#I even have little Minecraft guys of the gang (I think. Idk where they are rn)

[teethbomb]

the autism courses through my veins

[djevelbl]

I sat for a second staring into my phone and pondering the blorbos bc of a shitpost and huh. Branzy really IS very much 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) by Will Wood coded isn't he??? like, most if not ALL of the song is SO him that it's INSANE. this only happened once before to me and the previous guy can't be my blorbo anymore bc of.... reasons, so I'm happy to have another silly little guy replace him in being SO coded after one of my favorite Deranged Songs /vpos

Ramble up ahead btw, read at your own risk

you KNOW the ramble is getting serious when I do the weird Tumblr Post Partition Thing AND went from writing it on the phone to WRITING IT ON THE PC (any lengthy post I write EXCLUSIVELY on the pc bc it's more fun and comfy for me lol)

The only line I can't in good faith say I relate 100% back to Branzy is LITERALY the second one, which is a bummer lmao — "Screaming at the top of my lungs in the confession booth" but like. I'm throwing it out there for any other, more veteran Branzy fans to go rabid over as I have and maybe even also discover how it could be Branzy-ified bc I truly believe the WHOLE SONG can be Branzy-ified lol

SO ANYWAYS. MORE SONG LYRICS !!!!!

I specifically came to this whole thing bc of the fourth line in the song, "The devil made me do it, but I also kinda wanted to" bc YES??? THAT'S SOOO BRANZY CODED?????? like the amount of fucked up shit /aff he's done in his videos is INSANE I mean he DID make a video where the WHOLE. PREMISE was breaking 100 irl laws in the Afterhours SMP lmaooo also I'm kinda tempted to break out the fuckin LYRIC MEANINGS for this as well — hmmmm...

fuck it, we live only once and life is too fucking short/shitty to have hangups over going insane about our little guys

So yea, fourth line is all about temptation, choices and a careless sentiment as one takes full responsibility for their actions — the Devil might've offered you riches, love, security in exchage for someone's head, but ultimately you're the one who takes that step forwards to answer the siren's call; Will Wood sings here about temptation and how, at the end of the day, you're the one acting upon that temptation, how that's a thing only you can be responsible for, and how he himself doesn't care much for the guilt the word "sin" carries with it; "we'll live the way we want, and we don't care if it's considered 'sin.'" — MarsAndTheGreatExpanse on the lyric explanation in Genius (yes, Imma be quoting some of these people. yes, I'm taking it THAT seriously). All of this is very much like Branzy to do: the most recent example I think would be the Candyland mod video, where he has SUCH BEEF with gingerbread men that it's just pathetic /aff at this point lmao — he goes around killing them and hating on them SO. HARD it's really funny. Of course, there's a difference between Will Wood singing this and Branzy fucking, idk, wanting Jimmy the Gingerbread Guy's guts spilled all over the Candyland floor in an overexaggerated candygore that would belong to none other than uhhhh fucking. idk danganronpa??? but like, suspend your disbelief and be down to clown with the insanity here for a minute, thanks <3

There's also his 100 IRL Crimes In Minecraft video, where he sold Kaboodle's soul WITHOUT HESITATION the moment he was prompted for it lmfaoo (he also did racketeering, extorsion, murder, created a fucking GANG WITH REDDOONS??? spread difamation [that really fucking wasn't. no matter what the cult leader uhhh wither skulls guy was saying], was distributing illegal substances I'm pretty sure, impersonated a cop, idk what else I might rewatch that video actually). There's also his 100 Hearts Factory, where he UNIRONICALLY made a fucking child labor joke with the villagers, and was busting up unions in there at some other point as well. There's whatever in hell he has with Clown bc if Branzy is UNETHICAL AS ALL HELL /silly on his own then with Clown they're both HORRIBLE, TERRIBLE, NO GOOD AT ALL /silly and I love that for them actually.

"My grip on my secrets slipping while I'm speaking in tongues" really just reminds me of Branzy's bloodlust and how everyone seems to fucking forget it's there???? even if it reminds me of it in like, a roundabout way

"Take it with a pillar of salt, H.A.L.T, it's not my fault" is all about how his words are non-literal, how he shouldn't be taken as such, and how he's the way he is from birth and he can't really change it — Branzy doesn't try to hide who he is and how he feels about things (it's his greatest asset) and he also doesn't let anyone tell him how to be (unless you're a murderous clown but like, his simping is a WHOLE different can of worms; I'm not a couple's therapist lol, I'm not paid for this shit), he just kinda is; the only reason he isn't an active threat is because he doesn't care for PVP enough to become better at it. The onlu hangup I've got with this line is the H.A.L.T thing — it's apparently a form of mindfulness recommended to people who have a hard time taking care of themselves, and it stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired (might have to look into it for myself,,,,, anyways)

"I'm cut from a different kind of meat" is Will saying he's different, in a completely separate category to everyone else, and paired with the next few lines the implication becomes very obvious: you can't understand me, and you're not meant to. Branzy is so hard to put down into words sometimes because he's genuinely many things all at once: he's impulsive but plans are important to him, he's cunning but SO damn stupid, so harmless yet one of the most dangerous people I've ever seen /vpos /aff, he's kooky and charming and fun yet knows how to be intimidating if he so wishes to be, yet he's also SO pathetic wet cat man coded that it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to be scared of him,,,,,,,, GOD "I'm cut from a different kind of meat" you are, Branzycraft, you really are,,,,,

"More than you can chew, hard to swallow me" this is all about being more than people can take, more than people can understand, more and more and more and more. And honeslty he is: he's hard to put into words because his personality pulls him in all different directions and shapes, he's bigger than he lets on, more all-encompassing and somehow formless in how difficult he can be to pin down and describe — I like to think, if Branzy were ever to sing this (a demon boy can only dream sometimes,,,,,,,,), I imagine he would sound SO cheeky and teasing, kinda smug yet chill. I also love the combo of bit off more than you can chew and hard to swallow pills sounding like that

"Forget bored stiff, I got rigor mortis, call it morbid curiosity" there's something about the line, how it's written and sung that gives me a sense of flippancy that goes really well with Branzy's insane yet really chill attitude. Also the whole "death and blood and gore, LifeSteal's essence and the birthmarks It imprints into It's players" thing of LifeSteal is just. PERFECT for the line idk idc I won't take any criticisms on this point <333

"How can I commit to reality, when my third eye's open and I like what I see?" using the third eye imagery here makes the line be about how Will Wood's imagination is so interesting that nothing real can compete, and thus he just. doesn't commit to any of it — Branzy goes by whatever he fancies that very moment, almost like he lives his own fantasy as he goes about life and honestly, I kinda wish I was him ngl

"Baby, I might be crazy but I didn't lose it, no I set it free" this one's mostly self-explanatory bc like, ALL LifeStealers ARE insane to some degree — you kinda NEED to be to survive in there; if you're not ALREADY, then the culture itself WILL claim your sanity. It's only a matter of time — so OFC this line fits Branzy, especially because he is SO carefree over how he is, who he is, careless of how that affects others and simply going about life like the deranged forest creature he was born to be

"I can't ignore what's under dance floorboards, the rhythm of my heart a dead-as-disco beat" in the explanation in Genius, people say this line might be a reference to Edgar Allen Poe's (yes, this went there. get used to it) "The Telltale Heart", where a murderer stores his victim under his house's floorboards and goes mad, imagining the corpse's heartbeat gives him away — honestly this kinda reminds me of The Patches Incident in a jester walks into an amusement park by hattrem on ao3 (GO READ IT. IT'S GOOD. IT'S GREAT EVEN. GO READ IT !!!!!!) — the contributors say Will Wood might've used the metaphor to suggest he's mover or inspired by his own madness or guilt, a sentiment I'm sure Branzy shares in how he briefly hesitates before going full throttle with whatever fucked up shit he's decided is funniest this time around

"But I still move my feet" here, Will is painting us the following picture: even through the guilt or pain he might feel about something, he keeps on going and keeps on dancing "move my feet"; Branzy never fully stops, he never gives up — he might change course, redirect, take a step back to think and plan, but he never stops. He jumps through the hoops and does all the dances, and he never stops.

"To slip out of this groove, I'm free" here Will Wood is succinctly summarising the point of the song: it's fine to be a little bit (or more like a LOT) crazy, to slip out of constraints and be truly oneself, regardless of how that looks like and Branzy fucking follows this like a mantra lol

I'm gonna lightly skim over the next two lines — "Now to row, row, row my boat over the falls" and "And maybe wake up from but a dream, yeah" — bc it's just a reference to the Row, Row, Row Your Boat nursery rhyme, with a more cynical spin; something something the cheerful initial demeanor ripped appart at the hands of that bloodlustful beast living in his veins and caressing his psyche, in one swift swoop and almost instantaneously, just to disappear once again into his bloodstream and be flushed out.

Also I'm gonna talk about the whole chorus right now, and not mention it again unless it's relevant to any other lines I might be discussing:

"I'm just a psycho, babe

Come and go out my mind

I didn't lose it, babe

There wasn't much to find

I'm just a psycho, babe

Come and go out my mind

I'm only passing through"

The way the lines are sung, so happy-go-lucky and carefree, so flippantly and cheerfully, it all reminds me so much of Branzy's persona — so cheery and showman as everything seems to fall apart around him, and it's a coin toss whether that's to his benefit or to his detriment; he doesn't let past alliances, teamups or enemies to deter him from what he wants and what he craves — he desires someone's demise? even if through elaborate traps, he'll get it. He's only here to have fun, to come and go as he pleases.

"If you knew what I knew, if you saw what I see" this one goes hand in hand with the next one, so!: "You'd look through illusions, hallucinations, and lucid dream" there it isss! simply put, people wouldn't be able to take it all in if they saw what the character sees — Branzy must've seen a lot of fucked up shit during his three or so season run in LifeSteal, and considering Tubbo is going insane over the shit LifeStealers keep pulling in The Realm SMP (YOU WERE IN THEIR HOME AT SOME POINT?? YOU WENT INTO THE TIGER ENCLOSURE GIRLIEPOP. WDYM YOU'RE FUCKING SURPRISED THAT PANGI KILLED ALL BEES IN A 1K RADIUS FROM SPAWN???? THAT CLOWN HAD ALREADY PRESTIEGED ENCHANTING ONCE AND WAS ABOUT TO DO IT AGAIN???????? WHAT) I think these lines are appropriate not even just for Branzy, but LITERALLY any LifeStealer at that lmao

I'll be honest, I've got NOTHING for "And I know that meaning can be such a pretty thing to keep" and "But I got facts and I'm not afraid to use 'em, take the good with the bad, take off the back you make a new front" so uhhhhhh I'll.... improv something? uh. um. shit uh so uhhhhhhhh something something Branzy takes everything in stride, and manages to turn it into an advantage (like acquiring the scariest player in LS as his work husband)??????? yeahhhh that works

"Some days I'm glad that I am a madman and I'd rather be that than" and "An amicable animal, mild-mannered cannibal" are about preferring one's own brand of insanity over the gentle brutality of mainstream society — Branzy kills, like everyone in LifeSteal, and in that they're all a community, yet Branzy still prefers his contraptions and elaborate plans, the honey-sweets to his personal venus flytraps and brand of death over the constant betrayal and active manipulation, the orbital cannons, the battles to the brink, the ambushing of weaker players

"But I'm more level-headed and clever than ever and I'm getting better one forever at a time" is about embracing one's madness, and being better for it — Branzy, amongs other things, is a truly terrifying /vpos character whenever he desires to be because he embraces all the twisted, dark, immoral facets to his person without a second thought, and with this he's stronger than others could ever dream of being

"And if sick is defined by what's different, well then pull the plug out and let me die" I don't think LS!Branzy has ever had a problem with dying, even there's always something pushing him to seek survival — it hurts, you're one heart closer to a permanent death, but I don't think that has always perturbed him enough to lash out and become so desperate that he'd be willing to throw caution to the wind; in this, Clown and Branzy are equals, similar to each other, going onto the main stage and performing the same steps.

"Vice-versa, vice versus virtue" here Will Wood is comparing good and bad behaviors to each other, and while there's something of a truth to what the contributor said on Genius about the usage of vice-versa specifically ("The literal meaning of 'Vice Verse' is 'with the main items in the preceding statement the other way around.' In short terms, it means 'the other way around' Following the theme of the song, Will is saying he is the polar opposite of soiety, or he is 'the other way around' in society" — AceTheBowlOfCereal23) I still think there's more to that — paired with the rest of the line, it feels to me that it all speaks of interchangeably using "good" and "bad" as adjectives for Wood's behavior, in such a way that makes both words become almost meaningless; for there will always be someone out there who disapproves of who you are, regardless of what you're doing. Branzy has a similar outlook, of considering whichever thing is happening right now as "good" or "bad" purely based on his own perception, how it might be beneficial or not, instead of using a more socially accepted definition for each and every event he comes across — especially in LifeSteal he does this, where everyone is constantly terrified of Clown and wary of him, yet Branzy only sees good things in the guy

"Well who I am I choose through all the things I do" our actions define us, somehow, in some way, and Branzy picks and chooses which ones he allows himself to be called by: he constatly says he's incapable of killing, he's harmless! Have you seen him holding a sword? Yeah, killing him is like kicking a baby in Wallmart! yet he'd managed to collect AT LEAST 100 hearts for his Big Top Tent event that closed out on Season 5, simply because people like him.

"And if it rhymes it's true, but I hate poetry" for some reason I can see him saying this even if he 100% does not mean it and is only saying it for the bit — not all of these line connections need to be that deep tbh

"Now with my moral compass pointing south, going down" Branzy has a fucked up moral compass ever since LifeSteal, next line

"With no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no-no respect for reality" so uh. idfk dude. this line exists — connect it back to Branzy or don't, I don't think I can

"A tourist passing through" and "Well that was fun, goodbye" are the lines Will Wood added onto the chorus to create the outro, and they just kinda remind me that Branzy is no longer in LifeSteal, but is still so influential and important to the people who keep playing the server season after season,,,,,,,,,,

Whoa, infinitely long yap session be upon ye! this was fun! I don't wanna do it again anytime soon! (might do it with PrinceZam and the three different Idol by YOASOBI English versions I'm mildly obssessed over [the official one, Trickle's and Will Stetson's]) so uh. I hope y'all enjoyed this? Question mark? Anyways!

[loverboy-havocboy]

*slides in a home-made cookie* Any headcanons or info about the characters included in the aliit verse you're able to share? Whether it be the main gang or anyone else?

i spent hours telling @the-starry-seas about the boys (mostly sinker) last night, so here are some thoughts from that convo as well as some fresh ones. some of them are also from rolling the blorbos around with @executeness

sinker has pretty severe adhd and his favorite fidget toy (besides boost) is one of those 3D printed slugs. it probably has a normal person name like james or something so he can say he needs to "fiddle with james".

boost got into a lot of fights in high school. he had a lot of rage after his parents died and he used it on anyone who tried to bully sinker or comet (or really probably anyone - i see boost being the kind of guy to step in even if he doesn't know the kid getting bullied).

before meeting gregor, comet was a sleep-until-the-afternoon type of guy, then he adjusted his sleep schedule so it would be easier to get up closer to gregor's time whenever gregor was on leave. he's still not an early riser by any means, but those few extra hours with gregor when he's home mean the world to him.

wolffe and gregor's relationship is the definition of "you came." / "you called."

sinker doesn't try to set his dates up with boost, but if they're not at least a little bit interesting in him, i think sinker is less likely to pursue a relationship. related to this is that boost loves befriending sinker's boyfriends - i mean, they share an interest in boost's absolute favorite thing in the world, after all.

sinker is a he/they in my mind though it is not canon. i could also see boost using he/they, but in a lack-of-gender way unlike sinker's abundance-of-gender way.

people have a tendency to underestimate sinker because of his bleached blonde hair and neurodivergence (they assume he's "ditzy"), but he's incredibly intelligent and he uses their assumptions to his favor.

i headcanon thorn as having had metoidioplasty.

echo uses a wheelchair on days that his pain is too much or he just can't be bothered with his prosthetics.

this can't go in the story, but the dominos and the pack are all stoners on some level To Me. echo and thorn have chronic pain from their injuries and the pack just seem like they smoked a bunch of weed behind the mall in highschool.

gregor's favorite music is rock, especially from the 60's-70's.

comet's favorite band is placebo. brian molko was a big influence on his gender expression. he also loves david bowie - both his music and his role in labyrinth.

sinker is a model so he sometimes gets to take clothes he wears for shoots, but his favorite pieces are things he's bought from small businesses/artists. clothes that are hand painted or beaded or given zest in some other way. he likes supporting them and he also likes wearing their love around and looking hot as fuck while he does it.

the pack were not normal about my chemical romance in high school. sinker's favorite album of theirs is danger days, boost's favorite is bullets, and comet could never choose between them.

tupma are unwritten at this point but here are some for them:

background is they met in college. dogma is a he/they transmasc, he cracks tup's egg and helps her become comfortable in her identity as a she/they/he* transfem. *she does get comfortable reacquainting with he/him pronouns eventually, in a "he's my girlfriend" type of way. after college, they moved to keldabe (mandalorian nyc where the rest of the aliit gang lives) together.

tup has 3 sisters and 2 moms, so as the only "man" in the family, their coming out as transfem is the funniest thing they could've done.

dogma is autistic. his special interests are bugs (especially spiders), and idk i feel like he's a minecraft and animal crossing man.

dogma has a tarantula named daenerys. tup saved up the money for him to pick her out and all the stuff she would need as a gift. tup may or may not have a pet lizard of some kind.

dogma's parents are divorced, his mom remarried and he got a little brother who's in elementary school now who likes to hunt for bugs with him.

tup sews and paints as hobbies. she likes to alter clothes she thrifts, and also makes dogma patches for his shorts and jackets to add a little spice.

i'm really going now but i think i will leave it here. thank you so much for asking, my dear, this was really fun 💖💖💖

[captainshyguy]

god i had such a surreal moment oh ‘huh i wonder what that old minecraft youtuber i used to watch back in 2016 is up to these days’ and poking into his tag (expecting nothing, just humouring myself) and getting smacked in the face by fanart bc he won some minecraft tournament or whatever 

[guesspls]

Since Red, Blue, Yellow, all of them have one ep where they play as a villain (AvM Original - AvM Witch - AvM Lucky Block), it's easy to say that Green gonna has one too. But what's he gonna be?

1, AvM - Totem of Undying

Green died the most in all 5 of them, and the Totem of Undying is a saving item in Minecraft. Some theory about the Totem of Undying was about a village get trapped inside the Totem, if Alan follows the theory then maybe Green also getting possession ?

(Have this little old art I used to post on Twitter)

2, AvM - Entity 303/ Null

Idk what to say, but it's just the same to Red. Also possession. I don't think this too much.

3, AvM - Note Block

I- don't think about it actually, but Green was counted as the Antagoist in Note Block ep based on wiki

Maybe he goes supervillain after drinking the poison of musically ? ;)

4, AvM - Purple's betrayed

Purple aready betrays Green, twice. For this work, maybe Purpe trick the CG to abandon Green, leading him to be a villain ? Or maybe he accidentaly kills sth, and blames it on Green ? For this it has 50% work since I don't think Alan gonna make Purple a protagonist anymore.

5, AvA - The Dark Lord

Okay, this is what I want to talk the most. There are lots of similarities between Chosen - Dark relationship and Second - Green relationship. - They becoming friends after touching hand/ shaking hand ( and besides, one of them want to fight the other) - They have the closest bond (can't be sure with Chosen and Dark since Alan didn't say anything but we can easy to believe it) - Green being Good At Everything (Alan confimed :D) can be seen the same as The Chosen One, The Second Coming or The Dark Lord. But this can't be sure since my HC was the name refers to the person, it mean three of them in my HC was also, good at everything. Second, for example, he shows to be good at music (Note Block Battle) , coding + building (Restone Academy), fighting, and his main interests still hasn't been discover. - They also rival with each other, both good and bad way.

There're also 2 thing often happen in a story, replaced and repeated (it sound a bot weird lol). Replaced kinna like how Purple and MT relationship, they both lost sth and the other just fit in the hole that lost. We DO NOT say that Purple replaced Gold, Purple is Purple. But we not gonna talk about Replaced. We talk about Repeated.

Repeated is an action, or stuff that got repeated again in the story. Like Red getting possession twice, in AvM- Original and AvM- The King, or Green getting kill twice in one epison. So I want to say about a repeated in Chosen - Dark action, appiled to Second - Green action.

The thing make this theory not okay is that Green is not the type of guy who is curious, if say in that way, Yellow or Red fit in the role of someone who tries to find A FREAKING DANGEROUS PERSON like The Dark Lord more than Green. For this, Green has to have something that really curious him enough to find Dark by himself, without the color gang and Second.

(and for this to work, Dark also needs to be alive, or at least be a majoy problem in Green's head)

So I really want Green to play the villain role and battle with Second, kinna like best friend turn into enemy. But this has a bit of problem, Green surelly died if he did that :), and I don't think Alan will kill an important role like Green or the CG (if they can't come back)

6, He never be a villain

- DJ like Green (lol, surely not the main reason) - Green is perfect ( I believe) - Okay, We know that Green has been kill by his best friend, twice, has been betray by his friend, twice, and he still forgive them, like dude... - I used to read a comment in AvM 29. The comment says that, Green during the chase asks Purple if he's good or bad. But after seeing Purple's backstory, Green has pushed away both the devil AND the angel. To my HC, Green belived in "Not everyone is all bad". And that the reason why Green, after this epison, is even hard to make him a villain (the eassiest way is only by force, which is getting possession I belived).

Saying all that, but I just gonna left a small conversation between Green and Dark here ;). I have had this in my head for a while now.

Green: Hey... Dark Dark: ? Green: Can I be a villain? Dark: Why did you ask that? Green: I mean.... I don't think I ever being a villain in the story before, or maybe being like, a powerful hero ? I feel like I'm just an average dude, and I feel... Dark: Feel what? stuck or something ? Green: I- Dark: Then maybe when you live long enough, you will understand how stupid you just say. Green: What !?! Dark: Just stop thinking about it kid . Green: Hey you're not answering my question ! Dark: When you glow up more you will know, now quick we losing time, back to training Green : >:< -- Dark : When you live long enough, you will see yourself as a villain.

[gingersp1ce547]

Finale thoughts:

Pre learning about the finale:

This first bit was written before I found out what happened in the finale, the second paragraph is after

Gang I’m gonna be completely real with you, I kinda don’t even care anymore about this last arc. Like when c!wilburs last stream came out, I didn’t like it at first but eventually came to realize how much I liked it thematically for the story. But all of this stuff recently just feels like retreads of old plot lines without the emotions treads that originally made it special.

I hope I’m wrong. I hope the finale makes everything seem brilliant in retrospect but the writing just doesn’t feel as tight anymore. Not to mention I feel like everything is lost thematically. I can only watch c!tommy go through life changing tramua so many times without it feeling like torturep0rn. I found where the character was after c!wilbur left, interesting but to find out that it just leads us back to the beginning of the cycle feels disappointing.

And maybe that’s the point maybe it supposed to be that traumatized people will keep following the same cycles that hurt them until they chose to break out from them. But it doesn’t feel like c!tommy ever will and so I’m left feeling…disappointed? For lack of a better word.

Idk it’s like my dad will tell me about how he stopped reading game of thrones because it just got to grim dark, like there was so little hope left that there might as well be none. I’m not interested in watching these characters I care about be punished for attempting to heal, I’m fine with seeing them hurt and struggle but there’s gotta be a reward at some point. I guess it really does all depend on how things end, but right now I wish things ended with the disc finale.

Post learning about the finale:

Ok well shit I was right. I’m not super surprised, I think that the cc’s where kinda focused on just ending this story so they could move onto a new one so it’s not surprising that lacking passion would lead to a less satisfying and not as well written conclusion as other parts of this story.

Part of what drew me in so much to the story of the dsmp was the chaotic simpleness of it. I don’t know if anyone reading this has read lord of the flies but I always kinda thought of the server as something akin to if not a better representation of putting a bunch of humans in small space and seeing what happens (obviously with some caveats bc Minecraft but you get what mean).

The story to me was always the best when the stakes where personal but the cast was large. Think of pogtopia and all the different connections on both sides, think of doomsday and the excitement of watching all these people come together each for their own reasons and reacting to this large event. Not to mention those personal connections didn’t feel fantastical, they where grounded in things somewhat relatable to real life. I could connect to c!phil being disillusioned with countries after his son dies because of one even if I didn’t sympathize with his actions because I can imagine how that would feel. I could connect with C!tommy trying desperately to pull his life together after someone tramuatized him because I have been through something similar myself. Hell to even use a more recent event, I really enjoyed the complexities of c!quackity as a character because he was interesting and well written take on someone not coping well with his loses and tramua and taking it out on others.

What I unfortunately cannot really connect with is having a a screaming match with a guy who wants to learn more about the universe. And now that I’m thinking about it more I don’t even think it actually has to do with the fantastical elements of the revival book but more so like I feel like the themes in these last couple of streams leading up to the finale, did not have enough time to fully be touched upon before being discussed. The most we really got to see was C!Tommy’s reaction to being revived and C!Wilbur’s.

Part of the reason I felt like I was struggling to get invested was because when c!Dream started talking about how the world was ending because of the revive book I felt like I had no reason to believe him. I guess we could say the egg was that but even that feels like a far stretch when c!tommy didn’t acknowledge it as being such. I really think this is a case where giving this arc more time to be fleshed out would have been really good. Imagine watching tommy fall into obsession after Wilbur leaves instead of just being told it happened. Imagine him and maybe some other people on the server stumbling upon areas where the code is glitchy and odd things happen or maybe there’s giant pits into the void. Imagine being shown all the things we where told happened. I think that definitely would have helped at least me a lot.

Even so I feel like this finale did more harm than good by retroactively overwriting themes of other arcs. The l’manburg war was about material gain vs. emotional gain through both c!erets betrayal and c!Tommys giving up of his disc to win the war. The pogtopia arc was about power, to what ends do you go to get it with c!wilbur, what do you do with it though c!Schlatt, c!techno and c!quackity, and are you deserving of it with c!wilbur (baby girl has so many themes), c!tubbo, and c!tommy. And then the beginning of season 2 through doomsday dealt with the role of a country in peoples lives, and eventually leads into the discussion of attachments into the end of the season. Which as a theme attachments works so well because it feels inclusive towards all parts of the story so far and a natural progression of those earlier themes. Therefore it’s not surprising when after which everything starts to feel not as coherent and powerful.

My only guesses towards some of the themes past season 2 are, healing and attempts at happiness in comfort through the egg arc, and most characters that where not involved in that arc, arcs up to c!tommy being locked in the prison. And then after which I guess could be a sort of different take on how much power one person should have between c!dream and the revive book and c!sam and the prison?

I wanna clarify right now that I do not hate season 3, in fact I really like the beginning of it but the longer it went on and the more cc’s stopped playing just for even more cc’s I didn’t know to be added, the less I started to care.

The last thing I wanna talk about is how much it feels like c!ranboo got done dirty. We spent so much time getting invested into this mystery of a character only to not get most answers and the one we did get felt so weak. Like I’m sorry but only hearing c!dream say that oh yeah mindcontrol exists and he was using it on ranboo for awhile, and then watch tommy and tubbo be surprised for all of about 1 minute before moving on felt like a slap in the face after all that build up.

I’m frustrated and disappointed with how things have ended. But I don’t think that this overwrites the ingenious of the good parts on the dsmp and how much it will inspire new forms of story telling in the years to come.

As for volume 2, I’ll probably see what people say about it on this hellsite (affectionate) and then go from there on whether or not I’ll keep up with it. I hope it is a true reset and gives the cc’s the opportunity to start fresh with new ambitions and passions because I think it has the possibility to be something really good now that they have the experience of already having done this once.

Sorry for such a long post but it felt appropriate after writing analysis posts on this story for so long. Hope y’all who read this far have a wonderful rest of your day or night!

[owaowabetch]

Minecraft pt. 1 (Sykkuno x F!Reader)

Oneshot (maybe part of a series??? idk we’ll see): Even though you’ve never played minecraft, you still manage to build a great house with your basement buddy. Friendship with a hint of romance. This is season 1 of the OTV ftb server (Pre-relationship; part of Uh-oh & Impasta)

“Ok guys, so today’s stream is going to be a lil different” You chat to your stream “We are going to be playing Minecraft with the OTV gang and other people we’ve played among us with!” Waiting for Minecraft to load on your pc, you continued on chatting “We will be playing GTA later on in the stream, we have a few jobs lined up with some people, so hopefully we get a lot of money from that” 

You minimized your face cam into a corner as your character appeared in a random spawn area near quite a few people. You saw multiple boxy players run around and hitting each other. So, you walked around picking up flowers  and with the help of some members of your chat, you managed to collect wood.

“OH! HEY Y/N!!” A loud crunchy voice yelled terribly into your ear causing you to cringe visible and immediately start hitting them with the wood in your hand.

“Your mic is dank man” You continue hitting them, which turned out to be Leslie and she starts to hit you back with a laugh. You guess her flowered hand overpowered your wood and hungry state, because you died and respawned to where you first showed up.

“Ah fuck” You complained before another boxy figure showed up infront of you and you recognized the blue shirt and green striped scarf, so you cheered. “Sykkuno!”

“Hey, Y/N!” His character moved his head up and down “What happened? How did you die?”

“Leslie’s mike was..crunchy?? And then she killed me!” You jump around

Sykkuno laughs “What? I’m surprised mobs havent got you. I’ve been killed many times by them” and in comedic fashion poki ran by screaming for help as she was being chased by a giant spider. You both watched as she would turn and hit it before continuing on her run.

It killed her. She puffed into smoke and in her place was a grave.

You both laugh as Sykkuno gasps out her name and you both run to her grave.

“Is this part of the mod? Or is it part of minecraft” You ask crouching on her grave and read her name.

He jumped around you with an answer “ Uh no it’s a mod that abe put in. If you break it the stuff you died with will spawn out”

“Oh” Continuing the crouch and uncrouch “What now?”

“Well i was going to find some of my graves, but I’m gunna find wood to make tools and find food” He answered and with that you decided to follow him

You collect the fruit from the near by trees and kill some of the animals with an axe that Sykkuno made you. Along the way you collected flowers and wood.

“We should find a house before it gets dark and more mobs come and kill us” Sykkuno walks to you then throws a stack of wood on the floor “Or maybe you build us a house. I’m not good at that type of thing”

You stare into your cam and do the debbie ryan “Oh my god, living together?” You pick up the stack of wood and start building a small house “Is that good?”

“Ya, that’s great! I’ll put the door down and I got us some beds, so we now have a spawn point. So when we die we just end up here” He explains doing so

Nodding along to what he said, you start putting the flowers you collected around the house before entering the house. He put the beds down next to each other. Making sure to mute yourself, you do the finger point and with a ‘tch’ sound you smile “ Oh my God Chat! Our beds are next to each other !?! How crazy. Heehee”  

The house was lit up with torches. “Click on the bed” He tells you and you do so. Your characters laid there side by side and your chat was hearing you make embarrassing noises. “Chat better not be telling him how embarrassing I’m being please. This is a desparate plea for you guys not to tell him!! Like Im joking guys please” With a laugh, your character gets off the bed and you walk out.

“Oh!” In Sykkuno’s hand was a flower “I noticed you picking up flowers and I know that [Flower/Name] is your favorite, so i picked some up for you”

You can’t stop the smile that appears on your face nor the flush on your cheeks “You are so fucking cute”

“Wha-?” You interrupt him “This is so sweet, honestly Sy.”

He throws them on the ground “It’s no problem. Just saw them and remembered how much you liked them “ and you pick them up, putting them at the entrance of the door “I love it!!! Thank You Sykkuno!!”

He hums and jumps around. You check chat, when a donation comes in telling you to check it, and read that he was purposefully was looking for the flowers because he knows how much you would’ve loved them. You don’t believe them at first, telling them that while he is nice, going around looking for a flower doesn’t seem like a productive thing to do. So, someone from your chat sent a clip of him telling his viewers that he was looking for your favorite flower to give to you. His excuse was that this as your first time playing minecraft, so he wanted you to enjoy it and thought it would be a great present until he can find diamonds.

“Guys! No!! That is so sweet!” You cry out blushing even further

“Hey guys!” A voice called out. A voice you immediately recognized to be Liliy’s “Come look at my house!” Looking up you see her stood further up from the both of you. She started making her way down and gasped “Are those [F/N]!?! Where did you find these! The look so pretty!”

“Yea” You jumping once more “Aren’t they cool?”

“YES! Can I have one?” She asked standing next to them “Is this your house? I love the flowers around them”

“I guess this is where we live now” You respond

“Both?” Lily questioned “You and Sykkuno are living together!?!”

“Yea! He actually gave me the [F/N]s, so you can’t..have them..” You respond to her awkwardly

Lily turns to Sykkuno and hits his character “You fucking simp”

He gasps “Lily” but she ignores him “I’ll take a different flower as a housewarming gift. Now follow me!”

“Y/N, why don’t you go see it while I gather up more materials” Sykkuno told you

You follow her up the small mountain? And there laid her pink house and you gasped “There is pink wood!?!”

“Yea, you just need pink dye. I have a bunch left if you want some” She offered you

“I don’t know if Sykkuno would want to live in a pink house” You enter her house and notice chests and peak into them

“He’d want what you want so just go for it.” She places the flower she took from your house next to hers. “Those chests belong to other people, but here’s mine.” She hits the chest in her house “I think i have like 20 of the pink wood left, so you can just take the rest”

You took the stack from her chest “Awesome! Your house is nice! It’s big too! I’d have to remake our house into something bigger”

“Yea, it’s kinda ugly since it isn’t pink” She tells you causing you to laugh

“It was a last minute thing to hid in during the night” Holding the pink wood in your hand “I’ll probably look up some building tips and stuff later to make a cool place, but thanks Lily!”

You hung out in her house talking with people as they came and went as Lily went to find more flowers to surround her house in. Though someone interesting came in, wearing the generic steve skin with a slightly creepy face.

“Hey Miyoung!” Lily called from out her house

“Hi Lily” She responded “I’m just letting you know I’m putting a death trap in your home. Please don’t tell the victims”

You snorted in amusement “Can I help with that?”

She moves towards you in her crouched state, so you respond in kind. You both just stared at each other in your crouched position circling each other “Okay, so I have a bucket of oil, so I want to dig a hole in the ground and push people into it”

Nodding your head “Clean, my chat was telling me that there is a trapped door, so why not put one on the ground above it and just have people walk in it?”

“We should also put a sign down there, so as they’re slowly sinking to their death, there’ll be a sign that mocks them” Nodding her characters head “I have some signs already, I’ll make the trapped door”

Taking a shovel from your hotbar, you dig a hole 6 blocks down, digging the other side as you make your way down. You then walk to the other side and start to make your way up.

“You should leave an open space for the sign, maybe 2 blocks open?” Miyoung tells you as she eyes you from above. You jump out of the hole you created and shovel 2 dirt blocks. She places a sign down and covers it up with a wood plank that matches the floor of Lily’s house “Wait I need to put the oil down”

So, she breaks the floor once more and jumps in to put the oil in before making her way back up. “I just put RIP on the sign, I think it’ll help them realize that they will die, so..”

“Alright clean clean” You jump around and watch as she places a trap door on the floor above it and placing a sign in front of it.

“We should probably look for victims” Miyoung tells you

You make your character swing their arm around towards the chests in Lily’s home “Well people have stuff in here, so maybe we should wait for someone to come in to grab something and lure them”

“Sounds good” She says and as she says this Sykkuno comes barging in.

“Hey y/n!” He cheers “Oh hey Miyoung! Lily told me that she has a bucket in her chest that she’ll let me borrow. So, I’m just trying to find her chest. Don’t mind me” He rifles through them “Can’t seem to find them “

You open the trap door and look at him before he turns to you two “Oh is it in here?” and down he goes. “Oh!? IS THIS A TRAP”

You start giggling as he starts to panic laugh “y/n? miyoung? Help!”

You both just crouch above him and stare as he slowly sinks “Guys, any help? please? y/n?”

Miyoung just closes the trap door and walks away and in the little chat says that Sykkuno died in due to [Sticky Dipping], so you type in an apology as you make your way back towards the house. You meet him and apologize to him once again.

“It’s no problem. It was actually kind of funny, but check in the chest I have in the house. I got some more stuff for you for the house” He tells you  “I’m gunna go back to get my stuff and the bucket, so i’ll catch you later!”

“Alright, see ya Sy!” You cheer back to him and make your way into the house.”Alright chat, let’s see what he gave us! I’m not reading what you guys, say so no spoilers~”

You open the wooden box and inside were more pink wood planks, glass, stairs, torches, other house materials to make building easier, and some more of your favorite flowers.

You feel your chest tighten as the butterflies appear in your stomach. You smile largely and giddy, opening and closing your mouth trying to gather the words to express how you felt, you were pleasantly surprised by the things he left you.

You wanted to squeal at how nice he is. It is hard to come across a genuinely nice guy that wanted nothing but friendship with you. So, it was easy to fall for Sykkuno; but it was hard to admit to yourself your growing feelings for him, because love is scary and being in love with your friend is even scarier. Once those feelings come out, you can’t take them back and things just become different. So, it is safe to say that you’ll be keeping them to yourself.

“By the way” Sykkuno starts causing you to jump in real life, as you were sat pondering to yourself “The server is making a town square a few blocks away, so why don’t we move the house there?”

You start collecting the items in your inventory “Yea! Are you going to need help carrying the rest of the stuff there?”

He starts breaking the items in your old home “If you have the room for some that’ll be great! yea!”

Once you both gathered the things you wanted to take, you guys bound towards where the Town Square was being made.

“Oh! By the way, can I request you build a basement for me in our house?” Sykkuno asks

The thought of him referring to the house as ‘ours’ made you smile “Yea, but can I ask why you want one?”

“Don’t worry. I won’t build anything that’ll blow up our house” Sykkuno dodges the question

‘Our’ house. Maybe one day that can be a real life possibility. You couldn’t contain the smile growing on your face even further. Maybe one day you’ll have the courage to tell him how you feel.

As you start building near Leslie’s house, a thought suddenly pops into your head ‘Sykkuno there is a girl into you’

[tack-tick]

Ran Dream SMP Through Danganronpa Simulator Because Boredom

The only thing I did was do 16 participants and 3 survivors. I came up with ultimates because those are fun to make. So here’s what was simulated!

Also nothing graphic if you’re worried about that

Participants

Some of the talents might not work because I don’t know enough but whatever

Ranboo- Ultimate Actor/Ultimate Hope because he would be the protagonist

Dream- Ultimate Speedrunner

George- Ultimate Hunter (There’s probably a better ultimate for him but I couldn’t think of one sorry)

Sapnap- Ultimate Pet Killer

Tommy- Ultimate Tower Builder

Tubbo- Ultimate Beekeeper

Philza- Ultimate Survivalist (the assistant character)

Technoblade- Ultimate Warrior

Wilbur- Ultimate Musician

Niki- Ultimate Baker

Eret- Ultimate King

Fundy- Ultimate Coder

Quackity- Ultimate Lawyer (changed it because an ask showed this made way more sense honestly)

Jschlatt- Ultimate American (the one who messes with the trial even though a lot of people probably do)

Bad- Ultimate Friend (way too nice to have to deal with this crap)

Skeppy- Ultimate Troll

The monokuma like figure would most likely be a wither because those are known for causing huge destruction in the SMP

Takes place in a Minecraft world but none of the SMP events happened.

Minecraft but they’re friends and haven’t killed each other in war

Chapter One

Victims: Fundy and Sapnap

Killer: Niki

JESUS CHRIST NIKI

ITS ONLY CHAPTER ONE THIS IS SOME CHAPTER THREE CRAP

I’ll admit some of the simulated stuff does not make sense

Some of them I can think of a reason for how it would happen

But killing two people in chapter one???

There goes the first member of the Dream Team

Fundy had the worst luck in a story, as usual

Poor Fundy

Chapter Two

Victim: Skeppy

Killer: Dream

Aka the Bad says fuck chapter

Also that one chapter where one character goes through the wringer

The ship sinking chapter

Poor Bad :(

Also we have removed the team and Dream from the Dream Team

It is now just George

Poor George too now that I think about it

This is Chapter Two and that’s always sad

Let’s face it Dreams execution would 100 percent be a manhunt that goes really wrong

Chapter 3

Victim: Jschlatt

Killer: Technoblade

FIRST SBI DOWN

Who would have thought the guy who goes by Blood God would kill somebody?

I am shocked

I do have a vague idea for this one

In that Jschlatt tried to kill Philza and Technoblade just happened to catch him

Him and the voices freaked out next thing you know Philza and Techno are stuck with a dead body

Philza was going to take the fall for it without telling Techno and tries to at the trial

Philza is weirdly unhelpful during the trial

But the truth does ultimately come out in what would be a very sad scene

Except Quackity who’s just mad at him

SBI angst ahoy

Wilbur is extra sad because he was also friends with Schlatt

Chapter 4

Victim: Tommy

Killer: Eret

Tubbo angst time yay!

We are now getting to where we start killing people who can bring optimism to the group

You know like Ibuki

SBI is down to two :(

Wilbur might put on a trench coat at this point

The most angsty way would be if Eret was trying to kill Tubbo because Tubbo was offered the motive of killing somebody in order to get him and one extra person out

As long as he didn’t get caught

So Tubbo sets up a trap but Eret finds out beforehand and goes to confront him

Tommy happens to see him going there and asks Eret what the fuck is he thinking about doing

Eret tells him what he thinks Tubbo is planning to do and Tommy obviously thinks it’s bullshit

He knows Tubbo would surely not

They start fighting and you know the rest

So the trial is basically working out two separate murder plans with Tubbo not even realizing Eret had been trying to off him

Tubbo feels extremely guilty and Wilbur would probably pretty pissed off at him

Philza is trying to make sure Wilbur stays alive and doesn’t go all crazy on everybody

Ranboo is trying to keep everyone optimistic with the help of Quackity and Bad

But this would be the groups lowest point in morale

In between chapter 4 and 5 you can’t do a Wilbur or Tubbo freetime

Chapter 5

Victim: Philza

Killer: George

Alright now the groups morale is in shambles

We’ve got one SBI and no more Dream Team

This feels like it would be a Gundham and Nekomaru situation

Due to whatever circumstances the two agreed to sacrifice themselves for the group

Their sacrifice does help raise morale after the trial

A little bit at least

Except for Wilbur who would probably be going through quite the rough mental patch at this point

As in how he was when he blew up L’Manberg

Quackity takes on the role of the assistant character after this

Chapter 6

Victim: Bad

Killer: Wilbur

Bad does the thing you should never do in the previous chapters

Get character development

He’s totally the one who went through an arc and it was done but you know there’s still a chapter left

Wilbur goes full on JD style crazy with a trenchcoat

There goes SBI

Tubbo can carry on the spirit of it

Survivors

Ranboo

Tubbo

Quackity

3/4 of the Buther Gang survived yay!

Idk who the mastermind and what the big twist would be

Best one would be Dr2 style where it’s a simulation so everyone’s alive

I’m just surprised most of the killings could actually be made to work

Would do executions but I don’t feel like it

Might add them later might not who knows