Y'all Keep Sayin That Ranboo's Character Feels Like "baby's First Oc" And I Respectfully Disagree. The

y'all keep sayin that ranboo's character feels like "baby's first oc" and i respectfully disagree. the way ranboo has written his character, how gradually he reveals lore, and how well he acts his scenes out even though he's a fairly new member in the smp, feels like he had already done something similar before, and was already an experienced roleplayer to begin with.

i dont know what fandoms ranboo used to be involved in, but i can bet that he had written an intricately detailed oc atleast twice before, and there's a likely possibility that one of them may have been related to undertale.

you know what does feel like a genuine "baby's first oc" though? karl jacobs' character. you can tell that tales of the smp was something entirely new that he hadn't done before, which explains why the story is a bit unpolished, and his acting isn't quite as immersive, but that's to be expected from a beginner!

hardly anyone ever starts out good right off the bat, and it's always difficult trying things out for the first time. that's why it was incredibly brave of karl jacobs to take that giant leap and tackle something entirely new to him, despite all the struggles that came along the way. the fact that he listens to the community to help improve the story he's writing, just shows how much he's willing to grow and expand his story.

keep this in mind whenever you're watching the tales of the smp. karl jacobs is fairly new when it comes to storytelling, so don't be cruel and shut his ideas down when he hasn't told the rest of the story yet, be patient and supportive with the things he does and creates, cause someday you might come to bite your words.

remember how techno started off a bit awkwardly and had difficulty roleplayin cause whenever a tense situation came up he'd often repeat the same reason hoping the others would catch on that he genuinely couldn't think of anything else to say cause he was too anxious, or how he'd often self-promote or crack some jokes during stressful scenarios cause he couldn't handle those very well.

now technoblade's acting has gotten so significantly better that people are gonna start thinkin he'd always been this good, like no, he's just gotten that good because he's been working hard to get better!! he's mentioned preparing speeches weeks before an event, practicing his lines until he memorized them and could do them with ease.

of course majority of his acting have been majorly improvised, but do you really think he'd get involved in a story without having some ideas of what to say beforehand? techno has been working hard to get better, and it shows. he's not the only person who has gotten better, but he's the best example i could give cause i mainly watch his perspective.

remember: be kind. be patient. be supportive. that's all i ask to y'all. you can give constructive criticism, but if i catch any of you shutting down a new story someone is trying to tell, or straight up ignoring them because you don't think it's gonna go well, you're just being insensitive.

just be supportive. that's all they ever need to continue, to keep pursuing the stories that they want to tell, to share to the world, to us. all of the effort and time they've spent to bring those stories to life were made for us, the viewers, the audience. learn to appreciate what they've done cause it's not easy to tell a story in front of hundreds and thousands of people, knowing that they will criticise every part of it.

oh and one last thing, a clear example of someone's story being ignored and hated simply because most people didn't understand has been fundy's character. you guys are aware that he worked so hard on his story right?

that he wrote 50 pages detailing everything he learned about schlatt, and his potential weaknesses while he was being a spy under his administration, that he carried the start of season two by directly confronting ghostbur about all the awful things he did when he was alive, and how he just wanted c!wilbur's approval and validation only to be discarded, treated like he wasn't worth anything anymore?

fundy carried the beginning of season two when the dream smp was still trying to set up the potential storylines they could develop, and gave us content while the plot remained stagnant for a while. now fundy has expressed that he might be less involved with the lore, because of all the hate he's gotten regarding his character, so you all better learn to appreciate fundy or atleast stop hating on him when you know jack shit about his character alright?

if this ever happens again im going to be severely disappointed knowing that y'all can clearly fucking do better than keep hating on someone and not thinking about all the effort the content creators have put into their stories.

if you can't learn to appreciate content creators then at least be respectful. that's the literally the least you can do, and if you can't do that, you're not welcome here.

Sentimentality

As much as Tommy giving up the discs would make things so much easier for everyone, to have him stop caring about the discs, unless it was for the right reasons, would be a really narratively depressing decision in my opinion.

Dream and Tommy are similar in a lot of ways. They’ve both been involved in most of the server’s conflict, arguably even the ones who cause the conflict, they’re both pretty much alone right now, they’ve both pushed everyone near them away in pursuit of the same thing: the discs. And we can argue for ages if Tommy’s quest for the discs is selfish, or if he deserves to have something for himself, or that they don’t really mean anything. But at the end of the day, what makes Dream and Tommy’s desire for the discs different is this: Tommy cares about them, because he gets sentimentally attached to things, and people, and places. He’s emotional, and he’s put his heart into so many parts of the server. His issue is that he got lost in caring about the discs themselves, and forgot that what he really cares about is what they represent: early days of peace, the ideals of L’Manberg, and most importantly, his relationship with Tubbo. So when Tubbo tells him the discs aren’t important, to Tommy, this is Tubbo telling him that the way he cares about things doesn’t matter.

On the other side is Dream. Again, we can argue for ages if Dream actually cares about anything or anyone at all. But he told us himself that he only cares about the discs because they give him power over Tommy, and by extension, all the people around him. The thing that makes Dream so terrifying to fight is that he really seems to not care about anything at all. He’s not attached to anything that Tommy can hold against him. If Tommy were to follow that path, and give up the discs because he doesn’t care anymore, that would only bring him closer to being like Dream. The message would that caring makes you weaker, that it’s something you must rid yourself of and avoid at all costs. And that wouldn’t be a very good message at all.

In the end, the difference in their desires are what makes Tommy more of a hero, and Dream more of a villain. Dream doesn’t care, he’s willing to manipulate and use people just to gain power and control. Tommy cares about the discs because he’s passionate and cares about his friends and the original ideals of L’Manberg. He’s just gotten so focused on the discs that he’s forgotten what they represent. And I think he could give up the discs if he remembers, but not because he doesn’t care.

Sentimentality, loving things and people and caring and having passion, those are the things that give life meaning. That’s what Tommy has that Dream doesn’t.

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its-a-game-i-lost

2 years ago

constant drive to talk about my ocs but also the eternal issue of not being able to articulate my thoughts properly so just imagine that i am grabbing you like this. there are things in my mind but they are not escaping

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its-a-game-i-lost

4 years ago

it’s funny how everybody in the dream smp is confused on why c!tommy’s so violent & why he always starts wars, as if the motherfucker didn’t grow up in one. as if he didn’t spent his entire life surrounded by people who believed violence was the only answer or grew to believe violence is the only answer. they question why c!tommy’s so full of hatred / anger when the world he’s seen has only ever been full of hatred and violence. you can’t question why he’s that way when it’s all he’s ever known. surely, if he got to grow up like a kid — like he should’ve been able to, he wouldn’t have been that big of a “problem”, for you, but he didn’t. /rp

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its-a-game-i-lost

7 months ago

A little background as to why the Markiplier fandom is panicking about The Edge of Sleep.

So YEARS ago. Mark was in a podcast called The Edge of Sleep, which was adapted into a TV series... Which was never released

Until

Mark made a movie adaptation of a video game, Iron Lung. He's put all his energy into this film, directing, producing, editing, even starring in it. the movie is done, and he's working to get it released in theaters.

We, the public don't know why, but we know that some doors have been locked on the release of Iron Lung, however some big wigs somewhere have promised that if his popularity alone can put Edge of Sleep in the TOP TEN a lot of doors will open for Iron Lung. He wasn't allowed to even say where it would premiere, nor was it advertised AT ALL

A Little Background As To Why The Markiplier Fandom Is Panicking About The Edge Of Sleep.

So now, Edge of Sleep has shadow dropped on Amazon Prime in the US. Three days BEFORE they even told Mark it would air. In order to get this man's work out in theaters this thing has to get to the top ten by word of mouth alone.

So. Watch Edge of Sleep! It's an apocalyptic horror. There are some mild gore warnings (blood, knife mutilation, brain dissection, self harm). Even if you can play it in the background and let it run just so it gets views thatd be helpful.

Stick it to the Hollywood Bigwigs! Show them YouTubers can have an audience! Open some doors for creative people trying to show their work to a bigger audience!

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its-a-game-i-lost

6 years ago