Echo Weaver

So, yeah, I think I am legally too old to be a part of Minecraft YouTube fandom, but they're stuck with me. Blame my kid.

I will never get over Vampires SMP.

I'm interested in film editing, and I edited VSMP into a TV show format as a way to play around with building a narrative through editing. You can find it here: Vampires SMP TV Series.

I have a tag #literary analysis of minecraft storytelling where I write walls'o'text analyzing MCYT creators and their block people. Usually it's VSMP, but I expect that will expand with other POW Creations YouTube exclusive stories. I don't have the resources to follow streamed stories. My kid watches and writes me up Cliff's Notes on those.

I also have an AO3 account, where I am writing a series of novels called The Monster and the Lunatic (series == 1 complete novel, 1 complete short, and 1 novel in progress right now). The idea of a genuine monster trying to reform really grabbed me, so this is a long look at what might be going on with Scott Goldsmith at the very end of canon and immediately post-canon. This is an AU where Avid made it out alive and provides a balance to Shelby and Drift. TMatL is heavy on the romance. The sequel TMatD has romance, but it's really about the Coven as a unit.

I chatter about writing it on the tag #the monster and the lunatic.

For anyone NOT in the VSMP fandom who might want to peek at it, I wrote an overview of the premise as it relates to TMatL. The sequel, The Monster and the Demon, probably stands on its own, with most relevant backstory included.

The Veylockes are committed to being the human half of that pact. Part of their commitment is not to turn, or at least not turn voluntarily.

Of course plenty of humans are turned against their will. Considering how many generations the Veylockes have been fighting vampires, there are almost certainly some Veylockes who ARE vampires. Abolish was in a truly messed-up situation in Oakhurst, and if he'd chosen vampirism to get everyone out, he wouldn't have been ostracized.

But it does mean that choosing a life as a vampire is a big sacrifice for Abolish. Being a human that stands with vampires is a big part of his identity. If he turned, he would no longer be the human standing up for the needs of humans both against and alongside vampires. He would no longer truly be a Veylocke. It was a lot to ask of him.

She used "Echo's Kid," but I pointed out that I'm hanging out with two other Echos in MCYTumblr. 😅

NO NO NO.

This is the exact opposite of what I was saying.

Anonymous asked: I've been trying to get back in the habit of commenting on fics and I just wanted to stop by and say I've been really enjoying tmatl and tmatd! Your characterisation of Scott especially is possibly my favorite of all the fic I've read. I'm really sorry to hear about your job, that sounds really rough. I hope things get better for you soon!

Thanks a lot. I mean it.

It might seem silly, but with the career thing at such a low, one of the big things that makes me feel better is writing that story knowing folks are reading it. Art is so vulnerable, and I'd like to say that I'm doing it just for myself and don't care if anyone sees it, but that's lying.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for the encouragement.

I'd like to continue writing at the same speed I have been. It's a major bright spot in this crap. Wrapping up almost a decade of work in my job to be handed off is pretty soul-sucking. I have a chapter for this week. The next chapter is halfway done, but I know what's in it. It's a crap shoot whether I'll be able to finish that one in time to keep with my current schedule, but after that I'll be officially unemployed, which will actually be better.

Stuff is going to start happening faster! There will be action sequences in the not too far future! Which I suck at, but I'll do my best.

Chapter 3: First Night

Update to my kid's historic Scott fic!

I have one more chapter of TMatD ready to post on AO3 this weekend and two chapters half-done because I decided the events needed to be split out differently. That's the closest I've come to running out of content for weekly posting since I started that fic.

The VSMP TV Series Cut is now complete and published through Episode 7.

I don't have the energy to make formal announcement posts right now 🙄.

Everything creative I do right now feels like ash. Like, I've been looking forward to writing this scene for at least a month, but now nothing reads like it fits together, and the dialogue that was running in a loop in my head crumbles when I try to put it on the page. I realize that this is the consequence of feeling sad. But all that creative stuff was what was keeping me going when I already knew the bombshell about my job was going to drop.

I would like to be able to turtle, read a bunch of brain candy (fanfic and otherwise), and bang around on my fic in hopes that it will feel more natural. Rereading my own stuff seems to help a lot, for whatever that means. I'm going to have to try to be productive for the next two weeks so that I can tie up as many loose threads as possible in hopes that my project will be able to survive on the staff it has left.

For anyone still reading on the Sims side of this blog, I've at least started thinking about returning to modding. I'm afraid to check in on ModTheSims for fear of running into bug reports for code I don't really remember. The Warrior Pets mod is hanging around waiting for a ton of debugging and tweaks from its alpha release. I'm not sure how soon that will happen, but coding for fun gets a lot more appealing when you're not coding for work