British monoculture > Star Trek style multicultural pluralism that treats "being Black" and "being an elf" as basically interchangeable