Good morrow nerds! My name is Cheyenne, my friends call me Az and I can't tell the difference between five minutes and five days!
Welcome to the channel formerly known as LARP House.
I have spent the past four years doing content about mostly LARP and anything related to it.
I love LARP as a creative outlet and I will still be doing that, but I think I have a lot more to offer than just... LARP.
I studied art across various, specialized art schools for over ten years. I started very young, mostly studying themed design.
I've traveled a lot of the world, and hope to continue, and I frequently just gorge my brain on a cool science crap.
I, seriously-I can't stop buying and reading books about cosmology and quantum physics and it's a problem...
and I am absolutely manic about collaborative adventures! Prop making, world building, character creation, universe hopping,
Telling stories with your friends. I believe in the power of these art forms more than I believe in anything,
Including time.
I have hidden behind "LARP house" as if it were an organization that I am merely a part of.
I say "fight with us, create with us", but really it's just me trying to mitigate the horror of being known.
And while I still am and may always be a reclusive chaos creature who is a big fan of their own personal space.
Momo O'Brien, off screen: What do you have to say to your loyal subjects, Princess Cheyenne?
*gremlin voice* Leave me Alone!
*laughter*
I have decided that there's a lot more to explore out there than just one niche hobby and that I'm going to be doing it as myself.
So I have changed my username everywhere that I can to Azrai, or TheAzrai, because Azrai is me
Azrai is a type of English-Welsh water fairy that turns into a puddle when it's captured or forced to do something it doesn't want to do
and as I've said before, I, too, would rather be a liquid and be bossed around.
I'll still be keeping the LARP House as maybe a playlist, or a type of video that I do, but my main presence will be as Azrai.
These past couple of years in particular has been equal parts incredible and terrible and there has been almost no in-between.
People and circumstances have put me through so much.
I have lost and gained so much and learned so much.
So, while I still have been working a lot on projects both public and super top secret,
I have been absent from YouTube more or less for a couple of months while I sort-of rediscover who I am as a creator.
Something we do not talk about nearly enough in this late-stage capitalistic hellscape is that deep rest is an integral part of the creative process.
Think of it as the reason that we have our greatest and weirdest thoughts sometimes in the shower or lying in bed alone at 3:00 in the morning.
We need that time.
So I have been cocooning both publicly and privately,
Turning myself into goo in solitude so that I might become something better.
So this year I am getting rid of everything I can that has limited me.
I am gonna go where I want to go, to learn what I want to learn and experience the crazy things that I've always wanted to experience
and relay anything that I find fun or interesting back to you along the way.
This means immersive experiences. People doing innovative things with storytelling, theme design, fabrication or world building.
Everything from art exhibits to theme parks to virtual reality to LARP... and collaborative storytelling on tik-tok
Whether I'm delivering information or creating a narrative, I like making videos for the art of it.
I am NOT a daily vlog person. They are brave. I am NOT one of them.
In fact the times you have seen me put out weekly vlogs have been times
I was using that as a distraction to avoid some really horrible things I was going through personally.
*chuckles*
Yes, I did come here to call myself out.
I cannot do anything casually.
I was born with a hole in my brain where most people find their chill
What this means going forward is that I will be putting out videos a little less frequently, but better
I am really tired of throwing out interesting video ideas because I wouldn't be able to take my time with them.
Especially because of the way this platform treats its creators and promotes an incredibly unhealthy work-life balance.
It is certainly not conducive to my style going forward, but Patreon and Ko-fi and other such generosities have always kept me going.
If you would like to help keep me going as well and join my Adventuring Party on Patreon,
maybe even check out some of my creators friends pages,
You would be helping support artists in a time when art is desperately needed
So, whether or not the art you choose to support is mine, whether the world thanks you for it or not,
The world will be better off for it. And I will thank you...profusely.
I've also been experimenting with running original digital LARP-type experiences that I am calling "Collaborative Adventures"
Wayfinders and Asunderland are just what I'm working on right now with some genius creator friends over tiktok.
We're gonna see how far we can push the boundaries of what's possible with that app.
I think we're gonna have a good time
I have streamlined my patreon, fixed up the store, got in my Ko-fi in order...
I think we're ready.
I have so many plans, secret projects, and I'm excited to make videos again, and that is a big deal,
because there are so many worlds out there, both real and fictional, and I want to explore them all.
A multiverse awaits.
So hopefully I'll see you somewhere in it