#switch!ponk

[pizzainator]

c! not cc! yadda yadda~ Technoblade and Foolish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My beloveds <3

everyone lets do this ok? play touys

[summerspectre]

heyo!!! you said on your when-did-you-join-the-dsmp-fandom poll that anyone who has joined recently and needs guidence that your inbox is "open as hell" and i'll take that as a challenge to ask many things (also a fellow rwby fan in the wild? cool.)

I'll keep it brief for now, I guess the main thing is where do i start with watching the actual content/vods? I've watched a few recap videos and get the overall Vibe of what goes on with the story and characters but i'd love to know where to go with watching the actual streams. Like, what's the process here? do you pick a single person and watch all of their vods? do you switch povs to get a more complete grasp of the story?

its so hard to wrap my head around just the sheer amount of content here and its impossible to know just where to start so. Anyways. tysm <3

hi! yeah I'm open to asks all the time! + i feel like we're the spiderman pointing meme except i think all rwby fans should be dsmp fans and vice versa /lh

if your recapper was evanmcgaming this is a formal apology from me /lh, evan does a good job giving the ideas but he's not... my favorite in terms of his clear bias

regardless, as for content, i would highly recommend blueberry tv or this carrd! if you do choose to engage in VODs alone & you're looking for the full story from start to finish, you're going to want to watch from the point of view of tommyinnit (unfortunately this is only part of it + not all VODs) or alternatively you can watch from the pov of tubbo to get the full l'manburg story, depending on what route you want more content of

want to see the start of lmanburg, manburg, and new lmanburg in nearly their entireties? I would suggest starting with tubbo. want to see the start of lmanburg, pogtopia, and exile? you're looking for tommy's pov + for either you'll diverge later to explore any preferred storylines— for example, las nevadas, snowchester, the egg, etc.

although, if you're not interested in 'the main plot' you could really start on any point of view. a lot of people catch up by treating it like a podcast and watching vods pretty constantly, because truly it is a lot of content. it really is more of a choose your own adventure— some of my favorite characters are sam and ponk who I knew so dangerously little of for a long time, but invested time in learning their stories and got hooked

truly there is no one-size-fits-all but if you start watching and you find a character you like, you can follow them into their rabbit hole! + experts of any character lurk around tumblr (resident c!tubbo & c!sam expert here, plus I'm happy to direct you in the way of c!techno experts that I know, c!tommy experts that I know, c!dream experts that I know... truly when you find a good circle of people with blorbos that can explain you their stories, stick with them!)

I learned about a lot of the story by watching animatics and then finding corresponding vods at first, so I've been lucky enough to get a true puzzle experience

point is— have fun, there is no obligation to be one with the content to love the story and fanwork, and you've got help all around in getting to know the place!

thanks for sending an ask! <3

[bonesandthebees]

Lastly, the cane, which once again shows how much Phil loves his son. (And how much Techno loves his nephew. You know, the family dynamic is something we have not see a lot of yet, and I am living for it.)

[Of course his father came by at least twice a day.] look at him being a good father! Now tell your son you love him! Too emotionally aware?

[Ponk confirmed that he had put Tommy on bed rest despite his many (and loud) protests.] see he probably wants to see Wilbur too, is probably angry at everyone around him for lying. And we have yet to hear Wilbur nightmares, but I’m sure Tommy is having them.

[“I asked him to add the roses though,” Phil added, “thought it would be a nice touch.”] see these roses are a religious thing, and it has something to do with death and I feel like it also has to do with protection. Question though: are the roses on the walking stick part or on the blade part? Because that changes implications.

[Phil and Techno shared a look.] hey it’s look number 5, I could have added this to my starting segment somebody play the music and switch to the title card

I love Phil trying to stop Techno from selling him out and Techno not having it. He will tell your son how much effort you put into this gift. He will also show your son his new cool blade.

I wonder whose idea that was. Was it added too or in the original design? The idea is that Wilbur can protect himself with it, but he’s not a great fighter (will they get him more lessons?). I think it’s more for the idea of safety. Both for Wilbur and for them. He will always have the cane, thus always have a weapon, so the next time something happens, he will be able to defend himself.

And I don’t remember if this particular Wilbur is a pacifist, but the dagger might make him uncomfortable, he will still use it to protect Tommy (not even to protect himself, baby brother has been acquired and the instincts are strong. He will protect the kid who is the only reason he’s still alive).

Lastly, [Sometimes when answering Phil’s questions, Wilbur felt horrible dread at the idea of getting them wrong. This was not one of those times. He already knew where this conversation was leading.] I cannot just ignore this? The implications! It’s that fear of messing up again! But it was there at the start of the chapter and now it’s gone. Will it stay that way? Is this positive improvement? We’ll see…

-🌲

phil no your son doesn't really comprehend that acts of service is your love language phil you need to tell him with your words phil noooo he can't hear us he's wearing airpods-

I'll say tommy and wilbur are definitely both having nightmares. it's to be expected after something like this.

the blade itself is hidden inside the cane and in order to slide in smoothly it has a very simple design, so no, there aren't any roses on the blade part. it's only on the cane part. although it's less of a symbolic meaning and more just because of what I view as how a cane designed like that would practically work. symbolically speaking the cane and the blade are two parts of the same object, so the roses are technically on both if that makes sense

ok maybe I have phil and techno share looks too much but those two are just really good at reading each other without saying anything

phil is ridiculous he literally overpaid so much to steal that cane from whoever commissioned it. while I want to say that phil and techno wanted to add the blade into the cane, I also don't know how that would be possible 'realistically speaking' given the narrow time frame. like I don't think whoever carved that cane could've added a blade inside of it in the span of 2 days, but at the same time if we ignore logic and reasoning I do prefer the idea of it having been techno's idea. so yeah just uh. ignore realism with that one bit.

but yeah it's definitely more for safety than anything else. it's a way of showing wilbur that he won't be put in a situation like l'mannes again. and if anything ever happens, phil and techno want to make sure he can keep himself safe. they never want him to be helpless again.

I actually can't remember 100% if I've mentioned rose!wilbur being a pacifist or not in the past and I'm too tired to try and skim through the whole fic to check, so forgive me if I'm contradicting my past self here but I don't think he is? if I go back and find out I did make him a pacifist then oops but I don't view him as one. he just sucks at fighting, but he was raised by phil who has, like, zero moral issue with murder. he knows that they don't live in a forgiving world and that sometimes you have to get your hands dirty.

hmm guess you'll have to wait and see if this is an improvement in their dynamic or not...

tysm for all the wonderful analysis as always spruce. I always have so much fun going through these. I'm very very excited for you to eventually read the next chapter :)

[metfell]

alright dsmp pmd au character assignments:

player: tommy (hoenn zigzagoon) partner: tubbo (skiddo) grovyle: wilbur (umbreon) wigglytuff: technoblade (emboar) chatot: phil (corviknight) bidoof: ranboo (absol) lapras: kristin (still a lapras) uxie: eret (galarian articuno) mesprit: foolish (galarian zapdos) azelf: hannah (galarian moltres) dusknoir and darkrai: dream (hisuian zoroark) celebi: karl (still a celebi) other guild members: jack (magneton), niki(mawile), purpled (charcadet), fundy (nickit), and aimsey (sentret) kecleon shop: ponk (hisuian decidueye) and sam (nidoking) spinda: quackity (murkrow) manaphy: michael_beloved (not sure if changing or not. if so: tepig) azurill and marill: maybe michelle and/or foolish jr and finley?? we need kids and theres just not a lot. so. team skull: sapnap (charmeleon), george (hattrem), punz (still a skuntank) dialga: XD palkia: prime???????? drista????? cresselia: brother i am not sure. puffy???????? NO clue. could just reuse kristin here too tbh. not sure.

NOTES: may switch kristin to cresselia and puffy to lapras. slimecicle works in quackitys cafe and is a gulpin maybe?? a reuniclus? an alolan muk?????

[kisuminight]

More DSMP Blade System AU Red Banquet details! We'll start with who got invited and why.

c!Sam and c!Puffy got invited because they are the driving force behind Pro-Omlette and the Egg wants to shut that down hard.

c!Ponk gets invited to mess with Sam. Oh, he joined the Egg's side and is a spy? Well, that'll just mess with Sam even more!

c!Niki basically got invited for the same reason, except they're trying to get to Puffy. The Egg did not know about the Syndicate or realize that Niki was close to Techno, or they would've had her stay home.

c!Foolish getting invited messing with Puffy is more of a bonus than anything. The Egg has heard about his search for godhood and got curious.

c!Sapnap gets invited because he is one of the few ties that c!Ant, c!Bad, and c!Skeppy still have to the rest of the DreamSMP. Controlling him will make them easier to influence. Bad was able to wriggle out of this, but it did make a good excuse to get Punz out of the way for a bit, and the roses c!Hannah has helped plant around Kinoko Kingdom are enough of a timebomb/trap to satisfy it for now.

c!Eret got invited because they are the King, even if the King doesn't really have any power. The Egg likes breaking things, and Eret's sense of self and purpose would be an easy one. Eret is also vocally Pro-Omlette, more than several of the others.

c!George, c!Ranboo, and c!Purpled are where things get complicated.

c!Ranboo has occasionally turned up where the Egg can observe him as ew!Ranboo, complete with a Resonance with c!Dream (they were testing if Blades can switch Drivers without reverting to core crystal). The next day, the Egg observed c!Punz as being in a chain Resonance with Dream, and Purpled as the Driver at the head of that. Since none of the Eggpire know about the Memory Patch, or that Dream is volunteering for these experiments, it looks pretty sus. Like, killing a newly Awakened Blade maybe a day after you Resonated with them and they're still in the blind obedience phase. Multiple times. Over a short period. Like, bad and Skeppy don't really have their own thoughts or even private thoughts anymore, but their outsider perspective absolutely has them interpreting it as an abusive relationship, as far as Blades go. Shutting that down and maybe getting access to Dream is why Ranboo gets an invite.

Purpled did not get invited to the Red Banquet so they could kill him. On the contrary, the Egg wants to basically imprison him right next to it and the altar, so that when the Egg gets the powerups from the murder, Purpled is getting splashover effects from this. If that is not enough to corrupt him, the Egg has...

George! Who is slated to get murdered last in the program of events. See, DreamXD is being much more subtle with George as compared to c!Karl. The Egg does not know they are in contact. The Eggpire is made in large part from the original friend group, and they all know how DNF is. George is slated to get murdered last, and if Purpled hasn't joined the Eggpire yet, they are going to tell George that they are doing this because they are trying to reclaim Dream (from Purpled specifically). The idea is to get George mad enough and out of sorts enough that he comes back and succumbs to the Egg. Then they can send Eggpire!George out to retrieve Dream. They'll still be out Punz, but if they have Purpled and then Dream's core crystal, the Egg assumes that Punz will willingly walk into a trap so they can kill him and get him reAwakened by another Eggpire member.

Other non-invite details under the cut:

The new timeline has the Red Banquet taking place late June, early July. Because of that, c!Quackity has already found and Awakened c!Slimecicle as his Blade. c!Slimecicle is noteworthy in that he is the original volunteer for the Blade Memory Patch project, and is a bit weird for a Blade as a result. He's classified as a tank/lightning Blade, and I want to say he is more of the "debuff the enemy" type of a tank than a "absorb all hits" type.

Slime's Soul Weapon is a sword. His core crystal is green, though not quite the same shade as Dream. Since both Blade and Driver can carry and use the Soul Weapon, Quackity comes to the Red Banquet with a sword with glowing green aether lines. He is bluffing on the idea that he has found Dream and Awakened Dream. It very nearly causes a fight with Techno when Quackity goes to recruit him. It does cause a fight with Sam, after the rescuing is done and the Eggpire is running. Quackity is outed as being a Driver to a Blade, though he does not say who the Blade is, other than Not Dream.

The Red Banquet is actually when a lot of people find out about the Blades on the server. Skeppy lets loose from where he's sitting on top of the Egg. He's tossing around homing arrows and Shredding Winds. Unfortunately, the close quarters makes Meteor Storm nonviable. Techno uses his basic shuffle technique to raise barriers of dirt and stone for protection. This is the first time most of the attendees have seen Skeppy let loose and the first time anyone has seen Techno pull out the magic. Techno even goes so far as to pull his Soul Weapon, and the two wreck the place quite a bit before the Eggpire retreats. Suddenly, Quackity and George are recalculating a lot of things that they thought they knew about Techno.

In the aftermath, Quackity's going to have a lot of fear about how easily Techno could've wrecked L'Manberg, the mysteries of why he didn't, and what that means for Las Nevadas. Sam starts thinking that Techno is just a bit too dangerous, but he doesn't know who the Driver in this relationship is because he is aware that c!Philza is also a Blade. George is going to be comforted a little by the fact that Dream didn't ditch him to go be Techno's Blade, but that doesn't help the overall feeling of abandonment caused by Dream being dead and missing.

~

Sapnap and Punz are sparring in Kinoko Kingdom to make up for missing the banquet. After a fairly simple exchange, Punz stumbles and drops his sword. Sapnap thinks he might've really hurt him by accident, but Punz isn't looking at Sapnap. Punz is looking towards the Eggpire, and his face his pained. Sapnap has never seen him looks like this before.

"Purpled?" It's gasped, like Punz has no air left in his lungs. One arm wraps around his stomach like he's clutching a wound. The other reaches towards a gleam of blue at the base of his throat. Punz glimmers and is gone, snuffed out like a candle, and an indigo core crystal hits the ground where he was standing.

Sapnap is torn up about this. He keeps losing his people. Bad and Skeppy have a cult and he is apparently not welcomed. Ant has sided with Bad and Skeppy. Red is dead. Dream is dead, more recently, and his core crystal is missing. Alyssa left. He never sees Callahan. Quackity left, too. Karl is forgetting things. And George has been sleeping every since Dream. And now Punz?

On one hand, the right thing to do would be to track down Purpled and give him Punz's core crystal. On the other hand--Sapnap doesn't really know Purpled. He didn't know Punz was a Blade, let alone his Driver. He doesn't know where Purpled can be found. Can't he keep just one friend? Even if the Punz he Awakens from the core crystal is not the Punz he just lost, it will still be Punz.

Core crystals usually take about 3 days before they can be Awakened again. At least Sapnap has a little time to think on it.

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-08-28

Arts and crafts

Listening: Chamber Mage

It's big loud heavy metal. Apparently they're doing their first run of live shows on this one album alone, godspeed.

Reading: Perhaps the Stars still. It's going, unfortunately I have gotten hooked on Breath of the WIld and my indiscipline has eaten into reading time so that's going slower.

Also a bunch of stuff about solar irradiation at various altitudes. This is part of an ongoing thing so I don't have much to say other than that there are so many different ways for light to get lost as it passes through the atmosphere, this stuff is way more complicated than they make it sound in passing.

Watching: Remembered that I was halfway through Noir, the 2001 Girls With Guns anime. I was enjoying it before my life got flipped turned upside down. Older anime has the bonus of having ludicrous amounts of cost saving measures which makes it fun to watch in the same way that it's fun to inspect mass produced consumer products for clever engineering tricks. They reuse SO many scenes to make this thing, episodes are like ⅓ bare minimum motion dialogue, ⅓ flashbacks, and ⅓ pretty good looking bespoke action combat scenes.

Making: Checked out a by-the-hour workshop called PONK, sanded down Galena to near final fit-up. Really handy to have a place like PONK on hand, I cannot justify dealing with the dust kicked up by a belt sander alone, even ignoring the cost and space.

Playing: Breath of the Wild! You can check the tag for my ongoing notes, but it's what I'm doing with a lot of my spare time at home. It's really engaging and despite my expectations, it's not a game I sit down at in the morning and then play for eight hours.

Maybe that's because I'm no longer in university/high school (although I'm pretty sure I could still spend 14 hours straight in Warframe) but I think it's more that every few hours I get bodied so hard by an enemy encounter that I have to go lie down.

Having a good time, I rambled into the desert last night and did a shrine on the border, no clue what I plan to do tonight.

Tools and Equipment: I hooked up a dead simple USB KVM under my desk to switch a keyboard and mouse between my desktop and my work laptop. Big quality of life improvement for working from home that cost like $10. It doesn't switch video or anything so I still have to use the toggles on my screen but most monitors have multiple inputs these days so that's not exactly a huge ask.

[tboyquackity]

OK also switching my bio cuz tbh it's actually sam i Understand and schlatt i Defend. don't get me wrong ilove sam i think a lot of what he did was justified or at the very least stemming from a train of thought you could follow v clearly but goddamn those ponk and hannah streams got me hitting amiga poses yet undiscovered

[sageinacage]

u guessed it. ponk anon with a ponk prompt. i know No Variety. anyway mercenary squad tickle fight mayhaps? no pressure tho man <3 /gen

Little Grape summary: punz and purpled are pushing each others buttons, and ponk tries to take the role of a mediator. keyword: "tries." a/n: this is just like All tickles bc im too lazy to write a proper intro LOL but i hope u enjoy!! warnings: swearing, pinning down w/c: 1.1k DSMP, Platonic

~

Yelling and a side of loud laughter filled the house. Ponk sighed, listening to what he assumed was Punz and Purpled fighting again. He closed his book and shook his head, unable to hold back a small chortle at his friends’ loud situation.

This was a normal occurrence, those two always pushed each other’s buttons, doing whatever it took to piss the other off. Brother-like behavior most would say. The doctor got up and headed to the living room to see what the ruckus was about this time.

He stood at the entrance of the doorway, chuckling softly to himself at the sight.

“Puhuhurp- stohahAHAP!” The blonde cackled, feeling mischievous fingers crawl up his side.

“Good suggestion! Don’t care, though!” Purpled sniggered, finding the soft spot of the man’s stomach. “I personally think you deserve this for being so annoying today. It’ll tire you out! You should be thanking me right now, honestly.”

“What did you do now, Punz?” Ponk crossed his arms, standing a good distance from the two. “N- NOHOTHING! I SWEHEAR!”

The man hummed, not believing that statement. “Purpled, what did he do?” He questioned, looking at the alien. “He wouldn’t stop calling me a little grape, it was getting so fuckin’ annoying!”

Ponk put his hand over his mouth, stifling a laugh. So this is what they were fighting about now?

“I don’t think that’s fair to kill him, Purpled! Words before actions, bud.” Ponk smiled, Purpled standing up to face him. Punz gave a sigh of relief, using the break to catch his breath on the floor.

“Well, he never listens! I’m not a little grape, I'm a man!” Purpled’s voice squeaked, Ponk slapping his hand over his mouth yet again to stifle a laugh. “What’s so funny, huh? Y’think I’m funny?” The alien put his hands on his hips, raising an eyebrow.

This boy is so incredibly sassy.

Small giggles consumed Ponk, covering his face as he couldn’t stop the flow of laughter pouring out of him. Purpled smirked, having a new plan.

“Yeah, Ponk?~ Where did all the enthusi-aHAHSM- PUHuhunz!” The boy’s antennae perked up, his body falling back into the other mercenary as he kneaded his digits into his lower ribs.

“Whaaat? Keep sassin’ him, see where that takes you, little grape.” Punz raised an eyebrow, prodding his big hands into Purpled’s waist, earning a high-pitched shriek. “Oh? What, you didn’t forget about me, did you?~”

“SHUHUT UP! Y- Yohohou suhuck!” The alien squealed, kicking his legs out. “Oh, Purpled! Where did all of your enthusiasm go, hmmm?” Ponk grinned, slowly approaching the boy with wiggly fingers.

“GEHET AWAY! PUHUNZ MAHAKE HIM STOHOHAHAP!” Purpled frantically tried to squirm out of the other blonde’s grip, not wanting to face the wrath of Ponk’s tickles. “Why should I? You were the one talking mad shit, I think you deserve it.” Punz shrugged, wiggling his fingers gently between the grooves of his ribs.

The moment Purpled squeezed his eyes shut, he felt another pair of fingers gently vibrate into his stomach. The hysterical shriek it produced made both ticklers stop for a moment and chuckle. “Bad spot, lil' plum?~” Ponk grinned at him, starting to slowly scribble his nails on the sides of Purpled’s belly, making the same frantic giggles start up again.

“Oh? Does somebody have a ticklish tummy?~ D’awwww…” Punz cooed, grazing his fingers along his ribs. Purpled noticed the grip they had on him loosened up, as both the older ones assumed the boy was ‘tickled out.’ That was definitely not the case.

“Aha!” The alien moved his hands behind him, latching it on to whatever he could reach; which happened to be Punz’s side. “SHIHIT! Nohot agahain!” Punz fell back, tripping as Purpled practically tackled the other mercenary to the ground.

“Need some help there, bud?” Ponk asked, only to get an instant nod. He smiled, getting on the ground next to Punz and reeling in his wrists to hold them above his head. The grip was firm, but definitely not firm enough to keep Punz completely stuck. It was still possible to escape, but Punz truly didn’t want to. He was having fun.

“Guhuhuys… y- you dohont haHAHAVE TOHOHO-! PUHUHURP!” The man screeched, cold and nimble fingers sneaking up his hoodie to relentlessly squeeze at his lower waist. “We really do, though! You deserve this after torturing me, asshole,” Purpled wheezed, going for a sweet spot right underneath his belly button.

The screamy laughter it produced was quite entertaining, the poor mercenary’s body going completely limp with the sudden overly-ticklish sensation wracking through it. Ponk, feeling bad for the predicament he put Punz in, decided to let go of his wrists and sit back to watch.

Punz’s hands immediately shot down, lunging at Purpled to wrestle him. “WAIT! Shohouldn’t we gehet Ponk?” Purpled giggled nervously, as Punz was currently straddling him. Punz smiled, giving the boy a nod. “Finally a smart choice from you!” He teased, earning a playful shove back.

Both blondes glared at the other, both of them clad with evil smiles and definitely not good intentions.

“Uh oh…”

“Uh oh is right, Ponkie!~” Punz lunged at the man and wrestled him to the floor, immediately finding his thighs and gently squeezing. “NOHOhohoho! Quihit ihit!” Ponk’s laughter was breathy but squeaky, if you could describe it in one word it would be ‘happy’.

“'Quit it'? Damn, what is with you guys and bad ideas?!” Purpled teased, sitting next to Ponk and gently digging his fingers into the doctor’s upper ribs. “Ooh, little grape! Go for his waist, trust me.” Punz smiled at Purpled annoyed groan at the nickname, but he complied as he cautiously danced a few fingers over Ponk’s waist.

“PUHUHUHURPLEHED!” Ponk screeched, Purpled giggling at his friend’s reaction. “I’m barely even touching you, dude! Holy shit, this is so good!” The alien laughed with Ponk, digging in a little bit more to earn another shriek.

“Ponk, in all seriousness- I love your laugh. It’s such a nice sound!~” Punz smiled, kneading his fingers into the muscles on his thighs. “SHUHUHUSH! ENOHOUGH YOU TWOHO!” Ponk’s laughter was filled with mostly squeaks, indicating that he was getting tired.

The two mercenaries let up, sitting by their friend. “So, this all started by me calling you a little grape?” Punz grinned at Purpled, the boy furrowing his eyebrows. “Maybe I should start calling you ‘little bitch’ and see how you like it!”

“Guhuys!” Ponk giggled, unsure if he was still giggling from the tickles or if he was giggling at his friends' antics.

“Punz started it!”

“Purpled…”

[bigboobyhalo]

Don't be shy, drop the pronoun headcanons 👀

HELL YEAH I WILL (this is all /rp)

SAM: he/she/they

BAD: he/they/it

TOMMY: he/she

PUNZ: he/they (CANON)

JACK MANIFOLD: he/it

HBOMB: he/she

TECHNO: he/it

PUFFY: she/he

RANBOO: he/they/it

FOOLISH: any

CHARLIE: any (more pronouns = more human)

[spring-cosmos]

Thinking abt how Eryn wants to fix things and immediately wanting to help Ponk by killing Sam (Nook?)

[wilburzgutz-inactive]

uhhh for the character thing!! ponk (shocker I know) in hurrgghh n using H1👍

he’s wavin !!!!! :D

(expression/palette challenge thing)

[mangobubbletea7]

I cant take the lore seriously with the calming music in the background AHSVQGABNA

YEAH I WAS WONDERING WHERE THE DECISION TO KEEP BEAUTIFUL RELAXING INSTRUMENTALS IN THE BACKGROUND OF THAT SCENE CAME FROM TOO

Sam: I’m going to have to take your arm...

Ponk: My friend, you can’t be serious, look what this prison is doing to you...

Background music:

[okitnoburemaking]

why are ppl going at bbh again... leave him the fuck alone man...

[the-final-sif]

Anyways, time to try to figure out this fucking cake. c!Dream gets his allies involved to solve this conundrum, and neither of them are helpful.

As it turned out, Punz could not figure out Sam's handwriting. Neither could Ranboo when he was eventually looped in on the topic of The Cake.

Dream sent several photos to their group chat, and neither of them could make out any of the other words, meaning he was realistically back at stage one, and now Punz was worried. Which was bad.

It wasn't unfair, Dream had to admit that he'd... been inaccurate in his estimates of how dangerous the prison was. He was able to own up to that. He was also perfectly aware of how Punz worried, and how... badly... the man had taken the news of torture.

But in this case, everything was fine. Mostly. Ponk would back soon. Dream could fight back. Everything was fine.

Except for the cake.

Punz was worried about a threat, and now he wanted to intervene, and Dream couldn't have that. He didn't want to lie to Punz, but he wasn't sure if he had any other options.

It didn't help that Punz was making a point.

'If he didn't mean it as a threat, why wouldn't he give you a plate or something?'

The question was valid, and sparked doubt. If Sam really intended for Dream to eat this cake, why wouldn't he have cut it up? Or brought-

No sooner had Dream started engaging with that thought, the door started sliding open.

Instantly, he was on alert. His hand was on the knife Ponk had given him. If Sam thought that he was stupid enough to eat that, that it would weaken-

Sam... didn't appear hostile. He looked... embarrassed? And he had... a plate and silverware.

It'd been awhile since Dream's last ear drops, and his headache was back in full force (not to mention Sam neglected to remove his gas mask), so he had no idea what Sam said as he put the plate and silverware on the nightstand by the cake before quickly turning and skittering out of the room. Obviously nervous.

Well fuck, now this was complicated again.

Dream quickly sent an update.

'He just brought me a plate. He also forgot I can't hear him again, but it looked like he was embarrassed. Pretty sure he just forgot.'

That triggered a quick reply from Ranboo,

'HA! told you hes just stupid, hes not smart enough to make a subtle threat like this.'

Ranboo had interestingly taken the side of "Sam's an idiot" in this debate, while Punz was firmly in the camp of the cake being an attempted threat.

Speaking of which

'oh, great, so he realized you need a plate to eat his poison cake, but not that it's poisonous to you? that sounds totally normal.'

Dream found himself instinctively typing out a defense of Sam,

'Ponk has me on a mostly human diet, I'm eating meat, maybe-

The message sat unsent, growing more and more uncomfortable. Dream didn't want to defend Sam. He wanted Punz to stay safe, but that could be accomplished in other ways. The impulse to defend Sam's actions was... uncomfortable.

Deleting the message, Dream switched tactics in hopes of preventing an incident.

'My head is killing me, I need a nap, it's fine, I'm not going to eat the cake. I've got my safeguards. If anything happens, I'll let you know. Just stay away for now, okay?'

He waited just long enough to see Punz's reply, something that took almost 5 minutes of typing.

'fine. im setting up nearby, if anything happens, im less than 5 mins away. check in after dinner.'

That was annoying, but at the very least Punz wasn't going to get caught. If he got spotted in the area then he had plenty of easy excuses with the current situation.

Dream tucked his communicator away and wiggled until he was under the covers. Shutting his eyes provided an instant sense of relief.

He wasn't really intending to fall asleep, but once his eyes were shut, the call to nap was overwhelming.

One moment, he was letting out a slow breath and then-

Something was touching him.

[comradeboyhalo]

clearing up some common dsmp misconceptions

the dream smp vastly overestimated l’manberg in the first war, and were actually worried that their netherite and potions weren’t enough (you can see their POV on punz’s channel)

quackity ran against wilbur not only for power, but to prevent wilbur from winning the election unfairly

fundy burned down the l’manberg flag to gain manberg’s trust (he had already decided to be a spy by then)

fundy also placed all the buttons in pogtopia as a prank

the badlands wanted to own north and south of the dream smp, not the dream smp itself. the eggpire, on the other hand, wanted the egg to control the entirety of the dsmp

during the egg arc, sam could hear the egg, but was not corrupted. ponk was pretending to be corrupted originally. puffy used to be corrupted, but now isn’t. 

the wither rose in the syndicate existed before tftsmp, ponk has his own wither rose lore connected to his cat

the egg drains color (red > white, blue > red)

even before tommy burned down george's house, dream (with puffy tagging along) griefed builds on the server and framed tommy for them

skeppy and bad were originally going to burn tommys disc in revenge for these framed griefings, but skeppy got sick and the stream never happened

karl was originally on manberg’s side during the war, and switched back and forth

neither tubbo nor tommy were put in power on their own accord - wilbur passed l’manberg down to tommy, then handed it off to tubbo when tommy turned it down. 

as president, tubbo wanted an election every few months

skeppy being 2′2 is actually non-canonical, bad said it as a joke

[youbutstupid]

I saw a post that I really loved by @gabnapp and wanted to share some more ways in which the people on the SMP show love to eachother:

1. Tommy always helping Tubbo read things the moment he notices him struggling

2. Karl helping George instantly whenever he gets stressed because of his colourblindness because although Karl’s is only mild, he still sympathises with George and doesn’t see it as a joke

3. Phil always letting Wilbur crash his streams purely because Wilbur needs that socialisation, so Phil just sits back and allows Wilbur to speak whatever is on his mind

4. Sam making sure nobody on the smp goes unappreciated e.g gifting BBH 50 subs because he didn’t think it was fair BBH had to gift them to himself

5. Sapnap making sure George didn’t feel like he was being excluded from living with Dream and Sapnap by offering for them to share a room

6. Phil and Wilbur building their house on Origins SMP close to the water so Niki can still socialise with them

7. When George begins to get frustrated in a game so Sapnap makes it his mission to avenge him and brighten the mood

8. Skeppy being so desperate to meet Bad that he donated 50k to make it happen

9. When clowning George goes too far so Quackity switches sides and starts to defend him

10. When George will pause whatever he’s doing, even if he’s in the middle of being killed, to say goodbye to Bad when he leaves a call

11. Ponk gushing about the effect Dream and George have had on his life any chance he gets

12. Ant and Bad always acknowledging eachother when their comments fall flat in a busy call

13. Eret reacting to the events of the lore on the smp with enthusiasm despite not really keeping up with it

14. Everyone participating in Karl’s Tales of The SMP streams even if it doesn’t really benefit them or push their lore along

15. George and Dream calling eachother everyday, sometimes for even 10 hours, but still getting excited when the other joins a call

16. When Sapnap begins to get genuinely angry in a game so George and Bad let him get his anger out

17. When George was getting too many donations so Sapnap started helping him read them and answer them

18. Tubbo and Tommy always being excited to join a call together despite having done it hundreds of times

19. Ranboo always laughing at Tubbo’s commentary, even if nobody else is

20. When everyone stops to let Niki speak because she’s quite soft spoken and can’t be heard over all their shouting

21. When Puffy calls out when she thinks somebody on the server is genuinely upset

22. George genuinely getting excited over any of Sam’s or Foolish’s builds and appreciating them

23. Bad and Skeppy having almost every video on their channels based around eachother

24. Punz being like a patient brotherly figure to the Dream Team and helping them whenever they need

25. When the bigger SMP streamers make sure to raid the member of the SMP with the least views at the time in order to boost their follower count e.g Dream raiding Ponk, George raiding Foolish and Bad raiding Hannah