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It's the confidence, man. It's all in the confidence.

He's so smug I---

I also do not feel the right feelings

I HATTTEEEE this panel not because anything about is bad but because I don't think I'm feeling the emotion I'm supposed to.

BECAUSE WHY HE KINDA

art by /yugogeer ofc

one: gorgeous, what the hell

two: Nightmare is so flustered by the spooky faces I can't :sob: why is he so freaky

Is this. The playing before

What about French Charas? 'Cause Chara has a latin root it very much is an old-ass, unused since 1200, frenchie name. CH is pronounced K in french too.

Gimme a French chara with the thickest fucking accent please

oui oui bonjour baguette

My favorite number is nine hon hon hon

Trnacript: Everytime a chara is made British an angel looses their wings </3 (I will accept irish or Scottish chara if they absolutely must be European, but in my heart they are southern mid western American) (frisk is Samoan)

this is absolutely amazing.

POV: When your boss says that you all need to “GTFO” so you punch a kid and steal their bike 💞

(They’re asses are gonna be sent to jail istg /lh - Mod Ratio)

Beautiful and endorsed. Greaser being a flirty loser and Fresh being a loser loser for the win

ngl i kinda have a feeling i might get hate for this...uh.. sorry you guys :(

i just wanted to draw a flirty greaser and a confused fresh consulting some new feelings he doesn't entirely understand (but he likes it ooOOoOo)

dont ask why greaser is so tall either. uh idk he's prolly standing on his ego or somethin

ALSO I WANTED TO FULLY SHADE SOMETHING FOR ONCE BUT I SERIOUSLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO COLOR ANYTHING RAWWW PAIN

greaser - @/radsee

fresh - @/loverofpiggies

edited to fix Shattered's eyes :sob:

Context: Dream ate a black apple. He was corrupted as a result. This comic depicts his last sane days before it fully hits.

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Dream (wrecks the table and mirror): DON'T TOUCH ME! I don't want to have to hurt you, Cross. But I will.

Context: Dream ate a black apple. He was corrupted as a result. This comic depicts his last sane days before it fully hits.

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Dream (wrecks the table and mirror): DON'T TOUCH ME! I don't want to have to hurt you, Cross. But I will.

Looking for Undertale Roleplay

Please, I'm begging. I'm so lonely.

I'd like someone who's willing to do Discord rp, half lit to full lit.

Preferably also someone who wants to rp a skellie against another skellie...!! let's rp gay boys.

I might have to put in actual effort for this soon then!!!

I just wanted to doodle something quick to honor your dtiys, it's not exactly polished haha!!

the dtiys was @neverniko101 's. Sorry for missing the deadline!!

Dusk belongs to me.

#persist

well you are a pussy lmao

Mmmh...no, I'm actually more of a dog person than a cat person.

Also, I don't think I'm any kind of bad, weak or afraid for refusing to draw something so wildly out of my boundaries.

It takes bravery to be able to call your bullshit and say no.

(for context, I believe the same anon asked for PJ/Error ship art, which I refused to do.)

While I'm at it, here's my stance on proshipping under the cut!

I don't engage in it, don't enjoy it and personally tie it to deeply personal feelings of hurt and disgust.

However, I do not view proshippers with the same thing. You're all allowed to do whatever as long as no one gets hurt from it.

What I do ask is that neither me nor the people who dislike such content are exposed or requested to produce it.

I have blocked many tags from my recommendations for a reason, people.

One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.

holy shit that's an amazing take.

also I love the textures in your art.

Hm, technically not TAU related but I'm just kinda curious. Where did the uh eye thing (my mind is blanking on the word rn) is indicative of gender thing come from? I just think the idea is neat is all.

partly from my ass, partly from fandom tropes, partly from canon!

unfortunately i can't really provide examples of fanon because it's been a while since i've seen this floating around, but i know there at least USED to be a pretty big trope towards genderbending all the skeleton AU characters (or even just making original skeleton OCs that were female). the biggest way people chose to portray these characters was usually presentation - their bodies would be exactly the same as the OG sanses, just with maybe ecto and/or eye makeup.

all i did was take that further, because in my mind, it made sense!

the majority of canonically female monsters in the game are flat as washing boards, not a single titty in sight - maybe except the slightest of pec-bumps if you really squint - with only 2 notable exceptions that i could find, that being catty and the snowdin shopkeeper:

in fact, if you want to be pedantic...

king fluffybuns has more titty than his fucking wife xD

to me, the presence of boobage on catty, the snowdin shopkeeper and asgore proves that toby and temmie WERE VERY CAPABLE of drawing tits if they wanted to - which means that the lack of tits on the other characters was not an error, it was simply a design choice.

additionally, i believe that it's mostly just anthropomorphic monsters that are revealed to be women in the first place - "lesser" monsters all have completely identical sprites and, if memory serves, most of them are only ever really referred to as "it" or "they". (admittedly, i don't have the patience to go through every profile in the wiki to make sure, so take that with a little salt.) and while that could be just unreliable narration, i'm not here to beat the meta horse to death; i'm taking the information that i see at face value and running with it. and the information that i see is that there isn't a huge amount of sexual dimorphism in the vast majority of monsters, especially when you count non-anthropomorphic ones, which - again, focusing on what we actually see in-game - far outnumber their humanoid counterparts.

instead, you mainly tell what gender the characters are by the way they dress and their eyes - which usually have longer lashes, even if they're not wearing makeup like the shopkeep is. if nothing else, you might be forced to tell by their name or just by the game's narration. so in that case, we - or i, at least - know that most monsters in the underground go by "they" or "it", and not only is strongly gendered presentation already pretty fucking rare, when you get it, it's mostly in people just... dressing the way they want to be called. that's it.

to me, that fits in perfectly with the trope of female skeletons just having makeup or some ecto. they're telling people that they're female because that's how they want to be called; if they didn't put that effort in, other monsters would probably default to "it". like so:

and then when you introduce AU tomfoolery, of course, you can also get situations like this, where more nuance needs to be considered:

About the one time Error met Dream long enough to talk.

A short fic, set in Yet Another Battle's pre-fic world.

Error and Dream need to stop meeting like this.

Not ship whatsoever. Also, remember that Dream and Error's opinions are entirely biased. Some may argue that Ink's actions were justified considering Error's own actions.

Error laid on his side, looking bored as hell, staring straight ahead.

Ink had apparently "caught" him earlier, using creator-knows-what secret technique, tied him all up in black painted-on tape, and was called up in whatever other universe he was needed in. Of course, he'd hopped by the universe Dream was in, gave him a key and asked the star Sanses' golden boy to come look over his captive for him.

Unfortunately for Dream, he was interrupted mid-dinner, and had to excuse himself from Blue's company, who laughed and told him to take some food along as he went. So, here he was now, uncomfortable, staring at a man who was resolutely not staring back.

"WhY aRE yOu HerE.", he said, and it was almost like he was disappointed Ink wasn't here himself. Dream actually didn't really know what to answer to that.

"Uh...I guess because Ink asked me to?"

Those heterochromic eyes narrowed at nothing, and Error gave one of those mocking-yet-oddly-shaky grins only he could pull off.

"VoiD DAMn. InK MaKEs ChiLDren dO HiS DIrTY worK, nOw?"

"Wh- I'm not a child. I've just got....young-looking bones."

"AnD I'M a GOd. To EAch THeIr sTRUgGle."

In anyone else's mouth, that would've sounded like a joke, but Dream knew better. Error only joked around when he felt the need to throw witty one-liners at Ink during battle. He usually didn't even talk to the rest of them, just levelled a glare at them like they weren't even worth the effort of fighting them.

He gave a "tssk", and struggled (kind of like a worm, which was funny but Dream didn't laugh) to sit up.

"So. WhAT doEs He WAnT ThiS TimE?", Error asked, face straight, unbothered. "tO kILl Me?"

Dream sputtered in surprise, shaken by the very notion.

"What! of course not, we don't--we don't kill--!" The word even felt foreign on his tongue, and Dream couldn't help himself but to sadden. Of course Error would expect to be killed. He'd done so much evil himself, too.

What would be the alternative, though? To keep him like this, locked up, prisoner of a small room in Ink's currently chosen home? Forever? That was a fate Dream didn't even want to imagine, his compassionate soul whimpering a complaint at the mere notion. He shook his head, as Error continued.

"iT WouLDn'T BE thE FirST tIMe.", he said, detachedly, as though he'd watched that particular episode of his life on a TV. just, simply, a telenovella episode, with a gruesome end and more magic-blood budget than a stephen king movie adaptation. Dream choked on his words, plate sliding out of his grasp to tumble on the floor, smashing on impact.

But that...that didn't make any sense, did it?

Error narrowed his eyes, grinning. Guess the apple kid didn't exactly hear that part of the story.

....Ink did mention to Dream that Error was immortal, before. How would he have found out, if not by....trying? Eyeing the shattered plate, Error inched ever so closer to Dream (though he abhorred the thought of being even close.)

"guESs He dIDn'T TeLL yOu. YoU'Ve sEEn hOw HE geTS wiTh REd PaiNT?"

"yes, but! he wouldn't hurt anyone. Not really,", Dream insisted, tightening his empty hands and digging his fingertips into the soft fabric of his gloves. "Never enough to kill. Besides, you're still alive right now."

"I alREadY KnEw I CoULdn'T DiE PRoPERly. He DIdn'T. I brOKe His BrUSh, hE doWNed tHE boTTle."

Error, ever the smart cookie, set his hands on the ground. Hanging on his every words, Dream didn't exactly notice a piece of ceramic vanish into his palms.

"SmAShED mY fuCKiNG hEAd iN WiTH a ROck."

Color drained from Dream. He looked shocked, and utterly disgusted by the idea of such a thing happening. Well, Error could understand that, kind of. Dream had always held Ink in much too high a regard.

"He wouldn't," he insisted with a half-voice.

"iT DOesN't MAttEr wHAt yoU ThInK He wOUld anD WOulDN'T DO. You'Re a PAwn AnYwAYS. He dOEsn'T LOve YOu."

"No....no, you're wrong. It can't possibly--"

Dream never had a chance to finish his sentence, as blue strings erupted from Error's newly freed hands to loop around Dream. Error snickered as he left, leaving Dream tied up just like he was (after, of course, calling him a sucker and an idiot.) The problem being- Dream knew that if Ink remembered, he'd feel bad. But did Ink even apologize for that? Was there a universe where I'm sorry would fix this? Dream, slowly but surely- began doubting the skeleton who he thought was a hero. It didn't even matter if Error lied.

Thinking in absolutes was the one thing that would lead to Dream's downfall, eventually.

Context: Dream ate a black apple. He was corrupted as a result. This comic depicts his last sane days before it fully hits.

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Dream: I guess that's what I'm doing, aren't I? Casting you away. How selfish of me...I'm sorry. I didn't...don't want to do this either. You just have to trust me.

Cross: Dream! (reaches for his hand)

Dream: (slaps it away) NO!

Cross: ow!

I would...I'm hyped...I've been on an art roll ngl

[ * I kinda wanna do an art collab..... for funsies.... ]

Context: Dream ate a black apple. He was corrupted as a result. This comic depicts his last sane days before it fully hits.

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Cross: What? Why would you ever-

Dream: Because you love me for my positivity.

Dream: And I don't know if I'll ever be positive again. Because I'm not me anymore.

Cross: I'm not that shallow, Dream. I don't-- Are you breaking up with me? We're Fiancés, Dream. You're all I have. We're gonna get married, remember?

Context: Dream ate a black apple. He was corrupted as a result. This comic depicts his last sane days before it fully hits.

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Dream: I'm sorry. I don't mean to scare you.

Cross: You don't scare me, Dream. I love you.

Dream: And now you're lying to me... I'm not trying to shut you out. just to keep you safe. safe from me.

Can you draw Error x Paperjam please?

I'm sorry, I won't do that.

I'm going to be doing a small comic for my fic Yet Another Battle. Here's Cross in jail for all of your sad moments needs

I love Jerror. He's amazing.

jon "jerror" errbuckle inflicts rage. seething rage into my soul. i used to welcome him in with open arms, but now i live in fear. in anger. i am afraid of something i helped make years ago. i am scared.

crink pls and my life is yours/np :3

look at them. They're so gay. I wanna shake them in a salt shaker

inkmare :3

*scooting into ur inbox…*

erh could I request Reaper x Ink…

I love them…they’re my silly rare pair guys

/np!!!

a lil' doodle!!!

I feel like Ink would love cuddles, and wouldn't take Reaper's fright too seriously because he comes back from death anyways, meanwhile Reaper is on the brink of a heart attack

Since I'm apparently on a roll I wanna draw some more tonight

please please PLEASE request things :')

I wanna draw ship art. Preferably obscure ships or rarepairs!!!

ONLY MALE SKELETONS PLEASE!!! I can draw Fresh too. but like. Skeletons.....

No papyri I can't do their face right

The tupper pfp for Virus! Chara. Once I paint once, I have to paint more and this lil' child is literally so cute and sad and nooooo why did I create you in such a depressive wayyyy sob sob sob

The first painting I've made in a long while. I wanted it to be fully lineless, but I guess old habits die hard.

Dusk is quite the pretty guy. He's lucky to have such precious ecto, which he's both aware and proud of, treasuring his skin like a temple.

His ecto is more opaque than most, when his LL is high, and shines and glimmers like freshwater pearls under the sun. when he's feeling a little down, his bones become visible again through the skin and the glow becomes dim.

Usually, Dusk doesn't use a female form, simply because he's most comfortable with a man's figure, however he does have his feminine moments. It is, after all, simply another part of himself.

This isn't meant to be NSFW, but instead pure self-indulgence. I draw Dusk feeling himself because it helps me feel comfortable in my own shape.

even I got offender and I don't know who tf the anon was talking about....

Im not prev but it probably wasn’t Spooks fic, I’ve read it and it was pretty good/interesting even if her pacing was a little wonky at times and she don’t update very often. It was probably somewon else. I know I’ve seen another one where they used pantheon, a onshot on Ao3 i think? It was pretty dark, with heavy gore themes and mind fuckery. Spook’s fic… tries to be scary n suspenseful but idk if she do it very well tbh. No hate against her ofc, it just feels out of placeingly self indulgent.? Like Nightmare would not act like that lol, yknoe? She’s gotten odly popular despite that tho, so kudus to her. I think her fics called ‘monsters of the dark’ or smth idk. I keep tryn to give her advise but she don’t answer despite saying she always answers asks, pretty odd if youd ask me🤔

Anyway love your AU and all the original ideas you got, long time fan👋 keep up the good work man. We need better writers like youself 💪🔥

-long fan anon 💥

anon... for signing your message with "long time fan", i have to admit, it seems like you've had a critical misunderstanding about me and how i feel about storytelling. i'm not mad, but since you brought this to my inbox looking for my opinion, i'm going to give it to you:

1: fandom is a hobby. it is amateur in the truest sense of the word - someone who does something for free simply because they love to do it. none of us are getting into publishing houses, and furthermore, that level of quality is very rarely achievable by only one person.

2: as i said here more in-depth, the thing that makes our stories truly unique is the fact that they're self-indulgent. your own preferences and interests are the most unique thing you bring to the table; if you're not using them, you're just hashing out someone else's interests using disney's dryass 3-step "guaranteed-to-sell" formula. and to be frank, regurgitating that formula ad-fucking-nauseam is a one-way ticket to the worst sin a story can possibly achieve, far more than being boring, clichéd, derivative, repetitive or badly-written: being soulless.

3: my version of nightmare is no more canon or "correct" or "in-character" than hers or anyone else's. in fact, if you want to talk about in-character, joku has stated that NM is a "thing", not a person - so by joku's canon, anyone who portrays him in any sort of sympathetic light at all is portraying him "incorrectly". and to be quite frank... i find that horrifically boring. if someone wants to make him sickeningly sweet, of course, i would personally prefer if i could see how he got from point A to point B... but ultimately, if it's not my story, why should i give a damn if it suits my tastes? it's like going to a fucking bakery and complaining about the cakes being all lemon flavored when you yourself are a baker. you can just go make your own cake!!

4: "I keep tryn to give her advise but she don’t answer" - did your advice sound anything like this ask, anon? because even i got offended reading it, and the fic isn't even mine. and far more importantly, did they ask for critique? if the answer is yes - which i doubt - did you then ask questions to find out what they wanted to achieve with their own story and give them advice to help them reach that goal? because if someone asks for critique and you respond by trying to transform the story into something you like, that's bad critique etiquette - as is, far more importantly, giving unsolicited critique to works that aren't asking for it at all.

5: cruelty ≠ critique. as i said above, to critique a work is to attempt to help the author reach their goals. no matter someone's skill level, there's always going to be something about their work that you don't personally like - and using that as fuel to be disparaging to the artist is not critique, it's cruelty. ten tantita pinche madre, man, christ

6: "she don’t update very often" - this is fandom, anon. tiktok's fast fashion treatment towards media nowadays is not indicative of how fandom really works. undertale is, what, 8 years old, now? and we're all still here for love of skeletons. what do you expect people to be doing to survive in all that time? photosynthesizing? i'd be fascinated to meet them if that was true - but personally, i have to work to get money to eat. and before that, i had to go to school or else get thrown in juvie. people've got shit to do, man.

7: "It was probably somewon else", "She’s gotten odly popular despite that tho" - if their work has gotten really popular, there's probably a reason. and not to elevate english to an undeserved standard when it's such a shit language, but i imagine - going out on a limb here - it probably has something to do with her being able to use spellcheck.

and finally, 8: in the time it's taken me to answer this ask, you have sent me MORE asks pressuring me to answer you faster. that shit does not fly on my blog, anon, and especially not after you already admitted to harassing the writer in question with unwanted, bad-form "critique" of their work. i am not so goddamn oblivious or passionate about my own interests to not notice that you're trying to use me as a soapbox, which further makes your tag as "long time fan" ridiculous - because i have made my stance on harassment quite clear.

"but keegan, you critique things all the time!", i hear you saying. "what makes your critiques so much better, huh?"

well, the thing is, anon, even if i express frustration with the original stories not going the way i had hoped they would, my worldbuilding posts are still not critiques of their source materials because i'm not going to the authors of these stories and trying to help them reach their own goals, NOR am i taking my own desires for the work and making it the author's fucking problem. instead, i'm sat over here in my own little corner doing my own thing, and furthermore regularly clarifying to the people who like my worldbuilding that my feelings on the author's work is quite positive, in fact, despite whatever qualms might drive me to take my own fanfictions in a different direction. and as a matter of fact, a significant part of the reason i made multiverse tau an au in the first place was because i knew my own vision for these characters was going to deviate so harshly from the goals their creators had expressed, and i specifically wanted to go out of my way to avoid causing confusion. i did NOT want people taking my portrayals of these characters, conflating them with the originals, and then going to make that the creator's problem. multiverse TAU is an AU where i take whatever nitpicky bullshit nothingburgers that plague my mind and i do whatever i want with them, and in doing so, ironically, i'm doing a fine job of minding my own damn business.

in short: please do not bring critique of other people's work into my inbox, and furthermore please do not admit to me that you've been harassing people, and furthermost PLEASE do not harass ME when i don't jump the gun to agree with you on the matter. again: i have made my stance on harassment abundantly clear. you are creating problems for yourself because you have nothing better to do with your life - your time (and mine, AND theirs) would be much more pleasantly spent if you could manage to find some sort of constructive hobby, instead.

A quick little tribute.

The mad hatter and Alice in wonderland designs were made by Yavemaru on X and inspired by @leafmilky !

Habromania (Science: psychiatry) (n.): Rarely used term for a morbid impulse toward gaiety.

Habros: graceful

Mania: insanity

Dusk is so pretty.

This made me want to draw his ecto properly, so I might do a renaissance style painting (not really I suck at painting) about it. But uh. Later. Right now I'm doodling other people's characters!!!!!

disclaimer: speciesism and specism isn't the same thing as racism.

Undertale doesn't exactly touch on those ideas of specism, the monsters are accepted outside, the humans are beloved on the inside.

Though, when you have "there was a war, people A and people B are majorly upset at each other, people A lock people B in a giant cave to die", I mean....there's really uh. That context to take in. I think if it's done well and in an AU that deviates HEAVILY from the original take, then sure, fine, go ahead.

The problem is that often it's not well done, because simply- the people making content aren't professional writers and artists, they're just (mostly) regular peeps who often bite off more than they can chew, and it leaves everyone with a bitter taste in their mouths.

When you have Sans go through a genocide, be fought against relentlessly by a murderous child, and then do a pacifist, escape to the surface, then Sans will quite naturally be just a smidge anxious around that same child, won't he? trauma and whatnot. however I don't think making Sans have a bias against humans forever and ever is stupid :')

Transcript: As a black person in the utdr fandom it really weirds out me when people claim the monsters in undertale are "racist". Honestly just typing this gives me a really uneasy feeling thinking about it all. White people who don't have any proper knowledge to be talking on situations like this and entirely missing the point of what's going on, to the point where it feels almost intentional. Saying this on here rather than my own blog because I don't know how people would react if I said stuff like this, I rb posts like this but I don't really have experience talking about them myself

Idk I might send another ask in again another time going more in depth but I don't even know how to explain how it makes me feel but I can try if anyone really wants