#but. yeah!

[bloodstainedembrace]

random post but i love the covers on the older versions of the vampire chronicles that i have. the cover designs with the little windows are so cool and like . the one on totbt even opens up!!

[highkey-lowkey-as-hell]

we interrupt your regularly scheduled watt x taylor swift programming to bring you: watt kids as songs from stick season by noah kahan

riley - all my love

cairo - the view between villages

chess - you're gonna go far

clark - everywhere, everything

reese - come over

eva - paul revere

kate - northern attitude

annleigh - halloween

farrah - your needs, my needs

mattie - no complaints

[seavoice]

hmm obviously i recognise how astronomically important these movies are in moving the dialogue about LGBTQ+ folks along here, and queer desi kids deserve to have hopeful, aspirational portrayals of themselves in media, BUT I do feel the space for LGBTQ youth in India—with access to safe, safe-ish resources—is incredibly, incredibly saturated with privileged, upper-caste kids and leaves extremely little space for kids who are marginalised in other ways. It is alienating to a point! And the recent “surge” (or slight increase lmao) in Indian films that are brave enough to tackle this already messy topic are so painfully indicative that they are portraying a very small, very privileged group.

There are many factors for it, of course, and I’m not getting into it in this post, but there was a scene in this movie where she kind of “comes out” as Dalit to the other girl, and it was such a punch in the gut. It felt very real, it wasn’t that it was a revelation that blew up the relationship or whatever. Nothing happened, but it didn’t matter because so many things were already happening and the other girl just. Didn’t. Notice. It really put in perspective that if you suffer one type of marginalisation, it doesn’t mean you are immediately empathetic to other types of marginalisation. It wasn’t a very “hopeful” movie, but it felt like a mirror, and I can genuinely say I’ve never related more to a portrayal of an LGBTQ+ person than I did in this movie.

[gaiavowed]

{ me, screaming into the void }

[sinningtamer]

dm wink wink nudged nudged about scarlet getting to Actually , go home and see her parents again sometime this arc if we go the direction it seems to be taking us, which i am ready to sob over!

[cortexrampage]

Bubby vampire au

this guy gets it

[boohoo-cracker]

alright, guys. after months of inactivity, i think it's finally time to bring this blog's mcyt age to an end :]

i kept hoping that i'd get a second wind, or that i'd somehow get pulled back into it, but. this is it! i'm actually getting kind of choked up about it, because this blog and this fandom were such big parts of my life for a very, very long time. but a combination of time, personal events, and drifts in the fandom community have brought my time here to a close.

i joined here in june of 2020, when the fandom was incredibly small. my art has improved, i've gained friends, i'm dating the most wonderful boy, and now, it's november of 2022, over two years later. i'll always hold a soft spot in my heart for mcytblr, especially in those first six months. but while i've been studying for my senior year and going to concerts and living my life, the fandom kept moving. it's not the same place i fell in love with, and i don't wish that it would be.

this will still be my art account! in fact, i might post more often, now that i'm not pressured to make art for a fandom that isn't mine anymore. i hope that anyone who isn't interested doesn't feel pressured to stay; a lot of you were just here for the mcyt art, and that's perfectly fine. but if any of you want to see art of my ocs or other media i draw for, i'd love for you to stay!

signing off, boohoo-cracker