#like think about ut

[agentravensong]

thinking about how the extra area added on to a pacifist run of undertale, the true lab, is about alphys's past mistakes. how it ends with the story reaffirming that, despite the pain she's caused, the thing that matters is that she has now made the choice to do the right thing. she's still worthy of her friends' love.

thinking about how undertale doesn't expect the player to get a pacifist ending for the first time. how it's more likely than not that the player will kill toriel the first time they battle her, how lots of players don't initially figure out how to end undyne's fight without killing her, etc. what it expects — not even expects, really, but hopes — is that the player, if they care enough, will use their canonically acknowledged power over time to make up for those mistakes.

no matter how many neutral runs a player has done before committing to the pacifist run, the thing that matters to the characters, to the story, is that you've chosen, now, to do the right thing.

compared to alphys, the player honestly gets off lightly, in that you're the only one (other than flowey) who really remembers any harm you might have caused. and any direct guilting the game could have done about it is long past at this point. instead, as undertale often does, it makes its point via parallels: alphys caused harm, and she knows it. she has committed to being better. in doing so, she has unlocked for herself a better ending to her story. and she deserves it. she's forgiven.

those structural narrative parallels are all over undertale, if you know where to look. and that's one of the things that makes it so fuckin' good.

#undertale #alphys #true lab #this inspired by a mutual's alphys posting #and a discord convo i had a couple weeks back about ut's stance on ''punishing'' the player vs the monsters for their actions #and thoughts i've had generally post a certain fangame with a color in its name about just how well ut is structured as a narrative #everyone rightfully praises toby fox's character writing but stuff like this i think flies under the radar a bit by comparison #and it deserves to be appreciated #there's obvious Lore reasons why the true lab is only visited in a pacifist run (what's revealed about chara and flowey) #but this is the other half of it: the message of alphys's story hits hardest on a paci route post neutral runs #toby fox is a good writer more often than not

[babbybones]

i wish all fandom wikis a very migrate to miraheze or go fully independent

edit: i am getting way too many "what's wrong with fandom? 🥺" comments to respond to them all-- presumably mostly from people seeing this post without the reblog comments-- so please read this before asking that.

basically fandom/wikia is a corporation that hosts wikis bloated with intrusive ads, and they are actively hostile to both their users and to independent wikis (to the point of banning wiki admins for attempting to migrate to another platform & buying up specific domains so they can't be used). their use of SEO techniques means their wikis will usually show up as the top result in google searches, even above objectively superior wikis. they recently bought out Gamespot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Metacritic, and others, and they will sometimes attempt to buy out independent wikis (like Bulbapedia)

#i feel like i've griped about stuff on the UT/DR wikis before but honestly they're doing their best #and i think what i actually hate most is Fandom. explode #text post

[shower-phantom-ideas]

Danny as Fenton takes a hit that no human boy should survive while in a different city (im going crossover here) and just transforms into phantom and pretends to be all sad that he died. Just for a moment. He then proceeds to kick the baddies ass. Claims he got ghost powers and fucks off. Imagine if Captain America or Batman saw this while failing ti protect him, hell or any hero type. Danny doesn’t think much on it and just goes on with his week. Continues being Fenton of course but what if he runs into whatever hero, but out if costume, saw him do that.

“How are you here? And alive?”

Danny holding a smoothie:”uhhhh I made a miraculous recovery”

He just shrugs it off and goes about his day. It isn’t until he finally gets some sleep later that night that he wakes up in a cold sweat realising he now knows their secret identity. “Oh well it’s neat I guess” starts to go back to sleep only to bolt back up “oh god now they know my secret identity”

Meanwhile said hero is too busy trying to figure out how to help this random kid to even be worried about the fact that they outed themselves. Someone else probably points it out to them and has to explain it twice before it gets thru.

#danny phantom #crossovers #dp x mcu #dpxdc #dp x dc #I like to use batman a lot cause his need to protect these kids probably makes him a little stupid #like imagine him in the batcave looking into fenton now and nightwing comes in starts asking about it #only to have to find out that bruce basically told the kid hes batman #except bruce is tired and worried so he isnt getting it #no B I mean like how does bruce wayne know the kid died. only batman saw it #if you are trying to make some sort of joke it’s not working. now please excuse me I have to figure this out #a sigh and facepalm #B imagine what the kid is gonna think when bruce wayne asks him how he is alive but batman watched him die. #slowly bruce stops typing and leans back from the computer #he freezes #eyes widening #a soft but sharp intake #oh #yea oh B geeze you must be tired if it took this long for you to get ut #bruce with his head in his hands realising he just messed up big time #maybe he should get more sleep after all #as for the mcu I would like to think it was hawkeye or hulk #I like hulk cause it’s also a bruce but I like hawkeye more. guy is very comfort character #clint just kid I saw you die now why don’t you explain that #danny giving him nothing till clints like come on it’s kinda messed up letting me think I let a kid die isnt it. #oh poor me loosing so much sleep watching a young boy become a ghost. I could hardly go on #danny rolls his eyes laying it on a little thick arent we old man #gasp! I will have you know I am only (insert haskeyes age here) #geeze you are waaayyy okder than I thought

[arunneronthird]

lights will guide you home and ignite your bones

a lighting study of a shitty stock photo

#and i will tryyyyyyyy to fix uuuuuu #cant believe coldply gave us the ''i can fix him'' song in 2005 #also im not sure i like coldplay ut ive been thinking about fix u a lot #this is a photo study but i think its worth sharing #jason todd #red hood #batman #dc comics #my art #ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.

[sysig]

Two skeletons in a trench lab coat (Patreon)

Bonus:

He’s very careful! Everything was fine before you interrupted!

#Doodles #Handplates #UT #FJdlsafjdsf Handplates fuzzes my brain #I cannot tell you how weird it feels to draw Gaster with the Lost Soul head after all this time away haha #It drops me back into the person I was when I first read Handplates - for better or for worse. It's a very strange feeling #Even drawing Sans and Papyrus again sends me back! Not as strongly but certain little details stand out #Sans' eyes especially... Very strange feeling #Anyhow! Since Fellplates sent me back down the rabbit hole and I've gotten back into rereading lightly - still not a full commitment! #Maybe soon tho 👀 I feel like I always say that haha #But in the meantime thinking of the pre-Plates Handplates time period <3 Since that's the one I'm still most familiar with haha #I love when they're still growing and learning ♪ Scaffolded baby talk! Twin language! Love 'em ♥ #And fearless* mischievous little troublemakers hehe #They're so cute <3 I love the little ways they interact as young'uns - like when Papyrus will just lift Sans by his arms lol #I'd been thinking about and then had to go read the one of Sans as a the blanket/coat tickle monster and then - this ✨ #''Excuse me sir I'd like One Ticket to the R Rated movie I am an adult Monster'' lol #Probably another one of those moments where Gaster is just *nervously sweats in Dad* lol - stop being so cute! #Also there's no particular meaning to when I use WingDings for his text :P Just convenience and if I remember to lol #Comics where he talks a lot are not convenient XP I have enough trouble editing on this paper ugh I will Not miss it when it's done #Even attempted this comic in as few pencil strokes/erasing as possible and it was still a pain to work with! >:0 Rude #Doubly so that I've had a Handplates comic idea for past like - year lol - and /this/ was the first one I finished pfftbl #To be fair to the other I do want to at least attempt making it a look-alike hehe ♪ You know how it is with Ideas™ #I can't be too mad about it haha ♫ It did turn out quite cute after all :3

[hazelnutnebula]

dude, its like. 6 times more evil in here now;, h ello? ?????

#My Characters #Mallory Rae #Resident Evil #ive been. WORKING. on the concept for this design. since like/ december/january ? b ut have been thinking about it a lil longer. #d ude .. cant believe its done. re6 era mallory. okay?? *smiles* :) #also small design fact. the scar on their abdomen is from.. the re4 bugs. from that one post i made. so umm. *smiles more* :) :) :) #now if you'll excuse me. #*runs directly into traffic with a briefcase full of images of re6 leon and then immediately get r un ov ewr

[elizakai]

Nightmare’s big castle library is filled with all sorts the stories, studies, novels, poetry…fan fiction.

most of them are stories he’s written over the years.

#headcanons #utmv #nightmare sans #undertale #sans aus #dreamtale #dreamtale nightmare sans #HEHE #Corrupted canonically still likes to read like passive #why not write #he’s had plenty of time HEHE #ut au #bad sanses #I KEEP thinking about this like bro #what else does he have to do he’s not being helpful to anyone😭

[copper-skulls]

FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY—

#re-found this song and thought of the gonermaker sequence and how gaster talks. image wouldn't leave my brain #we love the fourth wall breaking old man #ANYWAYS: #digital art #krita #gimp #fanart #gaster #wd gaster #deltarune #OKAY!! IMAGE HAS BEEN EXCORCISED #eyestrain #due to the chromatic aberration effect I actually did by hand btw fhak. but it's not overly pronounced unless you open it up #(that's what I used gimp for lmao) #i didn't even think about the precise red when doing the soul in krita but it looks like I either hit or got VERY CLOSE to the true ff0000 #without even thinking about it too hard hfjkadhs #GOD DAMN IT. put this into the ut tag automatically despite literally thinking about DR the entire time

[angelbitezzz]

Sans holding the tiniest lizard you’ve ever seen (that can be perceived with the naked eye)

I think often about how many characters keep mentioning how little Alphys is HEHEH

#art #my art #digital art #doodle #undertale #sans #sans undertale #alphys #alphys undertale #ut #your honor i think they are close #i am a proud Past Salphys truther #as in they likely dated at some point and just didn't work out but they're still good friends #to the point where he knows what happened in the True Lab and keeps it a secret for her sake #i know they never directly confirm it but he cracks a joke about dogs being in there way before the reveal if you call papyrus

[the-meme-monarch]

ut fangames as of late have had a lot of heart to them and they deserve all the praise they get but idk something makes me really defensive when people start saying "it's even Better than the game it's based on" like undertale get behind me

#and like its founded. poeple are usually talking abt how it plays and its mechanics. im just one of those weird autistics thats reall #thats really protective of the source material GDHSHSHDJSB like dont talk about grandpa like that #i kind of bristle at the assertion that ut y is canon. bc no it isnt #it is an incredibly good fangame but it Is a fan game #it especially bothers me when poeple say 'toby even said it was canon' bc no the fuck he didnt ? no he did not #like i think i like tsunderswap more bc its not trying to fill in any blanks if that makes sense #idk my only Real complaint abt ut y is that clover shouldve had more time with toriel #AGAIN UT Y IS #A GOOD GAME. ITS A REALLY GOOD GAME AND DESERVES ALL ITS PRAISE

[martlet-my-beloved]

I like the idea of Martlet staying with Toriel and help her protect Frisk, Not gonna lie, it would be really funny if Ceroba, Starlo and his gang also stay in the ruins to help Toriel watch out for humans, while Dalv is just living in Snowdin :3

the rest of the gang have their own place in this au :))) we'll see them wayyyy later, but it wont hurt to show yall what theyve been up to since uty!

dalv's still chilling in snowdin, though he visits starlo and the gang every once in a while for bar night and performs there! his new children books have been getting popular at snowdin's librarby :))

starlo and the feisty five are still up to their shenanigans in the wild east, putting up shows and bringing in plenty of tourists. they help out the farm when they have the time. ceroba's also working at the farm nowadays. the mansion feels way too big for just one monster so she moved into the farmhouse

they have a mail system to keep in touch ever since martlet ended up in the ruins :D usually dalv and sans meet once a week and they exchange letters. martlet likes hearing about whatever's going on outside the ruins and the others are just glad to know she's doing alright ever since uhhh....... the incident

also shitty bonus pic lol

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#undertale yellow #undertale au #starlo #starlo undertale yellow #starlo uty #dalv #dalv uty #dalv undertale yellow #ceroba ketsukane #sans jumpscare lol #not gonna tag him cause this aint about him tbh 😅 #but yeah 👍 uty's timeline is weird as shit cause it implies that frisk fell VERY quickly after clover #like the time between uty and ut could be 2 weeks for all we fucking know #so cause of this id say in this timeline sans and toriel first meet just a little while before the events of uty #but ughhhh originally this au was supposed to take place like 10 ish years after uty #but the more i think about it the less it makes sense cause uty's timeline is WHACK #like METTATON IS ALREADY A TV STAR IN UTY'S TIMELINE #undertale bluebird #asks

[skunkes]

Thsi is so awesome

#retail neopets will never have what neoclones do. #sorry gonna rave here for a bit but idk maybe its like when you beat a game and have fun restarting ut #*it #but retail neopets not as fun to me as GC now #i cant even care about the new neopets plot coming up #GC is a more limited experience but it also feels Better #i dont think id ever actually done any of the daily quests on retail but i have to on GC to make money since i dont have #Food Club privileges and its Fun #the games are fun‚ restocking is not impossible or unfair and its fun to bring down the market #people can do stuff like this with their shops #its fun ! im not social but i bet thats better too since its less people #idk. i loves it #talkys

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Un-augmented Julian Bashir who programs a special button on his AAC device just for talking to Garak. It makes a loud incorrect buzzer noise.

#I am once again thinking about Him (un-augmented!Julian my beloved) #Unfortunately Garak LOVES the buzzer. It's like a Pavlovian bell to him. The opposite of a deterrent. #garashir #Julian Bashir #Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #obviously the AAC devices of the 23rd century will be far more advanced than this but perhaps they still include buttons/typing as a backup #in case there's an issue with the tech that translates ur thoughts directly to words (I picture it working via a device #that looks like a modern-day hearing aid; it wirelessly syncs with UTs of course) #also the devices will surely be able to recite the words in your own voice (or any voice you choose) #but it IS funny to imagine the Majel Barrett computer voice flatly declaring ''Garak That Is The Most Ridiculous Lie I've Ever Heard'' #Starky's text posts #Starky's original posts #oh uhhhh #autism

[adustoflove]

I'm literally so insane that the moment someone I talk to starts using a phrase or emoji they don't normally use or didn't pick up from me, I immediately get mad because I assume they're replacing me with somebody else and picked that phrase up from another person

#bpd #actually bpd #bpd vent #actually borderline #and my crazy ass used to start SHOWDOWN arguments about it #like ask why are you using that? who were you talking to does somebody else use or say that #💀😭 now Im.....slightly normal about ut #but I do still NOTICE it and get hurt which is insane because i think most normal people dont give two shits or a fuck

[sysig]

“It could be that the loss of her children drove the Queen deeper into her darker desires...but, I don’t believe she was fighting against them that hard before that particular tragedy. No monster does.” (Patreon)

Bonus:

Hmm, wonder what he could cover those holes with :3c

#Doodles #Handplates #UT #Fellplates #UkaGaster's answers about Toriel really interest me :3c #As evidenced by the quote caption lol - but his other ones are very interesting too! Since it sounds like she's still around! #Poor classic Handplates!Gaster believed Tori dead for such a long time while she was at the Ruins #Meanwhile Fellplates!Gaster is just like ''? I saw the Queen last week she threw me into the pricker bushes? -.ò'' lol #But anyhow lol ♪ The implications that they're still in each other's vicinity really makes me curious about their relationship! #And how Toriel might react to knowing that someone - someone other than her - is having So Much Success on one of her sore spots #Not just of having children but of the constant reminders of Gaster's success where she has to live every day with a heavy heart for her own #Being cruel to him over it - well that's just par for the course isn't it ♪ #He mentions that she's much more of an emotional sadist - insulting him and then making it Very clear that she does Not approve of the holes #''They're ugly and you should feel ashamed for drawing so much attention to something so unsightly'' #I do think that her knowing that he's so intent on being kind and merciful and then twisting the knife on how much he's hurting her- #Making him feel guilty for daring to even attempt the betterment of all - for giving pieces of himself away and try to be a good person #''If anyone will break my spirit it will be her'' :) #Although that's all assuming that Toriel even knows about the brothers! :0 When I thought about it later it'd make more sense if she doesn't #It was still too good to not do something with the idea hehe - but imagine her betrayal if/when she found out tho she'd kill him on the spot #Gosh I haven't drawn Tori in foreeeeever I can't even remember the last time #Doing a/nother study on her would probably be fun haha she's rather plain how I draw her currently #I wonder if her Fellplates version would also wear reading glasses hehe #And the bonus :3c Where are the plates featured in Fellplates? Surely it's not just called that as a reference right ♪ Hehehe

[starlos-hat]

good morning! it’s Ceroba headcanons time. this contains spoilers for true pacifist!

i HC that after the during true pacifist ending when they’re sending off clover’s belongings in the raft, ceroba puts a little bell in there, to make sure they’re guided peacefully into whatever afterlife awaits them

ceroba makes clothes for the main cast! she’s definitely not the only one who does this but she probably collaborates with Martlet to make warm clothes for Snowdin, so Star can more comfortably visit over there!

ceroba is definitely the best cook of the main cast. her corn chowder is delicious, and everyone always looks forward to dinner at her place.

ceroba LOVES spicy food, and ends up adding unholy amounts of sauces/spices/seasonings to said food, so much so her corn chowder tends to be more red in color than yellow by the time she’s done! (that’s how everyone knows the bowl is hers, and they don’t dare touch it.)

after the true paci ending, star and the rest of the feisty five invite themselves over to her house and help her clean it. she makes them all lunch when they’re done :)

ceroba has had a tough time processing her grief, and tends to hole up in her house. however, after enough pleading visits from her friends, she gets out more and more and eventually *she* becomes the one visiting everyone else a few times a week

she returns to the steamworks to befriend axis and now that he’s not actually trying to kill her, they really hit it off. sometimes, she’ll tell him stories about chujin.

always helps out on star’s farm in her free time, wanting to support him for everything he’s done for her

when she gets drunk, which isn’t very often now- usually only after celebrating star- she tends to want to party. she’s asked star to dance with her several times, but she doesn’t quite remember this clearly… or if he said yes…

ceroba has a tail! + there are some lighter streaks in her hair and tail

she spends a lot of time on her hair each morning. it gets frizzy from the hot air of the dunes very easily

she paints masks in her free time to unwind because it reminds her of kanako

that’s it for now!

#uty #ut yellow #undertale yellow #ceroba uty #uty ceroba #ceroba undertale yellow #undertale yellow ceroba #headcanons time!!!!!!!! #i hope you guys like these ^_^ #i don’t have as many hcs as i do for star ofc but #i think about the queerplatonic main cast polycule a looot… #so yeah! #just talking #starlos hat