DELTARUNE IS HERE

She/her, main is junimain https://linktr.ee/junicane

[junicane]

Tag guide

My art: #junicane art

Type of post, explanation of tags are in brackets: #vid, #fanart, #theory (predictions), #analysis, #meta (analysis involving content creator’s perspectives/the fandom), #live (to do with ongoing or recent streams), #meme, #photo

Fandoms: #dsmp (Dream smp), #hermitcraft, #osmp (origins smp), #gf (gravity falls), #otgw (over the garden wall), #su (Steven universe), #suf (Steven universe: future), #3rd life smp

Additional: #doomsday, #disc day, #tommy prison arc, #wilbur returns, #wilbur age thing, #pogtopia, #pride, #vlogs, #tommy exile arc, #l’manberg

Characters are tagged with full names. Ex: #wilbur soot, #georgenotfound, #captain puffy, #fundy, etc.

[ikurko]

[ikurko]

Normal shenanigans

[ikurko]

ben drowned </3

[arrimorr]

Thinking a lot about Papyrus and flowey being friends again....my fav comfort and horror dynamic at the same time. What a duo

[demilypyro]

i think Dave knows

[herrscher-of-yuri]

"Kurt definitely would have loved this. I think it has the same kind of...message, you know, the vibe that he...it's cool, yeah."

[tmblr-sexy-garbage-man]

Alright, Chapter 5 is barely 24 hours old, so I apologize if these takes turn out to be lukewarm or obvious in hindsight, but I need to throw this out there or I'm gonna explode.

I wanna talk about Flowery.

Everyone fucking hates Flowery. Why?

Everyone is comparing his reveal to Tenna's, but those circumstances could not be more different in terms of narrative. Tenna is, from the jump, supposed to be light-hearted and fun. He is the personification of the Fun Gang letting loose and having a good time. This is what makes his eventual reveal that he's working with the Knight into an actual betrayal. If we didn't trust Tenna, that moment wouldn't work.

With Flowery, the vibes are rancid from the moment he's revealed. He's charming and charismatic, but something is off. Not to mention that Ralsei absolutely despises him.

So, why make Flowery unlikable? What's the point?

Well, the point is that Flowery is the exact opposite of Tenna.

With Tenna, we like him, but he's wrong.

With Flowery, we hate him, but he's right.

Everything that Flowery does to Asgore is an exact mirror to what Ralsei did with Kris and Susie at the beginning of the game. In fact, the entire chapter is a complete mirror of Chapter 1's dark world!

Flowery gives Asgore a home, gives him friends, tells him that he's special. And yet, we spend the entire chapter trying to get Asgore out of that situation, with the understanding that it's dangerous.

But what about it is dangerous? The denial of reality? Because Susie is now living in a dark world. The exact thing that Asgore gave an entire heartwarming speech about not doing.

When Flowery tells us that we could close Castle Town instead of his dark world and we would be no closer to the Roaring, we hate him because he's right. When he says that all the flowers want is to live and a chance to make Asgore as happy as he's made them, we hate him because he's right.

And, at the end of the chapter, he tries to defeat us with the power of friendship. The other flowers never turn on him. He uses a mercy attack against us, and Kris responds by hitting him with a sword.

Y'all, were supposed to hate Flowery. And we're supposed to feel uncomfortable about why we do.

[ekrixart]

i like them

[evercelle]

* the words i've been waiting to hear

[calware]

the way there are people like "i'm against the concept of june egbert because it unbalances the boy:girl ratio of the beta kids" like im supposed to believe thats a bad thing. okay 🫶🌈 yay

[mleelunsford]

I don't need to explain myself

[neobotomy]

[wolfsteax]

isn't she lovely?

[nomadthingsunderscore]

They call me double o seven, 0 Job application responses, €0 in my bank, 7 times thought about drawing c!tommy this week

[sporesgalaxy]

I have an awesome conspiracy theory for you relating to jax tadc

[sporesgalaxy]

So he makes these jokes about calling himself hot, but this comment later makes it pretty clear they're just that-- jokes.

yeah yeah, guy who acts full of himself but doesn't actually like himself that much, we've all seen it. what's new?

[sporesgalaxy]

His statement there implies he doesn't love being a cartoon character-- but then he states that he's given upon trying to be anything else.

All this stuff he says about being an archetype, too. Guy resigned to his lot in life, pretends he loves it. We know the tune well!

Interesting that does his cheeky little motioning-to-his-own-body move from his "ain't I a hottie" jokes, by the way. Put a pin in that.

Anyways, he's insisting he's choosing to be who he is, right after referring to becoming "who he is" as "becoming part of the machine." He's lying again, about liking the way he is. Duh, right?

But I have something else to bring into this☝️

[sporesgalaxy]

Exhibit A: The highly marketable maid outfit.

Canonically transgender character has some interesting comments about this. Comments that echo Jax's mysterious comments about Zooble from earlier.

Now, I'm not always the best at this, but the only connection I can think of between Zooble, bartenders, and tattoo artists, is that they're all..........kind of dykey? It's giving "two toxic homosexuals interact at atarbucks." But that might just be me.

Anyways thanks Zooble, back to the stupid purple twig thing.

[sporesgalaxy]

Wow, Jax, making fun of your own romantic prospects on the basis of your gender in relation to the hypothetical romantic partner? Interesting choice! It would be a shame if it stopped being straight somehow.

Oops! I tripped, and Jax's very particular metaphor for having his deeper feelings and true desires revealed fell out of my pocket!

.................which could mean anything!

Anyways, I now draw your attention back to his particular word choice when he jokes at the expense of his own appearance:

I swear there was another instance of him joking about his appearance specifically in regards to masculinity but I can't remember where. You get my drift though.

He's not the pinnacle of masculinity, and he knows he's not, so he jokes about it-- because it's funny! It's funny that he's not a "real man!"

Being funny-- that's a type of guy you can be, even if everything about being a man doesn't appeal to you!

It's a role! A role he can fulfill! His role that he's stuck with, that he's given up on fighting. The funny one. Nothing else underneath the funny egshell, thank you very much!

There's just no use even thinking about changing who he is. That would just be depressing! And it's no good to anyone if the funny one can't be funny. If he can't fulfill his role. If he ever wants anything else, anything more genuine.

Jax already lost a friend once when he was too open about how he really felt, too obvious about who he really is-- and he clearly won't EVER let that happen again!

[tadc-observatory]

I've had some speculation about this since I saw this doodle board from Goose back in 2023, where he also states that he is the pinnacle of masculinity:

There are also a couple of asks she answered that also come to mind:

The first two make me think of the advertising for the maid Jax plush (sorry that the dialogue is slightly different; the video doesn't have subtitles in English so I chose French>>English):

The third ask reads to me like he probably has some internalized misogyny. However, all of them have multiple possible explanations; these responses aren't definitive.

HOWEVER however, Goose has stated in a LOT of asks how she projects onto Jax and has stated she relates to him the most. This can easily include any struggles she's had/having with her gender identity.

As far as theories go, this one has more to it than I initially thought.

[sporesgalaxy]

Incredible stuff, thank you. I'm adding one more gooseworx drawing that I personally believe to be relevant

[ampblamp]

hi hello yes i've been a transfem jax truther for a bit. Pleased to see this and i too have my own gooseworx drawing contribution

[ramblinseahorsey]

Didn't goose have Kovach audition for Jaxs part with No Girls Toy from Raggedy Ann and Andy: A musical Adventure?

[robotbeholder]

Something Goose posted (and immidietly deleted) on Bluesky.

[robotbeholder]

Update: Goose just posted this

[sporesgalaxy]

THE HATERS AND THE NAYSAYERS WILL BE DIRT BENEATH OUR FEET

(link to Lily Wachowski video I screenshotted for this)

[sporesgalaxy]

[gnarly-websurfer]

its over. we won.

[behaviornerdwithahat]

So many fiber arts have difficulty levels that are less about your level of skill than your ability to tolerate extreme multi-step processes.

[behaviornerdwithahat]

Its also probably one of the reasons why any fiber art is a gateway drug into every other fiber art. I could do [other fiber art], I basically do half of those steps already for [current fiber art]. If I’m already doing 18 steps to make this sweater, is it really that many more steps if I spin my own wool? If I had sheep, I could skip the step of sourcing my material.

[copepods]

away it goes