Conductor Dream Conductor Grian

can you draw argbur and simpbur hanging out if possible? i really like them in your style! they make me so happy

i’m sorry ik u likely meant ‘hanging out (/pos)’ but i can’t help but imagine these two being absolutely two-faced w each other

Thank you so much for explaining (and all the links)! honestly I'd appreciate a summary on each member, if you don't mind of course

alrighty, this is gonna be a long one. in total, hbg(house builder gang) has about 30 active members, and im gonna be using 'proper' capitalization and formatting and shit to hopefully make it easier on the eyes. also, i'll put a link to their namemc profile in the names(bolded) so you can look at their skins!

Couriway(he/him): Couriway has held the 1.14 world record, as well as the 1.16 world record. His 1.16 record started the 'pigface' joke due to him incorrectly identifying a bastion. His chat, referred to as 'Couri chat' is known for being extremely annoying in a very funny way. He says 'dude' a lot and is usually PG.

Tapl(he/him): Tapl is in HBG! He's a mcyter known for various different types of content- Hypixel, MCC, challenge videos, and more recently he's taken up speedrunning. He's longtime friends with Illumina, though most other members he's only met recently. Tapl usually speedruns for fun and content rather than competitively, but his mechanics are very good and he has a respectable 17:xx.

Reignex(he/him): Reignex was a relatively unknown speedrunner up until January, when he got the 1.16 rsg record. Now, he’s loved for his incredible playlist as well as his gamer skills. He’s particularly good at running bastions, and will often spend hours on stream just practicing before he even starts running. 

K4yfour(he/they): K4′s name is pronounced ‘Kay Four’, though people will sometimes jokingly refer to them as ‘Kay Four Why Four’. He was one of the first speedrunners to fully commit to ocean and bastion strategies, and he’s made important contributions to the 1.16 meta. He also lives in New Zealand, and only streams at like 2 am in my time. It’s sad. 

Marcus Fireworkss(he/him): Marcus’s Minecraft ign is Fireworkss, but literally everyone just calls him by his name. He has some really cracked times that have kinda flown under the radar, he totally deserves more love. Lately he’s been on the HBG SMP, where currently I believe he’s allied with Raddles.

21Mustard(he/him): Mustard is super funny and honestly underrated. He’s a cracked runner, though he’s been scammed out of a sub 15 several times. He hasn’t really had any monumental runs yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets one. Also, Feinberg stole and popularized using the word ‘inspirational’ from him.

Hary0tt(he/them): Hary0tt was the first runner to ever hit 100k resets! Although he’s recently taken a break from speedrunning due to personal reasons, they’re a huge grinder. Also, I didn’t actually know that he uses they/them pronouns, but that’s what they have in their twitter bio, so that’s cool. Also, he is British. 

nEmerald(he/him): Emerald is one of the newer members of HBG, and is a former FSG world record holder. He has a top five time in 1.16 rsg, and is currently one of the people grinding for sub-five in FSG. 

Ninjabrain(he/him): Ninjabrain is known for revolutionizing hard resetting as well as his treasure bastion route known as ‘Ninjabrain Route’ which was used by Illumina in his former world record. A few months ago, he was by far the most diligent at resetting and was one of the first runners to start using multi-instance. He’s Swedish. 

Silverr(he/him): Silver achieved the pre-1.9 rsg world record back in March of this year, and he also plays 1.16 rsg. Alongside Feinberg and Reignex, he won the Relay Cup Tournament, where he was their 1.7 runner. 

Zylenox(he/him): Zylenox held the 1.16 rsg world record earlier this year- kinda. His run ended up being officially tied with Reignex due to pausing and math shenanigans, though in my opinion the run was absolutely world record. Other than that, he makes some really entertaining YouTube content, and used to make SkyBlock and Geometry Dash videos. 

Switch(he/him): Switch actually just joined HBG a few days ago(August 6th). I’m going to be honest and admit that I don’t know too much about him, but I’ve watched some of his streams and he seems like a really chill dude. He talks about food pretty often, and is friends with BoomerNA. 

Feinberg(he/him): Feinberg first started speedrunning at around October of last year, and has very quickly become one of the best ever. He’s actually insane. If you’re going to watch a tournament and he’s in it, 90% of the time he’s going to win by a landslide or turbo-throw. He’s incredibly smart, and really shines at decision-making and mechanics. His streams are often very high-energy, and he makes hours of resetting genuinely entertaining.  

Dylqn(he/him): Dylqn is a super chill runner with some really good times, I’d say he’s casually cracked. He’s very calm in his solo streams, and when he’s in voice call with other runners his sense of humor really shines. His IRL face reminds me of a trucker, not sure why, he just does. 

Fyroah(he/him): Fyroah is 17, and he’s done a lot of really cool work for the speedrun community. He created magma ravine portals, blaze-bedding, and several different bastion routes. For a while it was a meme that his pb was really bad, but he’s got a sub 15 now so it’s all good. Recently one of his YouTube videos went semi-viral(~1 millionish views) 

Illumina(he/him): Illumina has been speedrunning since 2013, is a former moderator, and has held world record in literally every major category. In 2019 and 2020, he represented Minecraft for SGDQ(a massive global speedrun event). For a long time, he was the only top no F3 runner, but recently he’s switched over to using it as F3 has become a necessity for 1.16. @oceantail-oceantail has a really cool posts going over fun facts about him, though I couldn’t find it when I looked. 

Korbanoes(he/him): Korb has held the 1.16 world record, and currently holds the 1.9-1.15 world record, which he achieved after several months of hard grinding. He was the first person to ever achieve a sub-hour time in combined rsg. He’s dealt with some bullshit accusations regarding the legitimacy of his runs, but he’s really just a great runner, and he’s also 17. 

Geosquare(he/him): Geo is a former head moderator, has been in the community for years, and has made countless contributions to Minecraft speedrunning. Alongside Mathew Bolan he helped to develop the one-cycle(a fast and consistent way of killing the Ender Dragon). He doesn’t really stream or upload very often, so it’s a treat when he does. 

PeteZahHutt(he/him): Pete’s taken a break from speedrunning for the past few months due to a case of RSI(Repetitive Strain Injury) though he’s a very good 1.14 classic and 1.16 runner. Lately he’s been doing Vault Hunters SMP, and he’s also known as the best MCC player in the event. 

Karl Jobst(he/him): Jobst has been speedrunning various games for literal decades. Though he hasn’t actually done much Minecraft speedrunning, he stays up to date with the community and is a highly-regarded figure. 

Fruitberries(he/him): Fruit doesn’t speedrun all that much, though he’s done some pre 1.9 ssg and is the former Stack of Lime Wool set seed glitchless world record holder. He’s also participated in several tournaments, and is roommates with Illumina. His mechanics are genuinely insane and he’s definitely the best pvper in HBG. 

Raddles(she/her): Raddles formerly held the 1.16+ ssg world record, and also she is a catgirl. She’s pastel purple, good at the game, and her streams are always very cozy. 

Dav1e(he/him): Davie is the current FSG world record holder, and is also one of the people grinding to get the first sub 5 in that category. He predicted the first sub ten, and is generally a pretty entertaining dude. Also, he was the first person to ever get a sub-8 blind.  

Tekniik(he/him): Tekniik is so underrated, I love his streams. Fun fact, he’s bilingual, won Speedrun Showdown with Feinberg, and spends a lot of time on stream practicing nether portals. He doesn’t have a sub 15 yet but I believe. (Update: He got a 12:40)

Fulham(he/him): Fulham is British, and also organizes and hosts my beloved HBG Jackbox streams. He’s an amazing commentator during tournaments and his team made second place during Relay Cup. After blinding into the stronghold, and needing to find the library for beds, Fulham has become an outspoken advocate for frontloading wood.

Nerdi(he/him): Nerdi owns the HBG discord server, and organized Speedrun Showdown, my favorite speedrun tournament by far. He gets memed on a lot for being not the best at mechanics and decision-making but he’s actually a great runner and really cool guy. 

EleventyBillion(he/him): Eleventy doesn’t have a twitter, nor does he stream very often. Still, when I do watch him he has some quality streams, also I believe he’s developed a few bastion routes and other speedrun tech. 

SmallAnt(he/him): SmallAnt is was the newest member to HBG, though he's been speedrunning Minecraft for quite a few months now and even participated in Speedrun Showdown back in January/February of this year. Outside of MCSR, he's also speedran Legend of Zelda and makes challenge videos for Mario and Pokemon.

Draconix(he/they): Draconix is from New Zealand, and was the fastest person to beat Fundy's Impossible Difficulty mod- in 36 minutes! They like to stream exclusively when I'm asleep, but other than that he seems lovely.

Punz(he/him): Punz is a member of the Dream SMP, has a pb of 19:26, and is an MCC participant with 1 win and 3 dodgebolt appearances. He also made semi-finals of Speedrun Showdown with Antfrost! People have been hoping for Punz to join HBG for a long time, so we're all really excited to have him here.

day 15

at this time all I can do is to help people with their emotions; I hope I’ve helped them out :))

day 51

LIZARDS you bastards

I found your blog today so I'm sorry if this is something that you don't like to answer so feel free to ignore this ask! /gen

But I wanted to start watching fruit and illumina and I know nothing about them so do you have any suggestions from where to start? Like specific things I need to know, specific videos/streams for me to watch? Or just really starting watching them and seeing random videos and streams is the best thing to do?

hi anon! welcome!! let's dive in

Channels:

Youtube:

IlluminaHD (main), Illuminother (second), IlluminaVODs (VODs)

Fruitberries (main), Fruitberries VODs (VODs, fanrun, but fruit doesn't save his vods so this is what we got)

Twitch:

illumina1337 (main), illuminomic (alt/no mic)

fruitberries (main), grianstanaccount (alt)

Illumina's main youtube has mostly speedrunning highlights and notable runs (former world records). Fruit's youtube has mostly trapping, UHC, and parkour gauntlet videos.

Illumina's most popular video (11M views): How I Got the All Advancements Speedrun Record ft Dream

Fruit's most popular video (16M views): minecraft bruh moments

Content:

MCC:

I don't really know what you're interested in exactly or how you came upon fruitninja, but MCC is a safe bet (since a lot of people find new mcyt creators that way)

Here are my recommended MCC povs:

MCC 17 (Fruitninja + Simmers): Illumina's VOD, Fruit's VOD

MCC 13 (Illumina on Teal Turkeys with Krinios, Eret, Punz): Illumina's VOD, Illumina's highlights video

MCC 9 (Fruit on Blue Bats with False, Ren, HBomb): Fruit's VOD, Fruit's highlights video

MCC Pride (Illumina on Aqua Axolotls with Kreek, Ryguy, Gizzy): Illumina's VOD

MCC 15 (Illumina on Purple Pandas with Ren, False, and Martyn): Illumina's VOD, Illumina's highlights video

MCC 16 (Fruit on Purple Pandas with Scott, Joel, Grian): Fruit's VOD

Speedrun Showdown:

In Jan/Feb of 2020 Fruitninja teamed up in an event called Speedrun Showdown, where they kicked ass on the first round and got demolished on the second round

Round 1 (Fruitninja vs. Dani & Fireworkss)

Round 2 (Fruitninja vs. Tek & Feinberg)

1 Mouse 1 Keyboard stream:

Fruit and Illumina did a hypixel/MCC practice stream where Fruit controlled the mouse and Illumina controlled the keyboard that can be found here (one of my personal comfort streams)

for more fruitninja roommates moments/clips without watching hours of vods check out my #fruitninja roommates arc tag on my blog

Minecraft Manhunt:

Fruit and Illumina did a manhunt together where they each did a round of being the hunter/runner

Duo Runs:

Fruit and Illumina used to do 1.14 duo runs together

1.14 FWR Duo run in 26:02: Fruit POV, Illumina POV

1.14 FWR Duo run in 23:46: Illumina POV

Relay Cup:

In April 2021, Fruit, Illumina, and Pete (Petezahutt) teamed together for Relay Cup, a speedrunning tournament, but they were eliminated fairly early on in the tourney. They named their team the Three MuskS-Tiers. (for more mcsr tourney info/updates, check out @mcsr--updates).

Round 1 (Three MuskS-Tiers vs. Serious Dedication)

Round 2 (Three MuskS-Tiers vs. TheLegend27)

Round 3 (Three MuskS-Tiers vs. How Did We Get Here?)

Twitch Rivals/MCU:

Fruit and Illumina have teamed up in Twitch Rivals on multiple occasions:

Aug 2020 (Fruitninja + AntVenom, CaptainSparklez)

Oct 2020 (Fruitninja + Quig, Jojo, Tapl, Krtzyy, irushtheworld, Sapnap)

Nov 2020 (Fruitninja + AntVenom, CaptainSparklez)

And in MCU (Minecraft Ultimate) once:

Oct 2020 (Fruitninja + Masayoshi, QuarterJade)

Miscellaneous:

Illumina took over Fruit's setup once and played Ace Race and dueled Tapl in Battle Box in this stream (link starts at timestamp where Illumina joins)

I made a video compiling the Fruitninja moments (crumbs) in MCC 12 and 13 here

I also made a video of all POVs during Round 1 of HITW in MCC 17 (where fruitninja won together)

I also have a masterpost of my personal favorite moments from MCC 17 (with clip links) here

Speedrunning: my friend @cat-26 wrote a really cool crash course post giving a quick rundown an all you need to know

HBG: (house builder gang, a group Fruitninja is a part of), my friend @s3er has a great guide about them here

Fandom (on tumblr):

I have a reclist of fruitninja blogs you can find here (although it is a bit outdated because i've met so many new cool people since i made that list)

I also created a discord server for fruitninjablr as well where you can also get to know lots of cool people and come brainrot with us (shoutout @genderfluidtechnoblade for setting up a LOT of it): https://discord.gg/WhrSPc5a3m

*slime sounds*

They arrived !

feeling like shit just want them back

you forget yourself

day 9 part 2:

I neede sleeeep