#hyperfixation go brrrr

[pablogavira]

Gavi dancing in the locker room (ft. Nico and Rodri) 🕺🏻🏆

[miwiheroes]

every time i watch a byler edit i like, have to take a deep breath afterwards

chat is this normal

[turnthefriggingfrogsgay]

I just watched Deadpool and Wolverine AND I just discovered Mouthwashing

I feel new hyper fixations coming on

[starpixiie]

Some opla doodles bc this show has a fuckin grip on me rn

[chaoticmannamedoliver]

FUCK MY MECHS HYPERFIXATION FOR A FEW DAYS. NOW I'LL ANNOY PEOPLE WITH THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL. I BET THE FANDOM IS ON FIRE AND OH BOY IM SO HERE FOR IT.

MY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE EPISODES INCLUDE BUT AREN'T LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING IMAGES.

[kaleidoscopek9]

omg spiderman

[turtle-sister-april]

Only mildly obsessed with this song now.

[shadowthescarecrow]

Bro Alice in Borderland is amazing!! I feel like it is everything Sword Art Online tried to be, but in a way better way! I'll definitely be watching the anime and reading the manga.

Also Chishiya is the best character in this series, I love him so much!

Also also, Ann is a machine man, I wish I could be that cool!!

[rifusaki]

rocky is all i can think about now I feel im going insane

[cerberusdreams]

Oh, my love Did I mistake you for a sign from God? Or are you really here to cut me off? Or maybe just turn me on?

[merryhaze]

Anyone interested in an AU where Carol Perkins enters the upside down, and interacts extensively with Will, and where she and Nancy end up friends?

Inspired both by this fic - https://archiveofourown.org/works/47137369/chapters/118763662- and by @slayernina’s excellent post on Carol and Tommy -

[an-unraveling-unknown]

My thoughts on Undertale and philosophy

This short thought barf has so many holes and ramblings and the concept in itself could probably be explained far better by the countless video essays that genuinely had hard work into them and I recommend them no questions asked but I need to gush and further procrastinate on my French or else my brain will eat itself and explode (I’m sorry Ms. L)

Undertale is a game based in Nihilism that wants you to think that it’s based in Existentialism, while simultaneously having elements of both. Oough okay here we go

The basic outline for Nihilism is that nothing matters and we’re all going to perish unceremoniously. In broader terms, everything and anything we do as human beings does not change anything, it doesn’t matter, we are bound to fate and there is no meaning to life - meaning is a social construct per se. 

Existentialism, however, was created in more optimistic direct opposition to Nihilism, saying that we make meaning. We are defined by our existence, in our actions, who we are, people must choose a direction and meaning in life. 

Undertale happens to juggle both of these with humor upon a polka-dotted unicycle with mirth in its eyes.

One of the coolest things about the Undertale is that its game mechanics are a very real part of the world. You die, you can reset, you can reset at any point whatsoever, whether you choose mercy or fight or both has a specified outcome, you have control. A few select characters know this, like Flowey and Sans, but they can’t really do anything to stop you if you’re determined enough because determination is in ALL human souls - the will to keep living and change fate. It is RIGHT THERE is the description, Existentialism, where we make meaning, where we are in control, where we can change fate because we are determined to make meaning. Everything matters because we think it does (which could also tie into trying to decipher the story and make sense of things where they are chaotic and unknowable, like the elusive W.D Gaster. That, and that’s what a lot of the games were striving for at the time - rewarding the player by making sense, for all the puzzle pieces to satisfyingly click together.)*

But no matter how you play the game, Genocide route or Neutral or Pacifist, no matter what you do, you always end up back in the underground. If Chara goes up to the surface and presumably murders everyone she sees or something along those lines, it all resets. If Flowey decimates you and does whatever he does, it all resets. If you die in a fight with a monster, if Asgore defeats you and uses your determination soul to break the surface barrier, if you do the morally correct thing and find a way to break the barrier so the monsters can be free from the underground’s confines, it all has to reset.

The Monsters cannot truly go back up to the surface, and neither can you. 

Everything you did, all that you accomplished to help them, to break the mold, or to betray them and slaughter them all (or just a select few,) as a whole, It did not matter. What’s more, you will likely reset, regardless of any ending. You may reset, again and again and again, perhaps to see what will happen because of human curiosity, mayhaps because its just a really good game, or perhaps to subconsciously get proper closure - but regardless of any of these, you always end up back in the underground. You cannot win, but isn’t that what games are for?

The only way to ‘win’ at this game is to never play it, really.

Undertale game mechanics are a very real part of the world built up around it and is a game that is self-aware in more ways than one - it knows what you do, it judges you for it, and it knows you cannot get out.

HOWEVER, like most things, there are two sides to that coin.

In all of this, you’re allowing yourself to have Determination - Hope. That’s what’s keeping you going as you claw and scrape your way through fights and levels of the story, what’s keeping you kind through the pacifist run (it takes a lot of effort to be kind sometimes, that’s not for nothing), that’s what’s keeping the Monsters going, the hope that they’ll see the surface again, that you can help, that again and again and again is hope. You are all in a perpetual state of hope.

Isn’t that an incredibly human thing to be?

Even better, that’s the games point. That we can come together, respect our differences and get along. Regardless of who we are, we are all bounded together by determination and hope. We can, and should care for each other, and learn and grow.

Heck, in the act of doing all this, we are making meaning, Cos’ we play games and everything feels alright for a bit.

“The human soul can be indomitable” Hell yeah it can.

[arbellas-bakery]

brb gonna go pass out from that

[greykorvian]

sume more mech design exploration for the good of my mental health.

[sulfurhotspot]

Me when I see some certain silli men: pstpstpst come here silli men pstpstpstpst come heeeeeere pstpstpstpst come get your skrumpets

[archerbeans]

okay so i can.. kinda smell the boringness for tonights ep, just through the synopsis alone, which is heavily disappointing because i theorize after this it'll be another Anidom hiatus for the super bowl so it's going to be quite a wait before we get a new episode after tonight. Kinda like how they did last year, after airing Gene's Christmas Break, it was Touch of Eval-uations and then it was a long asf break before the Valentine's Day ep, Ferry on Wayward Bob and Linda.