we'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day
saimatsu week, day 7 - free day
hello again @saimatsu-week and saimatsu nation. this is what i was prepping. also hello gravity falls fans!! if you're reading this you have already been sufficiently spoiled! too late now!!! anyway, saimatsu week just so happened to land smack dab in the middle of the hype train for book of bill and it just so happened that this beautiful section from bill's soul contract gave me the same bittersweet vibes that saimatsu does so OBVIOUSLY i needed to do something with it. so this was born. as a newbie to the DR community ive still got love for all three games in equal parts (and slightly less but still some for despair girls), so i HAD to get some nods in, and i threw in some other stuff too considering this is already a massive crossover piece anyway. ;)
a bit of a downer to end on, i know, but there's a reason i did that other piece before this!! and who knows maybe ill do more after this! there is no deadline! i was honestly considering submitting this as DAY ONE but that was insane so. here we are lmao. i hope somebody out there appreciates the work i put into it ✌️
Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.
fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"
Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
So i just woke up and had a… realization. as to why ralsei wants us to spare and recruit as many darkners as possible.
so i went back and looked at some of ralsei’s dialogue across every chapter so far to try and see if my realization had any merit and…
Ralsei’s dialogue from chapter 1 & 2 DIRECTLY alludes to the ending of chapter 5
I think the reason Ralsei wants us to spare enemies is directly for Susie’s sake. Shes like. the main person that this would affect if she’s beginning to view castle town as a home.
Im just wondering how this would affect the ending of the prophecy, especially with chapter 4 & 5’s dialogue in mind.
Agh I’m not exactly explaining this right.
It just. Really feels like Ralsei is trying to protect Susie from something that will happen later. Like. The final prophecy (or something else relating to the ending) will directly involve her (well i mean. obviously, but like… you know what i mean.)
It really feels like. The ending of chapter 5 being so happy is set-up for something fucking horrible happening immediately in chapter 6. we have. literally no idea what happened in hometown (aside from something bad happening to rudy) after we entered the dark world and it feels like theres a sword dangling above every character’s head.
Chapter 6 WAS the only chapter of lord of the hammer that Gerson just. decided not to describe in any way whatsoever. Like. apparently he did write it, since it was Chapter 7 that he never made— its just that he just. didn’t describe it to susie during the fight. which is. idk. worrying and ominous.
Like. Idk. Ralsei going like “Recruiting darkners is important for making a good ending.” (even though its not really obvious how that could change anything other than saving Tenna and Jackenstein) and then seeing Susie in chapter 5 treat castle town like her home while she’s surrounded by the darkners in the same chapter where Ralsei is praying and is like “Have mercy on them… have mercy on Susie.” has me SO FUCKING SCARED.
and if you have a computer with a disc drive, you can move the content of those CDs onto it and then burn it onto future CDs. it doesn't even have to be the same album. you can make a playlist with physical media. you just have access to all of it, at your whim, with no unskippable ads being shoved in your ears. it's really nice!
And if you have a CD player (or an adapter) you can listen in the car, on back roads, in the middle of crowded city streets, or when everyone on the air wants to talk about sports when you just want to hear some Hozier.
"cozy bookstore" "cozy cafe with a bookshelf" "omg imagine if there was a place you could just sit and read at" we have this its called the library. you guys want to go to the library. the two college libraries near me have cafes inside and they are open to the public. people need to go to the library
lanino: he/they ("he" by narration, "they" by elnina)
elnina: she/they ("she" by narration, "they" by a pippins)
the knight: it/they ("it" by queen, "they" by susie)
seth: they/them (by orange and yellow)
ralsei: he/they ("he" usually, "they" by their "dark vine" title)
green: they/them (by orange and themself)
jongler: they/he ("they" by narration, "he" by a dialogue option)
kris: they/them (by everyone)
milk looker: no in-text pronouns, "they/them" outside the game
pink addison: they/them (by noelle)
swatch: he/they ("he" by rouxls, "they" by a zapper)
seam: no in-text pronouns, "they/them" outside the game
onion: they/it ("they" outside the games, "it" by clam guy)
my sources are deltarune.wiki, undertale.wiki, and my own memory. the origin lists (the "by [whoever]" after a pronoun set) are not exhaustive. let me know if i missed anyone or made a mistake here
edited to include swatch, updated onionsan's pronouns, added my sources, and fixed typos
So, in relation to Roaring Skip AU, how does Queen react to the Titan emerging and wrecking havoc?
Oh What The Fuck I Did Not Want That To Happen. My Bad. How Do We Stop This? Oh? We Can't? Well That's Just Stupid Here's My New Plan Instead. Deploy My Giant Robot Hands And Feet And Crack That Titan Open Like An Egg Ok Sweetie Pees? Ok Good Talk Let's Break.
