I really like that TV man

I haven't been the same since June 4th 23 📺 she/Her 📺 Nana bc i've just realized that ThatTennaFan is very long

[thattennafan]

My Tenna yappings master post

(they don't deserve to be called analyses tbh)

Hello! :D This is where I'm going to put all of my Tenna analyses that I've posted on Twitter but I'll be expanding them further here, since Twitter's character limit sucks ass

Part 1: Tenna and the Dreemurrs

Part 2: Tenna and being an object

Part 3: Tenna and Toriel thoughts

Part 4: Tenna's goals and motivations

Part 5: Tenna and Obsolescence

Part 6: Tenna's self-objetification

[rosenfieldsart]

done for an exchange! somehow i always seem to get experimental with exchanges jfjdkdkfkjrkf

[ilsu-yeet-death]

My friend offered to make me some Tenna keychains, so I whipped up these cuties... yall can enjoy him too (I dunno if people here would be interested in our little shop thingy, we don't have Deltarune stuff but plan on in the future lmao

[caecaesclubhouse]

Drew my fave Tenna sprite cause he's been part of my life for a whole year now ❤📺

[lastflunky-draws]

Happy one year of Tenna.

Here's my first Tenna drawings that I never uploaded.

[garlicbrind]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAPTER 3 AND 4 AND ESPECIALLY TENNA!!!!!!

how dare you become my father figure comfort character phaha what who said that? the wind is loud today

im definetely not late whaaat

[nervigg]

Happy 1 year anniversary of my Tenna fixation. Decided to redraw the first ever sketch I made of him ⭐️

I can't believe it's been a full year now. I'm someone whose hyperfixations change pretty frequently and while my interests have shifted from deltarune here and there over the last year, my interest in Tenna has not wavered once. He's very special when it comes to fictional characters because no other has ever made me feel like he did when I first saw him and I definitely favor him over other characters I like

I don't think I've ever drawn a character this much either, he generally inspires me to keep creating and has done wonders for my art block I've been struggling with for multiple years. Sorry to the people who follow me for other content besides Tenna. I love TV, what can I say 📺💙

[thattennafan]

really like femtenna

[thattennafan]

It's so fun to think about Tenna after Chapter 3 because, God, it was a terrible night for everyone, but especially for him. At first, everything seemed to be going well, and maybe everything was going to be alright for him! And then,, he hit rock bottom that is almost dying alone, dismembered in the biting cold. In short, what a day!

In the course of a single day, he lost everything, and while it's true he's not alone in this, because all the darkners in Castle Town went through the same thing, the key difference is that Tenna didn't want to leave the Dreemurr family. He didn't want to go. His whole life had been in that living room, TV World was probably the only world he knew, and now he has to leave because the people who he considered family no longer wanted him or needed him! He no longer had a place in what he once called home!

And also we know for sure that what happened with Spamton and the contract is eating him up inside. His relationships with other darkners are either tense or distant. He like admitted twice in Chapter 3 that he's lonely. Well, he has a hand in why is this with the contracts and not being the best of the bosses but even so, he lacks meaningful connections with other Darkners, which could be why he doesn't hesitate to leave without saying goodbye to go to his new home. He probably thought no one would care (ironically, the only one who notices Tenna's absence is Roulxs, lol).

Now let's talk about the events of Chapter 3, where he has a mental breakdown because things were THAT bad for him. His employees, old friends, and Mike abandon him. People leaving him has always been a constant in his life, but the horrible realization that it's his fault, that he's the common denominator, is awful. He's not just a worthless object, he's also a horrible person!

And then he almost dies in a horrible way, which, by the way, is the slowest death in the entire game. And it's no surprise that an attack like that would have left its mark on a television that's already worn out from years of use and disuse. Also why nobody considers the psychological effects of almost dying like that

The promise of a new home hasn't taken away all his problems. They're still there: he's still incredibly insecure, his uhh gloobiness hasn't magically disappeared, many of his important relationships, like those with the Dreemurrs and Spamton, didn't even have a proper closure. And most importantly, he still bases his entire worth on how well he can perform, on how useful he can be as an object.

Taking all of this into account, I think he's not okay in either ending, which doesn't mean he can't improve, because I think both endings will be happy for him, but right now he still has deep issues and needs help, a hug, and some soup

[catenh459]

it kept saving the background as transparent and guess what!!!! I left the transparent switch on the side where it saves with a transparent background and forgot to switch it off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[atlas-vk]

Was inspired and wanted to draw Tenna as a ballerina. First finished drawing since I've been able to use my PC again. No tutu because I didn't like how it looked on him. I may draw him again like this to make the tutu work. I hope you find him as cute as I do :)

[tennamultishipzine]

🌟Coming straight TO YOUR house...🌟

Introducing WE LOVE TV!: A Tenna-centric Multishipping Zine, a zine celebrating all ships centering our beloved TV host Mr. Ant Tenna!

Stay tuned for our interest check opening on June 7th, 3:30pm CEST and other future updates!

Until then, happy one year anniversary to everyone's favorite CRT!

See you soon, dear TV Lovers! 📺💗

📺 Bluesky

📺 Twitter

[thecherry165]

[beezah-beez]

i love these lines so much it's like one of the few times Tenna talks out of his stage persona character. hashtag his bitchiness. hashtag his passive aggression. do you think his internal monologue is like this

and then this one is from the bonus round board that got cut from chap 3. 🫵 SELF CENSORSHIP EVIDENCE

[purbletiger]

ya. the vest 💖

hey hey not to get all soppy on here but I’ve seen a lotta artists going thru artblock and lack of motivation right now (me too) but!! WE CAN GET THROUGH THIS!!! I believe in us!

This time of year is always crazy bc I know people are finishing school or just going thru life, but don’t feel bad if you’ve been inactive online or haven’t been drawing that much! You can always start again anytime, I know we can keep being creative and cutieful <333

Art is the process, not the product, take all the time in the world :))

[beezah-beez]

OKAY so i think a huge part of Tenna’s character is the fact he is a performance artist. I will say I was in performance art groups for an undisclosed amount of years and there’s. There’s a certain vibe 🆗 there’s specific mindsets and attitudes that I feel Tenna speaks on in rly specific ways that I dont see dug into very often.

Tenna’s whole psychology sort of orbits around the fact he’s an entertainer. He lives to serve you, but he’s not exactly necessary. His self-worth and self-expression and overall ability to keep others happy are all psychologically melted together. You can see he genuinely loves to entertain and finds it very fulfilling, but the nature of that requires a level of people-pleasing and repression.

more under the cut bc this is fr a 4 page essay

Being a literal object made to serve the lighteners definitely underscores this, but I can't think of any other darkeners that are this, uh… neurotic? unwell. about it. (well there’s a certain puppet secret boss im side-eyeing but he psychologically goes the other direction. Flips a middle finger to god and tries to ascend to another dimension. classic.)

Tenna’s survival literally depends on if other people are happy enough with him or not. And to do that he’s forced to act a certain way. In obvious ways like always having to keep the energy up and ignoring conflict,

but this extends to trying to suppress his own negative emotions, thoughts, and needs, being forced to do things that are against his own morals,

and a fawn response to threats.

There’s a sort of conundrum with the nature of performing arts where it’s kind of inseparable from your physical self. Whether you're using your face, voice, hands, etc. (or your whole entire body, in Tenna’s case), when a comment or critique is made of your performance, there’s just one less degree of separation between the thing you put out there and your whole You (I love TV = I love Tenna :) no degree of separation from the abstract concept of TV and his own idea of himself). So there’s the whole self worth thing already tied up in there. I’m not even gonna get deep into that one I feel like we know where that one’s going.

But the other question becomes, exactly how much of myself am I willing to give up for approval? What’s the right way to balance self-expression and individual identity with giving the people what they want? ... Or do we bother balancing it at all?

(and this is true of any art anyone puts into the public eye, but performance art is just kinda extra weird about it, by nature. For example, actors are expected to get hair cuts, keep or change their bodies to be a certain way, they lack anonymity because their face is tied to their art, so you're expected to behave a certain way when you're off the clock too-- it just requires so much more self-editing.)

Tenna’s such a beautiful example of this. In a very unsubtle (imo) way you see him bulldoze his own emotions for the sake of performance, upkeep his own denial to try to keep the happy facade up, and go to lengths to hide personal information. And it’s obviously stressing him out.

He’s internalized it to the point where it’s starting to come out in odd ways that dont make sense anymore, too.

"everyone's gonna know I..." know what. that youre a single mother. babygirl what are u talking about. + we all agree that the audience in the second one is like. some sort of manifestation right. can a professional please give this guy some cognitive behavioral therapy im begging

And then the dude does not know when to give it up. In a bad way.

There's a saying that originated from broadway i think, “the show must go on.” There’s a cute happy song about it but the attitude in the showbusiness is very real. It doesn't matter what you're personally going through, you’re expected to show up and perform no matter what, Or Else. Or else you ruined everyone else’s months of hard work, or else the show will suck and it will be your fault. In a lot of performing art mediums, there’s no retries, either. You mess up on stage and your moment is stained forever :) so you better do it right! no pressure.

In Tenna’s case, the “or else” is “or else you get sliced into ribbons”. He’s expected to pack up Toriel, keep it a secret, and keep the fun gang occupied for an indefinite amount of time until the Knight picks up its to-go order. Ive said it before and ill say it again this dude is doing like 5 hours straight of comedy improv with a gun to his head HE DOESNT EVEN RLY WANT TO KEEP YOU HERE. HE RUSHES YOU THRU THE FIRST BOARD, ROUND 2 WAS VAGUELY SLAPPED TOGETHER, AND THE BONUS ROUND IS NONEXISTENT THE MAN IS FREAKING OUT BACKSTAGE TRYING TO KEEP IT TOGETHER. OR ELSE. 

And then he has a mental breakdown live on stage and he just has to keep going. What other option is there.

And then his crew leaves, and his friends leave, and Mike leaves. But Tenna doesn't get to leave. The show goes on. Until the very end he's still cracking jokes and trying to herd you back to the board. Even his boss fight with the fun gang is just More Games!! He acts genuinely confused if you start whacking him in his fight!!

it's kinda meta in a way that an amount of people read Tenna's on-stage mental breakdown as a sort of temper tantrum for not giving him enough attention, which is similar to the way celebrities irl get dismissed when they go thru mental health issues. so so many signs pointing to how much he actually does not want to do any of this and is very scared. i mean to be fair that's the lie he gave us right before his battle. (covering up the deal with the Knight for Kris)

Maybe Kris/the knight really DID promise a reward, but the way he gets nervous as hell and shakes when he's alone with Kris-- that's not the usual reaction to someone you expect a prize from. they both know what the consequences are.

In conclusion: Tenna is a patron saint of performance art to me and all of his lovely complexes and mysterious deal with Kris perfectly represents the secret psychological horror that is to exist at an audience’s whims. Thank u for staying this long here take this shitpost as a reward

[hastyushechkart]

Congratulations will chapter 3&4 release anniversary!

Tenna's already been around for a year, can you believe it!?

Oh, but there's so much excitement right now about the possible release of Chapter 5 soon... Toby, please take your time, let Tenna shine a little longer!