#Reese's OG Posts

[sleepyreese]

Hi!!! Can I please have a bat themed moodboard? -🦇 Eddie 🦇

Here you go! A Bat Themed Mood Board!

Hope you like it! XP

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

ok but the fact that rhys darby's wife is named rosie.

their names together. rhys and rosie. rosie and rhys. i swear to god the alliteration makes it sound like they're a pair of garden gnomes or some shit.

like this is an animated villain henchmen duo that serves some campy villain in a kid's cartoon. this is the name of an old-fashioned candy shop or some shit. these are names you would give to your two cats who are siblings. these are not the names of two grown adults who are married to each other and have kids together.

[mcytblr-archive]

Early MCYTblr Interviews: georgeeehd

today's interviewee is reese/georgeeehd/lmanburg/tommyofcolor! dreamlying member, mcytblr og, and the person who discovered that dream wasn't registered to vote. below is a transcript of questions and answers!

Q: What was your experience in wider MCYTblr?

A: I don’t have much experience with wider mcytblr. Maybe I used to reblog Grian stuff on my main blog, before all this DSMP shit. There wasn’t much of a Dream community when I started posting, much less one for DreamNotFound (surprisingly, Dreamnap was the popular ship of the two early on????? so bizarre to me), so I dug out my microcosm immediately. There was never a wider myctblr for me.

Q: What was your experience in critblr/dreamlying specifically?

A: The notion that dreamlying is the spawn of critblr is interesting to me, because I agree with you now, but I wouldn’t have at the time. Critblr was a tumblr community. Dreamlying was a friend group, predating critblr. I considered myself dteamblr for a really long time— I never felt aligned with the critblr movement because that was always Jason’s territory, really. I don’t mention it to nitpick or to scold, but like, I’m into this archiving thing, too, so I wanted to opine on how we label these groups. Maybe there should be a distinction made between what we considered ourselves vs. what we actually were.

My experience in proto-critblr was pretty cushy because it was all mine. Me and my contemporaries had a following, we were respected, we had smart things to say, we were funny, established, etc. Think, “The School of Athens.” I definitely grew a bit of an ego with how popular I was, which I’m sure will come across in this interview, haha.

At times I felt a little unchallenged, like people were only agreeing with me not because I was right, but because I was saying anything at all. At the same time, I was incredibly defensive and insecure, so the little pushback I might have gotten would bother me terribly. I was probably overreactive and mean. I was fifteen then, and I’m nineteen now, so there’s lots of things I would’ve handled differently, if I could.

In terms of my experience with dreamlying, I like what Ozzie had to say. We were all just very, very good friends. There’s not much else to it. In my first discord server, “dream lying” was a hidden messaging channel where we could critique Dream Team freely. “Dream lying” was supposed to parody the phrase “dream truthing.” So we were basically this tiny little secret society, at the start. There was no way we wouldn’t have hit it off.

Q: Are there any events that stand out to you?

A: A lot. Too many. Some are more personally relevant than historically relevant, and I don’t really know where to draw the line. The voter registration fiasco was a big one, but there were other smaller things… I was always in some fuckin’ controversy or another! The magic 8 ball says, Ask again later.

Q: Was being in MCYTblr an overall positive or negative experience for you?

A: Undoubtedly positive! I don’t even know where to start with this question. I met a lot of wonderful people that I still keep in contact with today, right? But beyond that, I feel like being in this community helped me grow a lot, like, personally. I was thinking and writing a lot. I learned so, so much, about people, about the internet, about fandom, about myself. It was such an expansive experience.

I guess I should mention that my time with mcytblr was incredibly stressful. My involvement in the fandom weighed heavily on my mental health. I felt very watched, and I still do. At my worst, I was hospitalized. (I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t mention my mcyt-induced mental hospital stint in my mcyt interview.) None of that really moves me, though, ‘cause it was all just part of the experience, and I find it all pretty funny, looking back.

Q: A few people have mentioned the account mcyttruth in relation to you, specifically around a callout post. What happened there? [I had misremembered-- I meant to ask this to Jason lmanburg, not Reese lmanburg.]

A: The mcyttruth callout wasn’t about me, but my discord server, dteamblr 2. I was not as involved here— at this point, critblr was in full bloom, and this server was like a rendezvous for people who liked dreamlying and modcord blogs (modcord was another friend group, like dreamlying, but critblr-based).

Regarding that callout specifically, I don’t know. Probably, there were too many r-slurs, too many jokes about hating Ranboo, the usual. There were a lot of callouts (for me or for people I was friends with), and I never really took them seriously. I mean, honestly, the url “mcyttruth” alone is derivative. Do you know how many times I’ve read the words “mcyt” and “truth”? Everything about this is a blur to me.

Q: I suppose I would ask-- given the current events surrounding many of the creators who were popular in 2020/2021, do you feel that dreamlying has been vindicated in their criticisms of creators?

A: Yes, but I would have said yes in 2020, because who these people are was as obvious to me then as it is now. Our criticisms weren’t like, headcanons that we made up to be mean, they were plain old observations. Wilbur was openly mentally ill, creepy, and generally dismissive of other people. Not to say that there aren’t good things about him either, but, of course this is the kind of guy to make his girlfriend clean up after him. There’s a million cautionary tales about guitar stringers with floppy hair under a beanie, whiny song lyrics, and a masturbatory approach to self-loathing.

Dream’s not this person anymore, so that’s not why I bring it up, but think back to when his old Reddit account was exposed for being active on r/The_Donald. That was everything we were ever talking about! That was Dream being exactly who he was— a young white man from Florida. I love Dream, always have, always will. Acknowledging that he is/was a whole person with flaws and unsavory politics, I think, is truer fanhood than the idolization everyone puts him through.

You use the word “vindicated” to acknowledge that we were heavily criticized ourselves. Most of that was on the basis of privacy— you know, whether or not it’s okay to speculate on people’s personal lives. It doesn’t matter that we were “right” so often, that we still are, and always will be, because people will focus more on the original sin of having speculated in the first place.

I used to love vindication because it made me feel smart, like I could see things that no one else could. Now it just makes me sad. I don’t think it has anything to do with smarts, nor would I care if it did. I think people just don’t let themselves think that far. You know, “I don’t want to make assumptions,” “It’s none of my business,” “It’s not that deep,” etc. Maybe there’s no instinct to look deeper at all. It really just makes me sad.

Q: Is there anything else you'd like to add/have archived?

A: I’d like to ask everybody to stay critical. The hivemind response to recent events have shown me that this fandom remains as shallow, unthinking, conformative, elementary… as it was four years ago.

Thank you for conducting these interviews in the first place. It's nice hearing everyone’s voices again.

[ririchonne]

@cake-by-thepound OG Richonne writer post this on twitter.

She’s not active here anymore (maybe a comeback for TOWL…🤞) but I think this message should reach our talented Richonne writers who are not on this app.

Check it out y’all and best of luck.

[ispybluesky]

what's the ages of llwh crew? >:33 also any fun city building/history bits you can share? B)

I ACTUALLY JUST FIGURED THIS OUT THE OTHER DAY, only general ages but!!

benten: ~30 [he/him] (younger than the rest of the cast because he went into sleep detachment on fig's orders after the murder)

itasca: ~50 [she/they] (wasn't more than a young toddler when reese died)

qyoo: ~70 [he/they] (was the baby of the original crew)

east: ~35 [she/her] (not involved with any of the og stuff but is about to make it her problem)

fig: died at ~55 [they/she] (why didn't she make it into sleep detachment after benten?)

reese: died at ~40 [she/her] (murdered)

meredith: died at ~80 (illness) [she/he] (but not before making sure that his crimes would be uncovered during the next circuit)

city building/history facts....!! ramo-o was something of a prototype/experimental city to see if a floating city would actually work as the seas got higher, so although its bones and functions were all built at the same time, a lot of it has been edited and augmented and built onto over time, so its sort of a mess and tough to navigate if you're not a local. it also served as the basis for the land-based tower cities (like new mumbai), although since ramo-o was developed prewar the skeletons of the tower cities are way more advanced. during the war several of the 'neighborhood' cities (o-rosa, o-orquídea) got destroyed + there was a bunch of other collateral damage to some others, so a handful of the neighborhood cities are newer/more up-to-date!

since ramo-o was originally a prototype post-climate-disaster city its got a ton of (semi-experimental) stuff like built-in desalinators, carbon sensors and extractors (and fabricators thst can use that carbon to make stuff), waste recyclers, wave-and-wind generated electricity, etc. most of this tech is housed in the underwater section of the cities (its about 30/70 with the majority of the mass of each city building being underwater for stability) as well as being a place for storage and anything else you can think of. most people live above the waterline but there are little apartments and stuff built in here and there 'belowdecks'

the city buildings look pretty dense from the outside but there's actually a fair amount of open space throughout. anywhere that has any windows or open spaces facing the outside has extra heavy-duty storm shutters in case of extreme weather. the center ring between all 10 city buildings is used for recreational boating, limited aquaculture, and fish farming!

[sentientpaperbag]

CHARACTER STUFF FOR SACCHARINE :3

showing off the updated looks for most of the characters for this comic i wanna work on (putting watermarks solely cuz i don’t want my idea stolen, it’s not THAT inventive but you never know who’d be willing to steal something you know?)

Starting off we have the main girl, Anise! She didn’t change much from her og design which i like. She’s a human who, after having a string of bad luck, falls asleep and wakes up in the land of Saccharine. Her goal is to talk with the king, a scientist who has discovered a way to travel worlds, so she can get home.

Next is Reese, our deuteragonist. He’s a gingerbread person, and the one who helps Anise when she first lands in Saccharine. He got a bit of an overhaul cuz he looked a bit too human before.

Taffi, head of the royal guard, and arguably one of the tallest characters in the story. She is incredibly loyal to her king and her kingdom, it’d take something pretty serious to turn her away from the king. (her jacket is a revolutionary girl utena reference)

Candy Floss, a fairy, one of the few known fairies in the land of Saccharine, she’s the one who brought Anise to the world in the first place, though she’s keeping why a secret for now. She’s a sweetheart though, very grandmotherly.

Xanthan, a little gumball kid. His parents were killed in the Mint Insurrection(something i’ll go into detail over later on) so he’s been essentially living on his own making due. Anise and Reese find him later and allow him to tag along.

Pachy(pronounced Pack-ee) the animal cracker elephant! He was rescued by Anise and her friends after finding him in a travelling circus where he was being mistreated. He’s a baby :3

This was Queen Lacey. She was the queen of Saccharine, but unfortunately died during the Mint Insurrection.

there are a few characters i haven’t introduced here yet, because they’re a surprise/spoilery and i genuinely want to keep them a surprise

The folks of Saccharine have certain traits that make them different from the average human: they tend to have pointed ears, no noses, sometimes an unusual skintone, and light pupils. Some even have extraordinary abilities.

also since i’m making this a legitimate thing, i deleted the old post i made like a year ago when i first had the dream about these characters. It’s got some spoilery stuff in it that I kept

if you remember what it is i’m talking about, don’t spoil it! if you send an ask i’ll confirm by just posting either yes or no tho

[roxytonic]

i actually hadn't seen that post-- but yes, that's it exactly! (and beware, sociology/culture nerd moment incoming, youve unlocked my secret hidden chasms of interest)

i think a large part of all of this is that i did start on more solid ground than you-- you were working from the ground up to construct an image of a then-dead culture, while i had watched it unfold in real time. it's part of what i said in the tags of some post a while ago; if we posit that every relationship between two people is a dialect of its own, with communities speaking their own "languages", then the death of a community is the death of a language. of Course you weren't getting the information you were looking for, you didn't have the memories that it would have taken to ask about them!

and, examining the notes of the post that finally did blow up, that was exactly it. i keep seeing things like "they know idotsblr? theyre the real deal" and "what did gay castle do?", as well as other people going "oh yeah i remember that happening! that reminds me of..." etx etc. it's primarily a matter of having the base knowledge to know what to ask in the first place, which you were already working doublespeed to try to get after the fact. and let's be real here, you got ridiculously far for someone who was piecing things together, and i absolutely loved watching you form rada in real time-- it was, like i said before, like watching someone come in from the outside and give words to everything id noticed about communities getting pushed to the fringe, and the focus on boundaries.

(one thing that i am interested in that you never got the chance to get to, as lilyfreshwater said in the notes, is the rest of mcytblr. critblr and dlying were the fringe, but when examining only fringes, a hole is left where the main group is. the more i hear from people, the more i think that the biggest pieces of the puzzle have been sitting in plain sight, in all their difficult-to-archive glory: the discords, groupchats, individual friend groups, and the odd way that popular mcytblr tumblrs seem to be almost canonized in the fandom.)

and, of course, i just like having my favorite time period all in one place to look at; it makes me happy to have a little slice of it on the blog, and to revisit that time in my life from a considerably less manic standpoint.

Thanks for the followup. I mostly agree -- and again I could never regret putting together RADA -- but there are a few things I'd like to disagree/clarify:

Although truthing/criticizing/etc. was on the decline when I first started posting and reblogging in April 2021, I don't think OG 2020 mcytblr was never totally dormant or dead. I focused on Dreamlying because they were still posting by the time I joined, and that presence of activity was enough for me to start thinking and wondering.

I agree my perspective would have benefited from first-hand experiences with mcytblr 2020, but I don't think interpreting the resulting counterculture/fringe necessarily required I be a part of it, or have had first-hand experience with it. In fact, it was only until I had been blocked by a regular mcytblr mutual 1 or 2 months after publicly interacting with the fringe that I realized -- and quite painfully -- I wasn't part of the mainstream anymore.

This in turn is why I didn't discuss much of regular mcytblr. Structurally, it had become so large to be self-sustaining, and possibly self-documenting. But personally it was also because (I was the last one to realize) I had crossed the floor the first time I ever reblogged georgesoot, or warpedfungusonastick, or reese, or fruityranboo.

[sleepyreese]

Could I request some Little!Dean paci icons? Maybe with a specific rock (music) themed paci one? If not it's fine or if you've already done this, have a great day! :]

Hope you like these!!! It was fun to track down pacis for this post (੭˃ᴗ˂)੭

Dean Winchester Paci Icons!

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I usually make 4 icons per post, but I found a lot of good photos/pacis, so I made 6 instead :]

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Disclaimer: Anyone can use my paci icons with credit by putting "pfp/icon made by @sleepyreese" in their bio! Or just anyway you can credit me, I'm not picky! ₍ᐢ. ̫.ᐢ₎

[shirtspolh]

Time today moneybag yo

#TIME TODAY MONEYBAG YO FULL#

#TIME TODAY MONEYBAG YO SERIES#

The Anthem King has returned with an album that shares his birth name and represents him to his core- KHALED KHALED.įor over two decades, the very mention of DJ Khaled has implied an elevated level of musical greatness, entrepreneurial excellence, and cultural impact. Not to mention, it includes the double-platinum “POPSTAR” and platinum “GREECE”. The album boasts soon-to-be fan favorites “Just Be”, “We Going Crazy”, “I Did It”, and “Let It Go”, among others. Khaled and Co-Executive Producers (his sons) Asahd Tuck Khaled and Aalam Tuck Khaled assembled a downright unbelievable tracklisting. The song unites New York kings JAY-Z and Nas as they lock into a lyrical crossfire of historic “Song Cry” before James Fauntleroy drops a melodic and unforgettable hook. This morning, he unleashed what might be his biggest and boldest video yet for the new single “Sorry Not Sorry” featuring guests JAY-Z, Nas, James Fauntleroy & Harmonies by the Hive. He teased the video for “Thankful Thankful” and racked up 600K-plus views, while his post of the official billboard generated 1 million-plus views in under a day! The streets and the culture have been waiting for this one with equal excitement, so he had to go as big as possible on release day (would you expect anything less though?).

#TIME TODAY MONEYBAG YO SERIES#

Throughout the week, he has amplified anticipation with a series of viral Instagram posts. Upon going live, it already vaulted to Top 5 on the iTunes Overall Top Albums Chart and #1 on the Hip-Hop/Rap Chart in addition to trending worldwide. WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR “SORRY NOT SORRY”: HEREĪfter practically breaking the internet with news of its arrival, GRAMMY® Award-winning multiplatinum artist, music industry visionary, innovative influencer, mogul, and mega-producer DJ Khaled unveils the biggest hip-hop event of the summer and his twelfth full-length album, KHALED KHALED, today via We The Best Music Group/ Epic Records.

#TIME TODAY MONEYBAG YO FULL#

The full Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts, in addition to the full genre rankings, can be found on /biz.UNCOVERS LEGENDARY MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “SORRY NOT SORRY” FEATURING NAS, JAY-Z, JAMES FAUNTLEROY & HARMONIES BY THE HIVE As with Billboard’s yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings). The weekly Hot 100 Songwriters and Hot 100 Producers charts are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot 100 plus, genre-based songwriter and producer charts follow the same methodology based on corresponding “Hot”-named genre charts. 11 on Hot 100 Producers, first hit the Hot 100 as a producer this February thanks to Moneybagg Yo’s “Time Today.” He has additionally produced songs for NLE Choppa, Kevo Muney and BlocBoy JB. He’s also produced songs for Lil Wayne, Kevo Muney and BIG30. YC first appeared on the Hot 100 in January 2020 thanks to his production work on Moneybagg Yo’s “Protect Da Brand” (No. YC and RealRed are both newcomers to Billboard’s charts. 100, Moneybagg Yo, “Clear Da Air” (RealRed, Lil Polo) Polo G & Lil Durk, “Free Promo” (Javar Rockamore, Bobby “Keyz” Reese, Sheldon Ferguson) 59, Moneybagg Yo, “Wockesha” (RealRed, Javar Rockamore) 35, Moneybagg Yo, “Shottas (Lala)” (RealRed) Rank, artist billing, title (co-producers in addition to YC): 1 on the Hot 100 Producers chart, leading for the first time on the strength of six production credits on the Hot 100, five via A Gangsta’s Pain. 4 and 7, respectively, on the Hot 100 Songwriters chart. Plus, two of Moneybagg Yo’s collaborators, YC (aka Christopher Pearson) and RealRed (Jorres Nelson), place at Nos. 100, “Clear Da Air” (YC, RealRed, Rael Kelly) Polo G & Lil Durk (Polo G, Lil Durk, YC, Javar Rockamore, Bobby “Keyz” Reese, Sheldon Ferguson, Skywalker OG) 59, “Wockesha” (Bunny DeBarge, Mark DeBarge, YC, RealRed, Javar Rockamore) 54, “If Pain Was a Person” (Carl Hampton, Ray Jackson, Homer Banks, Yung Dee) 53, “Hard for the Next,” with Future (Ginuwine, Troy Oliver, Future, Torey Montana) BIG30 (BIG30, RealRed, Jeff Lynn Jones Jr., Aaron Butler) Rank, title, additional artist billing (co-songwriters in addition to Moneybagg Yo):

[blaqpanther]

🤣

[lotus-of-stardollop]

Animal Crossing headcanons heehee :)

Isabelle is pan and autistic with adhd (I relate to her rambles lol)

Digby is bi with a preference for men and male-aligned people

Reese and Cyrus are the token hets but they’re both trans…. transhets :)

Tom Nook and Redd are both gay (they’re exes and have some drama going on with each other, Tom Nook also has a crush on K.K., he and Isabelle squee about him together lol)

K.K. Slider is queer, he doesn’t know how to describe his sexual and romantic orientations so he identifies as queer

Jingle is a trans man :)

Common headcanon, Julia is trans and I’m thinking she’s also a lesbian

Saharah is a man who uses she/her pronouns (based on the og Japanese version)

Gracie is also a man, fine with she/her but prefers he/him (like Saharah, this is based on the fact that he’s a man in the og Japanese version)

Blanca is masc genderqueer and uses they/them

Dr. Shrunk is xenogender, being genderfunny

Pietro and Pierre are also xenogender, both being gendersilly and they also like to hang out with Dr. Shrunk :) the funny and the sillies :)

Lottie is bi, idk what her preference would be tho or if she even has one

Leif is autistic

Rover is abro

Flick and C.J. are both obviously gay, Flick has adhd and C.J. is trans masc

Wardell is autistic and is selectively mute, only talking when he’s comfortable with the people around him and I can relate (those moments where you sit on the driftwood log with him are very special to me and it warms my heart when he calls my little character “friend”)

Niko has adhd, I see him having memory problems and I can also relate (I like to think he has a special interest in building that laid dormant for a while until you brought up diys to him, then the special interest was sparked once more lol)

Blathers and Brewster are both autistic and gay

Celeste is also autistic

All sisterlys and peppys are sapphic

All smugs are achillean

All normals (or sweet villagers as I call em) are autistic and have social anxiety

Cobb is xenogender, being scivillainic (coined by @/wulfgangs) and uses be/beaker/beakers/beakerself, che/chem/chems/chemself (both neos coined by @/birdswithshoes) and vill/vills/villself as well as he/him

Coco is agender and uses she/her and it/its

Based on my headcanons from my New Leaf town, Buck and Tom are both gay and they’re in a relationship :)

Katt and Tabby are both lesbians and they’re in a relationship :)

Velma and Nan are women who grow facial hair, tho Nan regularly shaves but not out of shame, it’s just a personal preference for her (in all of her official art, she doesn’t have a beard but in her amiibo card she does, people could be like “oh well that was just a mistake” but I don’t care lol), Velma loves her beard and never shaves it off, either one or both might be intersex

Ok I think that’s all I’m gonna do for now, just know that literally every ac character in my headcanon is queer, no one is safe from my queerification beam in this funky little furry life-sim game. I’m gonna do a separate post eventually for the villagers that are in my nh game, including the ones who’ve moved :) and another separate post for all the new and returning villagers :) also if anyone decides to be a bigot in the notes I won’t engage, that’s an immediate block from me

[fanfolds]

this video has been driving me fucking insane  (  og post here  )

tag your muse  /  w.ols,  cherry is reese’s puffs

[did-i-do-this-write]

OC Vibe Check Quiz

The OG post was very long so here's a new one 😂 @harps-for-days tagged me in this hilarious quiz and I just could not resist. Since I have 7 main characters I only did three, but here are their results 🙃

Reese

OH I FUCKING HOPE SO! I THINK HE DESERVES BETTER AND IM WRITING HIM. I love my gentle Earth boy 🥺

Nate

Yes, okay, I know he's the only straight white boy, I get it. I know that's the reason but he is a very fucking hard character to "gloss over" I can promise you that 😂

Kay

I- no comment. That's accurate. I hope this proves true 😌

Tagging @ashen-crest @apocalypsewriters and anyone else who wants to! No pressure!

[chaotically-cas]

I’m in a really soft mood so skkdkdk I’m not gonna tag anyone I just wanna put this love in the universe & hopefully people can feel it

Dani: I don’t know if I’ve ever told you how much your support and love means to me. It makes me so happy knowing you’re here.

Liam: god I could go on forever man you know that but to keep it short: thanks for being the platonic Soda to my Steve. I love ya man

Cathan: ugh omg I love you so much too. I love when you tag me in posts because you’re so damn funny & I love being able to share a laugh with you

Rock: Omg Rocko. Lord help me here. Your talent, wisdom, and overall just existance is something I look up to on the daily. You make me smile and laugh every single day you exist

Sean: aghkkkk ditto rock’s. You are so funny and I always get so happy when we interact. I hope to god everyone knows how lucky they are to know you

Joe: hell man. I could go on again. But again to keep it short: I thank the universe every damn day for you. Every single day. Everything about you is a gift.

Audrey: I’m so blessed to know you and befriend you. You’re such a great support and friend. You make everyone around you so happy & I only wish that for you in return

Oliver anon: ahhhhh Oliver- my man Shepard men. I love you to death. I’d kill for you and I don’t even know you. Youre just such a ray of valid and amazing sunshine.

Ollie: you talented kind mofo you. God damn are we all so lucky to be in your mere presence let alone call you a friend. You deserve only greatness, because that’s what you are

Cherry: my main gal. Your positivity and overall just light you cast in my inbox is never met without a genuine smile & love. You matter so flipping much man

Chris: we haven’t talked much but every time we have you’ve been so kind and if I were even to get started on your writting we’d be here for days

Lucy: again omg your writing bro omg. I’m such a simp. Not only are you so talented and beautiful but you’re just. Ahh. I lack words to describe the grace of your presence. Thank you

Clarance: we like just started talking & I already know that you’re one of the best damn people there are. You’re just such a great person & so just. Amazing.

Jacey: I hope you know how much I love & appreciate you. You deserve every bit of happiness that you provide me daily by just existing. Thank you for that. Deeply.

Val: you’ve always been so so so kind & caring & loving to me & I truly hope you know how much every word means to me. We are all so lucky to know you

Zoe: an og omg. I love everything there is about you from your music & film taste to your kind heart. I’m so grateful for you. Thank you truly for everything

Winter & Imo & anyone else from the server: thank you all for letting me in and letting me get to know you all. It’s a true pleasure and I’m so lucky. I hope you each individually know how much you matter.

Nora: you’re so damn talented & funny & sweet. Please never forgot how beautiful & talented you are. Seriously.

Bee: I’m so proud of you. I’ll say it as many times as I have to. You deserve everything positive the world could possible give you. Every smile and giggle. I’m so proud of you.

Eddie: why are you so nice & amazing omg?? Like seriously I feel like I don’t deserve you sometimes. You’re just too amazing & kind & I hope everyone around you sees that

Ditzy: getting to know you has been absolutely amazing. Youre so kind & funny. I hope you know how much everything you say is appreciated. I hope you know that I’m so glad I know you.

Emma: ahhh I’m so damn happy you’re back in the fandom. We have such similar interests and I’m always so happy to see you around you beautiful valid amazing person you

Maddie: also yes we haven’t spoken much but I always always see you around & it makes me so happy knowing someone is there. Thank you.

Ry: if anyone can make me sob with a fic, it’s you. Not only that but you’re just such a kind and loving person. I’m so thankful for you.

Reese: omg please I’m so glad I follow you. I’m aware we don’t talk much but I’m always still so happy to know you and see you on my feed you deserve so much happiness

Abby: your interactions, love, and Purly fics give me life. I hope you know how genuinely much I appreciate you on my account and in my life.

Larkyn: ahhh how could I ever even possibly leave out of my first followers. Although we don’t interact too much, you are never unseen. Thank you. Truly.

Anyone else who I may have forgotten: you are loved. You are seen. You are valued. I love you. And I’m so so so glad you’re here. Thank you.

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definitely i saw a shift in mcytblr crit culture, and there are several things that happened around the time that The Shift happened. (i may go through og blogs to see if i can pinpoint it.)

things that happened around the same time: mcytblr elections (the first one), cc imposter blogs, ranboo (he has a role in this i Swear. i cant tell exactly how but he was one of the big turning points, possibly with the introduction of a stan-turned-cc and more strict boundaries with the added pressure of ranboo being a minor), l'manburg being blown up for the first time, the first twitter exodus, and the 2020 elections. all of these things worked together to cause a dramatic shift in mcytblr culture.

smaller things: gayminecraftmen deactivated. reese briefly deactivated. dreamwasfound deactivated after getting superficially cancelled. the dream cheating drama started in november. the mcytblr friend or host failed dramatically. dream's manhunts started to become formulaic.

thinking back, i can almost track it, month by month, as an outside observer: june-july were the beginnings. dream had basically no boundaries and mcytblr was very small (around 400 people, 300 of them lurkers.) august was the golden age of crit. you could basically say whatever you wanted and get very little backlash. (i maintain that this is the funniest month of mcytblr.) september was similarly good, with only marginally less enthusiasm from crit blogs.

october started off strong, but by the end, cracks were forming. people posted less, and were starting to grow tired of both dream and poking fun at him. it wasn't an inside joke with equal parts affection and crit anymore, it was open frustration and exhaustion. november brought the start of dream's longest drama, and if i recall correctly, this was around the time georgeeehd and dreamwasfound deactivated. opinions began to become polarized; either you rabidly defended dream from criticism, or you thought he was morally irredeemable and irritating (this, to borrow your language, was when the panopticon aegis began to function in earnest.) by january, mcytblr had almost entirely morphed into what it is today.

(i think that if someone looked specifically through late october and november, they'd see the change in action; it was almost depressing to watch in real time, with the almost vibrant culture of mcytblr getting. i dont wanna say gentrified because that carries specific connotations, but that's the basic idea.)

very sorry for the long ask! you said that you accepted these types of asks and. i went wild

this ask was from yesterday, after the ask where an anon originally proposed a "shift" in mcytblr.

i don't have many comments because this is well-integrated already but THANK YOU!!! honestly i've needed some pointers on key areas of mcytblr.

also, long asks are perfectly okay. wide-angle views tend to have plenty of information and in that case, i do prefer unabridged discussion.