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Fun thing! I’ve now gone to see “The Day The Earth Blew Up” in theaters twice, because my local Cinema extended its run by at least a week. The first time I went, the theater was mostly empty, with I think maybe ten other people there at most. I went for the second time today, and it was basically packed, with maybe a handful of empty seats.

So, yeah, word of mouth does in fact work.

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Last night, I had a dream where Undertale had an entirely different route and ending system, achievements for getting certain endings in certain ways, locations you could only get to if you did certain things, a super secret ending that I swear I’ve seen before, and, perhaps most bafflingly of all, a New Game Plus option.

My question is, what does this tell us about Deltarune Chapter 3 on?

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Julius Caesar has been dead for 2,069 slutty years, and y’all still whip out your knives every 15th of March, so you know what? Maybe that post-humanist civilization DOES know what Among Us is.

sometimes, I feel self-conscious about writing in modern references to a fic that takes place millennia in the future and on a completely different planet

and then I remember you all shitposting about ea-nasir and the epic of gilgamesh, and I realize that people are just like this

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Just had a pharmacist refer to me as “sir” then correct themselves to “ma’am”, and I think this is what Gender Euphoria feels like.

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Your are the monarch of a historical/fantasy kingdom, who perished many years ago and your name is only written down in recorded history, know only to future generations.

Out of the 130 options in the picker wheel here (all are gender neutral),

And yes: there is a 'no epithet' option in there.

I got The Oathtaker.

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Frisk, Chara, and Kris Dreemurr having traditionally gendered features is incredibly based, but ONLY when they are explicitly nonbinary, and not when they actually are a binary gender.

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someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

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Btw, my predictions/theories for Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 before they release (probably LONG before, but who knows?). Keep in mind, I don’t watch a ton of theory videos or read most recent analysis posts, so some of these might be miles off what the rest of the fandom are guessing, and some might be old news for others.

We start Chapter 3 with some kind of dream sequence, that might give us a bit more insight into Kris’ character.

Toriel will be a part of the party in Chapter 3, and she won’t be a great healer, but she will be good with pacifying.

Undyne’s gonna show up in the Dark World, sorta serving a similar role in whatever it’s called to Berdly in Cyber World: semi-reluctant assistant to the world’s boss.

Similar to Queen mirroring Noelle’s mother (and possibly King mirroring Susie’s situation?), Tenna is going to have distinct echoes of Asgore.

Partway through chapter 3, Noelle will appear, because I am huffing copium. If you did Weird Route in Chapter 2, watch out.

I don’t know if Mike will be the Secret Boss, at least not based on current designs for the character. I can imagine a world where that happens, of course, but the previous Secret Bosses act very similarly to their Light World inspiration, and I don’t know how exactly that would work for, like, a microphone.

Susie and maybe Kris are gonna try and tell Toriel that the Dark World is a dream, but she isn’t gonna be fooled for a second, and she’ll fully realize it was real even afterwards.

Ralsei and Toriel are either going to have a very awkward conversation at some point, or he’s putting that hat back on his head.

If you held onto the character tea from Chapter 2, you’ll get different healing values in 3 and 4, as well as seeing what Toriel really thinks of the children.

Either it will be made clear very early in Chapter 3 that Kris isn’t the Knight for all the previous Dark Worlds, or the chapter will end with Kris opening a new fountain somewhere.

If Chapter 3 has a Weird Route with Toriel, then Undyne is going to end up badly hurt/killed, and both Toriel and Asgore will be conspicuously absent in the Light World segment.

Chapters 3 and 4 are over the weekend (canon?), so at some point during those two days, we WILL meet Papyrus/equivalent. Probably Chapter 4 given official statements about saving in that chapter.

I am not smart/creative to come up with a good idea for the Dark World in Chapter 4. I do think it will have one, if only because I don’t think they’d change the formula THAT drastically in the fourth of seven chapters.

Chapter 4 will end with the biggest and most impactful cliffhanger thus far; the most dangerous Dark Fountain thus far will be opened, leaving all the leads in serious danger.

In Chapter 3, Kris is going to get more suspicious of/judgmental towards Ralsei, but by the end of Chapter 4, they’ll be somewhat warmer towards him.

Jockington is going to eat something he REALLY shouldn’t at some point.

And Snowdrake will continue to not matter.

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Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

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Living in the United States these days really makes you have to weigh the morality of death.

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And sure enough!

The past 48 hours have felt like a week at least.

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One important thing to remember about the Sonic series is that it has built up a long, intricate, and detailed lore over its three and a half decades of existence, and also its continuity is held together by loose string and hope.

About a decade into the series existence, the world it takes place on was retconned into being Earth, and it is currently called Earth again. However, there was a span of time, I wanna say of at least a decade, where it pretty explicitly was not Earth, and the world just did not have a name.

Multiple plot critical characters are, depending on the entry and the writer’s mood, either from a parallel dimension or from the distant future, and as far as I can tell, nobody has actually bothered to justify this discrepancy.

There is an entire mainline, full scale game which is technically canon, but whose events do not actually happen in-universe because the events literally retcon themselves out of existence somehow. Despite this, the timeline in which they did occur seemingly does still exist somehow.

Silver is continuously traveling back in time from a distant future in an attempt to save it, which raises the question of whether the future changes while he’s there, or if he just keeps returning and is like “damn, that didn’t work, guess I gotta try again”.

Despite Sonic Heroes establishing very reliable and understandable teams which could theoretically be used in most spin-offs, said spin-offs almost always make some baffling exclusion and substitution. Like in Team Sonic Racing, where Amy and Big decided to replace Cream with Omochao for some reason. Or Sonic Free Riders, where Big was replaced on Team Rose with Vector the Crocodile, and Team Dark replaced Omega with some random Eggman robot nobody actually knew.

For about three decades, nobody could actually agree on whether humans were native to the same planet as Sonic and friends. Sonic Colors had Eggman referring to the planet as “Sonic’s World” despite him literally living there himself.

Somehow, despite Sonic having a plot-critical birthday party in Generations and Forces having a six-month time skip, not a single character in the series has canonically aged since Sonic Heroes in 2003.

This implies all the events of the Sonic the Hedgehog canon, including the IDW comics, all three Riders games, multiple different deities being resurrected, and Sonic being sucked into Storybook worlds not once but twice, all happen within less than a year.

Within the first seven years of the series existence, there were multiple different comic series, three different American cartoons, an animated film, and about fifteen different continuities, all before the games introduced a second female character. A third of these used the name “Mobius” to refer to the world the series took place in, and this name has somehow never been acknowledged in canon.

Given a canonical reference to Sticks the Badger in Sonic Frontiers, even spinoff continuities which cannot possibly coexist with the main canon are still potentially considered canon, depending on Ian Flynn’s mood.

For like half a decade, the writing of the games was primarily helmed by two writers from Happy Tree Friends, a cartoon with the gimmick of being about cute and cuddly cartoon animals being horrifically maimed and killed every episode. One of them also wrote for genuine kids shows, the Clayfighter series, and MadWorld, the super violent Wii games. They were succeeded by a man who wrote for the Archie Sonic comics, who has somehow been the more controversial choice for lead writer.

Shadow is, at any given time, an edgy anti-hero, a straight up villain, the ultimate do-gooder, or a traumatized teenager. Depends on how the writer is feeling.

Tails has had no less than six VAs in English since 1999, about half of whom were literal children while voicing the character.

Despite being depicted as a wisecracking character throughout the entire nineties, apparently Sega has now decided that prior to 1998, Sonic was entirely mute. Depending on the work in question, this may be rescinded for a comic, or be applied to every other character in the time period.

Big the Cat is basically the only character we can say has definitively, canonically met Princess Elise, the character infamous for kissing Sonic in a doomed timeline. Even Sonic may or may not know who Elise is, but Big has apparently spoken to her canonically.

Amy’s only reason for existence, in her original incarnation or within the games, is to be Sonic’s girlfriend. As far as I’m aware, Sonic has never actually gone on a date with her in the main canon.

One time he tried, but he ended up becoming King Arthur instead. And I’m still not sure if that game is canon.

And there is reason to believe Eggman is canonically either infertile or impotent.

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Thinking about “I Want To Unify The Kingdom But The Second Male Lead Is Too Indecent” again. Thoughts on how it’d play out:

The first episode starts with Bridget and Dick at the office, establishing her as competent but ignored and him as a half-joking, self-loathing sex pest. Around the halfway point, they both get hit by a truck while crossing the road and wake up in the fantasy kingdom (does it have a canon name? I’m gonna call Decentia) as Princess Bridgeton and Lord Dickington. Lord Daleton shows up and quickly becomes the only person either of them tell about their original situation.

Bridget and Dick don’t actually realize they’ve both been Isekai’d together until about halfway through season 1, at which point they finally put two and two together. Bridget is mildly horrified that the dignified Lord she’d been relying on for stability was Dickhead Dick this whole time, while Dick is just happy to have SOMEONE who relates to not being either a medieval fop or Daleton.

The big reveal of the season one finale is that most if not all of the kingdom’s characters seen across the season, from the major supporting cast to the extremely minor background staff, have at some point between the pilot and now ALSO been swapped with their Massachusetts counterparts, mostly within the span of the first few episodes. The entire second season is just trying to piece together what the fuck to do about this.

Bridget is throughout Seasons 1 and 2 torn between absolutely despising Daleton and genuine attraction (because annoying though he may be, he seems to mean well and IS genuinely hot), while also coming to see Dick in a new light and genuinely appreciating him as a person for the first time ever. For his part, Dick has been into Bridget since before the truck accident, and while he is generally annoyed by Daleton’s antics and indecency, he shows JUST enough tolerance towards him that a good portion of the fandom ships the pair. Eventually a small but substantial part of the fandom ships the three together in the classic ProZD Love Triangle solution.

(Season 5 ends up technically making that canon, so polyshippers stay winning)

Daleton is consistently a slutty bisexual disaster throughout the show, right up to the very end, but he is shown to have SOME genuine leadership skills and does actually want to help everyone, hence why Bridget keeps him around. He’s the kind of character who spends most of each episode being useless and fan service focused, but then always has one useful insight that manages to help turn the whole episode’s conflict on its head.

Not everyone who got isekai’d into Decentia has an identical appearance to their Massachusetts form or a [Name]ton name, but there are a few as foreshadowing for the Season 1 plot twist.

Season 3 focuses on the real Princess Bridgeton and Lord Dickington, who wake up in the hospital and immediately piece together that they’re each from Decentia. They’re the first characters from the Kingdom to make the transition, and they realize what’s going on with everyone switching over significantly faster than Bridget and Dick.

The first sign that something seriously fucky is going on in Season 3 is when “Dale Kingston” shows up and applies for a job at the end episode 2. Bridgeton and Dickington immediately recognize him as lord Daleton, but he denies this, and we the audience know that Daleton was basically the only major character to NOT know anything about Massachusetts in Season 2, which raises the question of if he’s just this universe’s counterpart or if something more is going on.

As more and more Decentians end up at Big Dick’s in Massachusetts, they begin taking over the company and, slowly but surely, the small town of Decent, Massachusetts (halfway between Boston and Springfield, just take I-90 and turn off at the giant pants sign, you can’t miss it).

In Massachusetts, Dale is mostly similar in behavior to Daleton, but slightly less indecently dressed and completely able to keep his pants up. This is because in Massachusetts, you can just buy pants at a store and don’t need a personal tailor who was originally really gay and inappropriate and then by episode 4 was replaced by an IT worker with a CompSci degree.

Season 3 ends with a portal being formed between Big Dick’s corporate office (where Dickington has just defeated the CEO Richard Parker in hand to hand combat) and the castle of Decentia (where Bridget and Dick have been panicking because Daleton has been missing all day). Then Dale shows up, and all chaos breaks loose.

Season 4 goes about as described in the Drawfee episode: they realize that their realities are collapsing and merging together, it becomes clear that Dale/Daleton has secretly (and unintentionally) been the lynchpin of this collapse the whole time, and eventually the Kingdom (which has semi-officially annexed Decent, Massachusetts) is unified with the goal of killing him. However, Bridget and Dick are both quietly opposed to the plan (Dick because he recognizes Dale could still be a “decent” human being, and Bridget because at this point she’s low key in love with him).

It becomes clear across Season 4 that Daleton really didn’t have any idea originally that he was somehow drawing the two universes together, he went to Massachusetts through a portal to try and figure out what was going on with the Isekais, and his indecency has more or less been out of his control this whole time. The fanbase is somewhat divided on the question of whether or not killing him is the right thing to do.

Season 4 ends with Daleton seemingly killed, the universes mostly going back to how they were before the series started (Princess Bridgeton and Lord Dickington are back in control of the Kingdom, the employees at Big Dick’s are all back in Massachusetts), but Bridget mysteriously missing. The last shot of the season is Bridget’s bedroom back home, with the camera panning around to reveal one more portal.

Season 5 is still pretty much just porn, but like a quarter of every episode is dedicated to either developing the plot, world building for the sex dimension, or genuinely well written character development. So you can’t even skip to the important or good episodes, you have to watch all of them (you can usually skip the sex scenes, if you want, though. They are still 3/4ths of each episode).

About two thirds of the pre-existing fanbase are actually really into the fifth and final season: partially because it is still beautifully animated, incredibly well acted, and (during the important quarter) impeccably written…but also partially because the show was always hornier than your average isekai, so its fanbase did kinda follow suit. A third of them still absolutely hate it and the internet kinda explodes into arguments about it, though.

The creators fully realize there is no going back after Season Five, so that’s the only season of the show to not end on a cliffhanger. Instead, the plot is resolved, the multiverse is saved, and Bridget, Dick, and Daleton retire to a pocket dimension of the sex dimension where they can live out the rest of their days in peace. It’s a surprisingly wholesome and happy ending, ignoring how incredibly nasty some of the smut in the rest of the season was.

“Season Five” becomes internet shorthand for a show completely self-sabotaging and self-destructing for years afterwards, to the point most new anime for the next half a decade is capped off at four seasons.

The fifth season does however reveal that Dick/Dickington is bigger than Daleton, so that’s cool.

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Local cynic in the south sees legitimate snowfall for first time in over decade: is struck by uncharacteristic Childlike Whimsy and Holiday Spirit as result. More at 11.

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Meanwhile nowadays I’m Normal-Water

I was gonna make a joke about that being an absurdly common type, but then I looked it up to double check

Turns out it’s actually one of the few entirely unique type combos in the series

Meaning I’m technically this guy:

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Okay, but have you considered if the ship doesn’t WANT to be the ship of Theseus anymore? If maybe it CHOSE to have all its parts replaced? Maybe it did that SO it could be a different vessel. You ever think about that?

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Arthur Aguefort has fucked, in no particular order, an eccentric small business owner from a future planet themed after Texas, a chocolate rabbit chancellor who pretends to worship a light bulb but is actually a warlock of a fairy, an elderly Baba Yaga who is accurate to original stories of her and also pisses in her mortar, and a Phoenix.

You think Fanfics have crack ships? In the Time Quangle, we have canon ships you can’t even fucking imagine. A mall goth with an impossible trisword just married a weird skeleton puppet man who’s also the universe’s most pathetic criminal. Sleeping Beauty is about to hook up with a nonbinary chef who is also a royal alien. Over in the aged up universe, a milk bottle Princess just ran off with a discontinued pleasure droid, whose power suit boss had to turn down a cheese pirate lesbian for being a nepobaby. Aelwyn Abernant is bisexual and evil again! Little Red Riding Hood is now playfriends with the candy land Batman, and they both have pink-eye. And through it all, Fig Faeth and Ayda Aguefort are still a power couple, and Ricky Matsui refuses to abandon his wife and child.