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Welcome to your neighborly confessions blog! Here is a safe space to discuss and share your confessions and feelings for everything and anything Welcome Home and any other puppet media!

That being said, there are a few ground rules I would like for everyone to take a gander at, including my admittedly short yet very important DNI-

🌈Rules/DNI🌈

- No hate speech, bigotry, etc.

- If your confession is anti-playfellowxxx, or shaming or against any adult content, you will not be posted and will simply be deleted. We do not s3x shame or k1nk shame people in this house. Take your Puritanism elsewhere.

- No Minors.

- No antis of any sort. This blog is against censorship and against harassment over fiction. Especially regarding fictional ships. Don’t agree, once more, take it elsewhere.

- NSFW confessions are absolutely allowed. This is an ADULT space. This is a SAFE space for everyone.

- please stay on topic

❌This list is subject to change in the future should I decide to add to it❌

This confessions blog is run by

Admin - Pierrot

Admin - Jester

On occasion the admin may chime in with their own thoughts.

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I remember seeing people under Mattpett’s Welcome Home video saying how Clown isn't working on WH or that he’s slacking off due to the website not being updated and/or Clown not giving updates every 24/7… Do you idiots not know how this works? Did TikTok fry your attention spans that much?

I understand wanting more but Jesus Christ are people so impatient. It’s really obnoxious but I think it’s because for a lot of people, this is their first fandom, and especially their first fandom that has slow updates. Like im sorry but it will take a while.. that’s just how it is for art.

- Jester

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Calling it now! Mae’s going to be the popular self-insert character for Teddy fangirls to project onto due to her character checking off all boxes typical of those Canon X self-insert fics.

✅ Cute, sweet, kind, understanding and people pleaser personality.

✅ Dangerously naive and overly trusting, which puts her in constant danger.

✅ Always tries to see the good in everyone.

✅ Always supports the male character no matter what and is the sweet girl who can fix the troubled male character (in this case Teddy).

✅ And Oddrey’s portrayed as the evil, abusive ex who torments Teddy making his life hell, because there’s always a female character characterized as horrible in these types of things.

If my prediction comes true, I want you guys to reblog this because I’M CALLING IT NOW!

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Just a quick correction! Archie isn’t filipino, he’s actually Finnish, Chinese & Japanese.

https://dawm.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie_Aster#/media/File%3AIMG_9556.jpeg

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I need someone to make a small comic with Oddrey forming her ribbons into different accessories she associates with her friends (bow ties for Mae, a scarf for Archie, etc), yet Teddy gets a noose because how much Oddrey hates his ass. lol

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While everyone’s worried about the fanbase and what not, my main concern is how they’ll handle the ending to DAWM as we’ve been on a track record of shows starting off good off bat, then taking a massive nose dive in the series finales.

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The fact it’s being made and constantly updated by a single person alone on the daily is quite impressive as well! My only critique is picking a blood splattered/written in blood VHS as the warning label feels too on the nose and listing DreamAlong as not being suitable for ages 17 or below is weird, since it’s more 13-14 at best.

https://dawm.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

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With Archie confirmed as trans (Mage posted about him for trans visibility day not long ago on twitter), I’m worried a good portion of the fandom’s going to fetishize or be transphobic in some way towards him. The amount of times i’ve seen trans man treated poorly by fans either completely erasing/ignoring them being trans or fetishizing them as the soft, small, defenseless submissive feminine-looking male in mlm relationships is gross to me.

While I understand generally where you’re coming from, I would like to note that it is not ‘fetishistic’ in itself to depict a trans man as ‘feminine’ or the submissive in an MLM relationship. I say this as trans masc myself (and Jester is also a trans man that aligns with this). Just be mindful not to make broad statements that might invalidate trans men/trans mascs that do align with that presentation and expression, because many do align with being more feminine or being submissive. Some do prefer to present as a feminine man, no different from how many cis men are femboys or prefer to present more feminine or submissive while still being a man. Many get erased and shamed for it as ‘being a fake trans man’ (which is both transphobic and misogynistic as you are implying a woman is only capable of being those things as well as if a trans man does it then they may as well just be a woman…yuck.) or that they are ‘making trans men look bad’ which is also problematic and is transphobic. I’m not saying you are doing any of that, I’m only mentioning this perspective so you could be mindful of it when it comes to the topic or what people are quick to call ‘fetishistic’. (Rule of thumb, if a cis man is allowed to do it and their identity is not questioned nor are they referred to as fetishistic, why can’t a trans man?).

I do agree on the erasure, and how people will at times make them cis anyways, and such. However, we do have to understand that we cannot control everyone in a fandom. I may not agree with it, but you can’t force people to always adhere to canon in their fan works or interpretations. That’s where we get people who take it a step too far and start policing others. It’s one thing to inform someone who may not know the identity or the sexuality of a character, it’s another to start berating them about it. When it comes to identities like these and sexuality (again in speaking as a trans masc pansexual person myself), as long as the person is aware of what’s canon, I don’t really care what they end up doing in their fanworks. As long as they’re not posting straight-up hate speech about the canon, I really don’t care. People will ship characters despite canon relationships and specialities, people will envision and draw characters despite canon appearances and identities, people will draw nsfw, will draw them genderbent, will draw them damn near unrecognizable. That’s what fandom does. it doesn’t affect the canon and like I said, as long as they’re person is informed about what’s canon and is not doing it out of spite against that canon or something (just look at the way some grown adults reacted to a queer pony couple in MLP being confirmed in the last episode) then what you do in your fanworks or personal interpretations really doesn’t matter much to me. There’s also the point of how many people will project themselves onto characters like Archie, particularly trans folks who, as mentioned previously, do align with being more feminine and being ‘submissive’ that might see themselves in Archie and thus may portray him closer to how they present themselves, not with the intent of fetishizing. Besides, if I don’t like it or don’t agree with it? I’ll just block them.

- Pierrot

I understand where you may be coming from but don’t call a personal discomfort fetishizing. I am a trans man who identifies with more feminine leaning identity. I also draw nsfw of that. Just because you don’t find personal comfort in feminine, submissive trans men doesn’t mean others don’t. I personally love it because I identify with it and find comfort in it. It doesn’t invalidate you (you general) or anyone else who isn’t that. There isn’t enough of it like people act like there is. There is real life cases of infantalization of trans masc (that we are just women and don’t want to be oppressed or that it’s hard living as a woman so we transition). A drawing of a trans masc being soft or submissive or feminine is not the issue but real life people oppressing trans masc. We are incredibly invisible to everyone and your worry is some art that doesn’t align with your identity? Your main concern should be whether or not a person actually believes trans masc people, regardless of how masculine or feminine they are, have a right to exist. Not whether or not they draw a trans man having sex in a way you don’t like, or being depicted in a way that doesn’t align with you. This is something extremely important to me because I am personally tired of being invalidated by this notion that trans men cannot be portrayed as soft or submissive or feminine. A cis man can be but the second a trans man is, suddenly it’s the worst thing ever and it’s bad for trans men. So what about people like me? Who have long hair and love my curves and is rather feminine? I honestly couldn’t care less if someone depicts their trans masc character as defenseless, they do it all the time to cis feminine men. Why is it suddenly an issue when they’re trans?

On the topic of them portraying characters as cis, in this case Archie, if it bothers you, block them. I only care if they try to invalidate his gender in the canon. But aus exist and sometimes people just want to draw different, canon divergent ideas. As long as they’re respectful to trans identities and his identity, what does it matter? Are you going to get mad at people drawing him having sex? Are you going to get mad if people draw him in ways that aren’t canon? Where does the line start and end when we have arbitrary rules of what people are and aren’t allowed to draw because a few people find discomfort? Don’t like it if someone draws Archie as a submissive bottom? Block them and find someone who draws him the way you like. Like i said, your personal discomfort isn’t a good enough reason to act like a depiction is wrong. Trans mascs can be submissive. Trans masc can like the fantasy of being defenseless. I for one am tired of constantly having to be on the defensive. Sometimes I just want to be taken care of. You saw a stereotype and decided you hated it. I think it’s gross of you to say that feminine looking masc characters is fetishizing. Just because you want to look like a cis (assuming) man, doesn’t mean others do. Some of us identify with masculinity differently to others. What you see as manly is different for someone else. Stop looking at people’s personal work as representation of your specific identity. A lot of art is meant to be indulgent. I draw art that makes me happy, not you. I draw trans men being feminine and pretty and submissive because it makes me happy. I love it. It represents me. And I’m always happy to find others who do draw it, regardless of their identity. I just want to consume more of it because it makes me feel validated as a trans man. Anyone can draw any art, as long as it isn’t lgbtphobic, racist or hate speech. But you can’t tell if someone’s transphobic because they drew trans mascs in a way you personally don’t align with. The idea that a masc character is depicted as submissive and defenseless is also typically misunderstood because people refuse to actually interact with the media besides a surface level look at it. The character that’s seen as defenseless always has more depth than that and if they don’t, maybe someone just wanted to make art without much thought? Sometimes people make stuff just for fun. It’s not their fault you didn’t engage deeper with the content besides one look.

- Jester

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It would've been nice if Teddy was an asshole for the sake of being an asshole, esp since most jerk characters nowadays are written as sympathetic or putting on a mask to excuse their behavior…. Turns out Teddy’s actually a very, very lonely sad boi hated by most, who's pretending to be an ass to keep others away! (You should check out the DAWM wiki, there’s so many spoilers and key point points revealed on there, you basically know most of and/or figured out the mystery from reading it alone 😭)

He’s going to get woobify to hell because of this and I already hate it.

It would be cool to have an unapologetically morally gray character or a character that really is just an asshole. It would genuinely be really cool to have a truly complex character where you may not necessarily agree with the things they do or say, but they’re written so well you can’t help but want to understand them or learn more about them or maybe you just enjoy the way they’re written.

But sadly there’s been a track record of people in fandom being incapable of handling complex characters (*cough*Jax*cough*Angel Dust*cough*Valentino*).

You give them a complex character that maybe doesn’t do things that are morally okay or isn’t meant to be likeable, and they go ballistic on how ‘abusive’ they are and anyone who likes them is bad and the spawn of Satan. Yknow, basic lack of media literacy type mentality. They ask for complex characters but cannot dissect said character beyond surface level knee jerk ‘I’m a good person I swear’ reactions.

But man I wish Teddy was a big ol jerk that would beat me up verbally…(jk)

-Pierrot

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Sorry if this sounds passive-aggressive but has it ever occurred to you both and the anons that Mage might be intentionally revealing key-plot points/spoilers to throw people off the true mystery of the show? It's too early to be making assumptions under the impression you’ve already solved the story for an upcoming series by a young creator who’s worked in studios with years of experiences while claiming said creator’s going to be the show’s undoing. Again, sorry if this sounds passive-aggressive, it’s just kinda odd.

It’s not passive aggressive. It’s simply incorrect. Myself and the other admin have not claimed or acted like we ‘solved the story’. Not once. Almost every time the information about the story made available by the creator themself is brought up, we usually share our thoughts on it and then mention that obviously we could be wrong or maybe it’ll be handled well or executed differently. We have not made any sort of assumption under any impression of having already solved the story, so I don’t know where you pulled that out of.

Would your own idea of Mage revealing key plot points in order to throw people off the real mystery not in itself be a bit of an assumption? Like, it’s fine to theorize that. Genuinely that would be cool. But considering we SHOULDNT assume, and can only go off of mage’s literal words and what they’ve chosen to literally share, I don’t see why it’s odd or wrong to…share our thoughts on the information they made available? We are allowed to have our opinions, you don’t have to agree.

What mystery is being ‘thrown off’ by revealing the end game couples and making the ‘will they won’t they love triangle’ a bit redundant? Again, you don’t have to agree, but that’s an example of something that was said by the creator and that people are allowed to feel some type of way. You can also see that particular example as a non-issue. It’s not that deep, but people can still have their own thoughts on it without it being that deep either. I do feel they keep revealing too many details, and I hope that they are able to execute a good story. But people are also allowed to share their concern when too many details that don’t need to be shared yet or could be handled in a way to create more hype and actual intrigue instead of just revealing it before you’ve released anything are valid.

The creator’s age doesn’t matter. Mage is a grown adult that doesn’t need to be babied. And their ‘years of experience in companies’ is just small backround work for the Sid the science kid show. At least that’s all I remember seeing them talk about when they mentioned working at Jim Henson. Nothing wrong with that of course but let’s be realistic. (Low key contradicting your own point btw. They’re a ‘young creator’ and have ‘years of experience working for companies’ so which is it? Are they young and deserving of grace due to youth and inexperience? Or are they an animation and writing veteran that can be trusted in knowing what they’re doing?). Again, it’s fine. But I don’t think you should weaponize someone’s experience and background in an attempt to absolve them of criticism. They could be an og Disney animator and I’d still have my criticisms. They could be Rebecca Sugar or Alex Hirsch or Dana Terrace and I’d still critique them the exact same way. If anything, you’d think with ‘lots of experience’ you’d know how to better approach certain things.

Regardless, when you post information about your project online, people will have thoughts on them. And all those thoughts, as long as they are not attacking/harassing/or being hateful towards people, are Valid. YOU can theorize that they might be sharing information to throw off the real plot if you want to, could tell us all about that idea and what evidence you felt may point towards that. You CANNOT use that idea to invalidate others when we are all going off the same thing and if you just don’t like seeing someone you like be spoken about critically, you don’t have to be here.

- Pierrot

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Even tho the show ain't out yet, I can already see and hear the DAWM fandom complaining how NSFW artists always ruining the fandom, people shouldn't be allowed to lewd the characters because they're too wholesome/from a children’s tv show (despite all the characters being adults with jobs and Homes), and wanting a 100% wholesome fandom free of anything remotely sexual or suggestive.

(A repeat of how the WH fandom freaked out and attacked those who made NSFW/suggestive works either via harassment, straight-up wishing death upon, or calling NSFW artists mentally ill)

I already know that will happen and it’s honestly so tiring. I promise the nsfw artists aren’t the ones ruining fandom or making them toxic. These people really need to look in the mirror if they want to find the real source of 90% of fandom toxicity and why fandoms die.

Adults in fandom will make adult content. What’s important is that we keep content in their respective spaces via tags.

These people really give ‘this is my first fandom’ because none of them understand fandom etiquette like at all. Welcome home is a clear example of that toxicity, but Clown’s actions are a great example of what you SHOULD do in fandom.

- Pierrot

I’m an nsfw artist. I love drawing nsfw and being apart of this fandom seems like it would be hell for someone like me who finds value in art like that. I genuinely hate the idea that nsfw art ruins fandom when it’s literally the backbone of fandom. It’s like the fujoshis are the backbone of fandom also. They keep fandom alive. To exclude a group because it personally makes you uncomfortable that people have sex is dumb. You can’t keep adults out of fandom, no matter what it is. But you know what you can do? Moderate!! Make a space for the adults and gooners. Make a space so that you go in only if you want to see that. Make sure people use proper tags, yknow… fandom etiquette… the creator doesn’t even need to know about what’s in those tags and it would keep fandom safe and fun for everyone.

- Jester

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Idk if you guys know this but Synth has stepped down from his role in DAWM. He announced it on his server and stated that he has no Ill will towards the project it's just personal reasons why he left. Just wanted to let you guys know if you have not heard already.

Really?? That’s strange, I hope they make an actual public statement on that considering they had publicly announced his role. So if this is true they do need to be transparent about it for everyone else.

Do you have any kind of proof of this? We aren’t on his server so if you could provide any sort of proof that would be good!

- Pierrot

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Anon returned and kindly sent us the proof. Thank you! Also I agree with what you said about not going and asking the cast or mage any questions about the ‘why’ if they do not want to share that with us. Don’t be parasocial. Certainly don’t spam them. I just hope they do make a more public announcement about it soon at least to let the general audience know.

- Pierrot

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Idk if you guys know this but Synth has stepped down from his role in DAWM. He announced it on his server and stated that he has no Ill will towards the project it's just personal reasons why he left. Just wanted to let you guys know if you have not heard already.

Really?? That’s strange, I hope they make an actual public statement on that considering they had publicly announced his role. So if this is true they do need to be transparent about it for everyone else.

Do you have any kind of proof of this? We aren’t on his server so if you could provide any sort of proof that would be good!

- Pierrot

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OMG THIS BACKGROUND CHARACTER IS SO CUTE! Her design makes me think she might be related to Jolly Joker someway or maybe she’s not and it’s just very similar design choices. (Mage needs to tone down the use of gradient on the designs tho)

Thank you to whoever made the wiki it makes getting information much less a hassle than scrolling through hours long instagram story highlights for sure.

Oh! And Mae is filipino and Irish, while Earl is now of German, Hawaiian & Swedish nationality. 

https://dawm.miraheze.org/wiki/Meek

This wiki is honestly a life saver. This is such a cute character I really wonder what they’re whole thing may be about 👀 I could also see them being a popular one to cosplay.

- Pierrot

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It's okay to not like some of them but don't you guys think calling DAWM character designs generic and not liking a single one of them is rude and kinda… hateful? Especially with how much care’s been put into them? There's details that make them stand out, like Oddrey's horns reminiscent of devil horns + wisps of moving fire, arms & legs blacked to resemble burns/soot, Archie's scarf looking like a shooting star, Honeybell’s fleece designed to resemble those swirling, puffy, clouds or a sweater and Lunette’s horn being crescent moons, etc.

You don’t have to agree with their opinions, but they ARE valid opinions. Just as much as your valid opinion is that you don’t think the designs are generic, the people that feel otherwise are just as valid and allowed to express why they feel they are. It’s not hateful or rude to express an opinion that’s not insulting or disrespectful (as that’s against the rules here). You can express an opinion as long as you do so respectfully, and they have done that. Just because YOU don’t agree with them doesn’t automatically make their personal interpretation and perspectives ‘hateful or rude’, just because it isn’t praising the designs.

Let’s normalize not demonizing people and calling them hateful just because they have a subjective opinion you aren’t being forced to agree with and aren’t being said in a rude way. You could just tell us why you personally don’t think they’re generic without putting down the opinion of the person that doesn’t agree with you.

Also, every project has a lot of care and work put into them. That doesn’t mean people can’t have their likes and dislikes or opinions.

My own opinion is that I don’t think they’re generic, I just think some of them could be tweaked to better fit what they want to illustrate for that character. But if someone finds them generic, they are entitled to that opinion as long as they aren’t insulting the creator or people who disagree, just as much as someone who doesn’t find them generic is also entitled to that opinion as long as they don’t insult or go off on someone who does not agree.

- Pierrot.

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I sure can’t wait for the chaotic, insane ship wars that’ll occur as result of the love square between Teddy, Mae, Oddrey, and Archie! Can’t wait for the shipping side of the fandom to become so unbearable it’ll drive out a good chunk of good fans leaving mainly the shippers. Especially if there’s canonical love interests or “Will they, won't they” subplots, because you’ll be threatened for not shipping the end-game couple! /Sarcastic. 

Ugh…it’s a good thing I’m a stubborn shipper cuz I can and will have my enemies-to-aggressive-lovers yaoi between Archie and Teddy and I will not be stopped by any nay-sayer 😤

- Pierrot

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On my knees praying Dreamalong’s too niche for Twitter users to latch onto to make a fuss about, the last thing I need is DAWM’s first “fandom drama” be Twitter users claiming characters like Mae, Lunette, or Fiona are children or “child-coded” because they’re either flat chested and short (Mae), because they look/act very childish (Lunette/Flona), or they don’t look like adults.

Sadly this is an issue in damn near every fandom so don’t be surprised if it happens. Just block. Free block list.

- Pierrot