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[ckret2]

“He'd memorized the constellations outside of his plain when his starblind species didn't even have a word for ‘constellations.’” This is such a good line. (I think you meant to write “plane,” though.)

Did Bill’s dimension have a word for “star,” as in the shape? And did he connect it to the ones up-but-not-north before he left?

aprofessionallurker asked: Ah, never mind about the typo, I just saw the other ask about it. Innnnnteresting…….

Yeah lol. But I do appreciate that I've had two different people point out the plain/plane thing! Like sincerely—I'm always worried that my ADHD and I are missing a TON of typos and that everyone is too polite to point them out, but I want folks to point them out so I can fix them! This specific one happened to not be a typo, but the fact that y'all have pointed it out means you'd probably point out other typos too, which I'm always grateful for.

Star the shape as in ⭐️ the five-pointed one? They probably have a word for it, but since they can't see it from the top, the visual effect of the shape wouldn't have the same significance to them.

The word probably means something different depending on if they consider a star "five points like a pentagon, but with lines connecting each point to an opposite point instead of a neighboring point," or "ten points like a decagon, but half the points go in instead of out":

(they wouldn't be able to accurately draw the shape on a paper like we can, since their papers look like a line; but, to be fair, WE can't accurately draw a cube, since our papers look like a flat surface. And yet somehow we can make drawings we understand to be cubes so I'm sure they can make drawings they understand to be stars.)

If they're going by definition one, whatever word would translate into English as "star [as in the shape]" probably has a definition to them like "simple spirolateral pentagon." If they're going by definition two, it would probably translate like "isotoxal concave decagon." After all there's nothing innately celestial about a pointy five-pointed shape, it's just a geometric figure.

They also had a word for "stars" as in the celestial body: even though they couldn't see the third dimension, theoretical physicists measuring the effect of light on their world recognized the possibility that light emanated from a specific point outside of the visible world, in another dimension; and also the possibility that there were a multitude of diffuse weaker light sources that contributed minutely to the light they experienced.

They came up with words for "the primary singular source of most light" and "the multitudinous weak sources of the rest of light" that would be translated into English as "sun" and "stars," but in their own language they were considered terms for abstract unproven concepts. Like the way we use "graviton" and "dark matter" to describe thing physicists think might exist but haven't observed or proven.

Their words for "star [as in the shape]" and "star [as in the weak light source]" are completely unrelated. Bill did correctly figure out that the things he saw in the third dimension were the sun and the (light) stars, but he didn't associate the (shape) star with the celestial bodies.

Bill thinks it's kind of cute that humans named simple spirolateral pentagons after the distant light sources they see at night, even though the celestial stars don't look anything like that—either from the humans' perspective OR in actual fact. But he doubts they're gonna rename spheres "stars" now that their astronomy has advanced enough to know how stars really look. Still, the symbol they've named "star" is sorta romantic—gives the sense of something radiating out from a central point, like light from a star—kinda like how their "heart" symbol doesn't look like the organ but does look like two halves squishing together to form one whole. Visually poetic. Humans are good at that sort of stuff.

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[corruptimles]

Gaster Escape Attempt #22.5: Thought about Portals

#happy gasturday #gaster escape attempt #wd gaster #undertale #deltarune #I guess #drawn response #low quality memeing #i dont have a drawing tag #anonymous #aprofessionallurker

[staffs-secret-blog]

staff. it’s wednesday.

No it's Tuesday again??

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[storyshiftinperspective]

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[lieutenant-columbro]

Uh you remind me of that one guy from the TV show, he was a detective or something? Tumblr likes him

gee whiz i wonder who it could be 🤔🤔 surely there aren't any other detectives popular on tumblr like columbo

#hes a special guy!!! #asks #aprofessionallurker #columbo

[namethefallen]

Why does everyone assume “the human” killed Papyrus when he went missing before they showed up?

Fact one: Person disappears.

Fact two: Dangerous creature that hasn't been seen in years suddenly shows up.

Coincidence? Many think NOT.

#aprofessionallurker #aj answers

[softboy-pillowman]

Well, I just discovered this thanks to that Blaze post and binged through the whole tag. I love this so much. Thank you for using Tumblr's new Tumblr Inflict feature to inflict this blog upon me.

Dirk does not agree with this blog's recent financial decisions.

Still, thank you so much for the kind ask! I'm glad that a bunch of the people who were Tumblr Inflicted enjoyed having some extra soft, happy content on their dashboard. :3

If you like this comic, make sure to follow the blog, or consider visiting my Ko-Fi page!

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[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Frank, when did Undertale kick your puppy? Why? I’d like to hear this story.

There's one version that ends at the point where everyone in the story starts trying to kill each other:

http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/93308829754/you-should-read-floornight

#undertale kicked my puppy #(if they have not read both) #aprofessionallurker

[doctor-ciel]

Apparently there’s a theory in the Death Note fandom that Light turned into a Shinigami upon death because of the whole “can neither go to heaven nor hell” thing and also something in the movie, which might be what the Simpsons special was referenced at the end there

Ohhhhh that makes a lot of sense. I have only watched the anime and haven’t seen any of the movies or plays or anything(or read the manga) so there’s a lot I’m unfamiliar with. Personally though from the mid episode cards with the rules, I was under the impression that everyone went to neither heaven or hell (it only says “that person will go to a place that is neither heaven nor hell, but nothingness,” or something along those lines, so I thought it could also mean the victims. As in explaining where people go when they die since shinigami would know that), and ryuk/the story saying that death note users get that treatment had some sort of thematic importance of them thinking they were special for getting that punishment, when really it’s just something that happens to everyone. So I didn’t think to connect turning into a shinigami to that lol

#that got a little wordy lmao #ask #aprofessionallurker #chris post #I’m probably wrong about all that btw bc as I said I’m not familiar with a lot of dn canon

[lazyleafeon]

[image description: a drawing of frisk and loren from undertale, in the waterfall area. frisk is sitting on the ground, holding an umbrella, drawing out stars in the dirt with their finger to show loren. End ID]

gift art for @aprofessionallurker for the snowpoff swap! 

#undertale #frisk ut #loren ut #ut #my art

[babbybones]

@aprofessionallurker replied to your post “there are people on twitter who are like 100%...”:

The biggest thing for me is this DOESN’T feel like a Toby thing to do. Seriously, he would never leak so much of the plans for his magnum opus, especially right after a bunch of stuff literally just got revealed. Who do they think Toby is???

#text post #music leak hoax #(if anyone wants to start filtering that lol)

[ckret2]

Great new chapter! I hope Raina gets more of a focus eventually. We’ve gotten hints of how weird she was, but I’d love to see just how weird she really was.

It'll be a long while yet until we get to it, but there's gonna be a whole plot dedicated to The Mystery Of Raina Corduroy 👍 It was one of the earliest plot arcs I fully planned out—even before the first time she was mentioned.

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[prokopetz]

was your third paying job working for Heinz Doofenshmirtz

(With reference to this post here.)

Dr. Doofenshmirtz probably would have been an improvement over the boss I actually had!

(Notable highlights from that boss’s tenure include a. repeatedly asking the IT department to clean porn malware off of his son’s laptop on company time; b. ordering employees to give him their Active Directory passwords so that he could log in as them, and when he inevitably fucked something up, the auditing trail consequently couldn’t prove it was him; and c. instituting a new policy whereby the IT department had to take a needlessly long and circuitous route to reach the break room, because the most direct route went past his office, and he objected to being reminded of the existence of anyone below senior management.)

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[entryno17]

What do you think about the idea that Gaster wasn't actually forgotten? It's never really stated by any of the followers, and it's odd that Asgore would have taken so long to replace him if he'd been forgotten; all we really have is Goner Kid's dialogue (which doesn't mention Gaster) and Sans' "don't forget" (which is a Deltarune reference and thus doesn't necessarily refer to Gaster)

i personally disagree with it! it’s true that it’s never stated outright, but i think it’s safe to assume, for a couple different reasons.

the most striking this to me is this: why would the entire underground fail to mention the inventor of the source of ALL their power? the CORE is such a huge part of the underground, both in size and in importance. it’s downright bizarre that not a single person mentions gaster outside of his followers.

imo we still don’t know enough about asgore’s circumstances to say anything absolute. all we know is just that he waited to hire a new royal scientist after the previous one vanished, and there could be any number of reasons for that.

this is a bit out there, but hear me out—since gaster almost certainly created the blueprints for the dt extraction machine, asgore likely gave him the same task that alphys received. assuming that these experiments with determination are what caused gaster’s fate (or lead to it in some way) why would asgore repeat this with alphys? if he remembered, why would asgore knowingly endanger her with the same thing that lead to the demise of the former royal scientist? that just doesn’t seem right.

goner kid is still the biggest piece of this in my opinion—i do think their dialogue is referring to gaster’s fate, even if he isn’t mentioned by name. we now know for a fact that gaster is heavily involved with the whole “goner” thing thanks to deltarune’s gonermaker business, so if goner kid’s not talking about gaster there then i have no idea what they could possibly be talking about lol.

as for “don’t forget” being a general deltarune reference, that honestly just adds even more weight to it for me... from what we know so far, gaster is a VERY major character in deltarune and i imagine he’s going to show up even more in the next chapters. so “don’t forget” being such an important motif all throughout it just sorta makes it fit even better??? idk.

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[storyshiftinperspective]

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[lieutenant-columbro]

SHERLOCK. That was his name

NAURRRRRRR

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