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ONE COMPLETE YEAR OF DREAM SMP RECAPS: In Review

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So, it’s been one year since the first recap!

A full year of keeping track of the events and goings on of the server, ever since a week or so after the end of Season One.

This post will be a recap of every day from that year. It’s a long post, so only open it if you’re ready to read for a while.

Welcome...to the Dream SMP Year Recap.

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November 23rd 2020 - November 23rd 2021

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The days began with November 23rd 2020, the day that Vikkstar and Lazarbeam joined the server:

Nov 23: Vikkstar and Lazarbeam join the SMP, Eret offers to adopt Fundy

Nov 24: Tubbo’s decree, Ghostbur gets jealous about the adoption

Nov 25: Callahan steals all the bitches, Karl starts building Party Park

Nov 26: Karl teaches Ponk and George about Thanksgiving, Lani’s visit featuring Mexican Dream

Eret’s adoption offer was a short-lived arc that ended sadly, but that same day, Ranboo would be added to the server, kicking off a long chain of events:

Nov 27: Fundy gets into an argument with Ghostbur after Eret doesn’t show up to adopt him, Ranboo joins the server

Nov 28: Tommy and Ranboo grief George’s house, Niki and Puffy go on a date, Ranboo and Fundy build an ice cream shop, Dream builds a wall

Nov 29: Tommy’s trial, Tubbo speaks with Dream, Dream follows Puffy around like a duckling, Dream gets Denny’s therapy with Quackity

11/30: Fundy bonds with Ghostbur, Cursed Lore Day (Samsung Fridge)

On December 1st, a new country would be founded only to revolt after five days:

12/01: Mexican L’manburg is created, Girl Dream visits

12/02: Meeting with Dream about the exile, Tommy and Ranboo speak, Tubbo, Fundy and Quackity speak

12/03: Tommy/Ghostbur and Techno/Phil go their separate ways, George is dethroned

December 4th: The beginning of the Exile Arc:

12/04: Day of the Exile, the Badlands have a disagreement

12/05: Prison is commissioned, Tommy’s first full day in Logsted, Sean’s visit

On December 6th, Mexican L’manburg fell, and Bad found a new oddity growing in his statue room...

The beginning of the Egg Arc:

12/06: The Mexican L’manburg Revolution, start of El Rapids, Pandora’s Vault is named, discovery of the Blood Vines

12/7: Dream and Tubbo play chess, Blood Vines grow more

12/8: Tommy sees Tubbo at Logsted, they plan the Beach Party

12/9: The Beach Party, Sapnap angers the Crimson

12/10: Jack visits Tommy and dies, Skeppy gets trapped in the Crimson

12/11: Tubbo gets Squeeks, Fundy and Niki leave for Dry Waters, Red Skeppy emerges

12/12: MCC, no updates

12/13: The return of Mexican Dream and Girl Dream, Fundy’s tricks, Pokimane’s visit

12/14: Drista’s visit, Quackity says goodbye, Dream checks the Prison

With New L’manburg’s rage still brewing against Technoblade, the Butcher Army attempts to go after him while Tommy escapes from Exile:

12/15: Dream gives Techno a quest, Tommy escapes to Technoblade’s house, Purpled and Ponk vs. Jack and Antfrost Battle at the Thiccatron, Corpse’s visit

12/16: The Butcher Army executes Technoblade

12/17: Techno and Tommy sneak through L’manburg, Dream speaks with Punz

12/18: Technoblade hides Tommy during Dream’s visit, Ranboo dies by a llama, Disc-ount Disc War

12/19: Ghostbur hides Tommy during Dream’s visit, Fundy scams Antfrost and Punz

12/20: Holy Land fight, Jack-Ponk-Ant Conflict, Homeless Dream Arc, KSI’s Deadly Classroom

12/21: Ponk builds a bee, Ant and Bad perform experiments on the Crimson

12/22: Tubbo gives Phil an ankle monitor, attack mob forms, Jack-Ponk war continues, Phil escapes New L’manburg to live with Techno

12/23: Tommy builds a path, Bad, Punz and Ant continue experiments on the Crimson

12/23: Tubbo’s birthday, Tommy makes a path, experiments on the Crimson continue

12/24: Wilbur’s Christmas karaoke

12/25: Tommy and Tubbo chill non-canon stream

Karl gathers his friends to build a country in an hour, kicking off a brand new series:

12/26: Lani’s visit, Tales From the SMP Pilot: “The Town That Never Was”

12/27: Connor’s kidnapping, Tommy and Dream’s confrontation, HBomb becomes Fundy’s cat maid again

12/28: The Mr. Beast Challenge

12/29: Ranboo decorates for the Festival, Dream SMP Build-Off

12/30: Fundy builds a mob farm, experiments on the Crimson continue

12/31: Nothing much happens

1/1: HBomb’s Social Experiment

1/2: Tales From the SMP: “The Village That Went Mad”

1/3: Nothing much happens

1/4: Fundy’s Interrogation

L’manburg holds a Festival to try and kill Dream, only for their country to fall to destruction the day after:

1/5: The New L’manburg Festival

1/6: Doomsday

In the wake of tragedy, Tubbo leaves to the barren snow to find a new home:

1/7: Tubbo creates Snowchester

1/8: Squeeks’ Death and Funeral

1/9: The Ranboo Experiment, Tales From the SMP: “The Beach Episode!”

1/10: Resurrection Attempt

1/11 - Nothing much happens

1/12 - The bathwater mishap

1/13 - Ponk and Sam help Tommy prepare

With L’manburg gone, the Crimson takes its next step forward with an empire. Meanwhile, Ranboo has been wrestling with a strange voice, a new arrival appears, and Tubbo hatches a plan to go nuclear:

1/14 - Puffy’s Hero Arc, Dawn of the Eggpire

1/15 - Ranboo’s confrontation

1/16 - Foolish arrives

1/17 - Ant plants the seeds, Project Dream Catcher begins, Karaoke Night!

Another new member joins, and Techno and Phil make plans for a new group of anarchists:

1/18 - HannahxxRose arrives, Founding of the Syndicate

1/19 - Tommy’s final night, HBomb leaves, Niki and Techno meet, Ranboo and Tubbo meet, Punz’s discovery

It’s time for Tommy and Tubbo to finally face Dream and end the Disc War once and for all. With their victory, Dream is hauled off to his own prison with possession of the revival book:

1/20 - DISC WAR FINALE

— END OF SEASON TWO —

Tommy starts building a hotel, Quackity and Sam hatch plans of their own as the Eggpire makes bold moves, and Jack and Niki get their chance to kill Tommy with the nuclear launch test:

1/21 - Tommy’s visit to Dream

1/22 - Slimecicle joins the server

1/23: Connor and Schlatt’s party, Quackity and Sam plan Las Nevadas

1/24: The Eggpire attacks, Tales From the SMP: “The Lost City of Mizu”

1/25 - Puffy rescues Sam from the Egg, Bad traps Ponk with the Egg

1/26 - Nuclear Launch Test, the Crimson speaks

1/27 - Fundy, Phil and Ranboo explode the Vines, Fundy is almost captured

1/28 - Tommy and Jack destroy the remnants of Ponk’s Lemon Tree

1/29 - Ponk captures Fran as revenge

1/30 - Bad’s visit with Dream, Ranboo’s confrontation

1/31 - The Eggpire hires Purpled

2/1 - Ponk’s dream, Ranboo speaks with Awesam

2/2 - Ponk reads Jack’s Journal, Tommy takes a piece of the Crimson, Awesam and Fran bond

2/3 - Puffy attempts to destroy the Crimson, Tales From the SMP: “The Masquerade”

2/4 - Nothing much happens

2/5 - Jack Manifold becomes the main character

2/6 - Puffy searches for parrots

2/7 - The 5-Hour Tom Gravy Stream

2/8 - Puffy leaves a note for Techno, Puffy commits arson against Ponk

Karl decides it’s time to move away from the main area and build a new library for his books elsewhere:

2/9 - Ponk destroys Puffy’s house, Karl moves the library with George and Sapnap, Sapnap visits the prison

2/10 - Nothing much happens.

2/11 - Quackity’s couples therapy

2/12 - Ponk continues work on the Woo Station, Fundy builds a gameshow, Puffy rebuilds her house

2/13 - Bad and Puffy speak with Techno, Ranboo speaks with the Crimson

2/14 - Sam sees the Woo Station, Foolish stares at a wall for 10 hours, Tales From the SMP: “The Wild West”

2/15 - Ranboo finds his wall signs changed

2/16 - Tommy’s hotel opening, Karl and Sapnap name Kinoko Kingdom

2/17 - Foolish, Ponk and HBomb’s lore, Bad confronts Puffy about the propaganda

2/18 - Bad and Antfrost confront Puffy about the propaganda

2/19 - George vandalizes the prison, Captain Puffy’s Prank Wars

2/20 - Nothing much happens.

Having successfully opened the Big Innit Hotel, Tommy decides to visit Dream again...only for it to end in disaster:

2/21 - Tommy gets trapped in prison, Jack and Quackity speak, guard training day, Eret returns

2/22 - Phil’s home renovations

While Tommy is stuck in the prison, Tubbo and Ranboo get married and start an inn together:

2/23 - Tubbo builds a sandstone penis on the prison, Sam kidnaps Michael, Tubbo and Ranboo get married

2/24 - Ponk and Sam’s date, Phil bargains with Sam, Ranboo and Tubbo start Bee ‘n’ Boo

2/25 - Tubbo, Ranboo and Jack quarrel about their hotels

2/26 - DreamXD helps George build McDonald’s, Jack’s date with Andrea

2/27 - Nothing much happens

2/28 - Hannah’s birthday stream, Sapnap’s birthday party

After remaining trapped for days, Dream kills Tommy in the prison, sending the server into mourning and the Eggpire into their final plans:

3/1 - Foolish and Jack Manifold’s L’Cast, Dream kills Tommy, Jack spreads the news, the Eggpire enters the Final Stage

3/2 - The server mourns Tommy, Ranboo confronts Sam

3/3 - Tubbo’s detective work

3/4 - Foolish confronts the Crimson, Dream revives Tommy, Tales From the SMP: “The Haunted Mansion”

3/5 - Ponk warns Foolish about an Eggpire attack, Ranboo, Tubbo, Fundy and Phil see Michael

3/6 - The Syndicate meets, Antfrost prepares for the Red Banquet

3/7 - Tubbo and Ranboo commission a mansion, Captain Puffy’s origin story

3/8 - Ponk’s preparations, Michelle is brought to Snowchester

3/9 - Ponk’s last warning to Foolish, Hannah gets trapped with the Egg

3/10 - The Eggpire’s attack on the Temple, Sam rescues Hannah

3/11 - Nothing much happens

Days after Dream revives Tommy in the prison, Tommy is finally let out of the Vault with new plans to kill Dream for good, while Quackity has his own ideas:

3/12 - Tommy exits Pandora’s Vault

3/13 - Nothing much happens

3/14 - Tommy plans to kill Dream, Ghostbur returns

3/15 - Nothing much happens.

3/16 - “Worst Day:” Quackity starts visiting Dream in prison

3/17 - Ranboo’s lore recap

3/18 - Fundy’s Social Experiment (Community House explodes)

3/19 - Nothing much happens.

3/20 - Tales From the SMP: “The Pit”

3/21 - Jack’s new plan

3/22 - KSI’s mysterious visit

Ponk and Sam’s relationship takes a dark turn as Ponk steals defunct prison keycards, causing Sam to retaliate with brutal force:

3/23 - Ponk takes the Warden Keycards and Sam kills him

3/24 - Sam cuts off Ponk’s arm for the keycards

3/25 - Jack speaks with Sam about becoming a guard and takes on the case to find the cameras

3/26 - Tubbo recommissions Project Dream Catcher, the nuke goes missing

3/27 - Tommy works on the tower, Lil Nas X visits, Eret and Foolish clear the Blood Vines

3/28 - Tommy works on the tower, Niki works on her city, Sapnap plays on Karl’s account

3/29 - Drista and the shulker box deal, Hannah and Sam threaten the Cat Cafe

Fundy and George experience some strange dreams, while Tubbo has his own mystery text telling him to “wake up”:

3/30 - Fundy’s Mind

3/31 - George Lore’s George lore, George’s deal with DreamXD

4/1 - Strange words start appearing on Tubbo’s screen, Henry dies again, April Fool’s pranks

4/2 - Sam’s character QnA, Drista visits for a recording

4/3 - Nothing much happens.

4/4 - Nothing much happens.

4/5 - Tubbo creates Checkmate, Tommy and Ranboo lose Friend

4/6 - Puffy helps Antfrost and Sam work through their smashing problems

4/7 - Tip Tup, the Eggpire gives out Red Banquet invitations

4/8 - Ponk moves into Niki’s city, Fundy attempts to prank Ranboo

4/9 - Tubbo creates an interrogation room

4/10 - Nothing much happens.

4/11 - Tubbo rebuilds his house with Tommy

4/12 - Quackity recounts the events leading up to his visit with Dream

4/13 - Nothing much happens.

4/14 - Foolish hires HBomb to be his maid.

4/15 - Nothing much happens.

4/16 - Nothing much happens.

4/17 - Hannah goes sleepwalking

During the Eggpire’s preparations for the Red Banquet, Bad and Skeppy clash over the Egg:

4/18 - Bad and Skeppy fight, Bad kills Skeppy

4/19 - Nothing much happens.

4/20 - Nothing much happens.

4/21 - HBomb makes a diamond game, Jack plans to open a pub sidechain for his hotel business

4/22 - Tubbo shows Tommy how to make TNT cannons

4/23 - Puffy, Foolish, Hannah and Sam meet on Cloud Prime to discuss the Banquet, Ranboo’s Enderwalk Saga: “The Lessons”

4/24 - Dream SMP’s one-year anniversary: George has another dream about the past coming to visit, Bad hands out invitations

After so many preparations, it’s finally time for the Egg to feast:

4/25 - THE RED BANQUET

4/26 - Foolish speaks with the Egg, L’Sandburg is founded, Puffy grieves after the Banquet, L’Puffburg is created

4/27 - Ponk confronts Foolish at the Community House, Tommy faces his fears

4/28 - Ponk builds a shack at the summer home, Ranboo reads Enderwalk’s response in the Memory Book

Tommy’s plan to break into the prison does not go as he thought, resulting in Wilbur being brought back to life:

4/29 - Prison break, Ghostbur dies and Wilbur is revived

4/30 - Nothing much happens

5/1 - Nothing much happens

5/2 - Nothing much happens

5/3 - Phil tells Fundy that Wilbur is back

5/4 - Nothing much happens.

5/5 - Tommy tours Wilbur around the server

5/6 - Ponk pranks people with pumpkins, Tommy finds the pickle pit and speaks with Foolish

5/7 - Tommy, Ranboo and Tubbo go mining in the quarry

5/8 - Nothing much happens.

5/9 - Tubbo and Ranboo hang out in the Arctic

5/10 - Jack and Tommy steal from each other while Tommy works on the mine

5/11 - Nothing much happens.

After the Banquet, Bad founded a new country called L’Sandburg in Foolish’s summer home. A while after, Foolish decides it’s time to take action against it. A newcomer arrives:

5/12 - Foolish gives L’Sandburg an ultimatum to take down the wall

5/13 - Foolish sends out letters asking for help with L’Sandburg

5/14 - Tubbo claims L’Sandburg and gets the gift cards with Phil and Ranboo

5/15 - Foolish walls off L’Sandburg, Tommy walls off the Holy Land

5/16 - Michaelmcchill joins the SMP

5/17 - Nothing much happens.

5/18 - Foolish makes a deal with Bad to sell L’Sandburg

5/19 - Foolish hires Punz to search for the nuke, DreamXD gives out player heads, the Badlands argue about weednip while planning for war

5/20 - Nothing much happens.

5/21 - Ranboo finds another Stronghold

Quackity plans to defeat Technoblade at last by luring him to the prison and recruits some new faces for his country, Las Nevadas:

5/22 - Dream writes Technoblade a letter, Quackity tries to recruit Charlie, Fundy, Purpled and Foolish to Las Nevadas, Ranboo creates a room for his experiments at the Stronghold

5/23 - Foolish thinks about joining Las Nevadas, Bad does matchmaking for turtles

5/24 - Fundy joins Las Nevadas

5/25 - An argument about L’Sandburg’s turtles breaks out, Shelly dies and is revived

5/26 - Nothing much happens.

5/27 - Quackity gets Charlie to work for him in Las Nevadas, Connor gets into debt with Quackity, Michael attempts a prison break-in and falls in love with Dream

5/28 - Nothing much happens.

5/29 - Michael plots his prison break

5/30 - Ranboo writes a letter to Wilbur, a forest appears in the Arctic, Puffy starts building up L’Llamaburg

Wilbur visits Las Nevadas for the first time and reunites with Quackity, sparking a new rivalry. Tubbo builds an outpost to keep an eye on the new country:

5/31 - Wilbur and Tommy visit Las Nevadas

6/1 - Ponk tears down a tower of L’Llamaburg, Tubbo builds an outpost, Techno’s birthday party, Quackity speaks with Foolish about Las Nevadas, Niki finds out about Wilbur’s revival, Bad and Puffy destroy the supreme fridge in an act of war

6/2 - Fundy speedruns self-care, Antfrost confronts Foolish, Bad and Puffy to apologize

6/3 - Nothing much happens.

6/4 - Ponk decides to sue Puffy and Bad, Pubbo

6/5 - Nothing much happens.

Quackity’s scheme succeeds, with Techno now a prisoner alongside Dream:

6/6 - Techno gets trapped in prison, Quackity tours Bad, Puffy, Skeppy and Michael around Las Nevadas

6/7 - Nothing much happens.

6/8 - Puffy writes a countersuit in the Lore Suit against Ponk

6/9 - Ponk shows Sam the valley, Fundy and Purpled officially join Las Nevadas, Ranboo receives an update from the Council

6/10 - Nothing much happens.

6/11 - Fundy and Tubbo spy on each other at the outpost

6/12 - George gets turned into a pig

6/13 - Fundy and Purpled work in Las Nevadas, Foolish bargains wall nuts with Bad

6/14 - Nothing much happens.

6/15 - Foolish builds in Las Nevadas

6/16 - Fundy and Foolish work in Las Nevadas

6/17 - Hannah rebuilds Pickle

Tubbo’s outpost begins to raise tensions with Las Nevadas:

6/18 - Quackity confronts Tubbo about the outpost, Tommy builds a railway and kidnaps Slime, Ranboo and Slime speak, Quackity and Ranboo debate about the outpost

6/19 - Nothing much happens.

6/20 - Foolish builds in Las Nevadas

6/21 - Prison Podcast ft. Dream and Techno

6/22 - Nothing much happens.

6/23 - Ponk and Foolish become Batman and Robin

6/24 - Quackity turns into a cow, Quackity and Wilbur make a song, George and Bad spar

6/25 - Foolish, Ponk and Bad found the S.U.S. toll company

6/26 - MCC, no updates

6/27 - Nothing much happens.

6/28 - Ponk builds in the valley and makes a room of all his variations, Foolish, Fundy, Niki and HBomb do a spelling bee in Las Nevadas

6/29 - Ponk builds the new Lemon Tree and chats with Sam, then Bad, Sam and Punz hang out and drop YouTooz codes

6/30 - Ponk tells Foolish the story of George and the Lemon Tree

7/1 - Foolish and Purpled build in Las Nevadas

7/2 - Nothing much happens.

7/3 - Puffy works on the Lore Cast building

7/4 - Nothing happens.

7/5 - Nothing much happens.

Tommy does some summer cleaning only for Tubbo, Foolish and Sam to take over the Prime Path with a massive beets farm:

7/6 - Tommy and co. clear up the area by the Prime Path

7/7 - Tommy tries to move to Kinoko

7/8 - Fundy and Foolish have a custody battle, Drista makes a flying pig squad

7/9 - Ponk asks Foolish to kill Sam, “Tom Simmons” joins Dream SMP

7/10 - Tubbo, Foolish and Sam create a gigantic beets farm, Tommy stores his war items

7/11 - The beets men get revenge on Puffy, Foolish and Bad improve the beets farm

7/12 - Nothing much happens.

7/13 - Foolish builds the Lemon Tree

7/14 - Nothing much happens.

7/15 - Foolish continues work on the Lemon Tree.

7/16 - Boomer visits on Sam’s account

7/17 - George dreams of Quackity

7/18 - Tommy builds Drista’s hotel, Ranboo builds the stone sky city, Foolish destroys L’Sandburg

7/19 - Nothing much happens.

Sapnap and George get a visit from Mexican Dream, and Wilbur and Ranboo start up their own business next to Las Nevadas. Phil takes on a project to renovate the Doomsday crater:

7/20 - Sapnap and George speak with Mexican Dream

7/21 - Foolish creates Philzavilla and breaks into the prison

7/22 - Nothing much happens.

7/23 - Nothing much happens.

7/24 - MCC, no updates

7/25 - Wilbur and Ranboo make a burger van

7/26 - Phil begins to clean up L’manhole

7/27 - Tubbo does a Q&A

7/28 - Bad and Fundy hang out after a gameshow

7/29 - Nothing much happens

7/30 - Phil continues cleaning up L’manhole, Ranboo builds up Wilburger Ranvan and works on the sky city, Tommy gets rid of the sky highway

7/31 - Foolish and Phil work on L’manhole

8/1 - Puffy builds a Pokemon center

8/2 - Nothing happens.

Jack has had enough of the mainland and leaves to find a new start. Tubbo makes a deal with Quackity:

8/3 - Jack celebrates his birthday alone and decides to create New Manifoldland, Wilbur and Ranboo speak with Tubbo at L’manhole

8/4 - Ranboo and Wilbur talk with Quackity in Las Nevadas, Tubbo agrees to the outpost deal and becomes manager of Tubburger, Michael’s birthday stream

8/5 - Nothing much happens.

8/6 - Phil works on L’manhole and gets a pink sheep named Rosie, Ranboo is contained in a box, Sam gathers resources for a secret project

8/7 - Nothing happens.

8/8 - Tommy builds in the ocean, Puffy makes burgers, Foolish and Sam go on a not-a-date

8/9 - Ponk finds out about Foolish and Sam’s date and cuts ties with him

8/10 - Nothing much happens.

8/11 - Eret returns to Dream SMP!

8/12 - George talks with a Wandering Trader in Kinoko and becomes a chicken…?

8/13 - Foolish starts a new mega build, Phil finishes renovating the L’manburg ruins

8/14 - Bad tells horrifying childhood stories and makes Sesame Street songs with Puffy and Foolish

8/15 - Tommy builds a waterfall, Bad trades heads with Foolish over L’Sandburg

Having cut ties with Foolish, once again heartbroken, Ponk speaks with HBomb:

8/16 - Ponk gives HBomb a mission from his cave

8/17 - Nothing much happens.

8/18 - Bad does a late-night stream with Quackity and George

8/19 - Jack establishes New Manifoldland and the Vanifold

8/20 - Nothing much happens.

8/21 - Nothing much happens.

8/22 - Tubbo, Phil and Antfrost clear out space by L’manburg

8/23 - Tommy and Sam attempt to move the Egg and meet Ghost Mexican Dream and Jesus Wick

8/24 - Nothing much happens.

8/25 - cc!Quackity pranks the SMP with George and Bad and dies

8/26 - Nothing happens.

8/27 - Nothing much happens.

8/28 - MCC, Karl and George do lore in Kinoko

8/29 - Nothing much happens.

8/31 - Nothing happens.

9/1 - Nothing happens.

9/2 - Nothing happens.

9/3 - Puffy makes sure the SMP is still standing

9/4 - Nothing happens.

9/5 - HBomb builds a theater with Niki

9/6 - Nothing happens.

9/7 - Puffy burns the Lemon Tree and Foolish-Quackity shows up

9/8 - Ponk collects resources, Bad builds a Callahan statue with Callahan

9/9 - Nothing happens.

9/10 - Ponk goes mining

9/11 - Eret returns again

9/12 - Michaelmcchill’s September Subathon

With Techno still missing, Phil reads the will Techno wrote for him, just in the nick of time:

9/13 - Phil opens the will

9/14 - Techno escapes Pandora’s Vault, Sam finds Dream hiding, Quackity tells Foolish that Dream has escaped prison and to prepare for an attack

9/15 - Ponk gathers resources

9/16 - Nothing happens

9/17 - Foolish builds a bunker for Las Nevadas; the catmaids interfere

9/18 - MCC, Eret hangs out on the server afterwards

9/19 - Nothing happens.

9/20 - Phil reads Techno’s Will to chat

9/21 - Bad does a late night stream with George, Quackity and Callahan

9/22 - Tom Simmons gets into conflict against Punz featuring Karl, Michael and Foolish

9/23 - Ponk goes mining

9/24 - Foolish and Karl work on building projects

9/25 - George, Bad and Quackity have a court battle ft. Harry Potter Karl

9/26 - Foolish’s 24-hour Subathon

9/27 - Ponk and Foolish have a reunion on the bridge

9/28 - Ponk’s Subathon, Sam works on his project

9/29 - Sam does a Q&A

9/30 - Nothing happens.

10/1 - Nothing happens.

10/2 - Nothing happens.

10/3 - Nothing happens.

10/4 - Bad does a late night chill stream

10/5 - Nothing much happens.

10/6 - Nothing happens.

10/7 - Nothing happens.

10/8 - Bad does a late night chill stream

10/9 - Hannah builds on the SMP

10/10 - Nothing much happens.

10/11 - Nothing much happens.

10/12 - Puffy builds Halloween decorations

10/13 - Nothing much happens.

10/14 - Nothing happens.

10/15 - Michael gets an Alesa backpack

Michael sends out a message:

10/16 - Find Serenity radio broadcast

10/17 - Nothing happens.

10/18 - Foolish finishes the Among Us bunker, Hannah builds Among Us statues, Michael moves his things and talks to Alesa

10/19 - Nothing happens.

10/20 - Nothing happens.

A group gathers to gamble with the god of the server for special goods, with a new challenge announced. A new wave of members arrives:

10/21 - Gambling with DreamXD

10/22 - Eryn joins the server

10/23 - MCC, Tina joins the server

10/24 - Nothing much happens.

10/25 - Puffy catches up on the goings-on and Sam works on his mega base

10/26 - Nothing happens.

10/27 - Tubbo, Phil, Foolish and Sam work on various projects

10/28 - Sam works on his mega build

10/29 - Boomer joins the server

Hannah wins the challenge, gaining an Elytra:

10/30 - Team Seas Elytra Event, Sapnap and George threaten to kill Michael

10/31 - Eryn, Tommy and Phil hang out on the server on Halloween!

11/1 - Hannah tries out her Elytra

Boomer finds himself drawn to the swamplands where he discovers Sam and his multiple bodies. Sam assigns Boomer and Hannah to the task of finishing the bank:

11/2 - Boomer finds one of Sam’s bodies in the swamp, Hannah and Boomer have their first day at the bank

11/3 - Nothing much happens.

11/4 - Nothing happens.

11/5 - Nothing happens.

11/6 - Ponk, Boomer and Michael work on builds

11/7 - Nothing much happens.

11/8 - Nothing much happens.

11/9 - Hannah, Boomer, Puffy and Bad hang out

11/10 - Nothing much happens.

11/11 - Ponk and Boomer work on builds

11/12 - Sam works on his megabase and has a brief exchange with Boomer

11/13 - MCC, Eret hangs out on the SMP afterwards

11/14 - Nothing much happens.

Eryn causes some small-scale chaos, building shrines to Dream:

11/15 - Eryn builds a base under Tommy’s house

11/16 - Eryn breaks into the prison and builds a Dream shrine, Puffy celebrates her anniversary on the SMP, Hannah and Boomer log on with intentions of finishing the bank, but instead mess around with Quackity and BadBoyHalo

11/17 - Boomer builds a bridge

11/18 - Ponk hangs out and starts building with redstone in the Nether

Still desperate to get an Elytra somehow, Foolish takes on a new building project to try and earn it from the god himself:

11/19 - Foolish begins building a giant DreamXD statue, Eryn and BadBoyHalo play Rock Paper Scissors

11/20 - Foolish works on the DreamXD statue, Karl hangs out in Kinoko and chats with Tina

11/21 - Foolish speaks with DreamXD about a godly deal and works on the statue

11/22 - Foolish continues to work on the massive statue

11/23 - Foolish recruits Tina, Corpse, HBomb and Hannah for DreamXD’s club

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So...

We have come to the end of one eventful year...

But with Quackity’s Final Act on the horizon, who knows what to expect next...?

Thank you.

#dream smp #dsmp #long post #dream smp recaps #dream smp timeline

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lmanburgseulogy · 8 months ago

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I’m at a concert :D I feel very pretty

#random thoughts #non l’manburg posting

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lmanbug · 9 months ago

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oooooooo this is such a great idea op!!!

@t4tduo

Okay. I am hungover but...I will sit my ass down at my desk and write that one shot with Glatt and LN!Quackity.

I really like the idea of Glatt being able to manipulate the machines in the casino. In a way that he can let people win a little bit to get them motivated and have the delusion that luck is on their side...just so they would lose all they got after that. After all...this man knows enough about scams. And what place is a better place to scam people than an actual casino?

#las nevadas #c!quackity #non l’manburg posting #c!schlatt

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cregla · 4 years ago

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Okay. I can’t believe it’s been months since that part of season 2 and I have to make this post. Tommy wasn’t really exiled. Tommy was, basically, kidnapped. “Hold your phone, Nate!” You will say. “What are you talking about? Are you mad??” I am not. Believe me, I am not. I know that technically he was exiled. I’m not talking about that. Stick with me for a bit. So. Technically, exile in its most simple form is banishment from your country. You aren’t allowed to come back at all but you are, otherwise, free to live anywhere else that will accept you. When Wilbur and Tommy were exiled from L’M... pardon, Manberg, they could have technically gone anywhere in the SMP, could have built an home and just lived there and no one could have said anything about that. Of course it didn’t happen for obvious reasons but even so, Shlatt had literally no saying in what they could do outside Manberg, because the exile was only from that place. When Tommy was exiled at the beginning of the SMP (but they weren’t roleplaying at the time, so take what I'm telling you with a grain of salt), he was technically left there in the wildness with just the instruction to not come back to the SMP. Now, of course, there are cases where the exiled person is forced to stay in one place only. Napoleon is one of the most famous examples- but bear in mind: it usually happens when, if left free, those people could come back and try to overthrow whoever exiled them. It’s actually a form of imprisonment, mixed with exile. Which is exactly what Dream claimed he was doing: that he was trying to stop Tommy for trying to do what Wilbur had done with Pogtopia (and in part he had been right in fearing so, since he and Techno had started to go on that route after). However, mind this: Dream had never said anything about that until after Tommy was taken away from New L’Manberg. The terms of the Exile were just... exile. Exile from both New L’Manberg and the Dream SMP lands. Never (and If I’m wrong, I will correct myself, I promise) it was said, both in the first discussion between the cabinet and Dream and later when Tubbo made his decision, that Tommy would have to be stuck in a place, as if he was a prisoner. Never it was said that Dream would check on him and basically force to give him away all his stuff everyday in case he tried “something”. Never it was said that privileges as visits from his friends or access to the Nether could be taken away if Tommy “misbehaved”. Heck, people in New L’Manberg tought that Tommy was fine especially because they didn’t know about all of this! Now, of course everything Dream did was literal abuse, but I’ve seen some post claim that it was Dream just “crossing the lines” but that some things, like the fact that Tommy couldn’t run away from Logstedshire (which he could not do. Tommy was legit scared of being killed from running away from there for a reason. It was before he decided to ally himself with Techno, it was the mere tought of leaving his prison), were actually “rightful rules of the exile”. No. No they weren’t, because they were never discussed before. Because they weren’t what Tubbo had agreed with. Because Tommy was not a prisoner, but Dream’s plan was, of course, still treating him like that. Dream did not abuse someone he was rightly supervising. He wasn’t, as I’ve seen someone saying, doing the same thing Sam’s doing right now, abusing his power as a “guard” for his own motives. Dream tricked L’Manburg in believing Tommy was going to be exiled while he, instead, made himself his captor. Dream found an excuse to be able to take Tommy away freely and to lock him up in something that didn't look like a prison but actually keeping him a prisoner, dictating rules that he had no right to dictate in any way, preventing him from leaving, from contacting people directly, manipulating not only Tommy but everyone around him to try to isolate him as much as possible, deciding what he could have and what he could do. His next plan was actually to put Tommy’s in Pandora’s Vault and even there, he would have no right to do so! Because it wouldn’t have been part of Exile. Because Dream wasn’t part of L’Manberg cabinet, its president, and whatever change in the Exile terms (that were basically non-existent, as all the rules were established by Dream after Tommy was already exiled, like the fact that everyday he had to give Dream his armor) should have been first talked about with Tubbo. But of course, then Tubbo and the others would have never accepted, right? Because those weren’t right rules. That was abuse. Yes, Tommy was exiled. But immediatly after Tubbo’s decision, Dream took him away and basically trapped him both physically and psychologically. If Tommy had tried to escape, he would have suffered consequences if captured again. If anyone had tried to help Tommy in any way, which actually happened, Dream would have intervened. If Tubbo had decided, as was in his rights, to withdraw Tommy's exile, technically Dream would have had to let Tommy return to L'Manberg and then declare war or build walls or whatever. But 100% he wouldn't have done that. He wouldn't even let him return even if the Exile was officially over. Yes, Tommy was exiled. And then, after mere minutes, he was kidnapped by Dream. (”But Nate, why is this important? Dream still abused Tommy. What does it change?” Virtually nothing, yes. Tommy was still traumatized no matter what happened. What it changes, however, is the perception of what Dream did. Because there is a difference, if Dream didn’t even have the power of deciding to take Tommy’s armor away. Because there are people who claims that those rules could have still been applied, if Dream had just been “kinder”. That if Dream had just taken away his weapons without the TNTs, if he had said clearly that he couldn’t have a party because he was exiled instead of manipulating Ghostbur and Tommy about it, then he would have been right. That Dream could have actually stopped people from visiting. No. No, because he didn’t even have that right. Because Tommy wasn’t a prisoner. And Dream had no right, not even a single one. Sam has rights to stop Dream from receiving visitors, no matter if it’s a good or bad decision, because he’s Dream’s guard and Dream’s a prisoner. Dream, in that moment, was nothing to Tommy but his kidnapper.)

#tommyinnit #dream smp #mcyt #dreamwastaken #c!dream #c!tommy #tommy exile #tubbo #as someone who was actually kidnapped but people don't want to call it like that because it wasn't a normal kidnapping #this actually hits a way too close to home

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mcyt-peach · 3 years ago

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Hello! Can we please get a Drabble of c!Wilbur(any Wilbur is okay) ignoring a fem!reader because of something(idk u can decide) and she gets his attention by pressing her chest against him and he gets flustered? Ik u don’t write nsfw so I didn’t have any intention of this seeming like a nsfw request, so if you feel this is too much pls ignore it! ❤️❤️

chain of command

·˚ * summary: wilbur’s been ignoring you ever since you risked your life in the war for L’Manburg’s independence, but you’ve got the perfect plan to get his attention

·˚ * pairing: c!wilbur x fem!reader

·˚ * warnings: reader uses she/her pronouns, slightly suggestive material, non-explicit description of reader's chest

·˚ * word count: 674

·˚ * genre: fluff, romantic, slightly suggestive

·˚ * note: hi love! thank you for the request and don't worry I still kept it sfw so it didn't break my boundaries but thank you for being so thoughtful anyway, hope you like it <3

Yes, the cannon hurt. It’s not hard to admit. It’s a weapon of mass destruction, not to mention one that’s meant to be operated by two people. So yes, it hurt when the recoil slammed back into your shoulder during your desperate attempt to hold it in place. Which is why your commanding officer is totally overreacting.

“Wil says he might put you on probation.”

Tommy sits with you in the small barracks of the safe house. He’s got a fresh set of bandages and a small ration of mushroom stew, no doubt stolen from the kitchen.

“Oh, come on! A little fracture in my clavicle and a slightly dislocated shoulder? Please, he’s done way worse than me before.” And it’s true. You can’t count the number of times Wilbur’s thrown himself at death for this country, for the future he wants to create.

But the way he’d been during the aftermath of the battle left you more shellshocked than the scorched terrain you fought on. The force behind the canon left you dazed on the ground, only able to see where Dream’s safehold was crumbling from your well placed projectile.

The throbbing in your shoulder brought you to eventually. Heavy lids lifting to reveal Wilbur, the haze of gunpowder circling around his curls like a halo. His words were far less angelic.

“What the hell is wrong with you! You could’ve been killed!” You almost wish you had with the way his voice splits through your ears. For the way he has with words you sometimes wish he used less of them.

Two days later and it seems like your wish was granted. Wilbur’s yet to talk to you and it doesn’t look like he’s coming around anytime soon. You’ve all but made a full recovery since the battle, what with the steady supply of healing potions from Niki.

Finally released from bedrest, you were back to scheming how to get Wilbur to notice you so you could clear the air, i.e. get him to realize he’s being ridiculous. His heavy footsteps passing by your door are the perfect opportunity.

“Yoohoo! Captain! Where are you running off too?” He barely pauses at the sound of your voice, continuing down the cramped hallway as you run to catch up to him.

He won’t even look at you as you follow beside him, though the plan you came up with was sure to get his attention.

“Listen, I know you said I’m suspended or whatever, but I saw the new uniform order and I need one.” The getup you currently sported was the same you wore during the battle, looking beyond worse for wear.

“You’re not getting a new one. You’re not an active soldier.” The first thing he’s said since the fight ended and he’s scolding you once again. Luckily for you, while Wilbur can act tough, he’s way too transparent when it comes to his emotions.

Stepping in front of him, causing him to stop, you frown at his words. Walking him back against a wall, surprisingly easy as Wilbur seems to be avoiding the whole interaction. “You really want me walking around post in this?” You press yourself against him to draw his attention.

Your uniform, if you can still call it that, is in total disarray. The seams that connect the front piece to the shoulder have been ripped open by the impact of the canon. The cravat that would cover your chest was too singed by the ignition to salvage, leaving you more exposed than appropriate for an officer such as yourself.

He barely tries to hide the way his face burns as he gulps and awkwardly tries to shuffle away. Clearing his throat, he manages to sidestep you. “Fine, you’ll get a new uniform.” He looks at you for a second before glancing away, clearly embarrassed for staring once again.

“Follow me.” That’s the closest you’ll get to an apology, but you might be able to forgive him with the way his blush dusts the tips of his ears.

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smp-live · 3 years ago

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The fight between Wilbur and Tommy was a way for Wilbur to test if he’d truly gotten his message of violence as the only achievable means to get things done to Tommy. Because for all he calls them both bad people, he does believe that Tommy is good, and he’d been getting mixed messages that whole stream on Tommy’s thoughts on L’Manburg. He wants to see if someone still believes in it, because he himself has no clue what to believe. But he also wants to convince people, especially Tommy, that he’s right about the world. Immediately post-resurrection, though, he’s a mess. He’s trying to find himself a place in the SMP, (immediately aligning with Las Nevadas, then against it,) and he’s trying to see how his thoughts and ideals mesh with those in general.

He’s always sorta tested his ideals around Tommy, sometimes trying to teach him to agree, sometimes doubting himself and leaning on a ‘good’ person to see if he might be wrong. When it comes to violence as the only way of getting things done, The Pit was in part an attempt at this, (but also a lot of other things,) and so was wanting to blow up Tommy’s L’Manburg, probably. At the Disc War Finale, he asks Tommy how he won without killing Dream - questioning how he’d succeeded at something non-violently, seeing if Tommy still held on to those ideals he’d preached in early L’Manburg. And then,

Wilbur: I see you’ve abandoned my no armour policy since I’ve been gone.”

Tommy: “Yeah, well, you blew up L’Manburg.”

(Resurrected Gentleman, 15:30)

Tommy’s response in specific becomes important later, but this is a moment where Wilbur notices that Tommy is not following along with what he’d said in L’Manburg, for once. A moment where he thinks he has given up on the ideals of pacifism, instead of most other times where he hasn’t. And Tommy says it’s because of his actions. Curious.

After that, they have their conversation about L’Manburg, where Wilbur says he never cared about it. Tommy is obviously upset, and Wilbur backtracks somewhat, but this sends him a mixed message. Tommy no longer follows its rules, but he still cares about it. (Almost like himself.) They speak to Ranboo, Tommy calls him an asshole, Wilbur asks if he thinks he’s cocky - referencing an earlier Tommy quote, towards the beginning of the stream. Tommy escalates the situation, telling him he should be dead, and then:

Tommy: “D’you wanna fight? [punch] D’you wanna fuckin’ fight, then?”

Wilbur: “You wanna fight?” (I’m bad at describing tone, but it’s almost surprised? Very light, as though he’s almost not taking it seriously, but he definitely is.)

(Resurrected Gentleman, 35:45)

Tommy is actually the one to first propose a physical fight, and Wilbur is intrigued by this. As Tommy continues to berate him, he almost seems distracted, and even when Tommy tells him he should be a ghost, he doesn’t react, only lightly saying, “Okay, let’s fight.” He pushes it even as Tommy balks, because of course he didn’t actually want to fight, and so they do, with Wilbur being absolutely pathetic and losing in under five seconds. The whole time, they’re claiming that they’re fighting because “Wilbur is an asshole,” but given that Wilbur accepts that he is and still keeps pushing, it’s clear that it’s about more than that, at least to him.

Tommy: “I don’t care that this is the Holy Land, Wil, alright? Because for the first time, I will break that promise.”

Wilbur: “I appreciate that, Tommy. I appreciate that.”

(Resurrected Gentleman, 37:50)

and

Wilbur: “The fact that I’m alive, means that anything that happens along this line, I’ve won. I’ve already won. I won when I pressed that button. You can spar me as many times as you want for your own personal victories, but in the grand scheme of things, I’ve already won.”

(Resurrected Gentleman, 38:10)

Wilbur appreciates that Tommy specifically broke an oath of non-violence to fight him, and then goes into his speech about how Tommy may have won a fight, but he’s won overall. He’s won by making Tommy physically fight him in the first place.

He mentions the button. He won by getting rid of his country. He thinks he still managed to get rid of Tommy’s L’Manburg, get him to wear armour by having pressed the button (as Tommy said earlier in the stream,) get rid of any last vestige of those thoughts of pacifism. All along, he’s been trying to convince both himself and other people that violence is the only way to get things done. And Tommy, who he has pointed out does do things earlier in this stream, now fights him on one of the few places of safety to win an argument. Yes, Tommy won the battle, but Wilbur thinks he won ideologically.

He thinks he was right all along, and something managed to convince Tommy of this, whether himself, with the TNT, or something/someone else. It’s only after they talk with Quackity that he starts to waver and implies that maybe he wasn’t right about this. Because at the end of that first stream, he goes back to that book, and reads it, and seems pleased that Quackity said he was right. He sought him out. After he saw how Quackity was, he changed, slightly.

And of course, his and Tommy’s feelings are both more complicated than this: Tommy still actually does hold onto those ideals very dearly, and Wilbur does, on some level, wish to go back to them. He wanted to have destroyed it and any remnants of its influence, while still being excited that Tubbo and the others rebuilt it after his death. He misses it in the early days. But for that time, on that stream, Wilbur was certain he’d convinced Tommy that pacifism got you nowhere, and he was happy about it.

He thinks he has won, because he’s gotten Tommy to give up on L’Manburg’s “unachievable” ideals of words over weapons. That was why he goaded the fight: to see if Tommy would actually go through with it. And his victory was that he did.

#enderspeak #Wilbur Soot #Dream SMP #TommyInnit #Him suggesting weapons - the only thing I can think of is that a) he didn't care if he actually won the fight or not #and it's just his typical self-deprecation #or b) it's a way of tying it in to the ''power is won through blades. steel'' line

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blockgamepirate · 4 years ago

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Technoblade’s purpose in the political narrative of the Dream SMP

I can’t sleep so I decided to finally write the post I’ve been struggling with for literal months, except way more casual because I can’t be bothered anymore and also I’m sleep deprived.

So the thing is: to me the DSMP storyline has always been primarily political, probably because I was introduced to it through Wilbur who was definitely going for political, and also because I’m just generally interested in political narratives right now. Obviously I appreciate the character work and the personal relationship stuff, that’s what makes it more interesting than just dry allegory, but when it comes down to it, this story is about politics to me. So that’s the angle I’m going to approach it from.

Also not to spoil the conclusions here, but I’m an anarchist, that’s my lens.

(Obviously all of this is about rp from here on out unless otherwise specified)

Basically the situation as Techno joins the server is this: L'Manburg exists as an autonomous nation and is de facto independent although not officially recognised by the Dream SMP. The self-appointed president Wilbur Soot decides to hold an election and rig it in order to consolidate his power over the nation he founded and he gets his VP Tommyinnit to join in on the plan. Their scheme fails and they end up voted out instead. The new president, Schlatt, immediately establishes himself as an authoritarian figure and exiles Wilbur and Tommy.

A couple of points on what the election arc demonstrates:

1: the appearance of democracy can be used for distinctly undemocratic purposes.

2: even if the elections aren’t rigged, the electoral system could be massively flawed and end up favouring a party that in fact didn’t have the popular vote

3: even if the winning government (the coalition in this case) has the majority vote, that doesn’t guarantee that they’ll actually act according to the popular will.

4: the supporters of the losing parties basically just have to let the majority overrule their wishes, espcially since apparently L’Manburg doesn’t have an established role for an opposition, yikes. That’s actually a MAJOR oversight in the system but I’m not gonna go into that too much.

5: frankly as an anarchist I am just deeply cynical towards representative democracy, and just because you have a token appearance of choice and consent doesn’t mean that it isn’t a hierarchical and authoritarian system. And to be fair, from my point of view this applies even to so-called liberal democracies and progressive parties. Full disclosure: even if L'Manburg was the ideal example of a representative democracy (which it very much isn’t) I would still be opposed to it because I fundamentally do not believe in top down systems, even electoral ones.

6: despite all these flaws, all the characters seem to implicitly accept the electoral system as legitimate. There’s criticism against the actions of individual characters acting within the system, such as Quackity calling out Wilbur for trying to rig the election, but nobody is questioning the system itself.

So at this point I’m sitting there, watching all this go down, and thinking “man, this would be so much more bearable if there was an anarchist point of view being represented in the story.”

And hey, look who IMMEDIATELY SHOWS UP.

Okay, I’m not gonna lie, early installation Technoblade is not the best representation of anarchism. I was mostly rooting for him out of sheer contrarianism initially. I didn’t really even care if it would be another Killmonger/Magneto/Zaheer situation because I’m used to reading against the authorial intent when it comes to these things. Sometimes any representation is better than no representation, even with political ideologies. That’s not to say that him just straight up spouting this hobbesian notion of a “dog-eat-dog world” didn’t grate on me, obviously it did.

That kind of worldview of humanity needing authority in order to prevent chaos and conflict is literally antithetical to anarchism and is the favourite talking point of authoritarians, the least anarchist people there are. It’s literally what people use to argue AGAINST anarchism. I think it’s mostly because cc!Techno obviously wasn’t particularly educated on anarchist thought and was just basically having fun roleplaying with his friends at this point. Which is frustrating but fair enough I guess.

Cynical ideas about human nature are pretty deeply rooted in the mainstream, unfortunately, most people just consider it common sense. And like I said, it’s a huge talking point in the propaganda against anarchism.

(… even though in fact these arguments were originally used against proponents of representative democracy. Hobbes himself was very much a monarchist, the idea of letting normal people vote for their representatives would have been terrifying to him. Like surely the world would descent into a free-for-all war, all against all. Imagine letting commoners have OPINIONS, the horror.)

So yeah, that stuff was pretty ehhhhh. It was basically what I’d expected though: cc!Techno isn’t an anarchist and we just don’t get accurate representation from non-anarchists, ever. What I dared to hope was that Techno’s character would at least stay consistent about his opposition to ALL governments. I was pretty sure that he would, even though it seemed like the majority of the fandom at the time was convinced that he would switch over to Schlatt’s side or something. It would have been a really shitty twist, I would have ragequit immediately. I mean what would have been the entire point of his character then? He might as well have been a random mercenary. Why even have his character be an anarchist if you were just going to make him work for a government?

(ftr this is kinda my biggest problem with the Hypixel Skyblock revolution event lol, honestly I think that was a worse depiction of anarchism than early DSMP Technoblade. I mean the speech was good, but… still became a government official, tho. booooooooo, cringe)

And yes, I was rooting against L'Manburg, obviously, and I would have even if it had meant having to deal with another badly written anarchist villain character. I never understood why people saw L'Manburg as the good guys, they were nationalist and exclusionary and their whole existence was based on trying to scam people for money.

I mean they were definitely funny, they were great entertainers. I have no problems with people rooting for them because they’re fun to watch; I did that for a bit too. But people were starting to get really into the story and talk about Wilbur and Tommy, the corrupt politicians, and the country that literally excluded people based on nationality as the heroes, unironically, which was wild to me. And when Wilbur started his “villain arc” well: people called it a villain arc, as if he hadn’t been pretty much a bad guy from the beginning, constantly just out for money and power and taking advantage of the people around him and then pretending to be the victim when challenged. I mean yes he got worse, but I wouldn’t call it a villain arc, more like just a mental breakdown arc.

More importantly, to me L'Manburg represented so many things I hate about the status quo in real life, and seeing the fandom mostly unquestioningly accept it as good just pissed me off. Still pisses me off tbh. I mean, to be diplomatic I could say that I understand the emotional attachment and the way L'Manburg was built up mirrors a lot of how real nations are built and how they create a sense of patriotism out of symbols and a sense of honour and loyalty, and it’s actually really fascinating how it even works in a Minecraft roleplay. Says something about the human mind I guess. Doesn’t mean I have to like it though.

Anyway, I just wanted to see literally any kind of opposition to power, even if it had to come from a character that was unquestionably a villain, which I fully assumed Techno would be. Because political narratives so often just leave us out, or at best barely mention us. And even from a narrative point of view, adding an anarchist perspective to a political story just objectively broadens its scope and actually challenges people who are used to only arguing along the lines of conservative or liberal, welfare state or privatization, nationalism or multiculturalism, etc. Even if the original work dealt with it poorly, at least it would give me the excuse to rant about it on Tumblr, which is kinda why I revived my old Minecraft sideblog for this. (That and pig!Techno fanart.)

Also how can you have a story so fundamentally about power without its counterpoint: the rejection of power?

(Yes, Dream SMP as a whole is definitely a narrative about power, it’s a huge theme for Wilbur, Quackity, Dream, Eret and the Badlanders at least, as well as obviously the anarchist characters from the opposite direction.)

So yeah, the build up to November 16th for me was mainly about the anticipation for what Techno would do, how would Techno’s character respond to the seemingly inevitable formation of a new government. THAT was the point of interest for me, that was what I was the most invested in. Would we get an actual anarchist opposition as a new side to the conflict or would they just awkwardly drop that whole angle? Or even have him team up with Schlatt like a complete sellout? There was so much potential but I worried they might just waste it.

And I was right to worry since apparently in the original script Techno wasn’t supposed to do anything, he was just there to help fight Schlatt and witness the explosion along with everyone else.

And WOW that would have been so incredibly boring

Not even just from the political perspective, just talking about the narrative in general terms here: imagine November 16th without Techno’s plot points. Not only would it have been boring for Techno’s character but it would have been equally boring for basically everybody but Wilbur and Philza. An anticlimactic fight followed by a big explosion that pretty much everybody had seen coming already. Yes, the button room scene is dramatic and heartbreaking… for Wilbur and Phil. But nobody else was there to see it. For everybody else, it was just a big explosion. It would have been such a huge disservice to anyone watching the other POVs.

Techno’s intervention gave everyone an ACTUAL climactic fight, it allowed characters other than Wil and Phil to witness some actual drama happening and to participate in it, rather than just waiting around for the explosion, while also foreshadowing the explosion. Even better, it provoked SO MUCH discussion in the fandom AND gave a perfect hook for future conflicts to arise. Wilbur’s end was tragic but it was, at the time, final. L'Manburg would have still suffered a catastrophe but it would have been left with just the same exact antagonist as before: Dream.

And at this point Dream’s core goals had barely changed, just his approach was now different. Yes, that makes a difference for the plot, but it doesn’t really change much in terms of ideological conflict. Especially since there really isn’t that big of an ideological difference between Dream and Tommy, because arguably neither of them are particularly big on ideology in the first place, they just have conflicting goals and use different tactics to achieve those goals (well, the tactics aren’t always even that different *cough Spirit cough*).

Techno’s conflict with Tubbo and especially Quackity (and honestly most of the other characters in general) brings in so much more depth to the story, just by introducing another angle, not to even mention how much it brings to focus questions about power and violence. These are themes that exist in other characters’s storylines too but nowhere in the same way or as central as with Techno.

I’m getting kind of ahead of myself here, though.

The real twist of November 16th was the fact that Techno WASN’T a straight up villain, actually. It was a twist to me anyway, because with all my cynicism I just didn’t see it coming, I didn’t expect him to actually start making reasonable criticisms. I didn’t expect him to drop the hobbesian arguments entirely and start making points that actually sounded like anarchism.

I have to assume that cc!Techno must have seen some of the criticisms of his character and been inspired to adjust because the difference is pretty notable.

(Sidenote: I’m just forever kinda sad that Techno’s “I may seem like the villain here” monologue was cut from the video and most people never heard it.)

And I felt SO validated by the way, because it works so well in the story! Everyone is mostly content with the restoration of a status quo of some sort, Schlatt is gone, this is supposed to be the good ending, and then Techno calls them all out and turns the narrative around completely: This was just a coup d'état. This was just the previous political leadership retaking power by force. Why is everyone celebrating the same exact system that lead to Schlatt’s authoritarian rule in the first place?

What he does there is force the audience to question the narrative they’ve been presented so far, that they’ve accepted without a thought. It might not convince them, but they can’t just ignore it either.

Whatever you wanna say about the discourse around Techno on that day, in the ideological narrative THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART. Not who betrayed who or when is political violence justified, that’s about personal relationships and morality and it’s mostly all more relevant to the aftermath than the event itself. In my opinion, the REAL point in the moment is that the characters and the audience were comfortable with the ending only to be presented with a completely new perspective on the events.

It also recontextualises the finale, including Wilbur’s actions! It’s a much more ambiguous end to the Pogtopia vs Manburg arc and to Wilbur’s original run as the head writer. Wilbur’s “even with Tubbo in charge I don’t think [that ‘special place’] can exist again” is vague enough to be dismissed as just part of his paranoia and internal conflict, but with Techno, there’s a concrete question: what if Tubbo, given the same powers as Schlatt, will turn out to be just a new Schlatt? And suddenly you have to wonder what Wilbur meant by his words too. And was all this foreshadowing something about L’Manburg’s future?

Okay I’ve only made it to November 16th and there’s so much more DSMP to talk about but the post is getting too long and I’m starting to lose my energy. Will I ever make a part two? No idea. But I’ll try.

Standard disclaimer: I’m not the spokesperson of anarchism, other anarchists might disagree with my reading

#technoblade #bladeblr #dream smp #dreamsmp #dsmp #l'manburg critical #c!wilbur soot critical #for courtesy tags #anarchy pog

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