I’ve seen other people deleting their work related to avid, or deciding to not make more. I don’t think there’s a wrong way to go about it. Sharing the things I’ve created helps me let go and move on, which is why I’m posting all of this.
Everything under the cut. In addition to all this art, I have a bloodrain playlist, as well as a short bloodrain edit and a very rough tf!water animatic i will be posting separately. More of my thoughts and plans also under the cut, I just wanted to get them off my chest
General thoughts
Avidmc was the reason I ever fixated on vampires in the first place, I would not have even bothered with bannerfall or the flight if it were not for them. I had a lot of fun, and I really enjoyed being in all of these fandoms. I loved tf!avid and v!avid a lot and cc!avid can’t change that.
Depending on how things go with the flight and tf!water in-canon after all this, I may continue to fixate on tf!water, but probably not. If cc!water does continue on the flight it will be a version of tf!water who has just lost the two most important people in the world to him, and I don’t think I want to see the consequences of that!
I had a lot of fun with bloodrain and aviscott, this whole time I’ve been using them to try to figure out how I can let myself hyperfixate on fiction without it completely taking over my life and making me miserable. I actually made a lot of progress with that experiment, and learned that constantly creating fanart, fanfic, and anything else helps immensely. I was planning to go back to aviscott and vsmp at some point to try again with that fixation but uh…that probably won’t happen now.
I may take a break from art in general, just because I don’t really feel like it rn. bloodrain was what was driving me to create.
I’ll probably avoid also any media for now that I would risk hyperfixating on, and I might even leave mcyt fandom altogether. I actively did not want to be in any mcyt fandom before aviscott dragged me into it against my will. As far as I can tell, this kind of drama just. Keeps. Happening. I’m not sure if I want to risk trusting another cc in case it happens again.
I may go to a different fandom, probably Houseki no kuni if I do. I’m not sure. Theres also a low but nonzero chance I’ll start making gtarp fanart (Probably Leo Escobar or chase rp LSPD, as spaceboy is a comfort streamer for me rn and is playing chief of police). I might continue with tfsmp, just following different characters? But it’s a bit of a hassle to fixate on a livestream-based smp. There’s a good chance I will at least watch pantheons, and I might be in the fandom for it. Crossing my fingers for more compelling yaoi storylines because that is the kind of thing my brain latches onto.
Either way, i will be back on this blog closer to artfight!!!! I am very very excited for artfight.
Art & animatic wips
V!avid & aviscott sketches
A very old vsmp aviscott wip I didn’t want to post bc I hated the expressions 😠i still think it’s pretty though. Was based on an idea for a fic that atp will never be written. It’s hard to tell but Scott is wiping blood off of Avid’s face
An rough draft for a vsmp aviscott animatic. Song is Snakes by Sorry
Tfsmp sketches
Tf!avid drawing. I am still so happy with my linework on the boots, I wish I got to finish this. Honestly, at this point I might as well make a new character so I can reuse that linework
BIG Houseki no kuni/land of the lustrous manga spoilers below!
Some sketches for a hnk au with bloodrain as cinnaphos. Some of the conversation on the bridge in the stream when avid was corrupted reminded me of a cinnaphos conversation from one of the later chapters. And then a bf!avid as an Admirabilis. Here’s some ramblings from my notes about this:
Water and cinnabar are very similar characters. Water feels cursed with their water magic, cinnabar feels cursed with their mercury. If it so much as touches anyone else it will permanently damage them, and it kills all plants and wildlife. They can control it, but not enough to feel safe around others. So they self isolate in a dark cave on the coast, far away from the school.
Both self isolate, are vaguely suicidal, both have an idea in their head that they are meant to be alone and self-sabotage any potential friendships. When someone tries to be their friend, they give them zero grace to make mistakes and take any excuse to push them away.
Avid and Phos both have good intentions but don’t go about it the best way. Later in the manga, phos has been beaten down and discarded so harshly they let go of their love for the world and take revenge. I noticed the similarities between this version of them and corrupted!avid, they will say whatever they can to cause pain to the people that wronged them….avid tried to prey on water’s loneliness, which immediately reminded me of this scene with cinnabar.
Also phos and avid both had someone they were close to who was violently ripped away from them due to circumstances that they readily blame themselves for, and this experience completely alters their view of the world and changes them as a character.
Also also phos at one point tried to convince cinnabar to run away with them to the moon, which they refused. Similar to avid day 1 wanting to run away with water, and water refusing to leave because of marm.
I am sure the overlap between these two fandoms is just me but. I’m having fun. ( 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀Ooo you want to watch/read hnk so bad 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀it’s absolutely gorgeous and tragic and changed my life 🌀🌀🌀🌀you want to read the manga so bad 🌀🌀🌀)
And then just some more thoughts:
- i really really wanted to do this audio with bloodrain 😠i still think it would be really funny. (Anyone who’s better at separating art from the artist and wants to keep making stuff you are more than welcome to steal the idea)
- I believe in peace by shayfer James and Kate Douglas fits tf!marm very well
- Hide by rainbow kitten surprise is a song about accepting being gay that SO fits tf!avid:
- I was also working on some fanfiction for bloodrain, i miggghhht take some parts of my draft and share them but that would probably be either in a separate post or a reblog of this one
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watching a video essay on orientalism in music and it's so funny that the author is far, far too kind in the introduction in terms of coddling the viewer and saying that orientalist music is okay to listen to but then is very direct when giving examples and clearly does not have patience with the overt racism displayed as the video progresses
Tf!water animatic. Song is Dandelion - Last Apollo (PLEAAASE GO CHECK IT OUT THE ARTIST IS SEVERELY UNDERRATED!!)
Most of this is very rough, it was NEVER meant to be seen in this state but I’m abandoning it completely (my reasons for doing so have NOTHING to do with cc!water, it’s just that my fixation on tf!water was very much tied to bloodrain, and by extension, tf!avid)
watching through some of apo’s pov and. my god. Scott is so disturbingly manipulative from an outside perspective. I can see now why so many people hate him
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I LOVE rarepairs in every fandom, but with vsmp I’ve barely had the free time to think about the popular pairings, so I just haven’t been able to explore them. I’m enjoying the rarepair tourney now because all of the vote posts have manifestos/explantions for the ships!!
I’m going through and writing out thoughts on each ship (I’ve got a big centralized google doc with tabs for each fandom and dropdown headings for characters and ships to organize all my thoughts and analysis) before I actually vote on them. So far I’ve only gotten through 6 ships lol but im having fun thinking about them all
thinking abt when i was first politically conscious or whatever. obviously went through the 2014-2016 tumblr sjw media representation (argued w parents about the legalisation of marriage equality over dinner table) phase and my (white, male) lit teacher was very into trauma and postcolonial fiction (shoutout arundhati roy and tayeb salih). and then for my 4000 word high school essay i picked history and wrote about the united fruit company and the cia in guatemala and was like damn. us economic policy/imperialism is actually so fucked up!!! anyway i should find that essay again and see how it holds up