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In DeltaRune (Chapter 4), there's a monster/weapon in there called Winglade, which, when you read the descriptive text, turns out is the Darkner version of a feather quill pen.

My brain decided to cook a bit after reading that.

Feather quill pens were basically the precursors to modern dip pens. In some languages, this context carried on such that the words for "feather" and "dip pen" are the same (e.g. feder - German, penna - Italian, pluma -Spanish).

My thought is that since Nib has power focusing around dip pen usage, then, in the Sanctuary his dip pen would end up becoming his personal Winglade.

And if Nib's physical look is tied to his dip pen usage, then likely his outfit will also reflect the same way in the Sanctuary.

So, here's Nib in a Winglade outfit. Colored version will be coming up later, I haven't decided yet what the color scheme will be. Quill!Mettafell version will also be coming up later after I finalize his design.

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I think one of my fancomic pages was clairvoyant.

Or, at least, this is one of the more interesting coincidences in my comic-making process.

Years ago, when the demo of DeltaRune (Chapter 1) came out, I made a small fancomic of Nib-Mettaton going through the Dark World, and he has a small chat with Jevil at some point about pens while having an amnestic episode. In truth, when I made this page, it was poking at the context of Nib briefly forgetting who he is and what he can do with his pen.

The point being, I have Jevil specifically saying:

"For the pen is mightier than the sword. Mightier than you realize".

And obviously it's a slight nod to that well-known phrase by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

But fast forward years later, and this tidbit was dropped in Chapter 4 about a pen being able to change fate (courtesy of MysticSlime describing it succinctly).

I guess the future chapters will eventually reveal more information on how Susie will end up wielding a fate-changing pen, but never did I think sneaking in a generic quote on a pen in my comic will tie well with DeltaRune lore. (°ロ°)

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Every Deltarune artist rn

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As per Louis Zhong’s video description: having fun with family feud audio and deltarune ch 3...yes i did find a clip of steve harvey saying "antenna" to put in place of his name lol

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For anyone new or not aware, @piano-virucide is one of my side blogs. I only talk about music on there (and oh boy, do I love talking about my vintage recorder flute over there a lot), but I also post post piano remixes there such as the one you see above.

Anyway, just dropping in to say that I just finished playing DeltaRune (barring any secrets I may have skipped on purpose in favor of gameplay), and so I may or may not be thinking of remixing some more DeltaRune music, I'm just saying. :)

The Spamton Sweepstakes is going on, and I figured today is the best time to be [re]-promoting the virtuosic remix of "Big Shot" I did about a year ago. Let's hope the little skrunkly man gets his freedom.

If you have a SoundCloud account, you can listen and add this remix to your playlist here.

If you have a MuseScore PRO account, the editable file can be found here.

Sheet Music under the cut:

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For anyone new or not aware, @jellyfishin is my main blog. I post mostly arts and crafts over there, so check it out if it's something you're interested in. :)

(Unless you're looking for a more MTT-related craft, then go take a gander at my older project @mtt-doll-photo which hasn't been active in years but has a whole smorgasbord of content to view).

@mettatonmay - Day 17 - Free Day

A little craft project I made for myself, but never shared to the world, until now. May as well do it celebrating MettaMay. :)

Years ago, I came into possession of some faux leather scraps, and I'm trying to figure out what kids of fun craft projects I can make for myself. This was one of those ideas.

I was originally thinking of having this as part of a handmade wallet, but dropped the idea after attempting to make a generic wallet with some other scraps (didn't fail but I felt the end result was not worth the time and energy I spent making it). After seeing picopepin's diary image I'm thinking of turning this into something like that, which I think would be easier to pull off. Or maybe something else, we'll see.

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Mettaton May 2025 prompts are finally here! We bring back the traditional Saturday free days, but since there are 5 Saturdays this year, we only did 4 free days to give everyone a prompt for the last day of the month. Text version under the cut!

Use the tags #mettaton may, #mettatonmay, and/or #mettamay to have your posts reblogged here throughout the month! We hope everyone has a great time!

Live

Stage

Free Day

Roses

Diary

Dating Sim

Future

Wait

Snail

Free Day

Band

Underground

Screen

Dial

Crush

Yellow

Free Day

Boss

Dress Up

Rehearsal

Ball

Wonder

Crossover

Free Day

Vacation

Win

Lose

Magnetic

Room Service

Detarune

Remix

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@picopepin I may have made this remix, but this was your doing. XD

(Some credit where credit is due: The MIDI file I used as a base was made by "The Music Decomposer", you can find their MIDI file here. )

I had some odd struggles getting MTT to sing this song. Turns out the vocal range of the song is difficult for him. (ಠ‿ಠ)

For context: Mettaton's dialogue voice has nine sound beeps. But some of the beeps sound better in the "Tenor" range, and others sound better in the "Baritone" range. None of the beeps cover both ranges at once. So normally I just pick which beeps are appropriate for that vocal range.

But the key of this song forces MTT to sing at both ranges, some parts with a near octave jump.

Which meant that if I picked a tenor beep, all the high notes sound more like Alphys but if I picked a baritone beep all the low notes start sounding like a grinding box fan. And while I could "switch" instruments, that's just annoying to do.

The only way I could make his voice sound reasonably cohesive was to layer one "tenor" beep and one "baritone" beep, such that the high notes don't sound too high-pitched and the low notes don't sound grinding (kinda like hackneyed bass-boosting and treble-boosting where needed). Not that it was difficult, but it took some trial and error with some 20 possible permutations to find a combination I was happy with.

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Reblogging for whoever needs this. Deal ends March 20, 2025.

one dolla undertale

under tale and yeah. for 1 doler

play it if you somehow havent already

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I saw the post over my lunchbreak. You have absolutely no idea how much I was trying to contain my squees in the company break area. Ohhhmygosh, your artistic interpretation looks so gorgeous!

Uuuuuuuuh my hand slipped... this was going to just be a concept piece tonight like I was on the verge of passing out and I told Ghost theres no way i have the strength to draw anything but then i had a passing vision of a 2025-tella to @nib-mettaton's orginal nutella major arcana card, the priestess. I was plagued by symbolism in the pillars of Ube's arms and the moon motif already present in one of the outfits that i designed for him. I ACTUALLY had started an illustration back in 2018 of like.. the og nutella to the original card just to have some fun (under the cut) and well.. it never really lasted... this was like three computers ago too

7 years of life altering events for him and for me lmao

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Hey, I finally finished the AU Mettaton Tarot Deck.

And it only took me seven years!

Okay, it was technically not seven years, but time on-and-off, sometimes years apart, such that it is now seven years since I started.

But I am done. Here's a quick photo preview of the last of the cards, the Minor Arcana Pip Cards. (If you're looking for the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana Court Cards, you can check them out here).

I did end up using some more current/ongoing AUs (and one DeltaRune reference), but since project did span seven years, a good chunk of the AU Mettatons in there are old and came from works that are discontinued/deleted, such that they can't be found except though some serious extensive internet searching.

Which makes it a bit of a precarious situation on whether or not it would be (dis)respectful if I tagged the creator or not (especially when I have no clue if they no longer wish to be associated with the AU anymore). I'll figure out how to tackle that issue when I can get my computer+scanner setup less janky and able to scan the last of the cards in at high resolution.

Kind of like the official UnderTale Tarot deck has duplicates for certain cards, I'm tempted to duplicate some of the ones I know are bona-fide deleted, but then that would end up in a loophole of having to constantly replace cards over since AUs don't always last forever.

But something just tells me to enjoy* the cards as-is and keep it as a slice of AU Mettaton history.

*(by "enjoy" I mean... maybe... possibly set up a side blog do silly/unhelpful readings for UnderTale AU characters who drop an ask?) ( ˙▿˙ )

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Over on ComicFury, there's a fun yearly character-building exercise where you force your characters to answer a total of 100 random questions, one per day. I liked Quill's answer here so much that I decided it was worthy of a mini-comic.

FYI: Please don't eat actually try to eat the "wild glizzies". Some people have gone to the hospital due to the cattail fluff getting stuck in their throat. :(

If you haven’t been yet aware, I’m trying a new comic project on called NotePad-Metta, which has a gag-a-day feel to it. This is one of the pages I uploaded to it. You can read it at the following link:

Mini comics: NotePad-Metta

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Random Undertale Yellow thought

Obviously, with Undertale Yellow being a fangame, my thought is not canon, but I figured I'd toss it out there on the interwebz in case someone doing fanfiction or fancomics might be inspired by the idea.

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So, in the fangame, Kanako is a Boss Monster who had fallen down at a young age due to a secret soul experiment gone wrong, and then her body is brought to the Dr. Alphys's lab for the DT experiments.

Which would have to imply that, if the information of the soul experiment (or even Kanako's status as a Boss Monster) was not disclosed to Dr. Alphys when Kanako was brought to the lab, then Dr. Alphys was working on bad medical history information when doing the DT experiments and maybe that could have been a contributor as to why things went awry when Dr. Alphys started injecting DT into fallen monsters.

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Anyway, again, not canon, just a thought.

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An expression BINGO I did for funsies for an upcoming character-building exercise on ComicFury, where characters are forced to answer 100 questions over the span of 100 days.

Expressions are not required for the character-building, but it's a nice thing to add (akin to a flavor text). In my case, I'm doing double-duty having both Nib and Quill go through the same exercise, and this is a good way to compare-contrast Nib and Quill's potential reactions to a given question.

I generated 13 expressions per character, though only 12 are shown here (the one missing from the BINGO card is their expression for "rage", which I figured was impractical to get a BINGO combo with). I wonder how many questions it will take out of 100 to get to BINGO, or I'll achieve a Blackout BINGO.

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I did drop comments here and there saying I was working on expanding the "Power of NEOclassical" Mettaton piano music album. This is another piece that will eventually go into it, a take on the Mettaton fansong "They Need a Monster" by Mandopony.

On another note, I noticed this sounds also quite nice on plucked strings, here's the same song with MuseScore 3 mandolin soundfont.

There's also quite a few other piano songs from the "Power of NEOclassical" that sound nice with a plucked strings soundfont. I'm no guitar guitar player, but I wonder if you guys would be interested in a pseudo-guitar album?

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Your Character 4 Ways - Quill Edition

There's a drawing exercise going on over at ComicFury, and the exercise was that you had to draw your character in 4 different forms:

Demonic

Angelic 

Geanie 

Anything that takes your fancy

Mid-November I was occupied by a business trip and all. And, for the same reason, I didn't have anything done for Quill's birthday (November 14). So I used Quill him instead of Nib for the art exercise.

Textless versions under the cut. Let me know if you have a favorite (I'm partially biased towards the Kitsune Quill myself).

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Okay, so who IS nib!mettaton?

He's a multiverse-traveling AU Mettaton I came up with all the way back in 2017. I named him "Nib" due to giant pen he carries and his shoulder pads being modeled after a spoon nib.

This blog is primarily dedicated to posting content about him (though I do also post classic Mettaton content here from time to time).