AKA The place where I keep all my trash

Who gives a shit about the ccs. I'm not about to argue for a position that comes solely from confirmation bias and taking things out of context.

Get your information from the source before arguing for something, or else you're just repeating an uninformed opinion someone else formed for you.

Tommy had to kill a zombie between saying it wasn't canon and that he was still with 1 life so Jack got to respond before he could finish his thought. The lines that come after that are him clarifying his meanings, and they're all about the life he still had. If they were about decanonzing the nukes he would've, y'know, actually mentioned the nuke or the explosion again. If not in that conversation then in any of the other five times Jack mentioned blowing up everyone.

I aim to surprise. Sometimes it's with stone theories and sometimes it's with sudden posts :P

Got a 44 pages google doc with sources just for this kind of stuff. Always glad to put it good use. It's especially useful in a fandom like this where there are many popular arguments which can be shut down with a single clip lol.

The way the fandom at large treats L'manburg is really telling imo for how young many people here are. Or at the very least their inexperience with stories of all kinds. Protagonist =/= heroes is not really up there in terms of media literacy, but it's also not something that gets explored in much of mainstream media.

To be fair, a lot of the response also comes from the literal propoganda L'manburg used. And by that I mean c!Wilbur using real propoganda techniques in-universe, which got picked up by the fandom. They can be hard to spot without familiarity of what they look like and they're engineered to create such a response.

Add in the way many in the fandom didn't watch those vods first hand and are instead relying on recaps, animatics, fanfiction or just "common wisdom" in the fandom to be informed about events, and you got a perfect storm for nationalistic misinformation.

(All of which is without even getting to the fact dsmp is a story that has minimal hand holding for the audience and that Wilbur's narrative in praticular relies on having some understanding of literary analysis in order to fully communicate its story.

I don't really expect people who aren't familiar with "protagonist" as a term enough to seperate it from "hero" to pick up on the role reversal L'manburg has from the Hamilton inspiration. Let alone all the other things indicating it's a satire of nationalism that needs to be looked at with critical eye.)

No problem :D

If you're ever interested in getting into old lore and watching it from multiple perspectives I highly reccomend Blueberry TV on youtube! She makes it super easy to watch by editing everything together into episodes. It's seriously the best way to watch dsmp short of watching all the vods by yourself.

Glad you enjoyed it :D

This fandom's tendency to water down both the characters and the narrative is honestly a crime. DSMP is a complex story told in a complex way and that's part of the charm of it. I get it when people are casual fans, but in analysis?? Get the fuck outta here.