do yall ever just sit back and think about how special the exile arc (from tommy’s pov) was? like it just hit me today, i really don’t think i’ve seen anything quite like it in rp, especially in regards to how tommy incorporated the basic mechanics of minecraft to paint this picture of a kid struggling to survive a traumatic situation.
like, there was an entire hour and a half stream where the goal was to create one ender chest. and that was one of the first streams, when c!tommy was doing relatively well. later on the goals devolved into stuff like.. building a new bridge 10 feet away from the old one to make it slightly easier for people to visit, a flimsy excuse to avoid thinking about the real goal of distracting himself
there was over 15 hours of streams about this. when you think about it, nothing really happened, but at the same time, everything happened. it was a small, focused, heavy character study played out in minecraft which is like… i mean, bold move for the Funnie Haha 16 y/o Minecraft Streamer?? ghHGJK??
i just think it’s a lil mind-blowing how well he conveyed the amount of effort it takes for someone to simply stay alive when they’re put in that kind of abusive situation, how the story was paced out and how the audience was drawn in for the ride. sometimes i find myself double-taking and being like. oh yeah. that was a thing that actually happened. huh
Lil drawings of ghosts based on some synonyms for ‘ghost’ & what vibes I get from each one.
"How do you kill God?"
"You don't! He doesn't exist!" A ghost answers with a smile.
"How do you kill God?"
"With a surprise." A young president answers with a frown.
"How do you kill God?"
"With your words." A vice president answers with clenched fists.
"How do you kill God?"
"With force!" A young hero laughs, tainted with a hint of sadness.
"How do you kill God?"
God himself asks, then answers as he faces a crowd of angry mortals.
"You don't."
calm down edgelords, the whole point of society is that it’s not survival of the fittest. literally the point is that we’re leveraging our collective strengths to lead to better outcomes for everyone. we’ve been doing it for a couple thousand years now
I said it in a reblog of another post and I'll say it here now, "you're too fun" is the slimiest most skin crawling sentence ever uttered on this godforsaken smp. Because it not only implies that not only was all of the betrayal, violence, and mistrust all a fun little game for dream, but also puts his treatment of tommy in Logstedshire in an entirely different light. Abuse is awful no matter what reason, and what dream did was inexcusable, but it was almost easier to analyze and break down, because, in the end, it was supposed to teach tommy a lesson about questioning his authority. You gotta crack a few defiant eggs to make an obedient and traumatized little omelette, right? "You're too fun" throws that all out the fucking window. Because now, instead of tommy's abuse being dream thinking of it as a "necessary evil" in order to keep the smp under his control, it's literally just dream dumping the carton of eggs on the ground and mashing the ruined yolks with his heel. He blew up tommy's items for fun. He broke tommy's spirit for fun. He drove him to the end of every ledge imaginable and still didn't let him jump, for fun. Tommy's mind twisting it so that dream was his friend was probably just an extra, fun little game mechanic that he could mess with. Tommy's suffering was worth absolutely nothing, in the end, because it never meant anything to dream beyond playing a game. Tommy's triumphant speech about dream being scared of him feels less like a realization of his power now and more like a desperate attempt to make their game mean something, anything, to dream. Now, it's clear that manipulating tubbo into exiling tommy was only an excuse to make his game more interestjng. If there was ever any doubts about dream being the most evil person on the server, "you're too fun" squashes them. Because what's more villainous than making people suffer, and then telling them on no uncertain terms that their suffering was for nothing?
Changed the 9th level ability and added the expanded spell list. Thoughts?
Here’s that subclass! I do want to say, this class isn’t mine, I simply fixed the mechanics and some balancing issues. I don’t have the @ for the original, but if you look up Stitcher on DNDBeyond you’ll find them! (Just to give credit where it’s due.)
I plan to add some more upgrades, and more options for the Opus, and am willing to take suggestions, so hit me with your best ideas
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I’m rewatching the L’Manburg revolution vods and losing my shit over how this is a FUCKING MINECRAFT ROLEPLAY
“You can describe what makes a man strong, but you can’t describe what makes a man wise.”
“You know what we have that they don’t have? We have camaraderie. We have a righteous cause. We have an area to defend. Do you know what he’s driven by? Greed. Do you know what we’re driven by? The defense of our land.”
“Until the day we stop breathing, that is when L’Manburg has fallen. He can destroy the walls. He can slaughter our friends, our family. But until the day we stop breathing, and the moment we let go of that dream we have of a self-emancipated nation, that is when he has won. Men, are you going to let go of that dream?”
“Independence, or death. If we get no revolution, then we want nothing.”
There is an entire scene where Wilbur has Fundy read “Ozymandias” and foreshadows the entire L’Manburg arc???
The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.