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Early MCYTblr Interviews: tack-tick

today's interviewee is tack-tick, a pioneer of the "phistin" ship and DSMP fan since before the first election! below is a transcript of the interview.

Q: What was your overall time in MCYTblr like?

A: I'd say my overall time in Mcytblr could be described as finding diamonds in the rough. This fandom is defined by finding your group, sticking to them and if you're smart not really looking beyond that. I did look beyond that and saw a lot of discourse and such. I had a good time with my friends but I did get negatively affected by the discourse at times. It was kind of a toxic shithole but by God mcytblr was our shithole lol

Q: Do you remember any specific discourse that affected you, or was it just the overall culture around you?

A: As a Technoblade main, it was the discourse surrounding his character that messed with me. At the time, I was mutuals (none in the phistin palace dw guys) with some people who hated his character. I, as an anxious teenager, was very worried it would cause drama if I unfollowed them and my dash became a lot of those long negative essays about how he was an awful person and yknow the drill. It was mainly my own fault and my dash became signfigantly better once I realized no one would be offended of I unfollowed, blocked a bunch of tags, started up my own discord server and focused more on writing fanfic instead of doomscrolling. A good lesson in curating your dash of anything else. (Btw those former mutuals are fine people, we just had radically different tastes in what we liked and disliked about the Dream SMP)

Q: You mentioned the "phistin palace"-- before we get into that, would you like to explain the "phistin" rarepair itself?

A: Now we are cooking! So, Phistin is the ship of Kristin and Philza. It's main focus was on the scraps of lore that we had about their relationship which was Kristin was the immortal goddess of Death and they couldn't really see each other often but loved each other very much. I'd say it's main appeal was being one of the few ships that was just really stable in the Dream SMP compared to the Karlnapity polycule and whatever youd call Quackbur. Fun fact, I can't find the post now but if i remember correctly me and tumblr user Demonadelem helped name the pair Phistin. Although, that was ages ago so I could be misremebering

Q: Was the ship entirely within the SMP, or was it just the general ship name for the real-life couple?

A: It was both. Since Kristin didn't really stream on the dream smp, a lot of her personality had to be based on what Phil said about her and her other streams. Basically, lore about the ship was pulled from the SMP but the dynamics and personality was from both. You could play around with the dynamic if you focused on Kristin being a goddess

Q: With that basic information laid out-- what was the "phistin palace"?

A: The Phistin Palace was a discord server I founded in August of 2022. Phistin was a ship that was basically a side thing I did in fandom because my main focus was Technoblade and emerald duo stuff. I think if you're a Technoblade fan you're legally obligated to be a Philza fan and vice versa. I don't make the rules. So Phistin was something I did when I wanted a break from Technoblade as a way to practice romantic shipping.

Then Technoblade passed away and I didn't want to do anything with his character for a while so I focused completely on Phistin. However, when I tried to find any fics they were either a background ship with only one line or Kristin was already dead from a tragic disease who's main symptoms were lying daintily in bed. While I was writing my own long form Phistin focused fic, Two Birds if anyone read it, I got a comment that complimented me for "giving her an actual charatcer" and maaaan that is a very low bar to be praised for. So, I started the palace as a way to find other Phistin fans who actually cared about them beyond Kristin being angst fodder for SBI.

Q: Do you have any fond memories in specific of the "Phistin Palace" discord server?

A: Oh so many. During the Syndicate finale, three of us all liveblogged and freaked the fuck out when Kristin showed up for the first time in a minecraft skin on the server. I made on of those AI chatbot things that was popular for a bit and the bot was supposed to be the Kristin character. I asked if she had a pet and she said she has a gecko named Tim. The entire server instantly decided they would die for Tim and he's now an emote. The general chat is also named Tim Time Fucker. A mermaid AU that was made that the majority of the server contributed a lot of lore to we named it the Communist Mermaid AU because the server collectively owns it now. Many good moments there

Q: Beyond the Phistin Palace, are there any large community events that you remember/took part in, or did you mostly stick to your friend group?

A: I remember The Penis SMP of course. I never really took part in large community events but I did watch them happen. I read the Passerine chapter where Tommy died becasue my dash flipped out when that dropped. I'd also try to watch Sad-ist animatics live when I could. At most, Id make a meme during a stream that would rack up a couple hundred notes or one thousand if I was lucky A thousand was like once or twice I think

Q: You mentioned that you were also a Technoblade fan before you became more focused on Phistin-- was your experience in that side of the fandom any different?

A: It certainly had more content than Phistin did lol. I was never really in any Technoblade discords or anything but back in the day it was focused on emerald duo and being funny. or angsty. Nowadays, it's way less lively unfortunately. It's not as bad as in 2022 but Technoblade fancontent seems to be less foucsed on the character and more on memorials/remembrance. At some point, you run out of things to say and not a lot of people wanted to stay in a fandom that just felt weighed down by it all. I did leave so things could perk up someday but I don't think that's likely

Q: We've talked about the fandom and how it responds to content-- let's talk about the content itself. What were some of your favorite moments from the Dream SMP as a whole?

A: The Red Festival Technoblade stream was the first one I ever watched live so that's a good one. The stream where L'manberg getting blown up at the end of The Manberg Arc is iconic for an underrated reason. I don't know how many people remember but Phil was highly speculated to be on the Dream SMP someday. On the day of that stream, he started on his hardcore world, then stopped his stream and did his dramatic switch surprise entrance to enter the Dream SMP for the first time. Also Technoblade escaping the anvil and then killing Quackity with a toothpick was great. I've never liked watching Twitch streams on my Ipad so most of my favorite moments come from YouTube

Q: Were you sad that Phistin wasn't a more popular ship, or did you enjoy the tight-knit community?

A: I was sad Kristin kept friggin dying, the poor woman lol. Sometimes I wish it was a bit more popular but the community was nice. The main issue is Phistin stuff started tanking hard on Ao3 in terms of numbers and tended to get misstagged quite a bit

Q: You've brought up a few times that Kristin was often fridged, disregarded, or replaced (on several notable occasions, by an actual Samsung fridge). How did you feel about it? Do you think there was any particular reason for it?

A: I mean, I really don't like it but I understand it. A lot of people loved that SBI angst but also wanted to write all the SBI. So the obvious solution is to kill off Kristin for free angst and keep all the SBI in the story. Passerine is a fic i respect a lot but it also kickstarted this trend to be honest. Kristin herself also didn't physically show up in the lore a lot so it was really tricky to write her. When I first wrote her, it was intimidating because I didn't have many fics to look at as good examples.

Was it shitty and a bit sexist? Yes but I don't think sexism was the only reason. Kristin's character was in a unique situation compared to the others. I have no problem with Kristin dying in a fic. The main issue is that often came with her personality being reduced to good mom and that's it. I'm not gonna call a bunch of probably first time writers evil sexists when I know what it's like to not know how to write her and being scared you'll get her completely wrong.

Q: Since it's come up, would you mind giving a quick rundown of what exactly the fanfic "Passerine" is? (As well as any memories you have relating to it!)

A: If i'm being honest, I only read the chapter where Tommy got murked. What I know from osmosis is it's an SBI royalty AU that had some kind of meta twist at the end and it was very sad. It also got a sad-ist animatic made out of it which jesus christ I'd give for that. I tried it but the writing style was too wordy for my liking. It's mainly important for Phistin history even though Kristin wasn't in it. No, The Fridge died in it but everyone just kinda assumed it was Kristin for long enough it got the ball rolling. Also I think Niki read it on a stream

Q: Before we wrap up, is there anything else you remember about MCYTblr/the DSMP that you'd like to talk about?

A: The DSMP sure was the minecraft server of all time that is defined as a server that was doomed from the start. Whoever makes a video essay on it is gonna have a hell of a job. 10/10 experience would not recommenced. Hello to the Phistin Palace if any of you read this :D

Mcytblr is getting more chill with shipping from what I've seen. Thank God, keeping making Philza Minecraft kiss those men and his wife.

Also SUBSCRIBE TO TECHNOBLADE

#early mcytblr interviews #Volume 16 #tack-tick

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magici-if · 10 months

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🍩 for anyone I just like sweets lol

hii for sure ♥︎

🍩 DONUT - favourite sweet treat?

from this list

Martin doesn't usually eat sweet things unless it's something a loved one has baked or bought specifically for him. On cheat days though, his go-to is store-bought gifflar with vanilla filling, or cinnamon buns.

Demetra: On Christmas, pandoro (she HATES panettone), especially the one with limoncello. On any other day though, Ferrero Rochers or pink doughnuts.

Evander: he loves anything as long as sugar is in it honestly, but his favourites are Persians Rolls. Both he and Demetra love dougnuts so that's just one more thing they have in common.

Harley loves anything chocolate and she loves baking; so she'll often try out different chocolate recipes. During the show, Martin convinces her to bake kladdkaka and she falls in love with it.

Echo has a sweet tooth, her favourites are plum dumplings, smurf ice cream, and baklava of course.

Dominic doesn't eat sweet things often, his teeth start hurting immediately after. He loves caramel peanut protein bars though, he doesn't eat them for the protein or anything, he literally just likes the taste.

#interactive fiction #if wip #magici: evander #magici: demetra #magici: harley #magici: martin #magici: dominic #magici: echo #tack-tick

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mcyt-trios · 8 months

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I know it’s probably too late but are there any submissions for Niki, Wilbur and Jschlatt

I just think that trio could have had a slightly toxic friendship before the dsmp started but that’s literally just a headcanon

Niki, Schlatt, and Wilbur have 2 counted submissions! We still have yet to count every submission however.

Submissions are closed!

#not polls #asks #mod skater #submission updates #tack-tick

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mcytblrsexymen · 1 year

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How many CallMeKevin and RTGame nominations are there?

They count RT was in an MCC

5 nominations for CallMeKevin, and 13 nominations for RT Game!

#tack-tick #nomination updates

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atomic-rena · 1 year

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It’s canonically been a year

RCU Tica is almost dead :D

if she dies her and rena cant have epic sex :[

#ask #rena.text #tack-tick #rcu #wooo one year woooooooooooooo

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redandyellowbracket · 11 months

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Guys please submit Partitio and Hikari they are my guysss

Specifically Partitio he fought an actual train with a bow and arrows

and he fucking won

#Talking to the Moon #Tack-tick #Redyellowpropaganda

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kynimdraws · 2 years

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Yessss more Fire Emblem

I’m assuming you picked the golden deer route first? I’m doing blue lions and it’s reignited my love for this game and characters as well

I actually haven't bought the game yet and just sifted through all the datamine content while watching my friends play....but if I do buy the game I would do GW first yes

#ask #tack-tick #i tried the demo and i didnt enjoy the feel of the warriors game so...

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ddwcaph-game · 2 years

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If Cordelia and Cham were humans and went to the same school as F6E, what do you think their lives would be like?

Ooh, I love this one! Thanks for sending this in! 😊

I didn't realize until after writing it, but I think I interpreted this a little differently. This will actually be explored later in the story, so I'm going with how they'll adjust if they moved from their home world.

Minor spoilers below!

Cordelia won't need as much adjusting, at least compared to Cham.

Most of her adjustment period would be about learning how modern computers work, not that it's something she'd have a big interest in. It would also be both very quiet and noisy for her--loud city noises replacing the near ubiquitous bird songs and chirping, although that may be alleviated a little if LCU is in the rural background.

If there's one thing she'd look forward to, she'll be very excited to try out new foods and cooking with new ingredients!

There isn't any kind of formal schooling where she's from, so it might take her a while to get used to a new routine, but I don't think she'd have much trouble overall. She just wouldn't see the need to learn some subjects when there's a lot more practical stuff she's more interested learn.

She'd be very shy and reserved to start, but she wouldn't really struggle creating new friends and acquaintances since she knows almost everyone around D' Warblings Camp.

LCU might have a sudden griffin problem though. Dore's adjustment period, on the other hand...

Cham will have a hard time adjusting to human life and social norms in general, as well as dealing with the loss of her flight and her other powers, especially mind reading. The world will be too quiet for her.

Although she has exceptional memory, she'd struggle with school quite a bit, especially because she's super distractible and have a hard time focusing on a closed classroom environment, and she's very much a hands on learner. The font on the header above is what her handwriting would actually look like.

So I think a tutorial session with Wayne and JM would be best for her. Wayne to introduce the concepts to her and keep her entertained, and JM to guide them and keep them both from getting off-track.

I can see her hanging around with Wayne and Roselyna a lot, at least until she figure out how things work. She has very good chemistry with both of them, so they wouldn't mind guiding her along. She'd pick up friends quickly if they didn't mind her being weird.

Unlike Cordelia though, she'd have no problem learning about machines and computers. She often tinkers around with clockworks and other machines, so don't be surprised if she suddenly takes apart a toaster to see how it works (and put it back easily). Also expect her to sleep in the weirdest and most random of places.

I'm not sure what her family would be like, but I can see Josephine and Mariano adopting her (especially because she's an angel and Rosie would have already found her parents after the first six volumes). Although... I'm not sure how they'd feel about her pet hellhound even if it's friendly. Hehe. 😛

#dear diary asks #ddwcaph spoilers #cordelia #cham #tack-tick

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atthebell-moved · 1 year

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Admittedly, as a Phistin main writer who was so desperate for content where Kristin didn’t she started an entire damnn discord server for it, I do kinda understand why people kill her off

Especially back in dream SMP’s height it was very intimidating to write her at all because there was very little canon information to go off of at the time

Plus it was pretty hard to find any good long fanworks to use as some kind of guide to write her personality like I looked for one and there just wasn’t a lot

So for new writers who wanted angst but didn’t want to kill off the characters they were more confident in writing Kristin was an easy solution

So, for a fandom where most people were new at writing fanfic, I absolutely understand being intimidating or worried you won’t get her right because I was very worried while writing my fic. I basically started writing and hoped I was doing it right based on what I knew

To anyone who wants to write a fic where she’s a main character and is scared you’ll get it wrong, I say just go for it! Take some chances on writing her, you can only get better by doing! Fanfic is for fun and trust me Phistin fans will appreciate anything where her main role isn’t dying of illness and being a tragic mother figure lol

I also have a friend who is a very good Kristin writer and loves her streams and she made a little guide with tips for writing Kristin

So to nervous writers, you guys can do it if you just try! She’s a very fun character to write if you want to try writing someone new! Just be confident in yourself while writing because I believe you can do it!

i understand what you mean and i agree that kristin doesn't have a ton going on in canon which could make things difficult for many writers. however, the issue at hand is not inexperienced writers, it's misogyny. the dead mom/disposable woman trope is incredibly common in media and it is a way of furthering male character development by killing off or doing horrible violence to female characters .

kristin is being killed off in fics not in service of her own character potential but purely to make it so wilbur and tommy (and sometimes techno) can angst over their dead mom and so phil can mourn his dead wife. it's fridging. it's providing male characters with reasons to further their development to the detriment of a woman. it's not poor writing aside from that i think sexist writing is bad (and i hope you do as well) but that does not by nature make it poor quality, and that's not the issue at hand.

like. the reason people aren't confident writing kristin is absolutely in part because she's not a major character and there's very little foundation, but that's not what's actually causing them to use her as angst fuel. it's because the disposable woman trope is so common and people are so much more willing to kill off a woman for angst than they are a man.

this is not to say writing kristin whump is wrong or inherently sexist, but i would ask people to think about whether you're doing it in service of her character or in service of someone else's (usually a man's).

as a final note from the article Mother Deadest: "Women in literature, especially mothers, need to exist as more than a means to make other characters more interesting."

#asks #tack-tick #misogyny in fandom #also im in phistin palace im just a lurker #and very slow at writing so msy phistin fics are still wips

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