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[sharptoothed-gaze]

is this a good time to make everyone aware of what french « tacos » look like

Oh my goodness, I somehow missed this ask till right now!! Anyway, I can only assume this was in response to Badboyhalo’s American taco pixel art.

And I must say,, Pommunist what the hell are your people doing to the concept of a taco? 😭

If I asked for tacos and someone served this to me I’d be so perplexed lmao

Hard shell tacos are quite delicious, but they truly are American as hell. This French taco is somehow even further off.

I feel like somewhere along the way, a French person ate a burrito, misunderstood the assignment, and thought it was a taco lol.

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I loooove Mexican street tacos since I grew up eating them btw. I might be a very Americanized Hispanic person, but food is probably my strongest tie to my Mexican heritage. Mexican tacos are a classic for sure.

I think some of the best tacos my household has ever made before was done using one of these bad bois called a discada! It’s like a big steel pan over fire that lets you cook the meat in the center and the tortillas along the outer edges.

We don’t drag it out too often because my parents are usually very busy, but it’s perfect for family get togethers. Very good shit!

[codecurucho]

Man something about today felt so final. I hope it’s not, but it feels like the natural conclusion to the story.

This is gonna be a long thank you to the ccs, the fandom, and most importantly, the admins

I was here from day 1. I watched the walls at spawn come down due to a shared hive-mind disobedience moment, and thought, “dude, this seems like it’s going to be special”

I watched as Spanish and English speakers struggled to communicate, but still found comedy in their shared moments.

I watched the Brazilians and the French join, dying of laughter as the events turned into pure chaos and sound.

I watched the ccs form friendships and meet up with each other, I heard them speak about the impact and importance of qsmp to them specifically.

I watched as members of the community formed friendships, as we shared cultures and exchanged some of the most beautiful artwork and fanfics I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing. I made this account because my main got so qsmp-centric that I needed a space to go full-autism and just talk into the void about my cubitos.

My first day of having this account, I mentioned a fic idea I had. So many people replied, encouraging me to write and engage with the community. When I posted it two hours later on pure adrenaline, the same people praised it, reblogged it—it’s a memory I’ll probably never forget because it made me feel so welcomed into qsmpblr.

Lastly, I remember first meeting the egg admins. I remember how hyperfixated the ccs became on keeping them alive, how attached we all became to them. For me, the egg admins proved that this wasn’t just a silly minecraft server, but a team of workers dedicated to the storyline and lore of the QSMP.

The QSMP, to me, felt less like a Minecraft server, and more like a story being told with the help of Minecraft. That team behind it was invaluable to its success, and built their characters in ways that were so convincingly authentic that they sealed QSMPs place, for me, as a story being told.

The QSMP would not be what it was today without the ccs, the fandom, and most importantly, the admins. So thank you to everyone for doing your part in making this community what it is—pretty fuckin special <3

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Thank you for making this, I know its probably tiring as hell to keep needing to have these conversations but posts like this that encourage nuance are important. People saying and doing problematic things shouldn't be a death sentence or a career-ender, it should be an opportunity for learning and growth. Likewise, not everything that happens is a problematic issue that needs to be talked about so widely. Sometimes miscommunication happens and no one had any bad intentions, and people online especially need to remember that.

The Qsmp is one of if not the best places for us to have culture clashing because of how respectful and kind the people in it are, and how willing they are to learn from each other. Not to mention the fact that we have an admin team and host who are willing to discuss matters with CCs in private to settle issues, I really don't think people in this community understand or appreciate that this server has an admin team willing to manage situations as well as they do. The internet used to be the wild west, culture clashing was comprised of people screaming their heads off at each other with slurs to paint the worst picture out of the person in front of them to their local audiences with no experience in other cultures. What we have in this server is special, and we should be encouraging people to look forward to cultural exchanges, even and especially if they end in some culture clashing, because that's how we learn.

Basically, if any miscommunication or clashing happens, delete the rant you're about to go on and wait for the damn admins to get to it. If they don't, then the issue probably wasn't a big enough deal to address. Your negative feelings on it are not always an accurate reflection of what's going on in the world and in others, and if ever there was a project where I'm willing to put my trust in a team of people to handle these kinds of matters, its this one. What we need here is not drama, its the kind of open-minded and understanding people that would thrive and have nuance in a multi-cultural server that's bound to have some confusion and culture clashing within.

This project is wonderful, what it stands for is wonderful, and we need to prioritize the message of what Quackity and his team are trying to achieve. That people from different cultures can learn to understand each other and find common ground, and that we may all be more similar than you'd think.

And of course, a warm welcome to the new CCs! Can't wait to have them on, and to experience the wonderful moments we've had so far with the beautiful people and communities of Korea <3

Okay, so with Quackity Studios tweeting about adding new people and the need for tolerance and patience with people who don't speak English, let's just take a second and have a chat about what that's gonna look like.

First: you will hear things or read things on the translator that hurt or offend you.

This is inevitable. Do not immediately post about it. What you need tolerance for is hearing things that hurt or offend you and what you need patience for is figuring out of malicious intent was present or if this is a hill worth dying on right now.

As an example, we're pretty sure at this point that Korean is gonna be the next language added. The second person pronoun in Korean sounds a lot like the n-word in English. The n-word in English, if you're not aware, is like the single most offensive slur we have. It's not something that you want to hear unexpectedly. But also, if we get Koreans, they're gonna be using the word for "you" and English speakers are gonna have to be able to tolerate that.

On the other side of things, Korean has a complex system of honorifics and addressing someone without an honorific would be considered very forward and intimate at least if not very rude. None of the QSMP languages have honorifics though and only French really retains formality* so no one else is going to address them with honorifics unless they specifically explain it to people and walk them through it. That will probably be weird and uncomfortable for them and they're going to have to be able to tolerate that.

*Spanish and Portuguese do technically have formal vs informal but it's disappearing quickly in both of them.

These natural cultural clashes and pain points are going to be harder to overcome since we also know that at least some of these creators won't speak English at all so they can't just switch to English to helpfully explain things to us easily in a way we understand. We're going to have to deal.

So here's the thing: just because there can be cultural miscommunications and mistranslations, that doesn't mean that people can't also be assholes. How do you distinguish between the two?

Step One: Assume good faith. Assume that everyone in a given encounter is trying to communicate respectfully and compassionately and that a failure to do so can be overcome

Step Two: Don't get involved. Especially not in Twitch Chat. Two or more people trying to communicate through a language barrier does not get easier when they're also trying to wrangle hostile viewers.

Step Three: Are you sure you heard what you thought you heard or saw what you thought you saw? Did the translator fuck up? Is it a word that just coincidentally happens to sound like another word? If this is the case, the streamers can ask for clarification or use another tool and get it cleared up. Keep watching and see if they do.

Step Four: If they did say what you thought they said, are the streamers handling it? We had a thing a while back where Bad called some friends, including Bagi and Etoiles, uncultured because they didn't get a reference he was making and Etoiles was like "bro I'm French" and Bad apologized. That should have been the end of it, but I had to see people arguing about it for weeks. The problem was solved in 10 seconds.

Step Five: If the person is doubling down, are you sure this is something you can fix by yelling about it on Twitter or Tumblr? Would it be better to let people who actually know them talk to them behind the scenes? Pierre made a few missteps in the beginning of the server, Quackity said they had a chat, Pierre hasn't misstepped since. It's just easier to sort things out in private, one on one conversation than yelling at someone in public.

In short: it's fine to take note of behavior in case patterns start to emerge in it, but yelling on social media about how so and so is the worst person possible is not constructive.