Update: I Finished My Final! :Dthe Twitter Page Has A Question Mark Over Bobby! D:

update: i finished my final! :D the Twitter page has a question mark over Bobby! D:

going onto the qsmp updates EN Twitter on the day one of my final papers is due (due before midnight), as a brain break, was a mistake. Going onto tumblr right after was also a mistake. i have about 1 hr left before it's due. and im trying not to cry about bobby.

One of the things that I think sometimes gets lost when we talk about what's appropriate in fandom spaces is the notion that things can be appropriate in one space, but not for another. And that doesn't mean that the thing that's inappropriate in that setting is wrong, it just means that it's rude in that space. I think people want a single set of rules that's appropriate everywhere, but the thing is, you have to be able to assess the situation, and adjust your behaviour accordingly.

So an example. I have a fairly popular text post that was me asking about c!phil and religion in all innocence, and someone said "the only thing I have to say about c!phil is that he worships on his knees, thank you and goodnight". And I reblogged it like "I can't believe I forgot about how this fandom does phil analysis", cause it was at the height of the dilfza memes.

Anyways that's obviously a phil-is-happily-married/oral sex joke, in an oblique innuendo way, and on this site, where Phil is not here, and his friends are not here, with it being clear I was talking about the block man character, and we make jokes about sex and profanity (a very popular url scheme for a long time was "[name]shugecock" (or smalldick, depending on the joke)— that's a fine joke to make. I'm an adult, I can make sex jokes about fictional characters on the sex joke fictional character social media site.

If I was to make that joke in Philza's twitch chat, a) in his face, b) with his wife modding, c) in an enviroment where people aren't prepped for sex jokes, d) with it being not clear if I was talking about the cubito or about the real guy, that would be wildly inappopriate. I would be banned in every chat Philza mods in and I would deserve it.

That doesn't mean that it's inappropriate to make the joke in the first place though, just because I wouldn't do it at a Phil meet and greet. It means you gotta learn to read the room. (And like, sometimes it's hard to learn to read the room, but you can do it by pure brute-force memorization. I did.)

This is the same theory that underlies the fact that you can call your friends a bitch in a friendly way, because you are friends and you know each other's boundaries, but if you call your boss a bitch, you will be fired. There are rules about workplace appropriateness, and there are rules about what's appropriate in front of kids (I teach teens, I do not swear in front of them, I swear a LOT in front of my roommate), and there are rules about what's appropriate in different fandom spaces. Participating in an exchange about pregnancy and babies with your favourite blorbo of the moment? Great. Showing the actor gift art you got of him pregnant? No. Bad. Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

The thing that concerns me is that I think there are slight signs that as we get more comfortable with sexy jokes and offcolour remarks as a MCYT fandom (QSMP is the big banner example but it happens with other smps), we're taking what's appropriate in one space (tumblr, home of the brain worms, where I have seen the blog "philzaswetpussy" on my dash), and we're bringing it into places that it's not appropriate (sure, slimeariana is clearly canon, but maybe don't put the actual dicks-out fan art in the art tag on twitter that slime checks). Cause we can obviously tell that the rules twitter is going with are silly for here, so it's full speed ahead for roier/spreen etc, but the trick here is that it's full speed ahead HERE, or in fandom servers, and not necessarily in the streamer's faces.

We have a bunch of situations where creators have said that it's not their place to weigh in on shipping or nsfw etc, and people have taken that as a go ahead and that's fine, but thats still something where I'd like, caution people that just because they said "not gonna look at it not my deal", that doesn't mean that like, you should make it difficult for them to avoid looking at it. Talking about scitties is an honourable tradition, but telling scar that he makes you question your sexuality in his TTS— I made a horrified noise in real life and the cats came to look at me.

And I'm talking about the shipping, but this is also a thing with like— sometimes I see a streamer and I go "my friend you just vividly described neurodivergent symptoms" but it is ABSOLUTELY not my place to say that in their chat. It might not even be appropriate to make comments about it on my blog, with the amount of followers I have. I have to keep the "streamer just described the ADHD experience again :pensive:" comments for the group chat. And we all nod and go "yeah sounds like streamer", and we do not put it in his face, cause that's inappropriate.

We get to have fun with the fictional characters, including off-colour fun, but we still have to remember that there are real people who don't know us who are steering those fictional characters around, and it can be profoundly weird to see some of the (stuff that is appropriate in fandom spaces!) just up in your face in the regular fan art tag.

Just think about the space you're in, and who you're in front of, and if a CC notice is actually likely, and if a CC notice would be Very Bad actually with what you're doing, and keep the "world's sluttiest absent father" bracket (with associated slutty fan art) for here, not with the streamer tagged on twitter.

What makes Qsmp so unique to me as a server is how all the members naturally gravitate towards working together and supporting each other because external conflict so great, not one person could take it on alone.

hence all the "it takes a village" mentality with the huevos/eggs.

In other servers the members would become enemies to create their lore and while I adore those servers, it made friendship a very fragile thing. In the beginning of Qsmp would throw each other under the bus at the behest of the island locals for an advantage but for the exception of maybe qQuackity himself not any more.

And in qsmp it's unity by design! Forcing everyone to cross language barriers to succeed.

Quackity man, you did a good job

im saving this for later

That Cucurucho vs Bad/Forever/Cell/Etoiles interaction is probably one of my top favorites on the qsmp so far. It was so freaking cool and everyone had this epic "don't mess with me or you'll regret it" attitude I was at the edge of my seat

Cucurucho arriving to merely observe but then having the rug unexpectedly swept out from under them by these 4 people. Having all kinds of power yet not being able to get what they want, being desperate & irritated for the first time we've seen.

q!Forever's super quick thinking to swipe the prohibited computer parts before they were taken away and using them as leverage. His bartering with Cucurucho, threatening them that it can't do a thing about it and must play by his rules.

q!Cellbit driving Cucurucho into a corner with his sharp intellect. Pointing out the inconsistences, tearing apart its arguments so easily to the point Cucurucho could barely reason back.

q!Bad going off at Cucurucho with these absolutely venomous lines that hit so raw I was shocked. Lassoing Cucurucho and walking them around like a puppet on a string while peppering it with scornful taunts.

q!Etoiles, brand-new to the server, rigging a machine and watching everything happen. Hiding in his back pocket the fact he could destroy the computer in less than a second with a single click.

i shock people

Being asexual doesn’t mean not liking sex jokes.

Like, I’m a sex repulsed asexual person, but I LOVE laughing at sex jokes. I find them terribly funny lol.

missa came back to the island :D did anyone tell him about Philza and Forever?