#carolingarts

[doberart]

Ok. Fnaf movie news just dropped with some people cast even if we don't know as who.

In that spirit. If Bendy got a live action film. (I know people would want it animated but.) Who's your cast?

Very exciting to see! I’m curious how the movie will go. 👀

As for Bendy, I’m terrible at picking actors sometimes. If I could go back in time to pick, I would say Gregory Peck for Henry and Vincent Price for Joey. But for modern times, I’ll list some just for fun.

Bendy: voiced by Sean Crisden, of course. He did an amazing job in Dark Revival.

Henry: George Clooney, Pierce Brosnan, or Timothy Olyphant.

Joey: Tom Hanks, Gary Oldman, or Timothy Dalton

Susie/Alice: Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, or Margot Robbie

Sammy: maybe Austin Butler

I’m not great with matching actors to headcanons, but those might be some picks if I had a choice. Haha.

[carolingarts]

My Sammy Lawrence is done! Cost has led me to recreate domino art's Sammy and I kind of love??!! Him!!!???

[carolingarts]

Listen Chansey 2024 I could get behind that. Please. Naturalized citizen we can rewrite the constitution and make it work.

[peariandpine]

Do you read any FNAF fanfictions?

I actually don't read a ton of fanfic! However, my good pal @carolingarts writes some wonderful fics, so you should check them out here! My favorite fnaf fic of all time though, is "i only have eyes for you" by eldritchgf on ao3. I highly recommend it. I believe that it will only be this first part, but it's more than worth it to read.

[imperatorium]

Tagged by @indrid-hot, thank you!! It's been centuries, I feel like, since someone had a fun little meme like this going around and I always love an excuse to fill one out!!

currently reading: I am in the middle of The Lost Causes Of Bleak Creek and have First Bright Things sitting in my Libby app loans. I'm excited to get back to the former (I read the first few chapters, then the loan lapsed) and I'm only sitting on the latter because it sounds startlingly similar to my Les Mis fantasy circus AU.

favorite color: RED.

last song: I think it was "Big Ass Rock" from The Full Monty? It's been stuck in my head since "Stay" came out, at least, and I finally added it back to my regular rotation of music.

last movie: Last whole movie might actually have been Les Misérables when Ash was here? (We've been marathoning Westworld and just started a Witcher rewatch, mostly.)

sweet/spicy/savory: SPICY.

currently working on: Finally decided to try to teach myself how to knit yesterday. I think I have the hang of casting on and have made a minuscule amount of progress with the regular stitch, but the smoothness of the hand motions still elude me. Other than that, I have just been...crocheting Ghouls.

Tagging @nicxan, @carolingarts, @spookbot, and anyone else who wants an excuse to update everyone on what they've been up to!

[doberart]

Really interested to hear Henry's take on what happened to his coworkers in your au (or what you think he'd do otherwise!) I mean I'm fascinated by him realizing 'oh shit these are people I worked with who are now...inky'

I do plan on writing some of that kind of thing in the fic I’m working on. He’s horrified to know these were once people he worked with, or just people from the studio over the years in general. Needless to say, he’s mortified by the things Joey did.

[doberart]

Merry Holiday of your choice and also Christmas. I'm thinking of pets for the BATIM crew to pass my time at work. Henry - cat or dog person to you?

(LOL answer for any other character too if you want!)

Merry Christmas! I headcanon Henry to be a dog person. Haha.

[doberart]

I love your work and I think it's really neat and I hope you're having a nice day cause it makes me smile! Being new to the fandom (well not new but making stuff in it new) your stuff's so freaking cool. Thank you for being you!

Why thank you! I appreciate your kind words. :) I hope you have a marvelous day/night yourself!

[carolingarts]

So. I have this roommate (because I always attract needy roommates). Who has come to rely on me as a source of emotional...stability and for someone unstable this has become toxic to a point of it being impossible. And for the time I've been on my own this has been a pattern with me taking care of others. It's a life pattern to be quite honest

I'm writing this down mostly to make note of the first thing which came to me scrolling through Instagram. How the fuck do I keep inviting people like this into my life?

Obvious answer seems to be a sort of 'game recognizes game' mentality. Articles put it into fancier words - but people like my roommate, or like many friends close to me - see me as someone to use.

Here's the thing. Barring what I recognize as an active threat, which I do recognize, I don't see people who want to use me as bad actors or malicious people. I don't see malcontent particularly.

Mostly because I've *been* that person and when a person has a deficit in a certain area like money or emotional stability they seek out people that can provide it. If anybody feels unstable you seek out firmer ground, that's just human nature.

My problem is I've never really been capable of putting healthy boundaries down to ensure those people leave or they treat me well. I can't ensure they do, and tbh it's not my job if they don't reciprocate.

In fact, it should be a sign there's a problem because even the best of them don't without a lot of emotional effort on their part. (roommate is a core example).

For instance. As I was leaving the house to go do an errand she wanted to talk to me about an amazing job opportunity she wanted to apply for. She does this frequently, and while I've told her I'm uncomfortable with her discussing her finances since I've had several moments where I've paid for her, she dismisses it as 'well I just need to talk out loud' and 'you stabilize me'.

I don't blame her at all - she's a trans woman and right now it's very scary. It's been like this before things got this bad though and seeing people who I find annoying and then this talking about how great their lives are when I have had to work is...not something I'm doing anymore?

A recent interaction with a friend of mine amounted to me sharing my feelings, them sharing their feelings back and not offering me any comfort. I've drawn some other seperate conclusions from that but I needed to pause in my errands and write this down.

I have to keep my boundaries up. I have to remember that I am my #1 priority. I don't think my roommate gets that it's triggering for her to constantly talk about finances around me. I've tried, so a thicker wall has to go up.

The way she operates is that she takes and takes and I have made so many posts about this and talked about so many of my roommates I'm making a mental note. For all she's done she clearly does not respect me as much as I respect her.

[carolingarts]

idk circumstances beyond my control have led me to being home today (and *only* today damn it). But I suppose I'll use this time to write myself some notes about my bendy!au I have going on tiktok (and that I intend to update?)

Why OVERWORKED? - pure self indulgence! I did a couple of creepy tiktoks and maybe 2 people thought they were awesome enough to comment praise on - but I think I've always wanted to make something like it. My earliest efforts on tiktok *were* a sort of fan exploration of studio original characters but I have...semi better props?

I tried something like this with fnaf (and depending on how this works I'm gonna go back to it) but it's basically a snippet of some of my favorite things in a little fan project. Just...sans acting (perhaps?) . I can't really manage acting for these guys since because while I'm trans I haven't transitioned yet.

So while it's a technical skill issue it's also a nerves issue. I can handle critique of performances to music and stuff That's not mine - but my skin's not thick enough to expose my own acting skills without a lot of safety no matter how much I like the story.

Also, I mostly cosplay Henry (he's my most popular character) but I wanted to deliver something besides Henry or William Afton (not new content in cosplay at allll) so I did a sort of pre-game Sammy and people liked pieces of him and thus...

WHAT'S IT ABOUT? -

'Overworked' is the story of 3 people, 2 of whom join the growing # of missing individuals at JDS taking place between Buddy's investigations in DCTL. In essence, it's the story of some of the people who go missing *before* the theater incident and Sammy disappears completely but *after* Buddy lets the demon out.

(Buddy himself acknowledges that there are weeks wherein people realize that Sammy's missing and that he doesn't notice an animator he worked with was missing at all.)

It surrounds a never finished cartoon short about Christmas with Bendy as Krampus, Alice as Mrs. Claus, and Boris as Santa/a reindeer/an elf.

If you were to investigate *why* you would find out that big chunks of the staff vanished including the director who regularly butted heads with the music department's director...but then Sammy disappeared and this is early depression New York City so...who'd miss them?

WHAT INSPIRED THIS? -

First - this documentary put out by TWDC about the process behind snow white. (My favorite part is the positive assurance that the ink and paint department's girls are all 'pretty' and that they are in an *air conditioned building all their own* because the misogyny of Hollywood back then was something else.

(I could go on and on about this topic and the sheer hypocrisy since Walt met Lillian Disney in *his* ink and paint department and apparently didn't want his 'boys' tempted apparently by all the pretty girls so he had them all in a building the male animators jokingly called 'the nunnery' but.)

Anyway. Here's the piece. It's about 8 minutes.

In it is described the process of animation and how gags have to be timed *very specifically* to various shots with music. I think the average Disney output was something like 2-3 shorts at a time before he moved focus to features prior to the strike in 1941 (which also plays a part in this.)

Given the sheer size of the studio and how every character describes being 'overworked' with Sammy's log describing 4 cartoons at once needing 'a tune by tomorrow' even if he was being hyperbolic- making animation is an intense process. Unless he has other directors or would let other directors work (unlikely) the man most likely worked in depth with teams of at least 20 people all at once including his own department which is at a time 80 people with unique projects. All of which required unique brainpower and creativity.

Henry talks about how Joey has only ideas, Sammy says he has poor planning. I speculate that in BATIM canon Joey picks people who are immensely talented (facts)- but he has/had a very tenuous grasp of what it actually takes to produce an animated cartoon.

Especially when reality at the time had most animation as part 'magic' part science. Most of the technology developed (sound, color) was put into mainstream use by Disney with his animators and sound men part creatives part scientists.

So you have a guy who had his best friend/crush/object of obsession who was the technical brains behind your outfit leave...my man was flying by the seat of his underwear.

And people suffered for it.

Overworked deals with an animation director who was trained at another studio and raised with a very firm idea of what it takes to make art, a music director losing his mind, and a member of the music department trying to process just what that means.

Basically the music department at this point:

WHAT KIND OF TECHNICAL SPECS ARE YOU USING? -

A ringlight, basic makeup skills (so basic) some writing, tiktok clips and -

Stay Tuned for part 2! And remember you can find the list of parts so far

And you can find it on tiktok under #carolingstories!

[carolingarts]

I have personal beef with William Afton taking care of his kids head canon and it's not because of the reason you'd think.

My reasons are twofold. There's a distinct lack of nuance in the FNAF fandom. It's very possible for William to care about his kids in a crappy way and still be a monster or have a nuanced relationship but my beef is not with that.

It's very possible for him to be a decent person motivated by personal demons and torture - but those who believe that need to gut check yourselves because when the actor calls him the "voldemort" of the series and there are some very obvious similarities between him and other characters my dude is not good.

Yet this is not my beef with the issue. This is not my personal borderline violent beef. My beef is twofold.

Anyone who wants to explore that sense of nuance (this is a guy who actually doesn't just eat puppies and shit evil and kick children down the street like bowling balls.) has to deal with people on both sides - the "this man can do no wrong" side and the "this man is the ultimate terror" side. Which if you don't have a strong constitution results in conversations like this.

Individual: I think this character has some nuance and maybe in another reality...-?

Second individual: I disagree with your opinion.

Individual: Ah. Well that's a shame-

Second individual: I don't just disagree with you. I despise you utterly. your very existence is a blight on mine. Everything wrong in this world is your fault. Everything wrong that has ever happened to humans is your fault. Don't just unalive yourself, do the world a favor. Unalive your entire bloodline, anyone who has ever had contact with you, and then go to God and beg the higher powers of the universe to erase your existence from reality. If you were on fire I'd put you out, then I'd get gasoline and set you on fire again so that I could watch you burn.

And I take issue with that mostly because of the idea that there are a lot of people who do that and then feel so constricted idea wise that they cancel their stuff and make it original works. Now I love that. That's the best thing. I keep seeing people talking about their fnaf fics however and how sad they are but how excited they are that they are now original and I don't like the idea that anybody's points of view (unless they are truly oppressive violent and evil) are cast aside. Funny bear game opinions and thoughts don't deserve people being yelled at because they think different.

2. I'm gonna get my ass handed to me for this. But it has to be done. It has to be put in bold letters so the world will see it. Seeing aside the ideas pertaining to work I want to say 2 things:

Scott Cawthorn is a great *great* game designer.

Scott Cawthorn is a *terrible fucking writer*.

That's not entirely his fault but I had an epiphany which led to this rant which has to do with my ultimate fucking beef with the humans of this series. How they are all really badly written, how they are all like so confusing it starts shit like my point in one...

Yeah, the pixelated characters. Who never really had an identity until like...5 years in?

It hit me the other day that they reminded me of something. Mario.

The original 1985 mario description in the instruction booklet is this:

<b>One day the kingdom of the peaceful mushroom people was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, bricks and even field horsehair plants, and the Mushroom Kingdom fell into ruin.

The only one who can undo the magic spell on the Mushroom People and return them to their normal selves is the Princess Toadstool, the daughter of the Mushroom King. Unfortunately, she is presently in the hands of Bowser, the King of the Koopa.

Mario hears about the Mushroom People’s plight and sets out on a quest to free the Mushroom Princess from the evil Koopa and restore the fallen kingdom of the Mushroom People.

You are Mario! It’s up to you to save the Mushroom People from the black magic of the Koopa!</b>

Simple and to the point right? Not a lot of detailed backstory? Kid's game.

Then you get to sonic who was apparently modeled on <i>Bill Clinton</i> which if you are familiar with Sonic!lore and you know some of the more iconic...figures is <i>really kind of hilarious</i> in the worst fucking way.

And then it hits me.

Of course these guys don't have consistent and solid backstories. They are <i>eight bit pixel game characters who were never supposed to.</i> and the stuff that comes out after it <i>explains it</i>.

But Scott, in his effort to capitalize on his property and I cannot blame him at fucking all, tried to put in video game easter eggs that make the pixelated characters into something more human, in what is supposed to be a sonic and mario style game - a simple kids game - and <i>that's when shit clicked.</i>

So Scott is a <i>great</i> game designer, but he's a crappy writer. Not maliciously! He was making a triple A game story on a pixel character's budget. TBQH it would be super cool if he'd built a whole mario-esque studio and in a way he kind of finally has with the glamrock characters and steel wool. It's not <i>about</i> the humans and yeah - cause the humans <i>screwed up</i> which is why all the stuff with the games is vaguewashed in Help Wanted 1. "Well this is slander made up by a video game guy."

It's why the character who's the most obvious scott avatar - the video game creator guy - is genuinely panicked and ends up feeling trapped by his creations.

It's the reason why this dude is living like a fucking hermit and why he keeps making this jokes about disappointing people. if people figure it out - that his characters <i>were supposed to have very simple backstories that people like matpat kept making ridiculously complicated</i>. If people found out they were effectively just supposed to be mario-levels of simple. Bad guy defeats good guy - but no. No he had a triple A story in a pixel budget which makes sense. He was doing it himself.

"That's it! That's the connection!" - Eddie Valiant (who framed Roger Rabbit.)

All the lore's a sham that he tied himself into a knot over until he could get to the books...but how do you translate fucking <i>Doctor Robotnik</i> to a character like William Afton?

So yeah. He's a great game designer who made great characters but a bad writer ...because he tried to shoehorn in a triple A storyline into a pixel kids game on the level with Mario and Sonic.

"but kyle he's a good writer-"

One man - especially this dude with his politics - would not be happy with anyone considering his work like the bible. "But it's open to interpretation-" sure. <i>Because people are having cognitive dissonance over the story</i>.

It's not fucking complex and yet complex. It's simple and yet not simple. It's trying to introduce stuff in real time and...it's done badly because it seems like there's no real motive for the main characters and Scott hasn't set a firm boundary in that "this is what really happened" because - somehow despite his politics - he seems like a decent person who wants to make kids happy. and make his fans happy. Which I kinda get. I mean Miyamoto-san is supposed

Cause it's not about the humans it's about the robots.

"But he knows what's happening-"

Yeah he does *now* because he's accepting he wrote a triple A game story with Nintendo ideals and game design elements. Maybe - but again he's not gonna admit to it which is why there are <i>so many holes and reasons for the shit to be so confusing and cause so much fucking drama.</i> He's never come out and said <i>this is what happened</i> because he's <i>never conclusively been able to say this is what happened</i>. "Look to the books to explain some backstory...but also look to the other books to fill in the story going forward" The back half of that is the better written stuff cause he's course correcting but the front half and why it's so disconnected is the issue.

Also it's a serious issue but I'm gonna close with that.

Especially because, especially because so many people built their careers on all of this. It can be argued that FNAF launched a lot of current culture regarding youtube and lets plays. It shaped childhoods the same way Mario and Sonic and Zelda did his. And that's a lot of pressure for one person.

(does this mean I forgive him his politics fuck no I focus on paying my dues and trying to make donations to offset the karma for this fucking shit thing I love so much.)

The final part is the serious issue stuff and that's that <i>you can't do a nintendo style game with the kind of subject material that FNAF talks about.</i>

That's where my brain was trying to find the nugget of fuckery.

<i>That's</i> where I was losing it.

You can't write a kids game <i>about the kind of material that FNAF deals with</i> and that's what it started out as.

You can't have a funny Doctor Robotnik esque <i>child murderer</i>

In fact. <i>IN FACT</I> READING ABOUT ROBOTNIK HOLY FUCKING SHIT. AFTON IS FUCKING ROBOTNIK

Robotnik's whole goal is to turn the world into his perfect empire and make his perfect creations.

That's...effectively Afton's goal too but you know. With <i>kids</i>.

so that's it. Like. that's solving it to me and it explains my beef with it. and I'll argue - I don't know it's a weird visual depiction of an 8 bit game crossing into a triple A story?

Because it's a triple A story *for sure* one that I hope Steel Wool does something with. *But fucking Hell* that's it. I'm not out (Damn I'll never be out.) But suddenly a lot of things make sense.

I have absolutely no idea what to do with this information but holy shit.

[carolingarts]

OVERWORKED

A #BENDYANDTHEINKMACHINE

TIKTOK-SHORTS-CREATION.

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The holidays can be a stressful time of year for anyone...especially people on a mission to bring entertainment to the public. When a new director arrives at Joey Drew Studios to work on a short he comes face to face with a terror that he finds himself determined to combat...

.....Meanwhile, the already overworked employees of JDS are accepting another holiday at work. The music department is particularly burdened by the strange behavior of their director who seems determined to conduct a symphony of madness...with them as unwilling participants.

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVpsng5/ - part 1.

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVp5vrE/ - part 2.

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVp4at5/ - part 3.

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVp9u3c/ - part 4.

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVpaPMn/ - part 5

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVppkBo/ - part 6

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVWLLF4/ - part 7

https/www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVWN1oQ/- part 8

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVTYdsj/ - part ? (In which we get a look inside Sammy's mind.)

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVTjBXk/ Q&A1 (PETE)

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVK1Hov/ Q&A2 (ALAN)

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRq1DkPX/ - part 8

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqeJdwc/- part 9

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqJvT5o/- part 10

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqLHYp6/ - part11

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqYRYXk/-part12

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqjgfPg/ -part13

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRq6C2rK/ -part14

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqraeMy/ -peteQA

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqDdsaJ/- prt???

Replace the " : " in the links to follow the story!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRq5Etoc/ - prt 15

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqH5CJt/ -prt16

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRq9utQb/- prt17

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqxVBJd/ - THROWBACK Q&A

CURRENT

https//www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqpsQ9A/ - prt18

CREATOR NOTES.

So! I'm making a mini...series! And I'm super proud of it and I'm kind hoping to share it with people! It's called 'overworked' and it's the story of a couple of people working on a Joey Drew Studios cartoon with everybody's favorite totally stable music director.

It's a great warm fuzzy story about art and friendship and I'm sure good ole' Sammy's fine and they'll all live long happy lives!

You can find it under #carolingarts on tiktok! It's currently at part 8!

Check out the first episode below! (I'll be adding more links to parts later.)

[carolingarts]

"𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚒𝚡 𝚒𝚝! 𝙸𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚎'𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚕! 𝙸 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖!"

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚢 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚠