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  • Swanko shared SSPBL's post
    Public • December 27, 2025, 3:56 pm
    SSPBL post by SSPBL Polls
    Public • December 27, 2025, 2:37 pm

    Semi final polls are here! Swanko, PureNerd GingerPie and bloomng all made fantastic skins for the week. Now it is your turn to go vote in the two polls of the week!

    SSPBL Classic1W5 bloomng vs. GingerPie [​Semi-finals]

    SSPBL Classic1W5 PureNerd vs. Swanko [​Semi-finals]

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  • Swanko shared SSPBL's post
    Public • December 15, 2025, 4:25 am
    SSPBL post by SSPBL Polls
    Public • December 14, 2025, 3:08 pm
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    Polls for week 4 are ready to go! Get you votes in now!
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  • Swanko shared GingerPie's post
    Public • November 29, 2025, 8:37 pm
    GingerPie
    Public • November 29, 2025, 8:28 pm
    I have looked at what I made and no longer do I know what I am.

    The file is open. The face is staring back. Forgive me, but I must tell you what I see. What sees me. It should be nothing. Simple pixels. A stupid Minecraft skin. Something people download and discard like breath. But the face looks back with contempt. A knowing that will not release me. It is not gentle. It is not merciful. It fits too well, like the grave to my body. It filled a space inside me I had sealed off with work and late nights and the blue glow that replaced every human touch, every warmth, every call. What I made is me, confessed in my blood, my truths screaming what my voice was too cowardly to speak. I feel myself shrink around it. I feel my edges blur and dissolve. I feel my body trying to fit into a shape that no longer belongs to anyone. This is my confession. For I have looked into my own work and saw what I have always been. I am terrified of what was there all along, waiting beneath the surface.

    There is a kind of magnitude that leaves you small, a feeling too large for the mind to hold without trembling. It is the rush of standing at the lip of an abyss and feeling both pulled downward and lifted beyond yourself, suspended between terror and awe. That is what Bart did to me. It woke something that is not simply fear but the vertigo of being seen too clearly, of having excavated something from inside myself that I can never put back. The work contains more than I can contain. It asked me what I had been avoiding. It demanded an answer I could not give because I had already become the answer.

    I am terrified because I feel I have already created something I cannot create again. The peak is behind me and all that remains is the long descent into hollow repetition. I am terrified that in trying to recapture this, I will only carve myself emptier for diminishing returns.

    I traded everything. Meals. Health. Voices on the phone that eventually stopped calling. I told myself one more edit would fill the hollow. It never did. Each revision only dug deeper.

    Now I have missed my own life while trying to perfect its reflection.

    When I look at Bart now, I see how close I came to becoming this single expression, how easily my entire existence could be folded into a screen, compressed into something that can be downloaded and discarded. I see the person who could build such a mirror and then stand and stare until the reflection becomes the only truth, until the real face rots away behind the glass. I am terrified of that person. I am terrified because I am that person.

    I have preserved myself in the act of rotting, vanishing, preserved the exact moment of my own erasure. I cannot look away from it. This is not art that decorates rooms. This is an inner cry that has escaped its cage, and I am afraid of what it knows about me, afraid of what it reveals to anyone who looks closely enough.

    This is a confession before whatever watches us in our loneliest hours. This is my body unveiled before judgment, raw and exposed and utterly human. I am standing at the edge, and I am choosing to step back instead of falling forward into the abyss that has been widening beneath me with every pixel placed.

    So I am going home. Returning to my family out of the animal necessity of survival. I need rooms that knows me not for me. I need hands that touch my unedited pauses, voices that know my silences, faces that exist without my touch. I need to remember the small, stubborn reasons I started making anything at all, before making became a way to outrun myself, before craft became camouflage for fear. I choose repair. I choose putting myself back together. When the work and I can meet without one of us flinching, when I can look at what I've made without feeling my life drain into it, I will return.

    Maybe I will return changed. Maybe the work will be different. For now, I will try to come back whole.

    Shout out black homer.
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  • Swanko shared SSPBL's post
    Public • November 23, 2025, 3:31 am
    SSPBL post by Zitzabis
    Public • November 22, 2025, 9:30 pm
    📢 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Week 2 Deadline Extended!
    We are rolling out the brand-new Redemption Pool & Star Queue system, but since this information is being released later than we would like during Week 2, we want to give everyone a fair chance to participate.

    Because of this, we are extending the Week 2 deadline. For those in the USA, this now falls on Thanksgiving day. Our hope is that you are already nearly finished with your skin anyway and this will not conflict with holiday plans. If it does, please inform the SSPBL team as soon as possible!!!

    🕒 New Week 2 Deadline:
    November 27, 2025 @ 11:59 PM UTC


    🎉 www.SSPBL.org is Now Live! 🎉

    We’re excited to officially launch SSPBL.org, a new website for organizing and presenting SSPBL in a clearer, more structured way. Made by our very own Zitzabis.

    This group page will stay active, but the website gives players and organizers a much easier way to follow the season.
    Instead of digging through wall posts and threads, everything is now neatly collected in one place.

    Here’s what the site offers:
    • A clean timeline of the entire season
    • Easy-to-read matchup pages with direct links to polls
    • A visible section showing active polls so you don't miss one
    • Auto-updating bracket visuals for each round
    • An interactive bracket that allows you to click names to see their skins and poll threads


    ⭐ The Redemption Pool & Star Queue

    The biggest addition made possible by the website is a new redemption system that encourages consistency and keeps more players involved each week.
    • Submit a skin every week to stay eligible!
    • You never know when you might get added to the redemption pool. To secure a chance to rejoin the bracket, we encourage you to keep making skins every week!
      (This is optional. If you are done for the season, that's ok.)

    • Redemption Pool = close losses from the previous week.
    • Submitting a skin while in the Pool can earn you stars.

    • Star Queue = a priority line based on how many stars you’ve earned.
    • Skipping a week removes you from the Star Queue and resets your stars.

    • Redemption Pool resets weekly; stars only reset if you skip.
    This system rewards reliability, gives more players a chance to step in as replacements, and adds a fun new layer of strategy to the season.

    Those who earned stars but we didn't need them as a replacement, will still get honorable mentions at the end of the season.

    Redemption lists and star queue information is all displayed on the website!

    Full explanation and strategy guide:
    https://sspbl.org/guide#strategy-guide


    Still have questions?
    Please make a guest book post, or PM Zitzabis with your questions. This new system might sound complicated but for most people, all you need to worry about is continuing to enjoy each week's palette and trying to make a skin with it. We'll take care of the rest. :)

    This website is still new and there may be bugs. If you see a bug, please inform Zitzabis as soon as possible!
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  • Swanko shared SSPBL's post
    Public • November 9, 2025, 5:53 am
    SSPBL post by DragonsDungeon
    Public • November 9, 2025, 5:45 am
    SSPBL classic 1 week 1 is now live!

    Thank you everyone for entering our preliminary jam, we got 61 contestants locked and loaded for a full season of SSPBL Classic 1! The week 1 match-ups can be found on the SSPBL group profile together with the palette for the week. We will generate the full bracket during week 1. Note that we have generated the match-ups through a random sampler. 3 participants will not have match-ups for week 1, but we still require they make a skin to make it to week 2.

    I will also notify a few people who used colours that deviated a bit too much from the preliminary palette in their preliminary skin - we figure these are incidental/accidental so no one is dq'ed out of the preliminaries.

    As for the palette; for week 1, we want to take you back to one of the original PBL palette tropes that I call the "two-paths" palette. The first season of PBL I ever entered used this palette scheme week 1 and I feel it always makes for great fun.

    For week 1 I also want to welcome a new member of the SSPBL team. Two-time winner wqtermxlon is joining the team and has already contributed to palette testing for this week. Please welcome them to the team!

    Good luck to everyone!

    Week 1 palette:


    Contestants participating in week 1:
    Fatcqt BlueBoyBuilds inzanely Auri Exentrik bloomng FabryFF Way000 Winters_Bane MrJok1r Momu Caeleana MewLee Wildcard_Gamer anonpmc5913017 olarasy Zayleia Paktt SillyCookies1Rox Juillyoom Normin Bureine Hightechik Sunlity GalaxyCat24 -Lunatique Jesse_mink GingerPie sqwil Panda_ThatOnePurpleGuylol olarcyzm Zomphey Pnifey kindabland philbertman42 wacqw Tbrooks202 Swanko shizotoaster Malachai Le Moon TheGuyAcrossSpace jacyx Kalyambusik GuyFromMars Knightsundere ricewater PureNerd anonpmc5951925 VirusCott Ezio caidencestudio Reblok MaltyOtter Narutod PlagueDoktor kickonly metroidlove cloudkitty Nah
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  • Swanko
    Public • July 31, 2024, 8:04 pm
    new jpegmafia goes SO HARD!!!!!!! lsiten to it NOW!!!!!!
  • Swanko
    Public • June 5, 2024, 10:14 pm
    guys what are CFTs
    BlueBoyBuilds chocolate-fudge treats, my favorite!
    Swanko • 2024-06-05 22:17:40
    hell yeah
    BlueBoyBuilds • 2024-06-05 22:16:08
    chocolate-fudge treats, my favorite!
  • Swanko
    Public • July 25, 2023, 10:59 am
    7 years on pmc today
    BlueBoyBuilds • 2023-07-25 11:04:10
    happy birthday!
  • Swanko shared SSPBL's post
    Public • July 13, 2023, 1:35 pm
    SSPBL post by Zitzabis
    Public • July 13, 2023, 11:14 am


    Week 2 is finally here! This week's palette is an original made by Allergy_Man.



    Skin file:

    PMCSkin3D Palette
    Gimmick: You may choose up to 12 colors from the provided palette. The cyan border color is a freebie color that does not count towards your selected 12.
    Deadline: July 21st 2023, 11:59 PM UTC / 23:59 UTC
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  • Swanko shared SSPBL's post
    Public • July 3, 2023, 6:58 am
    SSPBL post by Zitzabis
    Public • July 3, 2023, 6:34 am



    Week 1 is here! This week's palette is an original made by our very own Cranio.

    The bracket will be created and posted shortly. Polls will be created by the SSPBL Polls account, so make sure you tag the account in the skin description to help us see it.



    Skin file:

    PMCSkin3D Palette
    Gimmick: You may choose up to 12 colors from the provided palette.
    Deadline: July 9th 2023, 11:59 PM UTC / 23:59 UTC
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  • Swanko
    Public • May 17, 2023, 8:44 pm
    i should make skin
    xXFartyPartyXx • 2023-07-06 12:51:03
    Do it bestie <3
  • Swanko
    Public • July 16, 2021, 10:46 am
    lol i forgot about wall posts
    Nah lol
    Swanko • 2021-07-18 00:03:24
    xD
    Nah • 2021-07-16 12:43:54
    lol
  • Swanko
    Public • April 17, 2020, 8:38 pm
    this update is disgusting
    dreamCritting • 2020-04-18 02:50:18
    I thought the update was some kind of late april fools joke.
  • Swanko
    Public • March 20, 2020, 12:30 am
    what do i make a skin of please help
    Swanko make good skin
    Nah • 2020-03-20 14:30:32
    i did
    Nah make anime girls
    Swanko • 2020-03-20 13:40:50
    make good skin
    Nah • 2020-03-20 10:26:21
    make anime girls
    hyoung13725 • 2020-03-20 00:35:47
    Go to Miner's need cool shoes . com and get some inspo there, that's how i did mine :)
  • Swanko
    Public • December 2, 2019, 7:24 pm
    christmas is miles away stop saying merry christmas
    dreamCritting • 2019-12-03 02:49:32
    merry christmas!

    *evil laughter*
    saIem • 2019-12-02 21:32:51
    mErRy cHriStmAs
  • Swanko
    Public • December 1, 2019, 9:36 pm
    why is every preview alex fix this please
    Nitgo • 2019-12-02 03:33:32
    Oh ya, I realized that. You make a ticket about it here.
  • Swanko
    Public • November 30, 2019, 8:53 pm
    what is this new update i hate it

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