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pinkpuffballdude · 2 years

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alright I made this post and @knife-moth-mc indicated that more concrete instructions(??) would be appreciated, SO! this is not like, a checklist or anything, not orders or must haves or w/e, just stuff that I find easiest to engage with especially when my brain is a big ol pile of goo (ie Right Now)

(before we begin I recognize that all this shit is Work and Takes Time And Also Effort, I'm not saying it should already be done; I do however have various mental disabilities(?) that unfortunately stack and make it really difficult for me to 1) read big blocks of text and 2) synthasize information myself. a lot of this list is going to be stuff like that!)

placing under a cut because Long OKAY

LET'S BEGIN!!

to start, having at least some kind of landing page or template for every character in the SMP- it doesn't have to be detailed, it doesn't even have to have information beyond like, their name and pronouns- but trying to follow a stream for the first time and having characters pop in and out is really difficult when I go to check their pronouns and they aren't even on the list of characters. idk how the wiki editing works? I've never done that, but I think there's a way to just have the sections with [TBD] in them, as a placeholder. not sure how difficult that is tho, but even that would be super helpful

alternatively (or maybe additionally?) some kind of list of All Characters, with basic information like pronouns, name, race/species/abilities, notable relations, and so on. a short list so I know who everyone's talking about

a lot of these are gonna be short lists sorry akldh BUT just... a ten words or less description of each character and their arc. maybe not literally ten words, but Very Short and succinct; details could go somewhere else, so if I'm interested in a specific character I could go and dive deeper on their page, but if I'm trying to figure out why idk c!Aster hates c!Sleep (???? not canon I don't think but idk!!) I can go to their page and see oh yea they had some kinda argument over bombs or the void or smth.

edited versions of vods!! that would be SO helpful (if Incredibly Difficult :pensive:)

alternatively, a short list of "these are the lore relevant vods, watch these to know what's going on"

building off that, playlists of different arcs and different people, not necessarily wholly seperate but isolated so I can go "wait what's up with the maskarade huh" and watch idk 5 hours of video instead of. hundreds.

clip videos. those are my saving grace, they let my poor adhd ass stay focused on the same video for Many Minutes while also highlighting what's important AND letting get multiple perspectives, which helps me orient myself in the story/lore.

clip video ideas (inspiration): funny moments - Aster paranoid moments - STARS eats chat??? compilation - Sleep&STARS interactions - bloopers - Haven fucked up and evil moments - every time [character] speaks in [video/stream/specific streamers video/etc]

going back to the wiki stuff, maybe a timeline version that has one sentence per event, and then links off to a more detailed page on that specific event? so someone can skim it and have an idea of The Server At Large, but the information on all the fun moments and little character interactions is Still There, just not cluttering up the summary (:V bad wording but brain no work :V).

TL;DR: a short list of all the characters and their pronouns/names, stance on different server events, and a two sentence summary of what those events Are would do wonders in my personal ability to delve deep into haven lore 👀

#aaaaaa #anyway Yes I'm OvO about this masquarade??? it sounds cool as hell #but I'm having trouble finding stuff out about it because uhhhhh brain no work :(#and stuff isn't centralized #I know in bigger fandoms a lot of this work is done by the fans themselves #who of course act as a sort of hive mind collecting information and trading it and well. centralizing it #which is how I was eventually able to get into the dsmp #and on the flip side literally All Of Hermitcraft is essentially like. semi lore?#and everyone edits and uploads their videos to youtube #and that's hard!!! that's not smth I could do (which is why I stream on twitch aksldhfs)#but it does mean that it's a lot easier to poke around and dip my toes into whatever's going on in the server #I also get really bad migraines with fair regularity #so having to be Awake and Present for a stream that could happen basically whenever is. untenable for me kalsdhfls #grabby hands gimme the vods #OH AND SUBTITLES #but that's an accessiblity thing idk if that's covered here but GOD subtitles my beloved #haven smp #true story #hope this is coherent!!! still in migraine mode :pensive: but Fuck I wanted to get this done so I didn't forget #also fuck migraines I've been hiding in the dark all week because candles were too bright for me it Sucks #but yea. hope this is helpful!!!!

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