I Hate To Say It, But Some Of You Think The Only Kind Of Power Someone Can Have In The Dream Smp Is Resources/pvp

i hate to say it, but some of you think the only kind of power someone can have in the dream smp is resources/pvp skills and that just doesn't work out when

1) dream smp was literally a fucking political drama when it started out (and therefore involves power in more than just one axis/category. a notable category, and the one most often overlooked, is the sociopolitical category (aka socially))

2) people don't seem to realize that you can be weak in one area and not be weak in another

anyway what i'm saying is c!technoblade has little to no power if we're talking about this sociopolitically which is why c!schlatt, someone with little to no resources and pvp skills but tremendous amounts of sociopolitical power, can pressure c!technoblade into killing tubbo.

people who say that c!technoblade never gets repercussions or consequences narratively are not only wrong, but also just wants to see him suffer physically either so they can make torture porn fanwork or get that sick kind of satisfaction from seeing someone hurt.

or i guess you guys are just weird as hell because c!ranboo has no sociopolitical power (he gets put under peer pressure a lot) until recently when he marries c!tubbo and joins the syndicate and you all seem to understand that even though he grinds for resources and has OP weapons he's still not the most powerful person on the server & you can make angst out of whatever he does

and, like, c!techno gets fucked over, lmao. he just doesn't get fucked over in the way you all seem to think is the Only Way anyone can get narrative consequences. literally tell your faves to get better at minecraft if you want to see techno beaten physically / resource wise so badly.

The reply went through and now I'm just

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Welp.

could I ask why you feel negative about this number situation? you don't have to answer if you don't want to! :]

yeah i can talk about it, but it’s going to be negative so for anyone who wants to avoid negativity, i’ll put my answer under here :)

well for starters let’s look at the obvious. 

there is now a number out there that you can apparently get a response on from dream himself. what’s going to happen? a lot of fake screenshots, with no way to prove what’s fake and what’s not, because there would not be enough hours in the day for dream to be able to disprove all of them. it is unbearable to me how easy it is to fake screenshots. and it’s probably going to be a bunch of ridiculous things, but there’s also going to be potentially damaging things, there’s going to be people who just believe everything they see and spread rumours around. i think it’s a very silly service, personally. but that’s just my opinion.

in terms of the fans - i am uncomfortable with how many people i’ve seen saying ‘lol i just provided all my real information, oh well it’s dream!’... it doesn’t matter that it’s dream. dream is using a SERVICE that he himself did not create. any and every service out there is in danger of cyber attacks, hackers, anything. it’s not trustworthy, even if you trust dream himself, because if something bad were to happen, it would be something completely out of his hands. 

and the other point is a bit deeper, and i’m going to use the term we have been seeing everywhere that wow i never thought i would be talking about it, but. 

texting is something you do between friends. between family, between co-workers, between partners. when you start to ‘text’ celebrities, the lines between your admiration for them, and your normal life can start to blur. 

i really hate to use this term, but this is exactly what parasocial relationships are about, and it’s dangerous. it can build up slowly without one even noticing, and people can start to feel dependant, or entitled - especially if they’re struggling with issues mentally. 

of course like if you can differentiate between these lines just fine then there’s no issue, i’m not saying everyone who’s texting the number is engaging in a parasocial relationship because that’s not how it works. it’s people who are impressionable, who use these platforms as outlets, who will share their vulnerabilities, who can consider themselves closer to a celebrity than they actually are. and it can make people obsessive, because you’ve always watched this person on youtube, and now you also watch them on twitch, and then you also follow them on twitter and you tweet them and dm them, you can buy their merchandise and you can send them stuff and receive a letter back - and now you can also text them? 

dream making himself ‘available’ on just about every platform in my opinion is just not the smartest thing to do. i understand he comes from a good place i do, i understand he enjoys giving to fans. but i just really worry about like.. where does it stop? where’s the line?

i’ve seen loads of celebrities do these community texting things, and i’ve never ever approved of it. because personally i just feel like it begins to blur the lines between your reality and your interests. it’s fine for those of us who are old enough to know better. but there are plenty of young people in the fandom who are not as woke as they like to think they are. 

i apologise if i worded myself badly. it’s 2:48am and i should have been asleep hours ago lmao

please do, that was interesting af

dsmp c! bookshelves and what’s on it because why not

technoblade: his would be a full book case filled to the brim philosophy books, greek mythology (obviously) strictly, no fiction (except for song of Achilles that was a joke gift wilbur gave him that techno actually cried while reading it) , lots of history books mostly about environments and wildlife (the nether, piglin all that jazz), art of war, war and peace, and stray battle tactic books

tommy: all of his books would be thrown in a chest. most of them are stray hand me downs from techno or wilbur, but most of it is fictional stories. not a lot of plot in the stories he reads, just classic cliches. he would of course carry a whole stack of marvel comics, he has a stray dc comic but other then that most are spider-man or avengers related. he also keeps one child hood diary that just contains strewn profanity’s directed at the sbi group because he got picked on for being the youngest

philza: this is a massive collection of books, mostly collected over his adventurers or prized treasures that were given to him. the books that stand out the most though are enchanting books, treasure maps or mystical history. side note he keeps everything his kids ever given to him. side side note, he has all of wilburs diary’s and writings, even his music books and history books he created

wilbur: random cryptic books, strategy game books, song books, music journals, recordings of his history, letters he never got to give to fundy as. just in case, philzas letters, a single peculiar recipe book that has a recipe for ant eaters, vast amounts of books on political science , a birthday gift to tommy that’s just a engraved book of how to sex 3 as a joke, psychology books. wilbur has the most diverse collection of books out of anyone on the server in

i’ll prob to a part 2

INSPIRED BY THE BIRD YOU JUST REBLOGGED AND ALSO AN IDEA II HAD EARLIER BUT DIIDNT KNOW HOW TO WORD

what if philzas flock iisnt just crows what if he got all sorta shit in there. on the one hand that would be gorgeous because imagine all the colours. on the other hand imagine the first time he gets one of those big fuckoff sized, like, toucans, pov it lands on technos head

liiiike yo crows are pog but we're missing out on him having little tiny humming birds or letter hawks or MAGPIES im obsessed with this - andy

BSLDDHOD FUVK YESSSSS

I just imagine techno like. Hey im expecting a message from phil do u see anything flyin in ranboo?

N ranboo goes to the window and just sees a fucking ostrich running towards them full sprint

and. again i'd like to reiterate that its so fucking clear that people who decide to cancel techno under the guise of him being "antisemitic" DO NOT care about jews in the slightest. i do not actually give a fuck about some minecraft guy tweeting "is hitler a lesbian?"

an orthodox jewish family of three got slashed with a knife in nyc while visiting from belgium during passover. france is banning kosher slaughter in june. antisemitic hatecrimes are on the rise. i do not give a FUCK about performative twitter "expose" threads. stop exploiting our pain just so you can ruin someone's week.