#this is a recurring thing that happens

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[peachdoxie]

Reading all this Batfam fic has me trying to guess what stuff happened in canon based on how often it's referenced in multiple works like I'm some scholar trying to reconstruct some ancient lost ur-text based on other people's retellings of it. Like, I'm pretty sure the Batman canon included a scene where Red Hood breaks into the Titans Tower, attacks Tim Drake, and leaves a message saying "Jason Todd was here." Variants of it have shown up in quite a few fics I've read. Do I know the details? Not really. I think that Tim's shoulder was dislocated and the other Titans were drugged, too, but I'm less sure about those than I am of the event broadly happening. Granted, the first fandom in which I read copious amounts of fic is Danny Phantom, notorious for its extensive fanon, so I'm aware that I can't say conclusively whether or not Red Hood attacked Tim Drake in Titans Tower. But I'm pretty sure it happened.

[wardensantoineandevka]

the fact that people keep interpreting the word "consequences" to be exactly and only "punishment" and knee-jerk responding to it with "why do you want my precious Bells Hells pookies punished" frankly says a lot about more about you than it does about those who feel that C3 as a narrative never followed through on consequences for anything

this is ESPECIALLY evident when it is remembered that we're all talking about a story and doing narrative analysis and media critique here, yes, all of us, even the casual commentaries, debriefs and post-mortems of the campaign is analysis. consequences. narrative follow through. the consequential story beat that carries the weight and concluded a prior set up. results, negative or positive or neutral, that are incurred as a consequence of what happened before. a continuity of narrative logic. actions that result in the expected and prior established weight and outcome. feeling like things consistently matter and affect things meaningfully on various levels, including the personal.

[sonknuxadow]

[shootingstarrfish]

hello and welcome to starrs nightmare hour (aka last night my bathroom flooded and i didn't realise)

[skyberia]

"disguise" self

[lyholiday]

something ive been thinking about relating to suselle

i really doubt most of the romantic relationships in deltarune will happen in the way they're being set up to be, especially suselle. ive has this idea since chapter 2 came out, but its been put to the forefront of my mind even more with chapter 4

something that seems to be a theme for the entirety of the game is fighting the prophecy, made rly rly clear by gerson and susie's arc in ch4 (the whole thing of susie being not "supposed" to use healing magic and gerson being so adamant on the prophecy being a fairytale) AND the ending of that chapter. the prophecy IS a bad thing, the antagonistic force of this entire game, even with all the inconsequential shit it asserts like that jockington will grow a beard; it Is something that the party will fight against. which is why it confuses me that when it states "love will find its way to the girl" the fandom randomly turns a blind eye to it. ive always thought about how, the pairing of susie and noelle felt so, natural in the context of the game? and also when you take into account that, at least on a surface level, that type of wlw pairing HAS been done before by toby on undertale with alphys and undyne, and both suselle and alphyne are shown in the games to be like, the wholesome lesbian pairing, where all the cute fluff relationship stuff happens

suselle just feels so, predetermined. its MEANT to happen. it doesnt matter what decisions you make in the game, all of the interactions between the two will happen in the same way. except on the weird route (IM NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT ITS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE TO THIS)

if you think of susie and noelle to be like, the CANON ship or the gaster-approved ship wtv tf, a lot of the smaller stuff about it starts to stick out. the undertones of susie taking the place of dess for noelle to me seems like its a way bigger theme than what people make it out to be, and especially if you think dess is the roaring knight and how that ties into the prophecy. the whole thing of susie hiding the dark worlds from noelle also seems to be something huge. i dont know, i feel like they casually lie about stuff to one another, and it could be read as a teenage relationship thing and something theyre gonna grow out of, but deltarune has way bigger scopes than just hometown, i really think this is gonna build up to something more

i dont know, deltarune is building up to some really heartbreaking shit, and i find it quite baffling how a lot of ppl in the fandom think that toby fox would be a bad writer (or homophobic) for even thinking of NOT making suselle a thing in the endgame. idk man if that ends up happening i rly dont think it would be a thing to just be subversive or to be "edgy" (somehow ive seen ppl suggest that???). all the romantic undertones in deltarune are building up to something and arent there to just be fluff. they mean something for the story and have a bigger message. were obviously just 4 chapters in so i cant really try and predict what suselle means, but whatever ends up happening to that pairing i think it will be a good message

[adamanteine]

sure shams dies in every verse but have you considered that she was literally born into existence to die

[fidgetspringer-art]

- Thalassophobia -

[clumsypuppy]

adhd is when you shoot for the moon but you forgot the rocket fuel and by the time you realize it everyones already on the moon and then you panic and crash into the sun and it explodes

[untimelyambition]

having a strong hyperfixation on dan and phil in the year 2025 is so interesting bc my brain is having the normal hyperfix urge to learn as much as i can abt them and gather new information and i have to sit down and be like girl youve been here basically ten years at this point you know everything theres not anything new for you to learn

[lesbian-munkustrap]

I’ll think I’m unique because I’ll watch a show and immediately start calling the most pathetic, horrible, gross little loser man with any hint of queerness my little meow meow princess and then I get on tumblr and find out once again that I have never had an original thought once in my life we are truly all the same

Every single time I search a new character in the tags it’s a bunch of other lesbian pfps saying “yes that sad, pathetic loser man IS our little meow meow, you’re so right” like what is it, why are they catnip to me and apparently a bunch of other people just like me?? I don’t get it

[sludgekludge]

still thinking about how millie's biggest criticism from the audience has always been that she's the 'moxxie's wife' character and has little development or things going on vs the male leads. one of the 2 episodes we get focusing on her development specifically is about her relationship to the men in her life. they know this is a major criticism directed at millie's writing and execution. they know people want her to have a character outside of the men in her life.

anyway we have diagnosed our undeveloped, male-accessory woman character with pregnancy plotline

[ceramicbeetle]

btw Still thinking about the moment where Tula first realizes she's literally, mechanically unable to keep up with / catch Jaysohn when he bolts and runs his full speed. That revelation that she's not fast enough to stop him, or get alongside him, much less get in front of him to protect him if he needed it. The dread terror of it. :(

[sir-adamus]

in the last scene, everyone gets something to say except Tifa - the only sound she makes at all are these tearful sobs. she's devastated over losing Aerith

when Nanaki senses Aerith's presence, Tifa looks up for a second, then just... drops her head back onto her arms in the most defeated way

someone give this poor woman a hug, fucking hell

[feminurge]

unrelated to anything i just spent too much time reading strangers' posts on the for you page. when people complain about other people's depiction of a certain trigger... how do you know other people haven't gone through it. if it makes you uncomfortable it's one thing, block and move on? but. why would your opinion on it be better than anyone else's, considering they might be victims as well. and by asserting they don't have the lived experience to justify their writing/expertise, aren't you forcing them to come out. isn't that much worse and harmful than a wrong starter on a dumblr blog