#because this is the entire smp. basically

[galaxygermdraws]

WOLF SKIZZ LAMB LOGIC

ANYTHING FOR U BESTIEEEEEEEEE

(they were in hermit raiders. it counts. in my heart. also cause THEY'RE CUTE)

(reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Here's the prompt list if you want to send me requests!! Thankyu)

[kisuminight]

A very general outline of how this AU's Staged Finale goes down:

So Tommy swings the Axe of Peace. And instead of turning into golden dust like a respawn, Dream shatters into pieces of light. The axe catches on Dream’s core crystal and basically knocks it so it hits the ground behind Tommy, in the middle of the gathered server members.

“What the fuck?” says Tommy.

“Language!” from Bad.

“That’s a core crystal. Dream was a Blade?” says Punz. He steps closer to the core crystal on the ground.

“Don’t touch that!” says Sapnap. He also steps closer to the core crystal on the ground.

“Chill. It can take up to three days for a core crystal to recover enough to be Awakened again.” But Punz steps back.

“Dream can’t be a Blade.” Says Sam. “Are you sure that was Dream?”

“Of course if was fucking Dream! You think I don’t fucking recognize how he fucking fights?” Tommy again.

“But if Dream is a Blade, who was his Driver?” Tubbo.

The problem is that Blades, socially, are seen as extensions of their Drivers. Most people expect that, if a Blade is doing something, it is because their Driver told them to. Anyone who has interacted with Skeppy on a frequent basis (and is aware he is a Blade) knows this is nonsense, but ingrained prejudice is strong. Tommy and Tubbo being mostly clueless about the Blade system actually puts them at a better point for recognizing Dream’s agency than anyone else.

Sapnap is having a breakdown. He thought he understood his friend, and then he thought that he didn’t understand his friend but that was okay because Dream was a bad friend. Now Dream is a Blade and some things are making sense but more things aren’t and actually his friend is for-real dead now. Not dead as in a canon death, dead as in the Dream that existed just stopped the moment he was returned to a core crystal. If it is Awakened, the New Dream will be similar but will not be the same person. The last bit hasn’t really hit him yet.

Antfrost and Bad have both been corrupted by the Egg at this point. They are surprised about Dream being a Blade, but are pushed by the Egg to want to bring Dream’s core crystal back to it. The Egg has a hard time infecting Blades, and only got Skeppy by a combination of lingering influence coming from Bad and long-term direct exposure. It is aware that any Blade in its power that reverts to a core crystal will reAwaken without the corruption, and has plans that revolve around trying to corrupt Dream’s core crystal itself.

HBomb, Jack Manifold, and Niki are mostly satisfied that Dream is not going to be a Problem any more. They are content to leave at this point. Niki did guess that Philza was a blade, and since Techno contacted her prior to the confrontation, she does inform Techno (who she thinks is Philza’s Driver) about the situation with Dream.

Callahan is worried about the situation. He wants to know who Dream’s Driver was. As a Blade himself, he is aware that a Driver does not absolutely dictate what Blades can/cannot do. However, a Blade’s relationship with their Driver does greatly impact how they see the rest of the world. Callahan is also aware that a Driver does not necessarily have to be on the same server as the Blade, seeing as his Driver Alyssa is off-server.

Ranboo is staying quiet. He and Punz are staying out of this discussion. Punz makes an excuse to leave early, and dips out while making motions to or saying something about Dream’s core crystal, which is still on the ground. Ranboo is hovering around, acting hesitant.

Sam also wants to know who Dream’s Driver was. He is currently the Warden of Pandora’s Vault, and while his behavior has not reached the point where it would in canon-timeline after overseeing Dream’s imprisonment, the signs are already starting. Sam thinks that Dream should be reAwakened and that they need to be careful about who Dream’s new Driver is to make sure that Dream is a Good Person in his new life (Sam is advocating to be the new Driver).

Puffy agrees that Dream needs a good Driver to be a better person in his new life. She thinks Sam is a good person for that. Eret weighs in at this point and mentions that Dream was a citizen of the Greater Dream SMP and might be better with them (this is part of Eret’s quest for reconciliation, as well as a bit of power-hunger. Eret is a weird character). Puffy says that Sam would be better because Dream shouldn’t be around/have influence in politics. She says Dream probably shouldn’t go with Bad or Antfrost for similar reasons. At this point, Eret leaves.

Tommy wants to know what the hell are they talking about. Why is Dream a rock? Why are they trying to revive Dream at all? It’s like they think that Dream isn’t a wrongun’.

*Blade system is explained to Tommy*

Okay, so the New Dream will look exactly the same as Dream. And act exactly like Dream. And you think it’s okay to wake him up because he won’t have any memories? Tommy calls Doubt with lots of cursing. Bullshit Dream was doing it on orders. It was only Dream demanding Exile. It was only Dream during Exile. Yeah, Doomsday was Dream + Phil + Techno, but Dream wasn’t getting puppeted by either of them. And if Dream was a Blade, why didn’t Dream ever use any of his Blade powers? None of them even know what his Soul Weapon looked like. They don’t know what his element is. Even healer Blades have some weak attacks, and he didn’t use an of that shit! Maybe Dream should stay a rock.

“What the fuck, Tommy,” goes Sapnap.

“Maybe Tommy should reAwaken him,” says Tubbo. The issue is that Dream hated Tommy, right? If Tommy is Dream’s Driver, then that can’t happen again. Dream will help Tommy, be his friend. After all, Dream was nice in the beginning.

Dream will be Tommy’s friend sets Tommy off. “Dream was never my friend and never will be!” This is lingering trauma from the emotional manipulation from exile. Meta note, the relationship between Tommy and Dream would not be healthy at this point.

“Dream should stay with someone who was actually his friend,” Ponk disagrees. Giving a Blade to someone who was their enemy seems ethically dubious.

“Sapnap,” says Quackity.

“Not Sapnap,” says everyone else.

“Fine, George then.”

Sapnap, who is still having a breakdown and is processing 1000+ things and just realized that George might have been Dream’s Driver, based the fact that he re-met Dream as George’s friend and also George’s weird behavior around the dethronement, “Not George.”

“You should leave Dream as a rock,” Tommy repeats.

“I still think it would be better if he stayed with Sapnap,” says Quackity. This is partly to support his fiancé and partly because he thinks having a Blade in his sphere of influence would help his plans. “What do you think, Ranboo?”

“Um, Karl?” It sounds shaky, and the pronunciation is weird. Ranboo leaves.

People present: Tommy, Tubbo, Puffy, Quackity, Sapnap, Antfrost, Badboyhalo, Ponk, Awesamedude.

Karl is friendly. He is minimally involved in server politics at this point (since El Rapids is mostly forgot about in comparison to L’Manberg, and L’Manberg is a hole in the ground). He is Quackity’s other fiancé, so this is still a good solution for Q. Tubbo likes Karl. Tommy is kind of “eh” about it, but he also thinks that Dream should not be reAwakened at this point. Everyone else talks over him. Sam is okay with Karl, but he would prefer to have Dream as his Blade.

“Sapnap, can you bring the core crystal to Karl?”

The core crystal is Not There.

Everyone freaks out. Sapnap demands that everyone empty their inventory. Nobody present has the core crystal (or they are pretending they don’t. Sapnap isn’t sure how much he can trust them). When was the last time anybody remembered seeing it? Well, that was when Punz pointed to it and left. Okay, so Punz doesn’t have it.

Who left?

Ranboo, HBomb, Eret, Niki, and Jack Manifold.

On the Nether side of the portal, EW!Ranboo drops Dream’s core crystal into Punz’s hand. Even if someone were to come through the portal now, they wouldn’t be able to see them. Punz was actively pushing aether into his passive powers, rendering the two of them completely unnoticeable. Once Punz has the core crystal, he steps back. EW!Ranboo completely loses track of him as he leaves.

EW!Ranboo scribbles the basics of what happened in his memory book, Dream tried to kill Tommy and Tubbo. We rescued them. Dream is a Blade and they are fighting about who Dream’s new Driver will be. I am worried about the outcome. Then he gives control back to Ranboo.

So everyone goes into the Nether, and they see Ranboo standing there putting away with his memory book. Ranboo says, “What happened?”

“Ranboo, can you empty your inventory?” The core crystal is Not There (anymore).

Ranboo apologizes to Tubbo, “I’m sorry. Thinks were very stressful. I don’t remember what happened at the confrontation.”

Three days later, Punz Awakens Dream as his Blade. “Hey, buddy. You doing okay?”

“…Resonance feels different from George. It’s weird to have a comparison.”

Results of Staged Finale:

Punz is not under suspicion for having Dream or helping Dream before he was killed. Ranboo is also not under suspicion. Dream has been reAwakened with all his memories (the experiments worked!). They can now continue further experiments in peace. Everyone at Staged Finale is now very suspicious of each other. The idea of someone on the server can just pull a Blade with Dream’s fighting skills, unknown powers, and the blind loyalty of all New Blades out of their inventory unnerves people. Tensions are high, but most people are reluctant to get into actual fights for the moment because what if.

Dream is avoiding the SMP in general, but if someone does see him he can just say “I have no idea who you are, got to go.” There is a greatly reduced risk of immediate attack as long as he pretends to be an amnesiac new Blade if he is discovered.

[inthelittlewood]

Mr Martyn it’s come to my attention that some people don’t know what a hold you had on early Minecraft days, aka: they didn’t know you did Minecraft parodies.

How do you feel about the fact some people don’t know an integral part of your YouTuber lore?

Yuuuuuup, I've been around from the start basically. Began playing in 2010, started content early 2011.

I think because I was solely MC for my first year or two then branched out to variety content in the years that followed, that may have impacted people's awareness or association with MC. I was never in any major SMPs either like the Mianites or others (I did join Tekkit briefly but it just wasn't my vibe)

But yeah... I've done a lot.

- Attended Minecon Vegas

- Released Form This Way very close to TNT, so THAT old, as well as other MC parodies

- Played in the first Noxcrew Gameshow which went on to become MCC

- Hosted MC Live for Mojang with other creators

And that's just a few things. Somebody did make a whole iceberg image which I reacted to once lol

I mentioned it in a song lyric once in a TikTok post that "I'm overlooked as an OG", which I feel is true but it's also not something I'm bitter about. I'm not looking to be on any Minecraft rushmores ha - I'm just grateful I've been able to spend my entire adult life thus far being my own boss and doing such a fun/creative job

If there's any kind of validation I seek, it's from my peers, which does feel present. I've been trusted by everyone from Hermits to Yogscast, Noxcrew to POW to bring value to their products in all kinds of way, comedic, professional and creative. So that really fills my cup / confidence

So yeah. I don't have retirement money and will be forgotten a lot quicker than others but I'm very proud of what I've done and hopefully will do 😊

[izelthewashbear]

Screw this, yet again instead of studying for an exam I have tomorrow (Lord have mercy upon my gay soul) I'll be dissecting my favorite blorbo because why not. I can't stop thinking about one thing.

Today was probably the first time I've watched an entire Rats SMP stream - I was watching Ren goof off with his lieutenant for two hours and it was amazing. Seeing them having absolutely no idea how to play checkers was so funny. But what Martyn said at a certain point instantly flipped my view of him.

He basically said that he's not good at card games and overall strategy games, including checkers. That he has a hard time thinking three steps ahead and only focuses on what's here and now. At first I was like "wait a second, but you're the strategy guy"- Is he? It was only then that it hit me that seeing him as a strategist was kinda wrong.

Let's take 3rd Life as an example. I always saw him as this guy who'd make strategies that Dogwarts would utilize. And to some extent, yeah, maybe- but let's think about his first death in the series. He was so adamant, so headstrong about getting the Dogwarts banner back that he basically chased Scar around the whole server. Without a plan, without even a good reason. And what happened when he finally got the banner back? He basically had to plan on how to return to Dogwarts, which led to him going down and being killed by a skeleton. And I'm sure that if I wasn't trying to stare at my exam notes right now, I'd think of many other examples. Such as, him accidentally killing Cleo in Double Life. Or him trying to do a mass Boogie kill in Limited Life and that going horribly wrong.

What that one moment of these gay rats playing checkers made me realize is that his primary role is not a strategist. He has a basic idea of a plan - but the thing he's good at is basically improvising every step on the fly. This guy can do a 30 minutes long improvised roleplay of pretending to be a demon and almost not lose the lore in the meantime. He cannot stick to a singular plan, instead coming up with solutions to problems as they come and go. He may not be the best at planning, but he can notice little opportunities and take them as they come. He has basic ideas for his lore, and he utilizes them whenever he notices an opportunity. He may have planned to betray Ren in 3rd Life, but ultimately did not end up doing it because of all the choices he made during the series. But the moment there was a perfect poetic opportunity to betray his Mean Gill, he grabbed it and sunk his teeth into it.

I guess he really is the manifestation of 'fuck around and find out'

And now back to studying, wish me luck 🫡

[cdroloisms]

always absolutely fucking hilarious when sbiers in their self-righteous need to assert themselves as better than everyone else in the same way they've done since 2020 even when they're apparently 'out of the fandom' and consider the whole thing cringe and dead (skill issue, methinks) go all um acktually no one cared abt any of the lore except for c!sbi. like well for one thing i don't know of a c!sbi personally speaking i'd like for you to point out to me where character sleepy boys inc ever like, existed, because it certainly wasn't in any dream smp i watched like is there even a single moment where the four of them interact together alone??? and secondly, it's always reeeeeeally obvious when they mean this as a diss on The Other Side Of The Fandom (read, dream team and co) when two-thirds of the dream team just did nawt have any interest in being part of the 'main characters' in the first place and would much rather do their own thing and roleplay in ways that wouldn't get picked apart for ages on twitter dot com, and the other member of the dream team played a character so integral to the lore that even c!inniters will often name him before they name their own goddamn guy because they cannot keep his name out of their mouths (see, the meme i saw like literally just yesterday that boiled down to me, after learning the dream smp lore: i need to kill c!dream). like bro yall are c!inniters you're not fooling anyone you think that the entire story revolves around this one teenager being abused and then completely ignore the months of abuse that was shown on screen for us before exile. "c!sbi" like cmon now guys the ao3 pages are like, right there, we all know who ends up being the villain for ur sbi fanfic that has its foundations in a dynamic that literally never existed in canon.

like "no one cared about anyone's lore except for wilbur and tommy--" well yes they were in fact some of the main fucking characters. imagine someone going up to you and going "well no one cared about the lore in the star wars original trilogy except for luke and leia" like damn really?? (now imagine this same person trying to convince you that darth vader's role was unimportant, actually.) like yeah the dream smp involved a lot of separate storylines and each of those storylines might've had their own "main cast" of characters but i'm also not blind bro, the story that started at the start of the fucking server and the start of the fucking lore was ABSOLUTELY the "wilbur-dream-tommy" triangle that is, in fact, the story that the l'manburg revolution was built on and the story that remains the throughline literally until tommy and dream have their confrontation with a nuke coming down over their heads, something that the characters themselves acknowledge with the repetition of the idea of tommy and tubbo against dream. LIKE ALKJSDFKJSADF yeah bro there were main characters in the tommy-dream-wilbur story an that's also the story that people tended to be invested in in the beginning, to the point where even other self-contained stories in the dream smp absolutely referenced and emulated it (cough cough, las nevadas). like, why are we acting like it's at all groundbreaking for people to be invested in THEEE fucking story the one that first started to exist because at the time basically no one else was part of The Roleplaying Trio and then slowly got padded out and developed as the server developed more and more into the lore server?

and it's the fact that none of these people, too, would deny that they care about ex. c!schlatt in manberg, right, or c!quackity in relation to c!wilbur's deal, etc etc whatever. like breaking news you gaf about The Story as a dream smp fan wow am i supposed to be like, surprised. do you want a medal. LIKE LKJASDJF

[waytooobsessedwithmcyt]

An au I've been thinking about the lore for for a while but still have no plot so instead of a story you get my ramblings:

(Not mentioned in this post but this au does deal with self harm)

There's two different types of gods, gods confined to one dimension and multidimensional gods. One dimensional gods aren't really important to this, but they involve ESMP s2 Joel, s1 Lizzie and Jimmy, Aeor and Exor, Santa Perla, etc.

The only really important ones in this au are the multi dimensional ones, which there are three types of. Watchers and Listeners like normal, but also a third type that's based on Gem's ESMP s2 character called Walkers. As the name suggests, Walkers can move between worlds to carry out the Watchers will.

There's three gods on the traffic smp, Grian is a rebel Watcher, Martyn is a Listener, and Gem is an escaped Walker. All Walkers are wolf hybrids because they're kind of seen as guard dogs to the Watchers, it's basically a cult to be honest.

Gem and Grian didn't grow up together, but after he ran away, Gem was assigned to keep an eye on him, and that's how she got on Hermitcraft. Grian pretty much took one look at her and said "is anyone going to get her therapy?" When Grian heard she was being put into the life series and that the theme of the series was basically the Watchers giving orders, he saw a chance to help her escape their grasp. The Boogeyman task was specifically made for her so see how evil they were, he didn't count on how good she was at following directions.

Martyn is a Listener, unlike Walkers, Listeners are completely separate from the Watchers. Martyn was sent to keep the life series chaotic for the purposes of making sure it ends and the people aren't stuck in the Watcher's world forever.

I'm honestly obsessed with the whole "existing just to serve other people" thing right now. For her entire immortal life, Gem was taught to completely disregard her own emotions, the idea of even considering herself, much less prioritizing herself is such a foreign concept to her.

I kinda want to rant about how Grian and Gem grew up more because they're so traumatized so if someone could conveniently send me an ask about that I would be forever in your debt /j (I'm going to make the post either way because this is my blog and I get to talk to myself on here)

[faggottonystark]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Lexi’s stream from yesterday and I just wanted to share my thoughts:

Hearing all the lies Wilbur has told has really like. Well I knew it was bad obviously I knew he was a BAD guy, but hearing the like. Genuine “Women aren’t funny”, just really got me thinking about how much of the platform he built was a lie.

It really hurts because you think of all his songs about all these things that connected with a lot of people, but if he can put on this role of. Actually caring about women’s issues. And it all have been a complete lie, what else has he straight up put on a facade about?

I understand that there is a difference between people and internet personas, but you have to admit that the lengths he went to are beyond normal. An internet persona is usually just more put together, more energetic, etc. It’s not straight up lying about your opinions in order to please your audience. Like that’s insanely shitty and weird.

Call me parasocial for this but it genuinely makes you wonder how far he went. All of it. I don’t know how to articulate this I might be being too vague. It just makes me think if he was willing to foster this community on safety that he didn’t believe in like… why? For the fame and money? Like is it not just easier to believe those opinions instead of just PRETENDING? How do you go so far lying on being on someone’s side just to say it’s all fake 😭Like at what point is it necessary to truly convince yourself of those things.

And again I understand it’s very easy to lie on the internet about you are. I know that. But just like… the sheer SCALE of it.

He’s always came across as pretty humble on and off of stream, so to hear that he was basically doing it all for the sake of getting money and fame and not a genuine care for creation it just. That fucks you up. I haven’t put as much money into him as other people have and I’m grateful but also. I know if I had had the means to that I would’ve. Why would you manipulate people like that, y’know? It’s just. insane to me.

You play this character on an SMP about someone whose struggling with mental health and suicide, and you turn around and abuse your partner, and you lie to your entire audience, and you hurt others in your life. At what point does it just become too much effort to lie to people like that? Why put up this elaborate facade?

I think I’m going in circles now 😭I just want to know if anyone else feels like this.

[raindropren]

everytime gem mentions impulse and pearl I get really,,,, I think the word is uncomfortable?

It may be a fun storyline but i get so,, weird when a character is very clearly wanting someone to have a bad reputation with others instead of it happening gradually. Gem even says that impulse hasn't really done anything to her and joel, and yet,,,

not to mention the fact that the only thing Pearl did to gem was trying to get her to eat the cobblestone wall, which yes, would've poisoned her, but also was clearly for funzie's and something that multiple people had done in session 2 at that point, and maybe, maaybbee, be alittle agro with impulse during the cow stuff in session 1? but I,,, i have my own thoughts on that. Anything else is from the last season, and while referencing a past season is very fun, having a whole bias because of one makes me,,,, blah. It's not a bad thing, it's a fun storyline ngl, It just makes me,,, like,,, kinda ill,,,(and not in the "I'M ILL /POS" way,,,) like a,,, weirdly physical ill??? It's so weird to say because,,, I'm completely talking about the characters, I think CC gem is amazing, and really funny for this ngl, but stars above, the character makes me sick feeling.

Also, the fact that multiple other people have been,, eh,, meaner? to "The Family" and instead of also being rival's, enemies,,, not friendly?? with them, they are constantly trying to ally with them in a way. Biggest point is martyn, First session he killed one of their cows to try and force them into a trade, and it worked(kinda)! AND IT WAS IMPULSES COW!!! so ya,,, the fact the entire thing that,,, that was,, just vanished in her thoughts of them is,,, gvbiufhdbkgudfljnrioghdfjk

It's so interesting,, Fascinating, I love it, I hate it, It makes me sick, it's on a C!Scott level of interesting, WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!!!

There's a weird level of nostalgia that I feel towards what C!gem is doing,,,, It,,, reminds me of a different,,, smp,,,, anyways

She's actively and constantly saying, especially to others, that Impulse and Pearl(But not Scott and Cleo) are basically the villains, that they should be harmed, die and such, to go after them. She tells Skizz to try and kill impulse actively, joel and her give him advice. She says something to Ren, Martyn, and Etho aswell(and I'm 90% sure there's more, i just,,, haven't finished watching the video,,,,) Bdubs and Tango? maybe BIG MAYBE!! they're around quite abit but I can't remember(my memories so bad oh my stars,,,) if She said anything to them. She talks to Scott about it AND I THINK SCOTT??? AGREES????

This girlie confuses me to no end,,, WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!

Also the fact that They are CONSTANTLY on her mind, despite not interacting,, basically at all it seems in session 3. They are in her head, spinning while she desperately tries to get them out, of course, via death in-season <3

[scoops404]

Scoops' Fics of 2024

It's that time of year again! The time for me to rank my own fics for the last year in order from my least favorite to most favorite. I only considered fics I wrote entirely myself, so you won't see an honest living in here because that was almost 50/50 written with Dizzy! (but you should definitely go check it out!)

This year I only had two novel length fics because I was supposed to be focusing on original work (oops). I had a heck of a summer with my bingo fills. There's definitely recency bias at play here, but that's just how it goes sometimes. Let me know if you agree/disagree :D

See the Elephant - T - this one was written for a fic fest that ended up getting canceled because of the grituation. I had already written the entire thing and it had to be T because the artists were going to post their work. If I had known it would be canceled, I would have had them doing the freaknasty. This was after I had already planned out and written a fic before new boundaries dropped in November (see Circling Back). Basically, this fic fest was never meant to be, I suppose. I was starting to think I was a curse. Oh, but the fic itself is a soulmate AU and kinda angsty and has a hospital scene. 0 horse mentions.

Merry Men Making Merry - T - This was written for Fairy Tales from the SMP - the first and only successful fanfiction event I've completed all the way through (it's never me dropping out btw, it's always the event getting canceled). Anyway I got my first choice of fairy tale, which was Robin Hood, and I put a fun spin on it. The art with this fic was gorgeous!! A very different type of fic for me and it stretched some writing muscles I didn't know I had. Secret identity and identity reveal, some of my favorite tropes. 4 horse mentions.

Move to Florida, buy the car you want - E - the first of my bingo fics. It turns out I am bad at being brief. Anyway, DNF get together and semi-roadhead and I dunno, it's cute. I wrote most of this fic free hand in my note book at my work desk because fuck capitalism. I just checked, the prompt was "late night care rides" which checks out. 0 horse mentions

Someone told me there's no such thing as bad thoughts (croptop) - E - this is the one from the middle of June about crop tops that was also written for bingo. I dunno. It's cute enough. 0 horse mentions.

Everyone understands why it’s mean to be (a/b/o phone call) - T - this one is funny because I didn't even bother saying what the prompt was in the author's notes, but I think it was a/b/o. This one was fun to write because it was basically a nod to the 2021 fandom and where we were, and where DNF were -- waiting on that damn visa. Like going back in time and writing a fic. 1 horse mention.

Can I Use You Up - E - I really had fun writing this one. It has fun Dreateam dynamics and then a really intense sex scene and the dichotomy of both of those things in one fic -- and short (for me), at that! impressive. 0 horse mentions.

Circling Back - E - this fic is fun and wild. I got to write co-workers to lovers that is also hidden/secret identity -- and it works! WILD! I re-read this one recently and it stands up. This was originally written for that first fic fest i was talking about and when they changed it for the new boundaries for art, I couldn't have any smut and the whole plot kind of hinged around the smut, so... I decided to just write it as it is. ALSO this is the first fic that Chelsey beta'd, I think. So that's fun! And it was the first fic of the year (not counting Hits Different which wrapped up in January). 0 horse mentions.

Just to do experiments on - E - Yall, if you had told me that I would write tentacle porn, I would have laughed at you. Extra has been trying to get me to write tentacles for YEARS and then it came up on my bingo card and I felt like I finally had to bite the bullet and do it. Except, I actually really love how it turned out? This bingo prompt was tentacles, obviously, but also cursed by a witch. A twofer, if you will. 0 horse mentions.

Let Me Familiarize You - E - here's some Scoops lore. I wrote this fic in two sitting and it is 13K, so that's wild!!! It took me two days in the time after my surgery but before I could go back to work to write this (in between writing the beginnings of Two Fools and another story that I haven't and won't publish lol). Anyway, it's about witch!George accidentally making Patches his familiar and then coming clean to Dream and also his mom is there. And then literally that same day, George dropped a video with his mom. Crazy pants. (or maybe it was the day before when this was all written? Can't remember. Also I was on pain pills). I really like how it turned out. It's a fun premise! 0 horse mentions.

Puzzle pieces in the dead of night - T - another bingo fic, the prompt was pirates. Anyway, I had a BLAST writing this one. Secret identity, kidnapping, munchy mc dynamics, I really like writing action adventurey fics and this one feel right into that category. A fun read, in my opinion. 0 horse mentions.

I’m Having His Baby (No, I’m Not) - E - a bingo fic, the prompt was "mpreg, but abortion" because the person who made the boards *ahem* doesn't like pregnancy stuff and wanted to punish me (lightheartedly lol). Anyway, joke is on her, because I made this into an epic story and I had so much fun writing it. Like, laughing out loud to myself while writing it, which is kinda sad, but is also the point of fanfiction. You have to entertain yourself first and foremost. And also I snuck eventual mpreg in there anyway so haha! for real, though, if you think the premise of this one is weird -- Dream and George accompany Sapnap on a roadtrip to Colorado to get his abortion -- you should try it out anyway. 1 horse mention, and arguably the one that brought it to our good anon's attention.

Anagnorisis - E - speaking of mpreg, LMAOOOOOO. My "I didn't know I was pregnant" AU with Angst and miscommunication and domesticity and last minute flights to London and a baby named after the lead singer of Glass Animals. This fic has a lot! I wrote a lot about the beginning of this fic on Tumblr and kind of how I begin writing fics. Here Anyway, pretty proud of this fic. I had to ask my mom a lot of questions about NICU. 3 horse mentions.

I Am Two Fools - E - every year the last novel length fic of the year seems to be in the top spot. No Exception this year. This fic was very tough to write, but very rewarding. I think it taught me a lot about making sure character motivations are fleshed out and make sense. It, and Anagnorisis, taught me about trusting the reader and dropping hints at things. Yall got So Good at catching hints and making molehills out of anthills, as intended. I took a chance and switched up POV halfway through, which is almost never do. And I think that really helped me stretch my writing muscles as well as all the bingo fics. Very proud of the work I did on this fic. 0 horse mentions.

[thetomorrowshow]

reveal ourselves to ourselves

FEBUWHUMP DAY 1: vocal cords

fandom: Hermitcraft SMP

i do not plan to do every day of febuwhump btw. just some here and there

this is part of sleep cycle, my series where a handful of hermits got kidnapped and tortured etc etc

~

“Mumbo?”

Mumbo jolts, almost knocking over the chest he’d just emptied. He forces a breath in, lets it out, then turns, as casually as he can manage.

Doc is standing behind him, a good distance away. His robotic arm is still half-built, his eye covered with a patch.

Mumbo opens his mouth. No sound comes out.

It isn’t logical. It really, really isn’t. There isn’t anything wrong with his voice or his throat; his vocal cords are perfectly intact. And he’s never had any sorts of problems with speaking—he said his first word at only a couple months old, simple.

It isn’t right that he can’t speak.

If he was a machine, he’d decommission himself. No use for a machine that doesn’t fulfill its basic functions.

At least Doc can rebuild himself.

“Can I talk with you?” asks Doc.

Mumbo doesn’t say yes.

He doesn’t say no, either, which might be why Doc doesn’t leave.

Doc sits on a chair—not one of Mumbo’s, one of Grian’s that he left here two days ago. Mumbo doesn’t sit, because there isn’t another chair, and he sure is not going to sit on the floor of his vault.

He doesn’t want to talk—he can’t talk—but he isn’t just going to walk away, right?

Is that an option?

It would be rude, wouldn’t it?

“I think we all need to communicate better,” Doc starts, and Mumbo feels like ice slides down his throat and into the pit of his stomach.

He’s been avoiding everyone except Grian all week, but it isn’t like he asked him not to tell anyone that he’s said maybe a dozen words total since returning. It’s entirely possible that everybody is aware and has been having meetings about it and they chose Doc to confront him about it.

There’s a repeater on the ground, and Mumbo slowly crouches down and scoops it up. He clicks it back and forth only once before he stops, the sound too loud.

Doc looks down at his knees, then back up, something steely in his gaze. “I’m sorry,” he says. “You might not know it, but . . . our captors showed you to me. They . . . they gave me a choice.”

A choice.

Mumbo knew that Milo wasn’t lying. He had told himself over and over again that it was a lie, that it had just been an attempt to induce stockholm syndrome.

He’d always known, though, that it was the truth.

That one of his friends had been given the choice to either free him or someone else from the muzzle, and they had chosen someone else.

It would be rude to just walk away.

But Mumbo doesn’t really care.

He doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t look at Doc.

He just turns around and walks away, right through the partially completed wall of his vault and out onto the grassy hill that he’s building on, then on past that. He walks away, into the trees, and just hopes that Doc doesn’t follow him.

He likes nature. Is it weird that he likes nature, when he’s a redstoner? He never gets to spend time in nature unless he goes out of his way to experience it, and he rarely has that sort of time.

It feels more important to make that sort of time than it did before.

He isn’t dressed for a walk—his suit jacket is already getting heavy, his tie constricting. He pulls his tie loose, but keeps walking, even as he starts to sweat.

He spent so long cold.

A bee buzzes by. Its buzz is loud, but it’s the right kind of loud, a sound that belongs in this environment. A good loud.

If loud can be good.

Grian shouts sometimes, and it scares him. He tries not to let it show, especially since Grian seems inclined to spend a good majority of each day with him, and loud noises are part and parcel of hanging out with Grian. Unfortunately, Mumbo’s fairly certain that Grian’s noticed, because he tries to keep it down as often as he remembers.

Grian shouldn’t have to cater to him like that. That’s part of Grian’s personality—a tad bit loud, a dash of explosions. It’s who he is and how he acts, and Mumbo really ought to be used to it, even after two months away.

Is it wrong to miss who he used to be?

Is it wrong to wish he was still the functional Mumbo, the one who could talk, who wasn’t scared of his friends, who could take a walk through the woods without running out of breath?

It’s probably about time for his strictly scheduled afternoon snack. Gem had been clear about his malnourishment and had set up a precise diet to follow to get back to normal, and Mumbo’s supposed to be having peanut butter crackers today. He prefers the crackers over carrots and an apple, his snack yesterday. Carrots make his jaw click painfully.

It’s been a nice (though brief) walk, but he should head back to his base and hope that Doc has left him in peace. Then he can have his snack and get back to organizing his storage.

But when Mumbo returns, Doc is still there, sitting right where Mumbo left him in Grian’s chair.

Mumbo doesn’t look directly at him, even though Doc straightens at his entrance. Instead, he makes a beeline for the corner of his base that serves as a kitchen and digs in his food chest until he finds crackers and his frankly massive container of peanut butter. He spreads a bit onto a cracker, pops it into his mouth, then finally looks at Doc.

He doesn’t feel angry, not . . . not really. He doesn’t think so, at least. He’s too tired from his walk to feel much of anything.

There’s something in his chest, though, some kind of tightness that might be grief? Sadness? Something that hurts.

Doc definitely looks sad, his eye crinkled and lips turned down. He does, however, stand when Mumbo holds out a cracker to him, thumping over to share in the snack.

“I’m sorry,” Doc says again, and Mumbo just eats another peanut buttered cracker. “I hurt you with what I did. It was a choice, and . . . and I made it. And my choice hurt you.”

It did.

It did hurt, and Doc will never understand just how alone Mumbo felt when Milo whispered in his ear that his friend refused to help him. He’ll never know that he cried, that he finally became that certain he would never be rescued. Doc will never know how much his jaw hurt, how much it still hurts, how some mornings he wakes up with it so stiff that he wouldn’t be able to talk even if he wanted to.

It’s—it’s betrayal, Mumbo realizes. That feeling in his chest is betrayal, because Doc hurt him.

He doesn’t even know why. He doesn’t know why Doc made the choice he did, but it hurts. It doesn’t matter if he had a good reason; he betrayed Mumbo’s trust and that’s that.

However, Mumbo has made a point to not hold grudges, and he has to assume that Doc, analytical as he is, had some sort of reasoning behind his choice. Mumbo can’t blame Doc for being given such a horrible decision.

“How is your redstone?” Doc asks after a long moment, and Mumbo recognizes it for the olive branch it is.

He beckons Doc down toward the basement of his vault, to his half-finished redstone for the door and his storage and everything, and they silently fall into work together as they examine and improve what he’s been working on.

At one point, Doc hands Mumbo a torch and he mutters a thanks, his voice creaky from disuse.

They’ll figure it out. The redstone, and the friction between them.

Hermits always do.

[doctor4t-posting]

Has your friend bugged you about watching a Minecraft YouTube called doctor4t ?

do you not know where to start watching because theres just so many videos!!!

fear not.. as this is an introductory guide on the channel called doctor4t

(MADE FOR FUN + ORIGINALLY MADE FOR MY FRIEND WHO REQUESTED IT AND I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUN TO SHARE!! WATCH WHATEVER YOU WANT!!!!! very subjective pls take this w a grain of salt)

first of all, here are some relatively short videos i find very fun and introduce you to basically what RATs general content is (≧▽≦)/ (Minecraft challenges, modding, etc);

Remaking iconic Minecraft mini-games with terrible ideas - 14 mins

Adding a new Frozen Dimension to Minecraft... - 7 mins

Making it rain Meteorites in Minecraft - 9 mins

Here are the longer videos that I think are cool! (つ≧▽≦)つ;

Coding Your Explosive Minecraft Ideas - 21 mins

Saving a Modded SMP by Removing Every End Portal - 22 mins (start of content smp lore, so buckle up)

Turning Minecraft into a Horror Game to Terrorize YouTubers - 26 mins

Turning Minecraft into a Space Exploration Game - 1 hr 17 mins

All the lore videos in order ☆⌒(≧▽​° );

Saving a Modded SMP by Removing Every End Portal

Making a Minecraft Mod for ClownPierce and Unleashing Him on my SMP

He Cheated, so I got Rid of Him by Using Mods

Adding a Giant Airship to Minecraft to Trap an Entire Server

Adding a Rat Plague to Minecraft just to Crash a Party

Turning my Worst Enemy Into my Strongest Ally with One Minecraft Mod

Coding a Custom Minecraft Horror Dimension to Keep a Secret

Saving a Minecraft SMP from Corruption with Mods

if you want to get into the itty gritty details of the lore I suggest watching the lore streams and this lore playlist the lovely @astronyu made so you can form your own understanding of it!

here are also some other channels that has more doctor4t content if youre interested ^▿^ !!

doctor4t vods - vod channel

r4tmaid - second channel

[pixiecaps]

hi. im sorry if this is a weird question but. what makes you keep watching smps?? just, what motivates you if everytime things and characters and plotlines captivate you and they almost never end in a satisfactory way. it might be because im a newbie in myct but every server i learned about seems to just last very little or burn in a horible death. what makes you want to go again and again to new servers.

okay to start off here there’s two layers and one is more of a personal thing and another basically advice.

first i dont talk about this much but my brain just latches onto things and one of my longest lasting interests is on minecraft. probably since the game was released. i think ive probably watched more minecraft content than tv shows & movies in my entire life. because my brain just works that way

now second. i need to this to be clarified everyone has a different reason for sticking along and i think this is a wonderful question that so many mcyt bloggers would have different answers to that would provide a lot of cool insight and perspective. dont think the question is weird at all.

BUT for me i think it was around smplive which was 2019 that was rough that was really the first and only time that i wanted to stop watching minecraft completely. for a lot for a reasons rlly. and yet i didnt!!! and thats because i realized that i didnt want to let something i cherished and enjoyed be tarnished by the bad. its so important to allow yourself grace whenever something bad happens with mcyt content or creators themselves because you arent the one to blame for something turning sour. too much good and incredible content and communities come from these unfortunately ended smps and whatnot to just to be seen as that one thing. i think sometimes, out of spite even, i feel like I NEED TO NOT LET THESE THINGS BE OVERSHADOWED BY THE BAD. because so many smps are fucking wonderful experiences with amazing creators who dedicate so much time to them and who are so funny and talented and for them to not be recognized for that at all is a shame. i loved every smp ive watched and i dont regret watching any of them. theyve all given me so much joy and laughter and its important to remember that. so ig another part of it all is allowing yourself to appreciate the good and not let the bad stop you from experiencing all the future content thats made from mcyt that will be incredible. because there will be more smps and there will so many mcyt creators and the ball isnt gonna stop rolling. sometimes it just boils down to something as simple as not letting the bad experiences stop you from seeing the good the community has to offer. as well as for me outside of the content itself with smps the fanbases have singlehandedly taken a part of my heart. theres just so many wonderful people in these communities who have put out so much positivity that i cant possibly find myself regretting it or not going back in whenever the next smp drops.

much love anon hope that makes a little bit of sense

[aeriedwelling]

psst hi what smp series would you recommend someone watch if they're. not completely new but pretty much entirely out of the loop with mcyt? i keep seeing posts and its rrararrar and i wanna understand them

also bc. minecraf good /silly

hi hello !!!!

Depends on the sort of vibe you're going for I guess? I'll tell you about a bunch of the series i like and you can pick and choose what sounds interesting :D !! (it got really long so it's under the cut)

I had these at the bottom but im moving them to the top because i want you to watch them first. heart emoji.

These are some Non-SMPs that I watch!

Pixlriffs does the minecraft survival guide, which is basically just him teaching you how to play survival minecraft in java edition! he's really thorough and his tutorials are easy to understand and follow :3 i also just like listening to him talk so i put them on in the background sometimes if i don't wanna listen to empires for the . checks watch. eighth time.

There's Parkour Civilization which is just . a fucking. fever dream. it's so bad. it's so good. when you're done with the first one here's Parkour Civilization Two and PVP Civilization . thumbsup.

Whitepine. Is. So. Fucking. Cool. ivorycello made a period drama in minecraft. there's only four episodes and it's very pretty <33 that is all

//

now on to smps!!

//

Hermitcraft is the first one that comes to mind - it's a family friendly server with about 25 people on it! They're currently on season 10, but you don't have to watch any of the previous seasons to start watching!! It's just a buncha friends playing minecraft. good vibe :D

Some folks do Lore, others just kinda hang out and build. it's a very good time. I recommend Geminitay and Joel Smallishbeans, but if you don't like their vibe then here's a playlist with every single hermitcraft pov on it and you can jump around to whoever looks interesting!!

(I also watch Mumbo, Pearlescentmoon, Tango, and Skizz ! I'm not completely caught up but . yeag <33)

(also. season 8. is really short. and really good. and the moon may or may not be big but dw about that <3 /silly ohhh you wanna watch mumbo's season 8 soooo bad...)

//

Next series is the Life Series ! A handful of hermits and a few outside friends get together on a tiny little world and beat the shit out of each other. (half joking). it's hardcore with a twist, they have 3 lives. On green, it's a normal minecraft server where everyone is friends :) . on yellow they're in the uh oh zone !! and when they turn red they can start killing >:) . they get really dramatic with it and it spawned a lot of fun duos !! there's lots of discourse around winner symbols and shipping but you don't have to care about any of that you can just enjoy watching the silly goofy block people.

This one I would recommend watching in season order- it's a lot shorter than hermitcraft. the seasons are, in order: Third Life, Last Life, Double Life, Limited Life, Secret Life, then Wild Life.

once again i recommend Joel Smallishbeans! and once again here's a playlist with everyone's third life povs if you wanna jump around to whoever looks interesting! Grian, Scar, Martyn, and Ren all have really cool storylines :3 Martyn has lore that stretches across the entire life series which is pretty cool

//

Next is Empires !! it's about half the size of hermitcraft, with only 13 empires. Each player is a ruler of their own empire. there's established trades, and allies and enemies- there's a war about salmon and cod !! there's a wedding !! there's multiverse lore !! it's all really really cool !!

recommended povs . Pixlriffs (ohhh you wanna watch pix's empires soooo bad) and . you guessed it. Joel Smallishbeans! and once again a playlist with everyone's videos if you'd like to jump around :D Pearl and Gem are here too, and Fwhip is the guy who made it so his is a good pov to watch as well <3

there are two seasons and you can technically start with either so . yeag! i think season one is better but im trying to remain unbiased so coughs loudly who said that

//

THEN THERE'S SOS SMP which is like empires 3 !! kinda !! also by fwhip !!! it's another hardcore series with a twist- but the twist this time is that when you die you become a grave, and the other players can revive you with Fate Coins !! You get Fate Coins by doing advancements and the server challenges. It's a short term smp and im gonna say it's my favorite. SOS is REALLY GOOD.

i watched Pixlriffs here too ! and Mogswamp has really fun editing, and she just made a movie about the server :D and here's a playlist with everyone's povs again :3 shockingly enough i haven't actually watched joels sos pov sjldfksdj

//

OwengeJuice runs Rats SMP, which is a bunch of creators as little rats :D i've not finished either season but it's fun and cute and silly :3 first season they're in a mansion, second season they're in a hotel in paris! i think season 2 is still ongoing but i haven't caught up with it so i have no idea. o7

//

Pirates SMP is another one that I've seen a little bit of but not everything- they're all pirates ! there's factions! they do silly pirate things!

//

Then completely disconnected from any of these guys is Skyblock Kingdoms, which is a multiplayer skyblock server !! all of the players are divided up into kingdoms. they use wood as currency. there's cool lore and cool people. i watched every pov for a while so this one u will just have to jump around to see who you like sjdlfkj. (i like avid, doovid, ruby, vintage, and milkman if that helps at all!)

//

hopefully that's an alright start !! if you're drawn to like . specific fanart and want to know what's up with the fanart specifically then you can send it to me and i'll let you know what server it's for if you wanna start there :3

that is all thank u for letting me infodump. i can attempt to go more in depth with any and all of these if u would like <33

[tommyssupercoolblog]

I think what made the nuke ending so painful for fans wasn't even necessarily the bad writing, although that made it worse- the DSMP had a few questionable writing and lore choices sometimes and we all just ran with it before.

I think the thing that's at the core of it is something people don't really talk about, which is that the nuke ending basically told you, to your face, that you wasted your time watching the DSMP and were an idiot for caring.

What I mean is, the entire appeal of an SMP as a storyline split across so many characters is that you aren't stuck with a protagonist you don't like- you choose the perspective and storyline you care about. The personal attachment to characters is the whole, like, POINT? It's a character driven show. It's a character drama. It's not about big action set peices, even when those are THERE the POINT is still the characters.

And moreover, the point of all the horrible fucking things that happen was not just that you wanted your favorite characters to struggle, but over and over again, to FIGHT. To claw their way through it. Characters suffer and die, they choose to live even when life is MISERABLE, they barely avoid suicide, they come back from the dead.

People who watched the show watched it FOR the characters and for their personal struggles and fight for happiness.

The nuke ending basically says that none of that struggle mattered. Who fucking CARES if everyone dies in lmanburg's war for independence, if Tommy kills himself in exile, if the egg takes over the world, if Tubbo goes crazy after Ranboo 's death and kills his son and himself in some murder suicide. Who CARES that ghostbur died, that WILBUR died before him OR came back, if Wilbur never tries to better. Who cares what happens to anyone!!! They were all going to die anyway!!!

Regardless of how many times they fought for their lives, it was all for NOTHING. If they gave up and laid down from the very first lore stream, they would have STILL DIED but just avoided all the suffering along the way.

Since the show is ABOUT the characters, the nuke ending killing everyone makes every single plot point and character arc up until that point irrelevant because it takes a story where nearly every character struggles against death and their will to live, and tells you that their struggle is futile. Now any scene where anyone fights for their life in any sense of the word is pointless, for EVERY character, and most people's arcs are left dangling- some cut off in the WORST POSSIBLE PLACE as well- which just further sends the message that you shouldn't have cared. That none of it mattered. That no one's goals or dreams or aspirations meant a damn fucking thing.

The nuke ending is dream pointing and laughing at you for getting attached to a "stupid Minecraft show" after people spent YEARS invested in it. Of course it fucking hurt.

Imagine if you were watching some other character driven drama and that happened. Like, okay, A Silent Voice is a great movie, watch it if you haven't seen it- it's about a suicidal man who sees himself as an irredeemable monster who deserves to die because of how he bullied a deaf girl in childhood, and how he reconnects with her and makes ammends, realizes he isn't beyond hope or redemption, and rediscovers his will to live in the process; also helping her find happiness and friends too. (She also falls in love with him but they don't actually date in the movie, they stay friends.) also worth noting she and all the other characters have their own arcs and personalities, so this isn't some "using the disabled person as a catalyst for another character's growth" movie, their back stories are connected but she has agency.

Imagine if in that movie, right when they start to make friends for the first time and it looks like they might both get better, everyone in the whole world suddenly died at the same time mid-story and it ENDED LIKE THAT. Imagine sitting through their internal struggles and thoughts, watching our protagonist fail to kill himself and then slowly find reasons to live, and then BAM I'm sorry were you INVESTED in that? Turns out nothing he said or did mattered and everyone is dead now. :)

IT'D BE ABSOLUTELY INSULTING. ESPECIALLY IN A STORY THAT DEALS WITH SUICIDE AND DEATH SO MUCH, HAVING EVERYONE DIE FOR NO REASON AFTER THEY'VE CHOSEN DELIBERATELY TO LIVE WOULD BE FUCKING MISERABLE.

The Dream SMP did that exact thing, to EVERYONE, after years on the air. It's CRAZY.

Of course in real life, every second alive matters. It isn't not worth living just because you die two years or even two days later. But this is a STORY with NARRATIVE and CHARACTER ARCS with people who ARE NOT REAL. Their "lives" are fictional and only exist and matter so much as they do for the story, which has decided to throw all of them out the window even though that is literally ALL IT HAD GOING FOR IT from the word go. Like, that's the show!!! That's the whole show it's just character interactions!!!! A mix of improv and scripted encounters between characters!!! That's IT it's MINECRAFT there isn't much else to make it a narrative but CHARACTERS AFFECTING EACH OTHER and having relationships!!!! The show ripped out it's own insides in front of you!!!!

Anyway. Nuke ending bad, retconning it POGGERS and good.

[smallishzine]

we received a question about shipping, so here is our answer: (there is also important zine info unrelated to shipping at the bottom of the post)

Yes, ship art/writing is allowed, *however*, this is still a zine dedicated specifically to Joel, so if you choose to incorporate that into your piece, it must:

Have Joel as the central focus of the piece

Have something in the piece contributory to the zine besides shipping

be entirely sfw. This goes for any piece anyone makes, keep it Family Friendly. You don’t have to make it, like, toddler safe, and you’ll have a lot more leeway in gore and blood and violence and arson and all that good stuff because it is Joel we’re talking about, but please take pity on the ace-spec minor modding this zine.

try your best to stick to c!Joel’s canon relationships. We’ll be polling about this later but current plan is for the zine to feature pieces dedicated to all the eras of Joel’s content creation as like the thing that our zine is. I don’t know if we’re gonna go as far back as mousyluvscheese, and we’re probably gonna focus on just his Minecraft content unless someone expresses specific interest in doing a piece for something he did outside of that, but yeah that’s currently the plan. With that in mind what I mean by stick to canon is basically with the current plan everything we make up will be based off of what’s already there, so if your ship requires you to retcon and rewrite then probably no. The one exception is probably Lizzie, if she was on the smp then you are allowed to ship them as romantically (or non romantically qprs and other aroacespec headcannons are totally okay) as you want. I’m not sure if I’m explaining myself well so if you want me to elaborate further then feel free to send in an ask.

also I know that everyone has different definitions of ship art so like if you make it with romantic intent but it could also be interpreted as platonic then you don’t even really need to ask if that’s okay (in terms of shipping we’re still gonna make you run your ideas by us before you start working) Also if it happened in canon exactly the way you depicted it, such as Real Life smp smallidarity, double life boat boys, or esmp2 mythicalbeans, then you’re also probably in the clear.

also!!! And this is extremely important even if you definitely aren’t planning on including shipping!!! The plan for what’s going in the zine is in no way set in stone, it’s just a starting place to work off of right now, if you guys wanna do something else then fine by me! However, if the idea gets more difficult/complicated, then I’m gonna need your guy’s help to pull it off. If you wanna tell a complete story, like hotguy comic zine did, I’d love too!! But I’d need you guys to help come up with the story and write it and stuff, as I’m rather incompetent at most things. It was probably a bad idea to put me in charge of this thing. If you wanna make an in universe art book documenting a specific thing Joel has made, like scarland art book did? Sure, super down for that! But you guys would need to pick what thing. You wanna do something that’s never been done before in the zine scene? I’d love too! But you guys would have to come up with the ideas and then let me know, cause currently I got nuthin’. Don’t be afraid to send me asks, if there’s something you want to see Let Me Know!!! Everything is subject to change, and I love getting input from people who want to see the zine get made. If you’ve got ideas, send em’!

wow I got really off topic.

-mod Dinn

[fleaseditstuff]

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