#wh update

[clowncanvas]

Both Poppy and Frank are very tense people of course they tear that shit up every weekend

[moon-light-bow]

I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone talk about the meaning of sweet briars considering the fact that this is the name chosen for Julie's character in the play.... Damn, this just adds more fuel to fire considering the secret videos...

[shmooods]

A couple variations of my take on the end of the Frank Update’s Homewarming

[i-really-like-phrogs]

OMG MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH ME YOU AUTISTIC FREAK 😭💀

[sillymanzy]

Hello again! I finally can draw again happy to draw the new update pics!! YIPPEE

Also happy 70 years with Muppets anniversary yahoo!!

[megarax-ponyo]

You look tired Dude.....

Maybe you need to relax a little, don't you think?

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...at least that's the link order that made most sense to me

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Clownillustrations' Welcome Home fanart. Wally Darling is drawn at an angle slightly from below, lacking his mouth, and the eyes wide open and bright white looking the viewer. In front of him, along his height through the middle of his face, a long stripe made of the blurry Welcome Home website screenshots, glowing. Behind him is a vinyl record with a plain red label.

The background is littered with text, a wall of repeating "Let me in." from top to bottom to the left of the image, Wally's dialogue behind him, and the text on the foreground, slightly corrupted, says "I will help you understand neighbor I will find a way soon"

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[gokuisahimbo]

Thoughts about the update! (Spoilers)

A ton of rambling below,

It seems that the Welcome Home show is trying to pitch a het relationship between Julie and Frank. Even before Sweet Briar Julie and Frank were portrayed as a couple, in the lost "Julie-rella" Segment Frank seems to be depicted as a prince still, whilst Julie remains the princess Cinderella. There might be something deeper here in the Sleeping Briar story, though i think that it was unintended from Sally, in the WH version of Sleeping Beauty is whisked away to a simpler life and barred from all that which princesshood should have afforded her. Princess Julie meeting, and falling in love with Prince Frank was sheer chance, though they will find later that they've been betrothed from the start, and in the end every wrong is rectified, Barnaby the wicked dies, and princess Julie and prince Frank marry within a garden a sweet briars. The cyclical, manufactured nature of Julie and Frank’s relationship really seems like an underlying context to me, they were always meant to meet and always meant to fall in love. Any act of “defiance” done by either of these characters was factitious, almost meaningless. I think that Frank and Julie were always meant to be a pair in the context of the show, another example of this would be Wally and Barnaby. In the November 15th 2022 - November 16th 2022/phone concept stream (gotten from this doc!) Clown said this:

So i don't think it would be too out there to assume that other characters were written in a similar way. Sweet Briar is merely enforcing the role of a couple on them once again. I think the tragedy here is the fact that even when they escape romantic connotations their initial relationship is still artificial, although their care for each other is genuine.

Other thoughts about Julie's character that ive been having a lot lately are about her and that tulip. The black tulip’s resistance to being opened is seen as straight up malicious by its apparent personhood. In innocenceconstancyaspell Frank says not to play a game in front of a “stranger”, which i think inherently implies personhood.

Not does Julie believe that this flower’s reluctance to bloom is a failure of her responsibilities as a rainbow monster, but a personal failure to not live up to how she sees herself. She claims that she is Home’s most joyful neighbor, and most bring to spread happiness to others, its not that this flower simply cant bloom, but it personally dislikes her, or at least has no interest in her antics Which is the reason why she becomes increasingly malicious to this tulip throughout the course of the tapes, Julie values how others perceive her quite a bit. Which is why i think she acts more genuine in temptationdreamshope.

But that also brings me to another interesting thing i wanna talk about with Julie.

Maybe through Julie's reluctance in portraying her authentic self has somehow gotten her closer to her “actor”, it's clear that in certain situations that WH characters can embody their actors, and vice versa. At the end of the first Looky-Loo storybook Poppy is heard in her newly darkened house, utterly isolated as bricks completely cover her window, she then hears knocking at her door. Panicked, she repeatedly screams “The Door’s open” whilst someone bangs and scratches at the door, in this moment I feel the fear from Poppy the character, bled into her actual actor, and for a second she forgot that she was not trapped inside of a barnhouse, but instead safely within a recording studio. But that's only realized once the door is open, and reality bluntly sets in with Sally and Frank’s actors' show of clear worry and frustration for her.

The connecting line between Julie and her actor is the fact that they are both constantly putting up a performance, both of them are always acting like “Julie”, and because of that they are always connected, if that makes any sense. This then leads her to be more “real” in a sense, as she hopes that being more genuine may make the flower respond better, she almost entirely drops her infallible bubbliness, and promises of a near-perfect home in lieu of portraying the world to the flower realistically. Like how she remarks on the Sweet Briar play;”If it was only that easy.” I feel like this implies that Julie understands that the world, even as fantastical as Welcome Home is, has its clear limitations and does not follow typical fairy tale logic. She says this almost with some bitterness as well, as though this pseudo Julie, one that exists between the scape of character and actor, finds her manufactured life to have similar limitations to a real one. Though these two’s connection is imperfect, for instance Julie can barely remember how she met Frank, which would be weird even if it were just Julie’s actor pointing this out, since the show only lasted 5 years.

anywaysss, i have a bit more to say but i cant really form thoughts rn lol