Im Joy! Your friendly nomad owl lady🦉🧭
🎨 Digital artist; Character concepts; Illustrations; Landscapes; Comics
Current fandom obsession: Mcyt (Vampires SMP)
Human made art; NO AI
Do not repost on other platforms without credit!! 💜
Think it's about time that I made a blog navigation post! Here's the tags that you'll see me use for my art and such going forward!
Btw my asks should be open! So if you have any questions, feel free to throw them my way (I can't guarentee I'll answer every ask I get, but I'll try my best 👍)
#mcytblr - for all the new fanart I made in this fandom starting 2025
#vampires smp fanart - all the vsmp fanart I've ever made and posted here
#Guest of Honor AU - general tag for everything GoH related (concepts, chapters, asks, etc.)
#Guest of Honor AU Chapters - specific tag; if you only want to see the main story and none of the other media
#ask me about GoH AU - for responses to asks about GoH AU
#oc art / #artist on tumblr - for all my original art, either of my oc's, my sona or anything else
#Joy's yap posting - for all the times I feel like shouting into the void
#you ask, I shall answer - for responses to my asks
#Joy's reblogs / #LOOK AT IT - for when I reblog art that I find soo cool I need others to see it
#dream smp fanart / #mcyt - old tags for my dream smp art phase
#vtuber fanart - for all the fanart I've made of the vtubers I like
Hope this is clear enough! Will def add new stuff to this list as I try to become more active here 💜🦉
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This is the first four pages of the next ask that would've been posted to Starter Swap. It's not gonna get finished, but I didn't want the hardwork I put in to go to waste. Also so I didn't spend forever writing this fuckass monologue for nothing. You can probably guess why I'm not sending out the last two.
I tried to keep this short
Hi I'm gonna assume you all know at least a little bit about the situation going on, if you don't, I suggest doing some research and coming to your own conclusions. Most important thing: support the people that were most affected and take your time to process your emotions/ take a break from socials.
I'm writing this to give a quick explanation on how my art and current projects will be affected going forward.
At the current moment, I will not be depicting any character of AvidMC, or the cc themselves in fanart outside of brief appearances in my vsmp Guest of Honor comic.
There's a chance I might change my mind in the distant future and make fanart of v!Avid just for nostagia's sake, but other than that, I will relegate the character to minor background appearances in GoH.
Don't take this as a sign of me supporting their actions! Far from it.
As another user on here mentioned, the characters belong to the fandom now and every individual creator is free to decide what to do with them. Not to mention, Avid doesn't make any profit from any of our fanworks and we shouldn't stop making them altogether and throw out hours/months of hard work bc of the shit they're responsible for. That would just let them win.
Inclusion in Guest of Honor AU:
On my part, I choose to reclaim the character to some degree, since I unfortunately had a lot of fun drawing him (bc i can give him exaggerated expressions and movements). In the larger narrative of GoH he will have no significant influence, since the story isn't about him.
GoH!Avid didn't have a big role in the first place, the most relevant scenes that I had planned with him would've been in chapter 1 and little bit in 3. I'll be working on switching him out to a different chr without affecting the emotional impact of the scene.
I'll probably make a separate post about Guest of Honor, my progress and clarifying some things about the AU itself and how I've noticed that I might've given the wrong idea as to what the story is actually about. Rest assured, I'm not giving up on the project just yet, it's just taking some time since I'm not constantly working on it.
Apology:
One other thing for the ppl coming from twitter: I will like to apologise for the tweet I made a few hours after the statements started coming out. It was very late and I let my anger and frustrations get the better of me. In my hatred and disgust over Avid's actions I said something that was more directed at them then anyone else, but was also hurtful to nb-trans individuals as a whole. I never meant it to come across as hateful or invalidating towards any of my trans/nb friends and fellow artists and I apologise for my words.
From now on I'll be more careful of what thoughts I share on the internet during heightened emotions. I'll lean even more into the sterotype of artist that never comments on anything and just posts art.
I believe that's all I wanted to say for now. Thank you for reading.
Please if you are able to, go support Musithical, TheRandomBox and Peeporp who've been financially affected following Avid's departure from the space.
Be kind to each other, take your time and never let a shitty person's actions stifle your creativity and destroy the safe space you found in this community.
This isn't my first rodeo and it certainly wont be the last, but I'm choosing to see the silver lining in the fact that we are the ones who can make this community a better place than it was yesterday by standing our ground and supporting the people that truly need it. Hope that made sense. Thank you.
-Joy 🦉🧭
So, I've been thinking about this situation for the past few days. The first and most evident point I'm going to make here - support the victims. They've been through enough already. As much as I'm going to talk about my work in regards to this, I am not someone who has been effected in the way that the various individuals coming forth about their experiences with Avid and Marm have. My ability to create and feel comfortable making fanworks does not compare to the emotional stress and loss of stability that has occured in lives of the people at the heart of this.
I say this both because it is obvious, and because the nature of this update is going to delve into how this effects my personal works. However, I don't want that to take away from anything stated previously.
This is going to be long, and I apologize for that. Update under the cut.
On Fanart
First things first - I am NOT going to take down and of my pre-existing works featuring v!Avid. They've already been made. Going back to erase history isn't going to change anything. Additionally, as I have say over and over again throughout my posts: Art takes time. I have spent anything from hours, to days, to months working on the pieces I've put out on Tumblr. And that's not counting any time I've spent working out these ideas outside of digital art, or writing out the storylines that even let me get to them in the first place.
However, I will not be making any more fanworks featuring them.***
This is not to shame anyone who has chosen another route for the future. I am simply not comfortable continuing to do so. It's a difficult decision to make, as v!Avid is so heavily involved in the overarching plots of several other VSMP characters. I don't want to abandon VSMP entirely. They are not all it had to offer, far from it. Frankly, I feel as though it would be giving them too much credit to even imply that such a thing is true. There was so much wonderful work that was put into the series by the other creators, and so many amazing fanworks made by my fellow fan creators before and after. None of that time and effort and love deserves to be washed down the drain because of the selfish and cruel actions of two people.
So, to put it simply, yes, there will be more VSMP content on this blog. There just won't be any more v!Avid content.***
On Trustbites AU (Fanfiction)***
The little addendum I've have to put in the previous section is because of my Trustbites Fic. While they were never the main focus of the story, with it being set after the events of the original series, their presence in the narrative exists through other characters. This is particularly in regards to v!Drift and v!Shelby, two characters who are already disregarded more often than others (for reasons you can probably guess). Their stories can exist without v!Avid to some extent, but to pretend like there was no real effect there would just be a flat out lie.
I could just throw out everyone but the Trustbites trio and call it a day. But I'm not gonna do that. There's already such a problem within fandom of dismissing female characters, as well as characters of marginilzed identity as a whole. I don't want to contribute to that. I don't want to get rid of them, and I don't want to flatten their arcs in a story meant to be a continuation of the original series. And I will acknowledge that this is what I am doing to v!Avid to some extent. I'd rather not do it to anyone else.
I may never get to the point where v!Drift and v!Shelby get explored. The same can be said for any other points that would've somehow involved v!Avid. Writing is hard for me. Especially with how unbelievable unmedicated my ADHD is. But I want to write Sever the Leg with the intent to get to the point, regardless of if life lets me get there in the future. Basically, the fic will continue as usual (release schedule affected by my personal life notwithstanding).
On Starter Swap
Here's the big one.
Even outside of what's gone on in the past few days; I have been feeling disatisfied with Starter Swap for some time now.
There's a lot of reasons as to why. Early on, I felt pressured to change parts of it I liked due to comments I had recieved. And as more and more "sireswaps" and "starter change" AUs arose, I began to feel like the one I had made was inadequate. That is, of course, no one's fault but my own, but that didn't stop it from weighing on me as I tried to write out the story or make new art.
Anyone who has sat through a call with me trying to draw will know I am a perfectionist to a fault. And unfortunately, this carried over to my work on this AU. It started with the old sketches, and how I couldn't look at them without hating them. Then, when I started to work on refs, I would nitpick my own designs endlessly, even if deep down I knew nothing was actually wrong with them. This was to the point that I look weeks to do singular characters.
As for the pages themselves, and I only completed four (though there is currently six unfinished ones I've been chipping away at over the past two months), but I think the way I approached them was flat out unsustainable for the long run. It drained me to work on them alone, even with the larger-than-average amount of freetime I have at my disposal. This was something I had somewhat fixed by the time of the second ask, but looking back, the way the story was meant to be revealed is not something I think that I, even with the two friends I managed to get help from, could have handled.
What came out about Avid was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I've thought about it a lot over the past few days, and I've talked about it with my team. There were ways I could have moved forward with the project. But when faced with what had happened, and the people that had been hurt, I had to sit down and ask myself a question. That being: did you even want to do this beforehand? And as much as I know the answer will disappoint some people, the answer was no. There is no point in me attempting to salvage a story that I do not want to keep making.
I'm sorry to anyone this upsets. To anyone who liked this AU: I'm not gonna take down any of the old Starter Swap work. You're free to enjoy it as it exists. It will not disappear. It just won't continue on.
I'm going to pivot to something else. Something more sustainable, and something focused on the creations of other people who worked hard on the Vampires SMP I still enjoy. There are two main options - one more original content focused, but I will make a separate post about that, since I don't want to detract from the circumstance more than I already have.
Thank you to anyone who read through all of this. I completely understand if people will not want to stick around afterward. It's a difficult time in this community, and I entirely get the desire to step away from it all.
Again, please remember to show your support for the people who have been most affected by this. Musithical, a music artist who collaborated Avid on their songs, is facing serious risk to their income due to cutting him off. She goes more indepth on this post, which also lists a variety of ways you can support her during this time. Additionally TheRandomBox and Peeporp are two others who are facing significant impact to their income in light cutting ties with AvidMC. If you know of anyone else under similiar circumstance, feel free to add on.
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I am so incredibly excited to announce that I NOW HAVE MERCH ON ACGGOODS!!
If you ever wanted to support my art now you can!
https://acggoods.com/store/rhynnjoy
For this drop we have:
4 Gothic Frame Acrylic Keychains of the Coven
44mm x 91mm for 12 €
Hanging Bat Acrylic Keychain
33mm x 81mm for 10.76 €
(There isn't a whole lot that I have rn since I didn't have time to make more, but I plan on making Flight merch in the future as well!)
I would like to thank my friends and fellow artists in this space for encouraging me to finally monetise my art! I never thought I'd come this far as an artist and creator.. 🥺
I promise you that even if I don't post often I am always working to deliver the highest quality pieces I can (hence why GoH is taking so long...)
Please check out the store page and don't feel pressured to buy anything if you can't afford it rn! Take care of yourself first!
Thank you ❤
"For that is its true horror: The Double Soul wears the face of mercy, while carrying the heart of corruption."
- from Double Soul by Prince Solar
"In candlelight, corrupted eyes do not shine. They drink the flame."
- from The Eyes by Faded Name
🕸 "Think of the network like a spider web... If a fly gets caught in it, the spider will sense it immediately..."
I like me some worldbuilding for my AU's
Not a whole lot to say for this one, but you're free to make up your own theories as to how the beacon network works!
I was always intrigued by these things in the actual canon... Their origin wasn't explained in depth, but from what I understood from Owen's pov it seemed like they were deliberatly placed to keep something/someone in, rather than keep people out.
Since Scott had no idea what they were, but Owen did, there's only one logical conclusion.
But my biggest question is: WHY was the beacon inside the castle already red and corrupted before Scott's awakening while all the othere's were neutral? Was it Owen's doing? Or someone else?
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🕸 "Think of the network like a spider web... If a fly gets caught in it, the spider will sense it immediately..."
I like me some worldbuilding for my AU's
Not a whole lot to say for this one, but you're free to make up your own theories as to how the beacon network works!
I was always intrigued by these things in the actual canon... Their origin wasn't explained in depth, but from what I understood from Owen's pov it seemed like they were deliberatly placed to keep something/someone in, rather than keep people out.
Since Scott had no idea what they were, but Owen did, there's only one logical conclusion.
But my biggest question is: WHY was the beacon inside the castle already red and corrupted before Scott's awakening while all the othere's were neutral? Was it Owen's doing? Or someone else?
hows scott doing in the GoH au? He can't be happy about being constrained to Oakhurst still. Is he back to his scheming ways?
I'll be honest, I haven't thought about it all that much yet.
I assume he wont be happy to be stuck here again with these ex humans, the majority of which he hates (and they also hate him).
Since goh!Avid escaped his fate for now, goh!Scott didn't get the same push he needed to process his feelings, or any human feelings for that matter. He's still very much in the nonchalant, sassy manipulator arc.
The short time he spent outside of Oakhurst with Shelby and Drift didn't leave him with a good impression of the modern world, nor did he make an effort to not cause problems (unintentionally).
Last time I drew Owen for an ask I realised just how much I hated the facial structure I gave him... So I actually locked in, looked up references & I can say now that I feel much better about this one!
Not to mention its easier to draw now
Left: Old Right: New
I will also update the annoucement post with all the cast designs with the new version
The AU's prologue is coming along! I'ts taking longer than I would like since I am also in the middle of another project with a couple of friends that's been on hiatus for a year (I'll talk more about it in May)
In the Trinity or Restoration (canon name of the cure) the first book talks about killing the sire, the second talks about using holy water and the third, the crucial one, gives the incantation. The humans found the first two in the same episode and then found the third the next episode. In this AU they never found the third one and that's how we got here.
(I know in the server they made it so that the books can spawn multiple times in the tombs, but that doesn't add a lot of drama if they can get duplicates, so im changing it lol. If they can't find the books the vampires will get to them first, finders keepers)
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Boo, an Anon ask you can use to show of a bit of the story for your AU you really like vut noone asked for
Oh gosh what can i say that's not too spoiler heavy...
I guess the part of the story i really like is how i get to expand on Apo and Cherri's relationship with small details about their pasts and the cute couple interactions they have before the start of the horrors.
Since Apo let some parts about it vague in the main series, it means i have some leeway to play around with Cherri's backstory, motivations and capabilities that would (hopefully) make it feel like she fits in with the world and the rest of the cast!
