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Got hit with the overwhelming desire to design posters for some of the episodes a while back, and drew up the first three, only to forget about it until recently. I had the idea for AvA 4's back then, so figured I'd finish that to match before posting 💙

I've also got an idea for a Note Block Universe poster, but that one's fighting me. One day though. One day. Maybe.

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Happy Swap AU Day Weekend!

Given the occasion, let us post about one of our funniest aus; The Stick Shuffle au. (Name probably pending, idk we haven't super talked about it.)

What happens when you give every character a number, put their names in a random list generator, and match the new list to the original numbers? Oh boy! Let me show you.

Welcome to our beloved, beautiful mess.

We set this up to challenge ourselves to make an AU that made sense with all of the characters randomized, and oh boy has it been a challenge. With no rhyme or reason behind the character placements, we really had to stretch some things to get it to fit roughly into the original AvA/M story and timeline.

(We also originally made it before AvA 11 came out, but we liked what we had too much to reshuffle things to include Mitsi, so we added her to a list of background characters and shuffled that instead 👍)

The plot's a little loose, and it'd be hard to put it all in one post without it getting too long (and we'd like to post this sooner rather than later ^^;), so here are some highlights:

The human characters got shuffled too! I completely forgot about that until writing these notes down! Alan's role is taken by none other than programmer021 (known as the Programmer), with their little sibling alexcrafter28 (Alex) taking DJ's role. DJ and Alan take Programmer and Alex's roles respectively, and are relatively minor characters in the AU.

Powder (Blue) runs Rocket (or it's equivalent) like Vic does in canon. All of the employees at the company, including Powder herself, are anonymized during working hours, using art tools to turn them various shades of gray to protect their identities. This eventually leads to Powder essentially living a double life.

Given that Cobalt was swapped into King's role, and Purple didn't change at all (lol), this means that after the plot of AvM season 3, Purple somehow manages to get adopted by their own biological father. Neither of them know they're related at that point. This will never stop being funny to us.

Warning (Hazard) is very strange, as far as stick figures go, because they literally just appeared one day on the Programmer's computer with no apparent origin or source. They were a force of retribution for the Programmer's crimes against sticksfight.com (don't worry about it /j). Eventually the two of them came to an understanding, and Warning became Programmer's new desktop buddy, along with the four residents of sticksfight at that time (Mango, Yuzu, Green and Agent).

Other important name changes include: Orange/TSC's file name is still The Second Coming, but she has a negative association with that name, and exclusively goes by Orange. Paleo/Primal's name is The Hunter, and she was created to hunt and capture/kill Orange. She totally didn't do that tho, lol. Victim's file name was changed to Victory after they joined Powder's company. And last but not least, Red started going by Ruby Red sometime before their death, matching themes with their adopted dad, Cobalt.

This. just... this.

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I know the AvA/M fandom is going insane over Green shenanigans atm, but I think y'all would also like the way too complicated headcanons Astro and I have been cooking up for... god has it maybe been a year at this point?

We call it ✨Title Lore✨

In the most basic of explanations; created sticks can be given titles instead of names, and those titles can grant them powers. Titles also have influence on their personalities, but doesn't force a stick to act a certain way. (Unless they're under the effects of a title wave, but that's a whole other can of worms.)

I just mention this because I want to ramble about two of our ocs who were made based on it. (Tho I'm down to elaborate on Title Lore if people wanna know more, this is just really spur of the moment rambling) One is another stick with The Dark Lord title.~ The other titled The Hero, rather than them being another Chosen One and Dark Lord pairing.

Hero is just Babey. Just a lil guy. Actual genuine twig (oh god, does the AvA/M community call stick kids twigs, because y'all are missing out on stick specific terms if you don't)

Look at them! \o/

And then this is Lord, who's called that rather than something else, because... Dark kinda already exists...

They get all the demon/vampire vibes and they're a therapist for other titled sticks. (Especially Dark Lords) :3

The two left their computer together, and Lord is Hero's legal guardian in the Outernet. Hero has not started school yet because they're learning to catch up on everything twigs their age should know. Everyone should fear the day they start school though. That child has the power of God and anime friendship (literally), and they're going to become unstoppable.

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“Red? Red!” Nobody could look away from Red’s body. The entity who’d stolen their friend away had forced its way out in violent lurches before quite literally tearing itself free only to vanish with a hiss and a puff of smoke. In its wake, the body fell limp and pixels spilled out into their own mist; like Red was slowly falling apart like what had stolen their body.

Orange tossed themself down from the files above with little care for their own safety, vision tunnelling as they landed next to their injured friend. Were they-? No... No! They couldn’t just accept that! Red was- Red was-!!

For a moment, everything went dark. Like a blink with your eyes closed a moment too long. Orange felt like they were floating, weightless and woefully untethered.

The world settled back over them much too heavy, and their head fell forward a moment towards the now empty spot before them before they could jerk it back up with horrid realization. Tears burned the edges of their eyes as exhaustion fell over them like a blanket. They wanted this all to be a terrible nightmare, because then they could at least awake to their animal loving friend pressing a cat into their arms for a nap guardian. It’d be easier to deal with than the reality of the empty white staring back at them. Better than hearing their friends’ cries from around them.

They hadn’t even gotten to hold them as they vanished.

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We've been shuffling things around to put together posts about some of our aus, and I found this gem

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Welcome to Orange's Orchard

A crossover between Animator vs Animation (and it's Minecraft series) and Andy's Apple farm; which lifts elements from the latter and leans more towards the former in appearance.

What Everyone's Up To

Orchard Crew:

Orange is living their best life on their Minecraft orchard with all their friends; Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue. One day, they find that their friends have replaced the wooden door to their house with an iron one, which is more of a symbolic lock than an actual functioning one, due to their friends pulling a prank and asking for help with tasks around the orchard in order to appease/entertain them. Things seem fine enough at first, but Orange eventually stumbles into knowledge they don't know how to process. There's also the matter of the strange notes, and the not-them in the barn with those green, green eyes.

Outernet:

Green's been doing her best since she ran away from the thing that ruined her life. When making her escape, she'd bumped into Purple, and they were kind enough to let her live with them somewhere safe enough for now. Homesickness plagues her often, and she's not sure what to make of the man Purple refers to as Mango, or the one they call their dad. Still, she's trying her best to live her best life as it is now, her eventual friend turned partner - Purple - at her side.

One day, while home alone, Mango gets a surprise visit from an old friend.

Hollowheads:

Dark and Chosen managed to talk and make up before the showdown went too far, so things are fine now, right? Chosen wakes up, haunted by the scene that greeted them when they'd chased the virabot to that computer. Who was that other hollowhead there? What had Alan been doing to them for however long they'd been around? What sort of title could they have to have been able to defeat the virabot so easily? They'd just been finishing up when Cho had arrived, after all. Chosen hadn't stayed long enough to find out, but at the time it seemed like a good idea to get away from a powerful hollowhead and that computer of all places as soon as possible.

Who's Who

This covers a quick list of the main characters. More info will be available on the ref post once that's made and will be linked here as long as we remember to come back and edit this. The format for this is "AvA/M (au nickname if they have one) = AAF character they take the role of if they do so"

Red (Otterpop) (They/them) = Felix Orange (They/them) = Andy Yellow (They/them) = Claus Green (She/her) = Melody/Isabella Blue (He/him) = Margret Purple (They/them) = Sam King[/Mango?] (He/him) Chosen (Salt) (They/them) Dark (Pepper) (They/them) The Second Coming (They/it) = Peter/The Entity

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Welcome to MDM

MDM is short for Monday Dusk Monolith, which is the (cancelled) FNF mod that this au is based off of. (Warning for body horror; including extra eyes/eyes where they don't belong/things in place of eyes, and spiders.) Or, well, originally based off of. Collaborating with friends, we've taken a lot of creative liberties and gone off in our own direction. The two of us have a focus on the main human(ish) characters, and as a group we've added plenty of mod and other outside characters to the roster, along with incorporating lore tied to things like Pico's School and Spooky Month.

Due to not owning every character, we can't definitively answer every question, but this will hopefully give a good jumping off point for the things we can answer. Plus we can always ask our other friends for clarification.

Before we dive too deep, let's establish some of the characters:

Adam, aka Boyfriend Hatsune, (he/him) is a head empty, bi disaster of a man. He has the ability to go back in time whenever he dies or loses a rap battle, allowing him to try over again and do better next time. He is borrowing this power. He left his parents and sister behind in Japan, and his brother is currently MIA.

Lilith, aka Girlfriend Dearest, (she/her) has half a braincell, though most of it goes towards her interest in science. She gained her love of science from her dad, who she now sometimes offers help in searching for a cure for the infection that's taken over. Her and her dad try to keep close enough contact in this wasteland, but her mom is MIA.

Cain, aka Pico Newgrounds, (he/him) is tired of being the main braincell holder of this trio. He's not quite sure how the other two survived long enough to find him again, let alone survived curing him. Basically adopted by an army (literally) and forcefully adopted a member of an opposing faction as a cousin/sibling figure.

While the main plot of this mod, and the inciting incident we've been playing around after, is still the monolith landing in the city, there's some backstory we should give an overview of first.

Back in the day, in the fictional city of Newgrounds, Pennsylvania, (no, this is not a coincidence) Adam (Boyfriend) and Cain (Pico) went to the same high school. While there, the two of them were dating and often hung out with Val (short for Valentine, aka Nene) and Moses (Darnell). Around this time, the other three loved to tease Adam about a friend who "you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school." None of them realize that he really did know Lilith (Girlfriend) back then, having traded names with her at one point while the pair of them were transitioning.

One year, Adam's parents got a job offer in Japan, and moved across the sea with his younger sister Lydia (Miku). Given that Adam was in high school and thus close to finishing schooling, they decided to let him stay with his young adult older brother, Abel (Michael), to finish it out.

Unfortunately, Abel ended up in an altercation while trying to protect Lilith during a hangout with her and Adam. In keeping with the Big Bro mod that Michael originates from, Daddy Dearest quite literally saves his life.

This is not the only gun related incident Adam would be unlucky enough to get caught up in. Within weeks of the event with his brother, the shooting from Pico's School took place. While Cain saved the day as Adam barely survived, Adam's parents were naturally worried about their son staying in America after both gun violence incidents. He was given only a few weeks to pack his things in preparation for leaving, and nobody was quite okay in this situation. As a parting gift, he was given his now iconic hat.

Without Adam for emotional support or a positive influence in the wake of the shooting, the remaining three friends turned into mutual bad influences. With Cain getting scouted by Assassin Corp, the trio slowly turned to a life of crime together. While the trio all turned to contract killing, they aren't afraid to turn to other illicit activities on the side.

It was somewhere around this time when the events of various Pico related things took place; such as Pico vs Überkids, Pico vs Bear as alluded to with the mention of Assassin Corp, and the Pico's Cousin games.

Adam lived in Japan with his family until a few months before the monolith arrived, when he finally moved back stateside at the age of 19. It'd been 5 years since he'd been made to leave, and, having lost contact with all the friends he'd left behind, he had no idea where any of them were. He did manage to reconnect with Lilith, and the two of them ended up dating.

That leads us into the events of the mod: The monolith falling and causing the infection; discovering music is the cure through it stopping Lilith in her attack against Adam; using that to save Daddy Dearest; an adventure to meet two strange children, their spider mom, and a weird creature in a lemon costume; and stumbling across an infected Cain, who very much wanted Lilith dead.

And then off we are into even more original content for this au which includes meeting a bomb man, a cloud man, and stumbling across Pico's family which led to the discovery that Cain has the ability to respawn, just to name a few.

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Welcome!

This is a blog by @astronnonyy (they/them) and @skaliciadragon (she/her)!

We've been making things together for a few years now, and figured that now was a good time to share some of it! Hence what this blog is for!

This blog is intended to be a place for the both of us to post about and discuss the various stories and AUs we've created, and also to have our content in one place. Feel free to chat with us about stuff you find on the blog, we'll only go a little feral over it, we swear.

To learn more about us, the mods of this blog; visit the About the Mods page. To see a list of our general interests, and some of our fandom AUs; visit the About Our Fandom Works page. And, if you're interested in our original projects; check out About Our Original Works!