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According to Grian’s first Hermitcraft episode, he was still active and made videos on the Evo SMP. So let me present this:
The Watchers took Grian and made him into a Watcher but before they begun training him they realised that he was a hermit and gave up on him
(Simply because the hermits can be scary when they want to).
When he came back to the Hermitcraft server he didn’t trust anyone (except Mumbo) enough to tell them what happened (because why would a bunch of eldritch creatures be scared of a community full of redstoners and builders?).
Grian still kept in contact with everyone on Evo but didn’t come on the server in case the Watchers changed their minds.
I have no idea how to fit Third/Last Life into this but they could both just be a fun killing game that they decided to play. The voice that Martyn was hearing was actually just Grian pulling a really mean prank. I’d imagine that Grian would confess that it was just him and that they’d have a serious and angsty talk about the Watchers.
Watchers are confirmed long.
EDIT: Is it just me or is the Listener symbol to the right of the Watcher?
Grian: Alright Pix... We know that you’ll be watching us.
I know this is in reference to Hermit Recap but now I’m thinking that Pixlriffs is a watcher and his job is to view events in Hermitcraft and archive them for the other Watchers.
A wild Lizzie, a wild Scott, older drawing of Lizzie, and my midnight notes of reading Call of the Crow. Oh yeah, and a watcher mask.
Scott finding out Grian is a Watcher
Idk man Scott conceptually is incredible lore wise and he feels so under-utilised in most things.
Anyway I think I’ve finally settled on a Grian design I like so I can finally keep him more consistent :’)
I feel like at this point I might make this a more developed AU, mainly cause I’d like to branch into exploring other characters as well as these two.
I’ve really struggled to do anything directly watcher related cause I felt like no matter how I drew them they didn’t look right but I’m quite happy with this concept. I mainly didn’t want them to just look like people. I feel like they need that creature aspect to really sell the kind of beings they are in my mind while still having a more humanoid shape. Just happy I can actually draw these guys in a more consistent way.
I think Scott and Grian are so good character wise because they’re both trying to do their best to protect people but they have different levels of awareness of the full situation so they try to help in different ways because of that??? I think they’re neat
Also I just passed the first year of my physics degree so I’m winning actually
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What working on a "normal" HC fic looks like!
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I just realized posting this that, while five years fits nicely between 13 and 18, five years does NOT fit in between 17 and 18, meaning the timeline is not at all as it is in real life except...
Bro nvm all of that, cause-- NO IM RIGHT. TIMELINES GONE.
Wrong again, five years fits between 2013 and 2018. I'm gonna stop asking questions now. It's done, we're done.
watcher speaker and listener
Designs mainly for @life-winners-liveblog
but I also will use the designs whenever I draw them
This is for my Violet Rage AU I'm writing on A03. I've never been good at comic strips though and I actually imagined this as an animation, but I also suck at that so . . . this is what I made instead. It's not full effort but it's something.
(Any good comic artists/animators are welcome to redo this as long as they direct credit back to me. I would literally sing with joy if someone made something good out of this messy sketch-work.)
(Read from left to right, top to bottom.)
I had it in my head that the two panels, the ones where Martyn's cloak (that is purely symbolic and not physically present) would shift colors, would be a moment of dead silence as things seemed to go into slow motion as Martyn lunges for Scott, and then there would be a cloth snapping noise, his cloak would flare and change color and Martyn's lung would be complete, his sword embedding itself into Martyn's stomach. Along with the cloak change the sky would change color as well and the green would leach itself from the world.
My comic-making skills don't really do the concept justice, but this is the closest thing I got to what I had imagined in my head. If it was an animatic, I feel like Heilung music would definitely be playing in the background.
Lore for Violet Rage AU
Dropping some facts relevant to this Limited Life AU I'm writing. (An AU story revolving around the concept of Corrupt!Martyn.)
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To create another Listener, someone who is already a Listener must hug a regular player and the hug must be willingly reciprocated. (Of course, this won't work for any random hug. The Listener has to have intent and to be purposeful in their desire to turn the other person into one of them.)
I like this idea because it's a complete antithesis to the Watcher's controlling and cruel nature. They feed off the despair and suffering of players, while Listeners actively encourage player prosperity and happiness.
A hug felt like a fitting way to do a power transfer.
Violet Rage AU on A03
So… when did pearl become a watcher? I’ve just been consuming the content and it dawned on me that it’s pretty dorky accepted and I have no clue where it came form????
Just a comic "Ship" :3
Some of my Dark Deception oc's
The Genesis 6 Oracle: The Birth of the Gods
By Independent Scholar and Goodreads Author Eli Kittim 🎓📚
The Sons of God Are Not Extraterrestrials: They Are Supernatural Spirits
Erich von Däniken is one of the first figures to popularize the idea that extraterrestrials visited Earth a long time ago and influenced human civilization. And, since then, many authors have picked up this idea and continued to expand on it, using mythologies from around the world, including the Bible. For example, Tim Alberino, Graham Hancock, and many other such writers——who also promote theories on alternative history and ancient civilizations——believe that there was an advanced alien civilization on earth, with very advanced technology, that was wiped out by a comet impact c. 12,900 to 11,700 years ago (aka “the younger dryas impact”).
However, it is important to note that mainstream science refutes the ancient alien-civilization theory. Books on these topics are generally in the realm of science-fiction, pseudoarchaeology, pseudohistory, and pseudoscience. These writings have not undergone rigorous scholarly peer review and have not been published in any credible academic or Biblical journals.
As regards the Scriptures, ancient astronaut theorists typically try to link alien civilizations and extraterrestrials to the Genesis 6 account, when “the sons of God” (called the “watchers” in the apocryphal book of Enoch) had supposed “sexual relations” with human women, whose offspring were said to be giants, the so-called “Nephilim” (cf. Jude 1.6). But this is reading too much into the Biblical story. The Bible is neither a sci‑fi novel, nor a historical treatise. It is a book about an invisible spiritual or metaphysical reality that interacts with our own.
What is more, the Bible has many different literary genres, such as prophecy, poetry, wisdom, parable, apocalyptic, narrative, and history. It is obviously inappropriate to interpret poetry or parable in the same way that we would interpret history because that would ultimately lead to logical absurdities. Alas, the history of Biblical interpretation is riddled with exegetes who have erroneously tried to force **metaphors** into a **literal interpretation,** which of course cannot be done without creating ridiculous effects that you only encounter in sci-fi films. This view creates logical absurdities, such as talking animals, trees of immortality that are guarded by aliens with lightsabers, fruits literally producing evil after consumption, people turning into pillars of salt, mythological beasts with multiple heads that are populating our planet, and the like. Not only does this eisegesis defy the actual interpretation that is given by scripture itself, but it also leads to complete and utter nonsense.
Bible Translations Versus The Hebrew Text
Now if we turn our attention to the original Hebrew text, nothing in the Genesis 6 narrative suggests an advanced alien civilization of extraterrestrials, nor can one adduce that the Genesis 6 narrative should be taken literally as a historical account. Unfortunately, some English Bible versions have mistranslated certain words by inserting their own *theological interpretations* that are not found in the original Hebrew text. For example, The New American Bible renders Genesis 6.4 as follows:
the sons of God had intercourse with the
daughters of human beings.
The NET Bible similarly says:
the sons of God were having sexual
relations with the daughters of humankind.
The New Living Translation also adds words and images that are not found in the original text:
the sons of God had intercourse with
women.
These are not only unfaithful translations of the original Hebrew text, but they are also bad interpretations that suggest interbreeding between spirits and mortals. Biologically, people can interbreed with one another, but people cannot interbreed with animals or spirits. This, then, shows a fundamental hermeneutical error in trying to understand Genesis 6 in purely physical, biological, or historical terms. According to Wikipedia:
Sons of God (Hebrew: בְנֵי־הָאֱלֹהִים,
romanized: Bənē hāʾĔlōhīm, literally: "sons
of the Elohim") is a phrase used in the
Tanakh or Old Testament and in Christian
Apocrypha. The phrase is also used in
Kabbalah where bene elohim are part of
different Jewish angelic hierarchies.
So, the sons of god (οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ LXX) are spirits (see Ps. 82), while the daughters of men are human beings. The Genesis 6.2 account of the sons of god——who supposedly marry the daughters of men——is an allusion to a “spiritual marriage,” not a physical one, as when a *spiritual rebirth* in God (Jn 3.5-7) is like being married to God. That’s why the believers in Christ are said to be the bride of Christ (see 2 Cor 11.2)! Similarly, Genesis 6.2 is alluding to “supernatural beings“ (the so-called “fallen ones”) who entered women and united themselves to them in spirit, thus giving them a sort of Faustian *spiritual rebirth.* In Genesis 6.4, Young’s Literal Translation reads thusly:
The fallen ones were in the earth in those
days, and even afterwards when sons of
God come in unto daughters of men, and
they have borne to them -- they are the
heroes, who, from of old, are the men of
name.
It is, essentially, a *theological* (not a historical) account that tries to explain the origins of evil and how wickedness multiplied on earth (Gen. 6.5):
The LORD saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every
intention of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
The Hebrew word וַיִּקְח֤וּ (way·yiq·ḥū) means “they took” (Gen. 6.2). That is to say, the sons of God took נָשִׁ֔ים (nā·šîm) “wives” or “women” (Gen 6.2) in the *spiritual* sense of inhabiting or possessing them. The language of Genesis 6 suggests that they entered them. In Gen. 6.4, the Hebrew term יָבֹ֜אוּ (yā·ḇō·’ū) means “to come in,” or “go in.” But it is not explicitly referring to sexual intercourse, as most people mistakenly assume. Moreover, the Hebrew text in Gen. 6.4 doesn’t actually say that the earthly women bore human children to the sons of God. The text uses the term וְיָלְד֖וּ (wə·yā·lə·ḏū), which means “bore” or “brought forth, but it doesn’t say “children” per se. Readers often assume that the “mighty men … of old” were the “human children” that the mortal women supposedly bore.
But we must be very careful, here, because that’s not exactly what the text is saying. Notice that the *union* between the sons of god and the mortal women is initially spiritual, not biological. This spiritual union ultimately brought forth הַגִּבֹּרִ֛ים (hag·gib·bō·rîm) “the mighty” אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) “who” [were] מֵעוֹלָ֖ם (mê·‘ō·w·lām) “from ancient times” or “from eternity.” These were אַנְשֵׁ֥י (’an·šê) “men” הַשֵּֽׁם׃ (haš·šêm) of “the NAME” of God (Gen. 6.4). So, this spiritual union between spirits and mortals eventually *brought forth* embodied ancient spirits. These are obviously wicked spirits that deliberately possess human women for the purpose of giving birth to hybrids, such as the “Nephilim” or the so-called “giants.”
But, as I will demonstrate, we should not view these types of accounts as referring to a race of multiple giants but rather to the arrival of the gods, the superpowerful “giants that were from of old, the Heroes of fame” (Gen. 6.4). Therefore, even though this spiritual union will eventually give birth to an evil offspring in human history, the text is nevertheless trying to show the backstory to this event, namely, that what gave rise to it is a spiritual union, not a physical one!
The Births of Two Giants: The Virgin Birth and the Birth of the Antichrist
In fact, Genesis 6 sounds like a *reversal* of the virgin birth theme in which the Spirit of God impregnates a daughter of men, who then gives birth to a *giant,* a spirit from everlasting, namely, to God himself! So, while the gospels *prophesy* about the union of God’s Spirit with a mortal woman, bringing forth an everlasting spirit of God into the world of time and space, Genesis 6 seems to be *prophesying* about the same type of union, but this time between a dark spirit and a woman, bringing forth another ancient spirit, a man of renown, known as the Antichrist, whom the New Testament calls “the son of perdition,” “who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship” (2 Thess. 2.4), and “whose coming is after the working of Satan” (2 Thess. 2.9)!
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 10 (p. 225) of my book, “The Little Book of Revelation”:
The Bible affirms that ‘there were giants on
the earth in those days’! (Gen. 6:4, ‘New
King James’). These figures, which are
beyond human description, represent the
gods that have come down upon the earth
in the form of ‘Christ’ and ‘antichrist,’ to
whom scripture devotes a brief but
noteworthy depiction: ‘the mighty men who
were of old, men of renown’ (Gen 6:4).
Interestingly enough, in the apocryphal ancient text known as the Gospel of Peter, Jesus is said to be resurrected as a *Giant*! This is also alluded to in Rev 1.7:
Behold, He [Christ] is coming with the
clouds, and every eye will see Him.
From an eschatological perspective, the *giant Jesus* coming out of the tomb, in the Gospel of Peter (vv. 38-40), seems to be a *prophecy* which indicates that he will take the form of a *giant* at the end of days! A 6-foot man in the sky obviously cannot be seen by anyone, whereas a *giant* Jesus can be observed from many miles away, thus lending credence to the apocalyptic description in Rev. 1.7. Of all the end-time depictions of Christ, this is probably the most accurate portrayal because it seems to parallel many Biblical passages. For instance, it seems to fit with the *giant* Pauline Christ who will ultimately destroy the Antichrist “with the breath of his mouth” (2 Thess. 2.8). It’s also congruent with another Old Testament verse in which the Lord appears as a *colossal figure* who flies “Like birds” in order to “protect and deliver” Jerusalem (Isa. 31.5). Elsewhere, only a great figure of *immense proportion* can annihilate a giant dragon called Leviathan (Isa. 27.1 cf. Job 41.1; Ps 74.14). That’s precisely why we are told that “There were giants in the earth in those days” (Gen. 6.4). Which days? All the *prophecies* seem to converge on the end of days.
The exodus account is no different. If we compare the series of judgments that Moses inflicted upon “Egypt” to the final judgments in the Book of Revelation, we’ll notice that both descriptions appear to exhibit identical events taking place (see e.g. Ex. 10.1–20 [cf. Rev. 9.3]; Ex. 9.13–35 [cf. Rev. 16.21]; Ex. 9.1-7 [cf. Rev 6.8]; Ex. 7.14–24 [cf. Rev. 8.8; 16.3-4]; Ex. 7.25–8.15 [cf. Rev. 16.13]; Ex. 9.8–12 [cf. Rev. 16.2]; Ex. 10.21–29 [cf. Rev. 16.10])!
Why does Lk 17.30 compare Noah’s flood to the coming of Christ during the day of the Lord? Probably because these earlier Biblical narratives were trying to convey the same apocalyptic messages that we find in the New Testament. Moreover, the *giant* resurrected Jesus in the Gospel of Peter is the only version that seems to accurately portray the image of a towering figure on a white horse who “judges and makes war” (Rev. 19.11), and who can actually be seen from the earth (Rev. 1.7). By comparison, an average human being cannot possibly be seen “coming with the clouds of heaven” (cf. Dan. 7.13-14).
Similarly, the Antichrist also seems to be depicted as a *giant* who is incarnated on earth at the end of days! Case in point. In Revelation 9, the king of the locusts is likened to “a star that had fallen from heaven” to earth in the last days and who turns out to be a powerful figure that holds “the key to the … bottomless pit.” Later on in the chapter, he’s identified as the king of the locusts, “the angel of the bottomless pit” whose “name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek … Apollyon,” meaning “destroyer” (i.e. Antichrist)!
Similar to Genesis 6, there are many prophecies in the New Testament that allude to the future incarnation of Antichrist on earth. For example, the author of Luke 10.18 writes:
I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
This same event——when the sons of god will come down to earth——is *prophesied* to take place at *the end of days* in Revelation 12.9:
And the great dragon was thrown down, the
serpent of old who is called the devil and
Satan, who deceives the whole world; he
was thrown down to the earth, and his
angels were thrown down with him.
Revelation 12.9 is a remarkably similar account of *the sons of god* that we find in Genesis 6! What is more, the future Antichrist will eventually be resurrected from the dead (see Rev 13.3, 14). And it appears that he, too, will be resurrected as a *giant,* causing people to marvel. Rev. 13.3-4 says:
I saw one of his heads as if it had been
fatally wounded, and his fatal wound was
healed. And the whole earth was amazed
and followed after the beast; they
worshiped the dragon because he gave his
authority to the beast; and they worshiped
the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast,
and who is able to wage war with him?’
Thus, Genesis 6, which talks about the giants, doesn’t appear to be historical, but rather prophetic! On the whole, the Bible is pointing to the messianic age——and specifically to the births of Christ and Antichrist——at the time of the end, just prior to the great and terrible day of the lord. Accordingly, Matthew 24.37 tells us that the days of Noah were *types* of the coming apocalypse:
For the coming of the Son of Man will be
just like the days of Noah.
It is also worth noting that Daniel 9.26 referred to the coming destruction as an eschatological flood:
And its end will come with a flood.
In stark contrast to what the authors on ancient civilizations are saying, the pivotal episode in human history concerning the final battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness is in the future, not in the past. That’s precisely why the Great War between Christ and Antichrist will take place at the end of time! In the context of the end-times, Revelation 12.7 reads:
And there was war in heaven, Michael and
his angels waging war with the dragon. The
dragon and his angels waged war.
Conclusion
Authors on ancient civilizations typically talk about faraway planets, spaceships, and extraterrestrials. They usually don’t provide any credible references, aside from their literary fantasies and wild imaginations, and hence their claims appear to be unfounded. In addition, without any training whatsoever on biblical languages, textual criticism, or exegesis, they nevertheless offer outrageous interpretations based on a superficial reading of the Bible. Unbeknownst to them, many of the Old Testament stories are actually *types* that point to the *anti-types* (or fulfillments) in prophetic literature. Contrary to fundamentalists who read scripture literally, as if Noah’s flood literally happened, a close interpretation of the Bible reveals that the so-called “antediluvian” narrative of Genesis 6 is actually an apocalyptic oracle about the coming destruction during the day of the Lord in the end-times (2 Pet. 3.10)! We also know this because mainstream interdisciplinary science categorically rejects the notion of a global flood in earth’s history. According to Wikipedia:
Proponents of flood geology hold to a literal
reading of Genesis 6–9 and view its
passages as historically accurate; they use
the Bible’s internal chronology to place the
Genesis flood and the story of Noah’s Ark
within the last five thousand years.
Scientific analysis has refuted the key
tenets of flood geology. Flood geology
contradicts the scientific consensus in
geology, stratigraphy, geophysics, physics,
paleontology, biology, anthropology, and
archaeology. Modern geology, its sub-
disciplines and other scientific disciplines
utilize the scientific method. In contrast,
flood geology does not adhere to the
scientific method, making it a
pseudoscience.
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DARKSIDERS INKTOBER 2022: The Completed series
Thanks to everyone for participating during this year's Darksiders themed Inktober! It was a lot of fun to see all of your artwork and takes on the different topics. You're all amazing, and thank you as well for the lovely tags, the reblogs and the likes :D
Thanks to @imagine-darksiders for allowing me to post this year's prompt
Happy Halloween everyone! 🎃💀
The thing about Players is they don’t die: never permanently. It’s what makes them Players; a code that works the power of their own deaths around in a reviving loop. The longer the life, the more experienced, the more power is generated upon the death. And of that energy, only a fraction goes towards reviving the Player. The rest returns to the world, keeps it healthy and stable. Players don’t die, but they do. They are creatures of life.
The thing about Watchers is they are master of death. They take from the power left over from Player death, they disrupt the cycle. This keeps worlds from flourishing from Player death; This keeps worlds mundane. The thing about Watchers is that if they chose to, they could take more. They could take every ounce of energy from a death, could leave the world to rot and the Player to oblivion. They could. They have. Watchers do not respawn, but they’ve stolen enough power that death might never find them.
Ya know, Dream’s character kinda reminds me of the Watchers from a Minecraft series called “Minecraft Evolution SMP”. I won’t explain it here but go check out @/give-grian-rights I bet a lot of you already follow them but still, if you’re not please do, they are really cool and can explain Evolutions and the Watches in more detail and better than I ever could.
But to make a long story short, the Watchers are these beings that watch over the players or “evolutionist” and help them move from one version of Minecraft to the next. However the Watchers would also punish the evolutionist if they did something that went against them (like when Grian went against their instructions and took more than he should have) or upset them ( InTheLittleWood replacing Taurtis as the mayor without an actually election). This is where I draw the parallel between them and Dream: both will punish people if they don't listen to their instructions.
However that's where the similarities end. Because while both parties punished people when they didn’t listen to their instructions, when it comes to the Watchers their punishments were always fitting of the 'crime' and the evolutionist were even given a chance to make up for it. Grian had obsidian placed over all his chests for taking more than he should have when told he should only take stuff from one chest, and then was given the chance to make up for it by burning something, that at the time he desperately wanted. InTheLittleWood made himself mayor after Taurtis disappeared, but the watchers didn't like the idea of him, in their words “wearing a false crown” on his head and in response blew up the mayor’s office as it was a more serious ‘crime’. When it comes to Dream and his punishments however, he doesn’t seem to care what the crime was, he just doles out punishments fitting of the crime or not.
That’s all I really have to say, it was just something I noticed and I bet someone else noticed it long before me but I still wanted to write about it. I still don’t know how to end on of these rambles soooo... bye?
(Really though go check out @/give-grian-rights they can give a better explanation of Evo and the Watchers. I won’t @ them directly cause I don’t want to bother them, but they make some really interesting posts and are pretty cool)
Animatic based on my secret life fanfic, Ad Astra <3