#arch gate studios

[nightmaretherabbitsideblog2]

Hey y'all who should I make a reference sheet for now?

[venolfy]

„Ink is calling us, my dear...”

I really like Wilson! Even when he was broken into little pieces. Kinda funny when you think about that xD (I really laughed after that scene. I'm bastard)

[thatonecrookedsmile]

"ArchGate Films" "Arch Gate Pictures" “Arch Gate Studios"

Can someone ask TheMeatly to finally make up his mind on what Nathan's studio is actually called and to stop changing the name of the place every time it's mentioned,please.

[ask-the-friendly-ink-demon]

*you have now been given a tiny crab. His name is Steve. You can not get rid of him. Steve now lives with you.* :)

"THIS IS A WORTHY OFFERING TO THE NEW KING. THANK YOU."

[gbhbl]

EP Review: Spree by The Harvest Trail (Self Released)

Australia’s rising stars of melodic death metal, The Harvest Trail, release their brand new EP titled Spree on the 14th of April, 2023. For fans of those great bands like At The Gates, Arch Enemy, Soilwork, In Flames, Darkane, Dark Tranquillity, and The Halo Effect, The Harvest Trail hit hard with a relentless onslaught of melodic death metal. Hailing from Australia, this fierce quartet channels…

[stereo-91]

CHATEAU DE VERSAILLES CC SET

NOW AVAILABLE ON PATREON!

Everyones favourite Chateau is finally here!!!!

After a lot of hard work, we have finally finished making our Versailles CC set.

Ever since the Sims 4 first came out me and Anna have always wanted a Versailles CC build set in the game. After learning many new CC creation techniques together over the last few months, we decided to attempt a Versailles set of our own.

Now simmers can build an accurate Version of this very popular and beautiful palace.

This set includes

* Stone Balcony and Gilded balconies with their platforms ( separated )

* Huge Sculpture with the Clock in the middle

* Full Columns in 2 different sizes

* 2 different Wall Columns in 2 sizes

* 2 Types of Shelves for your walls

* 2 Types of stone benches with their pedestals

* Stone Vase decor

* Rooftop railing and pedestal

* Friezes, ornaments, keystone as you see in the pictures

* Front Door with multiple swatches to choose

* 6 Different windows in different sizes and shapes

* Arch in marble

* 2 Types of Niches for the walls

* Marble and stone floor tiles set for the entrance

* Rooftop Windows ( both )

* 3 types of golden chains railing for the rooftop

* Roof tiles matching Versailles

ALL BASE GAME compatible, except for the golden entrance gate that requires Vampires EP 

Se hope everyone enjoys building using these new CC items to create their dream house or palace

We will be creating the back facade in set 2 in the future.

We really hope you enjoy this set

LINK BELOW:

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This 1928 Spanish Revival in Long Beach, CA has so many wonderful retro features that are preserved. 3bds, 2ba, $1.02M.

Small foyer with a fancy carved arch and sconces sculpted into the wall. I've never seen anything like that.

But, look, there're more. Beautiful Spanish style fireplace and a recessed built-in bar.

The dining room has a shallow recessed wall niche that's just big enough to highlight a sideboard.

Check out this wonderful original kitchen. Vintage stove, cabinets, tile, everything. I have to appreciate how the owners took such good care of it.

Original backsplash and faucet.

The mirrored door opens to the old milk delivery window. They must've put that little plastic shelf in the wall for steel wool soap pads (when everyone knows that you simply put them back in the box and they're good as new).

Wonderful vintage stove.

What a lovely, sunny kitchen dining space.

And, look, it has 2 corner cabinets.

Check this out- not only does it have a folding ironing board, but it has a little board for sleeves.

And, look at this- a little galvanized metal lined cabinet for the iron. I wonder if the vintage iron will convey.

TV room. (Could they have chosen more uncomfortable chairs?)

Now, here we are in a closet.

A trap door in the floor opens to the basement. Since I only see one step, it must have a ladder.

This bedroom is lovely, but it's not very big since they have the bed on an angle.

The bath! It has a big built-in vanity table.

And, orchid plumbing fixtures. I've seen vintage colored sinks and tubs, but they always have a new white toilet. They may have gotten this toilet from an architectural salvage yard.

In the hall, ahead, there's a built-in desk. On the left is a built-in armoire. And, there's also a phone niche with a folding seat.

The primary bedroom is so royal looking. It looks like Old English around the ceiling border. And, look at the built-in with the pull-out mirrors.

Beautiful vintage shower room.

This home is amazing- gated driveway with porte cochere and 2 car garage.

In the large yard is an addition.

It's a large addition and has this great studio, plus 2 other big rooms that use for storage.

And, look at this detail in the wall outside- a little gnome niche.

The lot is .15 acre.

https://www.compass.com/listing/1985-san-francisco-avenue-long-beach-ca-90806/1532701137276580849/

[sunflower-ozzy-online]

Omega's Grove

As an omega traveling on your own after your boat crashed you look for the rumored arch druid for help managing your suppressants. (set before the events of Baldurs Gate 3) (smut starts in chapter 9 xoxo kisses) (unfinished and in progress)

Chapters: (link to AO3 the end))

1: The Sea

2: The Library

3: Withers

4: The Grove

5: Druid Doctor

6: Preparing

7: Stewing in Slick

8: Darling Druid

9: Heat in a Cold Bed

10: A Literal and Metaphorical Door.

11: Come In

12: Let Me Do It For You

13: Knot Talk

cont.

Ao3 link - my AO3 has version of a smut with a penis reader instead of just a vagina.

Image credit and character credit to Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Studios

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

Audrey Hepburn's cover story for Illustrated's 2 June 1951 issue.

Carefree, off and on duty.

Audrey — The Other Hepburn

Photography by Joseph McKeown Story by Charles Hammlett

After four years of theatres, cabarets, and films, a young dancer takes a day off from career building

The Sphinx of Hollywood, otherwise Katharine Hepburn, actress and movie performer, recently spent a few days in this country wrapped in rain and  mystery, and wearing an old pair of eye-catching, publicity-snatching slacks. As one of the country’s legends, Miss Hepburn has earned the right to flinch at the rustle of a reporter’s notebook, or to duck at the sound of a photographer’s footfall.

Even as pressmen determinedly pounded the Hepburn beat, a few miles away at Ealing Studios another Hepburn was quietly performing in front of the camera—as yet blissfully unaware of the hysterical mobs and frustrated fanatics who often make the lives of Hepburns, Stanwycks, Gables, or Turners unendurable.

This other Hepburn was Audrey—Britain’s answer to every filmgoer’s hungry dreams. Twenty-two, brainy, beautiful, tantalizing, and talented, she is a girl of simple tastes to travel to Ealing by Underground from Marble Arch, takes Sunday afternoon strolls in Hyde Park, and stops to listen to the geniuses of Orator’s Corner.

Restful spirit at Rottingdean . . .

Over a gate for home . . .

She rides on buses or browses in the Charing Cross Road bookshops. Visits to cinemas and theatres are still fun for her. Given a day off, she will rush to the coast and join countless other holidaymakers. Audrey Hepburn is also a hard and fast worker. Just over two years ago, Jack Hylton selected her from 2,000 other girls to dance in High Button Shoes. After this “break,” Audrey tripped into the chorus of Sauce Tartare. There she caugh the eye of producer Cecil Landeaus sufficiently to be given a solo part in his sequel Sauce Piquante. This, in turn, caught the attention of the theatre critics and the public.

Among the regulars who went to see Audrey’s performance was film producer Mario Zampi. He went fourteen times. Like many pretty showgirls, Audrey had frequently been told she ought to be in films. Zampi not only said it, he gave her a small part in Alastair Sim’s Laughter in Paradise. Other “meatier” parts followed in The Lavender Hill Mob and Young Wives’ Tale. She obtained a contract with Associated British Pictures and a leading part in Ealing’s The Secret People—before her first three pictures were released. During the next few months, filmgoers will be able to make up their own minds about Audrey. They will see a lithe, dark-hair, large-eyed girl who slightly resembles Jean Simmons. Unlike Jean, however, Audrey has a cosmopolitan and somber background.

Secret performances for members of Dutch Resistance were some of Audrey’s experiences during the war. Now, at twenty-two, she takes the part of a refugee dancer in the film The Secret People.

A mixture of Scots, Belgian, and Dutch, she was in Belgium at the outbreak of war. After the Belgian capitulation, the family moved to Arnhem. Their house there was shelled during the airborne landing.

It was at Arnhem that she made her first public appearance as an entertainer. Black, or secret, concerts were given in private houses by performers who had refused to join the German sponsored “Chamber of Culture.” Audrey, then fifteen, was invited to appear at one of these concerts. Her mother helped her to make costumes from old curtains and chair covers. Later, conditions became so bad that cothes and jewellery were sold to provide food for the family.

Looked at from the Mayfair flat where she now lives with her mother, these days seem unreal. Though she entered show business as a dancer, Audrey is rapidly developing as an actress. Unusually tall for films—she is 5'7"—she has passed the stage where producers can brush her off by telling her she is “too lofty for camera work.” A girl with her potential star value can be as tall as a giraffe and still get by.

Audrey Hepburn could gracefully occupy a star’s chair in Britain’s studios. She might even attract some of the international attention now lavished on “Katie” Hepburn, and enable that much harassed star to pursue her life far from the madding crowd.

[nightmaretherabbitsideblog2]

To Nathan: How’s Wilson?

Answer 1

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Could you do some head cannons involving dark revival bendy and ink demon and the reader, (this takes place after the game and ink demon technically still exists in bendy) -🌕

After ending the last Cycle, you were back in the real world with a certain inky imp at your side.

With Joey's legacy and studio realm in your hands now, you vowed to make things better for everyone still trapped inside.

While you couldn't pull them into your world like you could Bendy, you're able to ease their pain and make living more bearable.

To start, you freed anyone who was regarded as a "Cyclebreaker" and gave the Gent factory back to Tom, Allison, Henry, and Porter so they can build stuff to protect themselves. 

The Lost Ones made improvements on the city--even the ones infused with rainbow ink joined in.

The Keepers also became the pest control for Widows. You hated those mfs and wanted them GONE.

Sammy became their preacher, and Malice got to sing at the bar and be even more beautiful, with a more perfect face.

The Butcher Gang accepted Carley/Slicer as one of their own, too.

As for the Ink Demon, well, he continued to roam the domain as its “ruler”. He still had to feast on ink to make himself strong, so he returned to it often.

In the real world, he always stayed in the Arch Gate Studio--never leaving it since he didn’t want people finding out he exists.

Trauma from the experiments in previous Cycles kept him mute in his smaller form, although you can still hear the Ink Demon’s thoughts in your head sometimes.

Especially when you compliment him on his cuteness.

“Awh, how's that little choo-choo train working, Benders?”

“I will drag you back into the dark puddles if you patronize me again.....but...this wheel might be coming loose, [y/n].”

"I’ll fix it right away!”

Tbh while life is a little bit nicer, Bendy still knows everyone’s suffering because of Joey. It’s not something that can just end with the scribble of a pencil. And until you resolve it and put everyone to rest, he’s gonna be miserable.

But at least you’re trying to fix things, and that’s good enough for him.

You, an unlikely friend who restarted the Cycle for the better, were the change this Studio so desperately needed.

[voice-of-anarchy]

“It feels good to be back!” Arch Enemy sound antagonistic as hell on new single Dream Stealer

The melodeath squad’s first new music since 2022 has some big choirs and even bigger riffs

Arch Enemy have surprise-released a new single.

Watch the video for Dream Stealer, directed by Patric Ullaeus (In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, Children Of Bodom), below.

Guitarist Michael Amott comments: “First new Arch Enemy song we release in a little while and it feels good to be back!

“It was a blast working on Dream Stealer in the studio, this song just has the high energy and twisted atmosphere that makes it so fun to play!

“Crank it up, loud and heavy! Metal is immortal!”

Dream Stealer was mixed by Jens Bogren (Opeth, Sepultura, At The Gates) and mastered by Tony Lindgren (Billie Eilish, Enslaved, Wardruna) at Fascination Street Studios.

It’s the first song the band have released with guitarist Joey Concepcion. Concepcion replaces predecessor Jeff Loomis, who departed the band in late 2023.

Dream Stealer is also Arch Enemy’s first new music since the release of 11th album Deceivers in 2022.

Metal Hammer gave Deceivers a glowing four-star review upon release.

“Such was the blinding quality of Arch Enemy’s early 00s heyday that all subsequent releases have been met with an unfair weight of expectation,” wrote journalist Adam Brennan.

“But yet again, not only does Deceivers earn its place in one of the most reliable discographies in modern metal, it does so by being among the bravest and most entertaining to date.”

[ask-the-friendly-ink-demon]

Hello!! I'm Elaine. Nice to meet you!! How are you Inky and Bendy :D

"just- prowler. only my close friends and family can call me Bendy... also again. inky? there's no ink demon next to me." he says, grunting at the whispers he was feeling in his mind, those voices. it all felt so familiar. elsewhere in the studios, Lanky kept silent as the lady kept walking, oddly quiet and almost. upset? the lady in violet didn't seem to notice as she keeps on walking

[lost-sandwich]

Tried out a new brush/style with some of the Bendy crew! It's nice drawing Sammys long hair and tail again, he feels naked without it even if no hair is his canon design.

I plan to do more after this, most likely the butcher gang, searchers, lost ones and maybe I'll even try Alice!

Design notes and character backgrounds (contains spoilers if you're going through my askblog! [i promise i'm working on the next part but animation is hard to get motivation for]) in the read more ^^

For Norman I made him a failed Bendy as he said he often lurked around the studio as a projectionist so he likely saw the demon or heard of him around the studio from Joey or Tom. Long arms, hands and legs reflecting that, he came out very animalistic and has a large bundle of thick wires from his projector and back gathering to make a tail. He was made soon after Buddy as Joey thought that after his success he'd get better results but Norman fought back and ended up dying before he could be put through the ink, a projector being knocked over and breaking over his head.

Buddy has a little less in common with cartoon Boris reflecting his different mindset from Boris and giving him more wolf-like legs and a tail. He is still mute but wanders the studio a bit more, trying to gather more for his bunker because he feels like something will happen soon, something bad.

An OC I made! His name is Edmund Murphey and worked in a gift shop that was added to the first floor of the studio. He resides in the city seen in the Dark Revival with a copy of his shop. A band of angry people stormed the studio one day and ended up killing Edmund, impaling him with metal rods found at the breaking down studio (pre arch gate) and his cash register bashed into his head. He now wanders his shop, docile to the player unless they steal items and food without first dropping some slugs on the counter where he will chase after them, angrily rattling his register and hitting them with projectionist-like strength.

The Ink Demon is the largest thing in the studio other than Bertrum and the hand in the ink rivers. Its long thin legs end in pig hooves, its imitation of a demon even failing to copy the usual goat hooves. His tail is long and thick, also failing to copy a demons tail. Machinery replace one of his ankles after Buddy and Dot cut part of his leg with an axe.

[multi-level-shipper]

so as I stated before, I'm re-reading Joey's gay memoir. and here's the thing.

Joey talks about how he LOVED Coney Island as a kid, and he seems to hold it to a slightly higher degree of reverence than the theater. Probably a few reasons for this- it was his vacation as a poor kid, it was time spent with his family, and he also draws some very strong connections about the heart and the soul to his experience being there.

"We arrived at the gates of Luna Park on Coney Island just when they opened."

"The gates were tall towers, with a huge arch entrance beneath. Above, between the towers, was a giant heart, bright red, freshly painted, with the words The Heart of Coney Island written on it. I think about those words sometimes, even these days as I trudge through the mud in the Meadowlands. I think about what it means. The heart. The soul of a place. The beating core."

"I have been searching for the soul for so long myself. That one illusive piece to my puzzle. Art imitates life, that was the solution. But how to live within an imitation? How to step into the cell of a cartoon? How to break the fourth wall? With a hammer? An axe?

Or a whole world." (Pg 200)

There are a few things I want to say about this.

As if we needed any more proof, this is a really long way of getting the point across that Joey craves living in a fantastical world. He needs this sense of creative wonder to feel fulfilled. Directly on the next page he goes on to say that the train ride home sucked balls, and he only felt as if the corners of each of his five senses were fully reached while having this experience at Coney Island.

So, firstly, he mentioned that he was "searching for the soul" for so long. But what in the fresh hell does that mean? Well, either Joey doesn't know how to define the parameters of what a human soul even is (which is a fair and complex question to be asking,) or he's been searching for his soul. Or rather, his purpose in life. While he has the studio and Sexy Lawrence at this point, he might be doing a bit of serious introspection here- which, let's be real, Joey never does this unless he's scared of something to do with his own well-being.

I don't have too much to say about the "heart" side of things. Although, this seriousness about the amusement park could explain why Joey was so ungodly finnicky with the Bendyland edits he kept sending back to Bertrum. He had to make things just right within one of the studio's most important features, or he might actually explode.

The SOUL, however, where do I even start. Firstly there's a direct parallel here we can add to the conspiracy board- the Ink Demon has no soul, and here in IOL Joey is trying to find his own. Another thing to note is how he personifies Coney Island, a non-breathing and non-living place, giving it a heart and a soul. It would be safe to assume that, seeing as Joey Drew Studios is his own form of safe haven, that he would ALSO personify the studio in a similar way. Also willing to wager that he saw Joey Drew Studios as a perfectly curated fantastical world to surround himself with- which is why he would simply not allow anyone to say anything otherwise. He had to keep up this illusion, or the safe haven would fall apart.

Joey giving places a soul also has interesting implications when considering Bendy and the Dark Revival.

We technically don't get an actual ink copy of Joey, we get a "memory" of Joey, as he puts it. However, we don't really see other spirits in BATIM or BATDR that aren't tied to a body. Ghosts are strangely never really explained, with a few exceptions like the ghost train in BATDR. I think this is an interesting distinction to make, because this could imply that Joey's soul is tied to the studio directly. Everything in the BATIM world was created by Joey- our Henry, Alice, Boris, everyone. The BATDR world was created by Wilson, so any existing creatures there are either by his hands, or have been directly taken from the BATIM loop and brought there. It was the assumption that Memory Joey came from Wilson's timeline, but we actually have no idea where he came from specifically, as he quite literally shows up and then vanishes in our first encounter with him.

[thatonecrookedsmile]

"It seems that Arch Gate Studios,in all it's misplaced admiration,was so eager to absorb the life's work of that crooked charlaton,Joey Drew,they didn't fully realize what they had acquired.

Call it fate that I just happened to be there on the loading dock that morning. When the delivery boys dropped one of the crates,it smashed open,and inside there was something truly special. A mass of yellow steel and beautiful rivets. Some kind of machine. No one knew what it was. So the fools put it on display for all to see. But I could tell that this crude device held secrets. Secrets that could be mine."

-Machine-

-----

The Machine lives. And so do I. Day 6 complete,heck yeah,not too long now. I've had this idea since I saw the prompt on the calendar when it was posted. I had to.

You know,with the exception of… certain lines (*cough** cough* elevator scene *cough*) there's something interesting about hearing Wilson's dialogue. It's probably what he says (and what he lies about) that's intriguing,combined with Tim Simmons' voice acting,and the fact that he's such an important character in the plot that I have to pay attention to what he says,but there's something in his lines that ends up catching my attention, it's interesting! Also, yes, the guy highlighted in the background is him! Pre-Cycle experiments. You know, the days when he was healthy (and had hair). Eventually I will show here his complete design.

And while we're here, and I've never seen anyone mention this in here before: did you ever notice that the model of the little Ink Machine in ArchGate is different from the model used in Joey's apartment at the end of BATIM? The general design idea is still the same, but the model used in BATDR has certain differences when you compare it to what was used in the first game. Like, in BATIM, the machine has small wheels underneath it, but in Dark Revival, the wheels have been removed. Or how the model from the first game seems to be bigger than the one from the second game. (Or the fact that in DR the machine doesn't have extra gears on both of its bottom sides, but only one on the left side, which I only realized now after finishing this drawing, oops)

I thought it was something interesting to talk about.

(just to be clear, I'm not implying that the machine at the end of IM and the one at the beginning of DR are completely different machines in-universe. I'm sure the one on ArchGate is the same one that was in Joey's apartment, I just thought it was cool to note the design differences between the models, that's all haha)