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Minecraft "RPF"
Oct. 5th, 2024 11:33 pmEngaged in Problematic Behavior #73 today and read some Minecraft Youtuber RPF fics on a whim. I don't have a problem with any of it on principle but I branched out into the tags of some other youtubers that I've watched and something that just kind of feels bad despite probably not being that bad is that some of these tags are just names. Like, I was expecting Chuggaconroy to be tagged as "Chuggaconroy" but instead it's "Emile Rosales-Birou" and like??? That's his wholeass government name, I'm pretty sure??? Lmao??? It's so jarring 🤣 I'm out here trying to think of the folks in these fics as characters and not real live people but no, we gotta venture away from screennames for some reason ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Anyway most of the fics I ended up reading were centered around the Minecraft SOS SMP series that went on months ago. That SMP was the first one I ever watched, haha. I found some good folks from that series! Especially Pixlriffs; his chill vibes were and still are my favorite, tbh. I clicked on his AO3 tag to read the fics in it and that's how I realized that he was in a different SMP and I'm watching it now for context reasons 🙂 Woo!
Also the reason I found this SMP was because of Mogswamp, who I'd been watching beforehand. He plays on a Minecraft Superflat world, and has been maintaining it for over 10 years now, and what's interesting is the fandom here has taken that factoid and translated it into a backstory where his character's been living in total isolation for that long and then the SOS SMP is where he gets to learn how to interact with other people again and the resulting joys of that. Which is a type of storyline that I personally love, hehe. Though it was hard to get over the fact that it was at least RPF-adjacent 😅 I wish I could excise this broader storyline and find other characters to match it to. Or maybe I can figure out how to use it myself in my own works.
But for now, I think I'm going to list the couple of fics that I really liked. Because I really liked them.
bring me water, bring me wine (bring me flower garlands) by sesquidpedalian
Rated M | Mogswamp & Everyone | 6,052 words
“Hey. So. Uh. I … can’t do this week’s challenge.” Mog has cornered fWhip on the porch of the beacon shop.
fWhip blinks, and dismisses the stack of moss blocks he’d been holding. “What? Of course you can, bud!” A bemused sort of smile lifts his face. “You can do anything if you just believe in yourself and try your best!”
“No, I mean— I need an exemption. I’m— Uh. My heat is soon? I think? And I don’t know for sure so maybe you don’t need to worry about this at all but I’ve been prepping and I’ve read that when you’re alone for a really long time and then suddenly you’re not—”
“Ohh,” fWhip says. “Huh. Well, I’m pretty sure it’s fine if you don’t participate, you just won’t get the coins. But you should really talk to the Fates about that kind of thing.” He nods to himself and shoves moss into the barrel in front of him.
Mog stops, drawn up short. “Are— Wait. Are you not the Fates?”
Tags: Implied Sexual Content, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Cuddling & Snuggling, Nesting
for you, at last, to comprehend by sesquidpedalian
Rated G | Solidarity/Pixlriffs, fWhip & Pixlriffs, Pixlriffs & TheOrionSound | 3,095 words
Pix keeps an eye out as Jimmy hurries down the vines to the expanse of grey below. “You know,” he says, taking a bite of bread, not trying to be heard by human ears, “I’m pretty sure this was supposed to be some kind of punishment for him.” He pats the rim of the yawning pit, then dusts off some crumbs into the wild, open air. “I’m glad you’ve come around. He has his charm, doesn’t he?”
or: This is a world you build, and sing, and yes, dig, into being alive. The thing Pix makes wakes up to Jimmy chipping away at it. It decides to play favourites.
Tags: Ambiguous Relationships, Friendship/Love, Innuendo, Light Religious Overtones
Anyway most of the fics I ended up reading were centered around the Minecraft SOS SMP series that went on months ago. That SMP was the first one I ever watched, haha. I found some good folks from that series! Especially Pixlriffs; his chill vibes were and still are my favorite, tbh. I clicked on his AO3 tag to read the fics in it and that's how I realized that he was in a different SMP and I'm watching it now for context reasons 🙂 Woo!
Also the reason I found this SMP was because of Mogswamp, who I'd been watching beforehand. He plays on a Minecraft Superflat world, and has been maintaining it for over 10 years now, and what's interesting is the fandom here has taken that factoid and translated it into a backstory where his character's been living in total isolation for that long and then the SOS SMP is where he gets to learn how to interact with other people again and the resulting joys of that. Which is a type of storyline that I personally love, hehe. Though it was hard to get over the fact that it was at least RPF-adjacent 😅 I wish I could excise this broader storyline and find other characters to match it to. Or maybe I can figure out how to use it myself in my own works.
But for now, I think I'm going to list the couple of fics that I really liked. Because I really liked them.
bring me water, bring me wine (bring me flower garlands) by sesquidpedalian
Rated M | Mogswamp & Everyone | 6,052 words
“Hey. So. Uh. I … can’t do this week’s challenge.” Mog has cornered fWhip on the porch of the beacon shop.
fWhip blinks, and dismisses the stack of moss blocks he’d been holding. “What? Of course you can, bud!” A bemused sort of smile lifts his face. “You can do anything if you just believe in yourself and try your best!”
“No, I mean— I need an exemption. I’m— Uh. My heat is soon? I think? And I don’t know for sure so maybe you don’t need to worry about this at all but I’ve been prepping and I’ve read that when you’re alone for a really long time and then suddenly you’re not—”
“Ohh,” fWhip says. “Huh. Well, I’m pretty sure it’s fine if you don’t participate, you just won’t get the coins. But you should really talk to the Fates about that kind of thing.” He nods to himself and shoves moss into the barrel in front of him.
Mog stops, drawn up short. “Are— Wait. Are you not the Fates?”
Tags: Implied Sexual Content, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Cuddling & Snuggling, Nesting
for you, at last, to comprehend by sesquidpedalian
Rated G | Solidarity/Pixlriffs, fWhip & Pixlriffs, Pixlriffs & TheOrionSound | 3,095 words
Pix keeps an eye out as Jimmy hurries down the vines to the expanse of grey below. “You know,” he says, taking a bite of bread, not trying to be heard by human ears, “I’m pretty sure this was supposed to be some kind of punishment for him.” He pats the rim of the yawning pit, then dusts off some crumbs into the wild, open air. “I’m glad you’ve come around. He has his charm, doesn’t he?”
or: This is a world you build, and sing, and yes, dig, into being alive. The thing Pix makes wakes up to Jimmy chipping away at it. It decides to play favourites.
Tags: Ambiguous Relationships, Friendship/Love, Innuendo, Light Religious Overtones