#As for 2b2t - they really like finding exploits

[royalarchivist]

Artea: So I- I used to be on 2b2t for quite a while, and then I stopped playing for a really long time, because I fell out of MC for a bit, so... [Laughs]

Artea: Yeah, I used to be on 2b2t, I've met- I've seen Fit on 2b2t before as well. And then was promptly killed, but you know what, that's fine. Yeah. I haven't even told Fit that story yet, so... Honestly, you guys are the first one to hear about that aside from like, one or two admins.

[irrealisms]

sorry im still thinking about my web weave from earlier. some liner notes

go read the plague in literature and myth... if you don't have jstor access it's pretty easy to find a pdf online....... i was avoiding it for a bit bc i wanted my next girard to be violence and the sacred (<- foundational but also a whole-ass book) but it's! short!! it's a little essay and it's so readable. this also goes for non-divorcesteal fans. tgcf fans im looking at you. i'm not super happy with the quote i ended up going with from it but there weren't many that were short enough to fit + poetic rather than obnoxiously on the nose

this will also give you context for the crime and punishment quote. context matters! while it's also functioning as a "people don't understand each other & cannot see the full picture of what we're all doing" it is, in context, a quote about a plague that has no directly ~medical symptoms and instead kills through war, by making people confused & amoral & violent :) and these are related! the not-understanding is part of the plague!

the piranesi quote & to some extent the quote from the idea of the labyrinth are intending to emphasize the ways it can be seen differently. piranesi is a book about the beauty & wonder of a labyrinth! like the direct quote is asking "why a labyrinth?" which is also about. like. the experience of not knowing, cf the last bullet point. but again it's one where context matters

and yes it is deliberate that each "here is a sentence about how i don't understand" has context that adds to it & isn't included in the collage itself. and in one of them that context is a beautiful maze and the other is a dream of a horrific pathogen. this too is divorcesteal. what you see depends on where you stand!!!

i kinda debated on whether to include revelation but like... apocalypse imagery AND plague imagery AND angel imagery AND sun imagery.... how could i not

i know i already posted it separately bc of how much i liked it but i rly like the nocom + maze overlay... check out fit's video on nocom btw it's really cool but tl;dr nocom was a coordinate exploit on 2b2t that let a team track players and find over 15,000 bases. overlaying the heatmap with the maze, so that the player activity blends into the lines of the maze, is my attempt at evoking the obsidian maze on divorcesteal that leads to bases

you're probably familiar with the wall-with-spikes drawing at the bottom but in case you're not: it's a piece of concept art from the attempt to generate long-term nuclear waste warnings that also originated "this place is not a place of honor". i considered doing the Forbidding Blocks design instead of Spike Field bc obviously the divorcesteal maze doesn't have spikes and also i really liked the description of it but i decided Spike Field is more recognizable and the extra recognizability was worth it to me. anyway it's also [huge black grid made to unsettle but also contain a contaminant] with bonus quasi-apocalyptic connotations so. obvious choice. also i like the guy looking at the gap between the two....ive been there....and again it's also speaking to the impossibility of communication. will the future understand?

no special meaning in the sources of sun photos sorry....i just wanted a bit more color and decided to lean into the thousand suns thing. three is basically the same as a thousand right

ok so this is one you can totally pick up on from just looking at it and i've been trying to avoid talking about those as opposed to talking about "here's some context that you may not realize if you don't know the sources" but i'm really proud of it so. i really like the background being partly bird's eye view of a maze but at the bottom you get a guy seeing it from eye level on the ground. maze-viewers vs maze-treaders again

i think you can probably pick up on the rest of it without context of the sources (though feel free to ask questions) so i'll leave this post there for now :3 but it's doing like 3-4 things and i'm! proud of it

[dreamsmp-au-ideas]

Holy shit I love this new 2b2t au?? It’s so good! The idea of Tubbo and Techno becoming uneasy allies in order to save their friends from the prison and Techno just being blown away by Tubbo’s base, John Mulaney style, is absolutely fantastic. Dream trying to use Tubbo’s trust issues to manipulate him into joining Dream’s side? Brilliant. I want all the headcanons for this new au.

2b2t Tubbo is something that lives in my head rent free. Let’s get some headcanons!

-A lot of people in 2b2t saw Tubbo as a pest when he was younger. No one wants to take him in. Especially considering how easy it is to die on the server

-Those who did help him got raided after a while and he had to ditch and usually the bed was destroyed. And considering that animals are hard to find...yeah. That was terrifying

-The whole “Tubbo in the box” adoption was something Tubbo asked Phil to just tell everyone else. Mainly because he doesn’t want to let anyone know that he is from 2b2t

-There’s some foreshadowing that Tubbo is more than he seems. Mainly just some passing comments on some weapons and some others about how easy things get stolen. Biggest one is when Wilbur blew up L’Manberg and he just muttered something about it not being as bad as the 2b2t spawn

-If people finds his bases without him telling them the okay, then he usually goes and destroys the base right away. TNT if the person is going to go and bring others right away, pickaxe and replacing the blocks with natural ones if they aren’t coming for a long time

-He doesn’t take as much shit as canon Tubbo does but Exile and Butcher Army both happen mainly because if they don’t do this, it will most likely fuck up a lot of things. Techno gets a fair-ish trial at least before it is interrupted by Quackity saying fuck it and just using the anvil immediately

-He is very possessive of items that mean a lot to him

-Tubbo does not want to fight like he did in 2b2t. Thus he usually holds back when it comes to fights

-All the members of the SMP went and passed by one of Tubbo’s secret bases at least once

-After the prison breakout, everyone asked where Techno got all the Withers and gear in a short amount of time. Techno was about to tell them that Tubbo got it but he only shook his head when they made eye contact. Only Techno and Tubbo now knows about the secret bases

-Conversation between Phil and Tubbo after Doomsday was not pretty. Tubbo basically cry-shouted at him about everything and told Phil about how he knew where Tubbo came from. He knew what Tubbo saw and he promised that he will never be in an anarchy server ever again. Well look around now Phil! It’s starting to look like one ever since you blew up L’Manberg!

-Everyone noticed that Tubbo was more tense and distrusting after Doomsday. He would go and draw his sword at others if caught by surprise and question why others were helping him and Tommy often

-Dream is being really careful with his manipulations because he now knows that Tubbo is perfect and if Dream had him on his side, then he would have someone to step up in his place if ever Dream is taken down. But then on the other hand, he knows that if Tubbo figures out Dream’s manipulations, then hell is going to be rained on him. He has to be careful that the sword doesn’t become double-edged in the process

-Dream goes and exploits Tubbo’s trust issues by mentioning on how he trusted Phil and then that trust being crushed. He basically goes and tells him about how everyone left him and cares more about something than himself. How eventually, the others went and stabbed him in the back and left him alone

-Tubbo left coordinates to one of his bases for Tommy if things ever go south and things look bad. It’s even more rich and it seems like a safe house. Just somewhere you can genuinely live in