Apparently Tsp Has Officially Reached Its End Well I CALL BULLSHIT!

apparently tsp has ‘officially’ reached its end well I CALL BULLSHIT!

the end is never the end is never the end is never the end is never the end and over and over and over and it just keeps going because that’s its nature. as long as there are people to open the game, the stanley parable will go on and on. the only way to free either of them is for the game to be made permanently inaccessible; which would, realistically, only be caused by an apocalypse.

just like in the skip button ending.

just like in the game.

it always loops back to itself. it will never, realistically, end. no end in sight. at all.

and maybe that’s how it’s meant to be

(sorry had to let out the demons i’ll get back to paratober)

how’s this for an announcement

not to rain on everyone's parade, but sometimes i do think there's something almost sad to me about the fact that I have seen so much stanley parable fandom content that exclusively revolves around alternate universes that have progressively grown further and further off-track from the narrative of the original game to an extent that i find barely recognizable at times. something about how whether or not it's true (i can't tell people that they don't enjoy something 'enough', i have no metric by which to measure how cherished the original is to people making this content) it almost feels like one of those cases where fanon precedes canon in terms of how much enjoyment people find in the content, as if people wanted the story to be *more* than it was to an extent that makes them override the original mentally. i think it doesn't help that a lot of people perceive fandom content as existing to fill some kind of 'deficit' in an original work- to give people what they didn't get in the original, so to speak. you've probably heard the spiel about how tragic tales have the most coffee shop AUs drifting around in their fandom tags, and such. the difference is that in most cases, those coffee shop AUs aren't more commonly posted about than the source they're based on. i can't really say the same for the stanley parable at this point. people are so enamored with AUs and versions of the game's story involving modifications of the narrator or the limited range of setting laid out by the game itself that i'm sad to say i don't see people engaging much with actual moments from the game itself all that often.

is that just a matter of personal preference? yeah, totally, but it does make me sad. I really *like* the fact that the Parable is so limited. I think it does the narrative a massive service that there truly is no finite ending or escape, that the Narrator is never given form nor further interactability with the game, that nothing ever goes wrong or changes in a way that matters. It's a fundamental part of the narrative to me. Changing that is fun to people, and I get that- but at some point to me it just feels like so much about what I love about the game's narrative is just being reduced to the meaningless backdrop to shipping and the opportunity for something people Want to see more.

PARATOBER DAY 10

sorry for being late but uh i drew both my tsp oc and ocs that arent mine from the arg im involved in . im free

Me, going through some messed up life stuff and hitting the worst depression/anxiety slump I’ve experienced in years: Let the universe hear my plea, will I ever experience happiness and whimsy again?

The Stanley Parable: Hey kid, you want 8 minutes of new content??

PARATOBER DAYS 5 AND 6

Day 5: Internet

Day 6: Loud