leelee :D

hello i am stupidly new to tumblr but wanted to talk abt my interests with no judgment :] !! she/her + minor + dsmp/rivalsduo fan

[theminecraftbox]

Do you think The Plan™️ still includes a place for Quackity despite Dream’s contempt for him? Or do you think Dream’s modified his goals with the “Knowledge” that behind the mask of decency Quackity wears, all there is is a being that exists to use and get off on the suffering of others?

“I said I wanted a big happy family. A Nephandus existing is not compatible with that goal.”

/dsmp/rp

This is something I keep returning to: what HAS Dream concluded about Quackity, and about his motives, and what does that mean for his plans?

On the one hand, I don’t think Dream changes his overall goals based on how he feels about people. He’s not primarily driven by revenge, to the point where he’s let Sam go despite what he did to him. On the other… Dream’s view of Quackity is warped to hell. He’s terrified of Quackity, traumatized, and has a low low low opinion of him. He has some difficulty talking about him directly. When he threatens Sam, it’s not with “torture” but with “Quackity.”

When Dream talks about Quackity’s motives to Quackity, he accuses him of sadism. But when he talks about Quackity’s motives to Sam, Dream says things like “financial benefit”, reviving JSchlatt, taking the power of the book for himself. He even says he’d also have done “everything” to try to get the book in Sam’s shoes, though he stops short of saying precisely what this means. He calls Quackity a sociopath and says Quackity doesn’t feel, but also talks about destroying all the people and places and things Quackity cares about. This is a very distinct accusation from calling Quackity sadistic!

And interestingly, categorizing him like this divorces Quackity from emotional reasoning, but not necessarily from the pragmatic reasoning Dream typically prefers. If anything, you’d think someone as relentlessly amoral as Dream would understand and appreciate what he’s calling “sociopathy”, ie the willingness to set aside all feeling in pursuit of a goal. Except in this case, Dream knows the goal is so personal. Except in this case, the means were so much more extreme than Dream ever imagined. (Except in this case, Dream saw Quackity ENJOYING the means.)

At what point did Dream realize how conflicted Quackity’s motivations were, between “get the book” and “make Dream suffer”, and just how much the one was intrinsic to the other? I’m positive that Dream tried to bargain with Quackity: made offers like, ‘look, you know I can’t give you the book itself, but I can swear to bring back anyone you want, whenever you want, please stop.’ When Quackity refused, it would become abundantly obvious that he didn’t just want the power, but also, critically, for Dream to not have the power. Quackity wanted Dream hurting and he wanted Dream DEAD and he was trying as hard as he possibly could to force Dream to let himself die; Dream was painfully aware of this.

Dream also seems to be genuine when he says he thinks Quackity would not have shared the knowledge with Sam, that he would have kept it to himself, which speaks to his low opinion of Quackity’s long-term goals. This also says something about how Dream views their business partnership—the power struggle there, and their mutual power struggle over Dream, and how Dream was acutely aware of himself as something they were to some degree fighting over. Dream had to remain constantly cognizant of that push and pull between the two people with power over his life and death.

So what’s this mean for the future? I don’t really know! Dream’s contempt for and terror of Quackity is unlike anything he feels for anyone else on the server. Even Sam, who certainly comes closest, has a lot of mitigating and complicating factors that Quackity lacks. Like Sam, Dream loathes him; like Sam, Dream will never trust him again, at all; like Sam, Dream now understands the depths to which he can sink. Unlike Sam, Dream doesn’t really have evidence of these crimes being directed against anyone other than Dream: does that make it better or worse?

I can’t imagine Dream doesn’t want to kill him at least once. I also won’t be surprised if Quackity’s one of the only people Dream wants completely dead (though I do think it’s notable that, even in his bullshit threats to Sam, Dream tells him he plans to imprison Quackity rather than kill him dead). The question is, what does Dream need from Quackity? From Sam, Dream needed the keys. What ulterior reason, unrelated to revenge and trauma, does Dream have to confront Quackity? If there’s none, will he invent one? This more than anything is going to determine the outcome, I think.

[aweirdlisa]

“STRIKE ME!”

So, about that death shuffle video..

[simplepotatofarmer]

today is indigenous people's day!

this is a very important day to me so i thought i would share some good charities and links to help educate and support native peoples. <3 <3 please consider looking into these and sharing!

legacy of hope: a charity and organization to help with the continuing effects of the horrors of the residential school system

a list of places to buy from native artists

a canadian charity dedicated to helping indigenous families

suicide prevention resources: indigenous communities face higher rates of suicide, especially in teens, so this is extremely important.

the NLG supports a lot of important efforts as well as defending indigenous water protectors! here's another foundation for water protectors.

and here's two more organizations that mainly aim to help indigenous youth: indspire and true north aid

[batsandboba]

btw i will never forgive the internet for labeling dream - a guy who, when thrust into a spotlight larger than any of us can conceivably imagine, openly embraced his audience of “cringe” queer internet kids, visibly worked to grow and educate himself beyond the conservative views he grew up with, and continues to be accepting and positive and kind despite the waves of hatred he receives as a result of every mistake of his being broadcast to millions of people - a bigot. it’s a damn miracle he’s not an ultraconservative.

[girltimeswithscar]

Hazy morning breakfast with the Syndicate!

[girltimeswithscar]

I almost freaking forgot this is a late birthday gift for @witherking​ happy birthday i hope u enjoy all these funky guys

[feelingsoworn]

y'know, after all this c!dream and manhunt!dream talk, i've been thinking a lot about dream's OTHER personas and .. shapeshifter!dream from gnf's "Minecraft, But My Friend Is A ..." series has me so interested that i'd like to ramble abt him for a few paragraphs .

so many questions about that man !!

-why does he randomly morph into a random species every now and then? does he choose to morph? surely not, right, because you can see him complaining throughout the videos about the predicament..? or is it george that has the power to turn dream into different companion animals, since he always knows exactly how dreams form works and seems relatively unphased about his *assumably* previously human being turned into an animal?? is george some kind of amazingly smart scientist or magic user of sorts and dream is his voluntary test subject? if so, why does he turn dream into random pets? whats the overall motive? is it testing or are they just having fun? or maybe it was at first a test but they discovered they liked it too much to stop? or is it someone/something else ENTIRELY that controls dreams morphs?

-why can't dream die? what happens when he does? why is them completing their objective so reliant on dream staying alive? why is george unaffected by death? does dream just change back into his normal self afterwards? presumably, right? because theyre always back to retry with another animal? is it some kind of challenge theyre competing in and dream dying would disqualify them? or is it just two guys setting personal goals for themselves? if so, why don't we ever see them retry the samd animal? is dream physically not able to be the same animal twice? or do they just not want to?

-speaking of objectives, why IS their objective to kill the enderdragon? also, how does the ender dragon always manage to be back by the next attempt? do they just immediately respawn it afterwards? or is it some new world they travel to and, upon death, they return to their original world?

-why is there never anyone else with them? do they have any other friends or are they just a lone duo? if they don't, why? after all their travel have they never met anyone like them? or do they choose to stay alone? have they never encountered anyone who has gotten confused about a man and a talking pet? can other people even hear what dream is saying or is it more like the trope where to everyone else he's just making normal pet noises and george is the only one can understand him? if they do have friends, what do they think of what dream and george do? do they think its cool? a little weird? do they even know that this happens or do dream and george keep it private - their little hobby?

-how did they even find eachother and come across this arrangement in the first place? had they been friends for years before discovering dream could morph? or had george met him while he was in a morph? or, if george is the one who controls dreams morphs, did george just ask dream to do it one day and dream agreed? was it awkward? or not at all? was it accidental or planned?

-what is dreams real form???? we could assume it's humanoid like george, considering his voice is human. does dream even HAVE a normal form? perhaps he's more of a conciousness that inhabits random bodies? although we did see a glimpse of dream's mc skin in one preview - is that his actual form, or is it simply a transition phase? or a temporary form that george creates for him, perhaps? also, if that form is his real form, what .. would it be? do we take it literally and see a man made of green and a white blob on him thats in an odd position, or is he just a human in an odd outfit? or was that glimpse of him some broken form of him? what if during all these tranformations dream's actual form got slightly broken and corrupted and transformed into something strange looking?

does any of this make sense???? probably not ???? but shapeshifter!dream my beloved you are such a curious being i want to know more of u.

[worped-m0ss-deactivated20220406]

emotionally stunted, scrawny blond guys with violent tendencies are in a symbiotic relationship with c!techno. all of them. c!techno is holding them all very gently

[feelingsoworn]

violent emotionally stunted scrawny blonde guy who weirdly has a connection to the colour green: *exists*

c!techno, gasping: did you just say new best friend ??

[feelingsoworn]

me: no, there's no way that the biggest villian character on the dsmp and the most feared, powerful, and asocial character on the dsmp would EVER be soft and affectionate with eachother-

*that one headcannon where c!techno gives c!dream his cape in the prison and c!dream grows attached to it and keeps it even after he's out of there*

me: .. okay nvm they're best friends<333

[jorgenotfound-deactivated202304]

"if you take bad out of my life, i'm probably a very different person"

[petrichormeraki]

Loving others' traits unconsciously leaking into their friends,,,,, Phil and Ranboo going 'bap bap bap' in Techno's inflection when they're placing blocks/doing something repetitive, Phil copying Techno's 'bruhHhHh', Ranboo automatically adopting Techno's rough tone when doing a bit, Wilbur sprinkling 'mate' into his sentences, Tommy copying Tubbo's accent when he says 'hello?', Phil and Wilbur and Tubbo going 'STOP IIIIT' in Tommy's accent without prompting, Techno and Tubbo going 'uh. UH.' when something unexpected happens just like Phil does,,,,,I could keep going for days but it's just so sweet to see especially because it's not on purpose :,)

[captain-lonagan]

you can tell how much time someone has spent with ponk by how they say “myyy goodness”

[rnelodyy]

also phil sometimes goes "HELLO?" when joining a call like tommy and tommy sometimes goes "hiya m8" when joining a call like phil

[zathechaosgod]

at some point during the charity stream, techno called idk either the hunters or chat “lads” the same way wilbur does sometimes

[mushroom-soup-is-my-religion]

Everyone saying “King”

[codgod-moved]

back when ranboo and fundy spent a lot of time together on the actual dsmp server, ranboo would sometimes say “what do you mean?!” exactly like fundy does whenever something shocking/bad happened

[barbiegirldream]

the way so many of them insert ‘to be fair’ into their sentences cause Dream does it. Also that George alt stream where Tommy joined and they talked about Dream’s verbal mannerisms was so much fun. I love seeing what they pick up on from each other

[feelingsoworn]

the amount of people who've genuinely picked up bad's "muffin"/"muffinhead" or the "memey" or any of his emoticons is so fun too 😭 especially when they realise after and go "what did i just say 🤨" - theres a fun clip of quackity and skeppy (? iirc) talking all about it

[taxolotl]

kintsugi: the japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold.

inspired by this post!

[simplepotatofarmer]

no one is expecting c!dream to heal in the prison. it's just not possible. prison is not a place of rehabilitation. it's a place of punishment where people are far more likely to get worse than they are to get better.

and dream was tortured daily for close to three months. he's being actively abused and starved and isolated.

so isn't it impressive, then, that dream said he felt like he had hope again? that somehow he hasn't given up? that it's hope dream keeps returning to?

prison will never make him better or allow him to heal. by all rights, he should have gotten worse. most people would. most people would give up. but dream hasn't and that gives me hope for his future.

[kiuda]

"WhY'D tEcHnO bReAk dREam oUt oF prIsON" Jeez, I don't know! He definitely didn't get tortured, he definitely didn't get starved, he definitely didn't get isolated /s. If you're gonna be an anti, at least be smart about it.

Anon based???

Honestly this is just funny to me at this point - how many times can we talk about the same point? How many times do we have to have the same debate?

This is not even a bad take/misunderstanding of a character at this point. It's just a refusal to listen to the story/characters

c!Techno knows c!Dream made the prison!! He ASKED c!Dream for the prison plans - how the fuck else would he know them?? He is literally locked up

[feelingsoworn]

i honestly think a lot of people, but not all, who are genuinely wondering about this are in the mindset that c!techno helping c!dream out of the prison means that he’s supporting, or somehow diminishing, c!dream’s prior actions, when it doesn’t. you can acknowledge that a person has done terrible, vile things while simultaneously believing their punishment is cruel, unjust, and/or ineffective, and then help them out of that situation without trying to justify their actions. sometimes people whove done bad things get into situtations where they’re put under much, much worse - and acknowledging that and declaring a more just treatment doesn’t make you a bad person.

and even on a character level, this seems entirely on brand for c!techno as far as i understand him as a character. it makes sense that when it’s flagged off to c!techno that something isn’t quite right in the prison he’d investigate because prisons are riddled with ways to become corrupt with authority (and he’s loyal to his anarchist beliefs, so i firmly believe he’d riot against it regardless of who’s in there - but the fact it’s his long term powerful ally, who he had an overall neutral relationship with, gave him more of a reasoning). it makes even more sense that after 3 months of being stuck in a room with a man who’d gone from “powerful” to being endlessly exposed to treatment, that c!techno views as wildly inhumane, from the warden and someone violent the warden is going against his word to let in, c!techno would want to get said man out of there. especially considering he’d befriended the man over that time. 

i also truly don’t believe c!techno will simply gloss over c!dream’s past actions, instead either believing that he needs further rehabilation and taking that into his own hands, or believing he’s already served enough and leaving him be (however i think this one’s far less likely - and i personally hope this isn’t the case).

i’d also stretch to say that most characters on the smp upon hearing how horrifically c!dream is being treated would believe it’s inhumane and unjust - but i digress.

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I … LOVE reading the replies and tags for this post! I’m happy that, out of all my posts, this is the one that’s blown up so quickly. 

I love the people who are a part of a minority, that are gushing about their favorite fics or books that seem to have done this and offer proper representation. 

I love the people who are bringing up the toxic mindset that is very popular on tumblr, the “you can’t write about it if you haven’t lived it” ideology that makes writers feel guilty for providing representation.

I especially love the people who are mentioning how they should start doing this. I love the people who are probably young or inexperienced writers that are seeing this and thinking of doing this for the first time. I love that there are people who read this and then think to better their writing because of it.

[snorkwiz]

she visits sometimes :]

[ID: Four page comic of Philza and Kristin as the Goddess of Death on the Dream SMP. In page one, we see a close-up of the ocean monument, and then a slight zoom-out to show it is a miniature build and Phil is concentrating on it. He places a piece down with a “plop!” and straightens up to look at it. He looks satisfied, saying, “Perfect…” In page two, he is counting pieces in his hand as a crow lands on his shoulder with a “Squawk!” Phil is saying, “Oh, hey chat, I didn’t expect to see you here. You wanna help me count these?” A large ominous face with dark eyes looms behind him. In the second panel, it becomes apparent the giant face is Kristin as she is now coloured normally and saying, “HELLO!” Phil jumps in fright. The crow laughs at him.

In page three, Phil is looking down and leaning on the table with one hand touching Kristin’s cheek, saying, “Oh my fucking god it’s just you Kristin holy shit hahahah–” Kristin seems amused, saying, “WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?” Then she turns into her human-sized form with a POOF, holding Phil’s hand, as he asks, “What are you doing here?” and she answers, “I CAME TO SEE YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” In page four we see Phil launch into a long excited spiel explaining the monument as Kristin listens happily. There are hearts around her head. End ID.]

[apple-but-sour]

Kind of disappointed over the fact that people got so hyped to have another opportunity to dunk on the Syndicate over c!Wilbur's "I guess that's where anarchy fails" line (irt it giving people no purpose) yet I'm not sure if anyone wondered why is it so important to c!Wilbur that an ideology gives its people purpose.

He expresses the idea that he isn't a fan of anarchy because it gives people no purpose on two occasions and it's made me ponder real hard. Like, what's up with that? Why is an ideology only good if it gives its people Something to Do in c!Wilbur's eyes.

When I heard that line my first thought wasn't "haha anarchy bad" it was "c!Wilbur why do you need an ideology to give you and others purpose? That's a little strange."

[worped-m0ss-deactivated20220406]

that stream was techno’s limbo but not in an angsty way. He dies and c!dream brings him back and techno’s just like “what the FUCK was that”

[feelingsoworn]

(imagining they’re still in the prison)

c!techno, frantically: dream, dream - i have to get you out of here. the millionaires - they’re makin’ me

c!dream, in utter confusion: that wasn’t the original plan ????????

c!dream, processing the fact someone wants him out of the prison:........... also WHO?