Congrats and welcome to our artists for vol. 1 of our zine, The Guestbook!

Make sure to check out their stuff before the zine drops, i’ve been seeing some of what they’ve been coming up with and you are all in for a TREAT!!!

We’re also gonna have some extra stuff, more on that with future announcements.

Welcome aboard everyone!

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✨The 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY Smile For Me Fanzine  is OUT! Based on the Major Arcana Tarot Deck, and lovely Fortune-Teller Carla 🌙☀️

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To the 23 AMAZING Artists who made this possible - THANK YOU!! This was curated by @se34r5  / @kiwicartwheels  and I, with HUGE planning help by @sanddall-asy  and the incredible site created by @fridgefeet ! Many helped in this project -- please check out the credits!

💐Dedicated to Smile For Me, the indie game created by @daylane  & @yugsly of @limbolanegames! 💐

Keep on smilin’!

From Geocities user kittenchow87.

ok so

the instructions were for Wally, not the whrp/qa/You. which is especially interesting, because I think we all assumed they were instructions from Wally - after all, he's the one telling the whrp that they have work to do, he's sending envelopes (assumedly), he's sort of the driving force behind the whole in-universe project. he calls the shots, in a way. he's the one with the phone.

so who the hell is giving Wally instructions?

is it related to the distorted "extra" voice under Wally's in some of his hidden record audios? is it related to Sally's "monster"? is there someone else in Home?

just... there's a whole 'nother layer underneath Wally that i think is really scary. there's something else there, i feel. i Fear. i wonder if Wally is aware of it, or if he isn't quite as aware as we all - including him - like to think. how aware can a puppet be if they can't see their own strings (so to speak)? it's one thing to know what you are, and another entirely to understand what that entails.

Barnaby 🐾

wally doesn’t know what crushes are. or hugs. or kisses. holding hands is up for debate. so, when he develops feelings for you, ones he’s completely unaware of himself, the way he shows it is a little unusual.

the main way his affection for you manifests is a limitless, almost gnawing, curiosity. he wants to know about you. what your likes and dislikes are, your favourite colours and most beloved types of weather, the types of things you dream about and what keeps you up at night, and what you think about him. he wants to immortalize each and every one of your expressions on canvas. if his other neighbours hadn’t taught him years before that it is impolite to stare at someone for a long time without approaching them, he would’ve been doing so.

the intensity of it all makes him feel a bit guilty. he loves all of his friends, including you, and he doesn’t want to put one above the others! but he can’t help but yearn for your presence. he makes up some excuses for spending more time around you, and ends up fixated on the idea of giving your home a new paint job. he’ll make sure it looks good. it just pleases him to know you’ll be surrounded every day by something he helped make. 

as he asks about you even to the rest of Home, everyone else is painfully aware of what he’s feeling.

wally doesn't want you to eat the website :(

my wardrobe post for 2023 is done and up on my neocities! ૮ ෆ ´ ˕ ` ෆ ა

Blog post and new item photos here and all of my wardrobe pieces here (both pages work better on desktop but are mobile-compatible).

Hi! I’m absolutely in love with the look of your carrd and was wondering how you customized it :) I’m new to the site and how to use it and stuff

Thank you! If you're not familiar at all with the site and want a really introductory crash course this post explains the basics of building elements on a site better than I could

Honestly I have not done anything fancy I really just slapped some elements on there and played around with the appearance settings until I liked it, even the grid background is something you can add within carrd. This page is just a text element (the header), buttons element, and some containers broken into columns so I could add the text and images next to each other. the only slightly weird thing is the "about" title with the little icons is actually an embedded HTML element which is only available with the pro plan features and I used it to add the font awesome icons (font awesome my beloved). There are lots of settings for adding borders, drop shadows, etc to different elements and stuff. My gallery page is just a gallery element I added a bunch of pics to as well. I would like to try doing more interesting stuff with carrd at some point but if you're fine with the structural elements being relatively basic I think there's a good amount of aesthetic customization you can do that's built in

PREORDERS FOR OUR ZINE ARE NOW OPEN!

we are doing a limited run of our printed copies so if you want to smell that paper then order now!

they ship in April when we get them printed!

Jay and Ibis have done a fantastic job putting together and designing and organizing everything and our marvelous artists pieces are all getting finished up. I’ll be posting more snips and bits and images from the zine over the next few weeks so keep and eye on our socials!

From Geocities user ~mwoodward.

excuse me i need to Muse on something for a moment

so in Wally's secret 'vinyl' audios, specifically the last few (if we're listening to em in chronological order), obviously he starts to sound more strained/distressed. his breathing is more labored, like it's taking all of his energy to make contact.

but the audio that really caught my attention was the "But i still can't see" one. cause he just said he has more eyes than he did before. he knows We draw them a lot, and it's thanks to that that he can see. but he still can't see?

so my question is: where is Wally physically? cause although he can (assumedly) see the WHRP goings on, he can see through the eyes We draw, that could all be on a, uh... more Intangible level of sight. like the spiral pit is forming an eye, and then there's the eye on the ceiling in the secret Staff Only section - could Wally be in the pit, that space between his reality and Ours, "watching" through the eyes? but unable to actually see with due to the pit being pitch black nothingness? is he somewhere else? is he stuck? he can see, but he can't... see.

(or is he trying to explain an abstract concept - he's not actually viewing anything, but he can sense it. like how he knows We're there, even if he can't see or hear Us. but he just doesn't have the words to describe it other than using physical senses - see, hear, look.)

and him saying "...that I can see. But it is still... I can't..." but it's still what, Wally? dark? something else that he doesn't have the words to describe, so he just says that he can't see?

i know that in the Livestream Trivia Document (compiled by @/the neighborhoodwatch) there was something said about Wally being in a box. my first thought reading that was "oh, so he's in storage? the physical puppet, i mean?" which would make sense - show's over, there's no more use for him. pack 'em up and put him away. but that paired with the "can't see" audio makes both seem a lil... connected.

Wally can't see > he's likely somewhere dark > the inside of closed boxes are dark > Wally's in a box. (or maybe the Neighborhood is the box? it's a stretch, i know, but the map is a box. television sets are often set up in "boxes". maybe it's less of a physical storage box and more of a 'boxed in' sort of thing...)

one question i've had since the Start of my interest in this incredible project is: how is Wally communicating? how has he connected to the site? how does he connect to our reality? the pit almost definitely has something to do with it - most likely acting as a bridge, or the deteriorating of the barrier between our two 'worlds' - but if Wally is in a box and Not the pit or even just in the puppet's reality... how is he reaching us beyond just seeing through the eyes he's given?

or is he in their reality, and he can contact through the pit or something, but he can't actually see the other side? Our side? he knows it's there - that We're there - but none of it is visible to him. maybe his apparent disassociation in the 14 bug audios is a demonstration of him contacting Us. we can see through him, but it's a one way street.

and speaking of the pit - i just had a thought. his whole thing with Us letting him in, opening... the pit on the neighborhood map is getting bigger and clearer. but the presumed Other Side, the one on the Staff Only ceiling, is small. it's the size of a ceiling panel. it seems to me that Wally is chipping away at his side of the pit or 'portal', trying to reach Our reality, but he needs Us to do the same thing on the other side. the QA can hear him calling, but there's no phone on their (Our) side of the pit. how do We call back???

there's a fundamental barrier & lack of understanding between Wally and the QA/Us. he's trying. he wants to be let in, but what does that mean, really? let him in where? open what? he's desperate. he wants us to understand. he's trying so so hard Without the right tools to clearly communicate what he wants. he can't see Us, We can see him, both know the other is there, but there's no way to connect. and the attempts are hurting all parties involved, however unintentionally

idk

deeply want 2000s era personal websites and niche webrings full of shitty gifs and cringe to make a comeback. web 2.0 is over we should’ve never left 1.0 we need to go back.

So here’s a fun fact for you guys: this comes off as just another wacky line in-game, but it’s actually foreshadowing.

Sodium Pentathol, in real life, is a fast-acting anesthetic first used in 1939; a spritzer is a form of cocktail.

For those of you who may not know, this is the same lady who later that offers you a drink that turns out to be spiked…