i was super sick for a while recently but one good thing that came out of it was stumbling across and rewatching an old comfort film
back when i was a wee lad in the 90s they would have free kids movies at the local video rental place and i would get this same animation EVERY time. like to the point where i was genuinely trying to steal the vhs only to be unsuccessful bc my parents were sick of me watching it so much they would make me return it lmao
the english title was The Little Fox. later on i learned it's a hungarian movie from 1981, based on a children's novel from 1965! in its native language it's called Vuk, which is also the name of the main fox. it's available as of rn to watch on the internet archive (the link is the english language version that i grew up with)
i was so excited to find it i immediately downloaded it so i wouldn't ever lose it again!! i got a little weepy rewatching it just from pure nostalgia and decided i had to draw Vuk 🧡
you know what's crazy? it's been so long since I've read the little fox and your writing style has changed so much that I genuinely forgot it was you that wrote it. not in a bad way obviously, but I realized I hadn't caught up on petrichor and a few of your other stories so I opened your masterlist and seen it and it threw me all th way back 😅
anyway, all this to say I miss them and that the little fox is one of my all time favorite fics and I'm super proud of how far you've come 💜💜 I don't think there's been a fic of yours that I didn't end up absolutely loving, so I think I might spend the next few weeks binging.
I hope this week is easy on you and you get plenty of rest and hydration 😊😘
omg thank you! I haven’t even looked back at the little fox in a long time. I have debated going back through and like editing it for a couple months now. I’ve progressed so much in my writing that it makes sense you wouldn’t have thought I wrote it. It’s definitely the first fic I’ve managed to write and finish.
it’s nice to see the progress I’ve made with my writing and my style. I’ve definitely made myself a niche with soulmate aus😂🥰
Robin Hood (1973) 100% real no fake
In all seriousness y'all are right maid marian should've been a lion and i will now die on this hill. So here. a little edit/redesign/whatever this is.
sans and papyrus. the siblings to ever sibling in the history of all siblings.
they love each other so much i need to 1)1(:$,!
the way papyrus goes "MY BROTHER.... !! WELL HE WON'T CHANGE MUCH" when talking abt how people will love and respect him after he becomes a member of the royal guard MEANING SANS ALREADY DOES ALL THAAAAAAATTTT
i also really find it so adorable how sans constantly goes "my brother is so cool"
like back when i first played i'm ngl this line felt a bit silly n unserious it didnt rlly hit me he was being fr
BUT AFTER THE CONTRACTING THE BRAINROT I REALIZED HE ACTUALLY WAS FRRRR T___T THIS IS THE MOST HE'S EVER BEEN SERIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING
sans, with everything in him, admires and respects all that his brother does and or is capable of doing. it was never part of any of his routines
he earnestly means every positive word he says about his brother and given how usually jokey and goofy he is....... this, in fact, makes me want to eat a slab of concrete. AAUWUGGHSH
papyrus, in a similar vein, may gripe about his brother's laziness and questionable humor, but when push comes to shove, he truly cares and looks past sans' lazy habits n terrible jokes (even indulging in some n countering with his own one-liners or, in the very extreme cases where sans is unfortunately, super funny, smiles despite himself)
on top of that, in general, papyrus' tongue-lashings come from a place of wanting his brother to strive for better rather than annoyance with who he is.
they care each other.
in their own little ways.
one little way is how papyrus instinctively passed the puck to sans cuz thats his BRO!!!!!!! 🗣️
entirely forgetting they were against the other LOLL (ah, to perpetually assume ur siblings' on your team in everything, so beautiful)
another way is how sans gave the puck right back
a second little way is how that same match, papyrus deflates at the prospect of losing to undyne even with the power of love and friendship on his side
sans catches wind of this and.
SCORES?!!
HE WAS USELESS THE ENTIRE GAME PRIOR TO THIS!??!!
(we ignore the fact he default danced right after. hes so embarrassing /full of love)
a third little way is . well. lets allow it to speak for itself, shall we
fourth is. a bit unrelated but Look. skelebro parallels but its overly nice vs blunt
fifth. proud skeletons
last. (there's so much more but we'd be here all day)
papyrus taking figures of him and sans to gleefully pretend sans is complimenting him (sans' praise must mean a lot)((it does))