@trulymightypotato I was your gifter for the @mcytblraufest exchange this gave me so much trouble I just hope at least one of these pieces are enough for what you hoped.
There was a lot of characters proposed to work with and a lot of ideas I had. I got so caught up in the au portion of the event I didn’t realize for a while that by definition the dad!Sparkles by itself is enough canon divergence/crossover to absolutely caught as minor au at least asdfghjkl.
So for that reason I have have a couple ideas, both different aus with dad!Sparkles as the core concept :) I’ll leave them below the cut since its a lot of text PLUS bonus concept au and sketch I didn’t use or finish ;)
First is ender dragon Captain and his kid Tubbo, they travel a lot and end up moving around for various reasons. But they’re together and have a good time. The ambience oft he first piece is a kinda creepy forest but neither of them mind because they’re travelling together and having a good time.
The next two aus feature the Mianite universe, since you listed it and i was so genuinely excited to work with it I completely blindsided a lot of other stuff I could have utilized (sorry, i hope the Mianite stuff was a nice call tho I saw you liked some oft he crossover art others have done :) )
So second pic is new father Sparkles in the armour of Ianite introducing his son to his goddess. Ianite’s happy to see her champion happy and to meet Tubbo.
Third is of a slightly older Tubbo hanging out with the Mianite champions Lots of nostalgia for me to get to draw the crew. Don’t mind the style shift i didn’t want to line a third piece I was losing steam story. SO lineless it is!
I had more ideas. I wanted to do some within the dsmp canon universe more and one within the origins universe but I as so burnt out after these 3 pieces I decided to just call my loss and submit what I have.
Below though is a 5th, most complicated idea I had started with that I couldn’t follow through with because of complexity. It has more world building and ideas. I am not a writer sadly though, not enough for a gift exchange so it is not a coherent story, just an idea and an unfinished sketch.
The idea for the au was a weird mix of origin smp and Mianite lore, wherein the Captain is the prince of the starborne. The starborn as a people are created by Ianite who watches over their nation. The royal family are direct descendants of Ianite. There is also unofficial legend that each heir of the kingdom undergoes some manner of divine mission or journey to become who they are for succession. Fore example Spark, Ianite’s husband, was the founder of the nation. That was his journey. Next his daughter Martha who cured her kingdom of a blight/plague called The Taint. Jordan as her son in this retrieved The Heart of Ianite after it was stolen by Dianite’s followers.
What I wanted to do if I had the time and energy was a mini comic explaining this lore, Sparkles explaining that as Tubbo is older he would likely soon see himself on his own journey. The idea was that this journey would consist of Ianitee!Tubbo meeting Dianitee!Tommy and Mianitee! Ranboo and travelling with them to solve a conspiracy between the three peoples. Along the way they would question their own faiths and would all switch their paths, with Ranboo feeling connected with Ianite, Tommy finding himself surprised by how comforted he is by Mianite, and Tubbo finding freedom in Dianite.
There was some probably disconnected thoughts such as tying Watcher lore into the Ianitee court, with Grian and Pearl as Ianitee’s under that idea, with Grian defecting to Dianite at some point but it had no place in this plot just stray ideas.
Anyways if you read this far I just hope something in here was appealing and lived up to what you wanted from this exchange :] Have a good day!
with the success of todays charity mini game stream it made me think about a mcc hermitcraft charity event so i decided to make poorly balanced teams based off what i think would be funniest. most of these teams will never happen but i can dream
i despise one of my irl friends who watches mcyts because they said they watched ALL the og mcyts which made me happy... until they said they have no idea who CaptainSparkles or LDshadowlady were. the only og mcyt they watched was Stampy
Something I love about Papyrus is that when he's first introduced, the only information you have about him is that he wants to capture humans and he's serious about his job, so you see him as a threat. But you go through his puzzles and...oh he's making jokes so maybe he's not so mean. Oh that "uniform" is a costume? He made me spaghetti?? And he's being helpful? Why hasn't he tried to kill me yet? And it turns out he's a dorky loveable Guy who you'd take a bullet for. Undertale does misdirection so well.
yeah i remember watching the first episodes of captainsparkle's run and while he knew sans from internet pop culture he had no idea who papyrus was, so he spent like. half his introduction absolutely TERRIFIED of him. like he gave him a tough guy voice and all, it was so surreal hahahaha
I didn't manage to get on the sdmp grind when the server started (I only recently got yoinked back into the world of mcyt) but I really wanna start watching it!!! Any recommendations on who/where to start? 🙏🙏
I’d recommend at least trying to start with the day one vods or just day one edited videos if you want to stick with going in order. But honestly, I don’t think it really matters where you start.
Personally, I like to watch Connoreatspants, Pokay, Lukabigpants, Joko, IamTy, Jschlatt, and Jawsh. Everyone on the server does different things, so just take a look around and see what you like.
A lot of the sdmp streamers posts their vods onto YouTube. Here is a list to some channels that have posted vods (sorry if they’re not the official vods channel for these streamers):
^^^^ (has both swagger and fitz vods)
Obviously these aren’t vods from everyone on the server but it’s a decent amount for right now. If you want shorter edited videos there are some that post that on their YouTube channels: Sneegsnag, Pokay, CaptainSparkles, Sinjin Drowning, and Joko.