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Silly springtime doodles

Happy easter to everyone who celebrate! This update was so amazing. the site look great and the update itself had a great balance of spooks and fun.

I had really been looking forward to the frank and Julie content and the update really didn't disappoint. Their whole springtime newscaster segment in the radio was so fun. I especially liked the entire Eddie part of it. But honestly the entire radio segment in general was probably my favourite part of the update. I really wanna animate some of it if I get the time.

The siblings were great! they somehow sounded exactly how I thought they would and totally different at the same time. still getting the hang of drawing them but it was a fun challenge.

One that really shone too in this update to me was Howdy. He's always great, but he genuinely cracked me up so many times in sweet briar and doing the interviews. And Barnaby playing the comic riff was just perfect lmaoo.

but honestly all the characters were just so amazing. I was grinning like an idiot the entire time.

I'll probably post some more spooky fanart soon, because holy hell the Julie videos and the Wally voice recording was spine chilling.

Anyways this is the reference I used for the Wally one.

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

The inescapable blackhole

What could go wrong with a crew like this?

What I mean here is that, so often I see pairings enacting romance tropes to the point of heavily altering or downright replacing their original dynamic - as if the people behind it only understand romance as a series of checklists to tick off. Couples like to kiss and sleep in the same bed and flirt with each other, so it doesn't matter who the characters are, if they're a couple then naturally they'll do those things, right??

And that's where the whole thing starts to lose me, because I would assume that the appeal of shipping characters is, y'know... the characters? Rather than just, the idea of a couple? If I'm thinking about how it'd be cool for them to be in love, my first thought is always "so how would they show it," because just like everything else about a person, the answer is going to be different on a case-by-case basis.

Maybe the characters involved aren't really into kissing, but they like arranging date activities. Maybe they aren't committed to the structure of dating at all, and just want to be around each other whenever they can. And even if they are the types to like doing traditionally romantic things, that doesn't suddenly erase whatever else they had going on before they started adding that on top of it.

Julie, cheerfully: Girl Time, Frank! Frank squinting his Eyes at her: What Kind of Girl Time, Julie. Julie: Girl Time! (Getting ready to hurl a bowling Ball at Frank like a baseball)