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i SEVERELY underestimated how exciting this week was gonna be

After the latest Puppet History, as always I looked forward to the puppet song. I loved the inclusion of D&D rolls to try to defeat the legendary white tiger, and the puppet construction was immaculate as usual. I caught the inspiration bug and drew this! Lots of new brushes and fun background elements. This was a joy to work on. I hope the Professor and friends like it!

Now THIS was a fun challenge. I tried a lineless style for this week’s singing puppet. I tried to make him cute yet ominous at the same time. He looks a little more creepy than ominous but I’ll take it!

Paused at the perfect time

looks like he's having some Vietnam flashbacks

The only thing that keep my life worth living lol

“ghost files will return 2023” like we’re in the mcu

I’m howling

*insert multiple vine boom sound effects*

I left a comment on the video, but I really wanted to make an infodump post about it to because I’m a spooky little autistic. The newest Ghost Files episode reminded me of one of my favorite spooky history facts that I wanted to share:

CW: Dead people in photos (nothing graphic, very peaceful, but content warning all the same)

So the photo of Joyce and Tim in the archive room, they say one of them is dead and they don’t know which, but in a lot of these “post mortem” photos, if you look closely, there’s an interesting way to tell who’s dead and who’s alive.

“In the 1800s, taking a photo of a dead body wasn’t creepy—it was comforting. In an era when photos were expensive and many people didn’t have any pictures of themselves when they were alive, post-mortem photography was a way for families to remember their deceased loved ones. This was especially true for children, whose mortality rate was much higher than it is now” (Little).

Now, back in good ol’ 1867, there was a little more to taking a photo than a button on an iPhone 13, and it could often a couple of seconds for the photo to actually be taken, in which time people would naturally sway and twitch slightly, which is why people and faces are often blurry in these old photos. It’s like when it’s dark and your phone can’t focus, and it makes you hold your phone still while it takes the shot, but no matter how hard you try, it always comes out fuzzy.

Now, I don’t know if you know this, people 9 times out of 10, dead people don’t move. So when taking these photos, they remain still for the duration of the photo process. I tried to pick some pictures that would really demonstrate this, but it’s super chilling to see just how clear dead people are in these old photos, especially when put against living counterparts.

The one above is one of the clearest examples of this I could find online, but if you’re ever in the Winchester Mystery House, they have some super cool pictures hanging up that demonstrate this concept.

So Shane, Ryan, if you ever see this—well first of all I think I’d probably scream because my favorite creators saw my post—know that you can tell more than which looks “dead inside” because, hey, don’t we all?

When I get sad, I just rewatch the meatball story from Too Many Spirits

wake up babe new comfort show just dropped

(click for better quality!)

okay so ghost files episode but then the proof they get is a picture of The Professor standing behind Ryan

idk what’s funnier to me, Ryan having his eyes closed during the Estes Spirit Box session only to have Shane go “I fought with a ghost”right after-

or

The possibility that Ryan could’ve just opened his eyes during the middle of the session and see Shane punching air randomly-

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Still in awe that Ryan and Shane can make weirdly accurate baby crying sounds-

Shane scared the living daylights out of me during the Hull House ep when he did the crying thing over the walkie-

how to talk to short people (@wearewatcher version)

happy birthday ryan

all i am thinking about is how beautiful and soft shane madej’s photography of ryan is? 💛

just thought other people needed to be reminded that these photos exist because i am literally crying and throwing up over this! 😭

erm uh erm

the ghoul boys as acnh villagers , i’ve never drawn in the acnh style so sorry if it’s bad 😭

shane’s personality is sisterly and ryan’s is peppy!!!