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As an ma girlie I can say your soooooo right, we massholes all YEARN for the beauty of the north🥺

hey at least some parts of boston are nice to walk around and it's better than manchester LOL. also the boston harbour is nice I learned how to sail there some years back so there are some fond memories.. okay u guys can have one thing okay new headcanon if deltarune takes place in a new hampshire equivalent then susie specifically is from mass

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Thoughts on Dess holiday and her mom resembling gyftrot? (At least face-wise)

should've responded to this before the bomb dropped that she actually looks like.the grinch 😔 where's my gyftrot queen

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HELLO HAVE WE CONNECTED? YOU MIGHT KNOW ME WING DING DONG BASTER I AM LOCKED OUT OF THE TWITTER PLEASE PAYPAL 20$

shit dawg someone give him 20 dollars or he's never gonna give us another chapter of deltarune ever again

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//Deltarune Ch4 spoilers\\

Im gonna be honest

When I first saw that outfit on susie I immediately thought of you

this makes me SO GLAAADDD!!!! me and my dull sagey greens WON this round and I'm gonna chase the high forever basically

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I'm obsessed with textures you use in your art!! Can I ask what they are?

ty!! I have a post with brush info that will hopefully be helpful here, but as a little tip I don't think I worded very well in that post regarding getting nice crunchy texture -> any brush no matter how good will not have visible/ pronounced texture against itself if the color is opaque and solid, thats why I'm such a big proponent of turning on color jitter (even just a little bit) because the variations make it so that the stamp/nib the brush has can be seen against itself everytime. if that makes any sense lawl <3

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do you have a link to where you found the quote about asriel making burgerpants listen to his cds? i've been looking but i can't find it. thank you and love your art 🙏

yesss yes ofc it was in the 6th anniversary livestream around 39 minutes in !! thaankk ueww btw <33

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why Asriel? I mean I really like Asriel too, I am just curious on why you personally like him so much.

I dano ur gonna have to ask 10 yr old me on this one

yeah idk man essentially I just think if the very experience of playing this game and it's major themes were translated into a character study he is the ultimate subject <- (this is why hes my fav but this is also now my thesis for the derailed rambles below)

(this is about to be VERY nonsensical and all over the place)

no but for real. I actually kind of find it difficult to put into words just whyyy it is I like my favorite character (at any given time) so much... it definetly helps a lot that I have that nostalgia from 9 years ago but if I were to play undertale for the very first time today he'd absolutely still be my favorite. I think he's pretty much one of (if not) the best video game villains ever, particularily because his story could not work and exist in other media forms. at least to nowhere NEAR the impact.

obviously you hear a lot about how he acts as a mirror to you as the player, which yes holy peak. my god perfectly done. but the part that REALLYY sells his character to me, and my favorite aspect of this, is how the game essentially baits you into falling down the exact same path he did (and probably even faster than he did) by just.. promising more. its a short game, not so short you don't have to be invested, but not long enough for you to actually feel totally and fully satisfied with just one playthrough.

undertale is completely designed for replayability- it reads you up and down and fully anticipates that you WILL play this more than once. assuming the route of the average blind player is neutral -> pacifist -> genocide, if you were receptive to the game and, in a sense, played along and took this world and the characters seriously, neutral will probably leave you with much to be desired. it let's you get attached to these characters, but ends so unsatisfyingly. makes you wonder what would happen if you chose differently, especially with flowey (the little guy of the hour) coming in and goading you on to a pacifist ending (which you also learn later that this is part of his oh so evil scheme to keep you around forever). and if your receptiveness let you actually find yourself caring about the ending these characters get, you WILL replay the game to see it through and get the good ending.

ultimately in the pacifist ending toby fox decides to spend a solid 20 minutes making you feel really sorry for asriel, only for him to then be the only character you cannot truly give a good ending. and usually, most people (ive seen) are just shocked at how emotional this little game made them feel and how much they realized they cared about these little guys. and even though you did all that to get the good, preferable ending, you boot up the game again because you dont really want to let those emotions you just felt go. and flowey is there to ask you NOT to do it, because, isn't this what you just fought to stop him from doing?? and it's something he no longer wants- he's stopped seeing chara as the only possible vehicle to his own (self defined) redemption, and hes divorced that projection of the "perfect friend" from frisk, choosing instead to see them as not only their own person, but someone else he needs to let go.

your inability to let this world (that you've expressly chosen to take seriously) carry on in its most desirable ending is what will eventually lead you to try and milk all the possible content out of it, to the point of killing everyone you possibly can just to see what will happen. obviously that's wording it pretty dramatically (i literally replay geno all the time for funsies and i like to fight sans LOL) but I'm just trying to ham up the point that this is practically BAR FOR BAR what flowey says as he recounts how he came to be so bored and apathetic.

it was your own love for the game that made it stop feeling "real" to you, as the more you replay the game, the more dialogue you skip through, the less you truly engage with it. it's kind of an endless cycle of ever diminishing returns to try and replicate how it once felt. (does this sound awfully familiar to that little guy still is this sounding like that guy to anyone else)

I also think he's just kind of funny he's such an edgy little 10 year old man. everything flowey says and does is so irrevocably tied to who he is and the relationships he had and the fact that when he died he was a little kid being influenced by the most emo human to ever step foot on mt ebott LOL. also I feel like when people look at my page they'd probably instantly assume I think "asriel > flowey" but that quite literally means nothing to me that is a chai tea moment like I know everybody has their own interpretations but for me personally i feel that flowey cannot exist as his own character without acknowledging that he's asriel and how that constantly affects everything about him (as hes pretty much his own foil on purpose) and asriel without flowey is just not so much an interesting character to me.. I just think (and again!! everyone has their own interpretations!!!) (ik people like 2 argue ab this) that the most (personally!!!) compelling way to read him is as one singular, linear person. because like thats what he is. he didn't come back as a flower and immediately hop on that murder sauce, the game just intentionally simultaneously shows you both the very beginning and the tail end of his villain arc without you even realizing you are seeing two ends of the same person's life. I'm losing track I think hahao

yeah anyway I like him ibguess I dunno

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is it cool if i use your art as a discord pfp (with credit in my bio ofc)

yeah go crazy!! I'm always fine with things like this as long as there's some kinda credit <3

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sorry to bother but have you shared which brushes you use before? I also use clip studio paint and am interested !! been really inspired by your art recently and wanna emulate the nice texture :3

aaw tysm!! and yessir I have all my brush info under this here post and anything this doesn't cover (its pretty accurate still) would be under the clip studio paint tag on my page <33

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i absolutely adore your art you capture asriel so so well and your style feels so. nostalgic if you get what i mean? its gorgeous

would you ever consider selling prints of your stuff?

aauggh tysm 😭!! this did make me distantly think about prints, but I'm not reaalllyy sure how to go about that or if there'd be enough interest for it to be worthwhile. soo if someone sees this who would potentially also be interested lmk perhaps and if so even particular drawings youd want for that. perchance

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What music would Asriel like?

apparently canonically he has shitass music taste I guess 😭

this aside (hardly) I think it's honestly. a funny as fuck headcanon that he's kind of ever so slightly an annoying music hipster LOL for some reason I have this in my head. and I say this both for undertale and deltarune I think flowey would refuse to admit he maybe doesn't hate ALL mainstream music ever because he thinks he's allat for listening to everything he possibly could across resets

(also for those of u who may not know the ever relevant religious ska music is referencing the real life band five iron frenzy)

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what's the name of this kid seriously I don't remember

taking a quick reprive from all the deltaruning I've been doing to return to the classics

anyway I think I'm gonna clean out my inbox a little today..answer asks and whatnot lawl I kinda let it build up and then I was a little overwhelmed sorry chat

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I never really draw susie for how much of PEAK CHARACTER I think she is

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HI am i allowed to take inspo from your art. not a whole copy thing obviously but this is so good??? its really soft and i adore your color palletes. no pressure to say yes though!!!RAAH (your lineart especially)

ooUGH TYYY😭 and yess ofc absolutely!!!! shhh don't tell anyone but all art ever is rlly just a combination of different influences and inspirations and thats awesome and cool and it makes me very very glad when I get told my art has been one of those inspirations <33 augh so awesome go crazy

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seen a handful of people equate deltarune to massachusetts and I feel the need to spread the new hampshire agenda as someone who was born in the same city as toby fox because nothing so whimsical could ever take place in mass

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very standard dess design because a couple people asked and I realized I really didn't have one... still kind of unsure LOL u can see it slightly develop more and more as I was drawing. this post goes out to anon number 1 and anon number 2. anywayz me 🤝 dess when it comes to having too many goddamn instruments

very glad the entire fandom collectively got the sense she would probably be more alternative and they were all right based on her room

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kris drawings from flipaflip because flipaclip is the goat

anywayz I beat the knight now im trying it with no mantle and hoping the part of my brain that's cracked at undertale will kick back in