Then crying with every other fan as we all signed off the channel for good. I remember watching the last stream on my xbox, then taking my phone with me to the bathroom while I showered, and into the kitchen while I grabbed whatever quick food I could get, even had to run to the store real quick and brought my phone in as well and plugged in my headphones cause I didn’t want to miss a second.ĭrawing fanart like a rabid animal so I could have something after. If I didn’t act like the “fuck up who didn’t put in any effort” people told me I was. A prize if I got though the day and didn’t ignore the lesson. I would see the notif while in class and get excited and fight the urge to watch bits of it then and there cause it was like a fucking treat for me. I would come home from Uni every day and just plop down and immediately watch the newest Unus Annus video. Really sank in how much Unus Annus meant to me, that something I only knew for a year, would hit me the same way something I’ve held onto for 23 years would. Goofy shit and things you miss doing with them. One of those smiles you get when you watch vids of you and your family when you were younger. Didn’t realize almost 2 hours had passed, 5 in the morning, and I had a smile on my face the entire time. The real stuff that people passed over in turn to save the most gut busting stuff.Īll of its good but I kept missing the whole thing you know? And it’s been a rough couple of years for sure, and it’s getting more and more stressful out there and just so damn hard to live life without fighting to pay for your existence so I remembered this place existed.Ĭlicking that first video, seeing it in full, then watching the next and the next.

The guys bonding and slowly going from “mark getting annoyed at ethan and ethan trying alittle to hard for attention to them mellowing out and being completely comfortable with each other’s presence”. But I always kept thinking about the clips that hit home to me, like mark speaking to the therapist about why he’s so hard on his past self. For almost 2 years I held off and just watched the clips and compilations.īut it’s always the same couple clips, the funniest bits or the most out of pocket stuff. A few months later he presented the plans for a giant labyrinth to hold the half-man and half-bull monster, known as the Minotaur, prisoner.I tried so hard to keep true to the original wishes of Mark, Ethan, and Amy. King Minos approached Daedalus to ask if he might be able to invent something less pretty but more useful and Daedalus did notĭisappoint. Instead of clocks people kept track of the time using sundials.Īnd so, the tiny mechanical bird that chirped when the sun rose – given by Daedalus to the newborn princess toĬelebrate her birth - became the talk of everyone in the land. Instead of cars, people got from place to place by walking or if they were wealthy by riding on a horse or People learned what was new in the land by listening to the gossip at the local inn. Now this was a very long time ago – and in this ancient time there were no televisions or cars or clocks. Inventor of strange and wonderful mechanical creations. Daedalus was just an ordinary man, except for one special talent – he was an On the island of Crete during the age of King Minos, there lived a man named Daedalus and his young son Icarus. © written and illustrated by Leanne Guenther DLTK's Countries and Cultures - Greek Mythology

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