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Commission for @superbell64 of their Mystery Skulls Animated OC's Caroline and Chester!

The brief was for a couple of expressions and interactions of Caroline and her special someone, Arthur alongside her nekomata companion, Chester!

Thanks very much for the commission, I had some fun with this one!

Ko-fi / Red Bubble / Commissions

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WH! Spoilers!

i had to draw this quick

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Indeed, the Welcome Home cast seem to have some very odd ideas about food and its purpose. Part of Eddie's breakdown seems to be realising that a single pea on a plate does not make for a full meal and pouring gravy on your (edible) tree decorations is a very... unnatural thing to do.

This is big spoilers for the commercials in the Awayfrompryingeyes website on the Welcome Home site.

I've been saying since DAY 1 that Eddie Dear was going to be one of the most important Neighbors to pay attention too, aside from Julie, Frank, and Sally. And this update just practically confirmed it, I had this long running suspicion about Eddie Dear, and it's that I think he was one of the first besides Wally to gain sentience in a way.

I know most people believe Wally was the one who "woke" up first essentially and was able to see the reality of what they were actually living in, but I think Eddie Dear was the first of Wally's friends to actually wake up. My reasoning for this is that Eddie's "backstory" on the neighborhood page is so vague and strange compared to the other neighbors. He's the ONLY one who doesn't remember where he came from, and we see routinely throughout these updates that he's kind of the odd man out a lot of the times.

And that's not totally unusual for a kids show, but there's something about Eddie that just points to him being a lot different from the other puppets. Like that he's also the only one who's able to actually tell what time it is, as he's the only neighbor with a real watch.

And he really REALLY wants to fit so badly into the world of Welcome Home that he sticks to his job as a mailman as much as he can. But even looking at his interactions with the others, you can tell he's not quite playing the role he's been set as perfectly.

I don't think Home (the house) had anything to do with Eddie waking up, I actually think it was a combination of Eddie just not being able to mesh well with the part he has to play and the other characters breaking his routine without asking him. The moment that really shakes him is when he can hear the Narrator say "And Eddie Dear was happy." and i think that's because he really doesn't know if he is happy or not. Home is still strange because its obviously the one thing that Eddie fixates on when he first gains sentience, but I don't think its what shook him out of just being a puppet only.

Eddie is also so obviously playing along with the idea of Homewarming and doesn't actually know much about it. But he's not letting the others know this, as when he's alone is when he tells himself to just "focus on the festivities" instead of the other confusing parts of Homewarming. When he's with Poppy decorating the tree (with turkey...? and gravy...?) He just makes it seem like what they're doing is a no brainer, and something everyone does during the holidays.

But when he starts spiraling at the party, all of the things he helped decorate look strange and confusing to him. He can't focus on anything, staring into the wallpaper makes it seem worse, and the fabric of his own reality is literally being ripped at the seams (there's just an excessive amount of video tearing which I equate to Eddie's sense of sanity at the moment and just how present he really is)

It's here that Eddie finally realizes just what they're doing, and what everything really truly looks like. Eddie even tries to focus solely on Frank's face to sort of ground him, but the goddamned credits for the episode itself is playing over Frank's face and obscuring his vision. The scene itself wants to move on but Eddie is still able to see what the audience normally wouldn't be able too, and that split from his reality to ours is what makes him freak out in the end.

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Wip! Don’t know when I’ll finish, but ya know I had to draw Eddie having the not good time 👁️👁️

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Ooooooh! This... this is excellent analysis!

I love how it is just a single pea on a plate and yet there is so much symbolism that can be connected to it!

The Pea

I'm very hung up on the symbolism of this dish, particularly with how it pertains to Eddie and his episode of severe emotional distress.

Eddie was all alone in his post office when we found him. Although he refused to state this outright, it was clear he was feeling excluded and forgotten by his neighbors. We have often seen him pushed to the margins of the community, only sought out for his utility to the others.

Barnaby openly delights in scaring and tormenting him, Howdy overworks him without sparing a second thought to his needs, Julie only calls upon him when she someone who's easy to drag into a game, Sally refuses to address him by name and treats his attempts at social connection with disdain, Wally and Poppy only have fleeting interactions with him, and Frank hides his burgeoning fondness behind a facade of cordial indifference.

The pea is alone, too, isolated on the stark white backdrop of the plate.

"Take care not to place them too close together." Even if there are more "peas" at this party, Eddie sits alone in Home's chair, denied the basic creature comforts of intimacy as he watches the others mingle.

The pea is also a pittance to Eddie. It is presented to him right after Sally's single, small attempt to show him goodwill, which she only bothers to do because it's a holiday.

She still does not address him by his name. The gesture, the pea, and the seat are all mere crumbs – too little, too late for a neglected outsider who struggles to make sense of the lonely, awful torment of his life in this Neighborhood, one which he cannot properly articulate for fear of sounding ungrateful.

Home stares him down from his lonely seat. Its presence is monolithic and ominous, a towering figure that only makes him feel more small and alone.

Is it intruding on his mind on purpose, trying to hurt him? Personally, I don't think so, though it still remains to be seen. His words to Frank at the end are telling, though. "I want to go home."

Whether it means to or not, Home torments him with its very being. It's both the elephant and the room. Eddie is an outsider. Eddie can't remember where he's from. Eddie sleeps in a post office after thanklessly running himself ragged every day. Home is the very reason for this holiday, and Eddie is homeless. It's staring him down because it's a symbol of everything he aches for, but cannot have.

Eddie is the single pea on Home's plate. Take care not to place him too close to anyone else.

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"Eddie was happy..."

Yeah... not so sure about that one.

So... That update huh?

I honestly feel so nervous for Eddie. If anything happens to him I'll be genuinely upset... Man just wanted to relax and eat his one pea and got teleported to the backrooms.

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quiet unease

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“I’m not sharing with anyone I’m just showing off🍷”

tracked time: 10 hours 21 minutes

this was absolute hell to draw..but anything for janus tbh

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don't mind me, just thinking about how in every other graphic novel cover, the d20 is in the air, bouncing away from them, just out of reach, almost mocking them as it determines their fates. but for the suffering game, taako is on his knees, front and center, pinning it to the ground, umbra staff at the ready. has he got a fuckin' idea for you.

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It’s cold 🩷🩵…

My delulu is slowly coming back =w=✨

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Tis the season for a Mystery Skulls Animated reblog!

I’ve just released a whole bunch of Mystery Skulls Animated stickers on Red Bubble now available at www.redbubble.com/people/art-expression As for why there are so many, well it was my initial plan to produce a single page of eight for each main character but halfway through the project I suddenly realised that Red Bubble would very likely shrink the entire page down to a minuscule size so better to release each design individually. Besides, a friend pointed out to me that seeing as I had genuinely eight ideas for each character, I would of gone crazy trying to narrow them down to, say, three and wouldn’t of stopped thinking about the ones that I hadn’t drawn so better to just carry on, draw them all and let my customers make their own decisions on exactly which ones they liked and how many to buy! The concept of Mystery Skulls Animated and its characters are a creation of Ben “Mystery Ben” Mangum. Permission to sell fanart based on the series has been granted here: Mystery Ben’s Blog

DeviantArt / Red Bubble / Commissions

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I've had this song playing in my head for a few days now!

It's just so catchy!

The year is 1952. Three kids sit outside the malt shop and warn a classmate of the dreaded "Bubblegum Renegade," the nastiest ankle-biter on the playground.

An Epithet Erased original song.

Music video animated by Luveygold

STARRING Bryn Apprill as Phoenica Lindsay Sheppard as Skull Marissa Lenti as Stink Dani Chambers as Molly Oz Ryan as the Bubblegum Renegade

Lyrics by Brendan Blaber Composition + Mix - HvnterBvss Music Direction by Dawn M. Bennett

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Casual autumn walks

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Hey remember that time I made fanart in “Ramsey’s art style” a while back?

WELL

@jelloapocalypse commissioned me to draw some Fish Tits as an official piece of Ramsey art for the Cast Reunion stream today!

Great Barrier Reef and his prickly little Sea Anenome 🧡💜

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GUYS THE TWO-LOWEEN STREAM WAS AMAZING I missed listening to my favorite cast so much!!!! It was a blast and if you have not seen it yet I reccomend checking out Jello's Twitch!! Here are just a couple of my favorite moments but there's more on the way so stay tuned for those doodles :3

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Just realized I never posted this on tumblr, woops

Lorelai’s look is just my style version of the design I made of her a while back ;0

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Please let these disaster children adopt each other