#But The Earth Refused to Die

[undertale-ost-tournament]

ROUND 1: MATCH 14

Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans vs But The Earth Refused To Die

[best-undertale-song]

Round Four

[thelivingsin]

but the earth refused to die never fails to haunt me. in a fascinatingly beautiful and poetic manner

[mysteryman-17]

Due to the sheer length (plus wanting to preserve the format,) you can find the accompanying dialogue for this post on Google Drive.

Time’s End is an AHIT/Undertale crossover AU of sorts, taking place in the aftermath of a timeline where you lose the final boss fight against Mustache Girl. You can find the write-up here! In addition, you can find the write-ups for the Neutral Endings and TimeWarp Route Requirements on Google Drive! The logo for Time's End was designed by @bittybattybunny. She's an incredible artist, be sure to check out their work here on Tumblr and over on Twitter!! (if it hasn't imploded by the time you're reading this post anyhow lmao.) This track was commissioned from Shade over on SoundCloud. Be sure to check out his work too!

Motifs:

Rush Hour

You can also listen to this track in high quality on the AU’s SoundCloud here, and separated into its own sections on Google Drive! The rest of the description is underneath the Read More.

The Empress takes the role of Undyne. She already had a major sense of resentment to Bow Kid before (however misplaced it may have initially been on other routes,) but as her cat goons are mercilessly whittled down to nothing in the Genocide route… something finally snaps, beyond the point of no return. She's consumed by the urge for vengeance for not just herself, but for all of her Nyakuza (the only ones she even remotely cared about aside from herself,) leading to her bringing out something that hadn't been thought about for years: a prototypical battle suit made for one of the Conductor's movies, stolen and (somewhat amateurishly) modified to be WAY more deadly by Empress' crew. It was intended as a "last resort" trump card, and is being used as just that in a sense. However selfish and ignoble her motivations may be, and as MUCH as people outside of the Metro fear/dislike her, Empress' final stand here will (ironically enough) determine ALL of their fates.

So! I'll be going back to work on Tuesday, albeit with some restrictions. Wish I'd gotten more done during my leave of absence, but oh well. (Also ik the name on this one is kinda weak sauce, but I can't think of ANYTHING else that even remotely fits the context soooooo XP) I'm still putting some finishing touches on one of the other tracks I commissioned, so I'm going even more out of order here with the Empress tracks for the Genocide route! In a bit of a parallel with the MEGALOVANIA (and also cause I thought it was fitting,) I actually suggested Antasma's Theme from Mario & Luigi Dream Team as a stylistic reference when commissioning this from Shade. He did a fantastic job of taking that and making it his own, while still being fitting for Empress (especially on this route.) Not much else to say here, so I hope you guys enjoy! (P.S. Yeah as you can tell from the included dialogue at the top of the description, it's been on-and-off, but I overhauled a key part of the Empress' lore for this AU so that it would make at least a BIT more sense. The overall AU doc goes more in depth!)

[hinamie]

round 2 of prelim designs for @philosophiums n my lovechild of an au

first year trio

[sonknuxadow]

i genuinely dont get how so many people are uncritically excited for The Movie and have no issue with anything going on here i feel like im losing my mind a little bit . the trailers did not look good to me at all is everyone excited about it posting from an alternate dimension or something what are people seeing in this movie that im not .

[bogos-bint3d]

This feels like a parallel of some kind but I don't know what it means

[crustaceousfaggot]

"I came here as a stranger, as a stranger I leave again."

The Terror (2018) + Winterreise (Franz Schubert, text by Wilhelm Müller)

English Translations by Michèle Lester

Context & thoughts below the cut:

I think Winterreise works really well alongside The Terror. Beyond the base similarity of "going on a long doomed journey through the cold" I just think the vibes match up really well. I first made the connection when I was listening to No. 23, where the singer witnesses a morning sun dog and compares the two false suns to the eyes of the woman he'll never see again:

Winterreise (or The Winter Journey) is a song cycle for tenor and piano written by Franz Schubert in 1828, set to the work of German poet Wilhelm Müller. It's loosely narrative in nature, and follows a man who is cast out from his village after the death of his lover. He embarks on a meandering, directionless journey through the frozen wilderness, commenting on the things he sees and feels. The end of the song cycle is vague, and the wanderer's fate is left uncertain.

I didn't include this one in the main post because I think the connection between the poem and Crozier is just one step too far removed for it to make sense in a post without context, but I wanted to mention it here somewhere because it really just feels like a perfect match.

Looking past just the text, the music of Winterreise is some of my favourite ever written for the human voice. It's bleak, it's haunting, it's Schubert at his best. There's this pervading sense of hopelessness through the entire work - sometimes raging and desperate, sometimes cold and listless, sometimes interrupted by moments of joy and light before falling again into desolation. Rarely has a piece of music left me feeling so hollow inside. The Terror left me feeling the same way.

If you're at all interested in classical music, I cannot recommend enough that you give this a listen. I'd recommend the Peter Pears recording, or the Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recording if you don't vibe with Pears' voice (I wouldn't blame you, he's got this sort of ghostly wail-like quality to his sound that can be very jarring.) There's also a 1968 video of Pears and his partner (composer and pianist Benjamin Britten) performing and discussing the music, which is absolutely worth a watch if you want to see two old gay men talk about music for 10 minutes.

Anyways, this is all to say that being into classical music does not free you from Blorbo Song Disease. If anything it just makes it more embarrassing. I can't just make a character playlist and call it a day, I have to make pretentious and long-winded Tumblr posts that would make my Song Interpretation professor claw her hair out.

[ot3]

the fact of the matter is that given the current state of both the art industry and the legal landscape of copyright/ip law, there will not ever be legislation around AI image generation that restricts companies while benefiting independent artists. rather than pushing for formal legal weigh-ins on what does or does not qualify as theft by generative outputs (i still think there could be something to be said about what companies are legally allowed to input into their generative models) we really just need to continue to. well. use our brains.

i may be in the minority in that i believe there are plenty of ways to use generative models as a tool in your artistic process (rather than being a replacement for an artistic process) that doesn't infringe on the work or livelihood of your fellow artists. and rather than wasting energy on trying to shove this genie back into the bottle, which, will not ever happen, we should work on publicly discussing where these boundaries lie. and we should also, without question, continue giving major shit to companies who are using AI generated images to avoid paying artists.

[moeblob]

A succubus and a demon! (The succubi don't have names but the demon is Kronos and the succubus is one of his bosses in Hell and he's not /fond/ of the succubi for many reasons but they all adore picking on him)

Also because I love them and like to point it out, the succubi act more as pleasure dealers in the sense of they offer up whatever a human wants most in exchange for their soul. It's rarely of a sexual nature since it's what they want MOST in life. And most people's ambitions are outside of a bedroom. (happy pride, asexuals are able to get affected by a succubus now without discrimination)

[undertale-ost-tournament]

STAGE 1, GROUP S

Official name of 18 is "Uwa!! So Holiday♫" but the poll won't let me use that character.

Top 2 qualify, 3rd has a chance.

Music under the cut.

[best-undertale-song]

Round Three

[loudcyclop]

Was too late to do anything cool for Halloween, so instead take this old drawing of Ik that I never posted :]

I honestly have no idea how to shade properly :[ but I still want to keep this fandom alive

Maybe thinking of making an AO3 Upturned fic because there's like ten of them (which is way more than I expected to be fair) and one's is part of a Dangaronpa multiverse thing.

[butchnavi]

i wish all organized religion died tbh

[thevampirearchive]

To be real with you, my goal in life is to work as little as possible. If it means getting a new job every year, every other year — whatever it is, I’ll do it. Just so the freedom i have will feel like free time. Spend doing whatever I desire. Drawing, painting, writing, enjoying nature & it’s creatures.

Sure I have goals, ambitions and desires, but I’d sooner die then make any of them a full time job, snuffing out the light they bring me in exchange for consistant work for consistant content. If they bring me riches by simply being made by me & people enjoying (and paying me), yay me. But never will i make what I love my full time job — unless I’m 100% in control of what/where/when. The goal is not to work and just be a trinquait lady, with a concerning obsession with vampires, a closet full of black garments, who enjoys cooking random dishes and sharing with whomever wishes to come over & feast whiles we talk about the universe.

And when I say that, people look at me crazy. But that’s okay, maybe I am crazy. I just know my lineage has too long of a history of slavery, and I’d like to end it with me — even if it’s modern day slavery. I shell never return to living to work. And do my best working little to live the fullest.

[this-should-do]

venting dont mind me xp ✌