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!COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!

HIIII HELLO! So.. I decided to open commissions to see if it would still interest anyone here I think I'll open 5 slots to see if everything goes well or not Don't: NSFW, hard gore, proship, mecha Do: OCs, fanart, anthro, gore, designs COMPLEX BACKGROUND: +50$ because I'm not good at it, but if you want, I can try

Price list: 20$ - headshot

40$ - half body

70$ - full body

Payment after the sketch! ! Boosty - payment via cards (Not all. You may need to call the bank to push through the transaction) ! Hipolink - payment via PayPal. You need authorization via a code that will be sent to your email (or account on the website). This is a business card site where you can “buy” closed content (make payment in this way). You can dm me here, or on discord https://discord.com/invite/nqGzBxKp

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/!\ BATDR SPOILER /!\

God there are many things i want to draw for BATDR but im busy with my job training :’) but here we go, just a lil concept I imagined for Bill Danton ! I liked his audiolog sooo yeah gave him a look XD (more a ink version)

Facts I imagined : 

- he fused with the bendy clock

 - can activate a special vision, like he can see every movement, even the fastest one in slow motion (eyes of animator) / or has time power 

- an antagonist, can even be arival for Henry (calm animator vs crazy animator)

Also I’ll likely integrate him into my batim au (Inkmancy). Also ! to the anon who send me the ask about deus ex machina and inkmancy, dw, i’ll answer in during the week-end hopefully !!

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Au sketches!!

emo sweets wally: @pinkysdreaming parasite wally: @meatbag56 on tiktok ena wally: @eechytooru animated puppetry wally: @mandasarts tats all :]

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SO. FTB RIGHT. RIGHT??? GOES INSANE ABOUT ARCHIE. you do not KNOW the scream i SCRUMPT. he was my favorite batdr log character!!! i drew him!!!!!!! and now i can draw him again!!!!!!!!!!! i am still throwing around ideas for him, but i wanted to see a sheepy style of him, to match sammy. CAUSE THEY MATCH! in an AMA i got to ask if he was a regular lost one or not and she said that she actually made him to be like a Sammy type ink creature which i will never be normal about

anyways scotts here too because i think the three of them interacting would be hilarious

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Happy Birthday little devil darlin' :)

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What are your thoughts on joeys character in batdr and his redemption? If you ask me I like what they did with him. They gave him redemption without excusing some of the bad stuff he did. And I think memory joey could grow to be somewhat of his own character. But the redemption isn’t perfect though. Even though I said the it didn’t excuse some of the stuff he did it felt like they swept the bad stuff under the rug. But who knows. Maybe they’ll fix this in future.

But enough about what I think, what don you think?

I’ve talked about this before – the TL;DR of that post is that I think this is, conceptually, a promising way to portray Joey moving forward to be better for someone new, but in actual execution it fails to do that.

TBH I’d love to stop categorising this as “redemption”… I've grown to dislike this framing, debating whether it’s a Good Redemption or a Bad Redemption or whether Joey is Really Redeemed or Not, because it assumes that Redemption™ is even what’s happening in this story. BatDR is a story where we’re given reason to believe that Joey may have had a change of heart. That’s it! We can question and analyse his supposed change of heart, but it doesn’t have to REDEEM HIM to be real, and I think measuring things on the scale of REDEEMED VS NOT REDEEMED is not only gliding over some pretty complex ideas of What Does Redeemed Mean In The Context Of Fiction (it is the sort of concept that it is so, so easy for people to have vastly different unspoken definitions for, making discussions of “he was redeemed” “no he wasn’t” especially futile), but also not really useful here.

For one thing, this isn’t a story about Joey's change of heart. Tbh, he barely features – Memory Joey can have a change of heart and work to be better if you believe/headcanon that he has OG Joey’s attitude, worldview, and personality flaws (which I do), but he has no crimes to acknowledge or repent for other than MAYBE reluctance to get involved. You might as well ask a person to repent for the crimes of their kins!! We hear about the choices original Joey made, and we can judge those choices postmortem, but he’s not here to redeem himself through this story; he’s dead.

As to the actual spirit of your question: The big thing. The really really big thing. Is that the CYCLE IS STILL GOING. It’s still going and it’s still bad and everyone in it is still miserable!! He didn’t fix that!!! The only evidence we have of ANY attempt to make it nicer in there is that he added Allison Angel, which like, “i’ve created a new life to keep you company in the torture dimension, so it’s less bad” is NOT ACTUALLY BETTER.

It’s important because it’s the only thing Joey could still try to do. He clearly doesn’t have any money to give restitution to his victims or their families, and I’m not gonna be a cop about demanding that he return the ink machine to the corporation that’s even more evil than he was. There’s not a lot of tangible steps he could take to perform penance for what he’s done, beyond fessing up publicly to his crimes and turning himself in and definitely going to jail, and like, maybe that would be a good thing for him to do, but if we’re going to hold Joey to that standard we really should be making the same demands of, say, Thomas Connor, or Sammy Lawrence in every Escape AU.

He can’t go back and un-ruin the lives he ruined years ago. But he didn’t do anything about the cycle, and that’s something that’s still happening NOW.

That was his responsibility, sapient life that he created to suffer and should have felt a huge obligation to – yet, we have no evidence that Joey was like, trying to fix it (in fact, he seemed PRETTY FOCUSED on spending his limited time creating and then raising Audrey), so every assertion that he was a changed man falls a bit flat, because being a sweet, loving person to your family and friends while running an endlessly looping torture dimension in your basement is actually quite sinister! Even Memory Joey asserts that the only reason he can’t fix the cycle now is because he’s not really the OG Joey who made it – does that mean the OG Joey could? Audrey says she wants to make the cycle kinder; could Joey have done that? Why didn’t he? We know from Allison's appearance in the original BatIM that the hellish experience of the first game IS the version that came from Joey’s change of heart, and it’s not great for literally anyone!!

Joey was a better person to Audrey, his daughter, and I do believe he genuinely loved her. If it were just that, it would be pretty good – Joey disappears from public life and stops obsessing over Bendy and instead of barging into his past victims’ lives to demand forgiveness, he just wants to be a better man and a good father to this daughter he created. That’s a compelling story, and I think it’s probably the best direction that “Joey wants to be better” could go. But once we realise he was actively ignoring suffering that he both caused and was responsible for fixing, it’s hard to take that love in good faith anymore. Joey being good exclusively to people that he likes who are doing what he wants isn’t anything new; Joey’s delight in The One Who Came Out Right feels less like a change of heart when we see Memory Joey echo his complete lack of sympathy for The One Who Came Out Wrong.

The reason it feels like Joey’s wrongdoing was glossed over isn’t because Joey needed to record an audiolog saying “I acknowledge that my actions were without excuse, and I’m deeply sorry for the harm I’ve caused” or whatever… it’s because there was something he could’ve changed, or could’ve at least TRIED to change, and he didn’t do it -- and it feels like we, the audience, were not supposed to notice that, because the story didn’t notice, either. It'd be possible to address it; like, what if Joey's change of heart instead involved him trying to fix things for the people in the cycle, and Audrey was created accidentally in that process -- then his love for Audrey would also be a picture of how far he'd come, taking responsibility for this person he'd brought into being and seeing her as a beloved daughter instead of a mistake. Or even just an audiolog where Joey says some kind of “oh god I can’t end it, it’s just going to repeat forever, what have i done, what can i do,” and it might actually feel possible to believe in his change of heart, to believe that he really tried as hard as he could and just never succeeded. But this huge thing is barely acknowledged. It's fine. He put Allison in there, so now it's fine! Don't dwell on the past!!

Anyway, like I said in my first post, if all this were intentional, I would LOVE it, conceptually. The idea of Joey Drew being a good father to Audrey who really genuinely loved her, but also was not actually a better person in a lot of ways, was still the same guy who was uncomfortable with guilt and glossed over his wrongdoing in order to prematurely Move On from the things that made him feel like a failure and focus on the relationship with his daughter that made him feel like a success, is a compelling, difficult character! The way so many people fell in love with Memory Joey just seems like, how everyone in original Joey’s life must’ve felt about him, the way they all kept believing in him despite everything, the way they wanted so badly to believe him. Impose this lens upon the whole game, and it all fits in. But since there’s no sign it’s intentional – and, with the archive, actually some signs that it wasn’t – it sort of sits weirdly. Memory Joey isn’t framed as an unreliable narrator. The tone of his final scene clearly isn’t MEANT to be dissonant.

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So, uh, that’s what I think. I think the concept of Joey having a genuine change of heart and being better for his daughter could be good; I think the concept of Joey presenting himself as a changed man when really he is Just The Same, He Just Likes You This Time, could also be good. But he was handled clumsily enough that I think we didn’t quite get either thing, and, as usual, you have to fill in the blanks with headcanons and inferences to get one of these stories -- so which story you get kinda depends on which way you decide to interpret everything. Nothing tells us for sure that Joey didn't try his hardest to fix everything, so if you want that story, you can simply headcanon that he tried his hardest. But my personal preference is definitely for the reading where Joey believes himself a changed man because he really does love his daughter, and that's genuinely sweet!! but he remained the same man he always was, dodging guilt and responsibility in favour of a narrative that made him feel good about himself. I'm still quite proud of the frustrated little indictment Memory Joey gives him in that one creationship comic I made:

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the story that Candy Cadet told in fnaf sb ruin…

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comic based on a scene in Tiger Rock

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I recently realized that Lord Amok's throne is one of the chairs from Wilson's retreat, and his banner has the same texture as the banner at the entrance to the retreat.

These textures are not used anywhere else in the game. So what are the possibilities?

Did Amok's followers steal things from Wilson's retreat? Could this be related to the North Wing incident? So many questions!

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“Just make it a good one.”

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New Bendy T-Shirts!

Cartoon Bendy and the Lost Ones standing in the Heavenly Toys room

You know, this reminds me of something we've seen before

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My timeline of Bendy - Part 11 (1952-1972)

1952

• February 23, 1952 - Thomas and Allison marry and invite Joey to the wedding; Joey declines the invitation.

1963

• 1946-1963 - Bendy's domain (ink world) appears; Buddy keeps a diary; Buddy forgets his real identity; The events of the Boris and the Dark Survival game take place; Boris survives in the studio and collects supplies; A piece of Joey's soul turns out to be in the Ink Demon; Norman becomes a Projectionist; Sammy makes an audio log, where he asks for Bendy's blessing.

• 1948-1963 - The Lost Ones escape from a Giant Ink Machine; Piper, Fisher, and Striker appear; Bertrum's head in the carousel and Giant Bendy's hand in the Bendyland storage come to life; Allison Angel and Tom appear, containing parts of the souls of Allison Pendle and Thomas Connor. Cartoon Bendy and Lurker appear.

• 1948-1963 - Susie turns from the Searcher in Alice Angel; Ink Demon touches Alice; Susie becomes Twisted Alice, she kills members of the Butcher Gang and Borises to be beautiful again; Twisted Alice makes an audio logs under the pseudonym Milla Legna to trick Buddy Boris; Joey makes an audio log for Henry that Bendy didn't see the end.

• 1948-1963 - Nathan makes an audio log that dark revival will come soon; Nathan founded Archgate Films; Allison gets a job at Archgate Films; Wally went to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and establishes the Franks Handyman Service.

• 1963 - Joey sends a letter to Wally and receives a reply letter from him, as well as a letter from Allison; Joey performs the third ritual.

• August 1, 1963 - Henry comes to Joey and enters the Bendy's domain.

• August 1963 - The events of the Bendy and the Ink Machine game take place; Henry turns on the Ink Machine, moves through the studio.

• August 1963 - Sammy catches Henry; Ink Demon kills Sammy; Henry meets Boris and lives with him.

• August 1963 - Sammy is reborn; Henry performs tasks for Twisted Alice; Twisted Alice takes Boris.

• August 1963 - Sammy is killed again by someone; Sammy loses faith in the Ink Demon; Twisted Alice turns Boris into a monster; Henry activates Bertrum's carousel trap; Henry finds and kills Brute Boris; Allison Angel and Tom kill Twisted Alice.

• August 1963 - Allison and Tom keep Henry locked up; Henry makes three audio logs about it; Allison gives Henry the seeing tool; Allison and Tom escape; Henry meets Sammy again and kills him; Allison and Tom come and fight the Searchers and the Lost Ones; Henry, along with Allison and Tom, reaches the Giant Ink Machine, where he single-handedly defeats the Ink Demon.

1972

• 1963-1972 - Joey dies; Nathan buys the Bendy library and wants to revive the franchise.

• 1972 - Nathan and his team collect all the Bendy comics they can find into the Crack-Up Comics Collection book.

• 197X - Nathan reissues Joey's The Illusion of Living book.

• 197X - The events of the Bendy and the Dark Revival game take place; Audrey enters the Bendy's domain.

to be continued...

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My timeline of Bendy - Part 10 (1946-1948)

1946

• 1931-1946 - Jack makes an audio log about working in the sewers, and an audio log of being there only for coffee and quiet; Norman makes an audio log of keeping an eye on everything; Sammy asks the Music Department employees not to make noise in the hallways.

• 1935-1946 - Sammy makes an audio log about his sanctuary; Norman makes an audio log about Sammy's oddities.

• 1940-1946 - Thomas makes an audio log about elevators; Wally makes an audio log about a moving ink puddle.

• 1946 - The third version of the Ink Machine and the Giant Ink Machine are created; The Ink Demon is created.

• 1946 - Thomas makes an audio log about the creation of the Ink Demon; Joey makes an audio log about noticing the Ink Demon outside Thomas' office.

• 1946 - The Ink Demon is locked in the Infirmary; Norman makes an audio log about hearing groans from below.

• 1946 - Joey buys land to build Bendyland in Meadowlands, New Jersey; Joey buys a theater.

• 1946 - Wally makes an audio log about how everyone is walking around with angry faces; The studio is under investigation, it is written in the newspapers, where Joey lies, and Sammy protects him; Joey makes an audio log about how the company has no financial problems, and that employees should trust him.

• 1946 - Buddy's grandfather is found and helped to move to New York.

• July 1946-September 1946 - The events of the Dreams Come To Life novel take place.

• July 1-5, 1946 - Buddy is hired; Joey sets up a meeting with Thomas; Buddy's grandfather arrives in New York.

• July 2-6, 1946 - Buddy meets Dot, Sammy, and the Art Department employees; A pipe bursts in the Music Department and Sammy gets his first taste of ink; Dot shows Bendyland's inventory in the basement.

• July 12, 1946 - Sammy starts drinking ink and fiddling with the machine, which Thomas notices.

• July 18, 1946 - Dot tells Buddy her idea about Cowboy Bendy.

• July 19, 1946 - Buddy steals special ink from the Music Department; Thomas argues with Sammy.

• July 20, 1946 - Joey finds out about the theft and shows Buddy the theater; Buddy's grandfather goes to the library with him and starts teaching him how to draw.

• July 26, 1946 - Buddy gets his first paycheck and has dinner with Joey.

• August 1, 1946 - Buddy frees the Ink Demon.

• August 2, 1946 - Nathan sends a letter to the studio addressed to Henry, but Joey gets it; Buddy and Dot find Sammy's sketches and messages in the Music Department; Buddy's grandfather goes to the Art Gallery with him.

• August 3, 1946 - Joey and Buddy buy tuxedos; Joey invites Buddy to a party; Joey says he doesn't like California.

• July 19, 1946-September 1946 - Wally makes an audio log of losing his keys.

• September 1946 - Sammy disappears and turns into an ink creature; The studio becomes a mess and is closed for the duration of the investigation; Buddy and Dot sneak into the closed studio and find Norman; The Ink Demon kills the violinist; Special ink attacks Buddy's grandfather.

• September 1946 - The Studio reopens, except for the Music Department.

• September 13, 1946 - Buddy arrives at Joey's party; Bendyland is introduced to the public; Joey fires Thomas and Allison; Buddy talks to Thomas and Allison; Norman dies; Dave dies; Jacob is infected with ink; Buddy and Dot fight the Ink Demon; Buddy dies; Joey performs a second ritual and turns Buddy into Boris; Buddy hides in the studio.

• September 1946 - Bendyland is in the papers; The Heavenly Toys are moved to the studio; Shawn Flynn starts working in the studio; Wally replaces Thomas.

• October-December 1946 - Giddyup, Bendy! comic with Cowboy Bendy is released; Promotional Comics are discontinued.

1947-1948

• 1929-1948 - Hell in a Hand Basket, Rosemary's Baby-Sitter, Mining My Own Business, Fishin' Flummox, The Ghost Demon, Close Call, Tree of Doom, Black Sheep, The Horror House and Floating Demon are released.

• 1932-1948 - As Above So Below is released.

• 1935-1948 - Demonic Tonic is released.

• 1940-1948 - Wally makes an audio log of how he found and ate a cake in the Administration.

• 1944-1948 - Emma Lamont is hired; Emma makes an audio log about having to work in the toilet.

• 1946-1948 - Shawn makes an audio log about Joey getting angry over the crooked smiles on toys, and an audio log about a guy from Gent stealing his new tool belt.

• 1946-1948 - Someone steals an Ink Machine; Grant informs Joey that they won't be able to cover all the expenses; Grant dies and turns into an ink creature.

• 1947-1948 - Bendyland opens in Meadowlands, New Jersey; Joey assigns the achievement to himself; Bertrum makes an audio log of the park's creation being his, and creates a carousel trap; Bertrum is fired.

• April 14, 1948 - Nathan listens to audio logs in the Archives.

• August 15, 1948 - The studio receives a bankruptcy report.

• August 28, 1948 - The studio and Bendyland close.

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My timeline of Bendy - Part 9 (1944-1945)

1944

• 1929-1944 - The Devil's Treasure is released.

• 1944 - Nathan is vacationing in South America with Tessa; The Devil's Treasure comic is released

• June 23, 1944 - Bertrum purchases a large amount of steel.

• August 1944 - Financial problems begin; Grant informs employees that they are temporarily unable to pay them; Joey makes an audio log asking for money from Nathan; Grant asks Joey to limit expenses or find investors.

1945

• 1935-1945 - All Washed Up is released.

• 1945 - All Washed Up comic is released.

• July 1945 - Dot and her lover get married; Dot's husband goes to war.

• August 1945 - Dot's husband dies in the war.

• 1939-1945 - Old classic cartoons, including The Dancing Demon, are re-released to boost sales of war bonds.

• 1945 - Buddy's grandfather is sent to a death camp.

• September 2, 1945 - WWII ends.

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My timeline of Bendy - Part 8 (1942-1943)

1942

• 1932-1942 - Showbiz Bendy and Bacon Soup Bendy are released.

• 1940-1942 - Wally makes an audio log of not understanding why the machine is needed, and that Joey asked to donate things.

• 1941-1942 - The first ritual is performed; Special ink is created; Susie turns into a Searcher.

• 1941-1942 - The Break Room in the Art Department is moved; An ink pump is installed in the Music Department; Sammy makes an audio log of a noisy ink pump being installed in case of leaks.

• 1942 - Joey writes The Illusion of Living.

• 1942 - The Comics Department closes; All but one of the large presses had been scrapped amd their metal repurposed; Showbiz Bendy comic is released.

• 1942 - Buddy's father is killed in the war.

1943

• 1943 - Train Trouble comic is released; Boswell Lotsabucks disappears from the comics.

• October 1943 - Sammy and Jack receive an award for one of the songs.

• November 12, 1943 - Thomas makes an audio log of how hard it is to work for Joey.

• November 16-17, 1943 - Joey sets up a meeting with Thomas.

• November 18, 1943 - Jack makes an audio log of receiving the award and seeing Joey with Thomas.

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My timeline of Bendy - Part 7 (1940-1941)

1940

• 1939-1940 - Grant Cohen makes an audio log that Joey is planning a big project.

• 1940 - Alice the Aviator, Or, Give Them Heck, Angel! comic is released; Barley appears in the comics; Dime-Store Comics are discontinued.

• 1940 - Bendyland development begins; Bertrum Piedmont is hired; Lacie Benton and other Bendyland employees are hired.

• May 19, 1940 - Bertrum makes an audio log that his ideas being rejected.

• 1940 - Bertrum shows Joey the Bendyland game concepts; Bertrum makes an audio log about Joey calling him Bertie in front of investors.

• 1940 - Wally makes an audio log of his suggestion to the Bendyland workers about games; Bertrum works on animatronic Bendy; Lacie makes an audio log about her work and animatronic Bendy.

1941

• 1931-1941 - Joey makes motivational audio logs about the power of faith and dreams.

• 1939-1941 - The Great Depression ends.

• 1940-1941 - The first version of the Ink Machine is created, Murray Hill installs pipes;

• 1940-1941 - Allison Pendle is hired; Joey introduces Allison to all employees except Susie; A recipe for special ink is created.

• 1940-1941 - Susie makes an audio log of how she noticed that Sammy and Allison were talking.

• 1940-1941 - Construction Corruption is released; Partnership with Gent Corporation begins; Thomas is sent to work in the studio; Gent office is built next to the Administration.

• 1940-1941 - Ink Makers are created, many Gent things and mechanisms are installed; New pipes are installed; Thomas makes an audio log about pipes; Wally and Thomas make an audio log installing pipes.

• 1940-1941 - Wally makes an audio log of being unhappy with Thomas; Thomas makes an audio log of being unhappy with Wally.

• 1940-1941 - The second version of the Ink Machine is created; Joey officially introduces it to the staff.

• 1940-1941 - Joey makes an audio log where he suggests that Susie be part of his small project and revive Alice; Susie makes an audio log of Joey offering her some opportunity.

• 1940-1941 - Susie has lunch with Joey again.

• December 1940-1941 - Joey asks employees to donate items.

• 1941 - Promotional Comics release begins; Construction Corruption comic is released; Edgar appears in the comics.

• 1941 - Employee Handbook is released.