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void-chara · 1 year

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My gift for the @technoblade-gift-exchange !! i was assigned to @simplepotatofarmer who asked for dsmp rivals duo. i hope you like it Loyal!

rambling about headcanons, designs, and my process and stuff under the readmore, because i wanna talk about it but dont want the post to be super long !!

i had originally planned to not have a background and then at the last second i decided to speedrun drawing one in a few hours so um. quality difference but its fine. also unrelated but im pretty sure everything about how i draw animals and anthros makes it very obvious i used to be in the warrior cats fandom lol. anyway onto the designs!!

the gold on techno is scars from the totem at the execution, which i think is a pretty common thing for techno designs. he isnt supposed to be a piglin, but rather similar species of anthropomorphic pig. also his mane and tail fluff are naturally brown but he dyes them pink ^_^ so cool !! um. i maaayyy have forgotten the crown until i was way too far into the piece to add it. haha. oops. pretend its missing because. uuh. hes in a casual outfit. "but he still has the cape" yeah its comfy. "but dream has a mask thats not casual" dream is dream he does Not relax fully ever. see entirely intentional i would never make a mistake.

dream is an original shapeshifter species i came up with because i couldnt decide what i wanted him to be. i havent decided on a name for the species yet but i plan to make almost every solid-color or nearly solid color mcyt into this species. theyre mostly involuntary/unconscious shapeshifters. so like they change slowly over weeks or months to adapt to their surroundings, with little conscious control. basically i wanted him to be like five different things so i shoved them together lol, rabbit ears but in a pattern that looks like an axolotl, a cool tail, TOE BEANS tho you cant see them. this was actually the first time ive ever had a dream design im happy with so thats really nice.

i um. i made full use of my time lol, i spent a bit over a week on the lineart, another week on the coloring, and maybe a week and a half on rendering. unless i suddenly became shit at math(which is possible) that adds up to roughly the amount of time i had to work on it. im really proud of myself actually since i usually take a while to do art, and i wasnt sure i would be able to make something id be happy with in this amount of time. but i did! woah!! this was my first time participating in a fandom gift exchange and it was so fun, and also helped motivate me to draw more instead of getting distracted like i usually do (classic adhd moment) lol. anyway super cool!!

Loyal if u decided to read all this for some reason then again i really hope u like it!! u are so cool and i really love ur rivals duo opinions and creations so i hope u like this! i know theres been shit happening lately, i hope ur doing ok!!

#technoblade #dreamwastaken #rivals duo #dream smp #dreblr #technogiftexchange #<- thats the tag right?#also wow i think i said too many words. i dont think anyone else rambled that much about their gift. um. in my defense the only thing more #powerful than my written language learning disorder is my adhd and autism. so. yeah. lots of words.#aaaaaa i feel like how i wrote everything is so awkward. i am just a creature imitating others i have no idea how to interact with people..#hmmm. posting now before anxiety gets the better of me!#edit: wait fuck i forgot my art tag. how do i ALWAYS forget my art tag.#chara makes things

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likesdoodling · 4 months

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It has been a while since I started digital art,

Quite a while.

So here is a 'progress over the last two years' since I gained access to a drawing tablet.

This is my first ever digitally illustrated piece- compared to my latest one-

So, a little bit different.

I do think my art took quite a jump around June 2022, when I took a break from my Steve comic strip, (for obvious reasons- it was about Technoblade's polar bear so...) and decided to try practicing gesture drawing to see if it helped my general anatomy knowledge. This is before,

And this next one is after.

The most obvious change here is that I switched to using thinner lines. There is a gap of about two months between these.

This was when I realised that you could improve art by practicing it (mind-blowing I know), and then started to do just that. Some other notable jumps forward would be when I discovered the airbrush-

Well, discovered a new method of shading with it anyway.

Then after that I had a few pictures that I actually still like, despite them being pretty old at this point, the one below is actually from September of 2022-

I mean, the hands are a bit iffy, but the rest looks alright. This was when I was going through a bit of a melanie martinez phase-

This next one was from January of 2023, I'd only just gotten into bungou stray dogs via some random memes on pinterest about this weird brown haired guy who had lots of bandages and who had this running gag with wanting to die- I actually looked him up at one point, but that didn't really explain much. The main one that I remember was 'life is short, so make it shorter, shorter than chuuya~'

Which at the time was just kind of confusing,

Then I watched the show and it made perfect sense.

I'd discovered ascendance of a bookworm in like, 2021, but I hadn't really been doing fanart of it since I was mainly doing dsmp related stuff and I kind of assumed nobody would know what on earth I was referencing. Turns out tumblr has a lot more bookworm fans than I orignally anticipated. Instagram still has no clue. I think maybe one person out of my followers on instagram knows what I'm on about-

Then we've got these two which I am still proud of btw-

The first one is from a dystopian/time travel fanfic called viridian.

The second one was after I learned about rim lighting. It was inspired by a song actually, 'crash' by noevaii. (and yes I found that song from a sad-ist animatic, it was cool) The character isn't anyone in particular. They're both from February 2023.

Then there's probably my most liked picture on instagram, (not tumblr, since tumblr knows about bsd and bookworm, but y'know. This was even sadder than I originally intended since the last half of my comic strip was finished AFTER everything happened)

Then the final conclusion of my Steve comic strip in May of 2023.

I don't think my art really changed much in between those, but eh.

Then I switched to doing a bunch of ascendance of a bookworm stuff to see what would happen and turns out there are way more fellow fans out there than I anticipated-

Then I guess my next breakthrough in tumblr popularity, (even if it might not have been a breakthrough in art skills necessarily) was when things went DOWN in the bsd fandom with chapter 109 and I did probably one of my most liked tumblr posts I have ever done-

If you want to see the rest of that, feel free to scroll down on my tumblr page, the original's like eight pages long-

This was before anyone knew what was going to happen btw.

I still think it's hilarious that I put in chuuya having contacts. My reasoning being, they're on a film set,

It was a pretty interesting exercise in shading in monochrome.

Then I started a 30 day art challenge in October that I didn't get past day six of, but it was still pretty fun. This is the best one of those-

After that I spent most of my time studying for the jlpt n5, so I didn't really do that much art related stuff,

This is one of the two non-commission related pictures that I finished over the two months after I kind of gave up on the art challenge. This one's from November,

Then I finally finished an art commission I'd been working on for the three months prior, as well as studying. Here is an example of the type of pictures I was doing for that,

Then I was occupied with christmas and birthday presents for my siblings, both my little sisters are into ascendance of a bookworm- (completely my fault I am proud to say) so I was able to do stuff related to that, here's a couple of snippets, but you guys don't get the colour version hehe

And one of them has also read the entire fma manga just like I have so-

Anyway, it's been quite a progression since I resolved to master digital art in 2021.

I reckon I've come a fair way since then. I mean. My art skills in general are way better than they used to be. The last two or three years have been pretty interesting.

Also-

Just had to include this one, I'm gonna do a more detailed version but still-

I think it's funny so I'm posting it here. Even if it's not really related to art progression-

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victoriacoffee · 2 months

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So I did actually open twitter/reddit (a lot)

Unnecessary update/Clarification that I'm likely not dropping anyone: Yeahhh so remember when I went on that whole rant about staying off twitter? Well I lied lol. I'm pretty aware of everything that's happened now.

I've now *not* opened twitter all day and I plan on keeping it like that now since in my mind I think the controversies are basically resolvedish?

I've been debating sharing my opinions about everything here, but I don't think I'll get into it *that* much. At this point I think obsessing over situations that I can't change is just not helping me at all

Since I try to focus on dsmp characters here, this is probably gonna be my last post on the actual cc's for a while, but after my panicked post worrying about whatever was happening on twitter a few days ago (ironically made right before I spent the next like 3 or 4 days checking reddit/twitter A LOT) I felt like I should probably just update with my opinion about the *things*

I don't think I'm dropping anymore cc's.

I dropped Wilbur after he was exposed for being an abusive piece of shit, but that's just not the case with either of the newer situations

Punz seems to have been in a pretty mutually toxic relationship and there seems to be a lot of hurt and insecurity there, and I think his first response made that all pretty clear.

Gogy idk tbh. Researching the Caiti situation is making me think back to something that happened when I was 16 that I like to not think about. So since I'm not researching that very much, I've decided I'm just gonna give that one time and see what other people decide to do, and it seems most people here think it was more of a misunderstanding, so that helps. Honestly, I already didn't watch Gogy by himself and would really only interact with stuff he was in if other cc's were there, so I'll probably just keep doing that

Anyway, one thing for sure is I feel really bad for all the cc's involved in all this. They're clearly not doing very well and I think basically everything they've done in the last few days has made that obvious... I mean Dream had a mental breakdown on his space :/

So uh yeahhh there's my opinion about all this. I don't really think any of the cc's who've been 'exposed' as of late are like actually shitty people unlike the revelations with the Wilbur situation, so for now I'm gonna keep supporting them as much as I was before

I plan on actually getting off twitter and reddit for a while now since this week of being on it has really brought me nothing but stress and I doubt anymore helpful information is gonna come from either of those sources. Twitter is just kinda always a shithole anyway

So uh, yeah, there's my rant, I'm going back to my brainrot about the characters now. Ty for reading lol

#idk how to tag this #but here it is ig #currently working on an avian au and i have some great ideas for characters #so that's fun #oh also fuck twitter that place is a dumpsterfire of angry people

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onebizarrekai · 1 year

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some ibvs-related stuff

you probably noticed that it's been quite some time since ibvs updated (like. eight months) and while ibvs tends to have pretty large time gaps between updates, this one has been particularly long. it's been more of an unannounced and uncoordinated break, to be honest. I was hoping that I could at least update it before the end of the year. I still kind of want to do that—maybe it'll be easier after my next concert is over in the next few days—but yeah, it has been a long time.

I've been having a really hard time creating stuff lately. sure, I've cranked out a few dsmp pieces, I made a lot of danganronpa art and writing this year before I did that, but I mean like, in the last while. maybe the last 6 months or so. I don't even know how I posted anything in august. like, yes, my ao3 says I cranked some danganronpa stuff out in august, but I don't… really remember writing anything in august. I barely remember what I was doing in august. I guess they were like, partially completed wips already so all I had to do was get them done. I dunno.

I finished one fairly long-ish fic in the last month. I uh, had to post it anonymously for reasons, and I'm proud of what I wrote, but that's pretty much all I've been able to get done done. I guess this is part of the problem? not really ever feeling done with stuff. or maybe forgetting how much I've achieved and only being able to focus on the stuff I haven't been able to. and I have all these ideas for this same fandom and I'm struggling to get those done too. and like, my v3 fic series is just kinda collecting dust because I haven't been thinking about danganronpa in the last few months. that's just how it is, I suppose.

I've also just had like, the worst writer's block ever for ibvs and I'm just shoveling around in fandoms (and often misery) trying to stave off stress. I keep looking back at it and going "am I happy with this" and like, I am. I should be. I'm pretty happy with it, but the longer I go unable to write it the more I feel like I'm just adding things to the story that aren't gonna matter to anyone even though… it is that. it is the story. I'm writing it for fun. it doesn't have to be perfect. it has to start somewhere, but every time I try to write it it feels like I'm off in the deep end. I have to remember everything. I have to backtrack and make sure I know what I'm talking about. I have to make sure that I don't write anything that, well… is boring as hell.

I've been getting caught in a lot of negative thinking and I'm both trying to focus on mental health while also feeling like the things I'm doing on behalf of 'focusing on mental health' are actually either sustaining the problem or making it worse. like it's making me feel more lethargic and more trapped and less able to create things. I'm trying to get a therapist, but no insurance-covered psychologist who lives in near me is willing to do in-person sessions. one of my issues is feeling like I'm stuck at my computer and stuck online and stuck inside where everything is nonpermanent and I can't move; doing online counseling would make things worse. I don't really get it. I'm hoping I get a proper one soon.

anyway… we'll see if I feel better after the concert is over. maybe after I actually manage to get a therapist. thanks for the patience, everyone.

#random stuff #just like. mental health or the lack thereof stuff #I've been doing show stuff basically nonstop since like. june #got a break in november #but is it really a break if I still have a gig in december

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bonesandthebees · 1 year

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Some random questions xd (optional dw)

do you like hermitcraft? cause im brainrotting abt it lmao

what is your fav color? mines green!

if you could pick any power in the clinic!universe what would you pick and why? personally i would pick Phils powers cause i want to flyyyyy

What DND moral alightment are you? if u dont know what this is dw, im a true neutral

what is your answer to the trolley problem? i think i would move the lever but idk

If you had to pick one persons lore on dsmp whos would you pick and why? i think i would chose quackity's

What is a fic idea you have but dont think would do well/ isnt something you feel like writing?

what is a comfort movie/show/video? mine isnt a movie but its a 3 hour long techno vid haha

given the chance to be in MCC who would you pick for your team?

i just felt like this btw:) you dont have to answer any of them btw^^

-👑 (king)

oooo these are fun questions!!!

no I don't watch hermitcraft, but I hear bits and pieces from the people on my tumblr dash and my twitter tl who do watch it. also, I've watched 3rd life and last life (and part of double life) which have a lot of the hermits in them, so I'm mostly familiar with the hermits through that (I will say that I am not immune to good times)

yellow is my fav color!

oooo I'd probably pick wilbur's power. siren abilities hello?? insanely powerful man. if not his then I'd go with niki's because I always wanted to be a waterbender like katara when i was a little kid

uhh I'm either neutral good or true neutral, not exactly sure which

I have no idea what my answer would be tbh

if you mean pick someone's lore as in my favorite lore, it'd be wilbur's hands down. he created such a complex and fascinating character who was incredibly consistent in his characterization, I brainrot over c!wilbur so often so everything from him is my favorite

oh god most of my google drive is full of fic ideas that either wouldn't do well or I just don't feel like writing lmao. one example is that I love coming up with aus of movies but rarely do I actually wanna write them out entirely. one movie au I think about so often but would never get around to writing is an au of the movie Push. Push is not a very good film. it's fun! but it's not good lmao. the concept was SUPER cool to me though. it's a movie about people who have psychic powers that are hunted down by an evil government organization yknow the drill, but the plot is about a guy in his 20s who is a 'mover' (has telekinesis) that's kind of down on his luck and doesn't have much of a life. he gets dragged into a plot to steal a metal briefcase because a 13 year old 'watcher' (sees the future) shows up on his doorstep and tells him she sees the two of them teaming up to find this case and she's convinced it has a shit ton of money in it. a lot of other stuff happens but the main two characters have such older brother/little sister energy that i literally can't stop thinking about crimeboysing it. it would be so fun but I'll never write it unfortunately.

hmm... one of my favorite self indulgent movies to rewatch just for fun is a super cheesy 90s film called hackers. the fashion is peak bad 90s fashion and the plot is so stupid, it's so much fun I adore it. I love rewatching it to cheer myself up

OOOOO GOOD QUESTION! ok i'm assuming you mean cc's I can pick. now the thing is, I suck at minecraft. so while I'd love to give myself a goated team so i can win, I don't think I'd have much of a chance of winning either way. but I'll give two teams anyway, one for a chance at the win, one just for fun content. so for a chance to win: tommy, phil, and shubble. for content: wilbur, wisp, and jack manifold. it'd be terrifying but also hilarious.

thank you for the questions these were really fun!!

#ask #king anon

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neitherthehoneynorthebee · 1 year

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5, 12, 23, 56, 69

Hi Anon, thanks for the ask!

5: do I like constructive criticism? Well ... it's complicated. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, because I appreciate people engaging with my work like that, and people are free to comment it. But I will rarely use it to edit fic once it's posted. Only a couple of times over the last years have I edited a chapter once it was posted. Basically, I do like it, I don't often directly use it.

12: how does receiving/not receiving feedback/support impact me? Support and feedback impacts my writing a Lot. My current long multi-chapter is only being updated because of the support the first chapter got, and the support it continues to get. No joke: I posted the first chapter with no intention of continuing it and the support and interest was so overwhelming it made me interested in continuing the story, and I'm glad I did! I'm really happy with a lot of the things I've done with it.

Basically, feedback and support means a ton, and helps me write more and more regularly, even if I still take about a month to upload sometimes.

23: best advice for writers? Hmmm. I'm not really confident I'm in the best position to answer this so take it with some salt. Advice for nonfiction writing - don't leave it to the last minute (this is mainly a reminder for myself). For fic? Write it primarily for yourself, not for others. It's not a chore and it's not an obligation, and when I gave up ideas about perfect quality and nerves about other people's opinions I had so much fun writing and posting fic. My attitude is that, as long as I'm happy with it, I'm not worried about technical flaws or anything. Which actually makes it much easier to write - and hopefully therefore improves your writing skills. Of course I hope people like it, but I'd post fics I was happy with regardless of audience tbh. This might seem contradictory considering what I said about interactions encouraging me a lot - but it isn't really, because while support is so lovely and appreciated, and it's great when what I want to write coincides with what people want to read, I've written fics with much less support which I am still quite proud of, for various reasons.

56: part of my writing I'm most proud of? The messy emotional bits. When I can articulate a complicated scenario or mindstate to some effectiveness, or write a morally grey character with sympathy without their ruthlessness being ignored. My favourite part of many of my favourite pieces of media (at least, non-comedic media) is usually the parts with emotional complexity - however that manifests - and I get really happy when I can put that on paper in my own work too.

69: work of mine I'm most embarrassed by? I'm not really embarrassed by anything I've written and posted - I'd be shy to show the people in my life, but that's not embarrassment as such, that's more complicated than that. But the works I was most hesitant to post were my three Dream SMP fics, which were fix-its of series three, partially because the content creators being very online meant that any implied criticism in my stories would be potentially visible to them (though very unlikely) and I felt weird about that. And partially because, before the finale, DSMP was a massive fandom with a nasty side to some of it, and I didn't want to dive right into that. But I wrote it, because I love DSMP and its lore and characters, and thankfully it received very little attention anyway.

#ask game

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lehhoh7822 · 1 year

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I’m happy in a sense that other people are as gutted as me

cause okay

uhhh so might have seen this probably not but I was trying to do an art piece for a class and failing horribly like it was not good vibes at all

and I wasn’t sleeping at all and I was literally losing my mind

so this was the thing that kept me sane (it’s debateable that it made it worse to be honest) and I- again? I’ve said I’m joining quackblr and followed the blogs but I don’t watch quackity and generally find his character cool, but kinda just that. There’s an intoxicating element of community that was here, my constant disparity rate checking, my sister made an account for voting ethos and quackity, propaganda and fanart (especially the one @toasted-treasure gave to me thank you so so much), sending asks and getting the most notes (half from my own desperate reblogging of the poll itself) I have ever, ever got in my two years and three months here

I think that. It’s kinda in a sense boring that they ended up with the top 4 seeded? And that’s how they’re going to end it, but to be fair that’s a reasonable ending idea

but really I had multiple emotional breakdowns over the past few days about being mentally ill and struggling with completing work, and that art took over 60 hours in the end maybe more and what I was doing while executive dysfunction beat my ass and exhaustion suffocated me? Campaign for these polls

it wasn’t just about winning it’s about working hard and having made your friends vote and the weird kind of sense of being the underdog. To be fully honest, I’m kinda gutted by losing because it was good and it Was a lot of work and I genuinely would love to see quackity seeded 22 go up against someone seeded like 3 (especially because on a voter count level, both scar and cleo (Joe has and ethos would be like finals finals) haven’t being pushed to get to 30000 and our ridiculous numbers yet)

but. Just this was something I liked cause it gave me a sense of friendship and community within tumblr

honestly on my blog like. This might be a one time thing. That’s upsetting.

I am sad and it is that deep because my emotions matter to me because I have to deal with them. I don’t really want to engage in the polls last two rounds like I already was only voting on two polls by the end

the DSMP characters being weeded out and like racism and weird shit is like sad. Expected because I’ve seen us do discourse and we are never act remotely normal but sad anyway because it took away from creators who aren’t…. Y’know like dream?? I guess?? I think that’s why they hate it so much?

so thank you quackblr, thank you Thes and soap and AD and toasted treasure and neejo36 (not sure if that’s the word sorry) and those who followed. It’s been a beautiful run of community and hard fucking work and art and fiction band bribes and voter fraud that for me, was a bright spot in like 4 days of extreme sleep deprivation and emotional dysfunction

because well I hate to say it but someone has to

maybe the real mcytblr sexy man win was the friends we made along the way…

#Long post #lehhohgoeszoom #Or it’s #Lehhogoeszoom #Okay tagging for filtering now #mcytblr sexyman #mcytblr sexymen poll #quackblr

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lunaffiene · 2 years

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//NOT CANON//

I am really happy with this post! There's a lot of blood and torture details on the second slide but anyway-

Mama Puffy and Brother Foolish is a comfort dynamic AU I have. My primary mindset for this AU is Puffy is a bad mom to Dream once she comes back and she can only see him from the other members of the DSMP's POV while Foolish doesn't even know he's in prison. However, in this take, Bad is taking on that role since he's always cared for Dream since he helped take care for him when he and Sapnap we're both kids and he fought for Dream to be taken out of the prison so he and Dream could both live in what was basically an exile where only Bad could leave and anyone could visit. However, when he got there Dream was fighting not to go to sleep because if he did, he was sure he would either die or Quackity would kill him. Bad, realizing this was a lost cause, takes him outside and comforts him in his last moments while he finally gets to see the outside again. /dsmp

No, I'm not a c!Dream apologist, he's just my comfort character.

The backgrounds in the piece aren't what they would've been in the actual scenarios btw. I

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funneyheehooman · 3 years

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/rp /dsmp

After escaping the prison, do dream and techno really go back to the Syndicate? Quackity already knows where Techno lives, the coords are probably burned into the recesses of his mind since that day, he has the scar to remember it by. No doubt he'd tell Sam where Techno's house is. Especially with two escaped convicts? Sam could easily get the entire server to help him get them back.

No. Instead of going back, they both have to go far, very far away. Phil wants to come with them, he was the one to help them escape anyway, why wouldn’t he join them? He isn’t going to just leave his best friend.

They go back to Techno’s home, former home, to get supplies before heading away. Away from everything, and everyone. Techno has to carry Dream most of the way, his legs aren’t working, and he’s missing a couple of toes..

They can’t take much, even then most of what they need is already in their Ender Chests.

A moment of silence. Will they have to stay away forever? Will their animals be okay? Will Ranboo and Niki be okay when they find out? Will Quackity and Sam go after them out of association? (Niki should be safe, at least she doesn’t live with them unlike Ranboo).

Dream struggles against Techno’s arms, he says he can walk just fine, Dream breathes heavily as they walk out into the snowy tundra, the whines and woofs from the dogs, the gentle whinnying of the horses break the silence between the trio.

Where would they go? That was the question of the night. They had to leave fast, the sirens were probably still going, it wouldn’t be long until the others would reach the tundra.

As Techno hoisted bags of supplies onto Carl, and while Phil started scribbling onto a piece of paper. Dream stood there, bewildered, ashamed, grateful, tired, overwhelmed, all of these emotions piled in on him all at once.

Dream glanced away, he looked up at the stars, how long has it been since he’s seen stars, hell, how long has it been since he’s seen the sky? He doesn’t remember. He can’t recognize the constellations anymore.

He feels warmth on his face. He brings a bandaged paw to his face and feels wetness, the wetness only seems to be getting worse as now his eyes start to blur. He tries wiping at his face but it couldn’t stop, he couldn’t stop.

How pathetic he was, crying at a time like this, he should be helping the people who saved him. But no, here he was, crying like an infant.

He snapped out of his reverie from a touch of something on his back, he didn’t notice that his legs collapsed from under him, he sniffled as he looked up to see kind eyes looking down at him (Too kind).

“C’mon mate, we have to get going, can you stand?”

Philza holds out a hand, Dream stares at it for a moment. Some part of him wanted to push the hand away, another part wanted to hug the man in front of him.

Dream grasps the hand, his legs shook in disagreement as he stood up, his tail swishing from the pain. Gritting his teeth, he held onto the bird-like man.

As he was hoisted up onto the saddle by the piglin-hybrid that was his hesitant ally, turned roommate, to possibly now closet companion. One question was burning in his mind.

When will I wake up?

The trio rode into the night, the prison guards would be too late, and no one knew where they went. A search party would be sent, but all of it would be in vain.

It was actually Niki who found the note first. It was a couple days after the escape, and even then, she found herself in the Syndicate’s meeting room. Despondent, but not without purpose, she wanted to find answers.

(She found a home, she found people who listened to her, who appreciated her for who she was- why was it taken away again?)

There she would find a single note. She would bring it to Ranboo later, and the two of them could only do what the note said. What else could they do?

“Wait for us, we’ll be home soon” read the last line.

All they could do was wait.

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theminecraftbox · 2 years

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Do you think Sam would have gotten any of the revival book if he'd played "good cop" to Quackity's bad cop? Use Dream's loneliness and mental instability, provide some sort of positive social interaction, give Dream a reason to want to rely on his kindness and trust him, all the while subtly convincing him to give up the book? (Part 1/?)

<3 no but I love Anon Thoughts Tm! (Also taking this moment to apologize for not answering everyone’s; I got a ton of asks last week and lots ended up filed in my ‘already answered elsewhere’ box; some have responses I’m still mulling over.)

/dsmp /rp

So first of all, we now know it’s explicit canon that Sam DID try a good cop approach, to some extent. We know he consistently told Dream between Quackity’s visits that, if only Dream would just give him the book, the torture would stop and Sam would leave him in peace.

But we also know that Sam made a shit good cop. Techniques like Hans Schlarff’s rely on some combination of a) making your prisoner believe that you are their sincere advocate/friend, b) making your prisoner believe that the information they volunteer might be something you already have anyway, and c) providing clear evidence that small degrees of cooperation lead to material comfort, and thus making your prisoner believe that giving up the intel will mean good things for them.

Arguably, you could infer that Sam was doing a little bit of this in the early days of prison, when he was convincing Dream to speak openly about exile, when he was leaning on the knowledge that he’s Dream’s only social contact.

But by the time the torture rolls around, Sam was nothing if not open in his disdain for and hatred of Dream. Dream was nothing if not convinced that giving up the book would mean his execution. And the problem here too is that Sam can’t try to convince Dream that he already knows about the book. He can try to show Dream that giving up part of the book gets him rewarded, but that’s not only not verifiable, but it’s weakness that Dream is terrified will be exploited.

And Sam’s categorically opposed to improving Dream’s conditions! He thinks Dream doesn’t deserve the carrot, even though the stick is ineffective; so Dream doesn’t get the carrot. When Dream asks to go to the courtyard, Sam doesn’t say “okay, if you give me part of the book.” He says, never, and how dare you ask. So it’s pretty damn clear to Dream that Sam isn’t his friend.

But what if Sam had tried harder? I mean, idk, I think there’s enough evidence in canon to claim that Sam tried and was unsuccessful. Sam is simply not smart or calculated or informed enough to attempt actual conditioning or actual interrogation or actual behavioral techniques. The ways that he’s managed to condition Dream are mostly accidental. But Dream is smart and informed (and experienced) enough to know what conditioning and manipulation and gaslighting and emotional abuse look like, and he knows what behaviors in Sam and Quackity to watch out for (even if he can’t actually avoid their effects).

And the stakes for the book are really, really high, and they were clarified long before the torture started: Dream knows the book is the only thing keeping him alive since day 0. So I think that even if Dream had someone capable manipulating him (someone like himself perhaps), it would be a very tall ask to get the book. To get nearly anything else? To get pieces of the book, maybe? Information about how it works? Sure, I could see it. But the whole thing? That book is his life.

As for manipulation from Dream’s side: I think Dream absolutely, desperately tried to exploit any hint of kindness that he could find in Sam. I think he tried anything and everything he could think of. And I think that Sam was afraid of this, and that this was one of the reasons he couldn’t bring himself to try to be a better good cop (he can’t risk even pretending at pity, Dream might ~evilly manipulate~ him into, uhh, torturing him less.) Flexibility towards Dream is one type of ineptitude Sam can’t be accused of, at least.

#c!dream and c!sam #abuse.#torture.#the revival book

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lostinmcyt · 3 years

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Hey Lost <3

/rp /dsmp

Endersmile brothers AU!

Ranboo really likes shiny things. Diamonds, emeralds, gold… It doesn’t matter. If it’s shiny, he wants it!

He loves wearing jewelry as well! He has a golden ring from Tubbo and a small earring symbolizing Michael. But there is one piece he doesn’t like talking about – a simple necklace with a small diamond.

When someone asks, he says he doesn’t remember where he got it.

But sometimes during the night he can be heard whispering, talking about his day to his older brother.

(so what you're telling me is that Ranboo's other half is a magpie /j)

/rp

Here's the thing about brothers.

It's easy to be brothers when times are good. When you grow up together, when you look up to him for everything, when he's always there to help when you need it and sometimes when you don't, when he tells you he's there to watch over you. When you're older and he teaches you - about the world, about yourself, it's easy to be brothers. The lessons and wisdom he has to give you will be some of the only things that's left for you when he's gone, though you don't think about this at the time.

***

It's easy to be brothers when he leaves, bright eyed and excited, to join the Hunt. This is something he was talking about for a while now, and as he sits down with you one last time and pushes a necklace with a small pendant in your hand, you laugh at him.

'Come on, you're not leaving forever', you say to him and he agrees but insists you take the gift anyway. You watch him vanish and smile cause you know he will be okay - you've spend enough time getting your ass handed to you during training to know that there is no way anyone can ever catch him if he doesn't want them to.

***

When you receive an invite to join a world from him, you jump on the offer immediately. It's been so long since you last spoke, and though your life has been good you miss him, and so you accept.

***

It's harder to be brothers when you don't always know that's what you are.

***

'Boo, can you keep this for me, just for a bit?'

'The disc? Sure, but... are you sure about it?'

He knows you don't only mean the disc. You know the answer before he speaks.

'Yeah, I am, don't worry about it, I- I got this, okay? It's going to be okay, soon, I promise.'

***

You want to scream as you watch them escort him to the Vault, but you can't. They have no idea about anything, and you can't let them know before you figure a way to convince yourself to trust yourself. So you hold his gaze for as long as you can without it being suspicious, and you hold the necklace in your hand so tight it would shatter if it wasn't a diamond, and you let Sam take your brother away and promise yourself you'll find a way to get him out.

***

You don't.

***

'Hey, Dream', you whisper, late at night, with Michael fast asleep and Tubbo nowhere in sight. The only kind of nights you allow yourself this. 'Today has been good! We've been fishing - well, Tubbo did most of the fishing, obviously, but, yeah! It was nice. Though I wish-'

You fall silent for a moment.

It's hard to be brothers when one of you is dead.

'I kind of wish you were there too, you know? You would have loved to watch the waves, and we stayed long enough to watch the sun set, and- and I miss you. And I'm so, so sorry.'

You take a deep breath and exhale slowly, in and out, a practiced motion that helps you calm down.

'I wish I could tell you how sorry I am.'

It takes you a while to fall asleep, but the sleep does come eventually, and you know it may be a while since you'll be able to remember again, but you've learned the hard way that sometimes? Sometimes not remembering is bliss.

***

If there is a ghost watching over you, he makes sure you will never know about that.

'I'm sorry, too.'

#endersmile #dreblr #kiuda #lostanons #writing #tw angst #tw death #sorry I'm late I was doing overtime tonight at work afahafa #anywho I hope you like it!

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goddess-pan · 3 years

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Ore Hybrid!Reader x Dream SMP

Dsmp x reader prompt; Ore hybrid!Reader in the Dream SMP. Credit would be appreciated so more people can find this and make their own things based on it.

Requested from my idea list by @smolbox-png, if you would like to request something, you are still able to.

Mostly fluff and crack type prompt, but could be used for angst at some parts.

TW! Manipulation for one bit, and what could be a non-descriptive panic attack in another with it marked in bold (both the start and the end) for people to skip and remains as coherent piece with either or both removed/skipped. Also slight talk of blood, but non-descriptively in few places.

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Let's start of with the reader being an ore hybrid in general and then later move on to the specifics of the ore types if there are any unique features related to that ore specifically.

The reader's skin has a greyish tint to it and is covered in veins of the ore they are a hybrid of. The veins as well as their nails are made of their ore type. In some cases were they are more ore than human their bones are also made of the ore and their blood is a molten version of that ore. Most are at least slightly fire resistant, but not necessarily resistant to lava.

If the reader's ore can be made into armour they naturally have half of the protection wearing that armour type would provide. If their ore type doesn't have an armour set they only have slightly stronger skin, but still harder than a regular humans.

The reader would feel most at home either under or in the ground around the y-level the ore of their hybrid spawns at, and in the right dimension. So they would most likely have an underground base, whether that base is actually in a cave, a mine, an abandoned mineshaft, inside a mountain or a hill depends on preference and what’s available.

I think among the other people on the server who would have natural affinity to them depending on their ore type;

For Phil it would instinctually be any ore hybrid whose ore is shiny, in this case; Iron, gold, diamond and emerald. Plus redstone, but only if it's activated, and netherite, but only if the gold parts of them are visible.

For Techno it would instinctually be gold and netherite.

For Foolish it would be instinctually be gold and emerald.

For Fundy it would be instinctually be emerald, but only by a slight margin.

Some ore specific things that some of the different version can do;

Netherite hybrid wouldn't have the grey tint to their skin due to not only being a refined ore (an alloy, more specifically) but also due to not being based from an overworld ore. If one looked closely they could see tiny specs and streaks of gold in the veins. They are also the only one immune/resistant to lava and fire.

Gold hybrid passively pacifies piglins similarly to wearing gold armour. The only ore hybrid whose skin could be tinted grey or red, depending on whether they are overworld or nether based. Their favourite biome would be either the badlands (the mesa) if overworld based and the nether in general if nether based.

Iron hybrid would be able to use themselves to set things on fire if they have a piece of flint. They would also feel a weird kinship towards iron golems.

Redstone hybrid would emit a light if they get hit or tapped due to getting activated that way.The light lasting for about a minute before stopping. The redstone in them gets activated by active redstone like redstone torches and blocks of redstone.

Lapis lazuli hybrid would need one less piece of lapis lazuli to enchant since they can just use their nails to write or coat the enchantments on whatever they are enchanting. Their blood dyes anything it touches very easily and it's almost impossible to wash off.

Coal hybrid would have strange affinity to wither skeletons that they don't quite understand. They can light their fingers on fire and use them as an impromptu torch. Probably the only one who could make their base on the surface overworld and still be comfortable.

Emerald hybrid tends to get a lot of discounts from any villagers they trade with. Their favourite biome or most specifically the one they are most comfortable in would be the mountains/extreme hills.

Now on to some small scenarios of them interacting with others on the server or the other way around;

Tubbo definitely wanted to perform some experiments with them to test their powers/abilities similar to the way he did to Ranboo when they found about his silk touch hands.

TW! Panic Attack Ranboo having a mental breakdown, because he wanted to make the reader some gifts with their specific ore type (for ex. having a piece of it as the center piece of jewelry he made) but now that he thinks about it he isn’t sure of whether they would be delighted or horrified that he technically used their kin to make things that he would gift them. Aaand now he’s facing the moral dilemma of whether this is ethical or not. Techno ends up finding him spiraling and goes to try and calm him down, but then Ranboo ends up telling him about it. Techno starts to think about the times he’s not only gifted them things, but also about the times he ended up using the ore without even thinking with them in the same room as him. And now they are both spiraling. When Phil finally finds them both, he had to call the reader on the comms to ask them about it so that they would have definitive answer and calm down. TW! End

Several people have made the joke “Could this be considered blood money?” when the reader has bought something using their ore type (since it technically could be).

Ranboo has on few occasions while sleepwalking picked the reader up and moved them to another place. Should the reader try to move away while he’s still around he would end up getting agitated, but still move them back. So in short; they have to wait for Ranboo to either leave the area or wake up. This would end up happening to the emerald hybrid most often due to their veins’ colour reminding him of grass blocks.

All of the people on the list of people who had an affinity for a certain ore type; Phil, Techno, Foolish and Fundy, have on multiple occasions walked straight into something or tripped due to them staring at the reader. Primal brain go brrr when they see them, especially if it’s unexpected, and then they forget to watch where they are going. Phil is the prime offender and he gets so very easily distracted by a person sized shiny thing before crashing straight into something. Foolish’s brain goes “Shiny! Kin?” and ends up staring longer than he thought, it ending up with him walking straight into a tree with him laughing it off. Fundy’s thoughts go more on the lines of “Ooh, want! Take? Steal? Wait, no, no, no! They’re a person, bad brain, bad brain.” and while he is scolding his thoughts he ends up walking straight into a wall. And Technoblade, well uhhh, here’s the funny thing... if the reader is a gold hybrid he might just stare at them at first, but after few seconds if he didn’t end up walking into something or tripping, he’s barreling straight towards them. If the reader’s holding onto someone or the other way around they just get a bunch of jealous snorts coming the other person’s way. However if no one is in contact with the reader or they are alone he is going to pick them up and carry them until he either; snaps out of it or he has stored them safely in his home.

TW! Manipulation. Both Technoblade and Dream were very interested on if one could use the reader’s blood with molds to make resources out of them. This would be possible if the reader’s blood was the molten variety of their ore, but if the reader was a very human ore hybrid it would be less so. While both of them are interested in the prospects of it they have very different ways of going about it. Techno would ask the reader about it and if they were okay with trying it. If they said no to it he would sulk for a bit, but then accept it, only theorizing about it without experiments. While Dream would go down one of three routes; Route one being budding up to the reader and guilt tripping them if they said no when he asked, Route two being acquiring a favor from the reader and cashing it in to try it, and Route three being kidnapping them and doing it anyway (whether it would be him that did the kidnapping or someone he convinced to do it for him is up for debate). TW! Ends.

Once Quackity has gotten Las Nevadas set up enough he might hire them as “eye-candy” for the casinos. The reasons for that being; that he would have noticed that they get stared at by some of the other people on the server if they were any of the hybrids that a person had an affinity over, their hybridization being eye catching in general and of course the obvious connection people’s mind makes from seeing ore; wealth. The position reader would have as their actual job title would depend on what he think they would most likely accept whether that be; a dealer, the entertainment, a bartender, a server or a security guard. After all not that many people like to be hired for their looks.

#mcyt x reader #dream smp x reader #dsmp x reader #mcyt fanfiction #dream smp fanfiction #dsmp fanfic #Pans Writing Prompts #tw blood #tw panic attack #tw manipulation

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anarchy2021 · 3 years

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PSA Day! (Rp etiquette)

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Greetings! You may not recognize me (unless you were watching the debate perhaps, then, sup) as I admit I’ve been a bit…. Behind the scenes as it were (as secretary of VOID there is a lot of looking at the void, usual routine for me mhm mhm). Regardless, I’m Days (or Nights, either or) and for today’s PSA I’m here (along with some words from our recently freed from totally-not-prison president, Graphite, at a later date) to talk to you about roleplay! More specifically, rp etiquette and terms and how that relates to the DSMP and how it should be talked about.

Now now, you might be wondering “oh but what is your experience?” Glad you asked! I’m a long term text rper with over 5 years of experience- and my main avenues of rp are rps similar in structure to that of the DSMP- long term improv driven sandboxes that also have important events planned ahead of time in some regard but are often player driven most of the time. Now, let’s get into it!

Head writers/admins

Let’s start off with a pretty hot topic regarding the server, which is the existence of a ‘head writer’ (usually in reference to Mr. Soot). Now, mainy take this as meaning quite literally a writer- like in a show, but, with what information we have I think it’s safe to say he’s not really that and more along the lines of an rp admin/head. The admin’s main purpose is to keep things structured and organized, as well as putting together the events they’re in charge of. This is pretty much how everyone treats the man anyways, BUT, while an admin is in charge of a lot they do NOT have the final say over everything, particularly in regards to the characters and their players.

Players in an rp for the most part have full control over their characters (within reason and the confines of the rp setting) and an admin enforcing their will onto a character (such as enforcing certain backstory choices that don’t seem particularly wanted. For example, the fridge with c!Phil) is often frowned upon unless there is a good reason for it and discussed with the rper.

It is also notable that just because there is an admin, that doesn’t mean they’re the sole writer/organizer/etc. It is not at all uncommon for specific subplots and or other important events to be headed by players involved in it in this type of rp. This can be seen in practice with how the Eggpire plotline was headed by BBH and the prison plotline was mainly written by Dream and Tommy.

Summary:

- head writer/admins do not and should not control everything

- organise and structure events

- players might admin their own smaller plots within a rp

Narrative consequences

Now, another hot topic- especially in regards to character discourse (my abhorred personally). Narrative consequences. These are generally referred to when someone thinks a character is not getting the consequences for their actions in the story that they should, or (more rarely in my experience) when they feel a character is being punished too hard for their actions. While this is an understandable feeling to have, at the end of the day narrative consequences just aren’t much of a thing in roleplay, at least not to the same extent as a book or tv show.

This is for one simple reason, consequences rely on the character’s actions and how they respond to others around them, if a character does not feel like it’s fit to react or if it angers their character- it is 100% within their right to respond accordingly.

However, there is also an argument that can be made if a character responds to something in a way that doesn’t align with a character’s usual actions. For a personal example, one time in a rp I was playing a character who was intervening when another character was being hurt, however, my character was met with scorn from being somewhat aggressive regarding it- I felt that this was unfair as none of these character showed the same scrutiny to characters who did worse things, and none of these characters had been established as hypocrites.

This grudge lasted the entire rp until my character died. This is a point where believing that the consequences to a character are unjust is more or less fair, but, a character simply not getting immediately smited or a character getting scorn is not automatically a point against the character, especially since an rper cannot reasonably make their fellow rpers react a certain way.

Summary:

- narrative consequences are not the same in RP as in other mediums

- can't force characters to react, or force players to react in a way they don't feel is fit

- but can critique RP if things feel unfairly ooc/inconsistent

Retcons

Next up, retcons. What is a retcon? It’s short for retroactive continuity, in essence it’s when in a piece of media something is changed retroactively- such as a character’s personality, how an event occurred, etc. for an outsider audience perspective retcons are often looked upon unfavorably, as it’s changing something already established which can cause friction among those attached to certain ideas, but in reality retcons are both a neutral concept and fairly normal to occur in rps.

Rps are (generally) not professional writing, they’re things made up on the fly with perhaps a base to work off of (and depending on the rp, not even that. However in the rps I’ve done we generally had character sheets and the like for backstories and all) and thus sometimes mistakes happen. One of the main causes for minor retcons is when details are confused or left out that would have realistically affected the situation or how characters would have responded to it, unless in severe cases these usually happen on the spot and don’t cause much of a fuss.

Major retcons often fall along the lines of players and how they choose to present their character. This is especially common when a player is using a character for the first time or even if they’re just new to an rp in general, sometimes as we rp we simply decide to take things in a new direction and sometimes that direction may cause things already established to be retconned, even if not outright stated.

A good example of this is the enderwalk with c!Ranboo, the enderwalk as it was first introduced is very different than it is portrayed now, likely as a result of Ranboo taking a new direction with his character since then. More widespread retcons may happen if people are unhappy with a certain plot thread, in this case an example would be the canon status of SBI, Wilbur used to push it but Techno (and later Phil) didn’t want it to be canon, so anything about it previously said has been soundly retconned.

In my own case character retcons very often happen to me when I first use an oc, as the character takes a different shape than what I put on the paper in practice, even sometimes within the same rp (one of my first ocs was practically unrecognizable as the same character in the beginning of an rp as compared to even just a few weeks later).

So, retcons are fine and normal to occur, but, like I said- they’re neutral. A retcon can very well be done poorly and cause problems. This is mainly in issue with retcons made that affect highly established and built upon aspects without discussion with all those who’d be effected, this can cause confusion, plot holes and cause characters to be in a weird limbo if they don’t know how to have their character act without whatever was retconned. Major retcons need to be discussed in order to prevent these problems, and in some cases should be avoided entirely- instead it being better to work for a compromise and rework events rather than removing them.

Summary:

- retcons are normal and neutral

- small retcons happened frequently in RP to help keep things going in an improv heavy medium. Usually unnoticeable

- large retcons tend to have with new players, or if the story is taking a new direction.

- large retcons require a lot of communication, and sometimes whould be avoided, instead working to compromise and rework the direction of the RP

Metagaming and godmodding

Metagaming and godmodding are two very important terms to know for rp etiquette and if you’ve done any rping you’ve probably seen these words thrown around in rules lists and such already. These are both ultimately negative things that should be avoided at all costs. What are they? Metagaming is when you use information that you know OOC and use it IC even though your character should not have that information. Godmodding is when a character is taken over by another person for one reason or another against the player’s will- such as having a character react to something without letting the actual rper do it.

The former is a big issue when it comes to discussion of the DSMP and how people interact with it, mainly in the chat and donos. When you are trying to get a character to react to information that they shouldn’t have you are trying to get them to metagame, which is heavily frowned upon in an RP. This is also important to note in discussion, a character not responding to certain important events is not a mark against them if the character has no way of even knowing what was going on, or would not reasonably respond to it with the information they have.

Summary:

- both frowned upon

- god modding is taking over someone elses character

- metagaming is using out of character information to do in character acting

- Meta gaming is relevant to DSMP particular in how it relates to donos and chats. Don't encourage meta-gaming

All of these factors are important to consider when discussing the DSMP and it’s narrative, it’s not going to function the same as other forms of media nor should it- as once you go in that direction you’re competing with the big boys over at tv and at that point things would fall apart. Improv and it’s unique variables is what makes the DSMP, and anything else like it, special and interesting to follow!

#dsmp #dreamsmp #rp etiquette #mcytblr elections #anarchy2021 #mcytblr election 2021 #PSA day #art by Days #long post #editted by zaph :]#first post from yours truly #(thats days not zaph... i post a lot i will not shut up <3)

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scribbling-dragon · 2 years

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What made you write your fanfics?

if we're talking in general what made me start writing, it would be because i was bored one day and we were in lockdown and i wanted to try and get better grades in english lang by practicing

if you want the specifics of why i started each fic, well, look no further!

growing pains: i found the empires fandom on tumblr (after binging all of scotts empires videos in one day). and was looking around for fics too and found aiahs. i read that. and then i found a piece of fanart with scott and semi-realistic antlers. and then i thought to myself. what if he actually GREW the antlers? and that fic was born!

shifting perspective: i read this fic one morning before school. and i had english lit that day. which is never good because it means im not at all engaged and looking for something else to do other than romeo and juliet. and i was still thinking about that fic. and i thought to myself. what if pixl WAS an old god. but the difference is that the gods are already dead? they were killed by his followers (shifters, because he could shapeshift in that fic) when he decided enough was enough a long time ago? and then i started thinking about how that would affect scott. how that would affect xornoth. and it just developed from there onwards (fun fact: all the notes written for the initial idea of shiftng perspective were written in galactic bc the girl i sit next to in that class doesnt know how to mind her own business)

forged in blood: i saw a post by sleepsaur. from like. last november about them being brothers. and i just went. yknow what, i could get behind that. and started writing for it. the original concept for it changed a LOT since the start of the rewrite. it was meant to be longer than it is going to be. and would have involved more of scott doing shit with his ice powers. but then i sat down and thought about it. because xornoth went through the same thing with their fire, theres no way in hell they would let scott go through the same

tommy smajor au: im counting it because im having too much fun with this! i read a fix where tommy sheltered in mcc (??) and scott adopted him. and i wanted to put my own spin on it

lifetimes apart (from a lifetime together): i watched jimmys last life video where he got exiled. didnt finish it and wrote a fic where he went to scott rather than his exile house. realised he got accepted back and slapped a 'canon divergent' tag on that thing

night watch: which is the vigilante au! thats what its going to be called when i actually get around to writing it, and i want to talk about the development of this one bc its the most interesting to me

so. last year when i first started writing. i wrote for the dsmp fandom solely. there were so many different ideas that i had in my drafts that just never got used. and one of these was a fic that was loosely based off of stranger things (because guess what my first fandom experience was!) and id done a rewatch recently before thinking of that idea. the basic premise was that everyone had powers and there was a little underground group of them.

anyways. a while ago (however long it was) i was clearing out my old stuff. and i stumbled across that and thought to myself. i could use this in a fic, adapted it to be a more modern vigilante au - and there we are! we've arrived at juno's vigilante au!

#asks #can you tell i like talking about this stuff lmao #and yeah. the vigilante au did originally stem from a stranger things au #im sorry to inform you of that fact #daisy mooon

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siren1song · 3 years

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Until You’re Okay

Fandom: DSMP

Pairing: Schlatt/Quackity

Warnings: Minor mentions of alcoholism

Word Count: 1,190

Summary: Schlatt has a splitting headache because he neglected to take care of himself and it takes Quackity seeing the state he's in to do something about it.

Notes: 1. Some healthy schlatt/quackity (schlackity? i think?) content!! 2. I actually posted this over a month ago on ao3 but I’m pretty sure I forgot to post it here sdklfgshdf

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Schlatt had a headache.

He wasn’t entirely sure why, he’d been sober for months (totally not because the way Tubbo looked at him when he finally broke down made him believe he could actually be a better person for a moment,) so he wasn’t hungover.

Whatever the cause was, it was making focusing on what he was doing fucking difficult as hell. He had important president shit to do, why did God or whatever the hell was watching decide to do this to him?

“Fuck,” he groaned, letting his head fall to his desk, feeling the cool temperature that seeped from the wood, through the paper separating his skin from it, and easing the pain just behind his eyes ever so slightly.

It was nice, and honestly Schlatt could fall asleep like this if the fucking headache didn’t throb every time he tried to relax his shoulders.

There was a knock, and Schlatt grunted in response with the hope whoever it was would just go away.

“You look like shit, babe.”

“You’re a piece of shit, babe,” Schlatt snapped back, wincing at himself and the silence that followed before he lifted his to look at Quackity with a grimace.

“Sorry.”

Quackity hummed, looking over Schlatt’s face. His eyes trailed to his shoulders, then to the paperwork Schlatt had been struggling to do for the last hour.

His eyes scanned the desk, probably looking to make sure Schlatt was still clinging to sobriety, before he walked back out of the room.

Fuck.

Schlatt rubbed a hand over his eyes, resisting the urge to groan again.

For someone supposedly head over heels he sure didn’t know how to act around Quackity sometimes. Not that he ever knew, it was even worse when he was drunk, but at least now he should know better than to fucking insult the man.

The paper that was in front of him was pulled away and the sudden lack of the glaring white with tiny text made the pain in his head ease just a bit.

“The hell?”

“Lean back for me,” Quackity said, gently pulling on his shoulders to get Schlatt to lean back in his chair.

He did, blinking in confusion as he strained his neck to look at his vice president, wincing at the fluorescent lights that hung above the two of them.

Quackity didn’t say anything, just huffed an exasperated laugh and gently moved his head forward again before pulling his hands away.

Schlatt kind of wanted his hands back on him, if he was being honest with himself. Not in sexual way, not really, but they were so warm and it felt nice to be touched as softly as Quackity was handling him right now.

“Take off your jacket for me?”

The question took Schlatt off guard, and as he did what Quackity asked he couldn’t really help but wonder what was going on because that was way too soft for this to be like any of their previous fucks.

Plus, Schlatt was hoping it wasn’t a fuck anyway, his head was pounding and that was the only thing he could really handle doing that right now.

“Thanks, let me know if anything hurts too much.”

“What?”

And then Quackity’s hands were on his shoulders, thumbs digging into the muscle of his back gently but with enough pressure to make Schlatt groan in relief as he relaxed.

The moment was quiet, Schlatt’s eyes half closed while Quackity stood behind him working out the knots in his shoulders and neck.

It was honestly perfect, Schlatt hadn’t had anyone take care of him like this in a long time and yeah it wasn’t helping his feelings for the man behind him any but it was perfect so he couldn’t bring himself to care.

Quackity’s hands stopped digging into his shoulders, but instead of pulling away like Schlatt expected, they slid down the front of his chest in a loose hug from behind and Quackity’s chin was resting on the top of his head.

“When was the last time you slept?”

Schlatt hummed, not processing the question because he was still soaking up the contact and praying it wouldn’t end soon.

“Hey,” Quackity said, patting Schlatt’s chest where his hand rested, “I asked a question hombre guapo, I’d like an answer.”

Unable to help himself, Schlatt leaned his head back to look up at Quackity and admire him a bit.

“You’re pretty too,” he mumbled, earning a soft laugh and light dusting of pink decorating pretty cheeks that wore the best smile Schlatt had ever seen.

“That is not the question I asked, but thanks. C’mon, when’d you last sleep?”

Schlatt hummed in thought.

“Outside of when you woke me up this morning?”

Quackity let out a sigh, and no, Schlatt didn’t want that. Quackity was beautiful when he smiled, Schlatt didn’t want to be the reason he stopped doing that.

“Falling asleep at your desk because you pushed yourself to get a ridiculous amount of paperwork done doesn’t count, Schlatt.”

Lifting a hand, Schlatt cupped Quackity’s face as gently as he could, pulling away soon after because he really shouldn’t be touching something that perfect.

Quackity’s face flushed red, and it took Schlatt a moment to realize he’d said that last bit out loud.

“Wow, I’m really fucking tired, huh?”

There was a beat of silence, and then Quackity let out a laugh before circling Schlatt’s chair to pull him out of it.

“Let’s fix it then, come on.”

Schlatt followed him easily, yawning as Quackity pulled on his hand to lead him towards his room.

God, falling into his bed has never been better if Schlatt was being honest with himself. His headache was starting to fade and it took his energy to stay awake with it.

He was about to pass out then before Quackity started leaving, his hand falling from Schlatt’s in a way that made his heart drop.

“Wait no—”

Quackity stopped, looking back at him with a raised eyebrow before his eyes fell to where Schlatt still had his hand out.

“What?”

“Don’t go?”

Schlatt didn’t know what had gotten into him, yeah he was exhausted and his head had been hurting for hours but he didn’t usually let himself get this vulnerable with anyone.

Quackity sighed, but it felt fond and given the smile Schlatt saw before he turned to close the door he was pretty sure it was fond and not just wishful thinking.

“Alright, but you can’t tell anyone we cuddled because you had a headache.”

“If anyone finds out about this, I’m killing whoever snitched,” Schlatt agreed, “now c’mere.”

A laugh, a fucking beautiful laugh that had Schlatt melting as Quackity climbed into the bed with him, and Schlatt decided that this was the best day ever actually.

He wrapped his arms around Quackity, burying his face in the others hair. The beanie was already slipping off, but Schlatt was too preoccupied with the feeling of tangling their legs together and Quackity’s breath against his collarbone to bother teasing him for it.

Right now was too perfect for Schlatt to even consider fucking it up.

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