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happy catgirl day

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hey stardust what are you doing stardust hey hey what do you have there stardust

#isat #isat loop #isat siffrin #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers

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so uh. had an au idea where odile gets looped (wink) in after the sus event and starts looping with siffrin

#isat #isat siffrin #isat odile #in stars and time #isat spoilers

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warrior cats style book cover commission!

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I only keep internet arguments up until I get bored of it. People can feel like getting blocked means they won, but to me it's sitting on my throne like a bored king going "guards, this jester no longer amuses me. Throw him out. To the street or to the dungeon, doesn't matter, just get him out of my sight." And then go do something more worth my time like watering the onions, baking something, or go clip my toenails.

And sometimes I don't bother blocking them and don't delete the post, but let it stand, since I know that my mutuals and people who follow me are like-minded intellectuals who would also enjoy ripping this idiot a new one. So they can have it, as a treat.

Then it's more like "guards, this jester no longer amuses me. Throw him to the hounds."

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Disclaimer these are just a small sampling of some possible writer traits I’ve noticed either in myself or in fics I read. Also consider a rb for sample size !

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ISAT dashboard simulator. Cause why not.

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I just got unfrozen and my family were decorating me like a crabbing tree. Smh.

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URL checks out

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CRAB

#I. Forgot that's my URL.

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Hey so a friend of mine keeps saying this word and like??? I've never heard it before and I can't find anything online??? "Star" is I think how it's spelled???

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@Explaining-that-headache.

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Thanks for the tag!

You spelled it right OP. "Star" is a word that describes the glittering lights in the night sky. It's from a culture that gives you headaches to think about (I have a post about it). It's also used as an expletive kinda like Crab.

Your friend might be from the Island North of Vaugarde that gives you headaches to think about. If you or your friend is curious about it this blogs asks are, as always, open to questions.

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HUH! that's, really good to know! Thanks!

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You changed your URL so you wouldn't forget didn't you gay boy?

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NO I DIDN'T.

#DON'T CALL ME OUT

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Hey look what I can do

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WHAT

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MY CRABBING HEAD

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No notes headache post

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Do you think the saviors are posting?

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The saviors aren't real dw about it

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Found the Kings blog.

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198.62.165

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HELLO?!??!?

#Am I in danger?

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Ok I know people are down bad for that savior from Ka Bue but have you SEEN that short one with the hat?!!?!?

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You think they're single?

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I'm taken, sorry.

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TSJXFGDIJGKXTSUV?!???!?!?

#SAVIOR IN MY THIRSTING POST?!?!? #I'M GOING TO GO INTO THE OCEAN NOW

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Being frozen was nice put me back

#/joke #/half-joke #it was nice ok?

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#isat spoilers #in stars and time #isat

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I really do enjoy expressing sexuality through my art it's a really nice outlet for me. I have so much repressed shit going on so it's like finally letting the gate open. i love drawing guys that just look like me or other guys and them being sexy and cute because it feels nice to be seen as desirable.

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Gross, but one time at a friends house his cat barfed on the carpet and both of us saw him do it, then my friend told me he'd clean it tomorrow so he left the throw up there overnight.

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I really do enjoy expressing sexuality through my art it's a really nice outlet for me. I have so much repressed shit going on so it's like finally letting the gate open. i love drawing guys that just look like me or other guys and them being sexy and cute because it feels nice to be seen as desirable.

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Okay but what if

A silly little concept I thought of recently XD

#utdr #deltarune #in stars and time #isat

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To add to my previous ask:

Yaldabaoth says "welcome to my Velvet Room" in the English version, as opposed to Igor's "welcome to the Velvet Room." Is that a thing that happens in the Japanese version, too?

Hi, thanks for your ask, which I am brushing the dust off! This is a very widely noticed detail, and you won't be surprised to hear there's a little more going on in Japanese.

In short: in the Japanese original, both Fake Igor and Igor say "welcome to my Velvet Room". However, the way they say it differs—as the whole way the two of them speak differs.

igors, what the heck

The place most people notice this is in this cinematic, where we first meet Fake Igor.

Igor [Yaldabaoth] ようこそ、私のベルベットルウムへ。 youkoso... watakushi no berubetto ruumu e Welcome to my Velvet Room.

First of all, in case you know kanji, yes, that's the more decrepit and more formal-sounding watakushi that Yaldygor is using, not the everyday watashi which is written the same way—the same pronoun Igor used in earlier games.

For comparison, in P3P:

Igor ようこそ、ベルベットルームへ。 youkoso, berubetto ruumu e Welcome to the Velvet Room.

... while P4G Igor welcomes you that first time simply with youkoso.

a comparison: yaldabaoth vs igor

greetings in cutscenes

Yaldy and Igor both have cutscenes where you walk in and they greet you. Yaldy's is at the start of Kamoshida's Palace; Igor's is when (if you aren't on NG+) Lavenza tells you that you can no longer summon Satanael. And these two lines are identical:

Igor [Yaldabaoth] ようこそ、ベルベットルームへ。 youkoso, berubetto ruumu e Welcome to the Velvet Room. Igor ようこそ、ベルベットルームへ。 youkoso, berubetto ruumu e Welcome to the Velvet Room.

Short and sweet: "welcome to the Velvet Room". No possessives. In fact, they're both identical to that initial greeting from P3P that we looked at.

igor's additional greeting

But True Igor has a second one of these, when you arrive to find your cell door open:

Igor ようこそ、我がベルベットルームへ。 youkoso, waga berubetto ruumu e Welcome to the Velvet Room. Welcome to my Velvet Room.

waga is a possessive. This is True Igor saying "my Velvet Room"! Per Wiktionary, waga is "a fossilized phrase... that carries old-fashioned connotations, and suggests a favorable view of the following noun". Wikipedia further calls it "faux-archaic" and points out that it retains its grammar from Old Japanese, with ga serving as a possessive in wa-ga. Let's keep looking.

when you walk in

Now, both Fake Igor and True Igor have a default line that they use when you walk in. And these lines are profoundly different:

Igor [Yaldabaoth] ようこそ…私のベルベットルームへ。今日は、何をして欲しいのだ? youkoso… watakushi no berubetto ruumu e. kyou wa, nani o shite hoshii no da? Welcome to my Velvet Room… What do you need today? [lit. welcome to my Velvet Room. what is it you want me to do today?] Igor ようこそ…我がベルベットルームへ。ご用件をお聞き致しましょう… youkoso… waga berubetto ruumu e. go-youken o o-kiki itashimashou… Welcome to the Velvet Room. Let me hear your business. [lit. welcome to my Velvet Room. I will humbly listen to your honourable business.]

In Japanese, the difference between them is screamingly obvious. True Igor is using humble language (kenjougo, a form of keigo) to talk about his own actions, with that o-kiki itashimasu ("I will humbly listen") and that beautified go-youken ("your honourable business"). Even his possessive, waga, honours its object to a degree—"my/our honoured Velvet Room". Again, P3 and P4 Igor spoke in just this way—humble and formalised.

But Fake Igor, the God of Control? Well... he's not using any form of keigo. In fact, he's not even using polite forms. He asks you what you want with no da!—which, on a question, is an interrogative construct that demands an answer! "Why are you even here?" "What do you want this time?"

True Igor sounds like an old retainer on a dusty estate somewhere: you are the guest, the customer, and he is the servant. Fake Igor addresses you as if he's your superior. In fact, the way he's addressing you is rude. Like he's the important one here. Like a guard with a prisoner.

And, if you were used to the ritualised humility P3 and P4 Igor spoke with, Fake Igor's blunt language style must have come as quite a shock.

pronouns generally

While Real Igor also uses watakushi as his pronoun, Fake Igor also sometimes uses that honorific, formalised waga possessive:

Igor [Yaldabaoth] 我が試みは水泡に帰し…全ては終わったのだ。 waga kokoromi wa suihou ni kishi... subete wa owatta no da My experiment has come to naught… Everything is over. [lit. know that my efforts have been in vain... that it has all ended.] Igor 私の名は、イゴール。 watakushi no na wa, igooru My name is Igor.

True Igor uses waga to honour the Velvet Room. But Yaldygor reserves waga for his own grand plan—"my efforts", or "my game", as he says in that same scene—and uses watakushi no as his possessive at all other times.

Note that the word for a scientific experiment is not kokoromi, but 実験 jikken—which makes Fake Igor's statement something more like "all my efforts have been in vain". That suihou ni kisuru is literally something like "ended in foam"—we might say "melted before my eyes", or "like foam on the ocean".

conclusion

So what can we learn from all this? Well, given that English lacks a formalised honorific system such as Japanese has, English Yaldygor's "my Velvet Room" is a good way of conveying something unsavoury about the character.

But it also means the characters are slightly different. English Yaldygor is marked by that possessiveness over the Velvet Room itself—the position and place that he stole from Igor. Japanese Yaldygor, on the other hand, is marked by how he treats you, the protagonist. He talks down to you, which True Igor never does. He disrespects you. He clearly believes that he is the centre of the Velvet Room, the important part of it—not its guest, as Igor does.

And sure, that leads to a feeling of ownership of the Room, but that's not all it is—or even the most important thing, because True Igor also expresses possession of the Room. Japanese Yaldygor talks, in every way, like someone who would lock you in a prison cell in chains and torture you. Like someone who thinks he's a bigshot, and you are dirt.

And that's the difference between them—which their language so clearly conveys.

revision history

click here for the latest version.

v1.2 (2024/05/21)—clarified true igor's use of waga.

v1.1 (2024/05/21)—clarified an unclear mention of fake igor.

v1.0 (2024/05/21)—first posted.

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I’m bored, so here’s a Slay the Princess poll!

Can totally make up your voice for them too, rules aren’t real.

#stp #slay the princess

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When the game tells you nothing.

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#lob corp