🚧stanley parable confessions🚧

this blog is made by jayfeathersolarr. the name of the blog is self-explanatory enough.. please read the pinned post before confessing anything, thank you. another confession blog i own is: ninesolsconfessions

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other:

https://www.tumblr.com/stanleyparableconfessions/813668855930142720/a-list-of-taken-emoji-signatures-used-by-anonymous?source=share <- taken anon signature list

ninesolsconfessions is another confession blog which i own.

in case you would like me to remove any of your confessions, edit a confession if you forgot to turn on anonymous, etc- please message me on this blog to let me know.

there are 409 non-numbered confessions on this blog. the rest are all numbered.

thank you, ideas anon 💭, for giving the idea of adding the bucket count to numbering!

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this is a confession blog for the story-based game: stanley parable, which was originally released on 2013, made by davey wreden and william pugh. keep your confessions relevant to the game.

the only rules are:

any confessions that get TOO personal will not be submitted, this is not a personal vent blog.

name dropping/mentioning a person's blog for negative intentions in any confession are not allowed.

you can send in nsfw confessions (gorey, sexual, etc), i will rightfully tag them.

anon confessions are allowed. but remember that using emojis to be known as a certain anon may get you impersonated by other anonymous users.

shipping discourses (ex narrator x stanley or stanley x his bucket, some stuff like that) are allowed. but do not start fights over it. don't start fights over anything, actually.

confessions with any bigotry in them will not be posted.

i will be neutral. this blog is simply to rant out any thoughts or confessions you have of the game.

also, let me know if I missed a tag in any confession, or used the wrong tag!

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I dislike people giving Stanley super straight hair not because I think they're doing it maliciously, but because it removes his sauce.

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#421 buckets so far!

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not enough Curator designs that are straight-up closeted (or uncloseted) bucket freaks

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#420 buckets so far!

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to each their own, but i've never been a big fan of interpretations where the curator and the narrator are related in some way

it doesn't result in much of an addition to their relationship either as far as i've seen, if they're related, then how does this impact their relationship in the game? by canon standards? by the writer's own?

this headcanon often conflates with people calling mariella and the curator lesbians and then doing nothing else with their relationship, as the focus is more on stanley and the narrator. which feels a dismissive kind of way that starts with a big fat M

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#419 buckets so far!

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The Narrator is old but in a very cute way . Cutie oldness

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#418 buckets so far!

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divorce = letting go. when you think about it

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#417 buckets so far!

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i NEED to discuss the parallels/connections between The Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide so much it's not even funny

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#416 buckets so far!

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@nightcoreandcaffiene Soooo many people have their Stanleys with the last name rider, but there's a reason why there's a list of items under that.

a "rider" is a list of requirements that someone requests in an appearance, usually in some kind of performance. In this case it's basically treating Stanley as an important person and what he requires in his dressing room to show up. For more info check this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(theater)

But I think it's really funny that so many people think it's his last name.

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#415 buckets so far!

link <- wikipedia page anon mentioned

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Something I've seen not a soul mention, it's not even on the wiki:

Press Conference Ending, on one of the whiteboards, Stanley is referred to as Stanley Rider. Also apparently he wants almonds, gum, a nut bar, and a table and chair whilst he's waiting backstage

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#414 buckets so far!

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The person who runs this blog is awesomesauce :3

thank you so much! <3

you're very awesomesauce too!! ^^

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i should mention that i will be using less tags from now on. i dont really want this blog to be taking up the tags, so people can still view fanart.

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If the Bucket isn't a good partner for Stanley, it follows that isn't isn't a good partner for the Narrator, right?

I mean, we know the Narrator eventually leaves the Parable (or would've left if we hadn't stopped in the Epilogue) because he realizes his attachment to Stanley isn't really healthy.

Personally I am of the belief that Stanley is The Narrator's reassurance bucket. He created him for companionship, to have someone to talk a that wouldn't talk back. He starts neglecting the people in his life just to work on/spend time with Stanley. Probably gets a divorce about it. Stanley might've started as an empty vessel, much like a bucket, and even though the Narrator knows this he finds himself attached to him (maybe even In Love With Him, if you take Stanley's love of the bucket as romantic, which you don't *have to* but the game seems to support in some way).

However, Stanley isn't real. And the bucket, well, it is just a bucket. It can't correspond his feelings, not really. Stanley's love for it comes from a place of devastating loneliness, it isn't really healthy.

I think the game in the end is trying to teach us to let go. Things change. They come to an end. You can't stay stuck forever, you can't let your fantasies/your creative work/your nostalgia run your life.

It is such a shame that just as the Narrator finds the strength to let go, we drag him down again, because our own desire to keep the Parable going forever and the Settings Person's power is stronger.

There is a shipper in my heart who believes that Stanley and The Narrator are meant to be together forever in a fucked up antagonistic co-dependent endless narrative cycle, but if we take canon seriously, it would probably be for the best they split apart. Stanley wants his freedom. The Narrator wants his freedom. They can't be free as long as they're trapped with each other in the Parable, as long as the player will keep them trapped in the cycle.

(If we want them to be happy we need to turn off the game. Reject Settings' offer. Touch grass and let go.)

(Of course I'm not doing that though. I'm slurping up that fanfiction like it's the world's tastiest ramen. Men kissing? Brother sign me up. Let's keep this train going until the heat death of the universe.)

Anyway, yeah. That's my personal reading.

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#413 buckets so far!

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Narrator can wake up a house with his snoring

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#412 buckets so far!

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I wish the parable had food.

Where did the employees store their lunches before their breaks?

…I’m just hungry right now.

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#411 buckets so far!

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I just think The Bucket is not a good partner for Stanley at all. "Press [key] to ignore anyone in your life except me" is not something a good companion says. Sure, it reassures Stanley and can probably effectively transfer a liquid from one location to a different location but other than that? It didn't even try to understand Stanley's passion for pressing the number 3 on the keypad behind the boss's desk. And it tells Stanley not to listen to the Narrator, who guides Stanley through this nightmarish purgatory and wishes him well (in some endings.) Also it just isn't a good person overall, trying to take over the parable like some kind of dictator and all.

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#410 buckets so far! although i'm not sure if the buckets are appropriate for this post..

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Well if the inbox is gathering dust maybe you should go to the broom closet to find something to help with that?

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#419 buckets so far!

yes, good idea. the broom closet is a very lovely place to visit as well.

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the inbox is collecting dust..