#am beagle now

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[krasytoonz]

ITS TIMMMEEEEEEEEEEE

*starts a blizzard and snows on your WH au’s (mostly gangster (joke au. Don’t take it seriously)*

Wally D got snowballed

[yeet-mcgee]

FINALLY done with this piece, oh my LORD this took so long- Based off of this redraw!

[onesnoopyaday]

becoming unrecognisable to oneself

Snoopy #13

14/10/2024

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Someone probably already made a post just like this but I cannot stop thinking about Bill seing the stars, seing things no one else can and trying to show it to everyone but just destroying his dimension and I can't stop thinking about how it reminded me of Steve Carlsberg and the lines on the sky and about the Beagle arc, about the other boy that could see the lines but instead of understanding most people won't belive him and doing the most of his life despite it all (like Steve) he did something, he brought something in and he almost destroyed everything.

[of-the-eclipse]

HAPPY PRIDE!! From your neighborhood ... couple? Friend duo? Who really knows...

Both of them are holding the bi flag, Wally is trans flag colors, Barnaby is polyamorous flag colors :D

[kayak-lmao]

I guess this is my life now

Without filter and og image ^^

I wanna start putting songs with my art so uhhh this does not fit at all but I like Chappell so it's going here anyways

Also NO I didn't draw his hand backwards, he is pressing it with with pinky because he is extra >:(

[the-m0th-king]

I'm re-going through Night Vale episodes because I stopped listening for a while and I forgot how much I love this series.

I just finished part three of 'A Story of Love and Horror' and I think this series being largely a comedy makes the depressing moments hit harder actually.

[artistic-gay-walrus]

School doodles bc I feel like posting something

[silversodas]

Welcome Home, So Interesting Thing about The Hearts

When hearing about Welcome home I wanted to go in as blind as I could to try and see how much I could figure out on my own, before seeing to many others theories. I don’t have the energy to write a full essay at the moment, BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE HEARTS (again, I am going in blind so I might be talking about something that’s been talked about)

What hearts? The hearts on the soles of Wally’s Shoes and Barnaby’s paws. It’s mentioned in both their bios that they share that characteristic. I thought that was a specific thing to draw attention to, so I looked to see if there was symbolism for having hearts on the soles of your feet, and holy crap there is!

Apparently there is a sister saying to “wearing your heart on your sleeve” called “wear your heart on your feet”. Symbolically speaking, when we wear our heart on our feet, they’re still exposed for others to see, leaving us open to finding romance (typically). But at the same time the strategic placement gives us more agency and control as we play in the risky game of love. Which sounds reasonable, but could become too guarded of a strategy if your not careful.

Barnaby has hearts on all four paws so technically he has harts in the palms of his hands and that also has symbolism, it’s main symbolism is charity from the heart, but also

For Barnaby, it symbolizes help that’s given out of love, who Barnaby helps the most is Wally and since it’s a characteristic that they share, it gives me the impression that it’s something between them which brings me to THIS DRAWING FROM THE WEBSITE!!

This is how the heart in hand symbolism is usually depicted open palm hand outstretched to the viewer. This drawing snagged my attention, it was strangely intimate. I almost passed over it, but looked to see if there was symbolism for blue hearts..and dude..

Red Hearts symbolizes romance and romantic love, and blue hearts symbolize a platonic connection, apparently for emojis it draws attention to a unique bromance or a connection between friends that are as close as brothers.

So…for the heart that Barnaby has in his hand, that symbolizes the help he gives Wally out of love to be romantic (that’s how I am reading it) but Wally himself is painting it blue, symbolizing platonic connection. Which, to me, says that Barnaby has feelings for Wally, but Wally sees it as friendship. Mostly because Wally doesn’t get it, because Wally’s gay coding is gay coded so I don’t think it’s a “but he’s straight” issue, but I do feel like a frustration is being vented here. Which is why I find it really sad

The fictional creators of the Welcome Home website are more framing devices then characters but the fictional creators of the show Welcome Home are characters, more or less. The whole show of Welcome Home feels like it was created by a gay man who put as much of himself as he could in the show without giving himself away because it was the early 70s. I mean technically it’s really obvious, but would go unnoticed by the people he is trying to avoid.

I get the feeling that what I read from the drawing is something the creator has been through. Maybe he was the Barnaby and his labors of love were seen as friendship and maybe held out hope even though he knows he shouldn’t or maybe he was the Wally and perhaps did return feelings but was still figuring himself out and couldn’t see those feelings for what they were so he painted them as friendship hurting his friend and himself as a result

I am trying to see what the “creators” of the show were going for when creating the show as well as see Welcome Home for its super natural elements, but that’s a completely different post. I am not really even sure what Wally is or how much of his own entity he actually is or if the others are even around at all, but certain pieces of art work shows a lot of personal heart and soul from the creator (character) and it makes me want to know more about him, and see what agency he has in the narrative

[roosterlasagne]

Not sure if this is a Welcome Home theory or just something I've noticed but here are my thoughts about the video tapes in particular

The first thing (or 50 things slammed into one)

These tapes are obviously recordings of a single day, as Barnaby references multiple tapes as happening 'today' in the 14th tape when talking to Home. This has to mean the day is special in some way, whether something happened or Wally has become sentient. It's always a possibility this is only day one and future updates will have tapes happening after the initial 14. Or maybe this has been happening before and this is only one day of many.

What I believe is the important is what happened for them to be recorded. Has Wally become sentient? Does he have cameras in his eyes? Or is it the actors playing him at that moment that is important?

I was thinking more about the actors themselves (I don't know if I believe this to be the case, just something I thought of). In puppetry it is usually the case that you will have a few people working on a puppet, for Wally, who is a fairly small puppet it could be possible it is only one person. And then you'll have the voice actor recording the lines. From what I know it's not often (if at all) that you will have the voice of the character be the puppeteer. My thought with this is that the actor is the one recording, or somehow the conscience of the actor and puppet have someway become intertwined (but that would require much more thought put into it and I don't know if there's much evidence to support that, and there's even evidence pointing towards the show never actually happening).

However, it could absolutely be the case that these characters exist in their own realm and what we see in the recordings are not the episodes of the show. Because if these are scenes from episodes then Wally being completely still makes no sense if he is to be on screen, especially that he's portrayed as the character that interacts with the audience Dora the Explorer style. (With this you could also read it in a Toy Story way where the puppets live their own life on set as if in a town and are only controlled when the show is filmed, but that seems too cliche.)

The second thing

Pretty much nobody during these tapes questions Wally's silence. At the end of each tape they ask him something, but none of them are in a "omg, how did Wally get here", so they're obviously aware, they just do not speak to him prior. This may be due to being preoccupied with the conversation or what I think is that this isn't unusual behaviour for him.

In the recordings on the website itself, Wally is clearly more monotone and doesn't speak that much. Plus, he seems quite confused. (I've seen many theories and headcanons as to why and I have my own but they're not important at the moment.) So him basically zoning out like in the tapes may not shock them.

And in tape 5, Eddie, for most of it, speaks to Wally because you can't hear the creeks of Home like in tape 14, so I don't think he talks to Home. Eddie quite comfortably carries a one-way conversation without being stilted in it by Wally's silence. Most people would be quite put off if you start a conversation with them and you don't speak when this isn't something you did before.

This is why I don't think that Wally zoning out in these tapes is what shows his sentience or is what is 'weird' about the videos. What I think is important about the tapes is that they are RECORDED and seem to be recorded from Wally's point of view. As well as why they are titled 'answer'. And how the other's interact and why it glitches when Wally's name is being said.

The third thing

Is actually Barnaby. In the tapes he is the only one that seems to try to directly interact with Wally throughout the tape. Except Eddie in the fifth one of course. But Barnaby expects Wally to respond to him, for example he asks him questions in tape 11, the one where he makes fun of Julie's jokes.

And of course there's tape 14, where Barnaby directly questions why Wally has stopped painting and why he is not responding. The other characters have never questioned Wally's unmoving. This prompts me to think there is something more special about Barnaby, he is said to be Wally's best friend, this might be why he notices more. Maybe he is the next, after Wally to become 'sentient' or realise there is something up

[mo3s]

the lonely wizard seems to wrack his mind at night

[l0ganberry]

Here's more of my Barnaby the Snowman. (contains fluff, Laughingstock and a snowman goober)

This is how I thought it out when I said that Barnaby accidentally bumped into a snow cone stand. (He was just only juggling snowballs!!)

As a Laughingstock enjoyer and goober, I decided to draw some since I did involved Howdy when it came to the snow cone stand. (It's just..... THEM!!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THAT..... GAHH!!! 💖 💖💖 💖 💖 💖)

(Also....... Since my handwriting is garbage, I added what they said in the image description to those that can't read it.)

The last one is a doodle that's actually based off my favorite expression in the Frosty the Snowman movie. I've already rewatched it a few times and I can't help but squeal every time I saw Frosty's cute expression.

[catlover4536]

So like, I'm a sucker for fusions and @sweetest-honeybee has some banger ones right here!

[rockn-rule]

I think I'm going nuts

But, in memorial of my gramps with severe dementia, I've decided to return to my Muppet era as my gramps used to do a silly lil sweetums impression for me when I was young!

I'm going to miss the past for a while so be ready for that I suppose as I've already started to rewatch my old Muppet show tapes as it is

[thevalleyisjolly]

My superpower is coming up with the best stuffed animal names.