When In Doubt Just Keep Drawing

When in doubt just keep drawing

When in stress just keep sketching

Employee handbook questions that I still wonder

1.Chapters

if the employee handbook we have aligns up with the in-lore one that employees would get to read when they get employed, why on earth would they have “surviving your first week” labeled with five chapters of BATIM? Not to mention that the pages weren’t printed on and it’s basically just a bunch of scrap paper and photos pasted on. The only few things “printed on” are just regular employee guide stuff Ex.axe guide, room guide

and ink marks/dialogues

2.Employees specifically stated

There’s pages that shows the sort of chart thingy of how many jobs there are and who works under who, and they would include a few snippets from in-game (batim) characters. Everyone (from batim so not counting characters like Buddy Lewek or Emma LaMonte) was mentioned besides Bertrum. Why? Even Lacie got her own little mention and it still called Bertrum “Bertie”. He had every reason to get his own little name card too but he wasn’t there. And again, if this was the in-universe employee handbook, why those employees? People like Joey, Grant, Sammy, Wally and Thomas are quite understandable since they either have an independent job or an extremely high position with a massive department under them (which also makes me wonder why they ignore Grant so much. His department was massive as heck, even bigger than Sammy’s tbh. There should be quite some lore there) but .. Lacie? Shawn? Jack? Norman? Explicitly labeled to not be a big head of anything and works under aforementioned characters. I don’t mean to say that they had lower positions and shouldn’t be credited, but there are thousands of employees that were under those positions as well. If they wanted to credit Jack, head lyricist, what’s giving that they shouldn’t credit the chief sound engineer? How about a film editor or some random archivist? Just.. a really random choice of characters honestly, makes me wonder why them.

(The second question was the reason why I added an extra special role to those employees in my headcanon/AU, but what are your thoughts?)

JUST A PENCIL AND A DREAM

WHAT DO YOU MEAN A PENCIL OMINOUSLY WRITTEN IN WHITE?! Y’ALL DON’T USE PENCILS Y’ALL USE PENS. WHAT IS GOING ON

AA I ALMOST FORGOT

THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES IS RETURNING

I’M SO EXCITED

ALSO SLIGHTLY AFRAID

I wonder who we’ll see in the new seasons, maybe a new archivist

I don’t know if anyone pointed this out yet, but something has more than two limbs.

It could be its feet, but I doubt anyone would climb up a hatch with two of their hands, and then one of their feet without their head up first. This brings me to a completely random thought/theory I had.

While binge watching Steven Universe.

Could ink monsters fuse!? I mean, technically, they’re ink. Liquid. Even Alice had to use swollen ink for herself in batim chapter 3. Here’s what I think next, it’s a really, really minor detail, but one of the hands, if you look SUPER closely, had a cuff and a wire similar to that of Projectionist’s. It could just be an ink drip, it could just be an extra swollen wrist. It could just be someone else, but here’s this.

Wild, crazy, thought I had. Could Sammy possibly.. fuse with the projectionist?

That crucified lost one at the beginning.. the message next to it. The lost one wasn’t dead, it simply was immobilized, it was twitching. Could it be that Sammy (he’s the main suspect because of symbolism) put Norman temporarily up like that so he could figure out how to enhance his own strength?

YOO I LOVE IT 💗💗

A Thomas be upon ye. This took me a good few hours to draw and finish and I’m quite proud of how it looks. Worried that it doesn’t look all that good but I quite like it so!!

(Original design by Scarlet Studios on YouTube (Go check out their BATIM AU, it’s amazing and I love their Thomas design)