There's So Much Pain In That Second To Last Image.

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.

can we take a second to appreciate just how the dream smp members’ acting keep on getting better and better?

when the first sad-ist animatic dropped, a lot of people were impressed at dream’s “white flags” speech and eret’s “it was never meant to be line”.

then the election happened, and we were all blown away by just how powerful schlatt’s presidential speech was.

then wilbur’s corruption arc started, and the fandom went insane over just how stunning wilbur’s villainous breakdown was.

then there was the finale, which was fully packed with memorable scenes accompanied with incredible acting - we all exploded from the sheer amazingness of techno’s theseus speech and wilbur’s button room scene.

then the exile arc began, and we were startled by how much both dream and tubbo’s acting have improved; both of them suddenly putting a lot more effort and emotion into their scenes, resulting in some very iconic yet emotionally hurtful moments.

midway into the exile arc, and tommy received a lot of praise for his brilliantly accurate portrayal of mental illness, to the point where a lot of people were genuinely worried about him, even though he has stated that it was all just roleplaying and he was actually feeling great.

then ranboo took us by surprise by roleplaying more on his streams, and suddenly everyone was buzzing at just how good he was at portraying anxiety attacks and fascinating his audience with a premise as simple as losing a book solely because of his great acting.

and last but not least (for now), just when we thought wilbur couldn’t get any better, he topped his best performance yet again with ghostbur’s breakdown when he found out that friend died, as he cried and lashed out at philza, putting himself once again on the number one spot of best actor on the dream smp.

and this haven’t even mentioned all the amazing moments by fundy, quackity, and niki (who are also amazing actors who play their roles really well), and some other moments by other characters as well.

if there’s one thing that will definitely only improve overtime in the dream smp, it’s the incredible acting that makes you forget sometimes that this is all just a minecraft roleplay server.

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.

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ngl the funniest thing WOTC employees could do rn is unionize while their bosses are distracted

okay does anyone want to talk about puffy lore with me because this sheep lady be making my brain go brrrrrr with this new stream and also she has so many wacky connections that we don’t talk about

like. she joins the server. (my pet headcanon is that she was a pirate who sailed in from far away). she gets toured around by eret, first. she becomes one of his knights, along with hbomb.

then she meets niki. they go on a date together, and puffy gets to instantly flex being like, the healthiest partner on the server. puffy even plans on proposing someday. so puffy has basically met ½ of misferns through completely different channels.

dream becomes her duckling. she gives him a house. he follows her around and she starts to care for him. she basically becomes one of the only people on the server who cares for dream, who’s functionally a god, in an unconditional way.

and at the same time, she gives tubbo beeinnit as a christmas present. she doesn’t have hard feelings for the president. she recognizes that he is a teenager and that he misses tommy, instantly establishing her as one of the only functional adults on this server apparently.

she’s also there in the badlands arc. she’s discount skeppy. she’s good friends with awesamdude, in a motherly way. she cares for the egg, she’s proud when it grows.

oh and! she may or may not be a shapeshifter (she’s definitely not human, at least)! so there’s that too!

like. has anyone else realized just how many connections across different factions puffy has in the server, more than perhaps any other character? and how her hero arc has the potential to finally pull these disparate plots from across the whole server together into one? manifesting dream to finally take notice of everything puffy does and see her as a major player in the next arc because with all this lore that she’s established, she seriously should become one.

TIL Filipino officials stopped illegal fishing techniques using dynamite by placing underwater statues of Jesus and the Virgin Mary which no one would dare damage.

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