#c never cc

[phoibos-querella]

last month i did some life drawing sketches of cq, under the cut for artistic nudity

i used line-of-action for model poses so ya i referenced images for all of them ✌️

[transgenbur]

big number :)

[yuttikkele]

shoutout to tommyinnit. I will be comparing characters from other fandoms to you for the rest of my days.

[papayaturtles]

💨 Smoke break with the president 💨

cRanboo has asthma cus i said so but he still wants to hang out with cTubbo on his breaks so he wears a mask that protects his lungs from smoke (real)

They make me so ill it's over for me

He tried to join Tubbo smoking once and this is basically what happened (he never tried it again)

[qoldenskies]

CC!Leo: "My Donnie's not so closed off anymore"

C!Donnie: That could mean anything

Later

By Talos-

LMAOOO LITERALLY

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

I think part of why I'm a little bit softer towards Quackity's finale, or simply unsure of how to criticize it, is that, perhaps more than any other ending we've seen, the meta elements are... very difficult to ignore.

DSMP was a roleplay server. Even at its most highly produced and pre-written, it was still a roleplay server. Moreover, it was a roleplay in which all of the characters shared a name with their player, the lines between the fiction and the OOC friendships were frequently blurred, and very few people had much if any experience with roleplay and its associated pitfalls such as the dreaded "character bleed." That is an environment ripe for joy and excitement. It's also an environment rife with turbulence and wounded feelings.

So, the first thing is that this doesn't just represent an ending for c!Quackity, it represents closing a chapter in cc!Quackity's career. When he got the chance to stream in his native language without fear of being judged or mocked for it, k!Quackity was born. When he embarked on a project that reconciled his two audiences, there was q!Quackity. c!Quackity was a storytelling triumph as far as MCYT goes, but where was he to go next?

On a narrative level, I find it interesting that the two survivors, and the traits portrayed that helped them decide to continue living, represent what were once c!Quackity's best traits - k!Quackity's determination and sense of justice, and q!Quackity's love and desire to connect with others. Combined with c!Slime's parting words of "Thank you for teaching me what it's like to be human," this might underscore a point that c!Quackity was ultimately a learning experience, both for the writer and the other characters. He might be gone, but he still left some positive impact. The ones who came after him chose not to continue a negative cycle.

However, the other snag here is... the other people. Yeah. No need for detail, you know who I mean. The controversies, the racism mentioned above, the legitimately awful treatment of those within and without the DSMP circle. A lot of us won't excuse the writing because of that. And I get it - we, the audience, can easily separate the story from the people behind it. If this were a film franchise or television show, it would be easy to replace the actors and move on. Not so in a roleplay. Not so when the actor and character have bled together so much.

I've got to get a little personal.

Within the last few months, I've dealt with a similar experience - someone who I frequently roleplayed with and who I considered a close friend became incredibly abusive to one of my other friends, to the point where he needed to be distanced from our lives and cut from future plots entirely. Logistically, that is a hard thing to deal with, especially when your character was closely entwined with theirs and dozens of others. But emotionally, it's even harder. You start questioning past interactions, wondering whether the signs were always there. You start noticing strange details in their writing that you know you might be reading too much into, but still make you sick to think about. In extreme cases, the thought of even playing your own character again becomes unbearable, because they were so clearly impacted by the choices of people you no longer want anything to do with.

I had an easier time adapting my character to the new course of events. My other friend, the one who had suffered his betrayal firsthand, nearly had her character disappear alongside his.

Sometimes, people cope with endings the way Tommy did. By saying, "No, I'm going to go back and end on a happy note, because my character deserves that, and the goodness was there." Sometimes, that just... doesn't feel possible. I really truly have to wonder if c!Quackity, for all the pride and care that was clearly taken in crafting his story, was just a holder of too many negative experiences and attributes for the writer to do anything but throw up one last cathartic hurrah and shelve him forever.

I'm not saying it was the ideal ending for c!Quackity. I'm not saying it was perfectly written, or that the absence of certain characters wasn't baffling or frustrating. I'm not even saying people aren't justified in hating how our favorite character's story concluded. Hell, I'm still not sure whether I like how brutal, how final, how bitterly tragic it was.

I'm just saying it's hard for me not to empathize.

[thatonefatgumsimp]

OK so I'm still working on watching all the Secret Life POVs, but-

Why are none of y'all talking about Scar literally after saying Grian was the light of the server calling him "light of my life"? /lh

Like- I thought c!Scarian peeps would already be on this. And like even in a platonic way that's just so wholesome-

Anyways that is all

[tiny-critter-fool]

it's been HOW many years??

+ without the funky sunrise effect i tried to achieve

[arsuns-ramblings]

Watching the latest Tommyinnit video and immediately started losing my mind at the mention of neapolitain ice scream… i am so unwell

[dukeofthomas]

The DC fandom reminds me a lot of the Dream SMP one so I propose we start using f!Bruce and c!Bruce (Fanon!Bruce and Canon!Bruce). Raise your hand if you agree

[ks1971]

Gift...of nature...

[cdroloisms]

not to be salty abt the fandom again (but always to be salty abt the fandom again) -- it never fails to make me laugh abt how popular the concept of corrupt heroes c!dteam versus misunderstood "actually the good guys" villain c!sbi is as a premise in this fandom. like. c!dteam. you mean the group that is textually in the damn lore considered "the bad guys" according to the prevailing narratives in AND OUT of universe. what

[deadkraker]

btw if I ever say 'willow' in my posts from now on, I'm referring to cWil. I've used the name 'wilbur' for the character but honestly I just feel vaguely ill every time i write it so I'll call him 'willow' from now on, I don't really post abt (character)him either way bc I just have lost all interest for the character, which is unfortunate but still, I do talk abt characters associated with him so I thought it would be good to clarify.

[charles-simmons]

Being a disc duo fan is such an interesting experience sometimes, bc half my mutuals would die for Tommy, and the other half hates him with a burning passion. Same thing for Dream.

[qoldenskies]

Head in my hands: the crossover between CC and Canon, with the CC brothers having Canon Donnie in their house . . a ghost walking their halls hhhgggggggghh

the way that metaphor applies to c!donnie in the cc universe than cc!donnie himself ,,, the way they cant help but look at him and think i missed you so much even though they've spent so long working so hard not to project that kind of grief onto cc!donnie because of how crushing the expectations to be something he can never be again were for him. cc!donnie will already feel like being in a universe where the only thing that's different is that the trauma that defines him never happened is some kind of sick joke, but im sure his brothers feel a little like that too. seeing a world where they never hurt him like that, the way its validating their deepest fears of being changed irrevocably and losing a happier future for good. cc!donnie sees a universe where his family is happier and thinks i'm the problem, and his brothers see a version of donnie who was never hurt by them and quietly think the same. this is what he could've been if they'd never done that-- if kitsune had never done that. sometimes when things get bad they forget not to blame themselves.

[freakinator]

yknow with tthe whole cc!kab rping an actual character rather than just being herself with extra steps thing i should prbs talk about her character in a different way compared to other lsers cause it feels wrong to talk about her in the same way that i do for the others when she plays in such a significantly different way