Dream Smp Members Do Lore Like:

Dream Smp members do lore like:

*Screen fades in from black, silent*

Literally every fucking character: * S I G H *

Despite all of the war, murder, torture, and various supernatural horrors the Dream SMP has explored, I can specifically recall what exact theme makes me most uncomfortable. It was Puffy who said it initially: this server changes people. She's right, she brought up the concept that perfectly good people could join the SMP and have their moralities and lives warped to the point where they could not recognize them anymore.

She isn't wrong. Awesamdude went from the fatherly man who distributed pie to a murderer and feared prison warden. Quackity went from a lighthearted, comedic guy to a vengeful and manipulative torturer. Foolish was a peaceful builder god who now knows what death feels like and is being drawn back into his old destructive ways. Philza was hailed as a comforting father figure and now is an anarchist who destroyed a country and killed his son.

The idea that it is their society itself that changes them, that even good people can become bad in a world that encourages that development, is one of the hardest things for me to stomach about the Dream SMP. Many of the other issues it explores are either ones that many of us personally have not experienced, or ones that are presented in a deeply personal context and have characters actively struggling against them.

In our day and age, however, many of us are all too aware of the selfishness inherent in the capitalistic and consumerist world we live in, and the way it is very hard to trust any figure in power, because the way to gain power in our society is rarely through moral means. The Dream SMP also exhibiting a society where anyone can be corrupted and no one remains trustworthy is a little bit too real for me.

It's a deeper underlying issue that I myself did not realize until Puffy brought it up, but it's framed a great deal through the stories of the characters we've followed over the months. No one gets better, people only get worse, because the place they live in only rewards those who are worse.

"Be worse," Jack Manifold said, because he could see no other way to succeed.

In that light, the SMP is far easier viewed as a dystopia where even the most innocent are corrupted and none remain completely whole. "Good" isn't an undebatable word that can be used to describe a single character anymore. Niki decided to try to solve her issues by murdering a child, Ponk routinely traps and kills the people he's interested in, Ghostbur is dead. The only person who has never done anything wrong is Sam Nook, and he is a non autonomous robot who is under the control of his creator, a corrupt prison warden.

In a world like this, hope is hard to find. It parallels ours in a way that is far-too-real. And, unlike the many other more character-focused issues within the story, I doubt there is anything that will be done to fix it.

Fun story, when I was in grade school, I used to have this desk-mate. Now at my school, we had these desks which had a compartment under them that were open facing you so that you could slip your supplies and papers in without much hassle. This being said, these desks also gave us the opportunity to see into and mess with our neighboring desk next to us. So one day, I noticed this pen that my desk-mate was using was actually the same make as mine, the only difference between them was that on his pen the little clip thing(I’m still not sure what’s it’s use is)had been snapped off. I hadn’t thought to much of it, and me being me decided that it might be a fun prank to switch our pens out, to see if he could spot the difference. So, before he came to class one morning I pulled his pen out from his desk and replaced it with mine, my clip still firmly attached. When he sat down and the lecture started, he moved to pull out the pen. Now I’m not sure what I had expected, I was probably going to let him use it for a few minutes before subtly pushing his own pen back onto his desk and wait for him to notice, but what I hadn’t expected was for this kid to immediately move to snap the clip off with zero hesitation. Hardly a second of delay between him seeing it, and and just going for it. And upon looking back, I probably should have noticed that almost all of his other pens were missing the clips as well, but I had hoped that this guy would maybe stop and think for a second as to why he hadn’t already snapped this one. But what I always remember about this story is how absolutely ON SIGHT it was. It was like he was running on autopilot. A very Target Aquired kind of moment. I mean, why was this kid so enraged by pen clips? What did they do to him? I mean, I get that they’re kinda useless but it also wasn’t satisfying at all??? But there was also no practical reason for it??? Anyways, I ended up quickly confessing to the switch and he very shyly apologized for breaking my pen. But to this day I still don’t know??Why he??Was so??Enraptured??? By it??

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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.

Because I think it’s also important to look at the would-have-been casualties of the festival. When c!Wilbur was intending to press the button, the only person still on the podium was c!Tommy, because he was trying to get to c!Tubbo who had just respawned elsewhere, c!Techno had fucked off as soon as he completed his mini-genocide run and c!Schlatt and c!Quackity as a result had also respawned further back(which we know from November 16th, would have been the least fatal spot to stand). Basically what I’m saying is, at the time when c!Wilbur pressed the button, the ONLY person who would have been killed by the explosion, would be, ironically, c!Tommy. Even if anyone else was caught up in the explosion, only c!Tommy, c!Wilbur and just recently c!Tubbo(who had respawned far enough away)were on one life. But as we learned from November 16th, c!Wilbur would not have died, as evidenced by the button room actually protecting c!Wilbur and c!Phil from the explosion via the stone. Although I can’t actually remember if the button room was actually created before the festival, and c!Wilbur couldn’t find the opening, or if he had just hooked up the button to the hill behind the podium. But either way would have yielded the same result. C!Wilbur would have lived, c!Techno would have lived, c!Quackity, c!Tubbo and c!Schlatt would have lived. But C!Tommy, would have died.

*Steps up to the mic and clears throat for this one* C!Tommy was supposed to die at the Manburg festival but c!Karl messed with the timeline by breaking the button. Now the universe has been trying to kill c!Tommy and restore the balance but he just can’t seem to die.

“he couldn’t seem to die” hamilton references in my askbox how dare /j /nm

tommy ironically directly cotntradicting the universe itself by saying “it’s never my time to die” when it’s been his time to die for a very long time