#not my best but hey

[sur-un-fil]

Ink demonth 2022 - Star

What are Joey's feelings towards his main character?

Chapter 10: 1960 - 1963

Joey hated Bendy with all his guts.

That hadn't always been the case, of course, although he'd never had any particular affection for him. He wasn't like those over-sensitive creators who loved their characters like their own children. No, he had seen the potential in his idea right away and had done everything to make it productive. He had set up the Studio, sought out the best artists and surfed all the trends to make Bendy as famous as he wanted to be. For a while it had worked and Joey had grown bolder. Bendy needed more companions, more comics, more merchandise, more vision, more and more.

Joey had always been a visionary, he knew that. So when he'd had the idea of making Bendy real, he hadn't immediately dismissed it like anyone else would have. It was crazy, yes, it seemed impossible... But it was great. If he could do it, he would be successful: his name would never be forgotten. He would become someone, as he deserved. He realised that he was really onto something, something bigger than anything he had ever dreamed of before, and he worked hard to achieve it. It was difficult, he had to do things that the average person would have shied away from, but he managed to find a way. Of course he did.

And of course, it was Bendy he asked when he first tried out the brand new ink machine that Connors had made for him. He had no doubt as he signalled the mechanic to start it up: his idea was perfect and the machine exactly as he had dreamed it. He was already thinking about the press release he would write to introduce Bendy to the world as he listened to the wet noises coming up the black pipes, convinced that he was on to something... But the black, twisted thing that dripped gracelessly onto the machine's rounded top looked more like a child's nightmare than a small, round demon.

The disappointment was overwhelming. It must have been obvious, because Thomas, usually so reluctant, felt obliged to apologise to his team, but more importantly to his machine, promising adjustments and further testing. Joey nodded, of course. And they did it again. But no matter how many times they put "it" in the machine, "it" was still a terrifying caricature of Bendy. And with each failure, Joey hated it more and more. He stopped trying after several hours, so angry that he took his frustration out on Thomas, finally ordering him to lock "it" away from him. It took him a few days to bounce back, but he was determined to forget this little incident and move on. He would try again, yes. But no longer with Bendy.

But despite his determination, he could no longer see a drawing of Bendy without superimposing the image of "it's" threatening smile. No matter how much he reasoned with himself, the uneasiness wouldn't leave him. He began to avoid his character, to the point of concentrating solely on the others. Rightly so, it seemed, since there were other failures, but not as severe. He was convinced that he could do it. He just had to find what was missing in these inky bodies to fit the model. It couldn't be much, could it?

He had not forgotten "it", but he stopped himself from thinking about it. It was as if he had a little box in the corner of his head that was tightly closed. He managed to live with it and ignore it most of the time, but there were times when he couldn't look away, paralysed by anxiety like an animal caught in a car headlight.

And then the Studio went bankrupt and Joey gradually found himself carrying on alone. Bitter about losing his business and being dragged through the mud, but determined to make it anyway. It was all he lived for now. The prospect of giving up and living a dull life waiting for Caym to take his soul was far more excruciating than anything he had to do in the sepia-toned setting of the False Studio. Things weren't so bad, he was making slow progress, but he was making progress... Until one day he came face to face with "it". It was even more degenerate than he remembered, and more importantly, it seemed to have some sort of consciousness. Joey immediately superimposed images of the few times Caym had incarnated, and terror froze him in front of his operating table. An ink demon. It could only be that, a manifestation of Caym or Caym himself, perhaps? Still, the demon was taking shape only with great difficulty, but Joey was too afraid to think clearly, or even to try to communicate with the hideous thing in front of him. He abandoned the Boris he was working on with his ribs spread and crossed the first floor as fast as his age would allow.

Later, and in safety, he realised that this was only the pitiful first sketch he had made of his flagship character. But the disgust and fear had left too deep a mark on him for him to appreciate this bitter failure, even when it proved useful enough to track down the escaping donors and put them back in the machine.

A few years later, the daily anguish and the age will have damaged him so much that he will confuse the two demons in his mind. A mistake that might have had no consequences, if Joey hadn't been desperate to save his soul, and if he hadn't involved an old friend in his nightmare...

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#bendy and the ink machine #the ink demonth #batim #bendy #batim au #henry stein #batim bendy #joey drew #The Ink Demonth #Bendy and The Ink Machine #Why did he only give Bendy a try? #Tired autor #not my best but hey

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #senshi #laios touden #marcille donato #izutsumi #oyasumi punpun #<- In case you are wondering what the source for the little bird guy is. #Yeah that's right. I'm back to my extremely obscure crossover BS. #Punpun is one of those series that falls under the category of 'Good! but I cannot responsibly recommend this to anyone." #If Dungeon Meshi is like a friend asking you to go on a quick errand and you accidently go on a life changing roadtrip - #Punpun is your friend asking to go on a quick errand and they pull up to the vet and tell you your dog is being put down. #Then they explode into sludge. Melting your car. You hitchhike back but the person who picked you up is an axe murderer. #I could not finish it. My friends who did say it was good. But agree it was for the best I did not finish it. #Hey speaking of tone twists...We are one episode away from one of my favourite chapters being animated! #WHO'S READY FOR THE SENSHI BACKSTORY! WHO IS READY TO CRY! #ME! I AM! I spooked my flatmate with how energetic I was this morning. I'm vibrating with energy I was not designed to contain. #I should talk about today's episode here: It was very good. I love how they animated the familiars. #And!!! Anime only people now are in the loop on the Chilchuck lore. Part 1 of many. He still contains multitudes. #They all do to be honest! If this episode told us anything it was that we still don't know these characters as well as we think! #See you guys next week. I'll be inconsolable.

[basshole-astard]

PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like "gatorade is bad actually!" and "don't drink fruit juice it'll just dehydrate you!" and neither of these are true!

regarding fruit juice: there's apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that's simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won't do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won't completely dehydrate you as long as you're also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can't go wrong with fruit juice!!!

regarding gatorade: maybe this isn't an every day drink, but guess what: if it's 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don't have AC, or you're moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you're sweating buckets: that's when you drink a gatorade.

gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren't doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you're sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that's intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that's its intended use case!!!!

no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!

Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It's fine if you drink things that aren't water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn't going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!

honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you're doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3

#also: drinking A Soda or A Coffee isn't going to completely dehydrate you if you're drinking other fluids tbqh!!! #its fine!!!!! its fine!!!!! #drinks #heat #dehydration #this post exists because i'm mad at misinfo but also #this is for my homies who hate the taste of water and struggle to stay hydrated #because people have told them over and over again You Must Absolute Drink Water And Nothing Else and so they just don't drink anything #listen!! hey!!! whoever told you that was lying!!!! #drinking Any Fluids At All (yes even with caffeine!!) is better than Not Drinking Anything #please hydrate!!!! it's okay if that hydration isn't water!!!! #honestly i tried to be extremely non confrontational in this post but im pretty sure i've seen people suggest flavored water packets #but say no fruit juice ever. and that's insane. #it's all fluids baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #so long as you are drinking fluids you are combatting dehydration #YES water is the best option HOWEVER. if you drink things that aren't water that's also okay! i promise!!!!!!!!

[endlessapis]

share in the act of creation

don't tag as kin/me/id/muse/etc. please ♡

#i took my first dose of testosterone the other day. i'm having Big Feelings (affectionate) about it!!! #anyway. hey! i'm alive! guess who started dating their best friend and graduated uni aaaand is getting engaged soon? ME #sth #metal sonic #sonic the hedgehog #endlessart #2024

[egophiliac]

IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tapis rouge #i know these are not my best but by god i needed to draw ~daddo venue~ #he is a treat! can't wait for him to yell at us for screwing up a shoot or whatever the last-minute disaster will be #i am SO HAPPY it turned out to be about movies after all! ...i mean sort of anyway #i'll take what i can get (and i do enjoy twst trying to be all cute about snow whAHEM i mean beautiful queen) (i see you there twst) #(also to be fair it actually wasn't poisoned in historial-revisionism-twstland so i think we can trust this apple. a+ acting eric) #anyway we are still. very solidly in the 'stand around and talk about the wallpaper for three hours' part of the event. #but HEY we got to meet eric! i was not really expecting it to be him so i am VERY pleased #also god help me i did think the shopping montage as portrayed by a rhythmic where they literally SKIP down the street was hilarious #there's a lot of Choices that were made in this event and that was a good one

[sadmages]

In my mind palace my tav and Astarion are playing the exact same game of 5D chess and they don't realize it yet

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #bg3 tav #my art #gabby plays bg3 #shadowheart #and #lae'zel #are also here #anyway tag ramble time just got the romance scene where you can hug him and on my knees.....this guy..... #astarion: hey i was kinda sleeping with you to save my ass but turns out im feeling real emotions now #matt marja: wtf. me too. this is so embarrassing for both of us we're idiots [tenderly hold hands] #i thought up matt for a campaign we may or may not play last year and deciding to play him in bg3 because i thought it would be funny #to put him against this guy who seemingly has many of his same issues. Best idea i've ever had. the emotional catharsis im experiencing #matt marja

[ysabellious]

you are coming down with me / hand in unlovable hand.

#deltarune #kris dreemurr #deltarune fanart #deltarune kris #utdr #I’m going through a crisis but hey haha funny character say funny words #its not my best but its fine. I just started on this 2h ago to stop the spiral #points laughs it’s me! I’m the unlovable one! to care for me is to drag you down with me! #anyways sorry for the inconsistent styles recently.. I’m. yea. #ysart #cw eyestrain #cw knife

[slavhew]

hm

#hom3stuck #homestuck #john egbert #jade harley #dirk strider #dave strider #karkat vantas #davekat #lil hal #autoresponder #inspired sketches because i went thru a bunch of artblogs and wanted to be dynamic and artsy too #also love to listen to songs and then try my best to draw something for the duration of it. this isnt quite one of those times but #hey the names matched up nicely #idk man. tonight is a sad about dirk strider day turned into sad about dirk strider night. davekats to make it go down easier #anyways ever think about how a captcha of 13 year old dirk doesnt want to die but the 16 year old version does. #cause i do . plenty. #these seem like sketches ripe to do something with but i dont feel like touching them more so. black and white up they go

[dragondawdles]

the beastie <3

#totk spoilers #<- (? yet another schrödinger's spoiler she shows up during the beginning sequence but uhhh just 2 be safe) #totk #light dragon #the light dragon #totk light dragon #loz #tloz #zelda #id in alt #dragon doodles #(I don't know the TAGS for this fandom grrgrhgrgrhg I'll decide eventually) #hiiiiiii so the uh new zelda game was good. I beat that after 140 hours like a week ago (explode emoji) #and now I'm brainrotting zelda HARD which means I have feelings about like 17 dudes all at once #we'll have to see if that means I'll bombard you with characters!! lately art's been blah but I've got some stuff cooking hopefully #hey I'm happy with this tho!! happy with tha beastie :] #this worm is my best friend

[bertoyana]

gay ass dialogue 😭😭😭 what do you mean ANNOYING SECRET SMILE LMAOOO be serious for ONCE man

#any mutant ever: hey mags how is it goi #erik: did you know me and charles used to be best friends? that we were so familiar and intimate with each other words weren't even NEEDED #did you know we know each other in ways i will never know anyone else did you know HE HAD THIS SECRET SMILE ONLY I EVER SAW DID YOU KNO #x men 97 #x men 97 spoilers #otp: i want you by my side #cherik #xmen

[dylanconrique]

TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!

#*carly catalogs #bridgerton #bridgerton s3 #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #polin #otp: you are special to me #IT'S OFFICIALL ONLY 24 HOURS UNTIL MY FAITH IN LOVE AND ROMANCE IS RESTORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG I'M SOOOOOOO GIDDY!!!!!!! LIKE SO SO SOOOOO GIDDY THIS IS ALL I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!!!!!!!! #MY FAVORITE OF THE BRIDGERTON BOOKS IS FINALLY COMING TO LIFE ON SCREEN #AND IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE IT'S GONNA BE THE BEST SEASON OF THE SHOW BY FAR #i'm sorry no offense but.... kathony who????? #i'm totally jk btw i do love them but no offense still it's not their season anymore sooo.... move outta the way lol #i've also just always more preferred friends to lovers over enemies to lovers thanks to 13 going on 30 but hey that's just me!

[ferrisbuellers]

20 YEARS OF MEAN GIRLS Released on April 30th, 2004

#meangirlsedit #mean girls #mcblings #userstream #filmtvtoday #tvandfilm #userbbelcher #fyeahmovies #moviegifs #usersavana #useraurore #userlix #userlolo #tuserdana #userrobin #userbeckett #tuserrachel #usermorgan #filmedit #* #this really is my ultimate comfort movie #and it's bittersweet bc my grandpa passed away 20yrs ago today and my best friend in 9th grade took me to see this opening weekend #she was like hey let's get your mind off things for a while and see this silly movie #so yeah that's partially why i love this movie so much #but also because it's become a timeless classic atp

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

RESIDENT EVIL BODY TYPES THE SEQUEL!

part one...!

#first day of the new year and im drawing shirtless men #ethan winters #karl heisenberg #leon kennedy #mia winters #THIS IS NO JOKE THE BEST MIA IVE EVER DRAWN #I COULDNT STO TELLING MY FRIENDS ABOUT HER #HEY GIRL... #i love u mia #i spent 15 minutes trying to draw ur nose and id do it all again #resident evil #resident evil fanart #rebhfun #resident evil village #resident evil 8 #re8 #i drew all of these using references of my own body #but im a 5'2 100 pound lanky asian girl #so i did have some trouble drawing karl #it bothers me when people draw leon as some slim tiny little baby #have u seen pictures of him #his bicep is literally the size of his head its almost absurd #GIVING EVERYONE FAT ROLLS BECAUSE I CAN! #THEY R ALL WELL FED AND HAPPY AND WARM AND CONTENT WITH LIFE! #dad bod ethan!!!!! #ethans body type is probably the hardest to draw accurately #because there isnt any really good refernce for him becuase he wears like THREE LAYERS #ethan is actually pretty thin in re7 #but idganarf 3 years have passed and he had a kid he has a dad bod now its true #he has muscle defiently though i dont think hes as musclely like leon or chris that would be insane

[morganbritton132]

Eddie’s immediate response to finding out that the guy in their living room was Tommy was to say, “Let’s have sex.”

Steve: Right now? We have a guest!

Eddie: No, we have the guy that beat me up in high school in our living room and I am married to the guy that he had a massive crush on. Tell me that wouldn’t make you a little horny.

Steve: Tommy did not have a crush on me

Eddie: He did. He convinced you that it was totally heteo to make out with your male friends when you were alone

Steve: I mean, Carol was there sometimes

Eddie: That’s - fascinating, I did not know that and we’ll circle back to it but right now… let’s get naked.

Tommy, from the bottom of the stairs: You do know that you’re still live-streaming, right?

Eddie, looking down at the phone in his hand like he’s seeing it for the first time: Yes

#Eddie being messy on the internet 2024 #Tommy later that day is like: Hey man. sorry about high school. I didn’t know how to work through my emotions #and Eddie’s like: Yeah no problem. I’ve been inside your best friend #and then they start swapping Steve stories and Steve is like: oh no #eddie munson tiktok saga #steve harrington #eddie munson

[arsonforcharlie]

great news, pigeon has discovered that sometimes when i hold a bag and it makes noise it's treats

bad news, she got a brain the size of a walnut and does not understand the difference between a tasty little salmon filled morsel and a spoonful of fucken turmeric, but she doesn't care, she fucken WANTS it

#my dumb thots #toronto pigeon #i need to make a sideblog for my fuckin cat i think #because for every post i make about her there's like 5 i want to make #hey all you mutuals who randomly pivot to fandoms and then i gotta look at 500 clockwork orange gifs a day or whatever #this is that but the fandom is the BEST cat in the world #(like legit i've never had a cat that was so instantly both affectionate and well behaved what the fuck toronto pigeon)

[egophiliac]

some more Twst pokemon as my brain melts at the impending episode 7 drop tomorrow! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

I went with Gholdengo and Cufant for Kalim, and Seviper and Malamar for Jamil! I went back and forth a looooot on whether to give Malamar to Jamil or Azul, but ultimately I think it just fits Jamil better. (Seviper was a given though)

#art #twisted wonderland #pokemon #poketwst #tentacles #if i had decided against giving jamil malamar then the backup plan was chatot #not because it actually fits him i just think jamil with a chatot would be funny #kalim would teach it to say nice things to him and then it would keep him up all night screeching HEY JAMIL YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND!!!! #LET'S BE TOGETHER FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER #jamil frantically googling how to rerecord chatter in the background