Volpixal

Ahem
          	
          	So
          	
          	Idea? 
          	
          	Imagine. 2006 New York. Scott Goldsmith is just Living Life And Doing Better. He doesn’t even bite people who *ask* him to anymore! 
          	
          	He is walking home late one night when he hears a cry. 
          	
          	Normally, he’d keep walking. Many things happen at night involving people crying out that are frankly not his concern. 
          	
          	But this…
          	
          	This one piques his interest.
          	
          	Scott finds his feet turning the corner into a dark, narrow alley before he understands exactly why, facing down and dispatching (which also means a new tear in his favorite leather jacket; wonderful) a young Coven of other Vampires that had found their way in the streets maybe 12 years ago, according to Abolish’s own account. 
          	
          	They surround a cowering boy of at most 23 years old, with fearful blue eyes and a tangled mess of brown hair. 
          	
          	“What’s your name?” Scott asks, though he already knows. 
          	
          	“It’s–it’s Jack. People call me Pyro, though…” The younger man admits. 
          	
          	
          	
          	
          	Aka: Scott discovers something like a reincarnated Jack Von Pyroscythe. It’s a chance to do something different. A clean slate, an unbloodied page. 
          	
          	He could see to it that Jack is helped this time, that he is saved–to do that “good” Doc wanted of him because this probably counts, or, he could call it good enough here, and leave the man to his life. 
          	
          	What will he do?

Volpixal

@WillowOfTheWitches I did kinda say that in Damn These Vampires so I could definitely see that happening in this story as well
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WillowOfTheWitches

@Volpixal Ok: this sounds WONDERFUL. You could also make more town that existed, which had the same curse as Oakhurst, but nobody ever spread the word about them :_
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Volpixal

Ahem
          
          So
          
          Idea? 
          
          Imagine. 2006 New York. Scott Goldsmith is just Living Life And Doing Better. He doesn’t even bite people who *ask* him to anymore! 
          
          He is walking home late one night when he hears a cry. 
          
          Normally, he’d keep walking. Many things happen at night involving people crying out that are frankly not his concern. 
          
          But this…
          
          This one piques his interest.
          
          Scott finds his feet turning the corner into a dark, narrow alley before he understands exactly why, facing down and dispatching (which also means a new tear in his favorite leather jacket; wonderful) a young Coven of other Vampires that had found their way in the streets maybe 12 years ago, according to Abolish’s own account. 
          
          They surround a cowering boy of at most 23 years old, with fearful blue eyes and a tangled mess of brown hair. 
          
          “What’s your name?” Scott asks, though he already knows. 
          
          “It’s–it’s Jack. People call me Pyro, though…” The younger man admits. 
          
          
          
          
          Aka: Scott discovers something like a reincarnated Jack Von Pyroscythe. It’s a chance to do something different. A clean slate, an unbloodied page. 
          
          He could see to it that Jack is helped this time, that he is saved–to do that “good” Doc wanted of him because this probably counts, or, he could call it good enough here, and leave the man to his life. 
          
          What will he do?

Volpixal

@WillowOfTheWitches I did kinda say that in Damn These Vampires so I could definitely see that happening in this story as well
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WillowOfTheWitches

@Volpixal Ok: this sounds WONDERFUL. You could also make more town that existed, which had the same curse as Oakhurst, but nobody ever spread the word about them :_
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Volpixal

I JUST REALIZED DAMN THESE VAMPIRES IS 6 MONTHS OLD TODAY 
          
          ITS KINDA BITTERSWEET NOW BUT IM NOT GONNA LET WHAT HAPPENED RUIN MY CELEBRATION OF THIS 
          
          SO YIPPEEE HAPPY SIX MONTHS ANNIVERSARY OF DTV EVERYONE HOPE YOU HAVE AN AMAZING TIMEZONE
          
          I don’t have any/can’t think of any really special thing to do to commemorate it  tho :( oh well I think the fact it’s lived for 6 months is good enough on its own

Volpixal

Wait no I just remembered that’s a lie today I was GONNA post memes or maybe a couple chapters on Tumblr bcs I was super happy and wanted to celebrate but again with the recent events that have transpired I fear it would be in bad taste for me to do so now T-T not without a lot of extra steps that aren’t worth the effort for the end result and also it would probably hurt or upset other people either way 
            
            But that’s okay we can still be happy that it happened at all and I will take that win
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Volpixal

New chapter of Same Face, Wrong Place is out! 
          
          I’m so freakin tired guys—

Volpixal

@WillowOfTheWitches NO ITS OK THIS IS WATTPAD SO TIME DOESNT EXIST HERE
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Volpixal

I’ve had a question on my mind for a while—and maybe this isn’t the best place or time to ask it, but I would rather ask it in a space where I believe someone may be better informed on the topic than I am (and because I didn’t fully understand what was being said when I asked Google). 
          
          So a while ago, I mentioned to someone that I had an accidental habit of occasionally saying “we” when I try to talk about myself. I think some of you have seen it before, but I also think it comes across as the sort of “we” that is very general as well. I’m avoiding using it in this message as a conscious effort, but it does slip out randomly. 
          
          Anyway, they told me to look into something called plurality, but I still don’t understand what that is. Is it like having alternative pronouns, or an alternative gender? Is it labelled under the umbrella of being LGBTQ? This won’t make any negative difference whatsoever to my choice of embracing that label for myself, but I want to understand what it is I would be labelling myself with before I go using it, out of respect for those who may genuinely be identifying with plurality and to make sure what I’m doing isn’t just a quirk. 
          
          Also I hope I phrased my questions in a way that isn’t offensive I’m just really bad at wording things sometimes so I hope my words weren’t offensive to anyone. If they were, I sincerely apologize.

-Rainbow116-

@Volpixal ohh that's so interesting! yeah lol ofc, sorry if it wasn't really what you were looking for
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Volpixal

@-Rainbow116- that does make a lot of sense and I do use “we” when talking to myself as well! I also do use “we” when having conversations with other people, though–I remember someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up once and I had responded with “we have no idea” despite having meant to say “I” and other instances like that so I was just unsure. I appreciate your input though! Thank you so much :)
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-Rainbow116-

@Volpixal i probably dont have a helpful answer for you but I address myself as "we" a lot when talking just to myself but i think the reason is just so i dont feel like im necessarily talking to no one and actually having a conversation, because i will also answer myself as well so i really AM having a conversation. so instead of sounding like im talking to myself, i speak like im talking to someone and they're responding, even though both parties are just me. i am 100% a singlet (as Dragon says), i just like to hold conversations with myself to work things out better and as a result end up addressing myself as "we" 
            
            idk if this makes any sense lol but hopefully you get my point
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Volpixal

Hey
          
          Something has come up with Avid and Marm, so I figured I may as well say this and get it over with quickly before I can overthink it. (Too late actually I’ve been overthinking this for hours but yk before it gets worser)
          
          I am not in any way supporting them or their actions, but I don’t want to get involved or swept up in the rise of this ordeal either. I am stepping back from it all, I will only ask for facts if I need them, and otherwise I am going to remove myself from it entirely. I will be neutral.
          
          As for content that has Avid in it and the stories I have written including him, that’s a bit harder for me to consider. 
          
          I think, at the very least, I will not get rid of the things I have written with him in them thus far. I don’t think I could bring myself to delete Damn These Vampires, for example. That fic is one of the best things I’ve ever made in my life, my highest, best accomplishment and something that showed me just what I was capable of, and while that has been tainted with what I now know, I can’t bear to get rid of it. 
          
          I also had DTV’s sequel, ‘Hold Out Your Hand, My Sister’ in the works, and while I know I haven’t updated that beyond the two chapters I managed and I’m so very sorry, I don’t think I should continue it. It was going to primarily focus on Avid and continue where DTV left off, but I don’t think I could do that in good conscience any longer. If you want to know what I had in mind for the plot had I continued it, you can ask in the comments and I’ll explain what I can. 
          
          There may be a time where that will change, or maybe I’ll just stop caring and decide that I can feel good distinguishing between the character Avid and the CC Avid, but for the time being, he will either not appear in my fics or be a very brief presence. I was going to put his Flight character in Same Face Wrong Place, but we’ll see how they deal with his departure from Content Creating in canon before I make any real decisions about him showing up.

Volpixal

@Vi-The-8495 I would join but again I don’t got Discord. Regardless I support this idea all the same.
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Dragon_of_jade

@Volpixal Sleep and a full day away from the Internet (at school) really helped me put some (but of course not all) of my thoughts in line
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Vi-The-8495

Heyyyy 
          
          How we feeling with everything happened today…?

Vi-The-8495

@Volpixal  tbh that’s probably the best way one can go about this type of thing if they loved the content of someone later revealed to be a Not Great person
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Volpixal

@Vi-The-8495 yeah I understand that. I went through the same thing when everyone started hating Wilbur. I still like his music and I can’t un-like something that I hold nostalgia for, but I don’t need to agree with/support the person who made it. 
            
            I believe that you can separate the content from the content creator, and therefore appreciate said content separately. Maybe that’s naïve of me. But that’s how I chose to approach it, and I think it’s ultimately how I’ll handle this situation with Avid and Marm here. 
            
            I’m here either way tho :) 
            
            I may not be the best at these sort of things but I will Try My Best and I will always be willing to listen <3
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Vi-The-8495

@Volpixal  kinda just emotionally checked out after the statements started coming out. I’m kinda settling on the viewpoint that loving the characters he portrayed that I got attached to is… still okay, so long as it’s not the cc behind them. If that makes sense. It’s kinda how I see all ccs and the characters they portray… separate things… so like it would be fine to love a cc but not like the character they play in something… but reversed… y’know? 
            
            So, I’m doing numb rn 
            Uh 
            Thanks
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Volpixal

Guys…
          
          Damn These Vampires will be 6 months old on June 12 
          
          ITS BEEN SIX MONTHS SINCE VAMPIRES T-T 
          
          We still aren’t out of the trenches XD if anything we got deeper in

Vi-The-8495

@Volpixal NO THATS SO REAL 
            
            BLOCKY PEOPLE HAVE SUCH UNREASONABLE HOLDS ON ME 
            
            **cough**life series**cough**
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Volpixal

@Vi-The-8495 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
            
            ^im screaming bcs WDYM VSMP WAS SIX MONTHS AGO I HAVENT HAD A HYPERFIXATION LAST BEYOND TWO AND A HALF MONTHS MAXIMUM. IM GETTING THERAPY BCS OF V!LEGUNDO. I CANT THINK ABOUT THAT MAN AND BE SANE AND HE STILL MAKES ME CRY WHEN I TRY TO WATCH HIS POV. I AM UNWELL ABOUT MARTYN AND REN’S FINALES. 
            
            The chokehold these blocky guys have on me is wild T-T
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Volpixal

Me: hey brain I wanna write can we do that please? Any ideas? 
          
          My brain: FEEL THE RAIN ON YOUR SKIN—IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADAS—OH CAPTAIN LETS MAKE A DEAL—*like five scenes and different songs from Interstellar playing at once*—FIRE—I wanna eat oranges but that’s too much commitment rn—ooooh do we wanna look at memes—*the caterpillar rave audio*
          
          Me: thanks. Helpful.

Volpixal

We now have no thoughts but Sandstom by Darude in brain rn life is going wonderful
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Volpixal

The real reason I struggle to write: 
            
            
            My brain is thinking of literally anything BUT the thing I wanna focus on
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Volpixal

Also I just looked at the combined number of my reads/hits on Salvation from Ao3 and Wattpad, 
          
          
          WHY IS IT ALREADY AT LIKE 6,000? THATS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO THE COUNT FOR DAMN THESE VAMPIRES?? 
          
          IM SCARED

WillowOfTheWitches

@Volpixal Ive got the MMAACU series, but that’s it for bigger books :)
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