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I'll just start a small building project. <- Voice of someone who's about to collect 828 stacks of obsidian without the use of the end

#minecraft #wowa #no but really #massive cathedral #with an obsidian roof #literally 53082 blocks #and my options are #obsidian #or #netherite #because it must look nice

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reblog if reading Warrior Cat led you down the trans pipeline

#wowa #warrior cats

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Reblog if you support non-binary people <3

(I'm trying to prove a homophobic person in my class wrong :3)

#wowa

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for anyone wondering where i've been: i got... distracted... by a potential huge project. I was considering running a mcrp project/smp project, inspired by stuff like fan life series servers, with the rest of the sexyman team! but... a different one. a very specific one, even.

now, I'm aware there are probably outstanding questions, so if you're uncertain, please read more event/server details below the cut and see if it interests you!

I don't know anything about Survivor–what would this show even be like?

so if you know nothing about survivor, it's easy to think it's a show about surviving on a deserted island. it is that, but it's not mainly that. survivor, at its heart, is a social deception game, about making close alliances, betraying people, and social dynamics under pressure–hence why i suspect it would be a great fit for mcrp.

the way the show would be structured is this: a certain number of contestants would be placed on a (slightly modified) survival server, set up to be difficult to survive on. they are placed into two "tribes", the teams for the first half of the show. every episode, they would spend time with their tribes bonding, surviving, searching for secrets, and base building. then, they would compete in challenges. the tribe that loses the immunity challenge must go to tribal council, where they vote on which member to send home. this continues with the tribes eventually merging together into one tribe and immunity becoming individual before there are only two contestants left. at that time, they go in front a jury of their former fellow contestants, who will determine who the sole survivor is.

while challenge performance is one key to winning (as it prevents you from being a target in the first place), the other, bigger key, as you can likely see, is forming alliances and voting blocks strategically to get your opponents voted out and yourself kept in. this makes a great vehicle for social emergent storytelling, where narratives emerge about who is honest, who is a liar, who is good at the social game, who is bad at it, and what people will do in order to become sole survivor.

in other words: it's kind of like what current-day mcrp is ALREADY about. except its a gameshow also, and the very construction of the thing is designed to cause tensions by its very nature.

it's great! and you wouldn't be required to know anything about survivor–our host would explain to the audience all of the mechanics as they came up, as would production staff to the players.

You keep calling it "a show"–what do you mean by that?

the result of this project would be an edited youtube series, like survivor, of likely around twelve episodes. each episode would show footage from the game, as well as a lot of "confessionals" shots of the players explaining their opinions, before ending in tribal council! unlike most mcrp series, this would not be a multiple pov affair. it would be one tightly edited project. (this editing, for the record, is the largest overhead; we expect the amount of footage to go through to end up being in the hundreds of hours combined between all the players.)

it's possible that after the show's finale releases we'll release the players to make their own highlights from any footage they take. but the product we're hoping to make is just a single TV show's worth!

what exactly does applying to be a contestant require?

if we get enough interest, once we have enough of the required plugins and builds created and have a better sense of gameplay, we will put out a casting call form. while this will ask a number of questions to help us get to know you as a potential player, you're going to be REQUIRED to have the following things: a tumblr blog that you can link us to, the ability to record an audition tape in minecraft to send to us (so that we can get an idea of what audio we'd be working with, mostly), enough free time for us to be able to schedule recording sessions into, and a willingness to agree to some rules about keeping things secret until the finale airs and about rp etiquette. that's it! there are no other requirements–you don't have to know survivor, you don't have to already do mcyt or stream, you don't have to have friends, none of it, and while we'll ask you for those details, we're going to be looking for a large blend of people from across mcyt! anyone (who can send us mostly clean audio) can be considered!

what exactly would being a production staff member entail?

we're mainly looking for two things in production staff: a willingness to run replaymod for us and act as cameramen by following contestants around getting footage on the actual recording days, and a willingness to work with us on what's likely to be a fairly intense editing and "scripting" period during and after recording, during which we're going to have to scrub through massive amounts of footage and form it into a coherent narrative. we may, depending on how bad we realize we've bitten off more than we can chew, also end up looking for build team members for the production crew. if these things sound fun to you (they sound fun to me god help me), then go ahead and select this option! just know it's mutually exclusive with playing; no one in the production staff will be considered for the contestants. this includes my friends and myself who've already agreed to help me.

these applications would come out before the casting call, since even before casting call we're going to need to do playtests and dry runs and have things mostly ready. so keep an eye out!

will this be run on your blog?

nope we're going to make a new blog (and youtube channel) (and branding!) for this eventually, just want to interest check before we go through all the branding steps. (also, i've even gotten us a specific gmail for this that we will likely end up using for certain communications.)

for now that's all the FAQ i think that is required. let me know if you have more! and i hope you all are interested in this baby of a project that's taken over my mind for the past few weeks!

#wowa #you dont need friends? #perfect for me!

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Wait- I just remembered that you need to post places to get interactions...

This is like making friends all over again (Something I still haven't done)

#wowa

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Reblog if goober

Like if not goober

#wowa

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My asexual ass cannot handle the horniness that tumblr is sometimes lol

#here are an aces #wowa #but yeah #no youre so real for that

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everyone I saying like "this many notes and I'll post me in a skirt." but question which one;

if this gets 1000 notes by the end of this week I'll post the winning one.

only saying 1000 bc I doubt anyone will actually see this, lol. one comment per person pleaseee ❤️

#wowa

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couple of comms

#wowa #furry

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Mobility assistance

#wowa

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hi

lol no one will see this but if this post gets to

20 reblogs I will walk my dog everyday

50 reblogs I will do a 3rd squad night a week

100 reblogs I will tell my close friends how my crush is

200 reblogs I'll clean my room after 4 year (I'm disgusting)

500 reblogs I'll make a new account to post my story's and daily writes

1000 reblogs I'll starting eat breakfast of a morning

5000 reblogs I'll tell my crush I like them

100000000 reblogs and I'll come out of the closest to my family

#wowa

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get messengerd

reblog to totally messenger prev

#wowa #rain world

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ngl, I just hit the back button on my phone after reading a post, as though I was on Pinterest reading a screenshot

#wowa #pinterest

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reblog if you’re one of them queers 💪💪💪

#wowa #dats me #asexual

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#asexual #wowa

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How did you get this picture of me wtf

Source

#wowa

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*my head turns red and steam comes outta my ears like a steam whistle**

#wowa #this says more about you #than it does anything else