happy fooligetta anniversary day everyone 😀

I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

Ahh ok that makes more sense. I knew that it. well. definitely wasnt a conversation about Donkey Madness they were having 💀but i didnt think it could be toooooo nefarious, as its just a kids show. that slots in perfectly to being annoying enough of a request for ken to get mad about it. Same with his parents, i knew that they were probably just worried about how much time he spends locked in his room but the framing around Donkey Madness was bizarre 🥴 I dont understand why they changed this 😭 The dub is too goofy with it, in eng its something like davis had a haircut appointment, then decided he didnt need one, and tk says "yeah but the problem was you were looking at yourself in the mirror for an hour!" The real thing can be just as silly without...being wildly nonsensical 😩 Thanks for your response! In a lot of these scenes i can even sometimes guesstimate what the original subject matter might be, but other times like these im just left like ???????

episode 8 :)

- davis is so cute in his soccer uniform 😭 my favorite boyo

- 01 gets soo goofy w the dub sometimes but I kinda feel like 02 gets even goofier with it but in less fun ways? 😭

-this is kind of the episode that kicks off the daiken dynamic... making davis beg was insane actually 💀 not ken calling him pretty boy ⁉️

- davis who is so rude to tk to his face and refuses to call him by his correct name, when stressing over which of his friends to save does correctly refer to him as tk 😭 theyre friends!

rahhhh i dont want to keep harping on 02 but like. they're about to go on a mission to save agumon and yolei says she doesn't want to go. i NEED to know what the original lines are bc tai says something out of pocket and everyone is like oh ok if ur gonna stay can u do my math homework for me thanks. like ????

god and the episode started with tk kari and davis running into the computer room and Davis saying like "sorry we're late i had an appointment for a haircut!" 😭 like ik we're being silly goofy but not even an Attempt to keep the momentum going from the last ep? like we're about to go on a rescue mission to save one of the most prolific characters 😭

episode 8 :)

- davis is so cute in his soccer uniform 😭 my favorite boyo

- 01 gets soo goofy w the dub sometimes but I kinda feel like 02 gets even goofier with it but in less fun ways? 😭

-this is kind of the episode that kicks off the daiken dynamic... making davis beg was insane actually 💀 not ken calling him pretty boy ⁉️

- davis who is so rude to tk to his face and refuses to call him by his correct name, when stressing over which of his friends to save does correctly refer to him as tk 😭 theyre friends!

theres a part after an interview ken does where his manager leans into his ear and says something to him that pisses him off. I'm guessing in the og jp it must have been something kind of nefarious?? bc in the dub its him asking ken how to beat a level in a video game called "Donkey Madness" 💀 anyways, later in the ep kens mom and dad start to worry about what ken is doing locked in his room all day and night. his dad asks his mom: "when you met with his teacher the other day, did he say anything at all to you?" and his mom says "No, all his teacher could talk about was something called Donkey Madness", to which is dad reacts "Donkey Madness ⁉️😨" and they proceed to break into his room 💀

this is kind of what i mean by the 02 dub taking liberties with being goofy but in less fun ways. like this whole scene became practically nonsensical 🥴

episode 8 :)

- davis is so cute in his soccer uniform 😭 my favorite boyo

- 01 gets soo goofy w the dub sometimes but I kinda feel like 02 gets even goofier with it but in less fun ways? 😭

-this is kind of the episode that kicks off the daiken dynamic... making davis beg was insane actually 💀 not ken calling him pretty boy ⁉️

- davis who is so rude to tk to his face and refuses to call him by his correct name, when stressing over which of his friends to save does correctly refer to him as tk 😭 theyre friends!

even in my old age i have so much nostalgia for the davis/ken ship/dynamic, they were baby's first ship before i even knew what shipping was. 😭 I just think ken is probably the most dynamic character in 02 and his redemption arc and friendship with davis is really special 😭

episode 8 :)

- davis is so cute in his soccer uniform 😭 my favorite boyo

- 01 gets soo goofy w the dub sometimes but I kinda feel like 02 gets even goofier with it but in less fun ways? 😭

-this is kind of the episode that kicks off the daiken dynamic... making davis beg was insane actually 💀 not ken calling him pretty boy ⁉️

- davis who is so rude to tk to his face and refuses to call him by his correct name, when stressing over which of his friends to save does correctly refer to him as tk 😭 theyre friends!

episode 8 :)

- davis is so cute in his soccer uniform 😭 my favorite boyo

- 01 gets soo goofy w the dub sometimes but I kinda feel like 02 gets even goofier with it but in less fun ways? 😭

-this is kind of the episode that kicks off the daiken dynamic... making davis beg was insane actually 💀 not ken calling him pretty boy ⁉️

- davis who is so rude to tk to his face and refuses to call him by his correct name, when stressing over which of his friends to save does correctly refer to him as tk 😭 theyre friends!

i will never ever forget the experience of pure and utter elation when technoblade joined the origins smp server unexpectedly and was dressed as a cute little bunny. never in my entire life am i going to experience the same joy again

maybe its selfish, maybe it's because I've just been popping in and out the past several months rather than actively engaged but. part of me would have rather the server just closed and ended than quackity leaving it.

like i know he said he's stepping back from the face of it, stepping down from an administrative role, might play on it from time to time... but it's *Q*smp. its his passion project, he deserves all of that recognition. its so fucking heartbreaking that he's been pushed to this point. if there's anything ive ever admired alex quackity for (and there's several things) its always been his hard work and dedication to his vision. he deserves to reap those rewards.

i think my other thing with all this that has been endlessly frustrating is that people do not realize how long this shit takes and are completely impatient about it. has the communication with admins been atrocious, absolutely, and that is a serious issue. but we as the public are not actually owed any information and considering how much of it is legal and internal, it makes sense for it to be kept confidential. and in terms of even the internal communications issues, while again, i think those need improvement and suck shit right now, considering how much shit has been leaked over and over again, i would also be hesitant about telling people too much. like again i think quackity has been pretty negligent in all of this but also he's fucking 23 and thought he was trusting people to run the studios without fucking him over, and that is evidently what has happened. i want this project to succeed, i want the admins to be treated fairly, i want the players to be able to tell the stories they want to tell, and i want the qsmp to show that a project like this, a multilingual & multicultural project with so much ambition, can succeed and can inspire other projects like it along with building new global relationships. which is why i don't love the doomposting and the insistence that everyone involved has bad motives-- that is just not fucking true, and it ignores how easy it is for these kinds of issues to perpetuate in workplaces. you are doing everyone involved and yourself a disservice to insist this is a specific issue to this server and this company, and you are insisting that everything that falls apart in some way must have been rotten to the core, including it's intentions, when that is just not the case.

anyway. my original point, that this takes time and probably will take months to fully iron out and that you personally are not owed information, is what i think is important here. there are issues, there are a lot of issues, but you are not an employee of this company or a government entity involved in investigating or a higher up in charge of restructuring. you are a tumblr user who can't handle not getting all the dirt on something within a couple of days. chill the fuck out. you don't have to keep engaging with qsmp stuff if you don't want to, but don't act like believing in the goals of this project was always going mean being let down. fuck off with that mentality.

so the union like. isnt legit right

i've seen a lot of people talk about mcyt as a constantly burning library of alexandria recently, and to some extent that's true. people are constantly deleting their blogs, going scorched earth with animatics, fanfics, etc., that they made. but i've also seen people (three in the last few days!) make this claim about VODs, when talking about large fandoms like DSMP and QSMP, and.... guys. that was true in 2020. that's not true anymore. archivists have been working tirelessly for years now to make sure that isn't true.

the dsmp VOD masterlist is here. in november 2020, it's missing 16 VODs, if i am counting correctly--which is still a fairly small minority, but it's a lot, and it sucks!--but in november of 2021, it's missing one, and that's because the cc of that VOD does copyright takedowns, not because the archivists didn't save it. no one in the archivist project is deleting VODs off youtube with no backups the way people are deleting fanfics. three months ago, one of my dsmp archivist friends finished coding a tool that let them reconstruct VODs out of twitch clips, and reconstructed six tubbo dsmp VODs from 2020. not only are we basically not losing VODs anymore, we are actively gaining VODs that have been lost for years, that were thought to be lost forever. the library isn't burning anymore; it's being rebuilt.

the qsmp VOD masterlist is here. it is usually a month or two behind the present day, to give creators time to archive their own VODs, but... look at it. in january of 2024, every single qsmp vod was archived. the same is true of december of 2023, and november, and the vast majority of months for the past year.

i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem. just a few days ago, i realized that a lifesteal VOD from last year was missing--that its youtube upload was messed up somehow, and no one noticed and it wasn't mirrored on the internet archive and the person who uploaded it deleted the original file. and now it's gone forever. this made me super sad! like i said: i'm not going to say that there isn't a problem.

but... look at the lifesteal VOD masterlist here. lifesteal's a smaller fandom than qsmp or dsmp. open the 2022 tab and you'll see months and months of lost VODs, of no one's VODs being saved, because there weren't any archivists saving them. then open the 2023 tab and see: they lost four VODs, over the course of a year. even in smaller fandoms, archivists are working. they're making progress. they're saving VODs. in 2024, lifesteal archivists screenrecorded five streams on tumblr live to make sure they would not become lost media. mcyt may be a constantly burning library of alexandria, but the people with fire extinguishers are dedicated. they're making incredible progress. i know people with petabytes of VODs saved, who have spent money on extra storage for this. i know people who are constantly running up against their storage limits as they download/upload to the internet archive/delete for space/rinse and repeat. a decent fraction of the time, my internet at home is slow because it's downloading VODs.

and these aren't the only mcyt fandoms with archiving projects! the outsiders smp VOD masterlist is here. origins smp VOD masterlist is here. smp earth VOD masterlist is here. rats smp VOD masterlist is here. there are so many others that i just don't happen to know about. the older and smaller a fandom is, the more likely it is to not have an attached archiving project, or for the archive to be missing a lot of VODs. but... guys, we've saved a lot. there are people out there, working tirelessly to save even more. yes, mourn what we have lost--the archivists i know are also the ones mourning the most for the VODs that are, in fact, forever lost media. but don't dismiss how much people have saved. we are making progress. we are losing less and less every month. the vast majority of the dsmp and qsmp still exist, i am not going to say they're the same experience as watching live because they're really not, but.. they're out there. people have put in a lot of work to save them.

if you have publicly available VOD masterlists or other mcyt archiving projects that aren't on this post, please add them in a reblog. i want this post to serve as a reference for how much archivists have saved in this community; unfortunately, i'm not super connected to every community. but i know that--for every person deleting things, there are people working, tirelessly & with little external reward, in so many different mcyt fandoms, to save things. and we should appreciate that more often.

bedrock bros; YOU NEVER HAD A BROTHER. YOU HAD A PROTECTOR THAT NEVER GAVE YOU THE STARS. BUT HE LOVES YOU, MAYBE THAT WILL BE ENOUGH. (you still die anyways)

technoblade / @andhyssops /@borealiszero / warsan shire / @m4rms / anne carson /  rabbi joseph telushkin / @picckl / ernest hemingway / unknown / @vixkoidy / @aro-throughyourchest / i.b. vyache / @axiliern / jinhao xie /

ah, poor big q. at the first few months of the project i remember commenting to my friend that i was kind of surprised at how little we saw of q on the server considering it was his server. i just assumed it was a mix of finishing law school and doing a lot of behind the scenes work for qsmp. but now, to hear him say he was actually very hands-off and that he had "a very sad year"... i wonder what he was really going through. :( chin up big man. wishing him the best as always

idk if its my vaccine fever but this page is making me cry so bad. hes just a lil baby. hes just a lil baby and his emotional responses are different from what the people around him expect but they're real and he's living them and experiencing them in his own way. god. god. this series understands autism in a way i've never seen expressed before.

I love the idea of the eggs still acting/being somewhat treated like kids/toddlers/babies

Like. yeah sunny can wield a sword and a chainsaw, but they still drink out of a sippy cup

Yeah dapper does weird, unethical experiments and is the child of the grim reaper, doesn’t mean she knows how to tie her shoes- they’re all velcro!

Of course Chayanne can cook a full course meal, but he eats it with those colorful, plastic utensils

One fart and it's over