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[halfusek]

I am... so confused by that person's response to your post about the stream. Like.. WTF? There was so much malice there.

so much malice in there

(fjkfdfg like i mentioned in the tags they are my friend, it was not malicious at all, just an inside joke we were making while playing through the game)

#the zing slander #which i also asked to make this image <3 #hashtag blessed #halfask #pals

[joeydrewsweetbun]

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[halfusek]

thoughts on the cage trailer? :0

Always happy to see more of Henry. That's it. I missed the old man. Also he will finally get to have hands if we play from his POV. Though that would be sooooo funny if we didn't play as him but for example as Joey. Okay maybe I just really would love a game where we play as Joey.

Remember when the devs made the whole hoopla around BATDR being "not a prequel, not a sequel, not BATIM 2"? And then BATDR turned out to be very much a sequel to BATIM?

Yeah this time looks like it is indeed not a sequel nor a prequel as it is literally a subplot of BATDR. Still funny though.

Not sure how I like "The Cage", of course it's hard to judge before knowing the content of the game but wouldn't it be better to just name it "The Pit"? Or something else but idk "The Cage" just sounds a bit uncreative to me but also it's just a little nitpick, I don't really care that much about it.

And most importantly. Theories. "But how did we escape The Pit? How did we get away?" I wonder what do the devs understand as "The Pit". Because my impression was that we have never reached this location in BATDR because Audrey got caught by one of the Keepers on her way there (to retrieve The End reel). However I saw some people interpret "The Pit" as the cells where Henry, Sammy, Norman and Bertrum (and before she made her escape - Alice) were kept. (Including the Bendy Wiki apparently.)

The Archives do mention "The Pit" as a prison belonging to Wilson and the Keepers. Heidi even mentions that in game:

"That's where the ghosts live. Just beyond that door. The Keeper's prison. The Pit. No one ever comes out. At least, they're not quite the same."

However I do not agree that this prison is "The Pit" because that just... doesn't make sense!

When Henry explains to Audrey the deal with The End reel, he says it's in "The Pit" as in in a different location.

Also above the cells, where the contraband items are, we see the entrance to "The Pit". It is clearly not the same area.

Though Henry does ask in the trailer "how did we escape The Pit?" as if it's something the viewer should already be asking themselves. And that would be again not making sense because to our knowledge if the cells they were in are not "The Pit" then we would have no reason to assume that they went there - because it was Joey who got The End reel, not them.

Do you see my struggle here? fdnffdgkjfd

But also I can't say that the devs are the best writers and they've made multiple contradicting, illogical things before so that wouldn't be the first. So probably better not to get too worked up over that :P

What we do know however is that they will be going to the place that ruined Heidi mentally, the place where The End reel is kept and the place where "the ghosts" live. So that will be fun!

And I hope Joey shows up in there because he did hand the reel to Audrey, so surely their paths must have crossed at some point. That will be very interesting to see and I am awaiting it impatiently. :)

#bendy and the ink machine #bendy: the cage #halfask #halfpost

[halfusek]

What do you think about that new Bendy game coming out on the 14th?

hard to tell from how little there is

the trailer didnt really captivate me, but i guess its fair how much of a nothing there is considering the game will be free, so i'd expect something like batds - i did enjoy batds for what it was (maybe except for the final "reveal" about the collage which was uh. a giant nothing burger)

seems like this is leaning to the scp / found footage / analog horror territory, which ive gotta say im very sceptical about, at least personally to me they are often executed in an unsatisfying way but who knows maybe the devs who kept delivering a disappointment after a disappointment will surprise me

i do like the design of that thing that you can see clearer in the screenshots, im intriguied by the possibility of meeting a less messed up butcher gang character, and im especially excited about The House

seems like im not the only person reminded of the little barn allison painted on the wall we can see at the beginning of batim's chapter 5, i would love a tie in back to that (cuz it never really was tied back to and thats quite interesting why she'd paint something specific like that)

but i am begging them, i am getting on my knees - stop STOP copy pasting the bendy face png on everything, i promise the house doesnt need to have a giant bendy face, it looks sooooo out of place

speaking of overdoing things, mentions of 414 are starting to get a bit tasteless, especially that the number isn't really meaningful in-universe - yes i know that's henry's assigned subject number - but 414 really started as a joke from one of the developers which was picked up by theorists. that meaning was given by fans and it doesn't seem to have any satisfying origin in-universe. yes henry has the 414 subject number *now*. what does it refer to? there's a few theories (like we used to theorise about it waaay before batdr) but there's nothing that's really clearly stated. if it's just gonna be a number that appears cuz ooooo oooh look its a number you guys like isn't this fun like jiggling car keys in front of a baby that's gonna get old Pretty Fast. but maybe they are planning to give it a meaning, i'd be looking forward to it

i will give them that the game being officially developed by Gent Corporation is kind of funny

it seems like they're trying to alleviate responsibility for Whatever Horrors That Happened Really off of JDS shoulders (and joey's by extension) and put the blame on gent for being The freak evil corporation and im not sure how to feel about that (weeeeeell i do not like this direction the way it is looking now. i would have liked it more if it was executed differently)

my thoughts are that this is going to be a game that will not really answer any questions or will answer questions we didn't/wouldn't have but it will be more or less entertaining while we wait for the main course (the cage)

#halfask #bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy: secrets of the machine #bsotm..? lol #anyways i just reached the beginning of the year while looking through the bendy tag #i have scheduled like 100 posts #for now #:) #feels like i have loaded a barrel of a gun lmao

[halfusek]

i was reading the end part of abomination and was wondering three things ,1-what is the meaning of Joey changing from his real world self to his story world self ? Since it appears that joey died,does this mean that his real world self and story world self fused ?, 2-how does joey control over the story world works ? is he aware of what the story version of hackenbush has become or he is independent from joey's actions ?3 What would happen if the little devil darling cartoon has played ?

answers to all of these could potentially be "well you're supposed to come up with some interpretation yourself" but i do have things in mind as answers to these questions :)

real joey didn't die (yet), so it's not them fusing - i realize that it might be a bit confusing story joey has been created soulless however as you can see in the ending this happens

i don't mind people coming to the conclusion that story joey has real joey's soul but if you would like to hear me out on what i precisely have in mind for this

[becomes an unskippable cutscene]

so when you look through the seeing tool in batim you can see these floating gold particles

to me it's joey's soul scattered through this entire ink dimension because he is the storyteller of it and influences the way it's been made and how it functions

and that can also include some creatures

creatures that "fully" have their own soul like susie!alice don't have anything to do with him but ones that don't have a full soul of another person? or no soul at all?

the ink demon (squish) and story joey have been created but not with an use of a sacrifice

they are soulless but they are a physical manifestation of joey's soul that really has been used for creating this entire world

however he is "anchored" to his ink counterpart and that's what it stands for

that's why story joey's and bendy's "souls" join together

because in the story that joey is telling ink creatures are made/perfected via sacrifice and via using people's souls in this process - so technically story joey is "supposed" to have a soul

...yeah i know it's a bit complicated but you must understand. i'm very autistic. njknjknkjnkj

2. joey's control over the story mostly boils down to creating situations, events, enforcing themes, introducing new characters and in rare occasions tweaking character's personalities

however all of these abilities have their limits and they don't just rely on his skills as a storyteller because those aren't really that bad, there is also some ink magic fuckery involved :)

for example story joey is NOT written how he would have liked him to be - all characters become a more exaggerated/cartoonish version of themselves - and through the lense of his regret and self hatred he has made out quite an asshole out of himself

like he already was one but he's managed to make him even worse

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3. little devil darling. is. something, alright

it's the first bendy cartoon to exist

and yet... we've never seen any of it. it's not up there with all the other cartoons in bendy's throne room in chapter 5, nor all the other rooms inside of the giant ink machine

however. there are two things

this image is a screenshot of @lucky-dreamfisher 's theory because their eye for details really helped me with some of my own theory/headcanon crafting :)

and i agree with the conclusion they reach here - since this cartoon is missing, the very first bendy cartoon, it means that bendy is prevented from reaching perfection

and preventing joey/bendy from reaching perfection just seemed like a great revenge to come from susie!alice :) additional points for the fact that i associate "who's laughing now?" with alice since this message also appears next to boris' corpse in chapter 1

i'm not saying that story joey would have made a perfect bendy otherwise, but this way the process will never be perfect from the technical side either

but also speaking of little devil darling

there is a poster of it inside of the giant ink machine while there are no other posters

i just thought that's interesting

#bendy and the ink machine #abomination #halfask #halfpost #joey drew #magenta #the ink demon #alice angel #susie campbell #cw character death #cw gore

[halfusek]

Hello! I may have bored you in three days, but I have a question.

In the comic, it could be that Joey was secretly in love with Sammy, but didn't dare say so. And by creating the Ink World, did he make Lawrence fall in love with it?

It's just that in the Russian translation of the comic there is a moment when Sammy leaves the room, and it says "Gay panic".

But in both worlds, Drew has a relationship with Susan.

Just re-reading Sammy's conversation with Susan, I didn't understand... He is upset that Drew didn't break off his relationship with her.

Oh, actually story! Joey and Sammy are in a relationship, they hold hands in some panels and such, there isn't too much about it and it's a very unhealthy one but it's there :)

In the real world Joey and Sammy never got together but there were some sort of strong, complicated feelings between them

And yes Joey has been dating Susie in both worlds (which was also an unhealthy relationship haha just how it is with him)

Yes, Sammy is upset that Susie and Joey are technically still together while Joey without a problem has been doing "couple stuff" with him as well, he wasn't exactly aware of that

He knew that Susie and Joey dated but as Susie became Alice their relations looked so complicated and hateful that he didn't think they'd still be together. So he was sad to learn that he was hurting Susie this way unknowingly

And Susie had satisfaction in making him upset about that

Joey just takes :)

#halfask #bendy and the ink machine #joey drew #susie campbell #sammy lawrence #abomination #magenta #sammy x joey #susie x joey #jammy #broken record #starcrossed lovers

[halfusek]

I don't know if hug questions are allowed but I want to hug Mr. Drew 👉👈 *im cat anon*

if you hug him you will get 23 diseases

(feat. @sky-lia)

#bendy and the ink machine #joey drew #magenta #halfart #halfask #pals #uwu

[halfusek]

Tumblr used to let you add as many images as you want?? I've never been able to add more than 9 since I joined in 2019 cuz it always said that was the limit 😭

that's for "photo" posts!

it used to be the case that if you chose photo posts you could add max 10 images (now its 30)

and for text posts you could add up to 250 iirc (thats why i had to split abominations ending into two parts because it exceeded that)

then they briefly changed it to unlimited

but apparently very recently like few months ago they just. made it so that when you add images to a post it automatically makes it a photo post. so not the limit of 30 is for both :')

as someone who makes long comics and likes to post them as one post this is very annoying because tumblr was basically the only social media / art site allowing me to do that

and as ive been consistently posting on tumblr i dont wanna suddenly change into something like ao3...

(i might look into posting whole abomination on ao3 though! i think that might be fun :])

#halfask

[halfusek]

Super duper sorry to bring this up, but the ADL isn't the most trustworthy source- please please look into it- I know you have only the best intentions but I feel there's a bit you haven't seen

Before sharing anything from ADL I checked opinions about it including one of a Jewish friend of mine and according to them ADL is a reliable and trustworthy source - it only was noted that maybe they just put things too simply or do not elaborate enough but it still can be good as a starting point of getting educated.

So I'd really appreciate if you gave proof as for the claim that it isn't a trustworthy source because I have looked into it plenty and haven't really found anything discrediting it. I'm willing to listen and reevaluate what i think of it if the proof is valid though. 👍

#halfask

[halfusek]

Thank you for your support. I agree that we need peace and stability for the people in Gaza. but the amount of Antisemitism I've faced for even daring to speak up and say my people deserve to protect ourselves from terrorist attacks is disheartening. Just wanted to say I appreciate the support!

yes, terrorism is not the way to peace (in fact its one of the major causes as to why there isnt peace)

well, thank you for telling me that, im happy to be of help🫂

#🫂 this is supposed to be a hugging emoji fndjfk #halfask #antisemitism #cw antisemitism

[halfusek]

Who do you think is the ultimate scrunkle in batim/batdr?

the ultimate scrunkle energy if you try to remove as much as bias as possible should in my honest opinion go to edgar/striker

unauthorized fucking thing

#bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #batim #batdr #edgar #striker #the butcher gang #halfask

[halfusek]

confession: during that scene where you're in the elevator with wilson in the beginning i said "so can i take a swing at him? just punch him y'know"

if a guy says "pretty girl like you shouldn't be wandering all by herself" that's your cue to hit him with a metal object tbh

#halfask #bendy and the dark revival #bendy and the ink machine #wilson arch #audrey drew

[halfusek]

Bro I just read the whole comic you made and I started crying mid class because of it and I was up the whole night till like 7 am then slept in the car for 30 minutes then finished it after my exams it's so fucking good omg

HI im answering this very late but my inbox intimidates me sometimes sorry

i'm glad you liked the comic!! i'm sorry for the tears and the sleepless night? X'D

#im always happy to hear how people feel about reading it #sorry that i usually answer so late >< #halfask

[halfusek]

Hi! I hope that your day is going well

I wanted to ask you,will you host secret santa this year?

(It's ok if not, it's really hard to organise :])

i've decided that i'm not going to host another secret satan until i make it right with all the people that still didnt get their gifts/rewards from events ive organized which unfortunately i didnt manage to do yet so no, no secret satan this year

of course people in the bendy community are free to organize their own events, maybe some discord servers are organizing one :)

i'd let someone else organize it but the problem with that is i'd still be responsible for it by extension and if anything went wrong i just do not have currently the energy and the time to deal with that fdnfjkdfd

#im happy to know that there are still people interested in it though sorry for not being able to deliver at the moment! #halfask #secret satan

[halfusek]

Sorry for asking this random thing that's not durectly related to you but do you have screenshot of pause menu for Beast Bendy?

I heard that there's three of them and i saw only two.

Actually I do have such a screenshot! There ya go

#bendy and the dark revival #bendy and the ink machine #batdr #batim #halfask #thats a nice detail to add tbh #audrey drew #beast bendy #bendy spoilers

[halfusek]

get better

#halfask #pals