#mcyt gc

[darubyprincx]

the squid of responsibility

#ray's tag #mcyt #hermitcraft #legit though real talk i have SUCH A HARD TIME DOING THINGS #i need this squid in my life... WAIT A SECOND! #ok new plan i send the squid to the gc whenever things need to get done #this is how i'm going to get through the last three weeks of school.

[its-elvie-innit]

Three years from the beginning of the dsmp you really gotta find it funny that it gave the lexicon of a 23 year old twitch crawler to 14 year old lgbtq+ tumblrinas

#like i as a 15 year old at that time made myself a fool #and it wasso funny #my send off message in my sr gc was “stay pog everyone be cringe be free” like . forever changed #dsmp #mcyt

[hardyorange]

v silly but crying in the club rn bc mumbo mentioned joehills /sister/ playing guitar in the background when joe dropped off some copper as a gift

#there are trans people providing live musical accompaniment to your block game and your fav block people think they're neatt #mcyt #hermitcraft #idt #tmblr gc #it's the casual acceptance for me #where's that stupid post about everyone secretly being farts this is just one more counter to that bs

[jpegink]

i never talk abt this headcanon i have but like here. holds this gently to u guys.

#tubbo #I MEAN LIKE #I CANT REMEMBER. WHERE DID THIS COME FROM??? but on the PEmcyt fans gc we were like 'yeah tubbo's peruvian' and we went along with it.forev #er #and uhh #so like. #ranboo is either argentino or uruguayo icant remember which #maybe both #BUT YEAH. #FAMILIA AMADO-GUIÓNBAJO SUPREMACY.......... #also miguel amado_ #<3 beloved #garabatos #dsmp #mcyt #dream smp #dsmp tubbo #tubbolive #michael underscore beloved #dsmp fanart #dsmp hc #están con sus ponchitos y miguel con su chullito.........<3 #jpeg.art

[maigetheplatypus57]

Conversation I had with my younger sibling today:

the influence that c!crimeboys has on me is unmatched tbh

#its been a joke in our irl friend gc that im like wilbur #but this is a whole other level lmao #the power of crimeboys is that even biological siblings end up comparing themselves to that duo #they are brothers your honor #maige's posts #maige's ramblings #do i tag this as spoilers lmao #mcyt #dsmp #wilbur soot #tommyinnit

[comradedream]

u being on mcyttwt makes sense

WTF what is this supposedto mean…

#asks #i wasn’t REALLY in mcyttwt i was just on stan twt w mcyt mutuals And we met through a gc 😊 #through a mcyt gc

[antimony-medusa]

Think: Does This Relationship Need To Be Family Dynamic??

Okay so people more articulate than me have made posts about how imediately family-coding and aging down characters and saying "this is the child and this is the DAD" is infantilization, and it's really fucking blatant when you do it to women, and it's really fucking glaring when you do it to disabled women. MCYT has the idea that family dynamic The Superior Dynamic and couldn't possibly be objectionable, but like, it is often straight up disrespectful. We are talking about adults. They are adults. Stop assigning them baby.

I have bitten the bullet and gone GUYS I AM BEGGING YOU and mentioned that Daddy Kink is a thing that is popular out in the world and that immediately fixating on one character as a Daddy and one as a Little is actually the opposite of trying to come up with a non-shipping option. Like I am not judging here if that's what floats yoru boat, but at some point you are putting kink posts in the main tag, even if it's not overtly sexual, and some of these posts I am only calling deniably non-sexual because you HAVE to know what you're doing.

But even aside from all of these things, someone brought something up in GC today that I think is worth mentioning. QSMP is an international server drawing from a lot of different cultures, and a focus on a nuclear family dynamic, with everyone being father-son or brother-sister to each other, is a really Western concept of what relationships are important. Kinship ties beyond the nuclear family are an important thing in a lot of cultures, and extended family is a thing (cousins, anyone?), and community ties are a thing (it takes a village?), and people choosing to be part of a sect or group is a thing (they have the ordem right there!), and esprit de corps is a thing (you try and tell me codebreakers don't have a warriors bond) and insisting that everyone is in a strict nuclear family is just an incredibly 1950s america way to view things. It's a narrowing of the possibilities in the relationships. I think we can do better than enforcing our cultural views on what relationshps are at the top of the hiarchy just like, across the board.

So like, okay, maybe you don't want to ship characters. That's awesome. That's fine. Shipping is not mandatory. Instead of always saying "they're brother-sister" because you want to celebrate their relationship, maybe consider sometimes letting them just be epic friends, or close connections where you're the Tia of his children but there's no blood there, or a qpr knot where you have important bonds with people but no formal romantic ties, or take one of the relationship types mentioned above.

Like, I have my woes with family dynamic especially because of the first two points and because I find it tends to strip characters down to archetypes which I'm not into, but also I'm very aware that it can be done in such a way that it respects everyone involved and is great. I am not arguing that family dynamic is inherently problematic. But there are some significant pitfalls with using it, and I'm really asking you to consider the implications of what you're messaging before you start sticking people in a family format.

#qsmp #and I personally read some painful kidfic in a different fandom now so even me as an avowed kidfic enjoyer is like goddamn #when you reduce a character down to Baby with no character and Dad with no character #that's not good writing #Maybe celebrate the actual character a little more? #qsmpblr #discourse #fandom meta

[barbiegirldream]

The merch thing is funny, but also Cate (punzs ex) was talking about parasocial relationships and all that, but has made a priv account where she follows fans and apparently vents in gcs

It's so abundantly clear from ccs and general mcyt fans that anything related to Dream is bad, but is totally cool for another cc to do

Cate is messy and crazy that I think was apparent from the way she tweeted about punz when they were dating

[galaxygermdraws]

Been doing some requests on discord in gcs with my friends. Basically I had them give me anybody from HC or the Life series, and I would go through their Name MC and pick my favorite skin, then draw it. I feel like your favorite MCYT skins say a lot about you as a person, but I have no idea what this says about me. Also showing off some updated designs.

(Also gave Keralis massive EHK vibes, if you don’t know what that is, go follow @/mawofthemagnetar and read it. Reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Versions without the references will be under the cut. Thankyu)

#hermitcraft #third life smp #alsmp #empires smp #last life smp #hermitblr #trafficblr #empiresblr #impulsesv #tango tek #skizzleman #geminitay #goodtimeswithscar #scott smajor #smajor1995 #dangthatsalongname #keralis #zedaphplays #zedaph #iskall85 #renthedog #rendog #grian #ldshadowlady #xisumavoid #bdoubleo100 #docm77 #tw scars #tw blood #tw body horror

[atthebell]

honestly like, if you asked me what two possible mcyt events could you ever come up with to put communities at each others throats severely, i would've said "election" and "giant pvp event that last multiple days" and it's honestly a little amazing the team didn't see the issues that would so very clearly arise from both of these (though i do think the elections were mostly handled better than other mcyt elections i've seen, most of my issues came down to the way the debates happened, the waaaay too big of a percentage the audience vote had, & the fact the ending date kept being extended). i keep trying to remind myself like things will get better once we move onto a new arc in the server to get over purgatory, and it's been two months...

yeahhh it's like. big moves that frankly from the start we all knew would cause issues. the elections to me was SUCH a red flag like. mcrp elections never go well and it's a miracle they turned out as okay as they did, but the whole process and the aftermath was a bummer and felt deeply unnecessary.

and yeah we've talked about purgatory in gc before but just. i can't even express how awful it was imo and how it continues to fuck the overall narrative as well as individual characters (and the ccs!!). and like you said a huge pvp event (that lasted TWO WEEKS!!!!) with lore stakes makes everyone lose their shit and accuse every other team of being toxic or not caring enough about the nebulous theorized end result-- it was a recipe for disaster, it felt like players were being used to playtest an event, and it was just not fun. like, i loved bolas, im glad they managed to push through it in spite of literally everything, but it sucked so bad several of them had to take long breaks. like, that's not fun.

in general though i am hoping desperately that shit improves, waiting with bated breath for the return of baghera and cellbit (and jaiden and charlie as well eventually!) and for the overall story to feel less railroaded, and i do genuinely want to have hope that it will get better soon. and that they don't pull huge crazy stuff like this again in the future, or at least make it more optional for players to engage with.

#asks #meenah #neg #crit #i really don't enjoy talking so much about stuff i dislike (in this way at least) but its just been killing me for months #i love this server so much. i want it to be good and i want to enjoy it #but if im not having fun with it and i think it has genuine narrative and logistical issues i think thats fair to mention #also i took out so many complaints from this because its just not worth listing every problem i have out #and also you and i have talked about so many of them already lol

[mcytblrconfessions]

okay so not exactly mcyt? but . basically my fiances talked about how they were planning on proposing to me at a lovejoy live show bcs lovejoy means so much to both of us (just a silly idea, neither of us live in britain so itd be. really hard to do lol) and me and my friends were gushing about the idea together . and basically long story short, but now me and my friends have a bit about wilbur soot being homophobic at my proposal and wedding its insane . its continuing too much . he haunts me . gay people gc wilbur soot is a creature and a scoundrel and eats people for interupting his live shows on command . hes also gay . i have no idea but its so funny take this as you will

#confession #group: lovejoy #cc: wilbur soot

[lilyvines]

what's up with misfits?

ok that is a kind of long answer

if you’re asking about today specifically, misfits released that they hired like 8-ish people, all of which were mcyt stan accounts (I would add the pic of the tweet but it’s been deleted since they were getting harassed) which led to a lot of talk about cc and fan divides and the need for separation of fans spaces. plus if you ask me it’s just really weird of a professional organization to be hiring a bunch of stan accounts, esp since I’ve heard some of them are minors (not sure about that one and can’t remember all the usernames to check for myself, sorry!)

if you wanna know what’s bad about misfits like in general, then it’s a combination of general mistrust towards creator orgs (they don’t have a great history), they have a lot of nft stuff going on (x) (x) and here’s a thread about why the people they partnered with are bad, the fact that they may have dropped nathan smoke to make room for more “big creators” (this is an assumption based on this tweet from nathan and some things he liked on twitter at the time). also once ben spoont entered a fan gc on twitter and decided to address controversy there (x) which is not normal at all. honestly i’m probably missing stuff but they’re just not great

#this is so messy and so poorly sourced and it's been a while since u asked sorry anon #discourse #but yeah. also this isn't something to be taken as proof but ben spoont weirds me out in general #like i can't tell if it's bc of all this or just bc i think he's annoying like idk what it is sorry #asks #anonymous #tell me if i missed anything or if any of this info is inaccurate!

[strangleetomz]

tw for a serious post, mentions of death threats, mention of suicide, yelling, excessive swearing, and dsmp / mcyt neg

i joined a discord gc so i could play with a friend, and not even 5 mins later i see another one of my friends being made fun of for liking tommyinnit & ANOTHER one of my friends being told to kts for being “weird”. Immediately fucking left after yelling at the asshole who did it.

I have a message for any toxic antis who may come across this.

STOP. MAKING. FUN. OF. PEOPLE. FOR. THEIR. INTERESTS.

AND STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO FUCKING OFF THEMSELVES.

let people enjoy whatever they fucking want. it does not affect you on who people enjoy to watch. some of these content creators are big comforts to people (like me), and they’ve saved people from killing themselves just from their content. not to mention a lot of people, again like me, are simply just hyperfixated on the dsmp / mcyt’s. THEY CANNOT FUCKING CONTROL THAT.

“But they’re problematic—“ And? Everyone on this fucking planet is problematic. Including you. So fucking humble yourself, you’re a shit person as well.

Who gives a flying fuck is somebody likes tommyinnit? or philza, or quackity, or dream, or technoblade, or wilbur soot, OR LITERALLY ANY DSMP MEMBER OR MCYT? WHY DOES IT MATTER? WHO GIVES A SHIT?

Exactly, nobody. Because it doesn’t matter. Let people be themselves. Let people watch whoever the fuck they want, and sit the fuck down and, again, humble yourselves because if your sending death threats, telling people to kts, making fun of literal CHILDREN for their interests, etc, YOU AREN’T A GOOD PERSON EITHER!

#fizzthelee rants /neg #dsmp #dsmp antis #mcyt #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #technoblade #philza #quackity #dream #dream smp #reblogs are appreciated but are /nf

[blocksruinedme]

ask anything? :D we talk empires n aus stuff a lot in the discord already so Im gonna ask: what were the best (and worst. if youre feeling the urge to be spiteful :3) parts of your last fandom before this? and what are the biggest difference, and similarities, between it and ur current mcyt fandoms!

Alright let's go. The fandom is The Untamed/Mo Do Zu Shi, and I will love it forever. If you've seen long hairedtruly beautiful chinese twinks in long robes in swords, it's probably then. the original source is a web novel written by an anime fic author, and I'm really into the live action version (there's also animated, comic, audio drama)

It caused me to learn a LOT about chinese culture language. Like, a lot, I tried Mandarin for a bit on duolingo but I can't even explain how much I learned about history, food, culture, forms of address, poetry, just, so much. The fandom is full of fancy smart bitches, one of my fave tumblrs is someone who majored in ancient china, and the analysis etc was just chef's kiss amazing. i wouldn't be doing chinese brush painting, and that's bringing me a lot of joy, i've never done visual art before.

I would not have learned so much about culture if it wasn't for my very tightknit group chat. I mentioned I'm on a plane to see friends? It's one of them & their spouse (who i've known since college) and one of the other people in the groupchat, who only knows them because I watched the untamed and introduced my friends. last spring us and the 4th member of the gc went on vacation together. I'm the only person who is fully monolingual, and the only one who isn't an immigrant or child of immigrants from taiwan. I've learned so much about so much of those experiences, and I didn't consider myself ignorant before, but you really need to get to know someone to understand some things (as much as you can without living it

the fic is FUCKING AMAZING. idk how many unread bookmarks i have of fic that is professional publication quality - partly because some of the authors are pro writers. I've been lucky to get to read a loooooot of fic by professional writers, cause my fandoms and ships overlapped. There is so much fic, closer to 100k than 50k i think.

i bonded with other friends by getting on calls and watching with them. i was maybe pushy lol. sadly i'm not gonna try and get anyone into mcyt

canon queer canon queer like deeply canon queer like there are extensive sex scenes in the novel and the entire thing is a gay/bisexual love story it's so good IT'S SO GOOD I CRIED SO MUCH IT'S SO GOOD. SOB SOB SOB.

xue yang my insane psycopath blorbo fuck i love him i got a painting printed on canvas hanginf over my bed.

the canon is closed. the script is a script and the actors are actors and nothing like feeling weird about the crossover can ever happen. i never got as much as i wanted with my side character blorbos but it is what it is.

Downsides

tha canon is closed ;-) I'll never get more than my 50 episodes, unless

Some drama and.... discourse has become such a loaded term. But sometimes you have things like conflict that comes up between the feelings and desires of chinese diaspora and jewish people about how things are portrayed in fic, right? And it's not fighting over nothing, it's (afaik) not fighting to fight, not fighting for clout or because you want to look cool or because you're unhappy with your life and think lashing out will help.

Also, there is fighting to fight and for clout etc. If I ever see top/bottom discourse again it will be too soon, i've got enough of that to last till the heat death of the universe

translations, man. translation is an art and i am glad to know so much more about translation but it's so frustrating to know you'll never really get it, and to try and tell people things like "i know he sounds very brusque but he's speaking ina. very fancy linguistic register and sounds fancy to the other people, and the way he said all those sentences there and they were all four characters long, that's poetic and significant and and and"

I was not inspired to write in general, I wasn't getting ideas. That wasn't notable because I've never ever ever written regularly, i wrote one yuletide fic a year for awhile, i old wrote novely. I am not someone who pops into a new fandom and writes 6 fic in 2 months cause that's the kind of thing that've done in other fandoms. this is insane. And now that i have the writing bug... well, the fic is so amazing, and plentiful, i'm not going to get much attention. i just wrote an exchange fic, my first time writing in the fandom, because my mcyt fic writing encouraged me. I am glad i did it, i made my recipient happy, and it will never get as many kudos as my least popular mcyt fic. I think it has 8, and I'm happy to get that. Here's the thing, i have so many things i *can* do with my creative energies, and multiple that i do to reach and touh other people, and i'm not going to prioritize things where i know I'm not good enough to get read. It's not that i'm choosing writing vs nothing because i want people to read it, i'm choosing writing vs. other things

Comparisons

Okay i think a lot can be pretty obvious from what I said above. We don't have that much fic, we don't have canon smut, afaik we don't have pro authors - not that you have to be pro to be good! or that all pro authors are good! but they usually are pretty good.

other people i knew irl or from my long fandom past got into it. i would get ao3 fic notification from people and eagerly check to see if they'd gotten dragged in. i do not expect that to ever ever happen here. i have ventured far away from the fandoms of my past!

For me... I was a pretty normal age in the untamed fandom, and i am wicked old here. I'm an elder millennial. When I was in my 20s I met fans in their 50s, including at cons that make it really real. I don't see any reason people should drop interests cause they age??? It's bizarre and incomprehensible to me and I always wonder how people will feel when they age. I don't think there's anything inherently childish about this source, and i am happy to talk to younger people, but it's different when you know you're at a similar level of life stuff, and the privileges that come with age. i try to be careful and aware of this with my interactions with younger people. power imbalances etc and i think i do a good job. (my fandom before the untamed, that i was much more casual about, was other youtube and that was maybe even younger?)

The canon! oh my god! LOOK AT THIS SHIT. I majored in media studies and focused on fandom and what was at the time new media and this is... y'all if i was in college now i would be writing desperately about this. As a media studies person, as a larper, as someone who is obsessed with watching the ways people can express themselves and connect and stuff grow... fuck man. SMPs????? fuck yeah!!!!!! gah!!!!! catch me sober and i can be more coherent.

connecting with people has been slower, but it's picking up. <3

the untamed had so few female charaters. empires being so female is just so amazing to me, and i *am* working on f/f, it's just. the problem is jimmy, okay? no women throw themselves at jimmy, it's not *my* fault.

i can't fucking vid it. i just. can't. i can't draw and i never finished any vids for the untamed but i have so many unfinished ones. i'm not a great vidder but i love it, and not even having the possibility... it makes me sad a lot, actually. but i need facial expressions and more dynamic footage.

in conclusion fandom is great. before the untamed i hadn't been seriously into fandom in years, i've always been in and out. it was insane how into it i got. i started watching as i recovered from major surgery, and was still deep in the pandemic blues.

mcyt has unlocked creativity in me I never ever ever expected. i'm an elder millennial and i started reading fic when i was 12 and fic writing was never gonna be my thing. in 2021 i beta read over 100k words to contribute, in 2022 i started podficcing to have some creative expression of my own. my therapist and i talk about it all the time (i've been with her since i was 19, we talk about everything, and fyi what you love can say things about what's up with you and therapists know that, talk about your blorbos). I've determined i'm not getting an answer anytime soon. The medium is a lot, right, but it's more. I don't know, but I fucking love writing like this, the satisfaction, the fact that i made someone *cry* with my silly cave ranchers fic. I've made people cry a lot with my larp writing, but that intended to make them cry, not something i wrote in a fever dream in one day.

So thank you everyone who is part of my experience, it's been really great and i hope to keep being so happy and fulfilled and encouraged in my creativity etc!

"hope that's what you wanted". i am only ever concise due to extensive editing lol :)

#me #answering asks

[lavenderfeminist]

im not a radfem but im gc and dteam/mcyt on main!

-_- you’re welcome

#asks

[fixhbones]

we were having a silly lil chat in irl friend gc about the face reveal and then my one friend who hates mcyt and everyone remotely related to it has come to kill

man you know i love you but we we’re having a good time laughing 😭

#blub