#and I am not one of them

[simonsoys]

I realize how frustrating bad fanon takes on the Undertale characters have always been, having been a fan since the game came out. I get it, I've felt it too.

But I also kind of feel bad because it takes so much effort to dig through all the dialogue. There's SO MUCH of it.

Especially for fan works being made between 2015 - 2018 because there was still new stuff being brought to light constantly that any normal single playthrough or "watched one playthrough on YT" wouldn't show you. There wasn't even a general consensus on Chara's role in the story for the first several years.

I feel like everyone goes through the "UT characters are funny and endearing!" >> "Wait, there's a lot of mysterious lore and implications here" >> "Actually, there's lore but it's still mostly funny" phases, but not everyone's at the same point in the ride.

I guess, I feel like as obsessed as I am in understanding the characters fully, I still think it's OK not to get them 100% right. People have been asking me questions about the game for 8 years like I'm an authority on the subject and I still don't have it all right.

(Honestly I think AUs that are totally and intentionally off base are OK too. Characters are toys, play how you want. Plz still tag them as their own thing though lol i beg you)

No purpose for this monologue, just to say writing the UT/DR characters in the perfect chef's-kiss sweet spot is actually really hard and don't feel too bad if you don't get it right lol

It's OK not to have Tolkien-scholar levels of knowledge on UT/DR, I still want to read your fanfics and see your art.

[canonically47]

Hot take: Noco would never be a popular ship if the ear kiss scene didn't happened

nah, noco would still totally exist, albeit they would not be popular. up until this year, noco was just some other rarepair, with the kiss scene and all. sure, some of its appeal comes from that scene, but i think they would still exist. shippers will be shippers.

[casimircrane]

dont you just hate when you fuck up your back by making out with a girl?

one moment youre straddling this girl who just bridal carried you to your bed and youre making out, occasionally stopping to talk ab batman or vampires or to be a silly goose, and then suddenly you strain your back and hurts the day after

it just happens you know

[snazzyladreal]

imagine making new content for your ocs

[lavender-flowergarden]

I only know 3-4 straight people on the tumbl

[theoutofworld-blog]

Reblogging this as I just finished dragging a friend through the broad strokes of Dark Souls for a few hours and he Gets It Now (TM)

with a tangential group revelation that Dark Souls 2's differences to other Souls titles in an oblique way feels like it was making a brief return to form to some of the older fantasy titles it had done before Souls as a franchise

also a modern successor to Frame Gride would be really cool

Slave Knight Gael as the very final, climatic fight of Dark Souls as a franchise is definitely one of the most masterful strokes the franchise ever pulled.

To fight Gael, the Dark Soul of Humanity, at the very end of time itself, one on one, as the last two things left standing in a hostile, uncaring world that’s shutting down, its eroding carcass naught but a final arena for the two of you, is an incredibly fitting conclusion to everything in Dark Souls: It’s two nobodies in the middle of nowhere fighting over everything, however little that is.

In stark contrast with the Soul of Cinder, the godlike essence of everyone that has ever linked the First Flame, including your previous characters in Dark Souls 1 and 2 if you chose to link the Flame, all the way back to Gwyn, Slave Knight Gael is another undead not similar to you, no, he’s almost exactly like you, and the previous playable characters.

Slave Knights were canon fodder sent out for the grimmest missions and battles, intended as canon fodder and little else. Does that not sound familiar? “Slave Knight”, as a title, is basically just like “Chosen Undead” (with the context that ‘chosen’ here is but a lie), “Bearer of the Curse” and “Unkindled” (the formal title for the Ashen One): Just another nobody among many, upon which nobody puts any expectation. And just like the other three, Gael, specifically, is exceptional in that he never once gave up, and he carried on, and on, and on. 

Gael is the protagonist of a Dark Souls ‘game’ that we can’t play. And he’s old: He is the sole wielder of the Way of White Corona, a miracle that makes mention of the Way of White, a group so old, so long defunct and long forgotten that only someone from the era of the first Dark Souls could know of it, thousands if not tens of thousands of years prior to Dark Souls 3. Gael’s adventure has been an extremely long one, where at some point he met his very own Firekeeper/Emerald Herald equivalent: The Painter.

At the conclusion of this long journey, he finally reaches his objective: The Pygmy Kings of the Ringed City. And yet, at the very end, after all of that, countless lifetimes of toiling and laboring, he learns that their blood has dried out, meaning the Blood of the Dark Soul now cannot be used by the Painter. Gael goes insane from the revelation, that his torturously long quest has been for naught, as many things tend to be in the setting of Dark Souls, and starts devouring the Pygmy Kings, gorging himself on their Dark Soul, and attacks you on sight, ravenously hungry for more of the Dark Soul of Humanity.

And so the Slave Knight and the Unkindled fight, and the Unkindled’s attacks find purchase on the Knight, making him bleed, and here, here, is another stroke of incredible consistency and genius: Gael sees the black blood dripping from his wound, and calmly realizes that his quest has been a roaring success. The Blood of the Dark Soul, the pigment that the Painter needs, still exists: It’s in him now. He knows he can’t make it, he’s too far gone, possessed of so much Dark Soul that his individuality is on borrowed time, but this doesn’t trouble him, because in front of him is his ally, the Unkindled, who can promptly take the blood back to the Painter. He’s won. Gael won.

And just like Anri did after they defeated Aldrich, and like many, many other NPCs in all of the games did after accomplishing their ultimate goal… Gael hollows out. It is the pursuit of an objective, the determination and sheer dogged stubbornness to accomplish something, to focus and work towards something greater than oneself, that keeps cursed undead from hollowing. By winning, Gael finally let go, and hollowed out on the spot. We can affirm this is the case because the Hollowslayer Greatsword doesn’t receive its bonus damage against Hollows when used on Gael’s first phase, but it does deal bonus damage against Gael’s second and third phase.

And so, the very last fight in the game, the franchise, is initially against another one just like us, not another god or being of extreme power and mind-boggling gravitas, no, it’s something greater: It’s someone just like us, that killed countless other gods and beings of extreme power, just like we did. And when he hollows out, we effectively are not fighting Gael anymore, phase 2 and 3 might say “Slave Knight Gael” on the health bar, but the fight is ultimately against the Dark Soul of Humanity itself, finally taking the center stage, using Gael’s body. It’s you versus Humanity.

It is no coincidence that Gael’s weapon, a broken, rusted, jagged greatsword that has seen so much use and abuse throughout thousands of years, resembles the very first weapon every character in Dark Souls starts with: The humble Broken Straight Sword.

At the end of time itself, as the world crumbles and festers around you, as countless gods and pretenders lie dead by your feet, the only one that could possibly stand up to you is another one like you. Both of you, at the peak of your power, have one final, quiet showdown at the end of the world, with everything on the line, however little and insignificant ‘everything’ is now.

And if that isn’t the single most poetic and beautiful end to close Dark Souls, I sincerely don’t know what is.

[a-hollow-forest]

"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

[sadclowncentral]

a beautiful man with long black hair dressed in all white sat next to me on the train back from denmark. i complimented his outfit, and he asked me where the train was going. after i told him, he then pointed at my shirt which says 'catastrophe' and said "oh i know a lot about those." and laughed uproariously.

and then he asked me "do you know about norse mythology?" and i said yes a bit because i read the edda a decade ago, and he said "i met fenrir in denmark" and i said that's probably not good if fenrir is walking around. and he said "oh don't worry about it, vithar will take care of it" and i replied oh but that's ragnarøk, that's still pretty bad for us mortals is it not? and he grinned at me like i said something incredibly funny. and then he ignored me for the rest of the train ride?

[clownsuu]

God I love the insane amounts of d r i p Stanley just casually wears

[maeamian]

If you saw me agreeing with being annoyed about wasted helium in a fictional context and were like "I bet she has some more helium based anger in her life" good news LAPD fucked up a raid on a medical facility they thought was a pot farm and flat out ruined thousands of gallons of the stuff.

[skeleton-squid-boy]

you have GOT to remember when watching the new doctor who that the question is not is this good. doctor who is only ever actually 'good' once a season at most. THE ONLY QUESTION IS is it fun, camp, and has aliens. also remember the worst doctor who showrunner is always the current doctor who showrunner. now go watch the new episodes as god intended like you're ten years old and still remember how to experience joy and whimsy.

[voidoffline]

!This is a drawing! Not a screenshot!

This is nineteen hours of work. (Not the build I based this off of- it only took me like a few minutes to build it XD)

(This is the next build of mine that I will draw)

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[mawvax]

watched transformers: one and it was so good it made me draw again. Even my sibling who isn't into tf loved it. i need transformers: two IMMEDIATELY.

some spoiler art below v

Please for the love of everything that has ever existed... watch the movie and support it in cinemas or streaming - wherever - so that we have a trilogy . . .

Future meet Past

THAT scene k i l l e d me. I was in pieces when megatron was born. Completely rocked my world. God I'm so happy to be alive to witness this movie and this breakup again and again in different continuities.

Edit: the “selfish and reckless” line is intended to be Optimus blaming himself for D-16’s drastic change - it’s how I imagine Optimus rationalising how things became so wrong. Sorry for the confusion!

[withinstormywaters]

“Sleep is for the weak.”

WRONG

Sleep is for the responsible.

[cosmogeddom]