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are you comfortable sharing the alt you mentioned? i’d love to read more of your work! no worries at all if not-just wanted to ask!
umm. it's uh.
all the stuff on there is really filthy my guy lol. quite a different tempo/subject matter than what i know you enjoy reading so uh. dm me at your own risk on that one haha i don't want to ruin your perception of me totally and completely
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absolutely abysmal!! thank you for reminding me kind reblogger!
please the man just deserves basic humanity, I’m-
if you think c!dream deserves torture, you don’t know what torture is
alrighty, it’s time for me to do annoyingly in-depth lore analysis again because i have seen way too many people on my dash and twitter timeline saying that c!dream deserves to be tortured.
i don’t really think people have a comprehensive, reality-based understanding of what torture actually is, what it can do, and the motivations behind it. i, unfortunately, do: i’ve done extensive professional-level study on torture, so i’m going to do my best to put out some knowledge into our little dsmp-related world.
obvious content warnings for references to torture and to violence below the cut (nothing too graphic, though; i know this isn’t an academic forum or government work)
all of this is /rp /dsmp
i’ll also list some sources at the very bottom if you want to learn more
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oh man, good luck with the rest of your finals! absolutely loved the excerpt from the fifth part you posted earlier–the emotional intensity of the scene is so well-crafted. really looking forward the rest whenever it's ready :D (no pressure at all though! just wanted you to know your work's appreciated)
tysm snap!! it means a lot <3
still not sure where part five is going exactly (nameless and aptly only called obbagl five in my drive, which i still just read as 'oh bagel five' no matter how many times i see it) but uh. hopefully i'll figure it out at some point in time! it's currently way too conversation-heavy, but once i'm happy with it, i'll get it out there! hopefully you like it as much as the rest of the series :)
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hey dude! been meaning to drop in for a while (been super busy getting ready to backpack through the balkans, but i digress) to say that i'm totally enamored with Of Burning Bridges and Guiding Lights! the way you handle the prison break, the ups and downs of dream's recovery, and the (incredibly!) realistic and touching rekindling of his relationship with george are all fucking astonishing. i'm hoping to get into the nitty-gritty of what i love about each installment eventually, but this'll have to do for now! thank you for your hard work on this project 😊
hello!! so sorry for the delay in responding to this- i'm in the middle of finals atm
thank you so much for sending your kind words!! i personally really love the writing i've done on this series, and i'm glad to see i'm not the only one :) hopefully you like the next part(s) too!
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if you think c!dream deserves torture, you don’t know what torture is
alrighty, it’s time for me to do annoyingly in-depth lore analysis again because i have seen way too many people on my dash and twitter timeline saying that c!dream deserves to be tortured.
i don’t really think people have a comprehensive, reality-based understanding of what torture actually is, what it can do, and the motivations behind it. i, unfortunately, do: i’ve done extensive professional-level study on torture, so i’m going to do my best to put out some knowledge into our little dsmp-related world.
obvious content warnings for references to torture and to violence below the cut (nothing too graphic, though; i know this isn’t an academic forum or government work)
all of this is /rp /dsmp
i’ll also list some sources at the very bottom if you want to learn more
alright then, let’s start: what is torture, anyway?
there are two types of definitions, general and legal. i’ll reference both, but the message they carry is essentially the same, so i’ll just paraphrase the united nations definition that’s party to (read: supported/enforced by) 170 countries:
torture is any act that intentionally causes SEVERE harm to someone, physical OR mental, for the purposes of extracting information or punishment for failure to do so, with explicit consent from an acting public authority.
i’ll break down those components in the context of the dsmp in a second, but i first want to make it very clear what torture ISN’T. torture is not manipulation, it is not "trauma” in the way trauma is broadly conceived, it is not even direct physical abuse. you can suffer abuse from, say, a parent or a partner, and that abuse is about a power dynamic, where one person is being forcibly subordinated to the other. torture, on the other hand, is not necessarily about power, and it’s definitely not ONLY about power dynamics; torture, by its very definition, has to be intensely and officially coercive, and it has to be SEVERE. there are not degrees of torture, like there are degrees of abuse: being deprived of sleep for days or even weeks at a time is just as psychologically impactful as losing a limb or being waterboarded (simulated drowning- a common torture method that the us has been known to employ).
this is my first major issue with the way some viewers of the dsmp approach this whole debacle. i constantly hear c!tommy’s manipulation by c!dream cited as a perfect justification for c!dream’s torture. what c!tommy, and others on the server- particularly the kids- went through is horrible, and intensely traumatic. i will never deny them that, especially as a survivor of abuse myself, but torture is not just another form of trauma. that’s a very important distinction that we, as viewers, have to draw: torture is considerably worse because it is sanctioned, it is coercive, and its explicit goal is not just to cause pain or make someone feel powerless (common goals of abusers), but instead to shatter someone.
in more specific terms, the mental goal of torture is to completely unmake someone’s conception of the world, how they interact with it, and their basic sense of identity. if you read accounts or speak with survivors of torture, it is frequently mentioned that their very way of processing everything in life was destroyed by pain and had to be rebuilt, completely different, after escape. by destroying one’s individuality, will, and their most integral of processing abilities, you destroy their grasp on the world; and, to put it lightly, such a breaking event is awful enough that, in an effort to make it stop and regain some sense of normalcy, the victim will tell their persecutors what they want to hear. it’s the reason why confessions obtained through torture are notoriously not admissible in courts of law. this goes far beyond abuse or manipulation, and i need everyone to understand that.
now, let’s get to c!dream’s situation. did he do awful things? yes, undoubtedly. i’m a c!dream apologist, but his manipulation of c!tommy and c!tubbo was very fucked up. beyond that, his notable ���crimes” that others on the server aren’t also guilty of committing (e.g., murder, theft, arson, to name a few common ones) really just consist of especially massive destruction of property (people leave c!techno and c!phil out of this equation, much to my chagrin, but i won’t get into it here). punishment for his actions is understandable, and is typically what justice systems aim to do. but, even if we completely ignore the inherent inhumanity of pandora (HOOO BOY that’s a lot to ignore but i digress), c!dream is not being punished, he’s being tortured.
going by the definition i used, let’s break it down:
c!sam knows what c!quackity is doing to c!dream, allows it, and even encourages it. as the warden, he is the person in an official, authority position giving their consent.
c!quackity is, by his own admission, doing what he is to get information out of c!dream. it’s not a confession in this context, but very specific piece of knowledge, with the promise of death also hanging right above it.
list of extreme psychological abuse: long-term solitary confinement (torture if it’s more than 22 hours. c!dream has been in solitary confinement for more than 60 days now), deprivation of the passage of time, general verbal abuse, incredibly limited social contact (people start to fray without basic interaction after a while).
list of extreme physical abuse (god where do i start): prolonged starvation, malnourishment when he isn’t being starved (you will die without protein intake); use of Warden’s Will Breaker pickaxe (it can hack through obsidian, so i think that’s all i need to say), shears (can be used to do things like pull nails, break limb’s bones, amputate toes/fingers/a whole arm in c!ponk’s case), and an OP axe (a sharp blade capable of slicing easily through wood with brute force, and bone is significantly easier to crush than wood).
so, we have consent of authority, coercion for the sake of extracting information, and severe physical/mental abuse meant solely to cause extreme pain. c!dream is being tortured according to the proper, internationally-sanctioned definition of the term, and that is not okay in any circumstances whatsoever.
if you haven’t ever read survivors’ accounts (or the accounts of their victimizers), it’s difficult to understand just how uniquely despicable torture is, and the lifelong effects that remain after it’s over and done with. i honestly recommend you read some testimonials, because it absolutely changes the way you view authority and the world in general.
no one is deserving of this treatment, no matter what atrocities they may or may not have committed.
it’s a basic tenet of human rights, and i don’t think it should be a hard pill to swallow that it’s never excusable in any circumstance. so, defend c!tommy & co. and criticize c!dream’s actions all you want, but please never say that torture is alright. that statement has real consequences, and real moral implications. don’t be an asshole, and don’t be disrespectful to people who have survived it.
if you’re curious, look into these events:
The Argentine Dirty War
Chicago Police’s Jon Burge and his torture regime
Abu Ghraib prison
Extensive torture by Pinochet’s regime in Chile
Guatemalan Civil War
Ugandan policing in the 21st century (Human Rights Watch report here)
if you want some reading, i recommend the following. tumblr will probably nerf this post because of links, but oh well.
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (very important work in the literature on torture)
John Conroy’s Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
Levenson (e.d.) Torture: A Collection
#mine#text#jfc this ended up being LONG#sorry about that#long post#dream smp#dsmp#dsmp analysis#dsmp meta#prison arc#pandora's vault#dreamwastaken#dream#torture cw#abuse cw#c!sam critical#i doubt this will go anywhere lmao but it's nice to get my thoughts on (digital) paper
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i stumbled across a post i made on the day of the final disc confrontation and out of the like fourteen points i made, most of them hold (either have been confirmed or partially corroborated/hinted at in canon) except for uh. except for this one.
holy shit how wrong can one human being be-
#every day i cry a little more about c!dream#mine#text#dream smp#dsmp#dreamwastaken#dream#awesamdude#pandora's vault
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my computer crashed five times in the past twelve hours, three of which while i was asleep and my computer theoretically asleep. love this for me
microsoft word just obliterated 14K words from a wip that i had going.
it’s just gone. vanished. no more.
the document (which i had been saving every ~30 minutes) has literally just been wiped from my computer. i have gone through auto recovery, i am so deep in hidden folders on my hard drive and in my caches that it isn’t even funny and there is just NOTHING
i am about to Sob that’s a WEEK of work i’m-
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microsoft word just obliterated 14K words from a wip that i had going.
it's just gone. vanished. no more.
the document (which i had been saving every ~30 minutes) has literally just been wiped from my computer. i have gone through auto recovery, i am so deep in hidden folders on my hard drive and in my caches that it isn’t even funny and there is just NOTHING
i am about to Sob that's a WEEK of work i'm-
#mine#text#IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AUTOSAVING ANYWAY#I LITERALLY CLOSED AND OPENED IT LAST NIGHT#IT WAS FINE#WHERE THE FUCK DID IT GO#I'M ABOUT TO LOSE MY GODDAMN MIND#THERE IS JUST NO TRACE OF IT#MY COMPUTER FORCE RESTARTED THIS MORNING WHEN I LOGGED ON SO IG IT'S THAT#BUT WHERE DID I GO?????#IT IS JUST GONE#WHAT IN THE NAME OF FUCK#FOURTEEN THOUSAND WORDS
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apple’s puritan streak is getting ridiculous. the discord nsfw server access ban was already ten steps over the line (and say what you will about the tumblr porn ban ofc- have to remember the og controversy), but their autocorrect is now literally trying to censor me using language like “fucking” as a modifier in my writing lmaooo
they really thought they had the right- the audACITY-
#mine#text#personal#just complaining#yes it's 6 am no i have not slept#i love college#slash ess dear god
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microsoft corporation: microsoft word of the office suite is a functional and accurate program for grammatical correction and quality control in the writing for which you use it
microsoft word:
#mine#text#constantly these days#it's getting worse honestly#like?#there is absolutely no predictive algorithm that would spit out 'steps' in any logical outcome here#what the hell
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why did I go so hard on these paragraphs. popped tf OFF here-
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phew okay finished proofreading that massive oneshot lmao. i can finally shower and pass the fuck OUT now. gn o/
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Finally, he breaks the silence. “I don’t know how much of a better future I can actually hope for.”
“There’s always a way to start over, Dream. I wouldn’t be so glum right out the gate.”
The blond clips out a breathy laugh as he walks past George to settle on the narrow bed, pointed elbows resting atop his knees as his head drops lax between his shoulders. “What exactly do you think I should do, George? Even if I wasn’t fucked up beyond belief, I can’t stay here since everyone just wants to murder me with their own hands; I have nothing to return to, anywhere; I don’t even have you and Sapnap anymore. What kind of future do you even think I can have? Because I don’t fucking see one.”
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or: the one in which Dream and George begin to heal the fissures in themselves, and between each other, after his escape from Pandora’s Vault.
happy one year anniversary to the dream smp, and happy several month anniversary to my adoration of c!dream and my desperate desire to see him recover!
i did not intend for this to be a 20k word oneshot, just to be clear. it really just….. kind of happened. it was an excuse to write massive amounts of established romantic relationship dynamics and hurt/comfort. hope you enjoy!
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hmm... oneshot tonight? for the one year dsmp anniversary? maybe.
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fic writers and fan artists be like
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say hello to introductory world building and a new story. this is my first large project for mcyt, so here’s hoping someone likes it! (updates weekly)
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