Fred/Sam

where im at currently tonite

don't give up on me yet - good ending

in my head, greg went to go find DJMM and tried to reboot the big guy to help him clear a path while he tracks down where cassie is underground (i turned "cassie never finding the big guy in the dlc" a set up in my head) while Vanessa tried activating the security nodes to get mxes back online again

I wanted freddy's claims that DJMM "is a friend" to pay off somewhere

oh and also freddy's head stays with Vanessa, but she connected him online to have access to the maps so he can help guide greg and keep in contact through the fazwatch

:0

ok what if all the mods just posted refsheets for our Jack designs to compare.... I&'ll go first lol (<- is the third mod to draw their refsheet for this)

I haven’t posted here in a bit so I’ll do some catch up to my Instagram.

Based on Haikyuu art but I didn’t add the ref because Instagram quality drop kills me. I drew a happy drawing. Haven’t really drawn them a lot lately but they’re still permanently on my mind.

ignore that Techno is just looking at potatoes I had no thoughts going into this.

‘Death’ really is one of the coolest episodes for Character Analysis of Yellow Guy and Red Guy. Both because it has them dealing with the uniquely difficult emotion of Grief and because it has them in the rare position of actually being kinda-authority-figures themselves to someone else - Stain Edwards. 

Because Yellow, usually the friendliest and kindest of the three, is so mean to Stain! But this meanness IS born from his usual friendliness, he’s lashing out at Stain as a result of his grief over his lost friend and the idea that he can be ‘replaced’. 

And meanwhile, Red clearly also misses Duck. If nothing else it’s clear from what he did to Stain there at the end. 

But he’s also the one trying the most to move on as quickly as possible, to try and deny he misses Duck.

And I think more than anything that probably comes from his conflict-aversion. Like, his resistance to the Teacher’s lessons and to addressing the fact that he misses Duck both come from that aspect of his character highlighted in ‘Jobs’ - he would much rather Not Do Stuff most of the time. And actually confronting his own emotions feels like kind of a lot of effort, doesn’t it?

So from his POV, ‘just moving on cause we didn’t like him anyway’ is just the easiest solution for both himself and Yellow Guy to deal with the problem. But the fact that Yellow Guy can’t see Red Guy openly share the same sort of grief that he does just makes him feel more isolated and thus has a harder time dealing with his own grief. 

And Red is kinder, or at least more polite to Stain Edwards then Yellow is but I think that is driven less from his kindness as much as it's also come, at least partly, from his desire to Not Cause a Fuss. And he can also kinda lash out at him with his Unresolved Grief, he’s just more subtle about it.

And since he’s so driven in this episode to Take the Path of Least Resistance with his grief, he naturally discovers that the ‘easiest’ way to deal with Death, the ‘easiest’ way to move on is…

To deny it ever happened in the first place.

The thing about the difference in Red Guy’s behavior between ‘Transport’ and ‘Electricity’...

That in the former episode he was so agitated by the Format of their lives and so eager to get out-

 and in the latter he was so deeply uncomfortable by Yellow breaking away and questioning the Format that he felt actually Relieved when a new teacher came in and brought everything ‘back to normal’

Is so interesting and tragic no matter how you look at it.

Because it’s possible that it’s an indication that it is indeed not the same Red Guy but a ‘backup’.

That the trio we’ve followed back in ‘Transport’ is still starving and shivering in that post-apocalyptic junkyard and that the trio from ‘Electricity’ are more recent replacement - so this Red Guy might not be as used to exercising his free will or just not as sick and tired of the Format as the previous one.

Or maybe it is the ‘same’ Red Guy, or at least a backup that retains all the memories of the previous one, and he’s just been broken. After his attempt to escape backfired horribly and then snapped back to the house as if it never happened he’s just been broken. He’s more willing to go along with the Teachers and more weary of others trying to break from the Format because he thinks that he knows what happens when you do.

With both of these options, there’s also the added dimension that might’ve been Lesley’s plan all along? Why send an ill, clearly-past-his-prime Transport vehicle just as one of the puppets is getting restless and wants to get out?

So they can get out, and she can either break Red Guy’s dreams of escape or just have an excuse to get rid of him and replace them all with ‘fresh copies’. 

It seems like Yellow’s ‘ascension’ in ‘Electricity’ has happened many times before, but it was never enough to break the cycle - Yellow always ended up losing his batteries and Forgetting before he could make any progress. And like in the episode we saw, it was probably always because of Red and Duck.

Maybe Lesley suspected that having Red Guy as he was in ‘Transport’ - all agitated and rebellious - with a fully-charged Yellow Guy would be enough to break that cycle? That if Yellow had Red to actually back him up, things might’ve gone differently? So had to go to Certain Measures to make sure that’s not the kind of Red Guy that’s in the house when Electracey comes to visit? 

On the other hand, the explanation might be simply that there is no real ‘inconsistency’ in his behavior. Maybe Red Guy would’ve acted the same if Yellow Guy would’ve suddenly gotten Fully-Charged before things went really bad in ‘Transport’.

The truth might just be that as much as Red Guy feels miserable and tormented by the Format - these feelings might just not triumph his need to be smarter than Yellow Guy. 

That he’s just this emotionally committed to making fun of Yellow Guy for being stupid, that he might want to break free himself of the confines of the format but that doesn’t necessarily mean he believes his own friends should break away from the boxes he created for them in his mind, that he’s just straight-up that unnerved by the idea of a Smart Yellow Guy - that he accidentally shot his own goals in the foot rather than confront the idea Yellow Guy could be a person deserving of actual respect. 

And in a way, that simple mundane explanation is the darkest one. The idea that Red Guy just wants to bully his friend that much that it overrides his own desires for freedom. 

That he was so busy being disturbed by Yellow Guy not doing what Red thought he’s ‘supposed to do’ that he didn’t notice or care that Yellow was putting into words much of what Red was already feeling. 

That Red has unwittingly allowed a chance at actual freedom slip between his fingers just because he doesn’t respect Yellow Guy.

And he has probably done so many, many times already. 

There’s something very ironic about the opening shot of (almost) every DHMIS TV Episode being the front door opening. Considering that in general, this show is about the claustrophobia and helplessness of these characters being trapped in their house unless let out by the capricious whims of their teacher - and specifically because of that, from our protagonists’ POV, that front door probably doesn’t exist.

Okay, so, judging from the layout of the house in both the opening and the show itself, the front door should be right here -

behind the kitchen, right next to the mirror and the coat rack (which, you know, it makes sense to have the front door right next to the coat rack). 

But the characters themselves never directly explicitly interact with this location (and they only implicitly interact with it once, which I will get to a bit later). Instead, every time the characters are actually shown going in and out of the house - they use the door on the side of the Dining Room.

And this door might lead outside of the house -

Or it might just lead to the living room.

DHMIS loves to use the conventions of television to create a surrealist and oppressive atmosphere and that is just another example of this. Nonsensical house/apartment layouts are not unheard of in TV Production. You know, filming inside a real house is often a lot less convenient than building disconnected sets and cutting between them when the characters walk through a door - and sometimes flubs or inconsistencies happen or the production just straight-up doesn’t care about it as much as nerds online and whoops now the characters live in a canonical non-Euclidean pocket dimension. But in DHMIS this is not a flub, but an intentional element of unease and horror (and sometimes comedy).

Cause, you know, it’s not just that the trio live in a space that does not make any sense (where is the bedroom anyways? Is it also behind that same dining room door?) - it’s also that their own house is a space they cannot actually fully control or navigate.

They can’t determine whenever this is the living room door or front door. They can’t leave of their own volition, but any random stranger can come inside or force them out.

Just another reminder that is not really their house, as much as they are of the house. And meanwhile the space that should logically be the front door goes totally ignored by the characters - basically on the same logic none of them can see either the staircase or the empty chalkboard space lingering just past the fourth wall of their dining room.

If it is off-screen, it basically doesn’t exist for the characters. Again, this idea of turning a convention of TV Fiction into another part of the Puppets’ Actual Nightmare is a recurring theme in DHMIS.

And on that same note, I want to point out the moment that comes closest to acknowledging the front door, or whatever else lies behind that little nook.

In Episode 2, ‘Death’, during the Memories musical montage, Yellow goes to the coat rack area -

And then he goes outside.

Basically the only time in DHMIS’ TV Series that one of the Puppets has left the house on their own. Not accompanied by a Teacher or following a ‘lesson plan’ (quite the opposite, really). Considering that he was by the coat rack a moment ago - that’s the closest we’ve got to one of the Main Three Guys Around using the front door where it’s supposed to be. 

It’s still all very… ambiguous. You know, and Duck was basically buried in their backyard, it’s not like Yellow was pulling a Transport and actually trying to leave. But I still think there’s something there. Cutting from the little coat-rack-hallway to the outside is suggestive of a certain kind of movement the same way heading towards the kitchen door and then cutting to the outside is. 

And the fact this is Yellow Guy, the Puppet who is at the same time most oblivious but also the closest to being aware of what’s going on -

Is certainly very intriguing...

hylics (2015)

“…what the fuck is this?”

Legitimately I think the Federation (maybe Jaiden specifically?) was right to make Cucurucho so fucking cute because literally everybody on the server except for like Cellbit and Maximus and Roier and now Tazercraft and sometimes Felps is like. “Why are you guys so mean to Cucurucho :( It’s just a little guy!” Everybody looks past the war crimes because it’s just a cute little bear!! It isn’t evil :(

Unfortunately nobody except for Bad and Quackity and maaaybe Foolish knows that Cucurucho is actually a Republican version of Bad’s irl dog Rat

q!foolhalo doodle

Stickers of dinosaurs playing musical instruments, made in the 80s by Sandylion

Happy seal stickers by Sandylion, made in the 80s.

Four stickers from Sandylion featuring bears in radical 80′s fashion riding on decorated skateboards.

Mind Wave Sea Life Fish Sticker Sheet

alien plush web graphics i made! they are fucking going!!!

Illustrations from the Golden Pleasures book Puff and Blacko go Camping (1962)

2004 Nanco Sesame Street Big Bird Plush

^clears throat^ AHHHHHHHHHH!