See I like Sans but not in the funny meme sexyman way I like him in the way that he promised Toriel to protect a child that was going to be served as a sacrifice from the start because he couldn’t find himself to say no to her genuine laughter and sense of humor at every dumb joke they told each other, how he cracked jokes and pranks to make this child feel comfortable while warning them to be careful and reminding them that people loved them and having a gentle heart doesn’t make you weak like to this day I still think about “Take care of yourself, kid. Cause someone out there really loves you.” and “You didn’t gain LOVE, but you gained love.” Sans is our friend actually
Sans Undertale is my friend and I love him
When you consider that he hates promises (this is by his own admission), Sans’ promise to Toriel becomes a cardinal point of his arc in the pacifist run. For all the “good food” and “bad laughs”, Sans is ultimately a man who’s given up. He feels powerless, but it’s also heavily implied that it was through his friendship with Toriel that he recently started to get better. Making that kind of promise was one of the first signs that maybe, just maybe, he still had hope.
There’s more. In the ending phonecall for the Flawed Pacifist ending (where you didn’t kill anyone but all your friends are still trapped underground, right before Flowey tells you to load your SAVE file and get a true happy ending), he tries to tell you something before being interrupted by Papyrus. He never finishes the thought aloud, but if you look for it you can find it there, hiding in the code:
Sans Undertale is your friend. And I’ll be damned if he doesn’t love you, too.
listening to Gravity Falls episode commentaries is great. Alex Hirsch nearly worked himself to death constantly. Grunkle Stan was nearly voiced by Matt Chapman of Homestar Runner. Literally nothing aside from the twist about Stan having a twin was planned more than a few episodes in advance. The zodiac wheel meant nothing and consisted of random symbols from the first 7 episodes because the intro was animated after those were done. Alex came up with the term “search for the blind eye” to be an extra bit for the between-season shorts before deciding to actually have a payoff for that setup and writing Society of the Blind Eye.
Bill was meant to be a joke character and when Alex suggested that he be a real villain Michael Rianda responded “You, my friend, have lost the plot.” Bill getting one episode in the spotlight was basically chance and he only became the main villain of season 2 because he was so popular with the fans. The reveal of the portal at the end of season 1 was suggested by Mike without thinking it through and he left before the next season and the other writers were SO ANNOYED after that went through because they somehow had to keep that plot going for the 10 episodes it’d take to actually pay off. I am genuinely astonished that this show came together as well as it did at all.
By the way – this is a good time to let folks know that all of the DVD commentaries (including the “hidden” ones) are currently available in this YouTube playlist.
(They have been up on YT before, and removed. Highly recommend that folks download them off YT and save them, now that the DVD sets are out of print.)
283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.
“maybe it’s not your pussy” is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it’s like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.
Reblog the problem is capitalism and not your pussy
There are many women out there who want to be a housewife. I, however, want to be a househusband. So, how is that going to work? You can’t be a housewife and househusband together, right?
Wrong.
Here is my guide on how that is in fact possible and how to achieve it. Women, please listen up, because this is important to you when you marry me which I know you want to do.
Step 1) I become your househusband.
Step 2) You become my housewife.
Step 3) The bank takes the house.
Step 4) Can’t be a househusband and a housewife without a house, right?
Step 5) Wrong. We pretend to move out, but actually we are just moving all of our stuff into the walls of the house, where we will live. Much like house gnomes.
Step 6) This can go on for years if we play it right, but eventually the family living there finds us.
Step 7) We get arrested on some trumped up charges like trespassing. We both know they are actually arresting us for daring to love.
Step 8) We go to prison.
Step 9) But what else is prison called?
Step 10) The jailHOUSE.
Step 11) We just can’t stop winning.
Step 12) We get out of prison but have to reintegrate back into society.
Step 13) Where do we do that?
Step 14) The halfway HOUSE.
Step 15) We just can’t stop winning.
Step 16) After we leave we have trouble finding stable employment due to our criminal record..
Step 17) So we become freelance DJs who play at clubs, restaurants, and parties.
You know I turned on the sound just to help me understand what was going on and I guess it was exactly what it looked like.
Ooh! Spot the industrial safety device! The worker has to press a ‘stab the cheese’ button with both hands. This is because if they’re doing that, neither of their hands can be within the cheese stabbing zone.
everyone talks about how if you show crows that you can be trusted they might start bringing you random & sometimes inscrutable items as gifts, but nobody is pointing out that the same thing is true of surly teenagers who don’t talk very much
one *wordlessly hands you a pine cone* from a kid who never says shit is actually worth 40,000 hugs from the effusive outgoing kid. so you know
atp the only way we’re going to get out of this ai shit while people’s brains are still semi intact is to start bribing influencers and tiktokers into saying chatgpt is cringe and it emits a frequency that blocks your divine energy which can only be channeled back by reading a book and talking to your friends
mama bears listen up: human traffickers are using chatgpt to pick out their next victims!!! Every time you use it they create a profile of you and bubs and the more you use it the easier they can track you. If you’ve ever found a brightly colored wrapper just under your car at target or walmart it means they are signaling accomplices in the area to get ready to ambush you!!!!! Mamas help me spread the word!!!!!!!!!
different audience no problem: what kind of beta shit are you talking about brother your ancestors were in the trenches fighting wolves barehanded and shit and you need a fucking computer to tell you what to do? You’re so fucking cucked dude you gotta do shit the PRIMAL way, you let a computer think for you you might as well let it chew your food get your gains and fuck your wife get this sissy shit out of my face bro it literally lowers your sperm count
On my hands and knees begging adults to allow children to engage in risk play.
And by risk play I don’t mean handing them a gun and playing Russian Roulette.
I mean like climbing trees, getting so sick spinning on the swing they throw up, balancing on the curb, sitting in the mud, walking on slippery surfaces, building half ass ramps to ride their bike over, standing on rocks, or anything that involves a smidgen of confidence and out of the box thinking that could result in injury.
Obviously like watch your kids and such, but when we talk about the fun of being an 80s or 90s kid, it’s not just talking about CDs and Walkmans or not having iPads. It’s about how kids today were robbed of critical learning and experience skills we were allowed to have.
Playgrounds disappearing, helicopter parents, and sue culture really destroyed a child’s development in the United States, and I think it’s about time we as adults recognize that, because the kids sure have.
You know what happens to kids who don’t get to take reasonable risks? They never learn how to gauge safety or control their bodies in risky situations.
A kid who never climbs a tree becomes an adult who falls off a ladder because they don’t intuitively know to keep 3 points of contact when climbing.
A kid who never skins their knees launching off a swingset becomes an adult who shatters an arm because they never learned how to break a fall.
Kids who are allowed to take risks become safer adults.
This crossed my dash again, so here’s a more thorough list of things risk play is necessary for:
- Developing pain tolerance & an understanding of which types/intensities of pain are “okay” and which need immediate medical attention
- Calibrating the inner ear (sense of balance) and learning how the body reacts to experiencing different things, essential to learning to control the body in unexpected situations
- Developing reflexes and subconscious safety instincts (e.g. protectively throwing up your hands when an object flies toward your face)
- Normalizing getting hurt so the first reaction to an injury is just to treat it (and not to have a fearful emotional meltdown)
- Learning how to treat and heal from injuries (beginnings of self-care)
- Developing appropriate levels of fear around various activities, desensitizing fear around doing harmless things and establishing a fear response for actions that caused an injury. This is key to properly gauging risk in new situations.
Additionally, the reason it’s so essential to mess around and get hurt as a kid is not just because it’s a critical developmental stage, but also because kids’ bodies are growing and naturally resistant to major injuries. A 3rd grader can get launched off a bike onto the pavement and only sustain a few scrapes and bruises that will heal in a few days, while someone who’s 30 would likely pull or sprain something (or worse) and take weeks to heal.
If you are someone who grew up not being allowed to take risks it is likely you have a low pain tolerance, fear surrounding physical activities, slow reflexes, and poor judgment. The good thing is that it’s never too late to learn! Our brains are very malleable, so if you missed out on this stuff as a kid now is the time to go climb a tree, go on a hike with unstable footing, or join a casual sports team. Just start small and work your way up, since your body won’t be as resilient as it was when you were 9 :)
Your additions have tickled my brain in the right way. Thank you for your contribution to the discussion!
i had a dream that there was like a revival of the man vs bear debate but instead it was “would you rather be alone in a woman’s bathroom with a random trans woman or jk rowling?” and everyone picked the trans woman and jkr crashed out on twitter because of it
would you rather be alone in a woman’s bathroom with…
sexy knights. sexy wounded knights. sexy wounded weary knights. sexy wounded weary knights in the rain. sexy wounded weary knights in the rain pledging their loyalty to you.
My duckduckgo searches as I get more and more blitzed on mead from the finest tavern
having friends notably older than you is fantastic actually, cause you can drop in a little mention of how old you would have been at the time of a story they tell and watch the existential crisis set in
How did Dogma, a relatively low-budget film, manage to have the only good-looking angel wings? Like, even movies with tons of FX dollars tend to fuck them up and they look bad. These are very stylized, and you can tell they’re not real feathers, but they actually look… better than real feathers? They have a balance of curvature and sharp angles that just make for a great silhouette and they move wonderfully. I cannot figure this out!!
e: I looked on The Internet
I don’t know this show but that’s a fucking practical effect??! Better than most cg. Holy shit.
Please go look up the Crooked Feather. They make practical wings! They are so cool. Someday…. Someday I will have a pair 😂
One of the things they did: They focused on “cool-looking angel wings” and not “wings that look like they could actually fly.” Too many movie special effects are caught by “but that wouldn’t work…”
Dude, they’re angel wings. They fly by divine power. They don’t need to be aerodynamic.
Look at how Ben Affleck gets pushed forward when the wings close! That’s the exactly the kind of physicality missing from CGI effects that makes them read as fake.
Having wings should absolutely feel like a 60 lb weight on your back bc that’s what they are.
I promise. Doing it scared will you give you the best results in the end. I’m learning to step more out of my comfort zone this year, and so far I’m proud of myself.
“im having creation ideas beyond my skill level” DO IT ANYWAY. “i don’t have good supplies” DO IT WITH BAD SUPPLIES THEN. “i don’t have free time” SO DO IT SLOWLY.
FIND THE SHORTEST MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO YOUR CREATION BEING REALIZED AND DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THERE
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