#bendyversary

[lunaticpebble]

Happy Birthday little devil darlin' :)

[magicicephoenix]

Happy Bendyversary!! He’s now 7 years old! :O

[featheredcartoonist]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENDYYYYYYYY

[halfusek]

Should I Stay or Should I Go - collab BATIM animatic is going to premiere today at 12 EDT (GMT-4)!

We would be very glad if you joined us for the premiere! :D

Give it up to everyone involved! <3

@yiznro @metallicartist @bravagio @xraytheredx @piecuteyes @vodoupret @melodythebunny @fishymom-art @magiefish @raven-anime @some-random-ghost @mad-hatter-ison @rosekard @inky-lacuna-numinous

And huge props to @insane-control-room for not only participating but also editing and organizing this thang! <3

In the near future we are planning to announce another animatic collab, so stay tuned. :) For now however:

Happy Bendyversary! :D

[sidfox]

Hold onto your Bacon Soup - it's Bendyversary!

[mulligansstuff]

In honor of the 7 year Bendy anniversary, I’d like to share some of my first ever Bendy art from 2016 vs one of my more recent pieces.

Never would I ever think that a video game would make such a difference in my life. I will forever be grateful for this game. This game taught me to make art for myself and not for others. Bendy got me into sculpting, art, and music like I had never been into it before.

I probably wouldn’t be where I’m at now if it wasn’t for Bendy and the community with it, as odd as it sounds. This game will forever have a place in my heart.

[cutebendy]

I know im late but boys wanna eat cake :▹

especially Inky lol

[inkabelledesigns]

I know I'm posting a day late here, but Happy Birthday Bendy! February 10th, 2024 marks the 7 year anniversary of when Bendy and the Ink Machine came out. And boy, has it been a wild ride. Normally I would reserve this for my Bendy sideblog, @angelofthepage , but I'm posting it here because this is where I started years ago, and I want some of those people who don't see that blog to have a chance to see this. Because you guys are a part of this story.

In about three months, seven years ago, I was in finals hell, working through my process book for my packaging design class in one of the dorm lounges while my roommate had taken the room for herself again. And the only thing keeping me sane was putting Can't Be Erased and Build Our Machine on loop as I worked. BATIM only had two chapters out, and I didn't know everything about it, but I was so intrigued by what its deal was. I took one look at Sammy Lawrence and I wanted to know everything about him. Something about this barely started game, the idea of your characters coming to life to kill you, it thrilled me, intrigued me. It was something I was really afraid of, being so attached to my characters and putting so much of my identity in my art. And while the story isn't really all that much about cartoons themselves being alive, it gave me something else that ended up changing my life.

Over that summer, I would become obsessed, and for the first time in years, I let myself be a fangirl again. And maybe one day I'll pull up the timeline and tell you how it all went down. But right now, after all the celebrating of yesterday, I just wanna take a moment to appreciate the last seven years. All the people I've met, all the friends I've made. All the experiences we've had together, big and small. Some have been incredibly close, and others have been people I still smile about whenever I see them on my feed, even if we're not all doing stuff in the same fandom anymore. There's some people I've fallen out of touch with that I likely won't ever see again that I miss. There's some I'll be lucky if I never see again. There's the official voice actors for Dark Revival, which I've had the pleasure of working with on community things here in the fandom. I regularly moderate their livestreams (or Lovestreams as we call them) where they sign prints and interact with us fans (and sometimes I'm tech support, once an ink machine technician, always an ink machine technician xD). I'm honored to call a lot of them my friends, we've had some truly wonderful conversations. I've spent a lot of time in a variety of servers, trying to uplift people and make for a positive fandom experience for everyone, fans old and new. Sometimes it lands me in interesting places, like helping out over on the Inky News channel. The host, Brandon, invited me over to guest star on his anniversary stream yesterday, and in the past I've been fortunate enough to showcase my art on two of his interviews, one with Dave Rivas and one with Adrienne Kress. Sometimes it lands me on fun projects, like working on a fan game, and for the first time it's not as a voice actor! I'm a writer. I've had my work uplifted in turn too, meeting people who value me for me and also cheer me on when I try new things (sometimes entirely new mediums like doll customizing). I got my first helpful constructive critique in this fandom, and it was something I ASKED for. That is a huge personal milestone! I have a really complex and twisty set of feelings about critique, and finally, I feel better, because someone helped me start to unravel that just by being themselves and being thoughtful. It's inspired me to want to be better in how I handle critique and problem solving with others.

I spent so much of my life putting my self worth in other people's hands. I thought I would never be good enough to have friends who didn't treat me like garbage. I thought I'd never be a good artist in any sense of the word either. But I was wrong. I've grown. I'm valued, I'm wanted. I don't have to hide parts of myself to be desirable. Sometimes being the silly, goofy, fangirl that is Kat is enough. My art is enough, my ideas are enough, my flavor is tasty, and I am a goddamn treat. And after so many years of not knowing that, I'm glad I finally do. And it's all because of the people. It wasn't ever that my flavor was bad, it's that I hadn't found people with a taste for it yet. Bendy's greatest gift was giving me a fresh start, a chance to meet new people, good people, and for that, I'm forever grateful. Even though things have changed, I'm glad I met each and every one of you, you all taught me something valuable along the way, and I think about those experiences we shared often.

I won't lie to you, I've been rather frustrated with Bendy lately. And I think a lot of it has to do with the games not truly having grown with me. At some point our paths deviated, and there are elements of what's come and what's coming that are getting away from what really enticed me about the very first entry, the things I valued most in it. But in some ways, analyzing that has led me to figure out what made that first game so special. It was human. It was a character focused game, and each of the characters, while vague, gave us just enough about themselves that we could feel for them, get invested, imagine, maybe even sympathize. Everyone is a tragedy, but they're all different flavors of tragedy. And it was seeing people explore that, seeing people write these characters in ways that were so human, that really built a connection. For some people, Bendy is another indie horror experience. For others, it's something to indulge in that hits hard on a personal level. In many ways, it attracts a lot of us who feel like misfits. It's many things. But to me, the magic was in the people. The people in this universe, and the people in its real world community.

It has solidified my belief that people should play with fiction however they want, no matter how far it deviates from the canon, no matter how weird it is. Go be interpretive, go tell your story, go be free to make what speaks to you! (All I ask is that you're thoughtful about tagging it so people can make smart choices about engaging with it.) All stories are worth telling. Even if no one gets into it, having told it makes a difference.

Whether you're someone who's been there from the beginning, or someone that's new to Bendy, I hope you're all having fun. Whether you've finished exploring the world or you've just begun, I hope you've found something valuable. Thank you, for coming along for the ride. Here's to many more fun experiences and stories, be they official or be they in the fandom. Happy Bendyversary!

[glitchedsoftware]

happy bendy day to those who celebrate

also boris eating bacon soup cuz i felt bad 4 excluding him (and cuz i need 2 draw him more)

[thesoftbean]

I been vibin with this man for 7 years holy shit-

[tenielala]

Little sketch for a dancing demon

Happy #bendyversary !!!

[desktopartist87]

//HAPPY 6TH BENDY-VERSARY!!🎉//

This game has impacted me and so many other people in the best of ways. I've made new friends, discovered my artstyle, and had the best of fun watching and playing the Bendy games. I am so attached to all the cast of wild, hilarious, and of course, scary characters, and I will never forget them. Here's to another year with our Little Devil Darlin'! Thank you TheMeatly<3

[magicicephoenix]

he’s another year older :)

[featheredcartoonist]

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY TO THESE BOIS 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[halfusek]

hi ive been working on this for a while and its. its something. i had fun. 

enjoy :)

[deadlypastelcutieart]

How dare you all forget about me @theinkystaffstudio! You all got lucky last year, but because of that, I won’t go nice to you all...

See you all on Inky Couple’s day......