With Ranboo Saying He’s Going To Be Face Revealing At 5mil Subs, I’m Gonna Take This As An Opportunity

Research

sbi, but it’s sanders sides

phil is thomas. tommy is morality. wilbur is anxiety. techno is logic. tubbo is creativity. ranboo is deceit. fundy is his intrusive thoughts.

i mean come on just imagine:

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tubbo: oooh what if you used coral?

phil: good idea mate!

wilbur: coral is fucking disgusting don’t choose that

tommy: SHUT THE FUCK UP WILBUR CORAL IS A GOOD BLOCK

techno, snickering: yeah wilbur shut up

tommy: FUCK OFF TECHNO DON’T TALK SHIT ABOUT WILBUR HE’S PERFECT

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person: so why didn’t you come to my party?

wilbur, panicking: if you tell him you didn’t want to go he’ll hate you forever

ranboo, panicking because of wilbur: *slams hands on table* TELL HIM YOU’RE SICK

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phil: *building another tnt dropper in hardcore*

fundy: ok but what if you built one over a random village

phil:

phil: fundy, what the fuck?

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tubbo: TECHNO

techno, sighing: what?

tubbo: i have this reaaaallly cool idea for a build but i don’t wanna forget so can you help me write notes for it please?

techno, heart squeezing: i—yeah, sure

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phil: so why do you avoid each other so much?

wilbur: we don’t mix

ranboo: *nods*

phil: and why’s that?

wilbur: well, i panic a lot whenever anything happens

ranboo: and him panicking makes me panic so i instinctively start lying to try and get you out of a situation

phil, thinking about the time he forgot his wallet at the grocery store and started panicking when he had to pay so he told the cashier that he forgot the bread and instead left the store and drove home: ...that honestly explains so much

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techno: —they’re rich in nutrients and antioxidants, they lower the risk of heart disease and improve immunity and blood sugar levels, they’re easy to grow and are versatile so you can add them to any meal. they also improve the digestive system and they’re high in carbs so they’re incredibly filling—

fundy: ...what’s he talking about?

phil, absolutely exhausted: the benefits of potatoes so he can convince me to make a potato farm

tubbo: how long has this been going on?

phil: three hours

tommy: what the fuck.

fundy: ...i’m gonna disagree with him to see what happens

ranboo, panicking: fundy nO WAIT—

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wilbur: they need to die

techno: you can’t kill all of the anteaters, wil. it’ll destroy the food chain

both of them: *turn to ranboo*

techno: ranboo what do you think?

ranboo: ...about what?

wilbur: do you think anteaters are vile creatures and god’s worst mistake and that they need to be eradicated?

ranboo: *glances between the two*

ranboo, internally: quick pick a side oh god—

ranboo, sweating: wh...what’s an anteater?

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tommy, after ranboo made phil pretend to be a devout christian for 30 minutes to avoid an argument about religion: you’re such a pussy, ranboob

ranboo: we’ve established this, yes

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PLEASE HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN ANYONE DO THIS YET?! LIKE COME ON. SLEEPY SIDES AU. IT NEEDS TO BE A THING.

hey guys! let’s talk about something called narrative distance. 

you’ve probably heard of it before! narrative distance is the degree of separation between the reader and the narrator or character in the story. first person vs. third person is a good way to show narrative distance: consider how “I stomped inside, the pavement burning the soles of my feet, my wet hair sticking to the back of my sweaty neck, so hot my skin felt like it was melting” feels compared to the more impersonal “Jack stormed in, his face flushed with heat”. 

now let’s be incredibly pretentious and translate narrative distance to minecraft roleplay. in this sense, a regular ranboo semi-lore stream where we watch c!ranboo spill all his deepest fears while recounting his thought process would be the equivalent of first person. there is very little distance between c!ranboo and the viewer. we get to see and hear and know everything c!ranboo sees and hears and knows, and if he doesn’t know something, we don’t know it either. 

a tftsmp stream would be the equivalent of third person: we see c!karl in brief segments where he doesn’t reveal any inner thoughts or conflict, and the more edited and produced format means we’re separated from the character himself and the normally first-person minecraft experience. we aren’t seeing the world through his eyes, we’re watching his life from a bird’s eye view. 

narrative distance can affect how we view characters and how sympathetic we are towards them. for example, during the exile arc, the viewers are firmly in c!tommy’s shoes, seeing everything that happens to him, hearing all his thoughts, living his life in the first person perspective nonstop for two weeks. we’re so incredibly close to c!tommy that c!dream’s arrival feels like a jumpscare. for contrast, when c!quackity’s torture of c!dream is mentioned or shown, it’s sanitized by production value, editing, montages, discretion cuts, and music overlaid on top. when the viewers get to see the characters interacting, they cut in after the gruesome bits are over, and it’s at most a ten minute snippet that’s not from the perspective of the victim. 

although c!dream is the victim in this situation, it’s harder to see him as such and feel sympathetic, because it’s so very impersonal. the torture is more a word-of-god concept than an actual scene, because we never see it. we get very little idea of its effects, and on top of that, c!dream doesn’t even have a perspective to watch. compare to c!tommy, whose abuse was laid out in gritty detail, and whose cc has painstakingly acted out the lingering trauma in every stream since– which happen to be mainly in an unedited slice-of-life style. and we can connect that to the difficulty in viewing c!dream sympathetically as well: we as viewers were very close to a storyline where c!dream was a villain, and very separate from the storyline where he’s a victim. which impression of the character do you think would be stronger?

narrative distance contributes to how we view villains. c!schlatt is gleefully hated, a static but well-rounded character that we don’t feel any sympathy for. the viewers are distanced from him because he doesn’t have a perspective and only shows up for plot-related events on others’ streams or for comedy bits. nobody tries to look into his motivations and nobody’s sad when he dies. we’re not close to him, we don’t understand him, and we don’t need to.  

then there’s c!quackity, who we watch go from a regular funnyman to an idealistic politician to a ruthless but caring advisor to a manipulative asshole focused on power. we walk in his shoes for every step of the way, we see his motivations and fears and inner thoughts, and we feel sympathy. and then he starts to distance himself, starts to edit and produce his streams and only show certain scenes without any emotional vulnerability, and starts acting as a villain. it’s kind of genius because he’s adding narrative distance while his character becomes harder to sympathize for. but we can still understand the character and feel pity for him, because we as viewers have lived his life and we know who he is and what he ultimately wants and needs. 

narrative distance. it’s pretty cool. 

dear dear friend

ideas for tumblr staff

dont remove the boop button

stop banning trans women for no reason

Love them so much 🥺

👙Hunter

He deserves a beach episode to chill tf out tbh (maybe on earth, though, so they can all swim without melting their skin off...)

taking a break... he'll join them in a minute.

Hunter: *exists*

The Fandom:

I am once politely asking for a villain arc for Dsmp!bench trio because i just simply need them to go really feral

Also can you fellas recommend me any of villain bench trio fics i can read? I would really appreciate it❤️

/rp *lays down in the grass* sam was the first ever person to visit tommy in exile, and left to make sure tommy was okay as soon as he found out it was happening. sam spent literally 20 minutes searching for him and spying on his conversations with dream and ghostbur. he was even spotted by dream and escorted all the way back home, but then went back and made the journey again as soon as dream was gone. this was before the path to logstedshire in the nether had been created. he offered to hide tommy from dream if tommy felt like he needed it. and then that very same night, dream approached sam and commissioned him to build pandora’s vault, redirecting his attention away from tommy