#deltares

[hydronationchair]

A meeting of minds

Representatives from two Hydro Nations (Scottish Water’s Hydro Nation Chair programme, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Deltares) met in Delft in November. 

Following many years of productive collaboration between the University of Stirling and Deltares through key European programmes (including DANUBIUS-RI, Danube4All; MERLIN, and forthcoming LandSeaLot), a joint workshop explored further collaborative opportunities through state of the art digital technologies and engineering facilities to support research and innovation in the areas of climate adaptation, floods and droughts and resilient communities. 

[ne0nwithazero]

Introducing Deltaring, a Deltarune-themed Webring!

I am super nervous to post this HI!!

I've been ruminating on this idea of the "Deltarune Webring" for WAY too long and I finally finished setting one up!

"The Deltaring is a webring featuring websites made by fans of the Deltarune series created by Toby Fox! Whether it be Fanpages, Shrines, Webcomics, Fangames, AUs, OCs, or anything themed around the series, they're all welcome here!"

I've been absolutely enamoured with the fansite scene of this community, but I was surprised to see that there weren't any UT/DR-themed webrings anywhere! (The reason likely being that Webrings are a bit old-fashioned, bUT THAT'S BESIDES THE POINT! There's not even an Undertale one??)

Anyways, I'm officially launching the ring, there's only one person in it right now (Me!) but I'm hoping to be able to have the wonderfully creative people of this community joining in and share all the love we have for this game!

Let me know if there are any issues with it! This is my first Webring so I might have missed a thing or two!

[abandoned-quiche]

does anyone know who made the utdr newsletter archive website on neocities? in the deltaring? there's no option to provide feedback, but i would like to correct them on their foam shower archive as i was one of the people who DID receive the foam shower emails

[m-chromatic]

ok i gotta say people acting like she's a defunct oc though is REALLY funny because i'm still drawing her every day KJDSHFKSHFKDS /pos /lh

[alisterjpg]

WOAH what?? thank you! <3 @ithymedit

[alpacasandwine]

I have always thought it just feels so unfair that out of nowhere we become in control of Kris, like, the dude isn't enjoying it, and because of the narrative, you can't enjoy the game without forcing kris to do stuff you want to to, even the good stuff

So I have beeen coming out with possible headcannon solutions/explanations to this, We'll probably got a cannon answer sometime in the future but until then I'll brainstorm a bit, relating it a bit to Dess because I believe that Kris does care a lot about Noelle

So, what if Kris became possesed because they were trying to find Dess? Like they saw her last time near that bunker, and feeling bad for not doing anything at the time, they went to that bunker to try to find her, but something else came out of it? Or perhaps they did indeed checked inside and didn't found her, and that's why they are trying at a dark world now that they know how to open a fountain thanks to Queen

Another idea I come up with would be a way to make less shitty the whole using Kris thing. What if Kris was the one who summoned us? They felt they weren't able to do much to find Dess, so they asked for help, the help of someone who would be able to done a lot more than what they would be able to because we aren't bound by the same rules. However, just because it wasn't Kris's plan, that doesn't mean they are ok with everything we do, not only in the Doing bad stuff department but also in the not concentrating to find Dess, so they tried to force us to search a bit more by creating a new Dark wold, or maybe even that could have been an attempt to open a new are to search Dess in

Even thought I love the narrative of Kris being our Puppet, I feel bad that, at least based on what we know until now, we simply started to control them and ignore their feelings one random day. Making it so it is somewhat Kris's decision/fault would be the way I'd like to explain why they can refuse, it's like a "Wow wow buddy, my turn on the controller ok " at the end of each Chapter(?

I should refine this idea more, it is still a bit too vague to be a fully fleshed theory

[gavingwhiz]

What the fuck did I like to make this happen...

[vulpineocs]

★×3 for any of your fantrolls :0

Oooo so

- Despite her strict appearance, Arinne's lusus is a unicorn and is very sweet to her child. Arinne is a sorceress as a result, though she also hides this for sake of reputation.

- Tivari and Sasivi are both part horrorterror due to tomb raiding going a bit too far. They make good money selling artefacts, but both of them have a bit of trouble staying grounded because of the eldritch blood in their veins.

- Every Deltar has a massive phobia of centipedes. Their partners from the Legacy crew will forever be the bug killers in the relationship.

[monofazz]

Tasque Manager shaking a bag of spam food then hitting Spamton in the back of the head with it on Deltar-

[skeppsbrott]

SVERIGEVÄNNER

Eller ja, ni svenskar som har en relation till Eurovision.

Här är dina stolpar för vad du ska skriva i ditt mejl:

Namn, ålder och ort

Ditt ärende (be SVT sätta tryck på EBU att stänga av Israel från Eurovision 2024)

Hänvisa till NGOs som Amnesty, Läkare Utan Gränser, etc., och deras uttalande om den humanitära katastrofen som just nu utspelar sig i Gaza (du kan länka till SVTs egna artiklar om detta)

Påtala tävlingens syfte (att främja fred och internationell gemenskap)

Påtala hur tävlingens trovärdighet och Sveriges värdskap kommer komma att ifrågasättas om Israel deltar

Påtala Sveriges ansvar som värdland och vår makt inom Eurovisionsammanhang

Påtala att Ryssland uteslöts just för att TV-bolagen utmanade EBUs beslut och fortfarande är uteslutna

Skriv något om din relation till tävlingen (hur länge du kollat, eventuella ritualer och traditioner, något kort bara)

Var tydlig i att du kommer delta i en bojkott mot Eurovision om EBU tillåter Israel att delta (det är också okej att vara tydlig med att du kommer vara ledsen över om så sker)

Var artig och vänlig men tydlig och bestämd

Undvik radikal politik - målet är inte att övertyga någon tjomme på SVT om att imperialism och nationalism är fel, målet är att övertyga dem om att det är en JÄTTEDÅLIG idé att låta Israel tävla och att vi är många som bryr oss om detta.

Här är mejladressen för kontakt med SVT: kontakt@svt.se

Här är en länk till EBUs uttalande om avstängningen av Ryssland 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220313071630/https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-russia-2022

@svenskjavel @dagenssvenska

[blackblooms]

Just saw that Mollystar has released the final part of device theory for deltarune.

I`ve been a huge fan of her content so im definitely gonna watch it now and you should too.

[bob243]

Some more Kris deltarune from the hit game deltars runes

[96percentdone]

Every time my old post expressing bafflement at 'anti player theory' undertale and deltarune fans gets a note, I go through the war again. Maybe some of them are normal, but like every post from these people that I have ever seen is never content to just have a strictly in universe read of the text. They gotta assert that believing a video game has meta elements spits in the face of craft and storytelling, and no video game could ever draw attention to it being a video game as part of it's thematic identity. They have to debunk the concept of metafiction just to be right, which is hilarious because they end up overwriting the thematic craft they claim to be the only real supporters of.

Undertale is about war, and violence, and hate and how we respond to it. Most monsters don't really want to fight, half of them are just hanging out, so they're happy to be friends if you are, but the memory of the war between monsters and humans lingers. Whether they don't entirely understand the war's true essence because of their purehearted natures make them antithetical to it (Papyrus, Monster Kid), or use the narrative around it as a prop for their personal goals and are forced to contend themselves (Alphys, Mettaton), or try to teach its horrors with its methods (Toriel), or are convinced that the only way to escape the shadow of the war is to win it (Undyne) even if they don't really want to wage war at all (Asgore), the history of that war informs it all. Flowey is who he is because that violence ravaged Asriel, a small child, SO hard his grief and anger are now everyone's problems. He cannot feel love because the cycle of violence stole his ability to believe in it. Every genocide boss only fights you to stop you from carrying out your own. They know that if the entire underground is so easily destroyed, there is no reason humanity wouldn't face the same fate, and this cycle must end, even if they are powerless. The ending is determined by whether you perpetuate war. The genocide run is a grueling, unfulfilling, deliberately difficult challenge as punishment for enacting war for nebulous gain, while pacifist ending brings about the best future, where everyone including Asriel is saved, and it is the most fun to play, because is one where you commit to kindness and understanding. They both are in service to the thesis statement that "love and compassion are good and the key to rectifying all wrongs."

Hbomberguy and NezumiVA have made videos on the same lines, but Undertale's meta because it's about how we engage with video games as a medium. It's about completionism. It asks whether mining a story for every possible scrap of information is worthwhile. Chara's true name is literally a derivative of player character, you are meant to name them after yourself, and project onto them and Frisk until the game seperates them from you because you are a real human being, not a character in a video game. You only learn Frisk's name by the end of pacifist, the best possible ending that you should be satisfied with as a means of separating your ties, and you only meet Chara when you go way the fuck out of your way to get the worst possible ending because of vague hints that there is one. Undertale uses the vibe and aesthetic of old turn-based rpgs to draw you in, get you comfortable, only to use it's characters to ask why are you doing any of this? Is this why you like stories? Are video games merely arrangements of lore to be logged into a wiki until you run out of data to sort, or did you like Undertale and other video games because its characters and ideas resonated with you emotionally? The text has a lot of compassion for Alphys and her fan hobbies, and it only criticizes her when she treats the real world as a self insert fanfic, and it's meta thesis for you is similar. It's fine and good that you love your favorite games, but what are you getting out of engaging with the medium in this way? "Don't you have anything better to do?"

But Deltarune is where they really start to lose me. It is not finished, things could change with later installments, but from what little we have, it follows up on Undertale's commentary about the cycle of violence, and brings it back to suburbia. Violence here is interpersonal abuse and neglect. It is adults caught up in the myriad problems of adult life they do not notice, or fail to support, or do not care about the children suffering under those same systems. Kris is a child who lives in the shadow of their older brother. They befriend Susie, who eats garbage and doesn't seem to have parents (or at least not any that give a shit), and they have a childhood bond with Noelle, who has lost her sister, her father is in the hospital, and her mother is absent and otherwise not great. Even Berdley has a whole complex about needing to be smart thanks to his upbringing. Kris opens this portal themself, literally escaping into a fantasy land where they, children, are the most important and powerful, unbeholden to adults and their baggage. They get to be agents, not subjects, and yet the dark world still has those same anxieties. Lancer is afraid of his father, Queen is an overbearing mother, Rouxls is an opportunist most concerned with himself, King struggles in vain to liberate himself from being a subject while forcing his subjects to adhere to his agenda, Spamton wants to escape his chains and is the incarnation of a spambot, Seam gives up, and Jevil escapes into his imagination. Kris can abuse Noelle into the snowgrave route, and Susie and Berdley are bullies because kids are just as capable of hurting one another as adults are. Darkners may say shit about not wanting to fight anyway, and Ralsei might regurgitate Undertale's lesson as truth like it's his full time job, but even he re-evaluates by the end of chapter one. In the real world things cannot be as simple they were in Undertale.

Agency obviously relates back to the meta, as Kris' is literally overwritten by the red soul you are asked to give your own name in a dialogue that once again separates you from your fictional vessel, a player character, then goes even harder when they slam dunk that little guy you made into the trash because "No one can choose who they are in this world." You can't either. You can get Kris to abuse Noelle into killing people, carry out the abuses that made these kids desperate to escape in the first place, even if they don't want that, but understanding the player solely as a force that strips agency, much like understanding Undertale's player as a comment on real world morality, is incomplete.

If Undertale critiques completionism and datamining as a valuable ways to understand art, then Deltarune reuses its cast and critiques is thesis as part of a its meta to showcase the it's real value. It is a story that even in universe is about fiction. The dark world and its inhabitants are palatable reflections of Hometown. Kris and Susie keep going back because it is freeing, and allows them to grapple with the their complicated feelings about their world. They can come out more confident in themselves, with a healthier mindset, or Berdley can fucking die! Violence in the dark world comes back out of it because the dark world is a mirror. Video games aren't real, you don't actually kill monsters or darkners, but war is real, and violence is real, and abuse is real, aren't they? Isn't that why you get sad when characters you like die? How often do we use analogies and metaphors to explain our feelings, or complicated ideas? Fiction is just a tool to understand the world. What are the stories you love saying to you?

If the meta doesn't compel you, it's not what you find value in, or how you interpret the text, I don't care, even if I think it's strange. What you get out of these games belongs to you, and you deserve to have your reading as much as I or any meta proponent does. But anyone making claims about what fiction must be, just to deny the a meta angle is possible? That's anti-intellectual bullshit. It denies metafiction exists as a tool altogether. It shits on not just Undertale and Deltarune, or meta video games, but stories written across every medium that have ever used their work to comment on itself, its genre, its medium, or art as a whole. If you denigrate a whole artistic convention and the work of countless artists just to validate your hot take? You don't deserve any respect.

[kris-performs-surgery]

Master Post

Welcome to Kris performs surgery, a Deltarune AU in which Kris, Susie and Ralsei enter a Dark World inside of Rudy's body in order to fight his brain tumor.

Archive

Part 1 #001 - #098 (Includes the introduction, bloodstreams, ass, small intestines, pancreas, stomach, kidney and liver)

Part 2 #099 - #??? (Includes the spleen and future organs)

Alternate Links

Archive of Our Own

Comicfury

TVTropes

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KrisSurgeryAU

[kottbulle]

Vill ha Norges åsikt om att deras landsmän deltar i svenska mello.

[mercair]

Hi Merc! Hope you're doin' okay ever since your computer just actually shot itself in the foot. Hope you can get back to the grind soon!

Anyway, you've seen the Scamair post, and that I am Mike Deltarune. So, what I ask of you is literally nothing I just wanted to check on you and to tell you that I'm Mike Deltarune. Sorry. Have a good day.

holy shit michael deltar une