#thecomicaloverlord

[wiiwarechronicles]

🥺🥺🥺🥺 TYYY that’s good bc i actually love them so much

Here’s a doodle of them for you specifically.

[fibi-draws]

Hhh

DOOR

local enderman shows off his height to his ram husband who is 5 seconds away from kicking him on the shin

[enderspawn]

IMAGINE if, just to fuck with us, bizly makes chip flirt with Finn Tidestrider before he even flirts with gill.

Chip: damn gill ur grandpa kind of…

Gill: what the fuck Chip.

i think chip should fuck every possible member of gillions family that he can bc it would be funny

[darlington-v]

Yes it was /gen

Okay, going to write some analysis here then.

i don’t like the way that the fandom uses the word apologist because it is so much like the internet’s use of “problematic”. something problematic can span anywhere from a simple mistake to active harm and proactively promoting bigoted beliefs. being an apologist can span anywhere from simply enjoying his character to maybe someone believing that dream has genuinely done no harm including in the way outside of the realm of fiction. it’s honestly pretty ridiculous and i can’t really stand it but it has become such a big part of our fandom’s culture that i can’t really get away from it and use it for simplicity’s sake amongst friends or in lighthearted manner, but rarely ever will you see me use the word legitimately in my analysis.

i find strong discomfort in anyone who has a “[character] apologists dni” in their bio or in their abouts or byf because if you find discomfort in someone sympathizing with or enjoying a character from a work of fiction you enjoy then i cannot begin to conceptualize the reasons you would watch that series.

works of fiction aren’t meant to have all of the characters be paragons of morality, who are spick-and-span in their history and have never harmed a fly, because honestly that’s just not realistic and to implement it into your characters is poor writing. even children’s shows will bring up villains, and even children will enjoy villains. better children’s shows will give depth to their villains or antagonists. one that i immediately think of is steven universe, which handles emotions really well. thomas sanders also has some really good content geared toward a younger audience that displays how good people can do bad things or good people can deal with bad things.

and regardless, we’re allowed to enjoy characters who are the epitome of cartoon villainy, which dream isn’t in my opinion, but you’re allowed to enjoy a villain. in fact, if you ask any queer person who’s seen a disney renaissance film or films around that era, and are probably a bit older to have seen that when they were especially popular, who their favorite disney character is, they’ll probably tell you the villain of that film as a lot of them were queer coded. ursula was modeled from a drag queen, scar is a more flamboyant lion out of the pride, jafar is a little nonconforming with his eyeliner and has a... peculiar tone of voice and infliction with the way he speaks, and there are plenty of other disney villains you can look up who are queer coded that i’m drawing a blank on. queer people could relate to them because they were so blatantly queer coded. we’re the flamboyant “villains”, and we take pride in that. it’s campy. it’s perfect for us.

you’re allowed to enjoy “evil” or “ill-intended” characters. you’re allowed to “support” them because they aren’t real. they’re not actually hurting anyone. they can’t hurt anyone.

even if i didn’t think dream was redeemable, which i do, it is still okay and reasonable for me to enjoy him. he’s a sympathetic character! i can get behind his causes. his actions and ideals at their core are something i can identify with, like, i can sympathize with wanting unity. i can sympathize with willing to get your hands dirty and becoming the villain for that cause. i can sympathize with self sacrifice, on an extremely personal level. i can sympathize with being told you are something you’re not, and letting that affect your mental health.

wanting unity is something i feel like everyone can relate to. we all want some form of peace. like i think if you look deeper into dream’s character you will see that he is a sympathetic character. like, if you watch other streams or even watch old stream highlights you can see that there is more depth provided than just what you may get from bench trio or any other pro l’manburg character’s point of view.

i’ve written an essay on this before, but, a sympathetic character is a good character. that character is well written, because while you can disagree with that character and their actions, you can follow their line of understanding. you can understand why they did it and you can either relate or be horrified by their actions. or even dislike their actions. but a sympathetic character is interesting, they’re compelling. and that doesn’t mean being morally correct all the time or doing the right thing all the time, or even doing the WRONG thing and then apologizing for it all the time. to sympathize with someone is to understand them, even if you don’t agree. even if you cannot relate to their actions or decisions, you can understand why they did them. 

a good character can be a bad guy. a good character can be repulsive whilst still being a good character.

it is human to be bad. it is human to do bad things. it’s important to remember that. in regarding terrible actions as something that makes you a monster creates room for people to continue to do those actions. it creates room to excuse them.

and, as far as redemption goes, i think most if not all people are capable of redemption and that extends to fictional characters who are and always will be structured around people. this honestly applies to... any character. i can go into depth about why specifically i care a lot about dream and how he is a character i think who is genuinely currently astray and misguided, but i think the message i’ve left is the most important one to note.

there’s a serious lack of critical analysis in this fandom and i’m literally a mod for an analysis blog. i really feel like we should emphasize on that. if dream apologists, or wilbur apologists, or quackity, or technoblade or any other character who has done harm to others, if people who sympathize with those characters make you uncomfortable i would really like you to ask yourself why? because they are still integral parts of the narrative. if the characters themselves make you uncomfortable then... again, i have to ask, why are you watching the dream smp streams?

i don’t have the answers for you, i would just like more people to look deeper into things and ask themselves why. like genuinely. and this is in regard to anything and everything, whether it is fictional works or real life behavior. ask yourself why someone may behave that way, or maybe why an event would happen in that fictional work.

tldr;

yes! i am a dream apologist. i sympathize with dream and he is my second favorite character after ranboo. if you’re uncomfortable with that, i encourage you leave because i don’t want you to be upset every time you log onto tumblr, but also because i don’t really want to encourage that sort of behavior. if you’re willing to listen and understand, then by all means i would love to have you here to listen and read some analysis i post or reblog. i implore you to ask yourself why, like really WHY are you uncomfortable with it, as well.  like, you don’t have to tell me or anyone for that matter, just chew on the question yourself in your own time.

tldr part 2: yes i am a dream apologist.

[fuckmatpat]

Hey, but off topic but can you reccomend any theorists channels (channels that are just filled with theory’s and only theory’s) that aren’t complete assholes like matpat? I wanna watch cool theory’s but i don’t wanna give money to a shithead

I can't think of anyone off the top of my head, sorry. /g i do know some cartoon revolving content creators like rebecca rose and not so average fangirl, but that likely isn't what you're looking for. I'd like to open this up to the community here, so if any followers here have recommendations, please comment them on this post.

[enderwalk]

Who the fuck is Ethan i don’t use Twitter

no one knows who ethan is we’re all just kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop rn

[batjokes-yaoi]

🧍hi

[peninkwrites]

Just binged the entire fucking TDDD fic (up to what’s out rn. I’m not a time traveler) and hOOLLOYYY FUCKINGGG SHIT.

:D ‘HOOLLOYYY FUCKINGGG SHIT’ is the ideal reaction to my writing lol. Thank you!