And the discord is OPEN, and artist creation has begun! What has begun, you ask? MCYTBLR Aufest is a Reverse Big Bang, where artists have a month to make an art piece, and then writers have two months to make a fic (5k minimum) inspired by the art. And then we all post all at once, in a big BANG of content.

Open to all of MCYTBLR, whether your smp is still airing or has been done for a while. Dedicated ctommy artist? Come, join us! Really into vitalasubzam? You are welcome! Witchcraft Cleo and Scott is just very important to you? Come on down and tell us! Art is the only way to express your feelings about the etho+gem combination? You're not washed up, you're welcome at the aufest. Need to spread your Ianite agenda? Have you considered doing so through an art plus fic combo? Wake up and go to sleep dreaming of Bagina? We welcome you to come art at us about it.

And the content rule is just that it has to be an au— what kind of au? Sky's the limit. Fantasy AU, Mecha AU, Miraculous Ladybug AU, High School Theatre Production, Lighthouse Horror, Western, Superhero, Vampire, Daemon, Witcher, Warrior Cats, Minimum Wage, Cyberpunk, Eldritch Abomination, Historical, Hunger Games, Murderbot, Survival Narrative— go absolutely crazy. Celebrate the highlights of the AU, subvert it, nod to canon or go off inventing your own new joys whole-cloth. All we ask is that your piece not be canon compliant. Artist's creation periods start now! We encourage all artists to join the discord during the creation period, and you're also welcome to come hang out if you're a writer or a beta reader! Come and join us! Experience the beauty of aus!

DISCORD HERE

Welcome to the Unofficial Top Tumblr Relationships Bracket!

Many people on Tumblr might have engaged in the practice of "shipping" in relation to "media". Some, according to legend, even have opinions on these matters.

If the above happens to apply to you, you might be eligible to vote in this bracket! We have pitted the most popular pairings of the 2023 Tumblr Year in Review against each other to see who will emerge victorious. Round 1 polls drop on Saturday, April 20th at 3PM CST, and will run for a full week.

Check current vote counts here!

Further information is below the cut!

[DONATION PERIOD ONGOING!!!]

Donate to The Sarcoma Foundation of America or CareForGaza now and submit your proof in our Google Form to receive art or fic for Technoblade's birthday!

It's really simple: you donate, you send us your receipt and prompt, and one of our lovely contributors makes you art or fic. The finished pieces will be posted on June 1st to celebrate Techno's birthday.

Donating to the Sarcoma Foundation of America happens through their site. We recommend using their Technoblade Tribute page so they know who has inspired you to donate! Screenshot the mail for your receipt.

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Donating to CareForGaza can be done through their GoFundMe or directly through Paypal; both can be found on their Twitter page. You can send us a screenshot of the confirmation or from your Paypal receipts.

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Remember to cross out any identifying information. If you donate to both charities, submit both screenshots separately to get two prompts filled!

Rules for the prompts are described in the Google Form linked below. You can also mark if you have a preference between fic or art.

It's Time

You know that onshot that you're pretty sure you're 5% of the total hits for, you've read it so many times? Have you ever considered the prospect of art based on it?

You know that art piece that you used as your computer desktop so long you gave up and printed it to put on your wall, so that it could always be with you? Have you considered a web weave based on its themes and ideas? Are you considering it now?

You know that longfic that you have a standing appointment to scream about with your friends when it updates? That fic where your favourite character is a side character we haven't seen in four chapters? That story where you were in the author's discord server and you all built an AU together where things went just a little differently and it was happier (or maybe angstier)? What if you could get a sequel to the story, see more from that side character, get that AU written out?

The MCYTBLR Recursive Exchange just went live, and we are entirely set up to make those art pieces, web weaves, or fics a reality. An entire exchange just for fic of fic, art of fic, web weaves of art, art of fic, fic of web weaves, and more. We are celebrating the creations we all know and love within the MCYT space, and we are now live.

Join the Discord and talk to us about the art pieces and fics you love, and get your questions answered!

More information about works that have been nominated, how to sign up, and how to nominate works are all found in the discord! Come! Join us!

Interest Check Now Open!

In May of 2024, we'll be celebrating the 10th anniversary of Mianite! To that end, we'd like to put together a fanzine. Think that sounds neat, either to read or to be a part of? Fill out our interest check here - open now though January 5th.

🌸 The Art of Scarland is here!

60+ artists gathered together to conceptualize Scarland as a real theme park. The result is 181 pages full of care and detail, to show appreciation for Scar's passion project. Enjoy!

🔽 Dоwnlоad Link

Holiday Exchange!

Our mcytblr-wide holiday exchange is now live! Brought to you by a mod team drawn from the holiday exchange last year, the 48 hour exchange, and more! Join us!

The sign-up form is now open, and you can get to it through our discord, found below.

Discord: here! (Check the #important-links channel.)

We need everyone to be part of a discord because tumblr messaging at an exchange of this size is a great way to ge shadowbanned. Again. (Like we did for the previous two exchanges.) I think tumblr staff is gonna start throwing things at me if I get shadowbanned again. So a discord, and we even have a sprints channel and some fun discussions!

The exchange is live, and we are open to every segment of MCYTBLR! We already have 118 people signed up!

Holding Witchcraft SMP in your heart forever? Congrats on your signups for Yuletide this year, but if you missed that exchange, you can join ours, and we already had 16 people offering WCSMP as an option! Absolutely vibrating about the new life series? First of all, LETSGO SECRETS and second of all, we have 77 people signed up for life series, who you could potentially match with! Always and forever on the Technoblade main lifestyle? You can sign up for Technoblade DSMP, OSMP, SMPEarth, Potato War, or VR in this exchange, and boy have we had people sign up— the lowest sign up we have of those is for Technoblade VR, and 7 people have opted into that media.

We have detailed signups for DSMP, Hermicraft, Empires, Traffic, OSMP, Lifesteal, and QSMP, and we have 34 smaller fandoms you can opt into as well. We can't absolutely promise to match on any of the smaller fandoms, but the benefit of being such a big exchange is that it does becomes possible to match on rarer matches, and we do match with smallest-fandoms-first, prioritizing rarer matches, so it's a definite possibility!

Assignments are sent out by the 26th of November, and then you have one check-in before the posting week between the 24th of December and the 1st of January. 

Artists, writers, playlist-makers, web-weavers, moodboard artists— join us! Everyone is welcome! Tell your friends!

The Calendar Is Ready!

The mods and artists of the DSMP Pinup Project are happy to announce that our project is now ready to go. 18 months of wonderful art.

You can buy a printed copy of it here, which should be able to ship to many countries.

If you wish to print your own copy, for price reasons or if lulu.com does not ship to you, you can find the print-ready files here.

Go forth! Enjoy! Tell the artists what an amazing job they did!

We would like to thank the wonderful team who helped us make this project a reality. They are:

Artists:

Mods:

This project has been a blast, thank you all for your wonderful work and your patience as we've fought the printing process. Enjoy the calendar!

HERMIT PRANK WAR: BRACKET

The nominations are in, and we have a bracket of 24 of your favorite pranks on the Hermitcraft server! The full list of pranks is as follows:

Round 1 polls will go live Sunday, September 17th, at 5PM EDT!

Welcome to the Unofficial Top AO3 Relationships Bracket!

Many people on Tumblr might have engaged in the practice of "shipping" in relation to "media". Some, according to legend, even have opinions on these matters.

If the above happens to apply to you, you might be eligible to vote in this bracket! We have pitted the most popular pairings on archiveofourown.org against each other to see who will emerge victorious.

Further information is below the cut!

Hello There! We're running an interest check for MCZR, a zine dedicated to minecraft speedrunning and those who create for it. The continuation of this project depends on the interest in it, so we'd appreciate if you'd take a second to fill out this interest form :) Thank you!!

EDIT: Just want to clarify that while obviously a lot of this will be cc's, we're also interested in art focused more around the PROCESS of speedrunning (there are LOTS of cool opportunities for art about routing bastions/forts, killing the dragon, all advancements, etc!)

In addition to that, we would also be interested in finding a way to include skin artists! They're such a large part of the community and it feels right to represent them in a project like this. Thanks again!

It's no surprise that we love our duos on MCYTblr, and there have been many duo brackets going around, but we have just as many iconic trios!!! So the time has finally come for a MCYTblr-wide Trios Bracket! Submit your favorite 3 little guys today to see who will battle head to head to see who is the best trio across all of MCYTblr!

The form will be up for a week to collect all the submissions. Then it will be a few days to sort through them and to create a proper bracket. Happy submitting!

Currently Hermitcraft is winning with most submissions per SMP, with team ZIT far in the lead for most submissions (not based on me counting them, just based on me looking over all the responses). We are sitting at 216 submissions so far and still 6 days left of this survey up!! Even if you think someone else already submitted for the trio you are thinking of, submit them!! We still don't have every 3 person variant of SBI, to name an example.

Keep submitting, (unless you submit for team ZIT oh my god im convinced that those guys make up like. 1/5 of the submissions alone), share this with your friends, and have fun!!!

If you have any questions feel free to reach out! Our asks are always open!

Do You Want To Help Us Make A Calendar?

DSMP Pin-Up Calendar is an artistic celebration of the characters of the DSMP, drawing inspiration from the creativity of the fandom community, "hot guy" calendars, action movie posters, classic pin-ups, vintage advertisements, art prints, and more, in the form of a 2024 calendar. We are looking for 12-14 artists willing to create a high-quality piece suitable for inclusion in a calendar. Sign up and tell us which characters you want to draw. All DSMP characters are welcome!

No previous calendar or zine experience necessary, we just want to see your work! Foolish Gamers— in a Toms of Finland homage.

Las Nevadas— in perfectly tailored suits

Niki Nihachu — in the style of Klimt

Aimsey and Ghostboo — in a Henry Selik-inspired piece

Manberg Cabinet— in a film-noir-themed image

Any of these! More! Something entirely different! Bring us your creativity, show us your art, pitch us some images! Help us make something awesome!

Applications are open from August 11-25, closing at 11:59pm EDT on the 25th.

Apply Today!

Calling All DSMP Artists!

The Eggpire— in the style of the Charlie's Angels movie poster

Benchtrio— in the style of Leyendecker

Sapnap— in the style of a firemen charity calendar

Philza— in the style of the Hilda pin-ups

Tinarose— in the style of Mucha

Are any of these something you would like to draw? Do you have even better ideas you want to pitch us?

DSMP Pin-Up Calendar is an artistic celebration of the characters of the DSMP, drawing inspiration from the creativity of the fandom community, "hot guy" calendars, action movie posters, classic pin-ups, vintage advertisements, art prints, and more, in the form of a 2024 calendar. We are looking for 12-14 artists willing to create a high-quality piece suitable for inclusion in a calendar. Sign up and tell us which characters you want to draw, all DSMP characters are welcome!

No previous calendar or zine experience necessary, we just want to see your work!

Applications are open from August 11-25, closing at 11:59pm EDT on the 25th.

Apply Today!

Hello all! For the next week, we're running an interest check for Tails from the Rats SMP, a non-profit Rats SMP fanzine that takes inspiration from children's storybook anthologies to tell the tale of the attic rats' time in the Icraga mansion!

With Pirates having only just set sail a few days ago we didn't want to overwhelm anyone (including ourselves!) with open applications right off the bat, however we are looking to get a gauge on what we'll be heading into over the coming weeks! Filling out this interest check will be a huge help to us in seeing how many applications we may end up with, what ratio of artists to writers we're likely to see, and how many people will be interested in reading the zine at all! It's also a great way to ask us questions or make suggestions if you don't want to send them as asks, especially if you're an artist in a medium outside of 2-D art and literature who would want to contribute!

This interest check will be running for a week and will close at 11:59 PM on Friday, August 11th. Over the course of the week we'll be making posts outlining any guidelines that we'll have for zine submissions so that you have plenty time to look at them before applications open! Speaking of applications, they'll be opening on the Monday after this form closes and will run for two weeks, closing at 11:59 PM on Monday, August 28th! Participants will be picked in early September and we're hoping for a creation period that lasts through December. More details will be released as we post our guidelines though, so keep an eye out for those!

Stay ratty everyone and we'll see you again very soon! 🐀

Hello!!! Yogscast fandom!! I have a proposition.

Do you like ships? Do you want to make those ships fight to the DEATH?

Have I got a poll for you.

Data will be gathered over 1 week, so get your responses in asap. Brackets will be made and posted on the 11th August.