#welcome home halloween update

[cyanwyrmy]

Julie sings to Sally (and possibly other neighbors) over the phone before bed🌸💫

I have not seen anyone talking about this, and I am so surprised! However, I did notice something odd…

This excerpt is directly from the transcript of Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours. In this transcript, Sally says no to all the neighbors silly suggestions as to why they all stay indoors at night. However! If you listen to the audio itself, you will hear Sally say “What!? No, sometimes, and no!” Interesting! So Julie and Sally sing to each other good night before bed? According to Sally they do “sometimes”.

The transcript is not accurately conveying what was said, but why? I think this line was censored because the implications of two femme characters singing good night to each other was a little too gay for Playfellow and Marlo’s comfort. There have been theories around censorship in Welcome Home, and how possible queer relationships are being hidden from the audience, and I think this is a great and subtle example. It’s possible even that the audio WHRP heard truly did have Sally say “no” to all three responses. We already know that WHRP can’t hear a huge chunk of this story, so they may also be oblivious to the smaller differences that we, the audience, are hearing.

I will be lookout for more subtle queerness, especially in the next update! Did y’all notice any other differences in the transcript? Please do tell!

[snack-city]

Welcome Home Theory: Why Sally Does Not Like Eddie

I want to discuss why I think Sally does not like Eddie/isn’t friendly with him. I think Playfellow had intended to make Sally and Eddie a couple in the show. Just like how Julie and Frank are being misread intentionally as a straight couple, Playfellow’s goal with Eddie and Sally was to have them connect just enough that straightness could be assumed.

Sally knows that she is being pressured into an unwanted relationship with Eddie, thus she is intentionally making their relationship as distant as possible. We know she knows this agenda because Sally was the one to point out that Julie and Frank made a good couple. She did this to protect them.

You see, Frank and Julie are close friends on and off camera, so Playfellow presenting them as a straight couple would be extremely easy. Sally wants to protect their friendship, and she knows that the only way to do that is to lean into the lie.

In theory, Eddie and Sally should be friends at least. He obviously enjoys theater, prop making, and make up, all of which you’d assume Sally would love about him. But she keeps him at arm’s length. Why? Because she knows that any positive relationship between him and her would be twisted into them being a couple. I think Eddie is oblivious to this. He may only understand that he and Frank must remain distant when being watched, but Sally would have no reason to explain to Eddie why she doesn’t interact with him.

[mio-the-clown]

Sad Little Pierette 🖤🤍

[gachagon]

THERE WAS A NEW WELCOME HOME UPDATE IT WAS SMALL but still so perfectly creepy. I like the last image in the story book and how there's no more audio to accompany it, you just have to read the rest of the story yourself and come to your own conclusions without the cheery tone of the characters to tell you how to really feel about what happened.

The very last image in the update is just downright chilling when you really think about it. The other characters are happy about what happened and Wally even says everything is as it should be now...

There's a lot of odd mentions of horror stories that aren't exactly child friendly in this story as well and I wanna write a longer post about the stories referenced later, but just know this single image of Poppy's house "Amantillado" style really creeped me out, possibly bc it's so simple but the silence of the rest of the video implies that you're supposed to think really hard about this story T_T

[autisticartist321]

Vampire frank quotes.. (This is joke non canon)

[purple-nightwatch]

"You guarding my apple for me pal?"

[nightkit92]

Halloween Wally!! 🍎❤🎃

[filmhead-productions]

-not a single peep was heard out of Poppy.

Timelapse here

[retroiso]

Happy Halloween, neighbour! Heres a redraw of some official art!

Bonus w alternative lighting under cut @:)

[id: digital drawing of wally and barnaby from welcome home. the drawing is based off of a group halloween drawing by clown. barnaby has a ripped orange shirt, red tie, and fangs instead of his usual outfit, and wally has a red hood with devil horns, dark red shirt, and red trident. they are both drawn from the torso up. barnaby has his right arm raised ro show off his claws, and the other wrapped around wallys shoulders. wally is holding his trident with both hands. they are both smiling and looking at the viewer. the drawing has dark purple line art and deep purple shading with bright pink highlights. the outline is white. end id]

[id: the same image as above, but with dark shading over their faces. end id]

[trasho-pando2011]

why does it loop at the "what it is searching for" part? I'm still kinda confused abt this

[therabbitthatpostthings]

✨Wally Darling my beloved✨

[cyanwyrmy]

(Fan Art!)

They make such a wonderful couple, wouldn’t you say?

[snack-city]

It seems like Eddie and Sally SHOULD be really good friends! They have so many similar interests, and Eddie is so friendly with Sally. So why is she so rude to him? He’s the only neighbor she hasn’t elongated the name of, let alone said his proper name to begin with! What does Sally not like about the mailman…?

[maziyaramadhellangel]

😯 iya halloween welcome home

[sorin-sunchild]

With the new audio I'm begging people to remember that Sally gives everyone fake longer 'fancier' names and none of those are canon their names are exactly what is on their profiles

[meltysart]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃