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I'd like to add on to this, I relate to Red a lot! I also get really excited, love animals and have more childish tendencies and interests. But I'm still not a five year old! It's hard to express that to people, but my positivity isn't because I'm naive, I've seen terrible things and I want to be better than them! There's so much you can do with that with a character, but any character like me is treated as "haha they're so hyper and happy so they're dumb". But I have seen some really good characterisations of Red, so this isn't everywhere.

On a more positive note, buff Red is basically canon and awesome. Let's collectively draw more buff Red for the win!

not a huge fan of how most people talk about red. it's always stuff like "he's just the preciousest little babiest boy. he's just a baby. tiny little baby man who can't think for himself"

So many people see Red that way!

I think most of the time Red is seen as such is mostly based on his personality. Although he is more childish and a ball of sunshine compared to the others and is a sweetie when he wants to be. None of that make him a ‘little baby bean’. He shows a lot of emotional intelligence! Especially during the lush cave episode of avm.

Sure Red can be sweet, but that stick is buff.

I’m sorry that was random, but it’s not far from truth! Have people seen Red?! He even had a training montage where he was doing the heavy lifting compared to Green! He raises large animals which requires a lot of strength to handle! He goes to monster school for crying out loud! He faced King head on several times during the war, and broke into Darklords place without a hint of hesitation, and beat the shit out of the greys during Ava’s recent episode!!!

BUT for some reason media has a tendency to take characters like Red and portray them like that :/

I really love Red I’m sorry for that little rant, he’s one of my favorites from Ava/avm

Okay SO

The trailer for the Minecraft movie sucks BUT it has given me an idea

I liked Minecraft Story Mode as a kid and obviously this account is mostly Animation Vs Minecraft fanart so I've been seeing a lot of the "MCSM deserves an apology/watch AVM instead posts" and I had an idea.

What if when the movie comes out (April 2025 I think) we have a watch party of various, much bette, Minecraft content.

Like a playlist of various letsplays and animations and fan content that everyone watches at the same time, maybe spread across a few days so it's only a couple hours each day and anyone can join in.

So people could recommend all the pieces of Minecraft media they like and we can collectively (however many people join in, I'm not pretending I have a large following lol) enjoy and discover new Minecraft content, instead of being disappointed by the movie and giving Warner Bros money for putting in zero effort.

I just wanted to check if people were interested so like, even if you have never seen AVM, if you're a Minecraft fan or a fan of some Minecraft content pls vote in this poll (no pressure though ofc, this is just an idea)

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Honestly, I'm so, so very glad AvA is the first fandom I've actually been an active participant in.

LONG RANT INCOMING

Throughout the years, I have "been in fandoms", but I never felt like posting my own art or works, commenting on vids (i didn't have a youtube account back then, still don't), or being anything other than a silent observer.

Back in March, when I came home from that math competition, and found AvMath in my recommendeds, and just clicked on it, I did not expect to get dragged into a fandom about stick figures, of all things. I remember watching AvPhysics directly after, then finding "Wanted", and watching it with no context. I remember going to the wiki, seeing all of the content that was made, and and binging AvM and the actual shorts and literally everything else.

And most of all, I remember thinking, "I wish I could just erase all of this from my mind and experience the magic all over again."

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In May, I took a chance and went to Ao3. I knew it was a site to post fanfiction, but it had never been something I was interested in. But I was just curious, to see if fanfiction about this amazing fandom really existed. I didn't have an account, no; I think I just wanted to see.

There were about 1600-1700 fics on there about AvA, during that time. I didn't know how hits worked or kudos worked, but I just remember scrolling down until I could find something that looked like a lot of people had liked it.

And even then, I clearly remember the first fic I touched. "Identity", by LeenaFreeBird (I'll link it at the bottom). I absolutely loved it. I spent the rest of the month simply reading, and consuming all of the cool hcs, learning what fan terms meant, having an idea for my own fic that I thought, back then, I could never write.

Because I didn't.

I never made an account or wrote. I never left comments because part of me though people without an account wouldn't be able to, and that was just habit, at this point.

And even though I stepped slightly away from there in the months of June and July (we were in the process of moving halfway across the country, I had just watched the new Demon Slayer season, and upon recommendation had binged all of Haikyuu in a week), I always made sure to keep updated on whatever new AvA/M videos had been posted.

In August, I went back on Ao3.

SO MANY AMAZING FICS HAD BEEN WRITTEN IN THE SPAN I WAS AWAY.

I remember binging all of them for the month. I sat alone at lunch (as I was new I didn't have any friends), just reading them on my phone and getting sucked back into there.

In September AvI began. On a whim I logged back into my tumblr account that I had made like 5 years ago in 4th grade to post random rambling stuff about my life (I tagged nothing but my username wth), and redid my entire blog. I was sooo happy when one of my posts reached 100 notes.

I felt way stronger, and way braver. I joined the invite queue for Ao3, because I decided I DID want an account, and I DID want to post my own fics.

And everyone was (and is) SO NICE about it. They love my fics and posts (which I still consider really crappy, btw) to pieces, and always give me good comments. Even my bad fanart (another thing I got the courage to post during this time). Shipping wars never happen here (if they did, I wouldn't know about it). Rarepairs are appreciated, and we unanimously know the ships that should be completely illegal (not naming ship names here).

Everything and everyone is loved, and this is like the one little corner of the Internet where mostly all is safe and your opinion is valued. Sure, your fan theory may be wrong, but people here don't go and tell you "that's so stupid lol, no way that's true". They'll give you actual feedback, explain the evidence that falsifies it, or add to it because they like it.

Even on YouTube, if someone posts a yellue ship video, for example, they'll get hate, or "the color quad are just siblings lol", or "they r stickmen why are u shipping them". If someone HCs Blue as a girl (ik that's been debunked where we are at rn), they'll get a comment saying "it's stickman for a reason".

Like, let people have their opinions. Alan has never confirmed the color quad as siblings, or their origin story. I know he has said that he would like to avoid romance by not making female characters, but it's not like the people who ship yellue or grapeduo barge up to his door and demand he makes it canon. They're just peaceful, and everything that you're saying is fanon. For all we know, four different animators could have collabed on the sticksfight website and each animated a different character (not saying that's true, but we don't know).

And even with hollowhead pairs. Alan created them, yes, but how does Creator transfer to father in this scenario? We don't know, because he hasn't confirmed the hollowheads as siblings either. They still get hate on YouTube.

But Tumblr just loves everyone. The AvA community, for example, will always make you feel like you posted something good. They lift you up, not put you down. They appreciate your headcanons because it provides a new way of looking at things.

They appreciate you.

I feel so much better about putting myself out there, and I know I will do so more in the future. I now cannot comprehend how someone can see all of this content and think "they are just stick figures". No they aren't. They are stick figures with trauma, feelings, pain, heroic qualities, fatal flaws.

You, tumblr, makes me feel this way.

Thank you so much.

(I did not expect to rant about my entire journey when I was supposed to be talking about how amazing the AvA tumblr fandom is, but now that I have I'll just keep it. Here's the fic I was talking about)

MERRY CHRISTMAS ok bye now

hey, don't cry. 3 bottles of beer on the wall, okay?

hey. don't cry. 99 bottles of beer on the wall. okay?

(swearing TW)

I WANNA DO THIS

SEND ME AVM/AVA CHARACTERS PLS

I need to do something simple while I work on a long request

(send me ships too since I also have a bingo card for that)

AvA Spoilers

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Sillies

FINALLY

I've never thought about the color of underpants for so long in my life...

but I like it