#mcyt scripted content

[currantpearl]

IVORYYYY,

NEW WHITE PINE EPISODE, I REPEAT NEW WHITE PINE EPISODE RAHHH

[coffeegnomee]

ok yo if anyone wants good kab lore, that convo with zam on her stream "lifesteal SMP is Hell..." around 1:27:00 and then her musings after. Like.

I think I'm finally hearing the difference between kab's straight acting dramatic lines that don't mean anything except to say the specific mentality of the character at this specific moment in time.

versus the more natural and vulnerable and real emotions that drive this server forward.

She throws in an "i'm acting" line to chat, but then qualifies it that when something really upsets her she's "a) silent or b) not streaming".

And she pretends she wasn't but homegirl is silent a lot this stream. And then verbally processing what went on, trying to understand herself and her place on the server.

She doesn't really have a character, like the character is just kab s1 of her lifesteal journey. She’s yt kab coming in as a hotshot. She's overt about playing a character "acting" but the character is just herself, so it gets really confusing when she's like "i'm acting"

We haven't hit eclipse, we haven't become solar union, farmer, wormhole, pirate, joker, druidZam. Characters that take one one aspect or another of Zam.

Like s3 was princezam. Team awesome was 'princezam doesn't try to be the hero'. Then he left them, and all the previous seasons coalesced together into how he approached the server, who he trusted, who he reached out to. And Kab is in that early stage.

"Most people don't act like this in real life, most people wouldn’t do any of the things that zam is doing, or bacon is doing, or anyone"

She hits a real moment of struggle where her past skills aren't as useful, perhaps not good enough at all, and she hits some real despair there. It's great.

And then to round out that emotional pain, Bacon comes in after and encourages her, then Zam returns and encourages her. Not leaving her lost and confused but helping her understand the server more. It's a great stream in full.

She’s feeling the effects of mcrp, and starting to realize how much it affects this server. These aren't mcyt's running around, they're mcrp lifestealers and that means something completely new.

rp hides real intentions but it also allows you to do whatever you want for dramatic effect. And bc it’s roleplay and not acting, it means you become that role and live as if it’s real. It’s not scripting and voicelines and getting the proper emotion across, a character taken up and cast off in a moment. It’s becoming the role. Which means acting not in line with what you would do as a real person in your real life.

But like wow. That stream got to me. There's real empathy there for the difficulty that is her life in particular on lifesteal, being someone who goes on a server to be on a team in order to betray the team for content. To be told that your thoughts about someone were wrong from their own mouth, and rather assertively at that, and then told from the same person, very practically, that you are too weak to not rely on someone else and effectively that you should never betray bc that would be very dangerous for yourself.

But what do you do when you betray in order to feel safe and secure that you are in control and can get out first before they hurt you?

What do you do when you need the security of a perfect plan in order to feel safe and not scared, on a server that is unscripted and will devour your perfect plan in an instant?

Like that is a Lot. That’s deep. That’s world view changing. That’s character development.

This is nothing like consequences. It's off-the-cuff reactive lore. Not planned. Just felt. It's huge.

[the-somwthing]

Welcome to my little meta analysis essay called

Why do we misremember Flower Husbands as being “nicer” than it was?

Disclaimer: I’m not here to talk about whether or not FH is “toxic” or anything like that. It’s just a fact that many old fans rewatching FH POV and new fans who are watching it for the first time after seeing fan content tend to be surprised at how they actually behaved in the series compared to how everyone remembered them being back in the day. This will NOT go over whether or not I think FH is unhealthy or whatever and instead just discuss why I believe this phenomenon has happened.

So, if I try to make this a fancy well written essay, I’ll be here all day, so I’ll just get to the point. 3rd Life came out during the DSMP era of mcyt. MCRP has been around for ages, but the DSMP style of RP (which I’ll be calling “smp rp”) was pretty much popularized by DSMP, mostly towards the end of 2020. For reference, 3rd Life started early 2021, so there’s about a half a year between these two events, and DSMP kept going for years so 3rd Life was absolutely happening during the golden era of DSMP.

But what does DSMP have to do with this? Well, it sort of created this idea of “lore” and only specific things being “canon”. You can make fun of me for the way I worded that, but you know what I mean, DSMP was weird about that stuff. I don’t really blame them as it was kind of a new style of RP they accidentally spawned, but still, it was a confusing time for SMPs.

3rd Life was actually less like DSMP and more like the modern SMP RPs, where there’s no (known, lol) scripted events and the fandom itself deciphers what is or isn’t “canon” rather than it being told to them, with mostly everything being considered canon. HOWEVER, I do believe that DSMP’s style did still affect the fandom, specifically with the topic of this essay, Flower Husbands.

But why would it only really affect Flower Husbands? Now we get into a rough topic: shipping discourse. Back in those days, shipping in the mcyt fandom was heavily frowned upon. Moreso than it is today (I know it’s still around, but it was a lot worse the earlier we go lol). I’ve even seen old relics of ppl saying flower husbands should only be portrayed as platonic cuz it’s wrong to ship them, despite their team name literally being husbands. But more importantly, for A LOT of people, flower husbands was the One Ship people felt “allowed” to ship, BECAUSE it was canon. So they would allow FH and shun every other ship.

My point isn’t actually that, with it being the only “acceptable” ship everyone tried to make it more wholesome, though I suppose that could be a contributor. But my ACTUAL point is where all the things I laid out finally close in on each other:

Ships were a Dangerous territory in mcyt fandom, and ships being “canon” was something a lot of people weren’t prepared to deal with. People don’t want to get too close to RPF territory, but back in the day their ideas of c! vs cc! wasn’t as great, so they default to the DSMP Rule of “if it’s stated to be roleplay, then it’s canon to the characters, if not, it’s noncanon and just the CCs hanging out”.

You see where I’m going with this? When trying to follow this rule for a character relationship where they don’t explicitly state what is or isn’t RP, they hear “we’re married” and instantly mark that as canon to the characters since it clearly isn’t true to the CCs, and tend to block out anything else, otherwise you’re risking it not actually being true to the characters. Especially when it’s things like Scott saying something mean about Jimmy; that directly contradicts the “these characters are in love” thing, so it must not be canon, right?

But wouldn’t people still remember that these things happened, or did they actually straight up not process any of it? My answer to that is: of course everyone was paying attention, but with the context that it’s the CCs playing a video game, all of the teasing and other behavior seems WAY less serious. It just looks like average friends playing a hunger games smp together. And as I explained earlier, the fandom was ONLY processing this as a CC thing, so Scott’s treatment of Jimmy never stood out because that’s just how it is playing games.

Back to DSMP, I’m not active in that fandom anymore but I’ll see snippets sometimes, and I’ve seen the claim that beeduo was actually boring in canon and the fandom was the one that made it interesting. I feel like this is exactly what happened with FH. Nobody was actually expecting anyone to go hard into romantic roleplay, so the fans just take whichever pair says they’re getting married and fill in the blanks themselves. And that was normal back then, it wasn’t fans making stuff up for no reason, it was kind of expected of us.

So yeah, I personally believe that this whole confusion about FH is a result of its time. Whether you want to finally look at the actual substance of the relationship rather than following weird rules about what is or isn’t “canon”, or you believe that since FH was from a time where romantic RP was confusing and weird it would make the most sense to take into account the time period it came from and ignore the less appealing bits in favor of the fanon, I don’t really care honestly. But man isn’t this an interesting situation.

[deityoftherain]

for pearl - Gempearl HC10 Fanfic

Rating: General Audiences

Relationship: F/F

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Status: Completed Oneshot

Word Count: 3,299

Summary: Pearl received an unsigned book and quill through the mail system with his name on it. When she looked inside, she found a rhyming clue, sparking her curiosity about what might be at the end of the scavenger hunt one of the Hermits had put her on. What could she do, not follow it?

This was written for @welcome-back-to-hoimycraf through the @mcyt-summer-of-yuri exchange! Click on the AO3 link above or look under the cut to read it ^^

If you like it, please consider reblogging, kudosing/liking, and/or commenting :D

“Bap, bap, bap, bop, bip, bappity boop,” Pearl vocal stimmed as he skipped around his base to finish various odd tasks he’d been previously neglecting. The other Hermits were well used to Pearl’s silly little noises so she didn’t bother to suppress herself. Even if they weren’t, she was alone right now, so she wouldn’t have anyway.

Today was shaping out to be a great day! His meeting with Etho and Tango about the Post Office went well; stamp sales have been at an all time high now that more Hermits had mailboxes installed; his shops in the shopping district had produced many diamonds, and he had woken up with Gem by his side that morning. How could it get better?

She and Gem had been dating for a while now, and Pearl couldn’t be happier. Pearl wasn’t a part of the Magic Mountain crew, but she was still fairly close to where Gem lived! Their chosen locations being close to each other on this home server wasn’t intentional, but it pleased them both to not be too far away from one another.

Pearl’s thoughts had drifted off from postmaster business to Gem, her amazing, stunning, incredibly talented girlfriend. She was so engulfed by her thoughts that she almost didn’t notice that the light was on at her mailbox.

His blue eyes lit up in a way similar to the redstone lamp of the mailbox, excited at the prospect of someone sending him something even though it had happened many times before. Pearl wasn’t sure he would ever get over it, but he didn’t exactly want to. The mailboxes were crazy cool and it had given her a new purpose after her previous self-assigned job! His last home server allowed for some lovely cleaning lady hours, but this server was a chance to change things up and free himself from his obligations of tidying up other people’s chests, shulkers, and bases.

Pearl opened the barrel to see what had arrived, only to find a leatherbound journal with an ink-based pen attached to it— a book and quill. She could tell it was unsigned by the existence of the pen because, if it were signed, the content inside couldn’t be altered or edited anymore. Signing a book would display the author’s name and the pen would disappear as a result.

She knew that the book was meant for her, though, because it was labeled “For Pearl” in brightly highlighted (likely with glow squid ink) elegant script. The pages were all blank aside from the first, which read:

Clue #1 In the lighthouse near the sea Quench your curiosity

Pearl furrowed his eyebrows, rereading the clue several times. Whoever sent the book had created a rhyme and labeled it as the first of an assumed series, so Pearl guessed she was being sent on a scavenger hunt of sorts. Oh, this was going to be so fun, wasn’t it?

“Okay, so let me just have a little think, thonk, bonk,” Pearl murmured to herself, rubbing her chin in thought. “Gem has a lighthouse, but all that’s in there is her… oh!”

Pearl gasped as recognition sparked within him. She had received her first clue in the mailbox, so maybe all the clues would be in various mailboxes? Whoever had thought this up really picked the best person to do this to, knowing Pearl’s love of her role as postmaster. If not her, Etho or Tango would have been good candidates as well since they were in charge of actually building the mailboxes, but Pearl was pleased that she had been chosen.

He checked the straps on his elytra to make sure they were secure before retrieving some flight rockets from his inventory. As he mentioned before, Gem’s base wasn’t too far away.

“Gem?” Pearl called out as she arrived, hoping to catch a glimpse of her girlfriend. After a brief look around, Pearl concluded that she wasn’t there. She must be off collecting coral, visiting someone else, or doing something at the shopping district. According to the log list on her communicator, she hadn’t gone to visit another server. Ooo, maybe Gem was restocking her pickle shop! Pearl would have to make sure to check that later and bring some diamonds along.

As much as Pearl wanted to see Gem, he would see her later, so it was alright that she wasn’t here. Pearl tucked the flight rockets away as he approached the lighthouse. It was tall and striped with white and gray, and there were two floating fish that endlessly circled it. The floating fish put her off at first, but Pearl thought Gem did a rather lovely job with the build.

Gem had Etho, she believed, alter the mailbox slightly to change the color of the beam when mail had arrived. Considering the beam was currently red, Pearl knew there was something inside before she saw the redstone lamp lit or looked inside the barrel itself. Still, though, Pearl had no idea if the clue would be there because Gem had received mail from other Hermits in the past so it would make sense if there were still some waiting for her.

Pearl was right, of course, that Gem had received some packages from other Hermits, but only one was labeled “For Pearl”. Eagerly, Pearl pulled it out, leaving the others undisturbed, and flipped open to the first page.

Clue #2 Whimsical colors and moving parts Keep walking and appreciate the arts

Now this clue was more vague than the first. As far as Pearl knew, Gem was the only one with a lighthouse on the server. Whimsical colors, moving parts, and artistic whatevers were attributes that could describe several other Hermit bases. 

“What Hermits even have mailboxes? I know some don’t have theirs yet. Ugh, why can’t I remember?” Pearl groaned as he plopped down on the ground near Gem’s mailbox to examine the text further. She tilted her head at the words before flipping the book around every which way, trying to see if she could see it from a different angle. “Whimsical colors and moving parts, keep walking and– keep walking! Cub’s firework factory?” Pearl scurried up to her feet, pulling out the flight rockets again and exiting the lighthouse as quickly as she could to go see if her suspicion was correct. The door to Cub’s factory opened automatically when one walked toward it and Cub happened to have his mailbox set up in there! The fireworks were whimsical colors! Or perhaps the dye all over Cub’s lab coat… who knows, maybe it was in reference to both things.

As Pearl flew, she noticed her rocket supply was running low. She scrunched her nose for only a moment, silently hoping that Cub would be at his base. Her comm did say he was on the server. “Cub?”

“Yeah?” Cub responded questioningly, hearing her as soon as she landed and came into earshot. 

Pearl didn’t see Cub at first, but she took a low risk gamble and walked towards the doors to the factory. They opened as soon as the skulk sensors heard her approach, revealing Cub to her. “I just need to check your mailbox real quick and hopefully trade for some flight rockets, if you got any on you?” “Cool, cool, yeah, I got some on me.” Cub pulled out something (assumingly the rockets) from his inventory as he spoke, but his tone turned confused as Pearl darted over to his mailbox. “Is something wrong with it?”

“Yes, it’s here!” Pearl squeaked excitedly, hugging the book to her chest. The scavenger hunt was low stakes, from what she knew, but two clues in and she was having so much fun. Pearl held out the book to Cub to show him the label that displayed her name, promptly and enthusiastically rambling off the gist for him. “Someone is sending me on a scavenger hunt using people’s mailboxes! Isn’t that so ahhh?”

“That’s awesome, dude.” Cub relaxed now that he knew nothing was wrong. “I wouldn’t have thought of doing that type of thing, like, not in that way. What does it say?” “I haven’t read it yet.” Pearl shifted her attention to the first page to read the next clue.

Clue #3 It is not over yet, don’t you grumble Tip your hat off at the concrete jungle

“‘Grumble,’” Pearl repeated with an amused snort after reading the clue out loud for Cub. “Ha! As if! I’m having a blast.” “Have you gone to Impulse’s cyberpunk city yet?” Cub inquired before explaining himself, “The door near his mailbox is activated by the noise removing a piece of armor makes.” “Tipping your hat would refer to your helmet!” Pearl connected with a grin. “And Impulse’s base is very- oh, I think you’re right. This is absolutely bonkers.”

Cub handed over the rockets that Pearl requested to her before she had a chance to fly off and forget about them. “Just send me payment later through the mailbox, along with a letter of how it went. Or you can just visit me, either or.” “Will do, Cub! Thanks!” Pearl accepted the rockets eagerly. Not wasting any more time, she started running toward the door, giving Cub a two-fingered goodbye salute before blasting off to fly back toward Magic Mountain. Going from Gem’s base to Impulse’s may have saved rockets in the short term, but sending her to Cub’s base was a smart move because it made her check her rocket supply. It worked out perfectly! Whoever had set this up had done it well, or perhaps it was simply a coincidence.

Pearl didn’t bother to call for Impulse, not really needing to grab his attention for anything. In all honesty, she just wanted to retrieve the clue, figure out where she was heading to next, and go there. Anticipation for what was at the end of all of this was only increasing as time went on.

Approaching the door, Pearl tipped off his postmaster hat with an unnecessarily fancy little bow. The removal of her hat triggered the skulk sensors, opening the door and giving her access to the room with Impulse’s mailbox. The redstone lamp was lit, though that fact was only noted in passing as Pearl opened the barrel to read the next clue.

Clue #4 You’re almost there, you’ve followed the trail See what awaits among the mail

“Does that mean the next mailbox contains my prize?” Pearl wondered aloud, speaking to no one but herself. She read over it one more time and, while it may seem vague, it made complete sense to her. All the clues were hidden in mailboxes, yes, but there was one place in particular that was the hub for all things mail: her post office.

Pearl paused for a moment, rechecking the barrel in Impulse’s mailbox again to make sure the clue didn’t mean the mail at the current mailbox. None of the other mail was hers; they were all waiting for Impulse to come back to their shared home server (her comm marked him off server), making Pearl even more certain of her theory.

He didn’t waste any more time to make the flight to the post office, flying right up to the entrance and running inside. Pearl didn’t pay attention to her surroundings as she tugged open the barrel unceremoniously, expecting to find another book. Instead, the barrel was empty besides a singular note. “‘Turn around’?” Pearl read off the piece of paper in a questioning tone as he did what the note said to do. Her eyes widened, mouth falling ajar as she dropped the paper in surprise when she recognized Gem’s ginger red hair, partly tied up into familiar space buns. This was notable because, recently, Gem had been styling her hair down with a dark blue bandana wrapped around her head and blue beads at the ends of small braids on the sides. The partly-up space buns was what she had her hair styled in when they officially got together.

She wasn’t standing at her full height, which wasn’t very tall to start with; Pearl was taller than she was. Gem had been on testosterone blockers longer than she had been taking her daily estrogen pills, so the effect wasn’t surprising and was, in fact, desired. Out of all the Hermits, she was fairly short, but there were others (such as Grian, Bdubs, and Tango) who were around her height.

Gem was down on one knee with a ring box in her hands. She flashed him a somewhat nervous smile, her teeth sharper than usual from the lore magic of this world. It was the same magic that gave Pearl salmon-esque features when she went swimming or that gave Gem her currently twitching ear fins.

The ring box made a soft sound as it was snapped open, revealing a white gold ring. Inlaid in the middle of the ring was a deep green emerald with a crescent moon bordering the gemstone’s edges, alongside much tinier emeralds and diamonds resembling stars in the night sky. It was stunning, much better than what he had thought his engagement ring would look like in his dreams. Gem knew him so well.

“Pearlescent Moon, will you marry me?” Gem asked after letting Pearl get over her initial shock.

Pearl squealed enthusiastically, practically jumping where she stood as her arms flailed as they pleased. “Yes! Yes, I will marry you. Void, I hadn’t expected this- I-” A baffled but extremely pleased laugh left Gem’s lips as she took the ring out of the box to slip on Pearl’s ring finger. “Perfect fit.”

Pearl held out her hand to properly examine its beauty, her grin so wide it hurt her cheeks, but she didn’t care. Now that the ring was on and Pearl had accepted Gem’s proposal, Gem got to her feet. Pearl didn’t give her much time to catch her balance because he embraced her tightly. He pulled away enough to kiss her stupid, the air around them euphoric and blissful.

They were both breathless by the time the kiss broke, smiles seemingly permanent features of their faces now. Pearl swept Gem off her feet, causing her to squeak in surprise as she was hoisted up to be held bridal style. Pearl kept Gem in her arms as she twirled them around, elated giggles filling up the room.

“So, did you like my little scavenger hunt?” Gem had her arms wrapped around Pearl’s neck, content with the closeness and position she was in.

“It was absolutely lovely; I had a spectacular time flying around to the mail boxes,” Pearl assured her, genuinely meaning her words. “Fantastic! I nailed it! Totally nailed it,” Gem cheered, congratulating herself. “I would have done more clues, but I didn’t have much time to come up with rhyming clues, set it all up, and get everything else done that I had to do after I left this morning. I stayed at your base longer than I intended. Did you know it was me?”

“I had a suspicion, but you sent me to your base first, so I thought that you wouldn’t have done that if it was you,” Pearl explained her line of logic. “I didn’t try too hard to figure out who it was, though. I was mostly focused on the hunt; kinda zeroed in for a second there. You totally ruined my plan, though.”

Gem tilted her head curiously, ear fins perking up alert. “I did? How?”

“Well,” Pearl started with a click of her tongue as she let Gem down from her hold. Gem started to jump around in enthusiastic movements to get some of her overjoyed energy out, but it didn’t bother or phase Pearl; he knew she was listening. “I was planning to propose to you at some point, but I was waiting for a good moment. I would keep forgetting about it, but when I would notice it in my inventory, it was always an awkward or bad moment.” “Does that mean you have it on you?” Gem stopped her wide-ranged movements to stay mostly in one spot, green eyes shining as brightly as the emerald in sunlight.

Pearl pursed her lips, unsure of the answer to that question. He opened his inventory instead of responding, eyes scanning the rows until it landed on a ring. She selected it and it materialized in her open hand, as it was designed to. Pearl pinched the bottom of the ring in between her fingers to show off the pearl partly encased in gold. “I didn’t get a box for it and it’s not as detailed as what you gave me, but I made it myself.”

“You did?” Gem marveled at the ring that Pearl slipped onto her ring finger. “You did such a great job! I love it! I didn’t know you could make jewelry.” “It was a secret, so you wouldn’t have known.” Pearl shrugged with a light chuckle, glancing away for only a moment. “I went off-server to get lessons from Fwhip to learn how to make it. He’s apparently pretty good at that sort of stuff. Scott recommended him to me.”

“He did spend a lot of time in the forge when we shared a home server a bit ago,” Gem recalled the first Empires home server where she and Fwhip were twins (lore magic loved to flex its influence in strange yet usually fun ways) and became very close, “so I’m not surprised. Did you know I visited him and some of the others on SOS recently? I traveled with Joel when he crossed over just the other day– I’m surprised Fwhip managed to keep it a secret from me, though! We talked for such a long time as he showed me around his base.”

“I told Fwhip not to and he knows better than to cross me.” Pearl might have said more, but Gem lept on him. She legitimately leapt up, legs wrapping around his waist and arms around his shoulders.

“I love you so much, Pearl.” Gem peppered kisses all over Pearl’s face, hands getting tangled in Pearl’s long brunette and blonde streaked hair. “My fiancé.”

“I love you too.” Pearl could feel her heart swell at the new term for their relationship. He pulled Gem tight against him, never wanting to let her go. “Now, come on, let's head back to my base. I want to store these clues away somewhere special for safe keeping!” “But I don’t wanna let go,” Gem pouted, burying her face into Pearl’s shoulder. She could be fairly independent and constantly wander away without meaning to at times, but it was also commonplace for her to get extremely clingy as well. Honestly, it was a flip of the coin of what sort of Gem one was going to get that day.

Pearl considered the distance between her post office and her base. She hadn’t built them too far apart so, hypothetically, she could just walk with Gem in her arms all the way back. He tilted his chin down to try and get a better look of his bride-to-be, scratching his fingers in her hair. She sighed softly, shaking her head in a “the things I would do for this beautiful idiot” sort of way. “Okay, hold on tight. I’ll walk us home.” “Yay!” Pearl could feel Gem’s grin against the skin of her neck, which made everything worth it. It was worth it already, but Gem’s smile would always be perfectly sweet icing on the cake. 

Pearl was proud of herself for finishing everything she had needed to do today, for now she could spend the rest of the day with the person she would spend the rest of her existence with, her betrothed, Gemini Tay.

[tea-and-secrets]

im genuinely so sick i miss the 2020-2021 era of the dsmp so much. im also so sick of acting like i hated it. no im not embarrassed i want to go back because of how it was. what i really hate is the content creators turning out to be so so bad. fuck. i love you csbi i love you csandduo i love you ccrimeboys i love you cbedrockbros i love you ctommyinnit i love you cdrm i love you cschlatt i love you all the characters who changed my brain chemistry. without the dsmp i would fun-da-mentally a different person and it really makes me ill how the only way people can talk about it nowadays is when there's another reveal that a content creator on it was shitty or when they wanna talk about the worst parts of the pandemic. it wasn't the worst part to me. it was the highlight of when i was stuck with abusers. it was my escape, a fantasy world that i created shifting scripts for and tucked under my pillow. every single time someone talks serious neg about it to me, a piece of me DIES do you understand.

this isnt me excusing all the bad things the ccs did btw. tangentially related but i wish more people outside of the dsmp fandom learned how to separate cs from ccs. especially other mcyt fans. if people learned that when i say "i love cdrm" i dont mean "i love ccdrm" i would be a 10x happier man

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[monarchshifts]

My DRs

Red- Have Shifted

Purple- Have Not Shifted But Fully Scripted

Blue- Have Not Shifted Or Scripted/Fully Scripted

🌙- The Reality I’m Currently Shifting To

Main drs Hogwarts Marauders dr

Star Wars(EP. 2 and The Clone Wars) dr

My Hero Academia dr

🌙 Dream SMP(Will later be my Hermitcraft dr) dr (i do not support the shitty content creators but i have had this dr before they were outed as shitty)

Percy Jackson dr

Hogwarts (Group Shift With Zaiden) dr

Superhero MCYT dr

🌙 Parkour Civilization dr (i’m hyper fixating to hard chat 😔)

Better OR/CR dr

Other drs

KOTOR Star Wars dr

Stardew Valley dr

Top Gun dr

Wild Kratts dr

Octonauts dr

Pirate dr

Street Racing dr

Magic Treehouse dr

Streamer dr

Band dr

Singer dr

Fame dr

Merperson dr

Cat dr

Coyote dr

Crow dr

Minecraft Storymode dr

And probably more that I’m forgetting 👍

[wildpeachfarm]

sorry, this convo was already a bit ago, but my little sister is obsessed with what I think Anon was referring to when mentioning "mcyt creators who have terrible acting and chemistry." they're so annoying for an adult but so attention-grabbing for kids bc of the character they play and stories they tell. they pretty much are content farms because everything feels so stiff and scripted, the personalities and friendships not genuine, but what is the worst part in my opinion, the usual two characters always play into the noob vs pro dynamic ("oh you built your fortress against this zombie apocalypse out of dirt well I'm going to put these ultra strong and epic lasers") and the noob one is almost always either depicted feminine or has a feminine voice.

anyway definitely recommend fully knowing what videos and channels your little sibling or child watches and to not let them get the remote because they will learn how to put on the videos they want. had to teach my sister after i caught her laughing to a video that had Dream in minecraft pick up a map with his face reveal edited with chubby cheeks and laugh track behind. like great learning lesson sure but content like that shows kids that making fun of people is fine and that girls are stupid.

Yikes yeah that doesn’t surprise me about the glorified “content farm” stuff

I have a little sister that watches the strangest shit on YouTube and my dad doesn’t blink an eye. Definitely turning her into a more annoying child lmfao

[ao3feed-crimeboys]

be god or quit it!

by fridgeza (boffy)

Dream Entertainment @dreamEntertainment We at Dream Entertainment would like to apologize for the abrubt cutting of the recent broadcast of Party People with Tommy Innes. We pride ourselves on safe, friendly content for viewers everywhere, and while Tommy Innes is a highly valued member of our staff, his comments were inflammatory and defaming and we made the tough decision to cut his show short from the air. We took the measures we needed to resolve the conflict, and are working hard to restore things back to a healthy balance. Thank you for your patience.

sofa ★ IS SEEING ENHA @enhappening replying to @dreamEntertainment “the measures we needed” [ATTACHED IMAGE ID: A GIF OF THE JOHN MULANEY SPECIAL, “KID GORGEOUS AT RADIO CITY.” CAPTION READS: BUT THE WAY IT CAME OFF WAS THAT HE DEFINITELY KILLED THAT LITTLE GIRL.]

(dream entertainment and it's most famous child star, tommy innes, feature in a how-to guide on killing your darlings)

Words: 6017, Chapters: 1/3, Language: English

Series: Part 50 of gho's mcyt fics

Fandoms: Dream SMP

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot, GeorgeNotFound (Video Blogging RPF), Clay | Dream (Video Blogging RPF), Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Clay | Dream & TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), GeorgeNotFound & TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Idols, Alternate Universe - Celebrity, Social Media, Screenplay/Script Format, Talk Shows, Twitter, E-mail, Phone Calls & Telephones, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Famous TommyInnit (Video Blogging RPF), TommyInnit-centric (Video Blogging RPF), Clay | Dream and TommyInnit are Siblings (Video Blogging RPF), <- allegedly, Morally Ambiguous Clay | Dream (Video Blogging RPF), Morally Ambiguous GeorgeNotFound (Video Blogging RPF), its complicated, SMPEarth References (Video Blogging RPF), Alternate Universe - Future, Holography, Technology

[duskstarskies]

ugh im so mad i took a break from mcyt content for mostly all of 2023-2024 bcs im in the dark for.so many things and that pisses me off im annoying in that i must understand everything (an impossible task) and i literally do not have the time and energy to watch that many vods.

i genuinely wish videos were a reliable source of information bcs lifesteal is so beginner unfriendly and i only rlly know them all from my fleeting 2022 memories 😭 and even then it was just clown and parrot vids since i did not fw twitch at the time. still dont but its whatever

i feel like with the life series it doesnt rlly matter that much that i didn't watch secret life/limited life bcs it's kinda always a fresh start in the series? and ur not overwhelmed by 114 vods all 2+ hrs long.

dsmp had the same problem as ls but i was already watching those ccs long before dsmp so it didnt rlly matter as much for me since i was there from the start. i think ive watched more smpearth tommy streams than dsmp tommy streams which is a lil .... and i feel since dsmp is pretty linear/scripted u can give a general overview w concrete events/relationships. plus theres not 6 seasons 💀

[another-random-goose]

hello my lovely tumblr followers! as some of you may know, last month I got bored and wrote a slightly rambling essay about Minecraft and storytelling. honestly i mostly forgot to share it here, and then i just didn’t bother, but now i am releasing it into the wild here just for fun. Enjoy the product of a decade long special interest in Minecraft.

Minecraft Youtube Storytelling Autism Beam under the cut (be warned it’s like 3.2k words so it might be a bit of a beast to scroll through)

Hello, my name is Goose, and today, I will be telling you about Minecraft as a medium for storytelling. In other words, this is what my 10 years of Minecraft special interest have been building to. Buckle up. I’ve been a fan of Minecraft since I was a little kid. I played Pocket Edition with my cousins for large portions of my young life. I had my first interaction with scripted Minecraft content when I was around 8, and I became a fan of DanTDM and his custom mod adventures. They were small, self-contained stories that were tied together by location (the lab), and characters (Dan, Trayaurus, Grim, and other occasionally recurring characters). The showcases had their own plots, and while self-contained, they were what got me interested in the potential for stories to be told in Minecraft.

A lot of what makes Minecraft a good medium for storytelling is its versatility. Minecraft is a sandbox game where quite literally anything can be created. Textures and skins and landscapes can be modded and changed to fit any setting. It’s just as possible to build a giant medieval castle as it is to build a futuristic spaceship in the far reaches of space as it is to build a modern city with high rise apartment buildings. Skins can be modified to look like anything, so they can be anyone while still making it possible to maintain a sense of cohesion between different characters in the universe. It is possible to tell any story so long as you have the imagination and dedication to make it.

However, when most people think of storytelling within Minecraft, they’re typically not thinking of fully scripted and acted content. They’re usually thinking of SMP Style storytelling, Challenge Style storytelling, or Death Game Style storytelling (or, as of recent events, maybe Parkour Civilization, but we’ll get to that later), where the content is less scripted out in most cases. SMP Style, for sake of consistency, will be defined here as the style of storytelling in Minecraft in which the characters are players on a survival Minecraft server not centered around the idea of winning a specific game. Examples of SMP style include Empires SMP, Dream SMP, Hermitcraft, Lifesteal SMP, Dominion SMP, Skyblock Kingdoms, and many others. Challenge Style is when a story is told through a video of the creator aiming to complete a set challenge, and while not required, it is often in a solitary environment or a collaborative environment. In most cases, it’s the archetype of man vs nature or man vs god (or some other unseen force) to use a shorthand. This includes things like 100 Days Challenges, Escape Room Challenges, Lucky Block Challenges, etc. Finally, Death Game Style is fairly self explanatory. This is when a story is told from a group of people being placed in a world with a goal to be the last one standing. This includes the Life Series, Deceit SMP, Secret Rivals, Art of Survival, and many, Many, MANY others.

The reason this is important to clarify is because of a key narrative difference between most fully scripted Minecraft content (e.g. MyStreet and other similar series) and the other varieties of MCYT style: the fourth wall and the eighth wall. The fourth wall is a commonly known concept to explain the separation between a piece of media and its audience. Characters inside of something acknowledging or talking to the audience that exists outside of their reality as a narrative is breaking the fourth wall. Minecraft Youtube inherently has an additional layer of fourth wall, which can be referred to as the eighth wall. To put it simply out of context of Minecraft, but still in the context of gaming, breaking the fourth wall is when a game directly addresses the player instead of the character they’re playing as or acknowledges that the character is a player, and breaking the eighth wall is when a game directly addresses viewers of a player. This gets a little weirder when put into the context of Minecraft Youtube. The walls within a Minecraft series are the fourth wall, “the wall between a player and their character in terms of their actions in game and the way they treat the video game,” and the eighth wall, “the wall between the character and the audience in terms of how aware those two groups are each other and how much bearing it has on the first layer. …[T]he player (though not always the character) is aware that their goal is to tell a story that people will be interested in coming to, and because of that, MCYT videos are often structured very differently from other more traditional [Let’s Plays]. Part of this is deciding, consciously or not, how aware the player character is of the audience beyond the second wall. There are a lot of different ways of addressing this; often the in-universe characters may on some level be aware that their world functions as that of a video game, but not that they have an audience, or they may alternatively be aware of their audience but not that they are in a story, or they may know that they have an audience but not that they are in a video game” (Solar, SBK Community Server).

Examining Aphmau’s Minecraft Diaries is a good way to illustrate different levels of presence between the fourth and eighth walls. Early episodes of Minecraft Diaries have little to no separation between the player and the character, and as the character is the player, the character is aware of the audience and usually speaks directly to them. It is a Let’s Play with some present storytelling elements. Due to scripting, some elements of the plot are known to the player and the audience, but not yet to the character. Later on in the series, there is more distinction between the player and the character. Despite still using the Minecraft interface and mechanics, and even using a face cam most of the time, Aphmau as a character becomes less and less aware of the audience and Aphmau as a player and series creator. By Season 2, the face cam is gone, and from the character’s perspective, there is no player or audience, though specific Minecraft functions such as the hotbar are still present. Then, there’s Diaries Rebirth, which is completely devoid of any first-person Minecraft interface, and Minecraft is more of a style in which to tell the story instead of a basis for a world. In Diaries Rebirth, I would argue that the complete lack of player presence beyond functioning as actors to move the characters makes it only exist with a fourth wall separating the characters inside the videos and the audience watching them on a screen.

When a story is told in the style of Diaries Rebirth, separated from the Minecraft interface, using outside cameras, and eliminating certain elements of “Minecraft Logic” (e.g. inventories, hotbars, health bars, experience, etc.), that elimination of acknowledging player existence, at least on a purely baseline, textual level, and removal of the second layer of fourth wall, makes it different to analyze than other forms of MCYT storytelling, which can depend on the implication of certain things about Minecraft as a baseline, such as taking damage, respawning, inventories, gamemodes, etc.

This is where I’m going to get into Parkour Civilization before talking more about the other common styles of storytelling. I will only be talking about the first Parkour Civilization video because I haven’t finished the second one yet, but that shouldn’t really impact my overall point about it. For those unaware of the craze taking the Minecraft Youtube community by storm, Parkour Civilization is a series of videos created by a Youtuber named Evbo. It exists both as a series of 21 ten to twenty minute videos, as well as two “full movies,” which are each around two hours long. It is a scripted series telling the story of Evbo as a character in Parkour Civilization, a world in which everything is parkour. You have to parkour to get around the world. You have to parkour to pay for things. You have to do parkour as a job. Literally everything is parkour. The series also contains commentary about class mobility and unjust systems within society.

The notable line from the very beginning of the series that has made its way into becoming a sort of meme format involves a character telling Evbo that to get food, he can make a one block jump for a piece of raw chicken, or a one block vertical jump for a piece of raw beef. This shows really well how Parkour Civilization depends on Minecraft mechanics like hunger, fall damage, the cursor highlighting blocks, and jump distance to tell its story because in doing so, it can use these shorthands that people familiar with Minecraft will already understand to effectively streamline its worldbuilding and story without getting bogged down in the minutiae of how the world works. The other interesting thing to note about Parkour Civilization is that while it is a fully scripted and acted story, it’s framed in its episode titles and some elements of how the story as told similarly to Challenge Style storytelling, specifically the Minecraft with a twist style of challenges (e.g. Minecraft but I survive in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION compared to videos like Minecraft but any block I touch is randomized). It’s interesting how Minecraft is not only the medium of the story, but an integral part of how the story is told and its messages are communicated to the audience. While the videos are fairly silly, I do think it’s incredible how a video can create a world that could not exist the same way in another medium. While it’s possible to tell a story with a similar structure and setup, it’s so heavily intertwined with Minecraft mechanics and concepts that it cannot be separated from Minecraft as a medium.

Now, getting back to the other major styles of storytelling, it’s important to clarify a difference between scripting and planning. Scripting, for the purposes of this essay, is when plot points are fully fleshed out, down to predefined actions and dialogue. Planning, for our purposes, is when certain plot points are planned to happen at some point, but the ways in which the characters may reach those points are not planned. To illustrate, scripting is a connect the dots puzzle, where there is a specific image as the end goal and a specific way that you are supposed to get there. On the other hand, planning is putting down a bunch of dots in a line and allowing people to draw things that aren’t a straight line between two points on the line. I’m going to be using these two terms here and there, so I’m setting up the difference in how they will be used here.

I think the idea that a lot of people miss when they’re thinking about SMP Style videos or really any Minecraft videos that are mostly improv is that most people making these videos are not professionals. They’re not professional actors or scriptwriters. They’re people getting onto the internet and having fun with their friends, then posting it where people can watch the fun they had with their friends. Most of the time, these people aren’t setting out to make art. They’re not trying to fully script out the next big thing in media that will be talked about for generations to come. They’re getting on Minecraft and building the cool ideas they’ve had, maybe doing some planning as well for a cohesion between their characters and builds or between their builds and the builds of their friends. Trying to compare the narrative improvisation that comes from SMP Style, where people are having fun and building on what they’ve already done as they go, to fully scripted and acted Minecraft content that’s trying to be a sort of movie doesn’t make sense. They’re not trying to fulfill the same niche within content, and a lot of the time they don’t have much in common beyond both being in Minecraft. Comparing these styles feels like comparing a random DND table to a fully produced Netflix show to me. Doing so doesn’t acknowledge what makes either interesting or compelling in a way the other may not have.

The reason I think SMP Style is so compelling is because you get to not only see the character and their struggles within the narrative, but also the player and the stories that they want to tell as a person living in the world with us. In the same video where you may see the epic climax of a character’s story that’s been built to for weeks or even months, you could see the creator so excited that they finally figured out why a certain part of their base looked weird and how they re-designed it to fix that. In the same video where a major antagonist that will be an integral part of the story is introduced for the first time, you can have the player explaining why they chose certain block palettes or providing a bit of behind the scenes for older lore that they thought was really cool. It’s that balance between seeing the characters and seeing the players behind them that makes SMP Style so cool to me. You get to see the epic highs and lows and adventures that may ensue, but you also get to see the people behind that, planning out cool stories and builds with their friends, who are excited to be able to share that with their audiences. Even with videos that are mostly or entirely lore-centered, you see the love and care that has been put into creating something that others will see and enjoy.

I think Challenge Style videos are compelling for the same reason that shows like American Ninja Warrior are compelling. It’s exciting to watch people face a challenge that we won’t encounter most of the time and root for them to win. In 100 Days Challenges, people put themselves into Minecraft worlds, often modded to be more hostile to live in, and try to survive 100 in-game days. These don’t always have an overarching plot within or between videos, but they still inherently tell a story. They tell the story of a character trying to survive in a new and unfamiliar world with only one life. Everything tells some kind of story, even if it’s not one with a defined plot structure with acts and rising action and falling action. Sometimes the story is that the character has been put in a seemingly inescapable room and needs to find a way out. Sometimes it’s just about rooting for someone to survive in the situation they’ve been put in. Sometimes it’s just about wanting to see people succeed at difficult things. Either way, it’s compelling because of the challenge to the player and how a character may be experiencing that within a sort of narrative.

I think Death Game Style is compelling because of the stakes (death, mainly) and the characters. There is an immediately established goal to be the last one standing. These characters are in a world where the winner takes all, and that inherently shapes how both the players and the characters interact with the world and each other. As a base concept, the characters that exist in a world will always have their actions influenced by the rules of the world. However, there is something that does not always come from a world, but does always come from a death game: that aforementioned established goal. Every character within that world will view the end goal differently. Some will want it so badly they’d betray their friends and allies that have had their back for the entire game. Others will not want to win, or will even detest the game for existing. Regardless of desire to win, the characters all participate in the game because that’s just how the world is set up. Part of the appeal is seeing how the different characters within the game react to it and interact with the world. As the game progresses, some players may have ideas for certain plot beats they want to hit, and a little bit of planning may happen, but in large part, death games are unpredictable, and a lot of plans may end up derailed by random chance. Additionally, with the built in conflict, as strained alliances are built and fighting begins, it’s easy for any character to be the hero from their own perspective. To them, they’re just trying to win. They’re doing what they have to. However, once you shift the viewpoint to that of another character, you often get a different view of their actions once you’re out of their perspective and not hearing their thoughts and justifications. This unreliable narration is present in most storytelling involving a first person perspective, but it almost seems to be amplified in the context of death games, potentially because these worlds encourage more drastic choices being made for the sake of being the last one standing.

In the end, as I mentioned before, Minecraft is so interesting to me because all of these different styles of storytelling can exist within the same medium and have different kinds of appeal. It’s versatile and allows for the creation of anything your creativity will permit. Even within a style of video, no two stories told will be exactly the same (except in the case of blatant plagiarism but that’s not what this essay’s about). It’s incredible how much can be conveyed with lighting and backgrounds and music and voice when motion is limited and facial expressions aren’t very possible. Anything could happen and the things that do are usually fun to watch if for no other reason that it’s really fun to see something that a person is really passionate about creating. That’s probably the simplest way to put why Minecraft works so well for telling stories. At the end of the day, it’s a game about creating your own story from a world, harnessing all it contains to work towards whatever goals you deem worthy. Sometimes the stories created are edited down with cool and interesting characters and posted online for us to see, or sometimes they may only exist in the mind of a single player. No matter how many or few people may know about the stories created, the potential for creation is why so many different stories can be told.

“Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience.

Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story.

Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third.

Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen”

-End Poem, Julian Gough

[starrihideshere]

stop cuz watching content of / from people from my dr is so fun and motivating

making me wanna redo my script for my mcyt dr...

[antimony-medusa]

@philologique I was answering as someone mostly working within the DSMP and QSMP fandoms! So the understanding of RPF that the fandom tends to work with us that RPF would be fiction about the actual streamers, usually (though not always) set in the real world, using facts about their real lives and sort of aiming to be close to the real life person behind the stream. The stuff that I write is using the characters the streamers play in their roleplay— DSMP was explicitly scripted content with revolutions and executions and betrayals and in-canon marriages, and QSMP has in-game families and children, plots about mysterious forces manipulating people to their own ends and trying to kill their NPC children, and they’re all trapped on a cursed island with amnesia. So it’s closer to say, D&D roleplay fiction or professional wrestling, where I’m engaging with the fictional character that they put forward, even if there are a lot of similarities to the real guy because he’s not a professional actor. In addition, a lot of the roleplay characters are non-human in some way— Philza has wings, Etoiles is part cucumber (it’s a very serious roleplay :D), so again there’s the “this is an immortal with wings, not the real guy” distinction.

Not every MCYT fandom is scripted, but generally the understanding in the fandom is that we’re dealing with fictionalizations, even though those can run the gamut from “professional persona of a real guy” (Joe Hills) to “entirely fictional character with lore as a world-hopper and a tragic backstory” (Mythical Sausage) and they’re all in the same worlds together, so defining what is real person fiction or not is something that gets incredibly complex.

A lot of the fandom is really anxious to not be writing RPF so they police the line between the roleplay character and real guy very carefully. I just was writing this post wanting to say that like, while I am doing my best to stick to the roleplay guy, it can get fuzzy, especially once you get into things like modern aus. So like, that's not the end of the world, how do we still do the more important part, making sure that we’re still making sure to treat the actual people carefully, not policing the edge of if it’s RPF or not? Even if we’re only dealing with the RP characters.

The thing with RPF

Okay, I don't tend to engage much with RPF. I have read it, but only when recommended by someone whose taste I trust (I think it's all supernatural aus that I've read, to-date), and my intention is not to write it. Not really my scene.

However, I really think this fandom could stand to stop treating RPF like it is the devil.

If you engage only with someone in the form of like an hour a week of video of them performing for an audience, particularly if that video is edited, like, when you start mentally rotating characters to create with, your brain isn't gonna draw a huge difference between the guy from the scripted thing you watched, and the person from, idk, mythbusters. Love to see my guy make a big explosion.

In both situations, you don't know them as people, you know them as like, personas, characters. You are essentially engaging with them as fictional characters, cause you only see the small segment of their lives that they put into the video, and whatever story they're telling with that. You don't know them as people, because how could you? So your brain going "hehe what if hunger games au" is just one of the ways brains work.

And idk, as long as you know you're doing that, I think that's fine.

It's fiction. You're writing/reading fiction. It's in the name. You know that it's not true, you're dealing with fictionalized versions of like, stage personas, or teaching methodologies, or historical records, and you can make your little fictions, and you show it to the eight people who are also really into *spins wheel* Ancient Egyptian RPF or *spins other wheel* Taskmaster UK TV RPF or *continues to spin the wheel* Polygon (web series) RPF. You all shake each other's hands and go "man I really like [person/character] and I think about them a lot" and someone else goes "I also think about [person/character] a lot and I think that if he was a warrior cat he would be a kittypet" and someone else goes "I think if [peson/character] would boil an egg the egg would explode cause he's really bad at boiling eggs" and you go "go on". You are all silly together, and you are all doing fiction, and you go on your merry way.

Like that is A Thing People Do On The Internet, and that stays in its its designated space, and that's fine. Might not be your jam but it's fine. That is not more weird than inventing an elaborate imaginary religion for a minecraft world, or working out the emotional nuance of an arranged marrige au between fictional detectives, or carefully making an elaborate interlocking series of stories where someone from a children's cartoon is horribly tortured, rescued, recovers, and gets their vengance. All of that looks weird from the outside, and is a fine and honourable thing to do in your little circles on the internet.

The part where this becomes a problem is when you take your fiction (lies we tell recreationally) out of the designated circle of people enjoying the fictions, and you shove it in the face of the person it's based on, and go "do you like this" or "is this okay" or "I found this and I think it's bad is it bad".

When you are doing the fiction you are engaging with the person as a character which is like, fine, and a truthful reflection of how much you actually know them (not at all, you don't know them), but in shoving it in their face you are going "I don't know you but I want you to react to this for my entertainment/justification, because I think this reflects on you, and apparently I think I deserve your time and attention, and also I think I already know how you're gonna react and I'm gonna use it for my callout posts", which is like, so much ruder than just making fictions about people you don't actually know.

Like writing a superhero au about the person you watch video game speedrun— based. Love the imagination. That is making something from nothing, a great creative act. I could not do that at all but I salute you.

Telling the speedrunner about it? No were you raised in a barn. You are not writing it for the person to approve of— they don"t know you— you are writing it for fun and the enjoyment of other speedrunner enjoyers. Keep it locked down.

As long as we're all aware that RPF is fiction, and we keep it in circles where we're circulating it as fiction— ao3 archive locks exist for a reason! this is not something you want to show up on a google search!— this is just a thing people do for entertainment. Don't bring it up to the person it's about, and you're fine.

And I've been thinking about this because like, I don't think what I'm writing is RPF, but BOY from the outside people seem to think it is! Including the creators! Which means that even while I'm doing my best to adhere to character beats from the story and not just streamer personas, and differentiate between the dude in england and the dude in 3rd life, also I should be aware that if the creator hits it, he's probably gonna think that I'm just writing this about him.

Things go SO MUCH BETTER if the creator only finds it if he goes "huh I wonder what people are writing about me" and deliberately goes to look for it, not if he's just going along thinking about disney movies and someone comes screaming into his field of view like "people are writing about you on the internet". And then he's gotta deal with the ways he's percieved, and whatever weird warrior cat situation people were putting him in, and the fact that people don't know him but think he can't boil an egg, and the 3rd life cannibalism aus, and and and— it's a mess. Please don't do that.

All of this to say A) RPF is fine actually that's just like one of the ways storytelling works— we're not writing RPF but it isn't the devil either. B) STOP TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT FANFICTION.

[clownbowzz]

same anon talking mcyt from before, i totally forgot to address "profiting off the dead."

dream was friends with a youtuber called technoblade. they played minecraft together sometimes, and they would mutually hype each other up/tease each other.

unfortunately, techno was diagnosed with cancer (sarcoma), and he died not long after. it was devastating to the mcyt community, and techno's dad (called mr technoblade online) posted a final video to techno's channel to read techno's goodbyes.

dream and mr techno got in contact and did a few projects together (a stream, a minecraft event, and a music video), all based on techno/raising money for sarcoma awareness/research. all the money or "profit" dream made from these projects was donated to charities.

the people claiming the music video was manipulative or narcissistic of dream seem to forget that mr techno was very involved in writing the script/producing the video, was on set while it was being filmed, and was actually in the video himself. techno's family was part of everything dream did after techno's death (along with the stream and minecraft event), and approved of it.

i can see why some people are uncomfortable with it, or didn't like how dream or his friends made content like this, but they can't act like dream did this all maliciously or is evil for doing so. he donated the money earned and he had techno's family approval and help.

Me: *dials phone*

2020 me: Ummmmmm who are you?

Me: Hi 2020 Jamie it’s me Jamie

2020 me: Who tf is Jamie

Me: We changed our name to Jamie

2020 Me: Ok?

Me: Ok LEAVE THE F#CKING MCYT FANDOM NOW RUN AND DONT ASK QUESTIONS ON WHY DREAM IS “canceled” AND JUST DO WHAT LEO TELLS YOU AND DONT SUPPORT DREAM!! YOU ENDED UP ASKING WHY HE WAS CANCELED AND ENDED UP WITH 2 LONG ASS PARAGRAPHS IN YOUR ASK BOX!!

2020 Me: Who is Leo? And what is a ask box?

Me: A friend & and a feature on Tumblr

2020 Me: Ok?

Me: I’m just glad that I didn’t post this on Twitter… ok bye now

[enneamage]

Wouldn't mind a comparison between the Sorry Boys and Generation Loss projects if you think it would be worth the effort and reveal anything about the players. What struck me the most watching Generation Loss (and this might have just been because of Charlie's inclusion) is that this was Ranboo's take on a partially improv-based group project like the Sorry Boys. It just took on an entirely different flavor due to Ranboo's own sensibilities.

I also think the actors involved here at a LOT more structure to work off of compared to the average Sorry Boys production, and I quite liked that (I also wonder how much influence Jerma had because the point-and-click adventure game elements you mentioned also remind me a lot of his interests.), but I'm curious what sort of audience this project will have in the end.I feel like it's too mature for much mcyt crossover, but too silly for Jerma's crowd or mainstream Twitch. Not enough of the characters/actors being in actual distress... at least for now. Although kudos to Ranboo for hiding that he was being burned by a wire for a portion of that performance. I had no idea.

I got this ask on day one when it looked like things were going to be more improv based (and episode two very much was) but I kept it in my hat to see how the project and the cast played out. If I had to hazard a guess, I would say that Genloss was improvised for convenience, in the sense that it would have been more work to memorise a full script than knowing the plot beats and filling the rest in with open-ended dialogue. The choice feature also made things work better with a lock of script because memorising the variables would be hell on earth, so improv and ‘natural dialogue’ seemed like the best option. It was more scripted overall, but sometimes the structure of what was meant to happen seemed to prevent the players from going far enough off the rails to find things to do in the stalled-out parts (mousetrap room was tough.)

As an aside, I think genloss would have benefited from Ranboo doing some ‘yes, and’. They were in disbelief and shutting everything down as protag, which was fair for the serious bits but it happened with the jokes too; it would have been easy enough to fix by anyone saying something in rehearsal so it’s kind of a shared flaw now. They’ve got a quick brain and can be funny in Sorry, but they needed to give themselves the permission to move past denial/astonishment as protag in GL. 

The eternal shapeshifter-ly goop of Charlie managed to make it into all three episodes, to a level I was surprised by. I guess people knew that they had a good thing going with him but I did not expect from his role in part one that he would become like… the main secondary character, even over Sneeg, who looked like he would have the most rollover in the beginning. I wonder if his part grew over time as the script was written.

I can actually see people getting endeared to a project that starts off like this and slowly gets better at being genuinely creepy with different installments, a little “look at them go ⭐" narrative. Ranboo is an identifiable type of person for a reason, there are many others who share their tastes and preferences when it comes to the things they think are cool, so I could see a future where this appeals to more than just boobers/boober adjacent people, but it doesn’t look like things have broken out of the circle yet.  Youtube has a bigger reach than Twitch when it comes to circulating content so we’ll see how Genloss does once it’s cut and archived publicly.

[demonboyhalo]

According to the wiki ranboo lost two lives before joining the smp. Bit of a plot hole if you ask me seeing as it was never mentioned before but 🤷

yea...as a ranboo main, I wasn't even sad when he died 💀 It was Techno pleading with Sam for the kid's life that made me cry. (pp duo my beloveds T^T) i 100% thought he had 2 spares and didn't even know he was dead till i saw Ghostboo - ppl STILL don't know he's dead! so yea it would've been helpful to mention it b4...but also the kids having fun with the cricket crew in LA!! i can't really blame him for that <3

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#i think one of the fascinating things here is like. they reached out to a bad creator for this?#his solo redstone videos are somewhat scripted right#but his hermitcraft videos only kind of follow a script#most of it is improv#which means these people aren't actually like. aiming for people who will actually benefit from this tool#they're PROBABLY just reaching out to 'big subscriber number maybe pay us'#which to me screams scam#but also like. yeah. what the fuck#anyway i just feel like it should be noted this is 100% a grift and a scam#not a thing that CURRENTLY i think you have to be afraid of your mcyt doing#because it would only work well for scripted content to do the thing they claim it does#and also training an ai effectively on a person's voice in a way that other people can't pick out as computerized is still hard

No, but this is actually crazy in the most dystopian sense.