Joe Hills @joehills Twitter profile

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Joe Hills

@joehills

2 years

Just Gomez and Morticia Addams and their daughter, @ZombieCleo

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TinFoilChef was always so friendly and creative that his enthusiasm impacted everyone fortunate enough to play with him. His laugh will echo through the ages.

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I’m not sure how to tell you all, but sadly @tinfoilchef passed away this morning. He will be missed

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This was my favorite part!

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Then we went for a walk in the grounds and got ENGAGED!!!!!

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I’m a citizen of a country struggling to overturn centuries of systematic racism and a participant in my society. I have a degree in US History from @VanderbiltU , where I had the privilege of studying under civil rights leader Rev. James Lawson. I happen to play Minecraft too.

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@GTWScar You’ve got this, Scar. Take things at your own pace.

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2 years

If someone is hinting that they're a new member of HermitCraft for Season 9, they're misleading you. It's a cheap and easy way for them to build hype for their channel and get some extra subs, bits, and tips. It also tells you what kind of person they are.

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2 years

HermitCraft Season 9: the only thin missing is... you.

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2 years

I’ve resigned a moderator of the /r/hermitcraft subreddit. The moderation team there does not and did not work for me. Their words and actions do not reflect my values. Keeping my name in the list of moderators there, even in an honorary sense, was a mistake I have corrected.

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2 years

@GTWScar Get all the rest you need, Scar! We're rooting for you to recover well and fully!

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2 years

Me: I can afford to skip a stream or two today, it’s a holiday! My tire:

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1 year

The best thing about HermitCraft is how quickly things escalate. For example: Impulse: we don't need a real meeting next Thursday? Xisuma: okay, let's have an informal brainstorming session instead. Doc: cool, I'll invite Christopher Paolini. Amazing convo! Thanks, @paolini !

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1 year

Thanks so much to everyone who voted for me or drew amazing fan-art! If you find yourself listless this weekend after such a hype week, make sure to check out the 48-hour charity stream I'm part of at ! @CharityDraw4 goes live Friday at 6pm Central!

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2 years

Me: September 30th to October 1st

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2 years

Hey, @renthedog am I doing this right?

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1 year

It’s Thanksgiving day here in America, so don’t forget to go around the table and say why you’re thankful for @GTWScar . I’ll start: I’m thankful that Scar pops by randomly when I’m streaming, so I have someone funny to bounce ideas off of mid-project. #goodThanksWithScar

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2 years

I keep seeing people who are upset about things being rude to people who are communicating poorly after being upset by similar things. We’re in this together. Please just breathe and be kind.

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1 year

My friend @ZombieCleo is trying to explain "The Milky Bar" kid to me, and it sounds like she's just making up backstory for Jimmy @SolidarityCoUK .

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1 year

My friend @GTWScar has ten times as many nominations than I do, probably because he spends so much time shirtless. Let me rummage through my phone for a second 🧵

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2 years

If you’ve been on the fence about checking out the crossover episodes between #hermitcraft and #empiresSMP because you only know one of the groups, that’s okay, you don’t need to know both! I realized last night that the best way I can explain it is that…

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Y’all are so generous! At the end of the first hour, we’re almost to $200k! Here’s an incentive for you: if we hit $250k by the end of the second hour, I’ll shave my beard on my 8:30pm stream tonight!

Tiltify - Hermitcraft - Gamers Outreach Charity Stream!

Hermitcraft is fundraising for Gamers Outreach Foundation on Tiltify

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@EthoLP Whatever you need when you do have time to play, we got you.

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Shaving stream success! Also, we somehow broke $425k for @GamersOutreach ?! Y’all are so generous!

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10 months

My pal @impulseSV ’s birthday wishes included a warning to “stop tweeting as soon as you start drinking” but I couldn’t pass up a chance for a selfie with the house that inspired my HermitCraft 9 starter home!

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2 years

9yo: I don’t understand why people eat olives. Me: Olives are one of humanity’s earliest cultivated crops and have historic and symbolic significance in many ancient cultures. 9yo: fine, I will try some in my salad tomorrow, but no cheese. Me, internally: how did that work?

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1 year

I need to thank an anonymous Patreon patron for being the first to ever support me at the $500/mo tier, which today granted me my first actual paid vacation day since I went full-time as a self-employed artist. It’s been a wonderful Christmas Day with family. Thank you.

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I think it is valuable to share my struggles with juggling multiple jobs as a single parent while creating art. I've been criticized for opening myself up to parasocial relationships by expressing vulnerability like that, but that feels like a societal problem with vulnerability.

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2 years

@iJevin @xisumavoid Y’all are so much tidier than I am!

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3 years

Parents, don’t freak put if your kids ask for expensive Minecraft creeper chairs! It’s easy to make your own with a craft knife and colorful tape! For personal use only, please do not sell bootleg chairs.

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I just hit a huge milestone designing a giant pinball machine in Minecraft: I've finally got the playfield laid out! I'm calling the game “Deep Field.”

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2 years

@docm77 If only someone could find those entities and remove them! We should have a contest!

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@GTWScar I hope it is isn’t “a better pinball machine than Joe’s.”

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7yo: Daddy, my class call stopped working! Me: *walks over and clicks to rejoin the meeting* Software: *attempting to join* 7yo: I didn’t even touch anything! Software: *suddenly shows a grid of twelve perplexed parents leaning over their kids’ computers* Me: I believe you.

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2 years

Can people who aren't professionals diagnose things like ADHD? Like, if someone tells me I have undiagnosed ADHD, can I just say, "Not anymore, thank you" to end the conversation?

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4 years

I will not stream on any platform owned by Facebook.

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2 years

You don't owe them anything.

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2 years

Woo, I’ve made it! Thanks, Mojang, for inviting me to this week’s Minecraft Virtual Creator Summit and sending me this sweet hat and mug! Finally I can show the world that I am a true virtual creator! And I will gladly sip from the skulls of those who doubted me!

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Me: y’all, I don’t want to be dramatic, but sometimes it feels like American Health Insurance is the devil. My actual insurer: your rates are going up in 2022 from $573/mo to $666/mo. Me: y’all I want to be dramatic now.

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Sean: I think they had these forty years ago. Me: no, those are from the early eighties. Sean: yes, forty years ago.

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2 years

The thing about being a Minecraft server admin is that my word is law, except that no one wrote down what I said and we all remember it differently.

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2 years

Thunder from the storm rolling through Nashville woke me, so I walked around the apartment to make sure everything is unplugged and checked my phone for weather alerts. I was not expecting to find this. Thank you, @docm77 ! You made my night!

Docm77 🐐

@docm77

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Now leave my Shulker alone Joe.Have your own one now. Good night.

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2 years

I hope you have a faNtastic morning!

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2 years

The HermitCraft community is amazing! We passed $250k! I’m driving back from Chicago right now, so although Ren was demanding I shave immediately, it’ll have to wait five hours! Enjoy the rest of the Hermits streams now, and I’ll see y’all at 8:30pm US Central!

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Y’all are so generous! At the end of the first hour, we’re almost to $200k! Here’s an incentive for you: if we hit $250k by the end of the second hour, I’ll shave my beard on my 8:30pm stream tonight!

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4 years

Congrats to ⁦ @renthedog ⁩ on hitting 100k stream followers!

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2 years

Two new cups! Eight new courses! One group of old friends! Join us as Hermits Play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's new courses the day they launch, March 18th! We'll be streaming at 7pm GMT (2pm US Central)!

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2 years

I’m getting really tired of being really tired.

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2 years

Happy 10th anniversary of HermitCraft's launch! It's a big holiday week for a lot of folks, so our decennial festivities will be held later this month—details to come! Thank y'all so much for an amazing decade!

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10 months

Happy birthday, @TheOrionSound

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2 years

If you act like a jerk on the internet today, expect that you will be assumed to be a disinfo or cyberwar troll/bot and immediately blocked. Do not fuck with people right now to be “funny” or “cute” because it will not be taken that way.

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4 years

Here’s a tip for aspiring streamers and YouTubers: Aggressively and loudly ban bigots. If your fanbase overlaps with white supremacists’ fanbases, you become financially dependent on not challenging white supremacy.

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1 year

I won’t be streaming tonight. I tried earlier today to talk through some reflections on today’s tragedy and learned that I lack the energy and focus to meaningfully address such proximate senseless violence while still keeping my cool with nonsense from folks rolling into chat.

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4 years

Me: if you do something 12,000 times, you’ll naturally get good at it! Also me: *tries to fall asleep*

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2 years

The hardest part of making weird YouTube videos is trying to figure out what to write in the description. I'm looking at 26 minutes of footage going live later this week and this box is just taunting me.

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2 years

Going live now to shave the beard in celebration of y’all contributing over $400k to @GamersOutreach today!

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3 years

Poppies are red, Elytra are grey,

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2 years

You might think this is cute, but a cat only does this when it feels a great disturbance in the Force.

GoodTimesWithScar

@GTWScar

2 years

Obi-Jellie-Kenobi

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And possibly a 'g'

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@renthedog Did Scar forget to clean the microwave again after using it for chili?!

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My 9yo has been asking a million questions about mythology since she started reading Rick Riordan books. Last weekend I bought her her first “real” reference book, Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. The conversations we have now that she can look things up herself are so much better.

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2 years

I wanted to take a minute for #InternationalWomenDay to recognize/recommend a few women I admire. First up, @Stressmonstah 's return to #HermitCraft for Season 9 has been so good. From behind-the-scenes brainstorming to recording together, she's a joy!

Hermitcraft Season 9

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Hi, I’m Joe Hills and my next big goal as a self-employed artist is to be able to look at a clock without incredulously yelling the time aloud and cursing.

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4 years

Why do Mincraft players insist on abbreviating “Golden Apples” as “Gapples?” “Aupples.” #fullStop

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2 years

Within an hour today, I heard of a website called AO3 for the first time, found out it is full of folks writing about Elon Musk and Ghislaine Maxwell, and learned that Musk is buying the site for $4.2bn USD.

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2 years

Tomorrow may be a rough day for a lot of folks. Do your best to be patient and kind, because you can’t know who needs it.

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3 months

I apologize to y’all that urgent family responsibilities have called me away from my studio this morning, and I will have to miss my HC stream weekend slot in five minutes. Thanks to @renthedog for organizing the weekend and thanks to @iJevin for agreeing to fill in for me!

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4 years

YouTube comments are a powerful source of joy for me.

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2 years

Y’all aren’t ready for this weekend.

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Dates! They are important, because they allow us to clear our calendars for exciting, nay, MONUMENTAL events. Such as the upcoming Minecraft movie, which finally has one! March 4, 2022. Just around the corner! A few more details here:

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Happy New Year. It’s okay if your goal for this year is just to survive and help the people around you survive. The last few years have been incredibly deadly and we can’t all turn on a dime.

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2 years

Happy Birthday, @iJevin !

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4 years

Imagine that an entertainer intentionally playing Minecraft suboptimally was the worst thing happening right now.

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2 years

When it's the end of an era, it's important to ask how we can each make the new era better.

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1 year

Here's some never-before-seen footage I made for a Kickstarter campaign a few years bacWTF @docm77 JUST KILLED ME WITH AN ANVIL I AM LITERALLY DYING TO SHOW YOU THIS SHIRTLESS FOOTAGE

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@cubfan135 you didn’t seem to understand my theory about the rift being Barney the other day so I drew a picture.

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4 years

Fuck fracking.

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2 years

Photos of my Grian’s Rift pumpkin for those who prefer stills.

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2 years

I'm unable to commit to my usual stream schedule this week, and will not be streaming my usual 8:30pm show tonight.

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2 years

When I hear parents complaining that Trick Or Treating is on a Monday this year, what I hear isn’t that All Hallows Eve should change to always be observed on a weekend, but that the school system should be off on All Hallows Day.

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When you make people who bought multiple copies of your game years ago create distinct Microsoft accounts just to activate separate xbox accounts, you have to ask yourself: "is my corporate strategy making Minecraft better, or Microsoft worse?" This put me off trying Windows 11.

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Deadnaming can be very painful for trans people, so my sister Quinn and I have redacted our first two collaborative albums’ titles and cover art. You can now find them as “Redacted Hills Sings Joe Hills” at the following URLs: 1: 2:

Redacted Hills Sings Joe Hills by

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It’s really frustrating as a single parent that once your kid goes to bed, there’s no one else around to help when you start asking yourself, “how many olives can I fit in my mouth for a tweet… oh, wait… how many olives can I *safely* fit in my mouth?”

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I keep coming back to MineCraft as a horror game. Not because it is scary, or because something can surprise you when you are unwary—but because you can be truly free from constraint if you can survive. What can't we create, once we are survivors? Who can't we help?

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If I'm reading this right, the Mojang devs thought it was too easy for players to pillar away from the new Warden enemy in the snapshots. So as of today, if you try that nonsense, the warden will gape its chest maw and strike you with a sonic spin dash.

Minecraft Snapshot 22w15a

A Minecraft Java Snapshot

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2 years

This is unacceptable. The private health care system in our country is failing a lot of people, and my friend Scar in particular. @RegenceWA , you have failed and are accelerating your own obsolescence.

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I appealed this and got a 3 month extension. They said it would be no problem to get another appeal after Oct through the end of the year. But we just got the news they denied it. This is just what need right now. There are no other specialist in the area. Thanks @RegenceWA

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I hate cancelling my nightly show, but... 1. At least one April Fools prank is already too large a spoiler to avoid on HermitCraft 2. A huge thunderstorm rolling toward me right at show time will require unplugging everything, so no pinball/switch stream instead. Apologies!

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1 year

I heard there's some undesirable ads on twitch, and since I'm not a partner or affiliate, I'm have no control over when they run or what they contain. I strongly recommend installing an ad blocker.

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4 years

Lay your head down and dream.

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2 years

You’re already comfortable watching us hang out with friends at home, and these are episodes about us traveling with those same friends to new lands and meeting new people. If you’re invested in our existing friendships, this is a chance to see them in new & different situations.

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Twitch is blaming lack of user growth for laying off 400 employees—so I just checked and I’m the same height now as when I started using their service. I guess that one’s on me.

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2 years

It has been exciting and surprising to meet the welcoming folks of the Empires server, but it has also been a great excuse to mess around on stream with Xisuma, iJevin, and Cub playing early-game minecraft without HermitCraft’s typical season launch embargo. We never do this!

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2 years

Stream schedule update for tonight: no stream tonight.

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4 years

Thanks for the birthday wishes, y’all! My 1st birthday checklist item is complete: actually sleep in without an alarm. I actually did wake up briefly earlier from light outside. Clock said it was 5:50 and I was *not* surprised I had apparently slept for 17hrs—but it was a.m!?

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2 months

Got a fresh paycheck? Set some of it aside for Gamer's Outreach!

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4 years

Thanks for the amazing support on tonight’s stream! Here’s a few better pics of the new suit!

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1 year

The best part of collaborating with creative folks from all over the world is that their experiences are so different from our own. I’m fortunate for the chance to share a canvas with @docm77 and the rest of the HermitCrafters, because it sparks unexpected avenues of expression!

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I appreciate @joehills He thinks so differently compared to me. It is inspiring.

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1 year

Thanks again for voting for me last round! There were over 60,000 votes cast and I won by less than 500! Super close! The next round has begun just moments ago at:

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1 year

The best thing about tumblr is the talented community of artists who encourage each other toward new heights of excellence. The second-best thing about tumblr is that you can keep buying important blue checkmarks and they stack to the right of your name.

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10 months

Happy birthday to my beautiful betrothed, @BadgerSpanner !

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2 years

Me: my latest HermitCraft episode took ten days to film and hours to edit, I hope people enjoy it! YouTube: Joe recorded this on his phone in one take a decade ago, let’s recommend everyone watch it instead!

A few serious words for ZombieCleo

Help us caption and translate this video on Amara.org: http://www.amara.org/en/v/B1Cb/Filmed on location in Nashville, TN.Map by vechs.Music by Sean Hills.He...

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Twitter is great this morning.

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9yo: *completes signing all but five bags of m&ms for her classmates tomorrow* Daddy, what are you going to do with the extra candy? Me: eat them when you’re at school. 9yo: no, really, what’ll you do with them?! Me: eat them when you’re asleep.

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