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>Be Kris >Watch SOUL fail to play piano with your hands >Makes you, the piano god, look like a buffoon >Seething >Bring your TV to live >TV forces SOUL to play Guitar >Brace yourself for the fail >SOUL is Guitar God >Your hands are playing Through the Fire and Flames >WTF

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Let's talk about Toriel.

Toriel is a grown woman, a mother of two. She teaches kindergarten at the local school, and volunteers at the local church as part of the choir. She is recently divorced. Her oldest child has recently gone off to college, and her youngest is:

Adopted from a young age

A different species

Known for pulling pranks and otherwise causing trouble, sometimes to great expense (e.g. bath bombs in the toilet)

Despite this, Toriel loves her youngest child as though they were her biological child. She checked out a "how to care for humans" book many, many times over the course of parenting Kris. She drives them to school each day, makes sure they're fed and cared for, and is clearly invested in their social life given how excited she is to learn that they've made a friend. As a newly single mother, she's doing her best.

But let's talk about her being newly single, shall we? She recently divorced her husband, Asgore. Unfortunately, Asgore has not accepted this. Toriel is being stalked by her ex-husband; he keeps giving her unwanted bouquets of flowers, and showing up wherever she goes. He even lampshades this, as though it's funny, when he pops out from hiding in the bushes near the church, after knowing that she would be there. Every time he does this, Toriel responds with obvious discomfort and anxiety, and makes an excuse to get away as quickly as she can. Asgore's behavior seems goofy and "well-meaning," but he is clearly ignoring his ex-wife's boundaries and actively disrupting her living her life by showing up where he knows she'll be, uninvited and unwanted.

So Toriel is recently divorced, with one child off to college, and another child who is clearly not doing well (despite Toriel's best efforts) still at home. She is being stalked by her ex-husband, but in such a way that it comes across as "friendly" or "kind" to everyone else, meaning she can't really make a big fuss about it or she'll look like the bad guy.

Then a new guy moves to town. He's friendly, he's funny, and they hit it off immediately. And unlike everyone else in town, this is a friend that doesn't have a connection to Asgore. (Rudy was Asgore's friend first, after all; it's not as if Toriel can really open up to him about how much his best friend is really putting the ass in Asgore.) This is someone that she can open up to, someone that she can confide in, someone that she can let a little loose with. Because she can't let loose at school, around the children; she can't let loose at church, in front of the wider community; but with a friend, in her own home?

And Sans is non-judgmental. Sans likes her jokes. As mentioned, Sans doesn't know Asgore, so he's not going to be inclined to brush off Toriel's concerns or discomfort because "well he just really loves you" or "he's just being kind." (Not to mention, Asgore also trauma dumped to Sans a bit, making Sans visibly uncomfortable as well, so Sans might even be more inclined to hear Toriel's side.) Sans knows about responsibility, given that this version of Papyrus seems to have issues of his own, and therefore perhaps Sans can relate with Toriel on how it is taking care of someone when you love them, but you don't exactly know how best to help them. Finally, Toriel has someone in her corner, someone who can understand, who she can have fun with.

Toriel isn't one of the main characters, and she's a grown woman and a mother (figure) at that, so I feel like it's easy to dismiss her side of things. Was it great that she was drunk when Kris came home, or that she and Sans continued partying even after Kris tried going to bed? No. But Toriel is a person, a whole entire person with a life outside of being Kris' mother. She's allowed to not always be on her best behavior, and she's allowed to make and spend time with a new friend when she, too, is pretty isolated as a result of her divorce and clearly stressed with the fact that Asgore is stalking her. ("Trying to win her back" is not, it turns out, an excuse for stalker behavior.) Toriel even tells Kris that the house feels lonely now that it's just the two of them, meaning that she, too, has been plagued with loneliness just like the main cast, and that Sans is, perhaps, her Susie.

Toriel is not an awful, uncaring mother because she got a little silly drunk with the first friend that is truly hers since her divorce. She's just a person. And she's allowed to be a person.

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ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens gmail* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens youtube* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens an unstable vortex in time and space* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens ao3* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr*

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In 2016, my mom took me on a tour of Paleolithic cave art in France and Spain. I saw some of the most famous caves and a lot of less famous ones. I had experiences I would call spiritual if I weren't also an anthropologist knowing I was just tripping out on being so close to the minds of people who lived around 16K years ago.

We don't know what those people were thinking when they painted that amazing art, or the context in which it was painted. But as I toured the caves, a few common threads emerged.

1. The artists looked for natural features of the rock that resembled part of an animal, to them. The goal was to achieve a 3D effect, especially for the head or shoulders of the animal. In the tours where guides used flashlights that simulated torchlight, paintings that incorporate rock this way seem to pop out of the wall and look very alive.

2. Some of the paintings that in photographs appear superimposed in fact appear animated if you walk past them in torchlight. You're walking through a narrow passageway and these animals on either side of you are fucking running, you're in a herd of horses or bison! It truly feels like that (Lascaux).

3. In some caves, following the paintings leads you to a kind of dead end, in which you sometimes find drawing of a man with an erect penis and an arrow through him. A dead hard dude.

4. There are also paintings that required a lot less skill and are found in slightly different parts of the cave, such as handprints and polka dots.

5. I became convinced as I toured these caves that there was a belief that all the animals Ice Age people depended on emerged from the earth, and this depended on people going into the earth to literally draw them forth. I believe there was some story about a god or hero who sacrificed himself in a cave to ensure the earth's fertility, and his sacrifice needed to be renewed on some kind of calendrical cycle. These renewals involved new paintings each cycle and the "sacrifice" or suffering of a "hero" or priest (this is most evident at Lascaux, which most archaeologists think was a major ritual center).

5. However, non ritual specialists also made paintings. Some of these have been shown to be children! Handprints, dots, and such occupy different locations in caves and probably mean something different. I have fewer ideas about what they could mean, but my guess is they are more about social identity than about world renewal.

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Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

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honestly tho that scene in the incredibles where mr. incredible sees the names of all the old super heroes that used to be his friends / that he knew from Back in the Day and how every one of them has been killed by syndrome is such a chilling scene for so many reasons 

like for one, everyone he knew is dead at this point and has been killed on the same island he’s at now and two, its heartbreaking bc that means that almost every hero wanted to try out being a hero again despite the laws against it and wanted to try and help someone out and relive their glory days, only to be straight up murdered like fuck that scene is just so fuckin intense

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

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😂 that face!

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Harrison Wood Hsiang

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I bet it's so warm and snuggly in those things

she is a beautiful triangle

she is beautiful triangle

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That's how they do that

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how does one develop discipline in the first place. it seems like discipline requires initial discipline to develop. it's a paradox.

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I've been enjoying Murderbot so far