What's your stance on Chara's current whereabouts? Do you think they've moved on or that they're still around post-freedom?
I personally feel like they're still around because I think it'd be weird for Flowey to talk so openly with someone during the analog clock dialogue... Also the "narrator" text appears a few times throughout the recent newsletters, and I subscribe to the narrahara theory.
I don't really know who the characters are addressing in either of those but I do think it'd make sense for Chara to be prevalent.
Really interested to hear your thoughts!
i think chara is the diegetic "role" the player plays in undertale's story (with caveats for the no mercy route, which is implied to metanarratively rip us and chara apart at the seams by maxxing out the LV mechanic), so really the answer depends on whether or not you've personally stopped replaying the game. optimally, i think that chara should be put to rest in a playthrough that ends on true pacifist. but of course it's fun to imagine what they would do/how they would interact if they were present after their death, just as flowey was.
as for narrachara, i subscribe to it in the sense that there are lines of narration in the game that are clearly heavily influenced by their memories or outright stated by them, but i don't think it's them outright narrating every line. moreso, the flavor text is meant to roughly reflect the way they react to the environment, because it's how we, the player, are encouraged to react to it as well. once again, it's a blurring of chara's and our pov.
i don't think the newsletter narration is chara. nor do i think the extra-canonical dialogue from flowey from the 5th anniversary would be directed at chara. sure, he's open, but it's nowhere close to the tone and implied tension he has when he talks to "us"/chara after the pacifist ending.
also how would a disembodied spirit be capable of (not) buying him a red bike with a golden basket. i think the implication here is that either flowey is either speaking to frisk, or it's not something we should interpret diegetically.
More paradox pokemon! This time of Heracross!
Lore:
Hulking Jaws is a powerful and aggressive creature, able to lift giant boulders without much issue. It's giant horns and powerful arms are more than enough to ward off any foe. Despite it's menacing appearance, however, this Pokémon seems strictly herbivorous.
Iron Swarm is a nimble Pokémon capable of flying at lightning fast speeds. It's massive front horns force it to adopt a quadrepedal stance and seem to act as giant, sideways mandibles. Some theorize that this creature may have originated from a different planet.
Exercises for all the homies who want to have a long career drawing.
The true problem with being an artist and drawing all day (as I wanted my whole life) is that human backs are not designed to hold that position, so it is very common for artists and designers to have really stiff shoulder blades, creating a chain of muscle strain towards the arm AND the back… and a lot of pain.
These are some physical exercises for artists and honestly anyone who works at a desk.
(all credit to my physiotherapist)
Just been thinking about Pokemon, various pigmentation conditions/mutations, and the possibilities combining the two could create.
Here’s some more Undertale stuff from twitter that I forgot to post here ^u^
Bonus:
hybrids <3
okay the idea for umbreon was to go with the eclipse theme and give it an eyelid that blinks sideways. like a bird. but with eyelashes! oh dear, what the hell. look at it anyway
So the Kirby wiki is advertising their list of misconceptions page, which addresses a lot of widespread commonly held beliefs about the Kirby series which are all untrue. Such as "Kirby can fucking talk" and "Kirby doesn't say Poyo" ect. The Kirby wiki is very well written and researched and sourced and articulated in general and this page is a delightful headlined addition.
People have been responding to this by saying "WE NEED SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR SONIC!" which is true, the problem with that being that the only Sonic wiki is Fandom slop and there isn't an independent fan wiki for Sonic like there is for Kirby. But yes, Sonic would definitely benefit from a misconceptions page. However it would not solve all the problems with misconceptions about Sonic. Because sadly, a good chunk of the perpetuated misconceptions about Sonic are not the result of ignorance, but deliberate malice. Some people are, in fact, spreading what they know to be misconceptions about Sonic ON PURPOSE out of spite.
For example, a Sonic Misconceptions page explaining that it isn't and has never been called "Mobius" in the games wouldn't cut down on people calling it "Mobius" and its inhabitants "Mobians." Because the problem is at least half the people calling it "mobius" KNOW that it ISN'T "mobius", but they insist on calling it that anyway because they hate the video games.
"Oh they don't hate the video games just because they prefer the comicsblahblahblah"
yes they do
and I'm tired of giving them the benefit of the doubt
They DON'T actually enjoy the comics at all. They JUST hate the video games.
Know how I know?
Because they are INCAPABLE of saying a SINGLE positive thing about the comics WHATSOEVER without bringing up how shit they think the games are.
If they "just" enjoyed the comics, they shouldn't have to mention the existence of the games AT ALL.
But they don't, and can't, ever JUST say what they like about the comics. They ALWAYS make snide remarks at best against the video games, if not base the entire foundation of their espoused enjoyment for the comics off of asserting how much "better" they are than the games.
So no. They do not call it Mobius because they prefer the comics.
They call it mobius because they HATE the video games.
50% of the people calling it mobius do so BECAUSE they HATE the video games
the other half have heard the lie told 1000 times and assume it to be truth.
A misconceptions page about Sonic wouldn't be an instant fix, because the fact of the matter is the enemies are inside the gates. And frankly, I fear such a page would simply become a editing war waged by people trying to exploit its existence to PERPETUATE misconceptions.
genuinely friendly reminder to never EVER share someone’s location/information without their explicit permission. you do not know why that person is asking, what they plan to do with that information, or even if the asker has that person’s best interest in mind at all.
OP is also not exaggerating how common this is. my abusive parents successfully kidnapped me from work once because a coworker who didn’t know my situation told them when my next shift was. my parents didn’t even know where I lived at that point in time, which was very much on purpose. it took me days to get away again. ALWAYS tell the person that is being looked for that someone is looking. never share personal information or even how to get in contact them. you can take information in and pass it along, but you absolutely cannot give any out.