Personal Analyses
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A Personal Analysis of Star Wars by Adrasteia (AquaEclipse)
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Feb 2026
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A selection of my Tumblr musings, essays, and commentaries on @eldritchdemigodskywalkers, ft. this garbage fire of a fandom and some very dear mutuals and acquaintances.
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- Part 4 of Personal Analyses
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on anthropological grief by Orithyia (AquaEclipse)
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
20 Apr 2026
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In each season of the Life series, players on a Minecraft survival multiplayer server are given a certain number of lives and must fight to the death to be the last one standing, with a player's final death signifying their elimination from the season. As a result, rarely does a character experience grief for another's death in the series unless it is their final death. Here, the effects of the first ever final death in the series is examined as the most standout example of grief and mourning in the entire Life series.
Alternatively: An anthropological analysis of Scott Smajor's grief in widowhood in 3rd Life.
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- Part 5 of Personal Analyses
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on humour in the life series by Orithyia (AquaEclipse)
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
21 Apr 2026
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A bit, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is "a usually short theatrical routine" (n.d.), and has been extended to refer to "a joke, usually amongst a select group of people, played with some sincerity" (Rodrigues, 2014). As they are intended as comical performances, bits are, by nature, intended to flout Grice's Cooperative Principle and four maxims (1975) by conjuring an additional humorous conversational implicature behind the discourse with the intention of eliciting mirth (Andresen, 2013, 4–5). This essay aims to examine the YouTube video "The BAD BOYS Try To Rhyme In LIMITED LIFE.." (Solidarity Shorts, 2023), an excerpt from the Limited Life SMP YouTube series, itself a season of the Life series, as a case study of how Grice's four maxims may be flouted within a bit, which is further extended as a case study to illustrate the importance of humour in the Life series in general.
Alternatively: Oh, the inherent whimsy of analysing the greater MCYT fandom from a linguistic perspective.
Originally titled: On the Life series and floutings of Grice's Cooperative Principle and four maxims.
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- Part 6 of Personal Analyses