#blame the mcyt brainrot

[romavoid]

Pretty Little Things (wilt away)

[valeriapryanikova]

i know they're like hippies or whatever but hear me out,, what if... witches???? anyone? no? just me,? okay

[isa-ghost]

getting sentimental over you in public but thank you for being like. my biggest supporter with joining the qsmp fandom :)) publicly blaming uou for my brainrot bcyou helped explain things to me so clearly which made the daunting feeling of Oh God A Year Of Content not as daunting.

and with the animatics dude you’re :((( you’re so encouraging with me when i have literally no clue what im doing AJDJDN thank you so much <3

(im also actually CHATTING im a CHATTER now bc i know YOURE a chatter i went in pegs all by myself the other night it was crazy)

MASONNNNNNN 💚💚💚

Dude only veteran isa-ghost followers will understand this but AMFMN has been some of the most fandom fun I've had since collaborating with our best friends to make the Bunker AU.

I've never written fanfic before, only OC writings, which you know abt ofc, and the fact that this is my FIRST ONE EVER and you made an animatic for it BEFORE CHAPTER 2 EVEN DROPPED?? Insane. I can't wrap my head around it. The fact that I was one chapter in and you and @bunchofdoodlesinspace already made fanart for the fic??? I shit you not, hugely responsible for me plotting out over 10 fucking chapters of this fic. I didn't expect to make this a long fic but here we are and I am OBSESSED with every part of it.

And ofc I'm gonna be the most vocal supporter of your art, I've watched you fucking BLOOM and then some over the what, 6 fucking years?? We've been friends. You're on a level I wanted to be at by now for as long as I can remember, so everything you make to me is breathtaking and I love how experimental you are with what you do because my dumb ass is SOOO annoyingly particular and precious about my art and it's a nightmare to put up with. I love seeing you pop off in ways I personally haven't (yet?), it genuinely inspires me to take a shot at it some day when I have the means.

I've never properly infodumped to someone before because my friends have always been people who like the same things as me and already Understand(tm) so the fact that I not only got to be Extremely Autistic about my silly bird man but also coherently explained so much lore AND have resources prepared to further help myself explain & catch up a newbie is. So rewarding.

And I'm so glad I introduced you not only to PEGS but to the Freaks too because they are the 2 most welcoming and hilarious communities I've ever been a part of, in mcyt or otherwise. I've never felt like it was difficult to sorta worm into them, right away I felt like part of the whole. Literally will never forget the first time a Freak recognized me and greeted me at the start of stream without me saying anything to them first. I'm so happy to introduce you to the same kindness I was shown by them and to have someone to cherish it with.

I fucking love you you dork I hope I successfully drag you into a million more interests bc I love watching what it does to your brain and how that manifests in your art.

[sunofaraven]

What inspired Love Death + Grumbot?

Sorry for sitting on this ask for so long! This was a way harder question to answer than I anticipated, and I apologise in advance for the very long post XD

I started working on LD+G back in January 2023, just after the end of the Hermitcraft/Empires crossover event. I had just finished writing Soulbound, my first fic, and I was itching to start another. And... I was missing Mumbo. Grian was missing him too and Emperor Grumbot was ready to destroy a whole universe just because Mumbo wasn't in it; I was defenceless against the "I miss Mumbo" brainrot.

The initial idea for LD+G was more of a gritty, steampunk, two dudes and their cryptic robot son against the world thing. I wanted to write an apocalypse fic (I've actually got several original novels that are apocalypse/dystopian novels--I am only a little addicted to the genre...), and Cub was doing his whole sculk thing on empires, so it seemed as good a cause for an apocalypse as anything else. You can see all this in the very first notes I ever made for the fic:

But, see, I LOVE zombies. I blame The Last of Us. I'd spent 2022 trying to play through the second game and getting frustrated with its cynical take on the world. It just doesn't feel believable to me that humanity would be at each other's throats. Sure, people are scared and impulsive, but it takes a lot for the average human to hurt another. Our strengths lie in our adaptability and how we support each other in times of need!!

Anyway, once I veered away from steampunk and started down the zombie route, a big inspiration for some of the characters was Hybbart's Rancher Apocalypse AU (I blame them entirely for my Ranchers obsession tbh). They also had some pretty fun ideas about the role of sculk in an apocalypse, and since I come from a biology background, the opportunity to have a symbiosis between zombies and sculk was just SO much fun for me.

So then, why did it become a story about grief? Well... I felt pretty trapped in my personal life at the time, so initially LD+G was both a way to process that and some much-needed escapism. I don't remember exactly when or why I decided that Grian was infected, but I do remember writing like I'd been possessed in early 2023. I wrote a whole list of scenes/moments that I wanted it to contain and then the plot just kinda... fell out of me one day.

To be melodramatic about it, I have written a lot of novels in my life, but none that felt so akin to bleeding out on the page as this one did. I needed to write this story, to have a place to channel my emotions as well as my eternal mcyt brainrot. I wasn't mourning a person, exactly, I was mourning my own perceived lack of agency and trying to gather the strength to end a whole chapter of my life and start anew.

So I wrote about love, I wrote about death.

And I wrote about Grumbot.

[sm0lcatfish]

what if i also talked about my animatic ideas. what then. stealing this idea from eyelessfog this is my boat now. heavy focus on mcyt since u guys probably don’t want to hear my oc / other ones. probably a long post bc i have alot of silly concepts but i’ll also keep them as short as i can

milk by jack stauber - shrub berry. probably heavy inspo from fazbean’s walten files pmv with same song bc i really like it

blame by air traffic controller - shrub berry. second half of the first chorus and second verse would have a focus on mother wolf. ‘vultures they r circling overhead they’re reminding me of choices from my past’ would be about mar’s death

run boy run by woodkid - also shrub berry. do u sense a pattern lmao- i have a big vision of the last part of the song showing shrub running anxiously through the nether, no idea how she got there only with the knowledge that xornoth might be behind him, and he might be next, but he has to make it for gnomekind. and then he runs off screen and after a beat the wolf spirit and the pack run in and repeat the path, just the opposite way

dreamland by glass animals - grand wizard gem. the main brain concepts i have is ‘you were ten years old holding hands in the classroom he had a gun on the first day of highschool’ fwhip and gem going to check on sausage, meanwhile he is ready to kill them in the name of xornoth. the entire next verse would be about the dragon fight and during the second set of ‘all round your head’s i think about gem jumping up to the egg alter and grabbing it before falling into the portal behind it, bc that is way cooler than just torching it. and then next part is about the mage sausage fight where she kills him to save him, and she asks him “what makes a man?”

camillo’s interlude - shrub berry. yes i know my music taste is everywhere don’t ask. i listened to the song the first time while in the middle of mildly brainrotting over depths of hell so. there’s obviously influence. first part of the song is shrub talking to mother wolf before cutting to katherine and tws in the nether at ‘speaking of my feet’. having a ‘gift like ur’s’ is rejected by katherine bc of how she left her kingdom

gabriel by alec benjamin - prince scott. a pmv showing his stress building, maybe in a symbolic way like ice increasing on his antlers. this concept is rougher than the rest but that’s probably cus i never brainrotted on his lore

the exit from razia’s shadow - this song is soooo xornoth and prince scott. trust me. for this pmv i feel like as xor kills their parents they r only half corrupted but during ‘it’s not me don’t you see it’s just my pedigree’ they become fully corrupted while looking down on the gnomes from above. and then cut to the future where xornoth is back and yelling at scott. and then maybe including the narration at the end about scott’s afterlife

hand of god by jack bellion - shrub berry again. first part is about shrub running through the nether, falling out, and meeting katherine. and then the next part is about xornoth, who he realized followed him to empires, and then ‘tears at a funeral’ being about mars. next bit is about the xornoth fight and then crystal. ‘just like the 80s films’ or ‘bring me down to brooklyn’ is the handoff of the crown, ‘push me down the hudson’ is a wide shot of the traveling with tws, ‘long island’s only smiling’ is both the other mother wolf and returning to empires, ‘i did everything for new york’ is probably lipsynced as shrub goes jn the nether

cemeteries of london by coldplay - princess/monster hunter katherine. this song is sooo her. first verse is about her hunting at night with all the ‘at night they’d go walking’ ‘the morning is for sleeping’. at the end would be a shot of the half corrupted castle before katherine running cus the song discusses going to break ur curses and talking to witches. great witch shelby time. maybe the next part is about the festival cus it mentions ‘my heart it wasn’t open’? but i’m kinda waiting for more heavy angst cus that part of the song is kinda intense? idk how to describe it

the moth by manchester orchestra - here’s the great witch shelby content. just her story . all the ‘forced myself to take a different name’ ‘throw the man u used to be away’ stuff from the first chorus is about her rejecting the letter, second verse is the pirate joe stuff with ‘you wanna feel it hurt u wanna feel it when he dies’ probably?

be nice to me by the front bottoms - i don’t have much of a solid idea but like. this song is so gw shelby ah

she wants me (to be loved) by the happy fits - throw out all of the angst cus this would be a pmv purely about gw shelby’s feelings for princess/mh katherine and how she grows to understand how while she doesn’t love her romantically she still wants her to be loved!!! just a silly upbeat sorta vibe

the scab by an unkindness - grand architect false!!!! there’d probably alot of inspiration to druid’s hollow’s WIP hollyleaf amv to the same song, especially with having ga false physically fall during the ‘i’m going down and down-‘ the first part of the second verse has a focus on hermit false. ‘wife’ would probably be a shot to poison jack cus it’s funny, ‘good book’ probably the signs, ‘mediocre car’ the car from the festival. and then back to a focus on ga false realizing the new tower and how she wants people to know her ‘entire life is one big fucking inside joke’ the bridge is a dream flashback to when she was in the lab before chorus -> post chorus -> outro is kinda the events of the recent episode, her waking up, questioning how long she was asleep for, and running to the portal to find the hermits, and her hermit, are gone

nightmare by give heart records/natewantstobattle - i literally wrote an entire script for this i am that invested. anyways this would be a great witch shelby covering her entire story and that sorta thing. second chorus and ‘all the ghosts from before’ from right before it would be about the dead shrooms and dead gnome portal (i think this is my only pmv concept with reference to that? huh). and then of course it ends with the spiraling breakdown of killing two people

this was. incredibly long. but if u read this far i hope u enjoyed my speal. also if u wear glasses go clean em

[occultdaddy]

I don't post about c!Sapnap anymore even though I still think about potential fics (a lot of crossovers) and adjust my ol playlist for him. Tho I have considered making the playlist more vague and not specific to just him. I haven't drawn him in a while either. But idk if that's because I always wanna share my art and thus it circles back to the reason I hesitate talking about him, or if it's just a natural break and I'm just drawing other things that interest me.

I always debate myself if I wanna talk about this or not.

Maybe I'm being overly anxious about it all, but I feel that's kinda fair when it comes to parts of dsmp. I might have a few issues with some of the ccs and some of the fans, but mostly I just don't wanna waste my limited energy on interacting with any of that. I feel like if I make c!Sapnap content I might just push away folks of the mcyt fandoms I have a bigger interest in while attracting the kinds of fans I don't wanna interact with. And I wouldn't blame them for it. Sometimes I myself see art of certain dsmp characters and wonder if they excuse certain cc behaviours. Which isn't fair when I know my own attachments/brainrot to the lil block guy that's expanded upon way more than what you get in canon. The fictional character.

One of these days I might make him into an oc, I mean it's already halfway there, but I'm waiting for inspo for the rest of the way if I'm gonna do that. Also I feel it's weirder (for me) to do oc inserts in fics than writing crossovers... which it shouldn't be tbh.

[taxolotl]

cc!dream "just tell me you love me" vs loreswap!dream "just say you hate me" Fight

[nightferns]

When did you forget it could be your own?

[kurohe]

At some point Tommy was standing between 3 skeletons shooting at each other, and Techno yelling “GET OUT OF THE CROSSFIRE TOMMY !” even though he was absolutely NOT in immediate danger is the cutest shit ever

[victoria1676]

To all people who used to be or still a DREAM SMP FAN OR MCYT FAN I HAVE HUGE ANGST BRAINROT OR IDEA I MIGHT MAKE IN THE FUTURE!!

TELL ME

IMAGINE SAGAU DSMP READER

THE SAME READER FROM MY 'LEAVE ME ALONE AND LET ME BUILD MY S**T!' SERIES EXCEPT NO IMPOSTER OR VILLAIN AU

BUT A SOFT AU OF SAGAU

WITH DSMP READER IS NOT FROM THE DREAM SMP BUT

FROM FROM THE

SBI AU

PASSERINE!

FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ PASSERINE EASE READ IT!

HERE'S THE LINK TO IT OR LIKE JUST SEARCH IT IN AO3:

AND THIS IS THE VIDEOS I WATCHED:

https://youtu.be/4mrhAAAkDVc

https://youtu.be/GQDu8JIhMcg

THIS BREAKS MY HEART AGAIN WHEN I USED TO READ IT 3 OR 2 YEARS AGO AND DO NOT WATCH VIDEOS UNTIL YOU READ THE FANFIC! I BEG OF YOU THE VIDEOS ARE A HUGE SPOILER OF THE FANFIC.

LEGIT I WATCHED THIS AND STARTES CRYING IN A MIDDLE OF DOING A PT OF MY WORK WHEN I SAW THIS TAT

SPOILERS DOWN HERE OF PASSERINE FANFIC BEING MENTIONED

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED THE MOMENT YOU CLICK "KEEP READING" YOU ARE SPOILED

CAN YOU IMAGINE THIS WAS AFTER THE WAR AND READER WAS STILL IN PAIN OF TOMMYS DEATH THAT SHE COULDN'T MOVE ON SO WHEN SHE ARRIVED IN TEYVAT AND PEOPLE WERE ABOUT TO CELEBRATE THEIR GOD'S RETURN THEY JUST FROZE SEEING THEIR GOD WHO IS A MORTAL YET IS STILL TIRED AND IN PAIN FROM THE WAR THAT HAPPENED IN HER KINGDOM.

I CAN JUST IMAGINE IT TOOK A YEAR FOR HER TO FINALLY REVEAL WHY SHE CAME LOOKING LIKE THAT IN TEYVAT. I CAN ALREADY IMAGINE HOW MANY TIMES SHE WOKE UP CRYING AND BLAMING HERSELF FOR NOT SAVING TOMMY AND ALSO TRYING SO HARD TO MOVE ON FROM TOMMY'S DEATH THAT TRAUMATIZED HER SOUL TAT

THE AMOUNT OF COMFORT SHE GETS FROM HER ACOLYTES AS SHE THEN MADE TEYVAT HER KINGDOM BUT ALSO THANKING THE PEOPLE FOR TAKING CARE OF HER.

YEARS PASS SHE SUDDENLY HAS A CHILD AND THE CHILD'S PARENT CAN BE ANYONE AS READER SAT THE SIDE OF TOMMY'S GRAVE SINGING WITH WIBLUR SITTING BEHIND TOMMY'S GRAVE AND FINALLY TECHNO PLAYING THE VIOLIN AS THREE OF THEM SMILE NOT KNOWING A SILHOUETTE OF TOMMY IS BEHIND THEM SMILING.