Group Rewatch S1P5: Mashed Potatoes Spellbound Caves Episodes 9&10

[mindcrack_love]

More Mashed Potatoes myah! (I know they pronounce it slightly differently - frankly, when Mhykol says it, it sounds like "meow" - but did Vechs get "myah" from Mashed Potatoes or vice versa??)

Episode 9: Pause | Mhykol
Episode 10: Pause | Mhykol

We're now over halfway through this "season" of Group Rewatch! What non-current OOG[E] series do we want to do next? Do we want to get sucked into Legendary for the rest of time, or do we do something else? XP We also don't have to do OOG[E] next, depending on what you guys want.

Also, just because it's no longer Sunday doesn't mean you guys can't keep participating! Use this community to its fullest advantage and post all of your feelings and thoughts. Or would you rather keep it in weekly chat posts? Let me know!

Comments

[guiltyshirts]

My god. That's about all I can say right now. *_*

[mindcrack_love]

Episode 10 made my entire week. Already.

[damnreddit]

That was awesome.

[mindcrack_love]

And here I thought you weren't watching these. ;)

[damnreddit]

I haven't been, but you made me look. :)

[crystalllized]

Gods, those boys. Pause's extreme derp and panic in Episode 10 compared to Mhykol's calmness in the face of the Skittering Mines is just incredible. Also, Pause, goddamnit, don't blow up the fucking diamonds...

As far as the community is concerned, the activity on the chat post just goes to show how much we have to say on a daily basis, and that's only really the four of us. As someone who comes from a lot of fanfiction LiveJournal communities, we should make it so that if/when the community grows, people aren't afraid to post just about anything, not just fic like quite a few communities over there try to do. It would also encourage more people to make more accounts and then we can have more awesome conversations!

I think if we do start posting constantly, though, we should consider using a really robust tag system to make sure new people can find just about anything. The fanfic master list might want to be in this community as well as on your page, too - it's a little difficult to go back and forth between the two, or it was for me when I first found this place. I have a lot more comments on tagging and organization, but I'm probably going to make a new post for that when I get a chance to sit down and think :)

[mindcrack_love]

Seriously, I actually came into this series fairly blind and I am so, so pleasantly surprised at its awesomeness. I'm honestly shocked we haven't seen more Mashed Potatoes, and that it's not more "canon" like VintagePause and Pausebee.

Ahahaha, sorry about the confusion! You seem to have come in right as the community got started. I initially only made my account as a prompt post (in the style of a kink meme, if not exclusively kinky content) and added a few resources, but then people started clamoring for the ease of use of a community, so I relented. I'll definitely get to work on crossposting - and working on another project, which I'll mention in a bit. "To Hear the Words" stuff will probably stay on my journal as I'm the one writing it, but otherwise things will definitely get shifted here over time!

I do agree we probably need to start thinking about tagging and organization now instead of later; please let me know what you're thinking! I know for sure I'll need tags for every member of the server as well as some "outside guests" (Vechs, BrianLorgon11, and possibly some others as needs arise). Any other suggestions?

[placeblocks]

I don't think I want to jump into OOG Legendary, but a different OOG or OOGE could be fun, or else a Beef/Pause one.

I really like the idea of a weekly chat post, but obviously we could post discussion topics any time we wanted. That'd just be a nice way to keep the community active if it's quiet.

As for additional "outside guests" I'd suggest Juicetra. Also, now that you mention it, I'm surprised there isn't anyone interested in Brian/Kurt fic. They seem like an obvious pairing.

[mindcrack_love]

Would you prefer OOG or OOGE? I guess that's my next question. S3 will return to non-OOG(E)-y things, possibly VintagePause, possibly something else depending on people's thoughts and how much I feel like pimping my own OTPs. ...I am not the most neutral of moderators. >.>

I am all up for Brian/Kurt but I have no grasp whatsoever on Brian's personality. They are a pair of adorable awkward penguins to me and I'm not sure what to do with that!

Edit: also definitely yes on Juicetra. Possibly also a Hermitcrafter or two? Particularly Joe Hills, since Guude's opinion of him took a complete 180 between Minecon 2011 and Play On Con 2012 - and he has a looooooong history with Zisteau, Pause, and Vechs. (Also with Genny's addition to the server, I suspect we'll have our share of all-Hermitcrafter shipping eventually. It's a bit of a shame /r/hermitcraft is being "squatted", I feel they'd have their own very interesting community outside of /r/mindcrack.)

[placeblocks]

You know, I just had a thought--I've actually never seen UHC 1 or 2. Those might be fun rewatches as well, and I'd be all up for them. As for OOG or OOGE, I've actually never seen any of the OOGE stuff (not the biggest Etho fan and there's just too much stuff to watch, so those always end up getting sacrificed), so having an excuse to watch OOGE might not be a bad idea. Also, provides more shipping potential with more people. (Even though I'm sure that BDubs/Guude alone are raunchier.) We could always put it to a community vote.

Brian is lovely and one of the few non-Mindcrackers I sub to. He's a bit older (36, I think), and has a PhD as I understand it, so he's very smart and always trying to figure out the mechanics of things, how and why they work, etc. He'll obsess for an hour over a weird visual glitch with actual interest. (Versus putting on an act of pretending to be interested in something for a video.) His LPs lack some of the SPARK that some of the bigger LPers have, but he's enjoyable, and he and Kurt together get along nicely. I feel like Kurt is much more himself around Brian than he is with even other Mindcrackers.