#or any guapoverse really

[meriendilla]

hola feliz navidad nada eso

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[anonymous-dentist]

since people apparently cant be formal im going to be: we dont use "q!" cuz people kinda dont want to talk abt the server, only spiderbit/guapoduo, so they decided to use "g!" or only "!", and when people are refering to other series they use the first letter of the series for example: "c!roier", i myself dont quite get the g!/! and understand why u dont like people not using "q!" when the universe they talking abt is qsmp

(people saw u complaining abt it here and start to shit on u without any context on twt and saying u complained that q wanst appearing in other fics even tho im pretty sure i didnt when ur distancing urself from him so i wanted to be formal :])

-🎀

(also can u explain y u dont like the "g!" or "!"???)

I can try to explain myself, but I'm also kinda crying answering this because I have a hard time with emotion regulation when I'm upset (autism thing)

OKAY! SO!

I don't really mind the new tag things? Like, I don't love them, but they're fine. If people want to distance themselves, that's fine. I'm distancing myself. Anybody who's been keeping up with my blog over the past half a year or so can see that I haven't really posted about the QSMP at all since Purgatory started. I haven't talked about Quackity at all outside of that shitshow of an awards ceremony in over a month when, for several years, I was a Quackity-centric blog (2021-early 2023)

My thing with the new tags, and with the Guapoverse thing in general, is that it really just isn't accessible for a larger audience. Sure, some parts of Twitter might understand it, but what about the rest of us?

As far as I can tell, the Guapoverse originated with a Twitter artist (Moone), and it blew up overnight. And I'm overall cool with it! It's a little silly, but so is fandom. I'm a fanfiction writer. Who plays Splatoon for like 4 hours every day. I know silly, and I love it

But then, BAM, I blink and everybody's abandoned the q! and they're changing their tags on Ao3 and making everything suddenly so much harder to find, and it's all about accessibility, isn't it? Like, don't get me wrong, I love a good multiverse, but when it inadvertently excludes a significant portion of the fandom, what are we supposed to do?

Like, say I go on Twitter looking for q!Pac fanart. But now it's so much harder to find because it isn't tagged or typed that way, it's !Pac, and that includes search results from every single au that has a ! in it, like if there was an au called AU!Pac? The !Pac would be in there. But I don't want to see AU!Pac, I want to see q!Pac.

And then there's the g! thingy. Like, that's fine, but a little more widespread of an explanation would've been nice. Like, what au does g! stand for? If you don't know what Guapoverse is, like A LOT OF PEOPLE don't, what are we supposed to think your art is? If we're looking for q!Cellbit art, we aren't necessarily going to like and retweet your art if it's labeled as g!Cellbit because we don't know that he's q!Cellbit.

It's kind of similar on Ao3, only that one's a little different because you can filter by relationship. But let's say you don't know how to do that. Let's say you're new to the website and you only know how to filter by fandom, because that's the first thing you learn how to do on Ao3- it's right there at the top of the front page: Browse By Fandom.

So you go to the QSMP tag looking for fics with Spiderbit/Guapoduo in them. But, here's the thing, you can't find any. Because they aren't being tagged QSMP, they're being tagged Guapoverse now even if the fics are being set in the QSMP setting.

It's just a general lack of fandom accessibility that gets me. I understand the distancing aspect, and I've been waiting for it to happen since the Elections when he Brazilian fandom started getting IMMENSE amounts of hatred from Gringo Chats. But it gets a little tricky when you're part of a fandom as large as this one is. How are we all supposed to share content and talk about things with each other if we can't even find each other anymore?

Like! I've lost so many cool fics I forgot to bookmark because they were taken out of the QSMP tag and moved into the new one! (The new one goes against ToS btw I believe, but go talk to a tag wrangler about that.)

People on Tumblr don't know what the Guapoverse is. TikTok doesn't. Reddit doesn't. Only Twitter does, and only a section of Twitter does. Because I haven't seen any English or French-speaking Guapoduo People talk about the Guapoverse, only Portuguese or Spanish-speaking people. And I get that the exclusion isn't purposeful and that the Guapoverse is meant to sort of heal everybody from the wounds the QSMP left, but I think that maybe even just spreading the news and not... you know... sending death threats and insults and smearing people's names would be better than this.

Thank you for politely asking. I thought I had made myself clear before, but I guess I hadn't.

I'm open to answer any more questions. I can't explain myself to my critics on Twitter, but I can answer your questions here, hopefully.

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

For the WIP game! Tell us more about the "Gabe leaves the guard" one 👀

Hehe I knew it'd get your attention.

To be fair, this story has started as part of the "angry Gabalena fic" and only later evolved. In this first story instead of doing what he did, Gabe was supposed to drop this absolutely bomb:

"As long as my oath holds me under your command I will fulfill your orders, but I will do it simply because of the love I feel for this kingdom and its people. For you, your highness, my heart will be forever lost."

But luckily I realized that it's much too overdramatic and terribly out of character XD So this moment was changed but I still really wanted to use this plot, so it became kinda it's own story, or maybe part of the guapoverse?

So my next idea was very similar, Elena does something Gabe absolutely can't agree with and knowing he can't act against her as her general he leaves the guard. Maybe Elena is also furious at him so she lets him (maybe they do this publicly and it's either obvious they now hate each other and everyone is scared and worried, or it's extremely sad and they both regret it but it's too late to back down now). Then Gabe becomes some kind of vigilante/leader of some resistance group and also fights for whatever cause they were fighting for, but in a way Elena doesn't approve. This story is the most unpolished and lacks many, many specifics, I only know that Elena would probably do something Gabe would deem too risky or endanger herself, or maybe it would be about magic. I also can't imagine what Gabe would be doing as a vigilante or the whole conflict/war/enemy they'd fight in general.

The last idea was that after a big battle where some people have actually died, Gabe is overwhelmed by the reality of it all and feels extremely guilty because he feels that his decisions have caused people's death. Some time after that, after the peace is secured and he just can't live with this feeling any longer, he goes to Elena and resigns straight of the bat. She tries to reason with him but he's adamant and wants to completely leave. Elena is shocked and obviously doesn't want to let him, but eventually agrees to decommission (is this the word?) him. Gabe is devasted and depressed and Naomi and Mateo see him leaving Elena's office almost running out crying, so everyone is extremely worried for him because they don't know how big of a toll it took on him. Then there would be some sad scene with Gabe cleaning his room, saying goodbye to Rico and Fuego (since Fuego is a guard horse and not Gabe's private one, so he can't take him.) This version is also quite rough and unless I really connect it with guapoverse I'll probably tone it down a little and not make anyone die, but I have to say I'd like to see the Amigos trying to live without Gabe and/or eventually finding him and comforting him and helping him deal with his guilt and everything. It does seem like something extremely difficult to write though, so we'll see.

So yeah, this is all for this wip, I don't have much more started but I hope you enjoy these ideas. Thank you for this ask!

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