My Candy Box

25+| She/Her| Hiya! You can call me Candy! I've just been freed from a six year curse and I'm celebrating by drawing whatever I want! That's right! Absolutely anything and everything! No inhibitions and definately no time for haters here~ Current interest: Welcome Home

[homeboygirl]

theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

[charlesoberonn]

[bearfeathers]

[shadowaod]

It's taking a bit of time to finish but the big sprites are mostly done and it's done to the small interactions on the couch.

[weevmo]

A sweet commission for @/cornacopia04 (on Twitter) - of their OC Mango giving Barnaby a hug! 💛

[thewritingumbrellas]

Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.

[writerlyn]

This is legit good writing advice, especially the first bullet point! In playwriting class we did a bit where every bit of dialogue had to be an accusatory question and it was glorious.

[weevmo]

Here's a great video talking a bit about the first point and other relevant things!! The rest of this guy's writing advice is gold and I'd recommend watching through his channel -

[hunny-waffles]

Wally and Barnaby friendship appreciation!! The perfect duo ❤️❤️

[2-b-art-blog]

Frank teaches his husband to take no shit.

[cloudy-dreams]

🌳Average day in the forest for a rainbow monster🌈

Julie showing up to the neighborhood like this

Here, have this apple that was supposed to be a doodle..went overboard

[conon-t-t]

cuties🤭

[gracehilldraws]

SILLIES‼️ Saw a big bird pic on Pinterest and the braincells connected to make this :) (not a ship!)

Extra lighting +ref!

[evillillad]

julie my beloved

[kanikamadesu]

最近のXまとめ💌🦋

[smallpwbbles]

Work kept me from doing this sooner, I absolutely adore Julie and Franks dynamic

[partycoffin]

It is unfortunately true- Due to unforeseen circumstances, We have just one more Sleep until Homewarming... Please keep an eye out! Thank you so much! (Artwork by @downydig !)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

SO. TO KICK OFF THE WEEK OF SPECULATION BEFORE THE UPDATE DROPS.

last night i had a bit of a Revelation. literally. i borderline woke up in a cold sweat with this realization. the way i lunged for my laptop to scream at friends... ough. lets get into it

so. i do believe I've made a couple of theory posts about Barnaby not being quite as receptive to his and Wally's "forced" best friendship as Wally - since the show wrote them to be friends instead of it happening naturally. i thought it might be a point of tension for Barn. i thought a lot.

YES SO I'M TOSSING (almost) ALL OF THAT OUT THE WINDOW!

the bios state Barnaby as Wally's best friend multiple times over. it had to be regularly reinforced. their colors were chosen to mark them as friends.

but Barnaby - presumably - can't see the bios, he wouldn't know the scripts. the friendship would be natural from his perspective. how would he know otherwise? even if the relationship started out synthetic, i don't doubt that it became genuine. in the context of their world and perceptions, realistically speaking Barnaby probably wouldn't sense anything wrong.

the reminders to be best friends weren't for Barnaby.

they were for Wally.

i'm starting to suspect that Wally is Barnaby's best friend, but Barnaby isn't Wally's. i think that Wally's "best friend" is Home - or at least Wally has a closer connection to them / Home is more important to Wally than anyone else is.

i remember reading this livestream trivia (from theneighborhoodwatch's doc, if you haven't their resources yet what are you even doing?):

and i assumed it was for Barnaby's side of the relationship. but it's not, is it? it's Wally's? and it makes too much fucking Sense! it fits! i can see it perfectly! i can feel things slotting together in my mind due to this shift in perspective, and i'm scared

Barnaby probably thinks the relationship is natural, just like how he thinks he's a real person in a real world. Wally probably knows that the relationship is a role, just like how he knows he's a puppet in a false reality.

that leaves me wondering how much of it is genuine on Wally's side. i don't doubt that they really are friends, but how deep does that connection go? in the interview, Wally sounded excited/proud about having a best friend, but how much came from a place of feeling, and how much came from a place of Fulfilling The Role? how much of it is performative? how much of it is a mask?

i've been seeing everything differently. Barnaby poses for Wally the most because he has good balance and is good at staying still, not because of favoritism or because he's Wally's best friend. in the 14 (15 including the hidden halloween) audios, Barnaby consistently seeks out Wally and checks in on him. Wally seems more casual about their relationship than Barnaby is.

i'm worried that Wally values Home & You/Us over Barnaby. that Barnaby is second or third place in Wally's heart. that Wally means more to Barnaby than he means to Wally. after all, only one of them needed their relationship to be reinforced on a seemingly regular basis.

i'm confident that Wally cares about / loves Barnaby, but the question is how much? to what extent?

[nutty-candy-lover]

I literally just opened the app!! ;^; How dare you hurt me like this??

[weevmo]

One of my favorite commissions I've gotten was this simple hug between Wally and Poppy! Commissioned By Silvie Line!

[edi-tsune-deactivated20250520]

✨🦋Appreciation fanart for Frank ^^🦋✨

Frank Franklin belongs to @/partycoffin

[themarcus404]

I made this!!

I can just imagine how cute they would look in their little mail trucks