#deltarune update

[isdeltarunetomorrow]

YES, YES, YES !!!!!!!!!! DELTARUNE IS TOMORROW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spectralpixelsredone]

Chapter 5 Post Update Deltarune

[darknights111]

HAD TO RUSH MAKING THIS THEORY

So the new dialogue in the mew mew in Chapter 5 drops two fucking bomb shells

Mew Mew knew someone, before chapter 5, that owned a pack of HUNTING CATS

and Cats often hunt for PROTEIN

We have happen to have protein, which are the EGGS from THE EGG MAN, and hunting cats will stop at nothing to find it unless they get bored.

device_friend is a HUNTING CAT (or a pack of them fused together)

the eggs are listed as evidence in the trial segment- which leads me to believe:

device_friend’s (possibly) a FAILSAFE made by GASTER

TO HIDE EVIDENCE

[vs-vapor]

I love how I've been a Battenna fan since early August, back when there was a few information to take and ship them.

In this time, there wasn't interaction between them, and it was already my favorite ship *and I considered it canon that Battat had a crush on his boss...

And over these past months, Toby has just kept confirming that, besides Battat being a polycule, he has feelings for Tenna.

Thanks Toby for the food: I already have a whole feast.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Another thought I suddenly had for the whole ‘Deltarune Chapters parallel Undertale Areas but In Reverse” idea/theory/random hunch...

In Undertale, the Player first enters Hotland through a chase scene where they have to escape Undyne.

In Deltarune, the Player leaves TV World through a chase scene where they attempt to save Undyne.

[legandairy-horror]

Does anyone else feel a strange sort of dread waiting for new deltarune chapters?

It sounds crazy right? I admit it's a weird feeling for sure, and I'm not even 100% sure if dread is the right way to describe it. But as more info is revealed and the next chapter inevitably gets closer and closer to releasing I can't help but feel a strange sort of, melancholy? Longing? The only way I can describe it is "when you know the goodbye is coming". The strange somber feeling when you know you’re going to have to leave stuff behind, but aren't quite ready for it yet.

warning: words. Homestuck

In 3 months Chapter 1 will be 6 years old, and in 2 months Chapter 2 will be 3 years old. Deltarune is ostensibly in Early Access but this release schedule puts new chapters closer in time scale to whole sequals if anything, which they most assuredly are not trying to be. This has created a strange situation in the fanbase that I don't think I've ever truly seen anywhere else. One where, In the time between chapters It feels like everyone has had their own chance to decide what Deltarune is to them. To create their own version of this story, to write their own themes that they want to see explored, to imagine their own events and plot twists they want to see play out.

@lynxgriffin Paper Trail Comic Being an Alternate Story following off of chapter 1

@lilybug-02 The Chara Timeline Being one of many interpretations on the popular Asriel & Chara roommates headcannon.

@huecycles Andromeda Chapters being their interpretation on the full game

The innumerable Deltarune Theorists and analysts like HalfBreadChaos, Andrew Cunningham, Stuffed Alpaca, etc. etc.

@vyletbunni Deltatraveler being a whole ass fangame based around a chapter 2 meme that it has long since outlived

And that's kinda the thing isn't it? Once more deltarune comes out, a ton of these projects will just become outdated, it's an inevitability. So what will happen to them? will they become forgotten? maybe, maybe not, it's impossible to tell. but either way it feels kinda sad to think about yknow? that one day all the time and effort spent and all the memories made might one day just cease to exist.

There's a lot more I could say on this topic if given the chance but to keep this tumblr post from morphing into a 2 hour long video essay in text form let me leave off with this.

In the age of the internet and social media there will always be a fan of something. Nothing truly dies quite like it used to anymore, regardless of whatever influencers want you to believe. But that doesn't mean things stop changing, that there wasn't a past that has since been left behind. I'm a Homestuck fan. more specifically I'm a Late Homestuck fan, one who came in after the comic had already ended and it's peak in popularity was long behind it. The fandom's still around all these years later. But it'd be foolish to admit that, 8 years after the comics controversial end, the inescapable trend of new fans replacing old fans has left the fandom wholly disconnected from the monolith that it once was. the only remnants of which lie in decades old discourse and fanfiction. Like old relics of a long forgotten city, waiting to be excavated under a fine layer of dirt.

Before I close out here I just want to make it clear: I'm not saying that we should be trying to return to some nebulous "glorious past" that never really existed. I'm not trying to deride Toby Fox for not working in the sweatshop hard enough to produce more content™, or whatever you wanna try and spin-doctor this post into. It's just a thought that creeps into my head every now that I wanted to share, see if anyone feels the same, yknow?

Besides it's not all doom and gloom. For those of you OG Homestucks who read till the end. You remember Heinoustuck? Guidestuck? Nightfall? Fucking Ke$haStuck? yeah those are still going by the way! after years of inactivity they've now started back up again. some under new authors and some by the same author but still!

You could say a lot about that but to me at least, it makes me feels hopeful in a way. That, even if not everything will survive. we'll at least have some mementos to remember what came before.

[xdimboox]

PROTEIN

[d15h504p]

Ok so there’s for sure more than one cat. The Deltarune update makes it pretty clear with pink’s new dialogue and thinking back to chapter 3 with the mantel fight there were multiple during the one attack that uses them. Also I’m saying cats instead of friend because its the only thing the game itself has referred to them and the actual game takes precedent over files.