#yuker

[clownehonk]

some sbi for the soul

[bernese-mountain-dyke]

I wonder if yuker knows how loved they and their art still is in the Mcyt fandom, I wonder if they know how many people miss them

[rachelsquill]

i wonder if yuker knows how loved their art is

[block-toad]

back to bloody skull techno pfp (by yuker, of course) for october vibes

[calamitydaze]

whatever happens, i know there is a timeline where we made it. in one story i promise we get our happy ending. i hope it’s this one

[anthro-cat]

just did a uQuiz with a friend about which Persona 3 char i would be, and apparently im

which i don't know! because i have never played P3. my friend is the only person that has played it

[go-learn-esperanto]

Those are fantastic pics!

The Tommy one is forever etched into my brain. The other day because of Philomena Cunk I heard again about the fact that British soldiers were named Tommy and the fucking last panel of that fic just popped into my head.

Anyway: Here are some of my favourites! (Besides the ones Clings already picked)

* I'm gonna put these on comics I think that even without knowing anything about the Dream SMP a reader can understand the comic and take something from it

Things I love by Tommy by @wonda-cat

It's just pain. Just. Huuuh

Eurydice by @art--harridan

Some greek mythology for the soul

i think i would like a quiet life by @pidgedee

Piece at last. * By @robotic-poet

quiet defiance * by @minecraftsz

So this comic is only one image, four panels, but it tells so much despite the very few dialogue interactions. This one is just impressive on how with so little it tells so much.

Tommy is a good kid that doesn’t know when to give up by @yuker-deactivated

I just think about this one a lot.

He says it mockingly by @retroosquared

A comic about Ghostbur where Ghostbur isn't present (or is it really about him?)

Broken Cups * by @minecraftsz

The art style of these is so unique. Also I love how much is being said visually too. Also it's the 3 time this artist is her and it's not more only because I didn't want to include the L'Manbug intervies which I love.

Monster by @mooninked

I think perhaps once I was a father by @introvertedppl

something about a truman show complex, greek heroes, and the illusion of free will. * By @by @yuker-deactivated

I just an interesting reflection that I feel now hits even more

Wanna be Twisted by @0xeyedaisy

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And my favourite comic of all time

Kys * by @aresonist

CLINGYDUOAPOLOGIST'S TOP 5 FAVORITE DSMP FAN-COMICS OF ALL TIME

OK NOW this is just a list of some of my personal faves, ones that make me literally feral so

Cheating a bit here but first off honorable mention to Boneless (?) by @thelostmoongazer

Idrk why i remember this one so fondly but it's really cute and always gets a chuckle out of me when I remember it, certified banger 👏

ALRIGHT ON WITH THE OFFICIAL LIST

5: A TIE BECAUSE I GENUINELY CAN'T TELL WHICH I PREFER BETWEEN Au in which Wilbur and Ghostbur merged when Wilbur was revived. AND Dreams I can’t remember both by @moldyhay

ugjughugh honestly i consider the ghostbur merging au more canon than the "limbo forever" stuff just because it makes so much sense to me and y'know what it's 2023 wilbur soot can't say shit to me @sootings fuck you

As for Dreams I can't remember like what else is there to say besides get me that fucking ccrime vaccine stat i don't have much time left

4: The Fox and the Grapes by @space-robinhood

Okay I am not the biggest c!fundy girlie but like COME ON, the way the fable just fits so perfectly, the art, the emotion in every facial expression, the fucking photo of fundy as a baby like I lose my fucking mind every single time I read this comic.

3: mentorly advice by @minecraftsz

Legitimately this was probably my fave dsmp comic for a while. "Shitpost that makes you cry if you think about it too hard about it" is a very specific and difficult-to-master niche of art and minecraftsz has written a dissertation on it in the form of this short comic.

2: friend sweater :) by @kettitrium

I go feral every time this comic comes on my dash like, the way it showcases c!tommy's personality so well, being resourceful, a bitch, and so painfully sentimental, it's brilliant. And the art itself is also gorgeous. Of all these comics, this one probably has my favorite art style.

1: Tommy by @space-robinhood

Like, what can I even say about this one? I literally almost tore my hair out just reading it while trying to copy the link to paste it here. Such a simple, small conversation, but one that manages to carry such a haunting theme of the loss of innocence. The final shot of Tommy standing with his back to the readers, his general's coat slightly tattered, a bow in his hands, it's such a poignant summary of his character, one that I will literally never be able to get over, probably ever. Go read it, then reblog it so I can read it again.

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AND THERE IT IS my extremely based and awesome picks for some incredible fanworks. I see so many people regretting their time in the fandom recently, and I just wanted to share some of the awesome stuff we were able to do also i may have just wanted to compile all of these is one place so i don't have to do detective work to find them but shhh SO go forth and read and like and REBLOG and enjoy :D

[thereal-true-ogilvie]

codependency of a recovering child soldier // or: I thought about ctommy too hard and got sad and made a webweave to cope

hyperlinked credits at the bottom!

image 1: b0nkcreat // samfannar // starpeace // pigsteprap // Fighter by Jack Stauber || image 2: air-so-sweet // 1ittlesunlight // cupcraft || image 3: Good-For-Nothing Boy by Kikuo English Ver. // Love Me, Love Me, Love Me by Kikuo English Ver. // temporarytemporal // Suck It Up by Maretu English Ver. || image 4: kaitrokowski // magpigment || image 5: mykaeba // sunlitmcgee // mertan-fake || image 6: ushirominya // yuker (deactivated) // magpigment // Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett // brainwroms || image 7: cemetarything // temporarytemporal // yeehawpim || image 8: Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths // introvertedppl // Everything, Everywhere, All at Once || image 9: Thus Always to Tyrants by The Oh Hellos // Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths // The Cave by Mumford and Sons // mourninglamby // theolddivorcedzukka

[blocky-tides]

emerald duo; you should have never shined a rusted blade and you should have never let its edge cut you (this will be your downfall, emperor)

for @antimony-medusa

{200 follower celebration request a web weave!}

slavoj žižek / marina tsvetaeva / @dogstrikes / silas denver melvin / wendy cope / @fuckingwhateverdude / @moneyoniis / @call-me-apple / anaïs nin / caroline polachek / @eekonis / jack gilbert / nicole holmer / @wolfythewitch / unknown / warsan shire / @yuker / mean girls

ambiguous smp earth au? where philza see techno, scrawny piglin who just plowing though people, across the enemy battle line and picks him up to train him up to fight for philza's side ya da ya da

eventually philza becomes emperor and decides that he doesn't need techno and throws him to metaphorically wolves (like banishment or something)

techno is like what?? i thought we were besties and philza is like no you were just a good soldier for me to use which leads to techno anarchy arc where he tears the empire down

originally it was supposed to be about techno betraying philza like what-could-have-been-canon but then i could only find art for philza betraying techno so role swap

theres also like a super minor subplot of the blood god is talking to techno joan of arc style that really kicks into gear after the betrayal

this is the more lore i have done for a web weaving but hope this made you cry medusa :D

[marrow-and-bone]

Illustration for take only memories, leave only footprints, written by @ollie-oxen-free as part of @mcytrecursive

inspired by another visit, by yuker

drawn as a gift for @galaxy-lilies, who is lovely and deserves the world

[magpigment]

i never wanted to cut you off from me, so i reached out. how could i have known that you would cut me off from you instead? how could i know you would take part of me with you?

-january 31, 2022

reaching out. i reached out to you. you cut off my arm and you hold my hand but that isnt me. i am the broken pieces that remain. i am scared to reach out again. i dont want to lose more parts of me.

-january 5, 2022

i wouldve given you my mind, or my heart, or my lungs, or my life, or anything you wanted, really, you only had to say the word. but you didnt. instead, you took my arm and part of my soul. why wont you give it back?

-january 29, 2022

i miss c!ponk

[whereismycaplock]

Halloween costume? cosplay? then lets dress up as our obsessed character!

here we present - yuker dublin & subtojoost!

@subtomumbo

happy spooky month!

[tjodity]

Do you have any shape shifter headcanons for dsmp and why…

UMM!! My ideas for character designs are smooth and constantly shifting so let me think..

ok im putting this under a line i had more thoughts than i expected

I go back and forth on Tubbo being a shapeshifter. Yuker made a good comic on the idea. If not I think he's just a human guy who tends to change his appearance a lot, either based on people who have had a big impact on him or to chameleon. He mimics Tommy's appearance a lot in his early days out as transmasc, so he cuts his hair short and wears a lot of outdoor-oriented and kind of styleless clothing. Throughout the early SMP and L'Manburg he came into his own personality wise, but also slotted into the more formal environment. He grew his hair out more but kept it brushed and wore lots of button ups. During Manberg he completely bleached his hair and started wearing suits. He also lost a ton of weight and stopped styling his hair. As president he wore a cracked segment of Schlatt's face from a stone bust to obscure his scars and partial blindness. His suit coat is too big so he wears it like a cape. By the time of Snowchester he has sort of a crisis about looking like other people and dyes random patches of his hair pink and blood and wears almost entirely utilitarian clothing.

I could maybe see Dream as a shapeshifter? I think it could lead to some interesting things if he didn't literally have a mask, but was just always mimicking other people so no one knew what his actual face looked like. On the other hand I like making Dream a fairly normal guy before he started to take a turn during the elections, with any inhumanity being a conscious choice of presentation on his part.

I have some ideas about Niki but it's not quite shapeshifter. She was originally this sort of mechanical angel, like one of those automatons from the 1800s, with plating over internal engines and clockwork. She starts out looking like a very traditional christian angel, but paints herself and starts wearing clothes to appear more human-ish. She has a lot of fun messing with her appearance. This also has the effect of her appearance and humanity being kind of an exposed nerve when people insult her over it. When she's spiraling alone in the hidden city she sort of takes her entire shell off and just looks like if you took the guts of a grandfather clock and had it move around like a skeleton. She tries to make herself very menacing after joining the Syndicate, but it does not do great things for her sense of personhood. I think after she gets her shit together she'd whittle herself a new exterior.

(^^ she kinda starts out looking like these but made of gold and wrought iron)

I know people headcanon fundy as a shapeshifter a lot but I don't vibe with it. I really like anthro designs of him, and there's more canon backing, but I'm also infatuated with characters that are just. real furries. meaning humans who dress up and draw animals. There aren't enough of those as characters and I feel like with Fundy it could be poignant for his struggle to be viewed as an adult and then the struggle to really have any consistent relationships in his life and the distance he feels towards humanity do to his isolation feelings of abandonment and straying from even grounded time and space. To me he's a guy who got really into furries when he was younger, was mocked relentlessly for it, repressed it into complete denial by the time of L'Manberg onward, and then got back into it with encouragement from his girlfriend who wears a fursuit everyday in public for fun (also its absolutely a sex thing for H but she lets Fundy have it as a not sex thing. mostly)

I think there could be something to be said for Puffy being an anthro-to-human shapeshifter and how it relates to the building pressure she feels to sort of 'save' everyone around her, whether that's as an untrained therapist or the leader of a resistance against a god or the girlfriend of a very destructive woman. Maybe her sheep/monster form is her more comfortable form but she uses it increasingly less as she feels the need to sort of be 'perfect' and is more frequently human.

I think Mexican Dream was probably just some poor shapeshifting monster that felt bad for Tommy and worked with what was around. Maybe he was some kind of sea monster derivative of a siren that was just passing by. God sends his most helpful soldiers to be brutally murdered five minutes after their introduction.

The only main character I guess I could see as a shapeshifter is maybe Quackity? I think breaking down how that fits with his character is above my paygrade but I think generally with how much of his character is about presentation and a lot of his story is sort of trying to fit into different places before Las Nevadas. I imagine his shifting is pretty smooth, like an animation rather than something with blood and bones below skin shifting. But who knows maybe that's a performance in of itself. I think most of the forms he takes are pretty human but when he's in full Las Nevadas I-don't-care-about-people-quit-your-job-join-my-emo-country mode he does like a chimera thing. Lion mane around his neck like old royal fashion snakes coming out of his wrists dove wings everywhere. It's incredibly taxing so he usually just does it for commercials and threatening people.

[sygnus-knight]

makootoo yuker

[mcytrecursive]

Nomination Overview - Character Study

It's time to look for character studies, one of the larger tags in the set! 184 works nominated so far, and of them, we have 28 character studies. Which characters? Well, you're gonna have to read on to find out.

Title: Jimmy Solidarity and The Pantry of Self-Discovery Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51275764 Fandom: Empires SMP Author: whatcaniwriteinthis  Relationships: n/a Characters: Jimmy | Solidarity  Length of the work: 1291 words Genre: AU, Character Study, Modern AU, College/University AU Type: Fic Summary: Jimmy has a minor (queer themed) breakdown.

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Title: no bills in the mail Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48701626/chapters/122850703 Fandom: Lifesteal SMP Author: oneirogen Relationships: Ashswag & Reddoons Characters: Ashswag, Reddoons, Bubblebrooke Length of the work: ~34k words Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Modern AU Type: Fic Summary: Go home, like he hasn’t been spending more time in Red's apartment than his own. Half his clothes are in Red's closet. There's a second toothbrush in the bathroom. Where else is he supposed to go?

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Title: Above Average Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33025276 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: fensandmarshes Relationships: TommyInnit & Dream SMP Ensemble  Characters: TommyInnit Length of the work: 2,461 words Genre: AU, Character Study, Crack Fic, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Modern AU Type: Fic Summary: Or: the pilot episode to a podcast in which everyone around Tommy has Something Going On, and Tommy simply refuses to notice.

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Title: Good News! Ghostbur Comic Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: sidecast Relationships: Ghostbur & Technoblade, Ghostbur & Niki, Ghostbur & Tommy Characters: Ghostbur Length of the work: N/A Genre: Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Fix-It, Fluff, Family, Friendship, Found Family Type: Fic Summary: Ghostbur happy ending comic! Based on blackout poetry of Wilbur's post about Ghostbur's limbo. 

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Title: dive out of nothing (and into more) Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48652270/chapters/122725408 Fandom: Empires SMP Author: ahautism Relationships: FalseSymmetry & Oli OrionSound Characters: FalseSymmetry, Oli OrionSound Length of the work: 11,987 words Genre: AU, Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Fix-It, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Apocalyptic AU Type: Fic Summary: When Oli realizes he’s been left behind on Empires after all the others have left – yes, again – his first reaction is annoyance. It’s very repetitive of them. When False realizes she’s been left behind on Empires after all the others have left, having been asleep for three months, her first reaction is fear. Her sister must be behind this. When they both realize they’re not entirely alone, and that the world is dissolving around them with no way out, they are forced to come together to try and escape, and discover they have more in common than either of them could ever expect. What better way to forge an unlikely friendship than the end of the world?

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Title: another visit Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: yuker Relationships: Quackity/Karl Jacobs Characters: Quackity, Karl Jacobs Length of the work: not applicable Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Hurt/Comfort, Time Travel, Character Study Type: Art Summary: [sometimes I see him in the middle of the night but he doesn't really remember me.] In which Karl visits Quackity in between his time traveling, and Quackity cannot be sure he isn't dreaming.

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Title: penance Rating: E-rated Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50419420/chapters/127390231 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: jibbingjibberish Relationships: Martyn Littlewood/Rendog  Characters: Martyn Littlewood, Rendog  Length of the work: 9k (8,800) words Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt-no-comfort, Royalty AU, Smut Type: Fic Summary: Martyn's been entrapped by the guilt of slicing his king's head off for weeks now. And then his king accidentally entraps him and makes him piss his pants.

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Title: Sword and Smoke Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52674127/chapters/133363822 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: apollothetransboy Relationships: Martyn Littlewood/Rendog, Martyn Littlewood & Jimmy (SolidarityGaming), Jimmy (SolidarityGaming)/Cleo (ZombieCleo)  Characters: Martyn Littlewood, Rendog, Jimmy (SolidarityGaming) Length of the work: currently 50k (unfinished fic) Genre: Angst, AU, Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt-no-comfort, Romance, Slow Burn Type: Fic Summary: Ren let out a sympathetic noise and reached out a hand, only to find that he was too far from Martyn to touch him. Limited Life, which was won by Impulse, has drawn to a close, and with the dawn of the next seasons approaching, Ren is at the forefront of Martyn's mind. Somehow, in his absence, Martyn has convinced himself that Ren couldn't possibly love him anymore. Maybe, even, that he had chosen to forget him and all the pain he brings. And when Ren does return for Way Life, and the consecutive three seasons, Martyn scrambles for the smallest of crumbs to prove his truth. With the odds stacked against them, though, Martyn finds himself always drawn back to him, whether by mechanics of the game or by what seems impossible chance. Time and time again he proves himself willing to go very far to believe his own lies, especially when the truth is something far more painful, though he will have to know it eventually—that he was, and will always be something that Ren would do anything, anything, to protect. or—four lives in which martyn and ren fall apart and fall back together

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Title: the handgun is no longer sexy Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: regicidal-optimism Relationships: Quackity/Wilbur Characters: Quackity, Wilbur Length of the work: not applicable Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Romance Type: Web Weave Summary: Web weave about Las Nevadas Quackity loving a man who wants to die and not being over Pogtopia.

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Title: City of Stars Fandom: Dream SMP Author: Paprikup Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Quackity/Karl/Sapnap Characters: Quackity, Sapnap, Karl, Schlatt Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Horror, Hurt-no-comfort, Romance Type: Animatic Summary: A short animation about the times when Quackity's heart was shattered, the violence of loneliness, and the person (the monster) he's become in the ruins of lost love.

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Title: self-improvement* Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47271748 Fandom: QSMP Author: honoraryangel Relationships: Cellbit & Philza Characters: Cellbit, Philza, Chayanne (QSMP), Richarlyson (QSMP) Length of the work: 4,501 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Friendship Type: Fic Summary: Philza has been very angry lately. Cellbit has also been very angry lately. *neither of them truly improve, unless you count learning basic combat "improving".

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Title: racehorse: get married!  Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2575438 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: small_lizard  Relationships: Quackity/JSchlatt, Karlnapity, Wilbur/Quackity, Quackity & George  Characters: Quackity, Sapnap, Karl, Schlatt, George, Wilbur, Dream Length of the work: 38,564 words (incomplete series) Genre: Angst, Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Drama, Horror, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt-no-comfort Type: Fic Summary: A collection of Quackity-adjacent relationship studies that all take place in the canon dsmp universe. Genuinely beautiful works exploring and dissecting several of Quackity's major interpersonal relationships from DSMP canon, including with Schlatt, Wilbur, Tubbo, Karl, Sapnap. Olivet Discourse is the most devastating imo but when reading even a single piece of this series the wider context is always lurking in the back of your mind; no matter how many quiet moments Quackity wins the reader has the knowledge of what's to come and it makes this series haunting. 

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Title: casualty of (me) (you) Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3925075 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: jibbingjibberish Relationships: Rendog/Martyn InTheLittleWood (queerplatonic) Characters: Rendog, Martyn InTheLittleWood, DocM77, Etho, Other hermits mentioned Length of the work: 58,125 words (incomplete series) Genre: AU, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, BDSM AU Type: Fic Summary: Set in the mid-90's, in a bdsm verse that is described as: In this universe, humans are more or less the same, except there lies a biological need for domination and/or submission. This need is broadly incorporated into society, and BDSM relationships are incredibly common, with or without romantic and/or sexual relationship intersections. This series centers primarily around Martyn and Ren fumbling through a queerplatonic and polyamorous relationship

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Title: (this is) hungry work Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33034354/chapters/81996970 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: bluenote Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Connor&Schlatt, Karl/Sapnap Characters: Quackity, Schlatt, Niki, Connor, Karl, Sapnap, Tubbo, Tommy, Jambo (the cat) Length of the work: 36,965 words Genre: AU, Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Fix-It, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slow Burn, Smut Type: Fic Summary: After surviving his heart attack and being forced to get sober, Schlatt gains some empathy. He also gains some weight. Those two things seem to be inextricably linked.

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Title: What resembles the grave but is hobby tunneling Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51317131 Fandom: QSMP Author: WheelCoveredInEyes Relationships: Antoine Daniel/Etoiles, Etoiles/BadBoyHalo, Etoiles & Phil Watson | Philza, Etoiles & Pomme (QSMP), Etoiles & Baghera Jones, Etoiles & Mikethelink & Pactw, Binary Code Entity (QSMP) & Etoiles Characters: Etoiles, Philza, BadBoyHalo, Antoine Daniel, Baghera Jones, Mikethelink, Pactw, Binary Code Entity, Pomme Length of the work: 9,444 words Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study Type: Fic Summary: “Okay, king, I know you have a fuckin’ death wish, but you’re gonna break Pomme’s heart if you die. So we need to figure something out, okay?” ---- Etoiles is absolutely certain he is living on borrowed time. Nobody else understands this.

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Title: mariposa (series) Rating: E-rated Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3523426 Fandom: Video Blogging RPF Author: seneca_letters Relationships: Quackity/George/Dream, Dream/George, Quackity/Dream, Quackity/George Characters: Quackity, Dream, George, Badboyhalo, Schlatt Length of the work: 96,196 words (Unfinished series) Genre: Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Smut Type: Fic Summary: Alex is gay, and in love, and terrified of both. But he'll figure it out in the end.

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Title: things you won't give me, things i won't take (series) Rating: E-rated Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/3675331 Fandom: Video Blogging RPF Author: Anonymous Relationships: Sapnap/Punz Characters: Sapnap, Punz Length of the work: 40,289 words (Unfinished series) Genre: Angst, Canon-Divergent, Character Study, Hurt/Comfort, Smut Type: Fic Summary: Sapnap is a stealth trans man who ends up in a secret relationship with Punz, doing his best to hide it from the world and his friends both while Punz starts slowly working him around to maybe hating himself a little less; all his careful hiding and planning gets totally upended when he gets pregnant and has to manage *that* too.

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Title: i think i would like a quiet life Link: here Fandom: Dream SMP Author: pidgedee Relationships: tommy&a healing arc Characters: TommyInnit Length of the work: not applicable Genre: Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Fix-It Type: Art Summary: A gentle-ending poem comic about c!Tommy.

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Title: and the northern sky looked like the end of days Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44214877 Fandom: 3rd Life SMP Author: sesquidpedalian Relationships: Etho & Cleo, Scott & Tango, Bigb & Bdubs & Impulse, Scott & Cleo, Pearl & Scott & Cleo & Martyn Characters: Cleo, Etho, Scott, Tango, Bigb, Pearl, Martyn Length of the work: 8,316 words Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Drama, Friendship Type: Fic Summary: Five scenes from before the end.

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Title: the body is an object Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42838071 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: ruffboi Relationships: not applicable Characters: Grian, PearlescentMoon, Mumbo Jumbo, XisumaVoid Length of the work: 19,132 words Genre: Angst, AU, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Friendship, Found Family, Hurt/Comfort Type: Fic Summary: the Hermitcraft Backstory Rule says that you don't ask other people about their backstory, you let them tell it if they want to and leave it be if they don't. Unfortunately for Grian, one of the newest Hermits was also a player on his old server - one he'd thought had been dead for years - and she's going to drag his backstory kicking and screaming into the light whether she means to or not.

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Title: Flowers for the Blood God Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31888939 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: de_hautdesert Relationships: Nihachu & Ph1LzA & Ranboo & Technoblade (Dream SMP), Nihachu & Technoblade (Dream SMP) Characters: Technoblade, Niki | Nihachu Length of the work: 2129 words Genre: Angst, Canon-Compliant, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Fluff, Friendship, Found Family Type: Fic Summary: The Syndicate plans an unconventional meeting. Techno and Niki prepare. Featuring friends supporting each other, recovery from trauma, and infodumping about hair dye.

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Title: trust and redstone dust Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45948079 Fandom: Lifesteal SMP Author: de_hautdesert Relationships: Branzycraft & Clownpierce Characters: Branzycraft Length of the work: 915 words Genre: AU, Character Study, Fantasy AU Type: Fic Summary: Branzy works on the funhouse. (also there's magical redstone worldbuilding)

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Title: Speak to the Gods, and they shall answer Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27766687/chapters/67971349 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: SugarsweetRomantic, Sharo Relationships: gen Characters: ZombieCleo, FalseSymmetry, Grian, Xisuma, StressMonster, Iskall85 Length of the work: 817 words Genre: AU, Character Study, Drama, mythology AU Type: Fic Summary: In their distress, they called for help. A collection of unrelated "myths that would be shared around a hot drink or a warm fire after a ritual offering. Remnants of stories to remind family and community of their place in the worlds."

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Title: i can be the one you call Link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2051148 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: mayflowers07 Relationships: genfic Characters: Hermitcraft Ensemble, Evil Xisuma (Exiona) Length of the work: 143,821 words (incomplete fic series) Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Drama, Family, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt-no-comfort, permadeath AU (no MCD) Type: Fic Series Summary: The Hermits have a code phrase. If spoken, this phrase acts as an emergency safe word, telling everyone to stop whatever they’re doing, because something is seriously wrong. Whether it’s from physical or emotional distress, all Hermits know that when someone uses the code, they need help from their chaotic, dysfunctional family. Notes: Pretty much all hurt/comfort and found family because I am weak and predictable. No shipping, it’s all platonic love (26 stand-alone fics under the series)

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Title: Beta Testing Rating: E-rated Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27662032/chapters/67689973 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: Shadowfire_RavenPheonix Relationships: Grian/Iskall85, Grian/GoodtimesWithScar, Grian/BdoubleO, GoodtimesWIthScar/BdoubleO, Grian/Xisuma, Grian/Keralis Characters: Grian, Iskall85, GoodtimesWithScar, BdoubleO, Xisuma, Docm77, Tango, ImpulseSV, Etho, VintageBeef, Keralis Length of the work: 100,214 words (incomplete fic) Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Domestic/Slice-of-life, Drama, Friendship, Humour, Hurt/Comfort, Omegaverse, Slow Burn, Smut Type: Fic Summary: Grian was nervous when he was invited to join the HermitCraft server, because unbeknownst to anyone, the popular family friendly entertainment server is also an ACTIVE A/B/O server behind the scenes. After, having spent so much time with them and making so many amazing friends while on the UA (or Unavailable) list during season six, he's decided to make it more official and join the Active Available List for season seven. For Grian, however, the switch is going to be life changing. A journey of sexual self discovery and experimentation. Not Your Typical A/B/O

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Title: you don’t know how you got here (you just know you want out) Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48603814 Fandom: Dream SMP Author: Marrow_and_Bone Relationships: Quackity/Schlatt, Quackity/Wilbur Soot, Quackity/Sapnap/Karl Jacobs Characters: Quackity, Schlatt, Wilbur Soot, Ranboo, Tubbo, Dream, Sapnap Length of the work: 15,910 words Genre: Angst, AU, Character Study, Drama, Horror, Romance Type: Fic Summary: Like every other severed employee of DSMP Inc, Alex exists as two different people, who share the same body but know nothing about each other. Every morning when he goes to work, Alex becomes Quackity, and until now he’s been content to leave his other life a mystery. But then late one night in a diner parking lot, Alex is confronted by a strange older man with mutton chop sideburns and alcohol on his breath, whom Alex can’t remember having met before but who clearly recognizes him, who calls him “Quackity” and tells him they’ve been lied to. And less than five minutes later, that man is lying dead on the ground.

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Title: hit the continent running (engines were humming) Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/52767562 Fandom: SMPEarth Author: Odaigahara Relationships: Technoblade & Phil Watson | Philza Characters: Technoblade, Phil Watson | Philza Length of the work: 15,424 words Genre: Action/Adventure, AU, Character Study, Friendship Type: Fic Summary: Philza: Transatlantic, the Corvarians, all those motherfuckers who couldn’t handle us having a stronghold and good mines, they cut us off from everything in the darkest time of the year. They trapped us in the cold, in eternal night, because they figured if we starved to death, Port-aux-Francais would give them whatever deals they wanted, and they didn’t care who they were fucking killing. We were peaceful, before the embargo. We just wanted trade deals, we collaborated with anyone who’d help us build our railroads. We never struck the first blow. After the embargo– after that winter– we figured that wasn’t gonna work. Interviewer: So you adopted some new technologies. Philza: Yeah, we had innovations in our manufacturing, our greenhouses, our fucking sanitation– but that’s not what you’re talking about, right? Forget the emperor shit. If you’re interviewing me about this, you don’t want to hear about the greenhouses. You want to hear about the planes. __

Title: this is about a stuffed bird Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36163102/chapters/90146260 Fandom: Hermitcraft SMP Author: Bee_4 Relationships: Mumbo Jumbo & Evil Xisuma Characters: Mumbo Jumbo, Evil Xisuma Length of the work: 78,043 words Genre: Action/Adventure, AU, Character Study, Friendship, Horror, Post-Apocalyptic AU, Type: Fic Summary: In which Mumbo crosses several towns, learns some creative methods of self-defense, fights some monsters, sees things no human is meant to have seen, befriends a stranger, steals multiple cars, has inconvenient moral scruples, grows increasingly terrified of his own culpability in the apocalypse, grows a spine, blows up at least one building, accidentally prevents a murder, and attempts to find his best friend in the futile but ever-burning hope the man’s still alive. He has to say, he’s so exhausted and terrified that he thinks he might just be mad? (OR: the one where, after most of humanity turns into a series of terrifying monsters, Mumbo decides he’s going to risk his life on an apocalypse road trip to try to find out if Grian is alive. Things, as you might imagine, devolve from there.)

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[irrealisms]

c!wilbur + change, and the lack of it

Dream Revives Tommy - TommyVODS // You or Your Memory - The Mountain Goats // The Year I Get it Right - Brook Pridemore // Amends - Eve Tushnet // all i ever wanted was [Wilbur animatic] - WolfyTheWitch // When I Say That Loving Me Is Kind Of Like Being A Chicago Bulls Fan - Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib // Long-Exposure Photography - Google and Wikipedia // Meet the latest resurrected gentleman of L'manburg - Wilbur Soot VOD // Try to Change - Mother Mother // Night in the Woods // A Deck of Cards with a Green Smile on them - Wilbur Soot VOD // Defining Me - Motherfolk // MAG147 - Weaver // Better in the Morning - Birdtalker // happy bday c!wilbur. you havent changed but i bet you wish you did by @yuker-deactivated

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Image 1: WILBUR [I know what I’m like.] TOMMY Huh? WILBUR I know what I’m like. That’s the issue.

Image 2: As clear as day, Lord, if I make it through tonight Then I will mend my ways And walk the straight path to the end of my days

Image 3: A drawing using the YCGMA color palette of Wilbur silhouetted against a background of buildings and rubble. The closed captions read “Am I right back where I started fourteen years ago?”

Image 4: WHEN I SAY THAT LOVING ME IS KIND OF LIKE BEING A CHICAGO BULLS FAN what I mean is that my father can tell a bunch of cool stories about back in the day when I was truly great. there is a mountain of gold that has gathered dust in the corner where I used to sleep, and look at all of these pictures. in this one, I am wearing rainbow shorts and hurling rocks at a shoreline. in this one, I am smiling in the glow of 13 lit candles pushed into a sheet of dark sugar. you may ask why I allow my face to drown in less and less joy with each passing year and I will say I just woke up one day and I was a still photo in everyone else’s home but my own. or I will say I promise that my legs just need another season, and then I will be who you fell in love with again. and then I will probably just say I’m sorry that there was once a tremendous blue sky and then a decade of hard, incessant rain.

Image 5: A screenshot of the google result for long-exposure photography. There are four examples and then a blurb of text reading: Long-exposure, time-exposure, or slow-shutter photography involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. Wikipedia

Image 6: WILBUR But now, man, now, thirteen years later? I- it’s like I came full circle. I’m a new man, I’m a fresh face. Isn’t that right, Tommy? TOMMY sighs Will, I- you…

Image 7: [Verse 1] Try to change, I try to change I make a list of all the ways to change my ways But I stay the same, I stay the same, oh I will try and try to change, but I just stay the same

Images 8 and 9: Screenshots from the game Night in the Woods. Mae, an anthropomorphic cat, is asleep in bed, and Bea, an anthropomorphic crocodile, is tucking her in. Bea says "I stayed here and got older while you went off and stayed the same."

Image 10: WILBUR No, you’ve got- you’ve got it all wrong. You’ve got it all wrong, man, like- like, okay, okay. Maybe- maybe I was unpredictable in the past, but-  TOMMY [It’s really nice… ] WILBUR -I’ve turned over a new leaf, Quackity! I don’t lie anymore, I don’t-  QUACKITY [Really…?] WILBUR I don’t, you know, I don’t deceive… I don’t, I don’t I- I know nothing about TNT anymore! I’ve forgotten everything I knew about TNT! It- it’s ridiculous, I- QUACKITY Everything?

Image 11: On the precipice of nothing new Fell into question all I held as truth It seems there's holes in all my fairy tales Despite my passion to preach them well

A yell hushed after many long worn years Not a failure to launch, but to persevere Being one so close to write upon my heart A testament I've since torn apart

Image 12: What I’ve been doing to these people, it – it hasn’t been because I was puppeted, or controlled, or possessed. I wanted to do it. It felt good. But at least I know I can stop; I just – don’t know how. I – (he sighs) I don’t – want to stop. (ugh) Goddamn, this one really took it out of me. I need to go lie down. (uh) End recording.

Image 13: Stuck inside a cycle of opinions Where there's two clear ways And I always take the easy one And I'm always left with the taste in my mouth I will do better in the morning

Image 14: a comic by Yuker:

Tommy: You said “I’ve died once and I don’t want to die again.” That you’ve changed. But that was a fucking lie, wasn’t it?

Wilbur: You’re over-reacting, Tommy.”

[Wilbur hesitates putting out a cigarette, and then raises it to his mouth instead.]

Wilbur: Goddamnit.

[Wilbur sitting alone on a bench, lighting a cigarette.]

Wilbur: I don’t think I have changed after all. Fuck.