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funnycreatortimetravel · 2 months

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Small rant about Sans' character that no one is ever going to read and is probably kind of inaccurate, but I'm going to scream into the void nonetheless because why the hell not and I'm kind of bored.

I feel like the concept of Sans as a whole has been so utterly gutted by the fandom and not in the way you'd think. Not because of the AUs which are all so oddly Sans-focused (but at least we have Underverse which is actually pretty good) but in the sense of the people who claim to "actually understand Sans canonically" and "try to stay as canon as possible" while also equally missing the point sort of. Hence, why we have this long and overplayed image I'm sure everyone has seen a billion times:

If I could lay some groundwork down, Undertale came out in 2015, nearly a decade ago. The internet was a different time and place then and fandom creativity reached new peaks that no one had ever seen before, and as a result, a lot of Undertale was exaggerated, changed, cut up, and then put back together. Why? Because in all honesty, Undertale was a really simple game with a simple premise. Sure there were bits and pieces scattered throughout, parts like who Gaster was, who Chara was when they were alive, who Sans is in general; all the typical fandom theory shenanigans we've come to expect in the recent years. And in that excitement, Sans became the staple of Undertale pretty much, or at least everything it represented. This macabre, yet adorably misleading game with funny moments and interesting think pieces that people are still speculating about. That's pretty much the basis of Sans. So I get why Sans became the quintessential poster child for such a subversively ambitious game. I get why, then, people try to showcase Sans as this badass God character who knows and remembers all of resets and cries over Papyrus and is just an edge lord in general. It doesn't mean it's accurate in the slightest, but I get the idea of it nonetheless. In the absence of content, and there's a lot of it in Undertale, (I mean, it took me 4 hours to 100% it in the Pacifist and Neutral Routes, and 5 hours to beat Genocide, including the times it took me to beat Undyne because she thoroughly kicked my ass and Sans as well) the fans filled those gaps with what they saw fit and what they saw fit was so wide and diverse that the gap overflowed and the game pretty much became unrecognizable.

And I (except for the truly questionable and gross stuff, you know what I'm talking about) love the fandom for that, I truly do. Just the sheer number of comics, spin-off games, AUs, art, and fanfiction that answered every question I had and more was and is impressive, but even so, there's only so much that can be done with the context Undertale provides us before the content gets...stale. Hence my point on why Sans' character was so exaggerated is because Undertale as a whole had been exaggerated and oversaturated and overplayed and generally...not what the game or Sans was originally. But that was peak 2016-2019, though, a few years ago. And the interpretations and eras, like everything, have changed.

Now back to my actual point. It's now 2024. The fandom has noticeably slowed down. All of the AUs and theories and fanfictions that were popular have either been forgotten about over the years, randomly rediscovered or still ongoing, or just abandoned entirely. The game has been pretty much combed through until every file has been cracked, every document leaked, and every secret discovered. It's like a picked over turkey at this point and a lot of the old creators have indeed left behind the game in pursuit of newer things, which is understandable. It's not the center of attention it once was and in that wake, we don't really have a lot of the same pillars in the Undertale community that we used to. And in this transformed community, we have the left over children, now young adults and teenagers, to pick up the pieces. And in that, Sans' character, as well as Undertale itself, has again, been reformed.

That was a lot of words. But I hope I at least set the center stage. My issue, pretty much, is that the leftover fans deem themselves as "above the cringe" the old fandom left behind, which, is fair enough. And in doing so, a lot of the foundation of the 2016-2019 Undertale fandom was kind of overwritten. No, now Sans is no longer this edgy, overpowered God figure ready to right the wrongs of the player, no, now he's this apathetic guy who doesn't care about anyone, including himself, and is only powerful because he cheated. And to be fair, I see some merit in this interpretation. Sans is in fact, a pretty morally ambiguous guy. He doesn't even attempt to stop the player during the genocide route until there's nothing left. He threatens the player on the pacifist route even when we pose no threat. He makes so many allusions about himself not caring about anything. So I get it. Everyone is tired of everything Sans-related. I was too at one point. But in trying to counteract this fanon interpretation of Sans, I feel like this new one is also semi-inaccurate. This new interpretation of Sans is meant to be seen as "mature" and "not cringe" when in fact, Undertale is and always will be sort of cringe. And that's OK! That's why I and others love the game so much, because it's not afraid of being anything other than what it is and what it claimed to be. It had a story in mind that it wanted to tell and it did so unabashedly. The need to separate Undertale and Sans itself from the cringe is so pointless and almost a little juvenile. And imo, even ruins the character of Sans himself.

Sans does care about Papyrus, so so so much. He reads him bedtime stories. He plays along with his illusions of grandeur. He calls out the player when he's killed, despite Sans having to remain objective as a judge. I feel like Sans not intervening in Papyrus' death isn't because he doesn't care, it's because his entire job is to act as a judge and in a position where he's mostly neutral. He knows the player has powers to redo and undo things, so thus, he gives us room to make those choices, for better or worse. He's like, the anti-toriel. He refuses to hold your hand. He tells YOU to make the right choice, and by you, I mean the player. And in that sense, I feel like that's not something a completely apathetic guy would do. Someone like that wouldn't even see the point of choices, of having an option. Someone like that wouldn't care about getting out of bed in the morning, getting several jobs, or telling a person with higher power to just engage with your brother.

Like come on, don't say he doesn't put effort into anything, like he went out of his way to make sure Pap's Holiday party went perfect. He's constantly going above and beyond for his brother.

Sans has emotions and they're so complex and so well-written, but I feel like this counter-cringe culture of the fandom wants him to be this guy who's either too depressed or too lazy to engage with others, or someone who would simply shrug off the death of loved ones when we have proof that Sans does indeed try hard for Papyrus in the ending where everyone dies but his brother. It's an "oh shit" sort of moment when he realizes that Papyrus is the only person he has left and thus, he puts in the effort to be better for him. It's not that he doesn't care or see the point, he's just kind of numb at this point. If Papyrus dies in the neutral routes, you don't see Sans again until the judgment hall and he'll call you a dirty brother killer and tell you to go to hell. That's something someone who at least cares a little would do. He's not above insulting the player and he's not above getting pissed. I've never really seen him as a, "well that's that then," character when it comes to Papyrus dying, for me, it's always been, "I'm angry, but I can maintain my composure and still do what I have to do."

Even in the genocide routes, Sans wants to give up and do nothing. He wants to let himself die without much thought. But he knows that he has to stand between you and oblivion. It's another, "Oh shit" moment, but in the opposite way. He knows he's gonna die. But he still has hope. Not necessarily that you'll be a good person, but that you can try another way and make better choices. He embodies the same mentality Papyrus did at the beginning of the run, believing there's a better chance for another future where everyone can be happy.

Sans isn't a nihilist, not all the way. There's still a chance, still a part of him that has hope for everything, regardless of the route. And should the Pacifist route be completed, you'll see that he's genuinely happy. He DOES care, or at least he's beginning to know that caring about things is ok and healthy even.

Ex 1: If you go to Sans' lab after completing a True Pacifist Route, you get this bit of dialog:

Ex 2: Sans and Papyrus talking about a Christmas party they had on the Newsletter of the 5th Anniversary of Undertale.

The strongest, yet most complex example of this that we see is that he upholds his promise with Toriel and will continue to do so until the genocide route at the very end because he wants to at least give us, the player, a chance. And even if it was a cop-out for being lazy, I believe that Sans legitimately believes there's a chance for us to turn around and be a better person, or at the very least, make better choices. We know that Sans is a person who doesn't like making promises at all, and even though he said that his threatening to kill Frisk is a joke, had he not made that promise to Toriel, I can't 100% say that he still wouldn't intervened in the genocide and neutral routes.

And if you think about it, Sans upholding that promise just makes me question him even more. Like, even if you kill his brother, so long as you don't kill everyone, he won't kill you just because of that. He sticks to his promise and his morals so much, even if it costs him everything because well, what type of judge would he be if he didn't stick to his moral code?

"If you have some special power, don't you think it's your responsibility to do the right thing?"

And by that logic, if he made a promise with someone, don't you think he'd feel he'd have the responsibility to uphold it?

We also know that he makes an effort to give us updates on the Underground after we leave in the neutral routes because he still wants us to know, at least, the consequences of our actions, so it's not like he's just lazily letting us get away with anything with do (even if he does physically.) He still holds our actions above our heads. He still keeps his promise. He still knows that we can make a better outcome. And if that doesn't say anything about him, I don't know what does.

Even in the neutral route endings where things are objectively going terribly for the monsters with Frisk killing Asgore and taking the souls to leave the barrier, Sans still never gives up. Sans, of all people.

And sure, Sans isn't a saint, not by a long shot, but he does have some moral weight in the long run, and by playing the part of a judge, he has a certain level of disattachment that's necessary when it comes to doing his job. Nowadays, I don't see the "fanon" sans that everyone loves to rag on, the one that's overly emotional and jarringly out of character, more so, I see everyone ragging on that interpretation, and then coming up with an equally inaccurate interpretation of Sans just not giving a shit and letting Frisk get away with everything just because he's "not emotional and only wants to be lazy, blah, blah, blah, nihilism, existentialism, it's more canonically accurate, unlike that CRINGE FANON SANS!" /or being a total unserious prankster with no other personality traits, and that's equally as jarring for me.

So in conclusion, I feel like "Fanon" Sans, the one where he's breaking down and sobbing over Papyrus and holding his scarf is just as inaccurate as the "more canon one" where he's apathetic and simply just not caring about his death, or at the very best, says "it is what it is." Sans is a character whose emotions aren't apparent, but he still does care in his weird philosophical way. He loves Papyrus and genuinely thinks he's cool. He's a jokester character who loves a good laugh and being laid back. He doesn't like putting in effort, but he will if he has to. He wants the player to make good choices, so he generally tries to stay out of the way to give us that freedom. Not because he knows we're gonna kill Papyrus, but because he knows we have greater power and wants us to use it to do the morally right thing. He isn't above doing morally grey things either, like threatening to kill Frisk in case they pose a threat to monster kind, but I believe even then, his hesitation to just accept a human in the underground is somewhat understandable given the oppressive tension between humans and monsters. Additionally, he does put in effort when it comes to caring about monsters other than Papyrus, Toriel, and even Alphys and Asgore, he cares about them all: (it's implied that he feeds the amalgamates in Alphy's old lab as proven by the same dog food we see in the lab being in Sans' house and Alphys even calls him a good guy because he helps her in the aborted genocide route ending, him telling jokes to Toriel and genuinely trying to bring some joy in her life even though she's a stranger and doesn't have an obligation to, even staying with her in the Ruins after she's dethroned in the Queen Undyne ending, him acting as the judge before Asgore and even being in such an important position requires you to have a solid sense of morality and conviction, his respect for Undyne as a warrior/leader depending on the ending and in the Undertale Newsletter, he makes an effort to score a goal for his team in Hocky, and Undyne of all people seems proud of him, and pretty much everything that has to do with Papyrus he's at the very least involved or interested in.)

My words don't have a lot of merit. I'm simply saying how I interpret things. But as a big sister, I see Sans as a good big brother who's not too involved, but also deeply cares about his younger brother and his friends. I get that stoicism and being "logical" and "cold" is the new trend and whatnot with all these edits of badass characters and longing for a time when everything was less...emotional, but in doing that, it shuts a lot of discussion about Sans as a person and his complex emotions as a whole. I feel like it's too difficult and kind of silly to chalk him up as either one or the other. I feel like there's a nice middle ground between the "cringe" fanon sans and the "cool, apathetic" canon sans that a lot of fans either go one or the other on. Anyway, that's about it for my rant. It's kind of nonsensical and a little hard to follow, but I hope I was able to get my thoughts across nonetheless.

I guess it was a big rant after all. Oh well. It is what it is.

#sans #undertale sans #undertale #deltarune #papyrus undertale #sans character discussion #undertale deltarune

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seirindono · 5 months

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Sorry if you've already answered an ask like that but how did you start with comics? :D Like, what's the backstory to your hobby?

Oh, I don't think I did, not in details anyway. But it could be interesting ( ´ ▿ ` )

I'm an art student (animation), so drawing and storytelling have always been my thing! As for comics, I've always loved reading them, and sometimes I'd draw some for myself or my friends, but nothing too ambitious. Between 2015 and 2016, Undertale arrived and I was so taken by the characters, the narrative and what the fandom was creating around it that I thought I could contribute too. So, armed with my first graphics tablet and 0 experience, I tried my hand at making my first comic. I only managed a few pages, because I wasn't satisfied with the final result and realized that each page was taking up far too much of my time, but it stuck in my mind as a fun experience and a cool hobby!

2020 arrives, I enter art school and am promptly sent back home bc of covid. My drawing skills have improved and I've gained in terms of maturity and confidence, and coincidentally I'm seriously bored after 3 months of confinement (and a few more to come). On youtube, I come across an Undertale comic fandub (hadn't seen one in a long while) and I'm blown away that the community is still out there, creating really cool stories! I start reading fics again and get back to following cool artists I've discovered on my Tumblr (forgot I even had an account)!

I draw a few sketches and illus for fun and start "hyping" myself for some lore digging and OC creation. Starting TMS was a bit of a whim, just to see how long I'd last this time lol and now the rest is history~

June 8, 2020 so three years, yep. And I sure hope I did! You're bound to get better after drawing these guys so many times, haha.

Art school also played a big part as well.

(thank you)

A bit late, but sure!

We don't celebrate it in France but Happy thanksgiving to those of you who do! Or happy Thursday, well, Sunday. Hope you had a nice day.

#ask #ask me #here's the backstory for TMS haha #for those wondering- the first comic I mentionned was a Underfell one #I still have the pages but just like part one of TMS - I'm kinda awkward with it xD it's pretty fun to look at tho #redrawing them is still on my to-do list but that'd require too much time and energy rn #*sigh* I might have improved in skills but at what cost?

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biocrafthero · 4 months

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wait hold on a second the needle cookies from undertale what are the needle cookies from undertale

Okay so way back when, probably around 2016 or 17, there was an artist (i don't remember who) that shipped Frisk x Sans. Now while that ship is a big GROSS for me, you won't believe the action someone took because of that.

One time at a convention, the artist was given a cookie (or cookies? I forgor you get the idea tho). They bit into it only to discover a needle had been baked into the cookie! They most definitely went to the hospital because of that it was a while ago tho so my memory isn't the best when it comes to the details but I know lived dw

But like. This?? A crime??? Over fandom drama???? This was literally attempted murder???????

#rambles #ask #asks #i love telling batshit stories I've heard around the internet

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sheep-turtles-and-pizza · 10 months

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Are the turtles the first fandom you've ever been in, or do you have a string of broken hearts from fandoms past, or do you keep each fandom close to your heart, but for the time being the TMNT fandom is what has most of your attention?

Probably the first yes. 2k3 and 2k12 were the first one I was into, mostly 2k12. I remember my family being so annoyed of me talking about ninja turtles. Haha.

I drew a bunch of tmnt when I was little. Unfortunately I don't the sketchbook with me TwT sad.

I think I stop drawing them when I discovered Undertale and got hyperfocused on it for years. Still loving btw the way.

And then came the 2014 and the 2016 movies, I was still into the Undertale Fandom but drew some tmnt again (and again the sketchbook not with meh TwT). I didn't draw on digital yet at the time. It's only around 2018-19 that I started doing it.

And there comes rise, the serie completely blew my mind. I didn't liked it at first, cuz there was so many things different from the tmnts that I knew and I wasn't used to it. The serie was more complex and interesting than I expect it and I LOVE IT!! It made wanna re-watch the old series, and compared them. Not to know which one is the best but more like... look at the difference and why the differences yunno XD.

So yeah at the moment tmnt fandom (especially rise) got most of my attention at the moment. XD

#fee ask #listen #when I told my cousin I was into tmnt #she was like #again????#and I was like #...Oh #she knew #XDD #you could say i had phases XDD

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athetos · 3 months

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My Best Nightmare from the Undertale soundtrack is one of my favorite pieces of video game music ever, because it sounds unprecedentedly zany and deranged. I tabbed it out on bass myself back in 2016, and I still have no idea what the fuck is going on in this piece. It swings back and forth between ungodly dread and cutesy melodies from previous songs on the soundtrack and is so fucking frantic throughout, with the bass just doing whatever the fuck it wants. The fact that Toby Fox apparently had no music education at all is just terrifying to me.

I recently discovered a site called hooktheory that analyzes popular songs and identifies the keys and chords used. I don't know how accurate this site is, and I don't know if it's users, professionals, or even AI that comes to these conclusions. But from the segments I listened to, it seemed fairly accurate. So, I'm here to share with you some of the fun chords and modes Mr. Fox has used:

A Locrian, complete with disgusting, grossly dissonant diminished seventh chords.

D Locrian, mostly bouncing around the i and VII chords, of course most of them are diminished.

Eb Major for the first reprised melody from Your Best Friend, how delightfully harmonious!

F Lydian for the next reprise, all the chords are second inversions with suspended fourths, also the III is flattened. Okay, interesting, that's. Okay.

A Dorian for the third reprise, there's actually no chords here, it's just a melody in Dorian.

Now, it says the fourth reprise with the disgusting bass solo is A Locrian, but that's a lie. Well, maybe the bass solo is A Locrian, but the chords change so quickly that I can't be assed to read it. However, the melody is a whole tone scale, according to the transcription here. Whole tone scales don't even have a tonic. You're killing me, Toby.

Next, we jump to E Phyrgian, which doesn't even sound weird at this point.

Finally, the last reprise is back in standard harmonic territory, with D# minor. Sure, nearly every chord has a ninth, an eleventh, or a thirteenth added on, but this is finally some stable ground!

IN SHORT, this song is insane and I love it.

#obligatory i minored in music and study music theory for fun today but am not a professional blah blah #undertale #toby fox #ash.mp3 #ash.rom

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bettinalevyisdetermined · 1 year

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Hi! This is my first time asking something to someone, buuuut, when was your first experience with both the game undertale, and the fandom?

Aw, honored to be the first Tumblr person you send an ask to! ^_^

I suppose that would have had to be around the end of 2015, I can't remember exactly. I was making random YouTube videos, and @jayalaw became a fan and later friend, and it was she who told me about this game she was becoming obsessed with, where you're a child that falls underground and either fights or befriends the monsters there. I wasn't much of a gamer, so I was like "cool," and then didn't think about it for a while.

Eventually I remembered about Undertale when I saw Markiplier start to play the game. His voice for Toriel was way over the top. XD He only had a couple of videos out for the playthrough at that point, so I looked for someone else, and that's how I discovered Jacksepticeye's channel and his Undertale videos! I watched him play the Pacifist Run, and then the Genocide Run, and when that was over, I realized I was still hungry for more!

From there I found all kinds of fan content! Animations, original songs and parodies, people voicing fan comics, people dressing up as the characters, the multitudes of theories and lore digging, and all the popular AUs! Then as 2016 began, I started posting my own original lyrics for the OST tracks, and then doing voices for the comics I really liked.

That was basically the beginning of my journey. I'm still a huge fan of Undertale and Deltarune and Toby Fox projects in general, but I've grown a lot and drifted away from making ONLY Undertale content, and I feel much happier for it. ^_^

#Bettina ask #Undertale #the beginning of my journey

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lovelybunchof-roses · 21 days

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Welcome to my Multi-Muse Blog

I'm an 18+ account who RPs within a variety of fandoms, with over 10 years of experience! I used to RP a LOT back in 2016-2019 don't judge me.

I'm potentially old school, where I love ask prompts and magic anons, and will be implementing them within my blog, because I find them to be really fun! I'm still working on creating bios and such for each of the characters I RP as, but I'd love to find fellow RPers from these fandoms (But know I'm open and accepting of just about ALL fandoms and OCs!)

Mario

Resident Evil

Ouran HSHC

Undertale

Team Fortress 2

Dead by Daylight

I'm a Multi-shipper blog who loves slice-of-life, angst, AUs, and many varieties of RPs!

Feel free to send asks to any of my muses or to myself, and I'd love to meet you all! Also, if you think you know me from the past, feel free to try and guess which blogs I ran. I will confirm it with you, I honestly don't expect to find my old rpers, but if I do, cool!

I don't format a lot. But I've discovered how much easier it is to make RP Icons than it was before, so I'm happy to show these off! If you don't use them yourself, that's never a problem! I'm here to have fun, write, and build worlds with different people, as roleplay was something that brought me a lot of joy in the past, and I think it's time for me to return to where I started having the most fun RP wise.

This blog IS A SIDEBLOG. My main blog is pastelslutwitch

Feel free to reblog if your an RP blog/have one, and let's write together!

#rp blog #roleplay blog #asks open #multimuse roleplay #multimuse rp

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mamamittens · 8 months

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I'm supposed to be sleeping but nah.

Here's some AO3 statistics on my stories instead!

Under the cut of you're a nerd like me and morbidly curious as to what hits big in my fics specifically.

So, from my first fics on AO3 all the way back in 2016 to 2023, here's my top stories from kudos, which is a harder metric to hit compared to well, hits.

Btw, just realized that the by year filter is based on update not when it's written, so as long as it was updated in that year it makes the list.

As you can see this is also the year I got into Undertale. "We Are Falling" being my first Undertale fic with the zanny OC 'Tumble', AFAB nonbinary older sibling to Frisk. Mostly a story of crack taken more or less seriously.

Not at all surprised the HP crossover fic "Determined Magics" tops it cause well... It's HP and also written when the crossovers were very few and mostly drabbles. "Hopeful Magic" is the dropped sequel because I had no idea how to continue the story at a decent length and eventually forgot what little plans I did have. It was very hard to decide to officially drop it and I'm still upset it had to be done to this day.

Similarly, "It's going Tibia A Cute Time" was dropped for similar reasons because i started including more details I had no idea how to close out than when I first started. This one featuring an OC essentially raising the skeleton brothers. It was a whole thing.

"Sketchy as Hell" is actually my first romance fic and stars an OC named "Anna" in the AU verse "Underfell", which for the uninitiated is basically edgy Undertale. Wild times. "Colorful as Hell" is the sequel. It is in fact totally finished.

"Shadows in the Ice" just didn't have enough story and nothing I thought of would pad it out into an acceptable length for me, so it was also dropped after a very long time and much reluctant deliberation. At best, this story would be more of a short story. It is based off of a movie after all. Not a lot of plot to start with.

And this is for only this year alone!

Unsurprisingly it's mostly my One Piece one shots for the most part (specifically smuts).

But Sweet Child tops all of them, which honestly tracks, being a reader insert with different romantic/platonic ending with a few different characters. Some of which are still pending. A little surprised the Child AU version "How our Seeds Grow" also made it onto the top area of my list! Especially given how it's just one chapter but I guess folks love child inserts with platonic yanderes idk.

Quite surprised the FNAF fic "A Friend of Charlotte" is on here given how poorly OC fics tend to do in general but given the public nature of kudos and the way the filter works by year, I suppose this teen rates fic had a better shot. This one is about Blaire, teenage medium discovering the secrets of the pizzaplex from Security Breach before, during, and after the games events.

"Fireworks" made it to #2, which is mildly surprising but it is a smutfic about Ace and a reader insert so... Not that surprising.

"Twice Bitten (But not Shy)" being a sequel to a vampire Crocodile with AFAB reader insert smut so zero surprise that it's here.

"Sugar on Your Tongue" is another smutfic for One Piece but this time with Marco, Ace, Zoro, and Sanji in a foursome. Spicy. Zero surprise it's here.

And last on this singular screenshot (there are fics with less kudos under it) is "A Lone Melody" doing alright considering it's an OC centric fic in a massive fandom. All about Melody (half human half fishman) growing up with Arlong (and sometimes Jinbe) as she realizes not everything is as she thought it was and Arlong realizes there are consequences to being a racist prick with yandere-esque protective tendencies. Mostly. It's more about Melody though.

Just for fun, here's last year, 2022.

Unsurprised "Hopeful Magic" tops it, this is the year I dropped it and left a chapter explaining what little plans I could recall.

But yeaaaahhh... All of the 'new' entries are One Piece smut to my absolute non-shock.

"Aloe Kisses" Sabo smut with AFAB reader, "The Only Choice" yandere Ace smut with AFAB reader, "Riptide" yandere Jinbe smut with female reader, and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" werewolf Ace smut with AFAB werewolf reader. Zero shock and awe here lol.

I... Wrote a lot of smut in 2022. It's easier to get a high word count than fluff, ngl, and I did several events that year with smut as an option that I cross posted. The werewolf Ace fic is one such smut specifically for the Halloween/horror themed event if memory serves!

If I had to say which one I had the most fun writing it would probably be "We Are all Falling" cause I was literally pumping out a chapter everyday after classes in college with my roomie (still bestie) reading over it. It was dumb, stupid fun. A real treat with a random, aggressive sense of humor that if you read it, you'd recognize my trademark writing starts real early. Including having unexpected villains, body horror, dramatics, and side eyes references to anime I've seen. Tumble was me totally uninhibited by anxiety and fear with a good dose of angst and the best of intentions. Also absolutely fed up with bullshit but strangely optimistic.

After that? I'd have to say my second favorite that's on any of these 'lists' would have to be "A Friend of Charlotte". I spent what had to be weeks crafting Blaire and her backstory. Her story is also the only one that I can more or less consistently hit a pretty high word count for chapters without feeling bloated, which is quite satisfying. A bit more mature of a story with some fun taken crafting a middle ground between the ludicrously dangerous setting of literally any location in FNAF with something that could actually maybe exist without getting shut down for being... Ludicrously dangerous for literally anyone in, around, or even thinking about. Definitely a little more kind to upper management than canon FNAF management who seem to view OSHA violations as a checklist and a challenge. Seriously, how the hell do you make body snatcher animatronics without a little bit of pause??? Why?? Why would you do that?!? (The amount of haunted animatronics is also a problem but arguably not usually a feature until Funtime)

#back on my bullshit #one piece #fnaf #fnaf security breach #ao3 fanfic #undertale #underfell #stats

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frostbite-the-bat · 1 month

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I GET WHAT YOU MEAN ABOUT THE PERIDOT THING. I used to roleplay her on animal jam and it literally changed my identity forever gaga me loved her so much

THATS SO BASED LIKE?? SHE FR CHANGED ME AS WELL BUT OK THIS GONNA BE A LONG ONE ILL USE THIS TIME TO RAMBLE

OK BUT NO LIKE i grew up with steven universe like i got into it in s1 like shoooortly before jailbreak and all that stuff. but i wasn't THAT into it until we got more peridot centric episodes in season 2 and i instantly just became really attached to her

i'd always call her just like me and i'd draw her on my stuff sometimes and even draw my sona dressed in themed clothing after peridot and my old discord name even WAS peridot. i'd even pick up things she does and you fucking know i'd go around going "nye hehehehehehe!!" like her laugh. i even painted a triangular rock to look like peridot and sometimes when i felt bad i'd sit down on my bed and pretend i am chatting with peridot bc i didn't trust to open up to people :sob:

and also for a while i genuinely fictionkined her hard but i don't really kin like that anymore despite my Wonderful Undescribed Nonhuman Status. gotta love those 2016 questioning days. was something

but like, steven universe made me not only realize i am queer (and undertale also) but it also opened my eyes to neurodivergent communities. i didn't know what was wrong with me aside from having an adhd diagnosis. and like. i always related to peridot and what she does and she experiences. then i heard people headcanoning her as autistic aside from aroace (WHICH MEANT A LOT TO ME TOO BECAUSE I AM AROACE AND GREW UP AROACE. I HAD NO OTHER REP. I WAS SO HAPPY THERE WAS A CHARACTER WHO JUST "WASNT INTO IT" I FELT SO SEEN.)

and i was like huh autism i keep hearing its a bad thing but these people are nice. its similar to what i experience.

so i begin learning more about that. and i learn more about myself. and i stop being as hard to myself, because i finally understood a bit of "what was wrong with me" i just grew up completely untreated with anything in a horrible school system that just... made me give up on everything. but this gave me hope!! i knew there was people like me and i knew there were explanations! it wasnt because i was a bad person!! it was because i was just different!!

and even if i didn't know many people like me - i had a character to relate to who followed me through this journey. and it was peridot!!

she's just. herself. and she isn't punished or hated for it! and that meant a lot to me.

i would have probably discovered these things myself anyway - but not as early and not in the same way if it wasn't for me just seeing myself in peridot and liking her a whole lot. her confidence n just being her "weird" self just made me feel seen and welcome. i do that i am weird!! yes!!!!!!!!!!! HISSING AT PEOPLE REPRESENTATIOUN

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dank-meme-legend · 2 months

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For as much as I pride myself in being a writer and a theatre kid, a huge part of me is being into gaming. I have used games such as Minecraft, Undertale, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Detroit: Become Human and so many more to help me get through the loneliness and hardest times of my life, long before I had media such as theatre to do that.

I discovered the Theorists channels in late 2015/early 2016, in that transitional time between elementary and middle school. The first Game Theory I ever watched was “Game Theory: FNAF 2, Gaming's Scariest Story SOLVED!”, which not only introduced me to the Five Night’s at Freddy’s franchise, it introduced me to tangential learning: the concept of learning through media that a person already enjoys, as well as picking up on small details or background information to answer questions.

This is what I do with the fandoms I’m “known for” on here and any other internet space!

Picking up on small details and drawing conclusions are things I’ve done to create all the fics I’ve made for Dear Evan Hansen and The Politician within the last few years, how I’ve been able to understand character motivations and drives through tiny details that some people might miss.

With that, I also love to learn. Any one who knows me, knows that I “learn to love better”, so to speak. I research problems to try and fix them, and research vastly different things such as mental health issues to better understand them and educate myself for the loved ones in my life who have various struggles.

MatPat and the entire Theorist crew created channels and a space that encourages learning through means of fun things such as video games and shows, even branching out to food and style with recent channels.

It also, more importantly, created a space where weirdness could be encouraged, where nerds and geeks were welcomed with open arms, and where a community was fostered of unique and immensely intelligent and creative people.

And that, a space to belong as a person generally on the outside of every group at that young age of being ten or eleven, is something I needed. Something that I was able to grow with. I was a proud theorist through middle and high school, and even now to this day. I haven’t been a loyal theorist since the beginning, but I’ve been one for a long enough time to say it changed my life in so many ways.

It inspired me to create my own theories and express them to people and, even if they don’t always make sense/come across as self-indulgent or weird, to never stop learning and expanding my mind.

People often need a place to belong and to feel accepted in all their quirks and oddities, and MatPat and everyone at Team Theorist managed to do that beautifully for thirteen years.

These people and their theories helped me through the hardest times and gave me comfort when not much else did.

And for that, I, as well as many others, I’m sure, give a big thank you and a huge, community-wide group huge.

I’ll forever be a loyal theorist.

But hey, that’s just a theory. A game theory!

💚❤️💛💙

#matpat retirement #matpat #game theory #film theory #food theory #style theory #youtube #goodbye matpat

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moralesirl · 4 months

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it all started in december 2016 in a Macy’s store in Florida…

my mom was shopping for clothes snd like any kid I was sitting on the ground waiting for her… being 11 and liking geography, I had already discovered countryballs. till then, it was all fine. that until it appeared some videos with countries but now they weren’t balls, BUT HUMANS. I liked the concept and watched some of them, still innocent, till I decided to search on google and then devianart fucked my 6th grader head permanently

THAT IS SO REAL

fuck devianart it got me into undertale countryhumans and sonic

#kyoscrayons #kyos loves #kyos hubby ─ nonnie !!

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krisget-thebanana · 7 months

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I can’t believe I almost forgot about Undertale’s anniversary AGAIN.

Happy eighth anniversary Undertale!!!! This game is so important to me and I’m so glad I discovered it all those years ago. In 2016-ish, I watched a playthrough of Undertale’s pacifist route by one of my favourite youtubers at the time, and later in 2018, I got into the entire game and became obsessed with it. Soon after, I joined the fandom, and I found so much incredible fanart, which inspired me to start drawing as a hobby and start posting online.

It really doesn’t feel that long ago since I first got into Undertale and its fandom, but it’s been five whole years, and it’s so hard to wrap my head around that lol

#if i had remembered sooner i would have drawn something more elaborate but i didn’t so take an edgy looking frisk #fun fact: everything in this drawing is the same hue of red #of course the saturation and brightness of the colours are different but the specific red never changes #isn’t colour theory so fun #undertale #undertale fanart #frisk #undertale frisk #frisk undertale #undertale 8th anniversary #chara’s art #can you tell i can’t draw children lmao

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ferretoats · 8 months

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(THE TITLE IS GONE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BRING IT BACK) [Okay so this unintentionally turned into a mini essay(can I call it that?) about my experience with Undertale and video games in general- Is this how I am suppose to use Tumblr?]

Going back maybe around the year of 2015 or 2016 (I was 11), my brother showed me a video clip of what looked like an image of a calculator attached to a vacuum chasing after a child.

Younger me: "I guess math is scary?"

Of course I didn't know it at the time, but that calculator was a character from the game called Undertale.

Some time in December my siblings sat me down on our living room couch and then made me play this game with a controller (I mained keyboard and mouse). They guided me through a pacifist run, a play through of the game where you do NOT kill anything and you better swear to not even look at that FIGHT button or else- Or well at least that was how it felt. At the beginning I didn't know why I had to avoid fighting at all cost. I was just told that it wasn't the best option. When I finished the game, I didn't want to play it again or do it any other way... but that might just be because I got too emotionally attached to the characters... But then if lets say my siblings didn't tell me anything or help, would I have still gotten a neutral route? One where I end up killing some of the characters?

To start with my gaming experience at that point has been mostly these games: Minecraft, Garrys mod, and Team Fortress 2 (Maybe a bit of Terraria?)

So, I had no reason to really assume the "at 0 health you faint" like in Pokemon, because in games like Terraria and TF2 you die, explode, or combust into confetti when you reach 0 (mostly explode). Also in most of those games hurting anyone (even on accident) generally leads to death for one or both sides. In Minecraft you did the little up-down crouch animation and then jumped around when the other joined in. Somehow even in TF2, a game where you can decapitate your enemies, has a subtle way of communicating "Hey wait! Lets be friends." -Which happens sometimes when one side doesn't shoot (and prolonged awkward eye contact).

In a weird way we had Undertale before it was even a thing, it's just that most games never really have a built in "friendly" system when the main goal is to kill. TF2 might be one of those exceptions (did you know you can heal your own enemies by throwing a sandwich at them?). However even then it all depends on how you or the person reacts to non-combative or passive behavior. Personally I try to treat any kindness in return in any game, and take the punches if I fail. So, I like to think I would have ended up doing the pacifist run first time around.

I am also pretty sure that moment where Sans gives you the whole "you gained love not LOVE" (Level Of Violence and... Experience?? wasthereevenan"E"?) talk flew over my head... because well I think I remember genuine confusion- Clueless 12 year old: "like yeah man that's how the game is supposed to go right?? But thanks ig??? Also why did you say it in caps?"

[I couldn't find the video so have the gif version of the Vine that was used]

#help #am i doing tumblr right #mini essay #undertale #i know deltarune is a thing but is undertale still alive?#wait i can make anything a tag?#a few other games are mentioned #tf2 #minecraft #terraria #do i even bother tagging gmod?#ferretoat thoughts

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