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A known face!

Set 14! This will actually be the last set of Round 1, because two Timekeepers were randomly chosen to move on to Round 2 due to an uneven bracket. On the left is @ddoors-are-nicee's Timekeeper, who I will refer to as their employee name (Flynn), and on the right is @nonsensechemicals's Timekeeper, Settings_Character!

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See? look, Vitan got his hoodie back, just like Atlas promised. It's set 7, everybody! To the left, we have @a-game-of-beginnings's Timekeeper/Settings Guy, Vitan! And to the right, we have @betrootsoup's Timekeeper!

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AWW, hehehe, thank you!! So glad and honored that spotting him made you happy! Atlas' face there is PRECIOUS, baaahahahaha~

I love Vitan, I jumped for joy when I saw he was offered up for the tournament @a-game-of-beginnings

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Happy 2025 TK Tournamenting everyone (and thanks @cosmokrill for creating and hosting this)!

And don't mind that last part in the image, haha, he's just kidding! Weeell, I mean, Owen is his Settings buddy from a neighboring TSP universe, so it can't hurt to throw some votes their way when it's their turn, right? Riiight! Cough, cough.

No, really now. Good luck, everyone!

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Heeeeey, it's been a while! Slam-dunking this fella in last minute. He has no idea what's going on, sorry.

Godspeed, little guy. Go make 'em proud.

Speaking of "If you want to help revive The Stanley Parable tumblr scene, go do something about it"...

So uhh... yeah. Drop your Timekeepers/Settings People/Employee 432s in the reblogs if you want me- I mean Atlas to pit them up against each other in the polls!

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Post-Parable Banter

They may never escape the Parable - they can't, and for the sake of our reality also very much shouldn't - but there is still one upside to their universe nearly breaking at least twice, and in the process forming a brand new timeline that is truly entirely unscripted and not part of the game: They do get to have actual two-way conversations (profanity included). At least the Narrator and Settings do, Stanley's still a bit on the quiet side and most likely exploring the background somewhere offscreen. Let's hope he won't try to stick his arm into things again where it doesn't belong. Settings may excel in handling the programming of the game, but visual aspects remain the Narrator's forte. Not to mention, the guy enjoys a good moral-of-the-story.

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432 and Fools Garden

OH, hi @xmangokun, thanks for your comment on Into The Vortex and that's so great you've associated Fools Garden with 432 before! This reminded me that I never posted this movement test of him on here - and yes, I've straight up decided that's the guy's voice and so many songs of theirs resonate with him, I feel. Here, have a list..! Save the World Tomorrow I've drawn a sketch before where 432 annoyed his coworkers on full purpose with some karaoke, singing this one right in their face. The perfect excuse to tell them "f**k you" on, ahem, accident. Outta Love If I were the kind to do full song animatics, he would be singing this one while wandering the hallways, once again looking for the exit. Cold He would sing this one to himself, and he would sing it to you, too. Innocence That's the song from my video up there. If I did a full video, it would switch to his Settings self halfway through. Highest Mountain The song that goes with my "Into the Vortex" picture. 432's last moments as an employee, or his first ones as Settings. Closer (2001 Version) What I love about Fools Garden is that a lot of their songs are melancholic, but often also uplifting and full of hope and wonder. Probably They can also be very cheeky and a bit silly. Just like our 432 here. Bighouse Pyromaniac Casually singing about burning everything down? Also very him. Don't Speak This is such a great cover version of that song and also the type of thing 432 would sing at his coworkers to annoy them. Electrify I've drawn a comic page for this one, of Settings bugging the Narrator... but also not actually bugging him. Ordinary Man Settings432 (Post-Parable) would also sing this one at the Narrator because he knows it hits a nerve, and the Narrator will pap him for it. One Fine Day Settings432 has mentioned in a doodle somewhere on here that the "Freedom Ending has great acoustics", and this is the song he tested that on. Fireflies This one's just lovely, and wise, and once in a while my Settings can be like that. Yes, really. He can be wise. SOMEtimes. Reason As much as Settings loves company, he IS aware that the Player and the inhabitants of the Parable will always be opposing forces in a way. Rise and Fall This is just a calm and quiet and slightly haunting song, I like it, so I'm adding it here. Lemon Tree This is a great, newer version of the song, definitely one our 432 here would sing as well. And here's some more assorted ones I don't really associate with 432 as much, lyrics-wise, but I still like them a lot: Wild Days (2009 version) Does Anybody Know Silence Dreaming (2009 version) Emily

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Oh No, Marketing (the Sequel).

Don't worry, don't worry, I won't keep advertising*. Only this one more time because I'm honestly having fun with these. And maybe you can have some fun looking at them, too!

And if you really do want to buy something [from my shop] (which would be awesome but by no means necessary!), please do remember that RedBubble has 25%-off-everything sales quite regularily.

Will add more. Will tweak some of it to look better on various incarnations as well. Suggestions are welcome, but no promises! Rubbing the shop link in your friends' faces would be sweet of you.

Alright, next time I post it better be Parable art shenanigans again. All of this money talk is giving me the heebie jeebies.

*I first mistyped this as "dadvertising" and I feel that's an eloquent dad joke all by and in itself, keeping it.

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Happy 4/32!

You know it to be true. Hooray for our favorite pencil-deprived, long-gone-crazy, fabric-of-the-parableverse mystery employee!

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Pocket Monsters

That's right, the crew did have their Pocket Monsters assigned, because - all sarcasm aside - in the end you really can't escape the charme of those little creatures. But let's not tell the Narrator that it's an open world game.

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Exceptionally Cursed

Feeling very Stanley but there's no way to express your feelings appropiately? If you are in possession of a webcam and a Steam account to download VTube Studio (the free version comes with a little fluttering watermark friend), there actually is a way!

Okay, yes, I slapped this together on Stanley Day, and it's a VERY CURSED avatar for webcam tracking. And I really do mean Very Cursed. I spent four hours on this and that is practically zero time at all in regards of webcam avatars. I also made sure it's just about as horrible as possible. The preview icon does not do it any justice.

You've been warned. That said. It's great for memes and terrorizing friends. You can [download the ZIP file here], unpack that into the Live2D assets in the VTube Studio folder (Steam - steamapps - common - VTube Studio - VTube Studio_Data - StreamingAssets - Live2DModels), load him in, start up your cam and you should be good to go.

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Oh No, Marketing.

One of the reasons I have been quiet is because the Capitalist Gods have descended upon me and they went something in the lines of "Yadda yadda economy bla bla money flow, Submit Or Be Punished", which The Essence of Divine Art disagreed with, but still here we are.

My reasonings for [setting up shop] are entirely Parable unrelated in general - hey, I'm just a blog and not exclusively bound to this storyline as much as the rest of the gang, whoo hoo and all of that - but I admit I'm having fun transferring small pieces of this lovely tiny office world into "real life", whatever that even means. Will likely add more. I'm certainly far from out of ideas. Will add more variations as well, apparently a "Who Farted?" duvet cover is in high demands. Please do have a look-around and maybe a laugh or two. I will say that if you actually want to buy something, RedBubble very regularily has "25% off everything" sales, so you might want to wait for one of those. The next one's May 13th, if I'm not mistaken.

Suggestions, opinions?

I do miss sharing stories and proper artworks of the gang (the Narrator's glare is burning a hole in my code as we speak), but this does have top priority for the moment, so, apologies!

Also, don't forget to celebrate 4/32 tomorrow! Because 5/02 is a lie. 502 is a bit of a jerk, anyway.

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Happy 4/27, everyone!

A Very Merry Stanley Danley to the lot of you! Two years since the release of TSPUD, my goodness! I know I haven't been very active, but I'm not gone! How would I be, there's no way out of here, really.

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The sketch is fully done!

Might bit be the best I ever made, and I might fix a few things on it, but until that, here we go!

Featuring @a-game-of-beginnings' boys, 432 and 234! Love these dudes<3

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An unfinished doodle for @a-game-of-beginnings, hehem,,,

432 and 234,,,, love them, they're so chaotic and hhrherkfejjejrjwk

Will be finishing it up soon 👍

Hopefully

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Into The Vortex

Matching Soundtrack: [Fools Garden - Highest Mountain] I have yet to share (or, ah, produce) the conclusion to the Pre-Parable story arc... but here's a spoiler. Ultimately, of course, you know how that's going to go - Employee 432, according to the daily reports of Office Co., eventually goes insane and vanishes.

Neither of these claims can be denied. But what if he surrendered to the mysterious depths voluntarily? What if he had his reasons?

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MissingNo and Settings432

In the Post-Parable everything is wonderful and everyone cares about each other.

Bonus Counter Sketch: Employee 234 decided that a high voltage power cable looked extremely chewable and all he has to say about the consequences is something in the lines of, "...Why though?"