Mage Bunkshelf - Blog Posts

Here to introduce my bug!

Marissa 'Katrien' Van dervalk 🦋

Quick sketching before bed ^^

Sky (@obsidian-lantern) , Nemaiah (@magebunkshelf) , Duke (Siren's son ASMR)

I tried to make a design for Nem as a quick sketch—

Bardy King (@atonalasmr)

So... apparently The gator boys and South Park audios go hand in hand. Also no, I'm not sorry at all😅

Characters are Marco, Timmy and Bodie from: @magebunkshelf @obsidian-lantern @dayspriteofficial @capitalmaudios

So happy i was actually able to FULLY FINISH a drawing. My art block has me in a chockhold😭

Anyway, here's a drawing a did based on @magebunkshelf 's stream on Sunday! Deku scrub Mitch is about to 'cancel their hearing warranty'^^

(I've only seen the stream. I've never seen or played ocarina of time and I want to so bad:()

IT'S THE SAME ENTITY I'M TELLING YOU- *she yowls before she's shoved into a carrier and taken to the pound*

We did not get the fwuff.

HAD TO FREAKING MISS THE FIRST BIT CUZ MY WIFI CUT OUT, THANKS UNIVERSE-

Bruh I missed Lochlannnnnnn

No he misses his peopleeee-

.......... BRO WHAT IS GOING ON JUST SAY IT PLEASE.

Okay so he's hearing a voice in his head- great- probably nothing suspicious, just some instincts-

"Hey, remember that the moon has influences over the tides- and he's a merman-" "SHUT UP-"

FORGET YOU, HOWWWWWW- YOU GOT DRUNK IN MY BATHTUB. HOW DO I FORGET YOU.

Don't make me cry. Goddammit I'm actually tearing up, don't you dare make me cry-

"I'm afraid to be your friend right now-" *pauses video and walks around room taking deep breaths*

Aw, checking to make sure he took care everything okay I'm fine-

Yeah I'm crying, ughhhhhhhhhh I can't-

... kay the screen's glitching...

Ok, Mage said something was teased in the last minisode, what happened with Aru that's important...

@kipperzz OK I'M SORRY-

*happy cat screeching outside the window*

OMG WAIT WE NEED TO PLAY BINGO GUYS OMG ALDKJFLAJFLJSADF

I need to make a game

Respawn inspired crochet shrug

Forgot to post this lol-

Inspired by Mage Bunkshelf’s Respawn series, freehanded pattern by me.

Random notes:

Mmkay, so I wanted to make a Rambley plush cuz I thought he was cute, but I didn’t have the right shades of purple and most of my yarn budget for the month is spent.

“Well dang, what do I make while I wait for the stuff that I need…”

*excess white and green yarn starting at me * “Oh hello…”

This one was pretty easy, only took about a week or so. Also it’s kind of a scrap yarn project- I used two kinds of white yarn for this, a smaller weight for the chest and first section of the sleeves, and a larger weight to finish the sleeves off. Doing tapestry crochet for the logo probably would have been a better idea and looked cleaner, but I wanted to try experimenting with freeform. Also I LOVE a bell sleeve, so I had to indulge in some for this XD

IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED RESPAWN PLEASE DOOOOOOO- like especially if you’re a gamer nerd like come onnnnn it’s so good AUGH-

Currently at a hangout but had to retreat back inside cuz the mosquitoes are making a buffet out of my legs (so freaking ITCHY-)

Anyway, much love to you lovelies 🖤🐈‍⬛

I’M SORRY WHATTTTTTTTTTT-

THIS IS AMAZING OMGGGGGGG-

‼️not my oc belongs to @magebunkshelf

Mask alt

Kyaaaaaaaaaa, congrats lovely!!!

Hahaaaaa sooooo…

My mom: “What are you making? Like I know it’s a shrug, but what’s that logo?” Me: *spends the next five minutes explaining the plot of Respawn to her-*

The Mage

I can see you Not for your eyes! I can hear You've left me entwined!

Random notes:

OKAY. THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR THE CHANNEL ANNIVERSARY. CLEARLY I GOT IMPATIENT.

Seriously, how do y'all not post immediately after you're done with a piece aalsdfjlsdkfjlksdfj

So the series logos appear in the order that their first audio came out I think? I might've messed up the order

THIS WAS ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE A LIPSYNC. I forgot that drawing is barely doable for me- that kind of animation is still a ways off so um yeah we got this instead-

I don't know why I picked “Kid and Leveret” but I had a whole sequence in my head to this song smh

MY YARN FOR MY NEXT PROJECT CAME IN, SUPER EXCITED. Just gotta finish my current one

Also now I need a back-up plan for the seventh so onward I go-

Feral!Nyx: "Ok so- you know how we've been rewatching Vampire Hunter, right?" Nyx: "Yeah..." "And how we've been scrolling through the Bunkshelf and the blog for lore and headcanons and whatnot?" "... yeah-" "And how we started listening to Arctic Monkeys yesterday-" "Where are you going with this." "..." *pulls out reference photo* "So I went on Pinterest and-" "WE HAVE A DOODLE AND AN ANIMATIC I NEED TO LIPSYNC ALREADY IN PROGRESS. I'M NOT ABOUT TO DRAW BATS." "... I also have a backstory planned out?" "Damn you-"

Best promotion I’ve ever seen, I’m sold, will be giving my bubby head pats later-

Wiki update!!

magebunkshelf.net

After an extended head-scratchy time, I have finally figured out moving the wiki onto its own custom domain! In an effort to position the wiki as the front website for the channel it has all my social links, an updates feed for recent audios and posts, and now has its own custom address!

bunkshelf.miraheze.org/wiki

Old. Long. Clunky. Does not inspire joy.

magebunkshelf.net

New! Easy! Memorable! Sexy!

The old Miraheze domain should continue to redirect to the new domain so it should just be a seamless transition, old saved hyperlinks should all work fine. I'm just delighted we actually got this working. Just go there and look at the address bar, it's a proper big grown-up website now! Yes I'm a nerd.

While I'm at it I've gone through and tidied up a bunch of stuff and updated the pages for the recent audios. As always if anything is broken or missing or needs updating let me know!

Alright, Mermay edit lesgooooo

-Mage

Oh and don't forget the headpattable Mitch on the front page! ^ ^

Relistening to Mage's Yandere Ship AI series:

"Confirmed. There are no space pirate signals in our vicinity."

Me: *literally drops my pencil case* "Yargwynn- no no wait wait wrong place-"

Ok I did it, Kipperzz we need to play bingo-

Wild Foxboy audio notes

starts out as speaker not trusting the listener but still helps them.

wouldn't say he's skittish.

hint of surprise when the human stayed

tasty berries :3

yea, not skittish; just very much doesn't trust humans.

I wouldn't say Aru is self obsessed!

sounds like he has met a kitsune before.

I want to pat him :3

Even though the foxboy is similar to Mitch, I can see why Mitch is more popular but that'll be for the notes for that audio.

foxboy tries one of the sugariest drinks ever

sharp liquid :3

good way to have the foxboy trust the listener via soda

yooooooo, pats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

starting to think there should be a mage bunkshelf bingo with one of the spots being, the character is or will become your roommate

When I first listened to Lunar Mission, I had a feeling the speaker was more feminine, was very happy to see that was kind of the case (I've been obsessed with the moon since childhood and always considered it to be a somewhat feminine entity... most of my sonas in the past have had some kind of connection with it XD)

I feel like there could be a time where Mitch decides to leave his Listener. Idk to me it feels like he's going to get more independent and sure of himself; I wouldn't be surprised if he went to Listener and told them it was time for him to move on. Personally, I think my Listener would be fine with it, a little sad obviously, but they'd understand and tell him not to be a stranger. And now they have more reason to go to the bakery!

Speaking of which I think Mitch's listener and the bakery owner would be friends ^^

Aru is one of the best freaking people to talk to. Just super calming presence, funny, he'll listen to you when you need to vent, great storyteller, etc. etc.

After David and Bats finish a mission, if they're not too tired, Bats will take David somewhere and buy him food sometimes. They'll probably hang out on a bench afterward and Bats will just talk about anything.

Mitch's listener sucks at video games. They like playing them! But there's always at least one incident where Mitch questions how hopeless a person could be at gaming-

User has dreams about their deaths and also possibly about their life outside of the Plane in the real world. But the real world dreams are the type that are super vague and exist on the edge of memory after you wake up. The death dreams are vivid, they just don't like to talk about them.

A bunch of the listeners are the "mildly aggressive caregiver" type. Like "Sit down, stop playing and acting like you're fine, you're not fine, let me help you dammit-"

And last thing because I like showing affection to people, POSSIBLY THE BEST HUGGERS: - Aru - Eissen - Mitch

Also not character related but in my mind I think Mage's Headspace looks kind of like Cedar Lake, only more mystical... the entrance to the Realms (the character worlds) would be the lake itself, you'd probably disturb the water to enter I think.

I'm always curious about people's headcanons, it's amazing to hear other interpretations of the characters! Here's a few of mine; while all the listeners are gender neutral, I sometimes have an image of them in my head, such as Bats (Vampire Hunter series) and the rancher (Rancher & Royal Knight series) being female, and the Neko Listener and the User (Respawn) being more male. Got headcanons? Hit me!

HELP ME, I'M RELISTENING TO THE TEMPTATIONS OF SATAN AND I FREAKING CANNOTTTTTTTTTT-

"Jaffa Cakes go from mine lips straight to mine hips. Well, thank you I appreciate thine kind words, thou don't look half-bad thyself if thee don't mind mine saying. That's a mouthful. Boom one take-"

THIS IS SO COOL KYA-

Made something on stream last night for the birthday boi ^ ^

Hi how tall is Bodie? Sorry if I mispronounce his name

Two things I would buy from VAs in a heartbeat:

STICKERS. And I already have, also planning to get more after this semester's finished as a lil gift to myself (I have a bunch of Obi's stickers saved on my wishlist aaaaaaa)

A book or a novel from them- I know a few of them mentioned in some past streams that they had a manuscript or a novel they were working on and that inspired some of their work. I don't know if they'll finish it or if the idea's been scrapped, but I would absolutely buy a copy if they ever published something. (books have been one of my true loves since childhood, it'd be a neat addition to my library XD)

Alright, a few weeks ago I saw a thread of artists saying they'd love to be commed to have their art in an audio thumbnail. Now I can't promise anything, I'm a little slower at working on my own stuff and I only have a limited budget, but the best way to get started:

Artists!

Share some examples of your art and how best to contact you for commissions! Show us what you've got!

VAs!

Have a look through the notes! Hopefully we can get a little thread going with some cool new artists to check out!

Kyaaaaa, my fox buddy's back!!! 🧡🦊🔥

How long has it been?

Okay I've readjusted my rankings:

Made me tear up and take some deep breaths: ZsakuVA, Nora ASMR

Made me ugly sob for two or more minutes: Escaped Audios, Scythe Audio, Good Boy Audios

The comfort VAs: Mage Bunkshelf, Capital M Audios, Fern VA, Obsidian Lantern

However I think Mage has the power to leave the comfort ranking and quickly join one of the other two categories- they have power, I can sense it-

Final conclusion, be wary of anyone with "audio" in their username-

Crossover

"It's a pretty big island, but you get used to it... the memory tokens are tricky to find though."

The weekend dooble aaaaaaaaaaa- ok in my defense, you can only hear Sonic memes being quoted so many times in a gaming stream before the fangirl side takes over.

Anywayyyy- Sonic!Nyx with Mitch and Cay (they're my favorites so I decided to try Sonicfying them lol)... Background is Ares Island from Sonic Frontiers, my second favorite Sonic game.

AND RANDOM STUFF.

[N13] [18040419141103241420082226180813131402041319]

...................

Fearful, very fearful- OH MY GOD YOU WON THE FIGHT- nope, imma take non-gaming self back to the sidelines, clearly there's a gamer girl in the room AND IT AIN'T ME-

Hi, Mage!! Got another nerdy question for you, forgive me-

Who do you main in Smash Bros? I don't play it often, but Sonic and Bayonetta are my favorites- when I'm not catapulting off the stage because I lost control of spin dash.

-🖤🐈‍⬛

ICies and Young Link mainly!

an excuse to use this stream graphic I never got around to using!

Favorite moment from Mage's and M's Portal Co-op:

Mage: "Ban me from talking for five minutes? How are we gonna be able to solve this if I'm not allowed to talk?" [laughs]

M: "He's the smart one, don't make him shut up!"

"Don't say that!"

"I need him to speak aloudddddd!"

[a minute later]

"So I think in the pa-" [pause] [breaks into laughter]

"Hm?"

[whispers] "Check chat."

"I- I only have the one monitor, it's hard for me to go back and forth right now-"

"I've got a five-minute voice ban, I'll talk in five minutes."

"NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO, MOONCHILDSS WHYYYYYYYYY-"

[muted Mage laughing in the corner]

FELLOW ASMR YARNIVORE AAAAAAAAAAAAA-

THIS LOOKS AMAZING, YOU DID SO GOOD!!!!!

I made a Mage Bunkshelf’s Mitch sweater

I started it a while ago but I had to wait for some yarn to restock. This had a lot of firsts. It’s my first Sweater (my hubris didn’t allow me to use a pattern, I just made one up as I went), it’s my first tapestry/intarsia crochet, I also learned how to crochet with my left hand, alternating right and left between rows to always be working from the front, and I learned how to knit for the ribbing. Sadly it’s getting to warm to wear it now, but it’s going to see a lot of use when it gets colder again.

KYA, I WASN'T EXPECTING A WHOLE VIDEO EXPLANATION, LET'S GO-

THANK YOU, MAGE! Okay this makes sense now.

Also I have the memory of a goldfish so if I DO end up playing this, I'll be happily struggling to solve the puzzles. But I might get them, I do like sassy robot characters.

Watching your Portal streams and I'm very upset that Wheatley turned evil 😭 I want my robot buddy backkkkk-

Also why is it that when you open portals you can sometimes see a copy of yourself going in through the other??

{Spell incantation: Peaceful Stream} {Tea shall remain hot and scuff shall be minimal upon thy next gaming endeavor} {-10 stress, +5 dopamine} {Can be activated with more breakdowns of easter eggs featured in games}

-🖤🐈‍⬛

seriously though if you haven't played Portal or Portal 2 (sorry if I've now spoiled the puzzles!) those are two games I think everyone should play at some point! they both go on sale very very cheap very often!

and thank you for the tea spell ^ ^