dare i say that stuffed animals are one of the single greatest inventions of all time and im thankful every day for the fact that someone thought to make animals but in huggable plush form…..saved me from a lot of bad nights and nightmares as a kid, i love you stuffed animals
i just wanna thank stuffed animals for existing, thank you for being stuffed pals for all these years
Well holy shit. I think we can all agree, HOLY SHIT.
Playing Deltarune was the last thing I imagined I’d be doing on a fine Halloween evening, but I digress. Something interesting I noticed.
The Delta Rune itself.
The crest of the Dreemur Family in Undertale, is actually called the Delta Rune, which is an anagram of Undertale (unlike the title of the game Deltarune, which is one word). The interesting thing is the prophecy, which the wiki says: “The Delta Rune is said to symbolize a prophecy that predates written history. However, the original meaning has been lost in time. What is certain is the bottom triangles symbolize the monsters of the underground.”
HOWEVER. The new prophecy is that there will be three heroes, two of Light (Kris and Susie), and one of Dark (Ralsei [which I would like to add is also an anagram of Asriel]). Originally, I saw the Delta Rune of Undertale as this,
with the arrows pointing outward, I always thought the two arrows going left or right being the choice of Pacifism or Genocide, and the bottom arrow being the neutral choice.
BUUUUT NOOOWW…
I see this.
The downward triangle not representing the monsters of the underground, but of the Darkner from the newly learned prophecy, Ralsei, and the two UPWARD triangles representing the two hero’s of light, Kris and Susie.
God damnit Toby. You had this planned all along.
So now we have a lot of questions. This world we explored has many similarities, but many many differences. To name a few, Undyne and Alphys aren’t a couple, Bratty and Catty aren’t BFF’s, Toriel isn’t with Sans, Asriel is alive, Frisk never freed the monsters and Chara, also known as Kris.. Never died. This whole world is like an anagram, just as the title of the game Deltarune is an anagram of the word Undertale.
And we have so many questions.
What is the bunker south of town? Is Ralsei a Dreemur? What is the second fountain of darkness? How does this connect to Undertale?
I think Sans might know.
If you complete Undertale with the neutral ending, you can gain access to san’s workshop, which has a strange machine covered, and blueprints with symbols you don’t recognize. “The second drawer from the left contains a badge. The first drawer’s contents change depending on some of the player’s previous actions; it always contains a photo album with photos of a happy Sans along with many other people the protagonist does not recognize. If the game has previously been completed with any ending, another photo will show up with the protagonist, Sans, and all of the protagonist’s friends.
But.
After the v1.001 patch has been applied, and after talking with the Clam Girl and learning of Suzy,
(Hmmmm, thats a coincidence of a name), there will be a card sticking out from the back flap of the binder, described as a poorly drawn picture of three smiling people with the words “don’t forget” written in lowercase.
“Three.. Smiling.. People..“
When you meet Sans at the end of Deltarune, he says he’s from out of town and just moved here, which interestingly enough, If you talk to the NPC’s of Snowdin, they say “Those skeletons showed up out of nowhere.” (referring to them being new residents of Snowdin), as if San’s goes where he needs to be (which is quite often the case as he teleports around the game to his whim.)
So I think the characters of Deltarune in the town, those we grew to love over these past three years, are different. But Sans and Papyrus?
Self isolating and then getting upset when you see your friends having fun without you and using this to validate the notion that nobody really needs you or will miss you if you’re gone
an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks
the scarlet ibis
marigolds
the diamond necklace
the monkey’s paw
the open boat
the lady and the tiger
the minister’s black veil
an occurrence at owl creek bridge
a rose for emily
(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)
the cask of amontillado
the yellow wallpaper
the most dangerous game
a good man is hard to find
some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15
add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed
The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gift of the Magi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Thank You Ma’am
the box social by james reaney. i remember we all had to silently read it in class, and you would hear the moment everyone reached the Part because some people would audibly go “what”
wHat did I just put my eyes on
“The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Not quite a short story, but read in class: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone
Harrison Bergeron, Cat and the Coffee Drinkers
“Where are you going and where have you been” by Joyce carol oates
“The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury
the lottery by shirley jackson
i can’t believe Roald Dahl’s “The Landlady” wasn’t already mentioned
and also it’s not so much unsettling as more absurdist but “The Leader” by Eugene Ionesco definitely made me go wtf
Ett halvt ark papper. I cried so much.
Ночь у мазара, А. Шалимов
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury
Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby, by Donald Barthelme
I read Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer In A Day” in seventh grade (it wasn’t assigned, I was just going through my textbook for new stuff to read) and as a bullied kid with SAD, it Fucked Me Up.
An Ordinary Day with Peanuts, by Shirley Jackson
Eh, this was more like community college, but The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
and this story that I can’t remember the name of and can’t find, though it might be by O. Henry? it’s about a bunch of demons who want to stop Santa Claus from going through with Christmas, and he must travel through the mountains they inhabit to escape their vices? (good christ I can’t remember the name for the life of me)
Ok but the laughing man and a good day for bananafish but j.d. Salinger
The City (195) Ray Bradbury. An intense commentary on colonialism and space exploration. I read it for a sci fi survey class.
Another short story I read in that sci fi class was Vaster than Empires and More Slow (1971) by Ursula K. Le Guin. A commentary on humanity and how human we believe ourselves to be. Also, an interesting commentary on mental health.
In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom, written in 1947 by Ango Sakaguchi. It made my skin crawl the first time I read it.
I didn’t read it in a text book, but “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” haunted me for life.
All Summer In A Day fucked me up so bad. I was teased and bullied and intentionally left out of things and it hit home sooooo much. Thank the blessed soul of a person who linked all the stories!!
Particularly if you live in Texas, please vote, just for the schadenfreude. Can you even imagine if Texas goes blue. Can you even imagine Ted Cruz losing. I’m getting giddy just thinking about the conservative meltdown. There is literally zero path to the Presidency for Republicans that doesn’t include Texas. If they have to sweat bullets for the next forever thinking that Texas might be a left-leaning state… guys, this just sounds like a fun time.
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