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Listen, I like animating lip sync, and I really wanted to animate Tenna talking. I just uh…got carried away.

I got inspired by Turbobox's Tenna voice, and all the mannerism headcanons from the fandom. I tried to fit both fan interpretations, plus a lot of in game poses. Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I had fun makin' it. The Lord of Screens has a god damn choke hold me.

Original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edsHKoVl5WI

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Animated another scene! Also from chapter 4 of deltarune...

youtube link

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[director's cut]

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spamtenna brainrot has been bad all summer

ib fanfic by @manofthepipis "Beyond Repair" :^) . pretend this is like a week after chap12 lol. rlly rlly great detailed fantastic piece of work pls continue writing.. only complaint is that they HAVENT KISSED YET!!!!

hes so krinkly awww awww

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frostbite

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The roaring lunarians took his arms

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I'm obsessed with the way you color. Could you ever spare us mortals a piece of your knowledge as to HOW you cook this good

Mkay , i actually barelly possess enough competence to explain things to people, and I do the guy on one layer, so usually I panic and repaint stuff till my back turns to cooked shrimp BUT LET`S TRY

THE "T U T O R I A L" feat. Mr.Tenna

I really do hope it`ll explain something at least

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OKAY! So as I was getting my daily Catchy-Spinny for Pokémon Go as I've been getting for the past...(checks)...495 weeks?... Jegus... SO ANYWAY! As I was doing that I was FLASHBANGED with an idea for a Deltarune Au and had to drop everything to write it down and draw it. Jailbroken Tenna or, Time Traveler Tenna Au.

Any device you can think of has been made into a time machine in pop culture; cars, microwaves, cellphones, tape measures, pocket watches, gyroscopes, why not a CRT TV?

Premise: Tenna learns the truth about Spamton's benefactor waaay too late, but still makes it his mission to undoom them and keep himself from getting unplugged, y'know, go back to the good ol' days, fix everything (that certainly won't go wrong...right?). Even though he still sucks at using computers, he's TV, he knows video games and sci-fi movies inside and out and he figures out how to use the Deltarune UI. He manages to open a 4th save file and uses it to go back in time and stall Spamton long enough for his past self to catch up after picking up the phone. He then jumps back to the "present" (his previous file, file 3) and finds... that nothing changed. That's okay! He knows more now, he can fix it. He keeps jumping back and forth, each time making a new save file, trying to figure out what he's doing wrong.

He tries keeping himself from meeting Spamton

Acting in place of Mike

getting rid of the studio's phones

even replacing himself on one attempt

anything that could change something

He gets more frustrated with each failed attempt, but refuses to stop trying. NO, he'll MAKE IT WORK! He makes dozens if not hundred of attempts. The phone even rings again, ordering him to stop messing with the game because he's breaking it (he tells them to kiss his ass)! Not to mention, he doesn't have fans, this time travel business is overheating him... a lot. He completely ruins his old outfit.

In between each attempt he comes back to Castle Town in File 3 and talks to the people there, including Spamton. They talk and Tenna laments their current situation, insisting each new try will be the one where it works, but eventually... after they've talked enough, after they've reconciled and gotten comfortable together again, he gives up.

He can't get their former glory back, but he has what he wanted; people who care about him (including his partner), a purpose with the Lightners (he knows about MTT, he's just been... putting it off until he fixed this), and... he's here. He's still alive. Things might not be exactly how he wished, but that doesn't mean they're all that bad either. He doesn't "fix" the future, but he finally learns from the past, he grows from it.

Outfit inspos include: Tron (1982 and 2010), Outertale, and Euclydia Rises.

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Shhhh. They're having important business talk

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hey guys youll never guess the bs i fried up today

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new animation, this time deltarune!! i love this game so dearly, so this was super fun to make! :]

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things to do instead of youtube

Obviously you can go do anything, but this one is specifically for people who listen to youtube to fall asleep or in the background of work or whatever:

-twitch streams

-catch up on shows and movies youve been meaning to watch on various streaming services (I say use the legit services because youtube can compare their drop in traffic to the spike in traffic at lets say netflix. Obviously pirating exists, but the data from another legit service helps slap youtube in the face again)

-pick your fave creator and subscribe to their patreon (also helps support them while they take the hit from people leaving youtube)

-podcasts (tons of youtubers also have a podcast, and you can support them by listening here!)

-audio books

-audio dramas (im starting the magnus archives, relistening to welcome to night vale, and theres a couple batman ones too i wanna check out)

-go seek out new music! Ask friends to make you playlists of songs they recommend, or take a chance on a new soundcloud artist, or go find your favorite band and listen to their entire back catalogue

-noisescapes! You dont need youtube to find ambient noise to listen to, plenty of other sites make these or even allow you to customize your own

-physical sound machines, like white noise machines or those stuffed animals that play sounds. Yes, theyre for babies. Yes, you can buy and use them too. Im 30 and I have a sleep sheep- my favorite is the rolling waves and distant thunder setting

-videos on vimeo and dailymotion. Right now these are youtubes most directly analogous competitors. Driving their site traffic up might make youtube think they do in fact have viable competition

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ITS AUGUST 13TH I BETTER SEE NOOOOOOOOOONE OF YALL ON YOUTUBE DURING THIS BOYCOTT.

REMEMBER. STAYING OFF FOR ONLY ONE DAY DOES NOTHING. If you want to see change you NEED to wait until they revert the update

Here's a list of things you can do instead of go on the private info snatching website:

Watch Twitch Streams

Watch Movies/Shows

Pick up a new hobby/do your current hobbies

Go outside for a walk (or outside in general)

Create something

Talk to/hang out with friends

Try a new video game/play games in general

Check out some cool websites on Neocities

Pirate things you can't afford (like me)

Honestly there's sooooooooo much more than this you can do too. JUST HANG IN THERE!!! Together we can do something awesome

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Where/how did you learn to write??? Getting ANYWHERE close to your writing style has been one of my goals when making fanfiction

I learned to write in first grade, when I was five years old; and I've continued learning every day of my life ever since.

It's the "every day of my life ever since" that makes the difference.

Fiction writing isn't like math, a correct formula for everything and specific techniques everybody's expected to learn at about the same time in about the same order. Writing's just something you do and keep doing and keep doing and keep doing.

You read a short story that haunts you until you pick apart what about its structure resonates with your mind—or about its characters, or about its themes, or about its symbolism. And then you read a metaphor that sticks in your brain until you find some place to use it yourself; and then you read a metaphor that means nothing to you but that teaches you what you can do with metaphors.

You attend a writing workshop and get nothing out of any of the advice offered on your stories except some tips that help only those specific stories; and then you hear the advice one participant gives another participant on their story and something clicks into place.

You read a blog post about a writing rule you realize you don't follow and so you try it out; you read an article about a writing rule you realize you've always been doing subconsciously so now you know how and why to do it on purpose; you read a post about a writing rule that you realize is beneath you because you already understand why that's a rule—how it affects a sentence, a paragraph, a story—and because you understand why it's a rule, you don't need to follow it anymore, because the effect it has on a story isn't the effect you're going for.

You read a book about how to write fiction, and out of 200 pages of advice, only two paragraphs stick with you—but they'll stick with you the rest of your life.

You skip reading the next book about how to write fiction—and that, too, shapes how you write fiction.

You get the best writing advice you've ever received not from a book about writing but from a deleted article about writing fanfic on a website dedicated to a toy franchise which you can now only read via the Wayback Machine.

You read 100 novels and ten years later you realize you owe everything about your style and skill to 6 of them—and they weren't even your 6 favorite novels, just the ones from which you had the most to learn. The rest of your style, you owe to 3 fanfic authors whose entire library you voraciously consumed when you were 11-15 years old.

The closer you get to telling the stories that live at the core of your heart, the more you realize that all your literary preoccupations come from the animated movies that made you cry when you were four years old.

You listen to a song and spend six months trying to use silent black-and-white 12 point Helvetica text to make other people feel the same emotions the melody makes you feel.

You do everything on the above list and don't get where you want because there's a thousand things I didn't list that you have to do. You skip half of the above list and get where you want anyway because of the other thousand things you did.

And you keep that up the rest of your life.

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WHAT THE FUCK?! Everything about this is wrong.

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)

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About the YouTube AI age verification thing in the US:

Here is a link for another post detailing a boycott plan on the 13th of August. And if you think that it's not gonna be that bad...

IT WILL AFFECT YOU, TOO.

If you watch:

Gameplays and gaming-related videos, for example Minecraft, Undertale/Deltarune, The Sims 4, GTA/Minecraft roleplaying videos, mod videos (even if the mod is 18+), Genshin Impact and other gachas, horror games no matter the rating

Unboxing of Pokémon/Magic The Gathering/any other type of playing cards

Table Top Games, including watching TTRPG campaigns

Slime tutorials, probably (yeah, both kinds)

Essays/Commentary/Theories about IP for children, like cartoons/anime - Gravity Falls, Winx Club, Monster High, Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, My Little Pony, Miraculous Ladybug, Spongebob Squarepants, and the like

Anything about Doll Customizing, including ball-jointed dolls, Blythe dolls, OOAK projects, and anything similar

Cosplay videos, probably

Videos about collectibles like Labubu, Funko Pop, plushies, and similar

Videos and YT podcasts about Anime, like Trash Taste and Mother's Basement

VTubing, most likely, given the nature of animated avatars

And maybe, Draw With Me/Art tutorials of all kinds

There is a chance that the AI will target your account, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA, and flag it as an underage account because of your watching habits. Therefore, requiring you to provide your identification or photo to YouTube in order to continue using their services normally and not have your account deleted.

And here is the kicker: IF YOU DON'T and continue to use the service disregarding your account's newly found underage classification, THEY WILL CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN WATCH EVEN MORE. They are banking on you being too tired to fight this, and just accepting it as the new normal.

This is a blatant ploy to monitor the people and gather massive amounts of data to sell to governments, plural. If it works without too much of a hiccup in the US (and in the UK as well, since over there it's affecting every online service), other countries will follow suit.

If you are in the US, you have to fight this.

They've already come for Steam and Itch as a way of controlling self-expression and speech. This is yet another tool of censorship. And it WILL affect all of us, globally, eventually, because the internet serves a lot more people than the US and the UK, and the rules are applied mostly equally.

Share the boycott plan. Tell your friends and family about it. It will affect them, too.

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Spent today downloading all my favorite videos and songs from YouTube to prep for the 13th. For anyone else joining the exodus I wish you luck. For anyone not, I still wish you luck and may you avoid the crossfire this thing's gonna enact.