keep your voice down.

you look like you've seen a ghost!

[mutantblood]

read my about

[meltesh28]

It's getting dark... Let's stick together.

[sol-rust]

Colored sketch.. excited for the new chapter!!

[pomb-o]

Is it obvious that Kris is my favorite character?

+ waterfall fanart because it's my favorite area

[kyoukorpse]

this was supposed to be for valentines whatever!! go my sweetieful krusielle!!! ❤️

[tac-bat]

-feels the aura-

[foundonpluto]

toriel needs a tutorial!!!!!

[tertiaryapocalypse]

toby fox mustve felt good as fuck when he made chapter five deltarune soundtrack sound like the backing track to any east asian country in an american movie

[mutantblood]

deltarune fans ignoring the central part of the chapter being orientalism

[mutantblood]

is it just that they are mistagged or why is it that i cannot find like more than 1 post that is explicitly centric on the orientalism that is deltarune chapter 5. geniunely is there posts that im missing or has everybody decided to ignore it.....?????????

[fishgummy]

actually ☝️ orientalism is NOT about lumping all asian cultures together, it's specifically about the manufactured conceptualization of asia as an "other" in relation to the west. as palestinian-american writer edward saïd says in the book where he coined the term, "Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient — dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient" (3).

and in my opinion, this is exactly what toby fox does in ch5. there is no concrete reason for him to invoke japanese imagery, fashion, music styles, architecture, etc etc that is actually tied to the plot. none of the main characters of this chapter are explicitly japanese or even asian-coded in general. ch5 both fetishizes japanese aesthetics and fails to meaningfully engage with them. & regardless of intention, this message is communicated to the fans as well, reinforcing ideas they may already hold of asia as the "other". i really liked other parts of the chapter, but this aspect is orientalist, plain and simple.

[jesncin]

cw/tw transphobia, transmisogyny, and violent hate crime

I'm of two minds writing this since, to my knowledge, I think donations for the affected parties are now closed and the hateful accounts were suspended. But I figured considering so little is written about this outside of Indonesia, that I could share what I know to spread awareness.

Recently our president declared queer people a "non-military threat". This included an anti-LGBT education push as a religious prevention method among the youth.

With any systemic enforcement of bigotry comes people being emboldened to do horrendous things, and among many rising incidents of hate crime, a viral incident happened in Bogor. A hate account on instagram called bogorbersihlgbt uploaded videos of a vigilante hate group systematically attacking low income trans women on the streets. At least 15 trans women were attacked, beaten, doused with urine, and some even stripped naked.

Thankfully the community came together to pool money to support the victims affected, and last I checked it appears donations are closed. I myself reported the bogorbersihlgbt account yesterday, and despite the account having only 2 reels, they had upwards of 14.4k followers. I noticed another new account called bogorbersihl93t or something like that, which appeared to be their attempt to post again. Same hateful stuff, reported it too.

All this is to bring light to how comfortable people are to be hateful in this country. They felt so confident in their crime that they recorded it and posted it online. And why wouldn't they? The president is basically giving systemic support for this kind of cruelty. The only silver lining out of this being how quickly the community looked out for each other that the funds needed were raised before I could even share the posts myself. That's some gotong royong magic that I love to see, and one we'll need as things get rough for us.

This was nowhere near the first or the last incident of vigilante violence that will happen, and these hate groups always target the most visible and vulnerable of our community. In this case being low income transfemmes who work the streets. Let's look out for each other, always.

[anglaised]

“so u only liked the black characters in cartoons as a kid” yesssssssss bc they were just like Me and i wanted to imagine myself in the same fun fantasy magical adventure worlds that the white kids got to be apart of by default

[pinketine]

I think a lot of you understand oppression as "how many people are mean to you online" and not like. A systemic thing that affects all facets of one's life.

[baguantte]

whos up deltaing their runes

[meltesh28]

let's hangout together for the rest of our lives or something dude

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level