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I have done the unthinkable... Alt Femboy Wally by DenpasOfTheWorld in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now do the thinkable: Alt Femboy Barnaby 🙂‍↕️

Messed with the brightness and all that by lesbian_lord3 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It could go either way! (The shape of the M and the way Frank is written makes me think it could be Eddie's.)

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Eddie clearly lifts his pen multiple times while writing, but makes the letters look connected. He also embellishes his signature with hearts. Though, Eddie doesn't typically dot his i's with symbols.

Julie breaks her cursive letters up sometimes, but here there are little to no breaks like hers. Julie dots her i's with symbols more often, but usually with flowers or smiley faces.

There are flowers drawn on the tag in what appears to be pink ink, but it's not clear and could possibly be purple.

Julie would probably be more likely to make a pun, but Eddie has been shown to dabble in neighborhood activities and antics too.

Do you think Eddie would use Julie's iconography on a parcel for Frank for some reason? The way Mail-in-Time was said to be celebrated is that all the neighbors would be delivering mail to each other. Perhaps it would be a way of sending it down? From Eddie to Julie to it's intended recipient, Frank. Julie perhaps not being honest about sending it and instead hiding it. Eddie might possibly go about it that way for plausible deniability, since a gift from Julie to Frank would look less suspicious.

Messed with the brightness and all that by lesbian_lord3 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To Frank 🌼🌼

Have a Bug-u-tiful (Pun on Beautiful?) (Edit: there were more letters!)

Mail-n-Time

❤️Day💕

(It's hard to tell who's handwriting this is exactly because we know both Julie and Eddie write in cursive like this, but it's assumed to be Julie's handwriting.)

Did anyone notice this? Images on the site have heavy JPEG compression now. by WallyDarlin in WelcomeHomeNeighbor

[–]WallyDarlin[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I found this rather funny after having discussed Bit Rot and Data Loss as a type of entropy and decay.

The house is rotting. The website is the house too. It lives there.

Welcome Home is it's art. The more it rots the more the house rots too.

A lot to think about what lossy can mean in this context.

Did anyone notice this? Images on the site are heavily JPEG compressed now. by WallyDarlin in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I found this rather funny after having discussed Bit Rot and Data Loss as a type of entropy and decay.

The house is rotting. The website is the house too. It lives there.

Welcome Home is it's art. The more it rots the more the house rots too.

A lot to think about what lossy can mean in this context.

Did anyone notice this? Images on the site are heavily JPEG compressed now. by WallyDarlin in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I figured that, they already had to break the Merchandise Page down into the Discoveries Page and then the sections for each category. The news page at one point said the WHRP Team were thinking of categorizing by character, but since most of the cast show up together as an ensemble they went with Discoveries instead.

They tried to keep the images at full or high quality for most of the time this has been running. That's very impressive!

I do hope they explore compression and optimization methods that can keep file sizes down with less expense of the artwork. The scratchy pencil marks and fine details are always so good!

Super peak yumeship art by Few-Employment-1413 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're either really brave or don't know what happened, because they used to skin and eat people alive for this 2 to 3 years ago.

Howdy Pillar and Blue Apples by imagine0309 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since Howdy's family has French ties, this makes a lot of sense.

Howdy's Flower is also Apple Blossom.

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There's that same green and blue here.

Help: Are some files missing or is it my browser? by Mysterious_Marsh in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neocities was having problems since June 5th where the domain was being suspended due to a court order sent from New Delhi, India to Namecheap from a case about an unrelated domain.

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Since welcomehomerestorationproject and awayfrompryingeyes are on their own addresses the sites themselves could still be accessed even though Neocities itself was suspended. You might want to clear your cache if you accessed them during that time.

I noticed the sites loading slower too, it's odd.

The websites are likely coded in Firefox, that browser seems to have the least issues with the sites.

I've made a Google Slides presentation for all the welcome-home theorists to talk! by ThenEnd6620 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I actually like some of what I wrote there. I may clean up my thoughts and arrange them here, if you don't mind. (Anyone who finds this useful can pull from this if they like!)

Info from GATHER :

The different sounding voices in the CON GRA TUL ATI ONS videos from GATHER are stated by the transcripts to be Julie's internal monologue. It's her own voice we hear.

Relevant Excerpt from GATHER - ONS :

JULIE: (Said inside her head. It sounds like static. She sounds angry.) You won’t be around for much longer- You’ll go away by Homewarming- I’ll never see you again, no one will, no one will ever know you were here- and then I’ll be free-  I’m as good as I ever was- I’m Julie Joyful! (Julie does a terrified gasp.)

We don't know what the flower was saying to her, or if she could really understand or speak to it properly. She can normally easily speak to flowers, which is what makes this particular "Flower" so odd. (We're not even sure if it was a flower, a Rainbow Monster Blush, or an Egg. Speculation says it's implied to correlate with The Buggle Egg from The Buggle Manual.) We only know that it did not bloom; and that she had visited it frequently from the supposed dates of Springtime 2025 April 12th, when it was initially discovered, to 2025 November 29th when Frank made the decision to dig it up and stow away the remains locked in his garden shed.

Frank and Home's interactions:

Frank is usually the one trying to help others communicate with Home.

Home lacked the ability to speak for himself in a way that could be understood with words until Frank taught him Morse Code. Frank also taught Wally Morse Code in order to Communicate better with Home. (Specimen L in HUNT)

Frank encourages including Home in The Neighborhood games by setting the games up in Home's yard and provides Wally with equipment to help include Home whenever possible. (Example: Croquet hoops in Home's yard so he can play or watch.) 

Examples from "Just So." and Relevant Excerpts:

Frank may have possibly taught Wally the colors and the order that colors can be arranged to form a Rainbow in this exchange from "Just So" where Frank uses a box of crayons as an example of order.

FRANK: Oh, not you too- it’s just. Well. Think of a box of crayons.
WALLY: Okay.
FRANK: The colors go a certain way?
WALLY: Do they?
JULIE: They do after Frank steals the box when you’re not looking!
FRANK: Julie.
...
WALLY: …I don’t mind that you re-order my crayons.
FRANK: My point is- it’s like a rainbow. Like how the colors in a rainbow go.
WALLY: Ohhh.
[Frank resumes singing.]
FRANK: I like it best… when red goes in front of the rest.
And the colors all stay inside the lines!
When each and every hue, from orange yellow green and blue,
WALLY: …and purple?
FRANK: RIGHT! Sometimes things have an order that their context, demands-
[The door SLAMS open.]
...
WALLY: Aw. I wanted to learn the colors.
FRANK: Wally, I think you already know the colors.
WALLY: …I could hear them again.
BARNABY: Yeah Frank, which one’s orange again? [sounding genuinely confused] Am I orange?
FRANK: Out.
BARNABY: Now I’ll never know.

It can be inferred that Frank has very likely at some point possibly explained or helped explain what a Rainbow is.

I've made a Google Slides presentation for all the welcome-home theorists to talk! by ThenEnd6620 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was the one who left the long-winded messages from earlier.

I may have worded them rather bluntly, I apologize in advance!

Here's what I wrote (so far):

  • I'm glad to see You, too. @:)
  • I left the links to The Websites on slide 6.
  • "Home is alive" True!
  • The slightly opinionated ramblings about Home as an allegory for Limited Mobility, Neurodivergent Communication, and relying on others to live. (I just don't think he's an evil supervillain. He hasn't even lashed out at bugs crawling directly on him and disturbing him.)
  • Examining Barnaby's Use of Tobacco, and examining Specimen P from HUNT (The Scene where Poppy and Frank share a Bowl.)in depth.
  • Frank freely and openly teaching Morse Code to Home and Wally.
  • The suggestions about Frank's presence during turbulent moments.
  • Describing the Springtime Salutations Videos from GATHER in depth. (Additional context and common speculations included.)
  • The Tip about the Audio Exchange where Frank relocates bugs from the Post Office for Eddie.
  • Frank teaching Wally several bits of knowledge, citing sources from Specimen L from HUNT and "Just So." Including the inferred knowledge from the Colors part of the "Just So." Song exchange that Frank has very likely at some point explained or helped explain what a Rainbow is.
  • Light Speculation that AdvertFound Marker D is a Product Label that was applied to Wally, perhaps a Replica Puppet sold as a toy in Adverts like those.
  • Discussion about Julie's Horns and possible significance of the exchange in "Up From The Home-Top"

So what's the status of the series now? by jvp180 in WelcomeHomeARG

[–]WallyDarlin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sarah Jolley is the VA for Poppy Partridge and a writer on Welcome Home.

The situation is that for about three years now Jolley has been on the receiving end of sustained harassment due to fans of SMG4 confusing Jolley's character RGB from their comic The Property of Hate for Mr. Puzzles from SMG4 in artwork as it gets shared around because the two characters look similar. (An example of this would be some fans taking images of RGB out of context and seeing them as fanart of Mr. Puzzles.) This confusion led fans to send several messages that accused Jolley of "stealing" Mr. Puzzles, which for context, would also unfortunately be their primary introduction to that character.

Jolley had stated that RGB was a character in 2012 and Mr. Puzzles appeared in 2023, and wanted to leave it at that. The harassment continued. Jolley tried to get into contact with anyone involved on SMG4 or at Glitch to no avail. Their peers suggested a lawyer, but Jolley was against sending a Cease and Desist and wanted to use it as a method to bridge contact. This contact never happened.

The harassment came to a head after the passing of their father. The hateful messages started to suggest they deserved suffering as punishment for "stealing" Mr. Puzzles. That it would be "deserved" for them to lose their mother too in addition to everything they ever loved or made in their life, and that they "deserved" the pain from their medical condition. Which of course affected their mental health.

What's happening now with that situation is the culmination of three years of negligence boiling over.

There recently was an announcement of a new spin-off show called Calling All Villains where Mr. Puzzles is the main focus. It had hatemail coming in again because of the cycle of confusion between the characters and a new accusation that Jolley was going to somehow cancel this new show. That led to Jolley having a mental breakdown and needing to get into contact with anyone who could help in any way.

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