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[aquarytide]

[dr-gaytorius]

Ok I'll bite. you are bleeding now

[datasoong47]

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[flaskrobonoid]

If you dont fuck with lancer i dont fuck with you. Hes literally a baby what did he do to you. Die

[patorucho]

[homunculus-argument]

Consider: An anthro opossum, koala, capuchin monkey, or anteater, who is wearing a t-shirt with a text on the back that says "if you can read this, I have no idea where that little fucker is".

[adhd-faith-interpreter]

What could this possible be referencing

[homunculus-argument]

Well, you see:

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

my buddy says the craziest stuff when i make him plead for his life

[depsidase]

[trisynine]

[guooey]

themessangerpigeons

[guooey]

Tears

[girlblocker]

me if meowing was a sin tbh

[girlblocker]

& heres me if meowing was illegal

[mysonglady-deactivated20230606]

But it’s not so enjoy

[girlblocker]

so true, here i am happy and free because nobody can morally or legally stop me from meowing

[princilly]

ough

[transparentcatpngs]

[helloitsbees]

i put him in the saw bathroom

[edw-lugh]

Daily affirmations:

No one will find the picture in your attic.

It's not your fault the person made of cadavers you sew together and you revived killed your family.

It's perfectly normal to enter your house climbing like a lizard.

The fact that you killed a man doesn't make you guilty, it was just your silly alter ego.

That raven who won't stop saying "nevermore" is an asshole, don't listen to it.

Your fiancé is definitely NOT hiding his mad spouse in his attic.

The big ass dog that killed members of your family isn't real, dw.

You deserve revenge for having been abused as a child, go back to moors and show them!

Go and kidnap that singer!

[bimmyjimmy]

It is the Bimmy Birthday!!

[jimmyhoffathecat]

Happy bappy birthday bimmy jimmy!!!

[cat-diagnosis]

Name: Dornal The Suspicious

Skill: Knowing That It Will Happen But Not When

Quote: Hmmm.. Is something... Happening?

[localcoffeeshop]

“i have to listen to my body’s needs” secret boss fight written by person who has chronic and disabling wrist pain which has fundamentally changed his relationship to his hobbies and his job <- i care it as someone who has also had chronic pain in my wrist/hand for 5 years

[localcoffeeshop]

another thing i tend to think about with this. i also just think in chapter 5 there's a theme of care and dependency. the flowers have extreme guilt over being taken care of by asgore. flowery conceptualizes himself as weak and useless. in the dark world, his fantasy, he tries to return the care given to him to asgore to "make up for" asgore taking care of him when he should've died decades ago. it's an extreme example, but i also resonate with his feeling.

when your body or mind puts you in a situation where your reliance on other people becomes really explicit, you're trained by the world to see that as shameful or to see yourself as deficient. your efforts to ignore your needs just to avoid "being a burden," will leave you worse off. you punish yourself because of deeply internalized ableism.

regardless, even by virtue of being a living thing on this planet, you are already designed to need others. you have to listen to your body's needs even against a society that teaches you you shouldn't. you have to be okay with the fact that you have needs. sometimes your needs are different or are greater than the person next to you, and all you can do is listen to your body and turn to others when you need them. you're still a person when you need people.

when toby says this:

it's interesting to me how much he uses the language of deltarune to express this feeling. your hopes and dreams slipping away, and bitterness growing is literally the explanation we get for shadow crystals (and so wept the fallen star, making rivers with its tears. then, slowly, from the bitter water, something grew. it looked like glass). this is also the crushing feeling when you lose a sense of control when you're in pain, when you can't do things the way you want, the way you used to. but when you find yourself still able to fly, you do so because you've adapted. you've listened to your body. you've learned that listening to your body means changing the pace, letting yourself be cared for, letting yourself be helped.

as far as toby's said it, having to expand his team has made deltarune a better game. chapter 5 is so expansive because so many people helped to make it. Pink's fight has sprite work from guest artists, music with Camellia, bullets programmed by Toby's team. She is, to me, a love letter to Deltarune's development process as a whole and how it has shaped Toby, and a reflection of the kinds of thoughts Toby has shared with us about developing Deltarune alongside pain. I also think it's a beautiful follow-up to Gerson's themes of storytelling and authorship (letting go of "perfection" + accepting the contributions of others = both about rescinding control and embracing perseverance). Pink is also so much more than this, but I've been thinking about this a lot.