Hello there, I'm vivi or vivian, she/her, adult, and writer extraordinaire!
Sometimes I doodle, sometimes I drabble, and sometimes I simply lurk quietly on the dash with my fists full of blorbo posts.
Any asks are appreciated and encouraged!
I mostly main Hermitcraft and the Life smps (TangoTek in particular), as this is what I write for mostly, but you can also find scraps of other fandoms, such as Dsmp (Technoblade never dies), Qsmp (Tallulah my beloved), and other non-mcyt related things (Reptiles, Batfam, MCU, various video games, Star Wars, Owl City, Critical Role & Midst, etc. etc.) among my rebloged posts.
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My AO3 is ViviTheAnimaxen, feel free to stop by and check out what I have up there.
Emberfish AU Masterpost - here!
Dragonfrost AU Masterpost - here!
I have made an interactive story sideblog! find it - here!
The tags I use most of the time are as follows:
#dont mind me - my original posts
#viviq - posts from my queue (although i dont quite put this tag on consistently. your millage may vary)
#viviwrites - anything to do with my own original writings
#vivirambles about - when I talk about stuff. The thing I'm talking about is typically tagged after this one.
#vivianswers - for answering asks!
#viviasks - for polls and also genuine questions to the ether
#viviplays - for pictures or video of me playing video games. It will probably end up all minecraft. But that's to be expected.
The tags I use for my aus are:
#Voiceless au - this au is mostly over on ao3, but some of it is here. A hermits are deities au, with empires and dsmp crossover.
#Emberfish au - this au has only been on my tumblr. I may move it over to ao3 at some point, who knows! A hermitcraft - life smp mermaid au, focused mainly on team zits and the ranchers. Tango is a merdude, hence, Emberfish.
#Emberfish asks - asks I have gotten about the emberfish au that don't have any particular lore to them.
#Dragonfrost au - this au is pretty evenly split between here and ao3. the 'official' fic is over on ao3, but there is a lot of worldbuilding and general silliness over here on tumblr, as well as worldbuilding. It's a dark ranchers au with a dragon!Tango and warlock!Jimmy, with a dnd inspired setting and magic system. Giggs+Pearl are planned to make a significant appearance, but i'm not sure when as this au is being written chronologically. unlike emberfish.
#Dragonfrost asks - asks for the dragonfrost au. pretty straightforward
The rest of my tags are an absolute mess. I can't be bothered to deal with them, really.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by, and if you've interacted with anything I've posted or sent an ask-- thanks. I love you, you mean the world to me, have a wonder day.
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Hey, so I know that I have some following that might be younger. But if a content creator tells you that they are going to send people after you for repeat offenses. That is not okay. It is an abuse of power.
You are not responsible to make adults comfortable. They can do that themselves. You are still a teen/young adult and you do not have to carry the world on your shoulders. You also do not need to make an adult happy on the internet.
CCs are not your friends and most likely, they never will be.
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Oh me? What am I thinking of? Oh nothing, just the fact that the humans turned all the beacons at the end of episode 2 of vamps and could have left and only two people would have been turned and no one would have died and they all could have gone home and Abolish would have had to do a whole lot less paper work
Giant African Land Snails eat bones in order to get calcium for their shells, but are also among God's most innocent of creatures and thus contain no malice. Hope this helps.
Giant African land snails are (as far as I know) the only invasive species in the US that poses risks to all three categories of environmental damage, human health, AND structural damage--because they will eat stucco and plaster in their hunt for calcium.
Of course I don't blame the snails for this, they are just doing their snail thing and it's not their fault we introduced them to a new place where there's lots of delicious native vegetation and building materials to devour. But if bones are not available they WILL eat your house.
A fic where v!legundo gets super ill and THIS CAN GO TWO WAYS either he dies and the town goes crazy or he gets turned. This came to me while reading a summary for another fic(I got the context wrong). Everyone see my vision
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LOVE my non-regular-humanoid guys, and also had a lot of fun messing with the limited palette for this! especially painting tyranny was SOOOO FUN, im gonna draw her a bunch more for SURE! these three i think are my top three fave characters atm (though i definitely have many others i ALSO love) <3
lmfao I just saw zohran doing the inaugural swim in a full suit and tie, the schtick genuinely gets funnier the more he does it. My only complaint is should have worn swim trunks OVER the suit
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Anyone responding to a creator's shipping boundary with a sudden influx of queerplatonic ships that are portrayed suspiciously just like amatonormative romantic relationships, put AO3 down for a second and listen to those of us in QPRs
Our relationship dynamics are not a substitute for romance and they're not inherently devoid of aspects a creator might be uncomfortable with being shown (like physical intimacy and flirting)
We can tell when a ship is written as queerplatonic in this soulless way where someone's trying to get around a creator boundary they don't actually have to follow* or around a character's aroacespec identity. They come across as conformative and allo-coded because queerplatonic as a term is used to mean 'a romantic dynamic where they aren't actually together or where there's no actual attraction'
*a creator boundary cannot and should not dictate what a community member does outside of their field of view, and it shouldn't encourage them to expand their field of view beyond what's reasonable in order to police their community - you are a person, you have free will! You can even block that creator in advance on your fan accounts!
Queerplatonic relationships are queer and so non-normative. They bend and defy the rules of what's typical and expected. They are broad and devoid of expectations unless you want to create them. They're things like touch or affection because you just want to know that person better; to learn how they'd react and to exist with them. They're things like telling each other things nobody else will know because you've committed yourselves to being there without the expectation for anything but the same in return. They're being able to place each building block that forms your dynamic and take it away on your own terms as a collective
They are not your get out of jail free card when it comes to creator boundaries - you already have that card and it's your human freedom!!
If you're going to write queerplatonic dynamics, actually write them that way instead of just labelling an amatonormative dynamic that way for the sake of it
I am totally gobsmacked by the Pyroscythe boundary update.
I already wrote a post about how the Vampires SMP story stimulated a writing muse for me that I thought I might never get back. I've done a lot of soul searching about fanfic as a creative outlet compared to more socially respected art forms. I've decided I don't want to try to live in the hell of professional publishing, but I still struggle with what to say to my peers when they ask what I write, and the answer is that I write novels set in a world of gay vampires based in Minecraft that they've never heard of. I am proud of this work. It's the best I've ever written. I think it can be appealing outside this niche fandom. I just don't know how to have that conversation.
I'm also discovering that I like writing fanfiction better than completely original settings. Fanfic is filled with story hooks and ideas in canon that each of us can play with and take in different directions. I love looking at VSMP fics and seeing what Abolish's org is or who Louis is.
It never occurred to me in all that soul searching that the community I write in might take my work away from me.
Then the AvidMC bomb dropped. It's done irreparable damage to VSMP fandom in general, and my novels feature his character. But the drive to eliminate the character came from the fans, and it was accepted that fan creators would make their own decision about what to do with their art. The character is not the creator. The creator is gone. My work is now tainted by bad associations with a creator I don't support, but it's my art that is very important to me. I'm still writing it, and I've weathered the storm with enough readers that I don't feel like I'm shouting into the void.
Today, I found myself holding my 15yo daughter while she cried. She has written one chapter of long-form VSMP fanfic with a plot that includes v!Majorscythe. VSMP inspired her to the most ambitious fiction she's attempted to date, and now she's faced with giving it up
This can't be what we want for the fandom
Unlike the last crisis, Jack Pyroscythe and Maddie Milkberry are not manipulative dirtbags using lies to damage and control other creators. From everything I've seen, they look like very good people. Pyroscythe's a great storyteller. I'm less familiar with Milkberry's work. There seems to be some real, heartfelt trauma at the center of this boundary change. My heart goes out to them. I want to support them. I don't want them to suffer.
But I think we need to have a serious discussion about what is appropriate for creator boundaries. Before now, romantic fan works involving Pyroscythe's characters were endorsed and even encouraged by the creator. His situation has changed, but ours has not. Animatics can take weeks or months to finish. Long form fanfic can take years.
There are very few fandoms where creators could expect what Pyro and Maddie are expecting. I submit that it is crossing a line that should not be crossed. I am a devoted reader of some unfinished v!Pyro long-form romance fics that have been in process since the SMP concluded. I don't know what the authors are going to do with this new boundary. I'll be honest -- I support them in continuing to write. I will read them if I'm the only reader left, and I would continue to write my stories if it were me.
Our art is ours. It is inspired by works by these content creators, but it is not owned by them. As a fan community, we need to be able to create without the fear that a creator will suddenly tell us we can't have it anymore.
Fandom is an ecosystem. Content creators create. We fans get excited and make inspired art and share it with each other. That generates buzz and more attention on the work of creators. We want the ecosystem to be healthy, and for that to be true, fan activities must also be respected. Our feelings don't stop when a creator does an about face, no matter how understandable the creator's situation is.
I'm left wondering if this is a safe fandom to engage with at all. I don't think MCYT wants that for its fans.
I implore Pyro and Maddie to rethink what they have asked of us. There must be some way we can support them without dropping what we love cold turkey.
