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[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Pssst... something new is coming...

...this weekend!

Free, non-AI animal art references.

[biocrafthero]

MizuEna canon as of December 2024

[missrommydolly]

I love the new WH update due to the plot!

The Plot:

[zondearts]

another practice painting based on a wip I'm procrastinating on

[malefertile]

oh sighs well here's my bubbline human au where marceline is in the scream queens and bonnie is addicted to github or something.... i don't know

[divorcedwife]

thinking about my characters again ; they're for a dating i want to make, and each love interest represents a different political path for the future. true love is nice, but what about politics?

[catghoststories]

When your favorite couples are (very unofficially) supported by the merch pics 🥹 🦋x💌 🐛x🐾

[rainbowratsstuff]

Wally wally wally

Also a birthday gift for my friend @strawberry-paint ^^

[mikufigureoftheday]

🎉Today's Miku "figure" is:🎉

Otamatone DELUXE ver. (2023)

[chapollynh]

I was going to post these on the day of the release of the video but ~life~ hapenned so... here it is! My two frames for the #EveryFrameOfEden project! You can check the videos with all of the AMAZING art on the YouTube channel Ineffable Frames!

[ronalddorelaine]

hes so silly

[multimirage]

Totally never done before modern school au

they’re so cute it makes me wanna kms guhjhususjkk

[thearsonistofarland]

To me, outside of the symbolism of the petals and the feud between the degrading nature of immortality vs. a sobered interpretation of the romantic idea that life is more meaningful because of its limitations, the matter of Hong Lu’s agency is one of the most interesting aspects of Canto 8 so far. On one hand, he has little control over his own actions, between his status as the Jia family’s precious jade and as a sinner for Limbus Company.

On the other, he admits that his inaction was one of the hands that pushed Jia Qiu off his “cliff.” As Hong Lu was a child back then, his inaction is understandable; it’s with his transition into adulthood and his internalization of his lack of agency that it becomes really interesting.

Hong Lu leaves Daguanyuan without a fight, causing Daiyu to lose her romantic perception of the world and imbibe her own brand of miserable complacency. He does that, not screaming, not crying, not making promises to Daiyu; until further elaboration, I believe that it is Hong Lu’s fault that Daiyu is in the state that we see her in at the tail end of part 1. However, Hong Lu washes his hands of the affair, accepting the degradation of their relationship as a fact of life that he had no REAL part in. He’s the jade after all, he has no agency.

Hong Lu, in this way, frees himself of any emotional obligation to the world around him. He does not have to care deeply about the plights of the people affected by monthly, Reconstruction, the brutality of the Hierarch Evaluation, or the anguish of the people around Hong Lu who care about him. He doesn’t have any agency anyway; why cry over spilled milk? Nothing matters.

I believe, however, that Hong Lu recognizes his culpability in things like Daiyu’s present outlook. He knows that he affects the world around him, as seen in his insight regarding Jia Qiu, but he remains stubbornly insistent that he has no agency regardless.

This is speculation (for now) but I think Hong Lu finds both sad satisfaction through his smiley inaction, as well as a well of things to pull from to feel bad about himself. After being deprived of agency for his entire life, I think Hong Lu enjoys being able to influence people’s emotions, explaining his happy exterior in addition to the facade reading. However, Hong Lu garners satisfaction from his own suffering just as much as he does from others’. He doesn’t LIKE that Daiyu hates him, or that he’s on bad terms with Xichun again, but, in a twisted way, he feels it is deserved, and therefore good. Hong Lu’s Tears of the Tarnished Blood E.G.O. states that he feels like his fate is deserved outright, so I feel good about this one.

Hong Lu has come to love his lack of agency, accepting it as a fact of the world and a deserved fate and something that he shouldn’t even try to change because he, as an adult, has come to like it. He is self-destructive at all times, indulging in his own misery while propagating it at the same time. Hong Lu both wants things to get better, but also doesn’t. He yearns for change, yet is complacent, and will never seek it out, instead watching the world go by, content. Duality and suchlike

[missrommydolly]

FRANK AND JULIE AREN'T A REAL COUPLE, THEY ONLY HAVE A LAVENDER MARRIAGE. EDDIE X FRANK, MY PARENTS!

[psyduckerrs]

something is happening..

Super duper pumped about the new Welcome Home update so I thought I'd share some things I've found while digging around the website.

A side note: I've found that depending on which way I'm viewing my phone (landscape or portrait) I'm able to see things that may otherwise be hidden. Which explains why Home was scribbled out when I was looking before.

First off, Wally seems to be missing everywhere, actually. He's not with any of his friends, his name is excluded in that one png with Barnaby. Everything is pointing to something bad happening in the background.

Not to mention, the About pages for each character. Everyone is normal...except for Wally. He's not looking at the viewers like usual, instead looking away. And when you listen to the audio at the bottom of his page, you hear ringing. No other voices or sounds. Just the telephone ringing over and over and over again.

The website mentions that they had to take down Wally's audio for the telephone toy because of some weird glitches, hence why it's excluded among the others. But seems it's been moved to Wally's page.

Another thing to mention is the name of some of the images. Every other character on their About page is named [Character's name].png. But Wally's is different.

Ring Ring. Just like the audio.

Home is labelled weirdly too. All the other houses are just named 'placeholder for all placeholders' or along those lines. But Home stands out.

'See you together'. Not suspicious at all..?

Now, onto the stuff from the Discoveries pages. When looking at the 'Julie's Guide to being Joyful', the part where Wally shows Julie his painting of 'what joy looks like'. It's completely scribbled out in black paint which is more than a little unnerving. I was also able to see something in the paint. A smile? It's hard to make out but it looks kinda sinister. Not to mention in the audio for the book, there's small glitches and tone changes.

I made the contrast and brightness greater so it was easier to see the face in the painting.

Lastly, the radio broadcast. Another new thing uncovered in the update, hosted by Wally and (sort of) Barnaby. We hear about how much Julie's siblings want her to join their band and Julie's supposed opposition to it, and while it's interesting when it comes to Julie's 'lore', it's not what I'm focusing on this moment.

No, my attention was caught by Wally. He seems to be acting fairly normal. But some things feel off. At the very end, Wally talks to the listeners. Nothing unusual for him. But his last line 'And remember, I love you very much.' just feels strange. It could be me, but in my opinion it sounds kind of sad? As though almost saying goodbye or as if reassuring us?

The image for the radio episode is also odd. Wally's eyes are closed. There's a giant eye in the background. And he's putting a hand to his ear to 'listen'. Could be nothing but ya never know. Personally, it reminds me of those images of Wally listening to Home. Especially with the way the eye is directly above, watching closely. It's as if Wally is 'listening' to something that is telling him things.

And finally, the last piece of weird mystery stuff I wanted to share for today. The way the Question Answerer keeps mentioning a phone. The Question Answerer is the one supposedly helping uncover Welcome Home's mysteries. But when the WHRP talks about the interview with the Question Answerer, this anonymous source keeps referring to the phone and ringing. Which is odd considering that as of the moment, a lot of mystery surrounding Wally has to do with telephones and ringing.

Edit: I'm also just gonna throw in something I found while snooping around the last update. Mysterious white text. Seems like someone is trying to communicate with us? 👀

Anyways, that's all for now. I know I rambled a bit but gosh this stuff gets me excited.

Once again, thanks for everything Clown! Welcome Home is an amazing creation and im sure us fans can't wait for more as the story unravels! :)

[marionettico]

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