#papyrus worm

[alynwrench]

My last drawing seems to have brought in a lot of Papyrus fans so I present...

PAPYRUS WORM.

[undergecko]

Bone Spaghetti

oh shit it's my turn for this

uhhh

GO, PAPYRUS

[victoriabutter]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EVERYONE

This is the best sprite of papyrus ever created

[idrawgaystffs]

Heheh added a Frisk to the gif

^^ (Original from August Deltarune & Undertale Newsletter by Toby Fox)

[starleska]

i’ve been loving all of the great humanisations for Warren and the different interpretations on giving him clothes...however. i have a cursed suggestion.

if we weren’t cowards we’d give him a crop top 😳

[security4314]

horrortale doodles plus smth a lil bit related to what i keep seeing all over my fyp hehe

[account-no-longer-used]

Tried to do the shifter au papyrus??? Not sure if it worked. I dont really know what I'm supposed to say when I'm drawing other people's aus? @shifter-au if you wanna look at their stuff??? I think that's ther right person I'm tagging. I hope so.

[darqee]

some (very messy) practice sketches of the skelebois for soul collector

[cactusdeedrawdles]

[coolskelly95]

W O R M

O B S E R V E, B E F R I E N D, P R O T E C T.

[grumpyghostdoodles]

Void Monsters can travel trough shadows/Void, right?. With this in mind, have this quickaroo doodle of "resurrected as Void Monster" Chara trying their newfound powers with disappointing results, lmao

[desktopdinosaur]

Did y’all read this seasons newsletter?

[girlaph-lilyrose]

Baby cats, very cute!

[xctaanayuu0]

Help why is everyone drawing paps in a doggy style looking at a worm? I have seen so many drawings like this and Im starting to get confuse.. (I live in a fucking rock)

[icycove]

The first lesson of Super Cool Epic Guard Hero Training™️ is Intimidating Your Opponent with

🔥 Cool Poses 🔥

A very special gift for my dear friend, @piliiiiiconfusionf !!! This was a long time in the works, but I am super happy to get this to you now!! Please enjoy your kiddo Sapphire getting one-on-one epic training with the coolest dude in all of Underfell 🔥 He’s definitely learning from one of the best~

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you're wondering how so many books got lost and also how we have surviving ones, let me explain how books used to circulate before the invention of the printing press.

These days, a writer gets into a partnership with a publisher and this publisher prints and circulates these books to bookstores or other sellers and a percentage of every new sale goes to the writer and their agent. Used books are either resold privately or in used book stores or thrift stores or online. Some books are gifted to libraries. When the libraries have no more use for these books they are sold or thrown out.

In ancient times, there was no "books" as we currently understand them. Everything was written down or drawn on long scrolls of papyrus or parchment.

A writer would likely finish their final draft and do all their editing on cheap scrap paper or other writing surfaces like tree bark. Then they would either hire a scribe to make a few expensive copies or make the copies themselves if they were trained to do it all with good handwriting or calligraphy all in columns so that you could roll the scroll from side to side, only reading one column at a time.

The writer would then give these copies to their friends and family members, or as a gift to some important person, or perhaps just to someone who hired them to write it.

So let's say you are an educated courtesan or prostitute in the 1st century BC in Roman Greece and you write a fun and informative sex manual going over sex moves and sexual health complete with pictures. So you finish writing this sex manual and have a copy of it made and sent to a few of your other rich friends.

Your other rich friends think your sex manual is really cool and they take care of it and keep it unscrolled and flat stored in their personal libraries along with all of their other books. When they're moving it around or loaning it out to other people they keep it tightly rolled up to keep it compact.

Some people who borrow your sex manual from your friends really like it and want their own copy. So then either your friends will pay a scribe to make a copy of it and gift it to these people or the people who want it will borrow the copy and pay to have a copy made themselves. Copying your book in particular is even more expensive than normal because it has drawings in it so they need to find a scribe that is trained in copying drawings and not every scribe will take a commission for a sexual book, but they like your books so much that they're willing to take on the expense.

So this keeps going. People keep paying to make copies of your book. People like it a lot and eventually it becomes well-liked by the rich and they pay people to make copies of it for all their friends. After a couple of centuries of your book getting copied over and over again your book is a "bestseller" of sorts but you and your descendants never really saw any money from it because the people getting paid in the circulation of your book are scribes being paid to make copies of it and merchants selling what scrolls of it they can get their hands on.

By now the original copies you gave your friends are likely in the hands of their descendants, if the original copies still exist at all. They might've been burned in a fire when your friend's daughter dropped her lantern, or maybe worms ate it, or maybe your friends didn't keep it in a dry enough place and it just started to rot.

If the people who own a copy of your book like it enough or think it's important enough and they see that their copy is rotting or torn or charred, they can pay to have another copy made, but they also might not care enough and throw it out or just let it rot.

Over the centuries, your book slowly circulates less and less and the existing copies of your sex manual slowly rot in libraries or are purposefully burned as Christianity takes over, Rome falls, and literacy rates plummet while attitudes towards sexual books become even worse than they were in your time. Less people can read, less people work as scribes, less people have the skills to copy the drawings that were in your book.

And then on some unknown date, the last copy of your book is quietly eaten by worms in a damp and poorly cared for library.

This is what happened to The Book of Elephantis, a sex manual written by a prostitute or some other kind of sex worker working under a pseudonym somewhere in Greece in the 1st century BC. Her book was really popular in the time of the Roman Empire but it's since been lost. All the copies of her book just rotted away or burned over a thousand years ago. People just didn't care about sex manuals anymore and most people couldn't read them either.

It's also why most of the oldest copies of stuff like the Iliad we have are from the middle ages. The surviving works we have for the most part are the ones that people kept making new copies of and were stored properly.

Sometimes we get lucky and find some really old parchment scrolls in a dry cave or something or we scan books we have and can find where ink was scraped off and the paper was reused. But for the most part stuff gets lost because someone just didn't want to pay the expense to make a new copy.

Be thankful it's so cheap to make copies of books now and that modern paper lasts longer than parchment.