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If I do something good because it makes me feel like a good person, is that technically selfish?

no, only if you're choosing to make others suffer to make yourself feel good

enjoying making other people happy is a great thing

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: tommy isn’t a uniquely violent character, he’s a uniquely punished character.

tommy doesn’t grief more than other people, he doesn’t kill more than other people, he doesn’t steal more than other people, he doesn’t cause conflicts more than other people (being involved is not the same as causing), but while other characters have faced consequences in the sense of revenge (think the pet wars) tommy is the only character that has Consistently faced consequences in the form of being punished from a place of authority.

people in the fandom treat tommy differently because the Narrative treats tommy differently, however the whole point of this narrative is that it’s unfair.

dream targeted tommy with exile because he wanted to hurt him, dream’s done worse to george himself and had actively been trying to frame tommy to get him exiled a week before. other characters have started blaming tommy for what’s happened because dream painted tommy as the center of all of their problems (dream holding l’manberg hostage to exile tommy, lying about the community house, announcing that he’s going to destroy l’manberg because tommy told tubbo to give him his disc, doomsday being centered around tommy despite techno planning to destroy it before tommy had teamed up with him). dream hurts people and tries to find a way to blame tommy to put a wedge between him and them, to hurt tommy with his attachments to other people and hurt people with their attachment to tommy. he’s being Unfair and tommy recognized that all the way back at the trial.

and the thing is? tommy’s still grown as a person. he’s Apologized, he’s made an active effort to change his behavior and try to stay out of trouble, and dream is Still hurting him. Still targeting him.

the argument that tommy being traumatized/a child/abused/etc not being an excuse, that he deserves to be punished for his actions, falls flat because he’s the Only character being asked to do so for the actual “crimes” that he’s committed. no one else is held to the same standard that he is, both in the lore and by the fandom. it’s not that tommy is flawless or that he’s never done anything wrong, it’s that no one’s Ever insisted that sapnap needs to be punished for griefing, that Tubbo needs to be punished for burning people’s things, or even Dream for having been the center of conflicts long before tommy showed up and long after.

it’s a double standard that sits Wrong. wrong because tommy’s made an active effort to apologize, to grow, to be a better person, and was still demonized by the fandom while it was happening and accused of never learning.

wrong because he’s been uniquely hurt in a way that no one on the server has been in the name of “punishing” him, and I think at that point we have to ask if “punishment” is something that he really needs let alone Deserves.

and Wrong because the logic and reasoning that we use to get there, to Get at the idea that he deserves punishment when other characters do not, stems from the same logic that his abuser used to justify his abuse.

if tommy was a side character whose personality wasn’t Any different he’d never be treated this way by the fandom, he’d never be demonized the way that he is. you can think that he’s annoying without thinking that he should suffer or without trying to justify it by pinning him down as morally in the wrong somehow. likewise he isn’t actually More guilty than anyone else is just because another character says that he is

why does no one on tumblr seem to talk about tubbo individually outside of his "duos" or "trios". I think we should make things about tubbo for once 😁 here are some reasons y'all need to get into him and why he's so much more than "uwu bee boy" OR "chaotic nuke gremlin" or whatever one dimensional character y'all decide to assign to him lmao.

- he's so knowledgeable about minecraft, especially when it comes to modded and server developing, and is way more intelligent than the fandom gives him credit for.

- he constantly creates a super welcoming environment for the lgbtq+ community (never treating anyone any differently, clearly being educated on questions others have and asking questions when need be. the stream where he learned about neopronouns and said he thought they were cool is one of my favourites). he has also raided smaller streamers, usually female or lgbtq+, which is something you don't see super often. once, when justnathantv had lost all his followers due to a twitch glitch, tubbo gifted 100 subs to him and hung out with him on stream despite never meeting him before.

- he's an amazing streamer and has done a fantastic job of integrating his chat into twitch culture while not making things too gatekeep-y, which is why so many variety streamers like mizkif, ludwig, Austin and Connor love his chat and him as a streamer. mizkif literally says he is the future of streaming, and gave him his stream key after one time in a vc with him

- his ambition and work ethic >>>. he says he's gonna do something and he gets it done. his song, his minecraft server, the voltz war series, his merch coming soon. he's so cool.

- he never asks for subs even though he's using the money for building an extension/office for his house, and he still does super cool subgoals (cooking and walking streams, horror games, merch and song snippets, etc) even when he doesn't hit them which frustrates me but shows how he's not really in it for the money but for his community who he thinks he doesn't deserve.

- he is so musically talented. its so cool how he can just pick up an instrument and learn it in like a week.

- he's genuinely such a genuine kid and you can tell by how he interacts with others, his mods, his chat, everyone. he streams for like 12 hours a day when he can on his alt simply because he wants to hang out with us.

that's why I think its so sad that a lot of people in the fandom don't really see him or respect him as an individual, and I think that needs to change. please try to catch a tubbo stream when he's not just streaming with ur faves, I'm sure you'll love him!