Where Every Scroll is a New Adventure
the foxes, after living with neil and andrew all year: you two???? what????? i’m so surprised!!! why didn’t you say anything????
jean, after seeing them interact one (1) time: well this is gay and also none of my business
Unsorted WOF thoughts part 28:
Cliff doesn't get nearly enough appreciation for the line "I won't get upset! I want to see Mommy kill Grandma!"
The experience of the average Marvin Trilogy fan is so funny, because most people start by getting obsessed with Falsettos, and only later watch In Trousers (specifically That One Bootleg. You know the one). Meaning you initially encounter Marvin partway through his character development. About 10 minutes into March of the Falsettos you’re going, “Wow, this man has so much wrong with him, thank goodness he’s going to therapy” (LOL). You keep watching, of course, and see him learn and grow. And then a few months later, you watch In Trousers and realize that when you initially said he was fucked up, you didn’t know the HALF of it.
I want them comfortably married and happy and bickering over their morning beverages and also I want them to fuck nasty on the living room floor because they can't wait another second
At its heart, the overarching narrative theme of the Dream SMP is not about "Good vs Evil", and to try to analyse its story in that framework is to completely misunderstand and misrepresent what it's trying to say.
Yes, there are characters who do good things, and yes there are characters who do evil things. These are often the same characters. And that's just the actions themselves, taking out of the equation the intentions and context, which does affect the answer to the questions of "was this action good or bad? was it understandable? was it justified?". It's the difference between saying "Character A killed Character B" and "Character A killed Character B in self-defence" - the context matters.
It's not as simple as "well, these characters are opposing this other character who's doing bad things so therefore they must be our Good Characters", and to pretend it is, and that this gives them moral authority forever, is laughable. The story being told is not a story of Good vs Evil - that doesn't mean that those types of stories don't exist, or that they lack value, but only that the Dream SMP is not one of them.
To wash a whole set of characters with the Good brush and another set with the Evil brush is an approach so lacking of nuance and utterly simplistic that to use it in serious analysis would be to so badly misunderstand the themes of the Dream SMP that you're basically making up your own version of canon and trying to pass it off as the true story.