#mcytblr history

[gumy-shark]

having mutuals who’ve never touched the mcyt fandom is so fun for me it’s like an entire cultural experience i’ve had. every so often i remember how many of my Beloved Mutuals don’t know about the mcytblr sexyman tournament. or scitties. they don’t know about the whoreslut survey.

[12u3ie]

hi was anyone gonna tell me that a 2014 canadian disneyxd show featured the likes of captainsparklez, vintagebeef, martyn inthelittlewood, and dantdm, or was i supposed to find that out via team canada's escape the nether video myself

[oil-bh]

Do you think, when he was arrested, that Cell was seen as the same as any other prisoners? Do you think he resided in the same places, ate the same food, performed the same work? Do you think the guards saw him and his violent history and let him roam the same as the thieves whose POV we saw it through?

Or do you think they saw this barely 18-year-old, who turned to violence and cannibalism as a means to survive, and recognized the danger he posed? Do you think they held him down, fought against his struggle, and let the other prisoners know that he wasn’t like them?

Do you think Cell was confused, confused as to why he was so different from the other Brazilians that lived in those same conditions? Do you think that he saw them as threats not because they were ones, but rather, because he knew that they lived so much better than him, yet still wound up here?

Do you think this man— if you could even call this teen a man— saw JV, Pac, Mike, and Guaxinim as threats out of jealousy? Empty wishes that he could have lives their lives and made smarter decisions to be a free man roaming the earth?

Do you think he cried when they held him down and put that infernal thing on him?

Não.

Ele é um animal.

Os animais não sentem.

[starcrossedkaiju]

Are you a well-adjusted member of society or were you there for the “Tommy are we the bad guys?” stream?

[genevawrenn]

Updated AO3 & Writing Facts, cause why not [holding myself accountable];

DSMP Fics : 35 QSMP Fics : 23 Other AU Fics : 17

How many words writted to date : 660,515 First date you posted : May 24, 2022 Most recent : May 10, 2024

# of POV & Word Count* [ish, I do switch POVs sometimes in the middle of the story]

c!Ranboo-Centric : 4 Fics ~ 142k words c!Tommyinnit-Centric : 6 ~ 122k c!Technoblade-Centric : 11 ~ 118k c!Tubbo-Centric : 6 ~ 104k c!Philza-Centric : 15 ~ 94k c!Eret-Centric : 12 ~ 80k c!Fit-Centric : 6 ~ 65k c!Foolish-Centric : 4 ~ 36k c!Pac-Centric : 3 ~ 33k c!Niki-Centric : 3 ~ 20k c!Aimsey-Centric : 2 ~ 15k c!Slimecicle-Centric : 2 ~ 6k c!Cellbit-Centric : 1 ~ 6k c!Chayanne-Centric : 1 ~ 5k

Longest Fic : Nightmare [73,221 words]

Shortest Fic : Shine a Light in the Dark, Let Me See Where You Are [1,278 words]

Highest Hits : You Make Sure I Always See the Daylight [4,181]

Highest Kudos : The Wise Crow Has Been Fooled (A Cage for a Cage) [237]

Sneak peek of things to come :

-A 5 part fic for Blood Duo week [hopefully] -A special fic for a dear friend's birthday -2 Voices for the Blade fics

These are all planned to release by or on June 1st.

WIP to return to :

-Syndicate baking day [fluff, all fluff] -c!Fireworks duo escape DSMP -Ender King possession fic / BOLAS rescue rewrite -Cellbit taking Chay and Lullah for a weekend -Angel!Fit and demon!Pac -Morning crew fic w/ robot!Tubbo -Star Rosa Chap 3 -Hopeduo tattoo artist AU -Hideduo cabin getaway -Fit caring for Chay and Lullah post EK possession of Phil

Things to slowly chip away at: -DND backstory for an irl friend's campaign [2 years overdue] -5ish original novels -2 potential fic to novel rewrites -c!Eret lore retell

[mcytblr-archive]

i think anon is being a bit harsh on you about the "gossip" thing cause while i can't speak to other subsections of the fandom to be totally honest dteamblr/404blr was definitely a community that kept itself alive because of blogs like hari and her friends (looking back its because we got such little content but thats another story 😭)... so an interview with her would probably get you almost the entire archive of dteamblr as whole and im sure she'd be happy to do so like she was a veteran 🐛

it's alright-- both can be true! going forward, i'll be more careful to avoid speculation, while also trying to provide individual accounts. it's a thin line between gossip and informed speculation, and i'd like to err on the side of accuracy.

that said, all information put forward within interviews should be taken with a grain of salt; my aim isn't to promote one side of discourse over another, but to get as many varied and biased viewpoints as i can to try and piece together a full and accurate image of what happened. it's increasingly difficult to avoid reigniting discourse as more and more people follow me, so i would like to reiterate that this blog is an impartial archive first and foremost! if that means less color-commentary on my part, i'm more than willing to take a step back.

[seriousslideshows]

Dear @banzaibunnies, I saw your question and knew I HAD to make a slideshow to answer it. If you have more questions, or want me to clarify something, feel free to send an ask, or ask about it in the tags.

As promised, here is the list of sources, that you can click :

AO3 as usual (https://archiveofourown.org/)

“It’s Finally Happening - Changes to Dream SMP, 3rd Life/Last Life, and other SMP fandoms!” 03/05/22, post on https://ao3org.tumblr.com/ 

https://www.tumblr.com/pixelfun20/668882243925770240/hope-is-this-hope-im-feeling-this-is-in 26/11/2, post by Pixelfun20

https://www.tumblr.com/quack-city/665049106777014272/calculated-estimates-from-searching-for 14/10/21, post by Conarcoin

For additional reading, see : https://www.tumblr.com/conarcoin/722117688116297728/if-yall-have-any-good-reaources-abt-the-fpfrpf 06/07/23 by Conarcoin

I will try to post a reblog with the content of the pictures in alt-text in a reblog, because it is quite a read.

[mccbrackets]

[etunpeudevitriol]

The mcytblr sexymen poll right now:

[team-zit]

who needs sports when you can obsessively check results on a poll rating the tumblr sexiness of minecraft youtubers??

[phocidine]

Listen

This is a tough one because both candidates are very much tumblr sexymen but…

Tango wasn’t the one who put me through the post revival avalanche of sexy bad boy vilbur fanart or the discourse that happened afterwards.

Tango wasn’t the one who has a godawful edit of him as the onceler.

Tango isn’t half of the tnt duo kiss.

Wilbur is a tumblr sexyman in all the worst ways. It ain’t pretty, but he’s the winner and all of my pain will be validated if he wins this round.

[landofspaceandrainbows]

anyway, so i watch a lot of jack manifold streams because, hell yea.

so he's from v close to The North (tm) of England, and he has talked about how where he's from - if you're in a tight financial situation, it's been a thing to make ends meet, to go work in the mines - until f** thatcher Did Her Thing. - including closing all the mines (without doing much for help), and jack manifold talks about how he's "going back to the roots" by mining to survive.

anyway, so i was thinking, jack's straight, but many ppl on the DSMP/OSMP are gay/lesbian/queer. soooo.... the DSMP/OSMP and maybe most of mcyt fandom imo, could be described as.... "lesbians and gays support the miners" (part 2) x D

[nerdyenby]

In collecting this data I found some interesting stuff, so let’s talk about it!!

• While every MCC has 40 contestants, every canon event has between 7 and 18 non-men participating (MCC12 being the seven and MCC27 being the 18)

• Season 1 had an average of 12.8 non-men players per event, while season 2’s average is 12.3 (which is pretty consistent, especially if we exclude MCC10’s viewer teams, bringing season 1 down to 11.7)

• All of the above statistics include AMAB nonbinary people, as trans people are inherently included in discussions of women’s rights and history, regardless of their assigned gender at birth. Here this includes Krtzyy, Krinios, Mefs, Iskall, Eret, Ponk, and Ranboo. If I’m missing anyone, or if any of them aren’t comfortable being included in this manner please let me know

• That said, when I was looking at the highest placing non-man in every event, it was a bit saddening how it was 64.5% AMAB he/theys, but that says more about how women are pushed away from competitive spaces more than anything else. Still, Jojo remains the only non-man to ever place 1st individual while Hannah is the only other to get into the top three and Krtzyy both come 2nd in MCC27 and MCC1, respectively

Please keep in mind that this is all out of my own curiosity, I think MCC does a freaking amazing job of including women and gender-nonconforming people, especially given how often feminine-presenting people are excluded from gaming, and especially competitive gaming spheres

Keep up the good work MCC, and you reading this, take some time to support female and gnc content creators!!! It’s so rare to see them get properly successful so put your money where your mouth is and support women and nonbinary ccs

Wanting to collect my thoughts on MCC29 as a women’s history month event

��� Dodgebolt coming down to False vs Gee nearly every round is a big one, so cool to see how everyone — regardless of which team they were rooting for — cheered them both on

• Jojo coming first again is massive, as she’s the only woman to ever do so (the first time was MCC25)

• also screw you, nonbinary people count, Ranboo making top 5 makes the list!!

• This event had had 15 non-men contestants, making it joint 3nd for the highest of any canon MCC to date!! (MCC27 had eighteen, MCC10 had seventeen, and MCCs 3, 23, and 28 had fifteen)

• There was also only one team (Orange Ocelots) that was exclusively men, which has only occured a couple times!!! (MCC10 had at least one non-man on every team, but two of them were viewer teams; MCCs 3, 19, and 23 also had 9/10 teams with at least one non-man on them)

Feel free to add on if I missed anything!!

[conarcoin]

CW: Fictional violence and death, unreality

Me and my friends have been cracking away at this hunt for a very long time, several years, and while we believe that we have the most complete reconstruction of this fic, we are still missing so much and we believe our only chance at possibly finding what's left is through sharing our findings.

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, TRY TO LOCATE OR CONTACT THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK. They want nothing to do with it, and we have no affiliation with them nor any malicious intent - we did this out of a love for fandom history and a deep interest in lost media and media preservation. It is made almost entirely from screenshots and transcripts that were still publicly locatable online if you have the right tools.

'Til death do us part?

(And merry Christmas, MCYTblr, you magnificent bastards. Thanks for all the love over the past 3 years.)

[improvapocalyps]

Stale blood caked Cleo's armor as she dragged herself through paradise. Gods below that sucked, she thought, that really sucked. They ignored the colorful birds that swooped overhead, disregarding the cloudless sky and brilliant sun that cast down gentle rays upon her green skin. What was the point of indulging in something that didn't exist?

Dust, Flesh, and Bones, by @pattonscribe

“Death!” she called, a hoarse quality to her voice, clutching tighter onto Etho’s body as their army of the dead went onwards to protect them. “You— this wasn't what I wanted!”

before we lose the sound of our own mouths calling mine, mine, mine., by @kanda-franca

In participation of MCYTblr AU Fest Summer 2024 hosted by @mcytblraufest!

I feel incredibly lucky and honored that two(2) writers decided to pick up my niche af AU pitch! They knocked it out of the park with their fics, please check them out !!

[Some behind-the-scenes ramble and close-ups under cut]

My AU's ao3 equivalent tag is "Alternate Universe - Gods & Goddesses", specifically drawing inspiration from Khelren's Godsend TTRPG setting (though you do not need any knowledge of the ttrpg to enjoy the fics):

In Godsend you roam the lands as the avatar of your god, cursing mere mortals and presenting gifts to the chosen ones. Your memories are numerous, made of the lives of your predecessors, your power is almost limitless. Will you use it to fulfil the will of your god? Or, as the end times draw near, will you try to save the world? 　(from the itch.io page)

I had my heart set on making Clethubs AU (to no surprise of anyone's i'm sure) so that's the main characters/ avatars settled- but who shall be the gods?

There are 6 domains in the Godsend setting: Death, Justice, Knowledge, Nature, Trickery, and War.

To me, it was obvious to put Bdouble "moss" O100 under the Nature domain, and Zombie "zombie" Cleo under Death. Then after some comtemplation Etho "free glass" sLab was slotted underneath Trickery.

What remains is to find the Hermist/ Traffic-lifers that are 1) connected to the domains 2) related to the avatars.

(fyi i drew all those feather strokes manually by hand with my lineart brush) (why? well,)

Grian came to mind immediately when I thought of "Trickery" (Though Cub, Scar, and a couple of other Hermits also fit). I wanted to build the god-avatar relationship on the Etho-Grian dynamic specifically.

Scar was chosen based on his S9 theme (wood elf) and his history with Bdubs (S7 mayor race). Baiscally the concept of King maker/ Second-in-command Bdubs was stuck in my brain. (Sorry Stress :[ )

Death was a trickier one. While it would be funny to have Grian-Scar-Mumbo to be (half of) the pantheon, Mumbo fit the Knowledge domain better. (ignoring his Peace, Love, and Plants deal for a sec; even then I think that's more Nature-aligned) so I went with the classic option of Zedeath.

Beyond this point (until "===") is me overanalysing/ blue-curtaining the black & white piece. You have been warned (/silly)

This piece's composition used a circle/three-parter as its base, witih the circle centred on the castle/city in the middle of the map. Etho was fully isolated in Grian/Trickery's third of the space, but Nature crossed over into Death's space easily the two domains are closely related imo. It was natural for things to end (death), and endings fueled the next cycle of nature life.

It seemed that all the gods are looking at the world/map, however since their pupils are obscured (non-existent in Scar's case) it was difficult to say for certain. Though you might be able to tell where their interest lie, if you look at the distance between the deities and the mortal realm and where their hands rest.

Death carefully rested his elbow on the line separating him and Nature, but his left hand was dangerously close to Bdubs. And it looked like it was ready to come down and press direcly onto the corner of the map, tilting or even flipping the chessboard over. In his right hand held the scythe, posed to swing. The edge of his scythe faced Cleo, pointing towards them like he could harvest their life whenever at his whim.

He also looked at the world from directly above (though you could say he was biased towards Cleo's point of view since he's not centered+ he was positioned behind them), meaning that he saw all lives as "equal", or have an especially detached but not uncaring view regarding the world (like a scientist looking microorganisms in his petri dish).

In contrast, Grian/Trickery leaned in close to the world, lowering his head so his eye level was almost at the ground level of the world. Like he was looking through the mortals' point of view, understanding the state of affairs through humans' moralities and values (through Etho, even, since Grian was positioned behind him).

His eyes were wide in anticipation. While he carefully kept his hands close, they were also touching the world directly; which was a thing no other god did in the piece. It was like he was waiting for the right moment to reach out and disrupt whatever that's happening on stage. As we all know, no matter how much Grian tries to restrain himself, he will press the button.

Scar is the most... detached/ distanced from the world as a whole? He reclined backwards, his visible hand resting on his knee. He might be looking at the world, or he might be looking at Grian, or was his attention on bdubs? Even with the signature :J smile on his face, he got this air of indifference. Maybe Nature believed that everything will run their fated courses without his influence.

The flowers on Scar's clothes were sunflowers (sides of his corset), roses (back of corset and forearm), and a very specific lilac brush I had to download. Flowers that were closely related to a certain series :3c

Shoutout to w4r (War for Rayuba) for the chessboard map idea. ily octs It's really funny that Bdubs, Cleo & Etho all start/ were currently standing on black tiles (<- did not count the tiles and only realised that after i started to fill in the black)

Let's talk (more) about body language and outfits and black-white ratio (I am Reaching here) (not that I wasn't in the previous part) (but I am Reaching even further)

Etho has a very clear cut B&W shading with minimal grey/cross-hatch areas. He is the least ink-blocked. He knows what his beliefs are and the lines that he will/won't cross.

He has a semi-relaxed stance, tilting back slightly. He has one hand on his hip but the other by his side remain open-palmed. He isn't not listening to new proposals, but he is considering (and judging) them carefully.

Bdubs' moss cloak and boots has a clear divide in b&w, but not his outfit (pants)/headband. Both the cloak and boots are nature-aligned: cloak is, well, made of moss; and boots to walk the earth, the only thing separating him and the dirt (though at the same time, supporting him).

Nature is clear in what it wants. While there may be bright parts mixed in shadows, and flecks of shade within the "light", Nature holds a firm stance based on layers and layers of understanding.

Bdubs is also reaching out with an open palm. He is open for dialogue, perhaps preaching/ prompting others to communicate as well.

Cleo is the darkest/ most shaded among the three. She has highlights on the edges of her armour, but overall her armour is mainly shades of grey. Unlike Etho/Bdubs whose outfits' base color is largely white/empty, the visible parts underneath her armour (gloves and pants) are solid dark. She is dressed for blood and combat. It also gives the impression that she has this fierce determination/ conviction (darker tones being more "serious").

Her posture- legs wide, slouched/ leaning forward- makes her look aggressive/ stressed. Her hands are balled up into fists, one of them holding onto the flag/banner (of Death). Even then, the way she holds the banner isn't one that says it's for morale. She holds it like a spear, like a weapon.

There's also something about fabric/ extra fabric on the characters.

Etho has the least fabric on him but he has this shawl wrapped around himself. And the shawl itself is very still/ motionless. Bdubs' outfit is very round and gives like a grounded/soft vibe while the ribbon around his head drags behind him. but Cleo has neither of those, the only fabric that waves in the air is her banner which is outside of her body/not connected to her.

=== === ===

The composition of my 2nd piece aimed to imitate the playbook's cover art (illustrated by Vash Taylor), with the slightly faded background and wispy banner. The path of the smoke meant to mimick Cleo's face stitches (as how I usually draw them), where it crawls up her right cheek, crosses her nose bridge and passes through her eye.

Shoutout to "google search: zombie hands" stock photos and silhouette images, they saved my life when I was struggling with the foreground.

If you read through all this, I thank you from the bottom of my heart and hope everything will be going splendid for you in the month of August!! Even if you didn't and just swiped past after realising there's too many words behind the read more I wish you the same :D

Once again, please check the fics if you are interested in the AU!! Dust, Flesh, and Bones is a multi-chaptered long fic and before we lose the sound of our own mouths calling mine, mine, mine. is a 9k one-shot! They are both so dear to me I hold them close to me heart,,

[mcytblr-archive]

i'm putting out a message to anyone who participated in 2020/2021 mcytblr!

i've recently reignited my passion for archiving niche fandom history! if you were involved in early mcytblr, sleepyblr, idotsblr, or dteamblr, i would LOVE to pick your brain and collect firsthand accounts of what it was like and different mcytblr events!

a short (but by no means exhaustive) list of events/happenings i'm interested in collecting accounts of:

the mcytblr elections, dlying, gay castle, 'kinnie' imposter blogs, friend or host, any discourse you can remember, the general vibe, truthing, critblr, copypastas (dream is a youtuber, hey wilbur, in this video we coded it so that i am in love with georgenotfound) and whatever sticks out to you from that era!

please feel free to reblog/send this to anyone who you remember from back then! i think firsthand accounts are just as important to preserve as physical media, especially right now, before memories get any more faded or warped. if you're interested, shoot me an ask or a message, or say so in the tags and i'll reach out!