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Holy Hats! I recognised your handle on the UnderSong musical videos! Congrats in being the voice of Toriel - your singing rocks! 🤩

Thanks very much! It’s been a fantastic experience, and I’m actually a lot happier with my performance in the remastered version of Guide You than I was with the original. Hopefully you and everyone else enjoyed it too!

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Hey! I'm sorry if this is irritating to ask about, but I remembered that one story you wrote about the twins being reincarnated into humans that I read religiously as a kid. I just wanted to say that I was a huge fan of your writing- and to ask if there would ever be any more updates? No pressure if there won't, I totally understand, I was just curious.

You’d be referring to The Twins: Test of Redemption, a heavily AU and headcanon-based longform fic I started writing on the Terraria Community Forums in April/May of 2016 that I later ported to FF.net and AO3, but never actually finished. And man, I was not expecting anyone to remember it. Between this and actually getting a comment on it on AO3? I’m kind of floored.

(Also, the words ‘as a kid’ just sent me reeling with the sudden reality of the concept of time. Has it really been that long?)

I’m sorry, anon, but you’ve given me an excuse to ramble about it, which I’ve been looking for for a long time.

TL;DR? Thank you so much, I really appreciate it--and to answer your question maybe. I don’t like the writing anymore, so it’d be starting from scratch, but I’ve never stopped thinking about it and writing about it, and there’s still so much I wanted to do and share with it. Journey’s End is coming, which will probably change the game quite a bit--I’ve been considering trying to do a rewrite once that comes out, but I’m not sure I’d be able to finish it. 

Massive infodump under the cut, including introspection, concepts, and background info probably nobody cares about.

I appreciate the compliment--and it is a huge compliment. But honestly? I don’t like the writing anymore. There are bits that make me cringe just thinking about them. But the story itself? It’s never really left me, and there’s so much more I wanted to--and still do want to--do with it. Like, it’d still probably be ridiculous. The plot twists aren’t twists, nothing really make sense, and I’m a little stuck with a character whose only reasonable nickname is a massive insult in at least one country (blame re-logic for not thinking through their attempted pun). 

But I’ve still been planning it and writing it and thinking about it. I have far too many google docs of oneshots that relate to it. I started writing a crossover when the DD2 event was first introduced. I made an AU of my own AU based around the Calamity Mod (where Draedon and Yharim sort of replaced the Moon Lord, and the Brimstone Elemental was an extremely prominent character--to the point where a friend of mine working on the mod at the time slipped in a reference to the Guide knowing her in a bit of dialogue specifically because of it). Writing more chapters of it was part of my NaNoWriMo 2018. I play two of the characters in an ongoing D&D campaign; Spaz/Sherwin as a human-turned-vampire duelist fighter who makes recurring cameos, and a main character who was originally based on the Guide as a fiend-pact warlock raised by a version of the Clothier, who has grown and developed massively to the point of being unrecognizable (and thankfully has a much kinder patron and a much brighter fate courtesy of the DM).

ToR is a story I started writing in the last few months of my absolutely horrendous time at college, where I was at my lowest (struggling partially due to not knowing I was autistic) and just wanted to make something. It’s the first long project I actually tried to commit to, and I failed at it because I have the mental fortitude and attention span of a drunk goldfish. Despite the fact that I don’t like the writing now, I’m still kind of proud of it, and it’s still close to my heart. I’m glad that it was able to get someone’s attention and maybe make their day a little better, like other fics have done for me.

There was so much more I was going to delve into--The Keeper toeing the line of helping the twins and still trying to stay within their elders’ jurisdiction, handling it with their own bizarre perception of morality and eventually coming to terms with the fact that yes, the Corruption has begun to twist and eat away at them. Spaz working through the unwanted role of being the pair’s resident dumb red oni. Ret trying and utterly failing to deal with his past actions and the people he’s hurt. Alalia’s patriotism over the Hallow leaving her view one-sided, shielding herself from thinking about the things she didn’t say until it was too late. Bailey trying to be the happy, energetic face of the town despite the fact that she’s still hurting. Also disaster lesbian cultists I didn’t even get to introduce yet.

With Journey’s End on the horizon about to shake up the game significantly, I really have been thinking about trying again, though it would have to be a rewrite from scratch with a lot more planning beforehand--and I’m still not sure I’d be able to finish it, because again, what attention span, look, a squirrel. I’m not confident in my ability to commit to and finish something, and I’m still a little embarrassed and nervous about the plot I have and the writing I did. But...it’s still something I want to share, something I want to have exist in more than just my head. I want somebody else to be able to enjoy it, and the world and characters and story that have been close to my heart for so long.

It’s people like you who make me want to go for it.

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I’ll be streaming some more of my new Terraria file with my melee/mage restricted character tonight--and later, the chat gets some laughs at my expense in Choice Chamber. This is all happening tonight at 6PM CDT at http://twitch.tv/PaperLaur, and I hope some folks can come join me and hang out! (Song requests for regulars are going to be on!)

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Going live with some Terraria shenanigans, possible with some friends! Come hang out!

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Of course I had to LP my favorite game of all time--especially given that it turns 10 TODAY!

The story intro and first part of Chapter 1 are up now! A journey spanning dimensions--and the limits of Laur’s vocal range--is about to begin!

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I’m streaming Don’t Starve: Shipwrecked for a couple hours, then playing some Jackbox 3 with chat! It’s certainly going to be...interesting, considering how long it’s been since I’ve played. Prepare for a lot of death.

IM SORRY WILSON

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The time’s finally come! Watch a lil paper doofus try and fail to color inside the lines...oh, and Mario trying to save Prism Island. That’s happening too.

If you like what you see, be sure to drop a like, spread the word, or rebagel this post! It helps a ton!

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So while @bymeganwithmeraki was over at my place for a week last month, we decided to do a bit of recording together! Because clearly having her play a game we’re both noobs at with me looking over her shoulder is a WONDERFUL idea. Nothing could POSSIBLY go wrong!

...unless snakes get involved. Then everything can go wrong.

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Can anyone save us now, when we’ve already been saved over?

My long-running Undertale (mostly) blind neutral-pacifist playthrough is nearing the first of its two endings. Catch the NEUTRAL FINALE tomorrow at 2PM Central time--be sure to subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss it, or any NEW projects and videos, including the road to the true pacifist ending!

And while you’re there, why not check out some of my other videos and LPs, such as Kirby’s Return to Dream Land, fangame Toadette Strikes, or the mess that was slither.io? It’s always a wild ride!

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It’s a brand-new group adventure! Paper Laur and partners ( @destiny-llama, @the-big-cheezy, @themightysaurus, and others) have hopped onto a special Minecraft server, and will be working together (or not) to slay the Ender Dragon. Along the way, they may complete challenges and tasks for the almighty server gods in order to be granted special items and materials to help them along!

It’s going to be a wild ride full of laughs, yelling, monsters, people punching each other for no reason, dungeons, pigs, dynamite fishing, sword battles, stupid accents, and...apparently Shrek.

If you like it, be sure to support us and leave some comments, subscribe, or share it around for others to laugh at the shenanigans! Every little bit is a HUGE help!

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So I know I've been going through a stupid amount of schedule slip lately, but now that I'm back and settled into college, I want to change that and get this thing moving again. And weirdly enough posting things online helps me keep them straight in my mind, and I like letting you guys know what I'm up to, so here's the deal with me.

I don't have class on Tuesday or Thursday, so I can use those days to edit. Undertale's been mostly edited for a while now, I just need to go through and add my future self's comments, as well as the new endslate. I still need to edit KRTDL. Right now, those two LPs are my main priorities, and should be all I post for a bit. Toadette Strikes is on hold, though I'm determined to finish it at some point (there's just no interest), and as far as Pokemon goes, I maaay have lost the footage for several episodes we'd already rerecorded once. As well, the editing for that is a lot of tedious cutting and moving things around, and I don't believe there's much interest in the LP continuing. Maybe another time. So pretty much the plan's going to be to hopefully post two Undertale videos a week on Monday and Friday, and one Kirby on Wednesday. Not sure how well it'll go, but I wanna try. Once one of them ends (Undertale will prooobably come out to about ~17 episodes), I'll go back to Toadette. And on the weekends, streaming may be a possibility, since I never finished the Undertale genocide fight. I'm also always taking requests for one-shot games! Those'll be posted case by case if I get any. As well, in the next couple weeks I'll be working out stuff for a new project--this one a PC game that gets admittedly far too much screentime on Youtube, but probably because everyone makes it different. There'll be multiple guests--our own little five-man (or more, or woman) band with some of my Skype buddies, hopefully including Llama from the pokemon LP ifshecanforgiveme. And I still have ideas for things, including a future LP with one of my best friends Dusk. I've been wanting to record with him since the channel started, so it's sure to be a fun time. Sorry for all the rambling, but hopefully this helps me stay on track and you stay interested! I won't be going anywhere anytime soon ^_^

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Because I got a capture card and apparently can’t stop making new Let’s Plays, here we are! This is a 100% runthrough of Kirby’s Return to Dream Land for the Nintendo Wii. In this part, we watch a small egg...creature...thing crash into the planet, then apparently volunteer to find the very un-ship-like pieces lying around. We take a visit to Cookie Country and eat stuff!

Be sure to leave a like, reblog, share, or subscribe and follow my social media if you like this and wanna keep up with me! Seriously, every little bit matters so much to me!

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HUGE UPDATE!

I JUST GOT A CAPTURE CARD AS A HOLIDAY GIFT! Now I can record not only from my desktop, but directly from my Wii U console (that is, if technology decides NOT to hate me. Knowing my track record...)

I’m not sure what this means for streaming, though, as Livestream isn’t a service direct streaming is offered to, and I’ll need to fiddle around with it a bit before figuring out how streaming works on it and if it’s possible with my setup. If I do, I may have to stream on Twitch or Youtube or some other sharing site, which really sucks because I don’t want people to have to make an account to interact with me during the stream because that’s kind of the entire point of it for me. Desktop games will be streamed as they always were.

This definitely will mean a new variety of games on my channel itself, however, which I do plan to restart over winter break!

GUYS I’M SO EXCITED I’VE BEEN LITERALLY EYEING THIS THING FOR M O N T H S

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I’m here from winter break, and streams may be coming back soon, for this month only! Suggesting games to me would be much appreciated, especially in the spirit of the holiday season, but rest assured I’ll be continuing Kaizo Mario World ASAP! I can’t just leave it unfinished!

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Seems like everyone and their brother is LPing this new and creative game, so why not join the party!

I’m taking on a mostly-blind, neutral/pacifist run of the game and currently very much enjoying it! In this part, we fall off a mountain I’m guessing we weren’t supposed to be on in the first place, meet a trollish talking flower (JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE), get saved by a very motherly goat, and explore our new home.

(Planned update schedule: Monday/Wednesday/Friday if possible)

Like, comment, subscribe, and check out my social media if you like this and would like to support me! Every bit matters!

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Thank you so much to those who came to my stream. We hit a record high of eleven viewers...and more importantly, it was probably the single most fun I’ve ever had in a stream.

Thank you for supporting me, then and now. I hope to be able to do this once again sometime in the near future. Thank you for helping me realize how much I loved doing this.

Keep up with me on my LP channel, or a vlog channel I’m going to post a link to once it’s done.

But for now, this is Paper Laur Plays, signing off. See ya ‘round!

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It’s just about here! In ten minutes, I’ll be kicking off what’s hopefully going to be one of my biggest streams yet! With a wide variety of games tonight, I hope it’s going to be exciting and fun for everyone involved!

Kicking off with a continuation of by far my most popular stream, Kaizo Mario World, at around the top of the hour, but feel free to come in early and talk if you would like!