#i also really love antvenom

[fakezircon]

Hey! Look at me, I’m a distraction! (GO MAX, ZIRCONPOST, GOGOGOGOGO)

Genuine question though, when did you start playing minecraft? What got you into the game initially?

Ooh a distraction! I'd better fully devote my attention to this!

The first time I played minecraft was on a computer in the basement of my grandmother's house on my cousin's account. It would've been a month or two before the beta 1.8 update because the version I played then did not have hunger. I just messed around a bit as it was more my cousin showing off the cool new game he found.

This got away from me so the rest is under the cut :)

Later my sister bought her own account, and while I don't think I ever played on her account I did watch her play and it made me want my own. Fun fact, the minecraft account I play on now is the very same one that my dad bought me back then, what would've been within a month of the beta 1.8 update releasing. (I know that for sure because with beta 1.8 came a slight price raise and my dad complained about the fact that mine and my brother's accounts had cost more than my sister's)

From there I played it pretty regularly although I was never really one for creative or singleplayer worlds, I would play on a LAN world with my dad and siblings all the time tho. I never got tired of vanilla but as my family did we would move on to playing big mod packs, things like FTB and Technic.

At the same time I was starting to watch a bit of mcyt although it was the early days stuff, people like sethbling and antvenom come to mind as channels I watched regularly. I got a taste for the technical side of things and shortly thereafter started teaching myself minecraft commands.

Fun fact #2: back before block ids were saved as strings they were saved as just a number and if you wanted to do anything with commands you had to know those numbers. There were lots of tables out there but after a while I started to get the hang of it on my own, I can still match a good number of blocks to their once upon a time numerical ID.

I don't know what specifically drew me to the game to start but playing it with my family certainly got me hooked and once they moved on from it the technical stuff was enough to keep me sticking around pretty much to this day. I was never much of a builder as a kid (something that is probably noticeable these days) and redstone was interesting to me only so far as seeing what others did with it. I did try my hand at redstone and was for a while the most proficient person at it I knew but I wouldn't say I ever mastered it and my skills with it are certainly rusty these days.

The thing I love most about the game now is probably the grind. I am so happy to just sit and do a repetitive completable task for hours, it's soothing. I also still like playing it with my friends and with my recent foray into Vault Hunters I am finding a love for modded minecraft that I don't think truly ever left.

#orange slices #letters opened #1 more fun fact. My current mc account is gonna be 12 years old this next month

[summerlycoris]

Okay but one thing the whole “Bdubs found hermittwt and he could find hermitblr” thing brings up to me is a weird idea about content creators.

The weird idea that creators and fandom can never be one and the same. Which is weird, because many of the people who create minecraft videos are fans of each other.

Best example is Pixelriffs, Zloy, and Lyarra. Thety make their own vids and do their own thing. But they’re also big hermitcraft fans. You kinda have to be to work on a recap every week.

Tommyinnit started out as a Jcshlatt stan. Remember him and his crew in SMP World? Business bay and it’s dealings was just trying to pay homage to Schlatt Coin, and the kind of scams Schlatt would get up to on SMP Live.

Hell, speaking of Schlatt. He was a big Antvenom fan. Grew up on his vids, and helped bring him to SMP Live (Even if their relationship got... complicated fast lmao.)

I really doubt that Impulse watches Dreams videos much if at all. But he did express once wanting to be like Dream and pull off one of his tricks (In one of the Naked and Scarred series with Skizzleman) So that his daughters, who did watch Dream, would think he was cool too.

And this idea also acts like creators can’t belong to different fandoms, can’t read fanfic or make fanart, or just love anything that isn’t from themselves. Scar builds lego sets of Star Wars and loves going to disney parks. Rendog made an entire base around Star Wars in season 7. Grian made his version of Diagon Ally as a base. Is that not fandom? 

Heck, speaking of Rendog, him and Doc spend so much effort including their fandom in their vids and shouting them out, including their fanart (With permission) Other creators, like Martyn and Scott, also interact with fandom on tumblr. They reblog fanart, and clarify things if nessasary.

And this is just stuff that I know of.

Like, it’s an idea that just seems alienating. You can create, or you can consume. And no one can cross the boundaries of either. Fanartists, under this idea, aren’t worthy of respect in any real way. Nor fanfic writers. 

And it worries me, because i want to make stories. I want to be a real artist one day, who no longer needs a day job. I want people to see my art and go “Wow, so cool!” I want people to like my work as much as I do.

But I don’t want to lose the limited capacity I already have of connecting with people. I want to still be able to cosplay at cons. Or draw fanart of something I like. To read dumb fanfic. 

Maybe bdubs has never really been part of a fandom before. Maybe he’s seen no fanart of any movies he likes. Maybe he’s never cared before. But he’s interested in knowing more. He’s a fan of Etho, maybe he’s a fan of other things as well? 

I hope he can find something that suits him well.

#summerly talks

[1randomperson15]

I posted 6,410 times in 2022

That's 5,354 more posts than 2021!

109 posts created (2%)

6,301 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@samantha-kirkland

@fandomandsparkles

@sword-of-stardust

@dreamsclock

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I tagged 1,138 of my posts in 2022

#long post - 102 posts

#my stuff - 69 posts

#lmao - 50 posts

#interesting - 42 posts

#r/place <3 - 35 posts

#amazing - 30 posts

#<3 - 30 posts

#liveblogging - 19 posts

#dsmp spoilers - 15 posts

#mairimashita iruma kun spoilers - 15 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i feel like the only parents that will do it right will be people who went unsupervised and loved it but knew it could've been so much wors

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

This is so weird he's a stranger but he's not that's Dream that's where they're supposed to be. This is the world we live in now, they're together. Finally

121 notes - Posted October 2, 2022

#4

@staff

152 notes - Posted November 21, 2022

#3

The most important people to Iruma, everyone

166 notes - Posted November 3, 2022

#2

So, Ace Race...what happened?

To give everyone a clearer, more objective view of the situation, I present: the spreadsheet. It contains a list of every player's two times and placements and who disconnected (Keep in mind there could be more, these are just the names I saw in chat join/leave).

I calculated how many places players went up or down and how their time improved. They are color coded by team, and for your convenience I put three lists next to each other: The original placements, the new placements, and what the placements would look like if the only new times you counted were the players that disconnected. (This took seven hours).

Analysis under the cut

For the record, when the first player logged off (Captain Sparklez), there was 4:30 left, when the last player rejoined (Scar) there was 4:01 left, the first person (Dream) placed with 3:28 seconds left. they stopped the game with 1:20 left. And 5up, as far as I know, didn't even rejoin until after the race was over.

Fruit brought up the issue in chat at 2:29 left (after he finished), a few others agreed with him. Oli brought up redoing it with 2:07 left. I don't know whether the admins didn't notice or didn't realize how many people actually dc'd or figured teams were equally affected, but they announced a redo at 1:44. It was tight, they made a decision in 2 minutes and 17 seconds if they noticed everyone disconnecting. Or in less than a minute if they only noticed when people talked in chat, and they did stop the game 14 seconds later.

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Now for some analysis, many players dropped a few placements and felt upset about it, thinking they did worse. This leads to them becoming more frustrated with the reset. I suspected they likely didn't, it was just there were quite a few really good ace race players that got discontented (Illumina, Fruitberries, HBomb).

The vast majority of players improved their time, often by a lot. The only ones that didn't were: Dream, Sapnap, InTheLittleWood, Smallishbeans, FoolishG, Badboyhalo, and AntVenom.

To my knowledge: Dream tried and failed to copy Purpled's skip several times, Martyn had a really good run the first time/tried skips, and Ant's trident didn't work/he tried skips. Joel, Sap, and Bad's were 0-2 seconds worse. I don't know what happened to Foolish (lack of morale ?)

As to be expected, everyone who disconnected improved majorly from 45 seconds to over 1 minute and 30 seconds. Most also rose quite a few placements, but not all. And not enough to account for all the upset in the new placements, so what else?

Well, those who practiced for ace race a lot, vod reviewed, and had experience was now void of those advantages. Now, people had a fresh run, they are familiar with the movements needed, and they saw other people do skips that they can try.

Bad originally had a massive advantage because he has a unique way he practices it that familiarizes the movements to him, but that's now gone, though he only lost one second, he dropped 14 places. Hannah, on the other hand, had never played ace race in an event before. But with the reset, she did and thus performed much better, gaining 6 places.

Almost everyone got faster times, but certain people with certain circumstances were more affected by it. So players, rest assured, you probably did improve the second time around, others just improved more (others being players that were previously handicapped).

(Also Dream, yes it was at least 10 people that were dc'd, Skeppy has not played in 14 months and it was Fruit and Illumina.)

Here's the link if anyone was having trouble accessing it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TnIGRBftyOJUFE0IDK-cffCyTHVMVeQjeJ8nz-4egY4/edit?usp=sharing

I really hope this doesn't need to be said, but DO NOT use this as a basis to harass Scott or Noxite or any of the Noxcrew. I really hope this clears up some misunderstandings and make some people feel better, not make things worse. It was a tough decision, but I think it was by far the right one. You can see for yourself how much of a difference the disconnects made. Noxcrew does a lot every month to bring us the wonderful event that is MCC, Scott made the teams we're all so fond of, they just released the closed beta of MCC Island. No, things weren't perfect or ideal, but it was out of their control. Besides, we've only had 2 MCCs out of 24 that was this level of scuffed and I think that's a pretty damn good track record.

336 notes - Posted August 21, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

The fact that Wil's stream, Skeppy's video, and even Phil's stream all made me laugh at one point or another really says something about Techno, I think

758 notes - Posted July 3, 2022

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[jungledubs-archive]

Hello what is smp live :]

(This is a free coupon to infodump and also a genuine q btw)

smplive was a minecraft smp founded in early 2019 by a group of creators including jschlatt, antvenom, sneegsnag, and pokay! it's somewhat regarded as the smp that kickstarted the emergence of mcyt into mainstream media, as many of the creators that gained popularity from it went on to join smpearth and/or dream smp. the number one and titular rule of the smp was this: every moment had to be streamed. every single second you spent on the smp had to be livestreamed, whether on twitch or youtube, no matter what you were doing or how long you were on the server for. this means that for those who archived their streams, you can literally view every millisecond they spent on smplive. which makes for a hell of a rewatch, but also means that absolutely nothing got missed. if someone did something, you were able to watch it.

in fact, from what i know, smplive was the reason wilbur soot started streaming--to play with his friends (namely schlatt) on smplive, and smplive was also the origin of the “dirty crime boy” bit as well as hosting wilbur’s first performance of a song he wrote about minecraft squids, which was incredibly well-received and inspired him to continue sharing his music publicly (again, this is all from what i remember so might not be entirely accurate, but is probably pretty close)

the smp was mostly a fun multiplayer server where people built cool bases and set up shops in a central shopping district, not unlike hermitcraft s7, but with a focus on engaging the viewers by having them place “hits” on other members of the server for a certain amount of money--either for a prank or a kill. for this reason the server was incredibly chaotic and interactive, with viewers jumping streams and warning players that they were being hunted down by another streamer, and speed being valued as people rushed to try to trap and kill the designated player before they could be told. there were also, just, both failed and working traps absolutely everywhere--mostly outside people’s bases and in the shopping district, to the point where active players ran through the shopping district in a specific pattern to avoid triggering any of the dozens of pitfall traps.

smplive didn’t have any focus on or desire to do “lore” in the way that is commonplace now, but because of the nature of a lot of the people on the smp, it ran through a few lax “plotlines” (such as jschlatt running for mayor) and recurring bits that weren’t treated as your standard current “lore” but were built on and used more seriously by the fandom, such as ted nivison’s void, wilbur’s illegal potion lair, or the duel between captainsparklez and antvenom. in that way the smp was really fun and relaxing to watch, but if you wanted to take things more seriously in your fanworks, you could (and i still do! i love the void “plot” and use it in a lot of fics still)

and while on the topic of wilbur’s illegal potion lair, the relaxed attitude of the smp was also really great when it came to things like banned items--potions, among other things, were “banned”, but people made and used them anyway... so connor and schlatt started the “smplive police” and did house raids on people they thought might have “illegal items”. instead of people being punished or anything for “breaking the rules”, they turned it into another bit and had fun with it (i still think their fake ny accents, aka connor doing a ny accent and schlatt just talking in his normal accent but really loudly, were utterly hilarious). there was also another instance of the “police” where someone (i think antvenom) tried to make the entire server go vegetarian, and would confiscate meat from people, so it honestly was just off the wall all the time and it was great.

i think that’s kind of everything i have to say on a general overview of smplive! i could ramble about it for a very long time but i don’t want to make this post too long, after all, and so i suppose there’s just one more thing i should address: quite a handful of the people who participated in smplive two years ago have since been revealed as or are now acknowledged as bigoted, awful, and/or just generally offensive. it’s nowhere near the majority of all the people on the smp, and especially now that the fandom has pretty much died out it’s not as touchy and raw anymore (there was a period where i couldn’t watch smplive videos and now i don’t care as long as they aren’t on a certain person’s channel), but i think it’s a fair warning to go along with the smp that people did say shitty stuff on there sometimes and some went on to do or say even shittier stuff.

anyway, despite the flaws, smplive was really good and has a special place in my heart. and also still controls my brain because i’m still hyperfixating on it for some reason- let me go please- i want to stop thinking about lightning mcfeet-

if you ever want to watch it, plenty of people uploaded cut-down versions of good bits that you can find by simply searching “smplive” on youtube, and if you want to commit to an entire pov, captainsparklez’ entire pov is archived on youtube and antvenom’s is archived on twitch (antvenom was there from day one and is highly involved in a lot of things so i do recommend his)

thank you for asking me to ramble, i very much enjoyed this o7

#jungle answers #spitesprite #smplive #i did this all from memory. help me #long post

[rosesmusicandaloeveraplants]

1, 2, 18, 24 & 25? for the ask game ^^

hello spooks :D

1. I got into mcyt around June of 2020, it was a great way to just destress after the fiasco of 2020 AP Exams by College Board

2. The first mcyt I remember watching was either Wisp, TapL, or Calvin (if you're counting current mcyt, if not then probably former mcyt Failboat) like a year or two ago. I probably have stumbled on Captain Sparkles and AntVenom videos years before though.

18. Ooooooooo favorite quotes, there's quite a few from TapL, Techno, and Illumina that I like a lot :D Techno: "This is the second worse thing to happen to me." "Slut shame a man today for gender equality." TapL: "Have you ever considered that boats are just bowls for humans?" "Thick, thick bridges save lives." "Techno take the wheel!" "Wide TapL." just to list a few (also his "bruh"s are really good) Illumina: "Love all of you guys. And Catboys. And catgirls." and several others that either don't count as quotes or will cause you too much psychic damage on this ask

24. I have minecraft pocket edition if that counts lol, I have done some cave exploring and formerly an SMP with my sibling.

25. My best memory in mcyt is either catJAMming with mcsr streamer's music, the hype of MCC streams, or just vibing with TapL, Illumina, or Fruit's streams. If you're talking about experience in the fandom I would say late 2020 when gappleblr was popping off or meeting fruitninjablr and mcsrblr :D

Ask game :D

[lakedryp]

SMPs, and my thoughts about them

So, this might be long. It’s a spur of the moment monologue about how I feel certain SMPs such as Mianite, SMP Live, and Hermitcraft have survived whereas other ones like Minecraft Evolution have not. Although I have not seen any of Hermitcraft, that’s not the main focus, and I will instead be focusing on the ones I have watched, which are the rest that I have mentioned.

First of all, I feel like the people inside the SMPs are the biggest influencers into how long and how much of a fandom the series has. For example, Mianite had the strong character of Tom, with his barely following the rules but yet able to have fun with the rest of the cast. JSchlatt in Live is that way too, being the black sheep in a crowd of white and gray ones. The people are just fun to watch and interact with each other, and their friendships feel real.

Whereas on the other hand, I didn’t feel anything like that on Evo. There didn’t seem to much of a fandom either, with Grian being the most popular out of everyone there, and holding them all together. It felt boring, because no one went out of their way just to mess with another player. The relationships didn’t feel whole, and more like someone asked random people if they wanted to join an SMP. Now, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved Evo, it just wasn’t fun to watch.

Which leads me into my next point: you have to have different people with different talents. I’m not saying it’s bad to have more of one type then the other, but when everyone on the server is a builder, it’s not as much fun as if you have a redstone person and a writer and just the weirder people trying to steal your money *cough cough* JSchlatt *cough cough* and I think that was the downfall of Evo.

In Evo, I only noticed that it went down 6 months after Grian left, and I think that it was because they didn’t have a chaotic person, or much variety after that. Although I haven’t watched Hermitcraft, I have to admit I’m pretty happy that they have both a redstone person and a builder. I don’t know who else they have, but I do know that much. But back on topic, the only variety I saw was BigB, Taurtis, and even to an extent Grian. I didn’t watch much of the other players though, so I could be biased.

But with that in mind, most, if not all, of the players were builders. SystemZee was a builder, Grian was, Pearl was, and they were pretty much just building on every episode. Sure, it’s nice to get to know the individual players more, but it’s even better watching them interact with different people. I know that some people in Evo interacted with certain other people every time, but that also gets boring.

In my personal opinion, it’s much more fun to watch the players of the SMPs to interact with a multitude of people, in different situations every time. I like watching Captain Sparklez get killed on an elevator that a redstone-enthusiast made, I like watching Schlatt use his funny mic on AntVenom, I like it when the players have fun along with the audience. I like the purge element of Mianite, I thought that was really cool. The rules are fun if there aren’t too many.

I guess what I’m saying is that I enjoy SMPs when the people are having fun together, because it’s not really an SMP if every time the person is working on something for others to watch, they don’t interact with other people. The interactions and conversations are what make the series so interesting. I always watched Evo for those interactions, and almost never got them, and that’s why I don’t think it has as big of a fandom as Hermitcraft, Mianite, or SMP Live. Each of the other series has groups of people that interact and have fun together, whether it be a purge, where they can kill and steal from each other only during that night, building the Fallen Kingdom set, or just having fun. These little instances of people interacting with each other are what makes a good SMP.

Thanks for reading!! I hope this has been enlightening, because it’s literally just a bunch of random thoughts I came up with in the shower.

#smplive #smp #smp minecraft evo #hermitcraft #mianite #smp thoughts #these are my thoughts #and i just wanted to write them down #minecraft smp

[dino0nesie]

hi i just wanted to say that seeing antvenom content in 2019 wilds me out partially because he’s managed to haunt me through each and every interest in my life (he also called me a sin in a twitch plays pokémon chat once) and it’s incredible and i love it. i mostly post old ass team crafted shit but the fact that smplive just. in a weird way is That 2 is so fucking fun to me. idk where i’m going with this message but as an antvenom stan: 👌

i used to post so much more ant stuff in like,,,,, 2014/15 and its Wild that its just come full circle ykno. smplive really is just chaotic team crafted or chaotic mindcrack and its so Fuckin Good. bro,,,, antvenom stans rise up✊✊

#asks #this man just haunts everything on youtube and twitch #his twitch content compared to yotube is fuckin Weird #antvenom

[surpirate]

What's some classic minecrafters you like :3

oh god. 

hhhuh it’s been years but i remember the first mc yter i watched a Lot was captainsparklez? i was there for like. ALL of the survival series he did. like all of them dude. i was just a kid and i was having fun tho so its oki also was super duper into aphmau (and even way way back, when her channel was called challenge accepted..i loved thos pixelmon series). her minecraft diaries series got real fancy later on and i remember really loving that. uuUH i kno i was into skydoesminecraft for a hot minute back in 2013 and again in 2014? also antvenom very very briefly but that was like..2011? 2012? somewhere in there. ihazcupquake i remember really liking too!! tho i didn’t watch her much At All tbhuhH and these 2 def don’t qualify as “classic” but i watched littlelizardgaming for their pixelmon and dino mods stuff. also poetplays for the dinosaur mods too. god i loved dino mod minecraft. made my little preteen heart explode with joy

uhh that’s all the ones i can remember off the top of my head! i could recognize like, basically every mc yter on SIGHT but these r the ones i watched at least a couple times

#sursimon says #anon #mc #what a trip down memory lane shkajfhksj

[jungledubs-archive]

60. which tv or movie character(s) do you identify with and why?

General Amaya from the Dragon Prince. She’s canonically disabled and wlw, like me! I project onto her a lot, so I headcanon her as nd. She’s completely epic, so while I relate to her she’s also an inspiration. She kinda looks like me, too!

General Amaya on the left, her love interest Queen Janai on the right!

Would highly recommend this show by the way, there’s SUCH a diverse cast and it’s got a really unique animation style, as well as a great plot! It heavily inspired me to write Golden, and if you watch/have watched TDP and read/have read Golden, you might notice some similarities between Lord Viren and Antvenom... yeah, that’s where most of Antvenom’s character came from, lol 😅

#not a quote #clay answers #bisexual-dumbass-blog