#I'm not even that much of a dnfer but like WHY

[somerandomcryptid]

BRO I JUST STARTED WATCHING JOEL'S NEW HERMITCRAFT VIDEO WHY THE FUCK IS HEATWAVES PLAYING

[gentlelime]

NO ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY I need to talk about this for a sec

Tldr: panic attack is fr about George or like. Idk some other bestie you have communication issues with that you can't live without

Pull me up, pull me out from the cage I've known

Meaning: You deliver me from imprisonment, you free me from suffering, very much lock-key symbolism and establishes a relationship of great importance that is capable of destroying a "cage" that makes up the perspective of narrator. The "cage I've known" seems like another way of saying mind, at least to me, in the context of the song. Could also be closet symbolism as well.

Pull me up, pull me up by the roots we've grown

Meaning: The phrase "roots" when referring to relationships typically refers to a close long-term bond, especially when combined with the phrase "we've grown." It could mean "you help me from this place of pain by reminding me of our long-term bond."

Alternatively, when I hear "pull me up" I think of marionette/puppet symbolism (pulling the strings up of a puppet) although I could see it just being easier to flow within the song to use up rather than it having a deeper meaning. BUT if you were to look at the phrase "pull me up by the roots we've grown" you could interpret it as 'string me along with our friendship'. So he's saying "pull me up," repeatedly, basically submitting to the puppeteer and saying they control his feelings because of how much they mean to him. (Tbh the lyrics just reminded me of puppet by Tyler somehow so I had to mention it)

Oh, the things you said keep me in my head. Wish that I could step into yours instead

Meaning: Very straightforward. "The words you say cause me to ruminate, or overthink. I wish I knew how you felt." Gives me flashbacks to the damn best friend quiz.

Alternatively, following along with the puppet analogy, when the puppeteer says his lines, the marionette is stuck in its head, being forced to mime the words and be pulled in different directions. When the writer says "wish I could step", they could literally mean they wish they could switch roles and be the puppeteer for once. He wants to feel "in control" of the person in the same way they have control over him.

You're so close, but, I'm on my own

Meaning: I read this as saying even though the narrator might be physically close to the subject, they're mentally apart. The narrator ruminates over what the subject says, and comes to the conclusion they're "alone" in their feelings. I definitely think the second line refers to thinking your feelings are unrequited, and you're "on your own" with your feelings.

Cause I just don't know where you're going

Meaning: "I can't tell what stage our relationship is going, I don't know what you want from me." Basically saying the writer don't know where they stand with the subject, evokes the line "what do you think you're doing?" From the context of the song, I could also see it as the subject pulling away from the narrator, which causes the distress and panic attack of the chorus.

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Like I can do this all fucking day I need to stop why is this song literally about trying to confront someone whose been in your life for a long time with your feelings and feeling afraid of being apart from that person and possibly losing them because of your feelings. Why why why why I'm going crazy I'm just staring at my transcript from a twt video I kept replaying and it's like-What, why is this your fucking favorite song dream? Oh and resident dnfer Hannah's favorite song? awesome. Cool. If george says he loves it I'm killing myself

[dreamhot]

you wondering how people count sans as a tumblr sexyman, presumably cause hes a skeleton vs someone else on my dash fighting tooth and nail over how cecil isnt a tumblr sexyman cause they never saw him on their dash the past 10 years on tumblr

jack skellington is a much more appealing skeleton to me okay i'm not against love for skeletons but even as someone who was deeply into undertale you will never be able to explain to me why sans got the fandom treatment he did LMAO

and while wtnv def isn't in its fandom popularity heyday, people don't understand the death grip it had on the dash for a while okay like hey dnfers u wanna talk about the weather? let's talk about the weather Waiting for the bus in the rain in the rain

[eulchu]

I like dnf /r but like in the end ship war stuff is so annoying 😭 why are you being mean/snide to dnfers just because its the popular thing everytime something dnf happens and why are you assuming they all hate anything but dnf. Tho also at the same time some dnfers are so aggressive to others for no reason at all 😭 like yeah kick the annoying shipwar anti dnfers but some ppl might just like other relationship dynamics more and if they aren't being snide to other ppl with diffrent preferences why should it matter.

Then again I'm not really someone who takes as much stock in what's "real" like dnf is the most real thing around here after Philza and Kristin, but that doesn't mean eks a dreamburian can't just like that more even tho it's not as "real."

"other relationship dynamics" like i know people call it shipping but thast's literally called enjoying reality. the point of shipping is to romantically involve the people in it. i love snf . i'm obsessed with their dynamic. i was hysterial the entire puzzle stream they did a year ago. i don't ship snf? i don't want them to be together /r because why would i 😭

just to be clear ship what you want idgaf but if you're saying you "ship" something just because you enjoy their "dynamics" that's being a person with working senses not. shipping

[midnight-stormm]

It's just sucks. I remember getting into the fanbase and all the dteam moments were dnf with hardly any sapnap which is why alot of ppl even myself included was shock; "oh there's another member, a third one" and the fact its still like that for many even 5 years later is very disheartening. Also to clarify I'm referring to toxic dnfers, not dnfers as a whole. Also I know he wasn't much in the early videos but he was still there you know

I'm honestly starting to think that it's not sapnap content that is the issue. Its the fact that they want content from dnf and dnf only. They don't acknowledge sapnap one bit on Twitter and trying to tell them that sapnap still produces content even if you don't want to watch k!ck streams is not enough. They see his twitch streams as waiting room. It sucks, 5 years and he still doesn't get an ounce of acknowledgment.

[gladiolidiaries]

It's so refreshing to see that even as a hardcore dnfer and dnf fucking raw on the regular truther you are willing to put forth the (albeit very tiny) possiblity of it being about him possibly crushing/falling for someone else post-voldy since we only know so much of dream's life especially after his face reveal like yes usually the most obvious, instinctual conclusion is the truth in life but you have to be ready to possibly dodge any batshit crazy curveballs that make no sense that get thrown every now and then too

Being around since early 2020 pre-dsmp has been a rollercoaster that never ends and sometimes seems like it's going to go off the rails so I will never swear 100% certainty about anything without concrete proof just out of self-preservation lol

So yeah thank you for being open-minded to all angles when most dnfers are engaging in warfare right now you're one of the good ones

Thank you anon! I've said this since the beginning but the whole reason I was a fwb "truther" for months was just in case they aren't actually dating, well i'd feel a bit less of a clown lmao.

I said this last month but I genuinely strongly regret partaking in the relationship truthing to the extent that I did for a few months because it's part of why I was in such a weird place in the fandom for a few weeks/the last month. Anyway m back now where I don't want to actually truth anything, I'm just explaining what I'm seeing and ALWAYS considering multiple theories and keeping in mind that I do not know Dream or George. I only see the smallest % of their week.

On crit especially it's easy to feel like we have the absolute truth because we know "leaks" and small details that main is either not aware of or simply choosing not to discuss publicly but in reality we really don't know shit 😭

[literaphobe]

I'm yet to have watched the TwitchCon Vod or whatever but just hearing about it makes go ueck like-

small room

jm tryna kiss george

that one dnfer fan that caused the dnf fandom much embarassment

barely even talking about the dsmp....

just shit organising

like. why. they deserve so much better.

im rewatching it rn HAHAHAHA i have problems

[lostinmcyt]

I returned to dreblr and everything is so different! why is everyone suddenly dnfers unironically? I thought it was a joke but the reactions to dreams twts proved otherwise... it's baffling bc they haven't interacted at all this year y'all are making ship content out of thin air. is the shipping getting so intense because of the anticipation of them meeting soon or what? if when they meet they decide they want the fandom to stop shipping are you all actually gonna stop?

see this ask is funny on so many levels

1) anon not knowing that dreblr is for the minecraft roleplay guy (c!dream), whilst dreamblr is for the minecraft youtuber guy (cc!dream)

2) as a consequence anon coming to yell at me about shipping dnf, like, bestie, so much of dreblr has dnf muted

3) anon coming to me specifically like I'm some sort of dnf shippers spokesperson, bro I don't even post that much about dnf on this blog how did you get so lost

4) anon being under the impression that when the cc's are not on screen they stop existing and don't interact with each other

5) anon not rubbing their several braincells together to think why dteam may have been more missing than not in the past few months

6) anon clearly being in their first fandom where rpf is a thing since they seem confused by fans 'making ship content out of thin air', believe me when I say most real people ships don't have the amount of content dnf shippers have to go off and yet still they thrive, dnf and their rituals truly are the outliers here

7) "why is everyone suddenly dnfers unironically"

7.1) I still wonder about the above actually but it may have sth to do with the fact that currently not shipping dnf is clearly against Dream's boundaries

in summary, Anon, I hope in the future you'll find better ways to engage with the fandom rather than channeling Martin Luther and nailing your anti-dnf-shippers theses to the walls of random people's askboxes

[cupidlakes]

"I'm building a time capsule to send us back to early 2020/2021 who's in?" omg meeeee

Sometimes I listen to music from dteam or george edits I would watch in 2020/2021 and literally sob my eyes out. I instantly associate those songs with them and the fandom during that time and my heart hurts because I miss it so fucking much 💔 even though I'm still a pretty huge dnfer and still keep up with content and all that, it's just... Never gonna hit the same as those early times and that truly makes me want to end it all!!! Like why does time have to pass and why do things have to change. I wish I could go back to the beginning so bad.

the passage of time *derogatory* but no yeah i know how you feel like. nothing will feel like that specific era again and it’s agonising i feel like that abt flipping everything bc i’m a nostalgia andy and i just can’t stand being filled w fond happy feelings and then just having to march on when things change like wdym i can’t literally Live in the past all the time 🖕🏻 fuck U

but still we have our memories :) it’s comforting to revisit some of that stuff but also change is okay too and u have tons to look /forward/ to! ^^

[shotgunningtheuniverse]

I have been watching old manhunts videos because of boredom and also because seeing how much Dream has improved in his skills is awesome but a thing i have noticed (as a good dnfer) is how George plays manhunts.

The first manhunt ever, George won, but I actually think they were more flirting than actually playing (for legal reasons /hj you know) and then, Dream skills just improved and become better at playing minecraft that he practically need 5 people to try and take him down but, hear me out i don't think George actually hunt Dream.

Look, I'm not saying anything but I watched is POV during MCC all stars during the tag thing and he's pretty good at chasing and hunting, why is he so easily target by Dream?

My guess is that they are each other weaknesses. Every time George screams or something, Dream just respond out of habit and search for George and to cover this, he just attack him i know he has said it's for tactical movements but let me dream lol. Also, I don't think George is actually chasing Dream. Like yeah, he helps the other hunters with his Dream knowledge and try to hunt him down but he's not actually hunting him by himself, he's more like helping Dream with what he enjoys, to spend time with him and also to pressure him to be better at.

Thank you for this in-depth manhunt analysis. I don’t know what I’ve done to attract such smart people to my blog but I’m down.

Also, a couple personal notes. I think Dream finds it a fun game to sort of kill George with the knowledge he will respawn as much as I think George likes to taunt him to kill him. Which makes George the most killed person in Manhunts over every other manhunter.

George also often while striving for perfection and victory has some type of mental barrier over actually killing Dream. Which is sort of he likes seeing Dream win more than he likes winning.

With that George doesn’t really put forward everything for manhunts as he is one of the more vocal manhunters with the mentioned before taunting. When George actually is focusing and “tryharding” he’s really quiet and doesn’t show much emotion.

Other than that it’s most likely Dream can’t exactly say, “yeah I automatically seek out George in any situation where I feel pressure or am in competition.” Probably even to himself. So that might be possible that it is an automatic gravitation to George as a sort of mental connection to positive chemicals in any situation.

And with that another addition to the theory.

[gladiolidiaries]

I definitely don’t think current George would allow the disrespect Dream used to dish out in old streams, I think the reason he took it back then was because he was extremely introverted (he even said himself) aswell soft spoken. He’s way more out going and confident now so I highly doubt he would put up with that shit, probably thanks to quackity too, I think after qnf got closer Q taught George boundaries with drm. I remember Q used to tell george to hang up when Dream called him and would constantly steal george for streams while Dream was PISSEDD. Also that era where everybody thought dnf was one sided (on dreams end) but I think that’s just because george learned to conceal his feelings and became more outspoken,like that time where the dnf pandering was at an all time high (thanks to dream) and george literally refused to bait 😭 I also think that’s one of the reasons old dnfers used to treat George as an extension to dream, because drm would be the one doing the baiting and catering to fans while George just wouldn’t..I’m glad we’ve moved passed all that tho

This is interesting never thought Quackity would be part of why George got more confident. I'm just glad it happened cause as much as shy and introverted George was cute, it was sometimes awkward watching him get stepped on.

You mentioned boundaries and it made me wonder, do you guys think George is actually just as comfortable with the shipping as Dream is?