What do dreams taste like?

[grape-soda-dreams]

Deltarune FRIEND info

Wow that new dialogue from Pink sure is something! So. I just gotta know. If people would change everything and go into hiding just to get away from FRIEND(s)? Is that what happened to spamton??? Is Spamton in hiding??? Is that why all his stuff is to protect from cats?? Is the forgotten man in hiding from FRIEND in between rooms since FRIEND itself has been shown to edit the map???

[grape-soda-dreams]

Deltarune Saves

You know, everyone always jokes about the characters realizing they're in save file 2 or 3, but what about them realizing that they're on switch profile 2.

[grape-soda-dreams]

Onionsan/NormalNPC Crack Theory

Hear me out? Onionsan was an anti-lake traversal safeguard. Like one of those NPCs in an RPG that stops you from going too far out of the map. NormalNPC deciding to kill the Onion due to him investigating the song he heard, instead of finding some other way to shut onionsan up, removed the safeguard and let the ch 5 weird route happen as an unintended consequence because a new safeguard couldn't be planted in time for whatever reason. Onionsan could have easily stopped Kris and Noelle from going too deep into that lake. So like, maybe NormalNPC was missing from his stall in weird route because he also got killed off screen in weird route as his actions indirectly broke Gaster's Deltarune.

[grape-soda-dreams]

Darkners & How "Real" they are

To be completely honest, it's a lil infuriating that people are saying things like "oh susie is talking to fake people and she's delusional" like hello hi is your name Ralsei. Think real hard for a minute, about how the darkners can and do affect the real world and the people they interact with. Did we forget that Berdly can have his arm just fried due to the dark world even if there's no physical abnormalities. Like he can't use that arm when everything should be fine. The dark world and darkners are definitely real even if they don't work the same way as the light world & lightners do. Like every new thing has been enforcing that they're not "just" objects. at least not when they're in the dark world. Are we serious. Susie has issues yes but she's not talking to "fake people" come on.

[grape-soda-dreams]

Dess Holiday Appearance Loose Mini Theory before Ch 5

Ok i did this once before about a year ago, but can't find the post so gonna boil down my theory to the basics. For this theory, I am presuming Dess is the Knight or at least a part of it. I don't have perfect connections, but just things I've noticed and have conjectures on what I thought could be cool. The general idea: Dess Holiday may have black fur & is probably more closely linked to fire than ice. Why? 1: In the sword route of ch 3, if you disable the variable "Toriel" there's an enemy that turns into a black deer. Deer with melanism are not unheard of. 2: When in the dark world, lightners are put under a blacklight. This seems to be why kris goes from yellow to blue and the like. If Dess has black fur and is the knight, the pattern would continue. Black doesn't really change. 3: Dess' guitar's hex color is specifically called "Flame" 4: Dess narratively speaking seems to have been the metaphorical hearth of the Holiday family. You know, the firewood, the charcoal, the christmas fire. Her disappearance chilled the entire family dynamic. The fire is gone, and there is no warmth now. There's just soot & burnt logs where the fire used to be. 4.5: Making her narrative warmth literal warmth with fire magic would also serve to contrast her to Carol and Noelle. Carol and Noelle have all this ice theming, and while I can't say much about if Rudy's got potential fire theming going on. He's certainly not as cold as Carol is and while he might have some ice theming still he's a counterbalance to Carol's coldness narratively. If it came down to giving rudy ice or fire, I'd say fire because he's more like fading embers than he is like snow. It would also bring some nice symmetry, 2 ice family members & 2 fire family members.

There's obviously darkness stuff going on with the Knight, and this thing falls apart if Dess somehow isn't the knight, and while none of this is 100% solid evidence, I can't help but to think about this stuff. I really like the visual of a black fur Dess to be playing her flame colored guitar, acting as a metaphorical fire that brings warmth to her sister and those around her. Do you see the vision? I see the vision.

[grape-soda-dreams]

Got a new Zard for a champs team with a neat title. Hot & ready for pride, it’s Sun Yaoi!

[grape-soda-dreams]

When Heatran becomes legal in Pokémon Champions, I have just the one ready on standby.

[grape-soda-dreams]

The mechonis says trans rights

[niuniente]

Looks Don't Really Matter Much At The Job (仕事に見た目はあんまり関係ないよねって話 ) by Takaki Tsuyoshi

[grape-soda-dreams]

You can make any character design cuter with freckles

[importantcatpics]

[drtanner]

The whole photo is gold but I especially like that the automated feeder is taped to the fucking floor.

[woosh-floosh-art]

Situation that happened in class this semester that was so funny I immediately sketched it out in my notes

[dunkstein]

Maid cleaning a massive chateau surely belonging to the richest people you’ve ever seen, and as she’s walking from room to room you notice that every single portrait is of her

[dunkstein]

You specifically understand

[ozth]

[grape-soda-dreams]

A Nova Theory

A fun little theory that I heard about in regards to the Nova is that they might not know how to grant wishes outside of the context of weaponry. Marx? Nova attempts to crash into the planet so that nobody can oppose Marx in the aftermath. Meta Knight's desire to fight Galacta Knight? Basically a living weapon so it goes as planned. Star Dream? Well it was already locked into a Nova and tried to use it to blow up the universe to go for endless prosperity, so it does exactly as intended again. Zorah's Wish to move? Well your wishing to Nova, so weapon time. I suppose that does bring up the question of what it was trying to do when Haltmann tried to wish Susie back but it couldn't since she was already back and he just couldn't remember her & the initial incident that caused Susie to go missing. If she was stuck in another dimension when Haltmann made the wish to bring her back, she might have ended up coming back as a horrible giant mech robot version of herself. Who knows though

[teaboot]

Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down

[lazodiac]

You go down the stairwell/fire escape. Is that weird?

[teaboot]

But what if you have a walker or a wheelchair??

[durpacerangerrogjro]

in america at least, in this situation, there isnt one. either your loved ones or the firemen can get you out using the emergency fire escapes or stairs, or you die 

[teaboot]

That's fucking horrific, thank you

[official-lucifers-child]

“fun” little story:

last summer my friend who is an amazingly talented artist and i were in this super tall building, and she’s in a wheelchair and i’m pushing her around the room. it’s an art exhibit and some of her art was chosen to be showcased there and so it’s all fine and dandy until suddenly an alarm starts going off

a FIRE ALARM

everyone starts running for the stairs and my friend just looks at me with this forlorn look on her face

“i can’t go down the stairs”

but i’m a stubborn bitch “i’ll carry you”

“what about my chair? it’s too expensive for me to be able to get another one if i can’t get this one back”

“i’ll carry that too”

and i did. we went to the stairs (by then most people from our floor were gone) and i lifted her up in a fireman’s carry over my shoulder and then lifted her chair up and used the ridiculous amount of adrenaline that was coursing through my veins to make it down approximately 20 half-flights of stairs until we met some people exiting lower floors, one of which who kindly took the chair. I changed positions so i was holding my friend bridal-style which was, somehow, easier and the person who took her wheelchair (with her permission to handle it of course) accompanied me to the ground floor and then out the doors

basically there is no real protocol for people who can’t use the stairs in an emergency. it’s up to the people with them, if anyone, to help them or the person to somehow make it down the stairs alone, unassisted

thank fuck that it was just a faulty alarm system, because if i was unable to carry her down those stairs and the building was on fucking fire???? then i don’t know what would have happened to her, but i don’t think it would have been very good.

it’s fucking ridiculous and ableist to the absolute max.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

I use a cane. When I did a day-long fire safety training at my northeast American university (UMass Amherst), I asked that exact same question: “what am I supposed to do if the fire alarm goes off and I’m in my lab on the twelfth floor?” 

the fire marshal hemmed and hawed for a while and then said to take the elevator- you’re supposed to leave it free for the fire department to use and they want able-bodied people out fast not waiting for elevators. if the fire alarm has just gone off the building probably hasn’t suffered enough structural damage to make using the elevator dangerous, and modern elevator wells are heavily reinforced. many large and high-trafficked buildings on my campus have fire rated elevators that link in with the fire alarm system so they won’t let you off on a floor with a possible fire. 

if the elevator isn’t working, wait in the stairwell and call the fire department to let them know where you are. modern stairwells are also heavily reinforced- it might not be pleasant but modern building code usually requires fire-resistant stairwell doors in office and big residential buildings, also to help firefighters get in and out safely. older buildings’ stairwells may or may not be retrofitted with fire-resistant doors but a stairwell is generally the safest place to wait if you can’t get out. 

what happened to your friend was horrible, and i’m very glad you were there to help her out, but you can absolutely use the elevator to evacuate if it’s not shut down. those don’t-use-the-elevator rules are for abled people.  

[tisfan]

This is GOOD TO KNOW. why do they not tell people this??

[ravynfyre]

Okay, firefighter here. If you are not physically able to use the stairs, and the elevator is NOT compromised, use the elevator. But you MUST be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the elevator is NOT compromised before you get into it, because there is always the chance that once you get into it, you may not exit it. Power could go out. The elevator may actually BE compromised and you just couldn’t tell from where you were until you were in there, and it suddenly shuts down on you. Something else could happen. 

Understand that once you enter the elevator, you could POTENTIALLY be taking your life into your hands there.

It is NOT LIKELY, to be perfectly honest. It’s only in a pretty catastrophic scenario - think the Twin Towers, USA, on September 11th - that the elevators will be compromised and out of service. But there is a NOT ZERO PERCENT CHANCE and you need to understand that and accept it.

As for leaving the elevators free for the firefighters, okay, here’s the deal. Unless your nearest fire station is literally right next door? Your first on scene fire truck is NOT likely to be there on scene and needing that elevator before you get to the ground. It takes us TIME to find the address, gear up, and drive to the building. Then we need to hoof it into where the elevators even ARE, so YOU HAVE TIME to use the elevator to get down to the ground floor... BUT ONLY IF THERE’S NOT A RUSH ON THE ELEVATOR! And THAT is WHY we don’t tell people this shit. That’s WHY we tell people to NEVER USE THE ELEVATOR... because every self-entitled asshole will use it because they don’t feel like walking, and then put YOU in danger by delaying the elevator’s arrival to you.

IF, however, the elevator IS compromised, or you just can’t get it to come for you, or whatever, and you either don’t have anyone with you who has the adrenaline fueled BALLS to be able to toss you over their shoulder and hoof it down the stairs with you - because, let’s face it, that is RARE AS FUCK, then HERE IS WHAT YOU DO:

You call 911 and tell the call taker that you are in the building that has a fire alarm going off, and you are not able to evacuate because of a physical disability, and you tell them what floor you are on, and EXACTLY what stairwell you are waiting at. And the very FIRST thing that the firefighters are going to do once they arrive, if it is, indeed, a REAL emergency, and not a false alarm, is come get your ass and bring you down. Whether that means carrying you down the stairs, or whether that means locking out the elevators so that no one else can override them and coming to get you themselves, they WILL come get you FIRST THING if it is a real event. And if it is a false alarm? You will probably be the first person who is not involved with the building to know, because the call-taker is going to stay on the line with you until you are under someone’s care and out of danger, or until the scene has been sorted out as real or false, and you are out of danger that way.

These are pretty standard operations in the fire service throughout the United States. There may be some minor variations based on specific municipalities, but, for the most part, this is pretty typical: LIFE BEFORE PROPERTY. So, as long as SOMEONE knows where you are - hence why you call 911 - Firefighters will come get you. You are NOT alone, and you have NOT been abandoned. I PROMISE. It’s like, our whole reason for doing the shit we do: to save lives and to break shit. Sometimes, we get lucky enough to do both at the same time.

High rise fires suck ass, and I always hated them. But the very FIRST thing I asked anytime we got one was if we had “any entrapments” - which is what we call anyone who could not self-evacuate for ANY reason. We ain’t leaving you behind. And yes, your friend who doesn’t have the stamina to carry you down can stay with you, too. Because I would never ask that of someone, honestly. 

Also, just a little FYI... MOST fire alarms are false alarms. Not to make anyone complacent or anything, but, yeah. Most of them are either system malfunctions, someone accidentally hit a pull station, or someone burned popcorn in a break room. So don’t let a fire alarm freak you out until you need it to - by smelling or seeing smoke or flames. 

[gentle--riot]

i have had multiple nightmares about this very thing because NOBODY BOTHERS TO ACTUALLY TELL WHEELCHAIR USERS THIS STUFF

[downwiththebad]

I am loving these additions!

If you're disabled, this is worth the time and focusing energy to read through!!!

[kyraneko]

Short version:

If disabled and the fire alarm is just happened, you're allowed to take the elevators down but there's a small possibility you could get stuck if the elevators are compromised.

If you can't use the elevators or don't want that risk, go to the stairwell which is reinforced against fire, close the doors, and call 911 to let them know you are in that particular stairwell and can't get down.

Fire will strongly prioritize finding and rescuing people who might be still in the building during any actual structure fire. This is a major component of their job.

Fire people won't arrive in the course of one elevator run and actually half the deal with "don't use elevators" is supposed to be "leave it for people who need it in the emergency" which is both fire AND disabled people.

[grape-soda-dreams]

Various ZA outfits I’ve done

Just a mini comp of some outfits. Love how much range you have in this game.

[kabloomn]

happy eevee day everybody!!

here's my entry for @bycmykae's 変化 speedrun zine, thank you so much for letting me participate!