trying to be an art blog (and failing)

i'm delia (not really), i go by they/she/any, and this is where i do things! (profile pic by @constellationcore! they've got some cool art!)

[alcedeerie]

Hey guys!

It’s Alcedeerie, your local weirdo! Making an intro post cause all my friends have one! Have fun reading!

About Me!

I may refer to myself as Alcedeerie, but you can call me Delia or Alcie! I go by any pronouns! I'm an adult, and i’m proudly aroace!

my project(s):

The Indie Animation Series Archive, a google doc with every single indie animation series I can find on it (yes I am actively updating it, yes I do accept requests)!

my cool tags:

#me post #my art

my current mania(s):

13 Cards

Диванный Аналитик (Couch Analyst)

I also like/tolerate and may reblog/post:

Linguistics/Conlanging posts

Undertale/Deltarune

Homestuck

Danganronpa

Object Shows

MCYT

FNF

Smile 4 Me

Faith: The Unholy Trinity

Will You Snail

various other assorted fandoms

whatever non-fandom stuff my mutuals put on my dash tbh

Other places I am!

I have discord, ao3, and bsky account, but i’m not putting either here yet because I’m cautious like that.

However, if i put my ao3 here someday, you can check it out whenever you want! I don’t post much though, and I can’t finish a multi-chapter fic to save my life.

Disclaimers

this blog supports all ethnicities and sexual/gender identities, so if you don’t wanna be respectful, get the hell out and never come back.

If NSFW is the only thing you post, don’t follow me, i’m not into that.

Do not expect me to give any money to your donation posts; I do not have any money transfer apps. 

This has been Alcedeerie, signing out!

[kora-kat]

Created a magic system at work. Spells you write out on objects

[kora-kat]

Casts "Dance, mother fucker dance" on you

[prokopetz]

Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.

[prokopetz]

@ffoxer replied:

Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"

It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.

[ulysses-but-somehow-more-transer]

take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me

[d1s4strous]

take my butt to niceys city where the grass is yay and the girls are pet me :)

[superdz555]

take my bottom to neutral city where the grass is grass and the girls are see me

[tall]

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[yffresbeard]

i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

[rabbithaver]

prev im so sorry to put you on blast like this but please know this had me in hysterics

[flipchild]

[kiwinatorwaffles]

listen. if your mutual suddenly starts referring to The Character with different pronouns, you must go along with it. that character is trans now. they’re right.

[ijustpeedalittlebit]

*quietly whoops like a bird*

[niceinchnails]

Everyone. This is NOT a drill. I have hacked into the backend of [tumblr]. I'll save us all.

[astronaut-offical]

Sorry, ✨️ but I ✨️✨️ think ✨️ I'm ✨️✨️ going to have ✨️ to leave ✨️✨️ shortly ✨️ because there ✨️✨️ are ✨️sparkles✨️ coming out of my mouth *cough*✨️✨️ *cough* ✨️✨️✨️*cough*✨️✨️✨️✨️ *coughcoughcough*✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[rainydaymay]

Being high has me saying things like “I like friends” as if it’s some profound relization

[creepymutelilbugger]

a puff of truthweed will have your breath carry only the undeniable

[vulpine-dyke]

As a chronic "good heavens" sayer, and as a casual rhyme enjoyer, it's been really hard not to pepper in the phrase "good heavens six sevens" into my vocabulary. It would be so much fun to say, but it would immediately alienate both young hip people and old antiquated people and really only be enjoyed by whimsically autistic transgender women, so yeah :/

[atlaslovesedm]

this is what i do every time you say something nice about my art

[localcoffeeshop]

“i have to listen to my body’s needs” secret boss fight written by person who has chronic and disabling wrist pain which has fundamentally changed his relationship to his hobbies and his job <- i care it as someone who has also had chronic pain in my wrist/hand for 5 years

[localcoffeeshop]

another thing i tend to think about with this. i also just think in chapter 5 there's a theme of care and dependency. the flowers have extreme guilt over being taken care of by asgore. flowery conceptualizes himself as weak and useless. in the dark world, his fantasy, he tries to return the care given to him to asgore to "make up for" asgore taking care of him when he should've died decades ago. it's an extreme example, but i also resonate with his feeling.

when your body or mind puts you in a situation where your reliance on other people becomes really explicit, you're trained by the world to see that as shameful or to see yourself as deficient. your efforts to ignore your needs just to avoid "being a burden," will leave you worse off. you punish yourself because of deeply internalized ableism.

regardless, even by virtue of being a living thing on this planet, you are already designed to need others. you have to listen to your body's needs even against a society that teaches you you shouldn't. you have to be okay with the fact that you have needs. sometimes your needs are different or are greater than the person next to you, and all you can do is listen to your body and turn to others when you need them. you're still a person when you need people.

when toby says this:

it's interesting to me how much he uses the language of deltarune to express this feeling. your hopes and dreams slipping away, and bitterness growing is literally the explanation we get for shadow crystals (and so wept the fallen star, making rivers with its tears. then, slowly, from the bitter water, something grew. it looked like glass). this is also the crushing feeling when you lose a sense of control when you're in pain, when you can't do things the way you want, the way you used to. but when you find yourself still able to fly, you do so because you've adapted. you've listened to your body. you've learned that listening to your body means changing the pace, letting yourself be cared for, letting yourself be helped.

as far as toby's said it, having to expand his team has made deltarune a better game. chapter 5 is so expansive because so many people helped to make it. Pink's fight has sprite work from guest artists, music with Camellia, bullets programmed by Toby's team. She is, to me, a love letter to Deltarune's development process as a whole and how it has shaped Toby, and a reflection of the kinds of thoughts Toby has shared with us about developing Deltarune alongside pain. I also think it's a beautiful follow-up to Gerson's themes of storytelling and authorship (letting go of "perfection" + accepting the contributions of others = both about rescinding control and embracing perseverance). Pink is also so much more than this, but I've been thinking about this a lot.

[orchidbreezefc]

this is great meta! it also ties really wonderfully into the more obvious theme of nostalgia and an attempt to recapture some idealized time long past, and lends additional insight to that being reinforced by the semi-metatextual return to undertale and chapter 1 of deltarune!

[pillowspace]

Sometimes having an OC is like "this character is an outlet for my insecurity and trauma" and sometimes it's like "this character is an outlet for my love of vampires :)". Sometimes it's both

[pillowspace]

Sometimes you think it's "this character is an outlet for my love and nothing more :)" and then you look it over later like "shit. product of the deepest depths of my soul again"