#long live pewdiepie

[eyneyke]

Twitch stream

Pairing: Max Verstappen x PewDiePie!sibling Summary: What if Felix had a genius brother who works as a RedBull's engineer and is also secretly dating Max part 16 of A Calm to my Storm Masterlist

It was winter break for the F1 drivers, and after a long season, everyone was ready for some downtime. Max had stayed in Monaco while Sam had flown back to the UK to spend Christmas with Felix, Marzia, and family. Even though they were miles apart, Max and Sam still stayed connected, their secret relationship thriving through video calls and texting.

One evening, Max had joined a Twitch gaming session with Charles, Lando, George, and Alex. The five of them had been streaming regularly during the break, and fans were absolutely loving the dynamic between them. However, tonight, they decided to try out a new game but they were one player short for a team game.

"We need one more person," Lando groaned. "We can't start without a full squad and no, George, I don't want a random in our team!"

Max, who had been quietly listening, suddenly perked up. "I can call Sam if you guys are okay with that, he should be free," he said, a glint in his eye that nobody could see over their screens.

The others immediately agreed, eager to include Sam in their stream. Fans, too, were flooding the chat with excitement. Everyone now knew who Sam was, that Sam Kjellberg was not only Max’s engineer but had recently become a beloved figure in the gaming community, especially after all the attention he got in Felix’s live streams.

Max pulled out his phone and dialled Sam, putting it on speaker so the others could hear.

"Hey," Sam’s voice answered, sounding relaxed. "What’s up?"

"We’re short a player for a game," Max explained. "Think you can jump in for a bit? I need a teammate. It's for a Twitch stream, so please cover those arms of yours." He adds with a laugh.

Sam chuckled on the other end. "Alright, give me a second to turn my computer on and find a shirt. I’ll hop on. Send me the game and a link for the stream."

Max leaned back in his chair, grinning as he waited for Sam to join. "Oh, and turn on your webcam. Charles is streaming, and we all know how much the fans love you."

The other drivers laughed as Sam sighed dramatically. "Fine, fine. But if I look tired, blame it on Felix and Marzia for keeping me up with all the holiday prep."

Soon enough, Sam’s voice came through their headphones, and his webcam lit up in Charles’s stream. The chat exploded the moment Sam appeared, wearing a comfortable hoodie and looking as relaxed as ever, despite having just jumped into a live stream.

"Sam!" Charles exclaimed with a grin. "Good to have you, mate."

"Good to be here," Sam replied, already sounding like he was in the zone for the game. "What are we playing?"

Max quickly explained the game rules, and before long, the teams were set. Unsurprisingly, Max and Sam ended up on the same team.

As the match started, the camaraderie between the drivers and Sam was infectious. Max and Sam’s teamwork was flawless, and the more they played, the more the chat filled with comments about how well they worked together. Fans were loving it, not only because Sam was skilled, but also because of how relaxed and natural his interactions with Max were.

"You know," George remarked at one point during the stream, "I feel like Max plays more fair when Sam’s around."

Max laughed. "Maybe because I know I will get completely obliterated if this one even smells me anywhere near cheating."

Sam smirked, his voice laced with teasing. "Don’t get too cocky, Max. I’ll still roast you, win or lose."

The banter between them flowed effortlessly, making it clear just how close they were. But while the rest of the drivers and fans only saw them as friends, Max and Sam knew there was a lot more going on beneath the surface.

As the game went on, the chat kept filling with comments about how fun it was to watch Sam and Max together. People started joking that Sam was the reason for Max’s success in F1—not because of his engineering skills, but because of how well they played FIFA together.

"You should join our streams more often," Charles said as they wrapped up a match. "Fans are going crazy."

"Yeah," Lando added with a grin. "You’ve got the chat all excited again, Sam. They’ve missed you. Next time though I will bring Max F with me, because George mate, you suck."

Sam chuckled, clearly enjoying the attention. "Maybe I will. If Max can survive a few more matches, that is."

Max shot a playful glare at the screen. "Watch it, Kjellberg."

By the end of the stream, the vibe was lighthearted and fun, with Sam fitting in seamlessly with the rest of the drivers. As they signed off for the night, fans couldn’t stop talking about how much they enjoyed the surprise guest appearance.

As for Max, he was just happy to spend some time with Sam, even if it was through a computer screen. They may have been keeping their relationship a secret, but moments like these—where they could be close, even in front of the whole world—made it all the more special.

Once the stream ended and the cameras were off, Max shot Sam a quick message: That was fun. Miss you, though.

Sam’s reply came almost immediately: Miss you too. See you soon tho.

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wait you’re cooking. it wasn’t a hiatus (just a dapg hiatus) it just wasn’t the content everyone wanted/liked/were used to/whatever.

writing a book and pitching shows and preparing and going on tour is hard work. he was working he just… wasn’t like live streaming writing lol. also he was extremely depressed for a while. obviously that warrants a break.

but i do think you’re right about people just not liking it so they just kind of black it out. which like, if you don’t like something, fine. but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t doing anything. and also, like you said, covid fucked everyone’s sense of time so like. it feels like it’s been 50 billion years since 2018, not 6. which obviously doesn’t help.

Thank you! People in the notes of the post also pointed out how dnp had been doing A Lot of work in the mid 2010s (remember when we had 3 liveshows every week, including one on the BBC?), so it didn't help that phannies were unbelievably spoiled in terms of regular content. But I also don't think it's fair to dnp to expect them to never change the type of content they want to put out. Like, phannies keep saying they'd still love weekly livestreams where Dan just sits at his desk and yaps for an hour, and like. I'm sure he could do that. But I genuinely don't think he'd be more successful with it than with what he did do.

Like. Look at the other popular youtubers from the time of dnp's zenith. Zoella stopped posting. Marcus Butler stopped posting. Troye Sivan has fully pivoted towards music. Connor Franta gets 40k views on his videos. Tyler Oakley streams on twitch? For 60k subscribers, idk how many people he's usually got online in there? And like, the big guns? Shane Dawson? Pewdiepie? Should've quit! Jenna Marbles? Did quit!

I'm rambling on again but like. People need to understand that being a YouTuber from 2014 is not a long-term sustainable job. I honestly think it's almost a miracle that the phandom is still so committed and that they managed to keep their engagement so high (coming out at a time when most people expected their careers to be over probably helped a lot though. To be clear I don't think they came out in order to revive their careers, not at all, but I'm convinced it helped. A lot.)

But yeah what I was saying is. I get that phannies want the content they know and that they grew to love dnp for. So do I!!! But I think we're overestimating our stamina in watching the same thing for years and years and years without ever getting a taste of what it feels like to *miss* that thing. I don't know if the gaming channel return would have been as successful as it was if they both (especially Dan) hadn't disappointed us a little before. And like, I'm kinda sad for Dan bc I don't think that was his plan. I would love to like WAD! I would love to see the vod have millions of views! But unfortunately, I don't love it, and I don't want to click on it when I see it in my recommended, and it feels even more disrespectful to give it sympathy views. Because I want to have fun watching Dan and Phil. And I think we all do.

[i-cant-sing]

Im a new anon , I don't know where the India Pakistan thing came from but I don't think you have lived in India long enough

Pakistan has done some god awful things , my great grandma died last year - her parents and sisters were killed because of Muslims .

You victimizeing yourself saying " should you hate me that I'm a Muslim?" Sounds well... Pathetic

It depends on states - in central India and northern people don't care , in southern and western people can be a bit bias but excuse us for not trusting someone who also killed our people

Also curious why you mentioned "why are you banning hijabs" but not the part where the majority Indians protested against the states government banning it.

Please educate yourself. I don't know how the topic shifted from "save Palestine" to "im a victim because my ancestors were Muslim"

babygirl... *deep breath* EVERY ETHNIC COMMUNITY HAS COMMITED CRIMES AGAINST ANOTHER ETHNICITY. THATS WHY THE SUBCONTINENT GOT DIVIDED-YALL HAD TOO MANY DIFFERENCES AND STARTED HATING EACH OTHER(i mean the bristish technically had a huge part in the "divide and rule" game)! BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT ITS RIGHT! Be it Muslims, Hindus or whatever, no one should start ethnic cleansing and hate crimes.

The topic may have shifted from "save Palestine" for you, but im still on it. Thing is, anon brought up the whole "scared of Muslims, u should see how horrible they are in India" thingy while I was posting about PAlestine, which means that anon thinks that all muslims are bad and therefore its actually okay for Palestinians to die because at least anon will be less scared.

Im sure Pakistan has done pretty fucked up shit too, but ngl, hand to god, not one pakistani anon has come into my dms to shit talk about India. And lets not delude ourselves into thinking that India has never committed any crimes against Pakistan, be it a terror group, the military or the government.

also, what do u want me to do about "majority" indians protested against the hijab ban? Give u a medal??? AS THEY SHOULD! It should never have been brought up for debate.

"but excuse us for not trusting someone who also killed our people" yes sweetie thats called racism (and also- stupidity) because im sorry, is every muslim suddenly Osama bin laden??? SHould we all just not come to India because Raman Raghav was a psycho, so thats how every guy in India is???

God, like what is wrong with yall?? This feels like T Series vs Pewdiepie, just a lot less amusing.

[fishonthem00n]

An Introductory Post

◇ hello there

◇ my name is Alex, and I have been on my shifting journey for about 3 years as of writing this. I've had a few experiences in different realities that I will go into detail about later, but first I wanna say go follow my partner @homebeyondstars for even more shifting goodness. (and a cuter blog owner). y'all can ask me anything about my DRs and experiences, I like talking about them <3

◇ sorry if this is long winded

My Focus DRs:

♡ Stardew Valley (harvey <3)

♡ Hogwarts (ravenclaw, set in 2012)

♡ Pokémon (traveling Pokémon care expert in Alola)

♡ Yuurivoice

My Planned DRs:

♡ Dragon Ball Z (saiyan adopted by bulma)

♡ Tinker Bell (animal fairy)

♡ The Arcana (julian <3)

♡ MCU (basically beast boy)

♡ Skyrim

♡ The Lion King

♡ Kung Fu Panda

♡ Twilight

♡ Unus Annus

♡ How to Train Your Dragon

♡ Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

My Experiences

♤ my first shift happened only a month or so after starting the journey three years ago. I had made a MHA DR for my first one, which is now basically retired due to me growing out of it. it was a thing where I was living with the League of Villains (if you don't know MHA those are indeed the villains and very not good people). anyways. I meditated before hand, listened to a Raven method subliminal, and went to sleep. I woke up standing in my DR bedroom with the lights off. the only thing illuminating it was the light from the two fish tanks i had scripted in. the sheets on the bed were also visibly black, which I had scripted as well. I very clearly remember the door being ajar and being nervous that Dabi would walk in. from outside my room I could also hear a TV playing the news but couldn't make out what they were saying. I woke up in my CR after a couple minutes total.

♤ my second experience also comes from this same DR. I don't remember what I did before sleeping, but I had a dream about my teeth falling out into the bathroom sink. at some point I became aware that it was a dream, and became lucid. so, to test my control over the dream, I mentally summoned Bucky Barnes from the MCU. it worked, he appeared, and that was all I needed. I willed myself to shift from the dream and ended up in my DR bedroom again. it looked exactly as I had scripted, and I could see everything this time. I passed by a mirror and noticed I still looked like my CR self. so, I verbally spoke the affirmation I used to describe my DR self whenever I would do methods, and I kinda shapeshifted into my DR self. it was crazy ngl. then I went outside my room and into the living room only to find some of the League there. Toga and Dabi were both sitting on different couches, and they looked like they were having a sleepover or something. Toga waved and said hi to me excitedly, and Dabi was too focused on his phone to notice me. I heard Shigaraki say something from behind me which scared me so bad I got thrown back into another dream that I can't remember. the air in my room felt very fresh.

♤ the third one was a weird one and came out of nowhere. I had a lucid dream where I opened my closet door and affirmed that I would shift once I entered it. and I did. I know this because the sensations were completely different from lucid dreaming. I walked down a really cramped hallway and eventually got to a room where Pewdiepie and Marzia were chilling and playing some Gundam fighter game. I chilled with them and we started talking about how some streamer stole some art I made or something, so I asked if I should start posting speedpaints to help my art be more associated with me. Pewds was like "I mean yeah, sounds good to me." I also remember he kept making the game glitch out and the model move in a weird way that made me laugh and he was like "WHY ARE YOU LAUGHIIIIING" and it was nice for my inner youtube kid brain. funnily, what shifted me back was seeing a fish tank and thinking about how much it looked like my CR tank. for some reason I woke up in my CR after that, ig I focused on it too hard

♤ the final experience is another random one and another MHA related one. and kind of a dubious lucid dream, not sure. it starts in a dream yet again where I go outside my house to the back porch and notice my hands are glowing yellow, which I had scripted for my DR quirk "soothing touch". this led me to snap into a lucid dream or minishift, I'm still not really sure. I could smell the rain, and I could feel all the physical sensations like my breath and the wood beneath my feet. Deku is on the porch with me fsr and we talk for a little bit. then he gives me a cheek kiss (not sure why) and I could VERY clearly feel how dry his hair was. like, caked with hairspray type dry. I walked over to a door and was intending on going to my DR through it, but I got woken up by a phone call. thanks @homebeyondstars <3

◇ despite not shifting fully for more than ten minutes ish after 3 years, I'm still going. and so should you. find a way to get excited for your DR, cause it is genuinely exciting having the chance to go somewhere you love at no cost. I'm not gonna stop, and I intend on visiting everywhere I want to go and learning everything I can from those experiences. happy shifting, tell me all about it when you come back <3

[mcytblr-archive]

Early MCYTblr Interviews: warpedfungusonastick

today's interviewee is warpedfungusonastick, who's been in MCYTblr since the summer of 2020 and is a member of dreamlying! below is a transcript of their account of early MCYTblr.

Digging back into what I have of my online history, I started the tumblr blog warpedfungusonastick in late July 2020. Beforehand I had a very small <20 follower dttwt account and saw that the Tumblr community was more my vibe. I was 18 when I got into being a dteam ~fan and my personal views on fandom and stan culture and parasocial relationships were, while still evolving, kind of against a lot of the culture that was growing up around especially the twitter fan community.

(This being said, this was the depths of COVID lockdown and I rarely left my house because I was a senior in high school in the U.S. and living with someone who absolutely could not get sick. So I was terminally online and can definitely say in retrospect deeply invested in the fan culture and even the creators/their online personas while being semi-ironically self aware of this relationship.)

I first saw a dteam video in later 2019. Funny enough (and not funny at all, because I think about these Patterns quite a lot), I had then just left the Cryaotic fandom. If you don't know, he was an old friend of pewdiepie who split with him around the time of or before the multiple pewdiepie scandals and pewdiepie whistling off several alt-right dog whistles and that whole thing. But back to the point, like a month after i became a regular Cryaotic Twitch viewer, a long expose came out about him being abusive to his ex-girlfriend and a groomer of underaged fans. Cryaotic was a faceless streamer whose iconography was this little blob thing and I will not abandon the theory that the origins of Dreamwastaken fanart are the direct successor to humanized fanart of this Cryaotic persona.

Through the whole Cryaotic thing I first found out about kiwifarms/lolcow. What stuck to me, beyond the abhorrent stuff said on those sites, was that they had a pretty clear system of archiving things using sites such as archive.is and were completely unafraid to post "doxxed" materials anonymously.

Commentary on DL interviews: - I fully second what georgesoot said about "No it's not odd, I at least partially strove for infamy. Any attention gratifies the ego after all, not just positive attention. Then there was the absurdity of it all". I tried to be a lot less controversial than some other DL members, but I did run with them and did say some things that weren't within the typical conventions of more mainstream and popular blogs of the time. It was a dopamine hit for people to interact with my blog--like any social media--but I/we did it in a kind of absurdist way at a point with the things we said and the ways we kind of transgressed whatever the normal way of being a fan blog was. - Re: Wormweeb--I was also kind of mentally ill and depressed and really only interacted with both friends online (even if they were friends from school). And as a result I took it all a bit more seriously than it was at the time. This is is less related but I used to get these--visceral? reactions to when Drama would happen because I was personally invested more so because I didn't want my online friend group who (although seen as a united front on the outside sometimes, I think) each had our Faves in the mcyt space and had had petty infighting over the morals of that (both seriously and unseriously, but everything starts to bleed, in my opinion).

More about my previous exposure to Minecraft fandom: I used to follow mianite back in the day and watched a lot of captiansparklez & aureylian. Since I joined the dteam fandom before any blog presence I was there for their very first streams (which got like…5k views 10k?) and the birth of the dsmp as essentially a server for friends (which led to minor discourse later when the line between roleplay and people on a MC server blurred.)

So my points of reference for these types of fandoms were a fandom that was very much for younger children (Mianite) and therefore the creators were treated with more distance and the recently up-in-flames Cryaotic fandom.

Back to doxxing/archiving/odd relation between: I used to joke about the tension between the right to privacy and to be forgotten on the internet and the right for nosy teenagers with too much time on their hands (and literally obsession brainworms) to dig up your past. Two things I think that were interesting about the most (in my opinion) morally dubious element of mcytblr and most people formed their negative opinions of critblr on was the having/knowing "forbidden" information. Most of this we were either told by randos or knew through other people online. A lot of it also ended up on Dream's kiwifarms, but that was a bit of a two-way street.

And the second part of this whole thing is the way that this information would come up among The Discourse. Because knowing some of the things we/I knew, you could call out creator's lies/misrepresentations of their histories/online pasts in ways that people who didn't know couldn't. Which was kind of where some of the in-jokes came from. I also took the habit of archiving things (old accounts, posts, whatever) to archive.is and such at the time because I fell on the 'I don't want this digital history to be erased if only for my own sanity.'

I think this has been rehashed before, but at every corner, the mcyt/dteam fandom was a fandom like any other, complicated by the fact that it was a real person fandom. And especially on tumblr where the Culture was a little different because no creators (few creators) were on Tumblr, people kind of just said and did whatever. I struggle to think of any of this as important in the grand scheme of anything, but there was a massive outpour of content because of the sheer size of the fandom across all platforms. There was 24/7 content, big fomo, and so I think blogs acted like pundits--like a forum on the newist in DSMP or Love or Host or MCC or whatever. My memory of that time has atrophied a lot but I think that DL and co. cropped up as the pundit subclass (however some of us had actual talent like wormweeb and made fanworks) and the fandom overall was sustained by a sprawling form of Conversation on the Latest Content.

Q: right-- and while other blogs caught people up on streams, dream lying was more interested in meta on the creators themselves?

I think that was a part of it. We were all united in this semi-ironic cynicism about fandom culture as a whole while being fans ourselves, and we socially shared this Vision of a number of variably worded critiques about - stan culture - cancel culture - the dangers/pitfalls/intricacies of these.

I think a lot of it was just shits and giggles, but at least I at one point had this idea that I was a tiny little measured response to the excess of fandom culture. I looked down on uncritical fandom and thought that especially because some of these creators cultivated deeply parasocial relationships with their young fans (I was not much older, but all 18 year olds are Like That) it was some sort of imperative to talk about that at least a little bit.

As I read through my old posts--these was a lot of self important a lot of rambling a lot of nonsense. And I don't really think that these fandom culture can be changed by one little microblogger with a couple hundred followers, but I stand by a lot of my initial criticisms of the ecosystem as a whole and mainly the creators themselves and their (heh) lying, their harm, their overall misconduct and above all the systems that created and enable their whacky ass bullshit to this day. .

But the doubled edged sword of (I return to the forbidden info thruline) I never really shared info that was private because I wanted to be somewhat ethical, so it always felt a bit like we/I was going crazy with things I knew to be true but obviously wouldn't share because that's nor super moral.

Another note about The Rumors and DreamLying--in my memory we kind of thought were Something. And I guess we've been nudged along in that perception but I think the most vocal and controversial of us just said wild shit that stuck in people's brains and for the longest time I didn't associate myself with dream lying at all on Warpedfungus because I wanted to be Somewhat Normal, if measuredly critical and just…vibing. But I think at circles back to a lot of this being wank amongst a handful of terminally online people who at the time didn't get out enough and, like, fixated on this Thing because it was community (or a facsimile of) and at the end of the way we're all just archives or archived pages or gone forever.

(Which reminds me that for the longest time I had you and Roxytonic blocked because I thought archiving was corny but I now think it's kind of cool. It's a nostalgia trip, if anything else. I'm now in another fandom that would've really benefited from some hardcore archiving because so much of the old internet (and fan spaces amongst them--ie ff.net, livejournal, even more underground spaces) are completely lost to the sands of time and the deletion of those hosting sites, etc)

Q: i am very interested in your thoughts on, as you mentioned before in reference to cryaotic, the way that creators cultivate and manipulate fanbases, and the effects you think it had on how the mcytblr fandom

Dream, along with "learning/studying the algorithm" and getting insanely lucky, did many specific things to cultivate a fandom of immensely parasocial fans. And regardless of my cynical vision of what his motives were, his actions of wanting to be seen as a 'friend', sharing many personal details, being accessible to fans, DMing young stan accounts, following fan accounts, OKaying a lot of fanworks about him/his personal and the whole…gaybaiting (you know what i"m referring to) thing had the result of a very large very dedicated fanbase.

As far as cryaotic, it's my theory that dream knew the effect on having a very…intimate…relationship with his conventionally not ugly young white man friend, and used that. And as far as the other element that I associate between dteam/cryaotic--these were men who had very boring lives and probably saw themselves as undesirable to women Until they had this massive following and this kind of situation happens time and time again where people get Influence that didn't used to have and do messed up things with it. And I don't know what's to be done, but it's quite bad and completely goes against the "wholesome" image they try to cultivate. If not some of the stuff being actually crimes.

I think the common perception is sometimes that these cases are "bad apples" when there are so many bad apples And not even in the man aint shit way, but unlike more conventional routes to Fame, mcyts have no oversight unless they join and esports org and still then…the org may just side iwth them if it's worth it. And that's not to say that this stuff doesn't happen with conventional celebrity and even on college campuses and in everyday life and whatnot but I think people in such a public eye should be held to standards of conduct that may prevent some of this.

[aizenat]

I was watching this woman who does child free content on yt, and she was showing clips of a woman on tik tok who was complaining about some family vlogger influencers (because that’s somehow still a thing in 2024 apparently) on ig who went on a cruise and apparently went to have dinner after the kids went to sleep so they could have a romantic night alone. They had baby monitors and nothing actually happened, but the internet does what it always does and this girl is just moralizing about all the could be dangers that COULD have happened in a worst case scenario because god forbid people don’t live their lives with crippling anxiety constantly planning and expecting the worst thing to happen at all times (not defending the couple but girl nothing happened just shut the fuck up).

And I had this thought I’ve been having a lot where I’m thinking this woman who I’m watching react to this girl’s tik tok (a supposed journalist lol) is wasting her time watching a girl waste her time making tik tok after tik tok moralizing about a couple she doesn’t know doing something that wasn’t the smartest but led to no issues, bitching about this couple sharing their stupid lives online.

And like I just thought to myself “why does this girl on tik tok care so much about this couple to make all these videos faking concern about these kids that are fine? Why is this YouTuber wasting her time reacting to this girl making tik toks about a family neither of them know and how they raise their kids? Why is this couple able to get enough people watching them vlog their lives that they can afford a nice cruise (and apparently make enough to afford a hypothetical nanny for the kids so they wouldn’t have to leave them alone sleeping in the rooms just for a date night, according to critics), and enough attention to get major backlash for doing something I’m sure most of our own parents did at least once or twice.”

Like truly, what does ANY of this matter? I don’t know ANY of these ppl I’m engaging with. I don’t care about family vloggers: I find them all reprehensible. I don’t care about some random white woman’s moralizing on another couple not being perfect parents like she thinks all parents should be. I don’t even understand why the child free content creator was even commenting on the drama. Like what was the point? Don’t have children so you can have date nights without worrying about kids?

Like who cares? Why are we all so obsessed with other people’s lives? People we don’t know, will never know, who will get canceled in a few years for something (if they’re lucky enough to last that long) just to do it all over again with a new influencer. That south Asian ray guy was the most popular YouTuber and and then it was pewdiepie then one of the Paul brothers then dream then Mr beast and he’s getting canceled now so it’ll be someone new this time next year.

Again and again the cycle goes and what do any of us get out of it? Are we better people for it? Are we even entertained? Why does ANY of this shit matter? Truly?

Idk how corny or eye roll inducing it is to say this but the entire internet, and most of modern media, has become a literal virtual reality matrix that we’re all acting like we have to participate in. You don’t go online, you miss all the news. Everyone from boomers to gen x to millennials to gen z to gen alpha don’t know how to connect to people without it. At my last job, my coworkers would bond over memes they’d share on fb or send each other snapchats or tik toks and constantly reference them. And because I’m not on the sites, I was literally missing out. And when I’d ask them to send things to our group chat so I could enjoy the fun, they just ignored me.

In today’s world, if you’re not plugged into the matrix, you pretty much don’t exist. It’s a red flag if ppl can’t find social media on you. YouTube commentary videos don’t even introduce players in drama because they assume you already know who they’re talking about for some reason. I’m expected to know all the latest tik tok influencers and streamers and podcasters and all the other mundane morons taking up space online. Why? Why do I need to know any of them just to keep up? Truly? Why?

Meanwhile, no one knows how our government work to organize effectively (looking at the faux “pro Palestine” ppl protesting the dnc without any fucking real plan all while ignoring that three of the most progressive and pro Palestinian representatives were up for reelection and let two of them LOSE their reelection bid, pulling more pro Palestinian voices away from congress; as well as ANYONE telling people to not vote or vote third party in November), no one seems to care that we’re living through a major environmental catastrophe, NO ONE READS, art is literally dying thanks to corporate greed, men are gearing up for a major anti feminist backlash that I’m afraid no woman under 30 is quite prepared to fight against, and no one can afford to live a happy and comfortable life.

But I have to care about stupid influencers being stupid online for stupid amounts of money because everyone is chasing a bag instead of working to make the world a better place.

I’m genuinely hitting a limit. Not in the manosphere way, but I’m seriously taking the red pill and getting the fuck out. This online world is just so bleak and miserable. I can’t deal with this shit anymore. It’s burning me out and I’m exhausted by it all. I genuinely just need out. Completely and fully. I’m so completely done.

[jackinalex]

Hi there! I really like your writing, you write plots that suck people in very well. I have a question though, and please take this as genuine curiosity because that really is what it is. What are your thoughts on the, hmmm let's say ethics, of writing fanfiction about real people? Ive found myself drawn to the dynamics of relationships for both real and fictional pairings, but when it's real, there is always something that kind of twinges at me. I've seen interviews where sometimes the subjects get uncomfortable knowing people write about them, and I could see how I might feel wierd about it if it were me. But on the flip side, the stories are of course fiction. You seem very involved in this side of the fandom, and I would be very interested to know your thoughts.

Putting this under a cut bc it’s so long lol.

Thank you for the compliments! You made my morning. To answer your question, I think that rpf is a complex and nuanced topic, but what it really boils down to is the subjects' feelings. I’ve written rpf in some capacity for going on thirteen years and will use each of those fandoms as examples to express the nuances of the topic.

When I was 14-16, I wrote WWE fanfiction. The difference between wresting rpf and say, bandom rpf, is that WWE for the most part is fictional and the wrestlers portray some sort of character, even if they go by their real names, therefore it is similar to writing about a tv show or movie (though some people include their real lives and real families). I’ve heard a few wrestlers say that fan fiction is a little weird, but the ones I wrote about never said it made them especially uncomfortable. In fact, Torrie Wilson (my queen), has even tweeted about Jorrie, which is the ship of her and John Cena, which was my first rpf ship I ever wrote about.

When I was 16-18, I wrote YouTube rpf, first about Pewdiepie and Cryaotic (I know, yikes), and those two (especially Cry, and I know, yikes again) spoke at length about how they didn’t mind fan fiction at all. They even read some as content for their channels. I then wrote about Ian and Anthony from Smosh, who also read fan fiction (MANY) times for their different channels. They even read part one of my fics on their channel at one point. Sometimes Ian and Anthony did seem a bit uncomfortable with the fanfiction, but it was more that they didn’t want to read the fics themselves and less that the fics existed. They’ve spoken at length about how they’re happy for people to express themselves in any way, even if it’s through fan fiction about them.

Finally, we have ages 19-now. I’ve written about Jalex for the longest period of my life (nearly ten years, which is nuts). It’s interesting because they’ve made hundreds of jokes about fucking each other for years, made references to fics and how they want people to keep writing them, and Jack even had a Jalex shirt for his JAGK line. Then, around 2012, interviewers started pushing them to talk about it far too much to the point where it made them uncomfortable. So I don’t think it was the fics themselves, but rather being asked about them and being put on the spot.

I say all of this to say that I think rpf is okay if you do the following:

Find out if the subject has explicitly stated that they do not want to be included in fic.

DO NOT send the fics to anyone you’ve written about (unless they’ve asked for them, for some reason). Also, do not mention fics or shipping to these people (unless, again, they’ve asked you to).

I think that people have the right to not want to be written about, but as you said, it is purely fiction. Also, when people have large platforms and have lots of fans, there are “fan” things that kind of just happen, not just fics, but also fanart, fan edits, speculation, gossip, etc. It’s part of the fame. The love and admiration people hold for their favorite celebrities has to go somewhere and that’s often through fanwork.

I hope this somewhat answers your question! I can only speak from my own experience, but this is the conclusion I’ve come to after years of rpf. If you’re interested in participating, we’d love to have you! Our fandom is small, but loyal and tight-knit. Much love!

[salientseraph]

GIV'US THE LIST!!! Genuinely curious about your heinous taste in men

OKAY ANON?1??1?1

I'm gonna try to go in somewhat chronological order. Some are fictional, some are non fictional, it should make sense :)

This is a LONG FUCKING POST BTW

My first crush ever......drum roll......

(gonna be using gifs so i don't hit a photo limit)

1) Mike Nesmith!!! (The Monkees)

He's one of my earliest memories, I had to be around three years old. First crush started off strong. The first episode I ever saw was fairytale, and it was absolutely AMAZING because this beautiful princess was also a beautiful MAN??? It was like hitting the jackpot! I loved his Texan accent SOOO much but had somehow convinced myself that it was embarrassing so I didn't tell anyone?? At 3 years old. But now I'm living my truth👍🏻

2) Michael Jackson (all eras)

I'm almost positive he was my first hyperfixaction when I was around 5. I listened to his music EVERY DAY and SHAMELESSLY wore a sparkly glove despite it being a sensory nightmare. When my mom had told me he died it was like my entire world ended, and I had gained a new catchphrase whenever my parents introduced me to something new, "Are they dead?"

3) Christopher Reeve's Superman (and Lois)

I don't particularly remember how old I was, but it was around the same time methinks. Absolutely melted every time he smiled. And was extremely confused as to why I wanted to be around Lois so much. Couldn't ever decide who I wanted to look at more. (Partly a biromantic awakening)

4) Sam Beckett (Quantum Leap)

If you couldn't tell, growing up in the early 2000's with musicians as parents led to little 5 year old me having so many old interests I couldn't really relate to younger kids, but that was okay because I had variety! I'm not quite sure how old I was when Netflix was a postal service, but every week or so we'd get a new episode of Quantum Leap, and I LOVED Sam. (And of course my favorite episodes were when he had to be a girl. I am a creature of habit)

5) Obi Wan Kenobi (and Padme) (Star Wars)

Yet another one I was REALLY embarrassed about for some reason. All of my (2 neighbor friends) thought Anakin was soooo hot and I was like.....haha yeah....

6) Chuck Bartowski (and Sarah Walker) (Chuck)

I sort of grew up watching the show Chuck, I'm pretty sure we had rented most of the seasons from our local block buster, lol. Anyway, another case of bi panic, because good GOD. I mean seriously. Just look at them. ALSO I have to mention Scott Bakula (actor for Sam Beckett) is Chuck's DAD so um. Do with that information what you will.

7) The Doctor (11) (Doctor who)

I'm 6 years old. I'm over at my mom's friends house and I am subjected to the first modern show I had really ever paid attention to, and I see this beautiful man holding a baby. And I'm like wait hey...maybe I should sit and watch this instead of wasting 2 hours on the sims 2. So I sit my ass down and it is love at first sight. Later I go to watch the show on my own and the first episode he's with a kid MY AGE?!?! I ate that shit UP. Still madly in love with the raggedy man.

8) 2016 youtuber phase (sigh)

OKAY OKAY EVERYONE ON FANDOM TUMBLR don't boo me, everyone had a youtuber phase in middle school. Everyone also had an undertale phase in middle school. It was the thing to do, (aside from superwholock of course) Had to mention it because we're going in chronological order of things, bear with me. Although these are real people, everyone who was in the depths of insanity at the time knows they were all very...fanonized. Pewdiepie, Jackscepticeye, and Dan Howell (known at the time as danisnotonfire). Yes I am a little ashamed. But I do stand by the fact they are all very cute. I think this is also around the time I got into the Flash series, which brings us...

9) Cisco (The Flash)

Okay girl no one wanted him like I did. Everyone was so focused on the flash they did NOT notice my mans, and that was okay because I didn't have to fight over him with anyone lmao- but yes, he was the light of my life in middle school. Promptly stopped watching the show when he left. Around that time I got into Steven Universe all the way until my sophmore (?) year of highschool which brings us to....

10) Loki (Marvel Media)

Okay look, after being a mild marvel hater for a low-key (pun intended) long time, the loki series came out and I was like okay sure I'll watch it. And henceforth 2021 was the year of Lokimania. Or more fitting, Hiddleston mania. Watched everything I could get my hands on. But I always came back to Loki. (I was 16/17 I think?)

11) Castiel (Supernatural)

Avoided watching the show for a long time because of....the superwholock plague LOL. So 2022 rolls around and my mom is like "hey btw this show is actually really good" and I'm like okay whatever.

Then season 4 hits. And I see this ANGEL. And I am in love. 2022 was the year of supernatural, along with FINALLY getting all of the in-jokes of superwholock.

12) Connor (Detroit: Become Human)

I am now 18. I found myself delving back into my old "watch jacksepticeye while I eat lunch bc I want to be non-verbal" habit and stumbled across his dbh playthrough. I watched it literally ANY time I could. Took two days but it was life changing, so much so that I had literally convinced my mom to buy a cheap ps4 and I played the game. Got so much into the fandom I started watching Bryan Decharts streams, and one thing lead to another and HE COMMENTED ON MY FANART!! Anyway live laugh love Connor Anderson (he is hanks son)

13) Arthur Morgan (Red Dead Redemption 2)

Piggy-backing off of the high of dbh, I finally got around to purchasing red dead 2 (because like 5 of my friends recommended it to me, including my older brother) so I got it, and BOY I did not expect to fall in love with a cowboy, but I suppose it is deeply rooted in me to like fellas of that sort. I cried my eyes out and couldn't eat for a whole day when he died in my first playthrough.

14) Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3)

Look do I even need to explain myself here. Its the same old story of girl sees beautiful man from media she has no idea about, obsesses over thousands of videos of him, buys game and romances him, the rest is history. 2023 was definitely my videogame year.

15) Jerma probably

Look we all know he isn't real but look at how cute he is ^v^'!!

Supremely Honorable Mention: Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

I would have put him in the list but I literally have no memory of watching the first movie, when I did it, how I felt, nothing. Its just a blip and then all of a sudden this human embodiment of a shy giggle consumed my brain (and this was before I was a fan of anything harry potter, again I avoided all the media all together because of the cringe millennial fandom stuff I had seen, no hate to y'all now though cause I'm one of you)

There you have it! I've had a ton of mini crushes in-between these but none compare to this list I think :) I love them very very much and I need to make a giant fanart with all of my silly funky quirky little dudes all being friends <3

[eyneyke]

Sam is back live!

Pairing: Max Verstappen x PewDiePie!sibling Summary: What if Felix had a genius brother who works as a RedBull's engineer and is also secretly dating Max part 12 of A Calm to my Storm Masterlist

Jack greeted the stream with his usual energy, waving to the camera. The little box that Felix usually occupied in their videos was now showing Felix's empty chair. “Hey, guys! So, Felix is running a little late today. He’ll be here soon, though. He mentioned something about airport but I didn't manage to catch it, so you know as much as I do.”

The chat immediately flooded with curious comments:

User 109: “Late?? Pewds? Never!”

User 110: “Who's Felix picking up?? 👀”

User 111: “Jack, you should roast him for being late lmao.”

User 112: “Airport? Did someone special arrive?? 👀”

User 113: “Wait, Felix is never late, what’s going on???”

---

Jack laughed, leaning into the camera. “I think you guys are gonna like this. But yeah, Felix will explain it when he gets here. I’m just here to keep you entertained in the meantime.”

He joked with the chat, playing around with a few games while everyone kept wondering why Felix was so delayed.

-40 minutes later-

Suddenly, the door burst open, and Felix stumbled into frame, slightly dishevelled. “Hey, everyone! Sorry, sorry! I know I’m late!”

The chat blew up instantly:

User 114: “FINALLY, HE’S HERE!”

User 115: “PEWDS IN THE HOUSE!”

User 116: “Better late than never, Felix!”

User 117: “What took you so long, man???”

---

Felix rubbed his temples dramatically, exasperation in his voice. “So, turns out, flying from Australia makes you completely unable to call a cab. I had to drive all the way to the airport and back just because someone was lazy.” He gave the camera a sarcastic look. “Because, you know, that's impossible to do.”

The chat exploded with confusion and excitement:

User 118: “WHO DID YOU PICK UP???”

User 119: “Australia?? Who’s from Australia?”

User 120: “Omg is it Marzia???”

User 121: “Did Jack finally move to Europe? 😂”

User 122: “Guys the last f1 race was in Australia!!!”

Felix stepped aside and yelled toward the hallway, “Hey, Sam! Get over here! You’re sooo streaming with me now, because you made me late!”

The chat immediately exploded in excitement:

User 123: “SAM??????”

User 124: “NO WAY, SAM KJELLBERG IS BACK!!!”

User 125: “WAIT, YOU PICKED UP SAM FROM THE AIRPORT?!”

User 126: “OMG IT’S HAPPENING!”

User 127: “THE THIRST RETURNS!”

---

A moment later, Sam casually strolled into the room, his usual smirk on his face. He was wearing a long-sleeved shirt that hugged his shoulders and toned arms, much to the delight of the viewers.

Felix shot Sam a look. “Look at you. Couldn’t even call a cab, could you?”

Sam shrugged, completely unfazed. “What can I say? I missed my big bro.”

The Chat Loses It

User 128: “SAM IS HERE! SAM IS HERE!!”

User 129: “Oh my god, he’s hotter than last time. I can’t.”

User 130: “PEWDIEPIE’S BROTHER BACK AT IT AGAIN, AND STILL LOOKING FINEEEE!”

User 131: “THE MUSCLES ON THIS MAN AND NOW THE TAN FROM THAT AUSTRALIAN SUN😍”

User 132: “FELIX, YOUR BROTHER IS TOO HOT FOR THIS STREAM.”

---

“I swear, is this a gaming stream or a Sam thirst-fest?”, Felix says as he waits for Sam to get comfortable on the chair next to him.

Jack cackled at the chat’s reaction, leaning back in his chair. “Guys, I told you this would be good. I knew you’d lose your minds when Sam showed up again.”

Felix sat down in his chair, shaking his head with a smile. “Okay, okay, calm down, you thirsty animals. We’re actually gonna play some games. Sam, grab a controller. You owe me after that airport fiasco.”

Sam grabbed a controller, looking completely nonchalant. “Yeah, sure, I’ll beat you again.”

The chat erupted again:

User 133: “YESSS SAM AND FELIX GAME NIGHT!”

User 134: “THIS IS WHAT WE NEEDED!”

User 135: “More Sam pls. Just keep him on the screen.”

User 136: “Jack is all of us right now, just sitting back watching the chaos.”

User 137: “Sam and Felix together are the chaotic duo we didn’t know we needed.”

---

As the stream continued, Felix, Jack, and Sam settled into the flow of things. Sam, still wearing a long-sleeved shirt that hugged his shoulders and arms, sat casually beside Felix, PS4 controller in his hands.

Jack glanced over at Sam and raised an eyebrow. “Dude, why are you wearing long sleeves? It’s not that cold over there.”

Sam smirked. “It’s not fair. It’s hot in Australia, and now it feels like the UK is trying to make me freeze to death.”

The chat burst into reactions:

User 138: “LONG SLEEVES????? Sam, why??”

User 139: “Why cover up the guns???”

User 140: “Felix, this is a crime, make Sam take that shirt off!”

User 141: “He’s hot no matter what he wears, tbh.”

User 142: “Sam’s biceps can break through that fabric, I believe it.”

User 143: “Felix amp up the heating in your place so Sam can be comfortable without his shit. No other ulterior motives from me, I swear.”

---

Jack chuckled at the chat’s responses but didn’t stop teasing. “Yeah, Sam, why the long sleeves? We all know you just came from the sun. You must've gotten a nice colour underneath those sleeves.”

Felix laughed, but then paused as he read a particular comment out loud. “How does Sam not look jet-lagged or tired at all? That’s literally god-tier.”

Jack laughed even harder. “Right?! You’d expect someone flying in from Australia to be dead on their feet.”

But Sam leaned back with a grin. “It’s easy when Max drops you off basically at your doorstep in a private plane.”

The chat exploded:

User 144: “WHAT???”

User 145: “Max?? Like Max Verstappen??”

User 146: “SAM TRAVELS WITH AIRMAX???”

User 147: “YOU KNOW MAX??”

User 148: “PEWDIEPIE’S BROTHER IS BESTIES WITH MAX VERSTAPPEN, WHAT???”

User 149: “Absolute pleasure watching new people find out that Pewdiepie's brother knows and works with Max Verstappen.”

---

Jack blinked, looking baffled. “Wait, what? That makes no sense. Max lives in Monaco, doesn’t he?”

Sam shrugged, completely relaxed. “Yeah, but Max gave a ride to Christian and a few other mechanics so he had to drop them off at Milton Keynes. So, they dropped me off at Heathrow and then went of to Luton for the factory. Most of the mechanics live closer to the factory.”

Felix just shook his head in disbelief as the chat continued to freak out:

User 150: “OMG MAX AND SAM FRIENDSHIP CONFIRMED???”

User 151: “The AirMax dropped off Sam, holy—”

User 152: “I’m dying, what is this? Casual flexing??”

User 153: “Imagine being so close with Max freaking Verstappen that he’s just like, ‘Hey, need a lift?’”

User 154: “The way Sam says it like it’s nothing 😂.”

---

Jack stared at Sam for a second, then burst into laughter. “Okay, that’s just not fair. Felix, your brother is living a whole different life.”

Felix threw his hands up. “Hey, don’t look at me!”

The chat continued to erupt in comments:

User 155: “The chaos of this stream is unmatched.”

User 156: “Pewdiepie’s brother is casually living the Formula 1 girly's dream.”

User 157: “Felix being confused is killing me lol”

User 158: “Sam is just the coolest dude. Like, how?”

---

Sam smirked and grabbed his controller. “Alright, alright, enough about private planes and F1. Let’s play some games, yeah? I have a few days off and I'm not spending them talking about work.”

And just like that, the stream returned to its chaotic normalcy, with Felix, Jack, and Sam diving into their gaming session, the chat still buzzing with excitement over the latest Sam Kjellberg revelation.

Felix rolled his eyes, pulling the game up on screen. “Okay, chat, let’s focus on the games now. No more thirsting over Sam.”

Of course, the chat didn’t listen:

User 159: “Focusing on the game is impossible when Sam is here, Felix, come on.”

User 160: “Sam could just sit there and we’d be entertained.”

User 161: “The internet’s crush is back and Felix expects us to focus? Yeah, okay.”

User 162: “Is it just me, or did Sam get even more ripped?”

---

Jack was laughing so hard, he had tears in his eyes. “Felix, your chat is just done for. You should’ve known this would happen when you brought Sam back on.”

Felix shook his head but couldn’t help but laugh along with Jack. “Yeah, well, now you’re stuck with him. Let’s just hope he doesn’t crush me like last time.”

The chaos of the chat continued, the excitement surrounding Sam’s return impossible to calm down, as Felix, Jack, and Sam settled into the gaming session.

[blueberry-lemon]

I realize now that you have to be kind of a freak

Something I've been thinking about lately is how to channel vague concepts like "motivation" and "focus" into actual "routine" and "practice."

And I realize now that you kind of have to let yourself just be a freak about something.

Of course, I say "freak" with nothing but half-joking love, but I really do mean it.

I'm starting to question whether we should always frame people's accomplishments and skills through purely sanded-off positive language like "passion" and "drive" and "expertise." I think those things are definitely true, but I think that maybe a more neutral way to frame it is that those people channeled their obsessions and fixations and weren't too embarrassed to see them through.

I've been thinking about this lately in creative pursuits like writing, art, and music. But I've also been thinking about it when I go to the gym.

I've started going to the gym twice a week, 30min each, just to create a sustainable healthy habit of getting up from my desk. But many of the people in the gym around me, clearly, are pushing themselves way harder than that. They're using all these crazy machines, with the weights piled on, doing all these highly specific exercises to improve specific muscles.

Why are they doing that? Obviously it goes beyond just basic "healthy routines to stay alive." And they probably aren't paid professional athletes. They just have some sort of goal. If we wanted to be polite we'd say that they're driven and passionate, but I think it's just as fine to say that they have some sort of obsession or fixation on improving their bodies or attaining something they have in their mind.

And as long as they're not hurting themselves, that's a good thing! And I admire them for not being too embarrassed on chasing that obsession, even when other people in their lives are probably going out to the movies or staying in and watching TV. It takes obsession to practice throwing a football 30 times a day, or push yourself to hit a weightlifting goal. It's just an obsession we consider somewhat socially acceptable.

I've also been thinking about it lately in art, especially professional manga artists. Both in their comics themselves but also in their side sketchbooks and personal work, you can see an obsession with particular subjects. An obsession with drawing a particular kind of character, or outfit style, or hair style. A fixation on getting better at drawing the human form via figure drawing and then channeling that to what they want to do. Certain poses and camera angles.

Again, I know we call this "practice", but from the outside it would also be very easy to make fun of a person for being so mentally fixated on achieving a particular look, or be put off by their obsession with drawing gothic lolita dresses or whatever it is they can't stop thinking about.

Every person I know who gets good at something or keeps up dedicated practice does it because they channel that obsession and go through with it. They're not embarrassed.

For years, whenever something starts bubbling up that could be that fixation for me...I get embarrassed. I don't channel it. Because I'm afraid that someone will see something that I'm drawing over and over or writing over and over and judge me for it. That it'd be weird to design a character that I'm so passionate about drawing that it borders on obsession. That I'd look weird if I was practicing drawing skirts and dresses or scarves and sweaters or looking through fashion reference material. Or that people will see my body of work as an opportunity to look into my soul and psychoanalyze me.

I don't know why I've been thinking about this lately. Maybe I was weirdly inspired by that Pewdiepie video that went around where he spent 100 days drawing anime girls and actually got pretty good at the end. It's so stupid, but there's a real inspiration in that which makes me feel like an idiot for being too stuffy and too embarrassed to practice something 100 times. Maybe I'm inspired by the demo for Soul of Sovereignty, a game that GGDG admits is the product of their obsession over these main characters and their fashion, their designs, their dynamic with each other. An obsession that is honed passionately through dozens and dozens of sketches and illustrations. Which is the same way any good comic or game gets made.

If you wanna get good at something, and make the stuff you want to see in the world...you gotta put those hours in. And to do that...well, you gotta just let yourself be a freak a little bit. Hopefully I can give myself that permission someday.

[dteamain]

i'm sorry, i should have specified i was kinda responding more to the accusatory anons, not you, jenna, my bad. i'm pretty reactive to things about foolish and i think it shows :/ you're very correct, inviting people through dms or discord while they're streaming isn't too much of an issue since it's still somewhat private, but asking directly in a twitch chat would be a lot weirder. i've even held back from expressing myself in a twitch chat and instead talked in a discord chat instead because it felt much less 'confront this streamer and make them have a response to this situation', even though the discord was open to the public. i think it's something to do with general social niceties and good manners.

oh it's no problem i just thought it was funny that i had so many doozer in the askbox defending foolish's honour😭

as bella pointed out in the replies of an ask michael mcchill was invited vía dream getting fans to go into his twitch chat like i just don't think asking live is the issue

it's more so making sure you ask the right people. dream wasn't going to go to pewdiepie and asking him to be in the dreamsmp bc big creators like that are not going to prioritize your project or give it the attention it needs. inviting small creators who are passionate and want that spot before you even ask is going to get you a long way inviting people that other people on the smp are vouching for is the same thing. these people want to be there.

already with some of q's picks like dantdm and wilbur and what not were stupid these people are busy and have other shit to do the qsmp adds nothing to their portfolio that isn't already there they very clearly prioritize their own stuff before q's bc why wouldn't they

[randomclam24]

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https://www.mediafire.com/file/lx9ig9figwkm c21/Mary%2527s.zip/file This was made for compatability for aesthetic with Glimmar's last steampunk I've actually made the jist of this once before, with vanilla Minecraft. It's even worse

and by that i mean this time, making the initial underground is very terrifying 12/11 - actually important! I haven't quit, but for now

I thought I would just be stupid! when I tried applying my mind, basically does come down to this detection of demons implied in the video The words I'm coming up with are actually concrete The reason I consider women illegitimate as makers of homes, by which I've just recently heard actual tendencies toward pedophilia would actually be over time overridden by the urge to protect as an actual father mind you that illegitimacy becoming the permanence, comes down to what is the theory: God is a one-track mind Update: The lexicon of Our World as America goes, the confidence coming out of faith in GOD transcribes belief in competence of your BOSS - how do you respond to that? niggedy (cut off for "competence Update later - The instant late in the process I decided more formally, what are we doing and focus or orient on that, my mom ate the ass and said Eric go get my groceries On top of eating the sushi way too early, because she originally said it was for dinner, I saw the hershey's chocolate chips mom hardly ever uses and said I'm going to die if I don't eat these, in my head, so I took it I think the RPGMaker game Witch's House, which I don't like, is, related to "the enemy" or what have you, the offshoot of Ib where the situation on the good guys' or good guy's part became inductive to great detriment and cringe Underdate - canonically the second drafthttps://www.mediafire.com/file/fvsisd04rlq4n2y/Mary%2527s.wad_the_p re_intervention.zip/file Update - Well. It's cap(fr frasdfg In esendec ehttps://engineeringdesignresources.com/building-codes/ There are still some things in my life which are habit due to ways where for others they would fall in or something, producing the anomaly It's been only called "you're not military" as a focus is redirect I don't even think on that level. update, the example was, I was drinking the eggnog right out of the fancy carton-like for the second iteration of bringing home eggnog in a small carton I was thinking about someone fancy drinking it that way, and in the end, what they are doing exactly falls in to what my dad said not to do when it came to drinking out of the carton Update - Barely altered from version two, but I had minor breakdowns https://www.mediafire.com/file/jemvxvjswuonfbm/Logical_conclusion_-_everyone_who_will_play_Ib_is_Kelbris.zip/file There was an actual meme of a floorboard which breaks on a tranny to the depths of hell, that's in the carpet on the way to the corresponding sign, de facto, this is the focus Update - Make what you want, but this is the unironic what they would call the /pol/'s razor https://archive.is/YIWnQ Update - Narratives like Ib show things getting pretty crazy. But unfortunately for the faith of George Soros in me, it's copypasta time I have to be really careful because their dispatchees are already among In real life<- that clause had to come first or else I'd loose there are simply not enough events to justify these narratives, now not remotely even There are only traders, basing their currency on our continued belief on "fate"

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The Line Between Passion and Gaming Addiction. When is it good to play games?

Is it true that when you become the greatest gamer, no one will call you addicted?

There have been many conflicting opinions about playing games as a negative influence on the mindset of young people, and many parents are always worried when they see their children playing games for hours on end. They always believe that what their children are doing is pointless, a waste of time, and above all, the violent images in games can lead their children's thoughts to become distorted. But are there other aspects of playing games that parents rarely recognize?

What can the game bring to the player?

First of all, we can clearly see that games are a form of entertainment for humans; humans create games primarily to experience and feel excitement when overcoming obstacles in those games, thereby bringing a sense of thrill and enjoyment. The core of gaming is to relieve pressure (Iberdrola, 2022). Moreover, gaming also includes many games that require multiple players, demanding certain social communication skills, helping players to interact and connect with more people in the world. At the same time, it also helps players to acquire certain knowledge depending on the type of game the developers convey (Granic et al., 2014). Furthermore, with competitive games that require high strategy and calculation, this is also the reason why these titles attract a large audience to watch tournaments, typically like League of Legends, Valorant, CS2, Mortal Kombat,…

Being able to win big and small tournaments can earn huge profits, not to mention, there will be Esports teams that appear and pay for good players to play for them. It can be said that playing games can completely make money, contrary to parents' thoughts that it is useless and time-consuming (Liquipedia, 2024). Playing games can bring fame as well as a lot of money to players, in addition to tournaments, gamers can completely have another direction is to develop their image on social networks, become a streamer, a content creator in the game segment, etc This can also attract a large number of viewers, there have been many famous streamers who have risen from streaming typical games such as Pewdiepie or in Vietnam with Do Mixi. The streamers' sources of income are also extremely diverse, but most of them come from advertising contracts (Wikipedia, 2021).

The boundary between passion and addiction

Anything that has a good side will also have similar bad sides; playing games is only truly bad when it becomes an addiction. Addiction is when the brain cannot control behavior and must depend on the addictive factors. The moment gaming becomes uncontrollable is when the bad side is revealed.

In Japan, a country famous for its hard work, there are still many people who become addicted to gaming; they begin to isolate themselves from society and only exist at home, and they are referred to as Hikikomori (Teo & Gaw, 2010). This is the worst state of the harms caused by gaming, which leads parents to have a completely negative view of gaming.

The line between passion and addiction is very distinct; although they both spend hours and long periods playing games, for those who are passionate, they play because they love it and truly want to give their all for it, yet they can still fully control their lives. They know how to utilize the skills they have in games to help them become successful in life. In contrast, those who are addicted are very negative; they see gaming as a way to escape real life and become immersed in it without being able to break free, always withdrawing and only able to focus on the game.

The concept of good and bad is very fragile; some people can earn a lot of money from gaming, but there are also those who lose everything because of it. Everything is determined by perception.

References

Granic, I., Lobel, A., & Engels, R. C. M. E. (2014). The benefits of playing video games. American Psychologist, 69(1), 66–78. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034857

Iberdrola. (2022). Why your children really should play videogames. Iberdrola. https://www.iberdrola.com/talent/benefits-video-games-learning

Liquipedia. (2024). 2024 World Championship. Liquipedia League of Legends Wiki. https://liquipedia.net/leagueoflegends/World_Championship/2024

Teo, A. R., & Gaw, A. C. (2010). Hikikomori, a Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198(6), 444–449. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181e086b1

Wikipedia. (2021, February 2). YouTuber, streamer người Việt Nam. Wikipedia.org; Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%99_Mixi

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Guarda, dopo le seguenti cose credo che non ci possono rimuovere manco se volessere

Herobrine è eternamente stanco e ha la faccia da Non Essere Pagato Abbastanza Per Stammerda perché dal 2016 in poi ogni singolo youtuber italiano ever se lo ritrova su minecraft

Tifa lockhart nel senato

Zamasu voleva fare la pizza definitiva ma la sua idea migliore era lo sterminio degli esseri viventi

Uno YTPtuber ha una trama dove la fletcher è darth vader ed il vecchio film di mary poppins è evangelion perche Due Penny. Il signore della distruzione è un albero di nome pino e la Mano Di Dio di berserk nel suo canone si chiama Mano Di Razzi e due membri sono Giulio Andreotti e Paimon di genshin impact

Un'altro YTPtuber vive sulla morte nera. Ah e ci sono gli stand, ha anche fatto una collab con uno youtuber che è

Il pewdiepie italiano, e come pewdiepie si è fatto battere in iscritti da un canale di musica.

Tutte le creepypasta guardano all'italia come il vietnam

Invece di un "King Of Five Nights At Freddys" abbiamo "Il ninja di FNAF" e giuro il suo potere è mettersi una fascia di naruto e fare i giochi di fnaf difficilissimi in NIENTE

Il Molise tecnicamente esiste, ma è tipo una dimensione parallela che dall'esterno è la versione haha molto divertente di SCP-3303

Parlando di SCP: potete ringraziare il mio popolo per aver reso SCP-4335 il nuovo herobrine. C'è voluto che io facessi le mie cagate auto-inserenti per fargli passare la paura dell'italia

Uno dei nostri youtuber è una sedia dell'IKEA con due gambe in meno

Un'altro invece è tipo game theory ma solo pokemon invece di "fnaf e poi altre cose"... ma all'infuori del canale principale dice sempre "palle" come battuta. I soulslike con la lore modificata sono epici. Long Live Tortisio, i tempi di caricamento in Bloodborne fanno cagare i treni agli alberi di pere, Guber edita in cantina con Pizzone e Loudred. Cassette beasts è un gioco fico

Ogni YTP ha 69420 bestemmioni quantici per frame. Questo 5C0P4 le schede grafiche ma niente che infilarsi altre se(s)ttordici 3090 nel culo non possa 53G4R3 (high pitch high MHz buzzer)

Esiste irl una città chiamata sesso

Addis Abeba è piena di memes

NON LANCIATE I CORNETTI ALLA GENTE PERDIANA NON FATE RIACCADERE I DANNI DI CICCIOGAMER89

ThePruld è molto epico (MA SUL SERIO ARTORIAS DA STO ABISSO ESCE O NO???)

Zerocalcare (WE STAN KURDISTAN ON THIS BLOG)

Las borra

Pure io ho un ©️ANALE youtube

There are Italians on this site?

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Bros - Boy Band AU

In the early 2010s, a boy band called The Bros rose to prominence. Of the four members, Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg became particularly famous, and by 2013 he departed from the band to pursue a solo career. While the remaining members, Stephano, Mr. Chair, and Piggeh, would record one last album with just the three of them, it wasn't long before the group disbanded, and the three essentially disappeared from the public consciousness.

Fast forward to 2017, all three of the Bros have retired from the music industry early and have settled back into relatively normal lives, and have even still remained close throughout the years. However, Mr. Chair's now 14 year old brother Mayo begins begging the group to perform again. Although hesitant, they eventually decide that they do miss it and once again return to the stage with former fangirl Jennifer as their new manager. This time however, instead of trying to handle things as a trio they recruit a new member to fill in Pewdie's spot; Skully, a close friend of Mr. Chair's and a rival of Stephano's.

Surely this will go well this time, right?

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Some quickfire AU Facts!

The band itself is in the pop-rock genre, and Stephano tends to insist that it leans more into the rock side than it probably does.

Mayo is also an aspiring musician. He was actually inspired by the Bros as a kid and this is why he doesn't stop bugging them until they reform the band.

Back when Pewdie was part of the band, Stephano's hair was dyed blonde and Mr. Chair would wear brown sunglasses. Nowadays though Stephano sticks to his natural brunette hair and Mr. Chair has long ditched the shades for his usual glasses because it was not fun performing with bad eyesight. 

When the band initially broke up, Piggeh was actually approached by agents for another group, but he turned them down because he only wanted to work with the Bros. Stephano was similarly scouted for a solo career, but he was still feeling raw over the whole ordeal and needed a break. Whether Mr. Chair was approached for anything is unknown because he became strangely unreachable after the group disbanded.

I feel like in live performances the Bros would just have hired musicians handle the instruments like most boy bands, but they actually can each play an instrument and they usually do so for writing and recording the songs. Stephano can play guitar (and violin but that never gets used in their music), Mr. Chair can play bass, Piggeh can play drums, and Skully can play the keyboard and piano. 

All of the Bros actually write the songs to some extent, but surprisingly Piggeh and Mr. Chair are the primary writers. You can usually tell which one was writing what song.

Stephano on the other hand usually composes the songs. Gives Chair and Piggeh an actual beat to work with.

Since Skully is replacing Pewdie, he obviously hasn't written a ton of the music, but he's been working on some stuff.

Piggeh has a kid in this AU! During the band’s retirement, Piggeh had a hookup with Berta, and she got pregnant. She ended up signing the parental rights away, so Piggeh is raising their daughter as a single dad with the help of his adoptive mother Bunny. Stephano also helps frequently as he’s her godfather. So if you see references to a Porcelette, that's who that is.

Mayo's memories of the band are a bit of a blur, mainly because sometime around them disbanding he was actually put in his other older brother Red's custody for a couple years. He was eventually returned to Mr. Chair, but has no idea what that was all about.

The story that the band became unpopular after Pewdie left may actually just be an excuse for another far more personal reason why the band originally dissolved. 

For the sake of transparency I should mention that I stole this AU from art Punkichi made back in the day, but I kindly ask that you do not bother them about this as this artist has well moved on from this fandom. If you do so anyway I will come to your house, take your electronics, and throw them in my dishwasher. 

Below is a version of the image above without the lighting to better show off the Bros' color stories.

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My thoughts and theory for 'A Minecraft Movie'

I never thought this would happen. I follow the Minecraft Instagram and seen some information but never thought that it's really going to happen.

(note: this is a long messy post lol)

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When the trailer came out, it was uploaded literally 1 minute. However, I didn't watch it immediately. I actually didn't want to watch it as someone who plays Minecraft sporadically. I play on Bedrock and for some reason, I can't play it on PC since it triggers my motion sickness. So I'll be honest, I only know a few things about the recent updates.

The first OG Minecrafter that I saw posted about the movie is DanTDM. He didn't really react badly about it. He just recounted his trip to New Zealand where the movie was flimed. He described seeing the set pieces. Also, he just pointed out one thing, the title. He emphasized on the "A" part of the title and said there's a reason as to why its titled that way.

The second one I watched the reaction of is CaptainSparklez, another OG Minecrafter. His reaction is a bit more mixed. And honestly, I do hope "Aww Man" is going to be a line. It'd would be nice!

At this point, there is another Minecrafter I'm waiting the reaction of but I don't think its going to happen. I'm talking about PewDiePie lol. The very YouTuber that got me to play Minecraft. I do hope to see reactions of my current favorite Minecraft builders as well.

I want to react to this as orderly as I can cause all will lead to my theory.

The live action is vibrant and amazing! It looked like it was modded with shaders on and seriously, it looks AMAZING! The animals featured looked so goofy especially the pink sheep and llama. I like it a lot regardless of what others say.

I keep seeing videos with title saying that the trailer looked terrible. I didn't feel like watching it cause I like the trailer. I don't want to complain about these videos saying that the trailer looks awful when I didn't even watch them but it seemed unjustified.

When the Sonic movie got hated, everyone has a point! Sonic's model just looks awful! But I don't think Minecraft should get it when Minecraft mods exists. You can literally change the look of your Minecraft game with mods. So I don't understand the hate for this one. Also I think the reason it was redesigned is to somehow match the live actors. Anyways... tangent sorry.

The Netherworld mobs looks amazing! They don't particularly looks like vanilla MInecraft mobs but the interpretation looks amazing! Honestly, aside from the Wolf, I like how the Piglins look like.

I do have one thing I hate though, the trees. If you have ever played Minecraft, every block has a set place. So seeing the trees having leaves blocks not in place just irks me.

Live actors. I only recognize two of them, Jason Momoa and Jack Black. I looked up the cast and I seriously have not watched anything that Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen was a part of. I also found the movie's synopsis through IMDB.

The malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, prompting a young girl and her group of unlikely adventurers to set out to save the Overworld.

But curiousity got the best of me and eventually found the synopsis of the movie through the WarnerBros website.

Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn’t just help you craft, it’s essential to one’s survival! Four misfits—Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Momoa), Henry (Hansen), Natalie (Myers) and Dawn (Brooks)—find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they’ll have to master this world (and protect it from evil things like Piglins and Zombies, too) while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve (Black). Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative…the very skills they need to thrive back in the real world.

Honestly, I have been trying to form a theory as what the story will be like. But I kinda want to talk about the mix of animation and live action. This is not a unique concept. This has been done before from Who Framed Roger Rabbit to Space Jam 2. I guess much like Captain Sparklez mentioned, how would the live action look together with the blockiness of Minecraft. I mean there is one scene in the trailer of a Creeper next to Jason Momoa and honestly it doesn't look bad.

Also I have a theory as to why the Creeper looks 'hairy'. I think the better description would be, mossy or grassy even. Creepers are meant to creep towards the character until it makes that low fizzing sound warning that they are about to explode. They survive in the daylight unlike other Overworld mobs. I think the design of a Creeper is meant to look like grass blocks or moss blocks since it will blend well in night time or day time.

I have to mention Jason Momoa again cause honestly I'm not used to his costume for this movie. I've seen Slumberland and his costume there, despite it being crazy, somehow suit him. Like somehow I think he'll wear that costume at home just to chil. But his costume for Minecraft looks distracting. I don't hate it but my eyes definitely goes to him cause of how wild it looks.

Anyways, why no sightings of villagers? I think the villagers will be live action. And this is just something I hope happen, but I imagine that the villager will be played by one actor. He'll wear different costumes depending on the job and biome and make that hmmm sound throughout the whole movie. It'll be so funny if that happens!

I actually have a theory before I saw the synopsis but I think I can weave them together. Starting with the blue portal. In Minecraft, there is a spawn point, however no physical representation of it. If I remember correctly, the spawn point is usually 0,0,something coordinates.

According to the synopsis, they pulled through a mysterious portal. So I guess as one of them or all of them are playing Minecraft they were pulled in through their monitor, hence why the portal is blue (you know, blue default wallpapers and bluescreen of dea.. you get the what I mean).

I think the 4 characters entered the Mineworld either as beginners to know-it-alls to Minecraft veteran modders. Judging from Brooks' character's reaction, she has not played Minecraft prior or has never encountered the rare pink sheep.

I also suspect that they are in a modded server since Henry asked Steve who he is. Honestly, I was thinking Steve will be some form of NPC but I refuse to believe that.

Since Steve is described as an expect Minecrafter and he just appeared (or most likely just logged in), the Minecraft world they are in is made by Steve and he modded it to the point of breaking the game hence, piglins and ghast spilling over to the Overworld. Then again, piglins can go through Netherportals however they are never aggressive unless you hit them. Ghasts on the other doesn't even go through portals.

Also I think Steve is just some player named Steve that didn't bother to change skins.

Another reason why I think its a modded game is one of the items. I have never seen a craftable item that looks like 2 buckets attached together with a chain.

As for the Tesseract looking thing, it is either a Sea Lantern or a Froglight and they are using it as light source. However, since it look like they have been holding on to it since the beginning, it could be something they'll use to return home. It would be annoying to think that they don't have torches on hand when that it one of the common items player usually have.

That is it for my thoughts and theories.

I've seen a respond to a tweet saying the movie looks terrible, I believe it was the director (I never looked into it), I understand that this is made for kids but still I would watch this. At this point, I have no reason to hate this. I'm just curious about the story and how they will incorporate the game to the movie.

I get this whole situation feels like it is made for Minecraft fans but it seemed that the target demographic are children. Minecraft is safe to play for kids, so I guess this is going to be used to introduce the Minecraft game to kids.

But since the game came out over 10 years ago, I cannot blame Minecraft fans to feel that they are the target demographics for this movie. Some of us, have been playing Minecraft for over 10 years, so I get it.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if there will be a mod in the future where the movie graphics is applied on the game, either made by Minecraft dev team or a talented modder.

Anyways, excited for the movie! I'll definitely watch this~!