Inspired by Let Papyrus Say Fuck Day, Let Lancer Say Tier-Two Swears Day is an event to encourage the Deltarune fandom to create works where Lancer is depicted as an age peer to the rest of the Fun Gang. We feel that the fandom perception of his age has shifted over time from a weird, sheltered teen (or pre-teen) to a goofy toddler. Drawing him three apples tall doesn’t feel quite right when he’s taller than Sans and just barely shorter than Kris.
So on January 11th we’re encouraging people to post art or writing depicting Lancer as close in age to the rest of the Fun Gang with the tag #Let Lancer Say Swears or #Let Lancer Say Tier Two Swears.
If you’re having trouble thinking about what to make, consider these prompts:
Lancer using Tier-Two swears
Why was a swear tier system necessary in the first place?
What are Tier-One swears?
Lancer engaging in teen activities, like Loitering or Being Annoying in Public
Lancer hanging out with other teen or adult characters
Susie, Ralsei, Papyrus, etc.
What is the line “You won’t get through your teen years without at least one Egg.” about?
Finally got this bad boy out after being on a two month writers block!
Gotta send some thanks to the folks at @letlancersayswears, especially @ferronickel. That event finally inspired me enough to finish it and sparked my idea for a certain bouncy boy's final line of the fic :3
We wanted to thank everyone who participated in Let Lancer Say Tier-Two Swears Day! It was truly heartwarming to see so many teenaged, swearing Lancers. This event is something we’d been considering for a long time, but it was all of you who brought it to life, so thank you!
While Lancer may have a special day where he’s allowed to swear, there’s nothing really stopping him the rest of the year, so we’ll keep an eye on the tags and continue to reblog any swearing Spade Princes. Otherwise, we’ll see you next year!
this was meant to be a cross-stitched piece for @letlancersayswears Day (and so help me it WILL be done eventually) but short of finishing this physically,
here's my take on why lancer isn't allowed to say tier-two swears: the WordArt he produces when he swears obnoxiously takes up too much screen space…
happy let lancer say tier-two swears day! heres lancer doing some part-time work at the seap (also featuring swears). specifically i think he helps out on the darkburger front since canonically they are only black because they are That Burnt.
@letlancersayswears: Let Lancer say cleanshirt! (and also fuck off) 🗣️
I wanted to participate and knew from the beginning it will be an amigurumi with a voicebox but it all only came together when @bleakoutlo said it'd be fun if Lancer was British. Lo and behold, Lancer with the voice of the most iconic rude kid on TV. Why search for a clip of a tween calling someone a wanker when a much more devastating call-out exists?
Tbf I feel like both the age range and the general vibe are quite perfect. Kris is not the borough and it's not their fault there's no schemes. 😩 And you can bet if Peep Show took place in 2025 those kids would be zooming around on clicky, beeping Lime bikes (aka the real world bicycles on fire).
Making of etc
Lines are:
Hey look it's cleanshirt.
How do you get that shirt so clean mate?
Fuck off cleanshirt.
MASSIVE credit to the person who posted audio tracks from all of Peep Show on Reddit. Version one was me recording with voice memo app from the clip and and then trying to eliminate clicking in Audacity - chopping the actual dialogue line improved this project by about 1000%.
Yarn used is Wool Dreamers Mota in dark blue, natural, and black. It was very easy to work with, I do wish I used a smaller hook than 3.5 because it is a bit holey in places.
I initially used a dog button which umm... worked. But it was massive and it could only handle one recording at a time, so three voice lines just played one after another. It was also super sensitive so breathing nearby would set it off and believe when I say attaching the head under those conditions was a _bit_ fucking annoying. Then I switched to this Talking Products chip module which fits inside better and plays a random voice clip - however it's not very dependable, it takes 5-10 clicks for it to work. 💀 Anyway, I attached the head with a very simple stitch in contrast colour so it's easy to take out the chip in case I want to try something else, change the voice lines or even batteries... I kind of expected plushie voice boxes to be a solved problem but it is surprisingly difficult to find something that just works out of the box.
I freehanded the whole thing but it's broadly a Bogusia type body with improvised head. I made the head way too small TWICE so if attempting something like this again my advice/note to self is: keep increasing stitches until it seems cartoonishly too large.
Using felt sheets kinda worked and kinda not, I think the mouth could be much better. At least relying on glue was destined to fail, I managed to stitch the spades on but the sheets I used were too thick to get a needle through when doubled up. His teeth actually fell off between the photoshoot and me posting this. 🙈
tl;dr
This was a fun project, and a pretty quick make if we don't count all the fuking around with Audcity and, surprisingly, iMovie (I had to put together three clips with the voice lines because Tumblr only allows one video...). It's still wild to me I can just freehand something and make it look vaguely like I imagined!!!
