🖤Shadow🖤

HEYA PAL! I'm Shadow, I'm a writer and artist and streamer sometimes I love Hermitcraft, the Magnus Archives, The Life Series, Horror of ALL KINDS (But especially Analog Horror). Pronouns She/They Ask Box/DMs Open! :]

[serendippertyy]

happy pride to transfem jax,,, anytime someone draws transfem jax fairies are born and flowers bloom...

[445ties]

this is the real ending to episode 9

[dandeliont3aandsageleaves]

"Brennan is the best game changer contestant" this "Brennan is so competitive" that

Okay well I've never watched in fear as Brennan hit a bong full of whisky for a game changer now have I

[lamaison]

Legal Eagle asking "are you covered to have an open flame in the studio?" and a producer worriedly yelling "we're not!" as Ally goes to light a bong they filled with real whiskey is maybe the hardest I have ever laughed at an episode of Game Changer.

[agirlking]

Simon was born before the quiet rapture Simon was born before the quiet rapture Simon was born before the quiet rapture he literally watched mars disappear when he was a kid!!!

[sabrimmii]

here's yuri, one of my favorite dokis !

[partycoffin]

Hello everybody!

As you guys know, I tend to keep to myself when we’re working on Welcome Home and only come out of my hermit’s burrow to give us all an update! This is that! 

Unfortunately for May, the workload has been more than anticipated, so I didn’t have time to properly produce a Minute with Wally like I hoped I could…! I hope this will suffice instead! (We also hope to do one next month if things improve!)

The next Merchandise drop is in the works too and it’s so so so sweet! It very much matches a very particular fellow! I’m also happy to write that most everything is available in our merch store found on the website! Each purchase goes to helping us keep building our happy home and promise future updates so the story can reach its end!

(Artwork by @downydig !) As for this upcoming update, I really want to keep everything a surprise, but I will say we have so much tucked away that we’re eager to share when the time comes! (I love hearing and seeing the reactions we get, it makes everything worthwhile!)  It’s funny to say, but much of this year’s workload has been spent on both Eddie’s update and every single update moving forward! (We intend to update twice a year until it's done, if things keep going well enough, for example!)

Also to know… We intend on dropping in the summertime within the next couple of months! Once I feel confident, we’ll offer a proper date! (I have to break our Updately tradition of me being late! I must break the curse of Home) All else I can say about it is…! Yeehaw! 🎤🐴

Thank you for supporting us in every way that you do, whether it’s buying our merch, loving Welcome Home, thinking about Wally, or spreading the word!  We’ll write to you again soon! Love, This House! P.S. Place him... Anywhere

[thatgordongirl]

Minor Jax analysis under the cut, spoilers for the movie!

I actually found Jax to be really relatable. Obviously we don’t all go to such extremes, but I think a lot of people have an issue with being vulnerable because you basically have given the power to someone else to possibly hurt you if they weaponised it. And he’s so used to having his thoughts and feelings weaponised by his mother that he always expects it.

The Jax in the circus is just a snapshot of the Jax in real life, who was able to recover from the difficult times and better his life/home situation. The Jax in the circus is stuck in the wondering, thinking if he goes back to his life he’ll be punished.

I know a lot of people were bothered that so much of the movie was just Jax backstory, but I think it said plenty about other characters as well.

Ribbit had the emotional intelligence to recognise Jax’s fears and attempted multiples times to reach out, in group and private settings. She extends her hand to him in gestures he brushes off. He tells her he lied to save himself ultimately, he gets to severe their bond which threatens his worldview. He tells Kaufmo not to believe anything Ribbit says about him, which exemplifies the lengths he’s willing to go to save face.

I think you can tell a lot about Kaufmo from the snapshots we get. He was friends with both Ribbit and Jax, but understands their bond was greater and tries to offer support. They grow apart, and Kaufmo clearly disapproves of Jax bullying Gangle. It proceeds to him saying they aren’t close right before he abstracts, and we find out Jax has been on the end of his emotional tether the entire time.

Pomni has a lot of great parallels with Kaufmo and Ribbit.

Jax is a deeply insecure person and he thinks nobody can love him, so he makes sure they don’t. He pushes away Ragatha and gets increasingly abrasive, we see him shove her shoulder and she looks back with mostly concern. Everyone can see through his behaviour and he just keeps up the charade anyway.

[togetherwandering]

I think it'd be really funny if Simon crashed onto Erid, and only saw Eridians first. "Aliens from an alternate dimension" feels more... digestible, in a way? He knows humans aren't necessarily trustworthy — but rocks are familiar. Rocks have less motive to hurt him.

Until he asks "Wait why are you able to translate my language so well" and the Eridian scientists have to admit they were trying to do a slow introduction of Simon to Grace. Like a conservation program at a zoo. Maybe this is a silly idea but I think it'd be fun for Simon to trust the Eridians more than the other human. At least rocks don't lie?

[golbsart]

MINOR TADC SPOILERS:

Happy pride to everyone but especially Leeroy Mateo idk

[fizhle]

I like to imagine he spontaneously gets covered in blood for no apparent reason

[ventismfsblog]

[gghuttoxo]

Doodles

[atimesfeeler]

While we’re talking about mischaracterizations, Grace is not just an awkward anxious fumbling mess. He is sometimes. He is a mess but not just a social anxious one, you know? I don’t even think he has social anxiety, just regret after doing a social blunder. He’s actually quite far from the nerdy socially awkward scientist trope that I feel some people put him in. He’s quite charming actually. That’s why so many people liked him. He likes to talk but he doesn’t ramble about random things it all has a reason he just talks about it for a little bit too long. He has no problems going up to people and talking to them and actually seems to love it, to including them. He’s confident about his ability to teach and was fine talking to the astronauts and explaining things to them until Yao interrupted and he could tell it was directed towards him- that would trip up anybody. He had his moments where he’s nervous about talking, like in the conference room with the scientists scene, but he quickly adjusts and wins over the skeptical scientist team. I think those scenes are more to show that he’s in a tricky situation that makes him nervous not that he’s a typically social anxious guy. After the flashback he writes “jokes???” On the white board bc that’s his main take away about his character in interacting with people.

I see too many people forget he’s charming. He’s funny. He’s goofy. He gets a group of stern police leader to cheer with him. He’s confident in his element, especially after his character growth. He’s not gonna stutter the whole time or fold when someone with higher authority bosses him around. He pushed back a little first, in the books he’s grumpy and reluctant to listen to Stratts orders if he feels they’re unfair. Also he’s just played but Ryan Gosling so there is a level of goofy charm I just miss seeing in Grace interpretations.

[chellehc]

anyone considering that maybe, with Caine knowing a little bit more about the world, and with Kinger, who helped make the AI, being sane now, they could work together to figure out how to fix the code of the Abstracted? maybe Caine couldn’t figure it out by himself, maybe Kinger didn’t consider it could be possible, but maybe together they could find away. maybe there is hope. there is still time.

[deadgravity]

4/4 I couldn't resist the joke that a guy who spent who knows how long in an ocean made of human blood doesn't have enough blood in his body still

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

[euffiee]

How I be moving online after June 4th:

For the next few days, I am blind and deaf. Social media is a danger zone.