DREAM SMP!!!!!!

HIT MINECRAFT SERVER THE DREAM SMP!!!!!! (might include some life series later too??) it has a bit of a reputation now. BUT ITS SO VERY DEAR TO ME. i started watching december 2020 and it quickly became my Entire Life OKAY SO. if u didnt know. the dsmp was a mineraft roleplay server that was really popular in like 2020/2021. it started off just a silly server, and then it got improv roleplay and then later as it grew it got a bit more scripted! EVEN WITH THE SCRIPTED STUFF THOUGH it was mostly. people making stuff up on the spot with loads of differnt storylines and character arcs that sometimes went somehwere and sometimes didnt. ALTHOUGH U DID ALSO HAVE LIKE STUFF LIKE QUACKITYS STREAMS which were fully produced LITTERAL MOVIES. those were cool as fuck

The characters were distinct from the content creators. (like their humour and stuff was obviously the same but they were Playing Characters) all of them had their own backstories and beliefs and went through horrific trauma. And when i say horrific trauma IT OFTEN GOT VERY DARK. ITS ACTUALLY FUNNY HOW DARK IT GOT FOR A MINECARFT ROLEPLAY. IT WAS SO UNSERIOUS AND THEN LIKE. C!TOMMY EXILE DEPRESSION ARC. c!tommy please go to therapy (he actually did thank you c!puffy) the c! stuff actaully came from dsmp (I THINK???? or at least it popularised it) because people used to go like TOMMY DIED or start yapping about some horrific shit c!dream did and people kept thinking it was Real. hence c! and cc! - the reason i bring this up is cause IM TALKING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS HERE AND NOT THE CCS!! cause some of them are awful!! Ive been watching lots of life series recently (WHICH IM SO NORMAL I LOVE IT SO MUCH. i need to talk about scarlet pearl she is everything ever) and i know life series is more kid friendly but the contrast between the roleplay during lore stuff anwyay is still actually crazy and i think a lot of people dont realise how roleplay heavy the dsmp got.

ANYWAY ABOUT THE STORY ITSELF. each character had three "canon lives" so it wasn't like a hardcore server like something like lifeseries but if a death was important to the story it might take one of their canon lives. When they lost all 3 they died and went to limbo and also sometimes came back as a ghost - usually a fucked up echo of their alive counterpart. FOR EXAMPLE ghostbur was the opposite of alivebur. he was very spacey, talking a certain way, trailing off mid sentence and forgetting most things. He couldn't remember any of c!wilburs bad memories (which was most things towards the end of his life) HE ALSO HAS A BLUE SHEEP CALLED FRIEND. love you friend

(NOT CANON BUT i've read a few fun fics where c!dream contolled deciding whether a death was canon or not. as like the server admin AND IT WAS SO FUCKED /POS that is not a guy you want controlling your lives ESPECAILLY IF YOUR NAME IS C!TOMMY.)(I also love the aus where ctommy DID die and came back as a ghost and some of the ideas for that WAS ACTUALLY WILD)

The main story was about this country called lmanberg which had several wars fought over it and got blown up multiple times (it was basically Hamilton. so much of it was based off hamilton) and also two discs (cat and mellohi) belonging to c!tommy were really important too. they symbolised his attatchments and also friendship with c!tubbo... love u clingyduo. ANYWAY TEHRES LIKE LMANBURG AND POGTOPIA (THE REVOLUTION), DOOMSDAY, THE DISC FINALE AND THE PRISON AND ALSO THE EGG STUFF (which was so underused) BUT ALSO LIKE. EVERYONE ELSES MORE INDIVIDUAL STUFF?? exile, the hotel, the syndicate, las nevardas, kinoko kingdom, the butcher army, snowchester and the nuke stuff IM JUST LISTING THINGS BUT THE POINT IT WAS SO BIG I COULD GO ON FOREVER

SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO TALES OF THE SMP THOUGH which was like a spinoff series? following c!karl who was a time traveller and they were like oneshot streams exploring either the far past or future of the dsmp. THEY WERE VERY WELL PRODUCED like who big maps and cutscenes and all sorts created for them. IM PRETTY SURE?? HAVE NOT READ IT THOUGH. it had its own offical comic based off it??? WHICH IS SO COOL

The dsmp is so intresting in how u. had to be there to experince it IM SURE THERES PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOTTEN INTO IT NOW ITS OVER?? but. okay one. theyre missing out on the experince of waiting for lore and then having lore days and having to flick between 5 differnt streams at once to watch these minecraft men yell at eachother through differnt povs AND TWO. ITS SO MUCH CONTENT hours and hours of vods from like 30+ members. some of the lore just.. scattered in the middle. some of these streams like an hour long. some like 6. SOME PEOPLE STREAMING DAILY. i started watching at the beggining of exile AND I WAS OVERWHELMED CATCHING UP I HAVE NO IDEA HOW U WOULD DO IT NOW. its also impossible to watch a lot of streams cause UNLESS THE VOD WAS REUPLOADED A LOT OF IT IS JUST LOST!! FORVER!!! WHICH IS KIND OF WILD! most stuff with lore you can find clips of BUT THATS STILL LOTS LOST!!

Another big thing is the fandom THE FANCONTENT LITERALLY CARRIED IT. The animatics, songs and fics, cosplays and fangames. they were all So Important. ALSO HOW THE COMMUNITY EFFECTED THE STORY. not just with story polls like the exile and election ones but like. headcanons being made canon. FOR EXAMPLE - c!quackity and c!tubbos scars and stuff. TECHNOS YOUTUBE CHAT WAS EVEN CANONISED - being voices he could here that pushed him towards violence (pretty sure he canonised that one MAYBEBEE on the first stream of his i saw???) his stupid sellout bell he'd just sit there and ring every like half an hour and he'd make all the other streamers join in SOMETIMES IN THE MIDDLE OF LORE it was so funny. TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES

anyway WANT TO GIVE A BIG SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE DSMP FANFIC WRITERS. the post-exile bedrockbros ones are everything. the aus are actually crazy I HAVE READ SO MANY SUPERHERO ONES AND ROYALTY ONES AND HYBRID ONES AND SPACE ONES THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE WORLD. passerine is the one everyone knows AND FOR GOOD REASON BECAUSE ITS SO. im so grateful for passerines exsistance actaully cause it helped introduce more people and also ccs positively to fanfiction WHICH MEANS THE WORLD sad-ist a really popular animator did an animation with it here AND A BUNCH OF THE CCS WATCHED IT and niki read it on stream :D And i just think thats cool! of course a lot of people don't want ccs to read their fics BUT THE NEGATIVE PERCEPTIONS TO IT MAKES ME SO SAD

The fandom has a reputation for infighting and yeah yeah yeah ofc a lot of it is beacuse lockdown and the fandom was Huge and everyone had nothing better to do (some of the stuff happening on dsmp twitter especially was WILD). but Also. all the different perspectives gave u a Wildly different experince depending on who you watched. LIKE silly example. jack vs tubbos nuke test/c!tommy assassination stream HAD SUCH DIFFERNT VIBES WAS SO FUNNY. or like watching the butcher army through like quackity vs techno. AND CAUSE OF THE SIZE WAS difficult to dedicate yourself to every character. so then u got like. character apologists and stuff (although how some people ended up as c!dream apologists i will Never Know... WERE THEY WATCHING THE SAME SERVER??????) erm anyway. love you c!tommy

TALKING ABOUT HOW BIG THE FANDOM WAS. I think viewship peaked on tommys channel at like 600000 viewers in the disc finale WHICH LIKE???? WHAT????????? TAHTS SO MANY PEOPLE?????????????

I find it so funny when people dont like dsmp fans cause sometiems (not so often now but it still does happen) i see someones dni and they have like. PROSHIPPERS, TRANSPHOBES, RACISTS AND TEHN LIEK FUCKING DSMP FANS IN TEH MIDDLE????? GIGGLING WHY IS A MINECRAFT ROLEPLAY SERVER THERE???? yeah it was cringe IT WAS MINECARFT ROLEPLAY WITH. QUESTIONABLE ACTING AND STORYLINES. but also IT WAS SO FUN AND A SOURCE OF JOY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE INCLUDING ME!!! CRINGE IS AWESOME!!! if you're reading this please be cringe embrace your intrests cringe is Dead

SHOUTOUT TO THESE TWO VIDEO ESSAYS THE FIRST ONE MADE ME CRY!!!!! THEY BOTH GO OVER EVENTS AND EVERYTHING WAY BETETR THAN I EVER COULD!

Anyway im going to talk about The Egg now. OKAY SO THE EGG WAS LIKE THIS GINAT MIND CONTROLLING EGG and it like.. infected people and then they'd want to infect other people. There were all these red vines that started gradually taking over the server AND ALTHOUGH THE PEOPLE MOSTLY INVOLVED WITH i didnt watch frequently. i'd just watch the lore-y clips AND THE RED BANQUET that was cool ITS SUCH A FUN CONCEPT AND I WISH IT GOT EXPANDED ON MORE. like.. what was it gonna hatch into?

THE REASON I MENTION THIS is theres a fic called Rewind. pretty popular one that has actually the coolest worldbuilding ever AND I JUST. so its a c!tommy protege fic (THEO ILY) and also a time travel fic... so basically tommy and tubbo (now theo and toby) travel back 10 years from the future to the elections BECAUSE IN THE FUTURE THERE WAS A BIG APOCOLYSPE AND TEH EGG TOOK OVER EVERYTHING. i love how it expanded on the egg talking to people thing... And it went into like. certain different plants the egg created. like the flowers that explode when you hit them and stuff like that. they had to terraform the nether to get away from it and even that wasn't enough. and to get eveyrone to the nether toby had to unite the piglin factions so they could stay there.. (lmanburg was like. lots and lots of people not just the main server members was a whole nation) ITS SUCH A BIG FIC THIS PROABLY DOESNT MAKE MUCH SENSE BUT TRUST ME ITS SO GOOD

Oh yeah theo and toby (future tommy and tubbo) FUCKING HATE EACHOTHER. well. okay no toby wants theo to come home and theo doesnt want to!! cant.. want to actually. he has a loyalty enchantment binding him to c!dream ERMMMM. protege fic. yeah that man is. Not Doing Well at like any point. BUT HE DOES HIS PART TO MAKE THE FUTURE BETTER TOO. hes so angsty its so funny love you theo

ANIMATIONS AND ANIMATICS!!!!!

i'm now going to list some of my favourite dsmp animations and talk about them WHICH IS SO SO SO FUCKING DIFFICULT CAUSE THERES SO MANY but I'm gonna do my best

FANSONGS!!!!

okay so this is one is also once again difficult BECAUSE THERES SO MANY. i literally have a spotify playlist with um currently. 223 FANSONGS THAT ARE MOSTLY DSMP (theres a few hermitcraft and empires ones too) BUT THATS THERES MANY. shoutout to hit artists amanda fanagan, derivikat, kroh, kanaya, halfy and winks, precious jewel amor and ian has opinions for the songs they made THEYRE SO EVERYTHING

THERE ARE SO MANY MORE so made a playlist with my favourites (had to limit myself again there's so many i love) just click top right and pick one. JUST ONE. I PROMISE THEY ARE ALL SO SO SO SO GOOD. I HOPE YOU ENJOY!!!!

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