#but also revival book

[onlymagpie]

may I offer you some Dandelions

#blog revival ft. my witcher brainrot #i found my password but i also found these little fictional people that live in my head rent free #the witcher #dandelion #the witcher books #wiedzmin #magpie draws #fanart #art

[archer-kacey]

Problems with erasing Bendy Book canon:

With the FNAF books, we were told they were canon-divergent fairly early on. For Bendy, this was never specified, leading many to believe this was all just straight-up canon information that they were running with for theorycrafting. For a long time.

Why the hell would you de-canonize the ENTIRE origin story of Boris? He's a central character to Bendy and the Ink Machine.

You're going to throw out THE ENTIRE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF YOUR MAIN VILLAIN? THAT'S.......NOT A GOOD IDEA!

(And before it's pointed out, no, we don't "need" Illusion of Living for "gay evidence." The point here is y'all released an autobiography for one of your two main characters and you're saying it's not canon. That's ludicrous.)

Things that were explained/brought up in the novels that apparently "aren't canon anymore": how Sammy got infected, Thomas's conflicting feelings about the machine he created, the origin of Boris the wolf, several instances of Joey's gaslighting and manipulative behavior and his slow descent into madness after Henry's departure, a look into Gent technology and the Gent experiments that took place after they switched over to "research", Abby Lambert (who SHOULD be in the mainline games all things considered), Joey Drew's ENTIRE AUTOBIOGRAPHY including his PHILOSOPHIES AND REAL ASS LIFE, ANDDD the themes of classism, racism, and sexism that were VERY present at that time in history. Among other things.

You're taking out several new characters for no reason. I'm not saying they all need to return, but it makes zero sense to introduce a bunch of new guys and then immediately abandon them...only to introduce a bunch of OTHER new guys.

I've seen a few comments in response to Mike that go along the lines of "oh thank goodness now I don't need to read the books to understand the lore!" No disrespect, but I think that's a fundamental misunderstanding of what the books do. They enhance your understanding of all the background plot. You don't need to read the books to understand the games. But that shouldn't mean erasing the existing information's canonicity because not everyone wants to read it.

Bendy isn't FNAF. Bendy has a much more streamlined plot. Not everything fits perfectly of course, but to take out such a large chunk of what we THOUGHT was the plot (or plot-adjacent) is headscratching to me. You claim to care about the plot, characters and worldbuilding and then you decide that some of the BEST written interpretations of these characters and their world just aren't "legitimate" now? .......All of a sudden?

I want to punch something

#I'm starting to get really irritated at M+M downplaying the books. no sir they aren't fun extras that's just the actual plot you threw out #this decision would also erase the books' minority and women characters. which I don't think is the intention at all but that's the result #people who are really into bendy are gonna want more canon lore...we should really leave the canon-divergence to fanfics at this point #bendy books #i'm dying #dreams come to life #the lost ones #bendy fade to black #illusion of living #joey drew #adrienne kress #mike mood #themeatly #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival

[berlingotesque]

Little dump of some of my old dusty drawings and a lil doodle I made of my boys.

#ALSO #the Alice one is a collab with the sexy @//charlinecarter #it was a really fun collab your sketch was meh but you’re nice so it was great overall 🌸 #/j #or is it tho ? #batdr #batim #bendy and the dark revival #bendy and the ink machine #susie campbell #alice angel #twisted alice #joey drew #sammy lawrence #norman polk #normmy #dreams come to life #this book destroyed me istg

[the-good-ol-art-corner]

I know a couple of people have already redrawn that one panel, but fuck it we ball-

This is roughly how I thought Norman would look in canon (and Buddy <3) but uh, yeah that dream is squashed ig fml

Reblogs > Likes, Thank You!

#norman polk #Buddy Lewek #batim #dreams come to life #the projectionist #bendy and the ink machine #bendy dctl #bendy graphic novel #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #boris and the dark survival #bendy lone wolf #bendy the cage #my art #digital art #reblogs > likes #artist on tumblr #I was actually gonna color this normally and not in sepia #But I know I KNOW someone's gonna try to defend the white Norman stuff with- #-'Well it's hard to color black people in yellow shades/sepia' #When one that's just. not true? You absolutely can?? It's just a limited palette?? #And two BATIM and BATDR stray from yellow into colors of orange and borderline red. And on the opposite end BATIM had slight greens #just sayin' #Also yes I did change what he said in that graphic novel panel back to what he actually said in the og book #So glad you noticed :)

[juicyreptile]

i’d love to have like...some sort of new game+ or bonus content where Audrey gets the Seeing Eye Tool from the start like you do in BATIM, like Allison gives it to her right at the start when they first meet

and its still literally just Henry’s snarky commentary everywhere. How did he write any of it?? Who knows

Comments about the big pits like “dont look down” and secret areas “nice work nancy drew” and warnings for butcher gang spots “watch your head”. lots of jokes, witty comments, useful hints and praises

until it gets to where Audrey meets Bendy for the first time and then its literally all just pointing arrows and exclamation marks and crying emojis and “MY BOY ITS MY BOY MY SON BABY BOY”

and then every time Audrey sees Bendy again before they actually team up theres always a “son boy spotted!!!!” between the regular dry sarcasm commentary

#batdr spoilers #batdr #henry stein #audrey drew #baby bendy #bendy and the dark revival #batim #nancy drew was first published in the 1930s it fits. audrey absolutely would have loved those books and you cant convince me otherwise #also every time wilson shows up theres always a comment like 'learn to take constructive criticism dude' #'all i said was that the design needed a little more cohesion and a few adjustments you didnt have to lock me up for that smh'

[sun-is-a-square]

I’ve been watching videos about Minecraft prisons (+ escapes) and now I’m just thinking about a DSMP au where c!Sam accidentally locks up Manhunt Dream instead of c!Dream. But he just keeps using glitches to get out.

Like for example when you log off a server and log back on you get three seconds of fire immunity. So Sam locks Dream in the vault, turns around to go do some security checks, and Dream immediately swims through the lava, completely unburnt and mildly peeved

#manhunt dream just showing up #no clue about the lore but insanely powerful on account of being A Video Game Character #everyone thinks he must ALSO have access to the revive book but no actually its called the respawn button what do you mean ‘perma death’ #hes just here to kill the dragon why is everyone so freaked out :/ #dreblr

[dr3amofagame]

ok actual hot take uhhh chommy should've died when he did and he should've stayed dead

strongly agree / agree / ambivalent / disagree / strongly disagree / don’t care whatsoever

too much of a lorehead to agree with this, i fear. but have u considered how fucking funny it was to see c!inniters at the time bawling their eyes out only for c!tommy to be revived like 2 days later . bc that was HILARIOUS

#dsmp hot takes asks #my asks !! #c/inniters wanted c/tommy dead lowkey tbh a corpse is a perfect victim bc a corpse has no agency #like having him alive appeals to me more both from the perspective of obviously it was better for the story as a whole #but also like c!inniters were mourning all over the tl about how a tragedy it was for c!tommy's story to end like this #and how terrible it was that he was killed by his abuser and how awful whatever #and now he's going to be dead forever wahwahwahwah poor tommy wahwahwhahwah #only forhim to be alive like. literally 2 days later. and then people hated on THAT bc it 'took away from his death' #and whatever #like genuinely hilarious #it's like they forgor the existence of the whole ass revive book or smth #anyway that whole debacle still makes me laugh.

[ritz-writes]

reading book omens and go to warlocks birthday party and omgggg

long story short warlock ends up getting a hold of one of the security guard's guns and is waving it around. then he gets hit with jelly and pulls the trigger. aziraphale of course blinks and its suddenly a water gun instead of an actual pistol, BUT

it specifically says it sprays crowley

so aziraphale saved him from discorporation

and that just makes me rlly happy to think about

#they r in love ur honor #good omens #book omens #also read a head a bit #in the show aziraphale revives the dove that was in his jacket #in the book crowley takes the dove from him and revives it instead #i love them i love them

[anxiouslyextroverted]

So a few of my irls were talking about how c!dream never targetted c!tommy and or had a dependency issue and I just wanna correct that.

c!Dream at the start of the series (since now the start is considered canon) constantly went after the discs even when c!Tommy told him he wanted to have a truce and that they were allies even wanting to play them together with c!Dream. c!Dream agreed to those terms but then attacked him 5 minutes later anyway.

Not forgetting the first disc fight where c!Dream targetted c!Tommy the whole time and only gave c!Sapnap and c!Ponk and c!Alyssa a slap on the wrist.

c!Dream spent a good portion of a Tommy stream donating him msgs to play the discs.

A couple of early streams of c!Dream trying to get c!Tubbo o someone else against c!Tommy.

Not really targetting but he said "Tommy is under my protection" which is that dependency thing idk it counts.

c!Dream built a tunnel to c!Tommys base.

c!Dream during L'manberg arc seemed more against c!Tommy than c!Wilbur and the others more often than not.

c!Dream focused on getting c!Tommys friends against him, such as most notably c!Tubbo and c!Wilbur in pogtopia arc.

c!Dream betrays c!Tommy in pogtopia arc after initially helping c!Tommy out. He tells c!Tommy this is due to 'business' he also tells him, 'that he put something better over friendship' (aka the revival book he got from c!Schlatt) (either way, he still betrayed him.)

He tells c!Tommy at the end of l'manberg blowing up that 'everythings just getting started', and makes it out as if c!Tommy was in the wong.

A few weeks before exile. c!Dream and c!Puffy went around destroying everything including c!Skeppys home and then framing it on c!Tommy with signs. c!Dream in particular is excited for people to log on and for them to get mad at c!Tommy.

The above was confirmed canon when during Exile trial, c!Dream says that c!Tommy had blown up c!Skeppys house (or he infers it), showing the damage that he himself did.

In Exile trial, I'm not gonna lie c!Tommy totallyyy fucked up here by burning a little TINY tiny small tiny bit of c!Georges home and then trying to fix it. And then he lied about it. (/sarc) But, c!Dream was provoking him in the whisper chat with ":)" and "have fun on probation :)"

During exile, he focuses on putting all blame for his problems on c!Tommy. Not just saying that to c!Tommys face but on other people's streams, he was there talking about how much of a nuisance c!Tommy is and what not.

In exile, he proceeds to get c!Tommy dependent on him so c!Tommy will help with his goals later on. But the way he goes about this is to a severe extreme like how he snaps at him and hits him with an axe or arrow, he takes great enjoyment in bullying c!Tommy and getting others like c!Lazarbeam to bully him too, he makes sure c!Tommy is completely lonely even sending c!Ghostbur away who was memory loss so how could he break c!Dreams plans exactly?, he gasights c!Tommy into thinking that c!Dream didn't kill Mexican Dream, he blows up c!Tommys base despite never telling c!Tommy the rule about how he can't have chests underground.

He goes onto track c!Tommy down. And again, its more the way he goes about it.

Once c!Tommy is back in L'manberg, c!Dream blows up the community house and frames it on c!Tommy. Getting everyone against him and he tells c!Tubbo that he is affiliated to c!Tommy based on the disc that he says is 'Tommys most prized possession' which is him getting c!Tubbo to go against c!Tommy once more.

After Lmanberg gets blown up again. c!Dream tells c!Tommy "I'm not done with you. Our stories not over... Our stories not over" c!Tommy says "Our stories not over but it will be... It will be soon" and c!Dream replies "I don't think our story will ever be over, Tommy. I think that you're just too fun. I don't think It'll be over."

In disc finale, he proceeds to act like that c!Tommy is his main target, calling him the key to the server and going after him more than c!Tubbo. And puts the idea in c!Clingyduos heads that he needs all the possesions to control the server. (now even though c!Dream staged this whole thing and wasn't actually saying his motivations, c!Tommy never knows that he lied about that not at this point at least. It further riles c!Tommy up and has him believing that c!Dream really is obsessed with hurting him and since c!Dream never explains why properly, it comes off to c!Tommy that he is obsessed for no reason.) (Also possible for it to be half staged making the motivations semi-true)

Then, c!Dream causes c!Tommy to get stuck in the cell with him by controlling c!Ranboo to do that (which this is confirmed that he really did do this, confirmed in the final lore stream and in dream xds video)

The point of c!Dream allegedly lying to make c!Tommy think c!Dream was after him all the time is further solidified when in the prison arc. c!Dream refers to c!Tommy as a light, and key and keeps going on about studying death with him. I know a lot of this may very well be real and a result from him being mentally ill from isolation, but theres so many lies sprinkled in here like telling c!Tommy that he never tested out the revival book before when he had (btw correct me if Im wrong here, I could of got the dates mixed up)

c!Sam also claims that c!Dream kept going on about c!Tommy in the prison, c!Sam also says that c!Dream was practically manically laughing after he killed c!Tommy. (Obsession, putting on an act of obsession, mentally ill from the prison sure maybe all 3)

After c!Dream escapes prison, he immediately goes after c!Tommy. (Which sure is to scare c!Tommy into no longer going after him or whatever it could be an act) But he's still putting the idea in c!Tommys head that he's obsessed with hurting him, and don't say that he did this unintentionally because we already have the 'you're too fun line' and several other moments to prove otherwise. He also then puts signs around c!Tommys home saying 'watch your back' and ":) I'm watching" and he makes a trap for c!Tommy to fall into playing back a messed up disc. Don't say that this was apart of c!Tommys delusion because c!Eryn saw it too and a few others did from what I remember-unless thats retconned idunno.

In c!Wilburs finale, c!Dream can't stand the idea of the discs being burned. (The discs are affiliated with c!Tommy as c!Dream has said before, and has said that the discs are c!Tommys most prized possesion) He still cares about them even now. He also watches c!Tommy for majority of the time.

In Dreams space, he claims that his character was not solely torturing c!Tommy for the sake of it, but that he still really enjoyed hurting c!Tommy. Its to vague to tell if Dream is denouncing the 'c!Dream is obsessed with c!Tommy' theory or not. I believe he is saying that it is half true- as in that his character is, but that he has reasons to do so, and or that this wasn't his only plan.

During the final lore finale, c!Dream claims that he wasn't targeting c!Tommy and that he had left him alone however that contradicts with everything I wrote above, so 1. He thinks he left c!Tommy alone, 2. He was referring to the present where he did leave him alone and purposely/or accidentally ignoring the past, or 3. he knows he didn't and is just trying to rile c!Tommy up. Either way he goes onto admit that he did cause c!Ranboo to get c!Tommy stuck in the prison. He also confirms later on that he genuinely believes c!Tommy is the cause of the ruining of his server. "Why are you ruining everything all the time" "You deserved it (torture)" "I am (a villain), I tortured you."

And not to mention. Out of everyone on the server that gets c!Dream to give up and somewhat open up, its c!Tommy... because ofc it is. No ones surprised.

I think that's everything. as always I'm happy to debate with people and stuff preferably in dms but idm. If anything is wrong, correct it. If anything is missed, let me know. ty

#long ass post #c!primeboys #sorry if Im wrong about somethings please correct me on anything I missed and or anything i was wrong about! #dsmp #c!tommy #im a little confused about the last part of the dot points cuz like i interpreted those scenes in like 10 diff ways help me #im assuming cdream lied about never using hte revival book before when he revived ctommy because the lazarbeam thing but then idk if that #happened before or after prison #but then again it was confirmed in disc finale that henry was revived henry or smth idk #dream smp #analysis #also disclaimer: i am aware that a lot of the c!prime early moments are cc!prime doing things for content and fun but since the first #c!tommy stream is canon then so is all those other streams #And in every cc! moment there is always a little bit of lore when its on the dsmp so it is included regardless ty

[spotlightstudios]

Ah yes, marking Joey Drew's memoir w/ his greatest sin right in the front cover 👌

Had a great time w/ this one, since the front inside cover is yellow. It gave me the perfect canvas to work in reverse on! (And waste by black ink markers, but eh...) I'm gonna add some wips here along w/ the finished version too:

#light's spot #my art #bendy #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #batim #the illusion of living #book #the ink machine #ink machine #bendy and the ink machine #gods this was so fun!!! #brought me back to the days of drawing on my ipad w/ the yellow/black colors only #trying to replicate the style #I think i'm pretty proud all things considered #also #this is 100% heavily inspired by the end credits of batim #felt like mentioning it again #cuz like #there's nothing better than putting in references #better than doodling something completely irrelevant at least #i wannatrick people into thinking it's supposed to be there- #the Sammy in the back cover is up next! #though I doubt I'll even work on it today #that's just the plan ^^ #adding some extra tags-> #Joey Drew #art #traditional art #there we go 👌

[mightymizora]

Talking in the comments made me want to also say in the writing advice sphere of whatever this blog is…

So much of the best fic you’re gonna read is written by people for whom English is a second or maybe third language. And it’s wild and magical that people are so talented.

And also I hope knowing this encourages you to read literature in translation, because English as a language is formally very… uh… it’s a fucking mess, okay. And there are other languages and literary traditions that are much more robust, and there are subsequently some really fucking cool things that happen when you run these forms through the cold tap of an English translation.

Some of my favourite reads of the last few years have been Mexican, Russian, Swedish, French, Polish… and there’s not been much that was originally written in English that had touched them, at least in contemporary fiction.

A great place to start is to look at the long lists for the Booker International prize if you’re curious about contemporary work!

#writing tag #kind of #I am also extremely passionate about Bengali literature and support a translation project but man we have a long way to go #one of the most beautiful literary traditions in the world and barely translated! #anyway #I started a book recs part of this blog and promptly forgot about it #but could revive it if people are interested #or just ask idk

[grimdarkfandango]

was the special kind of tired-distracted this morning (thinking about blorbos, 7:30am) that I put my coffee in the french press, poured in the water, popped on the lid, and then immediately plunged and poured it. didn't notice until I had already cleaned out the press and was standing in the kitchen going 'wait a minute'.

needless to say my thirty second brew was weak as shit, thankfully the only thing I had on this morning was watching surprisingly investing werewolf casefic cdrama with friends

morale of the story: make coffee before your coffee so you can make your coffee right (or maybe stop rotating blorbos for a hot second and remember what you're doing, but that's less likely)

#yes hello I am using this as a blog again. for reasons #the reason being we cannot get back to the internet of yore without making an effort to use the tools as we once did #reviving the old ways etc etc #anyway. I've been reading books instead of going on social media lately and that slaps #undoing internet psychic damage one novella at a time #turns out enjoying things without running them past the marketplace of judgements is not only still possible but also much more fun. recomm #nd. oh tag character limits I missed u

[gods-favorite-autistic]

One of the things that makes Fantasy High so much more epic than like reading a fantasy book or watching a fantasy show is that the stakes are always so high because these characters can actually die, outside of revivify there is a real chance that the characters you know and love can die and they’ll be gone, so every battle and every death saving throw is just so tense

#also npcs can die as well and it’s completely up to fate if they do #fantasy high #this is what makes dnd so great honestly #with a book you’re always like ‘yeah but the main character won’t die there’s no chance of that’ #meanwhile two characters died in the second episode with fantasy high #like yeah they got revived but still they fully died

[bittersweetblasphemy]

the problem with writing a fantasy loosely based on a historical culture is you need to decide how "loose" you're willing to go. like yeah i know they didn't have silk but fuck you there's a literal god sitting right the fuck there and of course he would want that shit. but also would the protagonist know what the fuck a book is?

#sorry i'm bouncing between my novel and B&D's next chapter #at least we know they had cannabis #god and his weed smoking polycule #edit: btw if anyone was curious the answer is no #i'm willing to fudge some years bc fantasy but not by the thousands that separate this time period from books as we think of them #which is annoying bc linen was also not a thing yet #or it was super expensive #so guess who needs to go change a bunch of instances of the fucking word linen #every so often im struck with the question 'wait was that a thing yet?' and it's like a 50/50 shot i need to rewrite something because of i #probs closer to 80/20 because even if it exists it exists in a much different context #like the linen thing #at least it makes some good jumping off points for learning about history #nothing like asking what sorts of dates (fruit) would have been available and in what season to send you down the rabbit hole #and find out scientists revived the extinct judean date palm with 2000 year old seeds #and the fruit tastes like honey #big fan of the fact the first one that they were able to grow was a male and they named him Methuselah

[pairingbrainrot]

So...

What’s the plan when these two

and these two

(possibly) GET TOGETHER TOMORROW?! 

#LIKE WHAT IS THE PLAN?! #BECAUSE I GOT NOTHING?! #i guess we got to wait and see what happens #(a version of this post has been in my queue since may) #(that's how long I've been thinking about the possibilities of this happening) #but seriously I will never be the same #it will be one for the history books because I never had more then one ship be canon on the same day #same week/month sure but not the SAME DAY #THIS IS INSANE #and I love both pairings SO MUCH so I'm a mix of being nervous and excited on a constant loop leading up to June 8th #(also if you've seen a similar post like this on twitter - #yeah that's me) #benvi #nhie #never have I ever #nhie netflix #never have I ever spoliers #nhie spoliers #creddie #icarly revival #icarly reboot #icarly 2021 #icarly spoilers #8th June 2023 #(THATS TOMORROW?!) #(sorry for the cross tagging) #(also for any shippers on either side that don't ship/like the other ship) #carly and freddie #carly x freddie #freddie x carly

[toaster-ay]

Alright folks. This is something I've wanted to talk about for a while now, but just now I decided to actually write it all down and hopefully make sense of myself.

Long ass ramble about BATIM and some lore from official books.

So far I've got my hands on two Bendy books, that is The Illusion of Living and Dreams come to life (I also have the Employee's Handbook but that one isn't lore important). I plan on getting the rest of the book in the future but let's look at these two for now.

The Illusion of Living is Joey Drew's memoir, written all by himself. In this book we get to know quite a lot about Joey, more or less his whole life.

We get to know that he comes from a family of shoe makers, that he lied about his age at 13 so he could join the war. Or that he likes to dress and look fancy long time before he actually is fancy, just because it makes him feel better and gives the illusion that he's someone important. We even get to know that he once joined a Detective when he was investigating murder. And that he can appreciate good art while also drawing slightly himself.

What I want to look deeper into though, is the way he and Henry met. Thanks to the game (and even fandom), most people assume they were best friends for a long time. That they would go to hell and back for each other. But that wasn't actually the case??

Joey and Henry met through a mutual friend, Abby Lambert, and he actually didn't like Henry at first. Joey didn't like the cartoon artstyle, which is what Henry mainly drew. So they didn't have anything in common.

That was until Joey got the idea for Joey Drew studios, and asked Abby for help to come up with the main character, since she could draw better than Joey. Well, Abby tried, but it didn't end up as they wanted. And then Abby took Henry for help and went to Joey together, and let me tell you, Joey actually wasn't really thrilled for Henry to come with her.

But, after a few tries, Henry was able to come up with the right design for Bendy. Joey and Henry decided to work together after that, but Henry left the studio not that long after. It's said that Abby started to work in the studio three years later, but it's also said that Abby and Henry never ended up working together. And Joey didn't really seem to care for Henry.

He acknowledges him, but isn't mad at him.

It's just so interesting, why is Joey so angry at Henry in game, if he didn't seem to actually care about him in the book? Could've been a mistake from the writer, or I don't know.

This is just something I've wanted to point out for a while, and I'm super open to starting a conversation with someone about this!

Now let's look at Dreams comes to life

This book is written from the point of view of Daniel Lewek, also known as 'Buddy', who is also the character that ends up being the Boris we all know and love in game.

I love how this book is written, since it's written after Buddy is corrupted by the ink, and he's slowly forgetting all of this, so he's writing it down so there's something left. So the truth is known.

Buddy is hired by Joey to be a delivery boy after a quick meeting when he's delivering him a new suit, but later gets promoted to an artist after Abby Lambert (who is now in the head of the Art Department) sees a drawing that Buddy's grampa actually did, but Buddy ends up lying, since being an animator is something he actually wants to do.

Buddy befriends Dot, who works in the Story telling Department, and she's a really noisy and sneaky character.

Now, something I think is interesting is that, Sammy Lawrence is probably the first character to get corrupted by the Ink machine. Buddy's first meeting with him actually traumatises him slightly, because Sammy jumps at him covered in ink after a pump bursts right above him. Throughout the book, Sammy is depicted to be really interested in ink, while also drinking some from the ink bottles.

Then Buddy has the luck to meet the Ink Demon himself, accidentally even letting him out from the room he was locked in.

And then, Sammy goes missing. That's when even Dot has the pleasure of meeting the Ink Demon, since she and Buddy went to the studio when it was shut down to see what other weird stuff they can find.

When we meet Sammy again, he's already The Prophet that we've seen in the game. And he even already made some sacrifices, Buddy and Dot (and Richie, Buddy's animation coworker) were meant to be part of them too but they were lucky enough to escape. But Buddy's coworker, Jacob, didn't. And when Buddy and Dot find him attached to the Ink machine cowered in ink (they are able to save him actually), they also find already dead bodies of Dave (another Buddy's coworker) and Norman Polk ("Of course no one would notice he was missing. Of everyone in the building. He watched everyone, but no one really saw him" – I'm sorry I had to add this, I absolutely love it)

Dot and Buddy end up having a small fight with the Ink Demon until they get rid of him. Or so they thought, because he ends up grabbing Buddy and pulling him into the ink with him.

When Buddy wakes up after, he's already in the body of Boris. Joey Drew standing above him, absolutely thrilled that they got a perfect cartoon after such a fail with Bendy.

Even if Dreams comes to life was mainly focused on Buddy, it feels like we've got so much lore for all the other characters. Joey shows how much of an asshole he can actually be. Norman shows up a few times, always unannounced and with some information no one else except him knows. Sammy and his grumpy ass that was slowly getting corrupted by ink. Hell, we even got Tom and Joey argument about the Ink machine (and Allison was with Tom!! Holding his hand!!).

These books are really worth reading, and I'm excited when I finally get my hands on the rest of the books.

Alas, that is the end of my ramble. If anyone read it all, here's a cookie for you 🍪

And I'm also super open to have a conversation with anyone about all of this!!

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #the Illusion of living #joey drew #henry stein #buddy lewek #sammy lawrence #norman polk #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #i love these books so much #and this game #its my everything fr #i also love overanalysing shit #did you notice #dreams come to life