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i step out onto stage clad in full corpse paint and death metal regalia and start playing the most middle-of-the-road soft rock you've heard since 1974

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baby i could treat you so good you just have to get past my strange and off-putting demeanor and my kubrick stare and my inability to behave like a human and the 40 layers of icy fortress walls i have up and answer my riddles three

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living with a tall dude is ridiculous I just turned around and he was walking our cat around on the ceiling

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ehhhhh, i don't think this necessarily a fair assessment of the situation. not that i think this is necessarily wrong, people are making up bad reasons to hate her and mischaracterize her, but it's not that there's nothing in the text supporting this, it's that they're going out of their ways to hate her because toby fox is (likely deliberately) trying to shatter the generally selfless, sad mother character he had her being [in undertale], and people don't like that because they don't want to see female characters (and especially not mothers) being nuanced, complex characters in their own rights. they don't want to see her make mistakes, and they especially don't want to see her recovering her life from them.

i love a lot that we're getting to see more of her character up-close and personal like this, i think she's written really well, and that she deserves for her ex to stop harassing her about getting back together and a great boning from sans.

i feel like with the arc the story seems to be taking, the narrative is trying to depict her as a more complex character than she has been in the past by going at the angle of the dreemurr family being very broken, starting with the divorce. it's highly probable that the way she's been depicted up until this point has been there solely to lure he players into believing that she is a much more well-adjusted and 'normal' person than she actually is in practice.

kris has a veeery specific reaction to seeing toriel behaving the way she is with sans, one that looks not like indignation that her mom has a new boyfriend, but one that is very explicitly shameful over susie seeing toriel in this state.

this could be for a lot of reasons, but with the way they turn their head away from susie right at the same time she turns her head to look at them, indicates to me that kris knew to look away because they already knew about this behavior from toriel, and felt ashamed of it. i feel like the themes we've been getting lately have been that some people and even entire families have something to hide or be cagey about. this could be at least one of the things the dreemurr family is hiding.

and toriel being an alcoholic who's slipping back into old(er) habits, (or perhaps maybe never even fully left them, considering kris very well may have seen this before), wouldn't even be out of character. when talking about her with rudy, she has definitely gone over the top plenty of times in the past, such as with the pie incident that knocked him across the room. funny story now, sure, but rudy seems to have a very good idea of exactly how much fun toriel likes to be having at parties, what with the way he describes her as having been a party animal*.

*this might not be the exact thing he called her, i have a migraine and can't remember.

frankly, i just don't think it's a fair assessment to say that toriel is doing nothing wrong here, or that there's nothing in the story that supports claims that she might be neglecting kris, because it's not true and, in my opinion, demeans her character to claim/believe that these things aren't happening in the story simply because players want her to be good, because they sympathize with her. it demeans the kind of arc that i believe toby fox is setting up here: that she isn't the perfect, selfless mother that people make her out to be and she is not a well put together person after everything she's gone through, because she is a person, and most people in her situation would also break, and make mistakes. they especially would also misunderstand or miscommunicate with their kid(s) during this stress, and end up causing issues in their relationships with their kids that they then have to mend later on. this is a very real thing that happens with struggling parents and their struggling kids, and it would be a much more satisfying story arc than kris just being upset that toriel is dating sans, or that toriel just goes on to date sans and kris has no issues with it and everything is happy for her. she deserves to be happy, sure, but i wanna see the drama it takes her to get there, first.

not to mention that i feel like there's just no way toby fox would only write a story where kris's big conflict with their mom going out and doing stuff for the first time in years is that they're getting a little bit oedipal or something lmao. i just feel like that's a bit simplistic and overdone for his writing, which very much likes to turn well-known tropes, archetypes, narratives, entire genres, etc, on their heads. it just wouldn't feel like a toby fox story unless there was more going on, like sans being a (probably unintended) enabler boyfriend who doesn't know what he's getting into [with this version of toriel] and accidentally causes kris a lot of issues. or maybe he does, maybe he holds contempt for kris or something and decided to fuck their mom about it.

the story seems to be setting up a shattering of the image of toriel that we're familiar with, and that means unfortunately many people are probably going to end up having a similar reaction to her as they did with alphys, because they want to misconstrue a well-meaning mother with serious issues as being the same as some kind of intentional, sadistic, irredeemable abuser.

and everyone in the fucking world needs to leave her alone for it >__>

having finished deltarune ch4... is THAT why people hate toriel now???? an adult woman whose youngest child is in high school isnt allowed to get a little wine drunk on a worknight and dance with a spooky skeleton man???? you people expect a woman to be a gentle selfless caregiver 24/7 meanwhile Asgore is running around stalking his ex wife and rummaging through his neighbor's bathroom. fucking fandom madonna whore complex.

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Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

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More Larvis please?

(No pressure, I love your art!!!)

always

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sorry to the people who followed me for deltarune just 2 find out im forever trash for sally face but worry not, i have at least 1 DR fic in progress right now actually

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he's not dignifying that with a response

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i just know he's an advocate

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hi, i haven't drawn anything in quite a while and i just drank a bunch of spoiled milk

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i am the son of satan

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mother mary and satan's baby

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i am the son of satan