Hello, everyone! Doc and the Locigenius here again, with a bit of an update from the mod. In case anyone is still following this blog and wants to know when we’re coming back!
And the delay is actually for a pleasant reason this time.
Pleasant, but stressful. I remember helping my sons move up to the surface... and we had magic to help us!
Hhhhaha... Maddock jumped the gun. Yessss, though. The mod is moving in October. It’s a big move, and there is much to do. Much of which, she is doing alone. Which means, don’t expect us to have this blog back up to full capacity until at least the first or second week of October. We will be skipping forward a bit in time, to a day out and about with Maddock, Sans, and Papyrus. I will still be accepting questions as well, as you can find me wherever there is anything electronic. I just likely won’t have an avatar directly accompanying them.
Well, given what people have been saying about October, who knows? You may fit right in.
In the meantime, please, keep sending questions! If they don’t take too long to answer, the mod may allow us a few quick dalliances between scenes.
Oh! Or, if you have any questions about magic or how it works? Please, feel free to ask me. I could use the practice explaining it to humans!
In the meantime, as a reward of sorts for reading this far, here’s a little family trivia.
Some people have noticed that my sons and Dr. Wing-Ding Gaster share names with typefaces. It’s an old skeleton naming tradition. “But Doc,” some would ask, “why is your surname Gaster, then? Shouldn’t it be Aster?”
And the answer is... yes! It should be -- if not for quirks of linguistic evolution. Take, for example, the human name John. In different parts of the world, there are plenty of forms of it, aren’t there? John, Jean, Sean, Jack, Johan, Jon, Iain, Hans -- they all share a common root.
It’s the same with the Aster monster clan. It was, and still is, a fairly large family -- named after the flower, I believe. Over time and with linguistic drifting, in some branches of the family, the name started to change. You’ll find Esters, Astars, Ashers, Yasters, Hestars, Estars, and all kinds of variants sprinkled throughout monsterkind.
My grandfather Semi used to say that we were a branch of the Asters that was always doing something -- the baking Aster, the building Aster, the farming Aster -- and the G just hopped over one day and made itself at home!
I actually worked with a Raster for a while back in college -- and yes, he was an artist. Turns out we were distantly related -- fourth cousins twice removed or something. Small world!