Going Ficticious On Your Ass

Fanfic writer, artist, professional layabout with entirely too much enthusiasm for overcomplicated Deltarune lore/ Author of The Burden of Jester's Privilege on AO3/ casual UT/DR enjoyer (it's not casual)/ Not 'pro ship', not 'anti', but a secret third thing/ If you don't like OCs kissing canon characters I am not the page for you/ Trigger warning for lack of TLDRs

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[an-ruraiocht]

there's a lot of talk about reading comprehension and one thing i think is the biggest barrier to people on this site getting better at it is simply... rushing. rushing to share something you haven't understood, rushing to have an opinion without taking the time to think about it, rushing to declare that you don't understand something

take these tags, on somebody else's post (condolences pip)

the thing is. this is what i would call an inside thought. nobody would have known you didn't get it if you didn't tell them that. if you recognised that it was important but didn't have the headspace to process it, you can reblog without commentary for others, or to come back to later. or you can save it somewhere and wait until you DO have the capacity to read it over a few more times, ponder it, consider what it might mean, figure out how to understand it, and THEN reblog it

but no. rushing to reblog while it is still opaque. rushing to admit to ignorance rather than spend the time to achieve understanding. perhaps hoping that somebody will break it down for you more simply, though to my mind it was quite simply phrased in the first place. never stopping to take the time first

comprehension is not always instant! sometimes it takes a bit of time for something to percolate after you read it; sometimes you need to read it a few times; sometimes you realise you don't have the context for it and either go and get the context or accept that it's not for you right now

please just simply slow down. you don't always have to respond to everything within a second or two. it is okay if it is not an instantaneous understanding. we all need to get more comfortable with thinking more slowly and more deeply and more carefully, and not letting our instant split second responses drive us all the time, because they are a barrier to genuine reflection

[sterlblogsfanfic]

I almost never make posts like these but in light of the recent TADC bs, I feel like sharing my perspective as someone who mostly only enjoys media that's 10+ years old.

If you can't enjoy a piece of art that you know the end of, you AREN'T enjoying it. You're just consuming it.

This is why media and literary analysis and general reading and critical thinking skills are so important, and I feel like the reactions some people have had to the leaks is so telling about the current state of literacy education it's almost pathetic. I don't engage with a narrative for the twist ending. The peak of a story doesn't usually happen right at the end, anyway. The point of a story isn't to leave you reeling from how good they closed it out, it's to make you examine yourself, the world around you, other people, other STORIES even, systems, etc etc, with a different perspective than you did before. If that's conveyed mostly in the end, great. You can take whatever point it's trying to make away whether you experience it in real time or vicariously through your friend ranting for two hours about how the lamppost was the villain all along (not a spoiler btw).

Disappointment is the result of undue expectations for an experience that was never guaranteed to you. You can still find something good to glean from it. If the story holds up, if you're actually invested in the narrative, seeing spoilers should never actually spoil anything for you.

Take a lit class, I beg of you.

[sterlblogsfanfic]

AHEM

[systemdeez]

Did you ever notice that Jevil from Undertale's name rhymes with "devil?" That's crazy.

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Now THIS is media analysis

[sterlblogsfanfic]

I almost never make posts like these but in light of the recent TADC bs, I feel like sharing my perspective as someone who mostly only enjoys media that's 10+ years old.

If you can't enjoy a piece of art that you know the end of, you AREN'T enjoying it. You're just consuming it.

This is why media and literary analysis and general reading and critical thinking skills are so important, and I feel like the reactions some people have had to the leaks is so telling about the current state of literacy education it's almost pathetic. I don't engage with a narrative for the twist ending. The peak of a story doesn't usually happen right at the end, anyway. The point of a story isn't to leave you reeling from how good they closed it out, it's to make you examine yourself, the world around you, other people, other STORIES even, systems, etc etc, with a different perspective than you did before. If that's conveyed mostly in the end, great. You can take whatever point it's trying to make away whether you experience it in real time or vicariously through your friend ranting for two hours about how the lamppost was the villain all along (not a spoiler btw).

Disappointment is the result of undue expectations for an experience that was never guaranteed to you. You can still find something good to glean from it. If the story holds up, if you're actually invested in the narrative, seeing spoilers should never actually spoil anything for you.

Take a lit class, I beg of you.

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Restarted DR from the beginning and let me tell you, that Chapter 1 forest is looking mighty sus knowing everything we do now. Why so many trees, huh??? And Susie seems to be able to go off the map more than we can... If the trail of enemies is anything to go by.

Idk... I feels like it lends some credence to my "it didn't actually happen in the bunker" theory. The space between Card Kingdom and Castle Town, a forest of trees specifically used to represent how Kris represses their trauma??? Hello??? Why is the Castle Town Dark Fountain so pure in the first place???

Its all connected I stg (insert my face pasted over Green Pippin's in the bulletin board scene)

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Quick non-berdly-related theory: the Mike room in chapter 4 is under Asriel's bed. The mini games are part of the Cat Petters RPG and the Mike costumes are the CDs.

Prove me wrong:

Pluey Mike is religious ska (description includes a literal biblical reference and everything), Jongler is jazz (the theme), and Battat was a tricky one, but he is Mike Classic AND...

May I introduce to you Symphony in B, made by the company formerly known as Maison Battat Toys.

(Yoni Battat is also the last name of an Arabic-Jewish contemporary composer who typically uses classical instruments like viola and violin in his work along with the traditional oud. Not sure if relevant but it's there.)

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Yes this is insane bc how is Castle Town connected to the space under his bed???? No idea as of yet but the implications are staggering and I will be exploring this idea in depth later

(or Kris took the stuff out and brought it themself but that's REALISTIC and BORING)

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Quick non-berdly-related theory: the Mike room in chapter 4 is under Asriel's bed. The mini games are part of the Cat Petters RPG and the Mike costumes are the CDs.

Prove me wrong:

Pluey Mike is religious ska (description includes a literal biblical reference and everything), Jongler is jazz (the theme), and Battat was a tricky one, but he is Mike Classic AND...

May I introduce to you Symphony in B, made by the company formerly known as Maison Battat Toys.

(Yoni Battat is also the last name of an Arabic-Jewish contemporary composer who typically uses classical instruments like viola and violin in his work along with the traditional oud. Not sure if relevant but it's there.)

[queerofthedagger]

mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Also I am officially announcing my Berdly theory video should be coming out in the ext few weeks and let me tell you- it's a doozy.

Jaru eat your heart out, I'm about to topple your entire mad regime and become the new king of batshit utdr theory making!!!!

[sterlblogsfanfic]

So anyway Berdly won the poll, idk how to take it down so it will remain until it finishes but like

I will be lovingly handcrafting a fansong and roping in my beautiful and talented middle aged baby gorl producer to make it sparkle ✨

Congrats to my fellow gamers, condolences to the rest, if by some miracle the Berdly Rock Anthem of the summer takes off I will consider writing more :)

[sterlblogsfanfic]

I am a normal guy, I can write a script

I am a normal guy, I can text my producer back

I am a normal guy, I can stop being insane for five minutes to take a shower

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Holy fuck I need a tablet this took me forever on my phone

I wanted to make sans look slightly closer to canon

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[sterlblogsfanfic]

It's ironic that I sincerely hated Berdly during chapter 2 and now most of my DR musings are about the bird nerd AND if my poll is anything to go by it's looking like half of my content is about to become Berdly-related

I have truly been converted, people

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing I haven't gotten critiqued on yet but that I can see looming on the horizon, is that I really like to have main characters who are non-human and autistic-coded. and I've seen the conversations about how it's not actually all that validating to have "autistic rep" if the character in question is just an alien or a robot or whatever, and I actually do agree with that (for real!), but unfortunately I want to be a creature so so bad, I just really really want to be a creature. or like a little gnome or bug or something. so a good number of my autistic self inserts will just be awful fuck ass creatures and I apologize for that.

[pangur-and-grim]

wait that's so big-brained

[official-dad-blog]

Relevant

[sterlblogsfanfic]

Ok, so, if there were to be another Deltarune fansong, which character do you feel is underrepresented in the fan music currently out? I make mostly pop-punk girl rock so it would be that sort of vibe

Noelle

Susie

Dess

Ralsei

Kris

Berdly

FRIEND

Someone else (hit the comments, champ)

Voting ended onMay 21