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Stop vilifying adults that live with their parents.

We’re still deep in one of the worst economic recessions of modern times. For many of us its not a choice but a requirement in order to survive. For many of us we have disabilities that make finding accommodation that suit our needs a lot harder and a lot more expensive.

Many of us pay into the household. Many of us are trapped in abusive households because we don’t have the means to leave. We aren’t moochers or afraid to leave the nest. The world simply isn’t built to support us anymore.

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Let Blue say fuck Error gosh-

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INNNK

*shoves this old comic strip in tumblr* …because I can :p @loverofpiggies @yugogeer12 @comyet @nsfwshamecave-pb 

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We could call him PaperJam

... or we could call him BLOB.

Just imagine, error and ink’s child being an actual blob. Error’s rightful reaction is: ugh, what is that! While Ink is just blankly happy.

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Joke AUs

Undertake/mugtale: a gangster AU where every monster is out to rob you (instead of killing you, which is ironically inarguably preferable). Sans loves poking fun at his Gaster/Gangster boss

Lagtale: How to lag people to death. Touching him will result in lag.

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Headcanon: Sans sucks at fighting most monsters.

-Typically, monsters have low levels and are mostly unaffected by karmatic retribution. (The obvious exceptions would be Asgore and Flowey.) The other bosses can tank a gaster baster stream, no problem. In reality, this would give the monsters a chance to get in close quarters, though Sans would probably just dodge. Which brings me to my next point:

-Sans is unfit. The other monsters can keep going indefinitely, but Sans starts to tire and is eventually slashed. Whereas Frisk excels at dealing an exceptional amount of damage at select and predictable intervals, normal monster attacks force the player to weave through a veritable death trap of a maze. To Sans, this would be a deadly labyrinth, which he would have carefully weave through with max concentration. It is comparitively easier to dodge one hit than a never-ending slew of attacks. Remember, he can't even be hit once.

Tl;dr: Against humans, Sans' battle style is deadly. Against monsters... not so much.

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I guess you could say it’s... punfinished?

Ba-bam, whack

A sense of humour analysis? *grabby hands*

Ahhh oh my goodness you have NO idea how excited I am to have the opportunity to talk about this in depth!

I’m going to be talking about the main Undertale characters’ humor types from two angles:

How the humor is conveyed. Basically, this is how the humor is expressed or enacted - through puns, knock knock jokes, pranks, irony, or something else. So this is the “medium” of humor.

How the humor is used. Humor can be used for a variety of purposes and effects - whether it’s trolling someone else for mischief’s sake, making self-deprecating comments, or trying to appeal to an audience. Each of the characters in Undertale use humor for a different intent. So this is the “purpose” of the humor.

It’s also hard to categorize humor, but I attempted to make some categorizations for humor types:

Prank A joke that involves committing an act to surprise another individual. It is a practical joke and mischievous act. Note that I do separate pranking from trolling.

Pun A joke that centers on word play. Especially, a word is used with two simultaneous meanings, or a word is changed slightly to provide the two meanings. One of the simultaneous meanings is natural to the sentence, while another might hark at a relevant theme. I am going to collapse the idea of puns and other word plays into one category, so something like Sans saying, “I’ll keep an eyesocket out for ya” I will still call a pun for the sake of giving a few concrete humor categories.

Other Miscellaneous categories are helpful. Anything that does not fall into the categories I mark as “other.”

Quip Quips are witty remarks. I’m using this word to try to catch a type of humor I see in Undertale where the individual is making a silly comment that is not teasing a person nearby, but still making a joking remark about a circumstance. Some quips in this game have a sense of irony to them, or might have an unexpected turn of events at the end of the phrase from expected.

Teasing Directly commenting on someone else’s actions in a way that humorously points out something odd they did. 

Trolling Screwing around with another individual in an attempt to confound and especially frustrate them. Trolling, unlike pranking, can be and usually is verbal instead of action-oriented.

Looking at the characters in Undertale, I summarize their humor tendencies in the following way:

Alphys: Social media interactions and irony / Deprecation0% Prank, 0% Pun, 100% Other, 0% Quip, 0% Teasing, 0% Trolling.

The end game of Alphys’ humor is usually to take a shot at herself, or, a little less frequently, shots at others. We see this in ways like her taking a photograph of a garbage can and saying it’s herself. When others make jokes, she sometimes expects that they’re making light of themselves - she doesn’t think Papyrus is serious when he edits biceps on his selfie, for instance. Alphys’ humor expression fits into my “Other” category - she’ll use particular internet phraseology and expressions to get her point across. The way she capitalizes and expresses herself is what we would see on social media, but isn’t an obvious quip or play on words.

Sans: Puns and pranks (trolling) –> All for the purpose of trollingPrank 9%, Pun 25%, Other 2%, Quip 21%, Teasing 25%, Trolling (alone) 19%

Sans is a troll. Sans is SUCH a troll. He’s not the game’s punster, but the TROLL. What he enjoys more than anything is screwing around with others and jokingly getting them frustrated or surprised. Sans expresses his trollish humor through a wide variety of humor styles, but the jokes usually have the same end goal: to screw with someone and catch them off guard. This includes teasing Papyrus, intentionally annoying Papyrus with bad puns, and pranking the people of Snowdin. He’s got a quip for almost everything, and there’s often a sense of irony or turn of expectations to how he finishes his comments. He’s all about catching people off-guard. Sans is definitely a troll first and foremost, but yes, he does enjoy bad jokes, puns, and toilet humor, too.

Asgore: Puns and teasing / Affection0% Prank, 100% Pun, 0% Other, 0% Quip, 0% Teasing, 0% Trolling.

There isn’t much evidence for Asgore’s sense of humor; we only see him make one joke with Toriel in the old video tape. That one joke is a pun that he uses to show teasing affection to his wife.

Toriel: Puns / Social interaction0% Prank, 72% Pun, 7% Other, 0% Quip, 22% Teasing, 0% Trolling.

Toriel loves puns and jokes - especially bad jokes. They don’t have to be particularly clever wordplays (”chairiel?”), but she’ll find amusement with them regardless. Sans says that Toriel laughs incredibly hard at his self-admitted bad jokes, and she gives her own bad jokes. Toriel often uses puns and bad jokes as a means of social interaction and creating bonds. It’s how she and Sans become friends, and it’s how she interacted lovingly with Asgore back in the days of their marriage.

Mettaton: Puns / Entertainment0% Prank, 100% Pun, 0% Other, 0% Quip, 0% Teasing, 0% Trolling.

I did not go through Mettaton’s humorous instances as in depth as the other characters on this list. I could have collected more instances of Mettaton making comments, so this graph is incomplete and could be a little misleading. However, it is very clear that Mettaton uses a lot of puns to sound like the word-savvy showman. He uses word play as a means of providing entertainment to his audience.

Papyrus: Puns (yes, you read that right) / Social interaction7% Prank, 72% Pun, 7% Other, 7% Quip, 7% Teasing, 0% Trolling.

It is challenging to tell what Papyrus is thinking and whether or not his comments are meant to be serious or silly. It means it’s hard to pin what should be counted as humor for this skeleton. What is his humor? Actually hard to say. I even vacillate about whether or not I should count his enthusiasm to give the human japes (NYEH HEH HEH!!!) as humor.

In the midst of being uncertain about many of his words and thoughts, though, it is clear that Papyrus finds puns fun. Yes, Papyrus. Puns. Fun. When we can tell Papyrus is being humorous and lighthearted, it’s usually with a pun. He even tells Undyne that she enriched his life with her “coolshed” pun. It’s true that he gets irritated with Toriel and Sans - probably because their jokes are genuinely BAD, Sans has always trolled his brother, and Papyrus has gotten very tired of his brothers’ poor humor expressions repeated year after year.

I realize I didn’t get through everyone, including Undyne and Flowey, in part because they’re complicated, and in part because I didn’t want to dally any more posting this. Also please note that these graphs are NOT comprehensive of all the jokes all the characters make in the game. For instance, I didn’t get to Sans and Toriel’s texting at the end of the game, so those jokes aren’t included in the graphs. But I hope that what I collected was representative enough of the characters.

Below the Read More, I have more in-depth analysis/commentary of each of these characters’ humor tendencies.

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