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#deltarune #other people's art

tvlandofficiall

what do you think of the idea that each of the flowers represent kris to some extent?

as a sort of pair to my last ask; yes, though again i'm unsure of the authorial intent. aqua seems to be the one most immediately similar to kris in dress and appearance, but i feel like overall she is far less like kris in personality than she initially appears, and may be instead somewhat influenced by the view of kris held by others (the “weird kid”, a troublesome and carefree prankster, ect.) flowery seems to be a sort of externalization of kris’ fear of being replaced or left behind by their family; as well, i can see him being a microcosm of kris in situations where asgore only really payed mind to them as an “in” to give flowers to toriel. but yellow, i think, is the flower that most directly reflects kris’ own internal world. yellow in particular seems like an almost caricaturish version of kris’ self-image; constantly wracked with guilt, constantly engaging in self-sabotaging behavior at the slightest provocation. it’s easy to read asgore’s vengeance-driven and violent behavior as something kris may have seen before and internalized; the flowers overall know asgore was chief of police, but not unlike asgore's light-world children, they don’t really seem to get what that means or what his temperament did to lead him there; flowery seems to get about as far as associating asgore’s conspiratorial behavior with his violence and tries thusly to dissuade it, but yellow internalizes the violence without a second thought. it’s incredibly likely, at least to me, that he’s a major cause of both kris’ and yellow’s guilt; and while i do think yellow’s desire to be a cowboy is fairly earnest, it does stand out to me that he is the one second-most tailored to asgore’s preferences behind flowery (as well, kris is the one primarily associated with allusions to asgore’s cowboy fixation; kris notably does something that causes tenna to freak out after mentioning it, which i think corroberates the idea that asgore doesn’t treat kris super well day-to-day). blue, then, acts as sort of a hopeful endcap to yellow’s krisisms; he turns out to be the culprit behind the case of yellow’s missing petals, but he took them because he wanted to use them to make a romantic gift to share with yellow, and yellow realizes (well, after self-flaggelating again,) that no crime had been committed in the first place. kris is doing a lot of things their father would call “wrong”; keeping dess’ whereabouts a secret, creating dark fountains alongside her; but in the end, darkness is a force i feel we’re meant to sympathize with.

#deltarune

ohcorny

being a published author yourself, do you ever feel like these days people are too reliant on word-of-god social media posts when analyzing stuff? ive noticed that in the 2010s creator confirming things over twitter or w/e platform instead of putting them in the actual meat of the story was pretty widely mocked, but recently it feels more and more like it's just expected behavior now from fans. it's made me feel kind of down about ever putting my own stuff out there since it seems like people are less interested in actually reading and analyzing a piece of art on its own now. is this a feeling youve dealt with at all?

lol you've either got impeccable timing or you saw me butting heads with people about this Elsewhere today (in which case for future reference, if you're responding to something i talked about under my other name, it's better to ask me about it on the account of that same name rather than come here)

anyway.

yes i have dealt with this. i find it immensely frustrating and intellectually lazy on the part of the audience to go "the creator said this, so it's the only correct interpretation." you can't reach people who are like this because they are not interested in being reached, learning, or considering another perspective. they are only interested in being correct, and as far as they're concerned, there is only one person who can be correct--the creator. and if they align themselves with that person, they will also be correct, and therefore the winner of any argument.

we used to mock it because it was less about audience members proving themselves right, and more about those creators attempting to get credit for work they didn't do. claiming such and such character COULD be gay (so please keep watching) but never following through because they either never actually cared or were never actually able to. but now fandom cares more about who is and isn't allowed to be Right, when back in the day nobody ever Got to be right. and we have parasocial access to everybody involved in a project and can demand they hand out answers like knives to fight each other with.

and i'm so completely uninterested in it when it comes to literary and critical analysis! i don't care what the creator said in a tumblr post! i only care about what i read, watched, saw--what was put directly in front of me--and how it made me feel. if an author wanted me to feel a certain way, or leave with a certain interpretation, they should have put it in the work. that's the point of making the work. outside information can affect the interpretation of a work, but it does not supersede it.

also authors can be full of shit. i told everyone sylas was straight for the entire duration of never satisfied and people believed me, despite everything about his behavior pointing toward a sensitive gay boy trying too hard to perform heterosexuality for his father.

but i said he was straight, so i guess he must have been!

this is all part of why i push people to theory post about hunger's bite in the tag and not exclusively through me. my book is a rich text with a lot of metaphor and subtext. i know what i wanted to do with it, but if i have to tell you, it means i did a bad job.

and a lot of the time, the people who reach for "but the author said" are defending a bad job.