i can't stop thinking about this part from the eridian lore bible
the biodome team watching grace get up in the middle of the night and easily navigate his hut without turning any lights on:
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
trying on a metaphor
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i can't stop thinking about this part from the eridian lore bible
the biodome team watching grace get up in the middle of the night and easily navigate his hut without turning any lights on:
hatched all alone
local man adopts familiar and mimic, simultaneously discovers healthy eating patterns. correlation unsuspected 💖
this is kit the rogue from my dnd campaign with @icbrothers and @knide, i love it so, somehow he has two kids now??
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In Undertale, the difference in physical structure between humans and monsters represents their different... let's say "ontological" status; humans are more physical because they're more real that monsters, right, they're the ones with real agency and moral patienthood; the world is implicitly telling you that monsters don't matter, they aren't moral patients, they are to humans as NPCs are to a player. They aren't real people made of flesh and blood, they're made of magic! That's the joke, I think.
Now Deltarune, with Lightners and Darkners, takes that subtext of ontological superiority and brings it even closer to text; the Darkners are literally not real, Ralsei encourages you to disregard their lives; the Lightners stand above them in the great chain of being, and closer to the Sun.
It would then stand to thematic reason that Monsters, as Lightners in the world of Deltarune, where we already know they don't have Magic, all bleed. This is what I have been staunchly defending for years now. And yet the game has just danced around it the entire time— if it's just a simple fact of the world, why not be straightforward about it? Why treat Susie bleeding four chapters in like a big deal? Why let Darkners so consistently talk about blood?
—Deltarune does not borrow Undertale's symbolism here; blood does not anymore stand for "real", or, rather, if it does, it stands for "real" as in "visceral", as in the opposite of "sanitized".
I don't actually know if Lightners bleed or not, but it doesn't matter, because either way, this fact would not be brought up. This is not a place where things like violence or blood are talked about (just ignore the weird man in the weird costume). This is just a quaint little town! Nothing bad ever happens here. We especially wouldn't talk about it around the kids! We're protecting them from it! Kids shouldn't worry about things like blood or trauma— So even a giant bloodstain on the floor goes unacknowledged.
The Light World doesn't allow talking about anything uncomfortable. Horror movies and rock music that may contain references to scary things are banned! But in the Dark Worlds, where the kids are free from the eyes of the grown ups, and can talk about everything weird and uncomfortable they're going and have gone through, the things they know are there just under the surface but aren't allowed to speak of— they can talk about blood. The Darkness itself manifests gushing from a wound in the Earth!
And Susie— well she talks about blood all of the time. She bluntly acknowledges the truth that "everyone bleeds". And when she rejects the prophecy, when she calls out the lie of the religion which claims to be all about everyone being always nice to one another, she, herself, bleeds.
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And because of that, the kids noticeably and consistently lack the conceptual vocabulary to talk about what's happening in Hometown, and have to use the language they do have to approximate it, badly – first and foremost the language of games; toys; stories.
Noelle can't say "Kris did something," she can only say "it snowed," and "It was snowing so hard, I couldn't see anything." Kris goes to Art Therapy, trying to depict what they saw behind the tree, and draws the trees of Card Kingdom instead – and the Forgotten Man and Mancountry are games, too. The closest we've gotten to the "core" of what Kris is hiding was through MANTLE, game abstraction wrapped in game abstraction wrapped in game abstraction like the shielding of a nuclear waste disposal site, while some shrieking, giggling, unspeakable fear sits at its center and writhes hard enough to tear through that defensive layer and torment Kris in flesh.
They can't say it without a video game to do the talking for them – and that game, derived from Dragon Blazers / Lord of the Hammer / The Prophecy, carries its own conceptual load, doesn't it?
[ID1: Deltarune screenshot of Susie saying "Everyone bleeds, right? Don't worry about it."
ID2: selected lyrics from Raise Up Your Bat, comparing the original and censored version -- "and the blood is gushing bright" vs "and the sun is shining bright". /end IDs]
at the club no drinks.in.fully stone cold sober: what if thsre was a secret city
Face twists with bravery as a chill runs through the air We have to find it.
We have to find it
Saying this with all the love in my heart, "Trans" is not a magical title that erases all social biases and discriminations you hold in your mind the moment you transition.
You have to actually ACTIVELY unlearn all that shit. You can actually be trans AND hold TERF and racist beliefs, it is in fact very easy.
Read studies and essays, Engage with the works of other minorities, Don't think you're just better by virtue of losing *some* privilege.
I hope all the red usernames reblogging this post have read it veeery slowly!
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So I thought y'all would like this too This great white comes to the jersey shore every year and this year they named her and have been tracking her hella so this is Mary Lee and she decided to show herself under this rainbow for pride month A true gay icon
#This is the representation I’ve been looking for
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We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.
I have been telling people for years that the company behind Pokemon Go had no-shit, for-realsies ties to the CIA and people never really took it that seriously. Anyway.
Despite it all I can't hate solarpunk. It's caramel-apple sweet-simplistic, a desire for a greater world on one simple axis without grappling with any kind of political reality. You can chip at its ankles but unfortunately it will still be kind of awesome epicsauce at its heart. Sometimes you really do need to just cut past all the hard-nosed realism, get back to the kid looking up at you with those big blubbering eyes saying "what if everyone was nice to eachother?" That kid does not know an ant's arse about the real world or how it works, but they're still 1000 times more correct than all of us trying to explain why it can't be done. You can't lose sight of the stupid, hopeless dream. You can't lose sight of it. Otherwise you turn into a dickhead.
Wafrica« by Serge Mouangue, a Cameroonian designer based in Japan. Wafrica creates African patterns on Japanese traditIonal kimonos
Old man, sitting in the pool steps reading his book
Artists sketch
UNRESTRAINED SUMMER FUN
Colored sketch.. excited for the new chapter!!
what nobody tells you about weekends is that it’s already monday
*looking at the OC I crafted with my own hands* what the actual hell is her problem
If I did an alien abduction story it would be about someone who got abducted and came back and went out to live in isolation, but when the aliens come back to try and abduct her again they discover she has prepared a series of looney tunes home alone style lethal traps, and it becomes a comedy where bugs bunny is abduction survivor with ptsd and alien grays are an infinite supply of wile e coyotes, but all the traps specifically rely on alien abduction clichés to set off.
Like she's being hit with the bright antigravity spotlight and as she's about to be dragged off she crawls behind something. Then you cut to the aliens on the ship watching a spec rising towards them, except as it comes into focus, it's a huge anvil and not a person. Cut back to the aliens frantically pushing buttons and then back to the girls on the ground as she sees a tiny little *pfft* of a distant ship explosion in the sky
Flying saucer gets lower and lower towards her, slowing, slowing. When it stops, it comes clear that it is pushing against a pair of giant rubber bands, and they slingshot the ufo back into space.
Alien leaning over her sleeping form under the covers, but we see her leaning over behind the alien until she goes like, "Ehmmm whatcha lookin at there?" Then the alien jumps up and spins arouns but when it tries to grab her, she shoves a gift wrapped box into its hands and then it opens the box which immediately explodes.
Wasn’t there an entire episode of Animaniacs with this exact premise?
There's an entire looney tunes character with this exact premise
There’s an entire
looney tunes character with
this exact premise
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.