#Rose's Rambles

[undertalebabbleblog]

UTDR 9th Anniversary Newsletter Musings

(Here's a link to the newsletter if you haven't already read it: Autumn 2024.) (It's spring right now where I am...) (Eh, oh well.)

First of all, Tori blowing fire to light the candles, very cool, might have to draw that.

Hmm, that's a lot of a certain number... You know what, I don't even have to go into this, we all know what it's referencing.

An interview with Sans, heck yeah!

As I expected, it's a joke, but... uh... just me, or does it seem like it might be talking about something else? Not entirely sure what, but I'm sure there's already plenty of theories despite it literally only coming out today. In any case, it was very amusing and some classic Undertale humour. Also

Jeez, Tori, it's been years, you've already made your feelings about Asgore's actions clear. Give the poor guy a break. (Link to the full interview if you wanna read it: Sans: What do you think about the number nine?)

...Toby? Toby, what does this mean? TOBY WHY DO YOU MAKE THE MOST INNOCUOUS STATEMENTS THAT HAVE SO MUCH POTENTIAL MEANING BEHIND THEM ...This is... ominous, to say the least, given the Snowgrave route and the fact that Toriel might join us in the Dark World in Chapter 3... ...I'm just overthinking this, right? ..........right???

Toby, this is the Undertale fandom you're talking to. Since when have we ever been responsible with Sans or his AUs? You should know better than to trust us with this skeleton by now. *Proceeds to use cup for strawberry milkshake* ....Dammit, now I want to draw him with a bunch of different-coloured eyes... just because...

Never misses a chance to do this sort of thing, does he? (It has my real name in it, which I don't really want to show, so have some badly edited screenshots instead.) I have made butterscotch cinnamon pie before and it was genuinely delicious. Would love to bake one in that Toriel pie tray. ...I wonder how a fish and chips pie would actually taste, though...?

PERFECTION

I would buy every single item of this kitchen merch if I had the money.

*vibrating intensely with excitement*

Very nice, always cool to see unused stuff and concepts.

. . .

*Well, there is a man here. *He might be happy to see you. *What do you think?

...I overthink these things too much.

And finally, we get a letter.

My best friend's favorite number is nine. It's because there isn't a number that's higher. 9. 99. 999. 9999. If everything gets high enough, You become invincible. Nothing can hurt you anymore. Nothing can hurt anyone anymore. But isn't it scary, to think there's a highest number? That, if you made 99 good memories, you couldn't hold anymore. So I don't like to keep count of the flowers we pick, or the times that they laugh, or how many scary faces they make. I just hope we'll be friends for 999 more years.

(Couldn't screenshot the whole thing because it was too big, so I just copied the text. Here's a link to the original: Letter) On one hand, the spacing is kind of reminiscent of what we assume is Gaster. But on the other hand, it's not in all caps, and the language is different, and from what we know of the mysterious scientist (which is quite frankly very little), it wouldn't make sense. There is, however, someone else that would make a lot more sense.

*I'll go get the flowers. *I should have laughed it off, like you did... *Okay, [Name], are you ready? *Do your creepy face!

And most telling of all, "My best friend"...

It's. It's Asriel. IT'S GOTTA BE AZZY OKAY COME ON, THERE'S THE MENTION OF THE SCARY FACES AND EVERYTHING

...Ahem.

My hypothesis is that it's Asriel Dreemurr.

Aaaaannnddd... that's it for this newsletter! I needed somewhere to dump my thoughts on it, and that's kinda what this blog is for, so yeah.

A very happy birthday to my favourite game of all time.

If you have any theories or observations about the newsletter, I'd love to see them!

See ya next time, Pup

[dragons-and-magic]

I heard some people saying that we should have gotten some episodes highlighting James and Nia's dynamics, since they're implied to be close. So, since I'm an aspiring script writer, I took it up on myself to write one for them! Here's the summary! I imagine this would take place in a hypothetical BWBA season.

The Red Engine Rally

Summary: Nia is thrilled to discover her old friend Kwaku is visiting Sodor. Everyone else is also very excited to meet another engine from Nia's homeland. But James feels overshadowed by the much larger and grander red engine. Not to mention that Nia and everyone else seems to like Kwaku much better than him. To see who's the best red engine, James organizes a series of competitions for him and Kwaku to compete in. Whoever wins, will be declared to Best Red Engine in the world! But among all this excitement, James completely misses the fact that Nia doesn't want to choose between her friends. She cares about them both!

One more thing! If you guys want, I may try writing this episode out and posting it! Would you guys want to read it? Let me know!

[crescentmoonsandroses]

What if you got weapons or armour from the bosses in Undertale?

❤️Short/menu name (serious mode name) *(Name of item) *(Neutral flavour text) *(Genocide flavour text)

❤️TorRobe (T.Robe) *(Torn Robe) *(Still smells like butterscotch/cinnamon.) *(No regrets.)

❤️PapyScarf (Scarf) *(Papyrus Scarf) *(Is it red or orange...?) *(Looks cooler on you.)

❤️DumKnife (D.Knife) *(Dummy Knife) *(What? What?! WHAT?! ...It's a knife.) *(You don't need friends.)

❤️U.Dy.Spear (Spear) *(Undyne Spear) *(There's something fishy about it.) *(Filled with DETERMINATION.)

❤️SpdrRib (S.Ribbon) *(Spider Ribbon) *(Smells like muffins.) *(Free of charge.)

❤️MettaBoots (MTTBoots) *(MTT-Brand Boots) *(Make you feel fabulous.) *(The show won't go on.)

❤️CatMar (Marotte) *(Cat-Head Marotte) *(You showed your LOVE.)

❤️K'rown (Crown) *(King's Crown) *(The king rules!) *(It's heavy.)

❤️G'lower (Flower) *(Golden Flower) *(You wiped the smile off its face.) *(Down here, it's kill or be killed.)

❤️BluJack (Jacket) *(Blue Jacket) *(Now sans a skeleton.)

[that1foxthingg]

beefydie but dragon,,,

one day the thought of making a bfdi x wof au popped into my head and now it wont leave. so here are some designs i made for it

[seasonalflowerr]

rose this is why you couldnt catch me on ferbert /silly

HEY NOW YOU LISTEN HERE-

i can't believe i'm saying this but what if i'm just really bad at minecraft. the double w tap might not be to blame. maybe that is why i could not catch you on ferbert. you two were just TOO FAST. the delights of a fast camel? more like the horrors of a fast camel,,,

[rosegolddoodle252]

cuurent hobby is being obsessed with my viddy games

[destiny-fics]

Y'all tell me why my friend and I had a full convo today about getting matching CB97 and SpearB tattoos today?

Are we okay?

No, we're not. The answer is we are not okay. These men have us in such a chokehold on us that for a good 20 mins I was fully considering getting "SpearB" tattooed on my ribs.

And now I'm listening to 3racha music while studying for my exam tomorrow and like...what if I did it?

Nah I won't, but like imagine if I did...👀

Low key reckon Binnie would find it hot, just saying. Chan and Jisung probably would too...just saying

Just a thot thought

[tanjir0se]

Hello!! I saw in the tags of a post that youd like more asks, which made me brave enough to send one

Would u mind rambling a bit about your rengiyuu fic(s)? I get excited when I hear that you're working on them but I don't know if you've published any/ any chapters yet?

I hope you're having a nice day!! 🌻

hI THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING AND I AM SO SORRY _(:3 」∠)_

So it AAALLL started with my overlong post-Entertainment District Coping fic I wrote the majority of between episodes 10 and 11 of Entertainment District, trying to find a way for Tanj and the bois to survive the. yknow. Gigantic Poison Explosion.

I wrote Giyuu and Shinobu heading there with an antidote, and Giyuu having to dig around through the rubble to find Tanjiro, half dead. In that I draw comparisons between his relationship with Tanjiro and his relationship with the now-deceased Kyojuro, very different but all leading into the same conclusion: He can't stand to lose anyone else who is as special and just sunshine incarnate as Kyo was. It's told interspersed between Giyuu trying to find/save Tanjiro and my headcanon for Giyuu and Kyo's first meeting, in which Giyuu became a Hashira AFTER Kyo and Kyo was his mentor throughout. Never finished or published it because most of it didn't make sense in canon after Ep 11 came out.

Then I moved onto my Demon!Rengoku bullshit. In this fic that takes place any time post Entertainment District, Rengoku has been posthumously turned into a demon by Douma in an attempt to get close to/kill Tanjiro. Waking up with no memory, no awareness that he's a demon, and nowhere else to go, Kyo wanders to Giyuu's house. Giyuu tries to just end him right then and there but can't work up the nerve, even when Kyo attacks him. Haven't gotten too far, but the gist is that he and Kyo have to team up (with Akaza?? [obviously he'd be fucking PISSED that Douma managed to turn Kyo when he couldn't, so maybe some enemy of my enemy is my friend?]) to figure out who turned him and how to turn him back. Probably my spiciest fic? Demons sexy what can I say. I think I'm pretty good at writing smut but I can literally never work up the nerve so. yknow.

I ALSO have a much more fluffy fic based on the idea of Giyuu being injured in battle, waking up in the butterfly mansion with Kyo having thought he died. Kyo tries to confess that he's realized his love for him but panics last minute and ends up saying he's realized Giyuu never met his brother. Giyuu accepts and they end up on a date that neither really realizes is a date except poor Senjuro, who now kind of has to play matchmaker! Very fluffy and silly and a good break from the darker fics I had been working on.

Annnnd another less overtly Rengiyuu fic as part of my Modern AU in which Giyuu (Kyo's roommate[and they were ROOMMATES]) and Sanemi (over at their apartment because he was bored) find themselves embroiled in the Rengoku family drama after Senjuro and Kyo appear at their apartment, Kyo with a black eye from their father. Explores Giyuu and Sanemi's shared past (dead siblings), Sanemi's relationship with his own father, and my personal thoughts for how Shinjuro and Kyojuro's relationship would have played out A.) If Kyo never died and B.) in a modern setting.

That was interrupted by As the World Caves In (read it here!) and will likely be interrupted by some Everybody Lives AU Secret Relationship bullshit in the future.

*Takes a huge deep breath*

So yeah anyway i loooove being Normal! For real though thank you for asking, I will die on this Ship and will always welcome the opportunity to ramble incoherently about it !!

[sakumafangs]

saw this & wanted to fill mine out.

Extra opinion notes:

Finn is 17 & I feel weird shipping him with adults

Leo is 14, but I can kinda see him and Francois if the kid didn't run away from him.

Is Bobby dead? I don't think he survived the fire at the orphanage.

Chris x Vijay x Wendy is my main favorite polymory

I think Wendy and Chelsea should kiss

Sugar Pease & a vacation

Tilt, Burst and Zenon as a polymory

I ship Chris with an OC of mine but that's just my thing.

Old man gang: Theodore, Ban, Norman, Owen, Bernard

I miss Nhat Nyugen & the lady who fought Love-P this season.

[undeadrozu]

Very weirded out by the amount of nsfw there is with Finn and Leo in it despite them being underage in the High Card cast.

I just want to read platonic fluff, interesting angst or cute stuff.

[undertalebabbleblog]

Guess I'm doin' this now

Heya, I'm here now too. I'm the friend that was mentioned in the post about Underfell collars. I dabble mostly in canon info, thus why I had to ask about the collars. You can call me whatever, I don't really care, but the name I usually use for myself on here is Rose. I'll be posting the occasional ramble or rant.

[dragons-and-magic]

Do you ever think about different engine types having different whistles?

Do you ever think about engines being able to recognize their siblings by their matching whistles?

Do you ever think about engines who's families were scrapped and them whistling desperately for them, in hope someone is still out there? Just waiting for a familiar sound? But they never get an answer because they're gone forever?

Do you?

Do You???

Because I do.🥲

[crescentmoonsandroses]

Deltarune's themes of escapism and why they hit me hard

I was going to do some Deltarune art based around this and then just have the definition of escapism under it, but I can't think of what to draw, so I'm just going to ramble about it instead.

Deltarune, as I'm sure many many other people have pointed out before, has strong themes of escapism in addition to its themes of control, freedom, the narrative, etc. The Dark Worlds transform objects into people, rooms into environments, high school students into heroes. They seem to bring to life the sorts of games you played as a kid, with your toys and your friends, making up a story that played out in your mind, enhanced by your imagination. It's theatre of the mind, helped along by the toys and props and whatnot - like when you're playing D&D, too. This sort of thing is mainly in Chapter One, with the game pieces and cards and toys. I remember playing make-believe with practically everything as a kid - I made up stories with chess pieces a few times, that was fun. Castle Town and Card Kingdom are both reminiscent of a very traditional form of escapism: fantasy.

The Cyber World is a little different, but it still holds the same sort of idea - hell, we're all here on Tumblr, we know what it's like to bury ourselves in the internet, in videos and memes and posts, and forget the world for a little while. This is emphasised by Queen's commentary - I can't find the exact quote, but it's something about being worried that the Lightners will become depressed without the 'bliss' of the internet, which isn't currently working in Hometown. We also know that Chapter 3 will take place in Toriel's lounge room and seems to be specifically based around the TV (and, this is off topic, but I literally just realised Mike could be, like, mic, as in microphone, and Tenna could be short for antenna), which can also be a form of escapism for people. I know that my mum, for one, watches TV most nights.

There's also the specific characters who fall into the Dark Worlds - Kris, Susie, Noelle, Berdly.

Kris seems to be considered weird by most of Hometown, where they are the only human and don't seem to have many - or, well, any - real friends apart from their brother, who was the town's golden boy, who everyone keeps talking about and seems to hold in high regard, whose side of the bedroom holds trophies and pictures and colour while Kris' is bare and grey (they also have Susie now, but she only became their friend during the first Dark World). In the Dark World, however, Kris gets to be a hero, sword and shield raised, saving the world with their friends. Everyone in Castle Town loves them. The room Ralsei built for them has trophies aplenty. And then there's the matter of Ralsei, who looks so much like Toriel and Asgore and Asriel, who is so nice and so supportive of Kris, who has pink horns like maybe a certain red headband faded (yes I headcanon that Ralsei is Kris' old horn headband and will continue to do so until proven wrong).

Susie, who drinks milk from back alleys and threatens to eat people's faces, who didn't actually call home when she had a sleepover with Kris, who gets uncomfortable around the block of flats in Hometown, who doesn't seem to know how to react when shown kindness or friendship, who considers herself the 'bad guy'. Well, she gets to be that bad guy, strong and powerful and scary, with a big axe and sharp teeth and enemies to defeat. And then she gets to have friends, she gets to have food, she gets to be the hero and maybe that's not so bad after all if she does it alongside people she cares about, people who care about her. We can see how much happier she is in the Dark Worlds.

Berdly, who tries so hard to be perceived as smart, who loves videogames. I don't have as much to say about him, honestly, but his Dark World design is quite distinctively Cyber World when compared to the other Lightner's more fantasy-inspired designs, and being in the Dark World gives him the chance to be a hero, even if he's not great at that for most of Chapter 2.

And Noelle. Noelle, whose sister seems to be missing or dead, whose dad is in hospital, whose mum is the town's mayor and works a lot and has an icy personality. Noelle who searches for bugs and secrets in the games she seems to love. Noelle who wishes she had magic to heal her dad. Noelle who seems to feel powerless to help someone she loves, who doesn't stand up to Berdly or her mum. Once she's in the Dark World, she can heal people. She stands up to Queen, who is a sort of mother figure. She gets to spend time with Susie. She gets to see the city lights that Dess promised her.

All this to say that Deltarune in general and the Dark Worlds specifically have some not-so-subtle themes of escapism.

Now, the 'why it hits me hard' bit. Escapism has always been one of my main coping strategies, and even beyond that, I love fantasy, I love stories, I love burying myself in another world. It's much easier to be in a world where there's magic and quests and maybe there's struggles and strife and people still get hurt and mess up and go through bad things, but eventually there's a happy ending because that's how stories work, they don't have the constant uncertainty of real life. And, you know, if I could go to a Dark World, I would. I can understand why Susie likes the Dark Worlds so much, why Noelle and Berdly wanted to make another. Escapism is something that I can understand, especially after having struggled with my mental health for a few years (I'm a lot better now though). The world can be messy and complicated and hard, and wouldn't it be nice to be in a different world for a bit, one where you can be who you want to be and you don't feel lost anymore?

So, uh... yeah lol.

[spectreunreflected]

Info/Tagging System

hi y'all! since this is going to be my little art chamber for the foreseeable future, i figured i should have a pinned post for basic info and navigating how i'm going to tag things for organizational purposes

the basics:

i'm a self-taught artist and college student, i use he/she pronouns, and you can call me rose! i mostly draw my d&d characters and other ocs, but you might see a bit of various fanart here over time. i use autodesk sketchbook for the large majority of my art, but if i ever post any animatics here, they'll be through toon boom storyboard pro. my url comes from “cold” by the oh hellos. asks are always welcome if you have any questions about my characters, dnd, worldbuilding lore, or my process :)

tagging system/explanations:

#rose's art : for all of my original art

#rose's rambles : talking about my characters and other original, non-art posts

#rose answers : responses to asks

#isolation: raising hell : one of my two d&d campaigns, the basis for most of my art atm. we're running around the world on magical errands for a shit boss to prevent the apocalypse and having the worst double date ever

#viel vesper : my character in raising hell, a changeling twilight cleric with a passion for fashion, terrible taste in men, mysterious connections to both the lady of the lake and the queen of winter, and a rapidly climbing kill count

#age of heroes : my other current d&d campaign, loosely based off of the argonauts and the iliad. the party is getting up to island-hopping hijinks with the hopes of eventually journeying across the polynomous sea and rescuing a kidnapped prince

#ilya of anthemoessa : my character in age of heroes, an ex-siren fathomless warlock/spirits bard who fell in love with the aforementioned prince and is using the power of sister issues and immeasurable amounts of fish monster rizz to go get their man

i'll update this list as time goes on and i post more!

[temporalteardrop]

bass makes a dollar. i make a dime. that's why i think about lesbian sex on company time

[thornthisway]

Another day of me wishing every cc converter who convert parts from another game like Genshin a very, please credit the damn sources you get parts from besides the name of the game. There are people who port the models for these companies in MMD form who ask on every post to please credit them and not put the parts behind any paywalls.

If MMDers have to credit every asset they use, I don't see why Sims cc converters can't. It's not hard to have a small blurb in the description mentioning the original converters name.