#dream smp sam

[ideligo]

Nativity set lol

[sethdomain]

[waddei]

TOMMYINNIT YOU SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT A HAT FOR THE SUN!

[fra-aria]

Safe and sound

Day 2: Warden for @sam-and-dream-week !

[bleue-flora]

[context]

OMG!!!! I found it! It's Sam's base! (coords: -3803 / 70 / -3926)

Of course he would have that on his wall! duh.

One mystery actually freaking solved. Let's goooo!!!!!

[hopalongfairywren]

one must imagine everyone at the red banquet stabbing c!Sam julius caesar style

[brrrridgette]

the good ol days

[maruteru]

[saltwatersweets]

this was basically the prison arc right

[ryemackerel]

LAS NEVADAS BOYS LETS GOOO!!! my designs for sam, slimecicle, purpled, fundy, and foolish 🫶 for the au's sake, eret was gonna be part of it, but i didnt have space to fit her nor quackity in 😭

during early las nevadas ("post-manburg" era), slimecicle, being one of the VERY few people close to quackity at the time, was the one that proposed to recruit a team to help quackity rebuild the old city.

the city, formerly named manburg, was under the ownership of schlatt. however, after his passing, quackity was on his own to pick up what schlatt had left. of course, handling all the finances and managing the city by himself was near impossible without a team. slime was the very confidant that quackity trusted would recruit the best people for the project.

slime and quackity knew how experienced sam was in technology and engineering, and he was put in charge of the city's tech. foolish, being the god of creation and architecture, was put in charge of the city's construction. fundy joined in hopes of gaining experience in being part of a team. and purpled just. accidentally crash-landed into the area and became a part of it. and also he has the intellect that was useful for the still-very-young city.

at this point i might label the "healing au" as more of a "rewritten au" if anything?? still a very rough concept that needs some adjustments. these are just my ideas for the au :)

[romanmarble]

I hope this hurts.

C!tommy fanart, December 2024, ibisPaint, about 3 hours. Speed paint below

[sethdomain]

what the fuck is wrong with him

[cabinetduo]

what it is is like, on a meta level there were characters in the dream smp who were played by ccs who didn't have a large enough fanbase or "lore importance" to impact the writers room. like there were characters with specific written roles and there were characters whose arcs and internal conflict weren’t even being considered right. people's inability to separate cc from c also contributed, with cgnfs lore importance correlating w the ccs large audience (and ties to the main antagonist), he never would've been relevant otherwise. cniki was lightning in a bottle bcs she had just enough involvement with the guy's involved in the "main plot" to get eyes on her and what she did with that stage and focus was so captivating her character was able to stand alone with a fanbase of her own

however because of the nature of the dsmp, being able to see every characters individual perspective, the idea of 'side characters' only exists on a kinda narrative level, like for all intents and purposes ctommy was the main character (ignoring that old ass debate), the story was being sort of written with him at the center so thats how he was treated narratively but also on a meta level, many characters arcs were weighted based on how ctommy interacted with them. there were no side characters in the dsmp bcs of the nature of streaming as a medium but in the like, overarching story, ctommy is the mc

ALL OF THIS TO SAY ctubbo exists paradoxically. like technically he's one of the 'main guys' the fandom would focus on and was close enough to garner his own dedicated fanbase but [the thoughtstream that would spur this post] in modern discussions about dsmp nostalgia and character quotes and stuff I've never once seen ctubbos name.

So but but butttttttt on a meta level, narrative level, and TEXTUALLY LIKE IN THE ACTUAL TEXT he is regarded as a side character. like cctubbo gained a large enough fanbase to stand on his own but despite his proximity to the writers room he wasn't very involved in the writing of the "script" however the importance of his character to ctommy made it so that his character was always considered in the script (well characterized or not). with ctommy as the mc and ctubbo as his best friend, in the story of the overall dsmp ctubbo is the sidekick to main main character. now that's all well and good if it was only on a meta/textual level but this dynamic is actually crucial to his arc like actually IN THE TEXT

like in season 2 cdream is the main antagonist with making ctommys life a living hell being his main goal. he meticulously separates them and incites a canyon sized rift in their relationship. then while tubbo is holding up the sky and being [new] lmanburgs youngest acting president. cdream fully befriend him at his lowest with the intention of using him against ctommy. ctubbo was never a person in cdream's eyes. he, like many other characters, goes out of his way to dehumanize ctubbo, viewing him as an extension of ctommy the same way the discs are, something to taunt him with or destroy for a reaction. we see this in the white house fight and disc saga finale. despite going out of his way to gain ctubbos trust and play chess with him everyday, cdream never even saw him as a person (how fucked is that)

Anyway where was I goibg with this..ctubbo had enough ties to the 'main characters' to be tied to the 'main narrative' of the dsmp (in quotes bcs there's nuances to those phrases) but not enough to be allowed to stand alone on a meta level, narrative level, and in the text when regarded by other characters. it isn't until later in the story [thru streamer and tubbling efforts that he kinda gets his own legs? until the story requires otherwise from him and he's dragged along to whatever role the main story needs him to play (which in retrospect led to a lott of mischaraterization huh who knew

[robinthinkstoomuch]

Western Au: Sheriff Sam x Outlaw Dream

Dream’s been an outlaw all his life, it’s all he’s known, really. He’s got a few fragmented memories of his past, he thinks he remembers his mother and father, but it’s too blurry to make out. Dream had no choice but to turn to crime, he needed to eat, he needed to survive.

And survive he did, Dream became one of the most infamous outlaws across the west, and he was proud of it too! He had his face plastered on posters in every town and anyone who dared cross his path- who caught a glimpse of his smiling mask, they knew it was the end.

That was- until he fell in love.

It was stupid really, to trust someone out in such a wild world. To be so vulnerable and let them into his deepest secrets. Really, it could only end one way. In shackles and awaiting his execution.

~

Sam was getting old for a sheriff, lifestyles that rough tended to age people. Hours in the sun and running his horse into the ground. He was a small town cowboy with big goals and a lot to prove.

So, when the infamous outlaw escapes his execution and is on the run; Sam sees it as an opportunity. To bring justice and establish his own name into legend.

[fra-aria]

It's a date! ❤️

Day 3: cake for @sam-and-dream-week !

[bleue-flora]

Ok, I recently wrote an essay [here] talking about the definition and duties of civil engineering as well as the ethics because of the brain rot @swordfright gave me with calling Dream Sam’s ultimate engineering project. So, because I actually am a civil engineer I took it upon myself to design the title and summary of quantities sheets just like I do at work for roads but with Dream as the project instead. And in honor of angst day sponsored by @sixteenth-day-event, I figured I’d share it because I feel like it kinda works for the prison of the mind prompt.

“Sam’s “ultimate engineering project” he deemed too damaged like a bumpy road or crumbling building that wasn’t worthy of patching and filling in the cracks or reinforcing, that’s too eroded to be fixed and preserved. So, Sam strived to tear him down to the bedrock so he could remake, remold, and reengineer Dream according to his design for the common safety, public health and well-fair.”

{These are very similar to the actual sheets I make day to day, which I shall not share for the sake of doxing my location, but yea pretty much everything has a significance. Some of it doesn’t necessarily make sense but that was because I was more so taking inventory of what we see in lore (so you know I counted ;) lol)}