Don't the 'should I block this person' polls risk harassment? I know that this is not your intention and that most people are chill (Especially since your audience on Tumblr is pretty small), but I do feel like this is a valid concern
I mean responding to people in literally any way risks harassment when you have a platform right. I obviously am under the assumption that my followers (the ones I wouldn't block for being rude or annoying anyway) wouldn't harass people but if they do I also obviously don't approve of that
True for most of that, but I feel like there's a pretty big difference between 'responding to people in anyway' and 'making a poll for whether or not you should block someone'
I mean yeah it is different in the sense that it is a specific example of a way you could respond to someone instead of the entire set of ways in which you could respond to someone
Don't the 'should I block this person' polls risk harassment? I know that this is not your intention and that most people are chill (Especially since your audience on Tumblr is pretty small), but I do feel like this is a valid concern
I mean responding to people in literally any way risks harassment when you have a platform right. I obviously am under the assumption that my followers (the ones I wouldn't block for being rude or annoying anyway) wouldn't harass people but if they do I also obviously don't approve of that
True for most of that, but I feel like there's a pretty big difference between 'responding to people in anyway' and 'making a poll for whether or not you should block someone'
Lategame Idle Games are great because the game will be like 'Get a billion currency in order to rebirth again :)' and then you buy an autoclicker and get The Right Honourable Hyper Edmund Jungulus XXVII The Great (Number) in currency per second
Offering 'one egg' is a thing a man behind a tree does, who is often theorized to be Gaster, who is originally from the game Undertale, but Deltarune has put more focus on him
why do undertale-deltarune fans assume every mysterious character is the same guy. just because there's one mysterious guy whose name you know you just assume everyone you don't know is that guy? get real
idk gaster's Probably involved with deltarune and it's a weird guy who is only referred to as "a man" (as is Gaster), not too big a stretch. I personally think he's not the same guy as the goner maker sequence guy tho. maybe different fragments of gaster
egg guy also only appears in between two rooms sometimes and mystery man in undertale appears in a hallway in between two rooms sometimes
so they got the whole room that does not normally appear thing going on
but also egg guy gives you two eggs actually in the two chapters so this is not an egg guy reference
No no cause in Undertale he was implied to be experimenting with alternate universes and he only appears sometimes based on a random number that's chosen when you start the game (named the Functional Universe Number number)
And Deltarune is an alternate universe so he's probably up to something
Also his leitmotif appears in a bunch of bosses' music and also weirdly Noelle's theme, so he must be there somewhere
I have never heard of this and neither has the wiki so I'm pretty sure the 'Functional Universe Number' thing is mandela effect. The F is for friends who do stuff together is canon though.
Offering 'one egg' is a thing a man behind a tree does, who is often theorized to be Gaster, who is originally from the game Undertale, but Deltarune has put more focus on him
why do undertale-deltarune fans assume every mysterious character is the same guy. just because there's one mysterious guy whose name you know you just assume everyone you don't know is that guy? get real
idk gaster's Probably involved with deltarune and it's a weird guy who is only referred to as "a man" (as is Gaster), not too big a stretch. I personally think he's not the same guy as the goner maker sequence guy tho. maybe different fragments of gaster
egg guy also only appears in between two rooms sometimes and mystery man in undertale appears in a hallway in between two rooms sometimes
so they got the whole room that does not normally appear thing going on
but also egg guy gives you two eggs actually in the two chapters so this is not an egg guy reference
We know that the Mystery Man is probably Gaster because the room in which it appears in only shows up if you have a Fun Value of 66 (The Fun Value being a random variable defined at the start of a playthrough that can make several secrets show up), with the number 6 being heavily associated with Gaster in the code, and also because the sound that the Mystery Man and the Gaster Followers (Other Fun Event characters) make when they disappear sounds a lot like Gaster's Theme (Which shows up in another Fun Event) when slowed down
okay I don't even know how to dismissively summarize the amount of information this adds to the theory that egg guy is gaster and therefore the word "egg" in this post makes it a "gaster reference". this is literally nothing there's no meat there
It could also be papyrus since official merch shows papyrus hiding behind a similar tree, though this can just be a throwaway gag
We KNOW gaster is somehow connected to deltarune, his leitmotif pops up everywhere, the tweets announcing deltarune were done with a gimmick of gaster hacking Toby foxes account, etc. etc., but we don't actually know if mystery man is Gaster, because it's a mystery that's not answered yet. He's a decent guess for it, but it's not confirmed, it's just fanon
now does gaster's leitmotif show up everywhere or is gaster's theme just a melody line that's so short that you can find a "version of the theme" in literally any song you want to find it in
Offering 'one egg' is a thing a man behind a tree does, who is often theorized to be Gaster, who is originally from the game Undertale, but Deltarune has put more focus on him
why do undertale-deltarune fans assume every mysterious character is the same guy. just because there's one mysterious guy whose name you know you just assume everyone you don't know is that guy? get real
idk gaster's Probably involved with deltarune and it's a weird guy who is only referred to as "a man" (as is Gaster), not too big a stretch. I personally think he's not the same guy as the goner maker sequence guy tho. maybe different fragments of gaster
egg guy also only appears in between two rooms sometimes and mystery man in undertale appears in a hallway in between two rooms sometimes
so they got the whole room that does not normally appear thing going on
but also egg guy gives you two eggs actually in the two chapters so this is not an egg guy reference
We know that the Mystery Man is probably Gaster because the room in which it appears in only shows up if you have a Fun Value of 66 (The Fun Value being a random variable defined at the start of a playthrough that can make several secrets show up), with the number 6 being heavily associated with Gaster in the code, and also because the sound that the Mystery Man and the Gaster Followers (Other Fun Event characters) make when they disappear sounds a lot like Gaster's Theme (Which shows up in another Fun Event) when slowed down
Kirby lore level 1: Kirby is a cute pink guy and he eats the cake and King Dedede is a mean guy :)
Kirby lore level 2: Kirby is infinite strong and he kills gods on a random tuesday. LOL
Kirby lore level 3: The Kirby series has built patterns throughout its decades of histories to create intruiging connections between otherwise innocuous events and characters aw SHIT a BUTTERFLY
The greatest injustice ever faced is that I almost certainly started the still thriving "clown husbandry" tag on here, but any discussion about it (from a know your meme page to a youtube video with 500k views) says it's a joke of "unknown origin" or credited to this post, likely bouncing off of mine (which was actively circulating at the time with like 30k notes):
This is a tragedy for many reasons, most of all because it wasn't just an offhand joke but actually a direct response to some of the funniest online hate I ever got:
They're erasing the truest history of tumblr: its desperate need to seethe and argue over every obvious joke with more than 10 notes.
anyways here is the canonical pet clown. according to me
best as i can tell 90+% of people weighing in on this on twitter not only don't understand how chromosomes work they also just don't know shit about boxing
@fluffyblue-multifandommess Wait, why Taiwan? Isn't the athlete this whole BS controversy is about Algerian?
ok so what happened is as follows:
in 2023 the IBA disqualified 2 boxers, Imane Khelif (Algerian) and Lin Yu-Ting (Taiwanese) on the grounds that they had failed 'gender eligibility testing'.
the Olympics Committee has (I think?) recently broken ties with the IBA citing various ethical concerns so both athletes were re-evaluated and allowed to compete
the current controversy is mostly focusing on Imane Khelif bcos she basically one-shotted another boxer but people, including JK Rowling, are also saying that Lin Yu-Ting shouldn't be allowed to compete
this has resulted in a lot of very angry Taiwanese people (rightly) calling JKR a racist who can't tell Asian men and women apart. tear her apart guys!!
Also terfs are tying themselves in desperate knots as they frantically argue that a person born with a vulva but with elevated levels of testosterone has to be classed as a man without even once tasting the hypocrisy. Like hey terfs do you see how your worldview is built on quicksand and patriarchy
the thing about her having elevated testosterone is actually hearsay. the IBA have confirmed that the gender eligibility test that she failed wasn't a testosterone check so there's no publicly available evidence as to her testosterone levels. it might be that she was found to have XY chromosomes but that's not been reliably confirmed either.
but yes people are now arguing that the only thing that matters for 'biological sex' is your chromosomes even tho literally no biologist in the world would agree with them.
& to avoid reblogging this over & over:
@phoenixcatch7 #Woman who punches people in the face for sport gets punched in the face during said sport#Apparently she's okay though which is good. Do we know anything about her opinion on this or?#My dad was telling me about this before and he showed me a pic like look how tall unfair genetic advantage#And I was like dad. The cis woman is also taller than the male referee in that picture. Cis woman with that height? No one cares#'oh the boxer transitioned because they kept losing in the men's team' I cannot begin to explain how stupid that is NO ONE DOES THAT
in the name of factual accuracy: both women are cisgender. Imane Khelif might be intersex which is not mutually exclusive with being cis. u can tell your dad Algeria has no legal recourse for gender transition lmao!
When a man knocks out his boxing opponent in one punch, everyone posts Saitama memes and goes on about what a badass he is.
When a woman, especially a woman of color, does the same, especially if her opponent is a white woman, she is IMMEDIATELY vilified and her gender questioned. Multiple billionares use their enormous platforms to spread unfounded conspiracy theories about her.
this post was a fucking emotional rollercoaster to me because i laughed at the joke way harder than i should've then immediately filled my terror meter when i noticed the account name was enemy-viv, my name's vivian most of my friends call me viv, i just encountered an enemy viv what the fuck, only to see that they're deactivated and feel intense relief that i don't need to be on guard while roaming tumblr
In Undertale, there are 10 numbered SAVE files, going from “file 0″ up to “file 9″.
The UNDERTALE folder on the player’s computer may contain file 0, file 9 and file 8 depending on certain conditions.
These files mutually take each other into consideration. The fact that “file 6″ exists means that there was a “file 5″ already, otherwise file 6 would have just been called file 5. File 5 implies the existence of file 4 and so on.
This means that either all of those files are canon, or none of them are.
The game makes it pretty clear that we are in the first scenario given that the Flowey X fight directly refers to those files being an in-world thing.
Another case in which we can clearly see the impact of the different files within the game has to do with Frisk.
Lets say that a neutral route is played, then, the player SAVES just before fighting Asgore. Afterwards, instead of fighting the king, the player decides to RESET. The player then decides to go through the ruins without SAVING even once, but is eventually killed by a monster.
Where does Frisk come back to after dying in this situation ?
One would expect Frisk to either go back to the flower bed at the very beginning or to LOAD back to near Asgore where the player last SAVED.
But neither of those is what happens. Frisk actually comes back to this location :
And that’s not all. Lets say that now, the player closes the game and opens it up again. Where does Frisk LOAD to then ?
This time, they do LOAD back to near Asgore.
Frisk has just LOADED to two completely different points in space and time without having SAVED in between the two. This should be impossible with Frisk having control over only a singular SAVE file.
What happened here was that two different SAVE files were actually used :
Yes, the 4channers were awful and they persist in misgendering me, while simultaneously complaining I don't post anymore, with zero self awareness.
4chan harassment alone isn't why I left. This is.
It's the transphobia.
I have been in the fandom since 2015. I have been arguing with transphobes in the fandom since 2015. I have been making write ups about why it's important not to misgender the - yes, fictional - characters since 2015, because of the complete lack of caring it communicates to real nonbinary people.
Last year, I wrote a post that got 7000 notes and is currently pinned to the Deltarune subreddit. I poured my heart out about what the nonbinary characters meant to me and why they were important.
It was argued over, I was mocked for it, I included personal details about my family situation and my difficulty coming out, I was mocked for it.
I wrote it because I believed it mattered. Because for eight years, the constant comment when mentioning the pronouns of these characters has been: Who cares?
At any point since 2015, Toby could have saved the transgender people in the fandom the trouble of having to "prove" the characters were nonbinary by saying something.
Last year, Legends of Localization comes out - thoroughly reviewed by Toby - and calls Frisk, Monster Kid, and Napstablook "ambiguous", designed to have an unclear gender.
You can see in the collage of screenshots how the transphobes in the fandom took that. One delightful individual was so triumphant over the victory, they put the statement in their Reddit subtitle.
So each time this individual posts to the Undertale subreddit, people will see this quote, carried around like a trophy with all the pride of a dog with a rotting pelt in its mouth. That's how much it meant to the transphobes in the fandom. They're delighted by having this quote to throw back in the faces of transgender fans.
Because who cares? The majority of the fandom isn't transgender, or on tumblr. It's easy for them not to care about transgender people.
You can block block block as many people as you want (I had thousands blocked here) but you can't curate your way out of transphobia. It isn't possible.
Because the majority of the fandom is on Reddit, or YouTube, or Twitter, and they, quite vocally, do not care about transgender people.
Some people may recall that I stopped posting to the Deltarune subreddit after the mods decided to filter all posts containing the word "nonbinary" without telling anyone.
The mods stopped filtering the word after I posted this and apologized, but the point was made: people in the greater fandom think the word "nonbinary" is a dangerous, impolite word, one that only invokes argument and therefore should not be used.
So I stopped posting on the Deltarune and Undertale subreddits. I never made YouTube or Twitter content. I set my blog to only allow people with Tumblr accounts to view it. I turned off all asks, anonymous or otherwise. I blocked thousands of people. It did not work. Transgender people can't curate (read: quarantine) our way out of transphobia.
Years of this, of transgender fans of the series getting attacked for trying to claim and fight for nonbinary representation in the series, and "ambiguous" is the language Toby signed off on.
If the characters are meant to be nonbinary representation, the last eight years has proven that this needs to be stated outright, or the onus of "proving" it falls on the vastly outnumbered transgender fans in the fandom - something that we have never been able to do without being profusely harassed for it until we shut our mouths.
If the characters were only ever meant to be ambiguous for the sake of "freedom of interpretation", then this should have been communicated with seriousness and respect to the transgender fans of the series years ago, not as a throwaway line in a translation book. (and to be clear, this is not at all the author's fault - Toby corrected and reviewed the language used)
This is why I left and why I'm never coming back, no matter what happens next. I have had enough of the transphobia in the fandom, and I have no way of fighting back anymore.
Transphobes in the fandom want the work and the passion of nonbinary people but won't even use a pronoun to show the basest level of respect and humanity for us.
I'm watching our rights being taken away day by day, and people like this just want me to keep producing my worthless little game theory posts.
Trans people don't owe you our "content" or our passion, particularly not when we produce it for free in the face of eight years of a deeply transphobic audience that we are expected to either beg for the most basic respect or to turn our heads down and hide away from so they can continue either hating us or pretending we don't exist or that that part of us doesn't matter.
"Who cares?"
When people ask this in response to talking about being nonbinary or respecting pronouns, they know transgender people care.
What they're saying is, who cares about transgender people?
For this reason, I'm requesting people not archive anything I've written, though I know I can't enforce this. That includes the Character Analysis and the "(Characters) are nonbinary why it matters" post, which I wrote in such profoundly naive good faith. For every "who cares" I have received over eight years of being transgender in this fandom.
If my identity as a nonbinary person doesn't matter, if nonbinary people don't exist, then neither does the content I made which they feel so entitled to, even while misgendering me.
I can't even think about this series without becoming angry and miserable anymore. That is the lasting, final impression the art has had on me. I can't think about it or the characters without remembering how little transgender people matter to most of the world. I've had to completely cut it out my life. There's no rage as potent as the helpless one. "Who cares?" I can't make people care.
You can't have the creations and art and "content" made by transgender people and our destruction at the same time. And maybe you can't prevent our destruction either, but you sure as hell can use a damn pronoun.
I will never understand why there are so many transphobes and homophobes in the fandom when the game is so unashamedly queer. It promotes a message of acceptance, and you literally need to help form Gay (RG01 and RG02) and Lesbian (Undyne and Alphys) relationships to get the best ending, and that's not mentioning queer-coded characters like Mad Mew Mew.
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