#and cant watch the live stream

[manchesterau]

the switch into and out of sister daniel is like watching a performance

[lightningbig]

I'm feeling shrimp emotions

[5crowsinatrenchcoat]

Martyn the Whyte!

[transphilza]

support group for people who joined the dsmp fandom after april of 2021 because the only major server event (that wasn’t an Ending) that we got to experience with the community was the fucking prison break

[akkivee]

hayama-san had his 4th anniversary web show event today and the tragedy is that niconico has been down for a month now bc of a cyber attack and i hope whoever is responsible loses all their cows to a fire but that means there wasn’t a livestream so i’ve been reading reports from a person who went and lmao

hayama-san is so strong of a drinker, he actually feels refreshed after drinking tequila

he may have made this discovery after buying some tequila at the convenience store after 10th live day one and felt no repercussions drinking it throughout his commute home and woke up in the morning without a headache lol

takeuchi-san was one of his guests for the evening show and he said he’s always at war with himself between finding hayama-san cute and annoying as hell LOL

takeuchi: ik we’ve talked about this before but fr what is dom/sub???

hayama: ah so you remember what happened the last time i went to your house—

op: ????????

me: ????????

sakakihara-san used to have his own way of trying to get spoiled by takeuchi-san but lately it’s gotten worse bc he’s been picking up and using the way hayama-san does it as well and takeuchi-san is suffering lmao

semi-relatedly but throwback to when sakakihara-san called hayama-san ‘nii-chan’ during a live hayama-san is a terrible influence on him lmao

[emberunderscore]

I am so very behind on every minecraft smp right now. havnt even touched the surface of theo's mind control arc or whatever that was on mer ?? and thats the only pov i watched . only just watched the costume party for bound and oh fuck I forgot about terramortis . oh yeah and I have barely even fucking STARTED wild west smp actually

there is so much happening and I am way too overwhelmed by the amount of content and the fact i have to sit and watch something for an hour+ to catch up on anything so I probably . never will :D

[s0fter-sin]

wow so watcher just singlehandedly killed their channel

[screechingfromthevoid]

No no, I need you take my shift so I can watch- yes this is an emergency. The emergency being SPOILERS Linda.

[citrlet]

very sad this morning seeing Ryan and Shane leaving youtube to start yet another exclusive subscription service :/

[kimmkitsuragi]

*playing a game named hades* WAIT no way hades the god of death has a 2ND PHASE in combat ??????? :0

[thirdtimed]

unfortunately if i ever developed the lifeseries orv au in my head in earnest i would in no capacity whatsoever manage to be normal about it at all and like. i mean it

[skyburger]

mistar whyte what do i do

[tea-earl-grey]

there's something so dismal about how so much of tv fandom's energy nowadays seems to go towards trying to prove to big corporations that their show is good enough to save. like whenever a new episode or series comes out it's "remember to watch it all in 24 hours or it won't get renewed!" "play it on repeat for a month or else it'll become another piece of lost media!" "don't stop talking and posting about it during the hiatus or else this season that's already in production might not air!" "if this tag trends on twitter for long enough we might get eight episodes instead of six!!!" it feels less like we're enjoying a show that so many people worked hard on and more like we're trying to create rituals to please the gods (which replace gods with The Algorithm and you're not far off).

like i haven't even been involved in fandom for that long but even just seven or so years ago if a show did well enough that it was nominated for awards and trending on twitter and having well attended comic con panels then it would be renewed for at least a season or two. and back then being renewed for another season meant "we're for sure going to get a new season next year!" with almost no possibility of cancelation. and even shows that did just okay ratings wise would easily get 5+ seasons.

and it was more fun. when i was watching Doctor Who or Arrowverse or whatever in 2014 i could enjoy and critique the media itself instead of constantly being nervous about whether the next season will be cashed in for nostalgia bait or have its episode count cut or be postponed for three years or just outright canceled because it was slightly less popular than last year. like the fandom would still stress out over potential bad narrative choices or whatever but we would also get excited about the future.

maybe it's just my own perceptions but i just tend to find myself favoring fandoms for shows (or at least eras, i'm looking at you Doctor Who) that have been completed. i like Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death and Strange New Worlds and Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the latest Doctor Who era but i just find it hard to get invested when there's so much anxiety around if there will be a future to those shows and so much of the fandom activity revolves around that anxiety. and then as a result when the show does end for good (whether through cancelation or design) the fandom starts to fade away too because so much of it was based on the temptation of The Future.

and i'm also quick to admit that production in pre-streaming era shows had their own problems (once popular shows running for 15 seasons and jumping the shark just because it's a cash cow, tampered down diversity in the interest of "popular appeal", the whole quantity over quality issue, etc) but at least the fandoms were more optimistic and focused on the story itself instead of just being angry about the eternal potential of cancelation or outright deletion.

(also there are obviously much larger issues to the streaming model re: residuals and everything else brought up during the wga and sag strikes but that's all been said much more coherently so i'm just speaking from my own perspective as a fan. and even then there's still definite overlap between the fandom anxiety over renewal and the real world economic anxiety for people involved with production over "will we have a job/be paid". it's far too early to tell but i really hope the strikes will help to solve this problem.)

[dodecademons]

Funny how like 90 percent of people wanting the wilds back hate to acknowledge the fact that it's partly their fault. I want the wilds to be renewed as well, however if I DARE say yall aren't ready for it and a small part of me thinks some viewers are undeserving I'm the bad guy. Right because the vast majority of you didn't openly admit to skipping over the boys parts in the show, smh. If you arent watching the whole episode why would they want to renew it? They want views, they want money. Do I want the wilds back? Of course. Do I think the gretchen clones deserve it? No. Be better.

[wekillitwithfire]

the painful part of knowing everything (EVERY. THING.) about a video game is that sometimes you suddenly reach a point where you can not stand watching other people (youtubers/streamers) play the game for the first time. it is unbearable. i am helpless.

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

lonan and harrison fanfic where all they do is watch movies & throw popcorn at each other