#anyway gonna post more bendy stuff

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I continued watching Foster's Home, and currently stopped at episode 10 of the second season (I will watch the next episodes of course).

Remember when I said the authors realize what they do, how they do it, what limits they have and what limits they can get around? Well, at the beginning of this season, they went wild. The candy drug allusion, the Big Lebowski (one of the episode named as "The Big Lablooski") and Donald Trump reference, fucking Bendy, Cheese (I expected worse, but overall he's just silly, nothing more) and THE SIXTH EPISODE OF SECOND SEASON - THIS IS JUST THE PICK.

It's the exact moment when you realize that the writers of the cartoon are trolls, and squeeze so much Spanish embarrassment out of a common misunderstanding, so much cringe, that it was definitely purposeful to have exactly those emotions in the viewer.

Plot of this episode is simple: Frankie thanks Mac at the beginning of the episode for his help with the paperwork at Foster's Home, and goes on friday night with her friends.

By the way, this is the episode with the two beautiful and atypical Frenky's looks.

This is simple and hot tho, I understand why everybody likes draw her like that on artworks.

Mac, on the other hand, takes the thanks as a love compliment, and the next day Frankie says she fell in love with the guy (of course it's not Mac or Blue, or other two appearing characters, this is an other guy, that's probably understandable, but I'd like to clarify things in this post) last night, and it begins... Basically there's conflict based on the misunderstanding of Frankie's words and "who is the Frankie's boyfriend by the way" between Mac and Blue, and the characters that appears in episode. And then in a middle of episode or near to the end of it - the next location of the episode happens. I wanted to break and blow up a wall of my not so imagination home from Spanish embarrassment while watching this whole episode. It's not bad, it's just... YOU FEEL THAT. You feel like everything's slipping into the wrong place. Authors really captured that feel, when you see stupids who misunderstood things and awkward shit happens.

(when awkward shit happens - I recommend you to wear a heavy armor helmet, example portrayed on this picture, tank is optional, forest isn't necessary)

You thought this episode is gonna be cute or not so cringe? Well FUCK YOU, WE WILL DESTROY YOU IN AND OUTSIDE! This episode is "really goes hard". The authors are geniuses and trolls for making me quite suffer from cringe or feel this ULTRA awkwardness. Good job... I guess?

Maybe I'm just too sensitive for awkward and cringe moments and things in films, cartoons, videogames, media, especially with the characters that I like. Sometimes I realize that I'm somehow sensitive to awkwardness in media, and I start curling up in a bucket because of the cringe. I'm trying to cope with that awkward stuff, and I started successfully to cope with it recently, but this time - cringe beat me.

And that's not bad! It shows that authors know how to make you feel the way they want to, and they can be proud of their job (but cringe is still with me).

So that's why I'm going to continue watching Foster's Home (I would anyway).

[sainotavailable]

pairings — Venti, Kazuha, Wanderer, Xiao, Kaeya, and Al-Haitham x gn!Reader

summary — You checked your pantry and wow! You don't have shit besides spiders chillin' in the corner of the cabinet. It's time to shop, and your s/o wants to go with you (or in Al-Haitham's case, you drag him along). Would he behave himself and is he OK to bring to society?

tags / warnings — crack / fluff / HCs, almost all of them are insane. kazuha is HIGH ASF, wanderer is an asshole (canon), venti and kaeya have crippling alcoholism, PDA, established relationship, please stop taking these men outside.

A/N — this is my first post. i'm sorry you had to read it but i just write stupid crack hc's or weird shit. also i'm crying because tumblr deleted the first draft i was gonna post. absolutely in tears rn.

Venti “Huh, you’re going to the market? Can I come, can I come!?”

As soon as you step foot into the market, expect him to dash in front of you in search for wine. If you’re in another nation or they’re sold out of his favorite booze, he will drop to his knees and BAWL (but it sounds rly pretty cuz he’s a good bard yk like a disney princess)

you urge him to stand up because he’s being embarrassing and that just makes him roll around on the dirty ass floor because he’s a fucking drama king. legit doing it to spite you even tho you didn’t do shit. however once he recovers he’ll…

put random shit into the basket (no he doesn’t need it he just thinks maybe in the future one of u might. please take it out)

will buy plastic bendy straws so he can drink his alcohol in a silly goofy way

will find a way to eat more than 1 free sample at the food stalls (has a fake mustache for this occasion)

if he finds wine that’s rly expensive he will attempt to seduce you into purchasing it for him (dont feed into his alcoholism)

will try to go into the basket (even if its handheld)

expect him to serenade you the entire time you're shopping, too

also he will hold ur hand and just be all over u. he loves u sm <3

will complain once he gets tired (its only been 10 minutes)

overall, terrible to bring. leave him at home

Kazuha “Oh, have we run out of goods? May I accompany you?”

As you shop, you kind of forget he’s even there until he picks something up to take a closer look and makes a comment. He mostly just chills and follows you around. But…

he actually might be high

how many nakuweeds did u have before you two left? did u count???

all of a sudden he’s adding random snaccs to the basket. when did he ever eat this shit?

as you watch him stuff a dozen doughnuts into ur basket that’s when u realize he might have some crazy munchies. maybe u should ask??

actually maybe not he looks really out of it. he ated all the weeds

as you try and put away some of the shit he put in you see him staring at the local cats

he doesn't know wtf is going on

you should probably go back home now

overall, probably fine to bring with you when he’s not high as a kite

Wanderer “Where are you going? To the market? . . . I better go with you—no, not because I want to, but because you’ll get that generic store brand shit.”

He’s mad and he doesn’t wanna be there, but bc you’re such an asshole who buys generic great value tea. anyways even tho he looks really mad, he doesn’t mind being with you (what a shit) will wander (heh) away from you and look at other stuff. if u try and contain him he’ll get pissy about it and insist he’s an independent puppet-man and he’s not gonna commit tomfoolery anymore. anyways so…

he doesn’t care if ur trying to save mora, he WILL have his namebrand inazuman tea!!!

maybe he won’t… because he understands prices are very tough right now. BUT its not because you told him to, you fucking box

gets PISSED and will become a karen if the cashier doesn’t say hi to him

our boy is toxic and i will not fluff him down this is just him and u like it

will slap your hand if you try and hold his hand. like, not hard. but like, the way a cat slaps your hand when its tired of you petting it.

will hold ur hand if u try a second time but his grip is rly tight cause bro is always tense asf

overall, don’t bring him if you like the store/market you’re going to. you might get banned

Xiao “You’re going to the market? I see . . . It’s getting dark out, so I’ll come with you.”

You know he’s anxious about being around so many people, but he wants to protect you <3<3 so he’ll overcome this obstacle and follow you around like a lost puppy…

actually he’s really close

like holy shit back up xiao, he’s right against ur back

you dont bother to say anything bc yk he’ll say some shit like “YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE ADEPTI”

actually maybe you should grab his hand because he legit looks like a deer in headlights

will hold ur groceries for you bc he’s so strong <3

u can't hold his hand because he's holding his giant fucking polearm "just in case" and holding your bags in the other, so maybe hold his arm??

he loves that shit even if he doesnt admit it

might suddenly leave with ur groceries if he’s called or some shit, will return with torn bags but its ok he did everything he could to fix it!

by fix it i mean now he’s just holding everything and pierced it into his spear

you should just be happy he has everything. don’t comment on it

overall, 10/10. besides the anxiety, he likes being near you even if he doesnt admit it. ur groceries are safe with him just like you are <3<3

Kaeya “Groceries? Oho, well. I have some time, why don’t I go with you? You’ll need a big strong captain to carry all your bags, after all.”

Even if you didn’t want to bring him, he’s coming with you anyways. I think the best part about Kaeya is he’ll stick by your side throughout the trip to the market and follow you around wherever you go.

Honestly, out of everyone else, it feels like he might be the best one to bring with you…

plez expect him to have an arm slung over your shoulders or snaked around your waist. he loves pda!

EXCEPT! he is the KING OF CONSENT(tm) he will only do it if you say its ok! what a sigma chad wtf

i hope you like talking because kaeya fucking loves chatting while shopping. he will not be quiet for long even if you tell him to stfu

even if you’re not the chatty type and you’re pretty quiet, he’ll talk for you. about his day, what he did that morning (even if u already know), what he’s gonna do later, he will not leave a single detail out.

hey btw remember when i said he won’t leave ur side? i lied. don’t trust anyone on the internet.

he will 100% leave your side for the booze market. he is more interested in imported wine that he can get his hands on

will return to you with 6 bottles and insist they’re for you both to share. please stop feeding into his alcoholism

he will carry your bags btw. all of them. he will have both arms packed with bags and won’t complain, might just tease you a little tho.

overall, a fantastic man to bring with you to grocery shop. can protect u cuz he’s a strong cavalry captain who will hold ur belongings without complaint. just feed him booze <3<3

Al-Haitham “. . . Fine, I’ll go with you to pick up some things. I need to pick up a new book to take to work, anyway.”

The moment you enter the marketplace, you most likely will never find your partner again. At least, not until later in your shopping trip. He literally disappeared, where the fuck did he go?

Its only half way through that you find him and see him sitting on one of the benches, flipping through the new book he purchased. You call for him, but his soundproof earpieces are in effect. You snatch the book out of his hands to get his attention and bother him enough to follow you. He lets out a sigh, but gets up anyway…

u rly should’ve left him there cuz he’s so quiet. he might still have his earpieces on.

he’ll follow you around by your side and he’ll hold your bags, too. he’s got big strong arms for a fuckin reason!!

half way through he’ll start reading his book again, sorry but shopping is rly boring to him ok

al-haitham isn’t a pda person btw don’t touch him

might hold ur hand.

will hold ur hand if the cashier is too sus for his liking

maybe

if you run into kaveh while shopping he will leave. if ur holding hands he will leave with u even if u didnt pay for ur shit yet.

overall, um. he’s definitely an option. he’ll hold ur bags??? he just wants to go back home

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Interests list: Portal 2 (biggest interest, very important to me!!!), FNAF, The Sun And Moon Show, Bendy, Inscryption/The Hex/Pony Island, Spiderverse, Phoenix Wright (have only gotten through the first game so far, working on the second), TAWOG, Among us (i am aware of how funny that is), HLVRAI/RTVS, Team Fortress 2, Garten Of Banban (fuck the euphoric brothers), Adventure Time, Tattletail, and Billie Bust Up!

Weird brain things I have: Autism, ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, DID, RSD, Misophonia, the point is my brain said fuck you and gave me every disorder known to man. I might also have BPD, but I am not sure yet and need to look into it more.

Anyways come hang out with me if you feel like you're ready for the torment

(You can also check out my A03 here. They’re just for funsies and writing practice :) )

[baghassavocados]

So, like, first Tumblr post 😌😌😌

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Right now, I wanna list out my AUs and their summaries cause I may make some into fanfics or ask blogs in the future (some currently being made 👀) and I wanna list them out for y'all to know, for me to keep track of them, and for y'all to keep an eye out for mayhaps (or help me out even, pls-)

The hyperfixations are also strong but they're everywhere and I need to write them all down; the notes app isn't enough.

Anyways... (Legit, no order to this whatsoever)

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FNAF Ghosts- The concept of Ghosts (CBS) using FNAF SB characters

Gregory and Cassie search through an abandoned arcade/mall for reasons (idk). Vanessa's there acting as a security guard to make sure no one, y'know, trespasses or gets hurt. Well... that fucking fails... cause Greg FALLS through the BROKEN FLOOR.

He's ok, tho :)

Vanessa isn't :(

Greg can see ghosts now! :0

Hijinx ensues >:)

(this is gonna be a fanfic. Maybe an ongoing comic, too, but I've not got the energy nor time to do another ongoing comic).

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Funtime Performer AU- The FNAF SL animatronics are actual human performers! (And the Aftons aren't dead! :D Willy still sucks, tho). That's honestly it... well, Elizabeth is still Circus Baby, but it's not because she...I did just say that nobody died, so I don't think I need to explain.

(This is gonna be an ask blog!!)

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Tangled TAZ- I put Taako, Lup, Kravitz, Barry, and John (as well as others but these are the main guys) into Tangled. Taako and Lup are Rapunzel, Barry and Kravitz sorta act as Flynn, and John is Mother Gothel. Garyl is in it too! And Taako and Lup get a mongoose named Daryll instead of Pascal :))

(THIS IS AN ONGOING FIC ON AO3! It's called "The Lost Twins" and currently is only at chapter 2... it's been like that for a few months now ;-; stupid school and procrastinating and non-TAZ hyperfixations).

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DanganTAZ - I put the TAZ characters into a Danganronpa situation... there's angst :)) I've hurt myself emotionally with this shit :,))

(THIS IS ONGOING ON INSTAGRAM!! DanganTAZ is the account! it, too, suffers a hiatus similar to TangledTAZ ;-;)

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Millie and Delilah (names subject to change) - They are my BATIM OCs! Basically, Millie is a combination of all the main toons of BATIM and Delilah is an unfinished character; all and nothing :)) [Ooh, that's a good title name :0]. I still need to fix up this stuff and figure more things out (since I originally made them back in, like, 2018, so... yeah), bUT it will be an ask blog, so y'all can help 😎

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Edit 11-11-23: I've another AU

RTC Goosebumps -I put the Ride the Cyclone characters into the new Goosebumps TV Series on Disney + (but I did switch some stuff up and am gonna use inspiration from different Goosebumps books).

A few years ago, a girl fell off of a rollercoaster and died. She lost her head in the process from the cart running into her as she hit the track. No one, not even by the passengers in the cart who miraculously survived, were able to identify her. Because of this incident, the amusement park has been abandoned. Most of what it had remains in ruin. However, strange happenings occur after 5 teenagers enter the now haunted amusement park and come out of it with some souvenirs.

...and some chilling scares.

Here's also some one offs that I don't think I'll make in full, but they deffo came up in my mind at one point:

(again, no particular order)

TOHTAZ (Lup and Taako as Eda, Angus as Luz, Barry as Raine, Kravitz as Darius, Mags is the Construction Coven Head, Dav is the Illusion Coven Head, Lucretia is Oracle Coven Head, Merle Plant Coven Head, Pringles Potion Head, Carry might've been Beast Keeping, and John is Belos. That's as far as I got, I think)

RTCTAZ (I have a few pics explaining this better-)

[scribbled to blur out my face 😬]

Anyways ummm ooh, my BATIM chapter 5 theory before chapter 5 came out, that one's actually kinda neat. (The Ink Demon and Bendy are separate, Joey's the Ink Demon, Bendy was hiding around at the bottom of the studio, making tapes to hopefully lead Alice and Boris in the right direction and having to hide or pretend to be the Ink Demon, Allison, Tom, and Henry find him, later on Allison and Tom turn on Henry and Bendy, and that's all I remember)

Ooh, and my other au where the loop didn't happen but the Ink Demon actually came back as a chill, toon Bendy (who was slightly deformed), that one's kinda cool, too.

Had a BATIM and Cuphead crossover at one point, barely remember anything from that (I primarily figured that out through RPing with myself and didn't draw any of it out ;-;)

Penny revives the choir could be a oneshot.

Losttale

Oh, Danganronpa characters in an Undertale situation (yes, I did put Nagito in Sans's position, it genuinely fit very well). That one's neat, too. Tis a shame I'm no longer into Danganronpa enough nor do I really know how to continue it... although, maybe I could, idk, that one also seems like a potential ask blog. It's honestly neat. Gotta fix it up a bit, tho.

Which reminds me of the fact that I put Alice and Bendy into Frisk's situation, imagining that as an ask blog as well.

Ooh, another DR AU I might not finish (but have written a bit and have occasionally thought of finishing it) is "What if Hajime got the Despair Disease and it carried on into chapter 4?" Nagito was slightly out of character in all the things I made of it, but it's still really good every time I look back. Came up with a whole new motive to replace the files (cause Hajime got them instead).

I actually might make this a thing, I might not, but Spiderman Bendy :)) (he has inky spider powers and he's "Spider Demon." It's actually kinda more "Venom-y" except the suit/ink isn't sentient. Also, the toons are human. Alice is like MJ, Boris is like Ned, Joey could be J. Jonah Jameson due to how much he looks AND sound like him, but it might be more fitting if it were Sammy, Audrey and Bendy are siblings [she might act as "Aunt May" despite, y'know, being his sister], I think Henry's Uncle Ben, sad 😔, dunno where the Butcher Gang fit, they're just bullies or possible villains, idk... actually, that might be it)

Oh, I also used Crybaby songs and made a story outta that using BATIM characters (Bendy was Crybaby)

Edit: I forgot my Taako Hanahaki au. Honestly, this seems plausible for a fanfic because of the juicy angst that comes from lost bonds.

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I think that's it

Well, I hope y'all enjoy the possibilities :))

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Bonus AU:

Twisted/Reincarnated JatGP AUs:

Backstory time: so, I did the James and the Giant Peach Jr. musical a few years back and a few members of our cast managed to come up with funky AUs out of it. I want to ask them for permission to write it into a full on fic and publish it on AO3 first, but here's me at least teasing it. I'm kinda hyperfixated on it atm and I wanna write it out entirely before it fades away in the back of our memories and the crevices of our Google Docs.

It's so fun, actually :)) (and so twisted >:)))

[verdictvelvet]

spider-verse 2 thoughts post

everybody has already said this is only half of a movie but it's really only half of a movie, huh. the character stuff in the first hour gets a lot of room to breathe it's really cool that we just get a bunch of down tempo stuff with miles and his supporting cast but also like an hour in when we're still just kinda luxuriating in it it becomes really apparent that we're not resolving anything until next year. the like last fifteen minutes really suffer also where it's pretty obvious what the cliffhanger is gonna be but they roll it out extremely slowly. just feels kinda agonizing. felt like they could have been snappier with that part and it would have only been better

she was definitely relieved that all the stuff in the trailers that she thought looked kinda corny and bad with like all the spider-men walking around the big spider-base doing weak meta jokes wound up only being like 15 minutes of the movie. but also that part wound up being worse than she expected because in addition to being pretty corny and bad it just blows up the scope of the movie to a scale that just doesn't work. if everybody who's in on miguel's shit is like. characters we know who have their own conflicted personal reasons to cling to the ideas he's putting forward it works but when every spider-man ever is going to fall in line to try to beat up a teenager it's like. why. cut it out. take a step back

she got her hopes up waaaaay too high about ben reilly, he's got less than nothing in this movie. that's her fucking boy! but all they give him are weak gags about a vague idea of what 90s comics were like. no specificity, no attempt at even suggesting that he's a character. she's a little hopeful for the next part still because if you're telling your story about like a metafictional conflict about like. who deserves to be/is supposed to be spider-man then like. putting ben in there as a guy with a conflicted position is the easiest layup in the world! he's the most natural fit to expand on what they're doing in the full version of this movie instead of the half of the movie they released. so here's hoping

hobies introduction scene was like. kind of terrible, just rapid-fire jokes about a very slight concept of his character while trying to cram him into a love triangle as like a vague threat to miles while doing no work to establish him as a character in regards to that relationship. but once they just kind of chill out a little bit and he's the guy who's just hanging around and fucking with everybody it's like. yeah okay he's pretty fun. so that's nice

this movie looooves cop dads so much truly nobody on there planet is more enthused by the cop dad/crime dad dichotomy in bendis' miles comics than lord and miller. the ensuing character stuff mostly works once you're like willing to build the remove to accept that this is the level the movie is operating on but there's definitely some kinda messy thematic entangling of the cop stuff and the spider-man stuff that hopefully won't consume the back half

anyway movie really pretty. still a really exhilarating vision of spider-mans moving around and fighting and saving people. cool visual depictions of spider-mans doing things are one of the greatest cultural contributions of superhero media. can't complain

[ekholocationn]

ALRIGHT!!!! TIME FOR A FINAL DARK REVIVAL RAMBLE

long post & spoiler warning below the cut

HOOOH THAT WAS ALL SO COOL,,,,, i REALLY enjoyed the game but i do have my fair share of qualms. gonna start off with the positive stuff tho

overall, the voice acting, animation, and music/sound design were SO good!! not to mention the character models, i think i already brought this up but they were so freaking expressive and i was living for that

ALSO CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT SCENE WITH ALLISON AND ALICE??? very reminiscent to what happened in ink machine BUT they got the closure they needed,,,,,, that scene made me cry man heart been broke so many times

and then to immediately follow it up with this note from allison was like salt in the wound

honestly that scene was probably my favorite part of the chapter, if not the entire game tbh??? had to rewind and watch it again..... the fact that allison never harbored any resentment at all toward alice and even viewed her as a SISTER. just. agh. she only wished the best for her </3

i also really liked betty's character, she was sweet >w< and getting to see sammy briefly was nice

the ending was pretty good too, i had a feeling that it would end with audrey resetting everything and doing it over with the reel

however, i feel like there were still a lot of things left unanswered?? and i noticed a pattern of like.... mechanics and characters being introduced briefly and then moments later we move on from them. like, what's with carley? to put it in the words of a friend of mine, why does she feel like just a cheap jumpscare? you introduce this new character but never really expand upon her.

same with porter, heidi, and betty. i would have loved to know more about them!!!! sure porter shows up in the finale, but like, we don't see him for three chapters before then.

i also would have loved to see MORE of alice!! like, how did she break out of her cell? why pick AUDREY of all people to kidnap?

also, holy shit they did my boy sammy SO dirty and im a little mad tbh. like, you tease him with this note:

and it gets the player ready to see him out of his cell...... but he's only there for a brief moment on a catwalk before allison just??? shoots him down??? it feels like you took this unsettling lunatic character and just. turned him into a joke. a cheap 'LOL you remember this guy? yeah he's dead now'

wilson's final boss fight was cool but it felt. incredibly rushed in my opinion. and how did he have access to color in the first place? why on EARTH did audrey agree to fuse with the ink demon if he's been something she was trying to avoid for the ENTIRE game??? maybe the ink demon formed some sort of connection to her as little toon bendy, but.... i don't know. i have my qualms about the ink demon in dark revival but that's a ramble for another time

i can't really comment much on gameplay mechanics since i watched a playthrough and didn't play it myself haha

anyways this post is getting long as hell so im gonna cap it now before i ramble too much XD overall i love the game for what it is, and i'm definitely gonna be making some fanart when i have time. it was a lovely sequel to ink machine, and expanded on the world a lot... it just felt rushed at times i think, like they were trying to squeeze too much into too little

[ask-the-friendly-ink-demon]

so! hiya!

hiya! been a while since i’ve done one of these. Yes i am finally back, on tumblr, cause batdr is getting me back into the fandom, i’ve spent maybe... half a day clearing up old posts that just didn’t fit in anymore, and i’ve seen just how uh... messy everything got COUGH COUGH so! i will be retconning a few things. one, during prowler’s revenge arc, those ‘demons’ that he fought against, minus lanky, that claim to be his other halves? they are now gonna be lone soldiers his demon had in the past past, just resurrected due to lanky’s bullshit. like aoi-kao and some shit. also! i shall be going back to a soft reboot of sorts, hence the memory loss arc, where prowler is back to normal. but.. well... let’s just say most of his trauma didn’t happened exactly. Cause he doesn’t remember it. along with that, i will also be working heavily on the story now that i’ve got a good grip of how to reintroduce certain characters, i was thinking of doing a full on reset, like- show you all how things were in the studios when henry arrived, but- that is bullshit. i love these characters and i don’t wish for them to relieve the horror they had all endured, esp alpha. plus- it would be a pain in the ass for me to draw LOL so! in order to make up for a lot of stuff that needs answering, i will be heavily working on the AU along with focusing on the blog, and overall just being chill. and also! i have been more active on a new blog i’ve made for a server about an AU! here it is! @the-horror-show an au i created with friends! based off of everymanhybrid, tribe twelve (an more Au version of that) and MLAndersen0, it’s kinda an unofficial continutation of them all, but in the universe of Bendy and the ink machine! along with having it’s own set of trials (which are basically death games/social experiments made for your characters and such is the gist of it, to forge a new you and forget the old) and overall, the server is pretty chill and chaotic, but for now the blog will have to settle, if any of you are interested hit me up. otherwise! back to more important stuff i will try to get into a weekly upload as much as i can, depending on how active the inbox is, and how i feel. i desperately want to reveal certain stuff about how my characters can do the things that they do (transforming without the use of ink, using higher powerful attacks that despite being demons, normally couldn’t access) and overall WHY the world is so fucked up in prowler’s AU right now. but well-  yeah- that’s just me though, i am glad to be back and not a moment too soon, 2022 is ending, and 2023 is coming around, i hope that i can be active enough this time, but. who knows right? anyways. that’s all i have to say! expect some big changes to come around! oh and i also made another blog, based on another au i made, which is pretty much an crossover between batim/batdr and stranger things, @inkier-things-au but that is about it! oh and to those who have waited patiently! don’t fret! things will get a lot more interesting from here on out. so. let’s give this another shot, shall we? the studios and the lodge shall open it’s doors for you... but only you can ask the right, or wrong questions to progress it. how will you all fair i wonder? :) welp! only one way to find out! let’s begin!

[The False King Must Be Killed]

[koselz]

So, I'm just here to talk a little more about the blog just to remind myself of what I'm gonna post about here.

I'm gonna try to makes these posts simple, I'm just gonna write my little heart out. No correcting, no revisions, raw stuff. If my heart writes just a little that day, done. If it writes a lot, done.

I'm gonna post my feelings, and also stupid stuff I always think about but I can never share with anyone because no one would be interested about. In here, I can actually overanalyze EVERYTHING and write massive stuff about little things. No judgement. It's fun.

Anyway. That's it, raw emotion, raw words. I'm not gonna re-read the text. Not gonna re-organize it. I'm just writing them and posting them. Not in a schedule either, whenever I feel like writing I will. This is freeing.

Also Nameless Character is now named Dendy because my friend said she was a knock-off Bendy from Bendy and the Ink Machine.

[hall0wedwyrm]

hello im talking about Void Crew again.

This time I wanna talk about some of the dynamics between the characters heehoo. I think that theres such a range of characters that theres lots of different opportunities for things. We got some silly ones, some nice ones... and of course we got some angst lmao

Hero and Bendy are very much 'The calm and serious one who becomes incredibly unhinged around the one who causes the chaos.' They often get into shenanigans, and someone (mostly Gaster or Monika) would say "Hero...? I thought you were the sensible one???" they have been caught having midnight snacks together, especially when Natsuki makes cupcakes. Sometimes Jevil joins them, and makes everything a little bit more violent. (also Bendy and Jevil hiss at each other I dont make the rules) (they do the cat arch thing too-)

Shadow and Spamton have some... odd understanding of each other. They both know that they had a rough past with a scientist, who sort of used them for their own purposes (Gerald's Revenge and Gaster's experiments or whatever he's doing). They both agree that if they get betrayed by a scientist again, theyre gonna destroy together... as a joke... obviously.

Hero and Shadow... all I can think of is "I dont talk to anyone UNDER the average national height." and Shadow responds "I don't talk to anyone OVER IT." They understand each other on the level of 'we kind of deal with the same issues... you wanna team up?' The Ultimate Lifeform and a God teaming up? two very powerful beings? I love it.

Now... for some angst. Sayori really reminds Shadow of Maria. Her unbridled kindness and care for everyone, the way she lights up a room when she arrives. She barely knew anything about Shadow before she offered to help them. Shadow was a little weirded out by it at first, but they eventually got used to it and found it comforting when they would get overwhelmed.

Hero, Natsuki and Yuri. He reads the books that Yuri and Natsuki like, so that he can learn about their interests. Hes genuinely interested in what other people like and wants to know. He even reads some of Monika's poetry that she still makes. Sayori also does this, so sometimes they both enjoy reading together :)

and to wrap up this (longer than I thought) post: Gaster and Hero. They've known each other the longest. "It feels like I've known you forever," kind of vibe. They very much read each other; they immediately notice if the other is acting off, and basically pester the other to tell them whats going on. They argue like a married couple, but they always work it out in the end, and come to a conclusion. They also do the smart-people talk thats mainly about a lot of sciencey things that Gaster likes. (Hero only really knows about this stuff because of Gaster telling him.)

anyway maybe I'll do art for them. who knows. maybe I'll do some lore next actually

[cats-and-cobras]

so I haven’t been on tumblr for a while hhhehehehehhh

basically, I don’t have batdr yet, so no more bendy posts. school is over so no motivation to draw. mostly I’ve been watching netflix over break. I’m also waiting to see if I can get bendy for free from my family tomorrow for christmas, because why buy something for yourself close to Christmas when you can slap it on a wishlist and get it from a relative you’ve never even heard the name of that lives in the middle of nowhere

completely unrelated but transformers is a thing and I’m probably gonna rb some stuff about that (if I even go on tumblr) anyway bye

[pluckyredhead]

There are a lot posts on here about the trope of “everyone knows that hero’s secret identity but they’re pretending not to,” and everyone can have their own head canon, but mine are correct. So here is the definitive list of which DC franchises should have actually functional secret identities and which ones shouldn’t:

Superfamily: What didn’t Bendis ruin? Superman’s secret identity should be the most ironclad one in the DCU, or possibly tied with Batman’s. “This guy puts on glasses and somehow it works???” is FOUNDATIONAL to the very nature of the genre. The best episodes of both Superman: The Animated Series and Lois and Clark are about how crucial the secret identity is to Clark living a full life. You can’t be Superman and publicly accessible at all times, and also, it ruins the fun. Only two people should ever figure out Superman’s secret identity, and they should be Lois, who calls him on it, and (much later) Jimmy, who doesn’t, because as long as Clark and Superman are two different people he’s gonna keep getting two different birthday presents every year. Jon and Kara’s IDs should be equally airtight. Kon’s is terrible but no one figures it out because Jacket Superboy is such a ham that no one believes he could maintain a secret identity for more than 30 seconds before revealing it in an attempt to get a date or score a free Zesti. (The world knows the boys as Jacket Superboy and Baby Superboy. I don’t care how old Jon is.)

Batfamily: ALSO AIRTIGHT. The only people who should ever be able to figure out Batman’s secret identity are Ra’s al Ghul, Bane, and Tim Drake, three equally weirdo stalkers. No, the Joker doesn’t know. No, the working girls from Jason’s old neighborhood didn’t figure it out because the Red Hood is nice to them. Yes, Matches Malone and Alvin Draper are highly convincing personas. IT DOESN’T WORK IF IT ISN’T AIRTIGHT. I DON’T CARE IF THE BUTTS MATCH.

Wonder Family: Only Cassie even bothers, and she doesn’t have the wig or goggles anymore, so...yeah, everyone at the Elias School knows she’s Wonder Girl. It’s fine. They think it’s cool.

Flash Family: SIGH. Speaking of people who ruin everything, Geoff Johns. Let’s go back to when Wally had no secret identity and was absolutely basking in the attention 24/7. Jay doesn’t even wear a mask! I will permit inexplicable secret identities for Bart and Wallace so that they can go to school. And hell, you know what, let’s say Barry isn’t even trying to maintain a secret identity but no one notices because they assume there’s no way a man that milquetoast could be the Flash, that would be funny.

Green Lanterns: John and Guy have never had secret identities. Does Hal? Does he really? Kyle is the opposite of Barry, where he truly believes he has a functioning secret identity even though he publicly hangs out with the other GLs all the time and leaves Earth for months at a stretch and wears a costume so tight anyone who has ever seen him naked is like “Oh hey, it’s Kyle!” I will allow Simon and Jess to retain their secret IDs for now because Simon wears a mask and Jess never leaves the house and they have, um, families to protect and stuff, which the older four don’t really anymore. (Are Hal’s brothers in continuity anymore? I can’t remember.)

Arrowfamily: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The best part is that they really think they have secret identities. Bless all of their beautiful, equally stupid hearts.

Aquafamily: They don’t actually have any (except that on occasion Arthur has gone by “C. King” or “Mr. Waterman” on land, which is FUCKING HILARIOUS), but there is an arc where Arthur grew a beard and everyone in Atlantis was like “Wow, who’s that?” HE WAS THEIR RECENTLY DEPOSED KING! WITH A BEARD! STILL WEARING THE AQUAMN COSTUME! AND THEY HAD NO IDEA!!! Anyway I therefore propose that humans can see through any Aquafam disguise instantly no matter how good it is but Atlanteans are inexplicably fooled by the flimsiest of fake mustaches and eyepatches. Garth came home with a slight Scottish accent after boarding school and no one recognized him for three months.

Boostle Family (THIS IS A THING, SHUT UP): Booster doesn’t have one. Jaime’s is flawless. Ted truly thinks his works even though he is publicly married to best friends with Booster. I love them.

[nrrrdgrrrl2002]

Time to dump my Tmnt 2012 anthology au series, “The Horror Of It All” because knowing me, it’ll be a while before I write cohesive series for these and I don’t want people to be mega confused when I dump a random one shot for any of these

starting with the one, the only, Five Nights At Freddy’s!!

This specific au is called “ Five Nights At Leos“ to not give away too much of any of these aus, I’ll simply be giving character lists for now

( the main man) Freddy- Leonardo

( the one always associated with a••hole older brothers) Foxy- Raphael ( my favorite turtle)

( the one who gets unjustly uwued the most) Bonnie- Donatello ( or murdertello if you prefer)

( why is she the only og kid we ever get to see?!) Chica- Mikey ( is also unjustly uwued)

( this motherf••ker) Golden Freddy- April ( this girl deserves better)

( the absolute best character in fnaf) the puppet- Casey ( the absolute best character in 2012)

( let this man rest!) Michael Afton- Middy ( a 2012 oc of mine ( you’ll hear about her a lot))

( why won’t this f••ker stay dead?!) Springtrap- Splinter ( again. Will you stay dead?!)

Next up, my absolute favorite indie horror game that makes me unfairly salty with the actual route it went, Bendy And The Ink Machine!!

This here au is called “ Casey And The Ink Machine” ( take a guess who’s bendy in this) I’ve actually posted art for this one, but here’s a character list anyways!

( should’ve been the real bendy) The Ink Demon/ Bendy- Casey ( if you know me, this isn’t a surprise)

( he deserved better 😭) Boris ( more specifically, Buddy Boris)- Donnie ( oh, I’m about to put this boi through hell)

( cool, but could’ve been better) Alice ( specifically, Susie Alice)- April ( this girl gets too much hate, I swear)

(Note about these 3; they’re all the actual cartoon characters brought to life, not people possessed by weirdly choosy ink)

( why did this guy have a voice if it wasn’t to question s••t?) Henry Stein- Raph ( raph is canonically an artist. I swear this choice makes sense)

( probably one of the coolest batim characters) Sammy Lawrence- Mikey (… this ones really hard to explain)

( this b••tard should not have gotten away with no consequences, I swear to god..) Joey Drew- Leo ( because Leo’s my least favorite of the main 6, so I’m gonna keep making him an a••hole)

bonus for dark revival; Middy as Audrey!

And last but definitely not least, probably one of the best indie horror games, Doki Doki Literature Club!!

I swear this isn’t a joke. This one is a little more…. Loose with the canon, so some au clarification will probably be required

( best horror antagonist) Monika- Leo ( see what I mean)

*technically* Sayori-Mikey ( his story follows fairly close to sayoris)

*technically*Yuri- Donnie ( isn’t as crytic nor nasty, just very obsessive)

*technically* Natsuki- Raph ( is still technically a tsundere, but thats all he really shares with Natsuki)

( april and Casey are other love/ friend options with some of Natsuki and yuris traits utilized)

April ( an “ intuitive“ girl who gets more crytic as the game goes on)

Casey( a reckless guy who secretly has an abusive household like Natsuki)

The Main Character- Middy ( middy in the “ real world“, midnight in the game)

there may also be crossover stuff with these and my slightly rewritten ver of canon Tmnt 2012

Thats all for now, folks! Y’all got question, I’ll answer to the best of my ability! Hope you enjoyed, and have a lovely day!

[inkdemonapologist]

[BatIM Call of Cthulhu Masterpost]

WE STARTED.... A NEW SCENARIO..... as you may have read in Boo’s summary post, for some unknown reason aLL MUSICAL AND PERFORMANCE ABILITY SEEMS TO BE??? GONE??? Sammy woke up, realised he couldn’t hold even the simplest tune in his head, and immediately lost THIRTY-ONE SANITY in one hit

..... YOU KNOW THAT MAKES SENSE HONESTLY

 anyway i have a some out-of-context quotes from the game for u all under the readmore if ur into that kinda thing!!!

[Sammy is played by me, Joey is played by Boo (inkyvendingmachine), Henry is played by Maf (inkcryptid), Jack is played by Mochi (whatyouwantedmetosee) and Thren (haunted-hijinxer) is our GM!]

[GM] It's a tough voice to do, so you can't be as choosy, and your resident Bendy cannot act to save his life, so that's no good-- [Joey] Uh-oh. [Jack] Sorry, Lurks. [Joey] I'm just so worried he's going to have to act now... [Jack] Clearly, he should've used the time between scenarios to train that! [GM] Yeah, that's just what everybody wants I'm sure, is the Lurker training in LYING. That sounds like a great idea!

[GM] *asking for dice rolls to see how well our actual jobs are going* We can do a little bit of mundanity to, to treasure, and keep you warm later!

[Henry] Should I spend Luck points on this? No, I'm not spending Luck on work. [Sammy] That's a good general life policy

[Jack] Does Jack have any contacts? [Joey] No, he has glasses! :D [Jack] noooo that's my job! It's my job to make Jack's puns! ....Contacts probably didn't exist in the 1930s, that's okay. [Sammy] No, don't say that! Boo's going to have to look it up now!

[GM] What spell is Joey working on? [Jack] (Spell of Make Investor Like You)

[Joey] I think he probably has filing cabinets specifically to put occult stuff in and lock. And then the rest of his office is just piles and tables of animation stuff that you're like "...shouldn't this??? be??? in the filing cabinet???"

[GM] Allison remarks, "The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power of our minds, which hardly any later friend can obtain." [Sammy] Y'know, normal, just nORMAL CASUAL CHATTER, [GM] Tom, working on the pipe, just kinda mutters, "I enjoy friends, dear not only by habit and association, but from their own merits." And she gives him a look! [Jack] ...love at first whATEVER THIS IS,

[Sammy] ...Sammy's not amused. [GM] The band's amused! [Jack] Jack is probably amused.

[GM] So far things are going very well, but y'know, [Jack] Only so long until we crit fail something! [Sammy] NEVER TOO LATE TO MESS IT UP!

[GM] Allison's vibe is like, I Didn't Study This Exactly, But I Was Hoping It Could Just Work Out! [Jack] ...She has a lot of practice at just... making things work out, huh.... 

[GM] Is there anything else Joey would try to show off? [Joey] Tries to think... what else is at the Studio... [Jack] "Do you wanna talk to our janitor? He's really cool!"

[Joey] I roll to see if Joey can put two brain cells together,

[Jack] I have to appreciate that Bendy said he didn’t have the keys today. He’s been stealing them before, but THIS TIME isn’t his doing!

[Sammy] If there’s anything he needs to do himself, then he’ll come in early, but I don’t know what state we’re in -- [Joey] Uh, New York. [Sammy] ...what? [Joey] You didn’t know what state we’re in. :) [Sammy] [Sammy] thanks

[Joey] Oh Joey’s absolutely coming in early. Joey woke up, and felt great, so he’s going to menace every other department today, because he has the energy to get his fingers into everything! [Sammy] *distressed sounds in the background*

[Sammy] Hey how come when we did a Halloween cartoon, we all went to Haiti, but we’re doing a cartoon about a fair and we’re not going to a fair? [Jack] [Jack] I think we all know why.

*trying to decide who goes to Joey’s fancy dinner with an investor* [Sammy] I don’t know if Sammy will help you... [Sammy] Unless you bring Sammy and put him on a piano, like a small child that needs to be immediately handed crayons.

[Joey] Joey will say that they’re essentially the second hands in each of the departments-- [Jack] Yeah, Abby, the second hand… entire Art Department director, [GM] Uh-huh. [Joey] She… she knows,, [GM] Joey, [Joey] She knows that Joey… is … Big Gay for Henry,,, [GM] This is true, but I think she likes nominal acknowledgement that she holds a position, [Jack] He can just say that they’re high-ranking, and not-- [Joey] No I rolled badly, Joey’s going to say that Sammy and Henry are busy, so he brought his second-best! :) [GM] Abby is massaging her temples. [Joey] Sorry, Abby. He is,, an idiot,,, [GM] I think she’d be a lot more bothered if she couldn’t go and commiserate with Henry about it. Like, “why can’t he keep it straight?” [GM] ……………….well. She knows why he can’t keep it straight.

[GM] It’s about midnight, and something... strange.... happens. The trumpet player, who is leading the band -- [Joey] -- has a trumpet for a head! [GM] what no

*Joey succeeds a sanity check, Jack fails it* [GM] Joey, roll 1d10! [Joey] Uh, 3? [GM] Okay, you’re only down three sanity, that’s not so bad! [GM] Jack, roll 6d10! [Jack] what? [Joey] Six??? SIX d10s????? [GM] Yeah! [Joey] nICE KNOWING YOU, JACK!!! It’s time for Sillytime Jack.

[Jack] Smash cut to Henry, curled up in bed, nice and cozy,

[GM] I will also note, you cannot seem to Fast Talk. [Joey] ...what else can I do? [GM] Just normal talk. Like a normal person.

[Jack] I feel like Jack probably has a hunch that it’s weird nightmarish horror nonsense, on account of he just lost nineteen sanity,

[GM] Abby’s gonna try to take him to the hospital. [Jack] Jack’s just going to let that happen, because he’s shaken enough that he doesn’t have any significantly better ideas! Other than AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA,

[Sammy] *rolling sanity damage* 9… 9, stop that…. 4, [Jack] You’ve already lost more than Jack! [Sammy] 2, ...6, and 1! [Joey] That’s 31. [GM] Okay, Sammy has six sanity! [Sammy] eXCUSE ME?????

[Joey] Joey does want to head home… what day is it? [GM] Friday, the 13th! [Jack] HM, [Sammy] I GUESS IT IS, ISN’T IT… I wasn’t keeping track, but I guess it sure is! [GM] A delightful treat for myself, when I was looking up days in July, in 1934, [Sammy] WAIT, NO, ITS ACTUALLY A COINCIDENCE? Oh my gosh, [Jack] Because Friday the 13th wouldn’t even be a spooky day at this point in time! [GM] It is now! [Jack] It’s spooky, but just for us!

[Sammy] Sammy would try to call Jack, he’d try to call Joey, he’d try to call Henry -- probably several times, [Henry] sammy gets jack’s cat [Henry] phone is answered with meows [Jack] That does seem fitting for a really bad luck roll; the phone gets answered, and Sammy’s really relieved -- and it’s just the cat. [Sammy] Sammy, at 6 sanity: “jack’s tuRNED INTO A CAT,”

[Joey] The phone kept on ringing, so the cat just batted it off the cradle, [Jack] I feel like Jack probably doesn’t usually get a significant number of calls, so like, this many calls in a row is just obnoxious! [Jack] Cat’s having none of it. [Jack] Phone ring isn’t breakfast! [Jack] Where is the soft provider of food.

[GM] Oh no, you know what’s going to happen? Henry’s gonna get through to Jack, and then when Sammy calls it’s busy! [Sammy] cALLS JACK IT’S BUSY, CALLS HENRY IT’S BUSY, [Jack] I was gonna say maybe Henry would call Sammy first, because Sammy was one of the original three. [Jack] …Henry calls Sammy, Sammy is busy because SAMMY is trying to call someone, and then Henry calls Jack, and Sammy tries to call Jack again-- [Sammy] *laughing* THE HORROR, The deep, bone-chilling horror of A TIME BEFORE CALL-WAITING!!

[Henry] Is Joey there? [Jack] Yeah. [Henry] Are you guys alright? [Jack] ……………….hm,

[Jack] Cat is just sat on Joey, purring. Something is wrong with the human. Purr to fix the human.

[Henry] I called Sammy to make sure he’s okay, but-- [Abby] Was he? [Henry] No.

[Joey] Joey is going to be… obstinate feels like the wrong word? [Joey] He’s being the cat where you put the leash on, and the cat just sits down. [Joey] That is the Joseph mood right now.

[Sammy] *muttering* First one boyfriend turns into a cat, now the other boyfriend’s voice is wrong, today is terrible,

[Joey] This is Joey’s everything. [Sammy] That’s Joey’s contribution to the party! That’s like, your bard can no longer play music. [Sammy] ……….which is also true, but Sammy contributes other things. [Jack] Like Intimidate! [Sammy] Right now he contributes paranoia!

[inkyvendingmachine]

Henry: “Wait, does this mean Joey is an eldritch horror now? Does Henry have to unward all the doors for Joey to get around the studio?”  Lore Master: “I feel like if he was infused with the stone, he’d maybe register on that scale, but instead it’s more like he poured a bunch of himself into the stone…” Joey: “Yeah, I think Joey just lost stuff to the stone. He actually hasn’t really gained… Anything?? If he DID gain anything, I think he’d be more okay with it happening now, but because all that happened was Joey became weak--” Jack: “Joey doesn’t count as an eldritch horror, but the rock now classes as a human.”

Warning: This campaign is an edited version of Call of Cthulhu: Tell Me, Have You Seen The Yellow Sign? scenario. While a lot has been changed, there IS spoilers for it throughout these posts.

🌙 Call of Cthulhu Season Two Masterpost 🌙 💀 Call of Cthulhu: Haunted Hijinx Masterpost 💀

Here we finally are. Epilogue time. “Not much happens in this episode” I said and then proceeded to write like.... 9 times more than I meant to.  SO WELL HERE IT IS. THIS IS ACTUALLY CUT DOWN SOME I RUSHED THE ENDING;;;;

Jack and Grace have a short talk before she hands off the first aid kit and then goes to talk with her daughter more about things that transpired. In private. Jack does take a quick detour to find where Norman is, mostly to make sure he didn’t end up as a monster, or in carcosa, or dead. Indeed, Norman spots Jack right away and is, for the most part, fine. Apparently himself and most everyone there has minimal retention of the events which is… probably for the best.

Jack returns to the room and tries to patch up the hurt members of the party, including Joey who is still unconscious. He’s somewhat successful, but there’s some things he can’t slap a bandage on, like Henry’s lack of strength. Meanwhile, Prophet is pacing around, trying to insist from nobody in particular an answer to what he’s supposed to do now, Bendy himself chasing behind him and offering “poisoned” suggestions based off his time in the studio. Eventually Prophet steps out into the house to see if he can find any leftover ink at all, though nothing makes sense in this place now and his mind is fading… Jack ends up following Prophet, just to make sure he doesn’t get into trouble, or get Sammy into trouble, but he seems to just be… walking around without purpose. When a supportive gesture is offered by Jack, Prophet tells him not to trust the others, especially not Joey… Which uh. He will keep that in mind (he’s gonna trust them and there’s nothing you can do about it bucko,)

Jack finds a bench for them to sit on and soon Prophet ends up passing out, leaning on Jack. Knowing that Bendy is with them and that… well, neither Henry, Joey nor Pete will be going anywhere any time soon, Jack decides to stay with Sam until he wakes up.

Joey has at least woken up now, though makes absolutely no attempt to move in the slightest. Instead he just lays there, stewing in realization of what he did while out of his mind… This result wasn’t his plan, and it wasn’t what he would have chosen if he… could. But somehow he ended up here anyways, and while things are not the worst they could be…. Coming to terms with his own mortality? Isn’t a thing Joey is used to doing. Or comfortable with doing, either, frankly. 

Bendy checks in on Henry to make sure he’s not dead… when Henry confirms he is alive yet still unable to move and do things as simple as pat Bendy’s head, Bendy does the service of ruffling Henry’s hair instead. Joey finally manages to speak up, and asks where Sammy is, since, last he was aware, Prophet wasn’t doing too well  or making the best decisions. Once told that he was with Jack, Joey gives a quick ‘thank you’ and falls silent again.

After some prodding from Bendy though, he does get a bit chatty.

“Is it over?”

“I don’t know,” Henry replies.

“At least the doors are working, like doors,” Bendy also replies.

“Aw, I was just getting used to the last ones. Kind of fun, being able to just walk into the room you’re thinking about going to at a whim.”

Sammy wakes up, and immediately flinches his face behind his hands when he realizes where he is, feeling for Ink in the area and… finding none. Jack starts to assure him about the current state of things, helping him up and guiding him back to the room they left the others in… but also informing him that there is a lot to catch up on.

Upon entering the room and seeing that the Lurker is Himself and Only himself and looking fine, Sammy perks up some. Though Bendy immediately declares that Joey did something really dumb, which isn’t surprising. Joey is still simply laying on his back on the floor, having made no move to change position post gaining consciousness. 

Jack takes this time when Prophet isn’t running around in Sammy’s injured body to patch up his arm, and also tends to Peter’s broken leg with a splint. How refreshing to tend to a wound that’s not caused by some weird magic or eldritch creature. 

Sammy does go over to Joey  and demands to know what he did, to which Joey simply replies, “I did what Bendy said, a stupid decision. I re-aligned the stone to myself.”

Sammy blinks at him for a moment, before asking “What the hell does that even mean?”

At which point Joey’s eyes actually snap open and stare at him as he very starkly declares, “I don’t know! I don’t know what I was thinking… I thought I could save you-- and everyone…”

There’s a beat before Sammy mumbles “You idiot,” then kneels down and hugs him.

Checking in with Henry, Sammy tries a new approach since “what happened” seems too complicated of a question, and asks instead, “is there anything I should know.”

Henry manages a “probably?” and Bendy ACTUALLY helps out and fills in, “he can’t move.” There it is.

Fowler’s wife finally wanders back in the room, and has a moment of reconsidering her decision before going forwards with it and bringing up that there is still an entire house of party guests getting their heads back in order and trying to figure out what’s going on… or where the party went. On top of that, Grace and kid both have been… presumably dead?? For the last few years? So it’s not gonna be great for her to wander around and send people home. 

Joey says he’ll deal with it, though ends up needing Sammy’s help to get around due to being so weak. A lot of it is done just through Boss Voice and cutting down anyone who dares talk back to him. Jack stays back with Henry, though let’s Sammy and Joey know where Norman was last seen. Joey is also violently tearing down any and all decorations he can get to as he goes by them. Eventually they find Norman just sitting on a bench out back, where Jack had mentioned. Joey informs him that he will vouch for Norman if he wants to stick around, but otherwise, now is a great time to be leaving. Trenchcoat says he’ll rest there for a bit if it’s okay and, if y’all need a ride, you know where he’s at.

While continuing to throw people out, a woman with horns shows up behind Joey at taps him on the shoulder-- Oh wait, it’s just Allison with a bow in her hair. She’s also got a bag of plenty of stolen magical looking notes and what not, at least on the surface. There also seems to be some… leaking packages? Maybe don’t wanna know what’s in that bag actually.  She asks to speak with Joey alone, which while both Joey and Sammy are squinty about this, curiosity about her findings overrides logical worry at this point. Joey agrees, though gives Sammy a look of ‘don’t stray far,’ before following her into a small side room. 

Of course she asks him about his less than good condition, which Joey ends up answering technically honestly; he removed the yellow king from the stone, and sometimes things have prices. She smiles and says With the house cleared out, the boys head back upstairs. Grace has a private doctor on the way to look at some of the injuries and determine if a hospital is needed, since they’d all rather skip that if they could. Joey tries to ask Grace about Fowler, but she’s not quite comfortable about repeating her husband’s final words right in front of their daughter. That said, Estelle does remind Joey that she was promised that she could break the scepter. Joey says he will make sure she can do so, but first he just wants to see if there’s anything else they need it for, going off with help to check the rooms that the cultists had populated during all of this. Most who remained seem to be lackeys, who are happy to scram when given the chance, and none of the major players, or the snake, seem to be around anymore. Most notes are also missing, probably grabbed by Alison. 

Though now that they found the guest rooms have actual beds, Sammy moves Henry and Peter into there. Henry attempts to be not just dead weight, though ends up wiggling enough that it just makes it harder for Sammy to carry him with the hurt arm. Jack does inform Sammy about what happened with Peter, and a plan is made to go check out in the swamp when they can since, if Pete was able to get back on his own he should have been able to by now.

Meanwhile, Bendy and Henry actually get to catch up some, including more moments of Henry attempting to do his normal comforting gestures and Bendy going to give hugs in return to make up for it, which Henry actually manages to find the strength to return.

Joey has poured over any remaining notes he can, found nothing helpful or useful about the staff, but is at least rather sure that no harm will come of breaking it. They also check it one more time in the  projector, only seeing into the city… While maybe that’s a way to get Fowler back, who knows what else they could bring into the world, and nobody is prepared for that anyways. Joey invites Estelle over and asks her if she wants to throw it off the balcony with him and watch it burst into a million pieces on the floor below. She thinks that’s a great idea and they wander off to do that.

Grace takes this time to chat with the others, and get filled in on what all… actually happened, from an outside perspective. Unfortunately, Henry has passed out, and Jack and Sammy don’t really have full pictures of the circumstances, but they try their best. When Grace asks if they think Fowler can make it out of Carcosa, they bring up that some have been pulled out through the lake, but that was a different set up and they’re not sure if it’s possible for Fowler? But… they can try. Grace thanks them and leaves to go get the doctor from downstairs who has knocked on the door, and while there’s a moment, Sammy lets Bendy and Jack know that maybe he shouldn’t be talking to people… because most of the information he gave to Grace might have come out in a manic ramble instead of a crafted explanation. 

Estelle and Joey find a place they can throw it and watch it break, and after Estelle does the first toss, tells Joey he should go check and make sure it’s nice and broken. Joey gets a high five from her first before telling her she needs to stick around because if there’s any large pieces left, she should throw them again. Though Joey really shouldn’t be getting this much exercise right now, and while he’s pretending to be perfectly fine in the child's presence, he does end up needing to lean in on the wall and breathe heavily during his entire trip down and back up the stairs. The first trip he manages to make it back with some more chunks of crystal for her to toss, but on the second trip he ends up needing to sit down at the bottom of the stairs, unable to recover enough to climb them. Estelle does show up when Joey takes too long, and attempts to help him up the stairs… and while normally he’d be fussy about such a thing being done for him, he lets it happen with her.

While they hang out on the balcony and toss pieces of crystal on the floor below, Joey asks Estelle about her time in carcosa, which she’s rather excited to actually get to express her emotions (mostly anger at Doc Moonlight, which Joey is so on board with) about it all. Joey does start telling her about how he did punch Moonlight square in the face once, as well as continue to weave a more child friendly story of how their group repeatedly foiled Moonlights plans and beat him up, easily edging into more of a cartoon version of it all. 

Estelle asks if he has a real Bendy. Joey pulls a, “don’t you know who I am?” before introducing himself as the creator of the Bendy cartoons, though also letting her know it’s our company secret, so now he is trusting in her to keep it too!

The doctor is lead to Henry first, and declares that he has extreme blood loss and really should get a transfusion at a hospital. Grace is willing to lend a car, after everything these boys have done for them, she can at least give that up, so the only question now is who is driving, and also staying with Henry in case his blood starts glowing he can get out of there asap. 

The decision is put on Sammy, since he is the one person able to actually heft Henry around. Jack and Joey head out to the swamp (though Joey immediately passes out while going through the door, because he still doesn't think magic can hurt him) with Peter’s body, and Peter is able to actually get back inside his physical self, immediately hugging Jack once he does. He was indeed unable to go thru the door on his own. Norman’s already out here trying to get Avadon out of the hut he’s trapped in, which Bendy helps with. Also grab Avadon I guess. I think. Also they check the lake and… yeah, no Fowler. Anyways. They get back and Norman drives Peter back to his home, as well as Joey and Jack back to the hotel. Sammy has a terrible time driving Henry to the hospital, and ends up staying up all night during the transfusion to make sure nothing goes wrong, but does get them both back to the hotel come morning, and passes out in… the same bed Joey and Jack are sleeping in together now, after putting Henry in his own bed and seeing that Bendy has made a pillow nest on the bed Jack was using prior.

From here, a lot of things go quickly yet slowly. The rest of the vacation is spent more like a vacation, resting up, as Joey refuses to head home until he is able to move around on his own. A lot of cuddling and physical contact happens between all the boys as they try to recover from the traumas they faced, though Joey is a bit cautious of getting too close to Henry until he knows it’s safe to do so again. (safe as in, he’s not going to pushy the Henry into never being at his side again by being too… pushy.) Some study in attempts to bring back Fowler happen, but it becomes clear quite quickly that there’s not much to be done. Jack catches up with Peter again, who is recovering and finding ways to cover all this up. There’s some time where the music boys get to enjoy the sounds of the city, Henry gets to check in with the Fowler Family and his own… And then they all get on a train and head back home, not really being able to do much more than that.

After all, they’re just an animation studio, and someone needs to get back to making these stupid cartoons.

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Rec list for Eddie and Symby being vaguely to very gay?

I'm sorry for coming to you with my monsterfucker agenda 😔👊 (no I'm not)

i mean, i probably could’ve seen this coming.

venom is dominated by two opposing narratives. let’s call this the “relationship narrative” and the “control narrative”. they’re not perfectly separated, like, you’ll definitely get elements of one in the other, but generally one of them describes what the story, at its core, is using the symbiote for.

now comics are an endless tug-of-war at the best of times, much less the gayest and slimiest of times. there’s a neverending backlash and backbacklash going on between these two takes. what you want is the relationship narrative.

everything very much started out with that take. eddie and the symbiote are two characters who forge an evil alliance because it lets them do what they wanna do (kill spider-man, more or less) and they have the same kinds of neuroses and complexes and syndromes. lots of early comics are also very fun about the merged consciousness, merged identity deal. that’s kind of the textbook relationship stuff.

personally i absolutely think the original stories (venom was created by david michelinie) have romantic undertones, even starting in the villainy days. eddie describes their first meeting as “a shadow moved, caressed me.” he takes the rejection of the symbiote still being “in love with” spider-man really hard. he sobs his eyes out when he thinks it’s dead and promises to avenge it bare-handed. they totally expect to live happily ever after on a deserted island together.

then there’s venom: lethal protector, which is cute on its own, but if you’re reading for slime romance, i very specifically recommend the novelisation. i won’t even spoil it. and then, planet of the symbiotes is the first comic that i would say has outright queer themes, intentional or not.

so all those recs until now are collected in this post.

we're trucking along through the 90s, we explore elements of one take and then the other and sometimes we ignore the symbiote completely, but not too much changes, overall. the next BIG stop in Gay Venom is, of course, the hunger.

miniseries by len kaminski, just venom: the hunger. plenty of people have written their essays on it, but what’s always important to me is that it DID NOT come out of nowhere. as said above, it expanded on themes that were there, it references michelinie venom very explicitly, like you get your SECOND “tenderly touching the green glass tube” scene.

but yes this one is specifically about, like, stigmatisation, otherness, mental illness, meeting all those things with care and empathy and optimism, tentacle sex. again, many essays. a venom comic that can go “look at the twisted deviance of this relationship” and then turn it around into “but how are you looking at it” is good. god how good would it be if they also did that to eddie more. anyway.

a few years later you get the first MAJOR fucking backlash, culminating in the SECOND story titled the hunger. spectacular spider-man: the hunger, from 2003. completely reboots venom and retcons their motivations and backstories, makes very spiteful references to planet of the symbiotes and the hunger, like it is not also called that by sheer coincidence. literally starts out, in a comic that wants to tackle and redefine venom, with the line “the PROBLEM is that you guys are like an old married couple”. so the new status quo is that the symbiote only ever used eddie to be with spider-man, and eddie only ever used the symbiote to not die of cancer.

the “control narrative” that really kicks in here uses the symbiote as, you know, a thing to control, eddie’s demons personified or even a completely foreign force to torment him. if eddie is evil, it’s not because of what he thinks and believes and wants, it’s because he couldn’t control the symbiote and gave in to its inexplicable bloodlust.

this is an unambiguous downgrade in terms of complexity, in my humble opinion, completely fucks up eddie’s responsibility themes, and is also a pretty clearly petty reaction to venom’s absolute oversaturation in the nineties. the bitch was everywhere and most of it wasn’t good. so there was LOTS of “look at this creepy loser” content by writers cringing themselves into self-awareness at the time. the 00s were going to be GRITTY and MATURE.

this of course means that we get to see eddie slit his wrists and bleed to death on panel after selling the symbiote to supervillains as an attempted act of redemption???

wild fucking times! it’s not exactly worth recommending as ~shippy~, but the first real backbacklash to this first round of retcons comes from dan slott, who just kind of ignores it all in new ways to die. drags eddie back to the land of the living and relevant, makes the symbiote refuse to let its new host kill him, telling that host, and reestablishing, that it loves eddie. and then, to keep him living and relevant, slott makes eddie anti-venom.

don’t even worry about it. anti-venom is essentially eddie seeking redemption with symbiote powers, but without the symbiote, except he pretty much acts no fucking different at all, just keeps on being a murderous vigilante with cracked ideas about innocence and guilt. people still act like he’s better now because, in its metatextual ways, the hunger was right.

then fucking uuuuuuhhhhhhh. agent venom. symbiote goes to flash thompson and the us military, and the writer, rick remender, goes really, really, really hard on the control narrative. the symbiote becomes a substance flash is addicted to, gives a voice to his past abuse, it’s dark times all the times.

people very much do like that narrative for flash, like at least from that perspective it was worth it. i don’t like it much for the symbiote. for the symbiote, representing everything fucked up with flash and forcing him to murder kill bite all the time is resolved via the good guy avengers literally lobotomising it so flash can wear it without further resistance or input. imagine doing that to a human person. you’re uncooperative so we’re gonna turn off your higher cognitive functions and wear you like a meat suit. happy ending for everybody! truly we’ve conquered our demons this day.

then! at the same time, there’s a cartoon coming out, it’s called ultimate spider-man. THAT one does the control narrative take with harry osborn, but then does the relationship take with flash, making it the only cartoon to outright redeem the symbiote and let it find friendship and be valued as a person.

and people loved it! so brian michael bendis gets it in his head that he’s going to redeem the symbiote and make it partner up with flash. and he does redeem it by the highly fucking questionable means of having it be “cleansed”, aka brainwashed and relieved of its memories and personality. not that it matters for long. nothing fucking matters in comics. take this with you if it’s the only thing.

so then for fun friendship times you get venom: space knight, flash and the symbiote’s adventures in space! and then that gets cancelled. eddie is off somewhere being toxin and hunting carnage (2016). many good comics but you did not ask for them.

and THEN.

it is time for the next MOTHER of backlashes.

flash gets literally discarded at fucking roadside to put the symbiote back on eddie and turn back time on their relationship to RIGHT before the FIRST backlash happened. you know, all those 2003 retcons. gone. ignored. no more. venom’s themes are now those circa 1996 again. full fucking on relationship narrative. ROMANTIC relationship narrative, and that after the symbiote was turned into eddie’s evil shadow, after he hated it and spent a LONG time seeking to eradicate all symbiotes (and not even for the first time).

the COSTA run. venom (2016). reviled and beloved.

like this comic is fucking ANGRY about symbiote treatment. i HAD to tell you all of that so you’d understand ANYTHING it’s doing. the first thing it does is flip it completely around, puts the symbiote on a military guy who’s making IT do bad things, makes his ability to control it horrifying and abusive instead of heroic and admirable. one of the later things it does (in the follow-up venom: first host) is outright feature a villain who lobotomises symbiotes, ending on a symbiote serving him swift and sweet payback by doing the same thing TO HIM. it’s exactly as unsubtle as the hunger (2003) was about its hang-ups.

comics... are a conversation.

flash remains a symbiote friend but still got fucked over big time by it all, symbiote-focused writers slott and costa also kind of use him to literally, in case anybody hadn’t caught on, literally spell out the REAL story that’s been going on in the writer's room for the past THIRTY YEARS:

you’ll notice i didn’t actually list any of the Gay Shit for you, you’ve probably already seen it or you’ll get to see it for yourself. yes, they are deeply in love, yes, it’s fucked up and flawed, yes, it is real and taken seriously and has ultimately redeeming potential. yes the concept of that nearly knocked me off my feet and in front of the subway at one point. yes there’s mpreg

it’s also fucking riddled with events, which spin off into other comics, so either ignore those and rely on the recaps OR click yourself forward through the “next issue (story)” button on marvel wikia to know what to read.

and after that must of course come the backbackbacklash, as certain as death or taxes. in the next run, we retcon everything once more, eddie just needs to control his darkness, the symbiote was an evil abuser all along, nothing on earth is ever new.

i’m not gonna go through it, i’m just gonna point you to the backbackbackbacklash issue that came out during this time: venom annual volume 2 number 1 - it’s confusingly named, it’s the one that has a blue-skinned space lady on it. this one ignores the backbackbacklash going on very pointedly and goes “it’s not ABOUT control” again, it’s pretty explicitly romantic.

and then there’s also marvel comics presents (2019) #5, which, oddly enough, does not particularly feature the characterisation you’d typically see in the relationship narrative? but it does feature eddie and the symbiote literally fucking, so you’d want to know about it.

that’s the overall, like, frame of eddie and the symbiote being in a relationship (nuh uh) (yeah they are) (NUH UH) (YEAH THEY ARE)

some stuff that’s smaller but still notable, uh.

nova (1999) 6 - 7, that’s the “we’re space married”

venom: dark origin, that’s an ALTERNATE (!!!) take on the character, don’t expect a likeable eddie but it’s very darkly funny and gay so what can i say.

venom: the end, which i would absolutely fucking hate to be canon, i think its characterisation is quite regressive, but the symbiote sure is in love, i guess.

venom: separation anxiety, the dawn of the control narrative but eddie’s characterisation did not have to go so wrong from here, like if they’d just figured out AT THIS STAGE that he's STILL acting like venom without it... i digress. it has the symbiote going eddie eddie eddieee

venom: sinner takes all, this is the first she-venom comic so that’s. hm. interesting. healing symbiote blanket

don’t read venom: license to kill just look at this panel with me

if i think of more comics worth adding i’ll add them.

the subtext slash text is heavy enough to be present to some degree in literally every cartoon adaptation of eddie brock. spider-man: the animated series goes FULL control narrative, in fact it started the “the symbiote corrupted peter” take that we to this day cannot escape, but the first few venom episodes are VERY playful about their relationship.

in spectacular spider-man it’s canon, but horrible. eddie’s in love with it, but eddie's a good boy and the symbiote is played very, very, very abusively. i think this is an evil symbiote adaptation that works well enough, at least it’s an actual meaningful character instead of just a malevolent force to resist.

in marvel’s spider-man, the only venom episode worth watching is venom returns.

i’ve actually got every symbiote-relevant episode listed right here from when we did our communal watch-through.

also watch truth in journalism. idk if it’s exactly shippy just do it

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#5

my never ending search to acquire more and more obscure pieces of Pokemon media has lead me to understand some wild shit in gen 1 and 2. like anytime you think “oh that’s weird, why is [thing] like that” it’s probably either some obscure shit or something got changed in beta

for example, you know those weird-ass pokedex entries for Kadabra that are like “lol a kid turned into one of these once. no we’re not explaining anything”

well there’s this book in Japan called Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia released in 1996 that was never translated. It’s notable for basically being the Forbidden Adult Pokedex(TM) that we all want, as it has much longer ‘dex entries for each Pokemon along with more scientific data. While large portions have been retconned over the years, it offers some massive insight into what was going through the dev’s minds when writing this shit, and is 100% canon (for the time period it was written in).

anyway, while it was never translated, DidYouKnowGaming?, being the hero we all need, purchased a copy and had the same translator who translated the games themselves translate the book. Part 1 of the video is below, and I highly recommend you check it out if you like obscure vintage Pokemon shit.

Anyway, the point is that this is what it says about Kadabra:

FUCKING KAFKA. IN MY POKEMON. IT’S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU MIGHT THINK

So basically the ‘dex entries are referencing an in-universe book plot that’s a reference to The Metamorphosis, except due to a lack of space they fucking cut out the part about it being a book, which seems kind of important, but hey what do I know

(Side note: the ‘dex entries saying stuff like “it is rumored that” and “a theory exists” don’t quite line up with it being a book plot, so it’s possible this was retconned, or the book was based off an in-universe event. but this at least tells us why these weird-ass entries exist in the first place and that’s enough for me)

anyway the most important part of this is that the Abra line is confirmed to not be based on foxes, possums, or cats, but cockroaches. thank you for coming to my TED talk

3371 notes • Posted 2021-07-28 21:00:53 GMT

#4

Pokemon except it’s like real animal taxonomy so there’s like 550 different species of Cutiefly that can only be separated by DNA tests

4199 notes • Posted 2021-06-07 21:01:26 GMT

#3

okay was anyone gonnna tell me that this is how TMs look in FireRed/LeafGreen

can you imagine someone handing you a TM and you go “oh I know what to do with this!” and then smack it directly on your cat’s forehead

5516 notes • Posted 2021-09-30 21:01:43 GMT

#2

Can asexuals feel lust for life? What about bloodlust? Lust for power? Lust to run wild? Or does nothing have power over you?

I can't speak for other aces but personally I constantly experience bloodlust

8790 notes • Posted 2021-08-12 02:22:06 GMT

#1

I realize it’s just because they’re trying to introduce the audience to the concept of Pokemon and everything but nothing will ever be funnier to me than prof oak being like “these are creatures called Pokemon, they live in all sorts of environments!” like imagine if you met a biology professor and they were like ‘I’ve been studying these intriguing creatures called “animals”’

50822 notes • Posted 2021-04-30 21:00:53 GMT

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