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hi lainey. shadow

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manual typewriters are beasts. theyre often angry if you are not the owner theyve always known (speaking of this - a good place to look for typewriters are estate sales . usually you're lookjng at 20-50usd for a functional typewriter at an estate sale, compared to 100+ at an antique shop or online). but yes manual typewriters are angry creatures . they fight you on everything. my first manual was a hermes3000 in a light powder blue and honestly this typewriter does not like me i think. most typewriters you find out in the wild are going to need a little work - new ribbon, a nice deep clean - but will be relatively functional (esp, again, at estate sales. ppl dont usually keep broken shit). manuals are fussy and will probably want a little more out of you . my hermes needs a full realignment and more than a few of the keys stick . not optimal for your first typewriter .

most importantly - and something they dont tell you when you first start using typewriters, cough - manuals take A LOT OF FORCE TO PRESS THE KEYS. more than you are expecting. it is not like your hp or your mac or dell or alienware or whatever - you have to WORK to type on a manual. i was typing with just my index fingers for the first few months i owned my hermes because i physically couldn't 1) get a feel for the keyboard and 2) press down on the keys comfortably with my other fingers. it hurt after a little while .

that being said, owning a manual is an extremely fun little knickknack to show off. double points if its functional and you actually put it to some use . typewriters are one of those things that get better the more you use them ; you kind of have to break them in, and more use means theyre easier to work with. electrics are similar but are often more forgiving . all this to say that a manual is worth it if youre willing to make the commitment. theyre fun to use . make you feel like a 1940s office worker .

as far as actually writing goes, all manuals and early electrics are not going to have any sort of backspace functionality. honestly i think its rlly helped with being deliberate about what words im using. you can get correction tape (obviously) but it feels a little bit different . i think it helps with just getting ideas onto paper concisely .

no matter what kind of typewriter you get (if any at all) the most important thing is going to be the user manual, whether you actually have the original paper copy or a scanned version youve found online. understanding your typewriter is like reading a recipe. its important to know what each button does and how to use it . if you grew up learning typing on a computer you do not know how to use a typewriter ; youll be able to type but probably not much more . instructions are your best friend . your typewriter is an animal .

typewriters need a little more love in the world . i highly recommend looking around at garage sales, estate sales, thrift stores if youre interested in owning or using one, theyre honestly such an efficient and modernly-under-appreciated piece of technology that really revolutionized the world . thanks for allowing me to ramble i hope this isnt too unwanted

oh this is so informational thank you!! I know next to nothing about typewriters except what they look like and that they make the nice clicky noises. I don't know if I'll ever get one, but if I do it's not gonna be for a few years just because money + I'd wanna set that up and have a nice space for it once I'm living in my own place, and atm I'm still in the 'post college graduate living with parents' phase of my life.

that's really good to know about electric vs manual typewriters though!! I'd probably get an electric for my first one because I rely so heavily on my typing speed. typing stuff on my laptop is muscle memory at this point so I'd be very annoyed if my typing was super heavily impaired on a typewriter. I do know the manual ones take a lot more effort to push down. I've encountered them at antique stores before and have tried to type a tiny bit and it's definitely a challenge

O YEAH BABEY

this gets into some Real off canon concepts, but I wanted to try and weigh how characters could possibly end up with power like the player and how characters like Chara, Flowey, Gaster, etc all seem to be able to have some Sort of control, albeit no total control like the player.

Kris in the au gets the slightest ability to jump timelines and sneak between the cracks of moments, less like a ‘reset’ as they can jump to mere minutes in the past, but just enough to send them back in hopes of ‘fixing’ an outcome. HOWEVER, this is only achieved when Kris is under an imeasurable amount of stress that relates to their Red Soul, and how we’ve been shown that the red soul operates outside of Kris as it’s own being, possibly the player.

And yknow how in Undertale, Monsters can consume human souls? 

Noelle basically does that, after tons and tons of pressure weighs on her and slowly cracks the glass in her perception of time ( which involves a lot of side bullshit about the theory of relativity, im Very Sorry i have theoretical physics in this au), and she basically just becomes so overwhelmed in a [very specific situation] that she manages to consume Kris’ soul out of their body and gain this ultimate access of power --- the Red Soul gives all of it’s power to Noelle, because unlike how it sat in Kris’ body, Noelle CONSUMED this red soul and now has total power over it. She could absolutely destroy the timeline if she wanted to, reset everything back to normal; the red soul has no choice, it’s no longer a active control in the body, but is now Being Controlled by a teenage girl having a mental breakdown.