#girls* gender neutral of course

[howdoyousleep3]

girl i'm out here not wanting to exist of course i'm clinging to my tumblr blog

[carlyraejepsans]

for real WHERE does the idea that [utdr humans] are nongendered so that "you can project on them" come from. their literal character arcs are about NOT being a blank slate to be filled in by the audience

i think i understand the assumption on some level for undertale, because there is a very intentional effort to make you identify with the "player character" in order to make your choices feel like your own (the beating heart of undertale's metanarrative lies in giving you an alternative path to violence against its enemies after all, and whether you're still willing to persue it for your own selfish reasons. YOUR agency is crucial).

of course, the cardinal plot twist of the main ending sweeps the rug from under your feet on that in every way, and frisk's individuality becomes, in turn, a tool to further UT's OTHER main theme: completionism as a form of diegetic violence within the story. replaying the game would steal frisk's life and happy ending from them for our own perverse sentimentality, emotionally forcing our hand away from the reset button.

i think their neutrality absolutely aids in that immersion. but also, there's this weird attitude by (mostly) cis fans where it being functional within the story makes it... somehow "editable" and "up to the player" as well? which is gross and shows their ass on how they approach gender neutrality in general lol.

but also like. there's plenty of neutral, non PCharacters in undertale and deltarune. even when undertale was just an earthbound fangame and the player immersion metanarrative was completely absent, toby still described frisk as a "young, androgynous person". sometimes characters are just neutral by design. it's not that hard to understand lol.

anyone who makes this argument for kris deltarune is braindead. nothing else to say about it.

[astralleywright]

another week.

[cowboylivio]

This episode was insane. Absolutely insane.

[gingerpeachtea]

i love the small moment during sympathy for the duke where the duke puts satine's sheer robe back on her shoulders. you can kind of see the beginning of it in the last gif of this post by ashleyslorens.

satine, knowing exactly what the duke wants, decides to push her and the duke forward by taking her robe off her shoulders and posing in a way she knows he'll find enticing. she's the one to take that first step forward—which is crucial, considering she knows she's going to have to relinquish control to him in mere moments. satine being the one to initiate is her trying to set the pace they move at, instead of just letting the duke call the shots.

the duke sees and recognizes this, and so he puts his hands on her shoulders and then slips the robe back up her arms and on her body. he then establishes what he wants from her—everything—and thus establishes the full control he'll have over her.

we can also see him use the robe to strip her of her control in other moments throughout the number. about halfway through, the duke grabs satine's shoulders and tears the robe off of her rather suddenly. she plays along, and then follows his lead (a beckoning "come here" motion with his finger). he's telling her where to go; he's the one making the decisions. she still has the robe in hand, and does some flirty choreography with it. the duke then violently rips it from her hands, to satine's visible shock, which she then has to mask in order to keep him happy as 'the sparkling diamond'.

there is definitely more to be said about how the duke uses clothing as a means of controlling satine, but i just wanted to highlight this one instance, especially that particular moment with him putting the robe back on her that i found really interesting.

[clubnate]

What happened to the alex suarez girls no ones posted about him in months 😔

[maybeher0]

started a second playthrough of pikmin 4, this time tried to make a Minmin gijinka (name is Minna)

unexpected combination of me being Much Better at the game and wanting to clear it quickly resulted in Minna's personality being "cheery and ambitious workaholic"

can i please stop making OCs on spot i just wanna play

[flugame-mp3]

girls when they have a crush moodboard

[purplesaline]

Some people were Horse Girls as kids

And some of us were Dinosaur Girls

[haldanare]

i have a new oc: her name is Rhian, shes welsh-japanese, shes ginger, shes butch, she commited fairy war crimes as a teen and her prefered method of expressing her emotions is through the medium of molotov cocktails. and she has a big sword

[kayvsworld]

was struggling to get back to The Joy Of Drawing and it turns out the KEY truly is to latch onto a little guy u can draw and then point at like “oh!!! hes so cute look at him!!!! im gonna put him in a little outfit!!!!!! guy!!!!” 10/10 no notes

[regularsystemdeez]

I want you girls to know I'm using my phone data to browse your posts about gay shit because that's how much they mean to me.

[mieczyhale]

me, a creature with borderline personality disorder:: *experiences a symptom of borderline personality disorder*

me::

[mr-bazongos]

I don't watch many hetero shows, but sometimes I'll love a korean one

When will a snappy girl boss in sparkly shoes come treat me like her big dumb dog😳🥺🌸

[scattered-winter]

[buffintruder]

on the scale of 'monolingual english speakers assuming gender in all languages works the same way it does in english' this is so low in the importance scale that it doesn't matter

but sometimes i see people making posts on tumblr about japanese speaking characters using they/them or it/its, and like those words barely exist in that language, and any words you could use would just be weirdly convoluted and odd when its so easy and normal to not use any pronouns at all

like i know it's a joke but it is fun to imagine those conversations happening in japanese and being utterly baffled as to how it would actually work