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argentdandelion · 5 years

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Undertale Fans to Throw Money At

If you're an Undertale fan with money burning a hole in your pocket, look no further, for these are nine people you can throw money at.

CleverCatchphrase (Ghost Switch)

Patreon

Description:

Everybody can be a good person if they try...but what if they weren't allowed to try? What if that good decision wasn't even theirs? Can people still be good if they never even had a choice?

Review:

At only 49 pages in, the comic is presently establishing world-building and plot points that will take effect later. Though it broadly follows the in-game course of events, the fact the talking flower isn’t who you’d expect gives the character a lot more characterization early on. This flower doesn’t disappear after getting attacked by Toriel, instead following and conversing with Frisk as they go through the Ruins. Yet, soon after Frisk fell in, they were killed instantly with a seed-shaped bullet, so one wonders what the flower’s true motivations are.

Bunnikkila (Underrift)

Ko-fi

Description: The monsters are free. The resets are over. But is the damage to the timeline erased? Stalled? Or still deteriorating?

Review: Underrift's plot is intriguing and filled with mystery. It has bright, full-color pages, and a line-less stylistic shift for scenes in the non-place of the void. It also features a Sans backstory, linking him (through multiple possibilities) to the mysterious W.D. Gaster, the former royal scientist scattered through time and space.

Spookmoose (ZombieTale)

Patreon Ko-fi

Description:

Frisk should not have survived that fall. ZombieTale is a slow-burning work about a zombie Frisk bringing a zombie apocalypse to the Underground, with all the horror and despair that entails.

Review:

Artistically, this isn’t what you’d expect when hearing “zombie apocalypse story that also takes place in an underground world of monsters.” Yet, the art works very well; it's like a blend of Disney's Frozen (with its indigo/purple/pink-dominant palette) and the 1500s-woodcut-esque art from The Last Apprentice, an old-timey horror book series. Through its texture, palette, and lighting choices, the style conveys isolation and paranoia. Even at its brightest and most colorful there’s a feeling something is not quite safe, not quite right.

Though Frisk is a pandemic-spreading zombie, they’re remarkably sympathetic. While distanced and unaffectionate, one can tell they’re just very hungry and in great pain. As they eat (and infect) more and more monsters, they become slightly less mindless, and able to feel regret for their actions, but are still unable to stop themselves in their pain and hunger.

C-Puff (Time Scar)

Patreon Ko-fi

Description:

One day Sans wakes up with a huge scar on his body, one that definitely wasn't there yesterday. And now Sans must keep an eye(socket) on not one, but two humans. What do they want? Keeping that promise to Toriel is going to be harder than he thought...

Review:

Time Scar, a largely black-and-white comic, has crisp lineart and often detailed backgrounds. The trees of Snowdin are especially remarkable in their detail and abundance, and furniture, houses and other boxy objects are perfectly rendered. One can guess at where Sans’ mysterious scar came from; nonetheless readers will be intrigued and want to know exactly what caused it. Adding on to this mystery is why there are two humans: one innocent, another sinister.

Undertalethingems (Unexpected Guests)

Patreon Ko-fi

Description:

Papyrus messes up his special attack, and shenanigans ensue. But there’s always more to the story, and skeletal dragons are just the beginning.

Review:

The artist is quite skilled at drawing skeletons; Sans’ and Papyrus’ special attacks (which manifested as draconic skeletons) showcase this well. Though largely monochrome, The artist is also remarkably good at drawing Toriel: her look is a perfect blend of an old lady, a mother and a goatlike monster. Asgore is similarly well-drawn, which is especially notable since so many fans find him difficult to draw.

WolvenOne (Long Road)

Ko-fi

(From an associated mini-comic. Lineart and shading by smieska-draws)

Description:

It's been a year since happily ever after. But, as the latest anti-monster conflict proves, happy endings are not one-time events: they must be constantly maintained. For one particular disturbed flower, happily ever after after is still far away, but that doesn't mean he must travel the long road to recovery alone.

Review:

(Note: Frisk and Chara are both a “she” in this work, for those who don’t like that.) This fanfiction excels in characterization and plot. The work is tonally versatile: its moments vary from quiet, to tense, to action-packed and cinematic. While Asriel-saving works are practically a subgenre in itself, the work nonetheless finds a way to make it unique with the angle of Flowey’s gradual recovery with soul-regeneration medication. Long Road’s human characters, including its new ones, also have well-developed personalities.

Kaitogirl (Kaitogirl's Underfell)

Patreon Ko-Fi

Description:

One work based on the community-owned Underfell AU setting. A human child falls into an underground realm of bitter, cynical monsters who want revenge on humanity, but nonetheless cheers up their lives as they try to return home.

Review:

(Warning: Has blood and swearing) As expected for Underfell, red and black are common colors in this work. But, rather than making everything red and black, colors are often altered to darker, redder and duller shades than in canon. In fact, one could also accurately describe this as “that purple Underfell”: this color-altering often results in shades that are broadly purple. Or, perhaps, one could say “zero-orange Underfell”: there’s practically no orange, and when yellow and green does appear (largely from Flowey) they’re dull shades. By Waterfall, the colors get richer, along with a general jump in art quality. Flowey, as is common for Underfell, is broadly “good” rather than “evil”, but his characterization here is pleasantly close to his canon one nonetheless: he’s grumpy and cynical and prone to getting frustrated with Frisk.

AbsoluteDream (Over the Void)

Patreon

Description

After the events of Undertale, Frisk, Asriel, and Monster Kid find a secret room in Waterfall while visiting their old home in Mount Ebott. The room contained a mysterious mirror. Venturing through the mirror, they find themselves in an alternate reality where monsters were never sealed underground...but can they ever get back to their own reality?

Review

It’s just par for the course for the acclaimed AbsoluteDream: his art will blow your socks off, figuratively speaking. Over the Void’s art excels in virtually every aspect of comic-making; its flaws are so rare and minor I don’t think anyone not as thorough and critical as me would even notice them (or call them such). If one wasn’t wowed enough, Over the Void occasionally even has stunningly crisp animated panels. Characters’ distinct personalities shine out through facial expressions, body movements, and dialogue. While the plot hasn’t developed much only two chapters (and 76 pages!) in, the build-up is nonetheless intriguing.

Coffeelemental (The Anomaly)

Patreon

Description

Frisk’s personal control of the timeline is used to ensure monsters have a peaceful return to the surface world – but the seven who sealed them underground in the first place have some problems with this.

Review

(Note: Frisk is a “she” in this work, for those who don’t like that.) The Anomaly, by Coffeelemental, is simultaneously the “Saturday Morning Cartoon of Undertale sequels” and the Sistine Chapel of Undertale fan comics in its tone, dedication, polish and detail.

Though its time-travel element and time-skip might seem like a risk to a simple plot, it nonetheless keeps the plot a perfect medium between complexity and simplicity. While some of The Anomaly’s themes (e.g., “With great power [over time] comes great responsibility”) are pretty common in Undertale works with a Frisk-based, Post-Pacifist timeline premise, The Anomaly nonetheless deals with those themes in an interesting way. Characters from the game itself hew closely to their original, nuanced personalities, and its seven human antagonists have remarkable characterization. (derived from the full review)

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wolven0ne-universe · 6 years

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wolven0ne-universe · 4 years

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One Million Views

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@max-out-of-ten and @ladycassandrina ‘s dub of You Don’t See Me has finally hit a million views and counting. Congratulations you two, and for anybody else reading this that hasn’t seen it yet, feel free to click on the video screen above. I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. As for any of you that might be wondering where part to is. Well, I only have this to say. It’s actively being worked on as we speak and the first few pages are already completed. But, if you want to hurry things along, feel free to buy me a Kofi. It really does help, honest. https://ko-fi.com/wolvenone

#Undertale #Fandub #Toriel #Flowey #and really #those kofi donations help a lot #I was able to make a payment to the artist just yesterday thanks to a generous contribution #I really need to get a hold of that dude and thank them.

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argentdandelion · 4 years

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Welp, I’m Going to Grillby’s: A Fanwork Analysis

Many fan works suppose Grillby set up a new pub (also called Grillby’s) on the Surface after the Pacifist ending. Cross-species patrons and booming business is only possible for monster-run businesses when anti-monster prejudice is low, and there are few reasons (other than prejudice) humans wouldn’t patronize Grillby’s. Therefore, in any work where anti-monster prejudice is fairly low, Grillby’s will always have some degree of popularity among humans. Thus, the success of Grillby’s, and how quickly Grillby’s-related problems are solved, is a useful clue or indicator of anti-monster prejudice levels.

Fan Works

GlitchTale

Camila Cuevas's GlitchTale (specifically Season 2) is very unusual for how quickly Grillby’s becomes very popular, as well as the low prejudice levels and speed of monster integration in general. To be more specific, Grillby’s business (and Muffet's business) is not only patronized by humans, but are explicitly the most popular restaurants in the city, and compete for customers. If Muffet, a spider-like monster who only ran a bake sale before, can have a thriving business, it suggests Grillby’s popularity isn’t a statistical anomaly of a sign of especially good food. That, and the fact the blue bunny NPC still sells Nice Cream, suggests monster food vendors’ success is part of a greater trend. Admittedly, the popularity of Grillby’s could be from the restaurants' very novelty, given the work’s time scale. Yet, the fact so many people are trying out magic food, made by a fire monster and a spider monster within less than a month after monsters’ reappearance, suggests people adjusted to living with monsters very well. Indeed, the time scale of Grillby’s suggests business-folk and lawmakers are also friendly to (or at least indifferent to) monsters, to the point Grillby and Muffet can both start businesses and get food vendor licenses very quickly.

The work’s very fast integration and positive sentiment to monsters would be very unrealistic, were it not for the fact GlitchTale’s world differs so much from Earth. Its socio-political, historical, and geographical details all make for a smooth path for monsters. Indeed, institutions (e.g., The Anti-Monster Department) and knowledge from the first war of humans and monsters even continue to the modern day. The result of all these differences is that monsters are (largely) very comfortable in human society.1

Charakterny Comics

Insanelyadd's Charkaterny comics show a world with slightly greater anti-monster prejudice. The comic has a small plot, set a year after the barrier was broken, in which a kid bought a hot dog from Sans and the kid’s mother “freaked out” and made lots of complaints upon learning it was magic. Due to some legal oversight, magic food apparently isn’t included in a normal food vendor’s license. Therefore, after all these complaints, Sans gets his food vendor’s license revoked for “violations” with the food. Papyrus (now an ambassador) suspects what happened to Sans could also happen to other monster food sellers (e.g., Grillby). While Grillby’s itself is not shown, other monster food vendors signing the petition suggests the success of Grillby’s isn’t unusual. Apparently, a significant number of humans like magic food and/or monster businesses, and they disapprove of the possibility monster businesses can be shut down for serving magic food. The petition is signed, and the plot is quickly resolved.

Undertale: Long Road

(As a fanfiction, Long Road does not have illustrations. The author of this article provided one)

WolvenOne's* Long Road* takes place a year after the barrier broke, and although things are fairly good for monsters, they have to deal with influential groups of anti-monster politicians and a monster-killing mage squad.

As its timespan is much longer than GlitchTale’s, the level of Grillby’s success and species intermixing is more plausible, by real-world rather than fictional standards. In this work, Grillby's explicitly has at least one human employee, who is happy to work there and with monsters. Since magical food “didn’t need to be digested, converted to energy instantly, could heal minor injuries, [...] and never made you fat”, it became popular among humans: “even humans preferred magically prepared foods, at least on the occasions that they could get it.”

The Anomaly

Coffelemental's The Anomaly’s has one of the more complex approaches to human-monster relations, with anti-monster levels varying by time period and region. Unlike most works, The Anomaly is explicitly set in real-world geographical areas, cultures, and time periods, putting more real-life-inspired context to the monsters’ struggles. Although Grillby’s is popular among humans in The Anomaly, there's no indication it's unusually so: it’s normal for a popular bar/restaurant. No other monster food shops are shown, but many monsters have gainful employment in a variety of professions[^2], suggesting being a monster food vendor is feasible. The twelve-year timespan means there has been plenty of time for monsters to integrate into wider human society, but also plenty of time for people to make anti-monster laws.

Deeper Down

Zeragii's Deeper Down treats monsters the worst: monsters were restricted to the forest around Mt. Ebott for weeks in encampments. While The Anomaly’s timeline also started with similar encampments, the actual story is set twelve years after the barrier breaking, when monsters have more rights and societal integration. Though Grillby still makes food in Deeper Down, he does not operate a restaurant: that Grillby's doesn't even exist shows the situation is very bad for monsters.

Conclusions

Based on the five works, one can make certain conclusions about the success and patron composition of Grillby's in a Post-Pacifist setting. (These conclusions ought to be taken with a grain of salt, due to low sample size.)

There is a negative correlation between the success of Grillby's and anti-monster prejudice.As prejudice goes down, the success of Grillby's increases.2

At a certain high prejudice level, Grillby's cannot exist. (No works sampled have Grillby's closing down due to anti-monster prejudice, though.)

If prejudice levels are very low (GlitchTale), Grillby's will receive human patrons very quickly. If prejudice levels are higher (The Anomaly, Long Road), Grillby's will receive human patrons later.3

There can be different prejudice levels among customers, lawmakers, and departments that give out food vendor licenses.

Anti-monster prejudice is still a problem...but the biggest threat isn't from a human. ↩︎

Presumably there's some limit to this. Otherwise, at the point where's no anti-monster prejudice, Grillby's becomes a chain restaurant that takes over the world. Extending that, if the prejudice gets into the negatives, where lots of humans absolutely love monsters, Grilby's would presumably become an international food conglomerate. ↩︎

In the U.S., sushi and Chinese food were once variously viewed as dirty, gross, bizarre or unhealthy (for special reasons), but they're very popular there now. Given how long it took for those foods to become popular on the national level, the time scales for Grillby’s popularity for all of these works is especially impressive. ↩︎

#Undertale #Post-Pacifist #Undertale Comics #Undertale Fanfiction #Skelechara #Undertale: Long Road #The Anomaly #Analysis #Grillby's

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wolven0ne-universe · 4 years

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“Life both is and isn't absurd, but when it goes for the later it really swings for the fences.”

WolvenOne 2019

#quote of the day #from yours truly

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wolven0ne-universe · 5 years

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My Ko-Fi Page is Up and Running

In order to expedite the creation of a follow-up to You Don’t See Me, I’ve decided to set-up a Ko-Fi page. However, in order to prevent any confusion, I'm going to go into my overall battle plan now.

Once you get to the page, this is the button you should hit to give support. Now, if you look closely, you’ll notice that I set the goal here to $200 USD. This would not cover the cost of commissioning a comic. My initial thinking was to aim for five hundred, but I decided that wouldn’t be reasonable given my relatively small audience. So two hundred won’t be enough to commission the next comic. What it would do, is get the ball rolling. If I already have two hundred dollars on hand, I could get the new comic coming and pay for the rest out of my own pocket. Obviously, the more money I have on hand the better. Not only would it speed things up, but it would give me a degree of leeway if the second comic ended up costing more than the first. But, for now, I’m going to concentrate on that initial $200. What that means, is that to hit this point I only need about 67 Coffees at $3 a piece. That might seem like a lot, but it wouldn’t take many donations before we started getting close. Now, I want to make a few promises right up front.

This money will not go to personal expenses.

I will keep people regularly updated.

I will allow for feedback for which scene is adapted next.

That last one is not a guarantee I’ll necessarily go with the scene people want most. This is because people might end up voting for a longer scene that could cost more. When planning the next comic, I’ll need to take these considerations into account.

But, I will try my best to consider everyone's feelings.

With all that out of the way. Once again, here is the link to my Ko-Fi page.

Or if you’d prefer to avoid links, please copy-paste the URL below.

https://ko-fi.com/wolvenone

#Undertale #you don't see me #comic #ko-fi link #plans #goals #promises

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wolven0ne-universe · 5 years

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I Set-up a Ko-Fi Account

Certain people said I should, so here I am. Until stated otherwise, any funds donated will be going to the creation of a new Undertale Fan-Comic, set in the same world as You Don’t See Me. I’m still figuring things out, so I’ll write a more full-featured announcement about all of this later. This should include goals and long term planning. For now, I will just leave a link to the donation page and hope everything works. So without further adieu. Click here to donate to my Ko-Fi or Copy Paste the below URL into your address bar.

https://ko-fi.com/wolvenone

#Ko-fi #kinda nervous about all this #not gonna lie

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wolven0ne-universe · 5 years

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Okay, so to prepare for Tumblr possibly going boom, I’ll probably set up a Pillowfort account at some point. However, seeing Pillowfort isn’t a sure thing, I’m going to point people to my Twitter account as well. I’m not as active there as I am on Tumblr. That may change though. Especially if Tumblr goes down in flames and Pillowfort doesn’t take off. Either way, you can find my Twitter account below. https://twitter.com/Wolvenone https://twitter.com/Wolvenone https://twitter.com/Wolvenone

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wolven0ne-universe · 5 years

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Now, if only anon was back on, so we could get the full WolvenOne asker experience: the people who want to harass you for no good reason, the people who want to declare you an adoptive father figure, and the people who *also* want to declare you an adoptive father figure but are much, much creepier about it.

Pls no.I don’t want anybody else calling me daddy.

#kanexan

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wolven0ne-universe · 6 years

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And Now: A Half-Hour of Tree Puns Transcribed from Discord

WolvenOne at 3:16 PM I hate, hate, HATE it when a very specific moment has me stumped! XD Spooky BF at 3:17 PM

WolvenOne at 3:19 PM Boo this man! Spooky BF at 3:20 PM I never axed for your opinion WolvenOne at 3:21 PM But I saw that you wanted it. Spooky BF at 3:21 PM oh, just leaf. WolvenOne at 3:23 PM Why? My bark is way worse then my bite! Vikingaspöke at 3:23 PM Don't be a celluloser. WolvenOne at 3:24 PM So I should, what? Just fall on my blade? Spooky BF at 3:24 PM Wood you stop already WolvenOne at 3:25 PM I would, but I'm a real sap for this sort of thing. Or do you pine for the days when we weren't making tree puns? Spooky BF at 3:28 PM I'm not Oak-kay with this Vikingaspöke at 3:29 PM Willow we ever stop? WolvenOne at 3:29 PM I don't know about you bud, but I'm taking this as far as I can. Spooky BF at 3:30 PM and fir what? WolvenOne at 3:32 PM So that later on, Soph will walk in and twig out! Vikingaspöke at 3:32 PM The fruit of our labor. WolvenOne at 3:33 PM It's knot exactly an unpleasing notion. Spooky BF at 3:36 PM Deep-rooted behavior Vikingaspöke at 3:37 PM Birch of a notion WolvenOne at 3:37 PM Yes, but it has several branching pathways, so it never gets all THAT repetitive. Spooky BF at 3:39 PM still causes the usual gaspen of exasperation Vikingaspöke at 3:40 PM Evergreen with jealousy. WolvenOne at 3:43 PM That last one seemed a little forced. You might want to spruce it up a little. Vikingaspöke at 3:43 PM Mine was forced and not yours? Wow, that takes the crown. WolvenOne at 3:44 PM Son of a beech! You know what, I just realized something. Jonnemanni the Drunk Bear at 3:47 PM THIS IS UNBEARABLE WolvenOne at 3:47 PM No matter how much effort we put into this game of ours. It's never going to make us Poplar. Spooky BF at 3:47 PM this is not even low-hanging fruit, this is forest floor substrate level of humor WolvenOne at 3:48 PM But hey, at least we're not resting on our laurel's.

#This has been a half hour of tree puns #from Discord #Puns #pun #wood

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