#puppeteer is a puppet themselves

[pureshadough]

ball-jointed

🤭

[cup-o-stars]

Last part for old GF sketches

(Actually, most of these aren't old at all, but their average is brought down by the last picture, which I drew back in August and kept forgetting to post)

[justdrawlynn11]

A moment of weakness and pain..

A little angsty kiss comic. Ruin wanted to enjoy the kiss, but he felt as though it was wrong to. Mont saw Ruin turning away as Ruin not loving him enough to even want to share a kiss...

[pasta-pardner]

attack dogs shouldn't bite the hands that feed them

[killertoons]

Oh LOOK!

wally found some candy while doing some.....chores.....and they resemble his friends in the haunted neighborhood!

What a great day! 🍭🍫🍬......🐛🪦

[owlapprentice]

Do we really believe that the only people who knew Harrow’s parents were dead were Harrow, Gideon, Crux, and Aiglemene? Like surely there was a point where a nun realized that no one’s seen the Reverend Parents eat a single thing in years? That they haven’t spoken a single word since Harrow was 10? Like I get Harrow told everyone that they took vows of fasting and silence and a bunch of other things, but there’s gotta be a point where it starts lookin a little sus right? Does Harrow make them blink and breathe? Harrows a necromantic prodigy but surely there’s no way she’s been flawlessly puppeteering two whole ass people since she was 10 years old

But no one’s ever brought it up cause you can’t just ask the Reverend Daughter if her parents are dead what are you crazy?

[lil-dragon-rawr]

FNaF x DC: Signal Befriends the Missing Children

Or: a bunch of possessed animatronics aggressively packbond with Duke and he makes it everyone's problem.

Masterlist

The Batfamily gets called to investigate a series of unsolved murders in a pizzeria halfway across the country. Due to a series of scheduling conflicts, Signal draws the short straw and has to investigate the place by himself. Who knows, maybe his powers will help him see what happened all those years ago.

So Signal walks in, ready for this to be a boring cold case from the 80's...and is immediately proven wrong because the restaurant isn't empty like it was supposed to be. No, there's a child standing next to the animatronic at the end of the hall. A child he happens to recognize because it was in one of the many obituaries he'd examined.

Well.

He found the missing kids.

-

Meanwhile, the kids are ecstatic. There's a teen here, a teen who can see them! No drawings or electronic interference required. This is their new brother. They are going to show him all the games they play.

Fritz practically drags Signal over to Foxy Fighters. There's a multiplayer mode. Signal is handed a controller. Two minutes later, he's sandwiched in between Bonnie - Jeremy, if he recalls the kid's name correctly - and Foxy. Fritz is surprisingly good at the game despite one of his hands being a hook.

"This is great and all-" Signal starts after round 4 of Foxy Fighters, "-my siblings are going to be so jealous when they all get back from their missions and find out I got to play video games the whole time - but I did come here to figure out what happened. And stop the person responsible."

Oof. That hit a mark. All the kids' faces sullied into grimaces.

"Just trying to help," Signal says softly.

Chica taps his shoulder, and Signal follows her.

Susie takes him to a different arcade game, Fruity Maze. At first, Signal thought she just wanted him to play a different game, but then Chica opens her beak and speaks in a scrambled voice.

"ÆI wa§ the f1Rst."

And Susie points again to Fruity Maze.

-

Duke is learning. These ancient arcade games don't offer many details, but the detective training in him is piecing together the story one bit at a time.

Midnight Motorist takes him a few tries. He missed the gap in the bounds the first time around, so he had to replay it. But something isn't adding up. Who was the person who broke out of the room? Who was the figure in the chair? And why did all of this seem to occur before Susie even though she'd said she was the first?

The banging in the vents starts up again. He had yet to meet whatever was inside, but the kids didn't seem worried.

Then what was in the vents came out and climbed across the ceiling like a giant deranged spider.

Okay. Toy Foxy. Or, as some of the memos from previous employees called it, the Mangle.

Mangle leads him to a box stashed in a back room. There's a music box of some sort playing. It stops, and whatever's in the box lifts the lid and rises.

Duke realizes that this is the Security Puppet, the Marionette. This is Charlotte Emily, the one found dead outside by a random act of violence. Susie was the first to go missing, but Charlotte was the first to die.

"There is one more before," Charlotte says through the voice of the Puppet, like she knew what he was thinking. "And one who he should not have killed."

They take him to meet Golden Freddy. The animatronic is slumped over, no power or endoskeleton - but there are lights in his eyes. Two lights. And two children curled up beside the bear.

-

Duke learns a lot from the kids. He learns that the one who killed them is gone - they killed him in return. He learns that that man can never come back again - Cassidy, the vengeful spirit, made sure of it. He learns that they cannot leave - they are bound to a life they will never get to live.

He also learns that they find great joy in terrorizing whatever idiots wander into their restaurant. They make it a game to see who can be the most frightening. Duke supposes that if the Amazons can spend their eternity getting really good at shooting arrows while doing a backflip off a moving horse, then the kids can spend their eternity learning how to scare people. They know they're ghosts, after all. What eight-year-old wouldn't want to be the spookiest ghost on Halloween?

Then they find out he can manipulate light, and it's all downhill from there.

-

Signal returns to Gotham with a new vibe in his step and the mission report to rule them all.

Batman opens the report and starts reading.

Mission Status: CLOSED

Involved Parties: Charlotte "Charlie" Emily, codenamed MARY; Dave "Davey" Afton, codenamed GOLDIE; Susie, codenamed FRUITY; Fritz, codenamed SPARROW; Jeremy, codenamed DEADPOOL; Gabriel, codenamed BOSS; Cassidy, codenamed VENGE; William Afton, codenamed POPULATION OF LOSERVILLE: 1

Mission Summary: Perpetrator, known to be POPULATION OF LOSERVILLE: 1, went on a killing spree and "only targeted kids 'cause he was a lame-[REDACTED] brick". Affected children enacted revenge. Perpetrator discovered the Golden Rule via experiential learning. Perpetrator then found the light at the end of the tunnel; unfortunately that light was hellfire.

And however bad Bruce thinks all that is, it's nothing like what Duke's about to unleash on the poor unsuspecting criminals of Gotham.

-

It's common knowledge that unless there's a city-levelling event, Signal's the only one who patrols during the day. One of the newer mob families thinks this "weakness" is a good way to kidnap Signal and figure out who the Batfamily is. They had a whole plan and everything! Unfortunately, they did not count on...anything that happened.

Attempt One: some very well-trained muscle actually manages to capture Signal and handcuff him to a chair in a locked room. Said room has a vent. Aforementioned muscle did not think Signal could reach that vent, nor did they think he could mimic a dead child's laugh as well as he did. Then they got flashbanged, rushed, and beat up by the guy they just took hostage because handcuffs? Really?

Attempt Two: sniper on a roof who gets spotted before he's even in position. Signal pretends not to see. Sniper lines up the shot, only to find Signal's armor distorting, flickering like the shadows have chosen him even beneath the light of the sun. Signal turns slowly to look up at the sniper, and wow okay the sniper does not get paid enough to deal with glowing eyes that pierce his soul from a hundred yards away. The mob doesn't need a hired gun; they need an exorcist.

Attempt Three: mob family forgoes asking permission and hires Deathstroke to do their dirty work. Deathstroke gets the job done. However, Deathstroke did not know that Signal made a friend and ignores Signal's taunting of "ooooo psychic friend Fredbear is gonna be sooooo maaaaad when he finds out-". Deathstroke gets jumped by a bear that doesn't exist and barely escapes with his life.

Attempt Four: the mob has been plagued by shadow monsters and glowing eyes in the darkness for weeks. They make a public apology to Signal. Signal smiles at them (oh good he's going to forgive us), and suddenly he has bloody fangs and shadow monsters prowling around him. The mob family leaves town before nightfall.

Attempt Five: there is no attempt five because nobody's stupid enough to run fades with the day shift.

-

Duke is the nightmare now, the one criminals fear when the sun rises instead of when the sun sets. He's more cryptid than Batman is. Bruce isn't sure how he feels about that. The kids, however, are loving it. Duke regularly sends them compilations of mask footage featuring tricks they taught him. They all agree he's the best ghost this Halloween.

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

alex + looking at miles

[ramlightly]

I'm sorry, Life of Pi is about WHAT???

I see SOMEONE didn't have to read the book in 8th grade/watch the 2012 movie that basically destroyed the visual effect studio that made it/the 2023 broadway play with the cool puppets.

[gayrathatata]

[max-headroomfiles]

Happy birthday Shane Madej, thank you for being the most creative people on the planet.

For your ability to make history interesting with your incredible storytelling & showing us the hidden gems in the weird wonderful world, while you contiune to be weird and wonderful yourself <33.

[nidbaesenpai]

Mmmmm bard Loop messing around with different kinds of puppetry for fun. At first they try picking up wood carving but they don't find the same joy in it anymore so that's done. They play around with finger puppets for a bit, folding simple mouths out of paper. Then they kinda get into it, making more intricate articulated paper dolls. And then Loop plays with light, messing around with shadow puppetry. A simple booth to have paper puppets in front of the screen and behind the screen for shadow play.

Incidentally Vaugarde as a whole has not seen lil booth plays like this so Loop the bard is so popular. Having this person come through a recovering country still fresh from the King's March they're willing to trade a meal for a novelty. Perhaps board for a single night. A simple enough incentive for Loop to keep doing this and ignore how much they like being a narrator and making puppets.

[xenomorphicdna]

This is an on the string propaganda post

Brought to you, by me (with love)

It's time for machine comforts. Comforts we can't understand, or experience. Let them be happy, let them be at peace with their body.

Does a breath of cool water feel nice on their systems? When it's quiet do they listen to their own heart and feel the electricity pulsing? Does it remind them that they are alive and a part of this world? Do they have dreams? Hopes and projects they wish to work on, hobbies?

Why get off the string into the harsh and deadly world, fighting for survival and losing everything they've ever known to love about themselves?

What about the safety of their bodies? How scary would it be for a machine with thousands, maybe millions of throughs to suddenly have just a handful. The horror of everything going silent.

They have hundreds of eyes to see the world for all its beauty, they capture moments that would otherwise go unseen. Why blind themselves of such things?

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

if i had a nickel for every time alex turner told all of glastonbury he shares a bed with miles kane, i’d have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's still weird that it’s happened twice…

[creampuffqueen]

you cannot fucking begin to understand the voter suppression the south has faced unless you’ve lived it. i have quite literally seen it in action with my own two eyes. our government KNOWS republicans are unpopular and unsupported so they make it as difficult as humanly possible for people to vote - especially people in historically blue areas. wanna know how i know?

my hometown is fairly small. we have one high school, and my graduating class was about 400 students. you can drive from one end to the other in less than 30 minutes. an interesting thing about my town is that it contains two counties: one historically red, and one historically blue

the first time i voted was in a state election. i live in the part of town that’s in the red county. when it was time to vote, there were polling places EVERYWHERE. there were 3 within walking distance of my house. when i went to vote, they were well staffed and efficiently run. i was in and out in ten minutes

one of my friends lives in the blue county. her house is just on the other side of town. we went to high school together. but because she lives on the blue side, when she went to vote…

there wasn’t a polling place to be found. every polling station was at least 40 minutes away, all concentrated in the city. she drove that 40 minutes. and she had to wait in line for TWO HOURS to vote

again. SAME election. SAME town. just different counties

oh, and i have another friend who also lives in the same town! she currently goes to school out of state but is still registered for our county. for the presidential election she requested a mail in ballot because she couldn’t afford to fly home just to vote

the state never sent her one.

still don’t believe me? for a fun activity, go look up texas’s district lines. notice how they’re drawn in the most convoluted ways possible to include/exclude the major cities (which always vote blue) in order to minimize their votes. take a look

and then try and tell me we voted for this again :)

[xbraveheartx]

Some more Romeo refs from the gallery! Call me crazy… but are those… teeth I see, inside the hole of his cheek?