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[theminecraftbee]

So.. Grian is doing a bureaucracy now?

i unironically love it tbh. we have a mayoral office with ministries. we have a post office. now we have the annoying to deal with government agency for like, the hermitcraft equivalent of filing business paperwork. we have like... so much mundane and kind of inane government infrastructure this season and i adore it. i really REALLY hope they build another courthouse to go with all of this tbh please if anytime is ready for that it is CLEARLY NOW. i want this to be the season of doing so much stupid paperwork. unironically. i want that SO BADLY. i am SO READY.

[hermitcraftx]

I agree with your post about hermit fans in regard to things being very popular. I’ve seen more people being angry and annoyed about scarian in the last six months than people celebrating it. Not tagging shipping is shit but it’s better than harassing people. I don’t know what was put in the water but something changed drastically and I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s seen it.

IT'S FUCKING INSANE! This fandom used to be so positive and welcoming and overall way more pleasant than some... other MCYT fandoms, but now??? I can't log on without seeing untagged negative interpretations in the main tags, can't express an opinion without getting anons calling me heterosexual sympathizers and hoping that I die, everyone has turned their back on everything that used to make this fandom really... fun? Like, I don't tag ON MY BLOG, but usually I don't maintag my shipping posts, and if I do, I tag the ship name so people can filter it.... I don't maintag duo names. What the fuck happened to make everyone so- miserable. Anons are probably going to be permanently off for me, too many people comfortable with their opinions and not comfortable with mine and desperately needing to tell me that.

And like- look. I get not liking interpretations. Personally I'm not a fan of the Double Life cheating arc because of how abusive and out of character people made Grian be, and I had to avoid ao3 for a bit because of that and filter the fucking tags. Same thing with found family dynamics. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it "overrated and popular" and just because you don't like something doesn't make it immoral or unethical either!!! People have to make everything a moral standpoint nowadays and it's really exhausting-

But that's a tirade. All over all the confessions blogs there's "scarian is overrated" despite Grian having nearly 10mil subscribers and most of them being on YouTube and considering all the hermits friends or family truthing them. Yes, there is more shipping than before- that's because Hermitcraft season 8 made it very obvious that the people on the SMP and the people IRL are very different, and it's no longer considered RPF. None of the real hermits died via moon explosion, ZombieCleo often says she's doing "lore", they make different skins, even GRIAN acknowledges that he's acting and playing a part with the permit office. Despite all that, there's STILL wars on shipping and people insisting that we're shipping real people, I fought this war on the DSMP side of things and it's SO TIRING.

DND podcast listeners, do you ship the people playing the characters? NO!!!!! Unless you do, in which case, have fun with that. I don't really care about RPF and I filtered the tags for it a long time ago, so maybe they do do that.

Every other day I see "Third life is overrated" "Last life is overrated" (LAST LIFE IS OFTEN THE LEAST FAVORITE SEASON I SEE PEOPLE SAY!), "the life series is overrated" "the cactus ring is fucking stupid" "they left the desert but we didn't" "no, THIS interpretation of scarian is bad and wrong" and like... guys. Guys. Fandom is supposed to be fun. It is not supposed to be a full time job. It is not supposed to be moral or ethical and you shouldn't feel the need to police shit. Jesus Christ, every other month there's a new fad that tumblr users flock to and once it's over everyone goes "EWWW THAT WAS LAME AND OVERRATED AND I NEVER LIKED IT ANYWAY" like.... I promise you cannibalism as an allegory for love is not mainstream you are just on Tumblr.

Like Good God. If it's so bad here go to Twitter. I'm sick of all the complaining and misery and hatred and I miss when things were fun- people are so scared of being cliche that they don't want to write things that they enjoy. Where are the coffee shop aus???? Where are the fun silly things??? Where are the 100k grimdark fics with worldbuilding??? Wheres the 500k fics that aren't even about the same characters anymore but that we love just the same??? Where are the forums and people talking to each other in comments and meeting each other that way??? Where are the roleplay servers?????? What are you all doing??????

People are scared of being judged. They want to do what everyone else is doing. They don't want to be cringe or cliche and every day I see a "cringe culture is dead" post and then someone making fun of another part of fandom, an antithesis to their previous statement. They don't want to be late to things, either. Who cares if Last Life was a couple years ago? Draw the fanart anyway!

I'm scared. Maybe I'm just old, but every post I see I notice that I get maybe a 10th in reblogs of what I do in likes, and I don't even post my art or fics to this site. Every post is like that. More and more people only like posts and they die, unseen, by everyone. More and more people misuse archive of our own's functions, treating it like it has some algorithm, when it doesn't, and it never has and hopefully never will. I see fic reuploads to "gain traction" (not how it works) and people reaching out to find RP partners (breaking TOS) and all sorts of other shit on both sites and it fucking horrifies me. I'm not even that old- I'm eighteen, and I can already tell how fandom has changed for the worst for everyone. Fandom used to be a community. Not consumption.

It's just... sad. Old fandom had PLENTY of fucking problems, and we have problems here too, but at least the positives outweighed the negatives. It's so... mean here, now. Even the happy things are mean-spirited. People treat it as if certain people have invaded this fandom space, spreading horrible opinions and ruining it for everyone, but the truth is is that shipping is always going to be a thing. It's a foundation of fandom- fandom started with housewives in the 1950s writing Star Trek fanfiction. You can never get rid of shipping. You can just interact with what you want to interact with and leave others to mind their own business.

[redstoneglitch]

I would rather not keep using @/xbralis's post, since I've said everything I wanted to there. So, now to answer a few questions on what I've found, replying to my addition/additions directly relating to my issue (Anyone is free to add on/send in an ask, if they know anything more. And if someone wants their reply deleted/not mentioned, I can remove it from this post)

No but really though. Would also like to know if there is a standard tagging system I'm just not aware of #because 1. people deserve to feel safe and comfortable 2. if not an inherent responsibility to keep it to ourselves then it is at the very least common decency 3. I want to find more. Where is it.

(hashtags removed to readability's sake) @snowlayer at the moment, there is a tag that Martyn himself proposed. He goes on to talk about the hashtags #itlwartnsfw and/or #itlwnsfw, and clarifies that yes, he means porn, not just gore.

I've not been able to find any other tags like this, but to be fair, I haven't looked that hard.

Side note to everyone reading: Don't ask a streamer for their opinions on nsfw content. They don't want to hear it, and chat doesn't want to hear it.

I'll draft up a more formal post, regarding tags for nsfw pieces, but for now? As far as I know, there's only #suggestive, #itlwartnsfw, and #mcyt smut, or some permutations of "mcyt (insert word here)".

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like for me it's not any different from any other fandom I've been in. tag appropriately and do whatever the fuck you want. also i think we need a standarized tag for nsfw content so we can freely post it without maintagging

(hashtags removed for readability's sake, and some tags removed for privacy's sake) @goodtimeswithgrian I agree, we definitely need a tagging system of some sort. I was thinking something along the lines of "mcyt(sex/smut/nsfw)", without the space, so it doesn't show up in the main tags by accident. Then, for specific content, it could also be tagged with "(main smp tag)(sex/smut/nsfw)".

For example, nsfw empires content could be tagged like #empiresnsfw, as well as #mcytnsfw for filterability. Sure, someone could filter all the smp tags, but it shouldn't be on them. One main "Meta Tag" (or overarching fandom tag) should be all they need, to not see what they don't want to see.

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as hermitsex I approve of the hermitsex tag suggestion

(hashtags removed for readability's sake) @hermitsex I personally love that tag more than something like #hermitnsfw, but I'm just hesitant to continue that naming scheme, due to trafficblr being named the way it is. Alternatively, we could do something like "(third/last/double)lifesex" and the main "Meta Tag" could be "lifesex".

Not really sure yet. It's something I think we as a community should ruminate about.

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#<- YES I'M MAINTAGGING THIS I WANT EVERYONE TO SEE AND AGREE WITH ME#YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH THIS DELIGHTS ME#I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN EVEN EXPLAIN /WHY/ IT DELIGHTS ME#i just. fucking ADORE when hermitcraft does like. deeply mundane and kind of annoying daily tasks. its my FAVORITE.

So.. Grian is doing a bureaucracy now?

i unironically love it tbh. we have a mayoral office with ministries. we have a post office. now we have the annoying to deal with government agency for like, the hermitcraft equivalent of filing business paperwork. we have like... so much mundane and kind of inane government infrastructure this season and i adore it. i really REALLY hope they build another courthouse to go with all of this tbh please if anytime is ready for that it is CLEARLY NOW. i want this to be the season of doing so much stupid paperwork. unironically. i want that SO BADLY. i am SO READY.