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its so funny seeing ppl rb the vaguely denpa squidswag saying that its poetry cause i did nawt realize it counted as such

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derap is super laggy at mawn but is completely fine at zaun and is now wondering why, this is actually cause mape hates him so hard that mawn also hates him

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I hope minute themes all his lifesteal seasons after other media he loves. First Batman, now Star Wars, what will season 7 bring

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so deraps 2nd ls vid gonna be about wemmbu and the 3rd vid will have a massive timeskip and will be about mape

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I think one of my only problems / biggest problems with disability head canons is when people just say "x character is neurodivergent." Are we going to expand on that? Does this guy have autism or cerebral palsy because neurodivergencies are not just adhd and autism and is infact an extremely long list of a wide variety of both physical and mental disorders.

idk why this ended up in your inbox specifically LMAO I just saw it on my dash and it irked me a bit and I think you'd get it - 🍁

so real of you tbh and yeah i get it

honestly from what ive learned throughout the years they typically just mean autism or adhd or both or Very occasionally ocd (never mixed with the other two for some reason) and that typically these ppl dont consider things like epilepsy or cerebral palsy as neurodivergencies (ive even seen someone straight up say schizophrenia wasnt a neurodivergency once 😭)

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why ttf did derap mention tumblr in the whole not posting thing how often do the lsers lurk here im gonna kill all of them

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derap is super laggy at mawn but is completely fine at zaun and is now wondering why, this is actually cause mape hates him so hard that mawn also hates him

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the day derapchu stops looking at fanart/edits live is the day i know peace

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merry christmas! devotions are together for christmas. i need you to know this

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merry christmas! devotions are together for christmas. i need you to know this

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My last glimpse of a human heart

I will bare and sift and extract and return to Lady Fox

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congrats to fox's wedding for winning the kabrose poll! heres kab and hannah as akari the vengeful ghost and mai the cursed cannibal respectively

if you dont know where this is from and wanna look it up then i dont suggest you do so if youre sensitive to topics about sexual assault, torture, cannibalism, misogyny, and necrophilia -- if youre someone who can handle these topics but only when its treated with the utmost respect then dont look it up either

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hi! yr probably not lookin for asks anymore, but. what's your lifesteal elevator pitch? i know absolutely nothing abt it or any of the folks on the server except the vague things i've absorbed frm reading yr analysis as it crosses my dash, but it compels me, etc.+ also merry christmas! <33 🎄🌟

good news: i am always looking for asks

bad news: my parents DID go to sleep and i was able to wrap presents and put them beneath the tree and so on, so i wasn't going to do more asks tonight

good news again: i actually already have a lifesteal pitch. in a google doc. bc i'm normal

the pitch does assume you're basically already into mcrp and just curious about lifesteal in specific BUT we went to dsmp together so this works out

I really love shitty little tryhards causing problems via impressive feats of minecraft, and lifesteal is full of those. if you like people being good at minecraft, I really recommend lifesteal--in s2, clownpierce was top 50 worldwide at crystal pvp, and now he's washed and in s6 there are 2-3 (depending on who you ask) lifestealers who are better than him at pvp (admittedly maybe not at crystal); in s4, there's some stuff that's impressive in ~vanilla (eg parrot wins a 1v1 while on one heart) and some stuff that's impressive through exploits/social stuff (eg a group of people use a glitch + social engineering to get /op and prove to mojang that the glitch is a security issue that needs patched). every season is like this! lifestealers have backdoored the server 3 seasons in a row (s3-5). for a more recent weird Lifestealer Behavior, rekrap and jumper filled in every end portal room and built new fake ones to make it look like the world glitched and generated without them. lifesteal is weird and constantly coming up with new weird yet impressive things to do. a lot of stuff that's currently banned on lifesteal (F3+A, pie ray) are things i only learned were possible from lifesteal. (on the flip side i'd say: if you are not into shitty little tryhards making weird impressive clickbait, you probably won't like lifesteal, although you may still like hearing about it from time to time.)

related to them being shitty little tryhards causing problems: the rules are...more of a suggestion. getting around the rules, and hiding from the server owner and/or other players that you're doing so, is often part of the fun of lifesteal! (see also the thing where i mentioned that it's been backdoored three seasons in a row.) if that's intriguing: check it out. if not: once again, you have been warned.

lifesteal absolutely has lore and some people roleplay on it, there is nonzero c/cc divide, but it's more like traffic life than, say, late dsmp--it's fully improv, not scripted, and even more than traffic life it is genuinely adversarial. you can sometimes be confident that someone is in character but you can never be sure if someone is out of character, on lifesteal-- things like "going to someone's house irl to turn off their computer" or "lying about your homework/school/sleep schedule" or "changing your entire discord layout so that when you DM someone they think you're someone else" or "claiming you need their footage of an event for your video when actually you just want to see where their spawn point is" are all things that have been done on lifesteal that are considered fair game! everything on lifesteal is real; sometimes this goes well, sometimes it doesn't, but both are interesting to see imo because they are real

partially for this reason and partially for other reasons, lifesteal is fascinating to me as a piece of unique storytelling? a lot of mcyt is doing interesting things with its medium and being improv, lifesteal's not fully unique in that, but definitely if you like that you might like lifesteal. along with the improv, there's the fact that many lifestealers lie about what actually happened in their videos (comparing different videos with the vods, or in some cases with "what people say in various vods" when events weren't streamed, gives some fascinating insights imo--how do people frame their stories? how honest are they? what do they blatantly lie about, what do they gloss over or omit, what do they include in full? who, if anyone, do they see as the heroes or villains? whose videos agree with each other, and whose present a totally different story?), and the fact that conflict about "where do we want the story to go next, what do we think would be an interesting video/the best ending" is often the driving motive for in-character wars and conflicts! if you're interested at all in lifesteal and storytelling, check out barrier blocks part 2 by @mering/@myrmica, which is a deep dive on eclipse federation and the end of lifesteal s4 (those are my special guys); it dips into some academic game studies and it's really, really good. i genuinely cannot recommend it highly enough. (part one is also real good for non-lifesteal-specific discussion of mcrp!)

if you want a more specific plot summary (esp of s4) and/or "how do i actually, like, watch this" (of any seasons): hmu! but that's my pitch. also, read barrier blocks

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I should be allowed to kill people

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Merry Christmas to the Devotions out there

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behold! vaguely denpa squidswag upon you

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i renamed it and its still that 😭

weirdass bug going on with some art i wanted to post

left contains an old version of the fourth pic that it keeps showing no matter what i do for whatever reason, right contains what the fourth page was Supposed to look like

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weirdass bug going on with some art i wanted to post

left contains an old version of the fourth pic that it keeps showing no matter what i do for whatever reason, right contains what the fourth page was Supposed to look like