the whole "wilbur had sex with a fish and had a fox for a son" does not get any better when you make wilbur a cat

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The Beeduo Meta

So, c!beeduo is unimaginably hard to analyse for the same reason the entire SMP is hard to analyse, especially in post-Doomsday DSMP when a lot more Offscreen Time became relevant: there are different backfilling assumptions. This is also complicated by the fact that it’s, well, a dynamic, and this fandom has an unimaginably hard time dealing with dynamics, because of “show me the clip” analysis being the norm. This kind of emphasis can be unsuited to dynamic analysis, because individual interactions cannot be taken as by themselves definitive of a dynamic without examining the framework they exist within. 

My aim with this post is to establish the patterns we see in c!Ranboo and c!Tubbo’s interactions, to examine each successive one with the context of established precedent in mind, and to assert the thing I have known since February 2021: the framework assumed by the fandom and the framework that actually exists and makes sense to exist (regardless of authorial intent!) are incongruous, to put it lightly. 

Will be dropping character tags from now on, but obviously all c! and /rp

Disclaimer also that this is very much coming from a c!Ranboo main – I am trying to do c!Tubbo as much justice as I can but being a boober is going to influence how I come at this, pretty obviously

Ranboo will be referred to with it/its pronouns in a couple places throughout, a) for clarity and b) because I want to

Under a readmore because it’s unimaginably fucking long there is a TL;DR at the bottom

Beeduo starts with imbalanced expectations because of the situation Ranboo shows up into and how Ranboo interacts w/ situations he considers high risk. In New L’Manberg, Ranboo quickly becomes functionally the only one in Tubbo's corner in several important respects. They are genuine friends, dgmw, and at this point it hasn't quite spiraled, but from the start the established dynamic is Ranboo thinking he has to care for Tubbo bc no one else will, and Tubbo ending up with Ranboo being the only one who really appears to respect him as president and stand by his side. Even before the cabinet actually has tensions in it, this is a suspected thing, which is evidenced in the manner in which the cabinet’s dynamics deteriorate as New L’Manberg wears on 

Even before this deterioration, this setup is immediately extremely high stakes for Ranboo. One of their first interactions, while Ranboo is still calling Tubbo honorifics uncertainly (which Ranboo doesn't even do generally man is still throwing spaghetti at the wall in terms of how to interact with him), is Ranboo having to talk a tripping-balls Tubbo off a cliff edge while he's standing there high and rambling. Stakes of this kind are not immediately damning, but they can be something that complicates matters if handled poorly. They will be handled poorly. 

This precariousness is also immediately dangerous for Tubbo, because Ranboo is a yes man. It knows it needs to comply, or appear to, to maintain its safety and autonomy. In other words, this is a tendency to partial duplicity and disingeniety in the interest of one’s own safety. Ranboo’s apparent alignment with anyone or anything cannot be assumed to be exclusive or even genuine. At this point he genuinely does think the best of Tubbo and his decision making, but this does not last, bc Ranboo takes ppl on good faith and gets disappointed.

As Ranboo befriends like 30 enemies of the state and is also repeatedly reminded of the danger he faces (the Butcher Army, the armor thing, "be loyal"), the stakes only get higher, especially as Tubbo gets more and more unpopular. This culminates in Ranboo’s statement on Doomsday about how he's literally expecting to be executed. This Is Indicative of the stakes he has been and continues to be living under. 

Tubbo, meanwhile, has had it told to his face with receipts that Ranboo is a traitor... and immediately enters copium central, blaming it on Ranboo's memory issues. This is setting out a pattern that will continue all the way to Tubbo absolutely refusing to implicate Ranboo in Tommy’s death and beyond – Tubbo cannot consider Ranboo to have the capacity to be a threat. This will be bad for both of them.

For now we go into Snowchester. It is important to note Ranboo is actively afraid of Tubbo at this point. The urgency in his mind ebbs some by the time they get married, but at this point he is actively considering Tubbo a more-than-latent threat. The tower scene happens, which is a continuation of Tubbo being ableist to Ranboo, this time to the point of trying to experimentally cure its memory issues against its wishes – people will say Ranboo said yes technically, and it did, but again remember: Ranboo is a yes man, and it is residually afraid of what Tubbo might do to himself or to Ranboo if it missteps. Consent given under threat is not consent, and it is extremely indicative of what Ranboo actually feels about this happening from his initial resistance, his attempts to weasel out of the procedure/leave early throughout, and his reaction after. In true fashion of a yes man who is trying not to set off alarm bells while keeping his head, he is resistant without openly refusing throughout. To be clear: this is not Tubbo intentionally violating Ranboo's consent (nor are any of the other ensuing experiments and/or proposals). This is their heldover power dynamic. Tubbo is not evil or malicious or anything – the two of them just have a fucked set of expectations, and that set of expectations is not going to improve, because neither of them have the framework to challenge it. Even if Ranboo recognizes something is wrong on a conscious level (which he refuses to as part of the strat), he will not acknowledge it, because of aforementioned tendencies, and Tubbo will not recognize something is wrong, because Tubbo does not have the healthiest ideas abt individual consent and personhood in general, because when in any of DSMP history has anyone shown Tubbo that as a priority? In fact, What Tubbo Thinks about a situation has been repeatedly dismissed, and at this point he has long learned this. To the Joker Tubbo this is just a normal interaction, and he continues to see Ranboo as someone who is at least mostly reliably in his corner, and at least mostly reliably his friend (especially after Exile fucked up his relationship with Tommy), so he has no reason to believe this would be a problem. Bringing this up as an issue is a threat to the stability of their relationship and the surrounding circumstances, which is not tenable; Tubbo has been looking for stability this whole time and is not interested in losing it again, and Ranboo is staking a lot of self-convinced morality on the fact that he's being good to Tubbo technically, and also is still extremely afraid of what Tubbo might do if he isn't there to catch him.

(Literally catch him! There is a scene where Tubbo jumps off a roof shouting for Ranboo to catch him, which idk if cc!Tubbo thought he was in character for, but cc!Ranboo definitely was. You do not react with off-trailing closed-off genuine fear and worry to your friend maybe doing a clown in video games. I know my little guy’s voice that was c!Ranboo I know it was.)

In the absence of being able to unpack the problem, they go for the next best solution to this threat of losing stability, which is to codify that stability by getting married. Michael is part of this. We never got a deeply in character discussion for why they decided to adopt Michael, which leaves us with the interaction where Tubbo is (jokingly?) threatening to “commit adultery,” and Ranboo replies that he can’t because “Michael is our son, Michael is our adopted son." This is evidently news to Tubbo – unsurprisingly, because this is the first time Michael is referred to as anything more than a pet.

Again, absolutely do not get me wrong – both of beeduo are genuinely affectionate for and extremely attached to Michael (Ranboo has so much sentiment and love and kindness in his hearts). The aforementioned scene is also dubiously canon at best – I only mention it at all because the essence of it is consistent with the previous established dynamic and with how it keeps going. They care, and it’s absolutely ridiculous to pretend they don’t, but Michael’s ultimate importance outside the (again, very extant) sentimental aspect is as a prop in the game of house these morons are playing because they are so so so afraid of losing everything – in Tubbo's case, of losing everything again, and in Ranboo's case, of failing to be there for Tubbo and prevent whatever Tubbo does.

Including with the nukes! I didn’t forget about the nuke scene! We’re talking about the nuke scene!! 

For those who do not remember the nuke scene, a summary: it takes place shortly after the silo’s inception, before the marriage. Tubbo, obviously jumpy and nervous, asks a visiting Ranboo out of the blue if he wants to see smth secret, and  says he’ll just stress Ranboo out to make him forget it afterward. Ranboo, to this offer, says no, he would rather not be intentionally triggered into situational memory loss. This was, however, not an actual offer, as Tubbo ignores him and leads him into the silo anyway.

Tubbo’s literal world destroying weapons bolster the stakes I’ve mentioned earlier that Ranboo perceives in this dynamic; Ranboo, trying to hang on to what could become an extremely dangerous complicating factor, goes to write it down and Tubbo tells him to put the book away. When Ranboo hesitates, Tubbo threatens him. Tubbo is counting on Ranboo’s memory loss here to be able to trust him, after all, as he has before and as he will again.

In fact, this is relevant in the literal next arc beeduo have relevance, which is outpost arc. 

I've gone off abt Ranboo's ideology 40 million times and I'll go off abt it more; for Ranboo to function safely he needs an environment where he does not feel surveilled/scrutinized, where he is not subject to others' whims, and where he is not expected to be specifically and exclusively allegiant. See earlier discussion of his yes-man tendencies – he doesn’t want to be that way! These are character flaws and he knows it! But he must keep yes-manning for the sake of surviving in a society that will not give him the ability to breathe!! Ranboo is a mf anarchist for a reason he needs his agency!!! 

And you will notice this is not raising green flags for his dynamic w/ Tubbo. Outside of the implicit coercion elements, Ranboo has actual positive motivations to align with Tubbo: he shares Tubbo's desire for peace and stability, and he feels genuinely sentimental and affectionate to Tubbo. Both of them want the same things, because wanting to have a peaceful happy life is a generally appealing goal, and they want to have it together, because they’re friends and care about each other. Unfortunately, they have a radically different understanding of most everything about how to get there, including in regards to personhood. Including what it means to value someone. What it means to be happy. What it means to love someone. 

Ranboo does not want to confront this, but outpost-burger arc beeduo is where this conflict makes him. This is the arc where it is made absolutely unambiguous that Ranboo and Tubbo have a dynamic where neither can love the other like the other loves him, because they have fundamentally philosophically different understandings of what that even means. "Maybe he built those walls to protect me" KILLING ME WOULD HURT LESS, RANBOOLIVE 

(While we are here, and I am getting a glass of water to calm down, re: the love point: the romanticity, platonicity, queerplatonicity, etc. of it is not the relevant part the point is that it's philosophically in com fucking patible. Are we clear. Are we clear this is not relevant discourse. Good. Okay)

Ranboo is suffering increasing confusion and confabulation and stress as the arc goes on, almost certainly bc he is again in a political situation; he makes explicit that this is another instance of it "happening again", like he did at the worst parts of his spirals irt his situation in New L’Manberg. Tubbo is not the only factor in this; Ranboo has complicated dynamics w/ Quackity and the cookieduo (Ranboo and Slime) arc is also relevant, but Tubbo is Ranboo's first priority and Ranboo is putting his brain thru the blender for him! We do not see him in a comparable consistent state like this at any point except New L’Manberg! Ranboo is fucked up in outpost arc!! And Tubbo obviously is too; the entire arc is about his lash-out and he is obviously paranoid doing it. And both of these only make it clear that the unbalanced expectations the whole dynamic was built on, of reliance on Ranboo as specially in Tubbo’s corner, are still fucking there

Ranboo’s behavior is extremely worth scrutinizing here. When Q sends Fundy and I am pretty sure Foolish? to go check out the outpost and they trash it on the way there, Ranboo cleans it up (and leaves threats, which is not a Hinged Action and is something he knows is self-compromising, which goes to show his state of mind) w/ the explicit motivation of keeping it from Tubbo. Ranboo talks to Quackity abt Tubbo and repeatedly makes excuses abt how Tubbo is neurodivergent and a minor, and sure, it says the same thing about itself, but then it continues saying similar shit to rationalize Tubbo's behavior on its own. Ranboo has very expressed interest in portraying Tubbo, both to any audience it has AND to itself, as someone who is not responsible for his actions, because he’s Going Through A Lot, and it has been doing that since the mention of the experiments/tower scene in character.

Tubbo has to cling to the idea that Ranboo's treasonous tendencies are tied to his memory loss. Ranboo has to cling to the idea that Tubbo’s erratic and violent behavior all doesn't really matter bc Tubbo is ~ twaumatized ~, because he “has a lot of problems,” and they both have to cling to their ableist copium, because if they don’t, then each has to admit that his husband would hurt him, and in fact has.

Outpost arc is also where we get "you'd tell me if I was a bad person right" "yeah I’d tell you if you step out of line" – I talk about it in connection to the things I’ve discussed earlier more in depth here, but further: it’s extra chilling when you consider 1) Ranboo does not genuinely concur with Tubbo's philosophies, is not kept safe by them and he knows that when in his right state of mind as evidenced by his active ever-present weaseling-out-of-this maneuvers; 2) that Ranboo is demonstrably extremely good at aforesaid weaseling; and 3) that he is extremely ideologically critical and fiercely independent and arrogant, all the time! And this is the evidence point for what I say in the tags of that ask: Tubbo is the closest on the server to come to ever having control over Ranboo ideologically

Ranboo is so good at 5D chess. Ranboo outmaneuvered Wilbur and Quackity and Dream. Ranboo, increasingly freely, is able to disagree and bring up concerns to Phil and Techno (not fully obv but more than everyone else he talks to lmao), whom broadly he agrees with and has seen the benefit of the philosophies of, but still doesn’t think are Fully Correct, because he doesn’t think that about anyone but himself. But with Tubbo, Ranboo conceded so much that he could have lost the game if Tubbo hadn't proceeded to fold during the burger arc. And Tubbo didn't even know! He didn't even realize anything was off!! 

That fold is the next relevant point in this torrid saga. Tubbo reaches a breaking pt with Wilbur's return; Ranboo gets even more visibly freaked out at all times bc of the complicating situation; it’s here when we get the conversation where Tubbo talks abt the outpost and having signed it over. 

This hits Ranboo in a way Tubbo is going to miss, because, again, when has anyone on the DSMP given Tubbo a precedent for caring about that? He has literally 0 example reason to consider all the work™ that any individual put into a project as far as he’s concerned that’s not going to work. Ranboo, unfortunately, not only does, but also has RSD. This already hurts. And then Tubbo makes the to-him extremely innocuous statement that yeah, now that he has a job and a faction and a direction that he isn't buckling under the weight of losing, he's finally happy

Ranboo, who is extremely dubious abt LNV's labor conditions anyway, fully hears that Tubbo never needed him. Tubbo is finally happy in service to the exact construct that Ranboo has repeated concrete evidence fucks himself and everyone around him, Tubbo included, up. Ranboo hears that he has been soundly cucked by the concept of sides, to put it a little facetiously. He has been checkmate liberals’d.

(This, understandably, does nothing for his mental state.)

And before I continue I must mention again: Ranboo and Tubbo do care about each other. They do legitimately want the best for each other. They have legitimately bonded, and are genuine friends (&c). 

But you also have to remember that Ranboo is extremely calculating, and if you’ll also recall, he is still in a high stakes and high delicacy political situation where he has to be making a lot of those calculations. Now, he's just heard that he was never needed for one of his primary goals. Yes, this hurts, but it carries an important second significance to those calculations: if keeping Tubbo stable was never Ranboo’s doing, this is a reason to deprioritize it.

And that is how we go into Hitting on Sixteen/The Wilbur Van. That is why Ranboo is able to snap at Tubbo in Ho16/TWV. The sheer contrast between the "I'll tell you if you step out of line" agreement and Ranboo dismissing and yelling at Tubbo in this is the biggest and clearest indicator – and the deciding difference is that in Ho16, Ranboo has the goddamn burger van interaction in his information bank, the one where Ranboo was told that his concerns were useless and could be deprioritized. He has been functionally dismissed from his post – he no longer has to worry about appearing good and trustworthy and respectful to Tubbo, and with greater things hanging over his head than maintaining those appearances, he goes full mask off. He prioritizes mitigating Wilbur over mitigating Tubbo in that scene, and he feels bad about it bc he likes Tubbo, and he feels bad for yelling at him, especially considering he is lying – dismissal of everyone who isn’t himself aside, Ranboo knows just fine that Wilbur is dangerous and doing something harmful! He is lying!! 

But that's the thing with Ranboo. Ranboo will lie to fucking anyone. It will lie to your motherfucking face with full confidence, and then it'll feel soooo bad about it later, it'll tear him up inside, and you will hear about none of it, and he'd do it again, because it'll be another calculated concession. Because Ranboo is a yes man and a survivor and a political agenda haver and is balancing like 478363 conflicting priorities at any given time because he has to

So it lies. It mansplains Wilbur Soot to Tubbo (and I do not use that word as a joke I use it as shorthand) and it lies and it can do this so immediately because it did not have to lose or shake a long-standing respect for Tubbo – at that point, its initial wisps of respect for Tubbo had been disintegrated and gone for months. He was never trustworthy to Tubbo – Tubbo put his trust and his reliance in a liar and a traitor, because Ranboo's lies were the only semblance of respect and understanding he got, and it was against what both of them wanted for Tubbo to realize that ever. Tubbo is married to a motherfucking stranger.

Tubbo appeals to a better person that Ranboo isn't, to a loyalty Ranboo never really had, and bc Ranboo doesn't have to pretend to respect him anymore Tubbo gets berated and condescended to, again. Like I cannot emphasize this shit enough! Ranboo was shit to Tubbo in that scene, and even if he had sacrificed himself for Tubbo, it wouldn’t have done fuck anything to address how awful he was in that moment and why it was so deeply such. And Ranboo didn’t even “sacrifice himself”! People made that up! 

Yes, Ranboo's political motivation was in large part that Tubbo, someone he cared about, was being repeatedly endangered and used as a prop from where Ranboo was standing, and Ranboo found that kind of mistreatment of a person he cared for the wellbeing of untenable. He cared about that, genuinely, because he cares about people and about their individual safeties, and even when he hurts them it’s, again, a concession. It’s something he wants to avoid. So Tubbo is in danger and Ranboo acts in the capacity of his care for Tubbo and gets Tubbo out, makes sure that materially his loved one is safe – and then, having dealt with the danger to people, turns around and deals with ideology.

It's not for Tubbo that it kills itself, because Ranboo, again, cares about people. Ranboo killing himself did nothing for Tubbo, and it fucking knows that; Ranboo’s critical eye is extremely good at seeing past the notion that benefit to some ideology is necessarily the same as benefit to some person without being able to draw a clear line to the effects that ideology has on that person. The division between effect on people and effect on system – the concept that the ideologies one live under affect people rather than breathe as them, and that they thus have to justify that effect being good rather than having symbolic gestures take priority over individuals – is the whole motherfucking point of people not sides.

Ranboo killed himself as a symbolic gesture in service to a rhetorical point he was making to Wilbur and Quackity. Ranboo killed himself to win at 5D chess. Ranboo thoughtlessly made it so his husband watched him die, because after saving Tubbo, he had bigger things to worry about.

Ranboo killing himself is, extremely intentionally both in universe and out, evocative of Wilbur doing so because in a sense it was for Wilbur, and it was thought out. Ranboo’s suicide was not nonsensical revenge; it was not emotional protectiveness; it was the callous, cruel, condescending, twisted logic of a man who has shown this flaw in its ways of thinking again and again and whose lack of sleep the night before was specifically emphasized. Ranboo reaches drastic action and violence when he finds himself when he finds himself desperate and alone in the corner he’s backed into, and left with his own mind and only his own mind, he thinks himself into the deranged awfulness of the brainspace he was in when he made the decision. Though the choice itself was likely spontaneous, it was a culminating manifestation of a thought process that had been building for this kind of opportunity the whole time.

Yes, Ranboo is emotional; yes, Ranboo is sentimental; Ranboo does, however, think with his fucking head. He does it too much, in fact, and here he thought with his head into deprioritizing Tubbo, and functionally leaving Tubbo behind while he pursued his own agenda – which is really what he had been doing all a-fucking-long; he'd just been lying about it out of worry and fear, and Tubbo had believed him out of desperation. 

The love was there, but it didn’t matter. What mattered was the need, and the desperate belief from both of them that the other could fulfill that need. 

TL;DR: - Beeduo is based on a fundamentally imbalanced dynamic where Tubbo trusts Ranboo to be in his corner in a way no one else really is - This is bad because of the expectations it places on Ranboo and because of the way that it’s not something that Tubbo can actually rely on - The second Ranboo was no longer coercively held to pretending, everything fell through - Both of them clung for the longest time to ableist copium that dismissed the other’s capability to harm him to get away from the fact that they have already hurt each other and continue to - While they care about each other, their understandings of personhood, love, relationships, agency, and happiness are fundamentally at odds

TL;DRTL;DR: Ranboo is a liar and Tubbo is an auth

Fic Writer Asks!

I was tagged by @bidoofenergy thank you for the tag!

for the sake of my sanity i am mentioning and ignoring karmaland and way older fics as I see fit

ao3 name: elawritesgays but my pseud for english fandoms is justno

fandoms: Currently? Red, White and Royal Blue and All for the Game. Now, all-time Karmaland, Voltron, Shadowhunter's Chronicles and one (1) DSMP

number of works: 15 on Ao3, if we count the Twitter fics 24

work i spent the most time on: There's an AU that took me longer than a year, started july 2020 and finished writing it somewhere early 2022 and it just didn't get fully posted, otherwhise since I mostly write one shots all of them have an average of 1 or 2 weeks of writing/editing and posting so I have no clue

work i spent the least time on: Holy, a Rubegetta one shot. I know for a fact it didn't even take me a day to write it and post it, it was my first fic after years of not writing anything at all.

longest fic: My longest fic is a Karmaland FS AU (yes the one mentioned above, yes I know I am writing another rn) and it is 44k words, but I published maybe 30k, and I didn't put it on Ao3. That being said it is Try Again, the whole thing is written I just stepped away from the fandom

shortest fic: each of the drabbles in my drabble collection (? each around exactly 100 words or a little more when I write in Spanish and English at the same time, that's as short as it can get

most hits: las formas de llamarte amor I am used to not getting many hits so this one was a surprise to see escalating to numbers I had never seen.

most kudos: also las formas de llamarte amor once again.

total word count: 34,129 (on Ao3, mind you)

favorite work of my own: This is so hard because I can't chose. I think I have a few favourites for different reasons so I am going to cheat and mention one per language at least.

A ti, is an epistolary fic about two Karmaland NPCs that I wrote for a creative writing class, it's Sapphic and I think it is the most carefully crafted one. It has a special place in my heart.

and las formas de llamarte amor my debut in the RWRB fandom if you will, the start of my Alex Claremont-Díaz speaks Spanish agenda, and the Alex calls Henry pet names in Spanish agenda.

fic you want to rewrite/expand on: With You, a dystopian AU for the Karmaland fandom, I feel like if I hadn't been on a deadline it could be so much better, maybe even as a multi chapter that could explore a lot more of the main characters

share a bit of a wip: i am running out of snippets that are not spoilers

“Alexander, if you are trying to fit a quadruple Lutz in that jump you’ll be thoroughly disappointed  when you land with your face on the ice.” Zahra’s suggestion goes unnoticed because Alex has already fallen with a resounding thwack. One wouldn’t look at the now limp body on the ice and assume that it belongs to Alexander Claremont-Díaz, a professional figure skater and representative of the Mexican national team, yet not even he is capable of avoiding meeting the ice face-to-face a few times.

Figure Skating AU WIP my beloved

and I am tagging @heybuddy-drabbles @14carrotghoul @inexplicablymine @userd0esn0texist @mudbloodpotter05 @suseagull04 @raysletters @xthelastknownsurvivorx no pressure tho!

This is my statement regarding my mcyt fanfictions in light of the tragedy that happened recently. I am sure many of you know what I’m talking about. If not, I suggest you find it out from a different source and not from here. I am not tagging this, but simply making this post so I can link to it.

Hi everyone. 

As a writer of dsmp fanfiction that often includes the wonderful character Technoblade wrote for his role on the dsmp, I thought I should make an official statement about my plans for the future of my writing within this sphere. I have never been one to express my grief publicly, especially on social media whether or not said grief is for a person I knew personally or not. I am, of course, deeply saddened by the news of Technoblade’s death as I’m sure most people are, but I do not intend to explicitly speak about my reaction or emotions here. The purpose of this post is to simply explain how I plan to move forward and a bit of why.

The questions a lot of fans of Technoblade have to ask themselves right now are: am I going to finish my current projects that involve Technoblade, and will future projects also include him?

For me, the short answer to both of these questions are, yes. At least, at this time.

As for the long answer: 

I plan to continue with my plans for the Stepping Stones Universe unaltered. Stepping Stones, especially the two prequels that Technoblade stars in, ‘One Step Forward’ and “Like Footprints on the Seashore’ have always been fundamentally about death and grief. They have been about my own grief and the ways I have seen other people overcome grief or let it destroy them. At their core, these two stories are about recovering from loss, finding new things to love, and remembering what you have lost. The message I have been trying to impart in those two stories especially are that grieving and letting yourself move on, but not forgetting is important. In some ways, it can bring back the things we loved and lost, even if in the real world, this is not as literal as in my fictional universe. The other stories in this series are also important to me in different ways and while not as obvious, grieving has very much affected every single one of the narratives in universe.

I understand if you are not able to continue to engage with this story right now or ever again, especially considering some of the harder themes in some of the stories. However, for me, it is important to continue the story I was already writing now more than ever. Thank you for loving One More Step Out of the Pit and the rest of Stepping Stones even if you have to put it down for now.

My story, Scorned, is mostly over. It has two more epilogue chapters, both of which involve Technoblade. I plan to publish both of these epilogues and finish up the story. I also plan to finish the spin-off story Orphaned which has one chapter left. This story heavily features Technoblade as well. From there, I had tentative plans for a couple of prequels that detail Wilbur and Techno becoming vampires. I was not sure if/when I would get to it before this, and I’m not sure now. I am open to the idea at this point, but I will have to see. It will take a lot of thinking for me, especially with how much of a main character Technoblade is without already having an in-depth plan for it like I have for the Stepping Stones Universe. Thank you for reading and enjoying Scorned if you continue to read what I post in that universe or not.

My New Raccoon Brother will be continuing on as planned. Technoblade does play a sizable role especially in chapter 12 (though he doesn’t feature in the next chapter, chapter 11). This is an oddly comforting story to me despite the angst. I’m not sure when I’ll be up to writing chapter 12. My feelings might push me faster or might delay me, but it is not canceled. I also… don’t have a consistent upload schedule anyway.

Making Your Own Worst Enemy is a newer story and I’m not 100% sure where I’m going with it just yet, other than knowing the end. I do intend to continue it. There may be delays simply because of the nature of Technoblade’s powers and having to describe emotions a lot while in his perspective. I do intend to continue this story to its completion eventually.

As for future works, I have no way to know what new ideas the future will bring. My intention at this point is that I will involve Technoblade in future stories if they come to me. Technoblade’s roll on the Dream SMP was large and ignoring his existence doesn’t feel right. I don’t think I could write a sbi fic without mentioning him. Honestly, to me personally, it would almost feel disrespectful to do so. However, I understand other people have other points of view and I completely get if you don’t want to or cannot handle writing him into current or future fics. This is just my feelings as a writer who writes her emotions into stories to process them.

In summary, I have no plans to discontinue or delete any stories I currently have up about Technoblade at this time. I plan to continue to write about his brilliant character in the future.

Technoblade was a great creator and person from what I know of him even if that is not everything. I hope to honor his memory in my little way. Wishing you all the best if you stay reading my stories or not. Thank you. Stay safe.

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

I was tagged by @antimony-medusa

in no particular order:

carceral (2,553 words): the second qsmp fic in a prospective trilogy tackling q!jungryeok's relationship with q!acau, and also a roundabout character study of q!acau. having been almost exclusively writing kmcyt fic for the past four months, it was really nice to be able to share some kmcyt with a non-korean-speaking audience. i enjoyed putting my characterization to words and it was a little thrilling to share some like. tiny bits of my culture.

highlands (3,986 words): one of my favorite fics from my favorite series, wasteland (18/30 fics published, currently 96,399 words). an in-between fic from my sprawling hero/villain series, i think my characterization and pacing shines here as well, and there's a lot of worldbuilding that trickles in between the all the fraught conversations. i also just love niki.

brittle body, brittle blood (56,417 words): multi-chapter dsmp/tiredtwt fic. a fantasy/mech au whose main themes i spent a lot of time perfecting. i'm still very fond of the worldbuilding of this fic, which feels like a good balance between excruciatingly detailed and handwavey. i'm also happy with it because it originally had a very different ending, but i feel that its ending now is a choice that i am happy with and makes sense for the way that the story is formed.

plate of primes (485 words): dsmp c!tommy-centric poem. probably my most popular poem to date. tommy has great clarity of voice and i think the reddit format really sells this poem.

homeward (4,793 words): dsmp canon-divergent future fic where c!purpled escapes to hypixel after his death at c!charlie's hands. deals with ptsd, coming back to a family you barely recognize, and becoming a bad person by choice rather than letting someone force your hand.

tagging @tea-with-veth @prismartist @lookinghalfacorpse @dr3amingadream @doctorletmebebrave no pressure, and please make a new post if u choose to participate! thank many much :]

FR!!! Like oh my GOD I didnt even ship smallidarity before likeeeee I was just your average flower husbands fan, and I wanted to stick hard to the whole boundary compliance thing because I was part of dsmp twt for a year and. Well. That should say enough, iykyk. But then Joel just kept obsessing over Jimmy, Jimmy kept simping for Joel, and then the entire thing with the "he's just sooo cuuuute" and "can we just compare the size difference again, its my favorite thing ever" and whatever the fuck fixating on the noise Jimmy made was and it was like. Well. Bro. BRO. THEEEEN the having a CHILD together thing happened and I just fell into shipping them immediately from E2 alone. And now I'm watching E1 and I'm gonna rewatch 100h hardcore because your blog has just made it Worse.

This has been an entire tangent but the tldr is I didn't ship smallidarity until Joel was absolutely unbearable and obvious over just how much the cuteness aggression he gets over Jimmy Gets To Him.

Also I see your tags and I bring you this: in watching E1, am I insane or is the whole "Katherine was his first ally but I am his BEST ally, I will call her a coward and get genuinely angry at her for not going to the lengths I will to protect Jimmy" give off possessiveness. Not possessiveness as in jealousy, ownership, or anything like that but more in the sense that he takes great pride in being the one who takes care of Jimmy best, so to speak and to be the one who protects him when he needs it. This isn't really related at all to what you said but I'm doing my best and it's 6 AM as I write this, I have not slept and I should cut myself off before I spout even more nonsense.

- life series anon

ANON I LUV YOU AUSGEUE. I hope you get some good sleep friend aaueghd

I think that happened to a lot of people :3 smallidarity like was ramping up all season thanks to enemies to lovers being such a popular trope/dynamic but its Exploded in popularity lately and Im so thankful for that!!! whether it be from Joels fawning or their. insanity inducing innuendoes. the more fans the merrier ^—^

IM SO GLAD MY MADNESS HAS GOTTEN U TO WANNA REWATCH 100 HOURS :3c !!! its a comfort series for me for sure. and the episodes with Jimmy in them are. absolutely the best. ep 4 is one of my favorite episodes of anything ever. and if you want more Joel fawning over Jimmys cuteness…

YESSSSSS YES.. I ADORE THEM IN EMP S1!!! their dynamic is so unique there because of how wholly and overwhelmingly soft/positive it is. theyre allies from the start and BEST allies… auuughh.. yesshh Joel gets sooo defensive over Jimmy in s1 its beautiful. how quick he is to go absolutely murder mode for Jimmy. but how quick he is to be soft for him too. SIGGHHHHH. its my dream fr. the possessiveness.. YES.. theyre just SO important to eachother and it drives me crazy. he treats Jimmy so special. the way that he has little rooms for just Jimmy and Lizzie in his palace… the special roles they both hold… his wife and his best friend… there is def such a special connection there. and the possessiveness, Jimmy has so many more allies and close allies than Joel does. Joel just enforcing and affirming his station and specialness to Jimmy every once and a while.. by insulting his other allies augshs.. augh.. I just love them

also, for anyone else mulling over boundaries still; if you want specifics he just said he finds it “a bit weird” and iirc he didnt really say you cant do it. he just doesnt get it cause hes such a wifeguy. if youre concerned you can still tag it properly/keep it out of main tags. but if he was Really upset by it he would Not be encouraging and escalating it, and making the jokes he does, and putting them in his videos, and liking comments people make about them, and the tweets he makes, and and and and… if people are harassing u on behalf of him, they dont really care about what hes comfortable with, they just wanna punch down at someone. I get wanting to be respectful, but Ive also seen it used for such cruelty 💔 so I think the most important thing to keeping everyone, including the creators themselves, happy is to keep things to the right tags and spaces and being kind to yourself and others and blocking what you need and keeping out of peoples business.

New intro post !! You can call me Funky, which comes from my main/writing blog, @funky-writer-man. My original posts tag is "#funky says things". He/him. Putting the rest under a read more, here is information about what this blog is and my fandom preferences, that kind of thing.

So as a short explanation, this was originally made to be mostly a dsmp blog because I was really into that at the time. And for a pretty long time it was my main fandom. I watched a bit of qsmp, I'd been watching it for a few months. And then...the obsession hit? So! Completely my favourite thing right now. Not that short an explanation but yeah. I'm still partially into dsmp stuff, ccs, and other mc related things but definitely predominantly qsmp, so anything not qsmp will be tagged #not qsmp as long as I remember about that. Feel free to block that if you're only here for qsmp.

I (currently) don't speak Spanish, Portuguese or French, which I am sad about. I don't only speak English though! I speak pretty good German (for the level I'm at anyway) and hopefully more German speaking creators will be added so that can be useful. And also, I speak decent Irish! Unhelpful to the qsmp, but I know it!

My favourite qsmp characters: (originally here I started saying them but I ended up...listing all of them. Point is, I love them all. Let's just say my favs are tubbo and phil. And forever and bad and ETOILES and also- (I'm making myself stop here). And of course all the eggs. The eggs I know the best though are Tallulah and Chayanne because, again, I'm mostly a Phil or tubbo main.

I reblog a Lot, for any characters regardless of if I'm watching skjdkskdkd. Warning: I have hit post limit because of qsmp events multiple times. It's become a running bit of me announcing it to my friends.

I mentioned how I used to be really into the dsmp. To be clear, I never want to get super deep into fandom discourse again, thank you very much.. so I'll make my opinion clear: every qsmp character is at least a little bit fucked up, morally and emotionally. They are interesting that way, it's angsty and entertaining. I love all of the characters as the flawed people they are. I don't dislike any of them. I think some of them are generally Wrong, but I still Like them for it. I even love cucurucho in the fucked up evil little guy kind of way.

I'm not as into shipping as a lot of people, I think it's important to mention that I'm on the aromantic spectrum. I don't dislike any of the ships, it's QueerSMP after all, as long as "#qsmp shipping" is tagged I will be alright with it. My only grievance is when some seem to imply that if a relationship were to be platonic, it would be less important. As long as you don't say things like that, which hopefully none of you do, I am completely fine with shipping. I ship all of the popular ones, I suppose; if the characters interact in a flirty-type way, I see that as their relationship. I love frubbo, fitpac, spiderbit, you get my point.

Just gonna briefly mention other things I am interested in!

Ccs: other than qsmp creators, I also watch tommyinnit and a bit of ranboo and jack manifold. But to be honest a LOT of who I like are already on the qsmp. Tubbo, Phil, Wilbur, and that's just English speaking creators. I like sorry boys and lovejoy, and also mcc when ccs I like are participating.

Alright, that's pretty much all I have to say, thanks for reading!

Intro Post [Updated!!]

Hello, Hello, My name is Crypt and welcome to my blog of assorted things! I am a person with lots of AU Projects and often lots of thoughts for my fandoms, so please stick around if you enjoy my content!

My DMS and Asks are always open to chat as well, I'm pretty chill and I swear I don't bite though I'm prone to rambling at times. Additionally I am a big fan of text roleplay, while I do have a side blog for it, I will also accept roleplay requests here as I am very much in need of finding some new DSMP people to do things with.

Pronouns - They/Them, He/Him, It/Its

Currently 20

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Stuff Featured On This Blog/Things I Usually Reblog About

-*DSMP [Primary about the CHARACTERS, do not bring cc drama here just cause I post about the characters- Please note this post of mine in regards to recent events]

-Wings of Fire [Crossovers/oc stuff]

-House of the Dragon/ASOIAF [It's just the dragons or oc content - I do not really consider myself as a part of the fandom for numerous reasons, I just like some of the world building and the silly dragons]

-FNAF

-HTTYD

-Assorted Dinosaur/Prehistoric Creature Things

-OC Content

-Anything else that strikes my fancy

*Also I am a DSMP fan who likes DTeam - Interact at your own risk! I literally do not care if you hate them for the past 'allegations', that won't change the fact that they have only ever made mistakes in the past and are NOT the monsters you make them out to be - they're people too. :)

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Side Blogs:

Roleplay Blog That I NEED To Get Off The Ground

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Current Projects/AU Works

Things I have made more than one post on/have big plans for

-Ouroboros [DSMP/Wings of Fire AU and the main one I post about - #Ouroboros Au]

-Unnamed Dragon Rider DSMP AU [No tag yet]

-Creeper Worldbuilding [#Cryptid Brand Creepers]

-Untitled Jurassic Park/DSMP AU [No tag yet]

More TBA cause god I have a LOT of AUs and little projects

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Additional Blog Tags

#Art from the Crypt #Crypts Art [Art Tags]

#Crypts Rambles [Assorted Rambles]

#Reblog Moment [Reblogs]

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DNI

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Anyone under the age of 16 - a lot of my content is more mature leaning and this is for my own comfort

Proship/Terfs/Nazi supporters and people of the like.

Anyone who thinks death threating, doxing or any type of continued hateful harassment towards people is "justified" - human life is sacred and y'all need to learn that.

(I do actively block people as well but still putting these statements here)

reddit is a much more toxic place for fandom because it centers discussion instead of creation. and there's only so many things to discuss before you start spreading unnecessary negativity.

there was an actual popular post on the hermitcraft subreddit encouraging to voice your unpopular opinions which ccs read and it was, uhh. what you'd expect. at this point tumblr might actually be better for creators

Oh anon. You don't have to tell me about the infamous unpopular opinions post. I think I was the one who basically brought that one to hermitblr and my blog was pretty much entirely posts and asks about it for a few days--I was basically the center of discussion for that awful incident for tumblr users. I have NOT forgiven the subreddit for that. Some of the stuff there was practically libel and the moderators had to approve every comment individually before posting, and just....approved blatant character defamation. And I'm not using "character" in the narrative sense. That was so bad that it upset some hermits and one of the hermits reached out and asked for the post to be deleted (again, the post contained more than just unpopular opinions, and even had comments making baseless accusations.) The post was taken down, but then reddit does what it does best and cried about freedom of speech and censorship, so the hermits let the mods put the post back up and Xisuma (iirc) made an apology to the fandom for "censoring their opinions." When it is, in my perfectly honest opinion, extremely valid to to be upset about the things that were being said....like if you said that to me irl about a friend, i'd want to slap you, but they're on the internet so they're just expected to accept everything happily i guess....

Fortunately, the moderator who allowed and approved a lot of the worst comments has been removed. I think. I am pretty sure they're the same person that was involved in another incident but I'm not gonna mention it because I can't (dont feel like) confirming it and the last thing I'd want to do is make the same mistakes as in the thread by making random accusations.

I think you're right about about some of the discussion versus creation aspect. Even when you post a creative product, it just sits and accumulates comments where everyone can give their opinion on it. You can comment on art on tumblr too, but the emphasis is way more on sharing it with others. And you tend to see art only as a result of following people you like, so you're already vetting the list of what you see. Reddit is like...going to the town hall and just hanging a picture on a board. I guess? It's like the only thing you could do was browse the main tags on tumblr and everyone was mad all the time lol

I don't think having negative opinions on media is a bad thing, nor do i think being critical of it is. I think that a lot of discussion and analysis has to be critical in order to dig into issues in media (either via social issues or just regular narrative issues.) But it's the sheer concentration of it that is so exhausting. It's just not a fun place to hang out because you can't really vet what posts you see so the people who only want to discuss negative things will always be hanging at your periphery. Whereas, on tumblr, i can intentionally follow analysis centered people. I was big into the dsmp analysis community and it wasn't all positive posts. But if i wanted out I could just unfollow them and follow some more chill people instead. On reddit you don't really get that choice.

names + nicknames — hunter, miku

pronouns — any/all, but they/them & it/its are preferred

identity/orientation — aroace pan (still not sure) and genderfluid

I have a difficult time understanding tones through text so I do rely on tone tags often!!

My darling beloveds: @delusional-dingus @astromilo

dni — 18+/NSFW blogs, are a pr0shipper, support dream or dsmp, are racist, are antisemitic, are a creep, are misogynistic/against women’s rights, are a TERF, are homophobic/lgbtqia+ phobic/transphobic, anyone who thinks bisexuality, aromantic, and/or asexual isnt real, or are just here to be mean in general.

shows — Stranger Things, The Owl House, and Milo Murphy’s Law, Total Drama, SK8

movies — Luca, The Black Phone, all of the Mighty Ducks movies

Cuz this is a sports blog now apparentlyyyy

hockey — My main teams are the #1. Bruins-Coyotes, #2. Canucks-Sabres, #3. Oilers-Devils!! I also enjoy watching other teams even if they aren’t my favorites.

(Also yes, I am in constant suffering from having this many favorite teams 🫡😔)

Getting into Formula 1 now apparently; so far the drivers I like are: Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, Yuki Tsunoda, and Lewis Hamilton

I also apparently like WWE now. My favorites so far are: Dominik Mysterio, Rhea Ripley, Bobby Lashley

Also I like the Georgia Bulldogs when it comes to football 😁👍 might as well put that in here since I’m already basically a sportblog

Trying to get into: Baseball, Volleyball, Basketball, Figure Skating, Ski Jumping, and probably others.

Hello this is a blog. For when I'm making original posts or socializing people beyond putting stuff in tags. I'm planning on not rebloging my art to this one in the future

@rhyme-draws-stuff is where my art is, and where i like from! i recommend following me there i make cool stuff.

@rhyme-posts-stuff is where i reblog stuff! Sometimes my own posts are included in that if I want more people to see them, or see them again.

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but there may also be posts about DSMP, Hollow Knight, BOTW/TOTK, and Genshin Impact here every now and then in the future, among other things.

Current main fandoms are Homestuck, Life Series/Traffic SMP, Hermitcraft

i enjoy trafficshipping so be aware of that (for the characters, not the content creators)

Also screenshots from my Minecraft creative world!

I tend to be kind of quiet and only post a small fraction of my thoughts about my interests, but I'm hoping to change that. Finding the right words to express my thoughts with is really hard for me

also i am a socially anxious being

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I wake up and realize belatedly that you asked for my list of trusted techno authors! Let’s go.

hoorayy (author of deviltown)— not a techno or emduo main, but consistently writes pitch-perfect techno in ensemble stuff.

third_crow: also writes ensemble stuff, did an excellent boreal-focused fantasy fic and is now writing a SBI foster au that’s actually nuanced and good? Who knew.

Odaigahara: I see you’ve already mentioned her. Everything she writes is so good. AHHHH.

EmJay_Panziku: the horror fic. The space fic. Somehow it’s not Tommy-centric for once. I am throwing my credit card at the screen. MORE PLZ.

AdrianaintheSnow: if you are okay with Tommy-centric SBI, this is actually good and fun character writing for everyone in that quartet, interesting worldbuilding, soft and cute moments.

Scrolling through my bookmarks like Odaigahara, Odaigahara, Odaigahara again…

Beans_McGee: I think they’ve gone over to hermitcraft now, but they have an unfinished series named Angel teeth that is just some of the best actually funny techno writing around.

Spice_ghouls: haven’t updated in a while so I don’t know if they left the fandom, but some very good emduo.

Inallthingsgoodorbad: okay so yes their most recent work is superhero AU, but it’s a really GOOD one, actually.

Dreamdx (thereisdefinitelyawordforthat): everything they write I must put immediately into my eyeballs. I am throwing my credit card at the screen again.

Fensandmarshes: !!!!! He is so good at every character but his technoooooooo (okay yes I am an awkward autistic but beyond that). Worldbuilding! Voice! Autistic characters!

H_mellohi: they’re more focused on angelduo, but when they write techno or emduo I just relax knowing they are in safe hands.

So for this one the author is anon, but if you search up I Asked For A Monster And You Gave Me A Fairytale, the author has two fics, (both Tommy centric but y’know, you gotta muscle past that I guess in this fandom), one where Tommy goes into the woods to die and gets adopted by a house of monsters, one where Tommy’s a vegan neceomancer used by a cult to bring The Blood God back. They are both very stressed.

Sigh so much of this fandom is Tommy-centric I’m still scrolling—

Okay we all know about findingkairos BUT ALSO FINDINGKAIROS.

OHHH THANK YOU.... i guess i should go grab links for these authors for myself and others hold on lemme--

i dont know hoorayy bc i havent read devil town or anything else by them, but ive heard good things about the fic!

third_crow.. OH TRUST ME. THE BOREAL TRIO FIC, YOU MEAN VISAGE? I KNOW ABOUT VISAGE. ITS MY ALL TIME FAVE DSMP FIC. IM OBSESSED W IT. CANNOT RECOMMEND VISAGE ENOUGH. PLEASE READ VISAGE

i didnt realize how much odaigahara i read until i made that list for that last ask but i really will have to read thru their works purposefully now that its come to my attention. good stuff, quality author

EmJay_Panziku i have read just the space fic (which i absolutely adore) but now that i have their account open i see they have another fic noted, in the tags, as being similar to Sweet Home.. I fucking LOVED that comic!! i followed it for years!! i will be back for this fic For Certain. (i assume this is "the horror fic" you mentuoned)

AdrianaintheSnow ill be honest i just. dont read tommy centric sbi i cant. not my thing. i get bored if techno isnt there and that happens much faster if its tommy instead. HOWEVER if youre ranking this author as being as good as all the other ones that i know in this list then i am sure theyre very good and to my followers who might find this of interest? heres a person to look at. esp if you said their worldbuilding is good, i love fun worldbuilding

Beans_McGee i have read these fics actually theyre fun. i def recommend ppl give the angel teeth series a shot, tho its been a while since i read them so i cant remember specifics anymore

Spice_ghouls ive seen these fics but i havent read them, ill have to check them out!!

Inallthingsgoodorbad i have NOT seen these fics but scrollling thru they look really interesting! i like superhero aus well enough so thats no deterrent, and the snippets of writing used in the summaries on here sound very neat indeed

Dreamdx OH YES. I KNOW THEM. LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR... SO SHIT HAS HIT THE FAN... SO MANY GOOD FICS IN HERE. really nice writing style and really honest and compassionate look at a lot of characters, esp the latter fic's handling of The Fireworks Duo Issues And Problems. its rlly interesting and thoughtful

Fensandmarshes this dude has 400 works. thats insane?? kudos to this author jesus. i dont know if i knew any of their work bc thats So Much to look thru but ill def check this dude out

H_mellohi i trust h with my life. h if you see this i trust you with my life. i love love Love red eggs and ham but i also have read and liked more of their fics but i really need to go back and check out Even More i think

findingkairos. findingkairos

heres a link to that anonymously published fic you mentioned. honestly seems incredibly entertaining as a premise. i dunno i'd personally want to read it but it sounds like an objectively good read

also i want to add to your list, if you dont mind... acuteroses, who ive liked quite a few fics from!

thank you so much or this list!! of the authors of yours i have read, you have fantastic taste

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Hullo, this is a roleplay blog for Philza’s Crows!

I’m playing a crow named Peg or Night, and their pronouns are he/they. My headmate plays Brian, and his pronouns are he/she/they/it :)

Asks are welcome and encouraged!

I also make Text To Speech audios, so feel free to send asks/submissions that I can turn into audios!

Disclaimers/Rules:

In universes I play in, I am NOT a direct character and sending me asks about various characters in those roleplays won’t make their admins post faster, they have stuff to do sometimes and do this in their free time, just like I do :D

Keep in mind, I am playing a character! Peg/Night will make bad choices, lie on purpose or through ignorance, misunderstand things, be hypocritical, forget stuff, choose not to answer certain asks, or say things that might come off mean - that doesn’t mean me, the admin of the blog, hates you! I promise! I love to get asks and to answer them, and it’s very hard to annoy me. <3

Please don't pester other blogs about us! Unless it’s pertinent to their rp [i.e. Peg is one of Bedrockverse!Phil’s mods, Night has promised Yaoiverse!Phil to collect info for him] I carry out setting up rp in dms before it happens most of the time.

I am Not Good at tags, I have a memory disorder! I don’t tag triggers for this reason. Please keep yourself safe and consider not following me if an untagged trigger may hurt you. <3

This blog is largely SFW, and generally only contains casual suggestive language or swearing. This blog does contain infrequent mentions/descriptions of animal death with no chance of visual gore stronger than blood imagery, mild religious themes, frequent mentions of fire, arson, stealing, and death. Please keep yourself safe.

Please do not send me visual gore stronger than blood imagery or explicitly sexual messages.

I try to caption all audios make, and any text that is red or green I try to remember to put a plaintext version under a cut. If I miss any or there’s anything else I can do to my posts and reblogs to make them easier to read, please let me know and I’ll do my best.

Links:

My main is @bumblebee-error :) that blog mostly for replies at the mo, the one I use most often and regularly dump dsmp lore analysis and general posts on is @bumblebeerror . It’s also where I attempt to remember to post that I’m live on Twitch, but it doesn’t usually pan out. I’m working on it :)

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hello! from the fic writer thingy; 1, 8, 9, 17, 25, 36, 37, 41 and 42 !!!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

oh boy uh. for dsmp, by far, can i sleep in your house tonight or like i've never been are my strongest works. best foot forward, and all that.

for mianite, though... i love the karma series but it's a Lot, so maybe vintage misery or stars burn out. peak identity theft for both of them, tbh, but they're Good.

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

i've done most of the Splash Potion of Brainrot ones, but left on the list are:

the plagues from prince of egypt, 100 bad days by ajr, home to me by devil and the deep blue sea, thus always to tyrants by the oh hellos, dirty by grandson :)

9. How do you find new fic to read?

i subscribe to vav on ao3. and also scroll the wilbur soot character tag with dozens of excluded tags. and also read my friends' stuff.

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

my batshit insane tubbo- and andor-centric vigilianitee au, my fucking beloved. put those boys in situations. someone becomes a magical girl and i'm not telling you who.

25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?

i have the mental illness transcription doc, which is roughly 80 pages of transcribed mianite dialogue written out in script format, and i reference that pretty often. i've also got a folder of about 725 screenshots of mianite references, so. yknow.

36. Do you visualize what you read/write?

....sometimes? i guess? i'm really fuckin bad at it when i do, but i end up sketching out reference maps or using screenshots bc my spacial awareness is a little bit Really Bad

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

all of my mianite fics.

nahhh as far as dsmp fics go, i have to say just give me a happy middle is one that i loved and most people didn't. it was just posted at a weird time, i think? idk. food as a metaphor for love.

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

THIS ONE. THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. it was the first one of vav's ao3 fics that i read, and i lost my fucking mind. the imagery. the detail. the pacing. the quilt. OUGH i wish i could fuckin Do That with words. i dont care if yall warch mianite or not i am telling you to read the fic

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

the tipping point for me becoming a wilbur main was zanna zannolin's comment on save the world. so. yes. anyone who leaves long detailed comments analyzing symbolism or easter eggs or characterization, i would already die for you, but that comment specifically is one of the things that got me to start writing wilbur-centric stuff as a whole. thanks king.