Huh

I really hope it stays this way, while it’s puppet / childish(?) horror, it does so uniquely

And strangely brings a relatability that I don’t have much besides ‘haha isn’t that relatable’

While I love the usual approach, it’s the usual approach, it’s time to see something new from the genre

I'm having a certain amount of weird cognitive dissonance about partycoffin's Welcome Home (not tagging them because this is kinda speculation...)

I normally absolutely loathe the "the cute thing was EVIL ALL ALONG" genre, especially with Muppety puppets. I have a very strong squick about it. The Henson Workshop was one of baby's first hyperfixations, and The Dark Crystal is so important to me that it's hard to describe how without invoking religion.

... It's important to me, for these reasons, that the Muppets, especially the Sesame Street crew, are... innocent. Not in a Calvinist way, in an ... autistic hippie way. They're joyfully weird. They're not cruel for cruelty's sake. Some of the Muppets are grumpy and mean because it's what they were made to be, but they're not...

Look, it's hard to explain, but there's a very specific kind of Mean Comedy that, before Henson's death, the Muppets just did not do. Even Statler and Waldorf's heckling doesn't push that button for me. The Muppets shouldn't be capable of that kind of interpersonal cruelty. And that's important enough to me that I can't watch something like Avenue Q (much less Actual Puppet Horror) without getting sick to my stomach.

But *thus far*, the horror elements of Welcome Home haven't gotten to me in the same way. And I think it's because... Clown respects that aspect of the children's puppet genre?

Like, I know we're still in early days, and That One Fucking Picture Of Maisie freaks me the fuck out (for, uh, different reasons). But so far, it seems like at least part of the horror aspect... Is that innocence, and how it can't survive contact with humanity.

So far, at least in the newest version of WH, we've seen very little to indicate that the Home crew's joy and innocence aren't genuine. Everyone has Depths to their character, obviously, that can't be plumbed without going into the Gruesome Shit. But like.... with the possible exception of Wally, they don't seem Cruel. Fuck, even Wally seems Oblivious and Earnest, just... willing to do horrible things for the sake of Keeping Home Intact.

And that LACK of malice is ironically where the horror comes in! Because the sunny days of a kids' puppet show can't survive contact with a reality where people are cruel and ableist and homophobic, and once the show ends, there's nothing left but that reality... and everything falls apart.

Agh, I don't know. I might have to drop this fandom if I get that button pushed too many times. But for now, it's interesting to see an adult take on the genre that isn't gleefully mean and disrespectful towards one of the things I love about puppets.

To those who saw the Cavetown concert last night: Did you also yippee?

gAH I miss roleplays sm, haven’t done them in awhile

If anybody in the IHNMaIMS fandom does semi-lit sfw(besides gore/swearing) roleplay, hmu?

I have an AU AM I adore and shall make suffer /hj

(Semi-lit only please!)

Im going into an IHNMaIMS fixation since me & an IRL are playing the game together and gOD I see AM as such a piece of disabled rep

I don't know if it was intentional but I'm accepting it as my head canon

Built this in MC earlier today on a creative server!

I call it, the sound is going to be fracking

someone should make an ihnmaims musical called I Have No Mouth And I Must Sing

You have no idea how hard converying the glasses crack is sometimes

Oh light

They’re communicating

Protégés from left to right, @quantum-temporal-anomaly, @thetroupemaster, then mine

No, no you can’t, I’m about to feed him

I’m making him chicken parmesan for dinner right this second

being a fan of a friend's ocs is actually so humiliating....... like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck

Pink sparkles on ones I’d love to be on / be excited for! I’m on my hands and knees begging for Rain vs Shine or Spring vs Autumn gAH

And same in the opposite direction, begging to not, have Trinkets vs Treasure and Heroes vs Villians

While I’d love to be on team Villians,, everybody would be team Villians, and Trinkets vs Treasure are too samey imo

In honor of the theme poll coming to a close soon, here's a fun game! What teams would you be on? Make sure to tag us - we'd love to see your picks!

Sadly just English and random words of other languages I know how to say but not spell

But l'd love to learn German since most of my family took it and is semi-fluent, | they'd be a good guide

And I used to know Spanish but the only things that stuck with me was colors and hello

@fangirlanxiety74 @beentobeetle @terebi13 @quantum-temporal-anomaly @thenoeyebunnynobunsusmaingallery

I'm curious, what languages do my mutuals know?

I speak both English and German, and I know some very basic phrases of Finnish, Spanish, and French.

Tag your mutuals!!

@serene-sky-kid @halcyon-xxy @plutonium-sky @ari-skycotl @arsolitaforever @beigetiger @ejsuperstar

If I forgot you, I'm sorry, and don't be afraid to join in regardless <3