My Biggest Fear With Tommys Recent Lore Streams, Is That In The Next Few Days/weeks We Are Going To Find

My biggest fear with Tommy’s recent lore streams, is that in the next few days/weeks we are going to find out that the price of the revive book is that it isn’t actually permanent and can’t be properly sustained for long. My next big fear is that c!Tommy is actually aware of this, and that is why he has been running around the SMP tying up a bunch of his loose ends and unresolved traumas, so that when he enevitably dies this time he won’t end up in limbo like Wilbur and Schlatt who still have unfinished business.

But that’s just a fear... right?

You know, I think that with all this talk of whose to blame between c!Tommy and c!Sam that we take the time think about why we get no perspective for c!Dream. I just find it interesting that at the end of the day the one who killed Ghostbur was still c!Dream, he made that conscious decision. However since we never get to see his perspective and c!Dream’s been in the prison for so long, we’ve taken for granted at this point that c!Dream is a narrative device instead of an actual character who makes his own decisions.

And yeah, all parties deserve a little blame, c!Tommy for bringing Ghostbur to begin with, and c!Sam for adhering so strongly to a faulty system. But at the end of the day, the death message will always read out as:

“Wilbur Soot was slain by Dream”

Look, I don't post on this website. I lurk. But I do want to say smth for once.

As someone who just turned 22, I'm older than a lot of people in this fandom. A pretty significant part of this fandom is much, much younger than me, often somewhere between 10-15 years old, and a huge part of this fandom is lgbtqia and a lot of them are just now figuring themselves out.

So when the ccs they look up to, use their platform to loudly and openly declare their support to the community then absolutely no one has a right to criticise these kids, or anyone else for feeling reassured, validated, or just happy about it.

Is it the height of allyship? No. Is it basic human decency? Ideally, yes.

But what a lot of this fandom is just too young to remember (and tbh, I'm almost too young too) is how utterly shit the gaming space was just 5-7 years ago.

Gamergate harassed female and lgbt people to the point of actually endangering their lives purely because they dared to be visible and loud in a male cishet dominated space.

Hell, switch to a different fandom and you'll still see people complaining how female protagonists aren't sexualized enough and how PC culture is ruining games.

The fact that this fandom, which, just a few days ago, reached almost 1 million concurrent live viewers for mcc and which is large enough to get "Dogboy" trending just because a creator tweeted "bark" on twitter, is so agressively lgbtqia friendly is honestly a miracle.

You have streamers actively educating themselves everytime they learn smth new, you have others donating thousands to lgbt charities and others curating their audience by banning homophobes and racists with prejucide, so that their audience is comfortable, you have them creating an smp that basically functions as a homonormative society and male streamers unafraid to treat their male friends with love and affection, etc..

Are they perfect? Hell no. Are they largely white (presumably) cishet guys? Yes. (Though I don't want to diminish the contribution of streamers like Eret, Antfrost, Niki, Puffy, Velvet, Scott, etc. (for lgbt) and skeppy, TapL, Quackity, Ponk, etc. (for poc)). Are their tweets basic human decency? Also yes.

But can you take it for granted? Sadly no.

So if you saw Dream, Tommy, Tubbo, Phil's, Ranboo's, etc. Pride month tweets earlier and felt happy about them? You are within your complete right to feel that way.

In an ideal world we wouldn't need to celebrate these occurances, but we don't live in that ideal world, so if a cc's words bring you comfort while you're figuring things out, good for you.

I think it's important to occasinally put this fandom in a gamer fandom history perspective and see how insanely far we've come in just the last 5 years. If you'd told me 5 years ago that one of the biggest and most active fandoms on the internet 2020 and 2021 would be an agressively lgbt friendly minecraft community, where support comes both from the bottom up as well as from up top, I would not have believed you.

I don't think we have to or should put cc's on a pedastal for this, but I do think it's sometimes worth remembering where we came from and where we are now and how goddamn lucky we are for it.

Edit: excuse my punctuation. It's 4am and I'm typing this on my phone /lh

Mod/(NOT)Origins/Powers/Modded/Hybrid/Mutant SMP name poll.

We have to pick a name, guys. We can’t keep shuffling around these million different tags, it’s tedious and it makes works harder to see. How many posts are getting less notes because we’re juggling 12 different tags? We gotta settle on one sold name. (Origins is taken and we don’t want to overrun them.) 

So, I made a poll. It will go until March 11th and then I’ll post results. I’ll post them individually AND reblog this post with them. 

Spread it around! We want as many people to see it as possible. Here is the poll.

I’m only ten minutes into the Foolish-Tommy interaction and I swear this is the dynamic.