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[kyattofaito]

ive figured it out.

[yesinmybackyard]

i think susie deltarune is aromantic and i have evidence

Hey chit-chatters, ever since chapters 3+4 of Deltarune came out, i've had an idea rattling around my skull that Susie Deltarune may in fact be, contrary to popular belief, aromantic. You'd expect that chapter 5 would have changed my mind on this but I actually feel like it provides even more evidence, which I will now provide for you.

Throughout the vast majority of Noelle and Susie's festival date and the events leading up to it, Noelle is always the one who initiates anything romantic, Susie seems to always be just going along with it. And I do truly believe that Susie likes Noelle, I just don't think those feelings are romantic.

Speaking about romance, Susie herself says she has difficulty identifying romantic feelings.

She has Noelle take the lead in identifying her feelings. Since Noelle's feelings are romantic, that's what Susie thinks she feels too. If Noelle were to say they were platonic, I think Susie would equally agree with that.

When discussing romance she says that someone has to "like you first". There isn't room there for her to develop feelings, it's another instance of her going along with another's feelings involving her.

Additionally she shows resistance to the idea of flirting or expressing other romantic gestures. You could say that this is because of her relationship with Noelle, but she refuses to flirt long before their relationship has progressed.

Another point I'd like to bring up is the song from the chapter 5 that plays during the normal route lake scene, I guess I'm in love. I think that the wording here is very interesting, being "I guess I'm in love." Not "I am in love", not "I think I'm in love", the title is "I guess I'm in love." To me this seems to imply a sense of uncertainty, a sense of 'just going along with it' because that's what the people around her are doing.

All of this really does lead me to believe that Susie is arospec in some way.

Now I know none of this is cut and dry, I always accept and embrace the possibility that I'm wrong. (I'd actually like to be because of how much I ship krusielle. [though that could still become canon, just queerplatonic on Susie's part]) None of this is definitive proof. I just think It's something interesting to consider. It's something I've been considering and now maybe you can consider it too :)

[lucii0612]

people in the deltarune community (not calling them fans) seem to be fine with queer pairing/characters but have a huge different reaction to anything transgender revolving their game

Suselle?? awesome. no problem. Alphyne?? great. Blellow? uh. okay. all other queer pairings??? yea good

oh but when it comes to characters being transgender, nonbinary, agender etc etc.

"Kris is nonbinary and is only addressed by They/Them. Maybe transfem too." ummm actually I can think of Kris whatever I want because uhhhhh I paid for the game. or something. (I've seen less people denying nb Kris but still)

"Ralsei is transfem" WHAT???!?!!?!?!?! Um. this is taking away my 'gnc/feminine boy representation'!! which i, definitely care about and am not pretending to, so no it's not that I'm transphobic or something.

What??? there's other gnc men in the games??? Mettaton?? um. I gen don't care ://. Blue?? I don't know.... he's black ://// and I don't like that :///// i'm obviously not gonna make it obvious but I clearly have a bias against black queer gnc people :///

Also we don't talk about Pink because ummmm I don't want to address the transgender allegory in the room :/// I'm just going to joke about the anime girl dating the kid I project myself into which I also misgender

but noooo not any of this is transphobia or mainly transmisogyny ://// I just reaaaally care about my gnc man representation :/// or something :// anyways

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

cultures that do an afternoon nap are OBJECTIVELY CORRECT and the world should be learning from them

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you've heard of the spanish siesta now get ready for places like Vietnam where it's commonplace to see workers pull out a mattress & take an afternoon nap on the office/store floor. very powerful way to roll. give kindergarten-style naptime BACK to the people ✊

[wachinyeya]

How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete

The “Stockholm tree pit” method was created to help trees thrive in paved-over urban spaces. Now, it’s taking root across Europe.

When Stockholm’s Traffic Office conducted a general assessment of street traffic in the Swedish capital in 2001, it came to the shocking conclusion that two-thirds of all trees in the city center were dead or dying.

City authorities agreed that an urgent response was needed to nurse these leafy urban ecosystem pillars back to health.

Enter Björn Embrén, Stockholm’s first “tree officer.”

Under his leadership, various technologies and materials were tested in an attempt to create a more suitable living space for trees in the urban environment.

“I knew that they could grow if the circumstances were right,” says Embrén, a former professional gardener.

“It’s like putting a plastic bag over your head and tightening it over your neck,” says Embrén. “That’s what happened to the trees in Stockholm. They were dying.”

Eventually, inspired by railroad embankments — which require only a small amount of organic matter for healthy trees to grow — Embrén concocted what was to become known as the “Stockholm tree pit” model.

By 2002, Embrén had drawn up designs. And by 2003, they were already building.

The design involves digging a pit and constructing a frame underground around the tree’s roots, and then filling said pit with a mixture of soil and stone, sometimes including biochar, to both aerate and fertilize the soil. These permeable layers are very strong and physically adaptable but also allow stormwater to flow in, meaning the trees are provided with sufficient air and water naturally. They also allow rainwater to be soaked up — a necessity amid more extreme weather brought on by climate change.

“We found that the more breathable the materials we used, the happier the trees were,” adds Embrén.

Proponents say the method has a number of benefits, including the fact that pits can be installed around existing trees, they can bear the weight of heavy-vehicle traffic, they require little topsoil — a resource that is becoming scarce — and they need less watering than traditionally-planted trees.

This approach, which allows tree roots to thrive beneath hard surfacing, ergo allowing healthy trees to grow within the modern built environment, is particularly relevant as cities attempt to re-green and reforest in the face of climate change.

According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, urban forests can help “future-proof” cities, which are responsible for about 75 percent of global CO2 emissions. Sustainable urban forestry, it says, can bring multiple benefits, such as lowering temperatures, improving public health, creating habitats for biodiversity, sequestering carbon, generating green jobs, and mitigating risks of floods and landslides.

“It’s more important now than ever before,” says Ryan Klein, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida. “We have these massive populations in urban areas. And we’re seeing more extreme weather like hurricanes, wildfires and prolonged droughts. Trees can help to offset some of these negative effects.”

However, amid the rush to rapidly reforest cities, experts like Klein warn that due to ineffective methods and techniques being used, it’s common to see urban trees in poor health, and trees planted in cities often have very high mortality rates.

“We have the understanding of how to grow healthier, more sustainable and resilient forests,” says Klein. “The research backs it. Unfortunately, we don’t always invest the time, money or internal know-how on implementing this.”

A review of 16 scientific studies on urban tree mortality, published in 2019, found that in the first five years after planting, 6.6 to 7 percent of trees died annually.

“Urban soils are not very tree-friendly currently,” says Rik De Vreese, leader of the Urban Forestry Team at the European Forestry Institute. “It’s quite a serious threat.”

When trees aren’t properly anchored, De Vreese adds, it can also lead to other issues, such as trunks falling over and causing damage or roots warping sidewalks.

However, the Stockholm Tree Pit method — and the way that it’s been implemented in Sweden — is helping urban forests genuinely take root.

One of the first locations where Embrén introduced a tree pit was Erik Dahlbergsallén street in Stockholm, not far from the popular Swedish Museum of Natural History.

There, according to research by the municipality, the circumference of a selection of those planted trees increased from 30 to 35 centimeters to 70 to 83 centimeters between 2004 and 2013, even surpassing that of trees without the tree pits that have been there for more than 80 years. The latest figures from 2024 saw them reach between 100 and 136 centimeters.

“It’s easy to see how effective the pits have been,” says Embrén.

The municipality estimates that 2.3 million liters of rainwater are managed by the trees per year, and consequently, 4,600 square meters of roofs and sidewalks have been disconnected from the sewage system, reducing the burden on water treatment services.

This technique has proven so successful that it has become the standard for all other development projects in the public spaces of Stockholm. Embrén says he has been directly involved in constructing more than 3,000 tree pits, and while he has since retired, there are now three “tree officers” who have taken on the expanding role. 

Britt-Marie Alvem, one of the current tree officers, estimates that the city now builds between 500 and 1,000 tree pits a year.

These days, the tree pits are also in almost every Swedish city — with a few variations.

“Some have copied and changed a little bit, like adding pumice to the stone mix,” says Embrén.

Stockholm’s tree pits are now spreading across Europe, too. In Budapest, Hungary’s capital, the tree pits can be found all over Bartók Béla Boulevard and Arany János Street. Embrén says the Spanish city of Madrid has implemented the method using local materials. And it’s become increasingly popular in the U.K.

Ben Rose, the principal arboricultural consultant at U.K. tree service Bosky Trees and the founder of Stockholm Tree Pits, a U.K.-based company that produces the equipment required to make tree pits, says that he has planted about 500 trees using the Stockholm model in the U.K. since he began in 2019, mostly as part of small-scale pilot projects.

“The approach is very suitable for use in urban situations, particularly in car parks, in plazas, and beside walkways or cycle paths,” says Rose.

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Yet there are some drawbacks to the system. Installation costs can be high, the pits can require a large amount of space to install, and it is impossible to reuse existing soil. In addition, for now there is a relative dearth of professionals who know how to construct tree pits.

“Our main concern is the price,” says De Vreese, whose team is currently studying the importance of “structural soils” like those deployed by the tree pits. “Excavating the soil surrounding the tree and refilling it is no small job.”

And while Professor Klein praises the Stockholm Tree Pit’s use of structural soil and how effective it’s proven to be, he notes that the long-term success of urban forestry also relies on other factors such as the supply of high quality nursery stock and proactive tree management such as routine pruning by municipalities.

“If we don’t have these we are setting ourselves up for failure,” he says. “Some cities do the bare minimum. In the U.S.A., it’s the wild west. But others, like Stockholm, are proactive, and they have public officials seriously behind it. That’s what we need.”

By: Peter Yeung, March 4, 2025

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

free-to-use “the only ship that is bad is censorship” badge

—> “proship & proud” badge

—> “no censorship allowed” badge

[the-future-is-chrome]

every argument against porn is dumb as fuck because you could use it for basically any form of art/media ever

[anarcho-catboyism]

We really went from "free the nipple" to "um the public didn't consent to you wearing a choker"

[germaerobics]

the nsfw ban on Tumblr is temporarily lifted every time you scroll your for you tab at work

[yesinmybackyard]

Or just in front of people in general

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[nonaferatu]

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.

[arsonistman]

I hate how 2b has become another generic popular sexy anime woman not just because of the Slop, but also bc they’re sexualising her wrong. She is sexy because shes highly competent, loyal to a fault, full of repressed emotions, eager to kill, and a soldier through and through with hands covered in endless blood. She does have a nice ass but that doesn’t matter!!! I want her dirty and pissed and turning her tears into furious screams

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

extra crazy to see people swinging so hard for big corporate copyright lawsuits on tumblr dot com tbh. alright girl whateverrrrr, I hope the lawyers come for your favorite fan artist next if you're so in favor of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you're all frothing at the mouth for a queer climate activist getting sued now but oooh just wait until you can't order astarion keychains and baby yoda plushies and whatever the fuck else off etsy anymore

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I guess in light of all the feedback I've been receiving tonight I'm going to turn over a new leaf and become a good citizen who defends copyright law. first up is snitching out the nice lady at the local farmers market who sells crochet pokemon plushies, I want to see nintendo sue that cunt into the ground

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

in conclusion I've never felt this post more strongly

[pokemonhorizonsliko]

Liko’s Family’s Generational Trauma of Neglect

A dissection by me~~~~!!!!!

CW for discussions of neglect & dysfunctional family dynamics

I don’t think, canonically, they mean for Liko’s family to read as dysfunctional (or, at least, as concerningly dysfunctional instead of lighthearted dysfunctional).

I think the writers probably meant for her parents to just be “busy”, and them all to love one another and whatever.

Instead, we end up with Liko seeming distant from her father and showing no interest in seeing him or staying home, and so much worse than that, her mom, after specially contacting the RVTs to keep Liko safe, refusing to go home to see her.

There are many more canon instants you can pull upon for Liko’s parents being neglectful, such as IMO the flashback clip from the second theme song, in which we see young Liko seemingly sad to be ignored by her parents at a market (I mean the colors wash out as she freezes staring at their backs. At this point Lucca is refusing to look at/meet eyes with Liko exactly like how later Cervantis refuses to with Amethio). But let’s talk, for a second, about what Liko’s mom, Lucca’s childhood, might have been like.

So, Diana. I love her to bits and pieces, and she doesn’t have a phone and Liko thought it was more likely Amethio was a creeping guy trying to abduct her than that her grandma would write her a letter.

It’s an ongoing gag that Diana is impossible to contact, and Diana is also known for never staying in one place, always being out and adventuring.

Lucca is…. Strangely normal compared to her entire family. Like she’s Just A Regular Mom in character design, occupation, and personality. She’s like the one neurotypical in a line of autistics lol.

It’s not that Lucca couldn’t have liked adventure, or been a Trainer herself, but we see no proof of that (Heck, since she’s not in episode 9, Fidough really comes off as Alex’s Pokemon instead of hers, so I don’t tend to assume Lucca has any Pokemon).

If she has no particular interest in adventure, well, it would have been easy for her childhood and early-adult life to have been spent with blocks of time where her mom simply… Wasn’t home.

Diana could’ve been out adventuring and honestly, Diana, being so free-spirited and well, confident, could easily have assumed Lucca was ready to care for herself/be left home alone much earlier than she should have been.

But, well, what would be Diana’s reference for how much attention a child needs is, anyways? Let’s look at her mother, Layla.

Layla is Rystal’s child (Given Lucius was out of the picture by the point she was born). And Rystal died young, though we don’t know how young.

It’s entirely possible that Layla had to fend for herself from a very, very young age, because she was orphaned.

And, well, even if she wasn’t… What sort of headspace was Rystal in? Because it couldn’t be a good one for raising a child.

She just lost everyone she loves, human and Pokemon alike, and was left with, well, nothing. She surely sparsely had energy to give Layla attention, especially when, well, she was a traveler. It’s possible she didn’t even have a home of her own to return to, and we have no backstory on Rystal’s own home-life and if she had family to fall back on.

The true moral here is, I think Rystal, through circumstances entirely out of her control, accidentally started a chain of normalized neglect through Liko’s lineage. I don’t think it was intentional, and I think all these people love their children (Though Lucca is on thin ice because of the way I happen to analyze her), they just don’t realize this problem that started a 100-or-so years ago.

I think Rystal couldn’t give Layla the attention she needed, and that made Layla think that’s normal, and copy Rystal’s parenting, ending up neglectful towards Diana (Who didn’t notice it, because she was too busy running off into adventures), and then Diana ended up copying her mom’s neglect onto Lucca, and so on.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

feels like a real step back that with all the sexual freedom available to us we moved to Hookup Culture instead of Having Sex With Friends Culture

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I find it weird, actually, that today it's more common to have sex with casual acquaintances you meet on the Hookup App than to have sex with people you already know and like and have fun with. and how if two friends have sex, there's an assumption there must be underlying romantic feelings. because apparently casual non-romantic sex is fine, but only with people you don't already like and care about?

I feel like the hippies and people who lived through the Free Love movement would be rightfully disappointed at us for these made-up lines we're drawing between Sex/Romance and (gasp!) Friendship. shockingly, it's fine to have casual sex with people you enjoy hanging out with and do not want to date. fun and healthy even!

[hextwo]

Ahhh... i dunno why but this feels like a result of purity culture.

Where 2 concepts clash:

You can have sex outside of marriage

But also sex is bad and you shouldn't do it.

It's not actually okay to have sex and it's shameful to do it and it'll taint your relationships if they know about it.

But also sex isn't bad and be free to do it whenever you want!

That turns into:

You can have sex but it's bad for your relationships.

So it's okay to have sex only if you're either planning to Marry them or Never seeing them again.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

HUH.... Society really fucked us on this one (and not in the fun kinky way ☹️)

[bluelric]

Thinking about this thread

[chaoticallycrazy53]

olly's exactly where he wants to be.

[scraftyisthebest]

If there's one lowkey thing I'd like to see, I kinda wanna see Roy be his fun and somewhat goofy self again from here on out.

I do, to some degree, miss how fun and joyful he was before the timeskip. Rewatching the Litten Smitten/Nyabiko episode as of late and seeing him sing with Crocalor at the time was a treat and now I wanna see it with him and Skeledirge (and Kilowattrel for that matter too), though in a notably different way from pre-timeskip, since he can balance it with a healthy amount of maturity and confidence.

Now's a good time to see him show a healthy balance between the fun and joyful dude he was before and the competence he has as a Trainer now imo. He's more in his element when he's somewhat of a doofus, and perhaps a bit better about it now, where he can balance it with being a capable Trainer if need be alongside Liko, Dot, and Ult. Liko's better at being "cool" than he is, he on the other hand is better as a lovable goof, but this time a capable, reliable, and dependable goofball instead of one who always gets everyone in trouble (that's Ult's job now).

[yesinmybackyard]

Fully agree

[queer-as-city-folk]

Cities are inherently more sustainable than returning to some idealistic agrarian world, but we can't recognize that because we have just decided the color grey means bad