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Here's a indulgent Minecraft head cannon I've decided to share with y'all.

So, I was thinking about how to include achievements into Minecraft lore and I had an idea, tattoos. For each achievement a player receives a small tattoo appears somewhere on the player's skin.

For example, you might get a wolf tattoo if you tame five wolves or you can get a wither tattoo for killing the wither. I haven't really thought about what each achievement will look like in tattoo form, but you get the jist.

Once a player gets every achievement, you can notice how all the tattoos fit together, covering the player in everything from peaceful animals to hostile beasts, from swords and pickaxes to apples and flowers. It's a beautiful sight to behold.

If a player wishes to show off, they may decide to wear clothing that carefully displays achievements the player wants to show off and hides any bare skin. It is also common for show offs to hide certain achievements to draw attention to more impressive ones. So, a player might cover up whatever tattoo you get for cow tipper to draw more attention to the ender dragon curled around their arm. Though, most players don't care what achievements are displayed, but they still enjoy unlocking achievements and earning more tattoos.

Do what you will with this head cannon, but I feel like this can make for some pretty fanart.

You ever just realized how lucky you are that you did that weird thing that led to you being friends with the people you are friends with?

you are amazing

there is truly nothing like mcrp with people you have never met irl and probably never will to make you say the wildest shit

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.

Senpai says you’re welcome

something about tsukumo yuma.

something about having every right to hate, to distrust to take revenge, but instead, he chooses to love, to believe to have hope every single time.

something about having a bright, colorful room but instead sleep in a cold, lifeless attic where the artifacts— the very memories of his parents - are stored. something about keeping them close to his heart. something about desperately clinging to the lives of people who are gone

something. about repeating the catchphrase his father taught him. something about letting "kattobingu" become the center of his personality. something about the echo of someone living on in another.

something....about being lonely. something about keeping his sadness close to his heart. something about showing happiness instead. for the sake of others.

something..

do you think it'll all be okay?

yeah. even if it won’t i’ve got people to love in the meantime

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