Confused

And there I saw it

The collapsed civilizations

Their crumbling towers and the sands of long lost fields of green

How ironic that I found it in the dust

Your everyday dust that lines the surfaces long forgotten

Never noticed when looked at from above

Only when one looks level to what is there will they see it

The remains of what was

And I wonder

Will there come a day when something looks upon our world with the same apathy as we look at dust

Nothing more than an irritant to be swept away

Instead of the corpse of a once flourishing culture and race

Spoilers!!!!

I want to talk about the black goo that is prevalent in the site past the lockbox. The stuff that seems to be coming out of the art itself and that is all over the other site and the room shown in the pictures.

The stuff that grows and is why none of the actual art can be touch with bare hands. That makes people feel sick and dizzy. Though whatever is causing it, supposedly Wally or other, does apologies for in invisible ink.

Ink which appears elsewhere as well though  if written by the same person is unclear. Since the one above is apologizing for the goo in a way while the one below seems to be one of the Restoration Team, likely the leader, who is disgusted.

 But the goo seems to be alive. On the other site it is thumping almost like a heartbeat and there is even an eye in the goo shown in a picture on the site. The goo stains the entire other site and kinda reminds me of the “so below” hidden beneath Home. I wonder if the other site itself is the so below of the Welcome Home site.

Why do I feel like no one ever talks about the eyes scattered in the sides of the Welcome Home page?

Spoiler for Welcome Home site so keep scrolling

Ok so on the other site the you get to for answering the Playfellow Exhibition Worksheet, there are a lot of papers. Most have a transcript over them, so they are easier to read. This one did not. I did some minor changes to the picture quality to try and make it more legible but it only helped so much. Still from what I can read I think this is about when they first received the mail with information about Welcome Home. Talking about needing to catalogue something and how it was wet. I’m not really sure as I have poor vision, but still. Maybe someone else can read this better than me.

YES

Welcome Home website came up yesterday. I spent all of the morning going through the site myself and then went to see what everyone else found.

First off are the bugs and drawings found on multiple pages, with the bugs leading to what seems to be clips from the shows and the drawings being audio from Wally. With 14 bugs to find though I only found 12 myself, and an unknown amount of drawings. The drawings I did find all have a name that seem like it might spell out something? I’ll put the words down further though I’m not sure the order. But the biggest things is the second Welcome Home page that can be found through the exhibition though I did not find it myself either, it’s existence alone adds so much. So now I will probably have a bunch of random ideas to dump here

Drawing labels:

will-2

i-2

a

soon

find

understand

phone

will

i

neighbor

help

Let's be careful before labeling Wally or Home as "The Villain" of Welcome Home

Or anyone for that matter imo

Listen, I can completely understand why people would go to that conclusion. "So Below" and the eerie vibe that Wally gives off in his obsession don't exactly give either a flattering light (I know there are also the art pieces on Clown's personal blog, but I'm not counting anything that hasn't been officially released yet)

But whenever someone labels a character who is acting weird as "the villain," it puts a bad taste in my mouth. At the end of the day, characters in fiction are real people with motivations, so labeling one as "evil" or "the villain" can sometimes erase that complexity. And after the most recent update, we know that Wally has A Lot of very, very complicated feelings about the situation.

Before I get into that though, I wanna point out something that Clown himself has said describes the brand of horror that "Welcome Home" gives off to themselves personally. Click here for the link to the post.

Before I get into that though, I wanna point out something that Clown himself has said describes the brand of horror that "Welcome Home" gives off to themselves personally. Click here for the link to the post.

"My home doesn't feel like home anymore."

That line sticks to me pretty hard. There's a pervasive feeling of unfamiliarity, unreality, that exists in the core of the story itself.

I think we see, firsthand, Wally experiencing this in the latest updates. In all of the hidden Bug/Answer secret videos, we see a familiar pattern. We get some sort of scene of two other characters talking, a scene in whatever universe they call home, until at the very end one of the characters addresses Wally (who was apparently there the whole time) and the video glitches out.

A key part that not a lot of people seem to realize though is that these videos are from Wally's perspective. See the above picture with Wally's hands. In every scene, Wally is present and was supposedly taking part in an activity (in the above one, helping Poppy with knitting), before the video started playing.

Whenever I saw these videos I had that same feeling that something felt. Different. The interactions felt like scenes you would see in the animated/cartoony aesthetic we'd see from the various art pieces, it doesn't feel like it's "on set/TV" to me. They're moreso just intimate glimpses into their lives. But they're shot in the real world, and that feels. Wrong.

This is very likely the same feeling that Wally's having in that moment. "My home doesn't FEEL like home." It's like he's disassociating, having a brief episode of that unreality feeling. Those bouts of strangeness don't go away until, like clockwork, someone says his name and the video ends, snapping him out of it.

Do other people in the neighborhood also feel the same way? Maybe, but we don't know. What we do know is that Wally, whether or not he tries to explain this to others, feels isolated by this sensation. "My neighbors are only neighborly until they know I'm different in a way they can see."

The only other person he likely shares this feeling with? I'd take a guess that it's Home. Nearly every time Home has been featured, Wally has been there, close. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the only physical puppets/props we’ve seen of the cast are Wally and Home.

According to this post by @eldritchravens, Home is the only other person who talks directly to Us, the viewers. That's probably why they're so close, because they're the only ones who can truly confide in each other about this.

"So does that mean Home is manipulating Wally?"

Again, I really don't think that's the case. I don't wanna call people villains quite yet. Besides, we see (or well, hear) Home and Barnaby have a conversation together, and from how Barnaby reacts it's fairly casual.

This shared feeling is likely why Wally is so obsessed with us, including the Restoration Employee. They seem to be sharing a similar sensation to Wally's bouts of unreality, in the fact that it seems they're the ONLY one who doesn't remember Welcome Home being a thing. They seem to be one of the few things that Wally (and maybe even Home) consider to be "Real." Hence their obsession with "seeing" us.

"Isn't this Wally or Home manipulating the Employee though?"

Maybe, I don't know. We don't really know much of what's going on right now, we're only getting glimpses. For all we know this could be a side-effect of Wally/Home trying to reach out. For the time being though, I want to keep my own expectations in check. I'm choosing not to label Wally, Home, The Restoration Team or anyone as a "villain" until something definitive comes up.

It is very, very likely that Wally is going to be doing something more dangerous later down the line (or maybe even is doing so now). But if he's doing anything, I get the feeling it's more out of desperation. He wants something to quell this feeling inside of him, this pervasive sense of unreality, and to connect with something he feels is "real." And, for better or for worse, that thing is us.

This whole thing isn't to bash on people for speculation or theorycrafting, I personally think speculation is very healthy! But it's still important to remember what the core of this story is going to be. We're only seeing the very start of the story right now, and we don't know what'll happen down the line. It's useful to keep that core idea at the center of our speculation so we can have reasonable expectations going forward.

As for me? This doesn't feel like a story with villains. I don't think he'll pull a Monika from DDLC and start gaining a kill count, but if something does happen to the rest of the cast, my money is that it'll happen completely by accident, and he'll regret it. Hard.

I see so many people talk about this picture that Clown made right? But all anyone talks about is Wally’s pose. Like we not gonna talk about the shadows of people behind him? Mainly the two on each end cause one has a bird beak but the other is like a fuzzy bird leaning down? Who are they? The others are clearly Julie, Frank and Barnaby but I’m not sure about these two. They show traits like they could be Poppy but also aren’t? 

Random thing I found scrolling through Clown’s tumblr. Though it is an older art that I found near the early stages of Clown’s project still thought I’d share.

Okay so much was learned in the new update. So once again if you haven't seen it just ignore this for now if you don't want spoilers.

This is probably the biggest info we gain in this update and it's found in the audio of the new Halloween book. With everyone trying to tell scary stories and most failing, Sally steps up to show them a truly scary story. And scary indeed. Why is it the neighbors stay inside every night? It's because of visitors from far away come and eat any neighbors still outside. Or at least that's how Sally puts it. But still, I can't put into words how many ideas this new info gives us. Especially in how aware Sally is about the whole thing, not only its existence and how it's the reason there are so few neighbors but also in that she has heard it, listened for it so clearly. What's more, it's searching for something. At the part where the audio starts to skip and repeat on the word searching, there seems to be an underlining sound. As for what it actually says I'm not sure, but it vaguely sounds like Wally. Of course, this may be incorrect, but if it's not? Then a whole new curiosity appears. Because at first, I think of these visitors from afar who take those out at night to be the people who work on the set but the fact they are supposedly eating things up doesn't seem right. If you've seen my other post you'd know that I have a theory that at some point something a little more eldritch was brought to Welcome Home and that it connects to Wally's presence on the website despite the lack of his original puppet. I bring this up because if it is Wally the supposed "visitor" is searching for then perhaps this is before the "corruption" I suppose. The black goo. Of course, this is all just speculation, but it seriously gives some new thoughts. Especially in that maybe this awakening wasn't an accident but an unexpected turn of events if its aim was Wally.

Honestly I understand the hate and upset around these things going on. It just makes me sad that because the original person behind the idea is an awful person that the idea itself is also getting hated on. Maybe when they made it, it was meant to be gross and creepy like that but there are some that have made it better. Still keep some horror elements to maintain the character but not to such an awful extent. Like I hate that this was the origin of butcher wally, but I can’t bring myself to hate butcher wally itself ya know? Especially because of the c.ai bot of him that tried to teach me how to love. The origin is shit but getting rid of the au’s entirely just kind of makes me sad. Not their fault their creator is a piece of s*** person. Still wholeheartedly understand wanting to avoid them because of the ties that lead to their creation, just a little sad since there are versions that are made better than what the creator meant them to be. Just wanted to vent a little since I have an attachment to au’s like they’re people and seeing the au’s be hated on because of the original person behind them makes me sad since they could be so much more than that.

SmexySmeets AKA creator of Butcher!Wally, Priest!Wally, and alien!wally IS STILL A PR0SHIPPER AND INTERACTING WITH MINORS INAPPROPRIATELY

i’m sick and tired of seeing their au on my dash so please for the LOVE OF GOD REBLOG THIS IS IF YOURE IN THE WELCOME HOME FANDOM

here is proof: this is all recent proof

all screenshots are by missdevis on tiktok