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browniefox · 1 year ago

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Undertale/Deltarune FanComics

I put out a post for some UTDR comic recs, and I've decided to compile them all here, both so that I can easily access them as I make my way through, and also so that anyone else who is interested in it can also check it out :D I've provided brief descriptions next the ones I could uh quickly find descriptions for or knew personally, so if you notice one you know that's lacking a descriptions, tell me and I'll add it.

Also if you think this list would benefit from further categorization in some way, let me know! Right now it's a bit of a mess and overwhelming lol.

I'll also be updating this with new (or old lol) comics if anyone has more suggestions!

Edit: I’m making a collection blog, @utdrlibrary, that way one can go through the posts for which comic sounds interesting, instead of scrolling through a messy list lol. I’m still working getting the comics from this post up on the blog

(a 🌟 next to a comic means that I have personally read and recommend it ^-^ )

Undertale

Aftertale by @loverofpiggies - Complete.

🌟 Darker yet Darker and the sequel Second Son of Gaster by @sansybones - Sans' creation, how he came to be and find his abilites, and his relationship with Gaster and Papyrus. Complete.

🌟 Over the Void by @undertale-over-the-void - Post-Undertale. Frisk, Asriel, and Monster Kid end up travelling to a strange alternate universe where the war with humans seems to be ongoing. In Progress.

🌟 Dogs of Future Past by @lynxgriffin - Post-Undertale. Trying to find Gaster for Sans' sake, Frisk travels to the past with Flowey, and stuck in the body of one of the dogs that make up Endogeny. Complete.

Under/source by @slylock-syl - In Progress.

Ask Fallen Royalty by @askfallenroyalty - An Everyone Lives au. In Progress?

Ask Frisk and Company by @chamomilekitten and @comikatva - In Progress?

Ask Chara and Friends by Miamouse - In Progress.

The Thought by @tratserenoyreve - Sans uses the souls. Complete.

Mercy by @renrink - Frisk, Sans, and Chara during the San fight? Complete.

You Are Not Welcome by @rumay-chian - Based on the ending of a neutral run? In Progress.

Shifter Au by @audaciousanonj, @leshyleaf, and @wilwoo (I think? There's a lot of names on this blog) - Papyrus (the older brother in this au) gives up his form to a shapeshifter who he hopes will raise Sans better than he is. In Progress?

Inverted Fate by @megaderping - A roleswap au. In Progress.

Underline Au - okay so I remember reading some of this, but the blog (@/underlineau) pulls up strangely and my browser says there's something weird about it? If anyone knows why that is let me know.

Ghost Switch by @clevercatchphrase - Switches Narra-Chara with uh someone else? In Progress.

Fallen Flowers by @tarableart - In Progress.

The Old Monster of the Ruins by @knking - Asgore Dreemurr, an old monster that take cares of the Ruins and the humans living in it. Complete?

Name the Fallen by @namethefallen - Papyrus went to sleep in a race car bed and woke up in a flowerbed and is trying to find out what happened. In Progress?

Storyshift by @ut-storyshift - I was unsure exactly what to link for this, or if it is even currently a comic? I think it's a fic now. In Progress?

Altered Destiny by @altereddestinyau - Discontinued?

Entity Neo by @entityneo - In Progress?

🌟 Unexpected Guests by @undertalethingems - Papyrus summons the full form of his Blaster and can't get it to go away. Shenanigans ensue. In Progress.

They Say He Shattered by @emilyparagraph - Neutral Routes start colliding with each other. Discontinued.

The Bar of Sanses series by VanGold - A bar for various Au Sans to visit? In Progress?

Heart and SOUL by @auroragriffon - Sans' and Toriel's daughter ends up in the Underground of the past. In Progress.

Duotale by @ask-duotale-b2fc - An au where it's a different child who is the 7th child? In Progress.

Horrortale by @horrortalecomic - Post-Empress Undyne Neutral Route. A new child has fallen into the Underground, and things have gotten bad. In Progress?

🌟 Handplates by @zarla-s - Papyrus and Sans, creations of Gaster, from creation to and through canon (I'm still catching up lol). In Progress.

Deltarune

🌟 Paper Trail by @lynxgriffin - Canon-Divergent take on Deltarune after Chapter 1 of how the story could've gone. Complete.

The Chara Timeline by @lilybug-02 - Chara is Asriel's college roommate. They're both in Hometown visiting from college. In Progress.

Looking Glasses by @ferronickel - Susie, Ralsei, and Lancer, two years after Deltarune. In Progress.

🌟 Gaster's Great Escape by @moldyjunk - Gaster trying to get back to reality, in Deltarune. In Progress.

🌟 Twin Runes by @akanemnon - Frisk somehow ends up in Deltarune. Mostly rn funny shenanigans but seems to be heading towards story.

#browniefox speaks #deltarune #undertale #utdr #i also have my own comic #but it's like #two pages #so we're not putting that here until it's worthwhile lol

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alyimoss · 4 months ago

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I don’t actually know anything about your underswap I’d love to hear about it!

explodes ok so.

this ended up being the length of the average one-shot so it has to go under the cut

tbf my underverse is not super developed. i mostly just have. sans, papyrus, alphys, and undyne figured out (though not fully) and the rest im still thinking through. but nevertheless i love my swaps and would die for them.

between those four, the swaps are pretty standard (so sans and papyrus swap, and so do alphys and undyne), but they generally have a bit more like?? backstory as to why they are the way that they are?? my underswap is like. base ut but something went sideways and now shit's weird. so these characters, for the most part, started out like their classic counterparts, and this is why my swaps have more of their base ut traits than some other swaps.

like- for example, my swap papyrus started out more or less like classic papyrus. he's energetic and ambitious and he puts his all into the things that he does and he believes in everyone!! but he lets his reality wear him down more than classic: where classic keeps up his "fake it til you make it" kind of attitude towards his own popularity and just keeps trying even if he fails, my swap pap realizes that no matter what he does, he's not the person he wants to be. he wants to be the cool popular guy that everyone wants to be friends with, but… through years of rejection and failure, he eventually resigns himself to just being some fucking guy. not important. forgettable.

so he stops trying. he stops trying to make friends, trying to put himself out there, etc. the thought of joining the royal guard doesnt even cross his mind because he'd preemptively decided that its pointless — he wont get in and hell just make a fool of himself trying. why bother? the funny thing, though, is that, as a papyrus, i guess he can never truly stop trying, because he kind of does a 180 here. instead of being some cool extrovert popular guy, he assumes the persona of just the average guy. he masks his effort levels, trying to make it seem like he's someone who really doesnt try that hard (because he doesnt want to look like a tryhard), so like for example, where classic papyrus speaks in all caps to show his effort (and classic sans, conversely, speaks in all lowercase to show the exact opposite thing), my swap papyrus speaks with proper capitalizations because thats what normal, average people do!! and hes just a perfectly normal, average guy… just your average, completely forgettable rando…

i guess at his core, hes someone influenced wildly by shame and a fear of being his true self, because he doesnt see that self as being worthy enough because it doesnt fit his specific criteria (this is smthn that also applies to classic papyrus, at least to a certain extent, but thats not what im here to yap abt)

and then his spiral into depression is what pushes my swap sans into becoming a proper swap. he, like classic, knows about the timeline and resets and whatnot, and has, too, given up. why bother? nothing matters. except then he looks around and he sees the townspeople notice. his friends at the bar ask if hes okay, and when he blatantly lies to them, he can feel their hopes dwindle. he feels the whole town almost become darker, heavier. he cant fathom himself having this kind of impact on others, but he feels it and even if its not his fault, if its just a byproduct of them all being stuck underground for so damn long, he feels like hes doing something wrong. he feels guilty. and then he sees papyrus. his brother, who had always shined like the brightest star in the sky, giving up and losing hope and hiding away from the world. and sans feels responsible.

so he does the only thing he can think of — he decides to try. of course, that doesnt mean that he actually feels any better. he doesnt think this will do anything in the larger scheme of things. but he cant stand seeing his brother like that. he cant stand the guilt. and so he becomes more like classic papyrus — he enrolls in the guard, he makes rounds around snowdin, he cooks and cleans and drags his brother out of the house with him. and even if he has no energy and he feels like hes drowning but the waves are still crashing on top of him one after the other, he keeps going because anything is better than the feeling of failure.

this is where id go in on his backstory and why he feels this way about failure, but. i kind of. dont have anything. and anyway i keep these two's backstories brief in most aus bc canonically we do not know what the fuck is up w them and i dont know if we ever will. and really im fine with that, the mystery makes them. but yeah anyway, due to circumstances, my swap sans is riddler with guilt and the fear of failure, and he will do anything to prove he is not a failure, that he can at least do something right.

oh and also speaking of guilt, papyrus notices this change in his brother. and he recognizes that he has a part in it. and as grateful as he is for his brother's attempts to cheer him up, he also feels immensely guilty because he can see better than anyone else in the whole underground just how much his brother's self-imposed duty weighs on him. he blames himself for letting himself get so bad that now his brother is suffering from it as well, but he also cant get any better. cue the self-loathing cycle. anyway, as a result, he ends up sharing less with sans. its a means of lessening his burden — if he doesnt know the things going wrong in papyrus's life, he wont have to waste time and energy on him and wont have to have more on his already overloaded plate!! its the perfect plan except they drift apart and now their closeness feels so surface-level and papyrus feels guilty about lying and he knows his brother is still worried, perhaps moreso now that he knows less and he's so scared theyll drift further apart but he's committed fully to this so he just keeps digging the hole and he doesnt know how to stop. (theyre still close, but less so than the classic bros, id say)

ok enough abt those two alphyne time.

these two are actually. less developed. and theres one specific part ill talk abt a bit later that im rlly not sure what to do with. but anyway. they, too, had their original roles at first. undyne, the rambunctious, hotheaded kid who kept getting into fights and couldnt sit still long enough to read one paragraph, and alphys, the nerdy kid who practically lived at the dump, collecting comics and anime�� and yeah they somehow ended up the royal scientist and head of the royal guard, respectively.

i havent fully thought through why undyne would end up the scientist, but itd probably have something to do with injury. she keeps her eye injury in my swap. but as evidenced by base ut, a simple missing eye cant stop undyne! so she probably had a more. extensive injury, likely coupled with other factors. im not fully sure what happens, but what i am sure of is i want her to have a similar focus on robotics as alphys. she decides that if she cant fulfill the hopes and dreams of monsterkind on the frontlines, she'll become a different kind of hero. i think she mostly makes prosthetics, likely coupling them with weaponry bc thats just cool. she finds the best ways to combine mobility and magic efficiency and is widely respected by monsters for what she does (also, if youre wondering why monsters would need prosthetics when they have op healing and are made of magic, it comes from my personal theory that the longer a wound is left unhealed, the harder it is to heal it perfectly. so like, for example, it's possible to use magic healing to do things like reattach limbs. it will work as long as the recipient of the healing isnt dead. however, this reattachment needs to happen quick. depending on how long you wait, you could lose significant mobility in the limb, or just not be able to attach it at all. also, theres monsters like monster kid who dont have certain limbs. so i guess where some monsters get prosthetics to replace lost body parts, others get them to have entirely new body parts. anyway.)

meanwhile, alphys becomes a guard through a series of events. i think she signs up to be a sentry in hotland or something at first, because positions were open and they didnt exactly have many requirements, and she needed money. she ended up being like- exceptional. she's detail oriented and driven and is good at problem-solving, and her reviews were always stellar, so at some point i think she was approached about a promotion. which i think she took because, again, money. i think the guard has good benefits and pay.

to explain how she becomes the head of the guard, i want to take a moment to talk abt the guard in my swap. because toriel is the queen and is not thrilled at the prospect of killing humans, i think the guard isnt a thing at all until a couple humans in. i think several were less than friendly, killing several monsters. at first, when people brought this up, i think toriel would defend the humans by saying that they were just scared or acting in self-defense etc. but 1) i doubt monsters particularly liked their ruler defending people who killed their loved ones and 2) the human that got the guard established was. probably pretty bad. dont ask me which soul this was, i wont tell you bc i dont know. but they killed a sizeable number of monsters, to the point where not even toriel could defend them. they were probably the only human she killed (ill get to that later). after their death, the guard was established. still not really to kill humans as much as to ensure they got to the queen quickly and safely, as well as to protect monsters in case a particularly violent human fell down.

anyway yeah with this context, alphys was more fitting to be the head of the royal guard than undyne, id say. she's less violent and more mindful than undyne. i think toriel herself talked to her about becoming head of the guard. she said no at first, i think. she still had her ambitions of being a scientist, she was just doing this whole guard thing for the money. i think what pushed her to accepting was undyne getting the position of royal scientist.

this is another part im. not fully sure of. theres something that gets toriel's attention in regard to undyne, but i really dont know what. maybe just her reputation as someone who's making monster lives better day by day. toriel wants to give someone like that more resources and more voice as hope dwindles in the underground (i think its a bot of a more bleak situation in underswap like theyre just. sad. for reason and not. because where in base ut the underground is full of hope because they only need one human soul before theyre freed, interspersed with quiet dread because they dont know when they'll get that final soul, i think its more of the latter in my swap. theres more reason to this but ill touch on that in a bit).

anyway yeah undyne becomes the royal scientist and alphys is like welp. and accepts the position of head of the royal guard on the condition that she is trained to fight (as a member of the guard already, she had some training, but being the head is like. a whole other ballpark, yknow?) and yeah she as a character is. still pretty unsure of herself. she's a bit more confident than classic alphys because of her position and her training, but she's still got a lotta self-loathing and self-esteem issues. she still has her stutter, but she's managed to work through it enough to give speeches and shit without stuttering. catch her off-guard tho and she'll stutter and generally be kinda awkward (her stutter is like one of my fav things abt her as someone who also has a stutter i will never get rid of it ever).

she's very unsure of herself as a leader and constantly wonders if shes worthy of this position. she thinks she got it by pure luck when someone better suited couldve gotten it instead. i think she felt very resentful at the beginning, too. abt someone else getting the job of royal scientist before her. and its interspersed with the self loathing like "of course someone else got it before you, what did you ever do to work towards it? god, why did you accept this job? you shouldve just done fast food or something. or just stuck to science as best you couldve. god, no wonder someone got it before you. youre not worthy of it." i think she held a sort of resentment toward undyne too at first, but after they met and she realized that undynes. kinda chill, actually, she felt incredibly guilty about it. its not like she did this on purpose, she doesnt deserve this hatred…

anyway yeah shes head of the royal guard and she hires sans and trains him and their training is half actual training and half just fucking around and watching anime/movies and whatever. and her training/fighting i think are more. formulaic than classic undyne's. she's more about plan and strategy than raw power. also her section would still be in hotland. mostly because i didnt want to put undyne in hotland bc she hates it. lmao.

anyway undyne!! i think she has some regrets about not being able to become the hero she'd dreamed of being, but she also has come to accept her new role. she's more or less satisfied being who she is. she's one of the few characters who doesnt really feel that pressure of "was i supposed to be something else?" in this au. because at the end of the day, her goal stays the same: help monsterkind and crush humanity!! and she can do that as a nerd, too. i think toriel isnt too thrilled abt her attitude toward humans, but theres not much she can do abt it. i think the underswap underground is generally like. slightly less hostile to humans than undertale? (because the queen doesnt want humans dead, but monsters remember the hurt theyve suffered at the hands of humans) but undyne grew up on stories of the war from gerson and stuff like that, so she feels pretty strongly abt who's right and who's wrong and what should be done about that. i do also think she knows asgore, but this is a part im not fully sure of because i dont fucking know what to do with asgore.

also alphyne are still canon of course they are. this isnt glitchtale. they probably also meet at the dump, as alphys is contemplating things and undyne is searching around for junk to work on. and they talk and share their theories about where that creepy void leads. and they start hanging out and alphys shows undyne anime (and inspires her to go crazier with her prosthetics and other robotics works) and they work on battle strategies as a way of flirting /hj. and theres one problem that they kinda share bc i dont know what to do with it. that being the amalgamates.

so its unclear if the amalgamates would even exist in this au actually, but if they do i have two routes i can go with them i think: 1) undyne is the one responsible for them, but she doesnt lie and hide about it (not that i think she could do that much bc toriel would be expecting reports and stuff). she tells everyone whats going on, letting them see their families and whatnot, but still working on them and trying to figure out how to. fix them. and as a result theres just. amalgamates shambling around the underground sometimes. and the last human runs into them sometimes and gets freaked out and it serves as this foreshadowing moment to who undyne is as a character and serves to paint her as someone absolutely terrifying (which isnt necessarily true but also not necessarily untrue). or 2) alphys is the one responsible.

deciding to do one final science thing because fuck it, shes got nothing to lose (she has everything to lose), she decides to try to make a monster's soul last after death. how would she do this in a position where she cant easily get access to the things she'd need? god fucking knows. the main thing about this route is that it adds even more guilt to alphys's plate, which is pretty fitting for her as a character. and also guilt hi hello another guilt mention. this seemed more thought out in my head moving on.

some minor details abt this swap also are that mtt and mew mew are swapped, and mew mew is a popular streamer (and livestreams herself kicking your ass); bp and catty and bratty are swapped just bc i think its funny; grillby and muffet are in a weird territory of swap. i think theyre swapped but still in the same places as base game (bc grillby likes the cold and muffet will literally die dont do this to her), and maybe grillby gets the miniboss instead of muffet (she just forces you to give her money lolol).

and now the final thing: the dreemurrs. listen. i do not know what the fuck to do with these guys. they kinda fuck with the whole story if swapped in ways that are. not good at all. im including chara and frisk in "the dreemurrs" btw for reasons.

because like- we know what toriel would do if she was queen. she tells us. she would get one soul, cross the barrier, get six more, and then free the underground. and if she did that, there would be no story to tell. so. and asgore couldnt just lock himself in the ruins or smthn like toriel does in base ut, because toriel would break that fucking door down trying to get to him because she knows the humans come from the ruins, and she does not trust asgore in the slightest. and i dont even want to touch on the implications of asriel being alive in underswap. so i do not know what to do with him period. chara and frisk seem like a simple swap, but. theyre still distinct characters, whose personalities and actions do have an effect on the plot of undertale. and swapping them has repercussions. mostly in shit like philosophy which im notoriously bad at. so for now im just not thinking abt them.

ok back to toriel and asgore. i have like. an inkling of an idea as to what to do with them. that idea being that asgore, angry after the deaths of his children, wants to wage war, but toriel gets wind of the idea before he's able to make an official declaration, and grows absolutely disgusted with him. she banishes him and assumes the position of single ruler of the underground. i honestly dont know what to do with asgore past this point, but i do know that at least in the beginning, he is under strict supervision (likely by gerson bc gerson).

so what does toriel do as queen? she waits for a human to fall. she welcomes them as she did the first one. she does not take their soul. she cares for them and gives them the best life she can. as they grow older, she talks to them about using their soul to cross the barrier after they die. and they agree. the first (second) human dies of old age after a good, peaceful life in the underground. toriel absorbs their soul, crosses the barrier… and is nearly killed by the humans, still fearful and angry because it hasn't been that long since the last time they saw a monster. she goes back, deciding to instead wait a little longer. in that time, another human falls, then another… but after the first soul, i think most dont die of old age. several die by accident, several are killed in self defense. as mentioned above, at some point the guard is established due to the violence of one of the humans. toriel doesnt absorb these souls, instead keeping them safe in containment.

we know that when a human's soul is absorbed, they still persist (as evidenced by 1) asriel telling us that chara told him to do things and had control over their body when he absorbed their soul and 2) the photoshop flowey fight), i think toriel kind of feared losing herself and/or hurting the humans somehow by absorbing their souls. and with some of the more violent humans, i think the fears of losing herself grew stronger. so yeah she chooses to wait until the humans no longer fear/want to kill monsters or whatever.

and this has influence on the underground of course because imagine your ruler acquires the necessary means to cross the seal trapping you underground and you think that finally, finally youre free!! and then she comes right back like "yeah uh actually they still want us dead so lets wait a bit longer…"

how crushing is that? knowing that not only was your freedom a lie, you now know for sure that the humans outside want you dead? that chances are that even if you do manage to leave the underground, youll either be killed or forced right back under? this i think is a major reason the underswap underground is lacking in hope compared to the undertale underground. but yeah i. dont know if ill end up going with this, actually. because, again, i do not know what the fuck to do with the dreemurrs and i hate it.

another thing im not sure of is the whole "sans's promise to toriel" thing?? bc i kinda still wanna have that in some form, yknow? and i think it works if he's a guard and shes the queen. he visits her at some point to do a report or smthn (maybe bc alphys is busy who knows) and he notices shes looking kinda gloomy. so he gives her his best knock knock joke and she absolutely loves it. so he keeps going and then she gives him a couple of her own and yeah you get it. i just like sans and toriel they are the besties ever.

anyway yeah i think?? thats it?? for now, anyway. i probably forgot to mention smthn but who cares this is like. wayyyy too fucking long already anyways. thank you for letting me yap, i will continue to do so… forever.

#underswap #idk what to call my underswap so its just underswap #finking #RAMBLING #thank you for the ask!!

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black-arcana · 21 days ago

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Photo by Robert Eikelpoth / Photo editing by Blake Armstrong

#visions of atlantis

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cloudyskydreams · 2 months ago

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On an average day what's in those pockets? UT,UF,US

This one was interesting Edge was the one I struggled the most with but I'm pretty satisfied with it! Enjoy!

Undertale:

Sans: Ketchup packets, a miniature joke book, whoopie cushion, old trash he keeps forgetting to throw away

The ketchup is pretty self explanatory he keeps them as a little snack when he doesn't have access to a full bottle. The joke book he's read a hundred times but he keeps it more out of sentimentality at this point. He and this whoopie cushion have history besides Tori it's basically his best friend at this point. He doesn't like to litter so when he has trash and there isn't a trashcan near by he sticks it in his pockets and he just keeps forgetting to throw it away. Papyrus normally has to clean to trash out on laundry days.

Papyrus: bandaids, monster candy, his wallet, his schedule

Paps is pretty on top of everything and I have a hc that when he goes out with friends he's the mom friend that has a fanny pack with anything practical you need. On regular days he carries bandaids for his human friends and monster candy for both human and monster friends. His wallet is self explanatory he likes to have it on him in case he sees something he'd like for him or his brother while out and about during his day. He also has a bunch of photos in his wallet he likes to look at and show off to people they're of him and his brother, some of him and frisk, him and Undyne. There's even one of him and the queen, he's very proud of that one. I believe Papyrus is a very scheduled person as he likes to fit as much as possible into one day. So he carries around a schedule that has what he's up to that day written out. It has a little pocket with stickers in it that he uses to decorate the schedule and mark what's completed with little stars and emoji faces to mark how he felt about the excursion.

Underfell:

Red: hand buzzer, headphones, snack sized chocolate bars

He likes to trick people with the hand buzzer and thinks it's even more hilarious when he can get people he's gotten before with it. Red actually likes to read but he needs glasses which he is extremely embarrassed about so he refuses to really read in public unless he absolutely has to and then he struggles through. The headphones are to listen to audiobooks when he has free time. Reds a muncher and he loves chocolate so his jacket pockets are stuffed with snack sized chocolate bars, if he likes you enough he might share.

Edge: his cell phone, his reading glasses and washi tape, peppermints or something minty, a pocket knife

Edge is another scheduled person except he keeps his reminders and to do list on his phone. Edge also has poor eyesight but he doesn't care if people see him in his glasses. If he needs to read he puts them on and he thinks he looks extremely attractive in them. Mints help with improved focus and he likes to let them sit on his tongue as he goes about his day. He keeps the pocket knife for protection sure he he also like to whittle at sticks he finds and carve little designs into them to pass the time. He formed this habit when he was younger and used it alot in his traps when making spike pits underground and now just does it on a smaller level to pass the time.

Underswap:

Stretch: Lighter, a box of cigs, some form of hard candy normally lollipops,a notepad and a few pens, a dog treat or two/and edible or two

Lighter and cigs are self explanatory. The hard candy is for when he can't smoke or if he runs out of cigs and can't get some for awhile. I think he'd like to jot down notes throughout the day just stuff that catches his eye or song lyrics he thinks up. He's also a major doodler and half his notepad pages are little doodles of things he finds interesting there's a lot of his brother in there. I'm in between him smoking actual weed and smoking dog treats so I think he's half and half when carrying them around.

Blue: His cell phone, headphones, good luck charm, a special pen that has a little bone charm on it

I hc Blue as a streamer so his cell phone is important to him because he likes to update his fans and blogs throughout the day about what he's doing. He likes to have a soundtrack to his day so he wears headphones alot when he doesn't have to socialize with people (think grocery shopping or simply walking) it helps his mind stay focused and on track better. The good luck charm was a gift from his brother that he sort of started carrying around and never stopped. It's a small rock with a hole naturally worn all the way through he wears it around his neck as a necklace. Stretch found it one day when Blue forced him to go geocaching with him. The pen is in the rare case a fan spots Blue in public and wants an autograph. He likes having a special pen just for that and he carries it around because he's a hopeful person. It's only happened twice and he was so overjoyed he talked about it for weeks.

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shak3speara-shak3speara · 11 months ago

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Error Sans! Reader X Transformers: Animated AU Part 3:

You wake up a few days later in a darkened room on a neat and comfortable bed. Your cranium aches severely, as do your ribs and abdominal region. Deciding to play it calm, you check your stats.

Semi-low HP and a few broken ribs, but more importantly, you're starving. No wonder you passed out.

You display a grumpy frown in irritation, before selecting a chocolate bar from your inventory and devouring it with your two ecto-tongues.

"Woah...!"

You snap your skull to the doorway of the room, allowing light to seep into the area. You are also now capable of seeing a window with dark turquoise curtains. The curtains shutter aside as the light burgundy haired child from your extraterrestrial encounter flicks a switch near the door. The room now overflows with light and you hiss, disgruntled by the severe tonation change.

The little girl bounces over to you excitedly with eyes of intrigue and animosity. "Was that your tongue? You looked like you had two! Why were they blue and glowy? Are you a skeleton? Why are you black-"

"K1d," you manage to spit out as you finish dissolving the melty bitter treat. "SHU-u-ut uP."

You're about to stand up from the bed when the girl waves her hands in front of you with protest, much closer then to your liking.

Your glitches flare up in a second of panic. You use your strings to push her at least six feet away to disregard her warnings. Getting back onto your feet, you stumble disoriented. Your nasal cavity heaves in a heavy gust of air, and you release the child. You reassign your strings to under your hoodie, making sure they wrap around the ribs that need straightening to be realigned and extensively healed.

You exhale with a few shaky wavers, skull tilting towards the ground as you digest the most recent events.

"Whe-E-3re aM 1?" You flatly ask the child as they slowly rise up from their unflattering fall onto their butt on the metal-coated floor.

"Um. You're in Sumdac Tower. In Detroit, Michigan." The girl replies, rubbing her butt with a slightly pained yet wary look. She plays with her own fingers as she says, "I'm Sari Sumdac. I wanted to thank you for saving my friend..." She looks away with pitiful guilty eyes and a sheepish frown.

You stare at her blanly before you sigh, retracting your strings with depleted energy. You walk over to the girl, twirling part of your scarf between your phalanges. You crouch down to be on eye level with her. "So-0-()-rry, SaRi." You say with a half genuine apologetic tone. "I ge-3-Et a b-1-it raTTled wh3n 1 w5ke \/p in plA-5-aces I don't kn)-()-ow well."

Sari perks up in small phases. She tells you she understands with a cheerful smile and optimistic attitude. She pauses, letting awkward silence flow around the room. A few more seconds later she nervously invites you to have breakfast with her and her dad.

You accept, although with some hesitance wondering if they wanted to try something on you. You're not going to be a lab rat to anyone. ...You also can't handle many foods without some other catalyst to help dissolve it, so you contemplate telling the thin child about it while she leads you throughout the halls of an enormous establishment.

You enter the kitchen and Sari tells you to stay put as she steals a cup of coffee being handled by a culinary-programmed robot. You shuffle on your seat, all while eyeing the robot with an unfriendly glare. You decide it wouldn't hurt to check it's code, and you restrain the thing after it sets down a plate of maple syrup-doused pancakes in front of you.

It has relatively simple coding, nothing you wouldn't be able to find in the original Underground. You huff with annoyance as you bite into the sugary morning food placed before you, wanting to choke at the sweetness, but having enough will to swallow it so you recover your energy.

Once you put release the robot from its binds, it offers to turn on the TV attached to a surface a few feet above its height. You nod, giving it an unimpressed stare as it stiffly walks over to a mini console and presses a button, rendering the TV online.

The robot goes back to preparing more breakfast. You watch the TV with steady sockets and a blank face as it displays a news channel. The red and blue robot... What was his name...? Optimus? You scoff at the replay of his proud heroics, rolling your eyes at him finally detaining the weird robin hood rip-off.

Suddenly, your glitches act up in a shivering intensity. What was that...? You open a screen to hack into the place's network. You note there has just been a spike in energy flowing into a certain secluded section of the tower.

You alter some of the internal system's protocols and erase your appearances on its security cameras before checking the cameras placed in what appears to be a personal labratory.

You interest has been piqued as you keep a solid gaze on the image of a robot head and a single unattached hand prodding up from its place stuck in the ground. The head is partly taken apart with one 'eye' seeming to be a monacle, but mimics the structure of the other robot, Optimus. Both eyes glow red.

Wow, so creepy. You internally sass as his eyes focus on a computer screen positioned in front of his view. You are delightfully surprised to see he has the ability to hack the piece of equipment.

It may serve as a good puppet~

The gun metal grey head turns the computer on to show a video of the several robots you've seen prior, and another one.

The other robot appears to have aerial capabilities, and one ginormous ego as well. He even boasts about killing someone named Megatron. You don't need to take a hint to figure out that the robot hauled up inside the restricted area is the one the magenta flier was so giddy about exterminating. Especially after the robot emits an electrical charge that raises to the ceiling and disrupts the connection of several cameras, including yours.

You flinch with a twitching socket. Nonetheless, you don a toothy intrigued grin with your yellow teeth exposed. You finish your meal and boredly wait for Sari and her dad to eat theirs after they arrive.

You refuse to answer most questions Sari's dad, 'Professor Isaac Sumdac' asks you, instead either deflecting the entire conversation or switching it to be a discussion about his accomplishments and robotic empire.

Despite your want to ditch the place entirely, you know Sari has a connection with the giant robots. You know you can exploit that connection to get yourself home. You just need to exhibit... Patience.

You put on a sickeningly sad expression and do your best to pretend to be a nice person. You act as if you were recently involved in some science experiment. Unfortunately, you ended up being stripped into a skeleton through some unforeseen circumstance. You also ended up being kicked out of your apartment once your landlord saw a glimpse of you, meaning you don't have anywhere to stay.

Just like you suspected, Isaac and Sari take disgusting pity on you and offer to accommodate you as long as you need. Of course, you accept. It's not like you'll be staying around for very long anyways. You just need to have a chat with Sari's alien robot friends, steal some Sumdac technology, and rebuild the machine that got you here from scrap.

Some times passes and you find yourself laying in a blanket you crocheted, playing solo cat's cradle as Sari receives schooling from a tutorbot. The robot is talking about a quadratic formula when Sari interrupts it, seemingly conversing with someone on her phone. You note with squinting eyes the tutorbot tries to confiscate the key hung around her neck. It ultimately fails, resulting in Sari thrusting the key into the tutorbot and making it fizzle out of programmed control.

You use your strings to tie up the robot, sending Sari a questioning look as your sockets flicker to her key. You felt the same energy as the past three incidents exude from the key. It has this... Ethereal aura to it as well. You figure this isn't some normal key... Maybe it brought the robot in the secret lab to life?

Isaac makes a video call to check on Sari, asking whether she's tinkered with his stuff. She denies this, with tutorbot comedically stating a few greeting and dismissing class lines. She tries to hide her mischievous doings by giving her dad the excuse she's been helping her friends, 'The Autobots' settle into their secret base. You grip above your nasal cavity with your knuckles, shaking your skull at the pinging thought of how Alphys and Undyne would have a smooch session to see these giant anime-esque robots.

Sari soon shuts off the FaceTime and grabs her backpack in the corner of the room, bringing it to near the table. You open a processing screen and hack the tutorbot's internal functions and revert it back to its proper programming, then switch it off and set it down haphazardly on a swivel chair.

Sari shows you an amazed expression and resumes asking rapid fire questions about what you can do from earlier. You sarcastically remark that she has a sleepover to get to and she brushes it off, asking you to attend too. She tells you the bots would love to meet you. You dryly laugh at her enthusiastic proposition, though consider it and accept it. You know you're not the most pleasant skeleton, nor the kindest person in your multiverse. It would be simply stupid to see you as such. But you want answers about the strange energy that all but surrounds the group of robots and the little girl, so you barely have a genuine choice.

You wait for Sari to pack one last thing into her bag and then leave the tower, walking towards a... Rundown warehouse? This is seriously their base of operations?

Isaac Sumdac is letting his child stay in this crumbling structure of shady businessman filth?

You suck in a sharp breath of air and let it flow through the spaces between your clenched teeth. Sari rushes inside the building while you stroll inside at a leisurely pace, once again tugging your scarf over your skull as far as it can go.

You follow Sari as she skips forward confidently, in contrast, you moderately creep forward with your skull lowered downwards.

Your glitches glare around your body as you listen to a nature documentary click into obnoxiously loud rock music.

The metallic vibrating high-pitched voice of the yellow car robot mockingly rings out,

"Why don't we watch something that won't bore us into stasis lock?"

Part 4 coming soon!

Error Sans was created by loverofpiggies

Transformers: Animated is owned by Hasbro

#transformers #undertale #errorsans #underverse #isekai #sumdactower #sari #professorisaac #optimusprime #bumblebee #starscream #megatron #tutorbot #character! reader

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imagibunny · 1 year ago

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Please tell me about your Grillby headcanons

*grabs you like a squeaky toy* you have unleashed the autism <3

ANYWAYS

grillby can play the straightlaced quiet bartender but you CANNOT TELL ME he's just as just a tad silly like the other inhabitants of the underground. going hand in hand with my "grillby is fuckin old as dirt" headcanon he's very much like the older brother type in his bar but can still mess around with the best of em

THE MAN LIKES GIVING. and before you people make it weird he likes giving gifts i can hear y'all giggling already. BUT YEAH! personal vibe here but grillby is on of those rich people who doesn't. want to do much with what he has? so he uses it to buy gifts and presents for people he cares about

if you've heard me talk about the bunniverse you KNOW how i have a general uneasiness towards the whole "soulmate" trope when used with ut's terms, so this one in General is just to make me hurt in general (and something i actively tear apart in my personal fics) but

grillby is a big believer in the "old ways", more referring the nature of SOULs and if you find your SOULmate then you're meant to be with em, regardless of your current romantic situation (and no one talks about this EVER and i wish we did because it's SO fucking fun to pick apart and talk about, you need to understand my vision)

and i've talked about this one a bit before but bringing it up again cause it's so damn funny, but grillby is just. so bad with technology. sans and alphys had to help him set up his phone when they got topside, and realistically he's on par with tori with how much trouble they have.

AND MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ONE!! grillby isn't. super expressive? but his flames give him away big time. dude can't win a game of poker to save his life if when he gets happy he snap crackle pops like a rice crispy if you get the idea

#bunny.txt #undertale #utdr #grillby undertale #I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THE VISION I HAVE???

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neko-naruto · 2 years ago

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Bars of gold

Summary: His shell finally shatters and it becomes clear why he's always on edge and pissing everyone off while trying not to make anyone deathly mad.

Warnings: Familial trauma, PTSD, allusion to forced dieting, physical trauma, check tags for further warnings.

Authors Note: Ever since I purged all my unposted UT fics, almosy a year and a half ago, I've been feeling guilty because some of them where fine and it'll take forever to rewrite and rebuild what I remember of them, once again, I take reblogs as a form of currency over likes.

It's been months since he left Underfell for good, and he still can't stop being afraid.

He can't stop jumping at the sound of boots clacking on wood.

He can't stop freezing at the sound of mostly indirect screaming.

He can't stop lashing out at the notions of 'its for your own good.'

He's not normal, and he hasn't been for a long time.

That was something everyone was aware of, looking at the world he came from it only made sense he would be a bit rough around the edges. But it didn't make sense how he always tensed up and redirected conversations after his glimmering, golden tooth was brought up. Or how he awkwardly makes horrible excuses to leave as his magic spikes whenever any Papyrus is within earshot distance of him.

None of them could get to the root of it.

Not until that thick shell of sarcasm, irony and spikes finally gave way to much more tender innards, like an urchin.

It's Wednesday, Snowdin forests, Undertale.

Where he wishes he grew up, where he wishes he was formed, where he wishes he could've learned and got better over time. No one knows that he quite likes the original universe, not even Ink can see past his layers built for protection.

It's quiet sitting in the snow as he stares at the dark roof of the underground. Water drips from stalactites, but before it turns into a marshy swamp, it hits the snow temperature. That small, simple combination is what allowed the snow to settle on his jacket, he wishes he felt safe enough to wear a hoodie. He hasn't since it got accidentally torn to shreds during training, slices going deep enough to gash a vertebrae, he's always told he's lucky it didn't paralyze when people catch the scar. Since he's settled for something closer to a water proofed winter coat, mixed with windbreaker paneling of fabric, all black, gold zipper, enough fluff to hide his face.

He liked it like that, and as he laid back, finally relaxed, his souls pace rested. It felt slow enough to make him choke on the lack of magic pulsing through marrow until he realized that was the normal amount of magic. He was just always on edge to the extent that being in a subtle overdrive of anxiety and panic twenty four seven three sixty five, not normal. That was in the not so distant past, and he couldn't tell, but the raging, rich, ruby tone of his pupil faded out, calmer, softer, almost a magenta.

Then snow crunched and he jolted up, magenta quickly flaring back up into a deep wine red as he practically leapt to his feet. Guttural snarls escaped the artificial way of producing sound he had, he knew it wasn't what he had, his was better, no gravel in tone, only a deafening sharpness. He held himself in a hunched and somewhat feral position that would get him scarred if he was here, one should hold themself high to assert dominance, he would say and posture corrected itself out of deep rooted fear.

When he realized it was Classic, a concerned looking Classic. His shoulders relaxed the second he saw the soothing blue hue of the hoodie zipped up for the first he had ever seen. He didn't notice it, but his bones were quaking, trauma layered on top of trauma causing his bones to be brittle, but he had found ways around that. It was treated as a calcium deficiency and that was fine because he had dealt with that before he was put on a diet to become more 'agile' as he had said.

"Your Papyrus," Classic began the reaction in Fell was visceral, thick as pupils dilated for a split second before turning to slits as he instinctively put up his hackles, shoulders raising, fists clenching, teeth gritting, sparks flickering across form, "misses you, dearly, he says."

"Fucking lies," was what Fell barked out at Classic in response, pinpricks of sharpened bone edges dug into the soles of Classics shoes before he stepped over.

"Explain than, if my Papyrus is so perfect, then why would yours be any different?" Classic asked, sliding hands into pockets as he slid out of what he could tell wasn't an intentional attack, sidestepping closer and closer to Fell until phalanges gently gripped a shaking wrist through a jacket sleeve.

"The Boss just isn't a good brother like yours was, is," Fell said, he knew it wasn't a good enough explanation, but he could elaborate, he had to elaborate for his own good, "everything he did to me he said was for my own good, and some of it, some of it was normal, some of it was for me, but most of it wasn't."

"Like what?" A simple question drifted and reverberated in Fells skull until he could answer, staring at his partner, not yet decided if they were partners in more than strictly crime, pupils faded out of that heavy wine red back into a much more calmed down ruby.

"You see this-" he gestured to his golden tooth getting a nod -"he did that to me, not because my tooth was rotting, because he could, because I wasn't good enough, disciplined enough."

Silence was what he was met with so he continued.

"Shit stung you know, ached like a bitch until illegal tooth insertion, then he decided I wasn't fast enough either, that I wasn't dodging enough of his attacks, that if my hoodie tears I'm not good enough, I'll be thrown in the dungeon if I get hit, I'll die if I get hit, it was never good enough-!" Fell could've kept going, he really could've, but instead he managed hiccuping sobs instead and that would have to be enough as he leaned into Classic who barely held him, form shaking furiously as pools of translucent red gathered in his eye sockets.

The two stood there, silent aside from the sound of Fells sobbing until Classic slowly guided him to the ground below. Snow crunched underneath them and it was quiet again, those fluttering, intricate flakes landed on them. And when Fell was ready to speak again after silencing sobs, boy did he ever speak.

"Classic, do you know how lucky you are that your world has the capacity to be good? Do you know how lucky you are?" Fell asked gently and Classics entire stance tightened, each joint contract and spinal cord straightening a little bit as well.

"I know that I'm lucky, lucky to have a good world, but it can be horrible, you know that right?" Classic asks as he props himself beside Fell, leaning against him.

"Yeah, yeah I know that, why else would you run a 'dog stand, or play pranks and make puns other than to dull the horrors," Fell said, putting a lot of words he knew to uses that made sense in his frazzled mind and would make a lot more sense if he hadn't just finished sobbing, "that's why I came here, hoping to 'jack a reset and take your place, or take my place beside you."

"Huh, well, I guess that worked out up until now," Classic said, staring up the stalactites, hoping that this time Frisk would let Asgore live, two resets ago was true pacifist and everyone was on the surface and happy Fell didn't make it for that, it rarely occurred.

"Real shame he done found me, hopefully he hasn't touched our Papyrus," Fell said, Classic didn't respond right away, lifting his head to raise a metaphorical brow at Fell who realized his wording and that same magenta with a tint of ruby red peppered his skull, "your Papyrus."

"He'll be flattered to know you care about him that much, I'm sure of it," Sans said, his naturally occurring expression easing into a comfortable grin.

"Maybe," Fell said, heaving a sigh from his form, it was a lot more eased now, soul beat resting at the actual average pace again and he choked up a bit for a second because of it, "are you gonna hand me in to him?"

"Not yet, if I do, I might not see you again for a while," Classic said as he leaned against Fell once more, tilting his skull to look at the stalactites above, they consisted of quartz and granite, of sapphire and basalt, they glimmered under the naturally occurring artificial light of glow stones embedded in the roof, "and to be quaint, that would fucking suck."

"You sure 'bout that, I'm kind of an asshole," Fell said, looking up at the stalactites as well, they were nice, his were glowing reds and omniscient blacks.

"Of course man, having a partner like you was kind of like, a learning experience? Not to trivialize it you know, I kind of learned a lot by having you around, it's weird and stupid, but I guess the house would just feel fucking empty if you left so soon," Classic explained, he was having a hard time trying to put what he meant into the rights word, but he got a bit of a half nod in understanding.

"The Bosses house probably felt a lot nicer when I wasn't there, he always said I cluttered up the place," Fell said, heaving a sigh, but the grips on his wrists pulled his attention back to Classic.

"Don't say that, if anything its his fault he can't keep his shit in order, you're just easier to get mad at instead of seeing his own problems in front of his own two eye sockets," Classic said, Fell gave a nod, he wasn't sure if Fell believed what he had said though, "we can stay out here as long as you need before we head back, so your Papyrus doesn't have to find you and ruin you some more."

"That sounds nice," Fell said before pulling up his hood, leaning back into the snow, Classic followed shortly after, forms parallel as snow drifted into their eye sockets, melting due to condensed magic allowing sight where there shouldn't be sight.

The two sat there in a calm silence, if not for hours, then perfect minutes that felt liked they stretched on forever. They didn't speak, they just were and it was something new and nice for both of them, neither having any time to just, be.

And sometimes, just existing without anything doing and anything rushing by is really what you need.

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clishmaclever · 1 month ago

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HOMESHAKE - "Waiting For The Phone To Ring"

HOMESHAKE is the ambitious solo project of Toronto-based musician Pete Sagar. His songs originate from the quiet corner of his own home studio. An expanded version of his latest album, Horsie (Deluxe), will be out November 8th on SHHOAMKEE.

The songs displayed here portray a downtempo utopia. For maximum effect, put on a silk trench coat and imagine walking down a dark drizzling promenade with songs like "Empty Lot" or "Simple" as your soundtrack. Maybe you'll arrive at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall in Saint Paul on October 5th. W/ Freak Heat Waves (BUY TICKETS)

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§ w/ Freak Heat Waves # w/ Green-House

#HOMESHAKE #Toronto #new release #Bandcamp #Youtube

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carcosapr · 4 months ago

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HAUNT and SAVAGE MASTER Announce Thee Eternal Reign U.S. Tour

American heavy metal savants HAUNT and SAVAGE MASTER unite for heavy metal glory as they prepare to blaze across a 27-city US tour dubbed Thee Eternal Reign. Kicking off August 2 at The Lost Well in Austin, Texas, the bands will leave a path of steel shavings through nearly two dozen states, concluding August 31 at Dive Bar in Las Vegas, Nevada. See full dates listed as follows:

Thee Eternal Reign Tour Dates:

08/02 – Austin, TX @ The Lost Well tickets

08/03 – San Antonio, TX @ Bonds Rock Bar tickets

08/04 – Lafayette, LA @ Freetown Boom Boom Room

08/06 – Pensacola, FL @ Handlebar tickets

08/07 – Winter Park, FL @ Conduit tickets

08/08 – Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor tickets

08/09 – Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana tickets

08/10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie tickets

08/11 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kingsland Bar and Grill tickets

08/12 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery tickets

08/13 – Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl tickets

08/14 – Louisville, KY @ Portal + Artportal tickets

08/15 – Chicago, IL @ Cobra Lounge tickets

08/16 – Milwaukee, WI @ Club Garibaldi tickets

08/17 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club tickets

08/19 – Denver, CO @ HQ tickets

08/20 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Aces High Saloon tickets

08/22 – Richland, WA @ Ray’s Golden Lion tickets

08/23 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon tickets

08/24 – Portland, OR @ Dante’s tickets

08/25 – Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s tickets

08/27 – Albany, CA @ Ivy Room tickets

08/28 – Oxnard, CA @ Mrs. Olson’s tickets

08/29 – San Diego, CA @ Brick by Brick tickets

08/30 – Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Underground tickets

08/31 – Las Vegas, NV @ Dive Bar tickets

About HAUNT:

Founded in 2017 as the solo project of Trevor William Church, HAUNT quickly became the face of the new wave of traditional heavy metal. Since the band's kickstart six years ago, the heavy metal titans have released eight studio albums and multiple extended plays. Dubbed a "prolific songwriter-shredder" by Rolling Stone, Church continues to champion what was once a bygone era of heavy metal. Their latest album, Dreamers, dropped March 1 via Church Recordings.

About SAVAGE MASTER:

One of the most exciting and electrifying bands in the occult metal scene, SAVAGE MASTER swiftly built an impressive canon of work by releasing two cult albums, an EP, and over-the-top live shows. Founded in 2013 by guitarist Adam Neal and vocalist Stacey Savage, the band was inspired by their love of heavy metal and horror. Shortly thereafter, Savage and her hooded henchmen began their assured ascent through the underground, touring nonstop across North America and Europe, playing festivals such as Keep It True, Hell Over Hammaburg, Legions of Metal, Frost and Fire, Ragnarokkr, Hell's Heroes, and many more, helping land their longstanding album deal with Shadow Kingdom Records.

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"You can’t stop Trevor William Church, you can only hope to contain him." – Decibel Magazine

"...the album has everything you’d expect from an ’80s metal purist." – Hard Noise

"...it’s not just Trevor Church’s prolific output that’s impressive, it’s his continued evolution." – MetalSucks

"...true, old school, pure heavy metal..." – Velvet Thunder

"...(SAVAGE MASTER) certainly (does) put on a show from every angle imaginable..." – Mystification Zine

"Singer Stacey Savage channels Ann Wilson and Ozzy, spinning tales of pure D&D glory — magical seers using mystic objects to look into the beyond, creatures of the night and lustful devils." – LEO Weekly

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thelensofyashunews · 5 months ago

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LUCKI ANNOUNCES THE GEMINI TOUR – KICKING OFF 7/18

Chicago underground icon turned national rap mainstay, LUCKI has just announced that his first US headlining tour, The Gemini Tour, will kick off on July 18th in Raleigh, NC. Produced by Live Nation, the 27-date tour will make stops in Miami, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boston, Brooklyn, and more before wrapping up on September 7th in Atlanta, GA. The forthcoming tour will support his new album GEMIN! which is set for release on June 14th. The recently-released 2-pack of singles titled 2 Faced Pt. 2 (the Coupe-produced "Heavy On My Heart" and the Brent Rambo-produced "Courtesy Of") served as the first glimpse into LUCKI's forthcoming follow-up to 2023's s*x m*ney dr*gs, with the former serving as an upbeat outing buoyed by LUCKI's candid bars over a soulful instrumental while the latter is a hard-hitting victory lap draped in his distinct raspy flow. A longtime staple of Chicago’s underground scene, LUCKI’s hazy cloud rap confessionals saw the then-teenager grow a cult following in the Windy City and beyond before garnering mainstream recognition with his 2022 debut album FLAWLESS LIKE ME (which boasted appearances from Future and Babyface Ray) and hit track “New Drank”(200M+ Streams). The upcoming album marks LUCKI’s first full-length outing since the aforementioned s*x m*ney dr*gs and arrives on the heels of a high-profile appearance on “Broke phone” (7M+ Streams) from Veeze's 2023 album Ganger as well as a strong run of 2024 singles, including “PAIDNFULL”, “COLORFUL DRUGS”, and most recently “All Love”, where he linked with Lyrical Lemonade for a Cole Bennett-directed music video, as well as a guest outing on Southside’s latest track “Elegant”.

Serving as the debut offerings from LUCKI’s upcoming fourth full-length album GEMIN!, “Heavy On My Heart” and “Courtesy Of” are the initial foray into what will be a busy summer for the Chicago-grown artist. He’s currently slated to make appearances at both Rolling Loud and Lyrical Lemonade’s Summer Smash this summer before embarking on his first US headlining tour, The Gemini Tour throughout the summer. LUCKI also recently dropped two trailers for the forthcoming album – "2 FacedSlatt :(" & "2 FacedSlatt :)", showing off the two different sides of himself embracing his mafioso-like stature in the rap game. Both, along with the two new singles, are showing off the two different sides that make up LUCKI as an artist – someone who's grown from an underground Chicago mainstay into an international star with critical acclaim, using his hazy cloud rap confessionals to pave the way for the sound of modern Hip-Hop. With his GEMIN! era officially in motion, LUCKI is continuing to assert his legacy while proving just how far his movement has carried over the past decade.

THE GEMINI TOUR – KICKING OFF 7/18 GET TICKETS

The Gemini Tour Dates 07/18 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz 07/19 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte 07/23 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live 07/26 – Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore Miami Beach At Jackie Gleason Theatre 07/27 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues Orlando 07/30 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore New Orleans 07/31 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall 08/01 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom 08/04 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre 08/06 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues Anaheim 08/07 – San Fransisco, CA – The Masonic 08/09 – Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl 08/11 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre 08/13 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium 08/16 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom 08/17 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo *** 08/19 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex 08/20 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium 08/22 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Minneapolis presented by Affinity Plus 08/23 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre 08/25 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway 08/27 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount 08/30 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit 09/03 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia 09/04 – Washington, DC – Echostage 09/06 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues Myrtle Beach 09/07 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy

*** = non-Live Nation date

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chrisryanspeaks · 6 months ago

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PORCHES Announces New Album Shirt Watch the Video for New Single “Joker” + Announces Fall North American Tour

Porches, the recording project of NYC’s Aaron Maine, announces his sixth studio album, Shirt, set for release on September 13 via Domino. Shirt blends angsty fantasy with confessional melodrama, oscillating between reality and make-believe to reflect both the innocence of suburban youth and the complexities of adulthood. The album is a fusion of chaotic impulses, insatiable desires, and a perpetual yearning, exploring the tension between one's personal identity and public persona. The result is a familiar yet uncanny rock album, featuring anthemic tributes to this intrinsic duality, built on a mix of crashing and caressing sounds. Check out “Joker” below: Today, Porches releases the new single “Joker,” characterized by an intoxicating kick and clap rhythm. The track repeats "God's grace" like a mantra, evoking pastoral Americana imagery, such as a boy and his dog, or a flag on a pole, while hinting at darker themes beneath the surface. The accompanying video for “Joker” is directed by Nick Harwood, with Ben Carey as the director of photography. PORCHES ON TOUR UK/EU 9/18 - Munich, DE @ Kranhalle 9/19 - Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club 9/20-21 - Hamburg, DE @ Reeperbahn Festival 9/22 - Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet 9/23 - Bruxelles, BE @ Botanique 9/24 - Paris, FR @ Point Éphémère 9/26 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk 9/27 - Bristol, UK @ Thekla 9/28 - Manchester, UK @ Band on the Wall 9/30 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo 10/1 - Birmingham, UK @ Mama Roux’s 10/2 - London, UK @ Heaven NORTH AMERICA 10/15 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair 10/16 – Washington, DC @ Atlantis 10/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts 10/18 – Durham, NC @ Motorco 10/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Hell) 10/21 – Nashville, TN @ Exit/In 10/22 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall 10/24 – St. Paul, MN @ Amsterdam 10/25 – Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar 10/26 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge 10/28 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater 10/29 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 10/31 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom 11/1 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre 11/2 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza 11/6 – San Francisco, CA @ Bimbo’s 365 11/7 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre 11/9 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar 11/12 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada 11/13 – Austin, TX @ Antone’s 11/15 - Birmingham, AL @ Workplay Theatre 11/16 - Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi 11/20 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Read the full article

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audiofuzz · 6 months ago

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PORCHES Announces New Album Shirt Watch the Video for New Single “Joker” + Announces Fall North American Tour

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chorusfm · 7 months ago

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The Dangerous Summer Announce Tour

The Dangerous Summer have announced some new tour dates. June 21 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club June 22 – Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern June 23 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5 June 25 – Jacksonville, FL – The Underbelly June 26 – Orlando, FL – The Social June 28 – Austin, TX – The Parish June 29 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada (Outdoor Stage) July 2 – Mesa, AZ – Nile Underground July 3 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar July 5 – Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction July 6 – Las Vegas, NV – The Usual Place July 7 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell July 9 – Denver, CO – Bluebird July 11 – Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club July 12 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen July 13 – Detroit, MI – Lager House July 15 – Toronto, ON – Velvet July 16 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room July 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie July 19 – Lowell, MA – Taffeta July 20 – Asbury Park, NJ – House Of Independents July 21 – Brooklyn, NY – Sultan Room --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/news/the-dangerous-summer-announce-tour-2/

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overnightheartbeats · 1 month ago

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"Okay, ten questions seems fair. Enough chances for me to stump you, and yes if I win, it's just one free session." The last thing Laurel wanted was to take advantage of him. Still, it was an amusing challenge, one she couldn't resist. "That's what intrigued me about it, knowing what makes people tick. I just haven't taken the plunge to pursue it. Maybe, if physics class doesn't kill me first." Eli had a very good outlook on life, very good observations, and a reminder that she appreciated. "I like that. You make some really good points, and true, most people don't really know me. Not in the ways that matter, I suppose. Thanks for that reminder, I hope your opinion doesn't change too much. "

Laurel smiled at his question. Of course, she had told him about her family and essentially, the process it took to land in Texas, but missed mentioning the obvious portion. "He's an attorney. So, when he began interviewing at other firms, he was also trying to decide where he'd need to take the bar to practice. I think that's also why we landed here. I don't mind it so much anymore."

Every now and then, she would look up and catch glimpses of him while he worked. They were friends, right? Could she consider him a new friend now? She thought so, or at least hoped that'd be the case after their planned hangout at the Saddle. Laurel's laughter followed when he clarified, not a strip club. "Well, that wouldn't deter me, though it'd be an interesting choice on your part, to take me to a strip club for our first hang out," she joked, before continuing to listen as he explained. "You had me at live music and cool drinks, that's all you needed to say. My first underground bar, I think."

They walked down the street, and she almost smiled to herself at the silence. One of the few times silence did not make her uneasy, but only because she was amused thinking that her questions had stumped him already. First try, shoutout to trivia. But, nope. He began answering and Laurel was pleasantly surprised that he knew the answers. "I have so many questions, but mostly - how do you just know these things? Forget me nots always sounded funny, but that meaning seems hopeful. Hm, I learn something new everyday." Oh, she had him. The tootsie pop question always got everyone. Honestly, she wasn't even sure of the answer herself. She had said she didn't want the free session, but Laurel was just caught up in the goal to win. But, she was stunned. Her mouth agape as he answered. No way, or yes. His smirk was already saying she might not win this challenge after all. Laurel should've known that someone at UT Austin would know all of these trivia questions. "The human method," the words made her giggle. "Try reaching the center of a Tootsie Pop? Maybe so, could see how many licks it takes me. Have you ever done it?"

She looked up at the establishment, it looked very unassuming but that only drove her curiosity further. Laurel was curious to know how he knew about this place, and knew to keep her eyes open. Learning more about him through the place he chose to hang out. "We're probably the only ones coming in here with backpacks, that'll be fun." She reached for the door handle, swinging the door open before looking back at him. "You coming?"

"I'll hold you to it," came his response as a small smile took over. Texas wasn't known to throw balls but he never clarified what type of ball it'd be. "Destined to meet. I like that. Actually have heard that before which makes this funnier. Fair enough. If you want to take this as your pre warning then who am I stop you."

"Hmm. How about a solid round of ten questions. If I get stumped then you win one free session. If I win you pay once and that gives you a solid four weeks worth of help." It seemed fair and balanced. She got her way and in a way he did as well. "That is always interesting. Especially when you get into the realm of knowing what makes a person tick." Usually get into the mindset of criminals but it seemed to work for just about anyone. "Well, most people don't know you. They see surface stuff. Who you hang out with and the like. Don't worry so much about what others' opinions are. Especially if they don't know you." He had always operated on the fact that he wasn't going to get along with everyone and he was fine with that. As long as he was left alone and unbothered then opinions didn't matter.

"What does your dad do?" It must be something that had him travel. His first thought was military but Laurel didn't really seem a military brat type. Then again he couldn't be sure of anything.

As he went back to work, he couldn't help but glance at his new friend (?) If he could even call her that at the moment. This was a weird one that threw him for a loop and something he'd talk to the siblings about. He knew he had about another thirty minutes until he clocked out but those seemed to go by faster than normal.

Cleaning his last table he went over to the counter to untie his apron and grab his backpack. He went over to say his goodbyes to the other ladies and threw a see you on Thursday. They wished him a fun weekend ahead and smiled at him. With the bag slung over his shoulders and two textbooks in his arms he made his way over to a laurel. A quick flash of a smile overtook his features as he couldn't help the laugh. "Not often enough. It's not a strip club," he clarified. "It's kind of an underground bar where new acts come to perform. We get live music and cool drinks. It's just called the Saddle because they have open bar on Sundays for games."

He kept up a good pace with her and pondered her first question. Truthfully, how he knew this one was a mystery but still answered, "Vatican City, second smallest is Monaco. Alaska state flower is," he sat in thought for a second. "Alpine forget me nots. Did you know why they chose that as the state flower? It symbolized perseverance and constancy. The qualities that embody the pioneer spirit." He looked up at her, long eyelashes splayed across his cheeks as a smirk made it clear presence. "It depends. Some say between hundred forty four and a thousand licks. A purdue study concluded it took three hundred sixty five. But they used a licking machine. When they used a human method, it took two hundred fifty three licks from twenty students." he licked his lips and chuckled. "Why, did you wanna try it?"

#You say eli no and I say ELI YES THE MENACE IS COMING FORWARD I SEE IT 👀👀#the tootsie pop...oops #pls i am still crying over this...how he began letting others in besides isaac #isaac's work coming through!!!#oof...that hurts me...she reminds him of isaac and those two go on a journey to not be at odds!!#ahaha pls also the lowkey strip club mention

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tacofriend · 1 year ago

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Hot take the Deora III sucks ass.

If you aren't interested in Hot Wheels cars, car design, or cars in general, you don't have to read further. If you do, I have included links that will hopefully make understanding this easier.

The original Deora was very much of its time, the 1960s. It has that very muscle car feel, a bit like a cab over version of the Chevrolet El Camino. When I first encountered the toy, I could pretty much instantly recognize the time period from which it came. And of course, this first version defined the platonic concept of a Deora. The Deora is a truck/ute thing in which the cab sits at the very front of the vehicle without a hood or engine bay in front of it. There are no side doors, but instead, the front opens up to allow passenger and driver to enter and exit the cab.

And then we get the Deora III which like, excuse me but what the fuck is this‽ This isn't a Deora. Like yeah the driver sits in front of the front wheels and there's a bed in the back, but why is there no roof, or even a windscreen? Why is there a bicycle in the back? Why is the front end lower than my knees? Why does it look like someone cut a massive chunk out of it? What the fuck is going on here‽

The Deora II takes this concept and rebuilds it with the design language of the late 90s and early 00s. Instead of a boxy 60s muscle car design that the original Deora had, the Deora II had a much softer bubblier style that was incredibly common in the design language of the time. While it keeps the cab over front end and long bed, it presents those with swooping curves and round headlights and round vents. Instead of the muscle car style wheels and fat tires that the original had, the Deora II boasted massive rims and tires that looked like rubber bands, as was aesthetically desirable at the time.

So it fails on two levels. Firstly, it fails to analyze or understand contemporary 2020s car design language. Secondly, it fails to even be a Deora with that two box design.

So first, understanding 2020s car design language. Today's automotive design language is very angular and aggressive. Trucks are boxy and chunky. Cars all have angry headlights and frowning grills. The Deora III hardly had headlights at all, and pretty much no grill. Its open design is reminiscent of the Renault Laguna concept car, which is from the 90s.

Additionally it fails to even look like a Deora. While it does have a long bed, the way that the body panels are cut, instead of having a two box design, the primary shape that stands out is a weird V or a check mark coming down from the rear tailgate, bottoming out in the middle of the bed, and then rising to form the roll bar. It's cut so low that you end up with this wall thing inset from the actual side of the car. And I use the word cut deliberately. With this deep V and the lack of any windscreen or side windows, it looks like they took a Deora and frantically cut it to ribbons with a pair of scissors.

It reminds me of Mr Regular's thoughts on both the third generation Toyota MR2 and Back to the Future III. "AW11 is Back to the Future Part 1, classic 80s, love it, smile every time I see it. SW20: Back to the Future 2: everything you liked about Part 1 but more! ZZW30... Part 3 Why is this a convertible? Why are we in the old west? Where's the flying DeLorean? Where are the popup headlights?"

I'm not asking for a re-release of the Deora II that I loved in my childhood. I want a Deora III that looks like a Deora made for modern times. I probably won't like it as much, but that's because I'm a child of the 90s and 00s. I grew up playing Need for Speed Underground and watching 2 Fast 2 Furious. But those times are gone. Even the new Fast and Furious movies have abandoned the gaudy design of the 00s with custom body kits and custom paint jobs for at most flat black paint and fender flares. Heck, most modified cars in modern car culture look stock. People aren't going for all show and no go anymore, and there are reasons for that, both economic and social, and we can go into those at a later time.

I just want a Deora III that speaks accurately to the times we live in and the design language of contemporary car design while also holding true to the original concept and shape of the Deora.

#Taco talks #hot wheels #deora #i have way too many thoughts and feelings about this

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