#post-parable

[a-game-of-beginnings]

Happy 2025 TK Tournamenting everyone (and thanks @cosmokrill for creating and hosting this)!

And don't mind that last part in the image, haha, he's just kidding! Weeell, I mean, Owen is his Settings buddy from a neighboring TSP universe, so it can't hurt to throw some votes their way when it's their turn, right? Riiight! Cough, cough.

No, really now. Good luck, everyone!

[shinakazami1]

I'll be slowly posting the missing Paratober days but due to uni I decided it will be one per day :]

Pararober Day 11: Post-Parable AU /Two Doors

One of my post Parable stuff is Fernator's Apocalypse AU. In it, Fernator wants to lick Stanley out of the Outside World (aka the real world in this AU) due to being anxious from how big it is. Stanley gets help from 432 (who keeps an eye on them as the boys are a glitch in universe).

For that, Settings Person created a fake company to keep Stanley in ahhke they try to keep themselves from being returned to Parable, as Fernie tries to search for Stanley and spreads in the world. Apocalypse part comes from Fernator first taking control over plants of the planet and slowly, through digestive system, of animals. Its also based like everything else in three different passegeways of the AU.

[imasharkingamer]

Post-Parable narry :]

[a-game-of-beginnings]

Heeeeey, it's been a while! Slam-dunking this fella in last minute. He has no idea what's going on, sorry.

Godspeed, little guy. Go make 'em proud.

Speaking of "If you want to help revive The Stanley Parable tumblr scene, go do something about it"...

So uhh... yeah. Drop your Timekeepers/Settings People/Employee 432s in the reblogs if you want me- I mean Atlas to pit them up against each other in the polls!

[aintnopartylikeaprideparty]

please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is please be what i think it is ple

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[semiohazard]

i have feelings about stanley's first time laughing

[colonelparable]

I hate arriving to fandoms late cause I'm sitting over here dusting off posts from 2022 and screaming about them 2.5 years later feeling like this

[squuote]

i think about how the adventure line crashed through the ceiling all the time. wacky line behavior

[blocksandthings]

stannarrator this, tapekeeper that, when’s the Line™️ gonna get its doomed yaoi 😔

[dramyhsturgis]

Octavia E. Butler's must-read masterpiece Parable of the Sower (1993) begins its first chapter on July 20, 2024.

[remsterden]

I still freak out about this every now and then. the narrator! is fond of the unknowable!!!!! the zen dome!!!!!! space!!!! and also this is applicable to the ocean with shrimp and night sharks and I love him a lot

[a-game-of-beginnings]

The Darker Side Of It All

Usually the darker side of the Parable remains hidden, but maybe it can help to understand the one or other behavior in here a little better if you catch a glimpse. So this post will contain all of those.

First off, the Narrator. I know-- HE knows you won't care all that much if terrible things happen to him. Maybe you even believe he deserves it all. On top, his personal nightmares are far more on the abstract side. A human might be able to vaguely relate, but maybe there is no way at all to truly ever see the full picture of this entity.

Not to mention, you know how self-protective the Parable can get.

Now - under the cut - employee 432's worst moments, in his own Pre-Parable timeline, are far more on the tangible side. Yes, he gets moody, strange, highstrung or rebellious near all of the time.

But there is times where he is simply at his wits' end. There is not a single type of breakdown he hasn't experienced, over and over, and those are the moments where management will step in directly.

He will be put on timeouts, subdued, maybe even get his feelings or memories erased if the experiment is endangered, but he has long reached a point where this isn't as effective as they may think it is.

Long before he surrendered to the maelstrom of timelines and became the concept of the game's settings, he had started to hear and see and notice things he shouldn't. His physical form became unstable and would glitch out at random times, having them all believe he was merely being "clumsy".

Pushed beyond his limits and then so much further than that... what did they expect to happen, really? At least, in the end, they did get the results they were looking for.

Oh, and Stanley? One day he will become aware, and he won't know how to handle it. It will be the day when all the timelines break apart, and there are no more choices.

Maybe it can be fixed, and they can all, once again, return to their old routine, the story that cannot end.

Or maybe something more might happen, making their existence even a tiny bit more bearable. Babysteps.

[doodleous]

2:00:00

(Glitchy version under here vvv)

[baba-is-blog]

does baba know the stanley parable?

BROOM CLOSET ENDING IS FAVORITE

[a-game-of-beginnings]

AWW, hehehe, thank you!! So glad and honored that spotting him made you happy! Atlas' face there is PRECIOUS, baaahahahaha~

I love Vitan, I jumped for joy when I saw he was offered up for the tournament @a-game-of-beginnings

[lambjurk]

yaoi?? in my video games?? i don’t think so