End Vs. Nether

while I'm on about architecture and the builds of the smp, it's so fucking cool to me how you can tell the era a building was built based on it's materials and contents.

for example, some of the earliest structures (or their ruins, to be exact), were made of wood. once the perpetual conflict started, however, wood structures fell out of favor because they burnt down easily. most of these structures were easily accessed as well, making it easier for people to steal from them and/or burn them down.

then comes the war era. because having the high ground gives many tactical advantages in fights, a lot of the structures from this short period on the server are tower based or are otherwise very tall, like the tower by tommy's house or l'manburg's walls.

as a reaction to the conflict, next came the era of fortresses and more less accessible bases, like dream's house, punz's estate, eret's castle, and purpled's sewer base. as a result of the war, a lot of the bases from this time period also had alternative exits, mostly to the sewers. if a house has an entrance to the sewer, it's probably from the august-october era.

manburg era buildings, though there aren't much surviving from that time (for obvious reasons), had a distinctly corporate and almost inhospitable aesthetic to them. these buildings trended away from houses, and more towards office buildings. most were made of concrete, marble, obsidian, stone bricks, or blackstone. they were the brutalist structures of the dream smp, reflecting the harsh and authoritarian rule that began the era.

then, after the destruction of l'manburg, during the era of peace, many of the homes went back to being built with wood, due to the fact that many people thought the conflict was over for good this time. this also was the era of less serious builds, such as karl's amusement park, the "not kissing booth", the "nightclub", and the el rapids pyramid. but unfortunately, after the first destruction of l'manburg, a lot of people had had enough and opted to move elsewhere, hence the lack of new builds in the greater smp from this era. this era also happened around the holidays, meaning many of the homes trended on the "festive" and cabin aesthetic.

and finally, the current era. after the final destruction of new l'manburg, the greater smp is almost completely abandoned at this point. save for the creation of temples, monuments, and historical sites, not much is being built in the "main part" of the smp. however, a lot of ruins are being restored and preserved, such as tubbo's first house, the l'manhole, and of course, tommy's house. the most interesting development, however, is the uptick in memorials, the most prominent being statues of tommy. however, there is also ponk's graveyard, and the lmanburg flag at the bottom of the crater. it's interesting to me, because it indicates that the conflict has finally stopped enough for people to grieve the losses gained over the course of the past 6 months. if the trend continues, I expect more monuments to the past in the greater smp and more permanent builds away from the main part of the smp.

my point is, it just really goes to show how history can be shown not just through watching it happen and through stories being told but also through the buildings built in the times we study. this is true for real life, too. before the fire of london, almost every building in london was made of timber. now, in the modern day, you'd be hard pressed to find a single building made of wood in the london area. and the structures that have survived from medieval london are all stone structures, making it clear that, yeah, if you want your metropolis to survive, it cannot be fucking flammable.

it goes to show how people learn from the major events of their generation and use that wisdom to make buildings better and more built to last. whether it be a real life fire that decimates a city, or a fictional war waged in minecraft, these events make people think about their comfort and safety and work harder to keep it. and to see this replicated in a minecraft server of all things... well that's just another reason why the story of the smp is so impactful. just because it's pixels on a screen, doesn't mean it's any less sentimental. and I, for one, am completely fine crying every time I see an allium in minecraft if it means I can watch more of these wonderfully dramatic weirdos. <3

Not so rare frame of Odysseus having to count how many years he has been away from home

This is very important, please do not ignore this.

Watch the video till the very end please (the end is when the explosion goes off.)

I live in Lebanon and the fiercest explosion went off in the midst of Beirut today, killing off an ungodly amount of human beings (more and more people are dying as I write this) and injuring up to 5000 people whose cases are immensely critical. Today,, at approximately 6 pm, hospitals were completely torn to shreds, people have been buried underneath fallen buildings, fires have been ignited almost everywhere, blood staining the streets in an excruciating manner, in addition to people that flew and fell to the sea due to the impact of the explosion. And it is certainly worth mentioning the millions upon millions' worth of damages what with buildings and cars and stores. Plenty of people are missing, it's an overall mess that is quite frankly very traumatizing.

What Lebanese people have been undergoing in recent times:

Lebanon has been going through a major economical decline that grows worse and worse by the day. The prices have heightened and the salaries remain the same, scarcely anyone has the capacity of affording basic needs anymore. There has been an unfolding revolution the past year, and the lebanese society has been protesting against the humiliation thrust upon our lives due to our miserable excuse for a government, and though the streets bled with thrashing, screaming citizens fighting for their utmost basic human rights, that caused mere to no change in the way things go around here, in fact, it only made it worse. We're being provided with, metaphorically, a droplet's worth of water and nearly no electricity, a pregnant woman has even passed away recently due to a heat stroke (as there were no means of cooling off)

What caused the setting off of this explosion?

The ignorance, heartlessness, and overall brutality of the government and the people in control.

A critical amount of chemicals (2700 tons of ammonium and other nitrates) were left inside a ship along the port of Beirut, and though the people in charge of this transaction were warned that heat and perspiration have the capability of destroying the whole of Lebanon in ode to a massive explosion, they refused to do anything about it and left the chemicals in there for years on end.

Up until, surprise surprise, the explosion went off and devestated Lebanon almost entirely.

I don't have much followers, and I know that this post isn't going to magically heal what is unfolding in this, priorly gorgeous, magnificent country, but I truly hope with all my heart that you find it within yours to spread awareness on this topic so that it would be more widespread,, so that Lebanon gets the aiding it deserves and the people from outer places slap the 'big bosses' awake, or at least pressure them into resigning, whatever it takes to make this place sufferable, tolerable, somewhere you can picture yourself residing in.

Lebanon is a place of infinite traditions, diversity, creativity, joy, and love. Most of the people here are open-hearted and wholesome. We all deserve far better.

My heart aches for the people that have passed away today, and I shall pray for the ones stuck in hellish suffering.

This is important.

Climate denialism in the netherlands is so fucking funny like. Bro the floods. They’re coming

Dear friends not in America don’t take this the wrong way but please don’t tell us to just read a book or go outside

This is proof we do not live in the land of the free

We are finally starting to realize how much power our government has

They have taken a platform of free speech and thought and expression away from us

A place we can get extremely up to date news from around the world

And they have taken it

Some of us are on here on tumblr or other platforms but loosing TikTok is proof the government doesn’t care about us

Say it’s for our protection all they want. If they wanted to protect our data or us as people they woudl have banned Facebook and all other social media a long time ago bc that stuff gets breeches all the time

odysseus: whaT DO YOU MEAN MOVE THE BED????

penelope: oh sorry i thought we were playing the ask stupid questions game

ok but unironically, ranboo and tubbo making their marriage canon in the smp and playing it as more than just a bit is one of the best character decisions ranboo specifically has ever made. and it's because it makes ranboo's syndicate arc... actually compelling. now, I don't know if you noticed yesterday, but techno, phil, and niki's streams, while being lore, were almost chill streams in terms of how casually they treated the roleplay. their visit to snowchester was relatively pleasant, and tubbo and techno even managed some friendly teasing during the visit to the crater. the person being put under pressure wasn't even streaming! but you know who was streaming? ranboo. and if you watched ranboo's perspective, you'd probably have noticed that the atmosphere was less... fun than all the jokes made it out to be. because all the tension of the visit was laid on ranboo. ranboo, who could only stand and watch, unable to speak on tubbo's behalf as his friend and husband fumbled through his defense of snowchester. who kept inching towards him every time techno looked away, only able to communicate through eye contact. who sat and waited as techno rang the channel member bell in the basement of tubbo's home while the evidence of their close relationship was quite literally running about upstairs. who held the book threatening tubbos life in his inventory, unable to confront them about it without calling suspicion on himself. the atmosphere of stress laid thick on ranboo's stream and ranboo's stream only. because not only is he connected to tubbo through l'manburg, not only is he connected to tubbo through friendship, but ranboo is connected to tubbo through marriage and a son he's pledged himself to protect at all costs. anything less would barely have impact on the mood of the stream! ranboo would have no reason to give the syndicate the time of day. the emotional impact would be almost nonexistent, even. but because tubbo, and by extension, michael, are threatened the syndicate's nosiness, he has to get involved. he has to, temporarily, "pick a side" in order to protect the people that he chose. meaning not only is he in moral hell at the moment, but he also finally has a reason to seriously evaluate what a "side" means to him. this arc might finally even make him challenge techno's ideals! (it's wishful thinking but it's possible I swear) and none of this could have happened had he not married tubbo and adopted michael as their son. it's what happened with Sally the Salmon all over again. the idea, while ridiculous, actually gives ranboo a reason to involve himself with techno and phil. (beyond the whole "sensei" bit) proving again, that in the dream smp, every joke eventually becomes emotionally impactful. every. single. one.

I love when people are like “I can’t believe you reblogged that despite their user name, icon, bio, and last twenty posts” bc to me my dash is the only part of this website and I’m not slowing down to look at urls you could all be the same person

just had to get this out of my system, this was very rushed aaaaa

reblogs appreciated \(@^0^@)/

Edit: i fucking drew Italian dream instead of Mexican dream because I’m fucking stupid im so sorry

Happy Birthday Meow-Meow~