#Safe Routes

[the-irreverend]

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH watching Kris flee out of the room when they find out we're with them KILLS ME every damn time, and perhaps the detail that hurts the most is how their expression changes and how that adds a new understanding to how Kris sees us.

The moment they realize they and Noelle are in terrible danger, the netrual, reserved expression we're so used to seeing from them changes into one of ABSOLUTE TERROR as they flee out of the room; terror which I firmly believe is rooted in the psychological, emotional, and physical trauma we have caused them and Noelle.

The things we made them do in the Snowgrave/Weird Route made them realize just how much harm we're capable of causing them and the people they care about, and how great our capacity for evil truly is. They already resent us for depriving them of their agency, and now that they've endured us abusing said agency in the worst possible way, their hatred and fear of us has increased a thousandfold.

Deltarune isn't some cute little otherworldly adventure; it's a goddam cosmic horror story, except the twist is we're the eldritch being that brings ruin and madness wherever we go.

[santaclaralocalnews]

The City of Santa Clara received a $45,200 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to continue the important work being done through the City’s Safe Routes to School Program. This program helps improve the safety of children walking, bicycling, or scootering to school by funding activities that emphasize bicycle and pedestrian safety. Read complete news at svvoice.com.

[squidpedia]

UTMONTH24 - Day 26 - Frisk

Forgetting can be a blessing

I like the headcannon that frisk doesnt remember jacksquat before the underground but theyre so cool and balling with that. Vaguely remembers that their previous name sucked so its chill and they get to pick something they like

(Please ask for permission before reposting onto other sites or dubbing, thank you!)

[melliferian]

I THINK ABOUT THIS LINE IN SNOWGRAVE. I THINK KRIS IS TRYING TO GIVE NOELLE A SAD APOLOGETIC LOOK. TRYING TO IN SOME WAY LET HER KNOW THEY DONT WANT THIS TO BE HAPPENING. BUT BC OF THEYRE CREEPY AUTISM AND HOW WEIRD THEYVE BEEN ACTING. NOELLE IS JUST OFFPUT.

[infizero-draws]

the bride-to-be

[beanmochiii]

*me

[kadethecat]

"...Noelle?"

[mararabbit]

Noelle doodles…..

[onbreakreadlastpost]

At what point will the UK stop signing deals to return or send migrant seekers with countries that abuse human rights. This is disgusting.

[the-irreverend]

THIS IS WHY YOU MAKE SURE TO PLAY THE WHOLE GAME PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

[myrkulitescourge]

i'm surprised i haven't seen any text posts yet about the Unsubtle Differences between astarion’s tiefling party/high approval forest scene and the one you get after the goblin party.

there’s something so terribly interesting about how the conversation afterward plays out depending on which variation you pursue.

like, most people have seen the tiefling party version by now. astarion basking in the sunlight the morning after, playing off most of what tav says with relative ease, even when they ask about his scars and he tells them about cazador. his cadence is smooth and composed, his smile almost friendly, even though you know, as the viewer, he’s playing a game of manipulation at this point. the only real crack in his demeanor is if tav notices that cazador’s “poem” was written in infernal, which, understandably, startles him.

but recently i watched the goblin party version of this same scene, and everything reads so differently. unlike at the tiefling party, it’s still the middle of the night when astarion tries to leave, thinking tav is asleep—almost immediately after the act, in fact. when tav does speak to him, he’s visibly nervous, halting and stammering in the middle of lines delivered unflinchingly in the other version of the scene. he gestures broadly and fidgets more while talking, his smile comes and goes. there’s even some of his distinctive high pitched, fake laughter sprinkled throughout the exchange, almost identical to later scenes where he's very, very obviously uncomfortable (like if raphael mocks him and magics off astarion's shirt to show the party his scars in act 2, or when confronting the gur children in their cell in act 3, etc etc).

siding with the goblins represents something deeply familiar to astarion, a level of cruelty he's more than familiar with and embraces likely because cruelty and duplicity, to him, go hand-in-hand with the power and freedom he craves so badly—but he won't stay the night with this tav, even if he approves of their actions. no, in this case, he'll keep to what's familiar and attempt to leave them in the forest under the cover of the very same darkness he resents having been cast into by cazador. when he gets caught, it sets him on edge, and everything he says becomes such a blatant lie to save face that tav would have to be completely oblivious not to see through him, or maybe just not care enough to.

but if tav saves the refugees? challenges his worldview and comes out victorious? oh, he'll complain of the poor rewards for his trouble at the party and whine about it being boring, but he decides to stay with tav through the night while they're asleep and on past dawn. he takes a moment to enjoy the morning sunlight, returned to his life after two centuries without. the same is true if you have high enough approval that he asks before the party, in which case, you've almost certainly hit his biggest approval gains: trusting him and supporting his safety. maybe he doesn't trip over his words when he speaks because, well, maybe this is someone he doesn't have to worry about. someone who's already more than proven themselves a foolish, heroic sort with a bleeding heart or otherwise demonstrated that they're already in his corner. in other words, not a threat—at least not to him.

does any of this make sense. i wanna study this guy under a microscope.

[negativespace06]

don’t eat the core

[babybluey]

'Til death do us part

[sysig]

Divided minds of the same thought (Patreon)

[2-faded-memory-2]

daniil dankovsky is so obsessive. his obsession pushed him through medical school until he was a not unheard of doctor. his obsession drove him to death and made him stick with it. his obsession pulls him to the truth and doesnt allow him to let it out of his sight. he makes every choice with a morbid curiosity and interest in death, either investigating it or avoiding, or in search of a truth, or because of that damn hippocratic oath he wouldnt even break on his death bed. obsession controls his life, and it puppets him on the edge of death and is happy to throw him over if need be.

obsession is his downfall. its the reason he is in this goddamn town. his beloved mentor taunts dankovsky with a solution to death, and even when he finds out that solution is long dead and gone, he stays because the truth of what happened is just as valuable. he establishes a quarantine or at least insists on one being established to help the town and the world lest it spread, but he tries that before he tries to leave. he traps himself to be a good doctor to the people, to investigate the deaths and find out the truth.

daniil dankovsky was always doomed, not from the minute he read that letter, but the day he dared establish his morals, and the day he declared to stay by them so religiously, dare i even say obsessively

[onbreakreadlastpost]

One man dies in Channel crossing attempt

Baby dead and dozens rescued in Channel sinking

Not nearly enough is being done to support migrants. Instead, they are being demonised. Migrant rights are human rights. We need safe routes for migrants