go watch marma1ade she deserves it

Cleo: Yeah, but did you fuck your clone?

this begins in june 2021 after the finale of triple life. happy pride month

as the days pass, events happen on certain dates. for instance, a popular artist gets cancelled on twitter for their vaguely shippy brian/foodtimeswithstar fanart and it’s your priority to rescue them otherwise there’ll be a big drop in fandom enjoyment. benthebog and mars ofthebigwaters end up in the same macguffin championship (mcc) with riversymphony and this creates a big boost. someone brings up benbog/lakemonster69 stuff from 2019 to show shipping is okay and fandom enjoyment increases. yes there is a water theme. there’s probably a blue boats 9 reference

cast:

a solitarygamer/botmajor (“shower husbands”) shipper who just wants more triple life shipping and is going “does NO ONE see how GAY this is”

teenager who is very paranoid of shipping after witnessing cancellations and having their riverbog works misinterpreted as shipping

mysterious user who clips the ben/mars shippy moments with ambig captions and if you dig deep enough you’ll find out they were a bystander in the 2019 discourse. dig a little deeper on their old instagram and you’ll find out they were a larry shipper when they were 11

your beloved mutual who has been around longer and all your picks are vetted by them

artist who makes gorgeous art but it turns out they’re one of the untrustworthy doxxers from 2019

someone who puts “DO NOT TAG AS SHIP” on all their posts and you’re like ok much respect. a month later they sneak into your dms like 🥺 i’m consumed by CATHOLIC guilt because ben and mars are kinda… idk…. i can’t even say it… 🥺

mars otbw has an official artist and you carefully navigate around them but it turns out they draw bogwaters ship art on a side blog under a different pseud but You Recognise The Drawing Style

you post a ship fic on anon ao3 and religiously track whoever kudoses/comments

you recognise an anon bogwaters fic writer from their generous use of hozier lyrics and em dashes and recruit them on their tumblr main

a brian/mumble (bumble) shipper from 2019 who came back to cautiously post about triple life but you’re like 👀 i know you 👀 you like shipping

pathoslab

noel largishstreams

mangomac

restraintvs

sizzleman

Cleo is very outright with the fact that she doesn't consider herself very strong at pvp, even compared to other members of the server. But people are still very consistently scared of them. Why? Well, I think a lot of it is that Cleo acts like someone who is really good at pvp. They're often very threatening, very overtly aggressive, as a preventative measure, just to make sure they're never seen as an easy target. Cleo tells everyone that she can and will ruin them at the first slight against her, and frankly, people aren't interested in testing that. Even if Cleo doesn't actually consider themself to be the strongest fighter, it matters more how they're perceived by other people. Fire- which Cleo is very famous for using as an easy punishment for any wrongdoing against her- is also a very good threat display. Usually minecraft fire is, honestly, not that hard to deal with, and the damage is usually superficial (unless you're joel and just kinda stand in the fire until you die), but the thing about fire is that it's big and dramatic. Surround yourself in flames twice your size and make sure you don't flinch when they point their weapons at you and people will be scared of you without you having to fight, because you look like more effort than you're worth.

Scott isn't overtly threatening in the same way most of the time, but he achieves a very similar effect with his ability to keep consistently calm and collected. I've watched multiple scenes where people come to kill Scott just to literally panic and backtrack as soon as he acknowledges with calm amusement or irritation instead of seeming threatened (i also think this is how mumbo got him in wild life- scott is literally so used to startling people with a mostly calm acknowledgment of their murder attempts that he genuinely didn't expect mumbo to actually still activate his trap, even when scott was standing on it). I've watched multiple scenes where Scott is objectively outmatched or even outnumbered in a fight just for the others involved to falter or outright retreat because Scott wasn't acting like someone in any danger, because even if he's on four hunger and one heart, he often still talks like he isn't scared. If you he just smile or roll your eyes and don't flinch back from them, people will eventually get really confused, wary, or tired, and will, again, decide you are more effort than you're worth.

BIGB APPRECIATION (angst) TIME !!! ive had this in my head since january and i realised i could just. make it.