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Oh no! Mew Mew found her cousin and his boyfriend smooching!!
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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning
If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:
These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:
But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.
Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.
If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.
Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.
Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.
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Halfway to the sofa, they stopped, making a small sound like a grumble of annoyance. For a second, the red glow in their eye grew faint. "Sleep," they rasped out in a low, halting whisper, "I saved you an ache in the neck." It took him a second to register that the kid wasn't talking to him. Mostly 'cause Frisk didn't speak. To him. Or ever.
Sans wakes up late into the night and sees something he shouldn't have.
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Happy early Valentines Day <3
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a friend said sales undertale instead of sans so i drew it.. undersale..
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Ayoooo
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he's my favorite subject, alas
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"Careless whisper" plays in the background
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get out of my head sans undertale..
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the uh
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Papyton Week Day 5: Boots
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Day 5!
It rained where I live and I wanted to draw them with silly rain boots
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Anonymous asked:
I find myself thinking about how, when you first meet an Addison, the very first thing they tell you is, "We are Addisons! All we do is advertise!"
but when you go back to the trash dump after defeating spamton, this is clearly not true. they are people with personalities, they're friends, they hang out at the cyber grill together every night. even the addisons, who out-right tell you that they are nothing more than advertisements, are people beyond their darkner purposes.
yes! all of the darkners are very well-characterized within the setting and social hierarchy of deltarune. their lives under their roles as objects and under the light tangibly impact them, and we see that in no small part through their interactions and their histories with one another. a part of what makes their writing feel so vivid is because the worldbuilding extends not just to the mechanics of the ways the worlds and the society within deltarune work, but to the way that those things have an impact on the way the darkners behave. and like you mentioned, everyone in spamton's history feels like a rich part of both it and the cyber world as a whole — from the addisons to more major characters like swatch and queen. most everyone has a life that interconnects with someone else's life, and even isolated ralsei has some pretty obvious reactions to and ways of coping with the fate of a darkner (and of being a prophecy-speechifying guide to us) that strongly characterize what he's all about. it's all very succinct!
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Anonymous asked:
Do you have a timeline for when you believe the humans fell underground (including Chara + Frisk)?
Well not necessarily anything specific. just a few things that mark some VERY wide margings for what i have in mind
Chara fell in 201X, as per the calendar with the circled date.
This was after the Dreemurrs (and thus monsterkind in tow) already left Home to explore the rest of the mountain and settled in New Home. This is deduced by the wall writings in Waterfall, which bemoan the underground's inaccessibility, saying there's no way a human could ever make its way down there.
So New Home already existed (or was soon going to be founded, if the plaques were written while the monsters were still exploring) before any human had fallen into the Underground at all.
However! The childhood room in Home is referred to as Asriel's room in both the game files and in the art book (the screenshot is from the Home segment of the book)
Which would mean Asriel was born close enough in time to the monsters' banishment to be alive when they migrated further into the caverns (and to already have personal interests, like astronomy), and that he was likely snooping around his previous home in the RUINs by chance when he found Chara.
I think Chara spent a LOT of time with the Dreemurrs... but less so chronologically. They likely had reset powers like all humans who fall into the Underground as a consequence of their high DT (from the Undertale Legends of Localization book):
(I actually think this was the intended implication with their inappropriately light approach to death and pain, ie: laughing in that one videotape about making Asgore sick), so I like to think that, while they obviously stuck around for a long time, they techincally were only with the Dreemurrs for 1, maybe 2 linear years. Which would explain why they seem... hesitant to call them their child/sibling. From their perspective, it was too soon for those words at the time. Either that or Chara was uncomfortable with familiar terms for whatever reason. I tend to ping-pong between the two.
Chara dies and so does Asriel -> Asgore cringe comp -> Toriel bails.... And then bam, the next humans start falling down.
l think the entire affair took centuries in total. Surely a lot of time, enough for most commonplace monsters to have no idea what a human looks like
At LEAST one century, that is, but that is the barest minimum. There's this one line in the date with Sans at MTT resort when he's talking about his first meeting with Toriel:
Now I'm not saying Sans is aware of what's going on or that this makes incanon sense, but knowing UT's propensity for tragically poetic irony, this feels like one of those occasions.
I in my personal chronology, the humans fell either 1 or 2 per century, putting Toriel's exile between 300 and 600 years long.
The order? uhhhhh. dw about it
Thus, Frisk falls down in 2X15. Monsters are freed, everyone is happy. Yay yayay ^_^ yippee. The End.
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this is self indulgent
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Why did the entire Undertale fandom collectively decide that Frisk is 3-8 when they repeatedly flirt with people and go on a romantic date with Papyrus (who fully intended to be attracted to them but couldn't and feels as though this is a failing on his part) and even was supposed to have a robot husband at one point in development.
I tried being shitposty and goofy about it a year or two ago but no one took me seriously then so I'm phrasing it as a genuine question this time. Why is everyone so content to pretend this recurring aspect of their character just doesn't exist.
only a very small handful of monsters actually know that frisk is a child. toriel, asgore, gerson (the oldest characters in the game who still remember the surface, and thus, humans. asgore and toriel having raised one themselves) sans (...?) and monster kid. maybe alphys as well, given her interest in human media and how she says "that's adorable" when she mistakes undyne's letter for frisk's. everyone else has never seen a human before, and oftentimes doesn't even recognize frisk as one.
and well... that's the joke! they literally don't know that the human is a child, so they behave in ways that are absolutely insane when you know that they are. it's why every single one of the "dates" ends in us being friendzoned: we're meant to see it and groan awkwardly and laugh, because it's not something we're meant to take seriously.
I do agree that 3-8 is probably lowballing it though. I could mayyybe see 8 with a bit of a stretch, but I'd reckon they were designed with the 10-13 age range in mind. Mother 2, Mother 3, Pokemon... it's a time rife with child adventurer protagonists, after all!
I admit I was caught off-guard to see this post getting notes out of nowhere djndjdbfjdbdj
I think you make some good points, and ones that I don’t see a lot of people making, and since this reply I’ve gotten some additional commentary in the tags (that I’ll mention but won’t go screenshot hunting for bc I’m on mobile)
First I’ll mention is a question from someone asking if Frisk ever got an age confirmed. A few months ago I was replaying UT and got this dialogue for decorating Gyftrot.
If Gyftrot’s remark is correct, that’d put them in the 13-17 range (or I suppose up to 18-19 if you wanted to go the “adult teen” range). Given their dialogue options during the roleplay portion of Alphys’ hangout/fake date, and the way the characters you mentioned treat them vs how they behave, it would be fitting.
Same person who asked that question also brought up Monster Kid’s remark about “striped shirt = kid” and assumed that to be the overarching joke, which was the assumption I’ve been working with (or maybe still is, idk I gotta let the information brew for a bit). If they’re correct it’d be that XKCD quote:
I think the biggest source of conflict for me is the fact that most of the people who actually have experience with humans are also very old. (Though there’s Alphys who watches human media and Sans who has whatever the FUCK is going on with his backstory, to push closer to them being younger.)
Regarding the dates, the only character who’s actually genuine in their attempt (even if he fails at it) is Papyrus, whose age is specifically lampshaded (Monster Kid says they aren’t sure if he’s an adult or kid). My (and others’) leaning toward Papyrus being an adult did contribute to my assumption of Frisk being an adult as well, though between his age being even more ambiguous than Frisk’s, his general confusion about romance, and what you mentioned about no one BUT those select few ppl knowing that they’re young could indicate that not being the case.
I'm afraid your Gyftrot suggestion might be misguided, my irken fellow. You need only CHECK this out...
Gyftrot is already on the lookout due to his run-ins with the Snowdin teens who decorated it. It's Frisk's "youthful demeanor" that makes it suspicious:
Once again, there's this recurring vagueness and unsureness when monsters try to profile Frisk. They're FAR from capable of identifying them as anything specific, race OR agewise.
But returning to your point. I think it's fair to read Gyftrot's behavior as lumping Frisk in with the other gang of (more recognizably) teenaged hooligans who bothered it before, without really knowing Frisk's age. Not to mention, the dialogue you brought up reads "teeenage". As in an adjective, not a noun, to apply to "googly eyes". Considering Frisk found those on the ground...
...my assumption was always that they were a piece of decoration, belonging to those very teens from before, that Gyftrot had just managed to shake off. ie: "teenage googly eyes".
But I concede that this a very back and forth kind of point, so I think we can file this away as net zero information, HAHAHA.
I'm happy to know my arguments landed re: Papyrus, age confusion and why the date being inappropriate is part of the joke. If I may add another log to the fire, allow me to quote my favorite Papyrus phonecall of all time:
This is just SUCH a succint summary of my point in my original reply re: Undertale's tone and why people in fandom REALLY overexaggerate the negative impact it has on frisk. Kids love deadly spikes! This is a battle RPG! There's gonna be battles! The protagonist can take a few hits it's FINE, where's the fun otherwise? Do you want to play the game or not...?
But specifically, I would like to point out the punchline of the joke here, which is "IF YOU KNOW ANY KIDS, YOU SHOULD ASK THEM!!!" which requires that 1) Frisk is a kid and 2) Papyrus is very VERY oblivious about their age in order for it to land.
It's why I roll my eyes at people who DO agree that Frisk is a kid, but then say Papyrus is doing a playdate with them, like... No babes. He's just face blind as fuck LMAO.
Lastly, I think thee main and biggest argument for frisk being on the kid/younger side of teen at max is the fact that Undertale doesn't exist in a vacuum, but is in close conversation with its successor, Deltarune. We DO have a visual representation of what a human in the 16-18 age range looks like (one that looks like an older Frisk, at that) through Kris.
And come to think of it, Monster Kid too! With a change in size and proportion that is roughly equivalent to the Frisk/Kris one. I think this is enough to assume their comment about striped sweaters was—aside from being a meta joke about RPGs—more or less correct. Or at least, it speaks to some authorial intent on Toby's part for the way we're supposed to think about these characters.
I could also mention the very many MANY pieces of promotional art, official merch and depictions that don't confine themselves to the games' pixelated art style where Frisk is more recognizably a child. But I thought I'd restrict my points to the strictly canonical stuff :P
I bow to the jury. My argument is done. So sorry for the stupidly long essay in your notes, HAHAHA!