*mouth foaming*

Eddie X Frank fluff!!

Man I absolutely adore these two

I find the headcanon that Frank wasn't his biggest fan at first hilarious.

He's terrified of going off-script but also extremely concerned about the new mailman.

did Wally know that apples can be eaten. did it thoroughly freak him out when he unexpectedly learned. important questions

he is traumatized:

Eddie the volleyball champ anyone?

Eddie Dear and his notorious southern charm!!

Colorblind dawg 🐾

Remembered dogs can only see yellows and blues (and browns and greys)! So now I hc that's how it is for Barnaby as well!

𝕚 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕒 𝕘𝕠 𝕙𝕠𝕞𝕖

He's delivering mail, but if he takes a little longer for certain people...who's going to tell?

“Anything you can do, I can do better!”

“Started as a dare by Julie, could Howdy be a good postman? And could Eddie be a good shopkeeper? Are they going to fit into the others shoes, or will they trip over the weight of this challenge?”

So I had seen people writing fake episodes for Welcome Home and ofc I HAD to contribute with this idea. Eddie and Howdy trying to work each others jobs and realizing it’s actually way harder then it looks!

[I am not associated with Welcome Home in any way!! Everything I make is fan made, please go support Clown and their lovely project! :D]

I feel like they'd KILL it at the lindy hop-

There was a lot i liked about the update but this whole convo was my favorite. They're so married

@hajimedics revealing my #anonymous self to show how ur post inspired me 🫡

ok I guess I will explain what the symbolism in this drawing means under this cut now :)

BASICALLY Rave’s tags on his art got me thinking about mutual sentience theory & the idea that who these puppets actually are does not align with what playfellow workshop created them to be — specifically, the actual desires of the puppets in whps are not the same as what playfellow thinks they should desire — and it made me think about how it might apply to Frank & Julie.

We know that neither of them fall into (strictly) binary gender labels, we know that Frank is gay, we know that Julie was confirmed sapphic in a stream — and yet we see playfellow putting them into the roles of cisgender heterosexual man & woman respectively, that they cast them to be in the roles of each others romantic love interests (see julie-rella animation cels). So I wanted to draw something based on that concept, the contrast of who they are vs who they’re “supposed” to be.

This is why I included 2 Franks and 2 Julies here, one set in my usual style for drawing them and the other being more ‘on-model’ — the former are a representation of who the puppets actually are, with their agency, while the latter are who playfellow themselves outline the puppets to be. The playfellow puppets are a ‘perfect’ version of sorts, their canonical accuracy + their sparkling appearance being extensions of how true to the script they are.

The framing of these two sets, how they interact with each other within the image, is meant to show the situational helplessness Julie and Frank share. They are stuck together in a ring of lavender flowers (do you get it. wedding rings. lavender marriage. I’m a master of artistic metaphor /j), looking to one another in worry as they’re surrounded by playfellow’s expectations. Neither of them want this, for themselves nor for each other, but what are they meant to do? They aren’t trapped by something they can just escape from, they’re trapped by their own identities; the will of their creators and the will of themselves are intrinsically linked, each at their core are answers to the question of who “Julie Joyful” and “Frank Frankly” are, to try and sever that connection is an impossible task.

The circles above each of the on-model puppets’ heads are primarily meant to be halos bc well. you know how queer religious trauma goes (there’s a ‘playfellow workshop is a stand-in for american christianity and possibly god’ metaphor in there somewhere) BUT they are also supposed to represent wedding rings too, to show yet again how playfellow likely wants them to be a couple — and not in the “a couple of bestiesss(๑>◡0)~☆” way they’d like to be

I think that’s all????? not really much else I can say here. background is black + slightly red for that whrp undersite feel and the on-model puppets are drawn in white to contrast with the primarily black background but also because they’re technically Julie & Frank’s straightsonas & black+white=straight pride flag. ok bye

something about the way sally canonically calls julie "juliet" and how romeo and juliet is ultimately a tragedy but the title characters hope for a happy ending together despite living in circumstances they know will never lead to it and that the characters aside from wally are all implied to be missing/dead...hmm

are these feelings really ours or just part of someone else’s plan?

Let's catch a Rainbow!