#cryptid rambles

Soooo we have this new favourite characterrr!!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

Scientists Dazai and Chuuya who are academic rivals. Chuuya puts endless hours into his experiments, plans it out in excruciating detail, measures stuff down to the exact mL (or μL depending on the scale), even when it doesn’t matter that much. Dazai however eyeballs it and decides if his cells don’t survive the extra 10 g of salt he adds to their growth media, or the obviously incorrect pH, then fine, they didn't deserve to make it into a published study anyways. 

i know that we, as a fandom, talk alot about how great it would be if the dsmp got turned into a tv show, or a movie, or something, but honestly?? i don’t think it would realistically live up to our expectations. i mean, don’t get me wrong — if netflix announced that they were making a series based off the smp, i would be as ecstatic as anyone. but think about it. it would be created by, directed by, and acted in by people who most likely hadn’t been there to watch it firsthand. it’s not impossible that they had been, but probably not. and while i have no doubt that the people who would create it would be extremely talented, how true could it actually be?? because even if they watched all the vods and every character analysis on youtube, the dsmp wasn’t just the story, it was the culture around it. it was the farart, the animatics, the fic, the twitter threads. it was the fans, blurring the line between fanon and canon, and sometimes stepping over it completely. it was some canon events being completely ignored, while some fanon things were accepted as fact. it wasn’t just plot, it was the countless streams of just messing around. it was the bloopers. it was the wild donos in the middle of an intense scene. it was twitch crashing. it was asking for subs, or primes, and being part of the character. if you weren’t there, how could you ever truly understand it? the sheer scope? i think that if the dsmp was turned into a series, we would get the plot, yeah. but not the feel. never the feel.

Happy New Year! We're gonna talk about the past these next few months. Who was Erin during their Sidestep days? Are they still similar to who they were back then or are they practically two different people now? Are there any parts of the old them that they miss?

I’ve been screaming internally about a few things the final shape wise, and one of them is that they are REALLY hitting home this campaign that the guardian is an unstoppable force/weapon, esp with Cayde outright going “we can unleash the guardian!” In one of the Exotic quests, and how everyone is so certain that we can handle everything without backup, esp in the last mission.