doodleempireofsticks

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MY CG HUMAN DESIGNS YEAAA!!!

This might won't blow up as much but Im just happy how they turned out (and that I finally finished it qjfbeh). It might be a while before I could design the rest of the hollowheads + King. These were so complicated that I almost gave up halfway wndbdhf

Do you have any Killer Rabbit headcannons?

Yesssss

The killer rabbit was a pillager who was cursed to be a rabbit. They are not happy about it.

They absolutely cannot accept defeat and will kill you or die trying.

They've actually gotten really good at baking from luring people into their mansion.

They’d both give each other what they need not what they want.

This is from a million years ago but with ava 11 out i figured why not

throws this yellow at ur face

Check it out, they got faces now!

My interpertation on how Vic met the villagers of the outernet... farmer!Vic backstory?!?!??!?!....

From the sneak peak we get!!

im tired so uh... Have this

itty bitty Second :3 i love them

i spent 6 hours on this and i actually liked it? No waay.. that happens?

au time!

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Watching the avg reaction

BRIAN DAVID FREAKING GILBERT CAME UP WITH THE IDEA?????????!!!!!!!

No wonder I loved it so much I love bdg and Alan Becker THAT'S SO COOOLLL

Spoilers

I think we all need to talk more about how Blue did a courtsey

Fancy boi I LOVE HIMMM

Me during influencer arc: This is kinda a lot I can see how it happened but it's really sad and it's hard to watch

Me after: YES YES YES BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE BEAUTIFUL I LOVE ITTTT THEY HUGGED IT ALL COMES TOGETHER I MUST ART YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

i couldn’t sleep

guys is this anything

do y'all also have mutuals whom you’re actually a fan of? like everytime u see them on your dash u just,,,,, “u go mutual that’s my mutual!!!!! i love u mutual!!!! i can’t even believe we’re mutuals i don’t deserve u!!!! keep being u mutual!!!”

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I Love Us

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)

Shout-out to my biggest fan: doodleempireofsticks

I love Tumblr it's so broken LOL

King posting again ✨

Someone needs to make this a drawing meme

perhaps overly rambly thoughts on the influencer arc

it is very hard to watch but i don't think it's contrary to what we know of green, and i'm enjoying it just fine.

we know green is a showoff and perfectionist. the color gang all like winning, but green likes making a big display of it too. he's quite a sore winner and loser, and hates having the spotlight taken from him when it is his.

he loves attention and praise. and like, that's okay, don't we all? he cares about his friends in the end.

but i get the feeling that, while they love him and appreciate his talents, his friends don't really give him that big attention that he might want. they're used to him winning and being good at art/performance of any kind. it's normal to them really. maybe even a little disheartening.

so i can easily see how getting that attention in the form of being an influencer is a huge thing for green. an addiction, even. he gets so drawn into it that he overlooks his friends' discomfort, so he can keep being the Perfect Celebrity, keep the hype going.

obviously this end outcome here isn't actually what he wanted, and i'm sure he feels guilt for all this on some level. but he's pushed that away in favor of the high of getting a number to go up, getting more of the spotlight. there's nothing else that matters right now but getting that new dopamine hit. again, it is an addiction.

surely his friends will come around. why don't they get it? this is a good thing for him. he's winning. he's harsh, yes, but he's just trying to be successful. his friends aren't actually hurt (they are), they're doing fine (they're not), what's the issue? (everything.)

i don't think current green is character assassination - right now he's doing horribly and hurting the people around him because he is at his lowest, the worst version of himself where his flaws overtake him. it can go up from here. i have no doubt that by the end of this green is going to get some sense shaken into him and make up with his friends. like, that's just the kind of series this is.

and despite all the character analysis i just did lol - i ALSO think it's important to remember that we are probably taking these characters infinitely more seriously than the creators are. while the series sometimes dips its toes (or entire face) into being a dramatic and beautiful story, it is ultimately a cartoon, and sometimes the character writing will be simplified in favor of a gag or an overall story arc. that's fine.

i get why some people might not like it, but i don't think they're doing anything totally unprecedented for the characters they've set up, and i think they'll wrap this up alright.

hi

cooking

Green (my design)

Another design down! I was going to do Yellow next but the influencer arc, well...influenced me haha

Headcannons below cut

HEADCANNONS (Green edition)

He is the third oldest, so kinda like a middle child

He secretly has some abandonment issues and attention seeking problems (thanks influencer arc for inspiring this one),

He also feels a little left out because Blue + Yellow and Orange + Red have kinda paired up (hence why he got so quickly attached to Purple, also I really need to write a one shot about this)

He has a social media addiction (✨ influencer arc✨)

He loves anything creative: acting, dancing, singing, fashion...you name it, he does it. All except drawing, because it's "Orange's thing" and he doesn't want to overshadow them (which made them letting that silverfish overshadow them sting so much more)

Wow this list got surprisingly angsty, so I'm gonna also add that he sometimes puts on little shows just for the colour gang

FINALLY

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

but I like it

Inspired by this post

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)

So, I know I'm a little (very) late to the AvA stuff, but I was rewatching AvM Season 3 for the seven hundredth time and, well, I noticed something and I'm curious to know if it's been discussed before.

AvM Episode 29, Purple's story, specifically, Pink's death.

Her color changes as she dies, or is represented to have died.

It fades to grey.

Now, the question is, can we, or rather should we, use this to infer anything lore-related? Was this just an artistic choice to depict the act of becoming unhealthy/dying, or could this be what actually happens to stick figures that die over a period of time? Are their colors linked to their health?

Let's have a bit of fun with it, and presume that the fading of one's color can happen to a stick figure for health-related reasons, as the scene could imply.

This fading seems to involve loosing the saturation of one's color into grey. Saturation is how vibrant a color is, and the complete lack of saturation is greyscale.

The World-of-Alan reason for Pink's death is that she 'got sick', which is where the health connection of this theory comes from. If she did loose her color as she was dying as the notes depict, that loss of color was likely a result of her failing health rather than any other factors, like age or outside variables. A whole bunch of human body stuff are indicators for good vs poor health, including skin color (jaundice and cyanasis are good examples) so why not a stick's color for them?

What if, when they fully die, they lose all of their original color?

Now, let me propose this…

Who else do we know of who has had their color loose vibrancy?

What if Victim's color has lightened because he's ill?

Why is it that EVERY TIME I enjoy any stick figure related media I hyperfixate on it????????? /lh (I just played Henry Stickmin for the first time and am having as bad of a hyperfocus as when I first watched Ava, pls send help /hj)

sorry for my absence