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There should be confetti in tires so when there is a blow out it’s still kind of an okay day
MORPHEUS & CALLIOPE | THE SANDMAN (2022-)
“You came.” “You called.”
moonjou 🤝 qinter 🤝 lynxfall
thinking about mettaton and undyne having a fierce rivalry but putting up with each other for alphys. forced smiles and passive-aggresive politeness. then alphys leaves the room and they are at each other's throats in an instant. alphys comes back and oh they're hugging how nice!! they are most precious friends, always have been!!
i love that idea and it’s very funny to imagine them mlm wlw hostility. but though undyne clearly dislikes mettaton i honestly can not see any reason why mettaton would have negative feelings towards undyne. she makes his best friend happy and is nice to his cousin so he has no problems with her. so then we have a scenario where mettaton is hilariously unfazed by any jabs from undyne . but no the double sided rivalry is just as good
![[ID: A picture of a piece of traditional art. The art depicts Stanley and a design for The Narrator and the Settings Person from The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe. The Settings Person is flirtatiously tilting Stanley's chin to face him while The Narrator looks on in jealousy. The art is done in different scales of gray with occasional pops of yellow. /end ID]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a026806c9af3fde9e39d6e3396e0f900/368667425c7400cf-e1/s500x750/0af8ff6faa1b045f35f528fdae7a95b45aeb9069.jpg)
Misconceptions in TSPUD
Stanley and The Player are separate people. Stanley does not control what he does, only briefly managing to seize control in certain instances (Bucket Escape Pod Ending, Bucket Destroyer Ending, Freedom Ending)
The Narrator isn’t the one in control, you are. The man can’t fix everything with a snap of his fingers, it’s up to you to stop the cycle.
The Narrator doesn’t know Stanley’s not in control. He only finds out in the Not Stanley Ending. As for the Broom Closet Ending? See next point.
Stanley is playing the game. When you click any key, you hear keyboard clicks. On the title screen on the original 2013 game and before the TSP 2 Expo, you see Stanley’s computer with the game’s menu displayed. That’s why there’s miscommunication - you are controlling a man playing a video game where he himself is the protagonist.
Settings Person doesn’t care about Stanley, he cares about you. They talk with you before even starting the game, when you’re not in control of Stanley, they never refer to you as such, and if he cared about Stanley - why did he leave him in the Skip Button Room? Stanley would’ve been completely awake and aware but unable to move the entire time, same thing happened in the Not Stanley Ending.
The Narrator is a prick, a real prick, but he’s not an absolute asshole. You paid for the game, play it, and break it apart, and you’re shocked that he’s upset? Imagine some person breaks into your house, starts tearing everything up, you get mad, and then you’re framed as the asshole.
Adding onto the last point - this shit’s a video game. The Narrator knows he’s not actually leaving you forever in the Hole, or sentencing you to a painful death in the Countdown Ending - it’s a video game. He knows you’ll just reset. He literally says this in the Half-Life 2 mod version of the Games Ending - when he abandons you, he says he expects you to reset the game.
Istg almost all of these come down to the fandom forgetting that it’s a fucking self aware video game
Good news, I’m off my antibiotics now, so I should be a whole lot more patient with the discourse lately.
put spikes on your wheelchair's handles. wrap barbed wire around your cane or crutch so it'll hurt like a motherfucker if someone kicks or grabs it from under your hand. wear a personal alarm and pull the pin every time someone moves you without your consent, leans on your chair, takes a seat on your rollator, taps your hearing aid, steals your AAC device. scream for help when you're abducted. wail like you're in agony when people trip you up or knock into you. take pepper spray to the grocery store. take a knife to the club. leave cards that say "fuck you" under the wipers of inconsiderately parked cars and scratch access codes for bathrooms on the outside of the door. we are not begging for mercy, we're fighting dirty. we have to.
something that i really like about blue eye samurai, now that im thinking about it, is that it discusses violence against women without becoming torture porn. like, in a lot of media that portrays women's issues, they show you that scene. like they give you this extended visual of a woman experiencing something traumatic and then laud themselves as feminist for doing so.
blue eye samurai doesn't do that. the whole show is set in a world that is extremely antagonistic toward women, and it makes a point to tell you that being a woman right now sucks, because they are property and are used sexually. but even though it doesn't shy away from this, it doesn't show you the violence itself, which you would almost expect it to because of how graphic the rest of the show is.
im thinking specifically of kinuyo. they very well could have shown us a scene of her being abused, but they didn't. they didn't show the abuse itself, but they did show how it affected her. they showed her seeing a doctor for her sores. they could have made this incredibly traumatic and grotesque scene a spectacle, showing us exactly how powerless she is and how powerful he is. they could have shown us this incredibly triggering event in full detail for our entertainment, but they didn't. they chose not to. and i think that's how it should be.
it is not necessary to have an extended visual and auditory reenactment of violence against women. we the audience understood the gravity of the situation and were able to empathize without needing that scene. having that scene would have completely detracted from the point they are trying to make. it would have turned something completely reprehensible that women everywhere fear because it's a very real issue into entertainment.
THE GOAT HAS BURNED I REPEAT THE GOAT HAS BURNED
are you familiar with Articuno, the legendary Pokémon that’s a combination Ice-type and Flying-type? well, this is the end of the pointy crest thing at the top of its head.
and that’s just the tip of the ice bird…
Speculative Evolution Prompt
Imagine if
Instead of whales
We had
G I A N T P E N G U I N S
What Would Your OC Do?
(send a colour to ask the question)
scarlet - What would your OC do if they found a mysterious sack of money just left unattended?
amber - What would your OC do if they found out their significant other(s) are cheating on them?
honey - What would your OC do if they lost a treasured possesion? Imagine that there is no way this item could be replaced or bought again, that it is 100% gone forever and they can’t get it back.
seafoam - What would your OC do if they ever got stranded somewhere or lost? They have only a few basic supplies with them and have no idea where they are and are completely alone with only themself to rely on.
cerulean - What would your OC do if time suddenly froze only for them?
lilac - What would your OC do if they found a baby abandoned on their doorstep in the middle of the night?
peach - What would your OC do if someone confessed their love to them? *bonus* asker can specify who if they’d like to confess to the OC!
pearl - What would your OC do if a natural disaster hit their home? What would they do in the aftermath?
chocolate - What would your OC do if they were forced to sacrafice one of their most beloved people to save another of their beloved people? Only one can survive.
pitch - What woukd your OC do if they were being interrogated for valube information? *bonus* What would they do if this interrogation turned down a darker road e.g torture?
"I'd destroy the world to protect you" but it's a parent/child relationship
“May I please draw your OC?”
Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so. No need to ask for permission in advance.
Go for it. Draw my OC. If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts. Go to town on it.
You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result. Seriously. In fact, I encourage it. I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC. There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.
Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me. I want to see what you have done.
When the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger and the mask slips, it's great.
But when the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger, and the mask DOESN'T slip.
Because they understand they need to be calm and unflappable now more than ever; if it protects them, it will certainly protect the person they care about. So their voice doesn't waver, their hands don't shake. They don't panic. From the outside looking in, they're as calm as could be. They handle it.
But after it's over-when the person they care about is safe, and the unflappable character is alone-they completely shatter. Gasping breaths, sobs, barely holding it together because someone they love almost DIED, and it was far, far too close for comfort.
(Optional: Character that they care about finds them in this state and comforts them.)
Racoon sif
do I need to say more?
