#my street aphmau

[apileofmoss]

minecraft blorbo doodles

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[phobohobo]

Rewatching mystreet

[obessivefanatic]

Some Irene/aphmau fanart I did recently ! I’ve improved a lot since the last drawing I posted lol

( if you repost please credit me @Lactorant_ on insta ^-^ or my tumblr user :3 )

[papercute]

i have some misc mcd + mystreet text posts

[sikuena]

emo, yapper and adhd trio.

closeups are posted on instagram

[eonslice]

going back 2 my roots....

[aphblr-shipfessions]

free aphmau from aaron! she deserves to be shipped with women ❤️

real!

[void-rock]

My street doodles but it’s like mostly Zane

[zaneworm]

A doodle of the mini game Ro’meave babies :3

[ryemiffie]

You're favourite song is Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, my favourite song is Faster Car by loving caliber (I grew up an aphmau nerd) we are not the same.

[mybrainsrottingwithmcd]

Zane simplified

MCD Zane: evil traumatised gothic bitch with untreated npd/bpd, murderous tendencies and a god complex

MS Zane: brony scenemo freak burnt out over achiever who is socially awkward, has 1 entire friend and goes to a specialised therapist once every 2 weeks

[xerith-42]

Some Slightly More Coherent Thoughts about Void Paradox

Riveting title, I know, but this is the quality content I'm sure... 50 of you signed up for? When the fuck...? How are there so many of you?? And in spite of that title, this post is still long as fuck

Anyways I finished Void Paradox and it sure made me feel a certain way. [Cut to footage of me literally screaming anytime Laurance showed emotion in the series]. Gotta say, as a long time Laurance fan, this is really nice to have. I've been going on my tirades about how Jess ruined Laurance for the sake of Aaron, and how Laurance never really bounced back from this character assassination, but I wasn't entirely right. He sort of bounced back?

Well, we got this. I still would have liked Laurance in Love-Love Paradise but I guess I'll take him in this series. And honestly, it's the best Laurance content I've gotten that isn't fan content since... well, since I first watched the show back in 2015 when I was a literal fetus. Every time after I've gone back and watched as Laurance got written poorly from honestly really early episodes sometimes (looking at you Episode 65), and had to deal with the unfortunate truth that he was essentially unimportant to the story Jess decided to tell with both her series, despite being the main character of one of them.

It's so refreshing to have quality Laurance content, and we got a variety of it in this show. He's so expressive, so alive, so emotional. I've always loved Laurance because surprise surprise, the men in my life weren't always the most emotionally vulnerable, so I latched onto fictional men who were as a coping mechanism! Yayyy! And Laurance has always been a very emotionally vulnerable character, at least in the beginning. It's part of the tragedy that is his character arc in Season 2. That Laurance is usually vulnerable, that he's the one who's always willing to talk about his emotions, but the calling is making it harder to open up, and the world has only become crueler to men like him who dare to feel too much.

Wow I just keep sliding into depressing content in this post, I'm trying to praise Laurance's writing in this series. Because it's good. I have my problems with Void Paradox as a whole, but as a showing for my favorite character in the entire Aphverse, a chance at redemption, it's fantastic. As I said Laurance is so expressive in this series, largely thanks to Sebastian Todd being an absolutely phenomenal voice actor who clearly knows and cares about this character. His performance is absolutely excellent and a great high note for this character to go off on.

I cannot emphasize how much I adore every little thing about Laurance's portrayal. The flirtiness, the smug bastard energy, the very sincere and open care, that one scene where he gets super embarrassed and then whimpers that I haven't listened to like eighteen times. The whole thing is great. His dynamic with this alternate version of Aphmau is so good, it's so great to see him bounce off of other characters. I just love it so much.

That scene where he realizes that he's in a similar scenario to the Nether and literally instantly jumps to "If it comes down to it, let me sacrifice myself," I SCREAMED AT THIS. The whole series whenever he angsts over his old world I scream, but that line really hit me. Fuck whatever you say about Laurmau in every universe, the universal truth of Laurmau, nay the universal truth of Laurance is this;

"I would sacrifice myself so you could live in every universe."

That's Laurance! That's Laurance with literally anyone you want!! This is the best characterization Laurance has ever gotten. It's consistent with his character, and I love the fact that Mod Aphmau doesn't even let him finish his consideration of self-sacrifice, she just shuts it down and it's a great contrast to what Laurance is used to. I adore how that's what he jumps to, I adore the fact that he's as clueless as I am about the lore this season, I love the rivals esque thing he's got going on with Jaiden, that was fun. Lotta potential there. This was just a good time. I cannot emphasize how delightful Laurance was in this series. How his delightful presence is the most enjoyable thing in the series, and a literal blessing unto us all.

Wasn't it nice to feel good about an Aphmau series for like.. two minutes. Anyways here's the part where I get a little salty with Jess, as per usual. I'm not going to go too in depth on my problems with Void Paradox as a story because it's mercifully short and a lot of my complaints did come from a standpoint of not knowing any of the lore of Mod Mod World which might have hindered my full ability to understand the larger story.

I can however get VERY salty about the fact that I didn't even know Void Paradox was a thing that had Laurance in it until 2024!! It came out in 2018! How did this happen? Well the answer is very simple, the cause is the bane of my very existence. My Street Season 6 When Angels Fall. [I am shaking with rage]

I know you've likely read how much I can tear into season 2 Episode 95, and oh my Irene can I tear into that episode, but there's a similar but differently visceral emotion When Angels Fall makes me feel. Let's call it a sort of divine rage. And now, I have one more reason to hate it. Because Void Paradox, a series with actual quality content, was released at the same time as whatever the fuck that was, meaning it never had a chance.

For a bit of personal context, I briefly became active in the Aphmau fanbase when this season came out and during the time leading up to it. I had seen every season of My Street, and despite not being the biggest fan of where Jess took the series, I liked a lot of the characters and was invested in where they would go from here. I was knee deep in the My Street trenches when the many many different bombs dropped. Melissa dying but then she didn't but maybe she did and I literally spent hours arguing with people on this, Ein is turning everyone evil, there's a doomsday device, forever potion nonsense is happening, Travis' dad is evil maybe, Aaron is going insane, the multiverse is falling apart, and then Jess just killed the best character in the entire series, dare I say the entire Aphverse, dare I say the entire universe of existence as we know it--

It was a lot. And in all the chaos Void Paradox just... came out. It came out right before episode 9 of When Angels Fall came out. And anyone else who was there during the war... they know what that episode did to us. What it did to me. I wasn't the same after that episode came out. I felt like I had lost a part of myself. Something I wasn't sure I'd ever be able to get back...

And as a result, I and a lot of people didn't see Void Paradox. Looking at the numbers, Void Paradox struggled to get above 1 million viewers for most episodes, while the lowest viewed episode of When Angels Fall sits at a cozy 2.9 million as an established series. Void Paradox is objectively better as a series and deserves to have a second season. We deserve to explore more of the weird ideas Jess clearly had while making it, we deserve to know if a cure can be found, and we, or maybe just me and I'm feeling selfish here, deserve to know if Laurance is okay.

Jess has already taken one comfort character away from me. I'll be damned if she takes another.

[silentnorskii]

Thanks to my young cousin I’ve been re-exposed to Aphmau’s videos. It’s been a long week, I’m allowed this (small) moment of weakness

Tribute to my first ever crush that I drew while waiting in the hospital :D

[papercute]

i think we were robbed of the conflict that could have occurred in lover’s lane of dante finally learning what gene did in high school, especially what he did to aphmau, and it’s kind of messed up that dante either doesn’t know or doesn’t have a problem with it.

like realistically he would be so god damn angry . and i imagine aphmau would step in to defend gene, saying it was a long time ago and she has forgiven him, but dante just feels so awful that he had this naïve, idealistic perception of his big brother as this great guy when he was hurting who is now one of his now closest friends. and gene being so distraught that he has ruined this for dante, but figuring he deserves it and it was bound to happen and he obviously did do those things, so he deserves the consequences. he never told dante because, idk, how do you even broach the topic of bullying and blackmail without ruining your relationship with your brother?

and i wanted a healing arc for them where gene slowly shows dante that he has actually changed and regrets what he was like in high school, properly redeeming him in the audience’s eyes too.

i think it would just make their relationship all the stronger while giving gene and actual proper redemption arc. whether he deserves it or not is up to you i just think it could have been more interesting and heartfelt this way.

[intestinesauce]

heres some doodles i did today

[shadonites]

new hit movie