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hahanoiwont · 1 year

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Whither then! 3 5 7! I love hearing writers explain their writing if you hadn't noticed /silly

How lucky that I love talking about it! :D I will ramble under the cut :3

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

There are a ton that I'm so fond of, but here's a fun little parallel that most people don't pick up on! Here's Black on reaching the Surface:

For the first time in his life, Sans thinks that he may possibly survive. Not just tomorrow, not just the latest attempt on his life—he may survive to old age. Or at least, long enough to honestly expect to have a future. He will need to do things, make plans. Build a life for more than just a moment.

He has the means to do it intentionally this time, instead of pouncing on every opportunity and forcing things to work out. He will do it perfectly. He has the luxury of perfectionism, now. And so very much that he would like to do perfectly.

He is the well-adjusted, capable guardian of a new teenager—a guardian with status and experience to back him up, instead of a technically-adult child panicking and scrambling to hold on to his equally frightened brother. And as an experienced guardian, he can provide all sorts of teenager things which he and Papyrus never managed to have for themselves. The list is as long as the concept is delightful.

Schools, for one—humans do education entirely differently from monsters. He will need to attend meetings with Frisk’s educators, to ensure that they are adequate for Frisk’s education and personal betterment. There will be trips to chaperone.

Museums. Frisk has confirmed that those are real. He will have to take his brother to a museum—no, to every museum.

Not just museums, either. There are art stores. Sans knows of them. There are whole buildings with a plethora of supplies for something as precious and frivolous as colors of paint and different types of paper.

Each new thing he thinks of seems equally impossible on its own. The idea that all of these things exist—that he is equally able to experience any one of them, or several in succession, just because he wants to—is…beyond comprehension. And yet, it is his reality. Now, abruptly, it is all too real.

The gist of it is: the world is, briefly, full of possibilities. This is the last chapter of WT, immediately before losing Frisk and the end of the fic. And then Just, in the first chapter of WWU, has the revelation that he may be experiencing brief linear time between Flowey's loops and the end of the world:

If today is today, and not any day before, then the flower’s loops are done. Sans has a precious few hours of real time when what he does will matter, set in stone before the next loops begin. He’s probably slept through half of it, but he’s got the whole rest of the morning and early afternoon of actual, real time to use however he wants.

He can remake his notes, if he chooses, and they’ll be guaranteed to be back to a decent starting point in every future RESET. He can get a calendar for the sheer depressing irony of it, and it won’t go back to being un-bought. If he wants to take his mail in so his box doesn’t look like a mess, he can do that, and the end of the world will see him with a clean mailbox. Take down the lights on his house. Put up more lights on his house. Make Papyrus a new outfit as a present, so he might change out of the costume he’s been wearing for…however long it’s been.

Yep. He’s got all sorts of stuff he could do. The world is full of possibilities.

I just think it's a ton of fun that they have this parallel of doomed hope and doomed despair. Both are just before a huge twist of fate related to Frisk's dimension-hopping, and it's so interesting to me that Black considers the world open to him in a moment of insane hope, whereas Just considers anything possible in a fit of despair just before his presumed death. And then they each make actual plans after this to just plod right along and do the next thing they need to; Sans goes home and does laundry and Black decides to buy a house. Both plan to spend quality time with their respective siblings.

5: What part was hardest to write?

oh boy. WT just came fully formed out of me, I feel like--I rarely struggled with inspiration or desire to write. I had the most trouble rewriting chapters 1 and 2 honestly, trying to get them to meld better in their current form to what the story had become. What really tripped me up is trying to change what easily came out of my head, so making things fit together and polishing up character arcs, remembering little details...actually I remember a recent chapter in which I completely forgot Black's daddy issues and he had complicated thoughts about frisk being his baby without acknowledging his complicated thoughts about parenthood. Normally he's fine saying Frisk is his ward/sibling/occasionally his child, but only with the clarification that he would never be something as awful as a parent to them. So that was a whoopsie.

7: Where did the title come from?

Aha! My secret is that I just take a line from a Tolkien poem every time I can't think of anything to title a fic with. So Whither Then is from a poem, and The Road Goes On is the title of that poem, and thus the series title. WWU's title is just a pun. Whither without you (Frisk asking where they're going to end up alone, without Red, without any of their family); wither without you (Just starting out isolated and dying, Frisk's fear of abandonment); with or without you (the ultimate questions of what to do with Red, and whether Frisk wants him in their life).

Thanks for the opportunity to talk about my writing some more :3 I love chatting about my little guys. I'm so proud of them.

#whither then fic #ask games #this was a ton of fun :D

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wtfforged · 2 months

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IDK IF I EVER POSTED THIS OLD REDRAW. here:) my fav chapter illustration i think....

#not super proud of this esp with how. erm. unpolished it is. but idrc bc i remember having a lot of fun with it :)#redraws esp for op are always a ton of fun... the compositions and expressions and like. character interactions. are always great #so for someone like me who struggles with all of the above the redraws are fantastic #i love doing redraws when i dont know what to draw. which is like. always for me. i never have any ideas or imagination #wtf... art #drawpileart #one piece fanart #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #sanji #cat burglar nami #usopp

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terracottakore · 6 months

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entwined

[for @hermithorrorweek - day 2: environment!]

#hermithorrorweek2023 #you guys are really getting the painterly side of my art this week huh #i've been having tons of fun :D #bdoubleo100 #bdubs #hermitcraft #terracottaart

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floweroflaurelin · 25 days

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I’m trying to get back into the swing of painting, so as a warmup I made this!! Morgan the dog belongs to my friend @theminecraftbee and is the bestest girl <3

#floweroflaurelin art #maybe I’ll add pet portraits to my comms cause this was fun :D #Morgan my beloved <3 #comms are closed for now but I plan to open them up again soon!#I also have about 6 million painting ideas that were building up while I was sick so the moment I’m able to I plan on just. painting tons #i NEED to paint pix’s new sos vigils #also I can’t believe I haven’t made any hc 10 art I don’t think?????#I need to paint gem’s whole vibe. and Joel kissing etho’s neck. and the permit office. wait what was that middle one

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chrisrin · 1 year

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what if homestuck had an old-school style title sequence?

#homestuck #home22tuck #i had to do this for a college class!#they let us pick ANY inspiration we wanted #so i chose homestuck :D #i had a TON of fun with it #very VERY different compared to my typical style of projects #chris animates #hs

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magnapanther · 4 months

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finally got a working tablet again!!! :D

anyways, back from my several-month-long nap (which will not be addressed further) with a lil fog canyon warmup. now with more scribbles! perhaps too many. entirely too many, in fact. anyways, hopefully the quality does not get obliterated (it will) :')

#hollow knight #art #artists on tumblr #my art #original art #the knight #digital art #fog canyon #been having absolutely paralyzing art block for the past few months so it's nice to have actually finished something :)#not entirely sure about this style yet #but i did have a ton of fun with it #might refine it a lil bit more so it looks less thrown-together :D #so if anyone decided to read through all the tags lemme know what you think :)

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ruporas · 1 year

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cafe collab!

#trigun #trigun stampede #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #meryl stryfe #milly thompson #did u guys know milly is in stampede!#and she's part of this collab! yeah!#anyway this was. a brainrot for a bit when the collab came out DMGKSDMG more than i like to admit #stares at the tons of sktetches i still have in my files...#i just think it's fun envisioning them working at a cafe like this together #if i could get anyone as my waiter #it would be milly #she would make my anxiety disappear into nothingness #sorry roberto next time i will include him-- but love and peace gang has my entireeee heart #ruporas art

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passive-apocalypse · 7 months

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Some more welcome home (this time au) stuff! I can't claim that I know everything about it but I really like the design for this au!! (created by @clownsuu ! ) so I did something small for fun :D

Ah I am so short on time and energy with work but I have some other drawing ideas sitting in my brain that I feel like I have to get out!! So hopefully more art soon when I can get more rest :) thanks for reading!

#wally darling #welcome home mob au #welcome home #my art #welcome home fanart #i had a ton of fun drawing these because of his hair!!#all the little swirls and curls and cloud shapes :D #ballpoint pen has become my one true love the past year or so #sketchbook

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yayswag · 2 months

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