🎶SONGSTRUCK🎶

A Deltarune AU where the lightners have been swapped with the darkners, but most importantly, the MCs are the Sweet Cap'n Cakes. Also an ask blog! | Feel free to tag in fanworks | Ran by @that1tvhead | If I answer late I'm either thinking of a response, asleep, or can't answer at all | Please only put questions or ideas in asks, thank you!

[songstruck-au]

redesigns for the main 3 have been finished!

unrendered as these are meant to be used as color reference when I make sprites. these ended up way more drastic than I thought they were gonna be, especially Sweet's! I expected Cap'n to change the most, but he's the most similar. I'll be off to try and buy Deltarune in order to play through the new chapters now! There's some explanation for the changes under the cut.

A lot of details got simplified and the color palette cut down to be more sprite-friendly. Most of the original designs had colors that were wayyy too close to each other while making the color count bigger than it should've been.

Color palettes made more distinct from each other while actually having shared colors instead of being the same hue. The original designs were color picked from a lightened version of their shop sprites, these were mostly hand-picked. I wanted to make them look more color-coded instead of all being extremely purple, while also having the cohesion from sharing colors that the Deltarune Sweet Cap'n Cakes do! You might notice that Kace is missing the shared yellows, that's intentional.

Sweet's eye now has a shadow over it like Kris! His pupil won't show up in sprites, this is just for most of my artwork. It's a pretty old idea, I just didn't have the idea to move his hat more downwards to justify it back then. Dunno how I didn't think of that.

Speaking of Sweet, his outfit should hopefully be a little more readable as cyber in addition to traditional fantasy bard than his original design.

Cap'n got the shades that I was originally going to give him when I was sketching the first takes! I'm not sure if I'll still have his shades be moved upwards in chapter 2 onwards or just have his pupils become visible, though.

A LOT changed for Kace. Mostly for making him appear more as his own character instead of a fusion of Ralsei and K_K. His outfit takes some inspiration from those anonymous musicians and DJs who wear masks over their faces. I thought it'd be neat if the Delta Rune was flipped in some way in this AU since the dark and light worlds are, making the angel into the demon or something. Since Ralsei kinda has devilish features, Kace has angelic, I guess? I'll just say his new handle is supposed to look like a stylized halo.

[songstruck-au]

CHAPTERS 3 & 4 HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED + CHANGE OF SOME PLANS

Hey all, it's been a while! I've been very inactive lately, even on my main. But things might be getting back on track with the recent announcement from the Nintendo Direct! This'll be pretty long, so everything will be under the read more.

As you already know, I decided to put Songstruck on hiatus until the next Deltarune chapters come out in order to get an idea of where the plot is going, as writing with only 2 chapters as a base is really hard! Now that we have a set release date for 3 & 4, I'll try to start working on it again!

To be completely honest, I haven't done anything related to Songstruck and Deltarune for the past few years since the hiatus announcement. Some personal stuff happened, and I mostly wanted to take a long break and not do anything big for a while.

Furthermore, even with the poll results I've gotten, I don't think I have the energy to make Songstruck a comic anymore. Don't worry, I still want to make the full story! It's mostly a combination of my burnout with art and my concerns with a story like Deltarune's not fitting with a comic format. Actually, I've been learning how to use the Godot engine, and a few months ago I bought Aseprite! I've reconsidered the idea to make it into a fangame, and it'll be great practice. (The only real problem is that I suck at composing music... which will be important!!!) Also, don't worry if you're unable to play, I'm thinking of uploading full playthroughs on my YT to make them more accessible.

Is it too ambitious? Yes, but so was the comic. (it was probably even more ambitious) So what's this blog gonna be used for, then? Well, I'll still be answering asks and posting concepts and other silly things relating to the AU, and perhaps even some dev logs! I've also got a few redesign ideas coming up since my character design and artistic skills have improved since the start of this project, so look forward to at least redesigns of our main three, and remember to give me much needed feedback!

Don't expect anything to be done fast, though. There's a LOT of things I want to work on AND I've got school, so things will inevitably take a while. I don't want Songstruck to go into development hell and have myself rewrite chapter 1 several times again, so I'll try motivating myself much more. I'll start by retagging a lot of older posts to match a better format so that this blog can be navigated easier, like songstruck: updates for posts like these.

Asks will be off at the start of June in my timezone so I can avoid spoilers as soon as possible! Hope you all enjoy Deltarune!

[songstruck-au]

Are SCC really monsters or robots? (As in were they built or the other thing)

they're monsters! considering that in deltarune they're just darkners who happen to look like robots because of their original object, they're just music themed monsters here. since mettaton is still a ghost there too, that also means nobody really has access to that kind of technology.

[barbarastreisandof]

Blocking out her name and picture to protect her from harassment, but this is a Palestinian journalist reporting out of Gaza who I've personally had contact with through Twitter.

Money and aid is not getting through. Crowdfunding is not helpful. Ordering things is not helpful. Buying keffiyehs that say the money goes to Gaza is not helpful.

Gaza is a concentration camp - nothing is getting in or out that Israel does not approve of and right now Israel wants people dead or dying.

Most of social media, and tumblr is no exception, skews toward "taking action" being things that put you at zero risk and only ask for money or bits of time, or sometimes just doing nothing and calling it a boycott. "Call your rep!" "Buy this thing!" "Share this link!"

The reality is that you get out what you put in and if it was easy and low risk and comfortable for you to do it, then that is the level of impact it is having - low, comfortable to ignore, and flimsy.

Palestine, Gaza and increasingly the West Bank, NEEDS real help and the reality is we do not have the power as individuals to give it.

We DO have the power to band together and influence things collectively and the best way to do that is to loudly unequivocally express our anger and clarity of purpose.

So that does mean calling reps and being polite and firm and brief and giving your real address because otherwise they can't confirm you're a constituent and they'll ignore you. "Hello, my name is ______ and I am calling as a constituent to demand representative/senator _______ support aid to Gaza and to call for an end to support for all support to Israel."

It is important that your support for Gaza include opposition to Israel - there is no supporting Gaza while supporting Israel, it genuinely is one or the other.

Tear down pro-Israel posters. Tear down those fake kidnapped propaganda posters. Show up to rallies and marches where you can and if you can't, find out who's organizing them and get in touch to offer your support and help. Talk to family and friends. LEARN! Read up on these things and teach yourself history so you can better advocate and push back on propaganda.

Be willing to have people not like you. Losing friends over this is, and I don't mean to be cold here, nothing. It doesn't matter. Fuck em. If advocating against genocide costs you friendships and gets people calling you antisemitic, fuck em, good riddance. Privately process the loss of those relationships if they really matter to you, but publicly don't give it air because this is not a time to be focused on the feelings of people who cannot bring themselves to oppose ethnic cleansing.

The culture is shifting, support for Palestine is growing and it NEEDS to continue and we have the power to make sure it does.

[fairuzfan]

Is there anything I can do to help Palestinians besides call my representatives and beg them to stop killing people?

This is a great question. There are a few things you can do—just off the top of my head:

BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) https://bdsmovement.net/

Direct Action https://www.palestineaction.org/

Urge your University/School/Organization to put out a statement denouncing Israel

Organize a Protest/Participate in a local one

You might already be doing this but while calling your reps, tell them that as a voter, you're unwilling to support them in the upcoming election unless they urge the White House to take a stand against Israel and stop funding them

Share art/writing/films around Palestinian culture

If you're part of a union, ask them what they're doing to urge their industry leaders to take a stand against Israel + pressure the White House OR urge them to start a strike/walkout/etc if they're not doing anything already

Talk with your friends IRL about Palestine, whether in an activist capacity or watching a movie or literally anything

Reach out to a mosque to see if you can help them with anything

See if your city/state council has put out a statement in support of Gazans. If not, try to push them to do so.

Donate to Palestine Legal or Direct Action if you have some money to spare

KEEP TALKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know some of these don't feel like they have as big of an impact on helping Palestinians, but we do need to make an effort not to forget their humanity in the face of continued erasure and the media's sensationalist rhetoric.

Talking on social media and posting—while not seeming like a lot—does SO much. I know in USAmerica, it's like yelling into a void, but political analysts are saying that most of the "Global South" has completely lost any amount of goodwill it may have had the past few years. Hopefully, countries will start to put sanctions and embargoes en masse on the US and Israel soon.

Our goals here are BOTH short-term and long-term. We hope for the life and liberation of the Palestinian people, so anything that you can think of might help at some point in the future is encouraged to at least try.

If anyone else has any more ideas, feel free to reblog and add on. Thank you for asking, and here is to a liberated Palestine where Palestinians can live and thrive without fear.

[thegoldenfox64]

Reblogs and replies got disabled, surprise surprise.

Reblog while you still can.

Streisand effect - Wikipedia

[lesamismorts]

if you live in the us and have literally 2 minutes to spare go fill out the form here -- it will give you a script and also prompt a phone call that will patch you through the the office of your district's representative. specify that you will not consider voting for them again, or for any elected officials, if they don't call for an immediate ceasefire and end to us funding of genocide. jewish voice for peace has a lot of other action items, most of which can be done from home if you aren't able to attend a protest.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Games For Gaza: 256 items for $10.00

[ayouuni-deactivated20250907]

gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.

[ayouuni-deactivated20250907]

al jazeera has managed to maintain infrequent communication with their journalists in gaza. from their reporter wael dahdouh: “we are not fine. body parts are everywhere, missiles are targeting everyone, and the bombing hasn’t stopped for a second.”

do not stop talking about gaza. they are trying to commit genocide in the dark. do not stop talking.

[anneemay]

God they cut off all the internet and cellular networks in Gaza

[heritageposts]

We are isolated now’: Communications lost with many parts of Gaza (from Al Jazeera's live update, by reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum, 16:25 GMT)

We don’t know about anything that is happening in other districts in the territory. Maybe there are new bombardments taking place in these areas. We don’t know how many victims. We can only hear bombardments everywhere, but we don’t know any anything about the casualties, about the situation on the ground. We don’t know anything also about the medical conditions of doctors, medical workers, even at the Al-Shifa Hospital [the largest in Gaza]. The situation is catastrophic right now.  We can no longer communicate with the international community to send our voice to the world to know what is happening on the ground. I hope that this message might  reach and have an access to the world despite what we have experienced throughout the last hour. We are now in a hospital and we are going to be live by satellite as much as we can and every single hour. So please, if you can hear us, send that message to the world that we are isolated now in Gaza. We don’t have any phone signals. We don’t have any internet connections. We found great difficulty even to communicate and contact with our relatives in different parts of the territory. Journalists here, even the citizens inside the hospital, they don’t have any access to the networks. They don’t have any kind of communication even with their neighbors. There is a great problem in the network connections. We don’t know how it’s dropped. We don’t know if it was targeted. The situation on the ground is really terrible. Everyone is afraid, everyone is terrified. Please ,guys, if you can hear us send this message to the world that we are becoming isolated. Al Jazeera currently only has sporadic communication with correspondents in Gaza following the latest strikes on the besieged enclave.

[piinkiheartz]

SWEET!!! THE CAR IS COMING!!! OH MY GOD THEY HAVE HEADPHONES ON!! THEY CANT HEAR US!! OH GOD

The au, Sweet's design and the TV-sona doesn't belong to me they belong to @songstruck-au

[songstruck-au]

What medium should this end up being in?

normal comic with already decided choices (original plan)

interactive comic where you get to pick dialogue choices and which route

make a game

Voting ended onAug 25, 2023

Hey guys! during the ongoing hiatus, I've been thinking about what to do with this au, and I wondered whether this format would really work with a take on Deltarune's story as one of the main points is you having control, and well, in a normal comic, you don't. So I wanted to know your thoughts on this!

I had the idea of turning it into an interactive comic where you make your vessel, pick options and what route you should go for enemies. It wouldn't be the same as a full experience of a game, but I think it would work as I still want to draw art. Of course, this'll mean it'll take a longer between comics once I get started again, as I'll have to make different ones for different dialogue. The other two options are self explanatory, but the game will probably take the longest as I'm still learning how to do that at the moment.

Just know that the comic options will not exclude the possibility of a game in the future! This is just me asking what I should do first.

[songstruck-au]

What medium should this end up being in?

normal comic with already decided choices (original plan)

interactive comic where you get to pick dialogue choices and which route

make a game

Voting ended onAug 25, 2023

Hey guys! during the ongoing hiatus, I've been thinking about what to do with this au, and I wondered whether this format would really work with a take on Deltarune's story as one of the main points is you having control, and well, in a normal comic, you don't. So I wanted to know your thoughts on this!

I had the idea of turning it into an interactive comic where you make your vessel, pick options and what route you should go for enemies. It wouldn't be the same as a full experience of a game, but I think it would work as I still want to draw art. Of course, this'll mean it'll take a longer between comics once I get started again, as I'll have to make different ones for different dialogue. The other two options are self explanatory, but the game will probably take the longest as I'm still learning how to do that at the moment.

Just know that the comic options will not exclude the possibility of a game in the future! This is just me asking what I should do first.

[songstruck-au]

Update: It’s gonna take longer.

So, what’s this about? Well, Songstruck is officially going on hiatus until Deltarune chapters 3-5 come out. Sorry, everyone!

I’ve got quite a few reasons for this, but the main one is that making an alternate universe work is hard when the story you’re basing it off of is barely finished. We only have 2/7 chapters at the moment, and I don’t have nearly enough darkner choices to fill character roles. I also don’t know what direction the story’s taking, and that makes it even harder to write! And most of you probably already know from the anniversary post that I have a hard time focusing on actually doing work, even if I really like it and want to do it.

But don’t worry! In the meantime, I’ll try learning music theory to make background music for the comic, and how to use neocities! Yep, instead of posting the comics straight onto Tumblr, Songstruck will have its own neocities site with a page-by-page music player. This is because I think music is really important to this AU specifically, since it centers around music-themed characters and even has “song” in the name.

The Sweet Cap’n Cakes are characters who are very, very important to me, which is why I really want to make something great from this project. I want to be proud of my own work, and for you to enjoy it as much as I will, so I hope you all understand.

Until then, asks will always be open, and progress might be shared in the future!

💛💙💚💜

[songstruck-au]

Do you have a va headcanon for your OC Kace? My personal idea for them is that they sound like Rihanna when she played a teenager in that movie “Home” from 2015 (mostly because I’m assembling a playlist for the au that has two songs from the “Home” soundtrack on it - specifically the ones Rihanna sings - and since the playlist also kind of functions as a musical soundtrack, I imagine Kace singing the songs Rihanna sings, specifically during the first fight and the lead up to the last fight). Unless you don’t see them as femme-aligned, which is also fine! @the-meme-monarch has a va headcanon for Cakes (Avi Roque) that would work for Kace too.

most of the time I imagine the SCC with me doing a voice for them since I like to read comics out loud, but the closest for k_k I've heard is steven universe but specifically in future, which would make my kace voiceclaim regular steven, I guess? I thought of kace and cakes sounding the same originally, but now that I think about it kace would sound a bit younger.

another possible voiceclaim, while really specific, is alan from gumball but pitched down to sound normal (which would basically just be tobias? but they do speak differently, alan's voice is ironically less squeaky)

[songstruck-au]

just a small update, I've decided to make clover the same class as the SCC instead of college like originally. I've only recently just realized how weird it was that she was there (especially since deltarune clover likes ralsei) and I don't really remember the reason why I did that in the first place. thanks

[songstruck-au]

I just found this au and think it looks neat... also since I looked through everything, the ominous shadow for chapter 1 secret boss looks a little like an aquatic dinosaur... but! I'm sure that has no implications, right!

you're the first person to ask about the shadow! and you're also correct about who it is. for the "aquatic dinosaur" part... it's a bit of the opposite, actually! they're receiving a bit of a redesign, so they won't look exactly the same as the shadow from that post, but they're still basically the same idea.