#dsmp thoughts

[gogy-the-mushroom]

The fact that everyone's DSMP hyperfixation has revived itself around the same time is actually wild

[raynilikescats]

seeing people mention the dream smp in conversation is so wild to me like I keep forgetting that most of us went through the phase, I just happen to be one of the few still clinging on

[charlybvnny]

Michael's final moment

A Michael_Beloved animatic about his final moments, because he is an underappreciated character, and has so much potential.

A ramble about him under cut.

TWs:

- bugs

- bones

- talk of death and decay

- I think there is a slight flash but I'm unsure? So flashing warning just in case

michael is an underated npc / character and people should utilise his dynamic more often. i will explain:

he's stuck, he has nothing to do, nothing he can do. because he's an npc, his life will never begin because he's not living. people overlook him and don't pay him mind, his own parents don't pay attention to him. it's not that they don't love him, they do, they just don't have the time nor ability to look after him, atleast not properly.

people treat him more like a glorified pet because he is still an npc, no one should, realistically, love him like a son, at most he is a pet. but he's one of, if not the only, npc on the dsmp that is canonically considered a son, not a pet. shroud is technically a pet, yoghurt is i think considered fundy's son? but if you check on the wiki, michael is the only one of actual listing and not just an addition of another. michael is his own person, and yet is still an npc. he can't do anything, and yet is his own someone. he is someone, not someone's addition. he's not tubbo's son, or ranboo's son, he is michael.

and yet he's still stuck in his room. still stuck having to go along with other people's wills. because he is code. he can't do anything but follow his code.

and so with the charactarization of michael, making him his own person, it allows him the ability to think, yet not do. "i think therefore i am" and yet he can't think. not actually. he still has to follow his code. if you hit him, he must attack back, its in the code. so you can characterize and personalise michael all you want, give him hopes, and dreams, give him depth, but in the end, he is an npc. he can't leave his room, he can't make friends, he can't go explore. he is stuck in his room. just like how rapunzel is stuck in the tower.

in this essay i will explain why michael's song is "when will my life begin"-

[shots fired i bleed out as someone drags my body away]

Ok but in actuality, the rotting aspect of Michael is so great for potential in fics;

michael can be used in fics and i'm heartbroken people don't. see, michael is a zombie piglin, he is quite literally rotting. he is a sick, dying child of neglect and no one uses this to their advantage. do no fic writers see the potential devestating catastrophe of michael? how angsty it could be if he's used right?

I like Michael, can you tell 🥺

And you don't even need him to be a piglin in fics either, he could be a dying plant, or an injured yet beloved pet. He has potential please people listen to me 😭🙏

You can make him disability rep, please I love disabled characters in fics (if done right) and there's so much potential here.

I was messaging my friends while making this too, and I was shattering their very souls with my angst, and the thing is, you can shatter your friend's souls with angst too! Please use Michael, even if he's just a side character in your fic, if you got Tubbo, or Ranboo, please include Michael in some form, like a melted candle, or a torn doodle.

Anyways continuing on with angst!

They say the eyes are the route to the soul, and I like to think piglins only die when their souls are damaged. Only when their light fades.

Michael's usually twinkling eyes, now dull and a sullen blue, holding nothing but pure sorrow, and childish hope now shattered. His parents aren't coming. No one is coming. He's going to die alone. He's going to die, without embracing his parents one last time.

His body so decayed and rotten his ribs are fully out, spiders finding a new home where his once beating heart of love was, and yet he allows them to stay, allowing the bugs to feast on his carcass, because it's something. It's another being simply touching him. And so he lets the bugs eat his dying self, because at least it's something, a distressing comfort to accompany his final moments.

He's not alone. Not yet. It's fine. He's not alone. He won't die alone.. he thinks with his last thoughts, salty tears prickling his eye as he tries to comfort himself, just as his parents would if they were here.

I hope you cry, I hope you sob, I hope those silvery drops of sorrow prick your eyes and roll down your cheeks. If you are angry at me, perhaps you should scream into the bottomless pit of my soul, maybe a shard of guilt might scream back one day. Today's not the day though.

[suzyisgone]

There are just so many similarities between Kore and Technoblade, I can't even take it! >:0

I'm reqatching Techno's old DSMP vods and I just keep hearing him say things that Kore would totally say. TvT

Or, like, things that he basically HAS said, and I just love it so much. :')

[choliosus]

While I can wrap my head around the fact that the DSMP was like 4 years ago, I’m now coming to realize that 4 years ago for me and for a LOT of the people still DSMP posting on my timeline looks very different.

If a current dsmp fan is now 18, 4 years ago they were FOURTEEN!!

And I feel like that’s still kind of on the older side of the posters that come up on my TL. Like you were in middle school. You were 13? 12? 11???? I was a whole ass 17! I was about to graduate high school!

I suppose it’s fair to assume that the vast majority of people my age or older have moved on to different things, as this isn’t our first rodeo. And don’t get me wrong, I definitely don’t think about DSMP half as much as I did back in the day, but I feel like my current QSMP fixation lends itself to crossing over into the DSMP space fairly often.

It’s fascinating to see kids posting about missing that era now with the added piece in my mind that they were literally so young. And they still fucking are. And please please please don’t get it twisted I’m not saying I enjoy talking to minors bc I really gain nothing from a conversation with someone still in high school and in their first fandom experience. Any time I run into these ppl on ponytown, webfishing, etc I am reminded why I prefer staying in the 18+ servers bc people there are just more on the same page as me bc of where we are in life.

But like binch doesn’t even KNOW Voltron?? Or like ? maybe? Do they know undertale or is that just the thing that Tommy and ranboo used music from a few times to them? Is it this old game that their peers haven’t heard of?

Not that that old fandom knowledge is so important but it just really puts into perspective for me how different our experiences are with this same piece of media. “Media” being used kind of loosely but you know what I mean.

And yet it still is very important to each of us in a unique way. It’s just a little sobering to begin to comprehend how different those experiences are

Sorry if this is a lot of nothing I just got out of the shower and had some thoughts

[maruteru]

imagine you were mining in the nether, decided to went back to the overworld just to see half the server gone

[voidwizardwholikestheshadows]

I like to think that when Tommy was in exile, he learned how to draw because he didn’t have anything else to do that was fun. So a lot of the things that he kept in his secret base away from Dream was drawing of his real friends. The ones that abandoned him…

He also learned how to crochet! It was something that kept his shaky hands busy. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, Tommy had shaky hands that could sometimes mess up his drawings because he couldn’t hold the pencil still enough. It was always there but got worse during exile, maybe because he was stressed or maybe because he was dehydrated. Waking up in the ocean is not the type of water he needed.

Dream who also loved to draw and slowly started drawing more and more of Tommy. However, it would get increasingly disturbing. It could start out as something simple like the two of them hanging out to turning into a more detailed gory piece of art.

Dream definitely spent a lot of time on his drawings, sometimes when Tommy was out mining or collecting whatever he needed, Dream would sit down in Tommy’s tent and just sketch something out. His thoughts weren’t the most sane during this time so a lot of the sketches were pretty messed up.

Tommy eventually stumbled across it when Dream “accidentally” left it in Tommy’s tent. However, he didn’t mean to leave the ones that could have freaked Tommy out, for whatever reason. But back to crocheting. The only color yarn Dream would get him would be in his colors so Tommy had to forever live with the fact that he was Dream’s and there was nothing he could do about. Even the stuff he made was subconsciously altered to fit what Dream wanted.

[eekonis]

TNT duo parallels/ contrasts

C!quackity clinging to anything he has, while wilbur wants to keep everyone at arms lenght is so interesting??

They both had nothing in the beginning and passionately fought for their causes. While c!quackity (in my eyes) wanted to archieve likeability through relatability (at least in lmanburg days), he never made an effort to hide who he was.

Wilbur on the other hand strived for something higher than himself. He always wanted to put on a great show, a character. And if you play a character for too long, you can't just ... Stop (It's an older sibling thing, i'm sure). He played on and on for so long that he saw only death as a means to stop his course to damnation.

Meanwhile c!quackity put up a barricade (instead of a fascade). Don't trust anyone and all that. His character felt physically and emotionally isolated until charlie came along. And oh, how c!quackity was thankful for that little guy that followed him around and listened carefully to every word he said (never had that before / didn't last long). He taught him lessons - parallel to the life advice tommy would receive from wilbur.

While revivedburs physicality felt like he had no physical boundaries (like personal space, getting hurt, ect.) he had huge emotional ones, which i think are best presented to us in "hitting on 16" where tommy gives him the glass of water and mans is so in his role of stone hard unemotional leader, that he can't even thank his closest friend.

He wouldn't ever let tommy know how much he meant to him... Until the finale. C!quackity also protects charlie for charlies sake. Not for his own. Wilbur (esp. Revivedbur) protects others to proove a point.