"And the universe said I love you"

Just your usual multi fandom writer, nothing to see here.

[triforce-of-mischief]

we've got your back, lu fandom ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[everyfree]

Rant, be warned.

Discourse about the MCSR ranked team and playoffs is so funny to me because wow what a startling demonstration of lack of self-awareness! How is it so difficult to understand that this community is absolutely nothing. Like genuine nobodies. There are no multi-billion business daddies handholding its development and stepping in when things get out of hand, there is no well-established playerbase that will stick with it when times get hard. This is a passion project that until a few months ago ran purely on sunshine rainbows and the power of friendship. Can we be serious for a second.

I am not a coder myself so I will not comment on the difficulties with making and maintaining the mod itself, but just looking at how the official Minecraft updates are should give an indication as to the effort it takes to make changes without breaking anything. More importantly is the issue of game-balancing. How much do we modify from vanilla? How will changing seed filters impact competitive play? What do we standarise, what do we remove, what do we do with RNG? The thing is, top runners can complain all they want but THEY ARE NOT THE PEOPLE MOST QUALIFIED TO ANSWER. How much change is too much change? Will people get put off by it and stop playing? Would we lose what makes Minecraft unique? What's the healthiest for the scene in the long run? Yeah these are questions companies hire some very very smart professionally-trained people to analyse and try to predict. The ranked team is TWO GUYS who have to juggle a playbase that balloooned in size, management of events, and who also need to you know eat and sleep. Would you prefer it if different things are tried out season to season? Do you think most people would? If anything turns out to be bad and the ranked team get inevitably trashed for their short-sightedness, would you stand up and share the blame? Be. Serious.

'Why doesn't the ranked team expand then?' Oh, you mean the ranked team who until very recently is reliant on ONE GUY DONATING MONEY to even have a prize pool for their most significant event? That ranked team? 'Oh but MCSR is so popular now-' it's popular because Ludwig aka Big Streamer brought attention to it. The very definition of an unstable playerbase. Yeah man, let's definitely employ a bunch of people and then when the hype wears off we will pay them with air and lint. Oh wait, nevermind, employing people requirs registration of a company and legal documents and a whole bunch of complications. Should we exploit the free labour of volunteers instead? Never gone badly for a Minecraft project, nope!

The biggest strength of MCSR is its community. It attracts viewers, mediate play (why not go for 1-eye? well it's in bad taste), and is the entire reason ranked exist in the first place, from Oliver and Redlime's passion, to Feinberg's financial support. It literally ran on the power of friendship. This is not a corporate thing.

So, 'the Ranked team shouldn't be immune to criticism' is true. What is also true is that people are giving criticism in completely the wrong way. With another Esport, you can be loud and toxic and exaggerate and call something trash because that's how you let a multibillion company know that you are serious, so hopefully they will panic and try to save reputation. The Ranked team physically does not have the capacity to respond in the same way. The only thing people achieve by spewing hate and negativity is sour the opinion of the layperson. If you say that Ranked sucks and should die, it will actually die.

'We want MCSR to be an Esport' is used as a slogan because it is a dream. An unrealistic phrase to demonstrate ambition and passion. It is in no way an Esport yet, and it seems like most people are trying to get it there by mimicking toxicity instead of anything productive.

[eliassimp]

You all guys need this

[m-altium7]

Can we talk about Avery and Derek (or D3rlord3 wtv at this pointoiadjasdjkasido) divorcing at the end????

[lemonheadart]

I craved fluff.. so I whipped some up

process under the cut

if you by any chance wonder just how insane I am: I animated the whole thing last night out of nowhere. Just sat down at 9pm for a quick drawing sesh and didn't raise my head till 2am (I did take a break to record myself spinning a pillow for a reference, probably the only reason my back is still functioning)

first sketch. just basic poses and emotion (and clothes and hair and-)

first rough. Sun's hair felt a little off, so I decided to FINALLY go to sleep and see if I could fix it the next day..

..and I think I did. It's definitely more flowy, just the way I like it. I also added a little more frames for Sky in the beginning

[specificallygrowndaikon]

something about grief

[cc4librre]

FORSAKENS FINESTT LETS GO GAMBLINGGG

[coppersunflower]

whatever go die to new update my art i dont like u a lot anyways

rowls moving bastion

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

“this fic portrays problematic ship” then don’t read it

“this fic romanticizes bad things” then don’t read it

“this fic makes me uncomfortable and angry” then don’t read it

“this fic about my favorite fictional character goes against everything the character believes in in canon” then don’t read it

all of the problems you have with somebody else’s fanfic can be very easily solved by the act of Not Reading It

scroll past a fic if it’s something you don’t like, filter out tags about things you don’t want to see

no one forces you to read a fic that upsets you. also you can stop reading any fic at any time you want.

harassing real people over fiction will not make you morally superior. it just makes you a bully

[helelmcgrippers]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

things some people, especially people who are new to ao3 or fandom/fanfic space as a whole, seem to not understand:

archive of our own is an archive. not a social media.

archive of our own was built with the stance that there would be no censorship, because other platforms already had censorship where some things that were taboo were reported/removed. ao3 was built with the purpose that all of these works, that were not allowed on other platforms, would be allowed on ao3.

the archive will house anything that’s considered fanworks. so no, you cannot report this fic because it portrays in explicit details taboo topics about xyz, you cannot report that fic because it romanticizes and glorifies xyz. ao3 will not remove any of those fics, because whether or not you like it, those fics do not go against ao3’s terms of service.

“but these things are not allowed on other platforms” that’s precisely why ao3 was created, to house and give a platform to these things that were censored/banned/removed from other platforms.

if you have a problem with this, you can use other platforms to post and read fanfics

but you should also know that ao3 by far has the best tagging system, meaning you won’t get anything like what ao3 provides on other platforms, meaning it may be a pain in the ass for you to find a fic with the prompts and pairing you’re looking for, meaning you may still get jump scared by things that are triggering to you half way through your reading of what you thought was an innocent fic. because other platforms don’t have tagging systems, where you can find and avoid any character/pairing/tag as you please, like ao3.

[shaftking]

Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

[chillhypocrite]

The fact that kids nowadays want ao3 to be censored— guys. Guys. Where is your sense of adventure? When I was 12, and homeschooled, and had unlimited internet access on my second hand laptop, all I felt upon discovering ao3 was unmitigated joy. A whole platform where people can be fucking weird and post toe-curling novel-length diatribes about ANYTHING. How beautiful is that?

And then you, the reader, can just jump in and post your own weird shit? And people might comment just to say “nice job!” Or “where the fuck is the next chapter” on your 20k coffee shop FNAF AU? Bro. Them’s the little things that make the internet worth anything.

Ao3 is so beautiful. I love scrolling past indescribably disturbing descriptions. I love knowing they have a place to be posted. I love knowing that, should I feel the urge to indulge, I can do so with no repercussions.

Mi familia. Mis amigos. Por favor. Take a step back and be grateful that not every facet of creativity has been locked behind an algorithm.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

getting mad at ao3 for being against censorship and allowing all kinds of dark and fucked up fics to be on their platform is like getting mad at a library for not banning books

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]