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i was thinking about papyrus today (as one does) and remembered that one scene in the beginning of snowdin where sans asks you to play along papyrus’ puzzles because “he’s been kind of down lately”. and i thought what if deltarune papyrus is inside his house because he’s like at the same point of the timeline and he’s not feeling great? but seeing a human in this universe won’t cheer him up as much

Boy howdy do I love writing essays about discussing Papyrus, which is made possible by viewers like you. Thank you! 

Long post ahead, if you don’t want to read all of it, then feel free to look at this diagram, instead! 

I am very excited to meet Papyrus all over again, and wrote a lot about the differences in their worlds to compare them and say that, basically, I agree with you.

Okumaya devam et

[joshuazev]

On Macaulay Culkin 2:

I didn’t watch it but LeBron James played against Lonzo Ball a couple nights ago in what was their first duel playing against the other.  LeBron, no stranger to publicity and Ball, also no stranger collided in a great up and down game, with LeBron ultimately getting the win at home.  There was, of course, so much fuel surrounding this match up because there is a lot of speculation about where LeBron might end up next year since he is a free agent.  Playing some of the best basketball of his career, a lot suspect that he might go to Los Angeles because he has two homes in Brentwood and has dabbled in the entertainment business.  LeBron has always admired Lonzo, admired his demeanor and the way he goes about playing the game, because like LeBron, Lonzo is a guy that tries to get all of his teammates involved and insodoing makes his teammates better.  At the end of the game, when both players were shaking hands of the opponent LeBron approached Lonzo, put his jersey over his mouth, and spoke to him for a brief moment.  After the game was over that’s all anyone could talk about.  What did LeBron say?  LeBron was mum.  Lonzo added that LeBron didn’t tell him anything.  Last night—maybe even earlier in the day, an article surfaced that a Reddit.com user had apparently created a transcript from footage that a Chinese reporter had captured during the postgame dialogue between the two players.  In replays you can see that his camera and the boom is still very much pointed in the direction of their conversation.  I think anything LeBron says in that interaction would be considered sage advice, but what he told him was very straight to the point.  Keep the white noise out.  Stay locked in.  Don’t pay attention to everyone else.  This is the highest level of the game.  You’re only gonna get better.  I love that he said that to him.  However, it bothers me that I even know.  That seems to be a complete invasion of privacy and doesn’t need to be shared with the rest of the world.  The hype around those two is already high enough.  Can anything remain between two people anymore?

I saw the “Disaster Artist” today.  It was the first time I utilized my movie pass which, if you don’t know, is the card that allows you to pretty much see as many movies in the theaters as you want for ten bucks a month.  I don’t think I really wanted to see that particular movie, but then again it ended up being discounted.  I already did my job to make the purchase of the pass make sense.  Have any of ya’ll seen the trailer for that movie or do you know the back story?  It’s essentially a movie done by James Franco, starring him and his brother, that is based of this book and movie about this eccentric and rich man that moved to Hollywood and made one of the worst movies of all time, one that later became a cult classic.  It was made for six million dollars and was shown in one theater and made $1800.  Later it ended up making back it’s budget because it became one of those midnight movies that people always see for fun.  I don’t know how I got suckered into seeing this movie.  “The reviews were good.”  “It’s supposed to be a good movie.”  “Franco is being nominated for a Golden Globe.”  These are trap sayings, ladies and gentleman.  That movie was terrible.  It made no sense.  It was absurd, ridiculous, and awful.  I guess I can understand the cult following, but was this movie necessary?  There was a good five minutes of footage at the end where they had both films, this one and the original, side by side and I guess it showcased how great of imitators the new actors were because the timing matched up with the old one.  Like what?  What the hell was the purpose of the film?  Was this supposed to inspire people to go to Hollywood and make a movie if you’re rich enough and if it bombs at least there’s a chance of someone wanting to make a remake down the road?  Cynical, I know.  

Today I went to One on One to have a personal industry meeting with a casting director that has some unbelievable credits on her resume.  Her name was Ann Goulder and she was responsible for the casting of great films such as “Requiem for a Dream”, “Black Swan”, “Happiness”, “Road Trip”, and other great movies like “Adventureland” and “A Walk on the Moon.”  It was the first one at One on One that I had been to that had a Q&A.  The first ten minutes or so were actor directed questions to see what Ms. Goulder liked, didn’t like and what her process was for casting.  Her responses weren’t shocking, in fact, they were pretty straight forward.  She looks for the best.  She pools from people she knows and asks others if she needs help.  One of her pet peeves, or maybe I should say one of the things that she doesn’t love seeing in the room is a person enveloped by their nerves.  It makes sense.  Nervous people make other people nervous and she felt the same way and I suppose it isn’t rocket science to think that the majority of people that come in that room struggle with nerves.  I’ve always admired the work of a casting director even though the actor in me knows how desperate I am to catch their eye and keep their attention.  What astounds me about all of them, isn’t how connected they are with so many different people, but more so how amazing their memories are.  They are faced with hundreds, probably thousands of people, countless submissions, and the good ones especially seem to know exactly what they are looking for.  Now I don’t know what to think of our meeting.  There are a lot of tests you have to “pass”, I suppose.  The eye test.  The nerves test.  The acting test.  In no particular order.  Like I said earlier though, her credits are awesome.  I’m lucky enough to have even gotten in front of her.

Tomorrow I will attempt to walk through the madness of New York in the hope of finding some good holiday presents before the Hanukkah is over.  I’ve never really tried to shop for presents in the city during the holidays, but part of me is like a little kid in a candy store or Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone 2 when I find myself in those big crowded department stores.  It snowed today and there is always such a magical feeling when it does so.  I haven’t experienced snow a whole lot during the holidays.  It seemed that I would always go to Florida with my Dad and sister whenever snow arrived in Seattle.  My mom would always show me these photos of what the driveway, walkway, and porch looked like.  I was never complaining to be in summer in December, but there was definitely a feeling of having missed out on a rarity.  Of course, whenever my sister and I would come back, the snow was gone and nowhere to be seen.  Like many things, I have specific associations with certain people, when it comes to specific memories.  My grandpa, my dad, and I were in New York one time when it was really cold and snowing.  My grandpa had a habit of always walking ahead of people.  His pace was unmatched by anyone and I don’t care how slick the ground might have been, he was always getting to where he needed to go.  HIs speedy and suave walking style was always balanced by his audible disgust for the cold.  I don’t have a sound byte to try an imitate, but think of just audible “bleching” from how freezing cold something was.  That was Grandpa.  I miss that man.  Miss the way he’d station himself on a chair and read the stock options out of the Wall Street Journal.  Missed his sort of James Cagney push.

Tomorrow, after getting all of the things done that I need to get done, I’m gonna go to Madison Square Garden to watch the Seattle Supersonics play the New York Knicks.  According to my brief research the last time the Sonics played the Knicks was December 13, 2007.  A guy by the name of Kevin Durant scored 30 points to lead the Sonics to a road victory.  Who will the Sonics feature tomorrow?  Will it be Isaiah Thomas starting at point guard alongside Zach Lavine?  Avery Bradley?  Marvin Williams at small forward?  Will we start five guards and just run with Baby Boy playing off the ball? Jamal Crawford coming off the bench?  There surely would be some fireworks indeed.  Would they rock new jerseys or bring back the old?  Who would be courtside?  Would Spike Lee dawn a Sonics jersey in their honor?  Would GP, Shawn Kemp, and company sit next to him?  Would Seattle artists, singers, and actors be in attendance, their first opportunity as well to finally support their team in their city of residence.  Would the Knicks honor Brandon Roy and pay him homage?  Would the Knicks retire the jerseys of all the people who deserve it because Seattle people have no sechel?  How many of the most loyal fans would make the trip to the Mecca.  These are the things I think about late at night.  I dream of a not so distant future when about 5 percent of the above could come true.  But what good would a dream be without a little fantasy sprinkled on?

Happy Holidays, everyone.

[singing-robot]

i was thinking about papyrus today (as one does) and remembered that one scene in the beginning of snowdin where sans asks you to play along papyrus’ puzzles because “he’s been kind of down lately”. and i thought what if deltarune papyrus is inside his house because he’s like at the same point of the timeline and he’s not feeling great? but seeing a human in this universe won’t cheer him up as much

Boy howdy do I love writing essays about discussing Papyrus, which is made possible by viewers like you. Thank you! 

Long post ahead, if you don’t want to read all of it, then feel free to look at this diagram, instead! 

I am very excited to meet Papyrus all over again, and wrote a lot about the differences in their worlds to compare them and say that, basically, I agree with you.

In UNDERTALE, Papyrus spends a lot of time in his house, as he states himself when leading you there on the Papyrus date. But there’s also evidence of him having quite a few projects outside. He has several traps set up in the woods, and at least one snow sculpture, and realistically painted a rock to look like a wooden bridge. And that’s only in the areas we can see!! 

In the long run, though, most of those are meaningless (or fun!) tasks he assigned to himself. The majority of traps for humans could easily be walked around or through. He might even have known that. His super-mega-huge trap of death on the bridge? A human hasn’t fallen in decades, he has no reason to take such extreme (and… kind of impractical?) precautions. (Or does he..? Another theory for another day.) I think those traps are more like excuses to not get bored in the dull little town of Snowdin; and if a human gets stuck in one, awesome!!! It’ll only help him. 

Before we fell down, though, I think Papyrus not only became focused on his lack of friends, but also ran out of stuff to do. His computer was left open on a social media site, which he presumably was scrolling through before he came out to meet Sans in the beginning. Spending a lot of time online, especially on a single social media site, can make you feel pretty bad, especially if that becomes your main “activity” of the day (many of us have done this or may be doing it now). If he’s done everything he can think of, perfected all of his plans, and then got into a routine of making sure they stay that way, every day, with few new things… it’s not super great for your person. At least he can hang out with the few friends that he does have, right? Those guys are fun. 

I do think Papyrus in deltarune isn’t feeling great, but more so because he starts off with nothing to do. Human-catching traps aren’t necessary. The town is already colorful and beautiful. There’s not a ridiculously long stone slab to realistically paint as wood. The opportunity to drive a car and feel the wind and sun is already available to him. He’s new to town, so he doesn’t have any friends, and didn’t go to a costume party. Undyne doesn’t know the science teacher, much less the new residents. Flowey doesn’t exist. Doggo is nowhere in sight (… actually, none of the dogs are?). The annoying dog is presumably creating a video game in the library’s computer room, undisturbed. 

Everyone in Hometown is happy, friends with each other, knows the Dreemurrs, and is so snug and suffocatingly waving-in-the-yard friendly that the concept of trying to make my own place in the community when I can’t even say I work in my family’s new grocery store is terrifying. There’s no way I could fit in, and if I stay inside and avoid everyone for too long, then it’s a never-ending cycle of being too late to join them. Heck, even Catti, the super edgy rebellion teen, has friends and works in the diner. 

I mean, going off of my home, Hometown as a whole probably shuts down at 10 PM; unless it’s a midsummer Friday night, then it shuts down at 11:30. It’s not like there’s a variety of activities to do there. We might think the place is quirky and cute and fun to live in because the cop yells at pedestrians and blocks traffic (how funny!), or because a mascot has war chants (he seems fun!), or even because there’s a park where a nameless squid… person… thing… lives (it’s our friend Onion-San!!!). But imagine being there every day, with little variety outside of Mr. Holiday getting sick, Bratty saying Catti got fur in her coffee, or the star kid athlete moving to college. 

To me, there is very little appeal to the prospect of living in Hometown (if it were real, that is—but you guys know what I mean). And I… don’t really want do anything? Like, at all? (Collateral damage from growing up here, I’m sure, but still.) But I think I went off on a tangent. My end point is, if Papyrus got bored in Snowdin, despite his friends and increasingly meaningless and time-consuming tasks he could come up with, in a fantasy world where monsters didn’t have a choice in making the best of it, imagine how boring it’d be to live in Hometown, where their imaginations have the same limits and restrictions as our real-life society does. I can’t go out in the woods and construct deadly traps that everyone knows to avoid because I can and will be fined with endangerment, intent to harm, trespassing, etc. 

This could also go into a whole other thing about why deltarune is so different and why Kris is the only human (and monster prejudices seem to exist against humans?), but I’m not sure seeing Kris would cheer him up, either. Oh, are we going to hang out with him to be his friend?! That would be really cool, if it weren’t for the fact that Sans all but forces us to go. At least in UNDERTALE, the arrival of a human has the potential to rocket him through the ranks. In Deltarune, the human is already there and doesn’t mean a thing. 

So. Yeah. I’m sure Papyrus is pretty miserable in deltarune, and he doesn’t have many ways to fix that problem. This also gives me a neat drawing idea, don’t let me forget. 

Also!!! If you’re interested in seeing more deltarune-specific content, I have another side-blog at @singing-ralsei