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It’s been a while, huh?

Hello everyone.

I apologize for the incredibly long hiatus as I did not expect to be away from this account for over a year but a lot has happened in my personal life that was out of my control and unfortunately, I was not in the correct mental state to be pumping out content in the way that I was with this AU.

While I’m not going to explain the full brevity of it here, I’ll try to put it as simply as I can without divulging too much personal information. I don’t want any further questions regarding my life irl as I want to keep that separated from this project completely. But for this update, I will say this once.

Firstly, what’s been going on?

I have been struggling with my mental health for many years, primarily because I am neurodivergent. But 2023 was what I would consider one of the worst years of my life. I was nearly made homeless by an abusive family member, my grandmother had passed away, and I had failed my 3rd year of college due to what was thought to be symptoms of an undiagnosed mental disorder, which turned out be a post-traumatic response to stress.

I tried to power through it by distracting myself via this AU and in extension, this fandom. But I have since realized what I was doing to myself was not in any way healthy nor productive.

For the longest time my “worth” was tied to my work. Up until this point in my life, I was conditioned to believe from a young age that if was not successful, then I did not deserve to live. I felt ashamed of myself for not being able to fulfill what I thought were “simple” deadlines, creating grand projects to complete in just 2 weeks or less and when I didn’t hit those goals (much like with the completion of the EP) I nearly broke down.

But once I realized how much harm I was doing to myself, I felt like I had to take a step back and reassess myself before it had the chance to seep into my art and other fandom spaces I occupied.

I apologize for not giving any notices or updates whatsoever on this project. I never meant to abandon this AU. I love it way too much to let it go for good. There were other factors that kept me away here too, such as the brief influx unwanted sexual comments made by anonymous users in mid 2023, as well as my own internal struggle with my place within the Gorillaz fandom as someone who wants to share more nuanced content with mature themes in a space that has become increasingly filled with a much younger audience than intended.

But I’ve decided I want to come back to this project so I can tell the story I want to tell. Not just because of my love for the IP but simply because I want to finish. I want to finish it as a way to end a saga for myself.

Now that I have finally been given the green light to go forward into my senior year after repeating junior year, I feel that I’m finally in a healthy enough mindset to do so.

What will happen to this blog then?

I’ll be uploading questions as I get to them. But I must make note of this again as stated in the rules. Please stop sending me NSFW questions about the characters or myself. While this AU does deal with mature themes and does contain some suggestive elements, that does not give invitation for you to ask for that type of content about the characters, and especially from me. This is not directed at any specific user as most people were incredibly kind and respectful. But I beg you if you do like this project and want to submit a question or fanart, please don’t do this. It’s made me incredibly uncomfortable every time I receive them and it overall sours the experience of answering questions and continuing to work on this project. I would like for that boundary not to be crossed so please be respectful of that.

Secondly; as it stands, the EP and Thru With U animated music video are postponed.

Thru With U will most likely stay as a storyboarded piece as I unfortunately, do not have the luxury to animate a full three and half minute long piece by myself as that takes a lot of time and money that I do not currently have. And if I wanted to hire people to help me in animating it, I would want to give them proper compensation. Which again, I cannot currently give at this time.

The EP will probably come out eventually, but I would have to do some intense fine tuning in order to get sounding as best as it could be. That isn’t to say that I won’t be making anymore music/MVs for the Rejects later down the line, but I ask that all of you please be patient with me a more of those projects come out.

With that all being said, thank you all for your support. I’m incredibly proud of the community that’s been fostered from this AU and all of you who’ve sent me fanart, written kind messages, asked questions to the characters, and have written supportive tags onto each post, it means so much.

I can’t wait for you to see what this project has in store. Stay tuned!

Sincerely,

Bepis-Boii

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Hey look, we’re not dead. :)

Hey guys, Cynthia here. I know we haven’t been posting here often. Lotta shit’s been happening lately (trust me, we’ll be getting into that soon enough) but we’re super excited to unveil our new EP, <3.exe, which comes out tomorrow, June 9th!

💥The tracklist goes as follows: 💥

Thru With U!

LOVEBUG!!

.exe

Runaway

All of these tracks will be free and available to listen to on YouTube. We can’t wait to see what you guys think and we wanted to take this time to thank you for supporting us. Seriously like omg,,, my heart’s so full. We’re still getting through all of your asks but don’t worry, they’ll be up shortly.

Anyways, talk to you soon and hope you enjoy the new album art. 💜

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Does Cynthia consider 2D as a brother, friend, or simply just a band mate?

C: I feel like we understand each other a bit better.

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Since 2D still keeps in touch with noodle and Russel, Do they ever come visit him?

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Can I see Ace's tattoos?

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"I'm moving on."

THRU WITH U MV (ANIMATIC) IS UP NOW!!

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Update for Rejects AU animatic

Hey so uh, having some rendering issues atm but don’t worry y’all it’ll be up shortly! Please bear with me,,,,

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Update for Rejects AU animatic

Hey so uh, having some rendering issues atm but don’t worry y’all it’ll be up shortly! Please bear with me,,,,

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Will Murdoc be available for asks once he makes it to The Rejects?

Maybe~ ;) Not now but later down the line.

—Bepis-Boii

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Another update

Yeah I’m DEFINITELY gonna have to close the asks for a while. 😅 I gotta catch up!

Don’t worry they’ll be open again someday. Also as a reminder the animatic for Thru With U comes out TODAY so stay tuned!!

— Bepis-Boii