The thing I miss most about the MCYT fandom after I lost that particular hyperfixation was all the art!! All the fanart, fanfics, animatics, songs, cosplays, little keyrings and plushies and stickers everyone made and sold. The way creators interacted with the art too! I've had this post forgotten in my drafts for a while but I just saw the MCYT couture zine again, as a whole ass binded hardcover book (if you see this and don't know what I'm talking about, go look it up in Tumblr—I'd tag them but I feel rude to like I have no place to or this post isn't related enough to do so but the zine blog is @ mcyt-couture-zine and the blog of the person who made the hardcover is @ keystonepublishing).
As for me, I just remembered that it wasn't only drawing and unfinished writing I did— when I was 14/in year 9, I had made a giant pair of mechanical wings, inspired by the avian art, mainly of Philza and BBH's demon wings. Had a picture but I deleted it for privacy ig
I know there are more fandoms like that, but no fandom I've been in since has ever matched that level (sure maybe that's my problem for not getting into Star Wars or Harry Potter). Back in my DSMP and then QSMP days, there was always a new, gorgeously written fic to read and new art to admire. Definitely took that for granted. Y'all were writing epics. omg. I'm forever crazy about how the fandoms were the land of found family and greek mythology obsessed nerds instead of all ships and romances (I enjoy romance but sometimes you wanna taste a different fruit).
I think the reason was because of the nature of the media we interacted with. It wasn't just a novel, a concrete thing. These were characters that we could so easily imagine in all sorts of situations, as vigilantes, gods, and ordinary dudes in Brighton because they were personas. The irl side of it gave everything another dimension cause these invented personas were fully realised to the audience to be able to be whatever the hell we wanted! I still have such a soft spot for landduo (Foolish and BadBoyHalo) because they were ambiguous deities that could be any kind of god, angel, demon, fantastical cosmic creature we wanted.
It really revealed what a positive, productive place fandoms could be, y'know? Fanworks (excluding things like BBC Sherlock, which let's be real, was modern AU Sherlock Holmes fanfiction, all the professionally published and released things) have always had some stigma around it and MCYT really shaped my view of it for the better. In my 9th grade of school (so 14 years old), my writing had improved SIGNIFICANTLY because I read Tommyinnit superhero/vigilante AU fanfiction and it taught me what a narrative voice was. I am not joking.
So this is my love letter to all the creatives of the MCYT fandom. Thank you for your art. And to anyone beyond the fandom who stumbles upon this post, don't be afraid to create! Most of you already do, and that's amazing. Your "silly hyperfixation" is an outlet.
Why did the two pretty boys of British music get with the most gorgeous butch lesbians like sorry for generalising but yeah I'm fuckin jealous of those idiot music prodigy or whatever twinks who I love I'm sorry chaps I love your music
please popularise platonica simply because i don't know how to write erotica
I mean I could, with the tension and emotions and stuff but actions??? Oh haha they straddled um wow! Scene's over carry on drinking tea and being angsty while watching TV
yeah unfortunately my favourite beeties are the long dead LSD buddies
It might be a flippant of me considering John, George, Cynthia and Pattie were drugged by that dentist but John and George unknowingly getting high on a strange new drug and giggling shit together has fanfic potential (doesn't even have to be romantic but boys being lovely ykwim)
ABANDON SHIP GOODBYE CRUEL FANDOM (tbh it wasn't that bad but the kids keep fighting and it's a 22 yr old arguing with a 13 yr old like pack it up)
I've taken down my fanworks and I won't tag the fandom but if ppl like my work enough to remember the name of my blog they'll see it and know what I mean. My art is either published within a collective fandom project or it was a gift for a specific person so really nobody's losing anything as long as the ppl who received the gift saved it to their phone or computer. If they didn't, they can DM me they know how to find me. Same with fanfiction, bc they're anonymous now (ik my most devoted fans of that specific fic have it bookmarked) but other than that I'm severing this blog's ties with the fandom! This has been a long time coming bc I grew out of it but I'm doing all this so I don't get doxxed by a kid who is mad that I like a character and dislike another
