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ask-buddy-lewek · 2 years

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[So I’ve been thinking about an Au I came up with like last night, basically, it’s this spin off idea based on “what if all 5 of the BATIM novel kids had met and become a good group of friends somehow, probably all investigating the ink and the machine somehow together,

So this specific AU is sort of like a Prince and the Pauper type deal between Buddy and Bill (bc I just absolutely believe if they had met, they’d just get along so well, regardless of their economic statuses being so drastically different, and I will absolutely die on this hill)

So the basic gist of this AU idea is:

Buddy and Bill agree to see what it’s like to live in the other’s lifestyle, for say, about a week or two or maybe 3, like, long enough to get an idea for what a normal way of life is like for the other. And I just keep getting so many ideas about the amount of culture shock these two experience during this little swap, Bill realizing just how mindful he has to be about things like keeping lights on for too long, how he probably doesn’t know how to do his own laundry or cook for himself, realizing just how much responsibility he now has to help Bud’s family make it through the week(s) he’s staying there in Bud’s place and just how hard it is to try and make ends meet for people in Bud’s place. Meanwhile, Bud’s probably just in absolute disbelief about the concept of having people work for him (like The Chambers’s house staff), the idea of someone doing something if he asks them (very politely, mind you) to, maybe even just getting overwhelmed by the idea that he not only has fancier clothing, but MULTIPLE SUITS AND EXPENSIVE GLOVES AND ALL THAT JAZZ.

The panic that it’s so painfully obvious they’re so far out of their regular element, that at first it feels almost impossible to adjust. Buddy suddenly having to learn all this very specific etiquette, fancy table mannerisms, realizing just how materialistic and powerful the Chambers family (Mainly Bill’s dad) is, and how immensely important it is to maintain a specific, well kept appearance, how everything has to look perfect, spotless, a stained shirt is immediately discarded for a clean, crisp one, utensils with even a small smudge are swapped out for spotless shiny new ones, all of this superficial yet massive effort to just put on a show for those below them. Where as Bill’s probably now having to try and manage a language barrier (since I’ve always pictured that the Lewek Family spoke in Yiddish and/or Polish at home), Bill having to try and learn all these phrases and expressions, not to mention the language barrier between Bud’s grandfather and himself.

Buddy having to deal with the ignorant ramblings of Bill’s father, slowly realizing just how lucky he is that Bill doesn’t share any of these immensely ignorant and massively classist views. Where as Bill being shocked at how warm and welcoming and understanding Irena is of his struggles with what seem like such basic day to day tasks like laundry or cleaning. (I’ve always imagined that Irena would see Bill like a second son to her after a while, not really caring that he comes from riches or wealth, because he’s still polite and very open minded about how different their cultures and lives are).

Buddy suddenly having more free time on his hands then he knows what to do with, while Bill discovers how little time he has to himself between running errands, helping out around the apartment, not to mention I’d imagine that when the two swap lives temporarily, they also swap jobs. Bill having to find his way around JDS and just getting almost hopelessly lost making deliveries (thankfully Dot would be there to give him a hand if he needed one), and Bud having to take Bill’s place working at Gent, and therefore, having to actually work closer with Mr. Connor, who already probably intimidates him immensely while he’s making deliveries at the studio.

I’d genuinely imagine that both boys learn how hard the other has it, and while they had always kind of known this to begin with, they never realized to what extent it actually was. Buddy suddenly being surrounded by people looking down upon or judging those who aren’t as well off, where as Bill discovering the amount of judgement and prejudice that people like Buddy have to live with on a day to day basis.

I could go on for days about the various elements and differences these two would experience in this AU, I really could, but this post is getting pretty lengthy as it is 😅.

But that being said though, what do you guys think? Would this be an idea you’d want to see explored a bit more somehow? Let me know if possible!]

#bendy and the ink machine #adrienne kress #batim dreams come to life #batim: dctl #batim: the lost ones #Batim: Bill Chambers #buddy lewek #dreams come to life #out of character #au post #Bill would absolutely want to learn as much as he can about the various cultures found in the Lower East side #Buddy just trying to remember all the stuff Joey told him about appearances and how rules could be re written #Crossover AU #batim novel #batim novels

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berlingotesque · 3 months

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So. The graphic novel, huh.

The artstyle is pretty good, I can’t deny it. Joey’s design is beautiful, very dilf-coded. Buddy looks… young. VERY young. He’s supposed to be 17 in Dreams Come To Life but somehow manages to look 12 ? Plus, I don't know how to describe it, but he looks very...angry ? Upset ? I don't think his bubbly, awkward personality appears much in the graphic novel, with his gaze being very...severe. He just looks weird, like a 40 years old in a child body. And Norman… Deep breath. His design is…no. Absolutely NOT it. I didn’t expected much but I still managed to be disappointed. I’ll wait until we get to see Sammy and Tom (especially) before expressing what I think is wrong with these designs but… yeah. I’m so sorry, Norman.

#my poor son got the Henry Emily treatment from The Silver Eyes smh #ANYWAY #big shoutout to theopantz for sending me a message at 2 a.m. to tell me the devastating news #I’ll hate you forever and will never forgive you #buddy lewek #norman polk #joey drew #batim #bendy and the ink machine #dreams come to life #dctl graphic novel #I also took the liberty of adding body hair to Norman since they've mysteriously decided to make him look fifteen years younger #like why would you twinkify Norman Polk ?#why

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raven-anime · 3 months

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DCTL Graphic novel panel redraw

Giving what happenings in the fandom right now, i decide to bring more jds design at the table

Ahem the dev can't careless about representation ahem ahem

#bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #batim #bendy dctl #bendy dreams come to life #bendy dctl graphic novel #dctl graphic novel #buddy lewek #daniel lewek #norman polk #the projectionist #art #artwork #artist #digital art #fanart #bendy #Raven_Anime_artwork

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patiann345 · 3 months

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OH OK YEAH THEY'RE DOUBLING DOWN? YEAH?? THAT'S WHAT WE WANT??? MIKE "IDENTITIES DON'T MATTER" D. TO DOUBLE DOWN REALLY-

"Oh no see! This was Norman the whole time! He's always been white!" GREAT. WE HAVE AT MOST 2 BLACK CHARACTERS THEN COOL AWESOME RAD.

I'm so genuinely upset and exhausted over this. After the whole "Books ain't canon" tweet I assumed they'd just,, never actually address what people were most upset over (Norman having his melanin snatched) and that'd be that. But nope sure yeah, double down, erase one of 3 black characters.

I can't believe fucking MIKE is the one handling this publically too, who let this happen????

I just. aughhh I have so many thoughts on this, but they're best saved for later or just unsaid. I'm tired and I wanna go hide in a hole for a bit.

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #dreams come to life #bendy dctl #bendy graphic novel #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #boris and the dark survival #bendy lone wolf #bendy the cage #Mike mood being a dumbass on main more at 8 #Roddy Rambles

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the-good-ol-art-corner · 3 months

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I know a couple of people have already redrawn that one panel, but fuck it we ball-

This is roughly how I thought Norman would look in canon (and Buddy <3) but uh, yeah that dream is squashed ig fml

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#norman polk #Buddy Lewek #batim #dreams come to life #the projectionist #bendy and the ink machine #bendy dctl #bendy graphic novel #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #boris and the dark survival #bendy lone wolf #bendy the cage #my art #digital art #reblogs > likes #artist on tumblr #I was actually gonna color this normally and not in sepia #But I know I KNOW someone's gonna try to defend the white Norman stuff with-#-'Well it's hard to color black people in yellow shades/sepia'#When one that's just. not true? You absolutely can?? It's just a limited palette??#And two BATIM and BATDR stray from yellow into colors of orange and borderline red. And on the opposite end BATIM had slight greens #just sayin'#Also yes I did change what he said in that graphic novel panel back to what he actually said in the og book #So glad you noticed :)

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summerlyewe · 3 months

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It's so funny to watch how the batim community is outraged just because Norman is not black

#batim #batim art #bendy and the ink machine #bendy #norman polk #the projectionist #batim dctl #dctl #dctl graphic novel

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dynafire · 8 months

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wow, my last post which had links to the bendy novels blew up!!!! would be an even BIGGER SHAME if people began going to this mediafire folder that absolutely doesn't have the first four novels as pdfs.....seriously, don't do it guys!!!! and definitely don't spread this link around!

#batim #batdr #bendy #kindlybeast #the meatley #bendy novels #fade to black #the illusion of living #the lost ones #dreams come to life #batim dctl #batim tiol #batim tol #batim ftb #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival

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skxllbxnny · 3 months

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OH GREAT HEAVENS...

ohhh this comic is gonna be the DEATH of me (DCTL COMIC SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT BUT ITS WHATS BEEN LEAKED IG)

CHAT ..... WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO NORMAN .......

#WHAT HAVE THEY DONE PLEEEASEEE #buddy lewek #daniel lewek #joey drew #batim dctl #dctl #bendy dctl #dreams come to life #dctl graphic novel #dctl comic #dctl buddy #norman polk #norm dont look #wallys warbles #batim #bendy #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival

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archer-kacey · 3 months

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oh hell nah they got Norman's melanin

#dreams come to life graphic novel #dreams come to life #bendy books #batim #bendy and the ink machine

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reel-fear · 3 months

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Wow, so umm... This looks bad, not only is it inaccurate due to using the wrong ink demon design [unless this is confirmation BATIM Ink Demon has been outright retconned... Which would make me pissed enough to make a new post just about THAT] but from an art standpoint this is just... Confusing and poorly done.

I wouldn't care if this was fanart, of course you should support young, indie artists... But for a Graphic Novel making sure your cover doesn't look like something Butch Hartman shat out in an afternoon is kind of important. Remember they're going to be asking us to give money to them to read this. The artist likely won't see any of that money and neither do the authors most of the time, not to mention this art screams of the artist being underpaid and overworked.

Like they Had to get something on someone's desk and their boss said 'good enough'. A concept Joey Drew Studios is very familiar with considering the allegations of poor working environments that Kindly Beast. Not to mention Mike Mood admitting in a Reddit AMA that they did in fact rush projects like Showdown Bandit. [Which they sold at full price]

He also says they can in fact say no or yes to designs involving their IP. Either Mike or Meatly had to say yes to this cover, according to his own damn words.

And do you really think this company in particular would care enough about its fanbase to not sell them garbage? They have done exactly that on several occasions. It's not like they care particularly about art either, considering their previous use of AI Art. There was no apology or even posts addressing it... Instead, they just rushed out an archives update to their game to get people to stop talking about it... Even forgetting an entire character in it. Again

This company is [or at least SHOULD BE] on thin ice when it comes to being suspected of misleading their fans or rushing out crappy products to them.

So with all that context in mind, I'm gonna talk about why this cover sucks ass.

The light sources are all over the place? Why does it look like someone put maces or knight armor on his shoulders but it's just flesh?? It looks both gross and weird [not in a good way either]

To explain more I'm going on a rant below but sadly this seems to have been confirmed to not just be a rough pass but the final cover and man... I am not excited about this graphic novel just at all. This felt like it really drained any possibility of it turning out good for me and I already had expectations low.

Okay first point, the light sources?? And there is no consistency here with the shadows or lighting, it looks like there's a hundred light sources all at once but none of them are even consistent!

the arrows here represent all the different light sources I can make out and yet the the shadow clearly implies there's only one. I understand wanting to use highlights to give the character a more clear shape but then just give him one or two lights behind him or in front of him? No matter how u follow the light sources, the highlights make no sense and the shadows make even less sense.

Why are the shoulders like that? Like on the legs it's a little understandable, at least those are clearly very heavily affected by perspective, for me I think they are so exaggerated it makes it look like one of the legs is either huge or one is small but that's maybe subjective.

However, the shoulders are unjustifiable, what happened there, what did they do??

I could pick on so much more honestly, how the color choices of piss yellow with no other colors being used, and the harsh pitch black being used for every part of his body is weird. How it looks straight out of Butch Hartman's recent crappy art. But to put bluntly bad start! Also what the HELL is going on with this background??

Seems once again the Bendy team is fine with sending out stuff thinking it's "Good Enough" for Bendy fans and honestly the people trying to tell me to "Be Grateful" for this are just proving that no matter how many times you betray your audience some of em will defend you!

Which is sad tbh. If anything we should be putting MORE pressure on the Bendy team to do better. Cause we deserve better than this, honestly we do. There are amazing artists in the bendy community who could do so much better for a cover. They've employed their fan artists before... Wouldn't it be great to do that for such a lore important book? The book that gives us the identity of one of the main characters in BATIM? The character you spend the entirety of Chapter 4 fighting to save? Not to mention will give several major characters their human designs?

But I guess this is... Good enough...

#ramblez #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #sorry I've been on a positivity streak with bendy I know but I have to be honest and being honest I think this sucks lol #Im sure plenty of people Disagree and while I would argue this is more objective than subjective people will ignore me if they want to #maybe Im just a hater idk #but I do know one thing I sure do hate this and Im pretty sure Ill hate this novel and its designs #but maybe I wont ya never know #anyways if they do retcon batim ink demon I will make a post abt how much I dislike batdrs ink demon design #and why I think all the people saying its better than the og seriously arent understanding #what made batims ink demon good or character design in general tbh #to put bluntly just bc something is popular opinion DOES NOT make it right or a good idea design wise #not everyone is qualified to be a character designer and thats just good advice in general tbh #anyways yeah thats it sorry im being mean today </3 #I simply think corporations shouldnt be able to rush out crappy products to their fans and get paid for it but ig thats a hot take now #but esp with how bad that updated employee handbook was too and it still had stolen renders from fans in it...#yeah I dont think theyve learned a damn thing

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weredemonz · 2 years

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The batim novel characters but what they look like in my head :-)

#batim #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #Dreams come to life novel #The lost ones novel #buddy lewek #dot dctl #William chambers #bill chambers #Constance gray #Brent Morris #my art #human designs

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ask-buddy-lewek · 2 years

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🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

*MEANWHILE, IN ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY*

🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

#bendy and the ink machine #adrienne kress #bendy: the lost ones #batim the lost ones #bendy and the ink machine the lost ones #the lost ones #Batim bill chambers #bill chambers cosplay #batim novels

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berlingotesque · 3 months

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What do you think about the upcoming canon designs of the characters in the illustrated novel DCTL? Will you only draw according to the canon? Because a lot of people are already afraid that the designs will be bad. To be honest, I really like your designs, and I hope you will continue to draw them! 🥺💗

Oh boy. This ask aged like milk 😬

So. What did I THOUGHT about the upcoming canon designs of the characters in the illustrated novel DCTL ? That they were going to be bland and disappointing. That the graphic novel was going to visually portray the characters in such inaccurate ways that it was going to be very uncomfortable to watch.

What do I think now : that even though I didn’t expected much, I was still INCREDIBLY disappointed and upset. Once again, I’m waiting to see Sammy and Tom to express myself on these ‘representations’, but oh boy. It's off to a very, VERY bad start.

Will I only draw according to the canon ? : lmao NEVER. Firstly, because these designs aren't canon (as M*ke Mood announced a few days ago on Twitter) and because, out of respect and love for the characters, I'm not going to rely on the designs of artists who obviously haven't read the book carefully and had probably never heard of Batim before being hired to illustrate DCTL.

About the fact that a lot of people were afraid that the designs will be bad, turns out they were right to be worried ! Given what was done to Norman, I really fear the worst for Tom and Sammy. Not to mention the movie to come..

And finally, I'm delighted that you like my designs <3 of course, there's no way I'm going to stop drawing my comfort characters just because some stubborn, arrogant devs decided that the characters they'd created deserved neither respect nor depth. If a medium lacks representation, it's up to the artists to pick up the slack !

#I’m sorry for the small rant but I had to get it off my chest #let’s all cross fingers for Tom and Sammy #and thank you for your ask anon !#I’m glad you enjoy my designs <3 #batim #bendy and the ink machine #dreams come to life #dctl graphic novel #sammy lawrence #thomas connor #norman polk #ask response #berlingot’s asks

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raven-anime · 3 months

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They are talking about their Sammy

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patiann345 · 3 months

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EXACTLY. This looks.. AWFUL on them. BOTH of them for the record.

I'm gonna be very blunt; look, I know Meatly is like fandom's darling compared to Mike,, but gang? They're both awful people and are going about handling this in the worst way possible. I'm holding both of them accountable, because where Mike is blatantly awful on the main, Meatly has been quiet the entire time. He's complicit.

Actually, they've been awful for a long time! Really this isn't anything new; I know of two extremely well-made videos going over how terrible they really are! Here :)

Some things never change, and Mike particularly hasn't. Did you know his sister was the head of HR for their company? Did you know she was super immature and many an issue stemmed from that alone? Did you know that there were accusations of discrimination in the workplace? Not confirmed ofc, but with how Mike is handling the stuff with Norman rn? With what he's said about adding minorities like queers, about fucking,, gamergate? Personally, I believe those allegations. This isn't new.

I think some people in the fandom either don't know their history or have forgotten. Here's your reminder; don't forget.

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #dreams come to life #bendy dctl #bendy graphic novel #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #boris and the dark survival #bendy lone wolf #bendy the cage #Roddy answers an ask

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the-good-ol-art-corner · 3 months

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COLORS GO BRRRRRRRR

I have uh,, I've never posted my AU Smear-Frames on here, have I? Hi yeah, I've got my own BATIM AU; this is Malice n' the Projectionist <3 been meaning to do some color-palette art and thought they'd be perfect for it!! (you can find the specific palette in the source)

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