#oh Jack manifold thank you

[nomsfaultau]

“I like who I am now! Probably more than who I was. But that doesn’t mean he was bad.”

This line chokes me up. The distance of calling your past self with a third person pronoun, marking how far you’ve come, the progress of healing simultaneously making the past seem foreign, distant. And yet at the same time there’s this unending grace for that past self, giving mercy to a younger you for being hurting and scared and lashing out. Looking back having grown so much it can be easy to loath that distant, other you. But instead you show that past you kindness he because he wasn’t given kindness then, either.

Giving mercy to something imperfect and aching just feels so right for the end of the dsmp. We can’t go back. But we can miss it, and forgive.

[piningpebbles]

Stream vods anon once again! I loved reading your analysis, since I'm rather new to Jack Manifold lore it was really enlightening. I found the vod on internet archive if you want to watch it again!

https://archive.org/details/2022-07-11-jack-manifold-tv-my-first-dream-smp-stream-in-2022-just-chilling-thou

oh my god stream vods anon i am so sorry i don't know how long it's been since you sent me this (i'm so bad about answering asks on time i'm so fucking sorry) but OH MY GOD,,

THE C!JACK BLOWING UP THE HOTEL STREAM??

THE "so he does care about the hotel, he just doesn't care about me." STREAM??

i didn't know if i'd be able to see this vod again.. i had no idea how i was going to search for it. and you just found it for me? oh my god thank you thank you thank you so fucking much you have no idea how much this means to me.

[apollos-boyfriend]

Did you see where Jack said on stream "Bro, I pray to God every day in thanks that He didn't give me an opp like Rosanna Pansino. Fuck me, oh my God, bro. If I ever have an opp like that, put me to rest early." lmaooo

cant tell if this is funnier to interpret as jack manifold or jacksfilms

[wildpeachfarm]

Regarding fics where DNF meet abroad/on holiday, this is THE ONE. This one. It is the best, there will never be a better one. It is everything. Top 5 favorite fics of all time. I am not hyping this up enough. I Dream about it.

alisonsomething “oh hello, it’s you” (explicit)

DNF meet and fall in love at a Caribbean resort. Trigger warning for Jack Manifold but you can just pretend he’s a different guy named Jack and it’s ok.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50134369

TW FOR JACK MANIFOLD😭😭😭

okay but this sounds exactly like what that anon was looking for, thank you!

[sleepypuffpastry]

Sleepy im feeling insane ctommy is okay he didn’t get that terrible ending he has sheep’s he’s getting better oh my god

THANK THE LORD 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I CAN DIE IN PEACE NOW AMEN

THANK YOU JACK MANIFOLD THANK YOU TOMMYINNIT YOU HAVE LITERALLY SAVED THE REST OF MY LIFE 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

C!TOMMY IS THRIVING AND HES GOT A MAREEP HES UNSTOPPABLEEEEEEE

[ashbeanss]

I’d never heard of precious jewel armor before reading your post talking about c!wilbur songs and now I’m listening to these songs and doing a thousand yard stare into the distance coping with all these emotions, GREAT artist thank you for the inadvertent recommendation!

ofc man! there are a few other dsmp musicians that i always think about: (this will be long check under the cut)

amanda fagan made some of the very first songs for a few characters, most notably her ‘take you down’ for quackity, ‘bittersweet’ for jack manifold, and ‘promises you couldn’t keep’ for niki. i will be very blunt, i do not like how she writes wilbur, and i would not recommend her wilbur songs, but ‘take you down’ is still the best written quackity song out there, and ‘bittersweet’ is incredible. do check out her work.

kanaya is a name most people have heard before but i need you all to listen to a song that is not marionettes or violence because guys. guys my god. yeah ‘i’ll let it burn’ is alright whatever have you heard ‘november 16th’? have you heard ‘us against the world’? please. i love her work. she did a collab with precious jewel amor where she wrote tommy’s song and precious wrote tubbo’s, they’re both great. ‘little hero’ is gorgeous. if i don’t think about ‘no reprise’ it can’t hurt me.

kroh made the ranboo song of all time and i will forever be greatful for that. go listen to ‘typical me’, amazing song, ‘hush’ is cool too. oh yeah kroh also made ‘mr bones’. i guess. but who gives a shit about ‘mr bones’ when ‘typical me’ is so good, you have to believe me. ‘home’ is also really good and way more underrated than ‘typical me’ so you should listen to it as well, more even.

candlebard only made two dream smp songs. and one of them is a dream song. that i haven’t listened to. but i would be fucking wrong if i didn’t tell you about ‘disappear’. oh my god ‘disappear’. i could write essays on this song. i love it so much. it is the c!wilbur song of all time, nothing will ever get him like ‘disappear’. it has everything, seasonal metaphors, an empathetic perspective on wilbur’s fall into destruction, incredible music. that’s all you need to make me happy really. this song has less than 200k views and that’s a crime. go listen to it please.

cjack, like candlebard, only made two dream smp songs, and i have only listened to one of them, but i physically couldn’t not bring up ‘phantom feelings’. it’s so important to me. no ghostbur song is like ‘phantom feelings’ i’m telling you. go listen to it, every other ghostbur song will be ruined for you forever. you will never be able to appreciate ‘blue’ by derivakat again because you will know there is better. and you have heard it.

hatorbee is a musician i’ve literally never seen anybody talk about but i needed to bring them up because they’ve made? so many songs? and to be very frank with you, are they all great? no. like musically some of these songs are not the best, but fuck damnit they should write poetry. also they get these characters more than some songs that sound amazing so. you win some you lose some. ‘one more dance’ was a core part of my dsmp phase and also the only skephalo song i’ve ever heard and the only reason i gave a shit about them. the timing is weird, the vocal performance isn’t perfect and is mixed strangely, but you can feel the passion oozing out of it. they also made the only karlnapity song with precious jewel amor and winks, and it’s kind of incredible? i might cry? also lies in the letters is very good wilbur characterisation. i’m giving it a strong stamp of approval.

bonus: ‘the mad king wilbur’ was deleted in it’s original video form recently but the topic reupload and an animatic still exist. watch one of them, the song is incredible and gorgeous. also not fansongs but cyborg blood’s crimeboys animatics make me very emotional and you should watch them specifically their ‘by your hand’ wilbur animatic.

thanks for reading my essay. have a good day. listen to los campesinos!

[skaterfc]

Ooo what’s Niki up to in your rewrite? Does she still join the syndicate?

How perfect to follow the Jack Manifold question!! :D

Yes, she still joins the Syndicate, and the Syndicate even has a bigger cast of members this time around! But eventually, in the epilogue of the story basically, she sort of retires from the syndicate and goes to live in Snowchester.

At first, in her Team Rocket mindset and her post-doomday mental heath crisis, joining the syndicate is great for her mental health. Having people to rely on and that listen to her is really important to her and really helps this first stage of her character growth! She is still working on her underground city underneath Kinoko Kingdom with the hopes that one day all her friends will come down to live there with her. (i especially wanna say that this is totally a metaphor, at least in my version, for her wishing that people could be there with her in her bad mental state she could have people to relate to. But as a consequence would have the other people's mental health suffering as well. the best thing for her would be to leave the underground, but she couldn't see herself doing that, leaving to live with the syndicate. After all, when you are in the depths of depression and mental health crisis, you can't see a world where you are ever out of it).

Niki DOES NOT help to free Dream from prison. In fact the syndicate has no involvement with Dream's prison breakout, thats all Punz and Enderwalk!Ranboo. Then once dream does break out, as I said in the last post, he gets up to some SHIT and the server decides to form a rebellion to strike back at him!

When the syndicate allies with the Rebellion to take down dream, she moves into the underground area the rebellion is stationed out of. A side effect of this being that now she is constantly around the people that she sort of hates and used to be her best friends back in L'manburg. But this tight nit community, being around these people constantly, actually is the next big step to her healing arc. Where she is reminded that what she was searching for all this time was the community and sense of belonging that L'manburg gave her. In fact, this experience of her reconnecting with Tommy, Tubbo, Fundy, Eret, and even cWilbur, encourages her to show some of the newer members who never got to see Golden-Age L'manburg what it was really like. This changes their perspectives becuase they always thought it was either like new L'manburg or worse and they never understood why these guys had so much devotion to it. But now they do! She also starts up a little bakery shop in this underground area and works to expand and decorate it to make it feel more home-y.

She's then later involved in 2 major battles against dream, as well as the final fight! And like I said, after the whole thing is said and done, She goes to live in snowchester with Tubbo, Jack and Puffy. (oh yeah, she's still dating puffy! though they prolly had some rocky moments with everything going on) To help once again foster that sense of community and be around people that care about her. She doesn't quit being apart of the syndicate though.

Thank you so much for the question!! Love getting to put my character knowledge to the works! If you think there is anything aggressively ooc in here, let me know! the rewrite is not technically finished yet and I want to make sure everything is sound as can be!

[h0lographicsun]

A CUT ABOVE THE REST (BUT NOT QUITE RIGHT)

Summary: reader gives Tommy a haircut and Jack manifold joins.

Ship: Tommy x Reader

Warnings: Scissors and mension of cutting off an ear, use of y/n

Word count: 431

a/n: literally wrote this while bored in algebra so it better be good enough to FAIL for lmao jk hope y’all like it

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Tom ran his fingers through his hair which was getting so much longer than usual. “God, I need a haircut” he muttered. I hum in response, barley listening “but I don’t wanna go out” he pouted. I think for a moment “how ‘bout you let me cut your hair?” I ask. He contemplates. “Promise you won’t fuck it up?” he asks, “well I’ve never cut hair before so I can’t guarantee.” I respond, he groans “fine” Tom gives in. I giggle and go to get scissors.

I put a cloth around Tom’s neck, so I don’t get hair all over him and I open the scissors. “If you fuck it up, I'm gonna kill you” he jokes, I laugh. A couple minutes into cutting his hair, I hear a knock at the front door. “Who is it?” Tom asks. “Jack” the person on the other side of the doors exclaims, Tom groans “c’min” Jack lets himself in and sees me cutting Tom’s hair. “Woah you should do my hair next” Jack jokes, pointing to his (BALD) head. I scoff to cover up a laugh.

I keep trying to cut my boyfriends hair, but he keeps moving “oh my god stop moving” I laugh. “It's hard to not move while you’re attacking my fuckin’ head. It feels like you’re gonna cut my ear off” he shoots back. He jokingly stares daggers at me. “You know you love me” I say, starting to wet his hair a bit more since it was drying quick. He sighs “yeah yeah I do” He looks up and smiles softly at me. “AWWWEEE” Jack exclaims. “Dude, Jack. Don’t make me get a restraining order on you” Tom jokes. I make a confused face, Jack laughs loudly “get a restraining order on Toby dude” Jack continues the joke. “MY EX-HUSBAND?” Tom replies. “Jesus Christ you two”

I laugh and my friends do the same. I pull the cloth off of Tom’s shoulders “all done!” I exclaim. I bring over a handheld mirror and show my boyfriend his face in it. He sighs “you did decent” he jokes. He examines himself and smiles at me. “They didn’t fuck it up!” Jack exclaims. I bow jokingly “thank you my good sir” I say in a fake, old accent.

“Hey y/n do you wanna cut my hair?” Jack asks. I can’t tell if he’s joking or not “I can't tell if you're for real but if you are I can I guess” I giggle. Jack laughs in response and waves his hand dismissively “no no I'm fine, maybe next time though

[sappymix1]

"shall we tell jack manifold" you are the funniest person in existence and i love you and your writing so bad oh my god

thank u i felt really good about that one

[comfortstars]

ok so basically jack manifold lost a bet and had to log onto the dsmp . and tommy also logged on and they had a little lore moment if u want to watch he logs onto the server abt two hours into his most recent vod :P

OH OKAY thank you!!!!!

[elytra404]

so i love coming up with au's for my fandoms that ill never actually write, so yk what? its time to make them a tumblr series!! first up?

ely's hypothetical dsmp marvel au!!!

Meet: the avengers, though their fans tend to call them the sleepy bois! (an inside joke from when the iron bird may have fallen asleep before a very important conference). The line up is as follows!

The Iron Bird! This man, also know as Phil, or Philza affectionately, got rich from a mix of inheritance and coding skills! This one man army can rival all of Nintendo! Well, a man and a robot, if you include his highly advanced digital assistant!

Wilbur! More commonly known by the superhero name, Retrocognition, Wilbur is Philza's assistant! originally created as an ai, he now has a body thanks to the infinity stone in his head! He was originally made as a replica of Philza's son, whose death pushed him to becoming a superhero, but Wilbur has grown into his own being!

This brings us to Philza and Wilbur's first real friend for years, Fire ant. Moved on from her days as a german spy, Fire Ant now works for Phil and helps him in his superhero escapades! Those close to her know her as Niki, and well her instincts are sharp and her mind suspicious, she can make a mean pastry.

And now, coming out of the ice for the first time in decades, its Captain America! She may be a tad old, and catching on lost time, but shes still as strong as ever! Her real name is Cara, but her friends call her Puffy! Why? Nobody really remembers to be honest. Shes our favorite super soldier, and a complete bad ass when shes not trying to figure out how a phone works!

Next in the line up, the great god of thunder, Tho- oh, sorry, turns out he now prefers the more 'human' 'discrete' name of Technoblade? Well, no matter the name, Techno is a wonderful god! Loyal to his hammer, the orphan obliterator! (turns out Milnor was a mistranslation? well thank god(s) for that!) A tad absentminded, and always cracking jokes about some kind of wall, he may just be the most powerful on the team.

But our team wouldn't be complete without our final three! Why, its Goop, Hawkeye, and... Fundy? Sure!

First off, the amazing Goop! Thanks to some gamma rays, great scientist Charlie Sicle became some what of a monster. He's a totally normal man with a perfectly normal bone structure, until you make him mad! Then, well you ever heard of a d&d ooze? Yea... you can have fun with that.

Then, we have Hawkeye. Also known as Jack Manifold (hes not the best at secret identities), this super powered hero is... what is he actually? Why do they keep him around? Well... anyway this family man is probably a wonderful addition to the team!

And last but certainly not least, its the wonderful Fundy! Quickly taken in by Wilbur, this 15 year old was granted out of this world powers by a space stone! And with a slightly unhealthy amount of trauma and self loathing, what teen wouldn't want to be this orange wizard!

Of course, we have other heros! From Sneegsnag the bug man, to Spidered the purple spider hero, Foolish the wizard sorcerer, to King Ponk of Wakanda (and more importantly king of his lemon orchid). Many wonderful heros to beat all the terrorists in this galaxy!

And if its more heroes in the galaxy your looking for, may I introduce the wonderful Guardians of our galaxy?

Starting with our self selected caption, Tommy Inn! Tommy was swooped up as a young boy by aliens, with only his mothers favorite music disc and a handheld player to his name. He protects those discs with his life, almost more then he protects his own life!

Then, of course, we cant talk about the legendary captain without his newly full time best friend! Tho he used to be an enemy, Tubbo is down for the ride! If not a little skeptical of his best friends planning abilities. Former son of Madre, he's ready to gaurd that galaxy!

Of course we can't talk about the guardian without discussing Ranboo! This little devil was made in a lab, and looks oddly similar to a minecraft enderman! A tad insecure, this he/they will not hesitate to bite you.

And of course, Ranboo's loyal companion, Aimsey. Aimsey's species is apparently very close to this earth cartoon Tommy keeps talking about, Adventure time. However Aimsey and their complex language of "I am Aimsey" is a much needed team member.

And now you know the heros of our tales! Fighting Madre, who dreams of creating his own universe with the infinity stones, who knows what could come next!

(partially inspired by and helped with some stuff- @mariposathebutterflyboy )

[would-they-listen-to-that]

Would it be alright to request a self ship playlist for Manifork, my& trident from DreamSMP? I&'m Jack Manifold fictionkin from there! If you need any pointers towards what would fit her (especially since she's an inanimate object), I& already have on there Kitchen Fork by Jack Conte, Fear & Delight by The Correspondents and Sex With A Ghost by Teddy Hyde. We have spent a long time all alone together stuck in a hotel, but she is also my& weapon so both mellow longing and fun battle related tunes would fit! She also misses water quite a lot.

‧₊˚🖇️✩ ₊˚🎧⊹♡ here you go, caller! we love seeing your playlists!

Oh No! - MARINA

Lemon Boy - Cavetown

Brass Goggles - Steam Powered Giraffe

For the Record - 36 Questions OBC

Prom Queen - Beach Bunny

Freaks - Surf Cruise

Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths

Two Trucks - Lemon Demon

rises the moon - Liana Flores

putting a spin on hey there delilah - Egg

thanks for dialing in!

[urfavcrime]

I AM OPENLY FUCKING SOBBING OH MY GOD this has ruined me. it has also healed me in ways i needed for forever. “are you happy?” “getting there” DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT THAT WAS TO ME i had tears streaming down my face and was mouthing “thankyouthankyouthankyou” to jack manifold holy shit

IM HOLDING HANDS WITH YOU AND WE'RE SKIPPING IN A FLOWER FIELD THANK YOU JACK MANIFOLD

[leafcabbage]

i HAVE to ask. is there a compiled list of everyone's names + last names. I'm still thinking about how clever tommy innis and dream stollen are and i can't remember too many others atm

hi hi !! at one point i did have a list but i dont.. like a lot of the names i came up with (was like 2 years ago) so! i will give you a list of the ones that i do have for sure figured out!! i warn ya, most of them are not that clever.

thomas "tommy" innis III tuberculosis "tubbo" j. (TJ to some) puffenbarger ranboo maria beloved (pronounced bell-oh-veed) techno themis kraft (previously techno blade, previously something else that i never bothered to come up with) phil (some yet to be decided middle name that includes za) kraft wilbur soot-kraft dream stolle george lost eret king jack manifold. but how funny would it be if i made his last name not manifold. how fucking funny would that be.

i cant think of any others that ive got down off the top of my head, and rarely are they as funny as dream stolle smh. thank you for your interest!! ill add more if i remember any :]

[bonesandthebees]

*clears throat*

Anyway…

Things I liked about this chapter in no particular order:

The flashback with Niki and Quackity

Quakcity warning Wilbur about the bandits indirectly, doubles as foreshadowing and a hint that he’s behind it (though let’s be honest, it was probably Schlatt’s idea)

Oh and you should have seen my face when I realised [“Hand him over!”] I swear puzzle pieces have never snapped into place faster in my brain. I literally went “OH FUCK QAUACKITY WHAT DID YOU DO?”

Niki might think that Wilbur is lying again but I don’t have the mental energy to think about that right now for obvious reasons.

I cannot stress enough how much I’m here for this.

The l’manburg backstory. I was trying to put it together and analyse which character’s would be narrative parallels only the realise that it was literal based off of actually canon pogtopia and c!Wilbur and c!Tommy. I love it. Also made me think of Niki when she does not get the throne.

Wilbur saving Tommy’s life (twice? Attempted at least). Nothing says bonding like life or death situations.

Also at first I thought it might be something meant to be part of it or a plan by Phil and then the foreshadowing hit me like a truck.

Put Quackity and Schlatt on the most likely to be executed list right now. Not because I think Wilbur is smart enough to figure it out but because the person who was trailing him might.

Also, I love the consistent pov and the way you write it, but I would pay actual money to know how everyone reacts. I want my sand duo angst of Phil sending his son away against his will only to learn that might have killed him. I want to watch them turn the country upside down. I want to see Quackity in shambles because he might have killed his friends and the man he loves (? Is it mutual?) I want to see Niki’ reaction. But alas, we get Tommy and Wilbur in a SITUATION. Instead.

I do fully believe people will come looking for them, but now I’m worried we will get a chapter of snowstorm in the wilderness first.

Again I better get a sand duo hug after this is done. I need Wilbur to know that his dad loves him.

Also, at first I was like, “I wonder why Jack isn’t here?” Then the guards started getting sliced and I was like “oh that!s why.” Nobody gets plot armour in here. Jack’s cranckyness just saved his life.

Also, Tomys copying the way Wilbur eats his food tells us he looks up to him and trust his judgement. Maybe he did something right with his paranoia expenation.

Also, the consequences for this are going to be so good whether Wilbur figures out it was Quackity or not.

Anyway, I’m going to bed now. So good night! And a good day to you!!! What a great chapter I did not see that coming at all but I love it.

P.s. AO3 is being mean and Wouldn’t let me comment “BEE, WHAT THE FUCK!” but that genuinely was my first reaction.

-🌲

lol thank you, a lot of the flashback bit regarding wilbur and niki changed from what it was originally planned to be. I don't know how it happened but I got really into the flow of the scene and I'm very happy with how it turned out

HA the puzzle pieces falling into place about the bandits right at that moment. just "what's going on- OH"

I'm very glad you picked up on the l'manberg story not only being c!crime but also the parallels it could hold to rose!niki

life or death situations are the best for bonding!

don't be so sure we're only staying in wilbur's POV this time around spruce :)

LMAO yeah literally while I was writing about them leaving the palace in the morning I was like "shit wait I can't have jack here but I need to come up with an explanation for why he's not here" and jack's morning crankiness came about. he would've been killed so quickly by those bandits and I don't want this story to lose The Manifold so soon

wilbur and tommy eating their lunch is like that meme of miles morales and peter b parker in the first spiderverse movie you know the one

[yumiis]

new southern!reader brainworms that may or may not be tx/la specific:

- schlatt's first mardi gras

- schlatt's first lsu game & his reaction to neck

- i have a friend from boston who watched me make/eat couch couche once and she called it a crime against humanity, i imagine schlatt would do the same

- the schlatt/jack manifold video where he says he's never been fishing before, that needs to change IMMEDIATELY

- same boston friend went to the rodeo w me this year and watching her get caught up in a full crowd swag surf was gen so funny, schlatt would b like ??? WHAT R WE DOING

- taking schlatt to an astros game and him being very confused when deep in the heart of texas comes on

- back to fishing: im gonna miss her by brad paisley is a top 5 for him bc of how funny he finds it

🎲 anon

oh my god schlatt's first mardi gras would go INSANE. he'd start drinking at 9am and stop drinking at 11pm. it's his new favorite holiday

LMAOOO HIS FIRST LSU GAME WOULD GO CRAZY

OKAY BUT CONSIDER. READER MAKING SCHLATT GUMBO OR JAMBALAYA?? OH HE'D LOVE IT

he needs to go fishing IMMEDIATELY‼️ he'd definitely have so much fun on a pontoon boat

THESE ARE ALL SO GOOD 🎲ANON THANK YOU SO MUCH