#project mirror qsmp

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] ENDING - "ESCAPE"

2/2 [previous]

But after that HELL, you're ready for anything.

[irrealisms]

i've seen a lot of people talk about mcyt as a constantly burning library of alexandria recently, and to some extent that's true. people are constantly deleting their blogs, going scorched earth with animatics, fanfics, etc., that they made. but i've also seen people (three in the last few days!) make this claim about VODs, when talking about large fandoms like DSMP and QSMP, and.... guys. that was true in 2020. that's not true anymore. archivists have been working tirelessly for years now to make sure that isn't true.

the dsmp VOD masterlist is here. in november 2020, it's missing 16 VODs, if i am counting correctly--which is still a fairly small minority, but it's a lot, and it sucks!--but in november of 2021, it's missing one, and that's because the cc of that VOD does copyright takedowns, not because the archivists didn't save it. no one in the archivist project is deleting VODs off youtube with no backups the way people are deleting fanfics. three months ago, one of my dsmp archivist friends finished coding a tool that let them reconstruct VODs out of twitch clips, and reconstructed six tubbo dsmp VODs from 2020. not only are we basically not losing VODs anymore, we are actively gaining VODs that have been lost for years, that were thought to be lost forever. the library isn't burning anymore; it's being rebuilt.

the qsmp VOD masterlist is here. it is usually a month or two behind the present day, to give creators time to archive their own VODs, but... look at it. in january of 2024, every single qsmp vod was archived. the same is true of december of 2023, and november, and the vast majority of months for the past year.

i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem. just a few days ago, i realized that a lifesteal VOD from last year was missing--that its youtube upload was messed up somehow, and no one noticed and it wasn't mirrored on the internet archive and the person who uploaded it deleted the original file. and now it's gone forever. this made me super sad! like i said: i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem.

but... look at the lifesteal VOD masterlist here. lifesteal's a smaller fandom than qsmp or dsmp. open the 2022 tab and you'll see months and months of lost VODs, of no one's VODs being saved, because there weren't any archivists saving them. then open the 2023 tab and see: they lost four VODs, over the course of a year. even in smaller fandoms, archivists are working. they're making progress. they're saving VODs. in 2024, lifesteal archivists screenrecorded five streams on tumblr live to make sure they would not become lost media. mcyt may be a constantly burning library of alexandria, but the people with fire extinguishers are dedicated. they're making incredible progress. i know people with petabytes of VODs saved, who have spent money on extra storage for this. i know people who are constantly running up against their storage limits as they download/upload to the internet archive/delete for space/rinse and repeat. a decent fraction of the time, my internet at home is slow because it's downloading VODs.

and these aren't the only mcyt fandoms with archiving projects! the outsiders smp VOD masterlist is here. origins smp VOD masterlist is here. smp earth VOD masterlist is here. rats smp VOD masterlist is here. there are so many others that i just don't happen to know about. the older and smaller a fandom is, the more likely it is to not have an attached archiving project, or for the archive to be missing a lot of VODs. but... guys, we've saved a lot. there are people out there, working tirelessly to save even more. yes, mourn what we have lost--the archivists i know are also the ones mourning the most for the VODs that are, in fact, forever lost media. but don't dismiss how much people have saved. we are making progress. we are losing less and less every month. the vast majority of the dsmp and qsmp still exist, i am not going to say they're the same experience as watching live because they're really not, but.. they're out there. people have put in a lot of work to save them.

if you have publicly available VOD masterlists or other mcyt archiving projects that aren't on this post, please add them in a reblog. i want this post to serve as a reference for how much archivists have saved in this community; unfortunately, i'm not super connected to every community. but i know that--for every person deleting things, there are people working, tirelessly & with little external reward, in so many different mcyt fandoms, to save things. and we should appreciate that more often.

[anonymous-dentist]

Crepúsculo

Chapter One: A Court of Masks and Owls

Summary:

In a world of vampires and humans, vampire hunters are universally outlawed because, as it turns out, murder is wrong. With relations between the vampire and human kingdoms as tense as they ever have been, nobody wants to risk another war. It’s better to play nice.

Cellbit, like most vampire hunters did, retired when the war ended seventy-five years ago. He’s spent his time since then avoiding mirrors and helping raise his son. It’s a boring life, but it beats being dead.

But then Cellbit gets an offer he can’t refuse: infiltrate the Vampire Kingdom’s upcoming royal masquerade ball and assassinate the prince. If he can't kill him, then his son dies instead.

With no choice, Cellbit packs up to go complete one last mission.

Sorry, Prince Roier. No hard feelings, right?

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NEW FIC NEW FIC NEW FIC!!!!

REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG!!!!

COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT!!!!

[goingferalapparently]

Do you want to hear me talk about The Animatic? No? Well that sucks because I'm talking about it anyway.

I don't know what made me suddenly want to make a full length animatic, but the urge descended upon me and I did anyway, despite my horrible horrible track record.

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I'd actually had a couple voice clips cut out since July (because that's when I started Jealousy), but the bulk of it was done 15/16 August. And! This song (Pentatonix's God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) is actually the second one I tried piecing together.

The first song was AURORA's Runaway! I swapped songs pretty early on because

Runaway was 4 minutes long and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen was 2.5 minutes long

3 minutes in, I ran out of voice clips.

I used a lot more voice clips for Runaway than God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, not just because it's longer but also because the song is significantly slower and thus easier to fit voice clips in it. Not just more voice clips, but the voice clips were longer too.

(God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen had 9 source clips. Runaway had 15.)

Hindsight is 20/20 though, because due to the slow-paced nature of Runaway in comparison to God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen would have resulted in far less frames needing to be drawn, or precise cuts or-

Well, you get the point.

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I have two files for this project! Yes, it was pure Medibang. The reason for the two files is that there were so many layers that the first file was lagging to hell and back and I couldn't even draw a straight line because of how bad it was.

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This was the actual first frame I ever drew for this! If it looks familiar, it's because I was mirroring this. It's my first ever fanart for QSMP.

At the time of starting this, I had maybe 3 pieces of QSMP fanart and was super uncertain of what I was doing, so it definitely happened again - mirroring a piece of fanart into an animatic frame.

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This was the first time I ever drew Cucurucho. I had an idea and it was simple to execute but over time I forgot about the voice box.

This, on the other hand, was the last frame I ever drew. The Cucurucho designs are largely the same, with some minor differences (bigger eyes, more stitches, no voice box, thinner tube).

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This was the first time I successfully drew Cellbit. Emphasis on successfully because even this one bit took me forever. I never really had to redraw any frame once I drafted it, but this. This took me 5 redraws. It was my greatest nightmare.

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I've said it before but these two frames side by side?

It was my favourite part of the animatic for the longest time. Hands down, no debate, I adored it.

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You may notice that most frames had the subjects coloured in a lighter colour, but a couple didn't. Some were intentional, to better show off lighting and backgrounds and depth and stuff.

Some.... were not.

(Oops.)

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Some of my other favourite frames include:

Which would have been better if I hadn't messed up the shading.

Because this was so many characters. And Cellbit.

And the Bagheras, which I really had a ton of fun drawing near the end. Because these two were drawn at the end. The same day, actually. The first one did have a draft already, though.

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Some little details:

Between these two frames, BBH and Cellbit pop up in the background. There's a flash of white immediately after, which is supposed to be the camera flash when BBH takes a photo.

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Jaiden (and Roier) in the early scenes have perfectly normal eyes.

This changes immediately after Bobby's death, albeit rather subtly.

By the time the beginning of the Cucurucho tasks rolls around, the shadows under their eyes have had time to develop and become more prominent.

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Roier does a little rooftop espionage.

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Similar/Similarly located scenes have similarly coloured backgrounds!

It's most prominent with Bobby Fields' Rose/Lavender palette, with a few (not all) examples.

(The words associated with this last image are actually from when Jaiden got stuck on a ladder on her way down from the sunset tree while trying to chase Cucurucho. I just found that funny.)

But the colour thing is also key with Baghera and Jaiden's conversation with Pomme's non-canon death.

The colours used for 1) the gradient background 2) the lineart and 3) the subject base colour are identical in both images, even if they're a third of the video apart.

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Anyway, this was made with Medibang and iMovie, even if I do have Krita and DaVinci Resolve and FlipaClip and-

.........Yeah.

Tried and true basics, I guess.

(Krita and DaVinci both cause my laptop to overheat. I struggle with Krita so incredibly badly, even though I have friends who swear by it.)

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Also I maxed out the image count on this post.

[tubchunk]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: QSMP | Quackity SMP Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Fred (QSMP)/Toby Smith | Tubbo, Fred (QSMP) & Toby Smith | Tubbo Characters: Toby Smith | Tubbo, Fred (QSMP), Alexis | Quackity (mentioned) Additional Tags: Angst, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Canon Compliant, ish we will see how that turns out soon ig, Character Study, kinda? idk its a lot of internal monologues, no beta we die like all those federation workers that qcellbit has killed (maybe) Summary:

a lore-adjacent study of what i think would be going through fred and q!tubbo's minds in the quiet moments of the server, when its nothing but their own thoughts over what has happened, what they have done, and what they may be willing to do.

(PART ONE)

[serashalala]

Treating the memory of you like a fire

Tallulah misses her father, and clings to the memories of him. Wilbur tries to be a good mirror of a better man than himself. OR Wilbur tries to be a placeholder for a good man. + For the Writer's Block MCC Bingo event, with the prompt: Unspoken thoughts / words Spoiler: It's "Happy Birthday"

Includes: DSMP!Wilbur being a trying father to a child he hasn't technically claimed as his own yet, Tallulah being sad, Tallulah wanting her child, Tallulah being too emotionally intelligent for her own good, DSMP!Wilbur allowing tallulah to pretend that he's QSMP!Wilbur, hurt / very little comfort, angst accompanied by fluff if you squint

brought to you by: @twbmccevent

[nho-jungle]

it has been. 6 months since i last did any type of writing but qsmp has gripped me by the throat so here's a slime grief fic.

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The person in the mirror doesn’t look like him.

He knows, logically, that it is him, because he is standing in front of the mirror, and that is how mirrors work. But he has never been a close follower of logic and reason, particularly in the past few weeks. 

[thesilenceduser]

Welcome to Echo!!

Hello, wonderful Tumblr community! I'm Silent, and I'm thrilled to announce the start of a very special artistic project that I'll be sharing with all of you. Allow me to introduce myself and give you a glimpse into the world of Echo!

First things first, let's talk about myself. I go by they/it pronouns, but I'm also okay with male pronouns. Please avoid using female pronouns as they make me feel dysphoric. Your understanding and respect mean the world to me! I'm a 22-year-old Brazilian artist, proudly identifying as AroAce and non-binary. As an autistic and ADHD individual, my journey of self-expression through art is deeply intertwined with my personal experiences and emotions. I'm part of various fandoms, but my main hyperfixations right now are Hollow Knight and QSMP. While I'm actively engaged in the QSMP community, I also have a deep love for horror media and enigmas.

Now, let's dive into the heart of the project: Echo. Echo is a fantasy world that serves as a reflection of my personal life, infused with a medieval-modern setting. Within this realm, the main focus revolves around two significant aspects of my journey: my found family and my complex relationship with my disowned mother. In Echo, my found family represents the incredible individuals who have become my online friends and chosen family. Their support and love have made a profound impact on my life, and I'm excited to celebrate them through this project. On the other hand, my relationship with my disowned mother will also be shown. She mirrors my real-life mother, who is manipulative, abusive, and sadly, highly phobic towards the LGBT community. Although I currently live in another city for studies, I am occasionally forced to return to my abusive mother's presence. During those times, I must conceal many aspects of my true self and endure the hardships it brings. In Echo, the characters are predominantly fictional, but with full consent, I may include some real-life individuals who have played significant roles in my life. Their involvement will always be with their permission and respect for their boundaries. Throughout this journey, I'll be sharing a mix of drawings, mini comics (often 1 or 2 panels), and occasional mini animations for platforms like TikTok. As we progress, I'll introduce you to the characters of Echo, unveiling their unique stories and personalities. In addition to Echo, I'll also be sharing fan arts and art studies inspired by the various fandoms that ignite my creativity. It's always exciting to delve into the worlds crafted by other creators and express my admiration through my art. To add to that, ill slowly be redrawing some past arts and posting them here, so if you feel like you have seen some piece before, it’s because ill be moving them here as I redraw.

Before I wrap up this introduction, I want to address two important boundaries.

I experience severe speech anxiety, so if we ever become friends, please understand that I may not feel comfortable talking. This is one aspect that will be shown frequently in Echo as Silent is selective mute. I also reinforce to avoidt using female pronouns towards me. Your patience and understanding in this regard would mean the world to me.

But to end this, I thank you for taking the time to read this post and being a part of my artistic journey. Your support and presence here means everything to me. Let's create a safe and inclusive space where we can share our passions, celebrate diversity, and build a strong community together. Stay tuned for upcoming posts, as Echo and its captivating characters unfold before your eyes. Get ready for a mix of fantasy, emotion, and personal growth. Let's embark on this incredible adventure together!

Silent, signing off for now!

[qritos]

I wrote an angsty slimeriana fanfic to cure my writers block!

Summary:

The glass bottles clang as they fall over, rolling into all directions. Mariana kicks one of them away with his foot.

“I have an offer for you.”

“An offer?” Charlie repeats bitterly. “Unless you can bring her back, I’m not interested.”

Nothing can bring her back now, they both know it. It’s Mariana’s fault.

He cannot find peace or redemption, but he can become part of the story. La llorona - the weeping woman’s tale was a prophecy to him.

“Kill me," he demands.

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Or: Mariana seeks redemption in mirroring a story from his childhood. Charlie isn't willing to bury another person he loves.

it has everything you could ask for: pain, suffering, ghost stories, references to Mexican folklore and these two being toxic in love.

I’d be happy if y’all would check it out <3

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] DECISION 37

!!!

What should they do? VOTE HERE

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] DECISION 38

A piece of heaven in endless hell

What should they do? VOTE HERE

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] DECIDION 3

You talk though all possibilities but it seems like there's only one way out of this. Forward.

What should they do? VOTE HERE

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] ENDING - "ESCAPE"

1/2 [next]

You survived.

More importantly - you escaped.

You don't know what awaits you outside.

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] DECISION 35

The guilt CONSUMES you

What should they do? VOTE HERE

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] DECISION 8

Bad helped you

Give yourself a moment

I'm sure you have a question for HIM

What should they do? VOTE HERE

[miauta]

[Project MIRROR] DECISION 32

Look at yourself.

What should they do? VOTE HERE