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Thank you sesurescue and saturnwonder for appreciating Grillby’s hot legs.

@asexualchemist said: 

I’m not seeing any line Also this was adorable and made me laugh and I love those two idiots aaa

thank you (and thanks for letting me know there’s no line).  i love writing those two dorks so much, haha

@swirlingreblogs reblogged this from it-refused: 

#i love this#this is some fantastic undyne logic about getting over a cold#(add heat everything is better with heat and passion)#and papyrus logic about the likelihood of her killing him

Aww, thanks!  I was worried I had them get too over the top, and then I look up some of the conversations they’ve actually had

@unrestedjade said:

This is perfect today, as I’m still pretty under the weather myself. One could say it’s just what the doctor ordered…?

I hope it made you feel a little better!

@gossyreblogs said:

They’re trying their best. :’)

Thank you for writing! This was a lot of fun.

# THE FIRST LINE HAD ME GENUINELY CACKLING # BLESS TORIEL COMING TO THE RESCUE THOUGH # DEAR GOD THOUGH SANS. SANS WHY. MAYONNAISE DOESN'T GO THERE. STOP. # NO. # DO NOT.

Thank you to @pointless-pencil​, cardboardhydrates-liked, @altostratusplunge​, @gossyreblogs​, sesurescue, and antarestyl for your nice comments!  And thank you to everyone for liking and reblogging.  I always appreciate it.  <3

Some more specific replies:

@antarestyl​ said: 

Awwwww this is super adorable. Stealthy good uncle sans is the best xD also Grillby. Grillby understands and supports sans no matter how silly… it is cute. ^^ thanks for filling it!

It was fun to write!  :D  I always love how Sans just...doesn’t want Papyrus to know he does stuff for him.  He’s such a doofus.  I figure he must get like that about all the people he really really cares about.

sesurescue said: 

#Sans never saw it coming

I bet that really grates, too.  He’s proud, but it still gets on his nerves.

antarestyl said: 

This is really cute. XD I love how well Grillby knows Sans like… emotionally? Like he knows how Sans will react to stuff and what he values but he lacks the simple FACTS of what he likes and hates XD And it makes so much sense, your portrait of Sans is somebody you get to know by watching him, not by asking him stuff. Also yes, the image of Grillby baking like a ton of test cakes is hilarious and he was so proud of himself in the end. <3

Thank you so much!  Grillby wanted to give Sans a joke so much for his birthday, and he could’ve just like tried to sneak a whoopee cushion he’d written “happy birthday” on into their bed or whatever but he wanted it to be a *special* joke so he put all this work into it and had to learn more about sans to make it perfect.  luckily sans appreciated the effort, lol.  

@gossyreblogs​ reblogged this from it-refused and added:

Hahaha oh dear. Papyrus has some grievances to voice, I see. xD

Also: “…I made it with love.” I can just picture Grillby leaning forward in all solemn sincerity and it’s beautiful.

# >_> TUMBLR SEEMS TO HAVE TAKEN AWAY THE OPTION TO USE HTML W/ MOBILE REBLOGS. RUDE. # IT'S KIND OF NEAT SEEING GRILLBY'S THOUGHT PROCESSES THROUGH THIS WHOLE THING 

Papyrus has a lot of feelings about his brother’s health.

And Grillby ABSOLUTELY made it with love.  With all his heart, Sans.  Every bit of warm feeling he has towards him is in that cake.  Meanwhile, Sans wonders if eating some of the wrapping paper sitting around would get the flavor out of his mouth. 

Ugh, Tumblr.  Apparently it fixed like one thing with this mobile update and made a bunch of things harder?  (I heard it’s harder to tag now, or something?)

sesurescue reblogged this from it-refused:

#Sans gets himself into hot water#As usual

ty for the hot water joke

gossyreblogs reblogged this from it-refused:

#dear lord the whole first 3/4ths of this was a constant background drone of 'sans. sans no. no sans. stop.'#haaaaa I do not have the constitution for poor decisions and secondhand embarrassment xD#this was good though#it's really neat to see some follow up to that other fic too :D#also watching these two sort out interpersonal communication is always interesting. it doesn't necessarily come easy to either of them.#I mean. Sans mostly obviously. but. xD

god, i’m sorry, lol, i know that feeling.  since i know what’s going to happen, i don’t have anywhere near the problem writing this stuff than i do reading it.  

@gossyreblogs:

#don't have a lot of coherent comments for this particular chapter#other than to say that the darned summary has been filling me with all sorts of dread for so long and this segment ISN'T HELPING#I mean sort of maybe? Is this what the summary's referring to? There's a sentence drop#in which case hey at least there are several different ways this could go#ffffa;sdlfj regardless#'looking forward' to where this goes and by that I mean dreading it but eagerly awaiting the chance to read it regardless

Yeah, that line is what the summary’s been referring to!  This first part took sooo much longer than I thought it would, so sorry for stretching out the misery for so long.  And for...a little longer.  I should write some short cute stuff to make up for it.

undertailsoulsex:

#i love how well sans gets along with the kids#i wish he would get some help

Sans loves his niece and...i just looked it up and the gender neutral term for your sibling’s kid is “nibling.”  I learned something new!

At this point everyone including Sans is on team “get some help, Sans”

Thank you for reading :D

@asexualchemist:

Sans, get your shit together and go *home* D: (Had to snort more than once, great chapter. c: )

tabascosugar said: 

Those last four sentences, man! Such fantastic mood whiplash. XD

Poor, poor Grillby.  He has to deal with moving to a new place when he doesn’t want to, really, and now he ALSO has to deal with Sans being his friend.

@gossyreblogs reblogged this from it-refused:

#omfg sans marshmallows seriously??#wow#in all seriousness though#this whole thing makes me happy#I'm really glad you decided to explore the setting a bit more because this is great#I don't know why but stories actually focusing on older people and their continuing lives tend to lie close to my heart#it's not that they can exactly hit close to home I'm not even 21 yet but#something#they're important okay and I'm always glad to see more of them in the world# mean I guess I have (and have had) family members in these situations and I care about them#and I know (hope that) I'll be there too eventually#and I grew up reading Discworld which kind of undermines the 'young and virile protagonist' mold in several cases#so it's not exactly a *mystery*#I actually honestly have to wonder why this stage of life isn't explored more thoroughly in fiction to my knowledge#I mean we certainly seem to have a morbid fascination with exploring our mortality on plenty of other fronts#and with *defying* our mortality or searching for the life and joy in spite of it on several other fronts#but less so on this one...? for some reason...?

Stories like that are kind of around, but hard to find?  Somehow I ended up reading a lot of stuff with older people having fulfilling and exciting lives when I was a kid, but it was still a drop in the bucket compared to the other stuff I read.  My mother reads a lot of books in the uh mystery cozy genre (that’s what she calls them?), so they were always around growing up and i would read anything around, and there were a lot of them about older people who were solving mysteries.  They were divorced or widowed, usually.  There was one where the main character was a woman who had been a guy’s mistress in a long term affair for a large portion of her life, which is an interesting and morally complicated character to have as your lead.  Maybe Miss Marple opened the gate for stories about older people in the mystery genre?  I dunno.  I also watched “Waiting for God” and “As Time Goes By” as a kid and both of those had romances involving older people, which is probably where I started to find it so romantic to tell stories about people not giving up on living their lives and finding new love even at what is considered to be the end.

Anyway, I’m very happy that you’re enjoying it!  I wrote a bit more of this thing a couple days ago, but I’m trying to decide right now if I want to see if I can finish it up (i don’t want it to be super long) before I post any more.

@twixtandshout said: 

“It’s worth making up for lost time.” *immediately starts roasting marshmallows on the poor guy*

Think of all the pranks he missed out on getting to play!  He has to get started making up for those lost years!

@asexualchemist said: 

;__; *is mostly stuck on the “they could have been friends way earlier”-thing* T_T

Yeah :( In this fic, they both had very full lives with lots of friends and family, but...

It would’ve actually been interesting too if I wrote this so that they were good friends all these years, but there’s no escaping that having them get together at this age means they missed out on years of time they could have spent together romantically.  Always going to be a little sad.

sesurescue reblogged this from it-refused:

#Wholesome <3#And a little sad#Love it though <3

Thank you!  And thank you for all the nice comments on my undyne prompt fills this week.  You’re so sweet!  

@pointless-pencil reblogged this from it-refused:

#I love this

undertailsoulsex said:

honestly the image of Papyrus all snug in his bed, muttering under his breath as he slept fills my heart with such warmth.

(and the rest of the chapter was so good too - i’m really liking how sans is struggling with this news)

Thank you!  Papyrus was almost peaceful, there.  I had a short bit that I cut out after they get back and Papyrus is in the kitchen.  He didn’t stay peaceful for long, lol.

tabascosugar said: 

Yeah! Celebrate the insane words count! And props to the continuous decomposition of Grillby’s sense of humor.

“Decomposing” is a good way to describe it.  Grillby’s sense of humor died years ago, at this point.

@gossyreblogs said:

“Grillby lay back. He tried to take it in. "I met your dad?“ He glanced down at himself. "And…I wasn’t wearing a shirt?” His sudden distress made his flames wave around like there was a strong wind.”

Ahahaha, Grillby, you are a *treasure*.

I was having trouble getting motivated to work on this, but I knew that Sans was going to have another dad visit and Grillby was going to be nearby to comfort him.