#clown don't look

[earlgraytay]

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.

#welcome home #clown don't look #welcome home speculation #kinda #about Themes more than Plot #puppet horror

[pastelalleycat]

has anyone made progress on finding the unconfirmed julie screaming / "burning" audio? it's been plauging my mind for the last week or so and i genuinely have no idea where i should be searching on the website

#welcome home #clown don't look #<- just in case #julie joyful #mint's posts 💛

[cozylittleartblog]

is this the tragic clown the sims warned me about

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #pomni #art #doodles #sketchdump #just kidding that's the other guy that got turned into the forbidden polygon spaghetti and eyeballs #artblock go brrt haha #''say the line cozy'' i don't like how this looks (crowd cheers) #maybe I'M the tragic clown #the first fanart is always the most intimidating i'm fine now probably #i also have to draw feddy fanart i just don't have any good ideas for that either #feddy movie is good btw. surprisingly. i have already seen it three times #anyway pomni is cute i like her. i hope nothing demented happens to her (so many demented things are going to happen to her) #once again scheduling this for when i will be asleep so i can't change my mind about it. which is how i post most of my art

[camil0ncha]

fellas, is it romantic in any way to sleep soundly every night hugging marketable plushies of your coworkers?

#also you can't convince me in any way that these clowns are smooth when flirting #look at them #they don't even know how to tie their own shoes #they probably use velcro exclusively #fnaf #fnaf dca #the daycare attendant #fnaf daycare attendant #dca fanart #dca x y/n #dca x reader #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb fanart #security breach fanart #fnaf sundrop #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf moondrop #sun x reader #moon x reader #my art

[uncanny-tranny]

Whenever people who are entrenched in diet culture talk about how terrible chemicals are, I just want to whip out this:

#diet culture #diet culture tw #described images #image description in alt #'it's got CHEMICALS in it' and so do you! and me too! IT'S ALL CHEMICALS ALL THE WAY DOWN #instead of running from this world we must learn to embrace it #i'm not particularly angry at people who say this because it makes me think that they're incredibly invested in diet culture... #...i just don't want the whole 'food = bad' or 'bodies = bad' to go unchallenged... #...part of the reason why diet culture seems just as prevalent now (if not moreso) is partially because it isn't really... #...challenged or questioned without provocation. it's just assumed to be correct because it makes you 'feel in control' #when chemicals are bad you can control what chemicals you consume. it's individualistic and places the blame onto you for 'being good' #it places responsibility onto the person in such a way that it becomes impossible to fulfill #it isn't that i'm upset that people want to treat their bodies in a way they think is responsible... #...moreso that the *way* they go about it ensures that they're stuck in a cycle of self-blame and even self-hatred #because the METHOD is ineffective. not the desire to treat your body well #also the state of ohio looks stupid and i do Not respect it #it looks like a ball that is simultaneously deflated and over-inflated #also their state flag looks silly to me #it looks like the person who was making it fell asleep making it #i'm just clowning on ohio at this point. have never been to ohio but. are you guys okay

[calcar]

Rating the batfam by their clown tolerance

1. The worst is of course Jason as he has the heaviest trauma, he just can't stand the huge painted smiles and laugter

2. Then Bruce because he faced the Joker and his goons more times than the others, he punches on instinct when seeing a clown

3. Duke is after Bruce only because he doesn't have literal decades of beef with clowns but is very similar to Jason

4. Next is Tim, as the Robin after Jason he had instilled being wary of clowns

5. With Cass it's not as personal but she's on alert all the time and intentionally or not, clowns makes her tense

6. Damian thinks that clowns are stupid and silly and not worth of his time or attention

7. There was 7 clowns at Haley's circus and Dick considered all of them his family and this is the only association that matters. Besides, Joker and his goons don't even have eggs, they're not real clowns

#eggs as in clown eggs that are used to copyright the make-ups looks #babs would be between duke and tim #i see Stephanie after Cass before Damian #i honestly don't know where Alfred would be in the list #dc #batman #dick grayson #jason todd #bruce wayne #tim drake #damian wayne #cassandra cain #duke thomas #batfamily

[limas-art]

Wanna see what else I can do?

#one piece #one piece buggy #one piece live action #opla #buggy the clown #jeff ward #my art #I simply had to draw it don't look at me

[bsdtual]

Live footage of the bsd fandom expecting for a skk, sskk or fyolai interaction on the pride month and receiving none of them even appearing

#asagiri do i look like a clown for you?? #((don't answer #great to know aya is fine tho #bungou stray dogs #bsd spoilers #bsd manga #bsd 107.5 #bungou gay dogs #dazai #chuuya #atsushi #akutagawa #fyodor #nikolai #soukoku #shin soukoku #fyolai #bsd #bsd memes

[warpedpuppeteer]

GTFO I just know they didn't just fucking use Bisexual Lighting for this !! 😭😭😭

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#don't mind me just another clown collecting evidence #coincidence?? i think NOT #(at least I hope not) #MAYBE IT'S JUST THE 80'S THEME #maybe shut up and let me be a fucking clown HONK HONK #😭😭😭😭 #y'all have no idea how much i need buddie to happen #enough to make a deal with Rumpelstiltskin and steal a baby #buddie #911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley #evan buck buckley #911 spoilers #oliver stark #ryan guzman #they look damn fucking fine

[yenpondering]

introducing one lil clownling! and just for fun some color variants✌️🤡

#artists on tumblr #clown #doodling #completed doodle #they turned out pretty cute after much struggling #also love that i decided to make it a struggle for myself and draw all those ruffles #might change some things around but at the moment looks good! #they don't got a name yet but i'll think of something maybe lol

[beanghostprincess]

Can you believe this little thing felt like he was his best friend's shadow and gave up on his dream because Shanks shone brighter than him? Can you believe he spent his childhood staring at his best friend from a distance because he thought he couldn't reach the stars by himself? Can you believe his dream was taken away from him and he lost his ability to swim and his love for the sea when he was just a child?

#SOMEBODY FUCKING SEDATE ME RIGHT NOW #i love him so damn much i am sobbing #look i am crying #don't reread chapter 1082 folks #death i crave death please #this is too painful #i can't do this please #one piece #buggy the clown

[etrevil]

"Will you become a regular counseling partner for me?" is just another way of proposing and he got rejected 🤣

sorry Fedya but he already has a complicated partnership with someone else.

#fyodor don't look down why not look up at the ceiling where a clown's head is poking through #bsd shitpost #bsd anthology #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #bsd fyodor #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd nikolai #bsd chuuya #skk #soukoku #fyolai

[stevvharrington]

Noah Schnapp on Byler 👀

#stranger things #byler #noah schnapp #strangerthingsedit #tvstrangerthings #dailystrangerthings #mine #mine: gifs #he was absolutely insane for this mans gonna be out of a job soon #i've been a byler truther since 2017 so this all feels like a fever dream #let's hope i don't look like an absolute clown in a month for making this #people

[genericpuff]

LO stan brain rot is vehemently defending a comic that you're swiping through so fast that you miss and forget crucial plot points, like thinking Demophoon was the reason for Demeter being a helicopter parent despite him being born during the 10 year time skip while Demeter was mortal.

LO anti/critic/hater brain rot is being able to look at an out-of-context panel of a character with same face syndrome turned greyscale and name exactly which character, scene, and episode it's from.

We are not the same.

#/hj #fr though it's wild how people will claim the critics are just reading LO to 'hate on it' #and sure there are people who do just that #but the legit critics of this comic are the ones paying 10x more attention to what's going on in the plot than the supposed 'fans' #it's undoubtedly why rachel keeps pushing her luck by constantly contradicting her own writing and plot threads #she knows the people who eat her work up won't notice because they're barely reading the comic to begin with #and so many of them who *are* paying attention are breaking their backs grasping at straws to make sense of it #because they'd rather do that than acknowledge that LO just isn't written well and that their faith in rachel is misplaced #“you guys don't know how webcomics work” #“clearly rachel is building up to something” #“any minute now she's gonna make it all connect and you're all gonna look like a bunch of clowns” #anti lore olympus #lo critical #lore olympus critical

[liyazaki]

i just want to lie down & look at you.

BED FRIEND | EP. 3 [2023]

#bed friend #bed friend the series #bed friend series #bed friend ep3 #kingnetjames #man- this took me back #idk why falling asleep on video w/ someone is so intimate but it really *really* is (almost more than irl) #waking up & looking at each other occasionally? or catching them watching you? ay dios mio #yet these clowns are out here all 'i don't like you- you don't like me' #sure jan #net siraphop #james supamongkon #thai bl #bl drama #asiandramanet #asianlgbtqdramas #asiandramasource #mor gifs bed friend

[front-facing-pokemon]

#celesteela #i've really never looked at any of the ultra beasts up close like this. i'm realizing most of them don't even have faces #which i guess is our excuse for them being aliens? look they don't have faces. blacephalon is just dots isn't that crazy #no i know it has arms and legs and looks like a completely regular clown but it doesn't have a face so it's a alien?? guys?? #am i being too hard on the ultra beasts? i might be #maybe it's just 'cause i never played usum and they were barely relevant in sumo