TheMauZarka

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[themauzarka]

#art tag for my art.

[lyraofthestarsss]

Me at 3am: yeah, so it’s a 2015 minecraft roleplay with three seasons, 100 episodes per season and season three was left on a cliffhanger and is forever on hiatus. It’s written like a Wattpad fanfic made by a 13 year old with endless love triangles and subplots that go nowhere

My friend for some fucking reason: can you send me the link so I can watch it?

[themauzarka]

Related related, I made my brother watch ALL of the Aphmau roleplays, ALL of them. Every single time we watched it right after the episode of anime or a cartoon, we would cool down and tell ourselves "lower your standards, lower your standards, this is a Minecraft machinima not a professional show". God it was worth it. The magic of Aphmau is not the writing itself, it's watching a woman tell her crazy fics and get better at it overtime.

Now, I went through that marathon 3 different times in my life since I was a tween, the reason I am an Aphmau fan is primarily because of nostalgia (I genuinely appreciate the efforts in these roleplays too but I don't think I'd be watching it if I haven't discovered it when I was 14). But recently, I was looking for a scene in Emerald Secret and I found my brother near me predicting the dialogue because that guy went rewatched those episodes probably thousands of times. I knew he was rewatching episodes after we watched them together, but not to the point of remembering the dialogue??

[emoboybrony]

I've seen a lot of people say that its stupid to use Dancing Maddness in a fakeout death because that song means someones going to die- but thats not true.

Usually when that song comes up it doesn't mean someone's gonna die, it usually indicates Irene is connected somehow. It was first used in the Diaries season 1 finale and no one died there (unless you count Katelyn killing Lillian i guess).

The song playing while MT Aaron was getting chased down isnt meant to trick the audience, its meant to indicate Irene is involved somehow. And considering the Wolf lowkey prophesying his death, and what happens in the other series, it really does seem Aaron is just destined to die.

(I swear to god every conflict in these series can be traced back to Irene and Shad having a MYTHICALLY BAD breakup)

[5prink135]

I will say, though, it does work really well to convince the audience Aaron will die, based on how hopeless the situation is made out to be (Aaron actually getting really banged up for once), Aaron's multiversal record (especially with this song), and how Jesson have taught our brains to associate the song within their series. Anytime the song comes on, something bad always seems to occur, death most commonly, and so it works as a really good red herring, even if it is just meant to signal some divine intervention.

[themauzarka]

Okay, so! This is the book Lucinda is working with in Aphmau's Year that Travis' freaky but hot demon grandpa wants and eventually steals if I remember correctly?The camera gives us a clear shot of the cover, obviously the show wants you to go look and decipher this, but I never found anything about someone deciphering this so here I am sharing how I deciphered it back when I rewatched Aphmau's Year.

First off, this is an existing fictional alphabet.

Here is a screenshot of the Zelda wiki as an example. This is an item from Ocarina of Time, and like many other items and signs and models with text on them, it uses the game's language Hylian, people call it Hylian 64 because it comes from both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on the N64 and is different from the other Hylian alphabets from the other games. It is completely decipherable.

So there you go! We have a base. Now to find out what's on the cover...

Oh.

It comes out as nonsense.

Because, as you can see on the chart, if it wasn't obvious enough, the alphabet is like a Japanese hiragana font. It only translates to Japanese, there is no English version of this, the only Hylian language that can be translated into English is the Twilight Princess one, not the Ocarina of Time one.

I tried to download the font and type each letter to see which one is which but it just doesn't work... This is for Japanese only. And the Japanese just doesn't work.

So I guess this is it. It IS gibberish. The only way to be able to decipher this is if we already had a deciphered text with this alphabet, and to my knowledge, this is only time it was ever used-

Oh, what's this? More Hylian? We don't even have a single clue on what this could say, it's just more nonsense...

Well! Maybe it IS actual text. Do we have the mosaic in a clearer view? Yes we do, KamiWasa uploaded their art nice and clear before.

See how there are two repeating 3-letter words? Those must be "the". So based on this and what Emmalyn told us about its content, this is just a fun little cryptogram. You can actually go and solve both the mosaic and the book cover, it's super easy and kind of fun.

Here, take your time.

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Don't cheat.

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Okay.

Here are my results.

The mosaic: "THE GREAT MATRON AND VANQUISHING THE SHADOW LORD"

The book: "SNAKE MAN, KEEPER OF DESTINY"

Yes, I think those are typos. The mosaic actually says "vanquishfing" and the book says "sneak man". Someone forgot to spellcheck. Twice. Obviously it's "Snake Man" because Michael has been referred to as The Man with the Snake Eyes, so all of this makes 100% sense to me.

[themauzarka]

Did anyone actually decipher the text on Travis' spellbook thing in Mystreet? I did but I wanna know if other people already did before I can share it.

[themauzarka]

I never actually explained my MCD Player theory ever. The idea that MCD Aphmau has been constructed from both Irene and the Player, Jess. I never actually saw people see MCD like this, yet I've watched the entirety of MCD, Mod Mod World and Mystreet season 1 through 4 with this idea.

When you watch MCD for the first time, you're watching Jess play Minecraft through her character Aphmau. The more she plays the more "the world becomes aware", they mention it multiple times, right up to season 2. Does the world become aware or does Jess become immersed into the world enough to be able to hear everyone speak, and think, and not behave just like NPCs?

Throughout season 1, Jess is the main character, not Aphmau. She greets us, she says goodbye to us every episode. She's aware that this is all a game, but NPCs around her "wake up". And the more they wake up, the more we lose Jess, and we get Aphmau.

Look at Lady Irene for a moment. That woman is white. She's. white.

Irene is a white name, she is pale. Aphmau didn't tan, this is her natural skin color. Why was Irene reborn with a slightly different look? A whole change in ethnicity? OG Irene's skin color was never retconned by the way. The last time we see a glimpse of her in season 6, she's still white.

That's because Aphmau is not just Irene.

The exact moment we lost Jess was at the end of season 1, where Irene's relic enters Aphmau. Since then, we've never seen the facecam. Did Jess disappear? Or did she completely fuse into Aphmau?

I am serious, rewatch Diaries and tell yourself it's a meta plot because it is. MCD is in Minecraft. Mystreet is in Minecraft. Diaries Rebirth? Jess explicitely stated it's different from original MCD, it's not a rewrite, it's its own thing. It can't be a rewrite because the meta plot existed for a long time and it would be a shame to retcon it.

Or I'm just crazy and Jess was just making things up along the way and it wasn't something real

[the-raptorcat]

I want to add on to this, as the world wakes up and becomes aware it starts to change the fabric of Jess's reality.

The most noticable case is with the southern werewolf tribe and the nether portal. We find a broken nether portal and Jess, playing minecraft, was going to use minecraft logic by just relighting it but because the world is litteraly changing she couldnt. Bodolf says that wont work since the needed a sacrifice to open the portal.

I dont have the clips so forgive me if its not entirley accurate but I love this theory/perspective.

[themauzarka]

Also also!! At the end of season 2 when Hyria explains the Irene lore. Don't you feel like... what Hyria is a describing is a Minecraft server? Divine Warriors... They own the world, they all represent something, they all specialize in something. But as they go, the Divine Warriors die and get reborn, over and over. Like... The Divine Warriors are roles players get into, and Irene is the only one who remembers, who can make a distinction. This is why I've been thinking about the parallel between MCD and Cocomau. Every single Cocomau video is Aphmau surrounded by friends, she is always the most powerful one, she is always the center of attention, she is always loved... Cocomau and MCD are both Minecraft servers!! And MCD is an abandoned Minecraft server!!! I'm not crazy I swear!!

What Irene did is pass down the server to Aphmau to revive it and to love it as much as she did! And guess what?? She DID! She loved it to bits! So much she made it go on and on and on until she split her soul to be able to be invested in a life that is reminiscent of both Jess' and Aphmau's life, a modern slice-of-life world where you can have fun and pay the bills and get married to the love of your life and befriend everyone and not worry about anything!

[themauzarka]

I never actually explained my MCD Player theory ever. The idea that MCD Aphmau has been constructed from both Irene and the Player, Jess. I never actually saw people see MCD like this, yet I've watched the entirety of MCD, Mod Mod World and Mystreet season 1 through 4 with this idea.

When you watch MCD for the first time, you're watching Jess play Minecraft through her character Aphmau. The more she plays the more "the world becomes aware", they mention it multiple times, right up to season 2. Does the world become aware or does Jess become immersed into the world enough to be able to hear everyone speak, and think, and not behave just like NPCs?

Throughout season 1, Jess is the main character, not Aphmau. She greets us, she says goodbye to us every episode. She's aware that this is all a game, but NPCs around her "wake up". And the more they wake up, the more we lose Jess, and we get Aphmau.

Look at Lady Irene for a moment. That woman is white. She's. white.

Irene is a white name, she is pale. Aphmau didn't tan, this is her natural skin color. Why was Irene reborn with a slightly different look? A whole change in ethnicity? OG Irene's skin color was never retconned by the way. The last time we see a glimpse of her in season 6, she's still white.

That's because Aphmau is not just Irene.

The exact moment we lost Jess was at the end of season 1, where Irene's relic enters Aphmau. Since then, we've never seen the facecam. Did Jess disappear? Or did she completely fuse into Aphmau?

I am serious, rewatch Diaries and tell yourself it's a meta plot because it is. MCD is in Minecraft. Mystreet is in Minecraft. Diaries Rebirth? Jess explicitely stated it's different from original MCD, it's not a rewrite, it's its own thing. It can't be a rewrite because the meta plot existed for a long time and it would be a shame to retcon it.

Or I'm just crazy and Jess was just making things up along the way and it wasn't something real

[the-raptorcat]

I want to add on to this, as the world wakes up and becomes aware it starts to change the fabric of Jess's reality.

The most noticable case is with the southern werewolf tribe and the nether portal. We find a broken nether portal and Jess, playing minecraft, was going to use minecraft logic by just relighting it but because the world is litteraly changing she couldnt. Bodolf says that wont work since the needed a sacrifice to open the portal.

I dont have the clips so forgive me if its not entirley accurate but I love this theory/perspective.

[themauzarka]

I never actually explained my MCD Player theory ever. The idea that MCD Aphmau has been constructed from both Irene and the Player, Jess. I never actually saw people see MCD like this, yet I've watched the entirety of MCD, Mod Mod World and Mystreet season 1 through 4 with this idea.

When you watch MCD for the first time, you're watching Jess play Minecraft through her character Aphmau. The more she plays the more "the world becomes aware", they mention it multiple times, right up to season 2. Does the world become aware or does Jess become immersed into the world enough to be able to hear everyone speak, and think, and not behave just like NPCs?

Throughout season 1, Jess is the main character, not Aphmau. She greets us, she says goodbye to us every episode. She's aware that this is all a game, but NPCs around her "wake up". And the more they wake up, the more we lose Jess, and we get Aphmau.

Look at Lady Irene for a moment. That woman is white. She's. white.

Irene is a white name, she is pale. Aphmau didn't tan, this is her natural skin color. Why was Irene reborn with a slightly different look? A whole change in ethnicity? OG Irene's skin color was never retconned by the way. The last time we see a glimpse of her in season 6, she's still white.

That's because Aphmau is not just Irene.

The exact moment we lost Jess was at the end of season 1, where Irene's relic enters Aphmau. Since then, we've never seen the facecam. Did Jess disappear? Or did she completely fuse into Aphmau?

I am serious, rewatch Diaries and tell yourself it's a meta plot because it is. MCD is in Minecraft. Mystreet is in Minecraft. Diaries Rebirth? Jess explicitely stated it's different from original MCD, it's not a rewrite, it's its own thing. It can't be a rewrite because the meta plot existed for a long time and it would be a shame to retcon it.

Or I'm just crazy and Jess was just making things up along the way and it wasn't something real

[themauzarka]

And I also think Emerald Secret was an explicit reminder that yes, we are still in the fantasy Minecraft that Diaries was in. Making emerald caves up in snowy hills such a focus. Emerald-mining. Emerald, the rarest ore in Minecraft. Mining? Making potions?

[themauzarka]

EDIT: I corrected a few things about Irene's skin color. Context in the notes.

I never actually explained my MCD Player theory ever. The idea that MCD Aphmau has been constructed from both Irene and the Player, Jess. I never actually saw people see MCD like this, yet I've watched the entirety of MCD, Mod Mod World and Mystreet season 1 through 4 with this idea.

When you watch MCD for the first time, you're watching Jess play Minecraft through her character Aphmau. The more she plays the more "the world becomes aware", they mention it multiple times, right up to season 2. Does the world become aware or does Jess become immersed into the world enough to be able to hear everyone speak, and think, and not behave just like NPCs?

Throughout season 1, Jess is the main character, not Aphmau. She greets us, she says goodbye to us every episode. She's aware that this is all a game, but NPCs around her "wake up". And the more they wake up, the more we lose Jess, and we get Aphmau.

Look at Lady Irene for a moment. That woman doesn't have the same skin color as Aphmau.

She is pale. Aphmau didn't tan, this is her natural skin color. Why was Irene reborn with a slightly different look? A whole change in ethnicity? OG Irene's skin color was never retconned by the way. The last time we see a glimpse of her in season 6, she's still has light skin.

That's because Aphmau is not just Irene.

The exact moment we lost Jess was at the end of season 1, where Irene's relic enters Aphmau. Since then, we've never seen the facecam. Did Jess disappear? Or did she completely fuse into Aphmau?

I am serious, rewatch Diaries and tell yourself it's a meta plot because it is. MCD is in Minecraft. Mystreet is in Minecraft. Diaries Rebirth? Jess explicitely stated it's different from original MCD, it's not a rewrite, it's its own thing. It can't be a rewrite because the meta plot existed for a long time and it would be a shame to retcon it.

Or I'm just crazy and Jess was just making things up along the way and it wasn't something real

[themauzarka]

Honestly, I wouldn't change a thing about the Garte After Dark episode except the tone at the end. Let Zane give up and not care about whatever his dad said, let him go "at least there's that", let Garte be selfish, let Aaron and Aphmau think this is a cute moment. I just want it to be framed to the audience like "you hear all of that? We're probably going to address it in another episode but think about it" and then it's up to us to analyze what's going on. I think this episode was fine, it's just the music at the end that bothers me a little.

[themauzarka]

Like a character doesn't NEED to know, doesn't need to fight and doesn't need to be an expert in relationships for this to be good. Similarly, Garte doesn't need to be framed like an irredeemable bad guy. What happens at the end of the episode happens ALL the time in real life. It would suck if it was rewritten for Zane to look at the screen and basically tell us "hey this is really bad, i have a bad father, he just makes excuses and obviously doesnt love me and neglects me and i should cut him off", no! People make excuses for their parents' flaws all the time! Let him go along. This is a perfect setup, especially since we didn't have enough of Garte in Mystreet and that he's going to probably be a plot point in the new seasons. They're not going to resolve a conflict as big and complex as that in the spinoff, are they?

[themauzarka]

Honestly, I wouldn't change a thing about the Garte After Dark episode except the tone at the end. Let Zane give up and not care about whatever his dad said, let him go "at least there's that", let Garte be selfish, let Aaron and Aphmau think this is a cute moment. I just want it to be framed to the audience like "you hear all of that? We're probably going to address it in another episode but think about it" and then it's up to us to analyze what's going on. I think this episode was fine, it's just the music at the end that bothers me a little.

[bouquet-of-existentialism]

am i... having an autism moment or was the garte-zane interaction like,,, intentionally shitty

i genuinely thought the point was that garte was admitting that he didnt really love zane without actually saying it.

zane getting an understanding that no matter what he does, how hard he works, it was never about him. it was always about gartes ego, his pride.

im paraphrasing but "maybe you should've supported me more" to your SON??? is ballistic and at least in my interpretation only highlighted why garte is the way he is.

he loves garroth more because he gets more compliments from garroth. he doesn't get constant approval from zane, so he doesnt give it back

but was it supposed to be a sweet moment?? idk im not good at reading tone sometimes

[zvahlne]

it SHOULD have been intentionally shitty, because intent aside, it WAS shitty. garte was awful to zane throughout that episode and ESPECIALLY in that scene.

the problem is that... the narrative doesn't support this??? when consuming a piece of fiction, you can often tell what the intended message is, even if the evidence within contradicts it. so while the content of the episode, over and over, demonstrates that garte is a bad parent and being a bad person...

the framing disagrees. the way the story is arranged disagrees. the music disagrees. ZANE DISAGREES. during this horrifying conversation between the two of them, where garte responds to "do you love garroth more than me?" with "yes, and here's why" in different words, upbeat music plays, leading up to our emotional climax of the hug. zane doesn't argue. zane doesn't react in hurt. narratively, zane shuts up and listens to all that, and AGREES.

at the emotional swell of this episode, he HUGS garte, and happy music plays. aaron says, "zane and his dad are having an emotional moment!" in an (aaron-level-of-energy) adoring voice. aphmau comes outside and says in her own adoring tone, "aww, that's sweet!"

so you're not wrong that garte was BEING awful, but the intent really seemed to be, "it was zane's fault that he felt this way."

if it DIDN'T end with the hug and the upbeat music, it could have been argued it was meant to be negative. if it had ended on a NEGATIVE note. but it doesn't, it ends on a positive note. and after dark doesn't seem like a series where we're going to continue an arc like this and get into "actually, that was bad"—this is it. this is the garte and zane scene. it's the emotional climax of the episode, and garte tramples over what should be zane's emotional catharsis and makes it his own, and as the audience we're supposed to agree.

the moral of the scene is zane made himself unhappy, not his neglectful father, and zane's gonna turn his life around now that he knows it was all his fault! you know... the thing his father has been saying his whole life, anyway.

[themauzarka]

I didn't understand Garte in that After Dark episode for a moment. I thought it was so obvious that he prefers Garroth over Zane (who's Vylad?), he doesn't even remember his name properly?? I think? Is he joking? I really don't know.

What made it sort of acceptable, made it sort of, sort of understandable, is that Zane was closed in on himself for a very long time. Before he met Aphmau he was just unpleasant to be around, in high school he was a menace, he is the opposite of his brother as in Garroth has been conforming to his father's expectations since he was small, and Zane is the complete opposite, he's the "punk son", he's literally emo, his whole thing is to not fit in. You can see why Garte could've distanced from Zane, respecting his boundaries in his own way, not putting any of his expectations on him anymore, and didn't catch that he changed over time as an adult and is way more open with his feelings.

Garte is dense as a rock for not getting this any sooner, he had to wait for Zane to say something for him to change his attitude a little bit. He's traditionally masculine, the dishwasher joke kind of got me, like you're supposed to assume he's THAT kind of dad but he's not. He's, in a way, like Garroth. The Garroth who wouldn't listen to Zane's boundaries right up to season 4 until he got green potion-ed. But yeah. I don't know, I felt bad for Zane in this episode, but I kind of know what it's like and Garte could've just dismissed Zane's feelings and called him sensitive. That would've been awful to watch. I'm glad they made up.

Also please free Laurance from the basement

EDIT: Traditionally masculine in an American sense. This is so important to me to distinguish, I think this entire episode was a parody of this anyway.

[themauzarka]

I really hope Travis keeps his big luscious eyelashes cuz his face looked wrong in that Mystreet After Dark episode...

[themauzarka]

Am I the only one who enjoyed the labubu episode? 😭 Aphmau always put memes and brainrot relevant to the year the RP was produced, so this was as hilarious to me. That and I just knowww this was parodying Jess and Jason's real experiences with the thing, literally I don't care if people hate it. Fight me about it. I got scalper Travis and Dante out of this, I'm not giving it back.

[normalmystreet]

OKAY WE'RE DOING THIS IT'S POLL TIME AGAIN AHEM WHICH SEASON OF MYSTREET IS YOUR FAVORITE? I'M ONLY DOING THE MAIN 6 SEASONS.

MyStreet Season 1

Love~Love Paradise

Lovers Lane

Emerald Secret

Starlight

When Angels Fall

Voting ended onFeb 24

[themauzarka]

Do people REALLY think season 1 of Mermaid Tales is better than season 2 that's currently still coming out? Cuz I rewatched it (before season 2 was even announced) and besides being nostalgic, I thought it was boring and kind of a nothingburger. And I had watched aaaaall of the other series with it and none of them made me feel bored like that besides Ultra Nova.

It was generic to say the least, it didn't feel like it was daring enough despite the setting being underwater a lot of time and that being a good innovation for a Minecraft machinima series. The characters felt barebones because of the limited dialogue and internal conflict. Season 2 fixes all of this for me, at the expense of continuity.

It's odd to me that Mod Mod World was much more limited compared to Mermaid Tales and yet it's one of my favorite series, it ranks higher than Void Paradox. For once I like the retcon series.

In this one, they went the totally different route and made the characters sort of exaggerated caricatures and I think it works. I will forever stand with the belief that the main whole vibe behind Jess' series is "bad anime made in Minecraft" and you really feel it in season 2 with the comedy and the animation...

I thought it was all over the place at first, but it strikes me as almost episodic, which, I'll take it, we didn't have an episodic series since ummm season 3 of Mystreet? I think?

Open for discussion.