art and also if i think something i'll post it

19, she/her, basically a deltarune blog atp....

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[brixbraxium]

"Go Back"

This finding is not my own, but is fascinating and I want to share it, so here it is. Credit to Temsyod for this one.

You know how in Undertale, Toby made a deliberate point to have "Here we are" appear in several places.

It didn't end up mattering, but it was still a deliberate choice. It's possible that DELTARUNE is setting up something similar. May we direct your attention to "Go Back". This two word phrase shows up a lot, surprisingly.

(This one is notable because "Go Back" basically interrupts the thought here)

Super contrived moment here where Susie has to tell us to go back and say goodbye to everyone

And, what is, in my opinion, perhaps the most telling and interesting case:

It is fascinating to me that "GO BACK" and "GO FORWARD" are presented as the choices here. Like, Toby needed to include definitions for what this actually means in parenthesis. Why aren't the options just "FIGHT AGAIN" and "MOVE ON"? I think it's because Go Back is important... It is also worth noting that Go Back is the "good" option here, it is the option that allows us to potentially beat The Knight. There's also this instance in Undertale which may be relevant:

This isn't foolproof, and there's a handful of non-relevant instances of it showing up, but I still find it interesting regardless and will be keeping an eye out for this phrase come Chapter 5.

[kyoukorpse]

hello and good morning to lesbians and bi women 💚💚💚

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[the-haiku-bot]

post so nice had to

reblog it twice and force it

down everyone’s throats

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[thesungod]

i know i need to get over it but. the fandom bafflement at zuko and katara being shipped together will never cease being crazy to me. leaving aside narratives, themes, chemistry, actual canonical romantic coded scenes… he’s fire and she’s water? if you know anything about how fanon couples are created you’d know they never stood a chance of NOT being shipped come onnnn they might as well have never interacted and they’d still have fans based on vibes alone. not our fault the show decided to feed us well and good instead.

[itblillian]

Not to get into shipping discourse buuut all im gonna say is that if zutara was m/m people would be ALLLL over it

[demiboydemon]

For speed runners, this is canon.

[catinabed]

Weird birds.

[noodlearg]

happy international women’s day!!!

[not-unlikely]

Shitty comic for an au I made

[butterflyjam]

BUT LO, ON HOPES AND DREAMS THEY SEND THREE HEROES AT WORLD’S END

[bugdews]

“just forget about us and make some real friends, okay?”

[redstonedust]

too much undertale/deltarune content has me playing other games and thinking "well naturally at some point they must address the seperation between player and player-character, their status as a vessel and the inherent unfairness of having us control their life, right?" as if thats just a normal thing for videogames to contain.

[redstonedust]

do you think mario resents me for making him drive go kart

[cool-deltarune-fun-facts]

Deltarune Fun Fact:

Toby Fox has stated that it is an intentional decision that certain kinds of merchandise (such as plushies) haven't been made featuring the Lightners. This is part of an elaborate setup for later in the story, where the player will have to record themselves destroying all Ralsei-related merch they own if they want Ralsei to survive the Roaring.

[itblillian]

Toby fox has gotta be the only mf who sells merchandise to enhance the themes of his story. me when my game is about completionism in video games and doing morally questionable shit for the purpose of wringing all the content out of my art. and the merch for this game has hidden shit inside that requires you to cut them open to see all the content, irreversibly altering the original product. NO ONE ELSE IS ON THE SHIT THAT TOBY IS ON 😭

[itblillian]

I can't wait to meet you!

[jaggedspine]

I'm not the one you really want Instagram | Twitter | BlueSky • Do NOT re-upload my art. • Do NOT use my art for generative AI training. • Using my art for profile picture(s) is OK with credit.

[crtter]

Forgive me for still be harping on this, I’m still processing the whole “Spamton and Tenna used to be a canon couple” thing but man. Their arguments must have been crazy. Like, extremely theatrical guy who speaks with the cadence and volume of a game show host vs guy who speaks like an infomercial presenter and has advertised nothing but scams and risqué websites for most of his life. Neither of them particularly normal in the head. You could probably hear them from across the street.

[crtter]

“And now for tonight’s big question! What could possibly have made Spamton forget that Mr. ‘Ant’ Tenna’s 🎂BIRTHDAY🎂 was today?? A: He’d forget where he left his nose if it wasn’t stuck to his face? B: All he thinks about is business, business, business? Or C: It slipped his mind when he was making G👀-G👀 EYES at that Shadowguy HUSSY who brought him his latte yesterday? He has 3🕒 SEC🕒NDS to answer or he’ll be sleeping on the couch, folks! What will it be!?”

“Great question, Ant, but lemme ask you this: Have you ever lost track of time because you’re up to your nose in work?? Is your partner always too busy choosing if he’ll wear the maroon suit or the vermillion suit to lend you a hand with the sponsors?? No?? Then you gotta try our newest product: MY SHOES!!! Walk a mile in them for once in your life and, for just $0.99 extra, you’ll get a sample of our all-natural CHILL PILL supplements!!”

[brixbraxium]

The code in the Guitar is probably not "1225".

HEAR ME OUT. HEAR ME OUT. I think it's longer than just 1225. The way the narrative actually treats it, we haven't yet gotten the code in the guitar. While we saw the first 3 digits as 1 2 2, Kris tears us out before we can finish it, and then there's the entire holiday manor SOUL sequence in which we struggle with Kris over the guitar, and then Carol shows up and ruins everything. Susie then goes on a long speech about how everything was going perfect until Carol showed up and then emphasizes:

That we will have to make another attempt on the Guitar Code tomorrow. This is re-emphasized later on if you inspect the shelter:

We know where one of the codes *is* but not its actual value. At least in the eyes of the story, we did not successfully retrieve the code hidden in the guitar. We will have to try again later in the story. But when discussing this with others, I commonly got a reply to the degree of: " But we already know the code inside the guitar, it's 1225! Why would we waste time going back to get it when we already know it! " And to an extent I get that. But I would like to propose something:

The code isn't 1225. At least, not completely. Consider this: If the code were just 1225, wouldn't... wouldn't Susie just be able to memorize that? It's 4 digits, it surely wouldn't be that hard. And look at what she actually says:

Not, "I couldn't really make it out", or, like, "I forgot it", but, she "didn't get to write it down". That to me seems like specific phrasing. You wouldn't need to write down a code that's only 4 digits, would you? Maybe at some point to keep it safe, but, in the moment? Susie's... Well, Susie is Susie, but surely she's not that stupid.

I refuse to believe Susie would see "1225" and go "Oh, shit, it's the code! I need a pen and paper right now, there's no way I can memorize this for a few minutes."

And so I propose a solution: It's not just 1225. It's 1225 plus some additional numbers- potentially a year? Probably the year Dess went missing. That could add up to 4 additional numbers, making it an 8 digit code, making it more reasonable that Susie would feel a need to write it down. Potentially foreshadowing for this also exists. Remember this scene?

The joke here is literally that there's a "code" that seems to only have 4 inputs at first, Susie literally suggests memorizing it, but then it's revealed that it's too long to memorize and must be written down, pen on paper.

Feels like it could be foreshadowing to me. TLDR: I think the code in the guitar is an 8-digit code, not a 4-digit code, thus solidifying the idea that Yes, we Do have to go back for the Guitar.