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happy new year 2022!

pov: your husband thinks banang!! isn't funny after the third time, but 11 years later

is that... is that a *key ring* nipple ring?

the first three days of max week 2 :)

shared this with a sam and max discord a while back but i guess you can have it

one thing i like about Sam and max is that they make the weird parts of their world feel normal

at first, its kinda strange that Sybil and the Abe Lincoln memorial are in love, but by the time they get married, you're used to it. you might even ship them

I honestly love the part at the end of season three where girl stinky mentions she's a mermaid because why not? you as the player are so numb to the strange antics of this world that *of course* stinky is a mermaid

you get to choose what you do with this information

all i can think of now is sam and max...

i love them so much 🐶💜🐰

Max telling Heavy he'll protect him from any ghosts plus Heavy's reaction has to be the most wholesome video game interaction.

Telltale sam and max

Max: I’m going to stuff my mouth full of firecrackers and spit them out at single mothers!

Sam: let’s not do that little buddy

Comic sam and max

Max: i wanna roll around in hot glue and jump into a fire ant hill!

Sam: that’s a great idea little buddy, make sure you submerge your ears as well and the insides of your eyelids

collection of various sam & max ms paint doodles ive managed to find that arent already on here

i LOVE drawing a character poorly everytime and never being consistent in how i draw them (its fun you should try it)

SPOILERS BELOW!!

Sam and Max 3d sculpt I finally got around to finishing yesterday! 🐶🐰

I couldn't help myself when Max said "or it's the afterlife. I'm good with either one"

Sam and Max car crash collection

hi so basically i've fallen into salmonmac hell and have sucked up every ounce of content like an ameoba. finished hit the road recently and i like their wedding outfits from the dress up minigame a normal amount

I dunno how long tumblr is going to allow this on their site. Here’s Max impaled Phineas Gage style. Obvious blood and gore trigger warning is obvious.

See it down here if you dare

Have a Max in these trying times

This originally just was a silly little sketch but I liked it so much I decided to ink color and and shade it! It looks kinda derpy, I know, but that was the point all along lol

Little Sam and Max sketch I did because I’m so glad I’m queer and not a straight incel and/or coomer. I wouldn’t wish the life of a straight incel/coomer on my worst enemies, cause some of my enemies are already like that lol

Well, there’s a Sam and Max Halloween art contest happening, so I threw my hat into the ring with this! I’m honestly REALLY proud over how this one came out!

Well, here’s something after not posting in a while. (Spoilers for The Devil’s Playhouse)

Well, my drawing tablet needed repairs, so it’s led to me doing a lot of sketches and drawings on paper, this one inspired by the ending of The Devil’s Playhouse. I know it’s probably stupid for me to draw these two in any sentimental nature, particularly Max, but I always assumed even with how chaotic they can be, they also has a soft side. (mostly coming from my personal experience of being the absolute fucked up person I genuinely am that still has space for affection sometimes) So here they both are paying their respects to their alternate selves who lost their lives after being turned into giant monsters and mercy killed in the aftermath of using their psychic abilities to save the world from a great otherworldly evil. I genuinely do think Max was more negatively affected by this than he was letting on. (“Fun” fact: Lagomorphs in general have a tendency to hide any vulnerability they have, which first evolved to protect them from predators)

Also I’m probably going to be taking a break from Tumblr. It’s not giving me joy like it used to, and anyone can report an art piece for no reason and get it blocked for some fucking reason. I’d wish the Sam and Max fandom well, but I don’t want to make this post more emotional and sappy than it already is.

Aww! Look at the clown bunny- oh wait…

Yes, I’m very much aware of the fact that Sam and Max aren’t the cuddly and affectionate types, at least not usually. Do I still love them and imagine them enjoying both softer moments as well as their more chaotic ones? Absolutely. I know, it’s bs to care about other people. People are garbage. But we all can be a little foolish and forget that sometimes.

I did a bunch of Sam and Max sketches. One of those being an idea I had rattling in my brain for a while, that being the “Max Apocalypse” scenario. I guess I could have just did the alternate timeline from The Devil’s Playhouse considering the many Maxes, buuut, my brain thought that making them “zombies” that turn others they bite into strange rabbity things would be cooler.

I guess I’m also making fun of that this frickin Lagomorph is consuming my very mind XD I’m so fucked aren’t I? Might as well enjoy the ride while I’m on it!

It truly is a Max world

Okay, okay. If anyone is looking for an idea for a Sam and Max animatic, I got just the thing for ya!

Sam and Max animatics using the audio of the Wilkins Coffee commercials! Sam as Wontkins, Max as Wilkins! (Max definitely fits the part considering how well he’s known for being cartoonishly violent and he definitely has a caffeine addiction!)

Also, a few of the commercials have moments where the puppets crossdress, one even being Wilkins as Wontkins’s “wife” no less!

This too good of an idea NOT to use! Please, take it! I’m not confident enough to be a youtuber!

Ridiculous trivial Sam and Max detail that I shouldn’t be taking as seriously as I do:

I’ve always felt uncomfortable over Max supposedly having bones in his ears, which is shown off in many different instances. (I assume it’s so his head shape could still be recognized even in skeleton form for comedic effect.) I don’t feel this way because it’s weird, I love Max and his weird self! I mostly just feel bad knowing how uncomfortable that must be for him. Now I came up with this theory that those “ear bones” are just an exotic form of thick dense cartilage that resembles bone and hardens into calcium after death, mostly because I see Max’s ears flop around anyway despite the implied ear bones. Then it turned into a theory about his ENTIRE skeletal system minus his teeth being made of this exotic form of cartilage.

I think way too much about the anatomy of a cartoon rabbity thing than I should. But I do it anyway, because it’s my existential crisis, and I get to choose what to do with it!

I FINALLY got the motivation to finish an art piece! And it’s of the Sam clones from Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse!

Also this: https://youtu.be/1X4v3WmpNo8?si=aQa6vHdYO0W-IuqD

SPOILERS FOR SAM AND MAX: THE DEVIL’S PLAYHOUSE

(Also a rough personal vent based on how much this game resonated with me. Trust me, it’s not for the faint of heart. Warning: contains instances of childhood trauma and the many other mental health conditions it came with)

This game did so much justice for Sam and Max themselves, considering how this game is the first time anyone has seen these two in this multi-layered light since the original was released by Telltale back in 2010. I could go on about how this game has very much given me even more appreciation for Sam, because it has! But I really do want to talk about what was confirmed in this game about Max.

First of all, I love that when we’re in the Museum of Mostly Natural History in the episode They Stole Max’s Brain, we get an exhibit on how “the world will end” which shows a display of a giant monster destroying a city and the scene mechanically rotating into a desolate wasteland where the city used to stand. Mostly because of how well it works as foreshadowing for what was to come, (that foreshadowing also happened in The Penal Zone where Sam and Max first discover the Toybox) which ended up being Max turning into that giant monster that was predicted to bring the end of the world by the end of The Alley of the Dolls.

In the grand finale The City That Dares Not Sleep, when we’re literally inside Max himself, we end up learning his own Super Ego hates him and wants him to die. The Superego isn’t a separate entity, he is very much a part of Max’s own mind. I’m pretty sure every other Sam and Max fan who’s played this game has pointed out Max being as depressed and self-loathing as he is, and hiding it behind his sense of humor and his iconic smile. (He even brings up earlier in The Tomb of Sammun-Mak that he likes to fall asleep to the song “Tears of a Clown” which if you’ve heard of it, it’s 100% because he relates to that song. That’s just more good foreshadowing)

Honestly, I’m just going to say this, this 100% is something I deeply relate to. I’m probably going to vent a lot, but it’s important to understand where I’m coming from. During my childhood, I kept finding myself in these special Ed programs that I hated being in, they never truly felt like they were safe, but I had no choice but to put up with them since as far as my parents knew from the people who misinformed them, kids are completely incapable of truly understanding what is best for them. There were several times where I knew something was wrong with the way my life was, but I couldn’t put my finger on it since I was so young and constantly surrounded by people gaslighting me because I was that young. My autism diagnosis was something I deeply resented because it put me into these programs where I was objectified and told how the way I am and behave is wrong and should behave how THEY instruct me to. A lot of pressure was often put on me to behave with this standard of “perfection”, often leading me to be punished for not perfectly following that standard. I had no choice but to bottle up those imperfections because of the teachers of Special Ed that would constantly watch me like a hawk and sometimes even follow me around when I’m just trying to get on with my school day and get to my latest class in time. It didn’t help that I also kept getting prescriptions for medication that did more harm than good for me. One of the pills caused me to rapidly gain around 20 pounds in the span of a few weeks as a 9 year old, (making Sam pretty damn relatable in his own right too.) and another prescription REALLY messed with my brain. (If you want an example to how I acted on that awful drug, just think about how Lemongrab from Adventure Time was like) All this along with a few other reasons I might bring up someday ended up getting me to first develop suicidal thoughts at age 10. And as soon as that happened, I was taken to a children’s psych ward in a hospital where for some fucking reason, some “responsible adults” thought it would be a good idea to put the kid that thinks they’re a freak of nature that never should have existed in the first place in to a children’s psych ward made up mostly of kids that were surrendered from their parents for then being drug addicts and committing crimes they’re now in prison for. My much pickier childhood self when it came to the foods I ate (which is something a lot of autistic people are known for diagnosis wise) and the people running the ward didn’t give a damn and I spent my time malnourished lying in bed waiting for myself to starve to death and finally end everything I was going through up to that point. It took my mother INSISTING constantly that she bring food that I like so I could finally be more well nourished. But I can assure you it was hell, a hell I was stuck in for 11 days.

A bunch of other messed up stuff happened too, but I think this information has the gist of why I’m like this. It really wasn’t easy for me to type out, let alone have the nerve to publish on a public site. Honestly, I’d say Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse resonated with me in a similar way Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 did. (If any of you have also seen that movie, you’d know EXACTLY what I mean. What I brought up also made Rocket Raccoon’s story resonate with me as much as it did.)

I’d like to thank the people of Skunkape for remastering this game so more people like me can have access and experience this masterpiece of a game. It was just what I needed now, and I couldn’t be more grateful of it happening!

I finally finished Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse. I’m not gonna have spoilers in the game on this post, (that’ll be for another post) but I think TDP might have one of my favorite stories in a video game, right up with Insomniac’s first Spider-Man!

Also, as soon as I was finished, I gave my Max plushie the biggest hug I could and just let it all out. 😭