#bound smp theory

[lolgamer2309]

I just want to drop my theory here bc i had this in my head for quite a while and i want to share it.

I don't think that Vast was born a bird. I don't think anyone from the Avicane was born a bird. I think the Avicane turns its people into birds because well yeah it's difficult to travel the islands if you're a human.

The tattoo on Vast's back saying "Fly for those that fell". Isn't that a bit off for a bird to have on their back? What if every member of the Avicane has it on their back? Armour said that he was COVERED in Luxtent and i think that they also have that same tattoo as Vast on their back.

It would also make sense why Virgil can't seem to understand Vast's flock, because perhaps they aren't "real birds". It's also perhaps why Vast can't understand Jade.

Also the Zygote crystal can apparently contain magpie magic, what if that's connected to Vast in some sort of way? What if that's how Vast is a bird now?

This is just a theory that i have been cooking on. I go ham about this and i'm just braining so hard on this-

[keithhalfa]

Idk if ive ever written about this before outside of my little theory servers (plz excuse me if my thoughts r a tad scattered) but i dont think Vast is avian naturally.

The delay of her sisters eyes changing (i feel this is a side effect of making someone an avian), alongside the sigils on their back's very interesting phrasing 'fly for those that fell' (why would an avian need something that says to fly? My first thought was something linking them to the crystals but 'fly for those that fell' feels too specific) makes me feel its definitely not a natural avian situation.

The zygote crystal being something relating to Avicane having children makes me feel its another part of this process, perhaps a way to choose which species theyd want their children to be, as we havent seen its interactions with natural birds, only the capacitor crystal.

The Avicane being descendants from the sorcerers is another part, because the exposition before the start of the first lore, the sorcerers turning people to avians, it doesnt sound to me like they turned themselves, maybe the nature of the magic used required they use another less heriditary method.

[ima-mezz]

Have I ever mentioned that I love Ash 👀

Without text

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

holding ash in my hands (shaking them because I really need to know what color they are-)

[the-uninformed-zennial]

Bound SMP Characters Coded as TMA Fears:

(I think @sniffingstarss already did one of these here, so you should go check that post out. But here are my personal thoughts because I have a returned hyperfixation and a new character and I need to get them ouuuut)

Armor: The Flesh

He literally got turned from bird to lizard. Idk what you want from me.

Ashril: (redacted)

Teehee

Ava: The Desolation

Something something traveling to find your long lost sibling figure and doing everything you can to protect them indicates you probably have a really strong fear of losing them… but also I just think Ava should get to burn things, for funsies.

Cosie: The Corruption

I feel like it fits cause of the sickness with her brother and (redacted).

Erin: The Stranger

Not knowing who you are?? Not remembering things you should?? Bestie, the stranger’s got you in a chokehold.

Gaverin: Darkness/the lonely

I think Gaverin’s fears lie at the intersection of the Dark and the Lonely. Being never fully seen, being never fully known, always just a pretty thing who is admired but not heard.

Marcel: The Buried

What’s worse for a guy who likes to travel around than being stuck in one place forever?

Mojave: The Eye

This little guy just wants to hear everyone’s stories and I’m sure that’s all

Pietro: The Slaughter

Okay so Pietro’s is specifically the Slaughter but in the sense of the attacker, not the victim. Just- the fear of being consumed by one’s own nature.

Rune: The Vast

A love of flying?? A fear of falling?? Welcome to the Vast my friend. (Plus it’s funny cause… yk… gay)

Sylph: The Stranger/The Lonely

There’s nothing lonelier than not even knowing who you are or where you came from. (Plus the whole changing last names thing, and the little conversation they had with Vast when the island fell during the race)

Talesin: The Spiral

🧍🫵 Michael Distortion 🌀

Vast: The Hunt/The End

He’s so afraid of turning from hunter to hunted. And he’s so worried that doing so will not only condemn her, but everyone else too.

Virgil: The Eye

Paranoid little motherfu- Heyyyy how’re the conspiracy theories going?



Anyway, these are not canon and absolutely just based on my own silly little observations so please take them with a grain of salt (and fight me about them, I wanna hear y’all’s thoughts).

But yeah!! I’m part of Bound SMP now! I’m so excited to get to share Mojave’s story with you all and I hope you guys will stay tuned for all of the exciting stuff we have in store for ya! 💕💕

[pixiesempire]

I really like the theory that the winners of each season of the Life SMP help to create the theme for next one, but I've always thought that it makes more sense for the Runner Ups to create this instead. I don't know if anyone has published this yet, but here's my own thoughts <3

Hear me out!!!!

The truth of the games are that there are no winners, not really. And the watchers would know this and use it to their advantage. Instead of using the winners they would use the person in second place as there is no true reward for winning the games.

First Case: Third Life-Last Life, GoodTimesWithScar. The man who saw his own lives slipping away as fast as he could count them. The guy who fell to his lack of care and acted as though he had a million lives left to live. He would've won if he had more chances, which is exactly why he chose to give everyone more chances at living. To be granted more lives, and he of all people to receive the highest amount.

Second Case: Last Life-Double Life, RenDog. The man who bound his life to serve LDShadowlady, whose own life fell to Scott who won through the strength of his alliance with Pearl. RenDog saw how his own alliance crumbled through the whims of BigB and Cleo, how he would've devoted himself to Lizzie if she hadn't turned red. So he created the shtick of Double Life to keep alliances strong and loyal. To ensure that even as reds, you're not alone. For everyone to have a chance, the act of a truly honorable man.

Third Case: Double Life-Limited Life, Scott, the man who defeated The Scarlet Pearl. She was left alone and desolate, and something wicked this way came from the reminder of her witchy brilliance. That nobody could trust anyone, not truly; she was Scott’s soul bound, and they rejected each other. He created Limited Life so in this new world where the reward for killing others is so sweet, you are forever reminded of your own transience. Watch your time, he commands, and keep track. Watch the sands of your hourglass fall and fall and fall and show everybody who you become between life and death. Show whether the reminder changes you. Never forget that killing someone is a reward and to ally with somebody you are devoting your life to them: as you are reminded constantly, death is imminent and it will show your true colours.

Fourth Case: Limited Life-Secret Life, ImpulseSV. The runner up of Third Life and Limited Life and in both universes, betrayed. He refuses to allow himself to truly trust another again. As a reminder of his pain, he says keep your secrets, or there will be punishment and failure. To win is to trust yourself and not to reveal your true ambitions. For the man with strong alliances and a powerful sense of loyalty, the reminder is necessary. You can never truly trust anyone. Not really. Not after the sting of their betrayal is felt for all of life to come, he will never let his trust to be flawed again. And the best way to know this is to never trust at all.

The argument can be made that they forget their own contribution to the games before they start. The only thing to watch for now is what Pearl will command to create the next season...

[willbee-1]

⟟ should have made this a bit ago but here we are-

Hi! I'm Willbee or Bee, either is good! They/She pronouns!

hyperfixation's is Fable smp (if you couldn't tell already-) Bound, and will sometimes bring up dnd podcasts ⟟ listen to (Cantripped mostly)

Might eventually rant ab oc's at a later time, (tehe :)

Mostly just post Fable smp rants, theories, writing blurbs and sometimes random things :D

My ask box is open! If you want you can place Fable rants, ask questions, etc. In there if you want! /nf

But yeeeeeee ⟟ exist :D

Hope yall enjoy my things ⟟ post

[mistythedritten]

20 questions for Writers thing

So I got tagged by the lovely @bleue-flora so here I am!

How many works do you have on Ao3?

Twenty. Which is more than I expected.

2. What is your word count?

90,465 words, which is just over 200 words according to the words to pages website I use.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

The DreamSMP

4. What are your top 5 fics? (stats)

By Kudos, Glitter Green, The Retrieval, An Ugly Duck Named Dream, Bound By Black and White Strings, and Rescuing the Rivals

5. Do you always respond to comments? Why or why not?

Almost always, every once in a while I'll get someone who basically wants me to change an aspect of my fic so they can have what they want, like it's a restaurant. Which is different than someone creating theories on what might happen next or talking about how I've written characters. I don't respond to those people mostly because I don't know how? Do I just say "No, I'm not going to write that, thanks for the suggestion," or something?

But most of the time, yes. I love interacting with people who like my writing, it's fun!

6. Angstiest ending for a fic?

That would be a fic that's not done yet! This fic is going to have a bittersweet ending, but we aren't close to that yet.

7. First Fic with a Happy Ending?

That would be the first one-shot I ever wrote, Glitter Green

(I discovered how to embed links today, this is great!)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I did once, I wrote some references to IRL events with Tommyinnit neg, which got two hate comments. I laughed at them and deleted them. I did add tags making it more clear there was Tommy neg, but it was 3 lines at most.

9. Do you write smut?

...yes and no. I have officially dipped my toe into writing it, but I certainly haven't posted any. Yet. I'm still deciding what to do with it. It's not even finished.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Does DSMP and Empires SMP count?

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, but I also don't go looking for them elsewhere.

12. Ever had a fic translated?

No, but that would be cool.

13. Ever co-written?

Yes! I've got a couple. Zen doesn't have a Tumblr, one author wants to keep her Tumblr separate, and one author doesn't feel like she's done enough to have her name on the fic. (I disagree, but that's her choice.)

I recommend everything they have written.

14. Favorite ship?

Tough choice, I kinda rotate. I keep trying to pick, and I can't.

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but probably never will?

Black and White strings, it's been over a year, I'm thinking of orphaning the fic or putting it up for adoption.

16. Writing strenghts?

Hm, I like to write Emotions TM, but is that a strength? Same with dialog.

17. Writing weaknesses?

Flirting and fight scenes. I'm just unfamiliar with doing fight scenes and don't know how to flirt.

18. Thoughts on dialog in another language in a fic?

I've done it in my FarfaDream fic, but if it's something that's not easy to google translate, I find it a bit annoying.

19. First fandom you have written for?

The DSMP.

20. Favorite fic you have written?

Also a tough question. I'm not sure. The one that is most self-indulgent is definitely Children of the Realms

And there you have it folks! I would like to tag @citrus-blade @the-final-sif @percy-ils @morgueofstories @azures-grace @unholy-virtue @firedergen and everyone else who would like to!

[indigo-creates-chaos]

Hey there! It seems as though at least a few people are seeing my posts. Considering that this is the only social media where I'm actively posting, I thought I should write a little introduction!

You can call me Indigo. I'm almost 20 years old as of posting this. I'm aromantic and asexual, my gender is still to be determined. My pronouns are they/any, which basically means that any pronouns (including neos) are fair game as long as you throw in a "they" every once in a while.

(This is long so I'll cut it here)

If you've seen my posts you'll know that I enjoy yelling about mcyt stuff, specifically about fable smp. I'm also following smps like bound smp, mer smp, siege smp, craft smp, EoD, Hermitcraft and occasionally the life series though.

I'm also an enjoyer of fictional languages/writing systems. I learned Ender back in the day and I wanna at least write down Telchin, Enchantment table, Quixian and Luxtent to name a few. There's a bunch of others that I wanna write down too, with the goal of having a key for a bunch of them in the same place eventually. I'm so normal about languages guys ^^

I also enjoy reading. I have a lot of books and will gladly give book suggestions if anyone asks me. I mostly read fantasy and science fiction books, ideally without a prominent romance aspect. I also read what might be considered murder mysteries? That's probably not what the genre is called, but you get my point. I've read thinks like a "a good girls guide to murder", "Dune", the aurora cycles, most of the grishaverse books "the priory of the orange tree" and "the sunbearer trials". This isn't a complete list by any means, if i wrote a complete list this would be way too long.

I also enjoy watching crafting content on YouTube. It's really fun to watch other people make stuff! I mostly watch people who make cosplays or just regular clothes, but there's some diorama/sculpture makers in there too.

If you've been here for a while, you've seen the posts about the beginnings of my technoblade cosplay journey. That is still a project I really want to make and it's the reason I started posting here in the first place. I am going to finish it at some point, I don't know when yet though. I'll still post updates here if I work on it.

I likely won't post here all too often, it'll mostly happen if I've got more mcyt theories or other fandom related stuff that I need to yell into the void to get them out of my head. Other than that it'll be reblogs of stuff for the most part. I am working on a tagging system but it's not done yet (:

Well then, that's the introduction! I didn't expect it to get this long lol, but that goes for all of my posts. As always, thank you for reading and have a nice rest of your [timezone]!

[defensivelee]

could you elaborate on the au's? 👀

omg YES YES YES OFC THANK YOU FOR ASKING!! i owe u my life thank u slash lighthearted

i wont say EVERYTHING about it just bc we'd be here forever but here are the basics

NEO: it's a fantasy AU with some stuff taking place in the afterlife! Bentinck is a reindeer man bc there exists such things as "half-demons" which is a misleading name for basically people born as animal hybrids. the theory is that those who are born that way are destined to be bad people bc it's ALL been bad people...basically, all half-demons are evil but not all evil people are half-demons. HOWEVER, none of this has been proven. i love reindeer Bentinck sm he's so soft,,,, anyway. W&M shenanigans in heaven and hell. it's a VERY old AU

MENHERAMEN: named after the song by PEPOYO, which uses the word as a pun using both "menhera" and "ramen." Bentinck is the main character here, and it's a modern college AU....with some CRIME added in. to avenge the Many Bad Things that have happened to William both in his childhood and the present day, Bentinck kills a few people that he blames for it. it's the only AU i have actually "finished" as in i wrote all the main events for it and it is *checks notes* 117 pages. i consider it my best (and darkest) work! despite Bentinck making progressively worse decisions he's still a fav

Alien Alien: you are hopefully a little bit familiar with this one! i won't explain it as much bc i did make the Big Posts (tm) on them, but ofc, William is an alien king and Bentinck his service android. Bentinck is different than most androids bc William actually changed his purpose from "i serve the Prince of Orange" to "i choose my own life." however, most people fail to see that and Bentinck generally has a lot of Issues with it and himself. Keppel and Marlborough, being mostly human (Keppel is 1/4 Defender), have their own backstory here, and William is kidnapped and experimented on at one point (love that arc btw), but otherwise i kept most historical events in. i love this AU a normal amount

Seraph of the End: this AU is based off of the manga by the same name! i have...a lot to say about that manga but when it hits, it fucking HITS. in this AU, William had been working on resurrecting Mary bc it's possible, unaware that doing so would start a virus that would kill all of humanity (kids excluded!). he also works on creating cursed weapons (weapons bound to demons) by making Keppel and Marly demons (very unethically). he dies before any of this is finished, though, so Bentinck finishes the job for him...bringing W&M back to life and triggering the apocalypse. however, before he did so, Keppel in his demon form had attacked and nearly killed him, and to save his own life, Bentinck dragged himself to the current king of the vampires (Third Progenitor Duke of Monmouth, who should have been dead but curiously isn't.....) so he could become one as well. after all that, Bentinck is a Seventh Progenitor vampire, and he, along with W&M, live in the underground kingdom of the vampires. Bentinck has a rabbit that also serves as his weapon and it is ALWAYS with him. as with any AU, a Lot of Things Happen, and there's a lot of secrets that need discovering, including the one over why the apocalypse happened....W&M have no idea they caused it. i love this one very much bc it's very dramatic n stuff

DSMP: this is sort of a crack AU based on the events of the Dream SMP. disclaimer: dsmp fandom generally does not make hc's about or ship real people! rather it's those people's characters of the same name, like i am pretty sure the actual Wilbur Soot is not a terrorist. anyway, in this AU, William is the president-turned-dictator of one of the many factions of the land, and Bentinck is his vice president. Bentinck is also a huge fan of guns and bombs here, mainly so i could have him in a suit and shooting stuff. it was For Myself

The Lamb of Orange: basically just everything historical except they are all sheep. it's mostly an artistic idea, i just want to draw the anecdotes with them as sheep bc i love drawing sheep in silly clothes. the sheep designs usually have some fun quirk that i thought fit them, like James' horns that could run into his eyes if he grows them any longer or Keppel's chest floof constantly poking out of his clothes.

CSM: an AU roughly based off of Chainsaw Man! it doesn't take place in the modern day like the actual anime, though, so therefore it's more like....sword man or whatever. I'VE YET TO FIGURE IT OUT. for now i'm calling him the blade devil. it's not super developed yet, but it's really Bentinck-centric as well. Keppel sort of plays the role of Power here, in which he's a fiend, aka a devil inside a human body. mainly so i could draw him with horns. William is also supposed to be Very Very Mysterious here the same way Makima is

MASA: an AU roughly based off of some of the songs by MASA WORKS DESIGN. it actually focuses more on James, Bentinck is hardly there....but he appears at some point bc he's with William so i had to draw him. it's more artistic like The Lamb of Orange, lot of gore n stuff like MASA's works back in the day. definitely a tw for this one, though, lot of blood n guts mentions coming up! the rough idea is that James is afflicted with a curse that causes him to want to eat human flesh, no other food tastes good to him. it gets worse as he grows, and rather than try to hide it he embraces it, and if you get into bed with him you better expect to have a bite taken out of you!! he's also somewhat of a masochist, he enjoys being eaten as well and loves fiddling around with his intestines out in the open sometimes. also he'll just randomly cough up hearts. Mary inherited this curse as well, but she's far more terrified of it than he is. cannibalism is explored in other characters as well, but it's meant to be taken far less literally. despite Bentinck's creepy-ish appearance, he's actually pretty gentle here. one idea i had for him is for William and Keppel to share a feast of his heart, but i still need to figure out how to draw that,,,,

Warrior Cats: exactly what the title implies, Everything Happens but they are all warrior cats. the cat politics in this series are far less complicated than they are irl, but i try to fit everything in nonetheless. a lot of things that happened are very warrior cats-esque, like Monmouth's rebellion....like that is SUCH peak warrior cats istg. i actually have a list of some names n appearances here (also i threw cat genes to the wind ok)

sometimes i write about it bc honestly writing cats fighting is very fun

THERE YOU HAVE IT all of my AUs with at least one piece of art or writing. again THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING i love love love working on all of these!!

[e-vultures]

🏜️ favourite team or duo?

🔥 if you were in the life games, how would you play it?

⭐️ do you think of the life series as separate from hc/empires, or connected?

🏜️ETHUBS THE MOST FUCKED UP WEIRDOS IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. MY BELOVED. MY BELOATHED. every moment somewhere in a darkened movie theater inside my mind this video is playing. watching the "he loves me" moment for the first time I think altered my brain chemistry irrevocably [it is also what made me start watching etho. and Here We Are.] since that's a pretty obvious answer though I will say a duo I don't really post about that much but am moderate-to-severely obsessed with is joel and jimmy. every interaction of theirs they will make the dumbest fucking jokes you have ever heard and then try to kill each other looneytunes style and THEN accidentally or intentionally say the most insane innuendo you have ever heard in your life . whenever the two of them are within 50 blocks of each other you bet your ass I am sitting there rubbing my gleeful little hands together

🔥ohh baby I would pick one specific, really really really stupid thing to get sooooo fucking particular about. like. an item (but it has to be useless + dumb. a la diamond hoe) or a pet (but only one named. like. Fungus). a build (must be ugly fortunately this is not difficult for me). at first as a bit but by ep 7 there's a whole narrative arc and I have lost at least one life directly as a result. I say this because this is how I play on smps, where me and my best friend inevitably make up the stupidest fucking lore in the world and get so into it (while every other member of the smp is like. building enderman farms). [on the smp we made during covid I named myself the Food and Drug Administration and eventually got exiled from the country (after a duel in which I died. badly) because I kept burning down their chicken farms for violating FDA standards. and then went on a journey to a far off land to build my own ethical farms but found that violence followed me inevitably. and even when I returned my home was unrecognizable to me . that typa shit]

⭐️hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I surprisingly haven't thought about it that much myself? but I love seeing other ppl's theories on this (I wish I could find that one post abt double life being grian inviting everyone to his insane manwhore summer and them all being like Ya Whatever it's so good). I suppose I do think of them as connected as in taking place in the same universe - e.g. during a life series, the hc server feels empty to the ppl left behind. and then all their friends come back months later with new scars and/or hickeys like hiiii :) sorry I had an errand).

that said I also sort of think of the life server as existing outside the bounds of normal life for them. sort of a "what happens in a life smp stays in a life smp" scenario. whether that's just kind of a tacit social acknowledgement [funny as hell] or a more direct amnesia based thing [ohg. the Implications]

[raptorfae53]

Empires Smp: A theory about Dawn's origins (Spoilers for Pixlriffs finale)

OK so earlier today I watched Pix's finale and loved it,however there was an empire he neglected to mention in his monologue of the past,Dawn,which made me wonder how it factors into everything,and I thought of an interesting idea.

Back in the opening months of the server I found a theory that Dawn was descended from Pixandrians,who after the rapture slowly forgot how to work the copper machines,replacing it with pumpkins in their builds and moving into a more temperate climate better suited to growing squashes,however with pix including his latest incarnation of David in the lore of his castle,built by a mixture of WRA and Pixandrian citizens,it got me thinking again.

My idea hinged around the idea that due to their distance from the other empires,Pixandria was protected from the worst of the rapture and by default became the strongest empire in it's aftermath,and after hearing of it's old allies misfortune, organised a relief effort to help out,with Dawn being the port used for the mass-unloading of pixandrian cargo bound for the rapture-stricken masses and grew accordingly because of it.

What if Dawn was ground zero for a pixandrian relief effort?

Adding on further to this, maybe the mass influx of pixandrians helped develop Dawn's build style into what it is today,perhaps many pixandrians settled down and tried constructing homes like those in pixandria with what they had around (since the pixandrians favoured copper was primarily decorative and much more expensive to ship across the ocean in large quantities compared to wood or stone) and substituted the missing copper with the pumpkins that flourished in dawns temperate coastal climate.

TLDR: Dawns architectural style developed the way it was due to massive amounts of pixandrian relief aid passing through it's port post-rapture.

[mt-words]

Can we get some dream smp fandom positivity posts? As someone who posts mostly analysis and has never once had someone say anything rude in response, I think we perceive the fanbase as more toxic than it is because of a few outspoken individuals. Y'all are pretty chill and I like you.

In no particular order-

I love that Eret’s fans come up with such cool theories, I swear she could give you two sentences of lore and I could see three five page essays on what it could mean about their character within an hour and each of them is unique, intricate, and makes logical sense.

I love the compilations Foolish fans make of him doing ridiculous things on stream, he’s a fun guy that never fails to make me laugh and everything I see from them embodies that energy to me.

I love how creative Hannah’s fans are, you take the awesome ideas she has and turn them into the most amazing designs and concepts.

I love that Techno’s fans might write a ten page essay about his character or just say they enjoy watching him do crime, and you never know which it will be because both come from the same people.

I love how Philza’s fans embrace everything he does with so much enthusiasm. His chat is a flock of crows? Excellent, they can work with that, you will see fifty incredible pieces of art and a hundred theories in the first hour and they’re just getting started.

I love that Niki’s fans are so careful to pay attention and not miss any details. It has been ages and I still see occasional mentions and theories about the “Dear Friend” letter.

I love that Fundy’s fans are very empathetic, they love to find and elaborate on the connections between characters and that’s pretty cool!

I love Tommy’s fans for their energy. They seem passionate about making things right and hopeful that no matter what your situation is things can get better. I’ve seen so many breathtakingly emotional art pieces from this side of the fandom.

I love that George’s fans unapologetically simp for him but then catch me off guard by making deep insights about his character.

I love how Bad’s fans are as genuinely sweet as he is, they’re willing to really look at everything that makes up a character and see the tragedy of it and have compassion about things. And some just want to see an egg rule the server, c'mon, it would be funny.

I love the running gag with Skeppy fans of making Skeppy critical posts, y’all are hilarious.

I love how Purpled fans play up his lack of lore as him being an incredibly powerful cryptid, and they’re right. He totally carried the wither fight on Nov 16th.

I love the balance Quackity fans have between a love of humor, justice, and darker topics. I think like Quackity they are often underestimated and thought of as the jokester side of the fandom to an extent, and then I start reading things they write and it’s well thought out and insightful.

I love that Tubbo’s fans love chaos, cute things, or both to an unhealthy extent. Seeing anything from them reminds me of princess unikitty in all the best ways, and then they turn around and throw a super in depth meaningful analysis at me in the next breath.

I love everything about Sapnap’s fans. Y'all are perfect. The writing and art from the born in fire line? Gold.

I love how Jschlatt fans are generally chill and just enjoy whatever they want to. Their favorite Manburg president was the one who publicly executed his right hand man and gave Dream a resurrection book for firepower, and he looked good doing it.

I love that Callahan has fans. You people are dedicated and I respect it. The fact that Callahan was one of the first names to pop up when everyone was trying to figure out who Harpocrates was even though he rarely involves himself with plot? Your influence knows no bounds.

I love that Alyssa’s fans are simply too powerful. She hasn’t played on the smp since way before I started watching and there are still people defending her barn and drawing pictures of her.

I love that Antfrost’s fans have taken so many ideas and just ran with them and made them awesome. Like him practicing magic? Perfect, he now carries potions and gets a wizard hat.

I love that Dream fans look at a character who has been portrayed as pure evil from many points of view and understand that Everyone has motives based on their situation, even if it isn’t handed to us in an easily understood way.

I love how Jack’s fans are so ready to support any action he takes. Crawling out of hell? Incredible. Killing a child? Good for him! Go team Rocket. Grieving the same child? Learning healthy coping, he’s the coolest.

I love that Connor eats Pants fans are the most reasonable people in this fandom. This is terrifying. Thank you for your service, you always make me smile.

I love that Punz fans unapologetically just love their capitalist mercenary. As they should, his presence always tips the scales and everything he does brings more depth to the characters and plots he interacts with.

I love how much Ranboo fans love complexity. Most of them aren’t afraid to admit that their favorite characters are flawed, because aren’t those flaws what make them interesting and relatable?

I love the variety of Hbomb fans. Half of them may be embracing the cat maid bit while the other half goes on about how impactful and cool L’cast is, but they’re all super chill.

I appreciate that Puffy fans take the time to understand so many perspectives. So many posts I see involving her tie in lore from other characters and find interesting ways to connect them and build them together, kind of like Puffy herself.

I love that Wilbur fans seem to approach the story like they’re solving a puzzle, carefully piecing together details from months apart to figure out how and why everything goes down.

I love how hard Ponk fans work to spread awareness of how awesome he is. Ponk says and does wonderful things and is very fun to watch. I never would have tried his content without them.

I love that Karl fans saw him wanting to be involved and started coming up with such cool ideas around his character that they actually made them canon. Correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t the time traveler thing a fan theory at first?

I love the creativity Sam fans have with his design and their willingness to discuss complex moral issues. Sam is involved in some heavy lore stuff but he and his fans keep things entertaining and calm.

I’m sure I missed some things, please feel free to add on!

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Dream SMP characters memory issues

Got frustrated while trying to theory craft about c!George (a feat akin to Sisyphus pushing the boulder uphill) and I ended up categorizing which characters have which traits associated with their memory issues and unreality/derealization.

This is most certainly an incomplete list, feel free to add on and correct information.

all names mentioned are referring to characters not CCs.

Characters who have memory issues:

Ranboo

Ghostbur

Captain Puffy

Eret

Karl Jacobs

Characters who have canonically hallucinated:

Tommy

Ranboo

Fundy

George

Characters who have notably unusual sleep-patterns (too much or too little)

George

Fundy

Technoblade(? uncertain canonicity)

Characters who have prophetic dreams/visions/other notable events happen during sleep:

George

Fundy

Ranboo(*specifically his prison dream - although it might be more accurate to call it a repressed memory, the framing is remarkably similar to Fundy and George's dreams so it's counted here.)

Karl Jacobs (? uncertain)

Characters who have alternate versions of themselves (alternate persona's and portions of memory OR completely separate entities)

Dream

Ghostbur

Karl Jacobs

Ranboo

Fundy

Philza(? Specifically Redza, who's probably canon, but hasn't had much screen time so he gets a question mark.)

Characters who have been controlled by or bound to a magical/eldritch/uncertain entity

Badboyhalo

Skeppy

Hannah

Ponk

Antfrost

George

Karl Jacobs

Ranboo(? Enderwalk may fall under this category but it's not confirmed.)

Technoblade (? exact relationship with 'The Blood God' is uncertain but worth mentioning here.)

Philza (? uncertain - may be the case if theories about his wife are confirmed.)

Characters who have experienced derealization and/or unreality specifically relating to one or more of the above:

Ranboo

George

Fundy

Karl Jacobs

Skeppy (? uncertain what was going on in his dream sequence/if it was a dream sequence or real)

Characters mentioned above who have worked with or been under Dream's control:

Eret

Ranboo

George

Tommy

Technoblade

Philza

Captain Puffy

Ghostbur(? uncertain whether Alivebur's time working with Dream should be counted for Ghostbur.)

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Worth noting - Karl basically applies to almost all of these, depending on how you interpret the Inbetween/the Otherside, but a lot of that is unconfirmed.

I also didn't include the Eggpire in the "alternate versions of themselves" category because it felt redundant, and their shift in personality wasn't really the same as the others.

Results: The Dream SMP has an inordinate amount of amnesiacs and people suffering unreality.

As I always say, once is happen stance, twice is coincidence, three is a pattern, over seven and you've got fucking demons or some shit. Fucking, get the water tested or something, jesus christ. A co2 detector at least.

Also, George and Fundy have basically the same symptoms, right up to the creepy ass dream visions that bleed into reality and make them feel helpless and potentially more inclined to help a particularly manipulative individual.

I'd be very interested to hear what Foolish might think of Fundy's dreams, if they might be a god's fault like they're hinted to be in George's case with XD.

The only symptoms they don't share are 1) being bound to an entity, and 2) the fact that Fundy has an alternate version of himself in the self-proclaimed "Future" Fundy, who talks to him through the books. AFAIK George doesn't share that, although if the other characters he meets in his dreams besides XD are all impressions from his mind, that might be a similarity...?

That's all I got. Again, feel free to add corrections, this is something I made off the top of my head in a blind rage about c!George.

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THIS IS A LIST OF EVERY PIECE OF MEDIA I HAVE BEEN INTO, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, SO EVERYONE WILL KNOW WHAT I DO AND DO NOT UNDERSTAND /srs

KEY: Finished/Enjoy, Unfinished/Enjoy, Unfinished/Dislike-Unsure, Might Dislike/idk how I feel about it, No Longer Enjoy

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After School Dice Club

BNHA

Buzzfeed Unsolved(supernatural AND true crime)

Ghost Files

Crankgameplays

Cuphead

Creepypasta fandom

Danganronpa(any of them)

Diabolik Lovers

DHMIS

Doctor Who

Film Theory

Game Grumps

Game Theory

Gravity Falls

Hamilton

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Parts 1-6

Madoka Magica

Maid-Sama

Markiplier

MLP

OneTopic

Ouran Highschool Host Club

Pokemon(any of them)

Poppy Playtime

Razzbowski

Sailor Moon

Sanders Sides

The Click

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

FNAF(any of them)

Undertale

Eddsworld

TF2

BATIM

Persona 5

Puppet History

Ghost Files

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ALSO HERES SOME THINGS I ACTUALLY DESPISE AND/OR DONT WANT TO SEE:

Genshin Impact

Stranger Things

DSMP

Bojack Horseman

Adult Swim shows(except like, Bob's Burgers)

Any minecraft smps

Harty Potter

Star Wars

The Orion Experience

John Mulaney

Any Spindlehorse projects

Boyfriends webtoon

If there's been proven drama about them, it's safe to assume i don't want to see it

if you think I might be incorrect about any of these, feel free to dm me :)

LIST SUBJECT TO CHANGE, CONSTANTLY UPDATED

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this is your chance: wax poetic about an Empires or DSMP character of your choice to a fan who is new to both. Explain why I should love them. I need guidance in this new and meme-populated land.

okok this is a lot of pressure haha. Spoilers for EmpiresSMP and DreamSMP below, obviously. I wrote a lot so prepare yourself, anon

I watch a lot of empires POVs but the ones I most anticipate every week are Scott and Sausage.

c!Scott (I'll call him Smajor for the sake of simplicity) starts off the series chilling, not really getting involved with the rest of the server, and staying aggressively neutral. After all, he's an elf. He has lived far longer than most of the other rulers already, and will most likely outlive them for many years. So, the best thing is to stick to his mountains and not get invested in the dealings of mortal affairs, maybe sometimes causing problems on purpose and dipping because what's life without a little spice right.

But then, this demon comes to the server, Xornoth. He's going around causing havoc and wants to send the world into an eternal winter, but he doesn't bother the kingdom of Rivendell much so Smajor stays tentatively cautious but ultimately unbothered. But then, the puzzle pieces start falling together. The first thing that the audience noticed was was Xornoth sounded like Smajor, but we mostly thought that this was just due to cc!Scott voicing both of them and there was nothing more to it. However, then, the people the demon starts possessing start chanting in elvish. The demon hates mortals, and the elves are conveniently one of the two confirmed not fully mortal races in Empires.

This culminates when Smajor stumbles across a cave that contains the backstory of the patron god of Rivendell, Aeor. Basically, there's two opposing forces, Aeor and Exor, and both have a champion. In a previous life, those champions were two brothers, where Aeor eventually prevailed and banished Exor. In this life though, the champions are - you guessed it - Smajor, and the demon Xornoth.

So now Smajor is like. Well fuck. It's my literal god-given destiny to be responsible for defeating this demon who is technically my brother, and if I fail the server gets plunged into an eternal winter. And I have no fucking clue what is happening because I've just been here on this mountain actively trying to stay out of the issues outside my kingdom. We watch him panic and teeter on the verge of spiraling for an entire episode, and when the followers of Xornoth go to the End to kill the dragon, releasing Xornoth's full powers, he fails to stop him. Smajor is a character who was used to being the smart one, the prepared one, the one who has the least deaths on the server. But he's also a character who runs away from his problems and ignores them. Before and during the dragon fight, we hear the desperation in his voice, as he's thrown into a situation he is wholly unprepared for, and it's bigger than him going to the Cod Empire to kill their king, or assisting in other people's plans to kill the codfather. He can't run from this. cc!Scott plays this scene so well as well, as I've said before, one of the best parts of Scott's acting is how he's never super dramatic, but he's so effective in the little things like inflection to make you feel, viscerally, the panic and dread.

So after the dragon fight, Smajor realizes, I can't do this on my own. I've tried and failed. So he gets allies. We watch him, someone who has so strongly been an isolationist, learn the benefits of allies and watch him learn to trust others and watch him learn how to get that trust in return.

My favorite thing about Smajor's characterization is that he's an incompetent protagonist, but not in the way of the "plucky young adventurer". He's capable skill-wise, and fairly jaded and very pessimistic. However, his issue is that up until recently, he did not care about the rest of the server at all, and by the time he learned to, it was way too late.

Also, in 3rd Life, cc!Scott and cc!Jimmy were canonically married and they reference it sometimes in Empires. Like, Scott goes over to the Cod Empire every so often both in and out of character to kill and/or flirt with Jimmy, the ruler of the Cod Empire, which may develop as a secondary plot into the future who knows. So ty Scott for giving the gays what they want o7

Now onto Sausage: his is a story of Icarus, his hubris and ambition being his downfall. He's one of the two followers of Xornoth, who promised him endless power in exchange for his servitude. He started the series being eccentric, but not outright unhinged, but slowly gets more and more extreme as the series progresses, as he gets brought more and more to Xornoth's side.

One of the best parts of Sausage's character, in my opinion, is how his gradual corruption affects the people around him. Initially, he got into a conflict with the Cod Empire and was allied with two other people in the Witherrose alliance. They were allies, but also close friends. The fandom liked to joke that the three had sibling energy, and I'm pretty sure the ccs played to that even more lol.

It was painful to watch the other two members, Gem and fWhip, watch Sausage get corrupted right in front of them, and see them desperately clinging on to this old idea of Sausage in their head because if they faced the truth, it would mean that their friend was gone. Eventually, they do finally cut him out of the alliance, leading him to fully commit to the side of the demon. Sausage felt very clearly betrayed by this, and declared the remaining two Witherrose alliance members to be enemies.

He gets more and more possessed, and we even see the other Empires, his enemies even, slowly realize that something is very wrong with the ruler of Mythland. He starts doing more and more evil things, like killing people more, making sacrifices to the demon, and eventually helping to kill the dragon to free Xornoth. So things are good for Sausage, for a bit. He won, and is more powerful than ever. Then he finds out: he's going to die. Xornoth's possession is slowly killing his soul, and eventually, his body going to be fully taken over and he himself is going to be trapped in the spirit realm. So how do you react to this? Over the next few episodes, we watch Sausage struggle between "the demon is literally killing me" and "the demon has given me so much, and I love it", all while Xornoth takes over more and more of him. We hear him exclaim that "don't worry!! I'm still about 15% there!" while trying to downplay every time Xornoth completely takes over his body. We watch him willingly oppose anyone who is trying to end the thing that is killing him.

My favorite thing about Sausage is that he is undoubtedly evil and proud of it, but he's also undoubtedly human. If you like to watch evil characters go absolutely feral, he's the guy for you. He makes the deal with Xornoth in the beginning, knowing and fully embracing the evilness of the demon, but at the same time he knows what he's doing is detrimental to both himself and everyone around him, but he's gotten in way too deep at this point, and to be fair the demon has held up its end fo the bargain, right?

Also, I would be damned if I don't talk about cc!Sausage's editing. Every one of his videos is like a movie. The way he does camera angles and uses music is so skillful- every lore scene feels like something out of a high fantasy action saga (think: LotR). Every big lore event I always wait in anticipation for Sausage's ep because his editing truly takes lore to another level.

I'm just generally very excited to see where this series goes. Empires is such a good mix of talented builders and good lore. Part of the reason why the series is so immersive for me, beyond any other lore smp, is that they have the settings to back it up. There is a certain charm to the DreamSMP's objectively terrible builds (with a few exceptions) but in Empires, the settings help sell the plot so much.

Another part of why I love EmpiresSMP is how much the ccs are involved with the fan community. I'm sure you've seen the memes about Scott being on tumblr, and Sausage regularly goes through the EmpiresSMP fanart tag on Twitter and likes art, even ones not related to Mythland. Most of the ccs, in fact, have brought up tumblr content on stream at some point or another. Like, several ccs have said that they read tumblr lore theories and hcs and stuff and sometimes take inspiration from them. Fun fact: Rivendell's church was inspired by my pinned drawing; confirmed by Scott Smajor himself. It's just such a good cycle of ccs and fans being excited about each other.

As for DreamSMP, I'm gonna be honest here, the only person I really am invested in in Technoblade. I started watching when he joined the server, and he's the only person whose lore I keep up to date with.

Techno's fun to watch because he's like the Deadpool of DreamSMP. Virtually unkillable, very skilled and scary, but consistently cracks jokes and breaks the 4th wall during plot. His POV is just fun. Like, he does wild plans and gives speeches and some of the stuff that happens to him should be called deus ex machine if it wasn't for the fact that Technoblade is the one who's doing it, and all the stuff is grounded in the fact that cc!Techno is just that good at the game.

However, the fact that he rarely takes anything seriously makes the few times Techno is 100% serious so much more impactful. His whole character has a basis in being perceived as inhuman and being treated as such, and therefore in return trying to hide his humanity. So, when he shows that humanity, whether that's fear, anger, or genuine love for his friends, it really makes you go "oh shit."

Techno's often said not to have character development, but I'd argue that while he remains steadfast in his moral code, he develops leaps and bounds as a person. Like, at the beginning, he's brought onto the server to help Wilbur and Tommy overthrow a government; them knowing he's 1) an anarchist and 2) very very powerful. His character was more of a plot device at that point and was treated as such in the canon. Wilbur and Tommy straight-up lie to him about their plans to establish another government after they overthrow the current one, while he was led on to believe that they were abolishing all governments in the area. But he isn't a plot device. He's a person, as much as he only shows the terrifying, blood god side of himself.

After the establishment of New Lmanburg (the new government its a long story), his friend Phil joins. And for the first time, we see him be fully human with someone and we see someone treat him like a human. Like, we saw glimpses before, with Wilbur and Tommy in Pogtopia, but Phil is the first person we noticeably see he trusts 100%. Then Doomsday happens, and Techno essentially retires to the tundra. During this time, we see Techno learn to be more human, first with Ranboo, then Niki when he establishes the Syndicate. In fact, the two of them, along with Phil, canonically throw him a birthday party, which is a far cry from his treatment in Pogtopia.

Techno's development is one of a god learning to be human, and I just think he <3