#lab thoughts

[randomcollection-o-stuff]

Never kill yourself, Spiderman Noir Show!!!!!

[haley-harrison]

telling on myself for entertainment purposes 🙃

[evercelle]

it was all so simple then

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[zillychu]

what if his suit WASN'T shrink wrapped

[aleurain]

Yes he did ☺️

[technically-human]

This happened, it just wasn't relevant to the plot

[datcravat]

SCIENCE BEGETS TRUTH✨

[vampyrholmes]

the way they stand after this guy produces what is around $40k in modern USD gets me every time. watson looks like he’s gonna puke and holmes look like his ears started ringing. if watson could say ‘what the fuck’ he would’ve

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

[randomcollection-o-stuff]

Of course you're autistic and like Daft Punk

[suntails]

happy birthday silver!!

[valkugo]

forever one of my favorite underrated jayvik moments.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Actually, the bars aren't so bad anymore.

Think you can fix him? Read about his care instructions over at Tiger Tiger)

[solacebean]

The Goat

[abyssalzones]

to this day i think the best part of journal 3 was definitely just these two going hiking in the pacific northwest, both ill-equipped in different ways but clearly having a lot of fun.