I am a professional not-carer.

It's a difficult job, but someone's gotta do it. he/him; 25

[professionalapathetic]

For people like me, who are fortunate enough to be able to see Episode 9 in the theater:

We're gonna be good, right?

We're gonna keep our phones off and our mouths closed during the showing, right?

We're not gonna take pictures or videos of the screen, right?

We're gonna take our cosplay headgear off so we're not blocking the people behind us, right?

We're not gonna loudly discuss spoilers in the lobby around people who are on their way in, right?

We're gonna keep online discussion to designated, spoiler-safe threads and servers, right?

WE'RE NOT GOING TO POST UNMARKED SPOILERS, RIGHT?

[professionalapathetic]

One last reblog for good measure.

[professionalapathetic]

This is my open letter to Jorge Rivera-Herrans:

Please repurpose "Your Light" for Patroclus.

Thank you.

[podcastwizard]

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

[professionalapathetic]

[professionalapathetic]

For people like me, who are fortunate enough to be able to see Episode 9 in the theater:

We're gonna be good, right?

We're gonna keep our phones off and our mouths closed during the showing, right?

We're not gonna take pictures or videos of the screen, right?

We're gonna take our cosplay headgear off so we're not blocking the people behind us, right?

We're not gonna loudly discuss spoilers in the lobby around people who are on their way in, right?

We're gonna keep online discussion to designated, spoiler-safe threads and servers, right?

WE'RE NOT GOING TO POST UNMARKED SPOILERS, RIGHT?

[professionalapathetic]

This has suddenly become relevant again, for no particular reason.

[professionalapathetic]

Everyone look at this squirrel I drew.

[lynxgriffin]

Answering the second question mostly, because yeah, I think completing the pacifist route is what would count as the "win" condition for Undertale. Both the game itself and Toby in follow-up statements have made it clear that that's the intended place that you're supposed to end the game.

Basically, avoiding that would mean just completing various neutral runs over and over, so I guess Kit's crew would be convincing Frisk to kill at least a couple monsters per run. Doesn't seem very sustainable long-term, though! That is what drove Flowey nuts, after all.

[professionalapathetic]

You know, I've always interpreted that the "canon" ending of Undertale is just the point at which you decide to stop playing. The pacifist route can't be the "true" ending because, well, you can keep playing, and it's acknowledged in-universe by Flowey that you can keep playing. Likewise, if you play one neutral route and then never play again, or you ragequit fighting Sans, or you decide to stay in the Ruins with Toriel forever, that is also a canon conclusion.

This also seems to be how the Gameoverse operates on a meta level: Once the game is over and there's no more story to tell, the world stops existing, almost like a theoretical player is putting the game down and never playing it again.

One could argue that any ending, even a Neutral ending, would still count as a win condition, as long as it was sufficiently satisfying narratively. K&K's job in this scenario may well be to convince Frisk to stay in the underground forever, like Toriel, Sans, and Alphys try to.

[professionalapathetic]

Quick Ralsusie kiss for my sketchbook <3

[professionalapathetic]

Very quick Malice

[professionalapathetic]

Not enough people are being horny for Dark Kit.

[professionalapathetic]

[4-murasame]

reblog this curly brace

[professionalapathetic]

Human Kinger and Queenie:

[professionalapathetic]

Hai, hajimatta...

[professionalapathetic]

Official tfem Ralsei design just dropped.

[litttleprincess-deactivated2017]

Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

[trappedinmyoldways]

Depression Hotline: [phone]

Suicide Hotline: [phone]

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: [phone]

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

If you ever want to talk, my ask box is always open

[jaydove-writes]

Please reblog this. I don’t care what your blog’s theme or aesthetic is. This is important.

[whylee-wheeler]

This is important to reblog for yourself too, not just for others to see it. You never know when something could come up and if you need help it’s right there on your blog

[hometownvibing]

I think whereas it is good that Susie and Kris validate Ralsei's existence and help him with the whole "I and other Darkners don't matter :(" thing, what might be arguably even healthier for him is an aggressively different perspective by another Darkner?

Like, a hypothetical new Darkner from the Chapter that doesn't exist yet who would be super happy about being a Darkner, feeling 0 reverence and 0 status gap with Lightners, believe that they are worth all attention and love in the world from Lightners and maybe even "overstep" just a bit with insisting on being visited and not just followed through an adventure and then forsaken. Just, everything about their attitude that would constantly stunlock Ralsei into a slight shock at their audacity and cause arguments along the way. That, of course, would get resolved with a healthy and happy conclusion because it is a Toby's game hahah

What I am saying is, it is great to get validation and reassurance that he isn't "inferior" from Lightners, but having another Darkner as a good example of healthy selfishness is arguably even better! Besides the whole 'how DARE you' vs 'haha bite me' banter feels like unexplored but really fun territory. Ralsei needs to have an important bond with a fellow Darkner to accept himself more. Susie and Kris ARE very good friends for him but there is this layer of admiration that is not so easily unraveled. When it is another Darkner just like him that says Darkners are just as valid, it hits different.

I really hope there will be a character like this! (Preferably the same age range as the Fun Gang as we already have enough 'mentors' as is)

[professionalapathetic]

Welp, time to make an OC I guess.

[hometownvibing]

I think whereas it is good that Susie and Kris validate Ralsei's existence and help him with the whole "I and other Darkners don't matter :(" thing, what might be arguably even healthier for him is an aggressively different perspective by another Darkner?

Like, a hypothetical new Darkner from the Chapter that doesn't exist yet who would be super happy about being a Darkner, feeling 0 reverence and 0 status gap with Lightners, believe that they are worth all attention and love in the world from Lightners and maybe even "overstep" just a bit with insisting on being visited and not just followed through an adventure and then forsaken. Just, everything about their attitude that would constantly stunlock Ralsei into a slight shock at their audacity and cause arguments along the way. That, of course, would get resolved with a healthy and happy conclusion because it is a Toby's game hahah

What I am saying is, it is great to get validation and reassurance that he isn't "inferior" from Lightners, but having another Darkner as a good example of healthy selfishness is arguably even better! Besides the whole 'how DARE you' vs 'haha bite me' banter feels like unexplored but really fun territory. Ralsei needs to have an important bond with a fellow Darkner to accept himself more. Susie and Kris ARE very good friends for him but there is this layer of admiration that is not so easily unraveled. When it is another Darkner just like him that says Darkners are just as valid, it hits different.

I really hope there will be a character like this! (Preferably the same age range as the Fun Gang as we already have enough 'mentors' as is)