love is the province of the brave

25 | any pronouns | dyke | book weirdo | grad student final fantasy, UT/DR. icon art by @sabohno!

[cyborgpluviophile]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/72857951/chapters/223879891

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Fandom: Deltarune

Ship: Spamton/Tenna

Characters: Spamton, Tenna, Kris

Rating: Explicit (there are dicks in this chapter)

Warnings: dissociation, internalized transphobia, internalized ableism; see the notes for more detail

[cyborgpluviophile]

i need to get back to writing spammy.... my horrible little man who causes problems on purpose....

[daily-specilfeacher]

Day 84: abandoned healing

[pixelatedcrown]

It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...

I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!

I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!

(lots more after the Read More cut...!)

Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍

There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.

When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.

These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.

Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…

Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.

Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄

I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?

After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.

As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️

This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.

Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.

Say it with him, folks!!

For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.

Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.

I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?

Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[tmblr-sexy-garbage-man]

HAPPY SPAMTENNA WEEK!!

Today is the one year anniversary of Chapters 3 and 4 of Deltarune! You might be wondering if I've got anything to share to celebrate, and... well...

How about the first chapter of my next longfic project? :)

Once Cracks of [NEON] is done, I will be working on a new longfic heavily inspired by @owlgams Additenna AU! While our timelines will differ, I will be using her OC of Ion with her permission and guidance! (Huge thank you to her again!!)

More details about the update schedule for this fic are in the author's notes, but I will be focusing on finishing Cracks before I update this one in earnest. For now, however, here's a summary, and our first chapter...

Ant Tenna should be happy. He's good at his job. He's well-respected amongst the crew. He holds a prestigious position, to be sure. Ant Tenna is the right hand man of the Lord of Screens himself — Ion, the Dreemurr's plasma screen TV. That's all he's ever been, and that's all he'll ever be. After all, he's only an Addison. Right?

Happy Birthday, Tenna! 🎉

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[owlgams]

This is starting off so good already! A unique take on my Additenna AU! I love how you write Ion so far!

[sodomit]

Been thinking about making this post for a while, so here it goes.

The trans community has a specific type of transphobia towards nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth, and that is forcing womanhood onto them posed as purification or salvation.

The reverse, forcing nonbinary people assigned female into the man role, also exists, but it's frequently done with open hatred (e.g. "those they/thems are actually men trying to sneak into women's spaces") and therefore it has been called out by several people I interact with.

The former, not so much.

Many tend to see misgendering of someone amab towards womanhood as fundamentally benevolent or unserious. Real people develop new kinds of dysphoria and quit trans spaces because of that, including some of my acquaintances, but it's all seen as accidental collateral damage for the noble goal of making more women discover themselves.

"But what if you're denying a closeted self hating trans woman a chance to be called a woman" is seen as a more valid argument than the distress being actively done to people of other genders, and it's fucking bonkers.

I refuse to keep centering non-abinary* perspectives in this conversation.

* abinary spectrum includes agender, xenogender, and other things adjacent.

[mevil]

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[quinnception]

This post is no more than two days old as of June 3rd, 2026. All of these blogs were nuked in two days or less.

[the-book-reaper]

@staff @support @changes @tumblr

we made a huge stink about the reblog change and they reversed it after a week. we need to give that same energy to this

the first pride was a riot. where's that energy when our sisters are literally being silenced?

[im-a-ramblr]

HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY

[smarties-art]

* So, what do you think? Pretty sweet, right? * Our finest work yet! The ladies are gonna be crazy over you * We even have matching arms now :)

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[chaaistheanswer]

Jousting at the festival to impress your lady love!!!

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[strawmanfallacy]

MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT ❤️ MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT MEAT

[dagenssvenska]

KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT ❤️ KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT KÖTT

[translatingpoststonynorsk]

KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT ❤️ KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT KJØT

[translatingpoststoyiddish]

פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש ❤️ פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש פֿלייש

[arqueete]

obsessed with this sign i saw taped up outside the bat room at the zoo yesterday. the enthusiasm, the hand-written note, the bat drawing.

[hotshotriot]

its like strippers and the economy to me