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Truthfully if I can pull off 'overworked' I could move onto shorter form videos, maybe post the first one on my YouTube page.

Anyway please enjoy my apparently very popular chaotic music inky gremlin-man

(I have hope that he's so popular cause I'm showing his de-evolution and my acting skills are cool but idk)

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

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OVERWORKED my little fan project averages about 300 views per little snippet (with a couple of them about 500) and while that might depress some people and I'd like big numbers, I do freelance entertainment journalism so I know that even the most minor view counts that go above like, 50 views can still result in a profit. I see some people like it regularly but at this point I just want to build up my little dudes. So this post is all about ocs and character takes/headcanon!

WHO ARE THE MAIN PLAYERS IN OVERWORKED?

Sammy Lawrence (pre-ink ish), Pete Bixby, a sound engineer and Foley artist as well as a longtime member of the studio music department, and Alan Sterling - the director of an unnamed (and lost to time and canon cough cough) bendy short.

PETE AND ALAN?

Let's talk about Alan first.

Alan is originally from Kansas (specifically Lawrence Kansas) who grew up poor with his father a coal miner who attempted to unionize the mine he worked in and succeeded (sort of). This unusually liberal idea left Hank Sterling and his family persona non grata so they were ousted from town and moved to California where Alan was drafted but ended up drawing cartoons for Stars and Stripes because of his bad eyesight.

Alan learned teamwork from the army, and came back working for several studios where he followed in his dad's footsteps working for workers rights in animation studios. He married his wife Katherine (kitty) and they have twins, a boy and a girl named William and Elizabeth.

Alan is tenacious, brave, noble,takes no shit, and will die to defend his people but he tends to inspire with grand speeches but make stupid decisions. He's also blind as a bat which is bad news bears when your whole gig is drawing tiny pictures. He lives in fear of people finding out. To hide this he may or may not have a massive savior complex.

PETE BIXBY -

Pete started at JDS because his whole family has a background in theater. His father is an aspiring playwright who makes a living on Broadway as a stagehand, his mother is a costume designer of some renown in off Broadway shows and the family legend is that he has a grandfather who was a famous vaudeville magician.

He's genuinely funny and he'd be a great 'gag man' but he's pretty happy making stupid noises and doing cutting edge work taking Sammy's scores and Jack's songs and working with a couple of other guys in the music department to synch them and print them on film.

He's well liked by the guys at the studio and had a vague knowledge of Henry and how it used to be easier while he was here.

Mr. Drew's ink machine has thrown a wrench into his carefully orchestrated (ha get it) life by making his own job difficult thanks to pipes and leaking ink through electrical sockets. He learned the hard way not to touch it when Sherman (another engineer) got shocked pretty bad. Ever since then he and the other sound guys wear gloves and masks when using the equipment. It's pretty bad back there and that shit *stinks*.

They also have to keep the place clean ironically when the actors come into record and cover up the worst leaks with any posters they can scavenge.

Despite the extra work he's grown closer with the music department then he ever expected to since the ink keeps flooding the stairwell and they end up working late under Sammy's directions. Because they're stuck down there they're cut off from the rest of the studio unless animation interrupts their work which is *the most important*. Anybody can make shit move but they make them talk. Can animation do that? No. Fuck um.

It's not like anyone cares with them stuck down there anyway. They can keep themselves entertained just fine and hell their output is better than most anyway...

Except people say he's acting weird and they're acting weird but worst of all Sammy's acting weird. What the fuck.

SAMMY/MUSIC DEPARTMENT HCs

Just not this.

ANYWAY! Headcanons for my au!

SAMMY'S GOT A HISTORY OF TRAUMA - I feel like this is pretty common in Sammy Aus but he's got an obsessive need to please that he keeps to himself purely to because he's afraid to open himself to others. He defines his personality through his hyperfixation (music) and pleasing powerful figures.

This manifests in treating others like garbage because he defines his worth by his own output and the simple fact is he can't do it alone. **THAT SAID** He prefers to do so by inspiring individuals. In TIOL Joey describes Sammy's musicians as worshipping him.

Joey's a canonical liar and his musicians are grown ass adults but if I'm charting the ink's corruption I'm pretty sure the music department got hit first. It plays up people's emotions and insecurities. Before it attacked people individually (if their personalities were loud enough to warrant it) it manifested that sense of emotional support that came from being a unit.

(I just keep thinking about 'we couldn't get out of our department three times last month because the ink flooded the stairwell. Like how long were they stuck down there? Just breathing in the fumes? Slipping and falling in it?)

HE PLAYS MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS - this stems from my modern au but he's able to play multiple ones. He plays banjo, violin, and piano

HE FINDS BENDY ANNOYING BUT HE DIDN'T ALWAYS -

Sammy's got a lot of headcanons about him being bored with Bendy or being frustrated with it. I think it's a combination of both - that he started out thinking it would be engaging and easy and he could just top the charts and move on. The arrogance and ego that led him down the dark path was aggrevated by the circumstances around him. He always was, he thought it'd be easy. He drowned metaphorically. Then physically.

SAMMY+THE INK+HIS DEPARTMENT

I'm pretty sure that while Sammy happily took out chunks of the studio he relied on his department and either sacrificed them first to the demon or tried to 'convert' them to his religion. 'The believers must honor their savior.' While it spread, he had his people locked in his department first accidentally than willingly.

In this au (and my personal headcanon) Sammy's transformation occurred privately but when he disappeared he'd either fed his department (or big chunks of it) to the demon or converted his 'sheep' into a true flock either by force or by persuasion.

THE INK-

Purely based on DCTL and TLO we know the ink is addictive, that it causes emotions to be amplified, and that it mutates people and generates objects. We also know it's everywhere.

In Overworked, the music department's proximity coupled with Joey's behavior left that group of people surrounded by it. Bring surrounded and abandoned was different than a bunch of teenagers surrounded by it, or a bunch of adults scared as hell of the stuff. They'd been scared into submission by their boss who, already driven into madness, praised their fortitude and work and so they became a tight knit group and began to distrust others in the studio. This made the group seem standoffish and people grew suspicious of them.

Beyond that, the more broken the mind the more it's amplified and the ink snaps the mind further. It reduces filters and social boundaries. People are essentially becoming inhuman after all! And. That's. A problem!

I could go into little details and I might (I love sadcat animator dad and wet sad cat composer and his herd of cats).

IF PEOPLE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS please hit me here, and check out part one here!

You can definitely find 'Overworked' on tiktok. Check out the up-to-date story here!

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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!

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I won't lie I was *feeling* this. What was supposed to be a few short videos turned into a whole goddamn session. I can't wait to update my William Afton to be like this.

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Hi, I'm Kyle, also known as Porg, also known as Carolyn. I'm back and excited to use this blog for cosplay and art posts and writing and generally making original content!

ABOUT ME

I'm a Disney Castmember. Consequently I may blog about this but it won't be that exciting.

This is a Marvel | DC Comics | Star Wars | Indie Horror and Horror Blog along with some aesthetics. This is also the place where I dump things I make.

My two main platforms (at the moment) are tiktok and ao3 but given how important it is to curate a "brand" I'll be posting things about that.

My fanfiction*

I write #Fnaf Fanfiction! I write about supernatural creatures in the FNAF universe. My biggest work is 'The Immortal and the Restless' which is basically "Michael Afton falls in love with Jeremy Fitzgerald but he's a vampire and Jeremy is a Hunter and William Afton is also a vampire." We're in season 2 at the moment.

I'm a big fan of His Empire of Dirt on ao3 by the illustrious pearlandpine and I love the gay corner of the LGBTQ community which has basically invaded HEOD and I love it.

I also cosplay! you can find my cosplays on caroling_cosplay @/ Tiktok. You can find me on Hive as well. I have current ones planned but well, yes!

**ORIGINAL WORK**

I have an original TTRPG I'm working on developing.

If you're looking for RL posts you can find them under carolingposts, if you're looking for writing you can look for carolingwrites, and if you're looking for cosplay you can find it under carolingcosplay