with this nationwide quarantine and lots and lots of time spent inside, i figured i would write out a little update about my life for you. i graduate college in may and i could not be more excited! i get my cap and gown in two weeks and i can’t wait to show you what i have planned for my cap decorations. i’ll be getting two degrees, one in history and one in political science! i can’t believe it’s time for me to graduate already, it really feels like it was yesterday that i was in my freshman dorm screaming over ‘i don’t wanna live forever’. with this crazy, exciting time in my life comes a lot of anxieties, though. i am scared about finding a job during this virus, scared about being able to pay back my almost $40K in loans, and scared that i just won’t be able to find something i’m passionate about. one of the only things bringing me comfort during all of this is you and your music and your heart. you have no idea how special you are and how much seeing you on tumblr, interacting with my best friends, lifts my spirits during all of this isolation. today, i left the house for the first time in weeks. i got in my car, rolled down the windows, and turned daylight up as loud as i could. something about the wind in my hair, the sunshine on my skin, and your comforting lyrics gave me such an intense feeling of hope, i couldn’t help but cry. i love you so much, t. thank you for being there for me during all of the difficult times in my life, especially with what we are all going through right now. i truly don’t know where i’d be without you and your advice. i’ll send more updates as all of this craziness continues and, hopefully, winds down. i included a picture of me and stark so you could see how big she’s getting! she’s going to be a year old next month, can you believe it? i hope all is well with you and your heart.
OOC. look! devilswinging is updating again! i may not actively post for now (because overall muse is still dead), but i wanted to update everyone on some timeline revisions i’ve done since personally playing BATIM and reading Dreams Come to Life. everything’s gonna be under a cut so that it doesn’t clog up anyone’s dashboard. i wanted to update everyone because if i do come back to tumblr rp, i’ll immediately be jumping into this revised timeline instead of keeping the old one
THE MOST MAJOR UPDATE IS THAT ISA/BAST NO LONGER EXISTS. i know, shocker. the Ink Demon is in fact Bebe now. instead of having two different Bendys, we’re just gonna keep it at it being the same demon, just horrifically traumatized!
mostly i did this change bc of reading through the novel. it just made more sense to me for the once-friendly and peppy yet abused demon to eventually snap and drag everyone down with him in vain attempt to hold the studio up on his own after both of his creators ditched the studio.
secondly! Joey is a bitch! yep, you heard it here, i’ve officially joined the canon bandwagon of Joseph Drewseph Is A Huge Dick. with the erasure of Isa as a character, having Joey be nice just didn’t work out anymore. somebody had to be the reason Henry left. somebody had to be the reason Bendy snapped. and (un)fortunately Joey was the only one who fit the bill. so he’s bitch, like canonically.
(yes, this does mean that joey will be removed from @builtmachine. because unfortunately i cannot actively write abusive/asshole characters as seen by me immediately butchering isa/bast from bad guy to good guy)
last major point! the Inkverse mostly happened because Bendy was attempting to hold up the studio on his own. of course the Ink has a mind of its own, somewhat, but the majority of it is still very much a hell and prison of Bendy’s own making.
the full timeline is this!
Henry and Joey are both born. [1901]
Joey Drew Studios is founded [1920]
Bendy and Co are made around, even if they haven't shown up in the cartoon yet. [1925]
Henry gets sick of the studio and loses hope in it and yadda yadda and quits. [1930]
Bendy begins to destabilize and become monstrous. Thomas locks him in the infirmary under Joey's orders. Everyone still there is forced to ignore his cries. [1930-1934].
Bendy Land begins construction. Financial decline for the studio. [1944]
Studio is placed under investigation for hazardous environments, missing employees, harassment, and excessive backpay. Company also bankrupts. [1946]
Buddy finds Bendy and frees him. Bad idea! [1946]
Snooks, Spitner and Snooks sues JDS for mismanaging workers. The studio closed 12 days later. [1959]
Joey leaves the studio [1959]
INKVERSE!! [1959-1972]
Thomas and Allison begin to die, Boris and Alice sacrifice themselves to save them, making Tom and Allison Angel. [1960]
The Butcher Gang become one set of their corrupted copies, making the indistinguishable from the rest. [1961]
Henry returns to the studio. [1963]
Henry is trapped in the studio. [1963-1972]
Henry manages to calm Bendy (skipping the idea that Bendy becomes trapped in "The End") and leaves the studio with him. [1972]
TL;DR: the Inkverse is ultimately caused by Henry leaving, Bendy destabilized and being publicly abused by JDS and causing at least some of the environmental hazards, and the Inkverse being fully realized once Joey leaves and Bendy has no one left to “support” him.
other minor points that may not be timeline specific but are in fact major plot revisions!
THE CYCLE IS DEFINITELY NOT A TIME LOOP. i’m sorry, i still detest legit time loops as a narrative point. the Cycle for devilswinging’s timeline is simply a cycle of life and death for Henry; considering just about EVERYTHING within the Inkverse is made of Bebe’s ink, it makes sense that every time Henry died and was brought back, the events could - and would - replay over and over. long story short, once Henry actually beats Bebeast with The End, that’s it. it’s over. they can leave. he can take him out of the studio.
the whole universe is now a Who Framed Roger Rabbit-esque Toon Town universe, taking inspiration and pieces from multiple sources on an OOC level - mostly from WFRR and Animaniacs + Tiny Toons. long story short that just about everyone knows: humans and toons live on the same plane and coexist.
but vee, why do the JDS toons have to hide away then if this is a Toon Town universe? THEY’RE FREAKS. explaining that further: they were created by means different from other studios’ toons. putting it simply, most toons (ex: the Warner Siblings) literally jump off the page from the love and inspiration put into them by their creators and studios as a whole. the JDS toons... didn’t get that, considering it was likely only Henry who truly loved them. so they had to be brought to life by other means... aka the Ink Machine, which made them demon-toons instead of true toons; JDS had no choice but to hide them away because if they got caught displaying their demonic sides, there’d be trouble. i mean there’s trouble regardless, but yeah.
i think that’s about it for the timeline/universe revisions i’ve made. but please please PLEASE message or send me an ask if you guys have questions about the timeline/universe or want to know more details! you can send a message here or over at @cinnanyan (yes i changed my main’s username for now)
Hi new followers! Thank you for joining me on this adventure! Currently have things to get completed but the next few days are going to be busy with work and the holidays (and I need to get some writing done on my rp blog lol) so hopefully requested promos will get done within the next week!
Next up are promos for @devildungeondm and @edhellfire
i am so tired y’all, this has been A Time lately. i have gotten very little writing done this week. but a bunch of this, i wrote ages ago, and am delighted to finally get to use.
I was like ah this chapter’s the punchline but no as i proofread it, it’s really all just more setup. man like really most of what i write is setup. i guess there’s occasional punchlines. who knows. i feel like y’all think there’s gonna be more punchlines than there are. it can be fun to get comments that are like “oh X is gonna happen!” that are correct, sometimes it’s fun when they are incorrect, but a lot of times I’m just sort of like “oh yeah i did set up X to happen and I just... am not going to write that, didn’t even think of seeing it through...” well. listen sometimes a story is larger than you can actually tell.
it is extremely obvious what we are setting up for, though, and i am delighted in that case.
But also there’s a bunch of stuff I decided it was more expedient not to directly tell, so there’s allusions to there having been a whole lot of shit going on that the POV character does not know about, and all shall be revealed but possibly not all shall be revealed directly. so bear with me. it’s not even that i’m trying to be clever and indirect and whatever, it’s that i wrote the long thing and was like this is too fucking long and don’t know how else to work it in.
Sometimes a story is larger than you can actually directly tell!
anyway chapter 7 of growing out is here on AO3
and it definitely passes the bechdel test, for whatever that’s worth
Well, there wasn’t a casual way to approach. Ves thought it over for a moment, and then thought about how she really only had one style of handling things, so if she wanted to attempt to handle this, it would have to be in that style. She walked boldly up to the alcove, leaned her hip against it, and said gruffly, “Are you all right?”
Breniriel had a bit of dry hardtack in a napkin, and a little bottle of water, and had been staring grimly at the hardtack when Ves walked up. She glanced up in startlement, wary, but then relaxed slightly. She looked— she still looked pretty but she looked a bit rumpled, close up, her face blotchy and a little swollen like she really had been crying. She looked miserable.
“I’m fine,” she said sullenly, and then put her hand over her mouth and sat with her eyes closed for a long moment as if she were trying not to be sick.
“Shit,” Ves said, “no you’re not. Who is it? What did they say? I can break another face. Nobody here can say shit to me if I do.”
Breniriel didn’t answer for a moment, and then looked up at her and laughed mournfully. “No,” she said, “no, it isn’t— nobody said anything to me. I just don’t feel well.”
“Oh,” Ves said awkwardly. “Sorry.” That sounded stupid. “I mean, sorry to hear it. It’s not the flu, is it? Either way, can I go get you anything?”
“No,” Breniriel said, “no, it’s— it’s fine. I’ll be all right in a moment. And it’s not the flu, you needn’t worry.”
Ves thought hard for a moment, about the kind of thing that would make a woman be intermittently nauseous and tearful while being so clearly not the flu that Brenieriel wasn’t concerned about it despite a recent epidemic, and then narrowed her eyes. “Who did this to you,” Ves demanded, gesturing at her belly.
Breniriel blinked, and then laughed. “No,” she said, “no, I— I wanted this. I want this.” And she put her hand on her belly. She wasn’t far enough along for anything to show, but— Ves eyed her tits, judging that they were bigger than they’d been. Yeah, she was pregnant.
After I clear out my inbox of art suggestions I’ll be mainly posting all my art and writings to my personal/art blog @travelingcryptid and keeping this as my silly stuff and reblogs blog. I’ll still be sharing my art from there on this blog for a little while till the transfer is over since I have more followers on this blog then the other. Thanks for bearing with me while I complete this switch! :)
