#and yes that was a utdr reference

[just-bible-musings]

A Word About Asceticism

I've always kind of worshipped at the altar of asceticism. I've always thought I'm a bad Christian because I don't give up all my worldly possessions and go stand on a street corner and hand out tracts and tell people to repent. I can't tell you the number of times I've been angry at God for giving me good, pleasant things. Largely because I, personally, have known people who had crappy lives and not much of anything. I feel sorry for those people, and then I feel guilty for all the good things God gives me.

And yes, I would love to share with them, but it always seems to work out that they don't need what I have to give them. Some people are too proud and stubborn to accept anything. Other times, it's just weird. One time, a relative of mine needed some money. I had none to give them because I had literally just spent my entire savings fixing a car emergency. But I had stocked my cabinets and freezer with food before then, so I offered them some. They didn't need food, they were getting food packages from their local food pantry. I had nothing else they needed.

And that's just one example.

I guess it's a kind of survivor's guilt. I just feel bad and ask God almost constantly if I should just sell all my stuff and go live in the woods like the holy hermits of ye olden days. I beg Him sometimes to just give me the GUTS to do this, because I know good and well, if I tried doing it on my own, I might last a week (haha! lookit me, putting so much faith in myself!) before I get scared and hungry and return to civilization.

But I read this the other day:

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility... Colossians 2:18

"Voluntary humility?" Like asceticism? So... I'm not a bad Christian if I live in a house and have nice things?

Colossians 2 up to this verse was Paul saying, "Look, all your sins are forgiven, they're dead and buried in Christ and you, as a person, and your soul have been resurrected." And then a few verses later:

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Colossians 2:20-22

It's kind of hard to believe, but it's like Paul's saying, "Stop letting other people tell you how to live your life!" Which I always thought was a worldly way of looking at things, so I've always been someone looking for others to tell me how to live. But it seems like God said it first?

Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. Colossians 2:23

Basically, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, all those attitudes look good, but they're not gonna make you any better of a person."

Also, something I literally just noticed as I was typing all this out: that phrase, "will worship," in verse 23.

I think we could also look at it as "worship OF the will" (or, as some people might call it, "determination"). In any case, it's NOT from God. Doing it on your own, no matter how strong-willed or determined you are, does not bring glory to God, only to yourself.

It still bothers me that God hasn't called me or given me the strength to do the things I sometimes see other people doing, because I'm not sure if I'm following His will. It's scary to feel called to do something different. But I'm really not a strong person, never was. If He doesn't give me the courage to do something, I know I won't make it. So at this point, the best I can do is to keep doing what I've been doing and ask God if it's still the right thing.

[eyestrain-addict]

My brain is trying to make me serotonin by cycling through like every fandom I've ever been in for the past week, and right now we're back on fucking deltarune again god dammit toby. toBY. TOBY HELP ME. TOBY. *BANG BANG BANG* HELP MEEEE

[what-undertale-soul-polls]

WHAT UNDERTALE HUMAN SOUL WOULD THEY HAVE?

last edit: 11/13/2024

(run by @sayakamikian!) the premise of this blog is pretty simple, just vote on what undertale human SOUL trait a character would have! it doesn't matter if they're not human/probably wouldn't have a human SOUL if they existed in the undertale universe, it's just hypothetical. (yes, that means you can even submit monsters and darkners from the utdr universe! the only limitation is humans who already have canon SOULs which is... not a lot of characters out there, lol)

i am not consistently motivated and am pretty busy in general, so my posting schedule is a little sporadic. sorry about that! this blog is NOT dead until i say it is, and that will not be for a long time, i promise that B)

submissions can just go in the ask box because all that's required is a character name + the media they are from.

attach an image link to official art if you'd like or leave it up to me, but specify in the case of a character having no official art, please!

you can submit as many characters as you want as many times in a row as you want!

don't submit with "propaganda" because none of the polls will be posted with any preexisting answers or arguments attached, but by all means argue your case in the notes B)

i'll come up with a more solid queue policy once things actually start to pick up queue is 2 queued posts per day for now! i may post a few early or just go ahead and make my own + post them at random though ^_^

what characters/media are accepted and what polls end up being posted are ultimately up to my discretion.

anon is off because i always leave it off for personal peace of mind reasons, but i won't publish regular submission asks or reveal who sent submissions unless i'm asked to @ you in the submission, which you are free to do!

i occasionally publish polls that are (generally) utdr-related but not my usual “what SOUL are they” polls, which are tagged as #offbrand poll

for reference, the SOUL traits are as follows:

red = [unknown trait]. a common misconception is that the red soul is canonically determination, but there's nothing in canon that actually says this, determination is explicitly possessed by all SOULs and not exclusive to red, and determination is never directly linked to red and is more associated with gold in-game than anything! so, even if red = determination is probably the most widespread popular interpretation, don't assume that's what it has to be. other interpretations that are popular/that i personally like are that red = love, red = hope, red = freedom, red = no trait in particular or an equal balance of traits, etc... and, of course, there's red = ball game lmao. since it's ultimately unknown, though, if you're stuck you can probably think of red as the equivalent of baldness or vanilla extract?? go wild! orange = bravery yellow = justice green = kindness cyan = patience blue = integrity purple = perseverance

[bogos-bint3d]

Ok but seriously are you guys actually interested in my concepts for the fallen humans or am I just putting all this into something that isn't actually interesting because eclipse is like the only person to have shown any interest in them so far but also it could just be that I'm posting them at the wrong times so nobody is seeing them or something

The most recent post I refer to in the poll is the ask I answered about justice

And I do want HONEST answers here, I don't want to get positive reactions from this poll only to get nothing again the next time I post about them

*if that's the case I am open to constructive criticism about why

**this is if you have already seen the post

[m1lkt00th]

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it/its . they/them . he/him . pup/purr

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[tensionpoints]

Anyway, let’s ask questions & make note of things!

(It's a strange letter. It's more or less completely illegible…)

“Strange letter” there’s various ways to interpret this— is it strange for a vday card? Or strange for other reasons? It’s very long, for certain. and it disappears! Why else could this be ‘strange?’

“Completely illegible” is this bad handwriting, or is this wingdings? Or a secret 3rd thing?

(But, if you squint your eyes, and, you squint your heart… For some reason, you feel you could understand it)

“Squinting your eyes and heart” is a very strange sentiment, and I feel it’s too easily brushed over. Heart, obviously could refer to the SOUL, but what gets me the most about this is the grammatical structure of the sentence.

1. “But,” starting a sentence with a coordinating conjunction is, for the most part, frowned upon. Why separarte this from the first sentence, starting another?

2. “But, if you squint your eyes, and, you squint your heart… For some reason, you feel you could understand it” let’s start by sorting this into clauses.

“But, [if you squint your eyes], and, [you squint your heart…] For some reason, [you feel] [you could understand it]”

Time for some questions! Why put a comma after “and?” I could be misremembering, but a comma AFTER “and” is very awkward-sounding.

Also. It’s inconsistent? Why write it as “But, if you squint your eyes, and, you squint your heart…“ when it would be more consistent to have “But, if you squint your eyes, and if you squint your heart…” or “But, if you squint your eyes and (your) heart…” why repeat the verb? how many “you”s is the sender talking about?

3. Squinting your eyes is common to try to read illegible text, as you focus more on the finer details. What could squinting a HEART do? what would squinting a heart be LIKE.?

All in all for this section, the narration feels different to me than the usual narration in UTDR, but I can’t quite place why.

WELL,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

OR, WAS IT THE OLD YEAR.

1. First impression I’m getting here is “does this person experience time linearly?”

2. Second thing I’m noticing: a question ending with a period rather than a question mark.

3. Thirdly, the sender seems, at best, unaware, or, at worse, confused.

WELL,

IN ANY CASE, HOW IS DELTA RUNE?

1. Why are you asking US, sender?

2. What is MEANT by “delta rune?” the game? The symbol? What are we talking about?

AS YOU ARE WAITING

PATIENTLY, THE TIME IS GOING AROUND.

THERE WAS EVEN A RUMOR OF "VALENTINE'S DAY".

HOW ABSURD.

EVERY DAY IS A DAY OF LOVE,

IF ONLY YOU BELIEVE IT SO.

DO YOU BELIEVE IT SO?

…

1. What are we waiting for? The next release, or something else?

2. “The time is going around” feels like it’s worded this way deliberately. What does this mean?

3. “There was even a rumor of “valentine’s day” is this world building? There are lightners AND darkners with valentines. Why does this idea sound foreign to the sender to the point that the day is a “rumor?” Where are you from, sender?

4. “How absurd. Every day is a day of love, if only you believe it so. Do you believe it so?” What do we mean by “love?”

SO, THE PURPOSE OF THE MESSAGE.

I WANT TO HELP!

YES, THERE WAS SOMEONE I WANTED TO HELP

…

1. Given the last section, this creates an interesting vibe imo? This is a letter of “I want to contribute” and not “be mine 💘” which makes this feel even MORE out of place. Are you supposed to be here???

I SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO..

YES, IT'S QUITE IRONIC, BUT I SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN.

WAS IT MYSELF? NO.

WELL, PERHAPS.

1. What, exactly, makes this ironic? In general for deltarune, or is there something about you that makes this something very odd?

2. “Was it myself? No. Well, perhaps.” What is a self, sender? How could it be that “no” and ��perhaps” are both answers that are viable?

REGARDLESS, WHEN I SEE THEM, I'M CERTAIN I WILL KNOW IT STRAIGHT AWAY.

I NEVER FORGET SOMEONE I DON'T REMEMBER.

WILL YOU HELP ME?

…

…

1. “I’m certain I will know” will this be true for us as well? Are you a new character, or are you a character we’ve seen before?

2. “I never forget someone I don’t remember” also feels VERY deliberately worded. Something about this line is important, I think.

3. What do you need help with? I thought you were helping someone else?

4. The two lines of “…” next to each other strike me as odd. What does this mean?

YOU ARE VERY ODD, RESPONDING OUT LOUD TO A LETTER.

BUT, YOU SEEM RELIABLE.

I WILL BE COUNTING ON YOU.

1. This gives more of an in-game vibe than the rest of the letter, acting as though we have turned this into a dialogue.

2. What makes us reliable?

3. Counting on us for WHAT?

4. I feel like there’s some kind of joke lying in wait here over “letter” juxtaposed with “counting”

NOW, PUT ON YOUR COAT AND WASH YOUR FACE!

OR, PUT ON YOUR FACE AND WASH YOUR COAT.

NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER.

OR, IN ANY ORDER AT ALL.

1. This general section really has me curious as to who the sender is. After all, this is a very strange manner of speaking here. Love the silliness. Very unsure of what this means on a larger scale.

2. Why are we being told to do this?

GOOD BY!

1. I’ve seen SOOOOOO many people mention the spelling here. Curious if it means anything, or if it genuinely is just a mistake.

(There was a sound like something walking away

And, the letter was gone.)

1. Again, the narration seems odd with the grammar here?

2. This is SO funny when we consider this letter was replaced with a blank. Toby why did you do this it’s hilarious.

3. I wonder if inanimate object (letter) with legs and the cup Toby asked us to look at are connected.

Verdict: probably Not gaster, but Deffo suspicious. Cant count anything out yet imo.

[zones-spinterest-corner]

BLOG REVIVAL

Hi hello I’m back! For reference I used to be trg-jsab-zone but I’ve decided to branch out and use this as my main fandom and oc ramble blog! For those new: my name is Zone, I mainly use he/they pronouns, but any are fine (I like fem pronouns the least but honestly do what you want idc gender isn’t on my “figure this out in detail right now” list), I come from England, have diagnosed autism and ME/CFS, and am a young adult!

Details under the cut!

Main interests:

Bold text means something I’m really fixated on at this point in time/a really strong interest but not a main one, bold and italic is a main special interest, and just italic is something I enjoy passively and don’t have extremely passionate feelings towards!

Just Shapes And Beats (main fandom for over 5 years now, still adore the game)

My ocs (Not really a fandom but I love them so much I can’t not mention them here)

-> JSaB subfandoms(?): The Pink Corruption (yes I consider it a JSaB au cry about it, it’s also probably the only JSaB fan series other than my own I’ve made over the years that I’ve actually been hyperfixated on which is weird because it lowkey sucks lmao), Broken Melodies (AWESOME fancomic by @/pinktrashgoblin, may post about it occasionally because I think it’s really awesome)

Undertale/Deltarune (the games are amazing what can I say)

-> UTDR subfandoms: Undertale Yellow (it’s got its flaws but I still really enjoy it), Twin Runes (another fancomic, this time by @/akanemnon, please read it it’s got a great balance of humour and really interesting characters!)

OneShot (The OneShot sleeper agent gets activated on many occasions and I’m not sorry about it)

Cookie Run: Kingdom (I don’t know why I’m here but I’m a proud “White Lily’s character was handled horrendously” and “White Lily and Dark Enchantress should’ve been separate people” truther, honestly I don’t really like the main story of the game I just think the cookies are funny)

Geometry Dash (this fucking game ruined me bro)

Project Arrhythmia (not all that active in the community anymore tbh, just kind of a passive thing I check in on occasionally now)

Minecraft (the interest comes and goes but I will always love the funny block game as it was my first true introduction to the wonders of video games)

Everhood (idk I think about it occasionally, the game is fun as long as you don’t think about the story too hard (I did and I was never the same), kind of have mixed opinions but am hopeful for the sequel)

ENA (I LOVE THE FUNNY POLYGON WOMAN!!!!! Really looking forward to Dream BBQ)

The Amazing Digital Circus (I just watch the series man I do not interact with the fandom they terrify me, the series is really good though and doesn’t deserve the hate it gets because of the content farms and brainrot content)

Friday Night Funkin (honestly I just enjoy some of the mods, I really like Funkadelix but am always weary of creators because of many events I’m sure I don’t need to explain)

Before you follow and “I will block you if”s

BYF:

I’m British (I know it’s a cardinal sin, at the very least I can say I don’t like beans on toast lmao)

I am prone to getting caught up in the heat of the moment and saying things I regret, I’m not the best at managing my emotions but I am trying!

Some of the things I enjoy don’t have good creators and I acknowledge that! In fact I don’t even watch TPC on YouTube because I refuse to touch Mirei/Brea’s channel lmao

I swear! Sometimes I feel non-swear words don’t accurately convey what I’m trying to say!

I use tone indicators! They’re not required when talking to me but I use them a lot as I’ve had a lot of problems with people misinterpreting the intent of what I’ve said in the past and would rather avoid unnecessary conflict over it! If it makes you uncomfortable I’ll try and cut down but it is a habit at this point

I am a self shipper and will probably talk about it occasionally! It won’t be the main focus but if it makes you uncomfortable please turn away!

In the same vein - I’m a conceptkin of the JSaB level Into The Zone! I’m not like. Hugely serious about it, I mostly just look at the level and go “hehe that’s me! :3”, and also might not talk about it a lot, but again, if it makes you uncomfortable do not stay!

Will block if:

You hate people based on harmless things they cannot control (i.e gender, sexuality, or race, though there’s plenty more things that fall into that category)

You are a pro/com/darkshipper (I do fully believe that sensitive topics should be discussed in media, but in a respectful way that doesn’t romanticise/sexualise them, which is something most if not all of proshippers do, I also just am very uncomfortable with immoral ships and the discourse)

Are pro cringe culture (people can make cringy and “bad” stories/ocs/headcanons/whatever as long as they don’t hurt anyone you assholes, I started making things by being cringe and if I had any awareness of what cringe culture is back then I probably wouldn’t be creating like I am, don’t shame people for harmless things like this it just makes you a jerk)

You are/interact with/are mutuals with/want to constantly complain about cintagonisupset (I’m tired of hearing about him in any capacity please shut up he’s not a good person but he also doesn’t deserve to be relentlessly bullied for relatively harmless posts, he’s also a minor and I’m an adult so I think it’s wrong to mindlessly bully him as I am older, I’ve also made similar mistakes to him and his friends in the past and I regret it severely and have changed! Please just go away if you wanna talk about him in any capacity)

You support bad content creators (liking their creations is fine, as long as you don’t condone what they’ve done!)

You harass people for liking a piece of media (seriously bro, I’ve had bad experiences with media in the past but I don’t shame and bully people for liking those things, I just block and move on)

You’re the type of person to look at a disabled person doing something you don’t consider characteristic of being disabled and go “hmm they must be faking it” (you suck seriously, I’m chronically ill and use mobility aids where I can, but I am also ambulatory and being able to walk short distances doesn’t make me any less disabled! This is a topic I’m quite passionate about so honestly if any talk of physical disability makes you uncomfortable you should probably leave)

That got really long lol but that’s everything for now! Will probably edit in the future but other than that I’m done!

[lucent-nargacuga]

been thinking a lot about utdr today and I felt the need to debunk/provide alternate explanations some popular theories/interpretations surrounding gaster. I'll probably accidentally misquote/misremember things since I don't have screenshots on hand at the moment, but I'll update this post once I have them

ok. first one. "beware the man who speaks in hands" is about gaster

I can see where y'all are coming from! the wingdings text includes hands. this extremely popular theory does have some evidence supporting it.

however.

deltarune chapter 2 introduced a character we all know and love- spamton. if the player fights him as a secret boss, you'll notice that somewhere in the fight he turns his hands into phones. he even announces that he has this ability.

while it's still possible that gaster is the "man who speaks in hands", it's most likely spamton that the riverperson is talking about!

second one. "beware the man from another world" is gaster

this one could be about pretty much anyone... some people think it could be about sans or papyrus, but it could be about so sorry, or even toby fox himself. it's certainly about someone from outside of the world of undertale.

so why am I including it here? we don't really know where gaster came from, but as far as I'm aware, there's nothing that states he came from outside the world of undertale. he did shatter across space and time, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's from "another world". safe to say, it's impossible to determine who the "man from another world" the riverperson mentions is.

third one! somewhere, there's this quote that I can't quite recall, but it mentions a crack under or by someone's eye, and the crack making them appear like they are crying. many believe it's about gaster too.

the mysteryman sprite (which is commonly believed to be gaster, but again, it's not confirmed) does indeed have a facial marking that looks like either a crack or a stream of tears... but then there's asriel dreemurr.

in at least one of asriel's forms when you fight him as a boss at the end of the true pacifist route, he has two lines under his eyes that look a lot like tears. hell, he even actually cries! it's hard to say whether that line about the crack under or by someone's eye making them look like they're crying is about the mysteryman or asriel, but given what happens in the true pacifist route, I personally believe it's actually about asriel.

this one isn't about gaster, but I figured I'd put it here anyway. this is the theory that annoys me the most- mettaton created the neo body in deltarune.

first of all... as far as I'm aware, there's no evidence for this. at all. yes, we know that in undertale, alphys created mettaton neo, but in deltarune, alphys likely doesn't even know who mettaton is! while it is possible that mettaton may have designed a neo body, it's never even hinted at in the game (correct me if I'm wrong).

however, in asriel and kris' shared bedroom, interacting with asriel's computer reveals that he designed a final boss for a video game. the boss is described as a "giant creature with rainbow wings". this, of course, is an obvious reference of the absolute god of hyperdeath, but the boss is also apparently poorly drawn (like in mspaint) and... "it never saw the light of day". sounds familiar?

there's much more evidence pointing to asriel being the neo body's creator than mettaton.

(I read most of these theories somewhere on tumblr about two years ago but have since forgotten who wrote them, if someone can link the original posts to me I'd appreciate it!)

[missholoska]

since the new UTDR newsletter comic gave Drunk Bun canon pronouns I went to go update my few posts about her Swap MH version, but I have a small dilemma:

personally I don't think it's implying her name is Bunny given that the next profile has a line referring to her as 'the Bunny', but even so I'm not sure if I should just change her name anyway and give up my headcanon name Harebrain?

it's not a big deal for me to change but input would be appreciated nonetheless ✨

[turtlemagnum]

INTERESTS: writing, music, art in general, anime, games (both video and tabletop), animals, linguistics, mythology/theology, philosophical bullshit, making fun of philosophical bullshit, politics, guns (and other varieties of weapon), tech, vulgarity and misanthropy

writing: i'm a writer!! that's like, what i'm best at at the moment. my Main Project is a fantasy setting that i generally either refer to as Winds of Change (for the whole deal) or Arana (the main continent that i've developed so far). i'm currently developing a game to show it off and make other people as feral about it as i am, so i'm also learning how to make music and draw and such. but, at the moment the only skill i'd consider myself competent in is writing, so i primarily just call myself a writer!!

music: my taste is simultaneously deeply eclectic but also tends towards high amounts of specificity. i would say that my "main" genre is progressive rock and some of its derivatives, but i also love a lot of stuff like funk, soul, a small amount of metal, some IDM, whatever the hell death grips is, some early rap (mostly just NWA since that was what i grew up on), occasional jazz, like 2 indie bands, oldies, and on occasion normal people rock. artists i like include but are not limited to: yes, david bowie, king crimson, jimi hendrix, danny elfman, symphony x, dio, death grips, aphex twin, nwa, nat king cole, marty robbins, lemon demon, tally hall, jethro tull, midas, and masayoshi takanaka. i'm also told i have a nice singing voice, but i'm personally biased against such suppositions.

i like art, if you were to look through my likes (which are NOT VISIBLE ON THE TUMBR) it'd have a good amount of art. what that art is of, i'll leave to your imagination. i'm not great at drawing but i'm getting better!!

i like some varieties of anime and anime adjacent things. i'm not like, one of those anime fans though, y'know. in terms of series i like, i'd say i'm a fan of fist of the north star (i need to pick it up again), cowboy bebop (very controversial, i know(also need to pick it up again)), fullmetal alchemist (good series, one of the few i have finished), jojo (i haven't watched part 6 yet but i read the manga all the way into the end of part 7 just after part 4 had finished airing), early gen pokemon is something i come back to on occasion for mostly nostalgic reasons, i'm getting back into dragon ball (kill me), i liked gunsmith cats (the anime was only 3 episodes, you can watch it on youtube, i need to read the manga though), i somewhat recently read thru the entire original yu-gi-oh manga and was surprised at how good it was, and i read a lot of doujins!

i'm a gamer!!!!!!! i mostly love nintendo shit and PC games, and some series i'm into include zelda (arguably my first game series i was Way Into), fallout (mostly new vegas), elder scrolls (deeply love hate relationship), early pokemon, mario, the first deus ex game, portal, kotor, half life, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., a smattering of indie shit (primarily UTDR stuff), a bit of GTA, thief, pathologic, disco elysium, and MGS. i also like TTRPGs but being Extremely Alone, i'm basically screwed!!

i like animals of basically all varieties. definitely a dog person, though i also love cats.

linguistics is cool but i'm also Fucking Stupid so i haven't really gained much past a fairly surface level knowledge. doesn't stop me from trying!

mythology is cool! philosophy is cool too! to be clear i view the vast majority of it as bullshit and not to be taken seriously, but it's still interesting to think about at least!

like most human beings living in the modern age, i have a lot of very strong political views. however, i don't like to ascribe labels to myself since people generally hear the label and just fill in the blanks of what they already believe and go deaf to everything else you have to say. i feel like my stances should be fairly obvious if you listen to what i have to say, but here's my main deal in regards to this: i like freedom, not in the typical american way that's basically glorified grandstanding with deeply authoritarian tendencies, but in more of a way where i like the idea of people being able to live how they want without a threat of starving and such. i abhor bigotry, though it's very easy to say that i suppose. i try to be open minded and tend towards a live and let live attitude, y'know. i also oppose imperialism and authoritarianism, but i feel as though that should be considered the baseline

huge gun nerd. i've got Gun Autism, babey!!! don't worry, i'm not One Of Those gun people, i mostly just appreciate them from a technical level. i post a lot about guns, so if you don't like that you can either block the tag #turtlegunrant or just not follow!!!!!!!

tech, much like linguistics, is something i like quite a bit but aren't smart enough to Actually Understand. i'm also the variety of tech enthusiast who's a paranoid shithead, so i'm definitely more of a PC guy. i actually fucking hate touch screens, so i hate phones (which i know is rare for somebody born in this century). i love torrenting, piracy, and just generally downloading and archiving shit

[utdr-reference-counter]

hey. this is a persons side blog.

i count ridiculously far fetched, or obvious, utdr references.

yes I'm autistic how'd you know

idiots dni

[thesnowflake18]

More recent WIPs and sketches ✨

[everysongineverykey]

"like the sound test room is of course an unused room that a ton of undertale fans likely still don't know about" The sound test room is in fact very much used, it has a 50% of substituting the fishing rod room in snowding if you fun value is set to 65! (I think you need to fight Papyrus first?)

seriously?? i fully thought it was one of those things you had to mess around with the files to find. huh. well, even so, it's a pretty rare room- you need one specific fun value to get it, and even then it's just a 50% chance (and if you need to fight papyrus first and then backtrack, that makes it even less likely people will find it), so i doubt it would get a direct, on-the-nose reference. i think it could still show up, though- i feel like you could conceivably put it in deltarune and give it its own scene in the story so that even players who don't know of it in undertale can experience it as its own thing, and fans who do know it can have the added experience of knowing it's a reference.

that's one thing i've been pondering in relation to gaster as well for some time- the fact is that most deltarune players know who he is, most undertale fans will go into deltarune knowing who he is, he's a pretty popular mystery, but... you can't guarantee everyone will know who he is if he shows up on screen without context. if he says some shit like "ah yes, you know who i am, now at last we meet" or whatever, there's a significant chance that less online utdr fans, like younger fans with more restricted access to the internet, won't have a clue what he's talking about. toby can guarantee that deltarune is mostly only played by people who have completed undertale, but he can't be certain they'll know everything about gaster, and if gaster plays a big role in later chapters, it'd be kinda unfair to just... leave them out of the loop. of course i've had a lot of fun thinking about a late-game sequence in the style of undertale's waterfall history plaques or new home exposition dump where maybe the gang's walking through some hall with either signs telling them the story of gaster or gaster himself speaking to them from somewhere else and then at the end they (and we) finally see him in person... the vision in my head is sooo cool would that i could visualize it somehow <3 but alas i cannot draw or program </3 but anyway! i went off on a tangent there. that's something i didn't know about the sound test room! thanks :)

[waddlesizsleepy]

hi I’m iz.

i occasionally draw and scream about shit i like

more info below-

you can call me iz or izzy either or. they/she, please.

i'm a tme agender lesbian so if you're transfem and feel uncomfortable letting me follow you/following me, feel free to block :]

i'm white- second verse, same as the first. feel free to block if you're uncomfortable with that :]

i'm a stupid american™️ and literally only know english, and even then not very well. i'm attempting to learn irish and german but that's kinda at a stand still rn.

tags n' crap

i draw! my art tag is "i see you in the morning (iz) art star-" yes it is a csn reference. sorry.

ramble tag is "everybody's talkin' at iz..."

if you wanna mute my nonsensical vents, the tag is "iz rant era"

stuff about my ocs is under "grazi trio." if you're confused/wanna know more about them, good.

interestz

the only fandom id actually say I'm apart of is fraggle rock. i kinda jump around and don't stay in one place too long

puppets and comics mainly. not gonna list specifics cuz it'd be way too long 🫠

those cartoons that are based on greeting card characters from the 80s

body horror movies <3

currently fixating on: the mother series, fraggle rock (as always), sam & max, moomin, utdr (regrettably)

DNI.

basic dni criteria, you know the drill.

terfs or people who push terf rhetoric. (mspec lesbians, choice feminists, people who think transandrophobia is real etc.)

if you're gonna try to argue with me about politics, fuck off dude.

i honestly don't have the time or energy anymore to get involved fandom or ship discourse but if you ship or romanticize fucked up shit then you're fucking disgusting and should get help.

"you have other socials?"

yes. i have a bluesky under the same url.

as for other stuff, i have an ao3 but im not gonna advertise it unless i post on there. i also have a discord but thats only for people i trust.

i do have an account for fire emblem shit cuz i do not want fe fans on my main. im not gonna link that account tho. find it yourself lmao.

[the-unrelated-theorist]

All right, all right, I do want to comment here: much as I like this theory, and I still think the similarities are kinda weird (like, yes, it's a Toby Fox, and he developed the concept, but the animation was by Omocat, so there's no reason for these similarities to exist), there are a few problems with this theory.

First, I want to retract my comment that the pink girl is choking/drowning. I watched her death scene frame by frame, and she's actually praying. She's not grabbing her throat, she's folding her hands.

Now, then, one of the first questions I have is: if it's DR-related, why did Toby collaborate with Omocat on the animation and not Temmie? Maybe just to deliberately say, "hey guys, don't think this means anything, because it doesn't"? Because if Temmie or anyone directly connected to UTDR had animated it, right away, we would all have immediately assumed it to be a Deltarune reference, even if it isn't. (I mean, just look at how many people out there think Temmie's two games are somehow connected to Deltarune.)

'Course, it's also possible that Toby went outside of the Deltarune team to deliberately throw us off the trail. Haha! I think it's also equally likely that he may have asked Omocat to include certain themes, such as the seeming "similarity" between Kris and the SFB blue boy, just to give us all a run for our money.

But the other question originates from within Deltarune: if the pink girl, who also appears to be the one singing, IS Dess, then why is she singing a song about a relationship with the player? This would indicate that Dess is aware that she is nothing but a video game character- and, more than that, that she was self-aware before she was trapped in the void. So the question then would be... how? And why?

And, as people have pointed out, there's a lot of Omori references in here, too. And while I haven't finished that game (and probably won't anytime soon because my PC is almost shot and will hardly run anything), I highly doubt there's any connection between Omori and Unrelated, other than them both being Earthbound-type games.

Again, it's just a theory. One that I plan to take into consideration in future chapters, just for a good laugh, if nothing else.

I wasn't going to say anything. I totally wasn't. I was trying so hard NOT to look for connections. But I've watched the "Skies Forever Blue" video over and over, and listened to the song over and over, and something inside kept saying, "It's Deltarune, it's Deltarune, it's Deltarune!" And then Bread posted this and I decided it was time to say something.

For my part, I just kept thinking, "Well, it's about a relationship between a character and a player, that's just Toby's proven style, that's why you see a connection," but I knew all along Toby was hinting at something here, I could feel it.

Anyway, watching the video and looking at the website, I noticed a few things....

Vaguely resembles the DR logo.

Also, I know they're just music notes, but they look like the same kind of notes we see from Sweet Cap'n Cakes in Cyber Battle. That could just be coincidence- I mean, how many different ways can you draw notes in pixel art- but it's interesting.

Uh, why is "[shine on through]" in brackets??? And it's the only lyric in the captions that is in brackets.

Ok, ok, that's probably nothing. That is probably just YouTube closed captioning, which I believe is automatic. In the official lyrics in the description, there are no brackets. It's just that it's freaky to see in this situation. I'll go ahead and toss this one in the [damn garbage can].

BUT, the idea of a heart shining is somewhat reminiscent of the SOUL glowing.

99? Why does this remind me of Chara?

She grabs her throat like she's choking. Or... drowning?

They jumped in the water and it turned into sky? Or maybe "heaven"?

That's the video. Now let's look at the website. HalfBreadChaos covered most of it, but there's a few things I want to point out in the credits section:

Toby is the Annoying Dog. No big deal, right? I mean, that's pretty much just his avatar now.

Why doesn't he actually list his involvement in this project, tho?

Why would somebody choose Flowey for their icon? Especially if this isn't UT related? Wait... wait... wait, wait, wait... Nah, that's silly. Heh, just cuz there's a golden flower in Asgore's bell jar and suspicious-looking vines blocking the bunker door and vines and things in Spamton's basement... Nah, that doesn't mean...

Somebody hold me, I'm scared....

Is... is that the... the "Find Her" guitar???

What. What? WHAT?!?

No! No, no, no, it CAN'T be!!!