I'm Aqua, pronouns they/she/xyr, likes and replies from @/aquaeclipse. I am an adult. This is my MC/MCYT sideblog, i.e. we post about block people roleplay here, sir.
You might know of me as a TV Tropes editor and archivist. On Tumblr, I am the admin of @dreamsmpquoteswithoutcontext and @mcytaita, and a handful of other minor blogs.
In the DSMP fandom specifically, you might know me as the person who revamped c!Quackity's fan wiki page in 2021 and an analyst in the field.
In the Pirates SMP fandom specifically, you might know me as one of the archivists and the recap guy. Yes, several of the Pirates SMP content creators are currently living like rats in my walls. This series is my Roman Empire fr.
I also write fanfics on AO3. Fanfic masterpost can be found here. Permissions statement here.
I do NOT support the Green Blob Man, a certain Music Man, or many other disgusting people unfortunately within the fandom's walls; please block me if you do.
List of MCYT interests and tags are under the cut. And a final note to all: I ship block people sometimes.
Hola, me llamo Aqua (elle/ella) y soy autora del fanfiction en inglés. Hablo tres lenguas, no hablo Español pero yo aprendía. Posteamos de los cubitos aquí, señor.
Other Notes
Negativity tags under the cut at the bottom of the post because there's too many of them
Content creators can interact with me AT THEIR OWN RISK… and at my own risk too, apparently
Original intro post from 2021 (edited over the years) here
MCYT Interests
Fandoms that I am currently a part of:
Empires SMP
Life series – tagged by season names and #/trafficverse in general
ALSMP
Rats SMP
WCSMP
New Life SMP
Pirates SMP
MCSOS
Vampires SMP
Fandoms that I used to be part of but still post about sometimes:
Stampy's Lovely World (and other related material, but mainly because I am quite far behind on the content)
Feather Adventures
DSMP (list of content/trigger warnings for the series available here for reference)
Fandoms that I am aware of by osmosis and may post about:
Area Unknown SMP (only barely)
Evo SMP
Hermitcraft
Karmaland
Outsiders SMP (only barely)
QSMP
Personal Tags
General Tags
#my post – general personal tag + occasionally me inboxing others
#reply post – general replies to asks and other posts
#aqua fracasa en español – spanish learning tag
#aqua goes scientist mode – feral science student vs those dang cubitos, FIGHT!
#aqua live reacts – livereacting tag and unofficial spoilers tag
#aqua's mcytblr resources – my transcripts and recaps
#aquatic memetics – my memes
#aquatic positivity – posts chronicling people appreciating me and my work... I crave validation, okay?
#the great duckling hivemind – Quackblr shenanigans
#hey big queue! look what i found! – queue tag
#musical mayhem – web-weaving, playlists, etc.
#my art – general art tag
#tv tropes – TV Tropes shenanigans
SMP-specific Tags
#aqua analyzes c!quackity from the dsmp – exactly what it says on the tin
#aqua transcribes the dsmp – my transcriptions of the dsmp
#dsmp quotes without context – from my side-blog
#esmp musings – esmp headcanons and theories
#isleposting – pirates smp clips, headcanons, records, etc.
#the great duckling hivemind – Quackblr shenanigans
#ttxover – Toontown-related content, usually relating to c!Quackity
#unclassified works – posts that have a creative writing element to them that I would not call a proper fic OR fanfics that don't have their own tag yet
Fanfic Tags [Masterpost]
#kill the lights (fanfic) – c!Quackity post-Butcher Army fic
#love (fanfic) – Lovely World c!Stampy poem/fic written for the Stampytober 2022 event
#the ghosts of yesterday (fanfic) – c!Quackity backstory fic
#eye of the tiger (fanfic) – DSMP crackfic I wrote for Quackity's victory in the MCYTblr Sexyman Polls
#the morning falls nonetheless (fanfic) – Pirates AU fic involving Aurelia and Hudson Denholm's A+ parenting (/neg)
#the mushroom incident (fanfic) – Rats AITA fic written for @/inthelittlewood's compilation and at @/willowmvp's request
#tell me did i do wrong? (fanfic) – Pirates AITA compilation anthology, written for @/inthelittlewood
#blood on the hillside (fanfic) – Pirates p!Shep continuation fic, ft. chat being menaces (/affectionate)
#hatchling (fanfic) – Pirates ficlet written as propaganda for the @/scottsmajorshipbracket
#we've all been damned c'mon (fanfic) – Life series fic based on c!Gem's not-so-great journey throughout Secret Life
#lrau (fanfic) – Pirates Kite-centric Western AU fic I wrote for AUFest 2024 in collaboration with @/kitefactionofficial (then known as @/philzas-early-gang-society)
[This section has ceased to update as of July 2024; for all later works, please see the masterpost]
Fun Tags
#am i the asshole – MCYT AITA posts; see #mcytaita for polls on another side-blog
#containment breach – this post has left its target audience, everyone scatter
#the crane lives – the life series except the crane lives write the soundtrack
#the family forest™️ – if you make me update the Love Dodecahendron or Tangled Family Tree trope pages, I am going to start crying
#fuchsia fishfuckers – yes, I have a tag dedicated to that too
#i've had enough of this. i'm officially bonking scott to corny jail with an H. – Scott of the absurdly many aliases being a threat to my mental stability
#susage. for the love of christ. pls. control yourself. – Mythical J. Sausage should also cease and desist before he finds himself lacking a sausage /j; this man causes me to take -1,000 points of psychic damage every time he either types or says something
#mcyt without context – some silly polls <3
#psychological torment smp – the QSMP is an unethical psychological experiment that would never fly if it were in real life and not in the block game
Negativity tags AKA the Hall of Shame
General negativity and discourse tags: #/fandom discourse (general); #/negativity (general); #/wtf minecraft fandom (general for mcyt fans, tag was made before i learnt the tumblr tagging system); #/those twitter clowns (tm) (for twitter specifically)
Tags to block in regard to the cc!Dr**m situation: #/the redacted accusations (main tag), #/dreamwastaken (content creator), #/dream (DSMP character), #/urmom smp (U***** SMP), #/drace reveal (face reveal and all non-faceless IRL pictures), #/the video™️ (for the late 2023 video drop)
Tags to block in regard to the DSMP Volume 1 ending (derogatory): #/the crappy conclusion
Tags to block in regard to certain creators' predatory misconduct: #/0 days since last normal cc behaviour /neg
Tags to block in regard to Jellie disrespect in a certain poll: #/justice for the queen of mc
You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?
You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
whenever i see someone lambast a piece of media for portraying a character getting away with bad behavior instead of getting narratively punished, i have to laugh because that’s literally the hays code. it’s not hays-code-esque or hays-code-coded, it’s just straight up the hays code.
T.G.I.F !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank guns im friday. Last night.My husband went missing in the darkness but i found him flat on his back in a field. And all around him chunks of dirt were missing from the ground. Shephards pie for dinner
"I actually don't know why people put f in chat. I figure that's a Homestuck thing. Anything that doesn't make sense to me I assume is Andrew Hussie's fault, and this has worked out fairly well for me consistently since the dawn of Problem Sleuth." - Joe Hills on stream, April 12 2020, Homestuck Day Eve
sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "mmmhmmm okay yeah i see we both interpreted that differently based on what the show gave us, but i see how you arrived at your ideas even if they're different from mine," and then sometimes you see Takes™ that make you go "brother what show did you even fucking watch"
really love a corruption arc where the character is trying way too hard to make it work but they're in over their head and it's uncomfortable and embarrassing and they're swallowing their own puke every time they do something awful and damp with sweat and trembling but insistent that they can do this, they want it, they're not a child, but it's like they're playing dressup in clothes that are too big for them and trying to convince their own reflection in the mirror that they fit and it's just no fun to watch at all
+ then they find inside them a capacity for cruelty far more upsettingly vicious than anyone could have imagined and decide that because they enjoy how unafraid it makes them feel for the first time in as long as they can remember it must have been their true nature all along instead of something that had to be starved in the dark until it grew desperate enough to claw its way out 🙂↕️
a character being a perpetrator does not negate their victimhood and neither does their victimhood negate being a perpetrator. u can accept and reckon w both dimensions in ur analysis
man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great
