I see your 'QSMP players' irl romantic partners are patron gods that give them assistance in times of need' and your 'Tommy is Tubbo's patron god because of the marriage gag and Tubbo is very, very tired' and I raise you a 'CDawgVA is IronMouse's patron god who randomly appears to tell IronMouse to go to sleep and has bought nearly every Cinnamoroll in existence for her'.
Tubbo speaking more on his support for Palestine (January 24th “RANKING YOUR FAVOURITE SONGS -> MEGA CRAFTING & GAMING” Timesramp: 9:15-12:15)
Transcript below:
Tubbo: “I saw a few people in the replies of my going live tweet, I’ve just got them up here. Asking me to strike and do that, but uh, in the strike guidelines I saw it's fine to use social media as long as you're spreading word about Palestine, so I’m like- hence we've got all scheduled bot commands in the chat and all money from streams during the strike going to humanitarian relief for children and medical supplies.
So, I hope that is enough. It’s just, in the back of my mind (and you can 100% tell me if I'm spewing bullshit right now), like uh- but in the back of mind I thought it's better to raise money for humanitarian relief then it is to just not stream, right? That was like, my train of thought, but if that's obviously fucking bullshit just tweet it at me and tell my that’s fucking bullshit and I can just go offline, that’s fine, that’s not a issue at all. ‘Cuz you know like, I just thought like,
On my alt I've been very, vocal, about my opinions on the genocide and everything like that. And I've been a massive supporter of Palestine for a while and I've been donating privately a lot to lots of charities and causes that, I, care personally a lot about e.g. helping children, for example. And medical supplies, clean drinking water, stuff like that.
Uh and I thought, rather than just not streaming. I would, just donate all money, that I make this week. Hence I, uploaded a YouTube video this week, hence, we’ve been running ads on the channel this week and all that. I thought I would donate all that money, because hopefully, because I don’t want to like, have to ask money from you because I don’t- I don’t want- I don't know everyone in the chat's financial situation. I'm like if I can raise money, without costing the viewer money, it's a no-brainer. Because I'm in a privileged enough position to donate literally, all money I make.
So, I hope that is satisfactory, like if it’s not, obviously, I can have a scrape through my indirects and just tell me, ‘Bro that’s fucking bullshit, just don’t stream,’ I’m totally open to that. Like again, I’m not the smartest- I'm a Minecraft streamer, I’m not the smartest fucking guy- so if I fucked up, let me know.
But I just- I thought rather than, not streaming this week, I'll just use my platform to raise money and donate it to noble causes. Is that chill?
Because obviously like, I've been donating like, even before the strike, like when I did that first- When I first spoke about, Palestine and stuff on my alt- When I first spoke about that there, like I said when I first spoke about it that I'm donating privately a portion of my revenue to hopefully do some good, so yeah. I intend on doing the same for this week, but instead of a portion, all of it.”
thinking about tubbo and his relationship with leadership. how he asked forever if he could be president for a day and got added to a long list of names of people who would take over for the person before their name on the list. how he asked to be leader of soulfire and everyone was like "uh yeah sure i guess" on that first day and didn't really take it seriously.
and then fast-forward to now, he's going into purgatory 2 with a whole team behind him supporting him and his leadership. they want him to lead them again without even knowing what's to come, and they still call him coach and captain. it doesn't matter that they lost the first time. it doesn't matter that he's the youngest on the island. he's won people's respect, but more importantly, he's found a family in soulfire, and they've all found a family in each other too. it doesn't just come from a place of respect. it also comes from a place of love. and he's come so far since he was first released from that ice prison. they all have.
before purgatory, no one took tubbo seriously. he only had morning crew. bad was his enemy because of ron and fred. bagi hated him for the hole. he didn't have an egg. so much has changed since then. i mean, just think about what bad said when he showed tubbo the base! think about how bagi's desire to go to purgatory was to save tubbo and the other members of soulfire, how she's said so many times that she wants him as her coach again.
he's found respect, and he's found love of every kind in places he never would have even thought to look. i don't think there's any truer definition of found family than team soulfire.
Fit: [Reading the QSMP Discord] "The general meeting will be inside Purgatory, and you are able to livestream if you'd like. As soon as the meeting is over, we ask for 15 minutes to set everything up and set up Purgatory again."
Tubbo: It's a public execution, man. [Realizes] Wait, was that public- was that tweeted out? Were we meant to read that?
one day I'll be enough, I just need to try harder next time
unknown / climbing - lucille clifton / tubbo's stream - date unknown / there is no absolution for the fallen, only the dying - p.d / peepoG_ on Twitter / wikipedia / the sheaf-binder (after millet) - vincent van gogh / 1156 - asofterworld / tubbo3091 / "living for the knife", mitski / calling a wolf a wolf - kaveh akbar / unknown / naddpod, ep97 - brian murphy / fantastic mr. fox (2009) / phil's stream - 9.11.23 / five nights at freddy's the movie / tubbo's stream - 11.21.23 / fatherhood.gov / quora - what is the best advice for being a teen dad? / "teenage dream", olivia rodrigo / tubbo3091
it kinda bothers me when people say that tubbo snitched, because that's not what happened
Cucurucho came up to Tubbo while he was building and gave him a book with instructions that he had to go get any illegal items Ramon was in possession of and give them back to Cucurucho after, offering a grappling hook and 5 duck coins for his help
Tubbo asked if he could say no or what would happen if he just didn't, and Cucurucho pulled out a gun. Tubbo then asked if he even had a choice, and Cucurucho said no. Then he asked why Cucurucho couldn't just do it themself and it just laughed, so then Tubbo gave in and went to go get them.
Tubbo then removed the Blazecakes,but realized that also got rid of what was powering them so he just placed them back (which might have consequences in the future) and checked out other areas because of the instructions
Tubbo did not want to do this, but he did anyways because his life was being threatened the second time in two days. He also mentioned (i think?) that he didn't want to get ramon in trouble with cucurucho because he cares about Ramon
He also said that he will absolutely tell Ramon what he did, because he is not two faced
So TL;DR: Tubbo didn't snitch, Cucurucho already knew about the illegal items, he just used Tubbo as a way to get rid of them because Ramon clearly trusts Tubbo and Cucurucho hates when people are happy (the last part is /hj)
something else about fit and tubbo’s relationship: it’s very special to me and they do love each other very much, but i do think this current tension was almost bound to happen not matter what. even without the tubbo homophobia. yes, tubbo self-sabotaged and made the situation current happen. yes, fit is valid to be upset at tubbo. but the unequal footing tubbo was reacting to is VERY real and something they BOTH built and something I think ONLY tubbo is fully aware of.
while i don’t think fit and tubbo’s relationship is paternal at all, i do think it is heavily informed by the age difference. when they meet, tubbo is young, inexperienced, and reminds fit of his son. in contrast, fit is a stable older presence who knows the island secrets. their early dynamic is a bit like a mentorship: fit checks in on tubbo, tubbo asks about the island, fit decides what to tell tubbo, tubbo sees how someone with experience handles the island.
losing the eggs only strengthens this pattern. tubbo is a mess and relies a lot on fit (and pac) to help get him through. fit is hurting too, but obviously he is not going to share all his fears with a teenager having a breakdown (that’s not how he operates, not when he can channel his emotions into something productive instead like checking on tubbo, pac, and the island). tubbo meanwhile strives to have walls as strong as fit's, but even if he won’t talk about it directly, his emotions bleed through a lot of the time anyway. so fit continues to check in on tubbo, and tubbo continues to let fit in and they grow closer because of it. we have lots of sweet moments in their friendship of tubbo letting fit see his vulnerabilities (about the eggs, with fred, about his day to day concerns)
but we don’t see a lot of fit sharing his vulnerabilities. early on, fit makes it very clear to tubbo that tubbo has not earned the right to his secrets, and what he knows about the island, and what he does. fit visits tubbo and then leaves to go on secret jobs tubbo knows nothing about and can’t follow him to. tubbo doesn’t know anything about fit’s memories, or his resistance work, or his purpose. this was an initial source of tension between them, and while tubbo eventually decided to trust fit anyway, to this day, tubbo must be aware that he still hasn’t earned fit's full trust. and that fit, for all he knows tubbo’s problems, hasn’t shared many in return. the only exceptions to this that I can think of are 1) fit’s feelings for pac, which tubbo is privy to and while he teases fit, he is supportive of (which tubbo lost access to—at least in his head—when fitpac started dating, hence the acting out) and 2) fit coming to tubbo about the cats (which tubbo does NOT recognise as a moment of intimacy, that baffoon just laughs it off). i’m not blaming fit for this, as much as he loves tubbo, tubbo is an emotionally unstable teenager (turned young adult) whose bad at both secret-keeping and tact (and fit holds some very sensitive very dangerous secrets), but it definitely creates a lopsidedness in their friendship.
especially because tubbo DOES respect this boundary of fit’s. while sometimes he pesters him for access to the office or insider info, he doesn’t seek fit’s personal business out behind his back really. meanwhile, the few times that tubbo has tried to keep something from them (kinda attempting to mirror fit’s own walls imo), fit and pac have gone behind his back to find out what it is. for example, them going to quackity’s house to investigate fred’s kidnapping without telling him, or them going and reading tubbo’s investigation room about the fed worker killings. now, i get why pac and fit—nosy and concerned as they are—do this, but it’s not great communication and it’s not a great show of trust.
all of this results in fit having a LOT of insight and access into tubbo’s life and insecurities and tubbo having comparatively little in return. and fit deciding how and when he interacts with tubbo and tubbo relying on fit to engage (lest he interrupt something secretive). they have all this restrictions and intricacies for how they interact and both of them have fed into this dynamic—it’s familiar and easy for both of them (fit isn't risking his secrets by trusting tubbo more, tubbo isn't risking rejection by asking for more)—even though their friendship has progressed and needs more balance. it worked ok for them for awhile bc they do both care for each other a lot, but it was NEVER going to be sustainable. any shift in dynamic that lengthened the distance between them would have unsteadied it.
but while tubbo is acutely aware of this tension and sensitive to it changing (and lashing out in response), fit has never really had to think about it. given the way they’ve interacted, fit’s own feelings have always been a bit separate from their friendship. it’s only now that tubbo's emotions/actions have hurt fit that fit wants his feelings acknowledged. he wants a more even dynamic, but he doesn’t realize that their friendship doesn’t feel like a “two-way street” because it never has been, almost by design.
i don’t think tubbo has the experience or insight into fit’s emotions to realize what fit needs organically. i don't think fit can understand how his relationship with pac isolated tubbo even if he wants it to stay the same. i don’t think fit recognises the ways tubbo continues to show his trust in fit (like still inviting fit to follow him on the fred date or not investigating his secrets). i don't think tubbo understands why fit is upset with him (just that he is) or confidence to ask.
i don’t think either of them are going to properly explain their concerns to each other, if they have the words to properly explain it. all of this makes me think we’re only in for more fit & tubbo miscommunication in the coming weeks, but i DO think we still have hope. because these fools do love each other and pac (who I didn’t talk about much at all) & ramon & sunny (tho she’s also hurting) aren’t just gonna stand idly by while they continue to hurt each other.
“Red team was so selfish looking past the cursed team like that” listen man they were thinking about it often, and had evidence they were cursed too. They were convinced they were cursed too. Bad (with Pierre’s help I’ll be honest) singlehandedly destroyed any sort of civil relations and good faith between the two teams and this shot Blue in the foot when they tried to make the case about them being cursed last minute, about trying to rig it in the cursed teams favor.
There was never a cursed team in the first place, it was all a tactic to build paranoia and that feeling of betrayal and to get them to tear eachother a part. And it worked super well! At the end, neither would listen to the other about their evidence, not with an honest open ear, not with the willingness to think the other team could be cursed. It’s not a case of ‘Red just refused to listen because they wanted to win more than they cared’ they thought they were cursed too - if they were selfish, then so were Blue in the same way.
Every time Red had tried to talk first early on, it was met with extreme violence - and with Bad consistently proving he’ll play dirty to win, they didn’t trust Blue enough to listen to them in the later game. Maybe they should have listened then. Maybe Blue have listened earlier. The game worked as intended to set them against eachother.