penn_and_paige

paige || she/her || my ao3 || connoisseur of many fandoms || pfp by @rawrbarks_studios

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HI WELCOME HI HI

hi :) call me paige! this is my blog i guess! i've never used tumblr before so i don't really know what i'm doing but i'm gonna do it anyway!

i read a lot and write sometimes. you can find me on ao3 here.

i might open writing commissions one day?? soon??? idk!!!!! mostly i will be fangirling here because that's really what tumblr's for, right???

feel free to say hi or badger me about updating or whatever :)

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some sketches

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tom riddle and alastor were alive at the same time (1926-1933). so i wrote them meeting. https://archiveofourown.org/works/76898976

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the besties

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charlie re-design :)

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radioapple fic!!!

lucifer finds cursed alastor cat. he immediately tries to adopt said cat. ends up in some kind of co-parenting deal said cat with alastor!?!? fuck his immortal life. (part one of a series, hopefully) https://archiveofourown.org/works/75840041

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headcanon: vox sings don't you forget refrain because he heard alastor humming it to himself when they were friends

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radioapple fic!!

hazbin hotel has me in a chokehold... sooo i wrote a hallmark radioapple fic. i'll be updating three times a week til christmas! happy holidays everyone https://archiveofourown.org/works/74465236/chapters/194407566

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deltarune future AU

quick background for this AU: all of the fun gang are early twenties/young adults. this AU takes place post-normal route.

meet our heroes:

susie discovered a love of art and painting sometime in her senior year of high-school. now she's an art student at the city college and has an apprenticeship under a tattoo artist.

kris didn't go to university like their brother and in a series of wacky misadventures ended up starting a town-wide campaign against an animal kill shelter. the campaign ended in protests covering entire streets of hometown, confetti, and many adopted kittens. somehow kris ended up with a job at the reformed shelter. now they work with dogs and cats to find their own forever homes.

meanwhile, ralsei has managed to stabilize all the dark worlds and expand their home. he was very reluctantly crowned their king through near-unanimous vote (lancer's dad voted against him) and rules over the dark worlds in peace. but susie's pep talk from ch3 still echoes in the back of his mind. is it possible? for a darkner to be worth something? or even... for a darkner to become real?

oh, how's noelle doing? she's, uh. um.

what were we talking about again?

some other random tidbits:

kris has tattoos from their left arm up to their neck. it's mostly scenes depicting the dark world in some aspect, but they also have some shitty stick-and-poke from susie and a heart symbolizing the player (who they have settled into an uncomfortable neutrality with)

ralsei has been learning to cook along with baking. throughout the dark world he is now seen as "their kingly chef," and is often gifted random cooking aprons from people. he has too many aprons. save him. (he still wears the one with the words 'kiss the goat.' it was a nice gesture ok)

susie buzzed off half her hair. she did not mean to originally--a piece of gum got stuck, she tried to cut it out, things went horribly wrong. her and kris spent a cramped night in toriel's bathroom with the remains of susie's left head of hair surrounding them, trying to fix the damage. they did not snuggle. (they totally snuggled)

the prophecy didn't come to fruition. everyone's happy. this is their ending. honestly, what was there to worry about anyway?

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toriel and sans would have done the same thing they did in ch4 in undertale. but it would have felt drastically different. this is why: 

one thing i love about deltarune is how it deconstructs all the undertale characters' glorified versions. as in, putting these fantastical characters into normal environments makes their flaws all the more shiningly obvious.

take toriel for example. in undertale she was hailed as the example of a perfect mother, but that was never true in undertale and is only more obvious in deltarune. she struggles with avoidance, grudges, and overprotectiveness. in undertale it is somewhat justified in the setting; asgore is literally killing children, ofc she'd want to leave; she didn't see chara's concerning tendencies because, well, she's never met a human child before, maybe this is all normal; she is overprotective of frisk to the point of killing them to try and keep them safe, but that makes sense in a fucked up way because the stakes are life and death. but in deltarune... she ignores kris running the faucet often in the bathroom for a long time, the birdcage and the bloodstain, doesn't check up on them in ch4, all showing an inability to face real problems. but she is also overprotective, with holding kris's hand to school every day. these are all behaviors she would have portrayed in undertale and perfectly fit with her character -- it's just the environment makes it all the more stark, because instead of a fantastical underground kingdom it's a neighborhood you could've grown up in yourself.

or take sans! he's this mysterious cool and funny character in undertale. but in deltarune he just comes off kinda dickish. his jokes and his demeanor land different because instead of being this quasi mystical figure, he's just a dude who might be sleeping with your mother. 

alphys too! in undertale she's an anxious scientist who went too far but is making up for her mistakes. in deltarune she's a pushover teacher who lets her own students belittle and ignore her. 

and undyne! she's a fierce warrior who's been training for years in undertale. in deltarune she is a random cop that immediately gets kidnapped. but in undertale she couldn't even beat one human child. 

it's not that these characters have really changed from undertale to deltarune. it's that our PERSPECTIVE of them has changed, according to the environment we are viewing them in. and i think that's pretty cool

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hi!!! are you planning to continue we have been here all along? i adore that fic <3

YES! i am! i actually have the last chapter and half of another chapter finished! i'm just really struggling with the drarry chapter (i've never written them before!) and it keeps throwing me off

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spamtenna has taken over my life - in other words new fic

the title. new fic. go read it here. take the art too

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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we want YOU!

*brought to you lovingly by canva and my printer

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hot take: bill cipher's apple music consists entirely of chappell roan

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headcanon: melody grew up in a cult, and her parents were ciphertologists

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i stand by the fact that bill and ford would have THE UGLIEST kids.

there's no good options. either it's a flesh-colored triangle or a kid with yellow triangles for a mouth. how do you feed a kid with a triangle for a mouth

i'm sorry but cutesy billford kid doesn't exist. eldritch monstrosity billford kid, however...

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new fic!!

ralsei fic! ralsei ANGST! get your deltarune here https://archiveofourown.org/works/66541642