#bendy and the ink machine books

[carolingarts]

This has probably already been talked about but uh...did Joey enable Sammy's addiction/start it/use him as his hit man?

The canonocity (is that a word idek) of the books is in question but these two passages after re-reads are fucking with my head

First.

*to please Joey drew* the guy was obviously several crayons short of a box but the intonation sounds *pissed*.

Then you apply this

Joey wtf if you knew Sammy was going bananas in pajamas why didn't you say anything? GENT implies active experimentation but they were collecting subjects and presumably running test groups based on the 'I get paid to be here' log from BATDR.

So either Joey saw an opportunity (likely) or given that intonation and very specific focus on Joey and not Bendy, he used Sammy to fish for victims.

Again the book canon is sus thanks to BATDR and the books also seem to hint at it with Buddy saying *not all of it is true*. It doesn't excuse Sammy remotely. If Joey knew tho and the guy went to him even as a last resort Holy shit the man supervised his music director turning into a gooey mess and his religion and tried to use him as a hit man.

This makes me wonder about Susie too because it's very clear she believed Joey. Susie and Sammy are - at least to me - foils for Tom and Allison. They chose work as opposed to Tom and Allison who chose each other.

There's another note (was it in the paper?) Where Sammy's like 'Some people just can't cut it in this business. They're sheep." And I'm going ok did he have something to do with Susie going poof? What happened to him was clearly an accident but did he know the shit was bad...go to Joey when he realized he couldn't handle it and Joey used him to collect people?

Interested to hear thoughts.

[reigobun]

jam session

[salpho]

Everyone, unanimously, in the batim fandom seeing Norman Polk's (unofficial) design in Dreams Come To Life-

[sammylovesbendy]

why the hell did i make him like that

[glossytoothpick]

So I moved recently and thought that for the fun of it I’d take a picture of every Bendy thing I own

I have more Bendy stuff, they’re all just from independent sellers and not the official Bendy team. I’ve been a Bendy fan since 2017 and got my first piece of merch on Christmas (it was the Bendy umbrella shirt fun fact). Most of these I collected when I was younger but some of it is more recent. My biggest flex is having the original release of the Bendy plushies (this they have squeakers in them.)

[reel-fear]

Hey if anyone wants the pdf for that Dreams Come To Life Graphic Novel, you can hit me up. Once again reminding you guys not to buy it. If you literally buy anything that has a Bendy label slapped onto it, it just tells the devs they don't need to actually make a quality product. Attitudes of how mean it is to boycott a shitty book or how bendy fans should be loyal to the devs is exactly how so many famous people/companies get away with AWFUL practices the same way the bendy devs have.

I also feel bad for anyone who wastes/wasted their money on it. That thing is not worth your shelf space. I've read through the entire thing and it's garbage, art wise, writing wise and adaptation wise. Me and my partner are writing a whole damn google doc explaining why but yeah. I hope a lot of you can get your money back and discourage others from buying it too. It's the only way we can prevent the devs from pushing out such a rushed and awful product again.

Anyways below the read more there's a screenshot of a fucking coloring mistake on the damn thing [it might get fixed for the Final Final release but this being shown to be there just like 2 weeks before release should show how damn rushed and underpaid the artist was. Their portfolio shows they can do so much better but they were clearly not given ANY time to make this any good.]

Reminder! The artist and writer don't get ANY of the sales money, that goes directly to the bosses who kept cracking the whip at them to draw faster and faster.

[archer-kacey]

I think it's really convenient that Mike is making sure everyone knows that Norman is white, but when the question of LGBTQ or minority characters comes up, suddenly it's a much more complex question. (I get he was asked, but you're telling me there's no possible way to leave it ambiguous?)

You leave everyone else's appearances and physical descriptors ambiguous, but this twitter interaction leads me to believe you have SOME idea of what you want your characters to look like so...which is it?

Funny thing about erasing the canonicity of the books is that you also erase any canonical descriptors for the other characters. Wally being incredibly old? Gone. Allison being platinum blonde and a Ginger Rogers look-alike? Gone. Sammy looking like a preying mantis? Gone as well. This gives you the perfect opportunity to get in there and start dropping more details about the characters that you claim to be passionate about. Answer that age old question- is Sammy Lawrence brunette or blonde?

What REALLY really puts a lit match in my gas tank, though, is something Mike pointed out himself. He says that the photo of Norman is in Joey's apartment, which is true.

But you know what else can be found in Joey Drew's apartment? Something that was retconned later on haphazardly?

"Local Artist Pushed Himself too Hard, Found Dead At Desk."

"Years later we find out he wasn't dead at his desk!"

"It was always in the apartment" is not the gotcha you think it is.

[cutebendy]

book mark :D

[sirtallyopera]

Okay for context because this crack ship is genuinely insane:

Hunger games simulator pulled this shit

And then I got an awful idea … which resulted… in this

Click for bonus fuckery aka my best friend’s awful commentary

Anyways HUGEEEEE PSA: HE IS NOT FUCKING PREGNANT

MY BESTIE THOUGHT HE WAS FUCKING PREGNANT FOR SOME REASON

“A BUN IN THE OVEN” A FUCKING BUN IN THE OVEN???

Horrendous, absolutely fucking horrendous

Anyways we agreed the ship name is

“PYRAM-INK” hope you enjoyed this awful awful awful meth ship

@squabblethewabble anyways tagging you because I’m talking shit about you 💕

This song fits them both *fucking kills myself*

[somewhereinthemilkyway]

👿📖

[doxxed0367]

Being the main Grant Enjoyer in the bendy fandom is funny sometimes bc I notice details most don't see and I have NEVER seen ANYONE mention this but from what I've seen of the books, Joey calls everyone by their first names, or a nickname based off of their first name...EXCEPT FOR GRANT. Joey just calls him "Cohen" and all I can think of is how much Joey must hate his ass to have him only refer to Grant as his last name XD (examples below)

(I also think its inch resting that the only times Grant has been mentioned in the bookverse has been via Joey)

[siroldfashionloverboy]

Dear people of both the BATIM and gravity falls fandom

How do we feel about this crack ship, because I am horrified.

[inky-lacuna-numinous]

Today is a GREAT day to be a batim fan!

Happy Halloween

[salpho]

Hey fandom, who'd be interested in me hosting a map type fandom project to redraw the Dreams Come To Life graphic novel ?

I've had the idea to host something like this for a bit now. It would act as both a protest against the abysmal quality of the artwork and designs within the book, but also as a love letter to show Meatly and Mike that we want them to care as much as we do about their series. I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you'd be interested in participating.

[cannonball-37]

I just had a theory about the larger shadow that disfigures when Bendy tried to make it into a human shape being related to the lost ones in Bendy and The Ink Machine and now I can’t look at it any other way.

It could even explain why they have emotions when other demon’s shadows don’t because there is definitely some kind of connection with Bendy and the actual ink machine in The Inky Mystery.

On the Bendy wiki it describes the lost ones like this:

‘The Lost Ones have a similar appearance to humans, only deformed, skeletal, and slimy. They are composed completely out of ink, with skin texture similar to black tar’

This could a reference to how the shadow disfigures and is made of shadows in The Ink Mystery. Additionally:

‘Their original personalities remain almost untouched, but they appear to be suffering in a state of despair; most will stand in complete stillness, some either hunched over and crying or, in one case seen in some occasions, banging their head against the wall in a suicidal manner. If provoked, the Lost Ones act as a threat towards anyone they deem dangerous’

This could explain the feeling of dread Bendy felt and the way the shadow acts a few moments later when it tries to attack him and Allison.

However it could also be a reference to the searchers in Bendy and The Ink Machine because of this:

I mean look at them:

There are a few dissimilar things between the two like only having three fingers and the arms being the same length but it’s also show in BATIM that the searchers and the lost ones have a lot of variation in their appearances so that’s not enough to discredit this theory.

If you listen to the sound the searchers make it’s very similar to what is described in the scene

And the way that the shadow attacks is similar to how the searchers attack in BATIM (with their arms).

(Sorry if it’s hard to see it’s was difficult finding videos of them actually attacking.)

Also! This could explain why Baby (the smaller shadow) is so helpful to Bendy because some Lost Ones are friendly (as described by the wiki):

‘there have been a few notable exceptions such as Porter and Heidi who aren't aggressive towards Audrey Drew and actually help her out.’

I came up with theory this like 10 minutes ago and I’m already in love with it

[the-good-ol-art-corner]

I know a couple of people have already redrawn that one panel, but fuck it we ball-

This is roughly how I thought Norman would look in canon (and Buddy <3) but uh, yeah that dream is squashed ig fml

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