commission for the cool and awesome @cheypai !! featuring the characters vera (played by Cheypai) and violet (played by TechnoRaptorG) from the fan vsmp Let's Bee Vampires!
Hello, all! This is an announcement for a Vampires SMP community event to support bat conservation. There’s a lot of misconceptions surrounding bats being evil or dirty or diseased, which makes it really hard to get people to care about some bat species that are already struggling with survival. Bats are close to the heart of VSMP, so i thought we could do something to raise awareness and support within our community.
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When this event occurs: April 12th-18th, as International Bat Appreciation Day falls on the 17th of that week.
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How to participate: Create a post with a piece of art or a story that is related to bats in VSMP in some way, and include a donation link to a bat conservation group with it. All posts will need to either tag this blog, or use a hashtag (#vsmp bat conservation event) so that we can find and reblog it to share the love. It’s not required but including information about bats themselves either within the work or separately is encouraged.
Who can participate: Everyone! Regardless of skill level, everyone is invited to participate. And if you’re not able to participate directly, you can still help by donating or liking/reblogging other people’s works.
Accepted art: Digital, traditional, 3D, short stories, poems, get creative! You may make as many posts as you like.
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If you’d like, there are prompts that you can use for the week! You can do them in any order or not at all, but they’re available if you want to use any of them:
Day 1: Wings
Day 2: Fledgling
Day 3: Transformation
Day 4: Fangs/Feeding
Day 5: Echolocation
Day 6: Community/Coven
Day 7: Purring/Comfort
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RULES:
All posts must be related to bats in some way
All posts must include a donation link to a verified bat conservation group. A couple good ones are listed below
All posts must either tag this blog or use the hashtag #vsmp bat conservation event
AU’s are accepted, as long as it complies with the rest of the rules
No sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or hate of any other kind
No NSFW. That means:
No gore (Minimal violence/blood is acceptable. This is Vampires SMP after all)
No nudity/sexual situations
No use of AI of any kind
Posts may be crossposted to AO3, just be careful NOT to request donations, due to their strict rules regarding money. Although we ask that you do create a link to this post so that people can find us. Crossposting to other social media is also allowed, so long as you follow all the rest of rules and include the donation link.
Any posts that don’t have anything to do with bats will not be reblogged or included in the event. If any post doesn’t have a link to a conservation group you will be asked to edit the post to include it. Please make sure to tag this blog or use the dedicated hashtag, otherwise we won’t be able to find and reblog it. Any other broken rules will result in being asked to take the post down and/or your account being blocked, at the mods discretion.
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Donation Links:
Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation: https://www.merlintuttle.org/
Bat Conservation International: https://www.batcon.org/
i personally don't feel comfortable handling money in any way, so all donations will need to be made directly to the conservation group(s). The downside to that would be that there won't be a specific monetary goal, and we won’t know how much gets donated in the end. HOWEVER.
To incentivize participation, i will be taking art requests. For each request that is made, I WILL DONATE $5.00 USD (capped at $500 USD). That means even if you're not an artist or writer, and donating is outside of your means, you still have the opportunity to be involved in a meaningful way!
All art requests must be sent as an ask, and must follow the above stated rules, otherwise it will be deleted. You may send an ask early, but it will only be fulfilled after the event starts on April 12th. Requests will not be accepted after April 18th (or if we hit the $500 goal).
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Disclaimer: This event is not sponsored by anyone, nor are any of the Vampires Creators involved in the project. This is just a fun event for the community to celebrate and support bats.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to send an ask or dm!
bills must be paid, so i am opening commissions and accepting donations on ko-fi!
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DETAILED PRICE INFO
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PORTRAIT ~ BASE PRICE $20 CAD
⇛ Sketch ~ $22+ CAD (+$6.6 for drawn BG)
⇛ Basic Color / Cleanup ~ $24+ CAD (+$7.2 for drawn BG)
⇛ Full Shading ~ $28+ CAD (+$8.4 for drawn BG)
ILLUSTRATION ~ BASE PRICE $30 CAD
⇛ Sketch ~ $33+ CAD (+$9.9 for drawn BG / per extra char.)
⇛ Basic Color / Cleanup ~ $36+ CAD (+$10.8 for drawn BG / per extra char.)
⇛ Full Shading ~ $42+ CAD (+$12.6 for drawn BG / per extra char.)
REFERENCE SHEET ~ BASE PRICE $40 CAD
⇛ Sketch ~ $44+ CAD
⇛ Basic Color / Cleanup ~ $48+ CAD
⇛ Full Shading ~ $56+ CAD
"She gives me everything
I feel no pain.
I break down, get up, and do it all again.
Because it's never enough
And she makes me feel loved.
I can come here and scream as loud as I want."
What's going happen with Apo? With Scott turn her or Pyro. Because so far Scott has turned the ones c!Pyro did and vice versa. Does that mean Scott goes to hard in a fight and turn Cleo too? Hmmmmmmm
And what about Abolish. He has seen this right?
this time in the pyroswap au: apo's turning! (sorry, i know cleo is asked about as well, but this post would be wayyy too crowded if i addressed both. they'll likely get their own post sometime later!)
pyro turns apo in this au (and she doesn't have any better of an experience)!
it's a sore disappointment for pyro when owen shows up at the crypt with her. he had planned to do it in his own time, under much more controlled circumstances. after all, he's rather fond of them, much like he is of truffle and shelby -- he might even have let her stay human for a while, if she really wanted to cling to her mortality.
he takes apo aside to speak to them on his own and gives the most tempting sell he can, but disappointingly, she recoils in fear and rebukes him instead of accepting.
(apo thought they were friends. she thought she could trust pyro, but he'd been lying and hurting people behind her back all along.)
even so, she gets a chance -- with a few veiled threats to keep her quiet, of course -- to think it over first, and meet him at the castle with her final answer.
however, he no longer plans on delaying the inevitable. not anymore, now that he had seen the same disgust in their eyes as that of his peers all those centuries ago.
instead, pyro does to apo what he did to every person who scorned him: he shows her what it's like to be seen as mindless, irredeemable, and inhuman.
(image transcripts below)
(IMAGE 1)
PYRO: My, my! You're a lucky one indeed, Miss Apo!
APO: W- Wait, no!
PYRO: Your first hunt, showing up right at our doorstep!
(IMAGE 2)
APO: I'm not one of them-
PYRO: Go on, now! Quickly, before they run off and tell the town!
I feel as if I'm missing something.. what is pyroswap!Avid's lore? Is he still turned by Shelby?
this time in the pyroswap au: avid's turning and the secret fledgling club!
firstly, yes - he is still turned by shelby!
however, pyro being the big man in charge means that avid would 100% be kill-on-sight, no questions asked. so she turns him, immediately grabs his arm, and goes "TURN INTO A BAT NOW, WE'RE PRACTICING FLYING FOR A FEW HOURS."
by sheer luck and desperation, they actually manage to evade everyone's notice, and the secret new vampire remains secret for a lot longer!
that is, to everyone but scott, who had noticed shelby sneaking away and decided to follow her.
and then it went a little something like this:
thankfully, scott's desire to conspire against pyro outweighs his disdain for avid, though he's not exactly happy about it.
the three of them -- soon made four by drift -- tentatively form what shelby cheerfully decides to call 'the secret fledgling club', meeting every so often in an underground hideout to make sure avid doesn't get himself caught and killed.
they keep avid just fed enough that he doesn't move up to stage 2, teach him and drift ways to escape danger with their new powers, and keep each other updated on what's happening in their respective factions.
it starts as an obligation, but they each eventually find that they feel more... normal in these secret meetings than with anyone else in oakhurst.
after all, the castle isn't exactly the most comfortable atmosphere with scott and pyro's constant tension, neither for shelby nor for scott himself.
avid - though most of the townsfolk pretend they've been on his side the whole time have been much nicer to him - still can't help feeling isolated, even in the company of friendly faces.
drift feels more helpless than ever before, having been unable to protect even herself from being turned.
but when it's just the four of them, shelby feels as if she can breathe again. avid doesn't feel so alone anymore. drift feels the weight on her shoulders ease.
and scott - for just a moment - is able to loosen his grip on the facade he's maintained for as long as he can remember.
(up until now, he had believed that his and pyro's mutual antagonism was the most genuine intimacy he would ever get to have with anyone. but the more time he spends around these bumbling idiots... the less he really cares for that whole song and dance.)
an au where pyro takes the place of scott as one of the starting vampires!
the tag is '#dea's pyroswap au'. if you ever make any content based on this au (first of all, tysm and i'd love it if you @ me, i would be SO happy to see it), feel free to add this tag to your post!
some prefacing notes:
scott and pyro swap fledglings! scott turns shelby and cleo. pyro turns scott, apo, and drift.
the other characters' 'places' in the story remain more or less the same. owen is still the other starting vamp, and the other sire-fledgling connections are the same.
i'll be using 'ps!(character name)' if i ever need to make a specific distinction between characters in this au and something else.
looooots of ship stuff in case that isn't your cup of tea. but if it is, we have toxic majorscythe, less toxic aviscott, pyro owen and the doc are in a kinda will-they-won't-they i-can-fix-them doomed polycule situation -- it's a whole thing, moonrot still wins, and cryptidclues still wins.
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POSTS IN (very roughly) CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
(chronological story-wise, not in irl time! also, some might address two different points in the story.)
(PLANNED) owen and pyro
scott's turning
pyro tries to initiate sire rp -- the original post
shelby's turning
(PLANNED) the core four
(WIP) pyro runs a tight ship
apo's turning
(PLANNED) owen, pyro, and the doctor
avid's turning / the secret fledgling club, as coined by ps!shelby
abolish and legundo find out about avid / the secret alliance between oakhurst and the SFC
(PLANNED) aviscott
(WIP) scott experiences fear
(WIP) pyro finally gets to prank scott back
(WIP) ren and martyn's fates
(PLANNED) possible endings (might be more than one post)
