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the term Average Joe implies the existence of the strange Abnormal Joe and this, i think, is the proper identification for joe hills of nashville tennessee

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another banger tweet reply from the man himself

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has enough time passed for me to say that it's actually kind of hilarious that a substantial amount of dream smp lore revolved around everyone's collective realization that wilbur's character was not in fact someone to be idolized and put up on a pedestal but a self pitying, self destructive mentally ill man who had lost all perspective in his life and was hellbent on burning all his bridges. and then it turned out all of that was applicable to the real life man also

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yk thinking abt dsmp in 2020-2021 really is insane in retrospect like. the fanbase is so much more tight knit nowadays that its hard to remember that it was MASSIVE in those years like EVERYONE was into it or at least talking abt it. insane

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does anybody else feel like dsmp is one of those things you can never have only casual feelings about. it's either absolute love and feeling totally consumed. or feeling upset and scorned and embarrassed by and of it to the strongest degree. i feel embarrassed by how strong my feelings are about it and how fucking intensely it makes me crash out. and i have so earnestly loved it and cherished it and the people i have met through it. i have never had an interest like it before. and i will probably never have anything like it ever again

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it just hit me that the average watcher lore enjoyer doesn’t even know about the actual basis of watcher lore. they don’t even know the entire fanon is largely derived from one fanfiction written in 2019

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Tubbo: Why have they changed it? These colors are awful. I– ew! I actually hate it! Where– what happened to the orange? Why’s it purple?

Tubbo: [Realizes] OH—

Tubbo: Oh, I'm actually– I'm actually a bigot, it’s Ace Race, I get it. Ohhh, ohhh that’s awkward. Ohhh, that's awkward. I’m a bigot. Oh, I'm a bigot. Oh, I'm a bigot. Ohhh. It’s crazy that they let bigots into MCC these days! Well actually, they’ve always done that.

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Cleo: I've met Joe. I've met Joe! Joe: Yeah, I met Cleo at a pub. False: I know, yeah. Cleo: We had a drink together and a curry. False: And curry? Ren: And a curry. Joe: Yeah, yeah, apparently the initial interaction went well enough that Cleo felt comfortable following us to a second location. Cleo: It was literally an open pub, so … False: (overlapping) When you put it like that. Cleo: But I'm feeling less comfortable about that now that you've said that. Joe: (laughs, imitates Cleo) Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, that was a bad choice. Why did I do that? Cleo: It wasn't, it wasn't, like, after the initial, oh my god, panic, it was fine. Which it was always going to be fine. It's just, my brain works differently to other people's. Ren: Cleo, I had exactly the same panic the first time I met False, if that's any consolation. False: Why, why did I think, why did I know you were gonna say that Ren?

Ren: (laughs)

Cleo: Cause you're the only person he's ever felt anxious around, False.

Ren: True.

False: That's, that's not true. No, that's not true. This guy's anxious about many things.

Ren: Am I? Wait.

Cleo: Yeah, you are actually, Ren. She's not wrong.

False: I was gonna ask who else Ren was anxious about meeting.

Cleo: Uh, I think Ren is anxious about meeting everybody.

Ren: Uhhh.

False: Were you anxious the first time you met Martyn?

Ren: No.

Cleo: Huh.

False: What about any of the people at the recent event?

Ren: Nope.

Ren: Before COVID, I was actually like a very social person.

False: (overlapping) So you've grown as a person.

Ren: (overlapping Cleo) I was a very social person in the past.

Cleo: (overlapping Ren) So what we're hearing, False, it you.

Ren: It is you.

False: (overlapping) No but you met me before COVID!

Ren: That's what I was talking about.

False: You said before COVID you weren't an anxious person.

Ren: Well, well, this, but this is exactly the point.

False: Whoa whoa whoa!

Cleo: Whoa whoa whoa. (overlapping False) Hey, now.

False: (overlapping) Wait, that doesn't make sense.

Ren: That's exactly the point.

Cleo: Is it?

Ren: No, because, yeah, I met False like a long time ago. I don't know what, 2017?

Cleo: Wow!

Ren: I wanna say.

Cleo: That's like decades.

False: Was it, was it Minecon 2015?

Ren: No. No, I didn't actually meet you there.

False: I thought you worked out when this was! (overlapping Cleo) I thought it was Minecon 2015.

Cleo: (overlapping) Did you meet each other without knowing who each other was?! Is that what's happening?

Ren: Yeah.

False: Well, he wasn't a Hermit at that point.

Ren: (overlapping) Yeah, that's what happened in 2015, yeah.

False: He wasn't a hermit.

Ren: I was just there as a fan.

Cleo: Oh! Oh, that's adorable. That's adorable.

Ren: (overlapping, laughs)

Cleo: That's well cute.

Ren: Yeah.

Cleo: (cackles) I can just imagine just like little fanboy Ren, just like (imitates Ren) I'm gonna meet False today! It's gonna be wonderful.

Ren: Yep, it was pretty much like that.

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Me, returning from my job (watching Minecraft YouTubers) to chill and unwind with my favourite hobby (watching more Minecraft YouTubers)

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mumbo’s story about how grian made him and vicky steal an apple

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i love my 20 minutes long call of duty ramble

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Technoblade: Man, imagine not winning a 1 v 3. Couldn't be me.

Every MCC with Technoblade was memorable, but MCC 5 will always stand out in my mind thanks to Techno's infamous 1 v 3 fight! Here are some highlights from that event in honor of the man himself.

Happy Birthday, Technoblade! Thanks for all the laughs.

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THE CRANE WIVES. THEY KNOW US. THEY KNOW WHO WE ARE.

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there is not a single task on earth that's more important than cat cuddles (source: my cat told me)

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I love that the dsmp fandom had two really major fanfics. one was an rpf shipfic (with smut? vague smuttiness) that got way out of the small circles and flung a random pop song into the top 40 for over a year, and the other one was a family-based war-and-gods epic that got a major animatic, fansongs and tommyinnit to tweet 'why did I just watch myself get killed in HD'