if the flowers actually Do have the same persoanlitys as tbe souls that means theyre all almost exactly as i imagines aw yay! except unyay. bc ob god. ohh gld
somewhere in another universe aqua misunderstood her final moments as a game and laughed as she ran circles around asgore Somewhere in another universe green smiled and silently bowed their head and never blamed asgore one bit Somewhere in another universe asgore told yellow he deserved his fate-not because he belived it, but because he was still trying to justify it to himself-and the kid, freckled and lanky in a way his chubby cheeks hadnt caught up with yet-just cried and nodded his head and agreed. somewhere in another universe a kid trying to make her squeaky voice louder than her tiny body could ever manage told asgore she could win the fight without breaking a sweat, her trembling voice betraying her. somwnere in another universe seth tried to tell asgore a nice story, tried to get him to sit down just for a minute to just talk things through with them, to make him just Listen. somewhere in another universe blue understood they had a role to play, a part in this story, they knew this wasnt their story-but rhey warned asgore it wasnt his either.
You know, it's implied that the other humans could also reset; but Asgore, without his spirit broken, was strong enough that they fought him over and over until they each gave up.
It's also commonly speculated that the yellow soul was the last one before you.
Think about that. After all he's done, Asgore is trying desperately to remind himself why he's doing this, to hold himself together; and the thing that finally breaks his conviction is when one of the children, tears in his eyes, agrees with him. The child agrees completely that humanity's past actions are their own fault. Because hearing that, you can't help but understand how horrible all this is.
The soul is taken, of course. Yellow doesn't make it hard; he's already given in. But Asgore has lost that fighting spirit that overcame the determination of those before you.
Oh my god wait. What if Aqua's "Patience" was about dying over and over again to win battles?
Because Deltarune establishes her as brushing off pain easily as part of the game - if you attack her she gains mercy just like any ACT - so even if she kept losing to monsters she'd just want to come back and play again.
But it's also established in Aqua's team battle with Seth that, quite specifically, she CANNOT handle doing the same attack over and over.
She never even made it to Asgore's second turn, did she?
thinking more about aqua the pure unhingedness of her actions stopped specifically by repetition. might be a reflection of her exploring. way too many outcomes with resets. flowey syndrome but before flowey did it.
Two things absolutely changed my life as a writer. You ready?
One- Your characters can be bad people, they can do bad things. There doesn't have to be a reason or a moral. You can make them bad if you want to. No other reason needed.
Two- it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to be written. On my last book i literally wrote the words "dumbest version" on the top of the page because I had seen some advice to do that. It changed everything. I stopped trying to make it perfect, I just tried to make it. Period. Full stop. You can edit bad writing. You can't edit a blank page.
And honestly? Defiance is the best writing I've ever done. All because I let my characters be bad and I gave myself the freedom to write it badly.
most blacktip reef sharks are no more than 5.5ft long when mature. not only that, blacktip reef sharks are timid and shy, with no fatal human attacks documented. don’t comment stuff like this on my posts, save it for another post and stay off mine. thanks
I heavily recommend getting very good at spotting Meta glasses. Like I'm talking so good all you need is a glance. Otherwise, I would go about public life bearing in mind that more and more people are wearing expensive camera glasses that can record you without you realizing.
Learn how to identify smart glasses through visual cues, behavioral patterns, and recording indicators. Handle privacy concerns with this pr
Ready or not, the smart glasses future is upon us.
With smart glasses, there are concerns around being recorded. Fortunately, you can watch for indicator lights and certain movements as a way
Here are some basic primers. If someone is wearing what look like Meta glasses, they usually have a small circular camera in the outer corners of the lenses, like the one on your phone.
I would also regularly check their own product pages so you're on top of what the models look like. They tend to have larger frames, but come in a variety of shapes and colors.
Shop every style. Every color. Prices from $299 to $499. Browse Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta AI glasses and sunglasses to find your pair.
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film p
A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, which stalkers and harassers have repeatedly used to film people without their knowledge or consent. The app scans for smart glasses’ distinctive Bluetooth signatures and sends a push alert if it detects a potential pair of glasses in the local area.
The app comes as companies such as Meta continue to add AI-powered features to their glasses. Earlier this month The New York Times reported Meta was working on adding facial recognition to its smart glasses. “Name Tag,” as the feature is called, would let smart glasses wearers identify people and get information about them from Meta's AI assistant, the report said.
Not necessarily, because Meta has military contracts (source 1, source 2, source 3), is testing surveillance tech on their own employees and their customers (source 4, source 5), and there are at least two class action lawsuits against them for privacy violations (source 6, source 7, source 8). There is also some sketchy stuff about workers being forced to review material, which may or may not be used without the customer's permission, that is sensitive, graphic, and/or pornographic (source 9).
The American Foundation for the Blind has said that "The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are an accessibility tool only by coincidence. That makes them more affordable and, in many ways, unaware of the needs of users with reduced vision" although they do have seemingly positive views on Meta Glasses as a whole. (source 10). It also seems like their marketing push as accessibility devices began last year (source 11).
But to add even more into the nonsense, Meta is now toying around with adding a "limit" to the functionality of their glasses unless their users pay for more access (source 12). AND, as stated above, Meta has officially added facial recognition code in their glasses and only admitted it after being called out, which is basically the death of privacy as we know it (source 13, source 14, source 15). And oh look another lawsuit because of it (source 16) THAT THEY LOST (source 17)!
Long story short: I don't begrudge someone using them as a disability aid overall, but ultimately both their privacy and other people's privacy are being disregarded by Meta and that is not and should not be acceptable by any means.
I understand there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but there is a level of personal responsibility someone has to take when using them if they truly truly need them, such as opting out of sharing information, not filming strangers without permission, not posting footage of strangers online, opting out of facial recognition if possible, etc.
Disabled people deserve assistive technology AND privacy rights, and Meta is not the solution.
This tweet really made me think about what chapter 6 could look like. I'm not a big theorist, but with my (current) understanding of the story's themes and things brought up in the previous chapters, I have a few ideas...
This contains spoilers for Deltarune up to chapter 5, and is at once a compendium of relevant information, and both speculation and theorizing based on it. It's basically a lengthy argument that the tweet in the screenshot will be correct, and that the chapter will end in tragedy.
Under cut for length:
I think the sequence of events outlined in this tweet is pretty likely: Susie is not great at reading the room, and she's (as of the end of chapter 5) totally unaware of Rudy's condition.
Despite her baseline knowing the dark worlds are risky business, the end of chapter 5 has her more immersed in the escapism of it than ever before.
With the sense of escapism and her being caught up in her budding relationship Noelle, it wouldn't be out of character for her to make a hasty introduction.
As for Noelle: from what we can infer from both routes, she feels trapped, weak, and helpless in her current reality, a condition that will likely be on full display at the start of chapter 6 with Rudy's failing health. Now, I'm far from the best at predicting Noelle's actions...
... But regardless of how the whole thing goes over, if she's exposed to 1) dark worlds being real and 2) healing being real within them, it's pretty likely that she will make a dark fountain, and make it within the hospital, in order to help Rudy.
She'd lost her sister, and her only remaining buffer between her smothering mother and herself is her dear ol' dad, who by all signs is not doing well (Rudy in Undertale being deceased, him being sick and pushing himself very hard to set up the lights to make Noelle happy). At the festival, despite saying he's "feeling better", he's still coughing and clearly in fragile health, something even more obvious in the weird route. Whether he Fell Down or simply fell down, he's likely not in a good state right now.
It's a long shot, to think creating a dark world could let her heal her father. But in both routes, she is part of a conversation about doing "something crazy". While this could just be a parallel of normal and weird route, that doesn't mean it can't also hold significance for the story progression itself.
Still, why Noelle? Why not the Knight, or Carol, or even Susie or Kris if they're dragged along on this?
Chapter 2 shows Queen deliberating over the process of creating dark fountains, with Kris, Susie and Noelle being shown in the sky. Granted, Berdly could've been exempt because she doesn't consider him a notable Lightner, but the order of headshots and the fact this graphic exists at all seems like foreshadowing. Along with the entirety of chapter 2 being her trying to make Noelle create another dark fountain.
The hospital has been in the background of a lot of happenings in the game, and is one of the only major locations that's thus far been mostly optional to visit. Yet it has significance, both in housing Rudy, a character that's very likely to be chapter 6 relevant, and (if you take the egg rooms, specifically chapter 4's, as significant) a place that Kris also has some history with.
Rudy's accident is what separates Noelle and ends the Suselle fun. Flowery is pretty obviously meant to imitate Rudy (similar hairstyle, expression, pet names for Asgore), and he's all in our face only moments after we're exposed to Rudy's dire situation, leaving him in the forefront of our mind through the starting portion of the dark world. Toby also likes foreshadowing bits about the upcoming chapters in little ways, and I think this oddly specific battle flavor text in chapter 5 is one such instance.
So, with Rudy "falling down" and assuming Noelle will indeed be introduced to dark worlds, the dark world being opened by Noelle and it being done in the hospital seems like the most likely course of events.
Perhaps the most interesting question though, how does this benefit the story, and the current arcs?
Point one: Convenience.
We're approaching the eleventh hour, with Toby keeping a lot of major questions close to chest.
Chapter 5 has repeatedly asserted that Dark Worlds are like dreams, and it's heavily implied that the will of the Lightners within it have a major influence on how it will present. This is speculation on my part, but if Rudy is convinced that it's a dream, he might walk through it, exposing a lot of the secrets Kris and Carol have worked so far to hide from the player (and themselves).
Point two: Setups.
I've already mentioned things from chapter 2, 4 and 5 that seem like setups that have thus far had no clear payoff. Chapter 5 especially has given us a lot of teasers and new information about The Incident, a lot more than before (which was almost nothing), but still not enough to get a full picture. Due to pacing, it seems like we're on the cusp of getting at the very least some more critical information.
We've also been shown that healing moves can miss, presumably if the injury is too grave (but we don't really know as of now).
This chapter has also amped up on certain character-relevant themes: Noelle's desperate situation, Susie's wanton escapism, Kris's powerlessness and self-hatred.
It seems like all three might come to a head, where normal-route Noelle will finally "do something crazy", Susie will be faced with her own hypocrisy in trying to talk her down from it (paralleling Ralsei's own foil situation of ch5), and Kris feeling increased strain between trying to keep their Knight Duties and Hero Duties separate (which has already happened, in the ch3 Roaring Knight fight, and has potential for reprisal).
Also, at the end of the chapter, Asgore comes to realize his wrongs, and makes plans to actually make up for his mistakes. But he does so a bit too late, as the knight had already opened a second fountain, and he's taken by the Knight. (This is a tool that will help us later)
Point three: Story
This point will be more inherently speculative, so let's take stock of what we do know: the story is approaching its conclusion, Toby has implied it will be a turn for the darker, that the Fun Adventures are over. Chapter 4 was dark, and heavy on story reveals. Every chapter that featured Noelle also gave us pieces of her past with Kris. It's not unreasonable these trends will continue going into ch 6.
I've already talked in the previous points about how this presumed set of circumstances is ideal for the boiling point of several characters' arcs, and fits with Toby's trend of late-game being heavy on reveals.
For the sake of keeping this tidy, I'm keeping those reveals to just what has been implied as important in the normal route: the Incident, more information on Dess in general, and the final shelter code. Just these three could make for a meaty chapter, that also has room for character development alongside lore.
Now, here comes the fanfiction writing: my rough idea for what the chapter could look like, taking all this into account.
Susie approaches Noelle. Maybe when she's outside the hospital, getting some air, to "show her something". Cue her introduction to Castle Town, and being faced with the Dark Worlds being real, magic being real within them, and either freaking out or excusing herself in order to go to the hospital and make a dark world there.
Within the Hospital Dark World, Noelle pursues Rudy, who assumes this is a dream, or his life flashing before his eyes, and us seeing the timeline of events. If Carol is there and pulled into the Dark World, we could get a lot more context on their arrangement, and a lot of tension between Kris trying to keep their two alliances separate, being faced with their own memories of Art Therapy, and with Susie's focus square on retrieving Noelle continuing her dismissive streak towards Kris's distress at the information exposed.
Perhaps Noelle just uses the dark world to spend a bit more time with her dad. Or, she struggles to keep pace as he wanders through his memories, the dark world creating distance where there previously wasn't any. And when the time comes, she tries to heal him, only for it to miss, again and again, and once the fountain is sealed all that's left is his dust.
We are already familiar with how dark Deltarune can get, and that factor is amped up with every chapter. I think the chapter will not have a happy conclusion, and that Rudy is by all available information destined to die. If the outlined circumstances (Noelle-made hospital dark world) come to pass, these two could easily coincide.
Some observations from my friend @commanderfreddy that I hope speak for themselves
I don't think it'll be a happy goodbye, or a fulfilled goodbye. The dark worlds are Escapism, which while good in small doses, ultimately prevents you from living your life to the fullest. It drags you away from what's real and important, something pretty explicitly shown with Asgore in chapter 5.
Maybe it's all too much for Noelle. Maybe the set-up of chapter 2, of her creating a fountain within a fountain, finally comes to pay. And maybe that's when the roaring finally happens. Maybe the last piece of the prophecy comes just in time for chapter 7, the final tragedy unveiling.
Last observations (dubious, but they might become relevant)
One big question is the Lord of the Hammer, which is vague about chapter 6. But with Susie's white pen of hope, and Gerson talking about the younger generations taking up the pencil, "the author being swallowed by his own creation" feels like it may be alluding to a rather grim turn for Susie's character.
She's been acting odd all chapter. Starting with determination towards the shelter mission and with a lot of attention paid to Kris, but gradually losing the plot as she gets swept up in the moment and Noelle's attention. The story is testing her, her role as the mold-breaker, (no ribbons, not being willing to stand the status quo and predetermined path) and she's starting to lose points. I don't think her arc necessarily leads to her sinking into the rock bottom of escapism, but akin to Asgore she decides to come up for air just a little too late.
I hope it's not controversial to say that "the second hero" and "the girl, at last, was the girl" are two separate entities within the prophecy. I think Noelle and Susie are vacillating on the roles, Susie currently being the second hero, and Noelle being The Girl.
Still, Susie believes herself to be both. And she behaves odd, almost like someone who thinks they don't have a lot of time left.
(Chapter 4, Susie talking about the prophecy directly after witnessing it, implying a preventable tragedy, possibly with direct involvement by the heroes)
(chapter 4, in the last light world segment after seeing the prophecy; she says it unprompted)
(chapter 5, while holding Noelle at the lake)
As she grows complicit with Her Mold, and perhaps by the prophecy by proxy, she incidentally becomes more open to ribbons, something that could have mixed significance depending on your interpretation of Susie's GNC status, but it's worth noting that Ralsei has a negative reaction to it.
It could just be him being petty, considering how she wore it at Flowery's prompting but not Ralsei's, but still. It stuck out to me.
It seems like the final prophecy might foreshadow a terrible fate befalling one of the two. Still, we can't do much with this information right now, because it's assumption upon assumption since the line between her and Noelle's roles in the prophecy are intentionally blurry, and will likely remain blurry for a while longer.
Lastly, this doesn't account for Asriel actually appearing, which could be a good, alternate way to get more information on Dess, nor the implications of an aborted weird route, though it's likely that may also alter the path. Imagine the Berdlycicle making a reappearance! There's still a lot of unknowns! But Toby has always excelled at surprises.
Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!
today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.
I think people need to understand that everyone has to unlearn misogynistic behaviors and thinking patterns. Cis women and trans women and cis men and trans men and anyone who doesn’t fall under those categories are all completely capable of being misogynistic and actively hurtful to women. Trans men are included in this, obviously, but when you only call for trans men to unlearn this mindset, you are no longer being progressive and fair. You are singling out a minority.
it pisses me off to see cis women saying 'trans women are misogynistic because they were raised as men' and trans women replying 'no we aren't because no we weren't!' and i'm sitting there staring at the camera like it's the office. because like women are ALL raised to be just as misogynistic as men. it's a notable goddamn feature of the patriarchy.
like if you are marginalized it is in your own self-interest to interrogate and deconstruct the cultural narratives that position you as subnormal. this is what starts a lot of queer people on wanting to reform the world into something more compassionate and egalitarian.
but it's not the marginalization that makes you any more or less ethical than anyone else. it's the work. you gotta do the actual work.
I feel like part of the problem is a really popular misunderstanding of bigotry.
Misogyny is not just prejudice experienced by a woman. It is not simply something that happens TO a woman. It has nothing to do with the woman. It’s about the misogynist.
Bigotry is not determined or defined by the target of that bigotry. The bigotry is stored in the bigot.
Misogynists will be misogynistic towards any person they associate with femininity, including cisgender men.
When a misogynist cis man tears another man down for liking something he thinks is girly, he is still being misogynistic.
A cis male coach telling his cis male student he runs like a girl is being misogynistic.
A cis woman punishing her son for wanting a “girl” toy or policing her boyfriend’s hygiene habits and interests for anything she considers emasculating, is being misogynistic!
When a woman gets in a car accident and is injured more severely because the safety testing on that car was only done using crash test dummies and models based on men, she’s experiencing misogyny.
When the medication she takes for her injuries doesn’t work right or has unexpected side effects because it was only tested on men, she’s experiencing misogyny.
When the tools she uses at work that are the wrong shape for her hands, and the jumpsuit that’s part of her uniform which she has to take off completely to use the bathroom, and all the spaces she moves through and everything within them are designed with the assumption that an average male body is the only body that matters— she is experiencing misogyny.
Misogyny is the belief that women are inherently inferior, and the systems and institutions built around that belief. It can be experienced by anyone, and anyone is capable of having misogynistic beliefs and doing misogynistic things.
Bigotry is not about the target. It’s about the bigot, and what the bigot believes, and the way those bigoted beliefs have shaped our world.
I don’t care what race gender or sexuality you are, you were raised with racist, sexist, homophobic beliefs. Because it’s literally impossible not to be.
And the harder you try to cling to the idea that misogyny is something that happens TO women, rather than something coming FROM misogynists, the more blind you’ll be to your own misogynistic beliefs, and all the ways everything in our society is a product of or directly reinforces those beliefs.
I have gotten into the habit of when interacting with a patient, interrogating myself about what traits I am assigning them, and how its affecting my care. It doesn't matter that I'm a woman, the world has taught me to believe a woman is over emotional and exaggerates her pain. On the flip side, a lifetime of jokes about "manflu" make cause me to underestimate a man's experience of illness. Its not about either gender, its about me and my own expectations. I have caught myself on occasions dismissing what my patients are telling me as "not that bad" and it is always linked to some trait they have. Men are whiny about illness, women exaggerate pain (to be believed), old people are confused, people whose first language isn't English are too hard to understand, whatever. I know full well that all of these things are wrong, but kneejerk responses are built from assumptions, and the assumptions we have most commonly been exposed to are the easiest thing to base those responses on.
I dont think I have ever let it affect my care. I hope I never have, and its my responsibility to keep interrogating my judgements and decisions towards my patients to make sure I never do.
I dont think I'm sexist or racist or ageist or homophobic or any other-ist, but the potential to be exists within me, so its my responsibility to keep checking myself, to interrogate my thoughts. The thoughts come from me. Having those thoughts doesn't make me a bigot, not recognising those thoughts as incorrect and working to dismantle them, or acting on them would do.
FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT you are allowed to feel proud of yourself for things that might seem silly to other people, like getting better at a video game or putting together a nice outfit for the next morning or finishing a book. You deserve to feel proud for your accomplishment.
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