I have no idea what I'm doing

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Deltarune, Sonic and sometimes other things. Recently became obsessed with Project Hail Mary. Sideblogs: @aster-penumbra (Shadow the Hedgehog, mostly reblogs) and a few inactive ones. Oh, you want to know about me? Long story short: Aster, 21, she/her & aroace. also: SNOM!!

[asterism343]

I recreated the pluey yarn animation from the newsletter by hand so i could have a clean sprite. feel free to use this wherever

somehow this took like 4 hours lol

[eatingmarkerz]

jarona guy

[awallflowerdraws]

doing qifrey sketch studies instead of sleeping, olruggio would be proud 🙂‍↕️

[thezoruagirl]

@lucadrawss

[frankiedotbiz]

deltarune spoiler

[ilikecanele]

that famous Yotsuba&! parody

[asterism343]

NOOO DASHB‎OARD PL‎US FINALLY BROKE :(

or the horizontal navigation thing did at least i think the rest works fine

[augustellar]

(Prompt submission) Grace's Eridian doctors are large animal veterinarians. There are some awkward adjustment periods.

THIS 🤣🤣 imagining the absolutely bonkers kinds of eridians that must have been yoinked from their jobs to suddenly be in charge of keeping the FIRST SAPIENT ALIEN EVER alive brings me cackling-maniacally levels of glee. yes, please tell me more about the eridian lab tech who does the boring, monotonous cataloguing of bacterial glycosyltransferase enzymes suddenly having their space phone BLOWING UP. random eridian who's job is just. feeding and wrestling the big terrestrial predators at the zoo into taking their meds is suddenly missing from work, later found to be kidnapped and taken to Eridian WHO headquarters with new job of putting pills in peanut butter for rocky's new alien pal. thank you thank you!

[normal-creature]

op your tags pass peer review

[astronomifier]

In House of Leaves, Navidson spends huge chunks of the book stuck in his home, while in Homestuck, John leaves the house almost immediately. Really makes you think.

[fishpie64]

She's a little insane but we love her for that!

[rylandgracie]

i love posts that are about carl and stratt’s all encompassing grief for grace and the post ends with meanwhile grace in erid:

[catragemiau]

Cool cat and weird dog 🐦🐈

[brothdian]

overfed Kawkaw Deltarune

[batshit-auspol]

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

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[deluxe-distrait]

[jetix]

Isabella Tiger Moth caterpillar, 2023/10

[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.

[grey-rays-of-sunshine]

god i love juice so much actually

[grey-rays-of-sunshine]

could devore a caprisun like a vampire at a blood bank right now