cosmic hero

19; he/she. chinese multiple tme butch guy. whatever else is relevant. personal blog, mostly highway posting.

[tertiaryapocalypse]

we're rk and we use linux. we like old web and civil infrastructure. we like bad comics. find our art at @whethernet . blow up the entire world

[wooteena]

people calling chapter five orientalist without knowing what the word means is making me extremely mad. just say you think its cultural appropriation. orientalism is a very specific (if expansive) type of racism that is about the disambiguation of asian cultures, treating everywhere from west to east asia as a cultural monolith--as a group of aesthetics to pull from without considering each cultural group as individual identities with individual cultures. how in the world can you say chapter five is orientalist when it is clearly a love letter to japanese culture and media, which is something toby fox has been immersed in since he was a young child through video games and eventually his community through his success via undertale. its obviously not my place to say whether deltarune chap5 was good representation (as im west asian, not japanese,) but i dont think it was from a place of ill-inform

[wooteena]

to add on: okay. so why the fuck is chap5 japanese as hell? well, like most things in deltarune, its to reinforce the story. chap5, and deltarune as a whole, is about nostalgia, both in universe and out of it, for chapter five, that manifests in asgore's shared passion with alphys for 'human' culture--and this is very important--a human culture that, atleast in undertale, is a fundamentally flawed representation of humanity. while its played for laughs, in deltarune, this becomes very interesting when it comes to the human flowers. they arent darkners: they werent effected by kris' will when they made the fountain. they only have their own will; that which was formed by their experiences as flowers and the life thats been made for them by their dark world. most importantly, they reflect the fact that kris' human culture is absent from hometown--whether that be genuine japanese representation, or another ethnicity. this is why all they have is surface level japanese cultural references. it all imported. this is why seth tells those bug darkners to do a racist ninja impression they dont want to do, why flowery jojo poses, theres inexplicable shinto architecture.

[tertiaryapocalypse]

im gonna be really honest with you i think the nostalgia angle could oh so easily be played out in like.... literally ANY other form, that wasnt just a straight up commodification of a culture that toby fox, as much as he respects & learns it, Does Not Belong to. it doesnt matter if thats not how toby himself sees japanese culture, its the way it is being represented to the audience. i would love to enthusiastically say that toby is making commentary on how asgore is romanticizing the past, but i just dont think that if it was intended that way it was executed well.

especially with the preexisting themes in deltarune, i think toby could have been a thousand times more successful modelling the dark world after some kind of historic americana. the way that the american past is romanticised can both fall into the theme of failing to reflect certain types of people (in our world, persons of colour and othee marginalised groups) AND the queer themes of deltarune as a whole ("traditional values" comes to mind).

id also like to add that with the context of prior dark worlds taking on relatively fantastical settings, it is... kind of weird as fuck to just throw japan in there! it gives the vibe of a fantastical land of the Orient or some shit. like im just not fucking with it. let's do a beautiful grassy meadow, or something. i dont fucking know.

maybe it wasnt intentionally orientalist or commodifying but ultimately that is what the end result was. thats whats important.

[wooteena]

yeaaah my opinion has soured since i made that post 🙂‍↕️ honestly i think youre right and as much as i think toby was going for Some interesting angle the more i see crit about it the more i feel it didn't work. he should have either developed the tie to the CHARACTERS commodification of the culture further to the idea of nostalgia or just not done it at all as in its current state ch5 reads more as !thing in japan! than what i was theoryposting in the og post.

[tertiaryapocalypse]

#1 thing deer girls are good at is trotting around and sniffing at grasses and berries. #2 thing deer girls are good at is being hit by cars at 120 kmph

[tertiaryapocalypse]

the headlights will reflect off her startled eyes and be immortalised as will o' the wisps

[tertiaryapocalypse]

#1 thing deer girls are good at is trotting around and sniffing at grasses and berries. #2 thing deer girls are good at is being hit by cars at 120 kmph

[roadkillblvd]

Chain smoker cat

[storyweavingspider]

Will you grant me a portion of your energy, that one day white supremacy shall be defeated by our hands?

Take what I am willing to give right now and grow stronger

I cannot give you energy, but take this other boon and grow stronger

I stand against you and the tides of change, and will fall accordingly

Voting ended onMay 10

PASS THIS ON, THAT THROUGH EACH NEW CONNECTION WE MAY GROW ACCORDINGLY. TOGETHER WE RISE

[stemmonade]

Support a Black Disabled Couple for Disability Pride Month

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new monthly post for disability pride month (aka wrath month)! our situation largely has not changed. we are both in between jobs and rent has gone up in addition to still having many expenses we cannot afford. my wife's links and my pay links are available for folks to donate; we also have a shared patreon that covers our biggest utility bill, and a ko-fi for folks who prefer that. lastly, we have a registry of items that would improve our quality of life!! reblogs and donations help so so much and are crucial to our survival. please chip in if you can.

[stemmonade]

7/22/26

$151.88/$923.74 (must be paid by 8/5 or else we will be evicted)

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welp! we got a notice to vacate and two weeks to pay what we owe or we are homeless (on top of still having to come up with next months rent) thanks to everyone consistently not chipping in or reblogging or giving a fuck about us at all. i dont know how else to beg for people to stop watching us suffer and actually fucking help; we will literally DIE on the streets. we have only managed to avoid another stint of homelessness because of community, STOP ASSUMING SOMEONE ELSE WILL HELP AND DO SOMETHING.

[stemmonade]

Support a Black Disabled Couple for Disability Pride Month

(id in alt text, DO NOT TAG UNLESS FOR ACCESSIBILITY REASONS!!)

new monthly post for disability pride month (aka wrath month)! our situation largely has not changed. we are both in between jobs and rent has gone up in addition to still having many expenses we cannot afford. my wife's links and my pay links are available for folks to donate; we also have a shared patreon that covers our biggest utility bill, and a ko-fi for folks who prefer that. lastly, we have a registry of items that would improve our quality of life!! reblogs and donations help so so much and are crucial to our survival. please chip in if you can.

[stemmonade]

7/22/26

$151.88/$923.74 (must be paid by 8/5 or else we will be evicted)

$0/$1252.81 (aug. rent due by 8/7)

(leave house emoji in note if contributing 2 my pay apps towards rent)

welp! we got a notice to vacate and two weeks to pay what we owe or we are homeless (on top of still having to come up with next months rent) thanks to everyone consistently not chipping in or reblogging or giving a fuck about us at all. i dont know how else to beg for people to stop watching us suffer and actually fucking help; we will literally DIE on the streets. we have only managed to avoid another stint of homelessness because of community, STOP ASSUMING SOMEONE ELSE WILL HELP AND DO SOMETHING.

[rabbitkinglune777]

900 COMBAT GRL-EVIL

[rabbitkinglune777]

trans girls deserve to kick Nazi ass

[tertiaryapocalypse]

grahahhahhhhhhhh

[lokaror]

They used idiot ore to forge u bro

[treenncher]

----Little guy----

I like computers and making designs for them.

[crabussy]

when a man and a woman in a piece of fiction get to keep having a delightful friendship dynamic instead of losing all their interesting traits to become the 580000th het couple ever

[tertiaryapocalypse]

99+ notes can everyone leave me alone. i hate this place

[asthmaticmage]

Fumo Yuyuko isn’t reacting well to the weather

[segamascott]

[zapatism]

lol ur watching the world cup finals sorry im too busy HAVING SEX

(texting my dick guy) we gotta have sex rn i just blogged

(dick guy) im watching the world cup