#odd logic

[morganmnemonic]

I'm thinking of kris repeating berdly's name in shock when you try to tell ralsei that you are going to the festival with berdly of all people. Thinking about the conversations we only get to hear half of, where kris presumably tells ralsei and susie that ralsei and asriel don't look that much alike. Thinking about all the times where kris changes the prompt we give them into something that they'd prefer to say.

Kris talks. They chatter, even, but we as the player don't get to hear it. They don't get a text box. We only ever know that they spoke at all from the reactions of other characters, and even then, we rarely know exactly what was said.

And part of this is that whoever the deltarune narrator is seems intent to pretending like kris doesn't exist. You check the mirror, and it says, "it's only you". Kris plays the piano and it says, "your hands begin moving on their own." If kris speaks without your permission, the narration doesn't acknowledge it at all, committed to the lie that kris doesn't exist beyond their role as our vessel. But that's not what this post is about.

This post is about how it's entirely possible that kris has tried to talk to us when no one else is around. They could have tried to tell us their plan, or begged us not to make certain decisions, or explained that we don't actually need to steal asriel's 5 dollars because they have a piggy bank buried in the front yard. Kris could be asking us questions, or asking us not to look for the bunker password because they have a plan and we should trust them, or asking us to let them sleep a bit longer, and we the soul just carry on the same regardless, their one-sided monologue falling on deaf ears. We would never even know, because of how thoroughly the narrative of deltarune has denied kris a voice.

[tvuniverse]

9-1-1 -> 6x10-11 // 8x15 (potential) coma dream

[ccycloneblogging]

"How curious... I wonder where I've ended up now~♫"

Dulce has popped into another area. I wonder where he's headed.

[szfiction]

This parallel makes me insane actually (and there is something incredibly Lawlu about it to me)

[nightmarearian]

Done (heavy quotation marks) with monster Ody @evergreen292 ;)

tbh I couldn’t for the life of me pick a color palette I liked And Render it so I gave up on color. Enjoy the half assery.

Tbh I’ve just been call it Ithacan Naga, but it’s objectively it’s a mix of snake, owl/bird, and human. So 🤷.

Tbh the wings are supposed to be white/gray-brown, cause owls & Hermes, while his scales are supposed to be an oscillating scale from sea green-blue to purple-tinted gray. Uhm. Evidently that sorta didn’t happen but also did. So.

The purple/grayer scales are gonna be more around with the feathers and wings.

Those fin colors are. Too blue and too bright but I love the colors themselves so they’re staying for now.

Uhm. That’s it for now, ig. I’m sorta on a timer rn and I’m tired so <3

The writing bit with this is still in the works (😭)

[tprings-hair]

I'm sorry but I exit out of a spirk fic the second they treat admitting vulnerability as something easy for spock. like I'm sorry but he would NOT say "I didn't mean to make things difficult for you, I was worried about this." he would deny acting emotionally to the END. even when he gets to the point of admitting emotion in the show, he's very deliberate with it and very rarely admits any more than he needs to unless he's at his limit. mr "captain, ambassador sarek and his wife are my parents" would NOT give kirk a casual heads up about any emotional land mines he might trip over. partly because he thinks it's funny to knock kirk off balance, but mostly because he is not equipped to talk openly and honestly about these things!! he will claim logic to the end!!!!

[clowns0cks]

the irrational need to help the master no matter what. he knows logically he should get away but he can't. he can't. there's something eating away at him that just won't let him go. they're cosmically drawn to each other against all that's rational

[skeletalheartattack]

Valve just published a blog post regarding plans for the first MVM update in twelve years for TF2 (to be released later this year, sometime after August), and it shaping up to be the first MVM update to involve community submissions (excluding Robotic Boogaloo).

[shizunitis]

i’m probably extremely late to the party, but what is it with content creators (youtubers specifically) feeling the need to jump on the “oh no, people are reading Problematic Books and these people are Women Primarily, and this is Terrible” bandwagon?

a day doesn’t go by where a video doesn’t pop up in my feed titled something like “reading the worst book in the world and telling you why it’s the worst so you don’t have to read it” by Young Person in College with a Psych Major, featuring the ever-present “reading comprehension is dead” panic and an unironic use of the “society is experiencing a moral decline” argument. if it has a comedic tone it’s immediately rising three ranks in the insufferable olimpics.

what do they even want? a paragraph somewhere in the book where the main character is possessed by the spirit of the author and recognises the harm such a situation might cause in real life? an in depth apology or for the author to disclaim their own moral stances in an introductory chapter? should they (usually she, which is a whole Thing) also crawl on their belly and beg for your understanding? for them to chastise their own readers in case they’re enjoying it wrong?

the way some youtuber atop their horse-shaped soapboax can both say, “censorship is bad, people should have access to books unimpeded by political influence” and also “this book should have been banned!!! i even saw it SOLD at a BOOK STORE!!!” without flinching is astounding.

finding ideas of actual merit to dissect in your 1 hour video essay is difficult, i’m sure. but fuck man just start making 10 minute r/AITA reading videos, it could fit the same amount of condescension with none of the effort, which is what i’m assuming is the goal at this point. you used to be awesome to watch.

[smitten-miqitten]

Thinking more Lavellan thoughts.

Ellenere is clever and imo, though the full picture is far too fantastical for really anyone to have guessed, would have sussed out some of Solas's identity.

Specifically, that he's Elvhen.

After meeting Abelas and co., it would have made a LOT of Solas's behavior and opinions make a ton of sense if he'd been Elvhen, possibly previously in uthenera.

His secretive nature could easily be explained by fear of discovery and having to explain that he's ancient, something that would see people either try to exploit his knowledge or deem him insane.

His fluency in what is more or less an almost entirely dead language.

His initial disdain for the Dalish (that Abelas, the other example Lavellan has, shares), and his unwillingness to consider himself having anything in common with most Elves.

His 'from the Fade' stories that feel a tiny bit like a lie.

His waaay too much/too varied life experience for a guy who's supposed to be like 40 something.

His lack of/slightly limited knowledge about some fairly normal things. Like most modern Dwarf stuff. He's out of touch.

Really all of his interactions with Abelas are sus as fuck.

Initially she'd have understood Solas was witholding things but respected his privacy and trusted him to tell her in his own time. That said, she does wonder, and guesses at what the mystery might be. After meeting Abelas though, Ellenere thinks she's already figured the big secret out, and so stops digging.

When Solas takes Ellenere to Crestwood, she 100% thinks he's going to tell her he's Elvhen. And when he doesn't, she thinks it's because he's decided she can't be trusted with that secret. And that hurts.

And unfortunately because she's so so sure that she's already found the answer, she overlooks all the other obvious clues he's left around (which she kicks herself for later)

[clonehub]

i was on twitter cackling (again, for eternity) about anakin inventing the word transgender, but also expressing my bafflement at transphobia even existing as a concept in star wars in general but the clones in particular

(sister says she was worried about not being accepted by her brothers and that they dont know what happens with "unusual" clones on Kamino)

There's like. a lot of presumptions in this that just expose authorial ignore more than actual worldbuilding about a specific system of oppression.

What exactly was Sister saying or doing that would be coded as feminine or at least not masculine or otherwise somehow queer? Expressions of queerness are incredibly culturally specific.

Why would Kaminoans have our conception of (frankly, white) cisheteropatriarchy?

Even if they did, why would they punish any clone for not following it? They don't even think the clones are people.

Again expressing queerness is so so so specific to ones culture and region and we don't have evidence of any like. counter-cultural expressions of anything among the clones outside being disobedient or bad at fighting.

It'd be one thing if the drill sergeants were going "THIS IS HOW TO BE A MAN!!! BE A MAN!!" but. we havent seen them do that lol

Why would the clones care? Not understanding is one thing, I can see confusion, but what views are they upholding or at risk of upholding if there's a chance of rejection and a concept of acceptance?

Random person pet peeve of mine but why couldn't sister choose her own name lol

[coco-chip]

brrr ⛄❄️

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

every once in a while i forget that i only have one single solitary house fic posted to ao3. i've been in the fandom since november 2023 and i have seven(?) wips (some of which i've been working on since that very month 😭) and two of those are oneshots that i fucking finished last year but have just never gotten around to posting. i should. probably do that

[calicotisane]

All sexuality is absurd and comical in some way and I am not making fun of anyone when I say this it just is. That's good and that's interesting and doesn't contradict importance or sincerity or whatever okay it's STRANGE.

[yeesiine]

[warriorlyy]

Flash warning ⚠️

Might as well share this thing i edited of my sou cosplay in an attempt to recreate the truce scene or something….