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relaxxattack

reoccurring dreams

#zoinks my boinks! that's painful!

fallingappleshurt

Ahahaha... ha.....h

space-robinhood

The day the blade dies is when pigs fly.

appaeve

hey tumblr dot com

somiemoved

them

ratspleen

the novelty's worn off

markets

tbh i feel like we dont rlly talk enough about c!tommy hallucinating c!tubbo during exile likeee it was srsly fucked up😭

metkapop

Levity. A moment to breathe.

Rip to Dream but if I was stuck in a prison cell with an exciteable pigman I would simply laugh at his jokes.

((also I just think that after 6 months of inhumane imprisonment Dream's gotta practice being in conversations that don't involve threats of bodily harm xdfsdgr))

Bonus doodles:

lameborghini

im not funny but that doesn’t mean i won’t laugh at my own jokes

girlfictions

i’ve been thinking a lot about what’s happened in the mcyt community as of late – more specifically, in terms of ccs being more vocal about the anxiety they feel when it comes to twitter. and as someone who has been in online fandom spaces almost my whole life, i can say with certainty that mcyttwt has some defining characteristics that have made it the community that it is…. which is not necessarily the *healthiest* place for both fans and creators.

the main, overarching problem - and i’m sure you know what i’m about to say - is the open line of direct communication with ccs. i’m tired of hearing the term “parasocial” thrown around as much as the rest of you, but ultimately that’s what mcyttwt is. a handful of creators with millions of followers who are invested in them to near-unhealthy extents. i’m by no means saying that simply being a fan incurs a parasocial relationship (i literally run a dsmp fandom blog myself, lol) but twitter has the blessing/curse of being a platform where topics can trend at the snap of a finger, the character length limit means detail is sacrificed for attention-grabbing tweets, and content creators cannot avoid seeing the thousands of vitriolic messages sent their way when they make any sort of slip up….and the fans know this.

which leads me to my next point - entitlement. mcyttwt fans have an absurd level of entitlement that has come about as the result of this perceived “closer” relationship with ccs. because in this age of the pandemic where social media has become young people’s entire lifelines and identities, the introduction of activism into fandom space has skyrocketed in popularity. and while i can appreciate/admire the passion that my generation has for wanting to bring about social change, a lot of the so-called “educating” that these fans are attempting to impose onto cc’s is nothing more than an unrealistic expectation that ccs should spend all hours of their day retweeting carrds and gofundme links. i’m sorry if i sound harsh, but that is not their obligation. and it is so incomprehensible to me that fans on twitter are legitimately upset that their favourite cc isn’t making a statement on their specific minority group. i do not need ranboo to tell me that i am valid as a south asian woman. i do not need dream to retweet a thread about biphobia. i do not need georgenotfound to talk about islamophobia in the mcyt community. because frankly speaking, that isn’t their place. and yes, i understand the intent of spreading awareness, but these threads are made for people in the community, and gain huge amounts of traction on their own without a cc notice regardless.

fundamentally, expecting young ccs to be near-perfect activists who talk about complex social issues with eloquence and nuanced understanding is infeasible, unproductive, and serves to accomplish nothing. i watch minecraft streamers because i enjoy their personalities. i do not watch them because i expect to learn about the impact of colonialism on marginalised communities in asia, because that is an issue i am personally interested in and will learn about from qualified individuals – not tommyinnit, whose career revolves around making things 1000x funnier.

at the end of the day, you should not want/expect to receive validation from internet creators who play minecraft for a living. ccs drawing attention to large-scale social issues and using their platforms to directly support organisations is phenomenal, and i’m so happy that those i look up to have been so vocal about pride month. i also won’t hesitate to say there have been more than a few occasions where ccs have made mistakes that are definitely worthy of criticism. fandom spaces also remain predominantly white, which absolutely has negative ripple effects in the community. but these macro issues are lumped in with micro ones, and fans have become unable to differentiate between an actively harmful comment made in bad faith, and an opinion that doesn’t align with their own.

it’s funny, because i actually speak from personal experience on this. i was once in similar shoes to these kinds of fans, and part of me definitely cringes looking back. i know that most of them only have good intentions. but the bubble of stan twitter has reduced everything to black-and-white, where either you’re with a minority group or against them, and that is so exhausting to see. i truly hope that mcyttwt is able to self-reflect a little better in light of ranboo’s statement especially, and realise that this mindset they possess is making their fandom experience far more negative than it needs to be.

chirp-on-loop

As an artist I find it very interesting to see other peoples art cause its like really pretty especially in the dsmp fandom but why are y’all making Tommy so fucking tiny? Y’all make them really fucking tiny. I’ll see shit where he’s like next to Wilbur and like reaching Wilbur’s shoulders at max which is just very incorrect because if you see them together in real life they’re very close to the same height like I get Ranboo because Ranboos like a fucking Enderman hybrid but like Wilbur is human and Tommy is almost Wilbur’s height IRL why are you making them so fucking tiny??

thespoonisvictory

I have an answer! (not as a dsmp fanartist but as a person who’s really into character design)

in s1 mainly, wilbur is to be seen as an authority, a mentor figure, a big brother, to tommy. he’s older, wiser, etc. a height difference helps emphasize that energy. good for hair ruffling, leaning on his shoulder, etc etc. plus- when you draw pairs, having different shapes and sizes help differentiate characters, making them feel distinct. tommy is literally in wilbur’s shadow, if you will.

in later s1, when wilbur is more of a threat, having him as a tall, looming presence over tommy also makes sense. while wilbur isn’t a physical threat in a fight, having him be so much taller makes him feel more threatening to an onlooker.

character design isn’t just about accuracy, it’s about conveying personality and dynamics to the viewer of your work! just like whether or not you draw wilbur with glasses affects the perception of his character, height matters too

tobi-smp

when you're dealing with heavily stylized art styles centered around relatively young characters it can be harder to tell differences in age from facial features alone. exaggerating height differences, body types, face shape, etc can make it much easier to convey that tommy is much younger than wilbur while still presenting wilbur as a young man himself !

it's visual shorthand for "child" just like wide eyes and big heads are.

it's also a very strong visual shorthand for tommy's status as both a scrappy underdog character in general ! combining features like a small stature, thin shoulders, and skinny limbs with a confident stance, animated expressions, and dynamic posing works very well to create that image of a character that isn't very powerful but is nevertheless brimming with confidence.

(and of course, when that confidence goes Away and the body language changes it exaggerates that powerlessness and reminds you that this is a child.)

these aren't hard rules of course, you can convey a lot of the same things with lots of other visual techniques (framing, color theory, etc), but it's something that's easy to grasp that helps convey or strengthen these ideas at a glance !

thesmpisonfire

Interrupting really quick: smol tommy is funny

angst-and-fajitas

Public DSMP Fandom Heads-Up: "Everywhere At The End Of Time"

I've heard Ranboo is going to be using music from "Everywhere At The End Of Time" by The Caretaker for his upcoming lore. So, I'd just like to give everyone a forewarning before we get there:

Do not talk about Ranboo or the Dream SMP in the comment sections of the videos of the album on Youtube. Do not do it.

Not only is this extremely annoying to those people outside the fandom who just wish to listen to and talk about the project itself (and given how big the dsmp fandom is, you will totally flood that comment section and make outsiders rightfully hate us), but you also need to be aware that doing so would be EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL considering the context of why this music was created.

"Everywhere At The End Of Time" is a project created by an artist over many years of painstaking research and work in order to attempt to describe the experience of losing your mind to dementia, and to raise awareness for diseases like alzheimer's that cause it. It's a very solemn, serious thing, and it needs to be treated as such. It's not something that should be taken and turned into a fandom thing.

Lots of people have lost loved ones to dementia, and some of them go to this video project to watch it, understand it better, and discuss their feelings and their grief with others in the comment section. How much would it suck, do you imagine, for them to go and find tons of kids rambling about their favorite twitch streamer?

I like Ranboo, he's super cool and so is his storytelling! I don't think there's anything wrong with him using the music in his streams (so long as he doesn't associate it with something evil). However, there will be something very wrong if the fans can't respect the project. If you want to comment on the videos, don't say anything about the Ranboo or the dream SMP, only talk about the project and the music itself.

I never ask this, but this is an important issue, so: Please share this message to the rest of the fandom. I don't care what methods you use, go ahead and repost this to other sites, with or without credit. I just want people to read this.

the-ghost-of-jason-todd

also, no one has brought this up at all, but i think that neo-pronouns have a place in the queer movement. i personally don’t like most of them, and i’m reluctant to use, idfk, bun-self pronouns, but here’s the thing.

most if not all neo-pronouns exist to reject the use of GENDER as the primary identifying feature of person to person language (idk if there’s an actual word for that, i’m a linguist in spirit not in vocabulary). in english, the set-up for singular third-person pronouns is as follows: male-aligned, female-aligned, and (if you’re not a coward) neither-aligned, neutral. that’s he/him, she/her, and they/them, respectively. even our neutral pronouns have a basis in the binary system of using gender as the main identifier, because ‘neutral’ is generally used to mean ‘on the same spectrum but between the two poles’. think about it–EVERY pronoun we use to speak about someone in the third person is gendered or derived from gender in some way.

not so for ze/zir/zerself. the closest some of these pronouns get to the actual proper pronoun system is how they reflect the use of Mx. as an honorific, and the use of Mx. is almost non-existent. saying you use ey/em/emself pronouns is like taking a linguistic step away from the gender system. you can still kind of trace the roots of some of these pronouns to the previous system (ey/em is likely derived from they/them, for example) but they don’t really lie on the male—-neutral—-female spectrum we’ve used for centuries.

noun-self pronouns take it a step further. it’s not just taking the gender out of the pronoun, it’s putting something else in its place. as a political statement, that holds INCREDIBLE meaning. noun-self pronouns spit in the face of proper english, cishet ideology, and mainstream culture all in one fell swoop. in fact, my own inability to completely divorce myself from the current system and accept noun-self pronouns is probably incredibly indicative of how counter to our culture it is to use them.

there are practical arguments against neo-pronouns that may or may not hold water, but AS A TREND (i’m not using this word to belittle the usage, btw, i’m just describing the rise of neo-pronouns) they have the same roots as gnc dress and the battle against gender roles. they FEEL different and ‘extra wrong’ because it’s been so long since we’ve had any sort of pronoun system that doesn’t rely on gender, in most languages, and that probably means neo-pronouns are all the more important in the long run. taking gender out of conversations that don’t need it may help us move past the friction that always rises around LGBTQ+ identities.

idk, it’s just something to think about.