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tw// suicide

(want to note that this is about the CHARACTERS on dream smp, not any of the actual creators. the fact that anyone feels strongly about this proves that these people are telling a good story. I am also not genuinely angry/upset at any fan, even though this rant may seem like I am. I promise it's all good; this is just silly little minecraft roleplay and not something to be genuinely upset over).

i think the fact that people feel sympathy for c!dream is very interesting, especially considering the fact that many people seemed to feel absolutely no sympathy for c!tommy.

dream is a manipulative motherfucker on purpose. that's his job as a complex villain, and he's doing it very well. he's acting all sad and dejected over losing his friends and items (even though he previously stated that he never cared about any of those things) to make tommy feel bad for him. he's doing it to pull at tommy's heartstrings, but not just tommy's. dream is also trying to guilt trip chat. to make the viewers feel bad for him. to sympathize with him, even though he's in no way deserving of that sympathy. there are pleanty of things I can list that dream has done wrong, but one, I believe, is most important: dream abused tommy so badly that he considered suicide.

how could one possibly feel even an ounce of sympathy for someone who drove another person, a CHILD, to off themselves? dream hurt tommy so badly that being dead seemed like a better option. a way out. how fucking sickening is that?

tommy has fucked up on many occasions, no doubt about that. but to say that the punishments he's received fit the crimes he's commited is completely untrue. no matter what you've done, you don't deserve death, and you CERTAINLY do not deserve to be beaten down to the point where death seems like a better alternative to being alive.

unlike tommy, dream is an unfeeling character. he cares about nothing other than himself. he had pleanty of opportunities to be a better person. he could've learned from his experiences and grown from them. but he didn't. he never did, because he doesn't care. tommy, especially as of late, knows that he's messed up, and is learning from that. he's apologizing, acknowledging his mistakes, and making an effort to be a better person.

unlike tommy, dreams crimes do fit this punishment. he deserves to be in that prison, and he deserves to feel bad, if he truly does. he should. that's the point.

this kind of sympathy that I've been seeing float around in tommy's chat today and generally online baffles me. where was this sympathy when tommy was exiled? when he described how poorly he was doing? when he physically looked worse? when he was having visions of tubbo? when he was so irrational that he rejected help from ranboo, the only person who visited him? when he almost killed himself on multiple occasions?

was it "too hard" to sympathize with tommy because of his brash nature, which is normal for a kid his age?

or was tommy "too hard" to sympathize with because he displayed, and continues to display the "ugly" symptoms of mental illness and abuse?

dreams tone and word choices are deliberate. don't let this facade blind you from the character dream really is.

Technoblade canonizing his violent YouTube chat as the “voices in his head” + Ranboo donating to himself to canonize his donos as things he subconsciously thinks about + Wilbur (preciously) not streaming from ghostbur’s pov because alivebur‘s story was over are such good ways to use the streaming medium to enhance the viewing experience.

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

bugs is…. shrimp????

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.

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

The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.

Lil drawings of ghosts based on some synonyms for ‘ghost’ & what vibes I get from each one.

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.

They are going to pass all of their finals