Bittersweet Candy Bowl

It’s a huge milestone. Many other big moments have been approaching in our lives recently — the biggest thing being us moving back to Australia in less than a week(!) But through everything, BCB has been by my side all along these big transitions, from the moment I posted Mike and Lucy online for the first time on May 2nd, 2006.

It’s incredible to know that these characters I created as a child, who I always expected to keep close to my heart and maybe expose to a very small portion of people I knew — have been read by, what, tens, hundreds of thousands of people? It is my job! My livelihood! It’s everything! I can’t stop thinking about them! And it really is all thanks to you, my lovely readers! You’ve given these ancient little characters so much life by loving them so much and encouraging me to continue. There’s been such an outpouring of support for the 20th anniversary, in direct messages to me on social media, little thank you notes alongside orders of our old merch, emails, everything!!! It’s so humbling. Thank you so much for letting my little creatures shine so bright!

ANYWAY. Since so many great big things have been happening with BCB — the new colour scheme, the anniversary sale selling us out of tons of merchandise (that itself feels like the end of an era!)… finally, it’s time…

Time for a cringe animecore AMV.

I’m sure a lot of people are familiar with listening to music and creating little AMVs in your head. I’ve been doing this for a long time! With certain songs I have little gestures in my head plotted out — others entire scenes. But I’ve never made anything of them. I’ve thumbnailed a couple of AMV ideas before, I think around 2009? But I never had the guts to actually make them. I never felt I had the skill for it, felt it was impossible. I’m not trained in animation at all! I am not an animator! Comics have been all I’ve really made over the years.

Anyway.. as BCB’s 20th anniversary was creeping up, I was thinking I could try to do something extra special for it. Would I be able to make something satisfying? Is there a song I can use? I thought these things as I pretty much had 70% of Killer Tune plotted out in my head. That’s always how it was.. I’d get into a song, come up with an entire sequence.. and have it sit in my head until I’d forget about it again. I’d never put it to paper. But with this one I did, I figured I should, no time like the present!

And.. here it is. I hope you enjoy it!!!!!!! As I type this I’m very much freaking out because the AMVs I make in my head are so personal and sincere.. and now people are seeing it, I guess. I feel extremely embarrassed!!! I guess that’s the eternal story of BCB — a personal story I wrote in my private time that I ended up making public and feeling vulnerable about until suddenly I get thousands of eyes on me, looking at all my cringe. I am going to hide in a corner and vomit and die now thank you

— Veronica