#Flowey is me with most romance stories

[chaoticgoodthief]

More STP Thoughts

So I did this thing earlier but now I'm thinking... There's games that the voices would play... but then there's something else that I can't stop thinking about. What would be the most interesting game characters for the voices to be? Say that after the Construct shatters, they're all thrown into being their own Player Character of different games.

Contrarian is probably the easiest in my mind. Stanley from The Stanley Parable, same as he would probably enjoy playing. It's a game in which he is in a constant loop of disobeying the whims of an angry British Narrator with a capital N who has very strong opinions on what the correct path is. And would be fun to try pull him out of there, because I'd bet my life savings that the Narrator would guilt-trip him about it. And *eyes my TSP ships* it might get a bit... awkward.

Opportunist, a voice that I didn't have any clue what to do with before but now have the perfect idea. Lamb from Cult of the Lamb. Manipulative, obeying a higher deity but ultimately self-serving, made a deal in exchange for his own freedom only to (potentially) disobey when his own life is at stake. Originally was planning for Broken in this role because of the whole Priest to a cruel god, but Opportunist just works better. A really inflated ego from defeating and enslaving a god plus things turning out extremely beneficial to him will make he really hard to convince to leave.

Cold... well, there are multiple options here. I'm not going with Flowey because I think he just doesn't have it in him to be that chirpy, even as an act. Although that would be funny for the other voices to deal with... Instead, I'm going to go with Batter from OFF. It's not as big of a game as the others, but I really think it works. Think Genocide Route Frisk, but there's no other choice but to kill everything. Wipe the world of any life at all, do whatever it takes to complete his task, no matter who has to die to achieve it. Getting him to stop trying to "purify" the voices for long enough to listen to them would be one of the hardest parts, but at least he can't attack during dialogue.

Paranoid is another one that I didn't really have any ideas on until lately. But now I have the Doorman from That's Not My Neighbor. Sure, there's a bit of a more Skeptic role with the whole question them until they reveal the truth, but I think it still works. I mean the whole Nightmares and distrust of what's real and what's fake... it was a tough choice but ultimately Paranoid works a bit better in a horror setting than Skeptic. And getting him out of there. Oh, I don't even know how the other voices will drag him out of his safe little office.

Smitten... Oh, Smitten I'm so sorry. The unnamed protagonist of Doki Doki Literature Club! Has good intentions (just falling in love with a girl), believes he's in a romance story until too late. I wouldn't be surprised if this scars him for life. I'm not sure if he would even make it to the end before breaking down completely. He doesn't even have Cold to do all the emotional repression for him. Even if he is probably the easiest to convince into leaving, getting him to even be responsive again would probably be a struggle.

Hero would probably be the one having to convince to others to leave, to be honest. Sorry buddy. Someone has to do it and I'm afraid you are just the best fit for the role. At least LQ might be there to help you. Might.

I'm not really familiar with any games that work well for the other voices so please let me know your thoughts if you have any ideas! The more painful the better 😈

Edit 1 (suggestion from an anon ask):

Broken as the protagonist from Do Not Take This Cat Home. Gosh, this was so perfect. The game is literally a metaphor for abusive relationships, he's trapped in a endless loop repeatedly meeting his abuser and dying by their whims. He's lonely, desperate, and just wanting a companion and to make that companion happy with him. Please take him out. He's going need to be dragged kicking and screaming because he is very likely not going to be able to get the good ending by himself.

Edit 2 (Another anon suggestion 😈):

Cheated as the player in Buckshot Roulette. Wow. A lot of the voices work really well in other indie horror games and Cheated is no different. There is nothing but the game. A Russian roulette game with multiple twists and changes, but at the end of the day that same back and forth of each one trying to win. Back and forth and back and forth. Trying to use new tricks to win the same game. One of them has to die. But no matter who does, neither truly wins. Will he even want to leave until the game is "over"? Probably not. Please drag him out, he's going mad trying to win a loser's game. I love this.

Edit 3 (More anon suggestions yay!!!):

Hunted as the Slugcat from Rain World. Literally trapped in an endless circle of death and rebirth, escaping getting eaten, killed by the elements, or starving to death. I've said about every single suggestion, but I honestly think this fits extremely well. There are even little changes to the story you can make dependent on which path you chose! (Monk, Survivor, Hunter). Will also probably attack whoever tries pull him out because cat > bird and I think that's funny so that's also a win :D

Edit 4 (Suggestion from @gallus-mundus):

Skeptic as the player from Exit 8. Hahahaha wow almost none of the voices actually left the horror genre, did they? But YES. This works so well for him. Sure, the deductions are very limited, but it's not really like he did that many in the game to be honest. His chronic overthinker ass is not beating the game (read: chaining yourself to the wall, you absolute dumbass). There's a time limit, even if he does manage to figure out the trick to escaping I really don't think he is going to make it out alone. At least he should be reasonably easy to convince to leave compared to the rest...

Edit 5

Stubborn as V1 from Ultrakill. Finally, another voice that escape the horror genre! Not a perfect fit, but pretty neat in my humble opinion. Literally running on bloodshed, a sense of duty/purpose to fight, but often also characterised as someone that enjoys the fight itself. And... *Side-eyes at Gabriel/V1* yeah, that type of relationship looks... familiar. Good luck getting him out of there, he's discovered the wonderous world of modern weaponry. (Alternatively, if he's taken out at the end of the game... yeah probably not in that good of an emotional state either.)

WOOOO YEAH FINALLY DONE!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP!!!

[faislittlewhiteraven]

Fai's Fic Ramble: The GorseTale AU (bare basics)

Ever since roughly... 2017 I think, there been a single Undertale fanfic I've been tapping away at and though it's nowhere near done or even organised enough for me to think about posting chapter 1 on A03, I recently posted a spinoff fic related to it called Eight Coloured Picture about the deaths of all the fallen humans and how some monsters each time were effected by their passing, and well.

I wanna ramble about the main story that fic comes from for a bit!

So.

Working Title: 'Gorse, Blackthorn and Buttercups' I also call it GorseTale in my head for short since Gaijin Goombah's rather fun video on why Undertale's Golden Flowers are most likely Gorse was a HUGE inspiration for the fic back when I started out (it's er changed quiet a bit since then but I'm keeping the flower vibes because Chara likes them and I did way too much research into both practical and symbolic uses for plants in the Underground for this fic not to use at least some of it at some point XD).

Core premise: Story is a Slice of Life/Drama AU set around Frisk being born in the Underground and taken in by Toriel right around the time of 'Undertale canon' (for Undertale Yellow fans, roughly a year or so after Clover's death), and through a series of domino effects stemming from that, various monsters of the Underground are confronted with the flaws of both themselves and their kingdom, and as a result start putting in effort to try fixing things so the little human child they've become so attached to can actually live their life to the fullest without fear of being murdered just for being born a non monster.

Aka: Toriel and Sans experience the joys and terror of co-parenting a child who only survives past the age of 3 because they have phenomenal cosmic power. Papyrus discovers the Royal Guard is NOT in fact something he wants to join (and accidentally becomes politically active in an effort to right by his new nibbling). Undyne takes some time to really rethink her career path and motives. Alphys somehow manages to turn former mistakes into miracles (oh and cures death maybe). Mettaton learns to take time off and share the spotlight, and finally King Asgore gets a surprising amount of hope in encouraging peaceful rebellion against his own accidental dictatorship.

Main cast: Rotates a bit since every major monster (and Flowey) matters in this and who's most in focus depends on the exact arc but Toriel, Sans, Papyrus, Chara and Frisk are the ones who I have the most planned scenes for since well, they're where the 'domino effect' starts.

Ships: Fic is pretty gen for the most part but leaning Undyne/Alphys, Papyrus/Mettaton (who knew all Paps needed to become popular was to openly try convincing monster kind that killing all the humans is wrong in front of a very specific underground star XD), and some very very very slowburn Sans/Toriel (is teased throughout the story because Sans IS Frisk's other parent Sans just means 'Dad' in Frisk speak and I find various Monsters' "Wait Sans has a kid- Wait Sans is married?!" reactions hilarious (Paps giving 'context' to why he suddenly has a nibbling to Undyne especially) but actual, real Soriel doesn't happen until near the very end because Toriel is Not Ok, Sans leans AroAce/Demi and both agree that while the odd kiss, hug or 'real talk' is fine neither up for anything more than that right now. Also Toriel has yet to get a formal divorce and er, she can't even think of him for much of the fic without wanting to set him on fire so... Yeah). Also considering Mad Mewmew/Asgore (because funny but also oddly sweet), and Mettaton trying to get over a crush on Alphys at the start (due to Mettaton's Winter Alarmclock dialogue reframing all of Mettaton's actions in canon in a whole newlight for me), but for the most part romance really isn't a focus.

Things to set it apart from every other 'Frisk grows up in the Underground' fanfic:

A LOT of worldbuilding focus on stuff how monsters get food and materials.

Toriel teaching everyone how Monster society was before the War vs now (aka lots of cultural trauma themes here).

More emphasis on how little Monster society these days really knows about things they really should given their Kingdom's plans.

Sans 'timeline trauma' getting tossed out the window for joining Toriel in 'worried parent' stress (hard to be upset about LOADS when they're specifically stopping a toddler you love from getting murdered).

Papyrus accidentally making everything better just because for the sake of his nibblet he can't back down.

FLOWER SYMBOLISM AND DISCUSSING THE UNDERGROUND'S VERY IMPORTANT PLANT LIFE!

Undyne having a character growth arc triggered by Papyrus.

Mettaton having a character growth arc triggered by Papyrus (and a passing mention of Napstablook).

Alphys not being fired post Amalgamite reveal making her realize she has in fact actually kinda created the cure for death (by 'Falling Down') or at the very least is only maybe three steps away from that and actually works on that alongside a bunch of other stuff with other scientists because working alone sucked.

Lots of focus on the humans who fell before Frisk because their lives mattered! and also the Blue Soul was Kris because damn if I don't feel the need to really hammer in Toriel's trauma caused by Asgore here

NarraChara and Napstablook being ghost buddies =D they suck at it but Chara will take literally anyone who can hear them for company and Napstablook feels bad about that

Snowdin being secretly a hub of human sympathisers! (None of them knew they weren't the only ones).

MONSTER RADIO and ANIME/WESTERNS ON TV!

Tems and the Riverperson mattering while still being true to their very weird selves!!!

Asgore learning that he DOES in fact have a lot of influence and that maybe, juuust maybe, that his screw ups were worse for his Kingdom than he already thought (don't worry Asgore fans, despite my having to write a lot of Asgore grr due to Toriel being a major character, saving him and showing how much he loves his people is a major goal of mine <3). He still f%cked up majorly though XD

Frisk dealing with, well, the stress of growing up in a place that says their death would make everyone (except their immediate loved ones) happy and constantly having to live in hiding/disguise...

Flowey being a murderous little shit but also not having reset power and both Frisk and Chara in his life again.

Undertale Yellow and Deltarune characters! Who probably won't be in focus a lot but they've helped me out a ton for fleshing the out my setting so I will 100% be giving them at least a little screen time to make up for that (like Amalgamate Kanako playing with Frisk, and Martlet and Noelle being VERY interesting in Papyrus's 'Lets not kill the humans' movement for reasons our main characters will eventually learn <3).

Oh and a huge amount of 'Unseen in game' areas I made for the Underground which include:

SnowDen: a 'town' of Dog and Rabbit made tunnels underneath the ENTIRE Snowdin region (connects to every dog sentry post, the 'Toby Fox secret area' and the 'very efficiently laid out' travel tunnels seen in canon Undertale). Generally requires those living there to get through given how winding and confusing the tunnels can get (all guideposts are puzzles made with scent markers...).

TooHot: basically a 'lethal lava land' housing district for fire monsters below general Hotland. Predates the Wat and is too hot for most non fire monsters to go anywhere near (the current name was given by Asgore though).

Cliffstop: a 'thin' vertical crevice monsters in New Home unearthed a while back that goes from from all the way to the very top of Mt Ebott down to the dark of the Abyss below (locals there call the top of the area Clifftop and the lowest safe for travel Cliffdrop). Gets a fair bit of sun and has flying room so it's popular with plant and flying monsters but the cliffs are very unstable so the bottom is covered in rope nets to prevent accidents. Most puzzles about the place are moving rope bridges, loading up vertical conveyer belts with the correct weights and 'light and mirror' puzzles.

Riverfolk Waterway and True Tem Village: settlements hidden deep within Waterfall's 'unreachable in canon' winding waterways. The former is a small inlet where 'Riverfolk' monsters like the Riverperson have a small collection of boathouses they dock at, and the later is exactly what is sounds like, with the 'Temmie Village' we see in canon being merely a Temmie trading outpost. Can accessed only by Riverperson boat or the Temmie's secret tunnels and is home to all sorts of cool things like the Temmie 'Colleg' and 'DEEP HISTORY mUSEEum'~ XD

WebbInn 'the Spider district': Mostly a giant communal spider web hanging Hotland's ceiling but also connected to a tunnel that goes up near Mt Ebbot's peak (the spiders have been digging upwards in hopes of getting a 'sunspot' they can use to advertise their 'sweet little town' to tourists). Has a... Very distinctive culture compared to the rest of the Underground and the 'puzzles' there tend towards being 'social' in nature (aka fey logic games where how you speak and act gets you directed every which way).

Starlite Strip: A little connecting area right underneath the path/cliff Monster Kid and Frisk see the castle while travelling through Waterfall in Undertale Canon. Not a big settlement on its own but something of a trading hub for monsters from New Home and the surrounding areas in Waterfall to buy and sell goods (also has a LOT of Royal Guard presence which is why absolutely no one in Undertale recommends it to the very human Frisk). Very sparkly but in a gentle 'crystals, glowing water and fire flies' kinda way.

And... Yeah. Wanna post a full script of what I've got planned so far but this post is already massive so will do that in a bit.

Will say though that the general ending plan for this fic arguably goes full fix fic with:

12-14 year old Frisk comes out as human publicly and goes through the entire Underground arguing their case (something the Underground has been publicly debating for the last 10 years or so thanks to a very motivated Papyrus and a wanting more ratings + genuinely interested Mettaton).

Undyne attempts to kill them but well, she's only going all out because she and Paps had a deal about this (he vowed that he'd defend any innocent human from her killing them so she could still go all out at her job) and Frisk knows that.

Mettaton gets to do THE biggest and most historically important interview in the Underground's history.

Asgore declares that the Underground will try out this whole 'everyone in the kingdom votes' thing on both the upcoming war and how they will treat humans living here because he wants to make sure he's doing what his people want (Mettaton asks what Asgore will vote but Asgore, finally realizing his own influence, refuses to say).

Asgore and Frisk spend a nice, if slightly nervously time together drinking tea and talking about the future while the votes are being counted. (Toriel and others may join them but mostly this is Asgore getting to know... the last of Toriel's adopted children she told him about the others when she asked for a divorce).

Monsters choose wisely because for all this fic is 'Monsters are flawed too!' they are good people and I want to make that clear <3

Cue Frisk publically trying to help break the barrier while being very alive...

Flowey pulling a 'God of Hyper Death' except well, he, Frisk and Chara maaay have discussed a bit of this beforehand (Flowey did want the souls and this would get him them), so er, the fight might be a touch more mixed with genuine anger and playfulness. Note: Still working out the exacts.

The human SOULs get brought back to life as monsters while Flowey gets a SOUL of his own and Chara gets enough magical matter to be visible to people other than Frisk (it required less waste of the accumulated magic, the soul of an additional human another girl falling into the Ruins was what got Frisk deciding to come out actually, the kids using a bunch of Alphys' furthered research on the interplay between Determination, matter and Dust, and breaking down the dead humans' bodies for enough 'compatible matter' to work with, and the destruction and repurposing of the Barrier but hey! Back to life! Or arguably Chara's case an upgrade to proper ghost-hood). Oh and the Amalgamates that want it are safely separated but not sure if that's a 'before no' thing or a 'here in this big finale' thing~ XD

And yeah. That's all of my 'extra happy ending just because I can' stuff the entire fic eventually builds towards. Will post all my planned scenes/'domino effect planning' some other time but for now I'm done.

If you liked any ideas in this feel free to use them please (I'm a slow ass writer and I write what I want to see more of in the world XD) and er, hope this was a fun ramble to read <3

[topazshadowwolf]

Can you write another story with Flowey getting mad about sans being friends with Toriel? I really liked the Flowey meets Trash story, you portray Flowey awesomely!!

Did I do this right?

This one is a post pacifist. I don't think it was what you were expecting but I hope it worked. I know I had fun writing it, and since I had fun with the Flowey Meets Trash I think I was on the right track.

As much as he hated… hated to know that the trash bag made his mom happy, he hated more how oblivious to the obvious the two were. You would think both didn’t know how to start, let alone be, in a relationship the way they acted. They would flirt and then joke about it, backtracking any efforts they made the moment the other hinted they might actually take the flirt seriously. It was as if they were both convinced there was no way the other would have feelings beyond that of being friends. And Flowey HATED that.

It was the one thing he hated most about those romance movies, shows, and books. The whole “I love her but I know she doesn’t feel the same way about me” cliche; the whole time the character is thinking that the other character is making lovey-dovey eyes at him. Flowey hates this concept so much he has a lifetime ban from watching anime or reading manga at Alyphs’. He ended up tearing up a manga of an action-packed adventure he actually enjoyed because the main character was too dense to notice the girl he loved loved him back. And that was book 100 when the hint of the romance started back in book 1.

VERY INFURIATING!

And as annoying as living his life in a stupid flower pot was, having to watch Sans and Toriel dance around the subject was just…

He’d rather die!

Even now the two were sitting on the sofa together, laughing, joking, having a grand old time watching some dumb show. Sans says a joke that could be taken a little flirtatious. Toriel throws one back that was a tad spicy as she forgot her CHILD was in the room. Flowey is half tempted to tell them to get a room but didn’t want to interfere in the hopes they will finally GET TO THE POINT! But nooooo. They both get embarrassed and backtracked. Now Toriel sees Flowey and tries to make her comment not seem so spicey and she excuses herself to get more snacks.

That is it.

He might hate that trashbag but if this annoying display of “unrequited love” could end he would be so happy. “Seriously, Smiley, you are dense.”

Sans sighed and stared at the T.V., typical. He was opting to ignore Flowey.

“I know you love her,” Flowey said, and that got a reaction. Sans flinched a little before glancing at Flowey. “I’ve known it for a long time, you idiot.”

“you know, you really need to learn how to talk to others,” Sans muttered, “hasn’t frisk been working on manners with you or something.”

“And what about you? You were the J-” Flowey started but Sans darkened his sockets and looked at Flowey. Geez, he can be creepy when he does that. “The point is, you used to be good at reading other people. It was impressive.”

“okay? thanks?” His eyelights returned but Sans looked confused, clearly not seeing the point.

Flowey dragged a leaf down his face and sighed. “Would you just ask her out or something? If I have to watch you two dance around it any longer I’m going to lose it. It’s been FOUR YEARS! FOUR YEARS OF YOU TWO NOT BEING ABLE TO BE ADULTS ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS FOR EACH OTHER!” Flowey contorted his face, not to startle Sans or anything but out of pure and utter frustration. “Do you have ANY idea how badly I want to tear you apart every time you two come close to admitting your feelings only turn into cowards?!”

Sans was just sitting there staring at Flowey, a touch of blush was growing on his face. Finally, he responded, looking away and shoving his hands in his hoodie pockets. There was a resigned look, though. “look, flowey, it’d be nice and all, but there’s no way i could have a relationship with tori beyond just friends. besides, there is no way she looks at me that way.”

“Oh for the love of,” That was it, Flowey was taking matters into his own hands… leaves… vines? His face changed again, taking the shape of… ugh… Sans. He then cleared his throat and called out. “hey tooooooriiii~”

Sans flinched again and looked at Flowey, sockets empty again. “h-hey, what are you-”

“Yes, Sans?” Toriel called from the other room. That startled Sans and he turned his attention from Flowey to the kitchen.

“not-” Sans started but Flowey interrupted, making sure his Sans voice was louder, “come here, i’ve gotta question for you.”

Sans suddenly looked desperate as he looked from the kitchen to Flowey. There was an actual look of fear in his eyelights. He had seen a fear similar to this one before from the monster, but this was different, amusing actually. “look, i don’t know what i did to anger you but i’ll make it up to you, just please stop.”

Toriel entered the room and looked over at Sans, “What is your question?” She then looked at Flowey, noticing the face right away. Seeing Flowey use different faces and voices was not uncommon to her, though he knew she had never seen him use Sans’ before.

Sans again tried to “fix” the situation but turning to Toriel, his face was covered in blush and he had to look pathetic. But Toriel didn’t look disgusted, in fact, she looked more concerned than anything. “it’s noth-”

NOPE! If you don’t have the guts, skeleton, I’ll do it for you! Again, Flowey used Sans’ voice, speaking louder than the skeleton’s weak attempt to back out of what Flowey started. “would you smooch a skeleton?”

The room went silent and Toriel looked shocked. She knew who actually asked the question, that was clear as she kept glancing at Flowey. But the way she kept glancing at Sans, it was clear she was debating actually answering the question.

DO IT, MOM! Before I answer for you!

“t-tori… you know i didn’t-” Sans started and Flowey wanted to yell at him to shut up. But luckily it was Toriel who interrupted him this time.

“Well, yes, I would very much like to smooch a certain skeleton… when my child is not in the room, of course.” She said, looking a little bashful as she did. “That is if he was willing.”

Thank goodness. Flowey shifted his face back to normal as he watched this all play out. Of course, Sans sat there like the sorry lump he was. The best thing he could manage was a small “heh” for a reply. Flowey rolled his eyes and said, “Believe me, he’s willing. He’s just too dumb to say so.”

“Flowey!” Toriel started, getting ready to scold him.

“Please, mother! Ground me to my room or something! I’d rather be playing video games than watch you two fail to admit your feelings for each other!” Flowey yelled.

Sans looked at Flowey then looked back at Toriel, “uh… about what you said… if he was in his room… then you’d wanna…?”

And that’s how Flowey got himself back in the solitude of his room where he could play MonterHunter Rise.

At least that ordeal is finally over.

All and all, it was worth it. Even if the idiot trashbag was likely out there kissing his mom.

Gross.

[inu-jiru]

Damn Jazz Back At It Again With The Helluva Boss Rambles

Back on my bullshit again with another post now that I’ve mellowed out from the shock of how shit that episode was lol

I wish mobile made it easier to add the “Keep Reading” tab but it’s fine 

I’ve seen so many people go around being like “o it’s ok if Stella’s generic and not given more personality like everyone else because women can be bad didn’t you know that something something Amber Herd” and apparently anyone who thinks otherwise is just a Vivziepop hater who thinks she’s a misogynist (love the strawman shit mmm so juicy). And while evil for evil’s sake can be fun and cool in something like Sleeping Beauty (aka an adaptation of a fairy tale that’s already a story of “good vs evil”), why would you expect me to be chill with that in a show where the demons are, for the most part, more than just evil demons? If Stella was some minor, one-off character like that asshole imp guy at Loo Loo Land, that’d be one thing, but she’s not. She’s one of the main antagonists. This isn’t a “good vs. evil” story where you don’t need to worry about that kind of thing, Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel are supposed to be more than that. I’d be just as confused if Valentino or Vox, for every second of screentime they had, were doing nothing but going “haha rape haha prostitution haha tv is so cool” for 25 minutes and that’s it. But I digress.

I’m writing this because I was suddenly reminded of a character that’s basically what Stella could’ve been: Flowey. Flowey is just as volatile and agressive as Stella is, attacking you, killing you, and possibly having done countless genocide runs in the past with his own ability to RESET. Then, we get his backstory and find out who he used to be and why he’s the way he is. He’s an unfeeling sociopathic child. He was created with absolutely no way of feeling empathy because he has no SOUL. The child that he used to be is angry, longing for his past and his old friend, and was put into this situation for reasons that weren’t even his fault. Flowey is also a victim, but that doesn’t mean he can’t also be evil or do hurtful things. Whether or not you choose to show him pity or mercy is up to the player, but the fact that he’s that complex enough to warrant that choice is just part of Undertale’s writing. Hell, even Toriel is a better Stella than what Stella is in “canon”. I personally don’t like Toriel, but she does have depth to her (until the end where she just waltzes in and takes over the situation and no one does a thing to stop her because it’s Toriel and I guess everyone’s just chill with the traitorous queen coming in and acting like she’s in charge). Toriel comes in acting all sweet and nice, but is very clingy and definitely has issues with guilt and a black-and-white morality to justify her own actions. She’s not simply “ah, my child have some pie and we’ll be a family my child” 24/7. She’s a spiteful bitch, a hypocrite, and runs away from her problems. Again, this is because Undertale’s writing is (for the most part) consistent with giving it’s characters more depth underneath the memes and quotable dialogue.

Now, why am I writing all this about Undertale? Because it and HB/HH are on similar levels of writing. They both try to show more than just what’s at face value. Charlie is nice and sweet but will throw hands and has self-doubts, Alastor is everyone’s nightmare, but according to the comics, he does crave genuine interaction and is much nicer towards women (aside from Vaggie but my theory is that it’s because she’s not as feminine as Charlie or the Sheep Woman and far less easy to charm). So if Alastor, a mass murderer and cannibal who is more than likely going to do everything he can to mess with the Hotel’s success for his own entertainment, can have elements of good in him, then why the fuck can’t Stella? Oh, I know why, because Alastor isn’t interfering with the “romance”. I already didn’t like Stolitz before but Season 2 has nuked any chance of making me change my mind. This whole “romance” is being pushed so hard that it’s tainting the writing with retcons and things that just make no sense. Why would Octavia say “you ruined it” to Stolas in episode 2 if Stella was apparently just mean and nasty the whole time and Stolas was just soooo innocent? Why does the Ozzie’s song frame it like Stella and Octavia are victims of Stolas fucking up if Stella was always secretly the evil one and not Stolas? Why is Stolas ashamed if he was so proudly yelling about his divorce in front of her friends? Why is Goetia divorce a thing if the Goetia family looks down on it and sets up arranged marriages? Why the fuck is Stella just around and eating at the dinner table like they’re married if she can’t stand Stolas? Why is she ranting about Stolas being a cheater on the phone, if they’re separated and if she just doesn’t care about anything but money? And why the dickshit would Stella, someone who everyone is so fucking sure is only in it for her image, just blabbing about how shit her marriage is if that would just make her look like a loser who’s settling for trash? It makes no fucking sense unless it’s all just some poorly done retcon of earlier events. Hell, the pilot is supposedly non-canon, and yet a scene of it pops up in the new episode, so I can’t even be sure what’s true or not.

Sigh, but I guess at the end of the day, I saw this coming. They’re trying so hard to push Stolitz that the writing has to suffer for it. I’m not even sure I want to continue the series, if it’s just gonna become some genetic telenovela where everyone is so evil unless they wanna help Stolas in some way because he’s “such a victim”. I never wanted to have to write something like this and I sure as shit never foresaw myself reblogging critical content, but it is the way it is, I guess. But, that’s what rewrites and AUs are for, and I’ll be working on mine.

Anyway, that’s it for now unless I find something else to ramble about. Later.

[ariadnesweb]

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erk... the thought process behind me arguing 'Charisk is the meta plot going on in the background of deltarune'

And it's like... requires me to explain.

ANYWAYS base facts -

Chara and Asriel's relationship forms the background plot of Undertale -

Generally representative between the relationship of a player and the internal world of a videogame

Chara is the name used by the player to project themselves unto the world - generally used Flowey talks about the power to reset or the impersonal way you view the world

Asriel is the Prince of Monsters, symbolically pure and easy to love, you can only save him after you've saved all of the other monsters you've befriended.

-The duo's relationships is the base for the story of Undertale, as events in Undertale parallel the duo's story

-you could call it a romance, even if not a good one,

There is precedence for a specific type of storytelling, in which the meta plot is a rough shadow of the main plot, and in which a romance between two kids is important

Chara is also probably running around in the void with Gaster as they watch over Deltarune, there's various references to Chara.

-if Chara is in Deltarune, we can probably imagine that Asriel is around too, and possibly maybe... Frisk. (as the soul we control.)

This is less a fact and more a fun assumption, but it opens several venues of interest.

Mainly that: 1. Kris seems to be a mix between Chara and Frisk. 2. The intro sequence ends with us being dropped unto Kris.

Pretty sure that whatever happened in the intro sequence was important.

It establishes a relationship between us, and the interrupting voice.

A mostly hostile relationship, but... we know so little.

-(I am looking for a romance, if unhealthy...)

Do Chara & Frisk have a 'romance' going on? Yeah, I'd say so.

'Romance' used as short-term for being the focused relationship, not as a judgement regarding whether the two should become a couple.

Link to proper post.

It's undeveloped, but it can be interpretted that way.

It makes the usage of 'you', intriguing...

(This isn't to discredit the straightforward reading of these scenes, regarding Kris, Susie, and Noelle. I'm pretty sure that Kris is crushing on Susie, and the dialogue option seems a pretty straightforward comment on the Mice liking Noelle.

But the vague wording of these statements... feels purposeful, allowing double-meanings to inhabit the words, like secret codes passed between friends in class, references no one else can understand.)

-Parallel between a creator and an audience?

IDK. I tend to view Chara as symbolic of game design - the UI and menu systems, due to their obsession with stats.

The red soul is symbolic of the actual player, being the most direct control we have over the game.

[kaderp]

ALRIGHT FUCKERS THIS IS GONNA BE A HELLA LONG MEGAPOST AS I WAS GIVEN THE OK

BASICALLY this is gonna be a collection of bullshit me and @blackfliesinbluesugar have come up with and drawn

It starts with Goldie still living in Ireland at 17-19 and Scrooge from ages 18-20 staying in Scotland. And long story short they're dumbasses as teens. Cliche forbidden romance type stuff. Goldie's dad has shot people in the foot for trying to mess around with Goldie or just even talk to her for too long. So the only logical explanation they have is make Scrooge hide in the barn when he visits.

Basically Scrooge chills in the barn for a while cause Goldie's the only one that ever really goes in there because she's in charge of all the chores there. Which is where the context of this post is from

After the first time they fooled around Goldie was like 'oh crap what if I got pregnant D:' and told her mom she's going through a phase of flowey/big dresses when in reality she's trying to hide a potential baby bump. Now her mom doesn't care because she's too caught up in the fact that Goldie is finally 'acting like a lady.'

So eventually because they never put together that 'hey, if we keeping doing this we're gonna end up with a baby', Goldie does end up pregnant. And because her dad is a dick and a 'I catch you with my daughter then you die' type of shotgun dad, Goldie is freaking tf out.

About a month after she finds out she's pregnant, the O'Gilt's (well mostly just Goldie and her mom lol) get invited to a fancy dinner and Scrooge is really wanting to see Goldie again. So what better way to see her than to travel to Ireland, steal a uniform, and sneak into said dinner party as a busboy. Problem is he can't risk Goldie's dad seeing him again so he tries to slick back his whiskers

But while Scrooge is running around, he eventually spots Goldie across the room. Now he's never seen her in anything fancy, usually just the flannel and green work skirt. And he just about dies 😭

By now she has a bit of a baby bump she's had to hide so she normally goes for high waisted dresses that immediately flow out.

Anyways, as Scrooge is putting on the uniform he realizes he has absolutely no idea how to actually be a busboy. He doesn't know the first thing about dining and stuff so he's just like AAAAAAA

As they both see each other, Scrooge gives a dorky grin and Goldie smiles before realizing he snuck in. Right when Scrooge goes to see her he gets dumped with a bunch of dishes he has to set. Goldie sees him struggling to figure out how to set a table and he just gives her a nervous grin while she's like 'oh you beautiful dumbass -_-'

She's turning red cause she's trying so hard not to burst out in laughter as Scrooge slips and a bunch of silverware falls on him

He's getting yelled at by the director but he's just giving Goldie a goofy grin from across the room.

Her parents: remember to be calm and not make a scene no matter wh-

Goldie watching Scrooge trip on the tablecloth: BWAHAHA

But as the dinner progresses, Goldie remembers Scrooge doesn't even know she's pregnant. So she keeps trying to tell him but they both constantly get pulled away to do other things.

Towards the end of dinner Scrooge gets a free moment and realizes then that 'holy shit I actually like really love her!' So he darts to wherever she is and is struggling to get it out cause he doesn't know how much time he has left. He eventually spits it out and tells Goldie he loves her and is immediately called away. Scrooge takes her hands and quickly kisses her cheek before running to wherever the director is calling him from.

Goldie is shocked and stays still for a moment but by the time the shock wears off she realizes Scrooge is already long gone and they don't see each other again. And now Goldie's like 'crap crap crap, he said he loves me and I didn't even tell him I'm pregnant.'

They aren't able to communicate for a while cause Goldie's so focused on trying to keep her family pleased while still hiding her baby bump, and Scrooge keeps getting sidetracked and forgetting to write. (You can't tell me that isn't something he'd do because he kept getting distracted in the life and times when coming back home). He has her address, and he has started a letter, and even his family knows about her. 3ish months pass of no communications until one night Goldie starts contractions.

She darts to the barn after the first contraction and realizes she has to do this alone. A letter takes a day to get to Scrooge and going to Scotland herself would take closer to 7 hours. At that point it would be safer to not move.

It's like 3am by the time she lays and the egg ends up being pretty small. The entire time Goldie was just getting sicker and sicker. She ends up too weak to even hide the egg and has a high fever. She seriously thinks she's not gonna make it for the first night she can barely stay conscious.

The next morning she has just enough strength to lazily hide the egg in the hay and sluggishly make her way back to the main house. Her parents are already up and she explains she started feeling iffy while doing chores and collapses.

Because her parents aren't completely heartless and she still is their daughter, her parents' main focus shifts to trying to nurse her back to health. They assume she fell with a bad flu and don't know she had spent all night laying an egg.

During this time she writes to Scrooge telling him to get over here asap, it's an emergency.

Goldie's parents take over her chores in the barn and the moment they said that Goldie went into panic mode again. During a lunch break she climbs through her window and runs to the barn to hide the egg better. She does, and she successfully makes it back to her room but collapses again and sleeps until the next day.

Scrooge arrives 3 days after she lays and now she's really panicking. She's still weak and sick, and her parents are coming closer and closer to finding the egg. Scrooge when he sees her is genuinely freaking out. Not only for the future and that he now has an egg, but because Goldie did it by herself in a dirty barn. She's still a little loopy even though it's been a few days and Scrooge just feels heart broken that he wasn't there to help. He starts going on a tangent about how she could have died but Goldie just kisses him to get him to stop blabbering.

Scrooge helps her clean up a bit cause even with her parents looking after her, she's still a mess. But as he's washing her and the egg up, they hear fighting from the main house. Her parents realized she wasn't in her bed. She starts crying and tells Scrooge he needs to run home asap because if her dad finds out he'll most definitely kill him and/or the baby.

(This was the first doodle for the au before deciding on an exact age/place/look so don't mind the sloppiness)

Scrooge escapes right as her dad comes in. She pulls the excuse of she thought she felt well enough to do chores.

Scrooge rn is running like a madman back to Scotland. He went from chilling with his family to being a father who's child needs to be kept secret within a day.

By the time Scrooge gets back home it's the middle of the night and is ngl feeling pretty overwhelmed. He tells Downy that he messed up and she's just like ??? So Scrooge holds up the egg and Downy just purses her lips like 'ah'

The next morning Scrooge explains to his family what happened and doesn't leave out any detail. Fergus and Downy obviously have mixed feelings. Scrooge is barely 19 yet he already has a kid??? But in the end they realize they can't change what's happened and focus on helping Scrooge protect this child.

Once the baby hatched, all mixed feelings from Downy erased and she just went into 'this is my grandbaby and no one will touch her' mood.

Scrooge and Goldie kept in contact from the moment Goldie gave away the egg. Because of the little incident of Goldie 'trying to do chores while sick,' she was put under close monitoring for the next few months and couldn't visit each other. After constant writing back and forth, they find a date to meet up half way between Scotland and Ireland so Goldie can meet her baby. They try to decide on baby names through the letter but they can't agree on anything. Goldie finds out that Scrooge moved out of his small Glasgow home and into McDuck Castle. He gives her the new location on the map as well.

The first time Scrooge tries to sneak out with the baby Fergus is just standing right outside with his brow arched and Scrooge starts freaking out.

Before Scrooge can apologize for trying to sneak out, Fergus just asks if Scrooge would like him to go with.

Scrooge is a little shocked but can't talk with the frog in his throat and just nods. Along the way Scrooge explains how he and Goldie have been trying to find the right time to sneak out for weeks because it was so hard for Goldie to get free time. She was sent to go across country to get supplies and uses that opportunity to go meet up with Scrooge and the baby again.

Fergus just nods and continues.

When they do see Goldie, she almost breaks down at the sight that the baby survived and is being raised in a good house hold and can't stop holding her. The baby is about 3 months old by now. They finally agreed on a name and she ended up being named Maryanne. (Yes Jelly and I chose that because it means Star of the Sea)

She has to give the baby back to Scrooge cause stupid teenage and still getting over pregnancy hormones are getting the better of her and she starts full on sobbing as she sits on the ground. Scrooge freezes cause he's like aaaaaa what do I dooooo while still holding the baby.

But Fergus crouches down to her and asks if she wants a hug. All Goldie can say is 'uh huh' and he just wraps himself around her. She hugs back and Fergus rocks back and forth until Goldie's calmed down.

'I'm sorry I pulled your son into the mess. I-I was just so scared that my papa w-would kill one of us that I didn't know what else to do.'

Fergus pulls her away so he can actually look at her. And part of him feels that tinge of fear and sadness that the two teens had experienced. He grabs onto her shoulders which causes Goldie to look up at him.

'While I dinnae agree what you two did was right. Ah'm proud of you. Because what you did, finding the will to give up a child for their own safety, took a lotta strength there, lass.' And before she can react, Fergus pulls her in again and let's it sink in.

Scrooge is still holding the baby but now he's sitting down and bouncing the cooing baby on his knee while watching the scene unfold.

Over the course of the next few months, Goldie visits as much as possible and she grows closer to the family and Scrooge every time. On the times she can't visit, Fergus accompanies Scrooge in order to protect them from Goldie's dad. She's had a few close calls with her dad, but nothing too serious

After those events, Goldie practically moves in with the McDucks and they work on raising Maryanne. However like in the Rosa series, they're still experiencing tax trouble and Scrooge says he's gonna have to go to South Africa. The baby is about 2 by now and Scrooge is almost 21, while Goldie is about 19 and a half.

(This next section was an accident but basically it started as jotting down ideas but turned into a fic after I said it would take 20 seconds to write but turned into 2 hours fjdbfndn)

Scrooge is torn between whether or not to go until Goldie says she'll go with him. And because she's stubborn, no one objects. So the three travel across the world together. Maryanne practically grows up on the sea and all of those adventures where Goldie is present in the DT17 Rewriting History book happen.

On adventures they trade off tying the baby to their backs until she's old enough to not need to anymore. Although for the more dangerous ones, one of them stays behind.

But because they weren't married and had a kid in their teens, they were generally looked down upon. It got to the point where they just started saying they were married in order to avoid conflict with others. And after a while they actually forgot they weren't in fact married

'Huh, I forgot we're not actually married.' 'WAIT WE'RE NOT???'

Or

'We're married' 'Oh ok, can i see your marriage records?' '... oh right'

But some old lady or old guy either way starts criticizing Goldie for being a young mother and they just deck the shit outta them and run. Or Goldie fighting someone with baby tied to her back.

Maryanne grows up to be an ocean cartographer and leads sailing expeditions and that's all we have for her. Also she has super blue eyes lol

That's basically almost all of the things we have for this au lol

[kingofthewilderwest]

6, 8, 12, 17

Thanks for the prompts! :)

Fandom Asks Memes

6. Do you read fanfiction? If so, do you have any favorite authors or fics?

I don’t read fanfiction. The only time I read fanfiction is when I have a good friend who’s written a story, and then I want to read the fic to support my friend and talk with my friend. Outside of that, I don’t look at anything. I’ve only read one entire fanfic start to finish, and that was Flowey Is Not a Good Life Coach, which got me sucked in and finishing the story at the wee hours of the morning. I’ve read some parts of Elfpen’s writings and enjoyed them.

8. Do you prefer happy, bittersweet, or sad endings?

I believe all stories have their place and importance. But the stories that tend to resonate with me most are the bittersweet stories. The stories I write, too, almost always end up bittersweet, as well.

12. If you could change one ending to a book/show/game/etc, what would you change about it?

Goodness, there’s multiple answers I could give here. Let’s give just one, and if people send me the prompt again, I’ll give another. I had fun with VLD start to end, and I was someone trying to promote positive dialogue when VLD ended. But I also didn’t personally connect with Season 8 so much. I would change VLD so that S8 would fall much more in line with S7. The stakes would still be connected to the Paladins protecting Earth. Not that we can’t also care about the universe, but I wouldn’t delve so hard into the magic stuff. Would take out the Allurance (I don’t dislike Allurance, but I don’t think it had a strong place in VLD canon based on how they’d written the rest of VLD, especially since they had the guts to change the romance that’s been in every prior piece of Voltron canon). Would change a lot there. So yeah. S8 VLD.

17. Are there any tropes you wished were used less often?

YEAH I’VE GOT QUITE A LIST HERE. I’m not someone who reads TV Tropes so I’m sorry I won’t be giving the exact trope and exact name out there that others may label it as. But for starters... I don’t like the trope where “Writing a strong female character means she’s.... rude and a good warrior, right?” It’s just another lazy way of failing to write complex women characters. Just because she has a sword in her hands doesn’t mean she’s any less eye candy, sex appeal, poorly characterized, a great prop to go along with the main male as a love interest, etc. These are still uninspired cardboard cutouts that repeat the same personality over and over with little thought. If she’s just there to look strong but get quickly surpassed by the newb male lead and then they fall in love, are you actually thinking about a human being with any inspiration? A strong female character is someone who’s written with depth, sympathy, complexity, and three-dimensional humanity. Maybe she’s a warrior. Maybe she’s not.

[codyfernmorelikedaddyfern]

Could I request some more info on all the FFAK boys?? Like..Their full names? Ages? Birthdays or Astrology Signs? What are their personalities like? Most likely in the band to...? Some favorites (food, drink, hobby, music, movie, color, fabric, ect, anything lol)? Any secrets? Favorite type of groupie? Dominant or Submissive? Kinks? Anything you think we need to know or want us to know?...if you could answer these I'll give you my soul lol thank you in advance 🖤💋

An Interview? Noice. (Secrets are meant to be secret so if you interact with the boys, you wouldn’t necessarily know it to be true just like you might not know Duncan Shepherd is adopted 👀👀👀)

@fitfouraking correct me if i’m wrong boys...

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Their full names? Baptiste “Bapt/Bapty/Daddy” O’Malley

Ages? 26 going 27

Birthdays or Astrology Signs? 23rd of October 1993 - Scorpio

What are their personalities like? Cheeky, flirty, playful and mischievous but genuinely cares about the people around him, especially his “girls” (aka younger female fans). He once got in a physical fight with a guy who shoved a younger fan and was being an overall cunt. Gets along the best with their tour manager, there are rumours of him dating her and/or Damian but he is not the type of guy to settle down right now even tho he’s fucked them both multiple times.

Most likely in the band to...? Leak his own nudes. Been there, done that.

Some favourites?·        

Food: Chinese food is da bomb.·        

Music: Green day and Nirvana are my fav band.·        

Hobbies: include playing MMORPG and a handful of NSFW things.·        

Movie: Disney’s Hercules.·        

Fabric: Denim’s cool.·        

Colour : Green

Any secrets? Actually not the roughest lover of them all. Gay for Damian but still keeping his bisexuality in the closet. He doesn’t really like his name. He does all of the backup and 2nd vocals for the band and during the live performance.

Favourite type of groupie? The respectful ones.

Dominant or Submissive? Dominant.

Kinks? The band doesn’t call me Daddy for nothing.

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Their full names? Frederick “Freddy/Fred/Snowflake” Thomas Dawson

Ages? 24 going 25

Birthdays or Astrology Signs? 1st of March 1995 - Pisces

What are their personalities like? Seems clueless but is a great listener. Big dork and cuddle bug, the most affectionate and in touch with their feelings out of all of them.

Most likely in the band to...? Be painfully oblivious. Remember that story about that guy that had that girl over and she told him she could only sleep naked so he was like ‘Oh okay I’ll sleep on the couch” and then she was calling downstairs to him saying she was cold and he was like “No wonder you’re cold. You’re naked” and fetched her an extra blanket? That’s Frederick. (Thankfully, Baptiste was there to keep her warm…)

Some favourites?·        

Food: Is it edible? Then it’s my favourite·        

Music: All Time Low, Blink 182, Sum 41, Ed Sheeran & Fall Out Boy are my biggest inspirations.·        

Hobbies: I like hiking and looking at people and imagining what’s happening in their head.·        

Movie: The Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit saga.·        

Fabric: I don’t have a favourite fabric? I just… Wear stuff? I guess cotton is nice, that’s what my underwear are made of (no it’s not boyfriend material, that’s Dorian’s)·        

Colour: Blue

Any secrets? I learned to play the guitar to impress Damian’s little sister (it worked) and her lipstick stain is tattooed on my thigh.

Favourite type of groupie? I- uh. What?

Dominant or Submissive? I don’t like fighting, sorry.

Kinks? Baptiste? Did you write those questions? I guess I like a lot of things?

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 Their full names? Damian “Damn/Dammy/D-man” Taliesin Anatole Greene

Ages? 25 going 26

Birthdays or Astrology Signs? 18th of May 1994 - Taurus

What are their personalities like? Can seem aloof and too prideful but is extremely attentive and on the ball of everything going on. Openly Pansexual and exudes LGBTQ+ rights and sensuality. Unapologetically himself.

Most likely in the band to...? Miss rehearsal because he saw a dog on the street and ended up stroking it for 45 minutes.

Some favourites?·        

Food: West European food is my favourite and I can’t wait to tour in France and Italy to share it with the band!·        

Music: Linkin Park, Bring Me The Horizon and My Chemical Romance.·        

Hobbies: Writing and strolling around the cities we visit after gigs to explore at night.·        

Movie: Shawshank Redemption & The Green Mile.·        

Fabric: Satin and anything sheer, flowey and comfortable.·        

Colour: Burgundy

Any secrets? I have a 666 tattooed below my navel, it was written by Baptiste on the same day he got my bite mark tattooed on his inner thigh.

Favourite type of groupie? The ones who aren’t trying too hard and who leaves their phone in their bag once stepping in my hotel room.

Dominant or Submissive? Depends who is asking.

Kinks? I do like praising and rewarding.

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Their full names? Dorian “Dory/Doe/D-boy” Alexander Harrison

Ages? 24 going 25

Birthdays or Astrology Signs? 4th of August 1995 - Leo

What are their personalities like? Daydreamer and pretty flamboyant even tho he is quiet. Least active ones in interviews, he is also witty, bold and blunt whenever he opens his mouth. Known as “the single one”, he has never been in a relationship in the 10 years they all have known each other and the boys believed he might be gay for a while until he met the “right” groupie and brought her backstage for some… fun. Likes being reminded of his biggest “quirk”, his heterochromia, it makes him feel special.

Most likely in the band to...? Fall in love with a fan.

Some favourites?·        

Food: Italians do it better.·        

Music: Black Veil Bride, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance and Mayday Parade·        

Hobbies: Play music and jam with Baptiste (rhythm section amirite)·        

Movie: The Lion King and Star Wars’ original trilogy.·        

Fabric: Leather and anything sheer.·        

Colour: I’m colour blind… I think Grey is cool?

Any secrets? I mastered all instruments used on stage and I’m the one who usually come up with the rhythm/acoustic side of our music. Also have one recurring groupie I hang out with regularly. Definitely the roughest in bed and only 100% straight member.

Favourite type of groupie? The good girls who follow the rules.

Dominant or Submissive? Usually dominant. I can be convinced otherwise.

Kinks? Sorry, Tour Manager’s saying that the time’s up. You’ll have to find that out by yourself. Backdoor at 4pm?

[teddy-feathers]

Prompt from @moss-flowers-trees not exactly fulfilled.

Up to No Good

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Now it was well known that across the multiverse there was no Papyrus lazier than Stretch. After all, most took him as nothing more than a 'swapped' personality of Classic Sans and his brother.

That was their - a collective term here referring in a general way to the entirety of the multiverse and all of the alternates - first mistake.

Because a swapped Papyrus was still a Papyrus and all Papyri enjoyed a good jape.

Their second mistake was, as always, underestimating his brother.

Blue was a Sans in the way Stretch was a Papyrus, and from day one had resented being underestimated. Credit where its do, no one could do shenanigans like a Sans, especially his brother. It was as admirable as it was terrifying.

The last was more of a fortuitous boon, luck if one really wanted to be so crass, then a mistake on anyone's part and that was no one spoiled the fun.

So to set the stage, to really understand just how priceless the current situation of a nightmare carnival mirror image of him frothing in rage, you have to go back to the beginning.

Not the very beginning - though any good story should perhaps start there - for the sake of time, argument, and a joke that will only grow stale for having to wait for it, let it be assumed for the moment that Stretch is the center of the universe the second he and his brother stumble into a room full of strikingly unfamiliar faces in some sort of mirror maze of 'what ifs' and 'could have beens'.

Papyrus - one of many now, always? Apparently. - zones out, empty sockets not giving away his unfocused attention as Not his Brother Sans reluctantly and with much prodding from a much more handsome and friendly reflection Papyrus explains something about Universal Causality. What homeowners insurance had to do with this bowl of Flowey Flakes they found themselves in he missed, but at some point someone had pointed out that they couldn't all share the same name without even the most friendly of them wanting to dust the others like some bad Highlander reboot.

His brother, Blue now - cleverly claiming the Sans favorite color as his own - nudges him from a lovely little daydream back into the existential nightmare that was the current universe, and Papyrus folds his fingers together and lifts them above his head tilting this way with that until his back pops. This is met with disgusted looks from many faces around the room - most of them his own - and he slumps back comfortably into his hoodie. "Guess I'll go by Stretch."

Several voices protest of course, because life from now on was going to be lived by committee.

"Well That is certainly... unique Orange Me." Says Putting a Positive Spin on This With All His Might Papyrus - or Creampuff as he'd agreeably allowed Edgelord Papyrus to dub him.

"It is Ridiculous is what it Is." Protests the version of his brother that had wandered into a Hot Topic and had never left. "It doesn't Fit with the Already Established naming convention!"

It was times like this that he - The Papyrus who was going by Stretch for Spite now - was glad he had never bothered with the magic expenditure that was eyelights. Meant no one could see him roll his eyes.

There was no Convention - no real pattern for the group as a whole or even just through the pairs. Classic Sans - named such for his outdated old man jokes no doubt - seems to notice all the same and huffs out a laugh. "gotta say buddy, kinda agree - name like that seems like a stretch."

Blue looks as cross as Stretch feels but it would take someone who knew him well to see it. He grabs onto Strectch's arm in a show of solidarity and asks "Brother, why did you choose such a Unique name?" The way he says unique stands in tonal counterpoint to how Creampuff had said it, and Stretch smiles down at his older brother discarding the first three responses that come to mind.

No need to make his brother worry, or get labeled as the Depressing Papyrus right out the door - even if none of this did matter. "Cause bro, I'm the tallest one here."

Of course his brother immediately catches on, lights going to stars in a way that brightens his expression both figuratively and literally. "Nyeh heh heh of Course! How very Astute of you Stretch!"

Immediately several voices raise in protest, and boy did his own voice sound worse when amplified and played back a half dozen times, but it was worth it when his Blues cuts across the din to add with sly earnestness "I Knew my brother was the Coolest!"

This of course started a whole new argument that derailed the last and the rest should have been history.

But of course some part of him just couldn't let it go.

A universal constant for Papyri apparently was a vicious strain of competitiveness. And while Stretch could have let the jape die, it was nice to have something - no matter how fake - to lord over the other Oh So Talented versions of himself.

Literally in some cases.

Creampuff, if not a Perfect host, was unfailing in his attempts to fulfill that responsibility while the whole living arrangement situation was dealt with, that when Stretch's insomnia got the better of him he'd inevitably pop into the kitchen just to grab something off the top shelf for his better mirror's ungodly hours Breakfast Prep.

This was particularly satisfying as Creampuff apparently put everything up on the very top shelves and with the whole lot of them living there, something inevitably ended up pushed to the very back that he just Had to have. It was child's play - minus the murderer possessed doll - to time things that Stretch's arm could slip over his and pull done the item before he had a chance to grab it. Add that to some casual comment about the perks of being tall and...

It was inevitable that Edgy Mc My Chemical Romance would catch wind of the ongoing shenanigans. And unlike Creampuff who tried hard and was generally likable despite his Arrogance - another trait shared by those who shared his face . Edgelord didn't have a redeeming bone in his body. Made him insufferable... and a particularity sweet target for tomfoolery.

So when at some dinner or another that they all agreed to go to on occasion after they'd gotten their own places, and Edge once more started in about how obviously he was the Superior Specimen of the Skeleton Species, well Stretch wasn't going to take that lying down.

Or, well, he was laying on the Fell - the call sign they'd agreed to for their universe - Bro's couch. But he had lifted his hand and said in a deliberately matter of fact dry tone, "Not the tallest though."

It was like he had murdered their damn cat (who was a friendly surface beasty... if you didn't mind being considered a scratching post). Edge sputtered in rage and had dragged him upright by force, while Stretch uncooperative hug heavily like a rag doll in his unphased grip.

If Creampuff was the Handsome Papyus than Edge was the Strong Papyrus, it would have been easy to hate him just for that if he didn't so obligingly make himself as unlikable as he had. Of course with a little expended magic to give his brother the Babybones Look that worked every time, and Blue's quick intervention with a level and a bit of slight of hand - the fight was diverted and the Japery continued.

Perhaps the most agreeable of the versions that had clowned their way out of the Multiverse Machine that day was the one that went by Mutt. Agreeable in the sense he kept his head down, mouth shut, and kept away from all of them. That could be because his brother was annoying enough for the both of them, but Stretch thought an argument could be made that Mutt didn't consider himself a Papyrus at all - he'd already had the moniker long before the pageant had begun afterall.

Black combined the Worst of Stretch's brother and the Best - if that quality could even be ascribed to him - of Edge. A menace of a monster who honestly came across as the smallest of the Sans in a more convincing way than Stretch was the tallest of the Papyri... Not that anyone had dared mention it to him of course. Stretch was saving the observation for a special occasion.

For whatever reason the Tiny Tyrant had taken an exception to the idea that he was just the evil twin of Blue and went out of his way to be exceptionally petty about finding ways to make himself out to be the better version of his older brother.

Honestly it was a bother and Stretch tried to stay out if it since Blue Obviously could take care of himself but for whatever reason Black seemed to take Stretch's height as a challenge as much as any Papyrus... With the sole exception of Mutt.

Trying to recreate the circumstances of Edge's measuring contest between the Stretch and his own brother during a holiday social backfired spectacularly into Mutt curling even more into himself and Stretch - more than a little tipsy - actually challenging Mutt to see who could slump the most.

Mutt had shrunk so fast into his coat that his skull had almost vanished amidst the fluff like a turtle and Stretch had laughingly declared him the victor, pleasing Black and being the last time for years that anyone bothered with his height.

So now onto the present situation.

Edge had been so pleased when he ambushed him and his brother in the grocery store, smug about his six inch heeled boots and his mastery thereof, dying to show up Blue who also had an insatiable love of the damn feet death traps and he had turned to ice his cake by pointing out that with these he could be the tallest of the Papyri...

That annoying smirk whipped clean off as he met sockets - exactly level - with Stretch who didn't do more then smile back because this was the joke of the lifetime.

"How!" He choaks, the sweetest music to hear.

Stretch leans in even closer to whisper conspiratorially "I'm standing up straight."

This only makes Edge froth with rage and stomp off without ever noticing that Stretch had been standing on a divider on the floor giving him a physical lift along with the rise to his spirits when Edge's dropped like a man into a river with cement shoes.

Blue laughs, mood doing a 180 as quickly as Edge's. "You should have told him the Truth Stretch!"

"Mmm?" He hums curiously, moving to drap himself back atop the already half full cart. The other versions of himself were fun to get the goat of but they were exhausting even in small doses. "What that this place's floor is poorly designed? But he was being insufferable."

"Nope," His older brother says in an insufferable tone of his own - oh no, not one of his 'great' jokes. Those were the worst. "That the reason you're always going to be taller than the others is that you're always Up to No Good!"

Stretch groans and covers his skull with his arms, pushing the cart away with more vigor than he'd shown anything all day. "Title drops are the Height of bad comedy."

Of course that only makes Blue laugh harder.

[metasactreon]

A list of some of my WIPs

Likelihood of me finishing them is 1) I am currently working on this and/or it is close to be finished, 2) I have a lot done for this but haven't touched it in a long time, 3) ... I wrote the summary...

The Tragedy of Desert Bluffs: A series of Kevin focused fics that start with a torture fic of what happens to Kevin to turn him into a Strex minion, a fic of his romance with Diego, his time with Carlos in the Desert Otherworld, coping with the loss of Carlos via a pin pal, his relationship with said pin pal, and the return of Lauren. 2

DEX Inc.: My Diego's backstory. 3

Welcome to the Abyss: A batim fanfic of all the rejected toons Joey dumped in level 14 and the struggles of hopelessness and depression, and a look at their built up community. 2.8

Classic Creations: A batim fic with 3 very different Bendys running around and like... 18 Borises. Each Bendy represents different kinds of child abuse and Joey is absolute garbage. To them. 2

IZ Broken: A series with only one posted work (that I want to redo and repost) about an alien trying to fix the mind of a poor insane child. I have like... 10+ stories I want to make for it... 3

Elgyem and Klyde: A series of stories focused on pokemon trainer Klyde, and the Elgyem who he grew up with.

Unlikely Family: A series of undertale fics the focus on Gaster and the Skelebros, going from the creation of Gaster's Babybones, his life with them, and how the two skelekids adapt to the loss of their only parental figure. 1

A Tale of Petals and Bones: A Papyrus and Flowey fic that is connected to the series above. It focuses on the relationship between a flower and a skeleton... and how things turned sour. (Friendship relationship, by the way. Not a, youknow.) 1 (I’m even making a pic for it!)

BATIM Hi-Jinx: A batim au fic set in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit universe. Henry goes to the studio, but he is not alone. He has his own little toon tagging along to provide commentary and support. 1

All of these for Autistic Carlos is Beautiful, ranging from 2 to 3

Puddles: A batim back story with a Bendy that deserves better. 1.1

Scout’s Honor: A Cecil x Earl fic about a time during boy scouts. 2

WTNV IZ: A story about a paranormal investigating duo winding up in a town they did not see on the map. 3

Undying Welcome Home: A sequel to 53rd? Undying. 4

Aces are Wild: An original work that focuses on this asexual group that is in a college town. Most of which are paranormal or fantasy creatures just trying to live normal lives amongst normal human people. Group consists of a Vampire, a witch, a werewolf, a succubus, a ghost, a [redacted], a lake monster, and some other odds and ends, as well as a few normal humans. 2.5

The New Kid: An original work highly inspired by Invader Zim. The protagonist is this optimistic paranormal loving kid in a wheelchair. The antagonist is a troubled half-demon hungry for power. 2.8

Don’t Dip: A fic from toontown, about stopping cogs who are dangerously close to finding the toons’ greatest weakness... dip. (With many cartoon guest stars and a team up with Marvin the Martian.) 3

Feel free to ask me about any of these. Showing interest in certain fics will inspire me to get my butt in gear on them/encourage me to touch them again.

[cambriancrew]

For the fuckteenth bajillionth time.

Neither I nor anybody else in my system produces OR consumes any fanfic or original fiction featuring characters that could even REMOTELY be considered in any way a child.

SOLIPSISTFUL is the one who wrote fanfic about a VERY MUCH REALLY FREAKING OLD AS FUCK Flowey. Good for them, not my thing, don't like don't read.

I do write some smut, but 1) not fanfic, because if I'm going to write in someone else's universe there's gotta be some major story stuff going on that only makes sense in their universe - or it's an extremely cheesy power fantasy fixit fic, probably with a very overpowered, extremely overprepared Jas swooping in to set everything right. She couldn't do it for her own world, but dammit put her up against anyone in any other world and she could! (There's a reason she's only a side character in the stories set on her world. She can all too easily come across as VERY Mary Sue-ish!)

2) I don't do anything all that problematic in my original smut. (None of which features my Crewmates either, because... Squick, to say the least.) The most is probably... BDSM, done the right way? (50 Shades is NOT the right way AT ALL.) Maybe,...Enthusiastically consentual nonconsent? NOT dubcon, but playfighting. Bratty sub insisting "Green until I say otherwise." "Prey" intentionally leading "Predator" on a chase and laughing breathlessly when finally caught and held tight and kissed all over and squealing "Oh no, don't eat me!" "But your taste is irresistible." Silly, cutesie stuff like that. With the youngest seeming character being an unmarried young adult Avian (gryphon-ish winged sorta-humanoid creature of my own creation) who is "too old to be galavanting off in the wilds like a nestling. Should have had nestlings of her own, some even long past the nest, if anyone could even be persuaded to marry such an uncivilized creature." No specified age because they're not human and have a different life cycle, but clearly past their kind's age of majority.

And I write little snippets of that stuff because that's the kind of romance and adventure that appeals to me, that I believe there's not nearly enough of. The kind of thing I find both satisfyingly sweet and empowering.

So for the love of cheese and rice, can we PLEASE put to rest the rumor - more like outright lie - that I write smut about characters who are literally children.

I'm sure there's plenty more crap you could dig up on me without making up stupid lies. How about the fact that I'm physically incapable of writing briefly? XD

[thegeminisage]

Top five video game characters of all time

this is a blessed ask thank you

i’m limiting myself to one per series or they’d all be final fantasy characters

5. jessamine kaldwin (dishonored)

absolutely shamelessly Tapped That and did not give a fuck about propriety

raised her daughter and ruled a kingdom all (mostly) on her own like a total badass

wanted to save all her citizens from the rat plague, not just the wealthy

as the heart, does nothing but shit talk people and complain, which is the biggest 2017 wintertime mood

that one post about her wanting to see daud age a decade every month is canon i don’t care what anybody says

4. flowey (undertale)

i could go into how the skeleton game is actually super deep and this is one of the deepest characters but tbh i don’t need to say a word. ^ that’s his main form & how he appears to you first, pretending to be friendly. this is how he looks later:

aww! it’s a cute lil adorable flower WHO WANTS TO MURDER YOU. find me a more iconic look, i dare you. OH THAT’S RIGHT YOU CAN’T

3. fenris (dragon age)

dumb looking bishie hair (it’s objectively horrible but it grows on you)

voiced by gideon emery who has that like Iconique™ deep growl

has kickass magic markings all over his body that let him phase through solid walls - instead of using this to rob banks e uses it to pull out the still-beating hearts of slavers right through their chests and crush them in his palm

because: he was a former slave but he got the magic markings that made him that dangerous and used them to ESCAPE and eventually KILLS his former master but he also has AMNESIA i do love a good amnesia story.

nobody say anything. i was into dragon age first. i loved him first

also, he’s had a terribly hard life and people like to portray him as angsty and bitter but he’s actually very kind and protective and soft if you aren’t a complete dick or your name isn’t anders like even if you romance him as a mage, and he fuckin hates mages especially anders

the first time i ever heard of riz ahmed it was because someone fancast him as this dude and it’s still my favorite one

2. groose (legend of zelda: skyward sword)

i have a whole tag for how much i love this motherfucker

every time he’s on screen is a genuine delight like he’s such a ham you always have to laugh

when he was a one-dimensional nice-guy bully he was annoying but once you hit mid-game and he starts getting a little depth he almost immediately becomes endearing

one of the most-developed zelda characters ever, period, of all time, except maybe BotW zelda, who nearly got this spot - like he has a genuine will to do good and protect others which is a huge 180 from where he started, it’s incredible

Dat Pompadour

please watch this video it’s one of my favorite video game cutscenes of all time

the scream from that video (at about :18) is my alarm tone.

1. lightning farron (final fantasy xiii)

this is My Girl, you guys. god where do i even start

pink hair

PINK HAIR!!!

at MINIMUM 25% of the reason i dyed my own hair pink tbh?

main character of a three-game trilogy which is mainly about her development and her relationship with her sister

ROMANTIC INTEREST? not here. fuck that! it’s because she’s aro

lightning doesn’t have time for romance she’s busy TOPPLING THE GOVERNMENT to SAVE HER LITTLE SISTER like lightning is a former soldier who full-on defects solely for that purpose

(later she then decides to kill what amounts to “god” in that world to save her little sister and you know what? “god” is right to be afraid)

also, she doesn’t like the guy her sister is dating, so he really has to earn that respect. like he does, in the end, after fucking it up a few times, because he is mostly a good guy, but like also before that happens she does fullly punch him in the face (in this particular instance he kind of had it coming)

you can’t really see it in this pic but for the most part her armor is not the horrible Sexy Girl armor a lot of game girls get (the third game has like optional sexy armor but fuck that) it’s like badass looking and functional

refuses to acknowledge the fact that she has feelings at the start of the first game, but then in the end it comes back to bite her in the ass because she’s been shutting her loved ones out, and she has to learn to FEEL HER GODDAMNED FEELINGS before it’s too late

spoilers but her real name is not (lmao, surprise!) lightning. it’s claire. a three-story trilogy about a girl named claire who learns to cry. i’ll see myself out

anyway lightning is the best i love ff13 so much please watch the best trailer ever because every single person reading this will probably like ff13 too because it’s impossible not to 

no seriously i started out determined to hate it but my heart softened starting with that trailer

thanks everybody for your time

[everlastingrandom-art]

Darling, I'm in need of help. I want to write the best Mettaton-centric fanfiction ever made, the one shining gem. The most complex and interesting there is. I imagined a post-pacifist setting, with a lot of angst. The problem is how? I want to make any angst filled Sans story feel like a stroll at the park, but I don't know what plot use. I thought maybe you could give me a hand. I prefer to avoid romantic and sexual settings. Thank you in anticipation.

Welllllllll…..

You’ve created a very specific situation. I think choosing to set your story in the post-pacifist run makes writing an angst fic a little difficult, only because it seems as though by the end of the game, pretty much all of mettaton’s goals are accomplished:

He’s a famous star for both humans and monsters

He gets to perform and live amongst humans

His relationship with Blooky is restored and his relationship with Alphys is built more on trust.

Note how I said difficult, not impossible. You could explore how these outcomes could lead to unexpected turns.

What if he finds out humanity isn’t all it cracked up to be? What if humans are worse than he thought? What if monsters call him a traitor?

What if it’s more difficult to be a star above ground? What if it’s emotionally taxing? The news always looks for ways to exploit or bring down a celebrity, how will they tear him apart?

Or, what if it’s everything he thought it would be, but he let’s it all get to his head again and goes back on the promises he made to be a better person? What if he slowly moves away from loved ones?

Angst doesn’t have to come from a big, dramatic situation. It can come from a character’s simple decisions. Mettaton is smart, charismatic, and quick-thinking. But he’s also narcissistic, impulsive, and (when faced with a difficult challenge) dangerous.

Since the focus not on romance, family and friend relationships will be the important. Mettaton’s closest relationships in the game are with Alphys, Napstablook, his employees, and to an extent, Frisk. See what dialogue you can work between them that will push your story forward.

Also, try to search through some of your favorite fics to find inspiration. A compelling angst fic doesn’t just tell a story, it asks interesting questions. One good example of this usage is with Flowey is not a Good Life Coach by unrestedjade. It asks the question, is Papyrus corruptible? The answer is: No. It then furthers the question by asking, how can his sense of morality be used against him? How can his actions backfire?

Therein lies the inner turmoil.

[espytalks]

some random things about becky and carter

carter loves knitting gifts for other people, he often starts making gifts months early for christmas

he also loves tacky christmas sweaters, and makes new ones every year for a select few people, including becky

becky hates tacky christmas sweaters. carter knows this, and makes her more visually pleasing ones, with better designs and color combinations.

she deals with the ones he makes for himself though. he makes the ugliest ones for himself. in a weird way, she admires his enthusiasm with it. it’s cute how passionate he is about it.

Carter has very feminine behaviors, and a soft, androgynous voice. He often gets confused for a girl. (this is one of the first things i decided about him, actually)

carter was an only child, raised by his mom. His dad left them when he was young, so he doesn’t remember him much.

becky is hard for me to come up with backstory for, because i want her to be a very rebellious person growing up.

she doesn’t get along with her family at all.

she has at least one older brother and a younger one. 

she’s on better terms with the latter, even though their similar personalities make them butt heads. she feels responsible for him, and wants him to grow up better than she did.

Becky hates her mom. i haven't decided if her mom was abusive or not, (or if so, why she was that way) but they did argue a lot.

becky is half bunny, half bird monster. (monster genetics are weird. her mom’s a bunny but her dad’s an owl.)

most of her body is covered in fur, but her back has some blue feathers. no wings though.

becky runs the original tonkin’s yarn and craft shop that carter inherited from his mom. she also manages financial things, and is pretty good at it.

Carter moved a few years prior to the game’s story to open a second shop in snowdin.

carter has either met or knows of sans. he got the materials for pap’s costume from there.

carter knows papyrus. i like the headcanon that he knows how to knit, so he visits the shop occasionally. he’s one of carter’s best regulars.

flowey has manipulated carter and becky in several timelines, but not this one. aside from once, a long time ago. I wrote a bit about it, but i need to rewrite it, because i was tired at the time and it turned out shitty.

Becky would be a lot worse off if she hadn’t met carter. at best she’d be a rebellious self centered jerk, and at worst she’d be in jail.

she met carter when they were kids. she fell in love with his personality, and flirted with him the best way she knew how (messing with him.) 

when she realised that was hurting him emotionally, they had a heart to heart, promising to be honest with each other if they hurt each other’s feelings.

this really helped change becky for the better. she learned to be more sensitive to other people’s feelings because if him, and is especially cautious with his.

becky has a huge flippin crush on him. like hooo boy. she wants to tell him, but every time she tries she chickens out. she hates herself for that, because she’s normally more bold than that.

the day that the game takes place, when they were getting supplies for carter to take back to the snowdin shop, she almost tells him, but doesn’t. she would mention this if you kill him first in a genocide run.

carter doesn’t know becky has a crush on her for sure. he thought she might at some points, but never asked. the idea of starting a relationship with her is somewhat frightening to him, but he has thought about the possibility.

i’ve dabbled making them be a couple or not, but i dunno. i don’t know how to write romance.

i’m thinking about making becky pansexual. 

they’re both in their early 20s, but height wise, they’re both about the size of a human child.

I’m gonna make another comic of them eventually, set directly after the last one, were becky admits she loves him, and that she was terrified for his safety when she found out that there was a human. 

i also want them to mention that carter’s mom is gone, and that she would have loved to be there under the stars. i don’t want it to be a sad moment, but more of a “i’m glad we’re here” moment.

aaand that’s about all i can think about right now. i know there’s more, but for now i’ve made a huge flippin list, and i’m tired of typing.

[flarebossmalva]

just for future reference and in case anyone was curious i’m going to explain what the hell i was on about re: some stuff in my writing tag

skipping things that are obvious or self-explanatory but if you’re puzzled by something i wrote and i didn’t explain it here then feel free to ask i guess

disgust - i thought of vomit immediately and then wrote about the last experience i had with a friend who was sick. i don’t actually remember which friend this was anymore. “you’re never going to die ever again” i’m not sure about but i think this may have been referring to how awful stomach sicknesses are and how they can literally be so bad they make you feel like you’re dying? that’s a guess

aether - thought of “ether” instead which is very volatile so that’s how i got onto the theme about exploding. i think the rest was just vague associations

pincushion - human pincushion. i guess someone who has bled out completely

aura - you know how they talk about people having colored auras? i just picked a color and went from there. don’t know what “i can taste it under my fingernails” means even remotely but if this is from when i worked in produce/floral i constantly had plant matter under my fingernails so maybe that. am reading “you look lovely, by the way. very fresh.” in GLaDOS’ voice for some reason and not sure if that was what i had in mind when i wrote it

mint leaves - catnip is in the mint family and some people says humans can get a mild high off smoking it

indie - this was about seeing mother mother live. the “he” is ryan

wind - probably masturbation but trying to explain the trip from point a to point b that i made here would get really complicated if i’m even recalling it correctly

lamp oil - amnesia: the dark descent. lamp oil is a resource in that game. player character hallucinates bugs and grinds his teeth when he spends too long in the dark

bombs - boss fight wheatley. the track that plays during that battle is called “bombs for throwing at you”

cucumber - i was thinking of items you could buy together at a supermarket that would disturb the cashier. a single cucumber, rope, and a paperback romance novel sends some interesting implications i think

columbia - no idea but one of my friends told me this is essentially the plot of bioshock infinite

kevin james - one of those paul blart mall cop memes involved the phrase “distant egg song!” and that’s what i was going off of

marigold - flowey

25-27 - since this looked like it was referring to three sequential questions on an askmeme i acted as though that’s what i was answering here. i don’t know why i chose the colors blue and orange; portals from the portal games are those colors but what with the other two responses in this post being undertale related i’m thinking maybe blue = sans and orange = papyrus

🙌 - reference to a (nsfw, i won’t link it) fanfic about sans smoking. i have a massive smoking kink so i think you can see why i’d find that emoji appropriate

syringe - this is a reference to a short story i wrote in high school. the association is that i think syringes were used to administer drugs to the protagonist

wine - almost positive there’s an audio log in the first bioshock game that’s a bit like this. even if there isn’t, there’s an area where a party has clearly gone down (lots of alcohol, splicers are dressed fancy) and that’s what it made me think of

glow - no idea

can of soda - i was thinking of a sprite can

amsterdam by imagine dragons - a song i don’t know; i used to be friends with this kid who was weirdly snobby about music and would condescend to me if i admitted to not knowing of a song or artist, so i wrote about that, kind of

apartments - “apartments are like cages” is a phrase that either i or someone else has used and i thought of that phrase and then i thought about cages and then i thought about johanna from sweeney todd and her one musical number

gold - this is about my paternal grandfather moving west as an adult. he didn’t move as part of the gold rush but that’s what i thought of first and then i thought about his moving to california so this was kind of a mix of the two concepts

sting - musical artist sting has got an album called brand new day and this was written thinking about the album art

lunar theatre - i’ve explained this one before but i wrote this while really sick around the time i first got diagnosed with lyme disease. i was sleeping most of the time and tired whenever i was awake. at the time i was also taking ativan (among other medications) and it made me very sleepy and out of it. the title comes from an art installation i saw once which basically looked like an artificial shoreline, which is where the ocean/water imagery comes from

tessellation - obvious maybe but repetition is part of the definition of the word

roses - james from team rocket, often carrying a rose

paris - this was a joke about egg hatching in pokemon x/y (the most efficient way to do it is to bike in circles repeatedly around the game’s version of the eiffel tower)

n - i feel like this is obvious too but it’s a joke about n harmonia from the 5th gen pokemon games

nature - i’m not sure how i got to talking about gelatin molds but have you seen some of the ones from the fifties and sixties? truly horrifying

berry - early on in x/y you’re put in charge of a berry field and then later you become champion (the league is at the top of a mountain). there are curtains in the champion’s room. idk i just thought about becoming champ and then abandoning the berry field since that’s basically what i did in-game

dogs - pretty literal, this is just my experience with pet dogs

q - this is a reference to a song from goddamn sesame street

teacup - malva has a butler, who presumably serves her tea sometimes. he battles you on her behalf once and his team is pretty powerful, but of course she’s elite four and would have him beat

guitar - at the time there were a lot of “wonderwall” memes that’s what i thought of

pine - pine trees, christmas trees, their lives are cut short but they get to dress up fancy for a few weeks, i don’t know

touch-me-not - fanfic i plotted out once but never actually finished writing. in it, bryony and celosia are using one of those remote-control vibrators (celosia was the one wearing it, and bryony had the remote, iirc) but if you remember team flare also used a remote to control the ultimate weapon and i loved the idea of getting the two remotes mixed up. all the higher-ups (save bryony and celosia, of course) are playing with the remote thinking it’s broken and trying to get it to work. meanwhile poor celosia is dying and the only one who notices is malva, who is the “she” in this piece, who deliberately starts messing with the remote to get a reaction out of bry + cel. i don’t remember how this fanfic was going to end but i think probably celosia would excuse herself to go to the bathroom (to, ahem, take care of herself) and malva would follow her in and then idk they’d fuck. listen i’ve had worse ideas

nightshade - i’m not sure how i got from the prompt to my fill but the fill is definitely about another fic i was working on involving a trainer who experiments on eevee trying to discover new eeveelutions

knives - my abuser had a “suicide attempt” (not really, he didn’t do anything except think about it, but that’s how he classed it iirc) where he planned on using a knife. also he wrote (bad) poetry once comparing me to a knife because idk i was mean for not wanting to fuck him probably

cake - it’s 2007 bro. memes bro. this was about portal bro

gameboy - self-explanatory i think but this was specifically a goof on ben drowned even though a lot of video game creepypasta start out this way

ruby - as in the pokemon game. this was about being a team magma grunt

cicada - i think this one is straightforward but in case it’s not, in my area you find dead cicadas all over the place in june

notebook - this was about harriet the spy

tree - based off of something that happened with me and my best friend when i was eleven or twelve

big ben - well, english clock towers... there’s a scene in a christmas carol where scrooge wakes up and hears the clock strike an hour it’s already struck and gets freaked and worries about the spirits coming to haunt him

cookie - i got a baby doll for christmas when i was a little kid and gave it to my younger sister bc she liked baby dolls and i didn’t. she named that doll cookie. this was general feels about being the Bad Child who Wasn’t Feminine

paint - straightforward again but this is about my parents’ house, the one we moved into when i was a young teen and where they still live with my little sister (and, currently, me). it was initially painted white and we repainted yellow a few years ago (i think after i had moved out to go to college). also that house still doesn’t feel like home to me in the same way our old house did

boots - god this is gonna take a lot of explaining but in the underland chronicles, second book, gregor (protagonist) is separated from his baby sister (nicknamed boots) after, iirc, the boat they’re in capsizes and they get washed into the nearby catacombs by the waves. he assumes she’s drowned since she’s a toddler and can’t swim. it’s basically his blue screen of death moment and he spends the next part of the book feeling totally dead inside, like a machine, no emotion no empathy. this scene fucked me up bad when i first read it aged about nine

freckles - i think this is obvious but just in case, this is about me (formerly) hating my freckles

egg - aforementioned fic about eevee experimentation was maybe going to involve unethical forced hatching of eevee eggs by cracking them open before they’re ready. i was basically thinking of every sick thing you could do to a pokemon to try and force an evolution

fairy - same fic. the protagonist has a shiny eevee that she gives special treatment and thinks is going to evolve into something special bc no evolution method she’s tried has worked on it. it was to be revealed later that her “special” eevee had actually just swallowed an everstone, and, immediately upon operating to remove said everstone, eevee evolved into sylveon

orange - as a small child i was allergic to oranges. the only memory i have of having an allergic reaction was breaking out in hives and going down our creaky old staircase, which felt big and intimidating to me as a little kid, to tell my parents about it

yuri - i thought of a favorite f/f pairing of mine, bryony/celosia, and in particular the scene that got me to ship it. in that scene, you battle celosia (who acts very woe-is-me upon being defeated) and bryony immediately springs to her (girl)friend’s defense

mitochondria - i learned the word from the sequel to a wrinkle in time, in which charles wallace gets really sick with some sort of mitochondrial disease and his older sister meg tries to save him by like astral projecting inside his mitochondria or something. god that book was weird

a gigantic rubber duck - when she was a baby someone gave my sister a gigantic rubber duck (which she adored, i think we still have it somewhere) and so this was about how i felt about having a new sibling

electricity - eevee fic again. rival character in the fic was an electric-type trainer. this was about the convention of trainers locking eyes and then battling

feverish - fevers as sex metaphor somehow??? i guess because fevers, like sex, often leave you sweaty. eleven was when i had my first wet dream and eighteen was when i listened to that “naegi with a fever” audio and got real gay

anger - metaphor again. i really did make a glass paperweight one time, on a class trip to a glass museum. my abuser and i were off-again with our friendship at the beginning of that trip and on-again by the end of it but there was still, i think, unresolved anger on both sides. that’s the association. i don’t know how to explain what i was thinking here beyond that

mosquitos - “petty annoyances” is just what i think of mosquitos and then i guess i just went from there. “bigger than i am but you know when to kneel” might have been my abuser again. he was, indeed, bigger than me but he got down on his knees begging me to be his friend again right at the end of things between us lol. honestly it was the most compelling thing he ever did

laundry basket - i thought about dirty laundry and then about worrying my clothes smelled dirty or that i smelled dirty and like, obsessively bathing because someone wanted to come over and have sex with me and i was just barely not a virgin at that point and had no idea what i was doing and was freaked out over the whole thing

cow - i took a year of spanish and for some reason the only thing i actually learned was how to say “where is the cow” and “the cow is here” which are not actually useful phrases in most contexts