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Hey there! I wanted a place to post specifically art, as opposed to my main blog which will be for whatever random thing strikes my fancy. All my art will be posted here in the future, and I put some of my better work here from the main blog.
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Made a blog just for my art, enjoy
people debate about whether wojaks carry fascism within them inherently or not, and yknow, maybe there's something to be said about how symbols work etc, and then you see a communist make a meme that features the one that's drooling with a dent in his head to represent someone who is incorrect, and you just kind of take a pause and ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with everybody
deeply desiring any discussions of toriel at all even once to have any amount of nuance whatsoever. for the love of fucking god
no, actually, it isn't normal to get drunk as hell when you don't know where your kid is during a thunderstorm. it also is not a good thing to blast music well into the night because you simply expected your suicidal teenage kid to hang out with you and a stranger after you're thoroughly wasted
no, this doesn't make toriel an irredeemable monster. no, this doesn't make her worse or as bad as asgore (if you believe this one you're just a misogynist I think). its an irresponsible lapse of judgement, but like, this is a game where basically all the adults are making bad decisions and harming kids the kids they're responsible for for human reasons. this is what adults do to children in real life also, actually
it's kinda frustrating because like. toriel reminds me incredibly heavily of my mom. and oh boy did my mom make bad decisions that hurt me. but like. in the grand scheme of things I can't reasonably say that I'd do any better. like, she tried. she thought she was doing a good job. toriel thinks that she's doing a good job. is she a good parent? is there such a thing as a good parent? she's certainly wasn't the right parent to be raising chara. given that kris is implied to have been in and out of psych wards, and appears to be currently suicidal, I highly suspect that she's not a good choice of parent to kris (as dealing with unwell, suicidal children has already been shown to be something she and asgore collectively were not equipped to handle). I don't think my mom was particularly equipped to deal with a suicidal kid either
but like. idk. toriel is a single mom who was raising two kids. she was getting actively stalked and harassed by her ex husband. there's a lot to juggle. things fall into blindspots. you miss signs you really should have picked up on. does this make you a bad parent? probably. is there such a thing as a good parent? I dunno. leaning towards no. I don't think she's like. evil. I think it's complicated. I also think a lot of you are misogynists and not equipped to be having this conversation. I also think a lot of you are way too quick to go to defense for what happened at the end of chapter 4. I think it depends
weve all been there girl
i'm always saying someone needs to get noelle some neopronouns
noelle you were born to be an it/glitchself girlthing. free yourself
“Put him on his knees give him something to believe in” has the exact same energy and depth of meaning as anything Hozier puts out on the regular but since it’s sung by Megan Thee Stallion no one takes it seriously. In this essay I will-
To flesh this out a little bit more: both Megan Thee Stallion and Hozier write and sing really sexual songs, but they’re different in that Hozier’s music is typically “let me worship you” while Megan’s is usually “I’m worshipping myself,” which makes all the difference because it’s an acceptance of power rather than the giving of it. He’s the sinner, she’s the saint. However, taking their difference in genres out of it, people don’t usually seem to take Megan Thee Stallion’s music seriously in comparison to Hozier because a) her lyrics are more overtly and blatantly sexual and b)she’s claiming her sexuality for herself, and that scares a lot of people. The secret, no-one-wants-to-talk-about reason is that she’s a confident black woman, which terrifies people way than sex does. In conclusion, Hozier and Megan Thee Stallion are two sides of the same poetic, sexual coin, but people just don’t want to admit it. Which is WHY a collaboration between Hozier and Megan would be so powerful that it would change the timeline as we know it yes I will elaborate
the girl next door and shards of freedom at the bottom of the lake
ok. i'm back to yapping about metanarrative of deltarune guys strap in
noelle's character trajectory in chapter 5's weird route felt so much like that of a secret boss. let me just start off with that. it felt so much like what we've seen from jevil and spamton especially, where the weight of the nature of their existence drove them to insanity, and to actions that ultimately led to their downfall. but it's just generally a throughline between all the secret bosses that their arcs concern attaining freedom or challenging the narrative in some way.
noelle's breakdown feels like one of a person trapped in a daily tedium that feels limiting, yes. but i find it more interesting and poignant to read it as one of a character slotted into a very specific role, one they've grown aware and tired of. noelle's theme is literally called "girl next door". she's The Neighbor in the play that is deltarune, the one that's centering kris. she's The Healer Mage Girl in the game played out by the prophecy. she sings in the church choir, she lends you pencils and she has a sick dad and a strict mom. as far as archetypes go, she's not "supposed" to be mean, show assertiveness, or like creepy things. and no one knows this about her, that she wants to do all this. well. mostly no one.
considering this piece of dialogue, it is somewhat interesting to me how the weird route centers the two weird kids, ones who don't fit the tale's mold. i don't really mean kris being weird in-character here, by the by. they're just. weird, narratively. they're not the vessel we made. and the player surely didn't expect the character they're controlling to be literally controlled, having their own agenda and actively opposing their actions. they're very atypical in this way. just what does the "weird" in "weird route" imply, exactly?
anyhow. noelle's breakdown is one of the rebellion against the script of the game. much like the secret bosses, and just the concept of the prophecy in general, her arc enters a conversation with the prescriptivism of the game's storyline, of "this is who you are. you're just a construct. you're supposed to be this thing specifically, in order to fulfil your function in the story." and, since kris, acting unlike themselves, is the living proof for noelle that it doesn't have to work this way, she sees the line to break free, by any means necessary. even if those means require using her childhood friend for it by dragging them into a lake to drown, just like the player used her to get onto this route at all.
there is some sort of tangent here i'm struggling to not indulge too much about the connection between glass and water in the game. shadow crystals are glass in the light world, ones you can look through to see different things. much like you can see things through your screen. it is not baseless to consider those pieces of glass, given to characters that break off from the story, as fragments of screens - deltarune is already weird with its diegesis this way. we do find some glass shards beside water. and water also is known to make devices malfunction or break. sort of curious noelle uses the depths of the lake to break away from this fully digital story by literally going out of bounds.
we've already been made aware of noelle's propensity for breaking video games, and that it may come into play considering the fact she herself is also within a video game. i have to say it's very nice, narratively, to see this realized this way. it is, otherwise, obviously horrifying! nonetheless, i'm very very interested what this attempt - successful or not - will mean for noelle and the plot of the weird route, down the line. i'm gonna stop before i start talking about how going through the weird route in chapter 5 permanently impacts all your files, i can't contain everything in one post yo
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"I want my media to be historically accurate"
Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?
Oh, you mean you want 100% white people. Even in crowd scenes in port cities. There's a different word for that.
"X did nothing wrong" actually no, X did a lot of things wrong. X fucked up. But I also know that people like X live their lives under a microscope, and that accusations against them tend to get magnified by bias both conscious and unconscious alike, and frankly it scares the crap out of me that you have not only chosen not to question what you've heard, but that you are seeking such drastically disproportionate vengeance on a total stranger. that's not normal.
It’s important to realize that Blue Is Yellow’s boyfriend, but Yellow is not Blue’s boyfriend. he’s his pardner
y'all really weren't kidding with "the biggest indicator of ralsei being transfem is how hard ppl are angrily trying to disprove it" oh my god the shit i've seen this past week 😭
utdr fans will convince themselves that actual straight-up woody from toy story is gonna have major significance to the plot and is connected to some demonic cat creature whose role/identity is still shrouded in mystery because of an unrelated shitpost toby posted to tumblr like a decade ago that was rediscovered and went viral around ch2, but if you so much as imply that ralsei wants to be a girl they'll act like you shot their dog
im starting to think a lot of ppl might not have realized that the whole mike thing is poking fun at them specifically
TOBY. TOBY WHEN I GET YOU TOBY.
Deltarune fans don't even tell you what happened in weird route they just look at you like this
the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less
the unfortunate side effect of developing a more critical eye for fan behaviour as a product of society™️ is that new fan takes on a piece of media become fairly predictable. oh the white guy with daddy issues is your favourite? you think the asian man is an adorable subby cinnamon roll? you think the woman in a position of authority is either mom-coded or a total bitch? say less
