#SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG GSHDHDGS

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Callahan and fundy gogogogo

AYO (ask game)

Callahan: How did you get into the dsmp

So I vaguely knew of it before all this but honestly it was a mix of two things: firstly, all the clickbait videos of "Schlatt got banned from Dream SMP" and the associated drama got reccomended to me and cause the only POVs of that were Tommy and Tubbo (I hadn't seen a tubbo stream before and I genuinely instantly loved his vibe just from that) I went to find full vods and ended up getting reccomended more dsmp stuff as a result SPECIFICALLY Tommy reacting to Sad-Ist's original dsmp war animatic and watching that was the moment when i was like "Oh my god... this is like... actually something"

So basically: Schlatt getting banned and Sad-Ist's animatic

Fundy: Favourite bit of lore

So I'm actually gonna say two things cause I'm indecisive, the first of which is:

Fundy's Nightmares, that first nightmares stream is genuinely living in my head rent free all the time, the atmosphere, the acting, the little call backs and hints to other plot points were all IMMACULATE, I swear to god Fundy sold his soul for that stream, nothing from the dsmp has genuinely impacted me as seriously as that stream which left me unable to sleep that night, like... I would give a lot to be able to recapture the emotions I was feeling when Fundy was being chased up those stairs screaming

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And secondly, November 16th, Schlatt's death, I will forever go off about how PERFECT everything was in this scene, the confusion when Dream surrendered just like that, the suspicion in everyones mind about who the traitor was that only got worse when Wilbur went off to talk to him alone, like... they wanted the audience to be all over the place and they succeeded, then when we see Schlatt as this weak pathetic and lonely old man, we THINK we understand what's going on, we say to ourselves "oh Dream's surrender makes sense now, he has nobody to fight for anymore", and then after an hours worth of some of my favourite lines on the server crammed into like 2 minutes ("You could have had it all Schlatt" "Don't kill me, I'm afraid of death") Schlatt just... dies

weeks of lead up, an entire war, Wilbur's whole downward spiral and it was all for nothing, the perfect anticlimax, Even the characters find themselves saying "this doesn't feel like a win" and that's because it WASN'T. And is there anything a writer could wish for more than being able to convey an emotion perfectly enough that the audience don't even realise that they're supposed to be feeling it, it's the same effect as watching a movie, seeing all the characters are happy after winning a big war and then realising there's still an hour of the movie left. Schlatt's death wasn't a victory and everyone knew that but they didn't know they knew it "Schlatt's a smart man, he knows that if we kill him, he's won" - Wilbur "If I die... this country goes down with me" - Schlatt

In the arc that was so blatantly reinforcing the idea of the Chekhov's Gun... We KNEW there had to be a pay off, and for a second we were able to trick ourself into thinking this was it, but it was never a pay off

Schlatt's death wasn't an ending, it wasn't a beginning either (you see everything that was to happen was already in motion), it merely served as the perfect middle point between the two

Okay I actually convinced myself here and I'm going to leave the Fundy bit up there but sadly it has fallen into second place, there's just something so brillaint and intricate about Schlatt's death and how it fits into everything else