i've been thinking i should make something sort of like a disclaimer for people looking at my blog, not really sure what to call this exactly.
i know i reblog a lot of controversial takes, and i am generally aware of some of the common trans discourse on this site. i recognize the likelihood that i've probably agreed with various people's viewpoints that may even conflict with each other.
this isn't intended to be a discourse blog. i want to be clear that if i reblog controversial issues, it's not out of personal intention to be on the frontlines of one stance or another. it's typically instead because i have close people who i love dearly who i see being directly affected by an issue, and i find their reasoning for their feelings on the matter to be logically sound when they explain it to me, so i wish to support their voices.
i am not the most knowledgeable person on many community-spanning debates and i don't claim to be. i don't really blame anyone for blocking me but i at least want to make it clear that i do not wish or intend to harm anyone unduly by the viewpoints i reblog. the statements i support are always based on what i think is most beneficial to people i personally know who are struggling.
if you have the patience and desire to attempt to educate me on something rather than just cutting me off and moving on (as is also your right), i wish to be open. i can still be hardheaded, i can still be wrong, and i do still hold my own beliefs, but i do want to learn what knowledge i lack.
this post was made because someone close to me made me aware i'm marked red on shinigami eyes, for those curious. i'm not really surprised and i don't actually have much feeling about it at all, but it's a reminder that i am perceived by discourse whether i actively seek it out myself or not, and so it did bring to mind the desire to write this.
just as white people should be anti-racism for no benefit, and cis people should be pro-trans for no benefit. the only "benefit" that should be required is the creation of a more just world, not because you, personally, actually do get something out of it.
This is all true. People should, and many people do, do work that benefits others for no benefit to themselves, because this is the right thing to do.
However, in practical terms, this is another example of People Will Not Just. If your movement relies on large groups of people Just Doing [thing that does not directly benefit them], your movement is fucked.
Your options, if you want real change and not just moral purity, are to show people how it does in fact benefit them, or be so loud, and so annoying, and so inconvenient, that supporting you in order to make you Stop That Already will register as a tangible benefit to the people who Will Not Just.
My favourite translator said that when she was an ambassador for Hungary she took all these Japanese politicians on a tour and she was trying to circumtranslate ‘merry go round’ cause she didn’t know the Japanese word for it by calling it a ‘horse tornado for children’ and they had no blessed idea what she was saying and she finally started running in circles going up and down and they go ‘ohhhhh, in Japan we call those ‘merry-go-rounds’”
Undergrowth (Yongasabi: igonda) is an anthro Rain World AU, told as a hybrid webcomic and askblog. While the Endless Winter of Saint's time rage outside, slugcats and scavengers have long been forced to change their lifestyles, with most moving into geothermal pockets underground. In this setting, the timeline is compressed, events overlap, and in the warmth of Undergrowth, Saint maintains a garden shelter where they house the other slugcats.
The blog author is @opashoo. If you have any questions that aren't addressed directly towards Undergrowth or its characters, you can ask me at my personal blog. Ko-fi here if you're feeling generous.
Content Warning: As of now, Undergrowth is a +15 work. The exact nature of subject matter will be subject to change as I feel out the tone, but it will contain depictions of trauma, blood, injury, and sexual themes. This blog is generally aimed towards an adult audience and posts will be tagged appropriately.
Blog context, ask rules, additional info, and table of contents for the blog's chapters below. This post may change as time goes on.
Rules
As of June 1st 2026
Asks are generally handled diegetically, communicated through overseers as a means of long-distance communication. Asks can be fun and playful, but I won't be entertaining things like Magic!Anons, spam, bait, or nonsensical asks. DMs to this blog will be ignored.
Asks should generally be directed towards specific characters. Be sure to address the character you are speaking to. Asks that don't address anyone specific will be up for grabs by any of the characters.
If you have a meta question, or want to ask a question non-diegetically, please include "[Meta]" at the beginning. If the ask is unrelated to the blog, or you just want to send an ask to me directly, my blog is @opashoo.
Unfortunately I won't be able or willing to answer all asks. I'm ultimately doing this for fun and will prioritize telling a story, so asks will generally be slow or closed during story events. However, the breaks between story events are generally the designated time for asks.
No slurs. You can be rude to the characters if it makes sense for the context, and you can even look up some Yongasabi insults if you want, but no real life slurs.
When it comes down to it, I run the blog and I get the final say what gets posted.
Context
The story as it stands
The Undergrowth AU is an anthro AU where the blizzards of Saint's timeline have come sooner and deadlier, forcing most Yongasabi (slugcats) and Mulngjer (scavengers) to settle in underground geothermal pockets or adopt lifestyles suited to the cold. It takes the timeline of the game and compresses it so that all slugcats are alive concurrently, and all the events of the game have already happened much more quickly, oftentimes overlapping.
Pebbles' collapse and Moon's acquisition of the rarefaction cell are recent events. The Metropolis Scavengers have moved underground to found New Metropolis; Artificer's rampage and subsequent exile are still fresh in the minds of the both scavengers and slugcats; the worsening blizzards prevent travel between retaining walls. Hunter—whose condition is dependent on active treatment from NSH—Rivulet, and Spearmaster are trapped in Moon and Pebbles' retaining wall while Monk, Survivor, and Gourmand have all been separated from their colony. Everyone lives in a shelter built in Undergrowth, run by Saint.
The AU centers around Saint after the events of their campaign, who has taken to the teachings of Rhinestones Beneath Shattered Glass and started a garden in Undergrowth, where they have gathered all the other slugcats to live in safety. The other slugcats see Saint as a mysterious benefactor who knows more than they should, rescued each of them from certain death for unknown reasons, and given them shelter from the blizzards, but for Saint, it's all part of a comfortable routine formed from countless lifetimes of repetition.
In their most recent lifetime, however, things have started to change. Things aren't where they should be. People aren't where they should be when they should be. Events that have always fallen on consistent times and dates simply don't. Then Saint starts getting dream visits from someone they've never met before in all their past lifetimes, one who brings ominous warnings about the future.
Tags
Common tags
#Rain World #rw Undergrowth AU - Default tags
#meta - Out of character or meta posts
Yongasabi
The language
I developed the Rain World conlang Yongasabi for Undergrowth, so you may see slugcats occasionally using words and phrases from it. You can find it here.
Yoŋasabi (Scuglang) by oPashoo (Find me on tumblr) The Slugcat language of the Rain World Undergrowth AU dang'ag lamlan pagsa. She is Rivul
(The dictionary has been sorted into tabs. Check them out on the left.) Yongasabi Dictionary by oPashoo (Find me on tumblr) Welcome to the d
Table of Contents
x. Extras
1. The Start
2. Interim I
Credits
I draw all my own art unless otherwise stated. Shoutout to my wife @kcdodger and all my friends who have made this possible, much love.
I have officially opened my webcomic/askblog 🎉Developing Undergrowth has been a big undertaking for me, and actually drawing and publishing it will be even bigger, but I am both excited and anxious to start. I'm shooting to update weekly, wish me luck!
Ideally I'd make a post like "It is pride month! Yay! :D"
...But it is getting increasingly hard to exist as a trans person, let alone celebrate it.
We should still celebrate it. That celebration doesn't need to be loud. It doesn't need to be noticed by anyone except yourself.
They want us to feel shame at who we are. They want others to fear what we are. Pride in yourself is the antithesis of shame. So please, now more than ever, make sure you celebrate pride. Celebrate you.
-become furiously angry over what seems to be small things
-hit a self destruct button over and over again
-lose all sense of reality
-becoming straight up unable to communicate
-view every situation as life or death
-experience delusions/become vulnerable to irrational worldviews
-perceive hostility where none exists
-become extremely nauseous and/or throw up
-stop engaging in sleeping/eating/basic hygiene
-stop processing sensory input
-process way too much sensory input all at once
-lash out at others/themselves
-and more!
being able to recognize when a human (ie. you or another person) is so stressed out they cannot think clearly is VERY important for conflict resolution and diffusing emotional crisis. highly recommend trying to train yourself at being able to recognize that state of panic- there is a point in which logic and rationality is useless and you have to address the underlying emotional issue first. knowing that saves everyone a lot of pain and struggle.
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