askjoshuafreeman

[askjoshuafreeman]

I’m going to be honest I don’t know if I’ve used all my anons here but the ones I have are

🐉 🐈, 🔪 🦀, 🧿, 🦔, and 🦚

:3

Stabby Crabby and Firebreathing Purr Machine?!?! :0 It was YOU!!! I cannot believe!! Thank you for sharing this, you were an amazing anon, elusive and mysterious as you were. Here's to whatever comes next! See you on the flip side.

[askjoshuafreeman]

A shame that it must go, but I wish you well on future endeavors!

Sincerely, the person behind a handful of the anons on this blog and it’s connecteds (I’d share which ones but idk if that’s allowed under named anon law or whatever)

Travelingthemultiverse, I'd like to thank you endlessly out of most everyone here. You've stuck with this whole strange journey for a large portion of its run and I am very grateful for all that you've liked from it and all the questions that you've posed. Wish you the best as well! (Oh, and don't worry about keeping those things a secret. Now that it's over, it doesn't matter none. You can let us know who you were, it ain't illegal! Show's over anyways heh)

[askjoshuafreeman]

Indefinite Hiatus

Hey... It's Lola here, the creator of AJF, A Simple Tool, and Database575. I know this is likely the last post anyone ever wants to see in regards to a piece of fan media they enjoy or an ask blog in general, but the writing has been on the wall for quite a while, and I just needed to get this out verbally (textually?) so no one is left wondering about the status of this blog for ages to come, waiting for a new post that isn't in the making, keeping it in the back of their minds as they wonder what might happen.

Ask Joshua Freeman and all of its connected blogs are no longer going to be receiving any further updates. There will be no more posts, no more will come from me here. I have been at this since 2020 and have recently come to realize that I no longer enjoy this. I love this story, don't get me wrong, I would never wish to part with my characters and the world they take up, but updating had become such a stressful endeavour that I came to understand that I am best to just... let all this go. To leave it up for archival sake, but officially stop for the sake of removing it from my conscious, so I no longer feel guilty for not producing content that very few will ever see or respond to. Ask Blogs are of a dying breed, and luck was simply not in my favour. It's nothing anyone could have done to change, but, hey, can't say I didn't try for as long as I could. It was fun back when it all started, but now is the time for me to move on.

I have a new set of fixations, a new drive to make art, new work to show for myself that I am genuinely proud of, and a whole new desire to take my silly little guys and place them wherever I may wish. Nothing is stopping me, of course! If you wish to see any of my more recent work or just more of my ocs (both old and new) in general, feel free to hop on by my main at @lolatulips. I wish you all a lovely day, please stay safe, and remember to always have fun in whatever you make.

[askjoshuafreeman]

Hey, is Samantha seeing the certified freak in the painting too, or are our boys just cursed?

"... "Certified Freak"...?"

Samantha raises her gaze, only for her eyes to grow wide and her face to grow pale upon catching sight of something. The boys, confused beyond all merits, turn to look directly behind them...

... and... catch sight of the "freak" you spoke of... It lingers, just long enough for them to see it, to watch the black sludge trickle down its fingers, and then it is gone, vanished back within the painting.

The boys both stare up at where the arm had been, both much too scared and put off to say anything for a good while.

It isn't until Samantha speaks up again that they are broken free from their petrification.

... She, however, proves much less than unhelpful for the current situation, acting as though nothing was there. Nothing had ever been there. Nothing is.

"... But you... you looked terrified..." Joshua managed to say despite how his own body shook. "D... That just happened, we saw you, how can you..." He continued, baffled at the current dismissal.

Above the boys where the hand had been rests nothing more than the painting that had been there prior, as if nothing at all had occurred.

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #hlvrai #hlvrai ask blog #allen.host #joshua.host #null.host #samantha.host #pokemod123

[askjoshuafreeman]

As Samantha continues on her rant of expletive reasons as to why she despises the two boys before her, the two in question silently gaze at one another, both wanting nothing more than for the moment to pass.

But none seem to want that more than the forgotten Man of The Hour, Benrey, who is suitably zoning out from boredom and wanting nothing more than-

Hey. Hey. Yo. Are you seeing this? Are you hearing this? Yo, gamer squad, can you, uh, do something about this? I got, uh, important stuff to do. Important stuff to talk about. Yo. Please? I want my, uh, food...

-owever, you then notice that the painting above Joshua also seems to Have Done Nothing Of Value Or Consequence Other Than Appear Like A Lovely Set Of Artwork And Thus You Return To The Current Subject And Task At Hand.

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #hlvrai #benrey #allen.host #joshua.host #benrey.host #hlvrai ask blog #null.host #samantha.host

[askjoshuafreeman]

*Whispering* Hey Allen what do we even sound like? Do we sound like you? Does each voice sound different? Can we change how we sound? I hope we can. If I could I’d sound like this broad’s father and talk about what a disappointment she is to all of humanity in general. Then I’d sound like her manager and fire her. Then I’d give you a free burger.

Allen speaks in a hushed tone, the voice of the waitress next to him fading as your focus turns to him.

"Sometimes you sound different, sometimes you all sound the same, it doesn't matter much I feel. If you can change how you sound, then... I don't know, maybe that'll help? Maybe that'll be good for something?"

His expression has fallen, he seems tired.

"Worth a shot, ain't it?"

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #hlvrai #allen.host #pokemod123 #hlvrai ask blog

[askjoshuafreeman]

Messages continue to pour in as the two continue to argue, with Samantha now incapable of ignoring the fact that neither of the boys before her seemed to utter a single word while the phrases still come through, clear as day. But that would be absurd, wouldn't it?

Despite Allen's best attempts, she doesn't seem to be backing down.

Joshua chances a glance at the two, still unwilling or unable to bring himself to intervene.

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #hlvrai #allen.host #joshua.host #samantha.host #hlvrai ask blog #joshua freeman

[askjoshuafreeman]

well gee dont you sound fun as hell to be around

A silence falls over the group for a brief moment as soon as your response is posed. Samantha's expression changes from one of disdain to one of confusion as she finally breaks the silence.

"No one! No one said anything to you!" Allen hisses at the girl, causing her to laugh incredulously.

"Like I'm going to believe that for a second! How stupid do you think I am?!"

The two continue in a similar manner, clearly not fans of either party. Seems the boys are not the only ones able to hear your words, but how to explain such a thing?

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #hlvrai #allen.host #joshua.host #samantha.host #hlvrai ask blog #ask box open for business

[askjoshuafreeman]

And then, as if nothing happened...

... you are all brought right back to the diner. Despite displaying something that disturbingly impossible to wrap one's head around, Benrey seems unbothered. The boys, however, are quite a different story.

Allen is horridly on edge, and Joshua... seems to not be taking it well.

But, as fate would have it, their troubles do not appear to be ending any time soon. A blonde waitress has come by, undoubtedly to take their orders, but it isn't hard to see that she has met the boys before.

And to say she's unhappy to see them would be an understatement.

[Samantha is (regrettably...) Now Available For Asks.]

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #benrey #hlvrai #benrey.host #allen.host #joshua.host #samantha.host #new year new post #it has been a while #ask box is open

[askjoshuafreeman]

The boys as well as yourselves seem to be trapped in a... picture of the past. Within, you can see Benrey in Xen, clear as day, lounging in his Boss Room as if the battle with the others had only just ended. He sings a song of pink, a mere speck when compared to the vastness of the room around him.

And he wasn't alone either. Someone else... someone "new" was there... Despite showing you everything wholesale, Benrey still seems to feel the need to lie to you. All of you.

It isn't too hard to see that whoever appeared there wasn't there to simply play.

#jfreeman #act 3: l'appel du vide #benrey #hlvrai #allen.host #joshua.host #benrey.host

[askjoshuafreeman]

You can feel a menacing aura begin surrounding Benrey. Perhaps one shouldn't ask about things like that...

#jfreeman #hlvrai #benrey #benrey.host #allen.host #act 3: l'appel du vide

[askjoshuafreeman]

Benrey rolls his eyes, throughly annoyed by the single question.

"Uh, why should I know, Fryman? You-you think I'm Feetman's little, *lip smack*, babysitter, bro?"

Both boys stare at him incredulously, with Allen especially being completely done with Benrey's shit.

#jfreeman #hlvrai #benrey #allen.host #joshua.host #benrey.host #act 3: l'appel du vide #they're getting along quite well really

[askjoshuafreeman]

Benrey.. you're a jackass

Benrey laughs as loudly as he can, as if the statement were the funniest thing in the world, mouth practically overflowing with half-eaten napkins.

"HA! HA! HA! HA! Sounds like, *smack* you're jealous, man. You're- you're a jealous, uh, James, bro. Jealous I'm, uh, a great cool."

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[askjoshuafreeman]

You boys alright?

Allen huffs, causing Joshua to look his way. "About as "okay" as anyone can be with this shit going on."

"Hell, if Dorkman over here wasn't soooo sure this lunatic knew enough about his dad for it to be worth a damn, we would've run for the hills by now." He continues.

Joshua looks away, saddened by the fact.

#jfreeman #ask #anon #hlvrai #allen.host #joshua.host #act 3: l'appel du vide

[askjoshuafreeman]

… Benrey why are you eating napkins-🐉🐈

He noms on another as he speaks to you, his head tilted slightly.

"Mnff wh-whaddya meamff? 'S good, bro. Whah-whah else, uh, 'm I gunna eaf?"

#jfreeman #ask #firebreathing purr machine #anon #benrey.host #hlvrai #act 3: l'appel du vide #he says. while in a diner.

[askjoshuafreeman]

Of course we do! Tell us where they are!

Your view seems to broaden, and the picture fills with a full view of the establishment before you all. Before you know it, you find the sights changing before your very eyes.

The diner is a hub of activity, with patrons eating their breakfasts and giving their orders while the jukebox plays a jaunty little tune. Posters and paintings and decor give the whole place a retro-futuristic feel, perfectly at home in a place as bizzare as Hope Valley.

And here they are, at last. The boys are seated in their own little booth, both doing their own little things. Joshua seems nervous, tapping his finger and staring on ahead. Allen, however, seems more preoccupied with the sludge still present on Stabula than anything else.

In the same booth and seated in front of them is Benrey, who is messily devouring the napkins from the napkin dispenser, making a variety of "AMNAMNOMAMNOMAMAMNAM" sounds as he does so. His wound seems to have stopped "bleeding".

#jfreeman #ask #anon #benrey.host #allen.host #joshua.host #hlvrai #act 3: l'appel du vide #guess who's baaaack! :D #I return at last to give you all content! #hope ya didn't miss me toooo much!

[askjoshuafreeman]

So... is everything okay now?

You take a look back at where the boys and Benrey were just a moment ago.

... And yet. You find nothing. Perhaps you should widen your horizon and take a closer look at the bigger picture...

Do you want to see where they are?

#jfreeman #ask #anon #act 3: l'appel du vide #there's nothing better than a fresh new look at things #hlvrai