#dsmp fandom critical (i guess)

[somehowmags]

imo tommy should be sidelined more in aus. a lot of the time he just does not fit the role people are trying to put him in lmao

#like with royalty aus theyre always like he's a neglected and lonely prince and its like thats ooc for everyone #cause wilbur and phil and techno would not neglect him (most of these are sbi aus) #but you know who Would fit that role? fundy would. #and then in like superhero aus its like he's a scrappy and alone superhero vigilante while wilbur/sbi are cool important superheroes #and its like yeah cool i guess but. #he's just not that. if anything he'd be wilbur's sidekick. or he wouldn't even be a hero #jack definitely is a scrappy and alone superhero vigilante who regularly gets the shit kicked out of him though! #like. he's not the main character. there is no main character. a lot of these aus are just deeply ooc for everyone #just so that tommy can be the main #warping the characters to fit the plot when it should be the other way around #i have DEFINITELY complained about this before lmao #chatters #mcyt fandom critical #<- only kind of #dsmp

[sadsmihalleyface]

one thing i see a lot is people dislike for the Staged Disc Finale is it's lack of "purpose". "why would c!Dream do that? he's just destroying himself, not trying to dominate the world or bring about the apocalypse, that doesn't make sense!" and what i have to tell you is: yeah. but also no. he is destroying himself and losing overall "tangible" power. that's true. what makes this line of thinking flawed is that you guys see the prison as the final goal, not the main stepping stone. he never said his plan ended at Pandora's Vault. hell, from all we know, Pandora was just a check point (that went really, really wrong).

we don't know what the next step is, and it could be true that it's just dumb and not worth it at all in the end, but giving that we're all clueless i think it's pointless to make any assumptions. overall, without the additional fuckery, the whole Staged Disc Finale con was one of the smartest, most well executed plans in the server's history, both in-world and writing-wise (the foreshadowing, the theatrics, all the pieces falling into place... beautiful) and it's about time y'all stop making up reasons for why it's Bad Actually™ just because you personally don't like it/didn't see it coming.

#discourse #sorry i'll stop now #i'm like an old lady ranting about the damn kids on my yard #fandom critical #i guess? #just to be sure #dsmp

[trashfangirlsworld]

So, I’ve been lurking in the dsmp fandom for over a year now and the finale is what finally pushed me to post something, mostly because as someone who also didn’t like it I’ve been trying to figure out why it ended the way it did, and I think I have an idea:

C!discduo HAD to “reconcile” because no matter what the server was going to reset and everyone was going to forget everything. Imagine if c!tommy and c!dream spent those last moments going back and forth like the previous stream until c!tommy revealed the nuke was coming and that he’d finally won and saved everyone only for everything to reset and suddenly they’re friends because they forgot everything that happened… it would’ve been a punch in the gut; therefore they had to reconcile so that it would make sense for them to be “friends” again.

This doesn’t really make it better because it really showcases that season 2 is ultimately unnecessary and they should have just let the server rest and make a new one if they really wanted to like Tubbo said, but it is comforting to know that it clearly wasn’t the original plan for c!tommy’s ending. So yeah, dream didn’t write the final confrontation in the prison like some people think, but he is responsible for how season 2 is and therefore a major reason for why the finale was like that.

#dsmp finale #dsmp analysis #dsmp meta #dsmp critical #i guess #anyway #still very much in this fandom for the amazing fancontent and how good season 1 was until the finale #I also love a lot of the ccs

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

Been stewing on this for a few days (might be controversial, but I don't really care)

I think my issue with takes that unironically excuse or downplay the impact of c!Quackity torturing c!Dream has nothing to do with misinterpreting authorial intent; we have no way to be absolutely sure what's going through the writer's head, and even if we did, everybody sees fiction differently.

Nor does it have anything to do with the morality of enjoying a fictional person's suffering. Because once again, that's all very subjective, the people suffering aren't real, and to be fair, sometimes it can be cathartic to watch a villain get everything they've done thrown back tenfold.

It's just that reading c!Quackity's story like that is... boring.

Like, even if you don't give two shits about c!Dream's feelings - and you shouldn't have to - there's so much other interesting stuff to work with!

I want to dig deep into how trauma affects the way a person processes their life and how they judge who is worthy of their trust. How people determine when others have crossed a moral line, how someone can continue to justify themselves even after they cross those very same lines, and what happens when they realize they've become the bad guy and still don't stop.

I want to watch how someone can be desensitized to constant violence, and the way it leaves marks that you can't scrub out. How you can ward off your own trembling at the memories of dead eyes and destroyed homes with slightly different examples of the same. How your gut sinks when you discover that the vicious thing inside you that you thought was given a safe, healthy, cathartic outlet is leaking into the world of the innocent.

I want to understand how you can carry a knife in one hand and wedding rings dangling on a chain from the other, held as far apart as you can reach, because you can't bear to cross those lines and stain something that was supposed to safe and peaceful and good. How you can look the child you're trying to avenge in the eyes and lie to him because you've felt his pain, but you also know he's kinder and better than you, and it's already enough that one person looks at you with fear, and you can't bear to see that fear mix with disappointment. How you can lie awake thinking about blank lines of paperwork and the grime beneath your nails and sly smiles and lost bets and broken promises (and screams and sobs that stopped being soothing a long time ago), and wonder what happens when the same sharp edge is turned against you and the ones you love, too.

I want to see how you can choose to put the blade down, change your plans, and trick your fuming heart into believing that it's not weakness or guilt holding you back. That it's all going to be worth it. That both of you are going to get what you deserve (and you already know what that is, that you're heading to the same place in hell as everyone you despise, that there's no turning back anymore, that you are irreparably soiled by what you've done here, and that your only hope is to leave a message behind and hope that someone, anyone, will remember you fondly-)

I want to question what it really means to "deserve" something, and wonder how much it really matters. I want to see the good, the bad, and everything in between. I want to see somebody go to the darkest depths imaginable, and still choose to return.

The prison arc and by extension the rest of the Las Nevadas arc is the perfect place to explore all of that. So why not?

#dsmp #c!quackity #tw torture #tw abuse #fandom critical #discourse #sigh... i guess. #please don't take this as a personal attack on anyone #i just wanted to pour out a few thoughts

[eldest-of-katts]

I'm so tired of people acting like tubbo and ranboo and tommy are all still fifteen. It's been years. Time passes. Accept your temporal nature. They are adults. They pay bills. They are adults. They can drink. They are adults. Accept that you have aged. Accept the fact that the time when they were children has passed. Accept that change happens. They are learning and growing as people. You should too.

You can't hold that moment forever. Time passes, it is like water. You can try to hold it, you can freeze it in time like ice, but if you hold too tight to ice, it melts. Let it go. Trying to dam a river only builds up pressure. Let it go. The water is stagnating. Let it go. The flow of time brings with it greater joys even in the sorrow of that lost moment.

I understand that urge to sit in the good times, to pretend that the moment is still here. But I am tired. I know that it was fun watching the dsmp and seeing these guys have fun and you want to hold on to that. This isn't the way. Keep the memories but know that they are adults.

Sincerely someone (of the same age as them) who is annoyed that three people in their twenties are constantly treated like they're twelve.

#dsmp fandom critical #fandom critical #discourse #i guess #i got kinda heated here lol #but yeah its been like four years since they were 16-17. #16+4=20 #that's a young adult #definitely not old but also not a minor anymore #the don't need absolute protection from even the thought of indecency #they are ADULTS fir Pete's sake

[imsosocold]

As someone who discovered DSMP after its early conception, being there for its rapid growth and fandom development was a shaking experience.  It completely changed I how I interact with media and its creators and consumers. And not necessarily in a positive way. I’ve become very selective with my word choice and have learned to vaguely phrase my opinions,  repeatedly clarify what I mean, and apologize for every potential slight. I meticulously go through tags in fear of what I’d find. I’ve learned which discourse to take part in and which ones to avoid. I accepted that large swaths of people will hate me for my opinions. Most startlingly, I’ve started to associate my feelings for the characters and the fandom with the creators.  Overall it’s been a reality induced nightmare.

#dsmp #dream smp #dsmp fandom #dream smp fandom #dsmp fandom critical #dream smp fandom critical #i guess #idk i feel weird #I'm glad it's over #noelle's rambles

[theminecraftbee]

🍦for the ask game thing :D

name three good things about a character you hate

so the problem here is that i don't have a character i hate ;-; like we're sitting in a fandom where i'm like "yeah i get what basically everyone is going for to some degree". like even looking back on like my dsmp days i didn't have any characters i hated really??? i did have grudges against certain lore beats the life system but even then.

like i'm sitting here going "is there any CHARACTER i hate in recent mcyt fandoms" and it's like. no, not really, i have certain things i think could have been done better (empires 2 wasn't very cohesive, i still have mixed feelings about some of the later life series gimmicks even if i've grown fond of them over time, i kinda wish the hermatrix had stuck the landing, there are things about the hc/empires crossover i wish had been executed better, even if there are things i also really loved about that, etc etc etc like i am not free of criticisms), but none of those are... the characters?

like i don't know, there are guys i'm less likely to watch than other guys, and i guess--maybe scott has done the most character beats i raise an eyebrow questioningly at? or martyn? but part of that is that they go for the most explicit character beats, so they have more places for me to raise an eyebrow, whereas a lot of other people don't HAVE as many for me to question? but HATE? nah, i don't feel that. i also like a bunch of stuff they do so. retracting that? i guess? i don't know man.

..........so i guess this is a "i don't know how to answer this question" but i took three paragraphs to say it,

#answered #ty-bayonet-betteridge #ask game

[mourninglamby]

its actually cool to see people dissect minecraft roleplay like this, like to me yeah it was just a block game but the dark subjects matters just intertwined in a way that made it very... strange? i guess?

i feel like to really get it you have to have a certian amount of respect for the story and medium but also scorn of it, like i have sooo many problems with how things went in a million different ways, but i also think that when it worked it worked wonders. so its interesting to me for someone to dig deeper then the surface and really see it for what it was objectively

i hate that its attatched to the minecraft youtuber fandom in general because for the majority of time i was wathcing I was soley in it for a story, I dont think i even checked out a non story realated stream until like... june of that year

and i hate dream but like you said him being there and playing such a character just ads to the levels of weirdness and rawness

c!tommy got me through a dark dark time in my life, esp exile. I dealth with abuseful neglect and manipulation all my life, and i was in deep bouts of depression when those streams were coming out. but literally seeing a character portray such a raw and ugly realality of those things and yet still get back up again was comforting and cathartic

to me it was the colaboration between actor and audience that really made it unlike anything else, and also what really led to its destruction. but im glad it was there when i needed it

This is well said anon and I’m so sorry you went through something like that. Dsmp found me at a very terrifying time in my life in regards to trauma. I don’t want to get into it just as I’m sure you don’t either, but when youve been a victim of abuse, you gain a perspective that nobody else has. Your mind is permanently altered. We see things that might not be as easy to detect let alone digest for those who havent experienced that reality. or even people who are currently working through that trauma who don’t understand how to deal with it or approach it yet. And that’s not good nor bad. It just is.

I think it’s. Hard. It’s very hard to talk about. And it’s by design! I definitely agree some of the performances were amazing but with very little consideration for what to do next or how to conclude those arcs, things got messy quickly and I think they relied on their dogmatic rabid fans to deflect any serious criticism of that. And I expected them to! I expect people who tread dangerously to know what they’re doing, but they didn’t know what they were doing. That became clear to me very quickly.

And ya it is still very important to me as well… I have never seen myself in another victim in fiction quite as well as I have c!tommy. And I have found so many like minded people that I cherish and love so much. I just got back from hanging out with someone who I got close with online during dsmp! So as disgusting and scary as the community was, yes, I am also very glad it was here when I needed it. Because I needed it.

I hope we can all continue to heal from these experiences and move on to make/consume kinder art together 🌈💫💗

(Oh also I didnt/don’t(it’s complicated) care about the real people either. I actually was so detached I believed dsmp was all they did! It’s crazy how much of a second thought a lot of this was in hindsight. Which is both infuriating and worrying)

#abuse cw #long post #dsmp #adding main tag so ppl can filter it out if they don’t wanna see dsmp on this acc

[lehhoh7822]

asking about the legally blonde fics 🙄 (JOKING i actually really want to hear about them. please?)

THANK YOU its not letting me add a cut guys..... i would if i could..... long post??

alright hi i write legally blonde fanfics after being involved in a production of it earlier this year and. well.

like i think my fanfic is very ehhhh for most people because i like essentially getting to write completely different songs and then having to integrate them into canon if that makes sense?? based solely off the musical, like, none of pilar margot serena really have ANY established backstory and i havent seen the movie or read the book in such a long time. so what i mean is that i get to write this horrifying piece about someone experiencing parentifcation in an abusive environment and then try to integrate that character into the more canonised characterisation.

i guess the reason is like. of musicals, legally blonde is very.... i don't know, its pretty solid in terms of content for the musical. its absurd like most musicals which kind of facilitated me and my friend (im gonna @ their dead blog from when they were like 12 @kittykatturtles-blog) to make crack theories and then give me things that i wanted to extrapolate from it. I guess the other thing about these fics is that i want to write about how. fucked a lot of rich people are. i think part of this is coming out of the dsmp fandom or engaging with it more critically in terms of a fandom and being able to recognise the kind of repetitiveness of a lot of fanfictions in a very... trope esque way? like there are so many fics which are basically the same and a lot of those feel like they didn't have anything to say or think about in terms of the characters.

i think the other part of it which matters to me is being able to write about themes which are genuinely really serious, and at times intimately familiar to me; exploitative religious groups, familial abuse, dissociative identity disorder, and more, without the worry of too heavy scruntiny. like i remember when i was writing for dsmp i always got kind of scared of writing something too serious and having people like like. oh my god. hes a MINOR. YOURE KILLING ME. the whole point of the stories aren't just that bad things are happening or that these characters are justified or whatever, it's about. how do you keep going? how do you keep loving? how do you explain yourself.

i think something thats super important to be is character autonomy. it rings pretty bad for me when a traumatised or disabled is given no action on their end at all for anything, making them a hollow slate for the abled characters to support and research and worry about and lie to. to me, as someone who is traumatised and is disabled, that kind of dynamic is gross to read about. so its important to me to be able to write about, even if it cant exist in real life, the idea of supportive people who are also kind of fucked up and having to acknowledge the real hopelessness of complex issues is something i want to depict in my writing.

for a lot of people, for most i think, when terrible things happen they can't just stop and they somehow have to keep on going despite the world feeling like its stopped turning for them. and i think a lot of bad things do happen to people when they are still young. one of the worst years of my life was when i was 12 and its genuinely quite hard to top it. trying to write the spiky complex feelings of self hatred and confusion and injustice you can't place and hopelessness is cathartic to me and i think its important for me that it exists.

the other thing is that. like by the nature of my writing, this is leading to a better future. im a pretty slow writer, and i can't be hyperfixated on the story i need to just be continually trying to think and work on it. but because we know; we know they make it to college, we know they have friends, and in this i know that they can make it to adulthood, its an assertion, from me as a writer and from me as a traumatised disabled person that i will make a better future and the worst parts of your life will not definte them. idk.

this is the link to the first two fics and im writing a new one as we speak

if you want to hear more about ttolt characters (we have pilar, serena, margot, elle, serenas parents and brother, pilars infinite fucking siblings and parents, and a few others) then send me asks about it. PLEASE dear god

#my writing #personal #thank you so much for the ask!!!!!!!! #legally blonde #ttolt

[transphilza]

I have no where else to talk about this bcs i'm too terrified to post abt the dsmp after the whole dream thing. I don't support him and want nothing to do with him but my love for the story surrounding wilbur and tommys characters is so immense it makes me really sad that i cant talk about them online anymore bcs everyone seems to be dropping the dsmp, even if i have to argue that it can be separated from the dude its named after. Lmanburg means the world to me, and c!wilbur means a lot to me for a lot of reasons. I guess im just very upset about the events that have ensued lately, i miss the dsmp

hi nonnie <3

i thought a bit about whether i wanted to respond to this or not but i have seen so many concerns just like yours that i feel the need to state outright: just because the dream smp bears his name does NOT mean it is all his, nor does it mean anything to do with the smp has to be “tainted” by his association with it.

a lot more under the cut

c!wilbur is one of my favorite characters of all time, he means a lot to me and just like you i find a lot of joy in the stories he told on the dream smp. the best part about all that? it was WILBUR who did that. WILBUR is the reason why c!wilbur was amazing, and TOMMY was the reason c!tommy was amazing, and so on for everyone else on the server. it feels like a disservice to all the hard work so many people put into their characters and their storylines to allow one guy to ruin all of that. WILBUR wrote those scripts, WILBUR wrote that character, WILBUR poured his heart and soul and energy into creating an amazing story for us, and NOTHING and NOBODY can change that. it was he who made his own story amazing (and this applies just the same to c!tommy and all the other people on the smp who worked so hard)

furthermore, and firesnap spoke beautifully about this already, i’m BEGGING you to listen to your OWN instincts about this entire thing. what do YOU think is right? what feels right to you? what makes sense to you? the people who are choosing to no longer engage with the dsmp whatsoever are entirely valid to feel however they feel which led them to make that decision, but you would be just as valid to come to a different conclusion. as long as you are thinking critically, you’re on the right track. there is no Right reaction to all this. you can refuse to watch anything to do with it from now on, you can just engage with past lore, you can watch the vods, you can watch live but leave when dream appears, or you can watch the entire thing live (and though i would not personally recommend doing so, my word is not god and my morals are not Your morals!!) you can do whatever feels appropriate to You.

life is not as simple as “someone i loved turned out to be someone i no longer want to associate with, therefore i will cut ties with them and everyone they knew or anyone they work with and i will no longer have any positive feelings about any impacts theyve had on my life or any of the things they or anyone they associate with have created.” this is an unfair expectation to put on yourself or anybody!

don’t punish yourself for feeling however you feel. you don’t need to feel guilty for still being attached to the dsmp — hell, i’m going to be candid and say that c!dream is one of my favorite villains ever, and while i really enjoyed watching and talking about his character, because of this situation i no longer feel comfortable publicly enthusing about that character. this doesn’t change that i really enjoyed the character, that i STILL think it was a great character, despite having difficult feelings toward its actor/creator. you are allowed to FEEL, FEELING is not endorsement, and as long as you think critically about how you engage in fandom, however you are doing so is probably just fine

understand that nothing about this is black and white, that you are allowed to have opinions and feelings that are different from your peers, and that if the idea of one man changing your perception of other people’s creative work simply by association feels wrong, then you don’t have to let it

much love ❤️

#btws firesnap if you dont want your post linked here just lmk!!! #dream situation #❤️ #talking #anon #long post

[bigmack2go]

Yes my name is spelled with a j at the end. I know i have many typos but that is not one if them. Its pronounced the same way (almost at least but most people just pronounce it like mack)

Its hungarian.

Its rly important to me because 1 im from hungary and 2 bc the letters have meanings!

Edit:

On that note! I just realised i never made an intro post so i guess here u go!

I am mackj

17

Hungarian/german

I speak german and english (Hungarian amd a little Swedish)

Multi fandom

Newsies (main atm)

Pjo (always loved it but new to the fandom)

Marauders

Dsmp

Atwow

Three???

Starlight express

(Oractically any musical)

Descendants

SOC

TMR

Currently going to fashion school and hope to become a designer or actor one day…

They/them/any pronouns/ask for pronouns

(I just prefer they/them most of the time)

dyscalculia fucked my career

Adhd asf and weirdly gatekeep-y about it.

shizophrenia

Christian

I love turles w my life

Writer, musician, dancer

(But i can’t do long choreos bc i have a limb since i was eight and my leg will start hurting and i have a criculation disfunction)

The reason that i talk funny isn’t that english isnt my first language but simply because i want to, okay. Fuck u.

PLEASE!...

...use my headcannon!

...use my OC's

... post or talk about my book

...make headcannons for my book

... make OC's for my book

...come up with faceclaims for my characters

... ask me stuff

... ask about fashion school

... request shit

... ask about my disabilities

...ask about my stutter

… ask about my Tic‘s

WITH CREDITS AND/OR IF U ASK U CAN DEFINITELY ...

... use my promts

...use my ideas

...use my fic's

... summarise my book

... repost my art on other platforms

... use my poetry

...use my music

...use my choreos

CHECK THE TAGS FOR THESE^

DONT...

... ask if i do commisions: i used to but fashionschool said nono. what is freetime? never heard or it. requsts? yess. Absolutely. Because i dont have to promise shit with that, dont need times etc

... be unconstructive w criticism bc i WILL cry

... ask me if i can sew your wedding dress

... inform me of shit i already know like "isnt hungary queerphobic" like bitch im aware but what do u want me to do? un-be hungarian?

DO ,IN FACT, INTERACT IF UR HOMOPH0b!c; I NEED A FIGHT!!!MY FINGERS R TINGELING Be ready to have a regulated debate tho!

Aka on this blog EVERYONE is welcome, even himophobes but only if they wanna fight

Idk what else to say…

My tags:

#reminder for myself tag #confession tag #my book tag #wrongway island tag #lilo and diego #phossy tag #fashion tag #me #parebt guides tag #wrongway island moadboard tag #moadboard wrongway island #wwi moadboard #fic tag #( #drawing reference #) #headcannons #my art tag #dsmp doodle wall #wrongway island

[canidaedreams64]

Introduction Time yippee

salutations internet, i am weirdo bisexual transmasc genderqueer and objectum teenager edgar/key/dream. i go by he/she pronouns. im mainly a fandom/oc artist that sometimes animates, but i also like to yell into the void about random shit that comes to mind or ramblings about the blorbo of the week.

i got too many interests but my top 6 medias at the moment would probably be homestuck, touhou, silhouette mirage, cyborg 009, toontown (specifically corporate clash) and the muppets. i am critical of my interests and the media i consume.

just a disclaimer but my art/blog may contain content such as eyestrain/flashing lights, blood/violence, guns, scopophobia, insects/arachnids, cigarettes/smoking and alcohol/drinking. i'll try my best to properly tag content but feel free to ask me to tag certain things if needed.

please do not interact with me if you are a proshipper, nsfw account, fetish account, terf, vivziepop/helluva/hazbin, harry potter, dsmp or genshin/mihoyo fan (mutuals are fine i guess, thin ice for hp though), are into loli/shota or fit into any other typical dni criteria

my side blogs are:

ask-the-netbots - toontown oc askblog

trs80s-usedcars - computer/objectum sideblog

hashbrown-motel - vivziepop critical sideblog

i also happen to be on other webbed sites, so here they are:

twitter

deviantart - no longer in use

toyhouse

artfight

newgrounds

not really a social but i also got a strawpage

i also have discord but im only sharing it with mutuals/friends(feel free to dm me for it if youre a mutual i guess). also also i used to have a newgrounds but ive basically abandoned it lol im trying to use it again lol

ok thanks for reading baiiiiiiiiiiiii :^]

#i might add more onto this later or something but whateverrrr #if i ever end up making side blogs theyll get added to this

[quaranmine]

reddit is a much more toxic place for fandom because it centers discussion instead of creation. and there's only so many things to discuss before you start spreading unnecessary negativity.

there was an actual popular post on the hermitcraft subreddit encouraging to voice your unpopular opinions which ccs read and it was, uhh. what you'd expect. at this point tumblr might actually be better for creators

Oh anon. You don't have to tell me about the infamous unpopular opinions post. I think I was the one who basically brought that one to hermitblr and my blog was pretty much entirely posts and asks about it for a few days--I was basically the center of discussion for that awful incident for tumblr users. I have NOT forgiven the subreddit for that. Some of the stuff there was practically libel and the moderators had to approve every comment individually before posting, and just....approved blatant character defamation. And I'm not using "character" in the narrative sense. That was so bad that it upset some hermits and one of the hermits reached out and asked for the post to be deleted (again, the post contained more than just unpopular opinions, and even had comments making baseless accusations.) The post was taken down, but then reddit does what it does best and cried about freedom of speech and censorship, so the hermits let the mods put the post back up and Xisuma (iirc) made an apology to the fandom for "censoring their opinions." When it is, in my perfectly honest opinion, extremely valid to to be upset about the things that were being said....like if you said that to me irl about a friend, i'd want to slap you, but they're on the internet so they're just expected to accept everything happily i guess....

Fortunately, the moderator who allowed and approved a lot of the worst comments has been removed. I think. I am pretty sure they're the same person that was involved in another incident but I'm not gonna mention it because I can't (dont feel like) confirming it and the last thing I'd want to do is make the same mistakes as in the thread by making random accusations.

I think you're right about about some of the discussion versus creation aspect. Even when you post a creative product, it just sits and accumulates comments where everyone can give their opinion on it. You can comment on art on tumblr too, but the emphasis is way more on sharing it with others. And you tend to see art only as a result of following people you like, so you're already vetting the list of what you see. Reddit is like...going to the town hall and just hanging a picture on a board. I guess? It's like the only thing you could do was browse the main tags on tumblr and everyone was mad all the time lol

I don't think having negative opinions on media is a bad thing, nor do i think being critical of it is. I think that a lot of discussion and analysis has to be critical in order to dig into issues in media (either via social issues or just regular narrative issues.) But it's the sheer concentration of it that is so exhausting. It's just not a fun place to hang out because you can't really vet what posts you see so the people who only want to discuss negative things will always be hanging at your periphery. Whereas, on tumblr, i can intentionally follow analysis centered people. I was big into the dsmp analysis community and it wasn't all positive posts. But if i wanted out I could just unfollow them and follow some more chill people instead. On reddit you don't really get that choice.

#quara asks #discourse #kinda #i dont really want to answer many questions on that unpopular opinions thread #i've said my piece already #i discussed every angle of it back when it actually happened #still the worst thing the subreddit has done imo #and on the tail of moon big criticism it's....sad that the hermits read all that

[duskdragon39]

Speedpaint Link [FLASHING WARNING]

My final pieces for this year's Fandom Trumps Hate event! @juuls asked me to design a header for her ongoing @fanfic-reading-challenge - something that was general, usable over multiple years, and maybe referenced a fandom or two.

Which meant, of course, that I ended up jamming references to at least 9 different fandoms in there, along with a lot of references to various fanfics. At my last count there were 18-19 different references to various things in there - you're welcome to try and guess/find them, or you can check the list under the cut.

Happy reading, y'all, and thanks to Juulna for the really fun project :D

Fandoms:

Critical Role - The massive tree with the city beyond it in the mountains and the two moons were inspired by Critical Role and Exandria's two moons. Vague reference/inspiration, that.

Skyrim - The mountains framed with the aurora/magic with the castle in the foreground was inspired by Skyrim and the view of the Greybeard's mountain looking from south of Whiterun. The dragon isn't one of Skyrim's, alas.

Animorphs - there's a little andalite in the spaceship. It's not a true andalite ship, alas - I didn't feel like redrawing the stupid thing by the time I got around to adding the alien in.

Gravity Falls - Yes, that's a picture of Dipper looking up at the moon on the desk.

D&D - The polyhedral dice box and a D&D 5E book can be seen on the desk. Technically the dragon is a reference to one of my own campaigns.

Undertale - Frisk (minus their distinctive stripped shirt) is listening to something while leaning up against the wording sign. Napstablook can be seen amongst the other ghosts - whether the one in the top hat is Hapstablook is up to the viewer.

Star Wars - A lightsaber can be seen at the front of the desk.

Minecraft/DSMP - The "Cat" music disk is sitting on the edge of the desk.

MCU - Thanos' headstone can be found in the bottom right of the image. It reads "Here lies Thanos, ???? - 2019."

Supernatural - A joint headstone for Sam and Dean Winchester can be found in the lower right corner. It reads "RIP Sam and Dean Winchester - We had to install a revolving door."

Fanfics:

I've not read most of these. About 1/2 were pulled from the most kudoed fics on AO3, the others were from my favorites. I tried to get a really broad spectrum of fandoms in there. So uh. Apologies if something controversial got in there.

Survival is a Talent, by ShanaStoryteller

Yesterday Upon the Stair, by PitViperOfDoom

A Lullaby For Gods, by Aseraphfell

Home Sweet Home, by PitViperOfDoom

The Internet Is Not Just For Porn, by cyerus

Passerine, by blujamas

Salvage, by MuffinLance

call me, beep me, by [orphan_account]

Labyrinthine, by DuskDragon39. Don't @ me, it's on the book below the main text block and in my nearly incomprehensible handwriting.

Misc:

The text on the cat's book is from an unpublished animorphs AU fanfic I'm writing. This does not count towards the overall reference count.

The basset hound under Frisk's feet is based on Juulna's lovely basset.

#duskarts #fanfic reading challenge #original art #speedpaint #id in alt text

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

Name: Jo

Pronouns: Any

Age: Adult

Fandoms: DSMP (see disclaimers), QSMP, Life series, Minecraft, D&D, Pathfinder, JJBA, HxH, Portal, Warriors, musical theater. I guess I'm getting back into WoW lately too

Favorite characters: c!Quackity, c!Foolish, c!Tommy, c!Tubbo, c!Fundy. Giorno, Narancia, Jolyne. Killua, Meruem, Neferpitou. And uhhhhh Captain Nemo

Resume:

Best Analyst and Angstiest Poster in the Karlnapityblr awards

Best Manberg Analyst, Best Las Nevadas Crew Analyst, and 1/3 Best c!Quackity Analyst in the DSMPblr Analysis Survey

Pioneer of tw lobotomy

Tag listing (WIP):

My analysis

My fic

Cool art

The Discourse

DSMPblr Roleplay

Sensitive content will be tagged as "tw [thing]," ex: "tw abuse" or "tw cannibalism"

Disclaimers:

I don't like cc!Dream. If you like cc!Dream, you are not going to have a good time here. This is your only warning.

Fans and apologists of any character are welcome, but if criticism of their actions makes you uncomfortable, you might have a bad time here. I'm willing to roast any character for their poor decisions, including - no, especially - my favorites. It's my way of showing love <3

I do occasionally criticize the writing on the dsmp server and in other media, but I try to keep overt negativity to a minimum.

Poppytwt and suicide baiters will be blocked on sight. Stop it. Get some help.

Okay that's all for now, have fuuuuun

#introduction #new pinned who dis

[eternal-moss]

hi omg this is so random but your post abt genshin and the dream smp having (faux) christian influences came up on my recommended page randomly and I found it fascinating bc this is the first time I've EVER come across someone who liked/s (?) Genshin and the smp holy shit. I barely follow mcyt anymore but am still huge on genshin (though a lot healthier now than I was when I was also into the smp) and i just wanted to drop in and say hello and ask how you're doing I guess? sorry if this feels weird in some way I'm just very curious haha

Hi :D! Thank you so much for this message, it’s nice to have an ask like this every once in a while. The dream smp fandom is pretty dead at the moment, probably because of the nature of live-streaming and the time it took place in. The lockdown period still feels like a bit of a fever dream, but I do have fond memories of being in the fandom while it was at its peak. Most of the fan interactions were really fun and it was super active from a fanart standpoint which I loved (although I was on Instagram at the time and not Tumblr).

I went through a small death note phase after that (small as in period of time, it was less than a year which was unusual for fixations for me) and learnt what it was like to be in a small/dormant fandom given the anime ended in 2007. Then I stumbled across Genshin, which I guess is actually pretty similar to the dsmp in a lot of ways.

Firstly it was massive and had tonnes of fan content, which I was so happy about, had frequent drops of new material, and was also a video game which meant fanartists had a bit of freedom to change designs up and make unique character designs (which I think is super cool!).

However, I guess I am a bit sad because as an asexual person I really liked the dynamics of the dream smp, especially found family. Genshin has some great found family/familial content but people focus way more on the sex-appeal of the characters which I something I just can’t relate to. I do like the game and a lot of fan creators but most of the fan things made are centred around what’s sexually arousing to them, which is frequently gay men, and stereotyped and fetishised to hell and back (I’m not sure whether this is a fandom wide issue or a Tumblr issue).

I’m not against shipping, I enjoy it quite a bit, but I think there’s so much interesting stuff in Genshin, like the lore, platonic character relations, mythology and cultural influence, and especially the female characters who tend to get shunted to the wayside in favour of male characters. (I won’t pretend that there isn’t a discrepancy in how the genders are written though, Genshin has some issues in writing female characters as well as other issues like their pretty blatant colourism)

Sorry, this has ended up as quite a long response, but yeah this is pretty much my evaluation of the two fandoms! Genshin is a fandom I do genuinely enjoy, as was the dream smp, despite me being critical of them. I love seeing analyses and will continue to write stuff like this, I’m glad you enjoyed it!

(As for how I am, that is entirely dependent on school haha. I’m in my final year which means lots of exams, but I’m lucky to have some really great friends in my life)

#Asks #dream SMP #dsmp #Genshin impact #Genshin #mossy rambles