Apartment. I’m At My Apartment

not to be r*mantic on main but i deserve to be able to climb onto the roof of an abandoned building and stargaze with someone i love at least once in my life

current status 👍

can i just say? i’m 100% on c!tommy’s side here, i thought it was great that he had that moment of realization that he started caring too much about the discs and he was starting to push away tubbo, his best friend, and it was making him do things he resented. but techno? 

even after everything that happened he still took tommy in, gave him shelter, hid him from dream, gave him armor and eventually learned to be open with his plans around him. tommy, who essentially used him as a weapon! who marked techno down as being on his side and then refused to listen to his ideas about the government. who painted techno as a villain when all he ever did was stick to the values he was always open with. 

techno went to the festival with the full intention of sticking by tommy’s side no matter what only to get cast aside yet again, by someone he genuinely thought he could trust. 

and a big part of this is that tommy wasn’t always on board with destroying l’manburg even when he said that he was and there’s a big miscommunication aspect here but damn if i don’t feel for pig man. it really feels like no one’s been on his side for the beginning and maybe he has a right to feel angry about that.

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.

Okay, so I know everyone is going nuts over Tommy & Tubbo but I wanted to take a second to appreciate Clay’s acting and skills as c!Dream. The man has done some amazing stuff and it really shows in Tommy/Tubbo’s finale.

The part that I think went under appreciated, but really impressed me, was the fight scene on the mountain.

We all know Clay is super good at the game. In an actual battle, he could have won very easily. During this scene it would’ve been easy to slip up (plot-wise) and accidentally kill c!Tommy or c!Tubbo. But if you watch carefully, you could see how Clay was pushing each of them until they were close to death, and then giving them a chance to breathe by switching his attention to the other. He also very clearly signals Tommy for when he knows Tubbo’s health is too low, and c!Dream needs to do a ‘villain monologue’ to stall for time so Tubbo’s health bar can regenerate. (Not to mention giving his character a villainious reason for why they’re ‘not really trying’).

To be frank, Clay’s acting, control, and skills amaze me b/c, somehow, in the heat of this fight scene he managed to actively keep assessing wether or not his opponents were low, and back off accordingly, while still giving the viewer an entertaining fight scene. Like holly cow, that could not have been easy, but he did it flawlessly!!

In conclusion: The whole thing was just awesome! And I doubt there are many players who could have pulled that off!! Well Done Clay!!! You were fantastic!!!

don’t lose yourself, traveler

Love it when my ocs develop themselves. One of them will come up to me out of nowhere like „Yo I like cake.“ and I’m like alright cool I’ll make sure to add that to your character information

GUYS

I WAS FREAKING OUT OVER SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER VERSE WHEN

I CHECKED ITS WIKI PAGE AND NOTICED

HOLY SHIT

I KNEW I NEEDED MORE OF THIS ANIMATION STORY MASTERPIECE

Okay so I was thinking. All the people closest to Technoblade are on the verge of death.

Assuming he really does care about Tommy (and I think he does), that kid is on his last life, and he’s being perused by the owner of the server who has leverage over the both of them (the favor and the disks).

Philza is a hardcore player and therefore only ever had one life to begin with, and he just escaped house arrest. I don’t think anyone’s going to come for him? but he’s not exactly lacking in negative relationships.

Carl is an animal and therefore only has one life at all, no options for “non-canon deaths”

And Wilbur is literally already a ghost now with severe amnesia.

And it just makes me think. “Technoblade never dies” doesn’t sound so positive anymore.