#hdwgh tour

[silverfox66]

Good memories 🥹. I remember being really nervous going, because I was going alone. But everyone in the community was so nice and welcoming 😇

[hollenka99]

Whoo, I stay losing!

[hanmairead]

How has it been a year since I saw Sean on the HDWGH Tour in Manchester?

Really hope he tours again some day!

[pellmelproductions]

How Did We Get Here Tour Poster

Wool Wall Hanging

12 by 18 felt sheet was used for the base, with a RGB swirled yarn felted onto it.

I traced the shape of the original logo onto felt sheet and used that as the base for the overall shape.

The septic lights are made of decorative halloween spider webbing, colored over in green marker. Although not very bright, they do glow in the dark!

I’ve been working on this piece, in between and around other projects, since perhaps October or November. I couldn’t guess how many hours it took, and it’s very large compared to most things I do. I was intending for it to be mostly flat, but I admit I’m a sucker for the third dimension. I’ll probably see about framing it some way, I haven’t decided yet.

It’s just about a year since going to the show. While I was happy to see Seán and I enjoyed the act, I unfortunately can’t say the night as a whole was a good one for me. Some of it was due to my sensory issues, that I wasn’t handling the noise and crowd well at all, some of it was the long series of misadventures my sister and I had trying to get back home. Nothing that happened was really that bad, I don’t think, it just plucked all the wrong chords somehow.

The whole affair made the rest of 2018 quite hard- thinking about it would leave me in a pretty shit state mentally…frankly in tears, and I am not the crying type. It always incurred feelings of being overwhelmed, mute, lonely, distant, powerless and useless and without agency. This was perhaps more painful for being so close to something I love so much.

It’s taken a long while to figure out why and put words to it. I think overall I just ran face first into issues that I’ve always struggled with but never properly realized, and tangled with limitations that were more serious than I gave them credit for. I need to be okay with needing help to do certain things, to recognize what those things are, what that help should look like, and how to get it. I know at the least that I have an extremely close and supportive family that I should never feel bad about relying on.

Anyhow…I wasn’t able to get a poster while I was there, so now I have this thing I made.

[xakumi]

What the--

Since when did I have 1000 followers?

God- I.. I don't know what to say! Thank you guys so much!

I never thought I'd be on here this long. I've been on here for almost 5 years! It's kind of weird to think that I was on here before Anti even existed on the channel. It's even weirder to think about the fact I'll be 17 in less than 3 months.

I just want to thank you all for helping me get this far. I didn't think I'd even live to 15, and yet here I am, about to be 17.

To the JSE Community, you guys are like family to me. You are the most perfect family I could ever wish for. You guys are so inclusive and accepting, and you just have so much positivity it's amazing! I started drawing because of the artists in the community. You guys are the reason I draw and write, so thank you.

I remember going to the HDWGH Tour for my 15th birthday, and that was the best day of my life. The amount of positivity before, during, and after the show was amazing! I didn't know where everyone got their septic lights and felt left out, but I started talking with someone and they gave me theirs, which made my night honestly so much better. That was my first time cosplaying in public too, and I got compliments from a lot of people which did a lot for my self esteem.

@isa-ghost I look up to you a lot, and your art style is so unique! When you drew Bean and I, I actually cried. You inspired me to keep drawing, and I'm really glad we're friends.

@confusedbeansblog bitch ily!! Your art is amazing and I always look forward to seeing what you put in discord! (Also respond to dms you heck-)

@frostednebula You've improved so much in just a few months, and I'm so proud of you! Your art was great then, but it's somehow even better now! You make me laugh so hard in vcs that my stomach starts to hurt after, and I love it. You also make me want to fight you when you're cryptic, but I'll let that slide... for now. =^=

@basicflavortext Bro when we first met in the JDC, I immediately knew we'd get along great. You are like me, but more adultier. I love your sense of humor and ypu are really fun to play dbd with!

@divine-champion You already know why I'm tagging you. I love that whenever you play dbd we have to turn your volume down so much, because michael always ends up fucking you over. Those times are usually the highlight of my day, so thank you for shouting at the top of your lungs and calling myers a whore lmao

@deaths-presence I don't even have to say much here. All I have to say is two words and you'll know exactly what I mean.

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DUN DUN

@angelwings-234 Mika, your sense of humor is so cursed and I love it. You always make me laugh with those cursed as fuck images. And I never would've noticed that we have the same frames for our glasses which is really cool.

@bunchofdoodlesinspace CUP. YOUR. ART. IS. AMAZING. I LOVE YOUR ARTSTYLE AND ANIMATIONS. AAAAAA

@kgl-redacted You are like a mom to me and I love you. Also,,,, laughing fox.

@nebula-starlight Scribe I love you and your characters, but sometimes I really want to throw hands with you-

@marginmaster87 You are the pun master. I bow before thee.

@illyriashade56 bitchass

@ everyone else Thank you for sticking with me up until now, I really appreciate it and it means a lot to me. ❤

[celacestial]

HDWGH-Y’all knew it was coming 😆

So this week marks a year since the end of the HDWGH tour and the craziest, most fun and most wild 3 weeks I’ve had for a long ass time. All the friendships I made on tour and have developed since have been the BEST and have really helped me to get through the past year and I can’t thank Seán and all of you enough for that, and for this being the avenue to meet them 💚

Man, I know by this point he’d done the show in America like 40 times, but he grew in confidence with each show! The adaptation to each crowd and each country was awesome and seamless, good on you dude! My favourite parts were how he always referred to people chosen from the audience in gender neutral pronouns. How he tried to pronounce all the European names 😅 How the show is something...that you wouldn’t expect from him, but is also simultaneously exactly what you’d expect? Funny and lighthearted but also inspirational and deep, scripted but with enough leeway in the format to very much allow people to take their own message from the show 💚 It was a unique experience and thank you for giving us all the chance to find out more about not just you, but ourselves too (trying to be as spoiler free as possible lol)

The absolutely wild venues, and stunning culturally iconic places will stick with me for a long time. The different atmosphere each country and place bought with it was wonderful! You could even spot interesting cultural differences within countries, which was nuts. For example in Cologne, the crowd (at least in my view) was a lot more muted than Berlin? (Still fantastic though) There is no doubting that I learned and grew so much and came out of this a different person, as did he.

Was it dangerous? Yes. Should we have planned properly/better? Yes, probably. Am I sorry to our friends, to Seán and the crew for any additional worry? Yes, always. But would I change it? Not at all. It’s a lesson learned for next time though 👀 But the memories, both the amazing and the (relatively rare) bad ones, are what made the experience amazing. Thank you Seán 💚

Thank you to you and the crew for looking after Holly and I. For trusting us to have a number to contact the crew on and to not abuse that trust you put in us. For giving us much needed advice when we were lost (case in point, when I missed my train to get to Sweden and you all gave me advice on what train to get) and hostel recommendations 😭 For That food...for just overall being like a family during that period, keeping an eye and keeping us in check (hello Vernon and your “You two go to bed please!” Remarks outside the bus lol). Thank you, Seán, for not getting sick of me (as I say every time), for always being so kind every time we met when you’d have every right to not be. I only hope that the fact we actually finished the tour with you meant as much to you as it did to me. I hope you didn’t mind having a familiar face or two, and that didn’t give you additional pressure to get the show right xD

If you ever doubt that you’ve changed and grown, Seán, look back on the tour legs. You did this and probably thought it would be the pinacle. But it wasn’t, and you have done so much since. You’re not the same person. We are not the same people. Yeah, you’ve made mistakes, as have I, yeah, some interactive sides of the community may have decreased, and some people may not like some changes, but that’s okay. Because you are learning from that and growing from that and have spent the whole year since using the “world knowledge” of tour, as I’m calling it, trying to make the world a better place. If you thought that that was the pinacle and have done so much more since then, despite mistakes and obstacles, just imagine what you will have done by this time in 2020 😃 And that goes for everyone. Where you are now does not define where you are in the future and things can get better 💚 And both when you look back, and when you think to the future, we hope that you do so with fondness because you deserve that 💚 What a year it’s been for us both, for us all! We love you dude, and I love you all 💚

And Remember

Be the heroes of your own stories

[spudmcloughlin]

if you went to hdwgh orlando listen up

how much were the tickets?? i missed it last time and i want an idea of how much to keep in emergency savings in case he ever decides to come back to florida in the future

[noduhlauren]

That excited hop he does at the end tho

[bendy-jack]

I need answers

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@therealjacksepticeye

[tracobuttons]

I finally got a frame sorted so I have a reminder of that fantastic day :)

[iamsiimonevl]

HDWGH? (21-10-2018): When strangers become friends.

It’s been a whole year!! Still thankful that this show brought us together. 💚

[van-arts]

“I grew my hair with M A G I C”

Hahaha man it’s been so long since I finally digital drawing again! :D And of course first thing I gotta draw is long haired Marvin that looks like he never cut his hair for 6 months X”D

Thanks to the person who give this flawless wig and mask 👍

[hollenka99]

As somebody who was there for the London show, I can attest that it was super scuffed, especially with the projector/screen. The damn thing kept going off, I don't think we got to see the name being typed in during the Pokemon section and we all shouted PMA in unison at it to get it to work throughout the show. I mean, look at my summary that I wrote the day after:

It was honestly one of the most entertaining nights of the 2018. o7 to Sean for improvising and to the crew backstage who attempted to resolve it.

[irosl6]

One year ago today I experienced the best day of my life. I can’t believe it was a whole year ago...

My trip to England was like a dream, and now I’m like completely absorbed by homework, by school, by everything. A lot can change in a year, but I’m thinking about this day and it keeps me going because I recall how I was feeling.

I miss it so, so much...

[glixbitch]

Can we give a big hand to Nina and Delanie (@officialsepticlights) for organising the septic lights?

At so many shows, across multiple countries, even at the just for laughs show, every time there was a beautiful sea of green lights awaiting jack when he came out on stage. It was a wonderful idea, and amazingly excecuted in the way so many others came together to help it happen. Thanks to you guys, and to all the volunteers for adding this extra special element to an already wonderful memory, I know I will keep mine forever 💚✨

@dellstra @therealonethyfox

[ashedoesarson]

Okay guys I'm sorry but I think I need to talk about how fucking tight these jeans were that Jack wore at the show in Cologne tonight. Like when they say skinny jeans I didn't expect that and I honestly feel a little attacked.