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solar arc || they/it || adult || plural || dni if MAP, TERF, truscum, sysmed, etc || writes things (check pinned) || interacts from @craftlands
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hiya! we’re the Solar system, or just Solar! we’re a group of several nerds in one meat mech that have loved Minecraft and various MCYTers for roughly around a full decade at this point.

spam liking/reblogging our posts is totally okay by us. so is randomly popping into our inbox to tell us about stuff, we don’t bite. (also -- the banner is not fully serious, but gets the “CCs please be aware we are a variety MCYT blog and no matter who you are, you will hear us talking about some people you have literally never heard of in your life, buckle up” vibe across pretty well)

we do our best to keep this blog discourse-free, but occasionally some stuff -- either important or extremely petty -- slips through the cracks. all posts of that nature will be tagged as #salt.

we have a ko.fi if you enjoy our writing and want to send us a tip.

now, as for what we write, below the cut are some brief summaries of our writing! you can also find all of these, and some other gems, on our AO3. our fic/longform analysis tag on this blog is #solar scrawls and our tag for all our writing/talking about our writing is #solar scraps.

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liloinkoink

saw a post going around about how fic gets treated much differently by ccs than art or cosplay does--ccs will happily check out art and cosplay and support and compliment the people who make it, but if they seek out fic, it's generally to make fun of how poorly written and weird that fic is

i do get that on some level. reading fic about yourself is a bit more strange than seeing art of yourself (i would know! ive had both!) because writers are guessing at how you think and act. there can be some strange disconnect sometimes in reading work guessing at your own thoughts, and it's valid to want to avoid that experience. i'm not saying every cc needs to be comfortable with reading or posting or boosting fic of themselves

but fic doesnt need to be treated like it's all diseased or inherently more weird than other art forms either. i don't think the only time fic should be brought up by creators is to make fun of the people who make it. it's not fair to fic writers to act like cringe is uniquely a fic thing. cringe art exists too, just as much as cringe fic does(which is good tbh!--people and especially kids should get to draw cringe shit). while people definitely make fun of cringe art, fanart in general has a higher amount of respect than fanfic does. ccs are willing to boost art positively, but theyre rarely seen doing the same for fic

to be clear. i'm not trying to claim "fic isn't all weird cringe ship fic, some of it is actually good!!" i think weird cringe ship fic is fine. i write weird cringe ship fic! and kids especially deserve to write shit that's weird and cringe, doing so helps them grow and learn as creatives. that's not the problem

it's just acting like fic is only weird, or that it's more weird or cringe or worse than other mediums, or that it's more okay to make fun of fic. just feels rude as hell to see creators go out of their way to boost and compliment art while acting like fic needs to be quarantined

for any weird thing someone has written, someone else has drawn something equally strange. acting like one medium is more responsible for this sort of behavior than others is bafflinf

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liloinkoink

this is part of the reason why i'm basically fine with martyn reading lamplight btw. fic deserves to get positive and supportive recognition the way art does, and i'd honestly be happy if he read it and liked it and it got fic as a medium a bit more respect from ccs

if a creator is comfortable reading and engaging with fic of themselves, and an author is comfortable with with their work being read, positive interaction could do some good in fighting against this idea fic is inherently less respectable

#nods nods.#tbh one of the things i miss about dominion when it was active was being able to just. put fic in the discord#and not worry about the ccs reading it because they would! and also i would get to hear their thoughts and go :D about it#tbh still riding the high of legundo calling marginalia ''haunting''#(and also still the bewildered high of viking repeatedly referencing bits of my fics onstream. ''how do i get worse'' indeed)#anyway uh. yeah. is good to fic actually#yt#txt#misc
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lunarthing159

If I Had A Nickel For Every Time I Watched A Two-Colored Block Person With A Lore Centered Around Being Messed With By A Greater Entity, Had Voices In Their Head, And Got Possessed At Least Once I'd Have At Least 4 Nickels, Which Isn't Alot, But It's Weird It's Happened At Least Four Times

#PLEASE tell me you're watching twitch smp because it gets SO MUCH WORSE (affectionate) for viking#yt#txt#misc#aquagrav#dominioners#dsmp#i do not have tags for the others sorry
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i need you all to listen to me. you know how youtube will sometimes randomly recommend videos with like, 58 views? sometimes the stars align and the fucked up algorithm does something right.

go out there and watch a smaller mcyter. sub-100k at the bare minimum, but ideally under 10k and even more ideally under 1000 subs. bonus points if they have in the low 100s to under 100 subscribers. watch whatever video you got recommended. watch another of theirs if you vibe with it. pick a specific series of theirs that you really like. subscribe to them.

now. this is really important. leave comments on the video or series you like. do a running gag if it helps remind you to comment. and more important than that: pick a story they're telling and engage with it. draw silly fanart even if you don't have any place to share it with them. write a tiny little story and keep it all to yourself. hype them up to your friends. get excited about this person's videos. if they do have a discord or whatever, send fanart, get involved in their community, et cetera, just --

i cannot stress enough how good it feels to have at least one tiny niche thing that's your special thing. it rules. the more you can get the better, in all honesty it doesn't even have to be an mcyter it could be an itch.io visual novel or something, just pick something obscure you stumble onto and hold it close and let it tell its story.

there will always be something there.

#txt#yt#orig#misc#yall i'm having emotions about ANOTHER niche mcyter (it's Ardendrus this time she's rad)#but seriously with us feeling kind of disconnected from mainline fandom stuff it feels really nice to have like#these small little pockets of ''i don't have anything to prove to anyone i want to talk about this because it's something that i love''#while i'm at it you should make an mcyt sona. even if you're never going to make videos in your life make up a guy. do it. trust me it rule#solar scraps
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moxijunk

DHAKAAICJSKDFJFJ did anyone order some Northern Crossroads? N-no? At the wrong address again? Oh boy, I have to get better at this.

You know the deal by now, Fae tkitn belongs to @betweenlands, other one being my tkitn, etc. etc.

vvv this one below was inspired by "Deer Dance" by System Of A Down (yes, this has taken a very long time and is the reason some of the details are different from my current day designs)

#CHEWING REALLY HARD#THESE LOOK EXTREMELY GOOD#yt#art#twcaus#dominioners
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fallow-foot

Wuh skyblock kingdoms doodle time!

Doodled some Shroomistas designs!

Thought it would be fun to give each of them a design based on one of the sets of dimensional mushroom variants!

Also Ruby’s skin and another Artemis doodle!

#YEAAAAAA#sbk#yt#art