#GOOD FOR HIM!

[ninjasmudge]

i know the cotl official art is just silly for jokes but one of my favorite things about it is the implication that narinder chills the fuck out immediately after joining the cult. hes not even snarling or bleeding from the eyes or anything

[planetvries]

nothing bad happened, the end :)

[natjennie]

listen I know d20 being anti-police is well trodden territory at this point but gorgug specifically asking "do you have a fucking warrant?" then oinking at a federal investigator gave me such a rush of adrenaline. the oink fucking killed me.

[spooksier]

btw that tma piece was inspired by me suddenly realizing jon and peter lukas have zero (0) scenes together before mag159 (which is wild to me?? like that old man was avoiding his ex? husband?'s pet archivist with everything in him) which only makes peter being jon's first kill crazier like. this is a man jon has just met and jon is a character that is literally said to avoid violence whenever possible, he saved daisy from the coffin and daisy literally slit his throat.

but peter lukas has been hurting martin, so jon kills him.

tldr;

[wormdream]

mr elfman going apeshit on his birthday

[cadillacjohnf1]

Max in every press conference since he got fined for swearing:

[firstkanaphans]

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[phlondsbian]

excited for the next wdapteo where 80% of the texts phil sends are :3

[barissoffee]

Tech and Phee in Star Wars: The Bad Batch | 2.13 Pabu

[helenofblackthorns]

you know who got a good ending? Colin. 11/10 no notes I absolutely love his arc. and if nothing else we will always have him kissing his fella after they win the game <3

[respectthepetty]

It's been three episodes of Q snuggled up to Min at night and wearing his clothes to breakfast, yet Mhen is barely gonna start asking questions next episode?

I feel it's a little late, sir!

I really thought Mhen was going to just let them get married before he questioned his new roommate.

Mhen probably just thought it was some kinky fling, but now is realizing it might be more serious, and since he no longer has a door, he has to get to the bottom of this.

Mhen is a good and accepting brother of his new roommate, his brother's kink, and whatever situationship is happening in that bedroom.

Welcome to the Circle of Straight Brothers I Trust, Mhen!

Yang from To Sir, With Love is waiting with the snacks.

[b00rad]

Mazleno has changed and grown as a monster

[amid-fandoms]

when phil said he's gonna wear a slutty piece of fabric over one cheek on halloween he meant this but shorter and more revealing btw

[ghostly-omens]

Anyway Quackity was one of the people on DSMP who was most involved in and invested in lore. Las Nevadas and the Butcher Army and the Red Banquet and everything with L'Manberg. He clearly loved telling the story he wanted to tell and playing on a roleplay server.

But a lot of creators have pointed out that the most fun they had on the server was when they were doing improv, when they were reacting to things that happened and building the story naturally that way. When things got scripted, when creators had to come up with and write and execute their lore basically on their own, when it stopped being playing and started being acting, that's when you got players disengaging and losing interest and motivation. By the end, literally every bit of lore was scripted. Most of it was prerecorded just so it could end up telling a complete story, instead of starting a dozen plot threads that had to be abandoned when the other people involved didn't answer your DMs or the big lore day that was meant to move the whole server's story along didn't happen. The last big, whole-server lore event only happened because Technoblade was dying. Communication was so bad that was the only thing that could get everyone to get organised enough for a single day of lore, a story event that had been set up for months.

And so when Quackity comes up with his own server, he wants it to have a strong roleplay element (if that's what the other creators involved end up wanting). Quackity loved his roleplaying on DSMP. But he wants it to be fun for the creators as well as for the fans, and the way lore was fun on DSMP was for it to be improv, not for it to be creators acting out a script. But things got scripted because once they set up a story, it had to escalate in a specific way in order for it to be narratively satisfying, which made it less fun. A single arc is fine, but things just won't work for more than that without at least a loose script. By the end DSMP wasn't roleplay, it was acting. Some creators managed to tell satisfying stories, but it wasn't the same as when it was a bunch of friends messing around doing Hamilton Breaking Bad improv because it was fun. The DSMP, for a good chunk of its life, was not fun to play on. So people didn't.

But how do you set up satisfying, coherent stories over a long period of time while also maintaining the fun roleplay element? Someone needs to guide them and develop them, but it can't be the creators on a server if you're going to keep the fun roleplay element.

Hence the admins, and their role not just maintaining the server, but in developing and guiding the story. Their role is basically a GM, in tabletop roleplaying terms, and the creators get to be player characters roleplaying in reaction to that. Creators don't know much more than we do; how many times have creators said they don't get told shit, have they been told to log on and been faced with huge big developments they didn't see coming and have to figure out how to roleplay that? QSMP works kind of like Dungeons and Dragons but in Minecraft. Keeps the story consistent and escalating, without the need for creators to sacrifice their own enjoyment of their content.

I don't know how stuff like Karmaland works, maybe Quackity got it from there. But as a former Dream SMP fan, I see Quackity taking the best part of DSMP and finding a way to make it work for something a lot more sustainable and ambitious, keeping it fun and enjoyable for both fans and creators.

[offshore-brinicle]

I love the fact that Time Killing Time confirmed Yi Sang outright canonically a registered criminal