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rowan - 19 - they/he techno + sbi main

[dear-fictionkin]

hey wilbur. im sorry i got so distant. im sorry i pushed you away. ive never been good at telling people what i want. i hope youre okay. i miss you. - schlatt

[metrixnos]

Grief means you cared.

[wombrion]

birthday boy

[m4rms]

for you the world

[cornpapers]

best dream smp character

[considermygenderminecrafted]

cPhilza is like if you took a tragedy but weren't such a pessimist about it

[considermygenderminecrafted]

Disclaimer

Edit: ^ my OG post sounds like a condemnation of tragedies which it SUPER isn't. Catharsis is wonderful and important!!

This is however coming from someone who tends to find tragedies unhelpful, but follows a lot of people who love tragedies and posts about tragedies.

I think like- all the talk about and posting like a 'I love characters that can't out run their fate, I love stories where we already know the ending, I love stories where the are doomed' and 'b The narrative is trying to kill me' and 'the narrative loves me so much I'm dying to it' and c 'stories where the tragedy is the character cannot escape the story they're in 'ect, on tumblr dot com. Are response or rephrasing of like... those big questions at the bottom of it all. The ones we never really solve

Like uh

a) 'do we having meaningful control over our lives and our selves' 'How do we cope with maybe not having free will when it really fucking feels like we do', 'How do we cope with the fact we will all die no matter what

b) What if there is a god and they are cruel (the narrative wants me dead, the narrative loves me so much it destroys me)' 'What if there is nothing and this is all meaningless

c) How do we face the fact that we will never overcome ourselves' 'how do we face the fact we are forever stuck in our own experiences of the world'

Would maybe be how I could break em down. And i think- that these are important questions and like are ones I have VERY much battled with personally, and often come to answers I don't... want.

So you have these questions. If you are like me got two options to how to deal with em:

1) answer em in a way that feels like a comfort but you don't think is true

2) Answer them truthfully and try and make sense of the way it hurts (what i think some tragedies do)

And maybe what i like about cPhil is his character battles with all of these questions constantly. But instead of 1 or 2, the character proposes the question 'and what if we thrived anyway?' To me- the reason i think i find tragedy unhelpful isI find the framing is often merely painful to me? I don't beleive that there is suffering at the bottom of the universe, or that we must carry on despite it (which int to say all tragedies do this its just often what i find myself left with after reading em )

and I think what cPhil's character and story does is go 'yeah. Maybe these questions are answered in a way that doesn't feel good but there is not care in spite of it or because of it but separate to those things. We make the meaning, death does not render life futile, meaninglessness does not mean we cannot act with purpose, a cruel god does not mean we are only built to suffer.'

I think that's why i root for a cPhil hopeful ending, cause it's like a tragedy but if it weren't so pessimistic about it all

[considermygenderminecrafted]

WE NEVER FUCKING LOSE

[dear-fictionkin]

hey wilbur. im sorry i got so distant. im sorry i pushed you away. ive never been good at telling people what i want. i hope youre okay. i miss you. - schlatt

[tubbosfriend]

I don’t understand this but twitter is going down the shitter so I’ll have a try

[choccymilllk]

GUYS... I FINALLY MADE IT..TO DAY4# ARCTIC i rushed it a bit.. cos school is so mean:[[ wdym i have to do hws..??

this is a redraw of them vv

[miaclemeverett]

they named an award after my boy

[cprk-deactivated20230814]

[blockgamepirate]

SMP Earth Technoblade

This is part of my series (which now actually technically counts as a series) of Technoblade character designs. I’m gonna put the first one (Hypixel Skyblock Techno) under the cut for comparison.

I feel like Antarctic Empire Techno has big WWI vibes so I went with a WWI officer uniform (specifically a cavalry officer, even though this is the one series here he never uses a horse (AFAIK) but I just wanted an excuse to include a chestplate.) I debated so long whether to do a fighter pilot outfit or a full on imperial portrait thing, but decided that this was a good compromise.

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[w0lfwren]

i’m so obsessed with dsmp!connor like. what’s his fucking deal. he initially comes off as Guy Here For Clout, Doesn’t Care About The RP, but then he gets caught up in these situations where he shows like. boundless sympathy. tommy was cruel to him and he hurt him but connor saw the scared boy underneath and told him he wasn’t a bad person. he reassured him of his worst fear and helped him kickstart getting better without even realising. he saw sam and boomer belittling hannah for her heartbreak over losing a literal part of her body and he said this is a tragedy, he let her pain be seen and acknowledged. he understands what it means to hurt so badly and he extends his hands to people in pain without knowing a god damn thing about them and we don’t even know why. what is UP with him.

[smallishbabes]

I wanna say that for someone known for his 1.8 pvp, Techno really made a name for himself in how he utilized weapons in 1.16, specially the trident and crossbow (especially the firework launcher). Like I’m always gonna associate him with them b/c he’s crafted stories, given them names, used them all the time, making it so personal to him. Even in MCC, he’s known to be so skilled using them, such as in ace race, skyblockle, battlebox, skybattle. Maybe it helps that he streamed himself acquiring them and learning about it as time went on, but I think it’s neat how he made seemingly nonessential tools into something cool.

[blockgamepirate]

Yes!

And swords!

Okay okay okay, I know swords are the 1.8 weapon and all, but the fact that he still favoured the sword even though it’s “purely ornamental“ and made it work with the new combat mechanics is worth noting. Switching between the axe for disabling shields and the sword for actually delivering damage.

Specifically he would use a fully enchanted sword over a fully enchanted axe, because the sword is faster and you can get almost twice as many hits with a sword as you can with an axe, which adds up when you have enchants (which even up the difference between the two weapons) and even more so if you have strength. He would still prefer an unenchanted axe over an unenchanted sword though because the axe’s base damage is so much higher.

Of course the thing with taking advantage of the sword’s higher speed is that you have to be able to pull that off to benefit from it. Techno obviously can, but I feel like this would not work out well for a lot of less experienced players. Being able to hit quickly doesn’t help if you can’t hit consistently.

I think this is like the whole argument for the newer PVP system, that axes are supposed to be slow but precise and effective while swords are supposed to be fast and have a sweeping attack but deal less damage per hit so there would be some actual variety in the combat and you could choose which one you prefer. The problem is that I don’t think it was properly balanced for PVP. Swords make sense against mobs, but against another player... idk.

Obviously other people have used swords in 1.9+ but when I think about swords in 1.9+, I always think about Techno. (Whether it’s the “purely ornamental” line or whether it’s him obliterating people with the Orphan Obliterator or whether it’s him explaining his nerdy calculations to justify to his chat why using the sword actually makes sense.)

[smallishbabes]

BGP my beloved <3 I love how you highlighted how much of a nerd he was about that lol. You brought up a good point though about how smart Techno is

Techno was such a strategist with 1.16 weapons and mechanics like no one else. He made op rockets and killed like 10 players with the crossbow, used a trident + slow falling potions to carpet bomb people with rockets, used his clout to get tons lucky blocks to get full diamond armor, divebombed with an elytra and crit from a fire aspect I sword, circled around a pillar to regain hearts, used trigonometry to do more damage, and put strength and invis pots on tons of dogs like name you a streamer. He was always outnumbered/had the odds against him but that never seemed to be a deterrent for him b/c he made sure to plan his attacks with that in mind. He was literally a one man army.

The thing is though that Techno always says that anyone could do what he does. It’s just that no one is as dedicated and thinks outside-the-box enough to come up with these things. That’s why I think it’s so cool that for someone like him who doesn’t believe 1.16 is his strong suit, still manages to be on par for people with more experience than him b/c he’s hella smart about it

[ranboo5]

GeorgeNotFound, Hasan Abi, porn that's breaking boundaries, Harry Potter, right wing bit, one of them is ableist. Genshin sword, creepy doll wasps in TommyInnit's walls, DNF, pronouns post, RanbooLive did not choose Host WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

[protesliaus]

something that i will always remember of technoblade is how he was kind just for the sake of it.

i will remember him claiming the monopoly sound was too loud for him to hear wilbur when he spoke of techno staying up all night to comfort him when he was sick. i will remember him taking the time to add watermarks for his artists when they themselves forgot. i will remember niki and sophie saying how he always somehow made sure they never felt excluded or neglected and how he would hate it, it would embarrass him when they spoke of his kindness publicly. i will remember him personally dming ponk to thank them for sending a 45-minute video of someone feeding hotdogs to raccoons in chat and timestamping his favorite part. i will remember his love for the people who created for him, how he would keep his mentions on for everyone before his fanart tag was formed and would just scroll and scroll to make sure not to miss any art someone made for him. i will remember half his friends and peers having some kind of a story of him reaching out to them during tough days, reassuring them, believing in them, making them feel loved.

i will remember him in every act of kindness i receive and i will remember him during times in my life when i will need to remind myself to be kind despite it all.

[the-arctic-commune]

Techno’s the reason I’m in this fandom at all - the other person running this blog kept talking about him and sending me videos, and I finally started actually watching them in late 2020.

True to form, I didn’t start with any of his current videos at the time, but back with his c. 2016 bedwars and skywars videos. And…

OK, I had essentially never been on youtube before that, not more than a couple times a year. I knew it existed, obviously (I didn’t know twitch existed). But the last time I’d had any significant contact with the online gaming community was Gamergate. That was my reference for what to expect from men talking about video games online: gleeful harassment and a competitive community so toxic it needed a specific word for calling a SWAT team on someone who made you mad.

I knew Techno wasn’t like that, of course. That’s a fringe group of the loudest assholes, I wouldn’t assume any random person would be like that. Anyways my friend had been watching him for a while, so he had to be a decent person.

Still, binging his old videos… in the back of my mind, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. He was so competitive. He was so perfectionist. Even when he was insisting on playing Skywars as casually as he could, I halfway expected that eventually he’d snap at a teammate who made a mistake, and I’d stop feeling comfortable watching him.

Then I started watching his MC Championship streams, in backwards order. MINECRAFT CHAMPIONSHIP w/ Ph1lza, Nihachu & Eret. And I got to Ace Race. And I started getting nervous. It was exactly the situation I didn’t want to see him in. Battling for first place, he was lapping his own teammates and upset with himself for every mistake that he made. And Nihachu, especially, was struggling. The best I was hoping for was that he’d quietly ignore it.

But he didn’t. He went back and he helped her. And he encouraged his teammates. He helped her figure out the path. He was sympathetic about how confusing she found it, and he didn’t get impatient when she made the same mistake over and over. He cheered her accomplishments even when they were far different from his own. He cheered her accomplishments even when they were losing him the tournament.

And not only that, the entire tournament did! Players from every team started encouraging Niki as she struggled to finish.

I cried, y’all. I cried.

I know it’s going to sound stupid and old-fashioned to those of you who’ve been in the community longer, but the last time I was in online gaming communities was 2014. I didn’t think I was going to rejoin it and find a community where teammates supported each other. I didn’t think women could be bad without getting singled out for it.

Everyone keeps talking about how kind Techno was, and it sounds like the half-hearted platitudes that everyone gets, but it was true. He supported everyone he played with. He was so damn kind, and I’ll always be grateful to him for being my gateway to this community.

[recycledcactus]

“I had a dream I was playing minecraft. And I’d joined a server. I was streaming and I was basically bullying this other streamer who’d moved in next door to me. And, uh, halfway through, Technoblade joined the server. He joined and I told him to get in VC with me. And he joined VC and he was like, talking to me the way he used to and stuff. And he sounded oh so full of energy and excitement. And I ended up streaming in my dream for four hours. And eventually I ended stream and I told him how worried I was about him. I was like ‘I was really worried that you hadn’t answered my messages in ages.’ He basically responds ‘Ah no, man, I’m sorry. I’m not here anymore. But I just saw you dreaming about minecraft and I couldn’t let you get away with that, loser.’”

- wilbur soot