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i wonder how many times c!techno has woken up to c!dream 'to be fair i don't even sleep' just sitting there and staring. and how many times techno has just gone '...bruh' and tossed a blanket over dream's head and went back to sleep while dream is asking techno what is wrong with him. i feel like it's at least four or five times.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #rivals duo #dsmp shitpost #pretend they had a blanket in prison 'cause it's funny #rivalsblr #dreblr

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sorry i just want to talk about the similarities between c!rivals duo forever and how so much of their differences can be summed up with the quote 'people improve when they get external love and support. how can we hold it against them, when they don’t?'

like of course the guy who tried so hard to hold things together for so long only to see everyone turn on him and leave him turned to a sort of self-destructive desire for control!

and of course the guy who was betrayed and blamed and traumatized but had someone there telling him it would be alright was able to step back and change his course!

anyway.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #fyi this is NOT me saying dream wasn't all those things too he obviously was betrayed and blamed and traumatized. #i'm just focused on early c!dream where he was really really trying to keep things together #dream smp #c!rivals duo #rivalsblr

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who else is up thinking about similar c!techno and c!dream are, how they both wanted very similar things but went about it in such drastically different ways? who else is thinking about what might have happened if c!dream had been given the chance and space to grow like c!techno was?

#loyal talks about stuff and things #dreblr #rivals duo #c!dream #c!techno #rivalsblr

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dream (chicken) looks like a movie protagonist looking up dramatically into the rain

#loyal talks about stuff and things #chicken posting #chickenblr #i read the caption and my oldest said 'except she's a stupid looking chicken' :(((((

[simplepotatofarmer]

i miss rivals duo so much

#loyal talks about stuff and things #man i deeply wish that side of the fandom didn't hate me. i miss talking about techno.

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i made a rivals duo themed bracelet and my clothes match <3

#loyal talks about stuff and things #i love pink and green btw #yellow is my favorite color but it's harder to find clothes in yellow in my size

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when people try to downplay the dsmp's story and roleplaying, i want to shake them because cc!techno did not write an interesting arc where his character learned to rely on his friends despite multiple betrayals and to change tactics despite the fact his violent tactics worked for people to say it was bad or pointless.

cc!techno did not drop amazing banger lines time after time and put his all into the delivery just for people to pretend like 'do you want to be hero tommy then die like one' or 'i have a pickaxe and i'll put it through your teeth' or 'you've got the wrong hostage, I CARE' mean nothing because they've decided the dsmp is cringe and bad actually.

cc!techno put so much into his character and his friends and he gave us amazing moments and i'm so so fucking thankful for that.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #technoblade #dsmp #dream smp #sorry I JUST

[simplepotatofarmer]

happy doomsday anniversary to all!

#loyal talks about stuff and things #technoblade #dream smp #dsmp #best stream in the world

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we really slept on this beast, i'll be honest. we could've done so much with this weird little rivals duo creature.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #technoblade #dreamwastaken #rivals duo #rivalsblr

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i think one of the most insidious forms of ableism is the idea that if one disabled person can do something then other people with the same disability can do the same thing because it often comes from other disabled people.

there was a thread on twitter about how, often, people with adhd struggle to learn new languages and the qrts were filled with tweets like this:

and the thing is. this is ableist. it just is.

while experiences aren't universal, people with adhd - a neurodevelopmental disability - do struggle with learning new languages. so the idea that because one person with a disability can do something, that others should be able to is just inaccurate and hurts people with disabilities. it contributes to the idea that disabled people just aren't 'trying hard enough' and on a wider scale, it convinces abled people that accommodations for disabled people aren't necessary because 'they could do it, why can't you?'

it's a really harmful and ableist mentality that hurts disabled people.

this goes beyond neurodevelopmental disabilities and neurodivergence. as someone who is also physically disabled, you hear this kind of thing all the time. stories about how so-and-so knows someone with the same disability and they can do this so why can't you?

it creates this idea that disabled people have to perform to a certain level unless they're just not 'trying hard enough' and that anyone doesn't is a sort of failure.

we're not all the same. disabilities vary! certain people struggle more with certain things than others! and it's really shitty and flat out ableism to go 'well i can do this so what's your excuse' as if someone's disability isn't valid if it's not exactly the same as yours.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #ableism #disability awareness

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i did get a cake!! <3 <3 <3

#i'm so happy #i didn't think i was gonna get one #it's been forever ;__; #food #loyal talks about stuff and things

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if i'm honest, the mcyt fandom has the biggest case of 'except for the acceptable target' syndrome. they'll make posts about 'handling cringe' but make it clear the acceptable cringe is not dsmp fans or dream fans. they'll talk about growth and nuance and change but it's never applied to the people they hate. bullying is wrong, of course, unless you're 'driving out' the dream fans.

there is always an exception to any of these statements, there's always someone who you're allowed to treat poorly and i really hope one day the fandom can move away from that and be kinder.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #mcyt #mcytblr #inspired by the fact the other day someone reblog a life series post of mine #and i got hate #or that poll i posted with techno and etho that made me have to private my blog for a bit #i just wish people would chill #fandom critical

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c!techno is way more perceptive than people tend to give him credit for. he knows people. he always has been able to read them well.

in the prison, he says to c!quackity:

"what do you got, like, an empire or something? you always got an empire or something, bro. It’s just… it’s in your nature…"

and he was right! techno absolutely read him. for better or worse, he knew that about quackity, understood the sort of thing he'd be led to do or create. just like he had a sense of what would happen in the manburg/pogtopia war though he didn't want to believe it.

and that's what throws people off, i think. that sometimes, despite what techno's instincts are telling him, he gives them the benefit of the doubt. he's not bad at reading people, he's not any less perceptive, he just applies that in a way that's different than the others.

#loyal talks about stuff and things #technoblade #dream smp #dsmp analysis #he GETS people

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oh neon green xbox controller we're really in it now

#loyal talks about stuff and things #cats #cwoosh the cat

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being hit with the sudden fact that sometimes the world isn't kind and just really wishing you could fix things but it's an awfully big thing to try to fix. i need rivals duo.

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[simplepotatofarmer]

i think about 'techno no it's a trap' 'i know dream i wanted to see how you're doing' all the time.

like, c!techno, with one life, decided that it was important enough to walk into a trap to check on c!dream and that he trusted c!phil enough to pull him out.

something about techno and what he values, y'know?

#loyal talks about stuff and things #technoblade #dreamwastaken #dream smp #dsmp