The idea of an evil/moon Gem was just too good not to draw. With all the hermitcraft stuff, sculk lore and spooky vibes happening in Empires rn I wanted to try design a corrupted version of Gem! Perhaps she isn’t as warm and innocent as she seems?
For the design itself I took inspiration from the sculk, soul fire, phantoms and blue butterflies (with a little bit of puppet Zelda thrown in there for good meatier). I tried making the dress look like parts of a butterfly chrysalis as well as giving it the rib cage/insectoid shell vibes.
Overall I had a blast making this piece and it may be my favourite Empires piece I’ve done so far :D
pix's perfect disguise
Quick sketch of knight scar and familiar jellie
Boatem sleepover doodle
Cubfan: hey, Joe! You wouldn't happen to know anything about all those enderpearls I keep finding?
Joe, directly responsible for putting said enderpearls in Cub's base and adding more as they speak: ...nooo
Also Joe: Howdy, Cub! I don't suppose you know why there's skulk turning up all over the place?
Also Cub, covered in skulk, very obviously hiding an unreasonable number of skulk catalysts behind his back: skulk? What skulk? That's crazy! Why would there be skulk?
Will you bless us please with more headcanons?
(It can be about anything!)
You’ve unlocked me talking about tattoos on the hermits (:
Keep in mind that a lot of my ideas are loose as is, and I’ve yet to fully draw out a lot of my proper designs for these ideas. We just existing on vibes here.
But yes yes hermits with tattoos and markings, some magical, some with special meanings, and most importantly, the stupid ones that came from late nights. [Feel free to use the ideas if you like em! just credit me please!!]
Let’s start with Ren's because he’s got the most thought put in to his tattoos,
He has the two main tattoos he had done around s8, a band around his upper arm, then the piece on his lower side that goes down to half his thigh, both of them being clusters of Dogwood flowers!
He got the pieces done as a way to give himself back control with how his body gets changed. Having all the events of 3rd life happen to him, only to then come back to hermitcraft s7 and deal with all of That and then right away be shipped off to s8, doesn’t give a guy a lot of time to cope healthily.
Ren also has a very faded tattoo in his ear, it’s very hard to see if you aren’t actually looking for it. He completely hates that it’s there. Makes him feel like a marked dog, it’s why it’s there after all.
[this one was inspiresd from this post!] Tango! Bit of a more useful tattoo for him, matching script of "WaterProtection" written down both his arms, it helps him as a nether runt be able to actually touch water to a safer degree. A lot of enderians tend to get the same tattoo and sigils. [this one I need to clean up the design for]
in a similar vein, Etho also has a winding tattoo of galactic on their arm, it is enchanted, but they haven't really told anyone what it does. The wording and the structure of the galactic script used is also very old, so not many others have been able to properly translate it anyway,,, They also have a beautiful back piece done of what looks like an artic fox with multiple tails, surrounded by different floral arrangements, leaves, or ice crystals. They honestly enjoy changing the tattoo depending on the season, they will also change the tattoo to mess with Bdubs' head, just a lil.
This ones not really a tattoo? but it keeps Impulses mind at ease to just say it Is a tattoo that he cant really remember getting, cause that happens to a person right? it isn't super visible most of the time anyway, its lately gotten all cool and golden so that's a plus! Really they are the markings from a withers curse, rather rare for those boss curse's to still happen, yet here Impulse is. he doesn't really know he has the curse, and that is to be said about his knowledge of Any of the curses or blessings he somehow has,,,
He also got roped into a matching tattoo with Skizz when they were both out,,, "drinking Sodas". it was done around his hip, not really the best quality, but it was built off memory's
Gem and pearl have also been trying to get him to be apart of their matching tattoo as well.
and I'm pretty sure those were all the ones I've drawn before, so now its just test!
As said, Pearl and Gem have matching tattoos! they are both clusters of Sunflowers and Moon daisy's. both the tattoos are done in different designs to match both the girls styles. Gems is along her hip to lowerback, and Pearl has his around her thigh mainly.
Pearl also has a good few little jammer type tattoos on her legs. its manly those doodle type cats, there's one in a clown hat with a balloon, he's named it stru. there's also a bee in a cowboy hat. She's just a fun little colouring page with all her tattoos! a fact proven during all the boatem sleepovers, when Scar and Grian just started to (With permission, mostly,,, maybe not at first) colour all his little tattoos in.
Cub is fairly simple, he's just got a piece done on his shoulder/ upper arm. its a wonderful geometric pattern that surrounds a map of planets and stars. Him and Scar have worked together to enchant it a little so the stars actually glow a little! there is a scar forming through some of it due to the skulk corruption though, he's trying to ignore it for now,,, and its not really a tattoo, Cub does have faint markings of webbed wings on his back. they will glow a bit if he's messing around with magics, and disappear whenever he's actuality using the Vex's wings
Scar, much like Pearl, also has a shoty little tattoo of a cat. it has a little hat on it as well.
Scar does have a fair amount of tattoos though! most of them are done in special inks, so they are largely invisible to most players unless he's been using magic. most of the tattoos are a lot like Tangos and Ethos ones, there they are meant to be enchantments that'll help him out however he needs, but most of the enchantments either failed, or simply did not work how he wanted them to. Cub helped Scar with one of them, and like the true friend Cub is, he may, or may not, have put said tattoo on that one spot on Scars lower back,,,
Grian, similar to Cub, has markings that mimic his wings whenever he is not using them, as rare as it is. And then there are all those invisible markings along their skin that are rarely seen, many of them looking like,,, broken eyes,,, to have the closed description.
Doc has a back piece that he's been just been slowly adding to. it started out on their left shoulder ands spread along their back and upper arm. its a really unique piece of work, having random bits of circuitry, gears and bits, flowers, and just random bits of memory's all woven together into a map along his skin. They are proud of how it had been built really.
They also may have almost He did punched the tattoo artist when the poor soul started going over the scar tissue by their prosthetics. He was very sorry and wouldn't stop apologizing for the rest of the session.
EvilX has a tattoo. its like that one that Ren has. They absolutely hate it and its covered in old scars at this point. Just a simple [0258] marked on him, the ever praised clone that finally lived past the first five days! the first mostly successful clone of the *******Commands army's lab! Xisuma hates what it means, he's been trying to find a way to ask if Ex ever wants to get a coverup on it, neither of the two really want to talk about it though.
Bit of a quick round here, I'd like to say that Xisuma himself has some kind of dragon tattoo. Hypno probably has something, has the vibes, but i've got no ideas. Wels has an old sword, around it is the script to an old poem that no one else can really read. Cleo has random bits of old skin that do have tattoos on them! some of them are cut off, but they have no intentions of making the designs complete.
and now for my favorite headcanon! the smiley face tattoos.
it started as a bet between False and Stress during s5, they both said they could get a random hermit to get a silly pricing with little convincing or knowledge of what was happening, faster then the other. That is what caused both Zedaph and Iskall to own their own bellybutton pricings, complete with a little butterfly charm! the knowable of who actually won the bet is unclear, what Is clear however is how Zed and Iskall choose to seek revenge by having False get a smiley face tattooed on her ass. She agreed on the terms that the both of them also have to get one as well.
and that is what started a game between the hermits to get everyone else to get a silly little smiley face tattooed somewhere around their ass. [its not always actualy right on the ass, sometimes its just below the belt kinda thing. like hip area. some of them 100% got it right on the cheeks though.]
so far Xiuma, keralis and Pearl have gotten one because of False. Iskall got Mumbo to agree to one, and almost had Cub agree too, They also bet that Beef wouldn't. Beef in fact Did get a smiley face tattooed on his ass, and Etho has yet to stop laughing at him for it. Zeds managed to get Ren, Tango, and Bdubs to agree to getting one, he's almost convinced Impulse to get one as well, just needs a few more "sodas" for that to actually happen. They also asked EvilX if he would want to get one tattooed, and Ex may or may not have one too, it also may or may not be their most favorite tattoo.
Hey sorry bout this but what's the etiquette for tagging and liking and reblogging (and what kind of reblogging to do)?
hi! don't worry about it - new social media sites are scary sometimes, haha, i still don't know how twitter works. but here's some etiquette as i understand it!
reblog whatever you want. i'm serious. i literally reblog or queue every single post i like that i see, but you don't have to do this. it's considered REALLY NORMAL to reblog a lot of stuff, though, or even to reblog the same thing more than once! if you like it, and you think maybe other people would want to see it, or just want to comment to the op... reblog it!
when it comes to likes, the thing to keep in mind is that most tumblr users keep their likes private, and liked posts don't show up on other people's dashes. therefore liking a post only helps the number of notes go up, which only helps its standing when searching through a tag - otherwise, it effectively "does nothing for the algorithm", as most tumblr users largely just look at their dash. i personally use likes either to indicate that it's a post i've reblogged before so i don't constantly reblog the same things over and over again and to like, indicate that i've seen posts that are like, personal or not really a rebloggable thing, but i want to be like "yes i agree" or "i see you" to, you know? however, everyone uses them differently - some people use them as bookmarks, for example, and some people use them for the traditional use of "i liked this, i just don't want to reblog it". the thing to keep in mind that a like is like, an indicator that you've seen something, and a reblog boosts it further! that informs the etiquette on which you want to do. ultimately, though, it's your decision how to use that tool.
tags are for organizational use. DO NOT CROSSTAG. that's the big etiquette to remember. only tag things on your original posts that are relevant to THAT POST. (this, for the record, includes: do not put the 'minecraft' tag on anything that's mcyt! those are separate fandoms and we don't want to flood the guys just trying to talk about the game.) if you crosstag and i notice it in the tags i do in fact immediately report you for spam and block you. beyond that, on original posts, it's really up to you how you tag, just remember that only the first... i think its five... are relevant to people trying to search for posts, so if you want higher discoverability save conversational tags for after those.
when it comes to reblogs, tags are both for organizing your own blog how you want (if you use them, i don't) and for like, comments that you want to make on a post, but do not add to the post. it is normal to leave conversational tags on reblogs, and to talk in the tags of posts about things that are not the main body of the posts. because the tags don't get reblogged with the post when someone reblogs it, it's sort of like whispering! you will get the hang of it by watching what other people do, if that makes you nervous. generally, just remember that OP can see your tags, and then chat however you want in them.
i hope this helps!
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do with that information what you will.
25 for the wrapped drabble!
25: "Bremen", PigPen Theater Co.
It was part of the plan, everbody would stand On their hind legs, hands holding high the other Like a tower of brothers, and the one on the top Would crow warnings and call in the morning And call out the storm that was coming The one on the bottom would steer 'til the road was clear And people would learn to rejoice and to fear our coming
It is, ironically, a mild, wet temperature over Dogwarts, the sort of weather that mostly feels dreary rather than being properly cold, or snowy, or icy, or any of the sorts of things that the kinds of people who claim to bring forth winter would be expected to have over their fortress.
"Oh, come on, you've gotta be cheating!" says Skizz, throwing his cards down on the table. They're stained a strange purple. "Dippledop, tell them that he's cheating."
"I mean, I don't know, Skizz," Impulse says. "You aren't good enough at cheating to have taught me how to spot it..."
"I mean, you're the one marking cards," Martyn says idly.
"You know I can't help it!" says Skizz. "It's my ender-what's-its. My purple scales. My, my general, uh, what's a good word for it -"
"Ourple," Etho says.
"What?" Impulse says.
"He's ourple," Etho says, and then doesn't elaborate at all.
"You know, if you're going to accuse me of cheating, why not accuse him?" Martyn says. "I mean, look at him. He's wearing a mask while we're playing poker. That's basically against the rules."
"I don't have a face, man," Etho says.
"Did you mean -" Big B starts. Impulse puts a hand on his leg. Big B stops.
"I'm just saying," Martyn says, as he takes the distraction as an excuse to palm one of the cards using and replace it with a king he's been keeping in a pocket. He knows the king won't be suspicious largely because he's been keeping track of the cards Skizz has had, and the king he's about to put in his hand is the same one that Skizz had three hands earlier.
Martyn is going to win, like, so many meaningless favors from people who are all definitely going to die before Martyn can call them in, but hey. He's definitely going to die before he has a chance to worry about it, either.
(At one point, it had been about winning. He's good at cheating.)
"You know what, yeah! That is cheating! Show us your face, huh, Etho?" says Skizz, pointing dramatically. Big B snorts into his cards.
"Uh, I mean, I don't know, man," Etho says, putting his hands up and nervously backing up. "It's like - you know I don't take this off..."
"Actually, yeah," Impulse says. "I sorta wanna see you try to keep a poker face. Take it off, Etho."
"Woah, woah boys. I know we're all friends here, but I don't know if I'm ready for a strip tease," Martyn says, which makes Etho turn bright red, and also makes Big B flustered enough that Martyn can see his hand. Okay, that's not a threat. Not that Big B's a threat to anyone, really, but he's still green for a reason.
Skizz isn't a threat for a completely different reason. His heart's right there on his sleeve. He has a shit hand this round. He gave that given that well away the moment he drew it.
That leaves Etho and Impulse to figure out.
"I - oh, geez, guys," Etho says. "I -"
"Take it off!" Skizz starts chanting. "Take it off! Take it off!"
"I'm - I like you guys, but I'm not taking off my mask!" Etho says. "Impulse, Impulse, we're buddies. You should understand!"
"Yeah, but like..." Impulse says, before shrugging. "I mean, if it really upsets you, I guess... Guys, maybe we should stop."
"Naw, don't try to talk him out of it!" Skizz says.
"Haha, you know, I want to see it too," Big B says. "It's a bonding thing, right?"
"Oh, well you can't argue with the bonding thing, now can you," Martyn says.
"Guys," Impulse starts saying, and then there's the sound of a creaking door, and everyone stops at once as the courtyard changes from dreary and wet to a certain chill. If Martyn didn't know any better, he'd say it's the chill of the grave, but there hadn't ever been any for him, so. Probably not.
Instead, it's just...
"My loyal Dogwarts," says Ren, quietly. "What is all of this commotion about?"
"We're playing cards, My Lord," Martyn says immediately. "See?"
He shows his hand to Ren. Ren chuckles.
"Well, laddie. Show me how you win at cards."
Well, the answer to that's 'by cheating'. But he can't really show Ren that, now can he? He's got to keep some things in his pocket. Besides, it's not like any of the favors in the pot matter.
They're all gonna die before they matter. Some of them already are.
Martyn loses the hand to Impulse. He collects the favors with a sheepish grin. Ren barks out a laugh. "You'll get them next time, laddie."
"I'm sure I will," Martyn says.
"Mom, Ren's playing favorites," Etho whines.
"That's - that's unbecoming a knight of -"
"Yeah, Ren's playing favorites," Big B says.
"I mean, dudes, uh, I mean - my loyal Dogwarts -"
Martyn laughs so hard that he forgets to pay attention, and loses the next hand too.
Hi there, I'm new! Pearl main and just general hermit craft follower. Nice to meetcha!
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