You've probably heard of the Dream SMP. And if you haven't, well, let me give you the long story short. The Dream SMP (or DSMP for short) is a Minecraft roleplay series with fans all over the world tuning into the content creators' livestreams on Twitch. Using their own imaginations and Minecraft's resources, members have built and destroyed countries, held elections and banquets, fought wars, and developed amazing character / story arcs. Contrary to popular opinion, YouTuber Dream actually didn't name the roleplay. The name comes from fellow YouTuber and Twitch streamer TommyInnit's video titled "Tommy's First Dream SMP Stream EVER." SMP is short for Survival Multiplayer--a type of Minecraft world. Tommy used Dream's name to gather more views, as Dream is extremely well-known within the Minecraft YouTuber community.
When fans talk about this specific roleplay, they use "c!" when referring to the character and "cc!" when discussing the content creator who plays that character, since each character's name is the same as the content creator's name. You'd think this would be confusing, but you get used to it. Each character is allowed three lives before they officially die. (Think of it like Jumanji's lives system.)
The world of the DSMP somehow manages to include everyone in every form of art: animators, artists (both digital and traditional), musicians, cosplayers, and writers. For me personally, I've written short excerpts and song parodies based on the events in the roleplay, and have started making cosplay costumes. Cosplay is the combined term of the words "costume" and "roleplay." Many animes and TV shows are also popular in the cosplay community, where people dress and act as their favorite characters.
One of my favorite characters in the DSMP is Wilbur Soot. In real life, he's a musician and Twitch streamer, but in the DSMP universe, he founded the first two countries, proceeded to blow one of them up, became a ghost, then got revived. (And I'm pretty sure c!Wilbur is still a villain even though he's currently making a burger van, which actually makes more sense than it sounds like!) In my opinion, he wrote his character arc the best out of all thirty-plus members.
A repeated network connection issue prevented me from directly adding my pictures here, so I've attached a Google Doc tutorial of how I made Wilbur Soot's cape out of an old Harry Potter robe, along with full cosplay pictures and references. I hope you enjoy my efforts (which may or may not have taken a lot longer than they should have ~_~ ).
Interesting- it's a whole other world!
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