#dsmp rants

[maltmatcha]

c!Tommy phrasing the end of the dream smp as "when everyone went away" and clarifying that the nukes weren't canon is so interesting to me. Everyone, minus perhaps c!Jack and c!Tubbo just.. Went away. They moved on. The Syndicate made their way to the end with c!Kristin, c!Ranboo left with Michael to the nether, Jack.... Got into gambling, I guess. Everyone, for some reason or another, left the place behind.

And they left Tommy with it.

Of course, Tommy left too, but he's the only one who comes back to l'manberg. Comes back to the greater dsmp in general. It's as though he could never truly sever his ties with it. He says he's almost happy. And I think that's because he can never truly move on from it all. And I don't think its a coincidence that Tubbo is the only other one who's mentioned to still be kicking around the place. Tubbo and Tommy are inexorably tied to L'manberg. They're the only ones alive that have that connection to it.

Tubbo was around for the longest in L'manberg. Longer than its creator. He was there for the war, for the schlatt administration, for new l'manberg, and for its final demise. He couldn't leave it behind once and for all because so much of his life was spent there.

Tommy is part of L'manberg. L'manberg was created in his visage, it was an extension of him. He couldn't leave it behind once and for all because it was so much of his life. The idea of L'manberg persisted throughout all of his life. Even in exile, it was the only thing keeping him going.

They're the only ones who can't move on. Not fully. They're trying. They're almost happy. But they can't leave it all behind. I've seen a lot of people calling this a c!Tommy happy ending, but really, it was Almost Happy.

And I think one day he can be Happy. But we won't see it. We got our closure, but he hasn't. Not yet.

[prismartist]

QUACKITY REALLY SAID CQUACKITY CAN NEVER BE HAPPY. THE OTHER VERSIONS CAN CHANGE THEIR FATE. THEY CAN STAND TO LIVE WITH THEMSELVES ONE MORE DAY. BUT NOT CQUACKITY. HIS STORY MUST END. HE MUST END HIS STORY. WITH FIRE AND SMOKE LIKE IT'S ALWAYS BEEN. THERE IS NO OTHER END FOR HIM.

[deadkraker]

I think it's really interesting how dsmp as a narrative forces you to sympathize with even the most morally corrupt by making you live through the event from their perspective...except for cDream. you almost never get to see the story from his eyes, and when you do, it, doesn't help his case. you don't know what he's thinking, you don't know what he's planning, and you most of all cannot tell how the story affects him personally. (at least with the same ease you can with the other characters) there's no sympathetic bond there like there is with anyone who you have watched the pov of. he was made to be a villain from the start and his lack of point of view is just one of the ways the story alienates you from him, making you see him as an 'other'.

like his lack of morals and ruthlessness while intimidating isn't exactly, unheard of, you could argue cSchlatt can be pretty hard to sympathize towards, but the fact that you still get to see from his pov is so so important to how you view him. cDream at times feels almost unreachable, this distant but very real threat that hangs over pretty much everyone, and I truly believe a lot of that oppressive dread would not be as strong in those key moments if you were looking at the situation from his eyes. god I love the little details of this story sm.

[mioakem]

dream stream so far

[omegamoo]

one of my favorite parts of c!niki’s arc is manburg era because she was the person living in manburg who was most outwardly rebellious. she never stopped fighting - she made it clear that she hated the schlatt administration and everything they stood for, and so she fought back. she didn’t screw around with a “will-i-won’t-i” she just did. and i think people undersell that a lot, especially in favor of the pogtopian rebellion. but c!niki refuses to pay taxes, she sets fire to the manburg flag, she refuses to cater for schlatt and co. she doesn’t stop! when cschlatt exiles ctommy and cwilbur, she’s the one shouting about it. during the festival, she’s the one who shouts while ctubbo’s getting blown up and says from the beginning how much she hates the new country.

also the festival - if you watch the vod from your pov (which you totally should!!!!!) she just sits there and looks So Pissed Off the entire time. like she doesn’t hide how pissed of she is. she’s downright furious during that entire discussion!

and i think the most crucial part of all of this is what happens to her because of this. she is consistently belittled by c!schlatt - frequently in a “omg shut up”/“would somebody shut her up” in a way that feels like how somebody talks about a bug in the house. it’s misogynistic in many ways, i think - she’s consistently invalidated and overlooked, like her rebellion doesn’t even hold weight.

and then when she finally does more - i.e. the taxes - she’s literally hunted. and she runs, and calls c!wilbur, and she is terrified. and he says “can you just hold out a bit longer? pogtopia’s kinda full right now and we can’t take more people” and she’s like, actively unsafe in manburg and has nowhere to go and can’t go home. and she is told “just hold out a bit longer”

and then. the festival. again, she’s in the audience and watches tubbo get blown up and she’s shouting about it! like screaming at him! and finally c!schlatt is like “you’ve been a thorn in my side for too long” and he has ponk kill her! and she runs and he chases her and nobody follows to help, they just tell her to run. and she’s in the call w all of them and the conversation just moves on while she silently runs and silently gets killed. and that’s when she leaves for pogtopia.

anyways. point being: c!niki and overlooked rebellion.

[moltengoldveins]

ok but I have Thoughts about the way Minecraft usernames translate to actual names, both irl and in fanfic. They’re definitely ‘obsessed with structure and grumpy at inconsistency flavor autism’ thoughts but still. I find it weird how we cut and paste the media we’re given to fit what we view as functional worldbuilding, and how that gets screwy when translating online names.

like, you’re working with several categories here. The person’s actual real name, their irl nickname, their gamer tag, a name possibly contained by or possibly the entirety of that gamer tag, and any extra pieces or symbols in the gamer tag. And you have the weird situation where those categories might not easily translate to a ‘First Name Last Name’ structure. For an example, we’ve got Phil Watson, who’s gamer tag is ‘Ph1LzA,’ and is called Philza Minecraft or Philza. The ‘Minecraft last name’ is a…. Bit? A joke? A reference to a bit of lore? It’s unclear. The ‘Za’ bit was put there for flair and is now an integral part of his name. Sometimes it’s his last name. Sometimes his real last name is chucked in there. the 1 in his actual username is literally never referenced in nicknames or fic it’s like it’s not even there. But that’s a simple one. What about Tubbo_? because we call him Tubbo Underscore. Like. We say the ‘_’ aloud. Why do we do that. What has possessed us to make that decision? What about FitMC? I’ve usually heard it said ‘Fit Emsee.’ Why say that, and not say ‘Minecraft? That’s not even really a last name, it’s just like…. His full first name. Fit is used more like a shortened nickname. BadBoyHalo. Like. ‘Bad boy’ is a slang term, not a name. It would make the most sense to call him Halo, that’s the distinct noun in the name, the term the ‘bad boy’ bit is referring to. Like ‘GoodTimesWithScar’ but noooo. Bad. Halo is usually a last name, if it’s there at all. Skeppy on the other hand is… just his name. No last name ever. Technoblade is also weird. Technoblade is his full name. We call him that. We ALSO call him ‘Techno,’ and use Blade as a last name. We also use Blade as a title. What the heck. GeminiTay. We call her Gem. We use Tay as a last name sometimes. Her name is a Zodiac constellation. Literally nowhere I’m have I seen that affect her naming conventions. IJevin. We just… remove the I. For everything. This wouldn’t bother me except we don’t do it with everyone and I’m starting to get annoyed by the inconsistency. GoodTimesWithScar. Ok. This one also bugs me. Like, most fics call him Scar Goodtimes when they need a name. I’m not gonna dig into it but that’s…. Why? Why that? Grian never gets a last name. Ranboo sometimes gets chopped into Ran and Boo but usually he’s an Underscore or he’s last nameless. Wilbur Soot functions wonderfully (until the get involved shhhh) but it’s too close to his real name it gets very confusing.

anyway, all of this sucks, I hate it all, we’re a terrible fandom /hj

all that nonsense aside, yknow who has a functional Firstname Lastname username? It’s even got a space, and proper capitals: Mumbo Jumbo. That’s who. Look at that. It’s perfect. Everyone should be more like Mumbo Jumbo. Thank you and good night.

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Edit: I know about Ranboo Beloved and Grian Dreamslayer and the various other characters whose names I didn’t mention perfectly in this post. This was no piece of journalism, this was an old man shouts at cloud meme personified. I was very overstimulated and this was what happened to catch my autistic ire. I’m not upset, just figured I’d clarify, a lot of people seem distressed at my not mentioning Beloved. Hope y’all are having a lovely day 💜

[itsmendak]

Dream, it was very hypocritical to say

When clearly you dragged the names of so many people on your own fucking stream, people that had nothing to do with this drama , infact when yourself didn't have anything to do with this whole situation, people can dislike you, we are not obliged to like you, so saying that don't drag me down while you are fucking doing the same to more than 10 people that were friends with you at some point, shutting down the whole george and caiti situation when he calls you sexist is just ignorance man , plain simple ignorance.

(please reblog with tags, thanks!)

[cupcraft]

also alsooo forgiveness and love was always going to be a part of cbitterduo btwwww. Like the whole point of it was cjack was validly mad at ctommy and ctommy dropped the ball on their friendship but also validly was distracted by the Everything (grief, abuse, the prison, being forced to be a hero wh en hes just some kid you know, everything). Like the point was being Worse wasn't ever a sustainable long tgerm strategy because in the end cjack doesnt want to be alone or evil he wanted to be NOTICED he wanted to be appreciated.a nd ctommy wanted to be safe, he was in active crisis. and really this ending makes sense because cjack always really cared about ctommy. Despite it all he was There for final disc to wish him off, he said during final disc he hopes they win because despite his beef with ctommy DREAM WAS THE ENEMY!!! and then when he died he grieved because he gaf about him really eh actually really cared about him despite the falling out you know, and like even when he was revived and he was pissed he really watched ctommy build those fucking lmanberg walls and said "i hope dream doesnt kill him" "i hope he lives" because he always and i mean always after seeing just a fraction of exile he wanted him to be safe happy and okay even though he felt abandoned and betrayed and unappreciated, which is why jack was like iw ont help him out here i cant...but he needs to live. He still knew that ctommy didnt deserve that and the real enemy was cdream yeah and anyway im ranting and this all is signfiicant to now like "i hope youre happy" "gettinbg there" and that being all what really matters to jack because its really all that mattered to jack and the healing is what was needed in the end it was that place that tore them apart anywayyyy

[valentinesworld4ever]

c!tommy is the epitome of humanity, he's hurts and is hurt, he's loves, loves so deeply and yet hates so much more, his character is tragically ironic, from the beginning of his story wilbur, (during the l'manburg arc) was the reason dream hated Tommy (in which caused all his dream related trauma), Wilbur's negligence to properly care for tommy allowing Tommy to endanger himself and make enemies with dream, a powerful mercenary, along with Wilbur being being apart of the reason tommy lost his his friendship with tubbo, one of the only people around his age and the only person to truly look after tommy and help him, and then the only person he trusts at this point, his brother, his Savior in his eyes, is then manipulated by the enemy, the sole person they both hated, was the reason wilbur was manipulated into hurting tommy again, and that's why he was so human, even people like Phil and techno hurt and betrayed tommy because they didn't see him for what he is, the way jshlatt didn't, wilbur didn't and dream CERTAINLY didnt, EVERYONE up until quackity didn't see him for what he is, a kid, and by the time he meets quackity the one adult who sees Tommy, the real tommy, the loud, playful, gentle kid, he's manipulated back into the same abusive cycle as before, it's sad how everyone around him removed Tommy's humanization from him, they dehumanized him, they saw him as an enemy or a pawn, not a teenager and that's why he's so tragic, time and time again he's hurt and for reasons he could never control, and thats why when he was driven to the point of suicide during the exile arc it was so much sadder, because Tommy is so remarkably human, and so tragically a child

A/n; tell me if I should do more of these because I love yapping 👅👅 also sorry for any mistakes it's not proofread!!

[noxious-fennec]

Watch it man you got a kid on board

[so-normal-about-the-characters]

I think the best way I can describe c!Tommy is that he’s just a kid that wants to pull stupid pranks and hang out with his friends, but “the horrors” keep getting him.

[malt-rants-and-stuff]

when tommy thinks back on it hard enough, he can't reallt get a proper picture of the people of l'manburg in his mind. he remembers looking up at a lot of them, at least at first.

he looked up to the blurred figures his brother and niki, who he thought were prime examples of what a grown up should be. except, that isn't right, because he wasn't much younger than niki back then, her loose sweaters hanging low near her bruised knees. and he couldn't say wil was such a good fucking example, because look where they all ended up. look where he ended up.

jack and tubbo were firmer in his imagination. his friends at the start, though one much longer than the other. he feels the tides of a tired kind of nostalgia, one that he's pushed back and dove into a million times before. he remembers feeling so tall around them, not just in a literal sense. his lanky arms could reach to tuck perfectly into the crook of tubbo's elbow as he dragged them off into doomed adventures. his steadily stretching legs stuck out in front of jack's feet, then carried him far when the chase began.

still, in his memory he sees the versions of them without scars and scratches, tubbo smiling without any mirth attached. he feel the foggy sensation of jack's arm around his shoulder, still happy enough to be close to him. he remembers their youth in a way he hadn't been able to appreciate back then.

even eret and fundy, though they'd go on to burn bridges and turn blind eyes, had fond places in his memories. he remembers carrying himself with his head held high and shoulders back, in the way eret told him "showed confidence." he still knew how to spot a fox in the slightest of corners, the familiarity of a mischievous snicker murmuring in the back of his mind. he could never erase the bad that came after, nor the wars and their consequences. but he'd still have the little things from back then to remember every now and again.

sometimes he'll see the flicker of a campfire and just wonder what it was he was feeling back then, his old emotions muddled by the complicated present. he wonders if his old self would miss them in the same way he does now. if he'd mourn them in the same way he doesn't always need to.

he's getting there now, one step at a time. one memory gone past. one day lived through.

[maltmatcha]

Can we talk about c!Fundy

Yes I love c!Bitterduo too but god can we talk about c!Fundy. A boy born in the wrong body, at the wrong time, around the wrong people. His mother's gone. His father seems to care about a blond haired boy far more than he cares about his own son. His friends, the other war torn children, create and break alliances at any opportunity. He's told to fight for his nation and he doesn't know who to trust.

He can't even trust his own dad by the end of it all. Every authority figure he turns to disappoints him, and why wouldn't they? Fundy was a child of many failures. His sister L'manberg outshone him before it's demise, and was created with someone else in mind. Tommy overshadowed him when it came to his father. His grandfather too, chose someone else, a war criminal at that, to be loyal to above him.

Fundy seemed to follow behind everyone, and yet no one stuck with *him*. It's hard to name a single alliance he's had that hasn't fallen apart. It was as though he'd wasted his entire life clinging to the coat tails of people who didn't care about him the way he cared about them. When Revivebur came to him, half-assedly hobbling together an apology for his own self righteous brigade, can you really blame him for not accepting it? Might as well be a failure in someone else's eyes for a reason he could control.

He was overshadowed and outperformed by nearly everyone, and it wasn't even his fault. He was a spy for Pogtopia, but Tubbo gets the recognition for that. He was the son of a President. A leader. A man who will forever be remembered as the Creator of L'manberg, not the father of Fundy.

A lot of people complain about how Fundy never got a chance to shine, but I think that is exactly what's so interesting about him. In a narrative full of main characters, he never got the chance to be one.

[ctommystinks]

c!tommy hatepage

we do not like c!tommy here

i will probably never use this blog except for ranting about a series that ended over a year ago but i have a boiling rage for this one silly little minecraft character that gets babied and pampered way too goddamn much that's right i'm talking about c!tommy fuck c!tommy he's not a precious silly little baby he's a shithead just like every other c!dsmp person

he came into c!dream's peaceful server and broke all of the simple rules- no griefing, no fighting, no stealing, and encouraged others to do the same and yet c!dream is not allowed to get mad? bullshit, i say

no i am not excusing every fucked up thing c!dream has done, i agree there were a lot of times he went unnecessarily far and the extent of his actions weren't justified but i will say that him fucking despising c!tommy, the person who eventually led to his two closest friends distancing themselves, one fucking hating him and plotting to kill him, is 100% reasonable. not to mention c!dream was subject to god knows what kinds of inhumane torture because this little prick.

anyway fuck c!tommy he does not deserve the babying he gets

[mioakem]

how much u wanna bet he’s gonna bring up people tommy was friends with and things he said at 16 years old

[go0dvib3s]

Sometimes, I wonder just how fuckung stupid c!Tommy could be in the old ending (before Tommy and Jack redid it). Like, dude. You just got fucking tortured by this man in exile. Manipulated for years. Your friends threatened in front of your eyes. Watching your brother go insane which was part of Dream's influence on him, and yet once you realize he's "misunderstood" you feel regret for being.about to nuke him? Dude. He deadass deserves it. Let him rot.