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You know, this is something I always hoped I'd never have to make.
I created this ao3 during the pandemic to post specifically about mcyt separate from my main account at the time, and since then, the love and support for my writing on this account has been nothing short of insane. If you had told me that my #1 fic would get over 60,000 (!!!!) hits, I would have laughed in your face, and yet...
I'm proud of this account. I'm proud of the growth my writing has experienced since creating it, curated by my own practice and by the interaction of so many wonderful people! But you may also have already spotted where the inevitable downfall lies.
Most of my content is based around a certain content creator. If you've been keeping up with news in the MCYT/Streamer space, then you can probably put the pieces together as to who it is, and what's happening here. In short, I no longer feel comfortable with supporting this creator or their content. I'd love to be proven wrong, but that just doesn't seem to be where this whole mess is going.
Originally, I wanted to just orphan the works on this account related to the creator, but there is SO MUCH. SO MANY. And while I don't necessarily want my pseud to be tied to his name any longer, I also don't have the energy right now to orphan AAAALLL of it. Instead, I'm going to orphan some of it-- mostly the unfinished works, or works I never really liked that much. ANything not related to this creator will stay up, but that's not much.
So, instead of orphaning 90% of this account, I'm saving myself the hassle while also opening up to new opportunities to write for fandoms outside MCYT again. I want to learn and grow and, truth be told, I wasn't doing as much of that as I could have been when I was so hyperfocused on one creator. I want to practice new things, I want to get back into old niches where I found success and enjoyment before! So I'm creating a completely new, fresh ao3 account. I'm still waiting on the invite, so no account yet, but I will link it on my pinned post on my tumblr, alittlebitofwonk, when it is up and running!
SO! Here are a list of the fandoms I wanna get into on the new account, if you're interested:
-Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra (Mainly Avatar, though)
-Baldur's Gate 3
-Hermitcraft
-The Life Series
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Some of them are still MCYT related, as you'll see, but I want to branch more and more outside of that as time goes on.
Honestly, I think there's a pretty big lesson here for myself and for some of you in attaching yourself to a content creator: not all of them are awful, not all of them are abusers or bad people, but we also don't really know them. I knew this, and let myself get too attached anyways, and I'm paying for it. I'm a bit of a mess right now! So, don't tie yourself onto a content creator. Enjoy what they make, but dont' get too comfortable. They are people. They make mistakes, and one of the most unfortunate parts of being human is that sometimes we hurt other people very, very badly. But we can make a decision not to hurt people, we can take accountability. What he did was inexcusable. But it was human, and I should've recognized that and taken a big ass step back a long time ago. But I didn't. So I'm taking that step back now.
I'm not going to step back completely from MCYT content altogether, not right now. Maybe someday, and I don't think I'll ever allow myself to become quite as dug in as I did here.
All we can do in the future is learn.
I hope to see some familiar usernames and people on my new account, once I've got it set up! Thank you all so so much for years of support, and I hope I can see some of that again after starting fresh!
Take care of yourselves.
All my love.