#c!technoblade critical

[trashyclementine]

Curly haired ctechno is the superior design idc

[katandroofics]

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about this blog/us:

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we use the tag #dsmpr and #dsmp reimagined for our fics/art/info posts!

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im part of a duo where we are in the middle of writing an entire dsmp rewrite (called D.S.M.P. Reimagined, or DSMPR for short), from before the beginning and after the end. it will most likely be just me on this blog as kat is terminally offline. we post every friday!

Kat🐈‍⬛: I am the second half of this duo! We also have an Editor but he is more offline than I am—thankyou Quezz for your diligent work though you will never see this—I don't use any social media whatsoever so this blog will pretty much be run solely by Roo. I'll pitch in to answer any questions we get about our fan-fiction work, though, so expect some appearances from me. I'm a massive c!Wilbur fan and quite enjoy c!Dream's villainy. I could talk for hours about how much c!Technoblade isn't an Anarchist whatsoever and how deeply flawed his ideology is, but instead of doing that here I am writing that into D.S.M.P.R.! I hope everyone who reads our work enjoys it, or if you don't, please do criticize it as much as you see fit—everything is appreciated equally.

more about our dsmp rewrite:

dsmp reimagined is a series of fics focusing on re-writing the entire canon of the dream smp, starting and ending before and after the events of it (which are of our own design and completely non-canon, we will not be delving into smplive or any other smp with the same characters in any capacity). this is NOT an au, but a retelling with several elements of canon altered, outright removed, or expanded upon.

our main goal is to tell a more grounded and realistic version of the dsmp's story, while still keeping the charm and humour that made it so special. we want to do justice to the serious themes and ideas that the dsmp presented and attempted to convey, but ultimately failed to with the proper respect and tact necessary.

these fics WILL be violent, they will be uncomfortable, they will not pull its punches and it will, ultimately, attempt to rectify the mistakes of the dsmp, tap into the lost potential of many of its characters, and provide an alternative for fans who wish to engage with the media but do not want to, or cannot, watch all of the archived livestreams.

our fic(s):

334 Days (Completed)

Three Hundred and Thirty Four Days is a mildly canon divergent retelling of the exile arc. it follows tommy as he spirals and becomes isolated by dream, and explores his relationship with community, family and religion. it is basically a character study as tommy loses more and more hope, similar to the canon story, except this one takes place over a span of a year and delves deeper into his psyche.

main themes: isolation, family, religion, betrayal, grief

characters: tommy, dream, tubbo, quackity, phil, wilbur (past/memories), ghostbur, fundy, niki, ranboo

main relationships: tommy/dream, tommy/tubbo, tommy/wilbur, niki/wilbur

75k words

Welcome Home, Theseus (Updating)

Welcome Home, Theseus is a retelling of post-exile to The Disc Saga Finale, covering The Butcher Army, exile recovery, Doomsday and more! this is a multiple point-of-view fic which has tommy and tubbo as the leads, followed by technoblade, niki, quackity and more!

main themes: betrayal, reconciliation, recovery

characters: tommy, dream, tubbo, quackity, phil, wilbur (past/memories), ghostbur, fundy, niki, ranboo, jack

main relationships: tommy & tubbo, tommy & techno, tommy & dream, niki/wilbur, niki & fundy,

90k+ words

(MANY MORE TO COME!)

(all gifs sourced from sad-ist on youtube)

[icyfox17]

New tag game bc I'm bored

List 5-10 of the most obscure crossovers you have floating around in your brain !!

1. Dumbass!crimeboys x halcyon!crimeboys

-> arguably the most obscure since it's a crossover between two aus that aren't even posted publicly, but i gen adore it sm<3 db!crimeboys is a hero au where tommy is just. Welp. A dumbass<3 he's my fav tommy ever guys 😭😭 he's my friend's au and I just SOBS most precious guy ever... And halcyon crimeboys is a detective au. Basically take the dumbest tommy and tired older brother Wilbur and make them meet the smartest crimeboys. It's very silly:))

2. Psych x Dsmp

-> okay hear me out. Hear me out. Shawn Spencer is literally Tommyinnit. They are the SAME. Now Phil as Chief Vic, Techno and Wilbur as twin detectives who both function as Jules and Lassiter (platonic ofc), and Tubbo as Gus. It fits way better than it should 😭😭

3. Critical Role (specifically Mighty Nein) x Dsmp

-> guys. Guys. I went on a rant on here like a year ago BUT CADUCEUS AND TECHNO'S CHARACTER DESIGNS ARE EERILY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER. Tall pink dude w animal traits (cad is more cow, tech is more pig)? Cad is like c!Phil and c!Techno to me... (Is it bc of the tea obsession? Maybe...). I just also think that clingyduo would get along with Jester and Nott/Veth like a wildfire. OR OMG FOOLISH-- Does anyone remember Foolish building dick statues everywhere?? Yeah, he's definitely a follower of the Traveler.

4. 911xMCU

-> okay ngl guys this just came 2 me bc I realised that everyone calls Bobby Cap like how all the Avengers call Steve Cap and I was like lmfao imagine a scene where someone says Cap and they both respond to it.

5. Cw Flash x Pjo

-> okay this isn't my idea but it's one of my fav fics ever WHY DOES IT WORK SO WELL LMFAO

6. Spider-Man x Dick Grayson & Wally West

-> PETER IS LITERALLY DICK AND WALLY IN ONE PERSON 😭😭 SUPER SMART SCIENCE BRAIN + SILLY GOOFY + ACROBATS they're the same. I need them to meet so badly sobsosbsosbsosvsosbsosbsisbsjs Not sure which versions of which I just. Need it. Pls 😭😭😭

7. Justice League Unlimited x Young Justice (tv show)

-> This one has its own separate post here, but omg it makes me SO UPSET GUYS 😭😭😭

8. TMNT x Batfam

Okay not obscure bc they have had both a movie and a comic BUT HEAR ME OUT. SPECFICALLY THE 2007 MOVIE VERSION OF TMNT. This scene is literally Dick and Jason I can't do this guys WHY DO THEIR COLOURS EVEN MATCH

9. Dceu!Bruce & Barry x MCU!Irondad

-> okay my mental illness is full blast here but omfg they are the same duo THEY ARE THE SAME I need them to swap sons for a day plspslspslspspspdlfkfdishskdfjdksklaskd

10. Any vigilante au Tommy x Spider-Man

-> this is hidden in my notes app and is both like my own version of Tommy and Spidey but omfg I'm attached it's such a fun idea to play around with rahhhshshshss. I have a scene where Tommy and Spidey have a miscommunication over Blade lmfao and it lives rent free in my mind. Like Blade is a vampire but does NOT dress the same as Technoblade who might also secretly be a vampire in Tommy's universe lmfaooo

Okay and Bonus One that literally no one will understand except me

11. Magnum PI remake x Orphanduo (Techno and Skeppy)

-> Katsumoto is literally Technoblade guys. THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON. And omfg Magnum and Higgens are so happy duo ngl 😭😭😭

OKAY THAT'S ALL FOR NOW YIPPEE

Tag time :D

@sammiekel @jiksvokrat @cristalmystery @ghosts-and-blue-sweaters @sleepdeprivedofmycorn @sunflowervc @angrilydancing and anyone else who wants to join in!!

[cdroloisms]

dr3 please send help im so obsessed with jmah au but Specifically Box Au i think this is a Problem. box au is so absolutely crazy to me . imagine getting not one au but TWO AUS WORTH OF TORTURE 😭😭 do u have any more fun facts or other info u can give us abt it 🙏

HAHA god box AU is so nuts soooooo nuts

just checked my tag man I gave yall NOTHING didn't I ??? okay okay box AU information. once again, here are the main two posts about the premise of this AU, which is actually an extension and sort of "bad end" for my and kat's JMAH AU. In short, when jmah!Quackity takes over the prison at the end of the AU, the dominos fall so that jmah!Sam offers to let him visit Dream to get the revive book (like he did in the first canon timeline) in the prison to bargain his way out of the main cell. Quackity scoffs at Sam's attempt at a deal, considering the guy doesn't have any real leverage, but realizes that he needs to protect the prison from any Technoblade-related interference (especially because at this point Sam has spilled about timeline #1 and has either directly said that Techno was responsible for things going south with the prison the first go around in some kind of emotional or pain-driven rant, or Quackity has put that together himself) and that he can get much-needed Sam revenge by fucking with Dream. As a result, Sam is let out of the main cell, and Quackity tortures Dream daily much like in canon--only this time, he answers to no one, he's the Warden now bitch, and Sam is his shitty little janitor/mechanic/punching bag probably sometimes when he gets pissed the fuck off, which is often. Sam is allowed into the main cell post-sessions for only 30 minutes a day.

For Dream...it's a horrific betrayal. Worse than the first, honestly. When Sam first arrives in the jmah timeline a stranger to Dream, the emotional impact was kind of secondary to being suddenly thrown head first into the deep end of "Sam is unrecognizable, crazy as fuck, and probably about to actually murder me" -- in canon, c!Sam's whole deal at the beginning of the prison is still sudden, but at least there's some sense in connecting Sam as Warden to the man he was before. With a year's worth of context missing, Dream is honestly too busy what the fuck-ing to process how badly he's been betrayed by Sam. No frogboil, this time -- just the alarm of Sam building what ends up being a torture machine on day two (2) of the prison. On the other hand, the last year of his life has been spent playing catch up, having to make sense of the man that Sam now is Or Else. He has devoted everything to figuring out the rules to abide by, mathing out what makes the Warden grimly satisfied and what makes him give into sudden and alarming violence. Sam at the beginning of Dream's prison stay is a stranger, but by the end he very much isn't one, and it's the Sam that has become his whole damn world that sells him to save his own skin.

That being said, it's still just Sam. Quackity's visits are. Well, they're not pretty. He doesn't have to answer to Sam, this time, and is actively against the idea because jmah!Quackity REALLY REALLY hates Sam. Dream is angry at first, because of fucking course he's angry, he was sold, he's utterly fucked, Sam broke something unnamed but fundamental between them, every time he's left bleeding out it's because his Warden let another man own him--but at the same time, there is nothing else. Nothing else. Quackity is barely even in this for the book, honestly--what's more critical to him is 1) revenge and 2) the power of having control over Pandora's Fucking Vault, and both are kiiiinda dependent on using Dream against Sam but not really about Dream. The book would be a great cherry on top, of course; he has zero love lost for either person here, but what's most important is Making Them Pay.

Sam, therefore, is actually in a really uncomfortable position, because the reason why he proposes this deal (and his mindset as he proceeds through this time period) is that he doesn't actually want to be on opposite sides from Quackity. He killed Q, but because he was a security risk, because he had broken into the cell because he was going to take Dream away -- Sam hasn't exactly mathed out the fact that his complicated ass camaraderie with Quackity in canon is COMPLETELY in ruins in jmah's timeline. He's working on a plan to get the prison and prisoner back into his control, of course, but he wants to believe that the current situation is controlled and sustainable, just a different name for what had been the arrangement in canon--even though, y'know. That's absolutely not the case.

The way this works is largely that Quackity more or less visits daily to torture Dream (but unlike canon, he's not exactly beholden to any kind of Sam timekeeping or pedantics on the schedule or hemming and hawing about visitation) and then lets Sam visit for 30 minutes a day to patch him up. Otherwise, Sam's job is to reinforce the prison from Technoblade--something where he and Quackity are actually on the same page, so Sam is definitely working on that, but he's also trying to rig things up without Quackity's knowledge to get control back of the prison pwetty please. Quackity definitely keeps Sam in one of the other cells when he's not around, for obvious reasons. Sam keeps trying to appeal to him and honestly probably gets punched and shit for it LOL. LMAO. It's a strange and unsettling dynamic for Sam, who has seen something so similar to this before but not quite the same--he's still patching up Dream after sessions, but he's hesitant to ask him to give the book up to Quackity, who has made it quite clear that Sam will see hide or hair of the damn thing if he gets it--nah, he'll just kill Dream and Sam can have his old room, how about that? He's coaching Dream on how to respond to Quackity.

He knows that Dream can endure a lot. It's been an obstacle for so long, but here it works in his favor--he'll get control over the prison and prisoner again, soon. All he's asking from Dream is to endure it--and he already knows that he can.

Quackity isn't barred from permanent damage in quite the same way as he was in canon, but it takes awhile for Sam to really grasp the implications. Here's a post delving into some of the details about the way that the torture progresses--in short, Sam tries to cling to the cope that he and Quackity are on the same side, it's not all that different from the first go around, he can make this work without having to choose one side or the other in a super definitive fashion--until Quackity drives him to the edge and he recognizes that his options are to kill Quackity or to lose Dream, and we all know what happens when it comes to that ultimatum.

After Quackity dies, the dynamic changes quite a bit for Dream and Sam again. Quackity takes Dream's leg, Sam only barely manages to keep him alive through a failsafe he'd installed in his old dispenser system, Quackity dies in a pretty bloody fight with Sam fueled by pure Dream-related desperation and little else. The cell is...a wreck. Sam had been pretty adamant on keeping it more sterile than the first go around, absolutely hating the mess that Quackity and Dream were responsible for, but he's hardly had the time to clean the thing in his half an hour granted for him to do everything he can to keep Dream from bleeding out before Quackity arrives again. His perfect system has been tainted with layers and layers of grime and blood and viscera--Quackity has taken to shit like writing on the walls with Dream's blood, at least in part just to fuck with Sam (Sam tried to have A Conversation with him like he would've in canon about the state of the cell, and Quackity does nawt appreciate Sam's acting like the Warden, especially when he no longer has any power to back up the posturing.) And for Dream...Sam betrayed him, yes, but more recently and more importantly--Sam saved him. Sam protected him. Sam has brought him somewhere light and soft and clean and is telling him no more Quackity, ever again, you're safe, and isn't reacting violently when he behaves erratically and touching him gently and his leg is gone he can't fucking run and Sam saved him.

Sam is around Dream...quite a lot, after all of this. He's um. Well. Clingy, honestly. Being so far removed from the prisoner, what was happening to him, having zero control, often not even being allowed to supervise the visits from the atrium (unless Quackity wanted him there, in which the visit would've been So Obviously a show to fuck with him)--it really was his worst nightmare, in many ways. And Dream is dealing with like, a month or so of horrific trauma on top of almost a year's worth of Sam-related conditioning, and now Sam is being strangely nice and lenient and he's in so much less pain than he's been in a very long time. It's not the best mixing pot of mutual mental illness and codependence and intimacy...at all. Aha. (the c!awesamdreamons get. A LOT WORSE.)

(And well...in canon, there are a lot of reasons not to give up the revive book. There's the plan, the fact that the book preserves his life, the fact that there's no confidence in Quackity for sure or even Sam's investment in keeping Dream alive. Only here, Sam's deal has been so singularly wrapped around Dream much moreso than the book--the book had been a frequent part of interrogations, yes, but so was Tommy, and Ranboo, and the TNT on the prison, and Technoblade, and so on. Here, Dream has suffered through a huge blow to his confidence in the idea that he'll ever make it out, knows that Quackity is pretty damn okay with killing him regardless of the book...knows that he's been sold once before. In the early delirium of being saved by Sam and needing to do something, anything, to make sure that the last month won't happen again--in the reeling from losing his leg and the grappling with the idea that even moreso than he'd already begun to think through JMAH, that he would never make it out of the prison, never see anything but these obsidian walls again--in the knowledge that Sam has lied to him before, pulled the rug from under his feet before, that any and all kindnesses from the Warden were so dependent on what Dream was able or willing to sacrifice, and the fact that he therefore can't be sure that the threat of Quackity is actually gone for good...it's a lot of strain, and the concrete reasons to give up the book are a lot less solid in this scenario. So.)

[stinky-fuck-swag]

Aaand here's the brackets!

Wacky ass formatting, i know- Matchups under the cut, polls will be starting soon!

(note: i know nothing about like. 80% of these characters. if their names or where theyre from is incorrect, just lmk cuz i have NOO IDEAA) also i am fully aware of every mistake made in this bracket. whoops

BRACKET A, SIDE A

Henry Oak (Dungeons and Daddies) VS Normal Oak (Dungeons and Daddies season 2

Zora Salazar (Epithet Erased) VS Stink (Epithet Erased)

Anders (Dragon Age) VS Isabela (Dragon Age)

Deandra the new girl (Most Popular Girls in School) VS Peach (real life)

Randy Jade (Dialtown) VS Phonegingi (Dialtown)

Stunky (Pokemon) VS Stinkeye (Yo-kai Watch)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) VS Dimple (Mob Psycho 100)

Moonbeam McSwine (Li'l Abner) VS Marc Spector (Marvel Comics)

Link (BOTW) VS Lt. Columbo (Columbo)

Yoda (Star Wars) VS Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

Dob the Half Orc Bard (Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons) VS Caleb Widogast (Critical Role campaign 2)

Shinjiro Aragaki (Persona 3) VS Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5)

Gyro Zepelli (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) VS Guido Mista (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Tokkori (Kirby right back at ya) VS Jotaro Kujo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Elon Musk (real life. sadly) VS Berdly (Deltarune)

Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune) VS Susie (Deltarune)

BRACKET A, SIDE B

The Great Mighty Poo (Conker) VS The Poop Smith (Homestar Runner)

Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s) VS Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy’s)

Manjoume Jun/Chazz Princeton (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) VS Datz Are'bal (Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice)

Aragorn (Lord of the Rings) VS Humans in general (Star Trek)

Captain Rockhopper (Club Penguin) VS King Micah of Bright Moon (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Frank Gallagher (Shameless) VS Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides)

The Riddler (Batman: Arkham Knight) VS Power (Chainsaw Man)

Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) VS Every Dog (real life)

c!Technoblade (Dream SMP) VS c!Wilbur Soot (Dream SMP)

Harrier Du Bois (Disco Elysium) VS Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

Submitters Brother (real life) VS Prosperity Redding (The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding)

Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi) VS Goobleck (Just Roll With It)

Enoch O'Connor (Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children) VS Smores (real life)

Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) VS Erik (The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical & movie))

The Voters (Tumblr) VS Equius Zahhak (Homestuck)

Rotten Apple (Showvember) VS Loki (real life)

BRACKET B, SIDE A

Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) VS Smudge (Cascão) (Monica’s Team (Turma da Monica))

Oscar the Grouch (Sesame Street) VS Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2)

Toko Fukawa (Danganronpa) VS L (Death Note)

Stink Bomb (Skylanders: SWAP Force) VS Slugcat (Rain World)

Thorfinn (Vinland Saga) VS Vice (Kamen Rider Revice)

Dr. Iceberg (SCP Foundation) VS Dr. Alto Clef (SCP Foundation)

Ash Ketchum (Pokemon) VS Doug Eiffel (Wolf 359)

Estinien Wyrmblood (Final Fantasy XIV) VS Alphinaud Leveilleur (Final Fantasy XIV)

Raphael Hamato (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) VS Gobber (How To Train Your Dragon)

Keaton (Fire Emblem Fates) VS Sniper (Team Fortress 2)

Bill Lenz (Black Christmas 1974) VS Stinkor (Masters of the Universe)

The Sewer Urchin (The Tick (1994 Animated Series)) VS Macaque (Lego Monkie Kid)

Barfbat (Ward (Parahumans series)) VS Kevin (Synthesizer V)

Yellowfang (Warrior Cats) VS Big Mac (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Heppokomaru (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo) VS Captain 3 (Splatoon 3)

Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls) VS Linus (Stardew Valley)

BRACKET B, SIDE B

Jeong-Jeong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) VS Pigpen (Peanuts)

Beelzebub (Good Omens) VS Stinkfly (Ben 10)C

Hiravias (Pillars of Eternity) VS Chell (Portal)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) VS Bacterian (Dragon Ball)

Captain K'nuckles (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) VS Kimchi (Chowder)

Stinky (Moomins) VS Stinky (Animal Crossing)

Mitchell Shephard (Hunt Down the Freeman) VS Melly Plinius (Identity V)

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) VS Yato (Noragami)

THAT FUCKING THING IN YOUR BANNER (my banner lol) VS Harold (Fallout 1, 2, and 3)

Barik of the Stone Shields (Tyranny) VS Samuel Gladiator (Yandere High School (minecraft roleplay))

John Hart (Torchwood) VS Orochimaru (Naruto)

Dung Defender/Ogrim (Hollow Knight) VS Zane (Borderlands)

Pumbaa (The Lion King) VS Enki (Fear and Hunger)

Goro Majima (Yakuza) VS Sandalphon (Granblue Fantasy)

Finn Mertins (Farmworld) (Adventure Time) VS John Doe (John Doe / John Doe+)

Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Ed Sheeran (ginger people fandom)

[genevawrenn]

I'll Tend to the Flame (You Can Worship the Ashes)

✨#mcytficfight, Team Phantom👻 ✨For @archfeykoi ✨c!Technoblade & c!Philza [Emerald Duo] ✨5.5k W.C. ✨c!Technoblade-centric ✨Violence & DSMP ✨Ashes by The Longest Johns

The Voices were reaching painful levels again, Techno forcing himself to do the deep breathing Phil taught him. Holding close the image of his crow partner caressing his cheek, slowly walking him through a meditation to calm their screams. When he swore that Vow he didn’t see the fine print of being tormented by those he killed, chastising and criticizing things that surrounded the piglin.

His only respite was when he summoned more Hounds of War, able to send some Voices off to inhabit those creatures until they fell in battle. He needed Phil to do that ritual though, after not doing it in a long time their din was becoming unbearable.

Luckily they agreed at the moment of going to free the crow, but he feared what precipice he balanced on and just how small of a shove it would take for him to give into their demands. To wet his sharp steel with their blood, to carve their organs out upon cobble streets as he rightfully wins back what is his.

He takes another inhale, stopping the clenching of his fist as he uses a whetstone upon his trusted sword. Technoblade was just waiting on his potions to finish, then he planned to go rip a few bodies asunder from their limbs until the Blood God’s tales had reawoken. They had touched his Angel, therefore they must learn their lessons about why you didn’t take things from the piglin. He didn’t exactly want to kill them, as much as the Voices disagreed, he wanted to teach them why you didn’t take what belonged to the Blade of the Death Goddess.

With a smirk promising good, clean fear unless they pressed him, he begins to stopper the finished potions as the blaze powder finishes burning.

It was time.

[irrealisms]

isolate song liner notes

fic here if you haven't read it; i'll be posting liner notes for my most recent three fics sort of periodically over the course of the next week or two

fic idea credit goes entirely to my friend birdy, who does songbird neurology research and had a bunch of xenofiction ideas about birdsong + tommy and ghostbur

this fic was almost named so this is what the volume knob is for, from dance music by the mountain goats, and i listened to that song on repeat a lot while writing this. highly recommend it as a song pairing. it's about abuse and music and it's one of my top picks for c!tommy in general. it also makes me think of @divinekillcam a lot (so look i'm seventeen years old ... when the police come to get me i'm listening to dance music, dance music), who is also c!tommy in a way, and who i thought about a lot while writing this fic. he was the first person i sent a draft of it to

the fic was originally written as though tommy was a normal songbird with just the one critical period and then i sent it to my Bird Knowledge Betas and one of them (soroka) went "tommy should be a starling (here are some Reasons it would be Themes)" and the other (birdy) went "starlings are actually open-ended song learners, this is also themes". birdy's comment is almost word-for-word copy-pasted into the end note, lol. this did genuinely make me emotional, though. man. his song will get better ... T_T

something i tried to capture and don't know how well i did at is that techno & tommy are really, really funny. i rewatched some bedrock bros streams for this and spent the whole time laughing. like, tommy's being annoying, but also they're just really funny together! no one writes technoblade funny enough. idk if i did either but i did try.

relatedly: no one writing tommy-sympathetic bedrock bros abuse recovery fic writes him annoying enough. i wanted to make Tommy Is Being So Very Annoying And Frustrating To Techno (and yet they do like each other) a major element in this fic even as i gave the readers sympathetic reasons why

something i didn't get a chance to really include in the fic for wordcount reasons is that tommy is soooooo parasocial and weird about phil for reasons of "he's a corvid TOO.... he's got wings just like me...." etc. even while not really...knowing phil very well

birds with clipped wings can get more anxious and have more behavioral problems (including screaming/being louder!) because they can't do their automatic reflex of flying away when in an anxiety-provoking situation! this felt very bedrock bros era tommy to me. also, "tommy's wings get clipped in exile" is such a stereotypical fanon thing and the exchange i wrote this for was about "what if we wrote stereotypical fanon tropes But Good", so.

did you know that birds don't actually sing while in flight? i didn't! shoutout to birdy for telling me this--the original ending had tommy singing while he flew. luckily i had already set up the tower for him to land on.

[forgetmenotcollective]

➙ The Ghost Town Collective

Hello! We are the Ghost Town Collective, a dissociative polyfragmented system, and this is our blog! We may block semi-liberally for system criticism & discourse being brought onto the blog, but we are open to being corrected on mistakes! This is for system-related posts & reblogs! Our main is @theghosttown & you can find our art on @alltheghosties!

➙ Members + Tags

*Introjects sometimes have labelled sources- "Sapphire" will be in blue text, "Crystal" in yellow, and "Lilac" in purple. No source/unlabelled source will be uncolored.

general host tag ⤵

#host posts

Juno/Mouse (she/love) - c & q!Quackity & q!Ironmouse Introject : #lady under the weather & juno.txt

Eden/Hayley (any pronouns, neos included) - Technoblade & Winter Schnee introject : #still so devoted to you & eden.txt

Selene/Matt/Chora (she/he/lune) - c!Ranboo, genloss!Ranboo, cc!Ranboo, q!Tinakitten & c!Tommy introject: #um it's kind of a lot , sel.txt, matt.txt, & chor.txt

Maia Rose (she/they) - hh!rosie (side eye), q!wilbur, c!wilbur, c!dream introject: #and it is well with my soul & mai.txt

*we as a system do not support cc!Dream or cc!Wilbur. introjects are not chosen.

other freq fronters tag ⤵

#ghost posts

Arryn/Quackity (she/lotus) - Protector, c!Quackity introject: #take you down & q.txt

Charlie (any) - Gatekeeper, c!Slimecicle, genloss!Charlie, Slimecicle Cinematic Universe introject: #got something to lose & slime.txt

Thor (any aside from she/her) - Protector, c!Tommy introject: #help the outcasts & thor.txt

Isabela (they/she) - Head Gatekeeper, q!ElQuackity introject: #praise from a new perspective & #isa.txt

Mayree/Drista (she/they/chor/vex) - Head Gatekeeper, c!Drista, Wiggly (Hatchetfield) & @drista-the-parity-goddess / @forksandchaos introject: #spill blood in the court & dris.txt

Kita (she/he/they/blaze) - Primary Protector, c!Sapnap & q!Jaiden introject: #pa' tipo como tú & jai.txt

Dove/Duvessa (she/he) - Protector, c!Tubbo, cc!Tubbo & @tubbos introject: #you are my achilles' heel & tubb.txt & tubbo.txt

tags for other members will often be "name".txt (examples being sam.txt or michael.txt)

➙ Partner Systems

@thelavendersys - lavender system, partner system of near 2 years!

@cupidcottage - cupid, friends

@blubellsys - bluebell system, partner system of near 2 years!

@sunspellers - sunspell system, besties :bweep:

@bundleofnerium - nerium system, partner system

[tobi-smp]

like for real, I haven't changed my opinion on how c!techno's writing was messy and often didn't work, my Feelings on it have changed but it's not like I think I was Wrong before. honestly I think you'd be hard pressed to find a single person who has dedicated more words to criticizing techno (the) blade than me fdsghgjhkjjhjghfg

and my bookmarks look like this !

I Love technoblade, I've Always loved technoblade! my passion for this character and the creator behind him is WHY I cared enough to talk about him all the damn time. I wrote essays about him because he lived rent free in my brain

and my love for this character Is Love. you're allowed to have fun just playing with the characters you like without talking about how they're deeply flawed people 24/7 to signal to the audience that you have reading comprehension.

I'm never against character critique, but my god why are we getting upset with people for drawing characters they like being nice to each other

the dsmp is over, and we got what we got. maybe I just want to see little pictures of them having fun together because it's nice and makes me happy

joining the dream smp fandom in 2020 because of bedrock bros is Literally just

[simplepotatofarmer]

c!techno is woman-coded because fandom said he had a victim complex and was a guilt tripper for expressing his very real hurt.

also because other characters kept dismissing his emotions because they were inconvenient. (fandom also did this.)

and because everyone keeps erasing his agency for the things he decided to do and wanted to do and then pretending he had agency for all the things he was quite literally forced into.

[clingyduoapologist]

c!Quackity’s arc: Revenge and the pursuit of power are never worth those you lose along the way

c!Tommy’s arc: Lashing out and hurting others because you’ve been hurt only ever makes you feel worse

c!Wilbur’s arc: The forgiveness of others is meaningless if you aren't willing to forgive yourself

c!Technoblade’s arc: lie to, cheat, and abandon your friends if they don’t worship the very ground you walk on, and as long as you beat them up and break their things they’ll still apologize to you because they have no other option 🥰

[demonadelem]

If you're into discourse, don't reply or reblog please. I don't wanna be involved.

You wonder why c!Tommy doesn't tell people about his trauma? He's afraid of being looked down upon. Don't wanna be babied or "you could have done this, you should have done that" or worst of all blamed for it, laughed at. Venting to the wrong person causes more damage then help.

[cmyknoise]

So.

With c!Wilbur’s apologies to c!Techno, and Techno’s claims of being lied to about Pogtopia’s plans on reinstating L’manburg as a country, and how he was betrayed. Let me remind you of a moment. 

A conversation between c!Techno and c!BBH which occurred before Tubbo and Quackity told Techno about their plans on reinstating the L’manburg government, and before there was a war, and most certainly before this ‘surprise’ betrayal of them reinstating a government and assigning a president. 

Badboyhalo was talking to Technoblade about the Badlands. He was talking about if Techno would be okay with an anarchist group [the Badlands], and questioned what Techno’s plans are. 

Techno states that he’s fine with an anarchy, that he’s not okay with killing cats, and then he states this;

"I want to leave a smoking crater from which not only will Manberg never recover, but from which no new country can rise in its place. History will FORGET that a country ever existed in this area."

Again. This is before each and every excuse c!Techno has given to Tommy, Wilbur, Quackity, Tubbo, literally everyone, on why he’d set withers on this place. 

He claims he was betrayed by them reinstating government. He claims that Wilbur had lied to him and that he didn’t know about them planning to reinstate L’manburg. Despite evidence of Quackity and Tubbo literally telling him.

But maybe you can brush it off on he wasn’t listening, or he didn’t take them seriously. 

But this absolutely proves that he was planning on blowing this place up regardless of whether they reinstated government or not. This is evidence is before Quackity and Tubbo tell him. This is before the war. This is before the betrayal. He was already planning on blowing the place to smithereens even before Dream had offered and egged him on. He was never going to let this place go peacefully. He was never going to give a new government a chance of being peaceful. It was deemed corrupt before it's creation.

And this behavior is repeated with Doomsday when Tommy works with him. In his To-Do List, he had always had 'destroy L’manburg' listed at the top. Every time Tommy would say he didn’t want to destroy L’manburg, or said he just wanted his discs he didn’t want revenge, Techno would change subjects until he stopped bringing it up all together (vocally, to Tommy. visually he’d highlight the destroy line in the list to chat every time he opened up the book). 

It didn’t matter, it would have never mattered. Doomsday was going to happen no matter what. Dream planned on destroying the place, Techno planned on destroying the place. There would have been no way to convince them otherwise, and Tommy had tried every time it was brought up. It just so happened that a perfect opportunity and cover arose for it to happen then and there.

Tommy’s “betrayal” of Techno by siding with Tubbo (mind you, he’d done so because he realized he no longer wanted to play this cycle of revenge, and he didn’t want to be a bad person, and he didn’t want to hurt his best friend. He chose Tubbo over Techno, just as Techno would’ve chosen Phil over everything in the same situation). 

Tommy’s “betrayal” of Techno was used as a scapegoat reasoning for his destruction, turning a plan that would’ve happened no matter what, into a ‘lesson’ to be ‘taught’ and an ‘act’ of ‘revenge’. 

This is exactly the same as what happened on November 16th. Wilbur was the only official ‘traitor’ to L’manburg deemed by Dream, as Wilbur had been the one on this spiral and dead set plan to blow the place up, egged on and encouraged by Dream. He had no idea about withers, or that Techno had betrayed them in the first place until recently. He had no idea. He still doesn't even know they had a part in Doomsday. He still thinks it was all his fault.

Techno on the other hand, had known before there could have even been talks of betrayal, or before Wilbur could have even ‘lied’ to him. His mind was already made up. 

Pogtopia’s “betrayal” of Techno was used as a scapegoat reasoning for his deadset plans of destruction, that was planned far in advance of the war. 

They are scapegoats that he still uses to this day, and has even built upon adding details such as adding that Wilbur and Tommy had deliberately lied to him, or had deliberately tried to hurt him, which is simply false. In both of these situations, he’s planned from the beginning what he had wanted to do, regardless of how these “betrayals” made him feel. 

***This post is tagged appropriately with critical tags, so if you don’t want to see or hear c!techno critical, you should block the tags. This isn’t a post for debate or argument, it’s an analysis and well, critical post. That’s the point. Thank you. 💛

[dogin8]

the simple disparity between "Technoblade never dies" and "It's never my time to die" highlights really well the difference between the characters of Techno and Tommy, because when Technoblade says "Technoblade never dies" it's a challenge, a challenge that he imposed on himself, and a challenge that he knows he will win, Technoblade only fears death because of how much of his reputation he is constantly wagering on living, its a certain arrogance of somebody who has never been on the back foot, but when Tommy says "It's never my time to die" it's a statement of resignation, he knows he couldn't die even if he wanted to, he simply isn't allowed, whether he is the hero or the exile, he isn't in control of something so personal as his own death, and most importantly, it's something that others placed on him. Techno has more than enough freedom to live, Tommy doesn't even have enough to die.

[apple-but-sour]

My hastily-written brief answer to plural asks wanting to know what I think c!Technoblade's flaws are is the following:

He has issue putting himself into other people's shoes and understanding others' worldview. He has strong beliefs and expects others to see the logic of his worldview once he presents it. Though he is still willing to listen to how others view the world, he doesn't accommodate for it unless it's like, the personal feelings of his close friends (e.g. him not asking the Syndicate to help with breaking c!Dream out until c!Ranboo got involved coz he knew they weren't fans of the guy).

His vengeful nature also often compromises his morals and beliefs, which is probably his biggest flaw. I think it might also be a flaw cc!Technoblade wants to strengthen, judging by latest "inconsistencies" in c!Techno's characterizations. Sometimes his anger and desire for vengeance blind him and make him act against his own principles in pretty radical ways. It's why we have c!Technoblade canonically kidnapping and torturing ppl in the bedrock bros arc, and why we have him imprisoning a guy despite being against the existence of the very prison he put him in.

[khizuo]

I’m going to put a finger on one of the reasons I think c!Technoblade has been frustrating me lately, and it’s a sentiment I think I’ve seen around dsmpblr quite a bit, but I want to elaborate on why I also think it is a thing.

I will preface this by saying that Technoblade is my favorite minecraft youtuber and streamer, and that I really enjoy his character. This is not a critique of Technoblade himself, but rather the writing of the Dream SMP. Now onto my critique.

Simply put: c!Technoblade is consistently narratively rewarded for his actions.

By this, I mean that c!Technoblade, along with c!Dream, is one of the few characters who the writing favors in every situation. You could say that the Butcher Army was a ‘punishment’ for him, but narratively speaking, it was actually a win for Techno. He came out of the situation not feeling defeated, but looking even more like a badass than he did before (see: the pickaxe scene with Quackity) and gaining even more potential justification in a meta-narrative sense (aka a greater reason for the fandom to sympathize with him when he destroys L’manberg).

In contrast, all the other major characters have had either in-story defeats or meta-narrative defeats, often times both. C!Wilbur was defeated in a meta-narrative sense by painting himself as a villain when he blew up L’manberg. C!Tommy has been defeated time and time again — November 16th, exile, Doomsday, etc. C!Tubbo was defeated by Dream when he was forced to exile Tommy, and again when Techno escaped execution; and both defeats gave him a more negative meta-narrative of being a dysfunctional president. C!Quackity was defeated by Technoblade by a pickaxe and came out of the situation seeming like a budding tyrant.

I feel like c!Techno has yet to face any major defeat. He was not defeated on November 16th. He was not defeated by the Butcher Army. He literally crushed his opposition on Doomsday. And throughout it all, he has been gaining a stronger, more positive meta-narrative so that all his wins are justified by the story — Phil’s house arrest, Carl’s capture, his attempted execution, Tommy’s ‘betrayal’, etc.

(Note: I am aware that as a fandom, especially on Tumblr, we have been critical of c!Techno. But I am looking purely at the writing of the story itself, and not our fandom reaction to it.)

Now here’s the question: Why has c!Techno yet to face any narrative punishment?

Well, I’d argue that there are meta reasons for this that have to do with the writing of the SMP.

Firstly, Techno the youtuber has a reputation to keep up.

Before joining the Dream SMP, Techno’s fandom catchphrases have been “Techno never dies!” and “Only coming 2nd? L”. Even if these catchphrases are jokes, there’s no denying that Techno the youtuber has cultivated much of his Minecraft fanbase by being good at Minecraft — destroying nerds in Skywars, crushing famous youtubers in Minecraft Monday, beating squidkid in the Potato War, etc. Technoblade’s fandom will make fun of him if he loses a fight.

In contrast, most of the other streamers on the SMP did not gain their initial, pre-SMP fame by being good at Minecraft PVP. Tommy became famous by scamming people in Skyblock. Wilbur did 100 player and YLYL videos. Quackity was a meme channel. Tubbo also made Skyblock videos.

This isn’t helped by the fact that Techno can easily combo most of the other players on the SMP to oblivion. The only person he’d probably struggle in that front is Dream, and— oh wait, they’re allies. Shoot.

Techno’s fanbase migrated to the SMP when he started making SMP content because it is extremely loyal to him. I mean, I was one of them, I would know. And Techno’s fanbase is accustomed to watching him win. This is probably one of the reasons why so far, he has yet to be narratively defeated.

Along with that, the writing of the SMP’s second season has trended towards shows of power.

The writing of the first season had wars, yes, but whoever won the actual fight was never the centerpiece of it. I think this has a lot to do with Wilbur being a non “minecraft for minecraft’s sake” youtuber in comparison to Dream. The L’manberg war ultimately decided by Tommy trading his discs, even though he lost the arrow duel. The election saga and the Schlatt fallout had minimal PVP conflict (no, I do not count Wilbur and Tommy running away from arrow fire as ‘PVP’). There wasn’t any real PVP fighting at the festival. Even the final war was light on the PVP — the central drama of that came from Wilbur pressing the button and Techno setting off the Withers; and that did not end up as an unequivocal victory for either of them.

In contrast, the second season has had a greater focus on who wins the straight-up fight. The Butcher Army loses because Techno beats Quackity in a fight. Techno, Dream, and Phil win Doomsday because they are clearly more powerful in a fight. Tommy’s recurring saga with Dream has yet to reward Tommy — it always ends with Dream beating Tommy down more; through emotional manipulation tactics, yes, but also because of the implicit sense that Tommy can not win against Dream in a straight-up fight. Tommy is focused on winning that fight with Dream on Wednesday.

The narrative has stopped rewarding people like Wilbur and Tommy, who can’t win straight-up PVP duels against Techno and Dream. There are exceptions to this — El Rapids, for example. But El Rapids has faded into narrative insignificance, and as such it has done nothing to reverse the narrative trend.

Now, I don’t think this problem is unfixable. Quite the opposite, actually — I think it’s easily fixed, as long as Techno suffers a canon death and is criticized for his actions on a meta-narrative level, the way most of the other characters have been.

Because simply watching a character win all the time is not narratively compelling. I really enjoy Techno’s character, and as such, I want to feel compelled by him. This is why I’m not criticizing his character here — rather, I am simply expressing my frustration at the way the narrative has interacted with his character.