#OR that lizzie (who watched the series she wasnt a part of) is a part time Watcher

[gumy-shark]

ive seen so much bullshit in this fandom about lizzie's permadeath and the canary curse. so lets fight this the best way possible: thinking of meta explanations that DONT make her death all about a man. please share them with me i want to talk about SECRET LIFE LIZZIE. AND HER TRAGIC FUCKING STORY

#mcyt #traffic life series #secret life smp #i already liked thinking of each season as corresponding to a season in the year #(i.e. 3L is fall LL is winter DL is spring-into-summer and limlife is summer-into-fall) #which would make SL the start of a new 'year.' and with that new 'year' old curses get left behind to make way for new ones #OR that lizzie (who watched the series she wasnt a part of) is a part time Watcher #and that gave her the power to be a spanner in the works and interrupt fated events #but in return isolated her from other players #OR finally the funeral thing i saw someone talking about once and then my brain decided to expand on bc Worldbuilding #where holding a funeral for someone/building a grave for them before they die #tricks the universe into allowing someone to live longer and defy fate since it thinks theyre already dead #but i still like my first explanation since that also accounts for scar's 'red by session 5' curse breaking #sighs. the Torment Nexus

[sleepysnails]

Oh yeah since exactly one follower told me they wanted this to celebrate 50 followers, here’s a long story of me being old and when I say I grew up with mcyt, I mean I grew up with it.

Under the read more because this could get very long.

Oh boy do I start at the start?

I was here for skydoesminecraft. Like not fandom wise but I did watch his videos! I was there for that! Specifically the cops and robbers videos, but I did watch his other stuff too.

Do I even wanna talk about this dark time? Yeah sure why not. I was here for the time of all the Minecraft parodies. All the really famous ones, I was around then. In fact for a brief period of my life I exclusively listened to Minecraft parodies.

*does a little dance* Who remembers stampy cat and ibalistic squid? I do! I watched them forever ago!! How did I go from the not so family friendly skydoesminecraft to family friendly stampy? Idk but it happened.

Ooooo the modded Minecraft reviews! I watched many of these, most notably from Dantdm and PopularMMOs! I already feel old- I remember being in love with the lucky block mod. Sorta related to that but I was super into PopularMMOs lucky block challenges.

Not sure where it fits into all this but I vividly remember watching bajancandian and his friends play bedwars! Also not sure what universe I was living in but I came to the conclusion bajan was bad at Minecraft- (Am I saying I based my opinion on how good he was at bedwars? Yes. Yes I am saying bedwars was my measure of Minecraft skill. It’s not anymore of course) I do remember really really wanting to play bedwars back then. I thought it looked so cool. (What a shocker I’m into tiredtwt now.)

Oh there was also Crazycraft which I watched from Lachlan. I got into him from a video with bajan he did.

Who remembers Cupquake? I do! All the way back to minecraft oasis, I was there for that!!

*shouts* STACYPLAYS AND GRASER10 MINECLASH!!!!! I remember adoring this series so much. I always watched from Stacy’s perspective, what can I say other than I liked her content. She was family friendly for the most part, her motto is “go rescue a dog” and I remember she did a series involving Minecraft and books, which led me to reading those books (Charlotte’s web and the hatchet for example). Ooooo I remember her dogcraft series and the fact she found a cat irl resembling the one she has in dogcraft was the craziest thing to me. Milquetoast had my heart.

From Stacy I found da da da dun... Ldshadowlady! Aka Lizzie! I remember thinking her content was hilarious and very fun!

From Ldshadowlady I found Aphmau! Ah the nostalgia as I recall her Minecraft diaries series. It was such a cool Minecraft role play, I could tell the work that went into it must’ve been insane- what started as a Minecraft world with some mods, one of which involved npcs turned into a full on scripted role play. She hired voice actors for the npcs and eventually the spin off series became its own thing with some ✨animation✨ thrown into the mix. I think this was one of the first times I briefly stepped into the world of fandom and oh boy do I remember the shipping wars-

While I was into Minecraft rp because of Aphmau I breifly got invested in ItsFunneh for her Minecraft rps!

Sometime along the way when I got Minecraft on the Xbox I watched a bunch of tips and redstone stuff on YouTube! I strongly remember a certain ibxtoycat in particular. (And his video on horses, and you can bet I spent a while trying to get the perfect horse)

Then like all things I eventually lost interest in Minecraft. Before I had various falling in and out of it of course but I think this was the longest time yet. I had simply moved on and gotten into other things... but here I am now so it’s not the end of the story.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT IT WASNT TECHNICALLY DREAMS VIDEOS THAT GOT ME BACK INTO MCYT IT WAS A MIX OF ALL THE LOVELY ARTISTS OUT THERE MAKING ANIMATICS OF THE MANHUNTS-

While I had seen his videos recommended to me if I’m being honest I purposely scrolled past them because I thought the thumbnails were lame... SHHHH YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND HALF MY PROCESS FOR PICKING YOUTUBE VIDEOS TO WATCH IS “pretty art, I click”

So a bunch of animatics later I finally decided to watch a manhunt and 3 or so manhunts later I decided I liked bbh and hunted down his content.

Getting into Dream... LET TECHNOBLADE’S DUEL ANALYSIS VIDEO SHOW UP IN MY RECOMMENDATIONS AND REMEMBER WHEN I SAID “pretty art, I click”? THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. Listen I really love the art techno uses for thumbnails okay-

And from there it was a downward spiral.

I thought techno was hilarious so I looked for more content of him which led me to find sbi which led me to the dream smp which I was mildly aware of existing til technoblade joined.

And from the dream smp I got into Tubbo, without getting into Tommy??? Somehow??

Wilbur’s videos started showing up in my recommendations and let me tell you, his thumbnail artist is so great because I would not have watched a single one of his videos without seeing the cute thumbnail art.

Also somewhere amidst me getting back into mcyt I was into spifey’s videos for like 2 days??

I got back into Ldshadowlady cuz she showed up in my recommendations again and I was like “oh I remember you” and from her I got into Scott Smajor. Despite the fact Scott is the MCC organizer I didn’t know of MCC til technoblade... and I got into Scott Smajor before techno.

When Antfrost first showed up on bbh’s stream I was like “HIM! HE GREAT!”

From watching Antfrost’s first stream I got into Awesamdude :)

On my hunt for Technoblade fanart I found fun aus on tumblr which led me to the fanfics. From there while reading a mcyt bnha au fic, I got into Purpled. Strange I know but it wasn’t a romance fic okay. He showed up as a character and I got interested, so I looked him up on YouTube.

While bored I went to look up Grian because of those MCC moments when Techno mentioned him, and Grian said he was rooting for Techno.

One late night at 1am of November 1st, 2020, I found my comfort streamer, LoafingCooper.

And now I just vibe in this fandom.

#I didn’t even mention fun facts like for the brief time I played minecraft on the iPad all I did was abuse duplication glitches. #I’m so sorry this is so disorganized #it’s not ordered by time properly I just tried to get the general timeframe right #This makes me seem really old but I am not- #mcyt #I don’t dare put each individual mcyt tag