it's in the blog name!
bucket is going places to bring reassurance to all!
the sun!
Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles, California!
and... the ocean?!?!?!?? Well, the fishes might need reassurance too!
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warning: spoilers for "The Stanley Parable" & nerd shit
I also haven't consumed anything related to TSP in months so I'm sorry of everything I say is wrong :'3
yes this is inspired by @putting-stanley-in-places ;v;
main: @orange-oracy
anyway- tell me where to bring Bucket!
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It’s been a whole year since I made this TSP:UD art, so I decided to remake it.
I have… a lot of thoughts about the original art piece… thoughts I’ll put under read more
Ko-fi
I don’t have a lot of followers, nor a lot of interaction on my art. So when I made the original shitpost meme art a year ago, it was a surprise to see it suddenly gain traction and rapidly get notes. It was exciting to see honestly.
It was so exciting to see that it got to my head, and it felt like I needed to make more art relating to The Stanley Parable, and also of shitpost meme quality. That other art didn’t get as much traction as the original did. But the notes from the original art piece kept getting bigger and bigger. I guess in a way the combo of not getting traction from that other art yet the rapid increase of the original art put me in an art block of some kind. Or left me feeling stuck creatively.
I began to resent the og art, as it was still getting notes and it put me in a creative rut. I didn’t wanna draw, or really didn’t know what I should draw and post onto here. Didn’t do anymore TSP:UD art either, I just didn’t have the creative drive for it. These feelings of resentment for that art and sadness that I was only getting traction for that, lasted for a while. Even when I was doing other art for other fandoms in the next months. It may seem ridiculous that some shitpost art had that much of an impact on my art in general, and I found it ridiculous too.
But, slowly, I began to accept that the shitpost art was going to keep getting notes for a good while. It’s a little over six thousand notes now. The acceptance helped me do other art that I found enjoyable to do, as I was doing it for myself again
I’m not sure what’s the main moral of me telling this, besides that you always gotta do art that’s for yourself and to not expect to get anything out of it
Also the irony is not lost on me that when creating fanart of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, a game that centers around the idea of what happens when we are so caught up in something because it was good/popular/made people laugh, and how it’s not healthy to just try to recapture that magic and expect it to get the same results because it’s just not possible, resulted in me having experience of making something so popular and wanting to recapture that experience again, and how future work felt more forced, and it was much harder to make, causing me to be in a rough mindset
It’s quite scary on how relatable The Narrator really is.
Anyway, onto some positive stuff, imma share a compilation of my favorite reactions to my og art.
And perhaps the best reaction/commentary that I think about constantly:
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thinking about a marriage/divorce ending .... stanley and the bucket get married, have "kids" (just tiny buckets), and then get divorced
JUST!!! HEAR ME OUT ! PLEASE LISTEN THIS IS THE MOST ELABORATE SHITPOST I HAVE EVER MADE
so you start the game like normal, then you go pick up the bucket in the office and the narrator says
"Stanley picked up the bucket and looked into its eyes. The bucket smiled warmly back at Stanley."
now if you just go and do whatever normally, and the marriage ending doesn't start and whatever bucket ending you wanna do will happen. but if you go back into the other office and try to open room 427, the door is unlocked. if you step in, it triggers this dialogue:
"Stanley thought, 'I could just marry this bucket, it's so beautiful and shiny.' Then the bucket had a thought. Maybe they could get married. the bucket had a ring, after all."
the office door closes on stanley, trapping him in the room so he can't leave. a ring in a ring container thingy (ive got no clue what its called lmao) is on the desk, like it had been there the entire time.
"What on Earth? The bucket .... is actually asking to marry you?! Don't do it Stanley, marriage is a scam! About 50% of all marriages end in divorce! So, you'll be thanking me later. By NOT marrying it."
then stanley can have the choice to decline the proposal or marry the bucket . if he accepts, the office door opens to a dark room. if you walk in, it fades to black and you are at the beginning of a wedding isle. the wedding takes place in a museum-like place, everything made of marble, except for the red carpet running down the wedding isle. the bucket is at the end of the isle, on its pedestal. in almost every seat of the room there are buckets sitting, and if you look around you'll find the broom closet, the adventure line, and the baby from the baby game.
you walk down the isle, over to the bucket. the curator begrudgingly officiates their wedding . (because the narrator refuses to even GO to the wedding. out of jealousy, probably.)
right before the wedding is over and after you say your "i do"'s the curator goes
"...You may kiss the bucket."
and you kiss the bucket idk (i don't know how weddings work)
it fades to white and theres this weird montage with sentimental music playing and it's just stanley's face and the bucket photoshopped on a married couple ?? but stanley is photoshopped onto the wife (LMFAO) and the bucket is on the husband. it goes on to them buying baby clothes and toys. stanley is in the hospital with their baby. they have twins. they send the kids to school for the first time, the bucket plays baseball with its son and stanley reclines on a sun chair.
basically random domestic shit goes on for a minute or two then the tone shifts, the bucket and stanley having arguements, them going to a marriage counselor. it failing, the bucket giving stanley divorce papers. them going to court, the bucket getting the kids. then you start to hear the narrator's voice fade in,
"Stanley? ...Stanley? Stanley! STANLEY!!!"
it cuts to you being back in office 427. the door is closed. the bucket is with you in your hand.
"You haven't moved at all for four whole hours! What have you been doing??? … Were you sleeping with your eyes open again? You took the bucket in here and haven't moved since. Are you okay? Do i need to call someone?"
the game resets.
now, if stanley REFUSES the proposal, the bucket just starts crying (tears roll down the sides of the bucket)
"Stanley... is that... tears? Look what you did, Stanley! You made the bucket cry! You could have been a little... nicer, at least, in your refusal. It's just going to be awkward carrying it around, now. With it getting its tears everywhere.....
Actually. Would it have been better if you did marry it? Hmm... I just feel sort of guilty, now. This was all my fault. I did tell you to refuse. Oh, no. am I a homewrecker now, Stanley?! You can tell me if I'm a homewrecker, you know. I can take it."
a big wall of text appears infront of Stanley (like in the out-of-bounds ending) and the text reads;
Is The Narrator a Homewrecker?
Yes No
if stanley clicks "Yes", the narrator freaks out and the game resets because he can't grapple with the fact he's a homewrecker and he "hates this ending"
if stanley clicks "No" the narrator tells stanley how relieved he is that he is not, in fact, a homewrecker. then he considers the fact stanley might be lying just to save face. he asks if he's lying.
Are You Lying?
No
"no" is your only option. if you press it, the narrator wonders why he even asked if stanley was lying, and only put "no" as an option. he comments on the uselessness of adding the question if there was only one answer. he tells stanley "thank you for the reassurance anyway" or something. the game resets on its own.
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