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I'm absolutely delighted that I wasn't spoiled for certain moments in ch3 on the alt route. I like that you can tell what parts people latched onto fandom wise and other moments that I hope people went: oh you gotta see this for yourself

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everyones favourite mournful mother

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Mumbo's setup.. looks cool and all but HOW is your back AND neck alive after you film in THAT position for hours??😭😭nu uh-

Also how do you play minecraft with your mouse on a book??😭

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Feeling an incredibly weird specific nostalgia but what piece of media defined 2020 for you (as in you spent that year with it) mine is mtv's catfish

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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never to meet, forever apart

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i'm SICK for a HOME that i'll never DESERVE

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i don't really share much of my printmaking work on here but I love this drypoint so much. haven't thought of a title yet though

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as much as i love when people draw kris in dresses, i don't think they canonically like skirts very much. i mean, we still have three chapters ahead ofc, but so far judging by their darkworld outfits, i'd say they have a specific style preference. usually, some sort of a well-fitting clothes, tight pants, button-up shirts, boots with heels, some sort of colorful scarves or neckties. heels are important apparently because tenna gave them two whole outfits with heels lol. i'm not sure about their lightworld outfit though, i kinda headcanon that they wear old asriel's shirt for convenience and comfort (that's why i usually draw it a little oversized).

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aw wow susie, that’s you!

this sure does mean a lot to you, huh?

oh, this really means a lot to you, doesn’t it

man, it would really be a shame if,

if that prophecy wasn’t 100% confirmed to be talking about you,

if there was something that might indicate you might not be the hero of legend,

something like using completely different equipment?

if there was something that implied the story had been changed,

that you were maybe supposed to be a different character…

ah, well. i wouldn’t worry about it, susie. keep putting that stock into that prophecy! you’re definitely the hero of legend, you can definitely base your newly found self worth around the idea of that. i’m sure nothing will come up that shatters this illusion.

but, hey, even if you aren’t the hero,

i’m sure you’ll end up all right.

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(spoilers) new favourite deltarune character btw

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also while i'm still on the fence as to who i believe the true identity of the knight is, if it is dess

then she's been in that state a lot longer than everyone seems to think

like, i see a lot of fanart of dess being in her late teens, but i don't think she's ever been in her late teens

because if you think about it, we know that asriel and dess were around the same age, and that kris and noelle are around the same age

for kris and noelle to be already teenagers (confirmed in ch2), and for asriel to have only recently gone to college, there can't be more than about 5 years between the two sets of siblings

except that we know from both berdly's flashback monologue and from tenna's flashback monologue, that dess disappeared long enough ago for kris to still be wearing the horn headband, and for noelle's sprite to look like this

(also it was before berdly decided he wanted to be the clever one)

for them to be that young? i think what we're seeing in dess' room isn't the mark of an older teenager who knows what she likes, i think we're seeing a 13yo goth/punk/emo phase from a kid with the money to back it up

and like kris and noelle would still have looked up to her, especially at that age, when you're a little kid a teenager of any kind seems like basically an adult (and also you get flavour text when looking around dess' room like 'at the back are all the scary ones you weren't allowed to play')

but she was still very much a kid

and you know going from a young teenager at best to spending 6+ years as whatever the knight is probably does something to you!

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My cardigan continues. I have about 30 rows left on the left front.

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but honestly if i had to sum up my entire feelings towards deltarune chapters 3 and 4 by listing a single favourite moment, it's when you're the abandoned soul listening at the grate while kris plays piano

like when i played through chapter 4 the first time i just sat there listening for ages

bc like 1) i have been saying for a while but especially in these chapters, deltarune is a fascinating game for the way it makes me as a player want to essentially stop being a player - not in a bad this isn't fun way but in a i genuinely care about kris and i would love to see more of them just being able to be themselves

and this is really. the only moment of that? we learn in ch4 that whatever kris is doing while soulless isn't entirely their own will either, they've got someone they're reporting to over the phone. and while that person's agenda is something they're much more on board with than what the player/susie/ralsei are trying to do, it's pretty clear they're not enjoying it either. eating the pie in ch1 was offscreen, and their soulless segments in ch2 and the rest of ch4 were in some way serving that agenda. but here, no, kris gets off the phone and they're clearly so tired and just need a break and to be themselves for a bit. and the way they go about that is by making themselves a glass of chocolate milk and then playing song after song on the piano

2) god this provides so much context for the piano parts of 1 & 2. at the end of both chapters if you interact with the piano in the hospital you can try to play it, which goes terribly. when you do it in ch2 susie makes a comment about oh thank god i thought for a second you could actually play it, and kris just glares at her. without the knowledge granted in ch4 that just comes across as stop making fun of me, but once you've heard kris play for yourself? then it's heartbreaking.

bc like, we know kris has always been a pretty quiet kid, we know they're not a fan of hugs or eye contact, the autism coding is strong with this one. we know they're someone much more likely to get a point across by doing rather than saying. all that in mind, and considering music was the first thing they turned to when they had that moment of freedom, i think piano was a genuinely important form of self expression for them. and not only losing access to that, but to have your friend make fun of you for not being able to play, that's gotta cut deep

(and that's the other thing - i don't think it's just that piano played by the soul wouldn't be theirs, i think they have skills the soul doesn't. like the other big piano moment in ch4 down in the dark world, yes the game gives you sheet music but it's too long to meaningfully follow, and you don't even have to look at it for that scene to happen. to me that comes across as kris can read music, but the person controlling their soul can't. they play terribly on the hospital piano bc while you are controlling them they can't do better. which makes it such a meaningful moment because without anything in the game having to say so or anything dramatic having to happen, you do kinda hand over control to them to play a piece that resonates in the way that only they are capable of)

3) the last tiny detail im so glad toby put in bc i find it so endearing - the audio files for kris' piano playing aren't digitally created (most likely someone on a midi keyboard but my point is they're played by hand). and i know that because kris does not play perfectly. they sound like most piano playing teenagers i know, they have skill but they are still learning, you can hear the parts where they break tempo because they need just slightly more time to get their fingers in the right position for the next chord. and again it's beautiful because it makes it theirs. unlike almost everything else in this game, they're not doing this because for one reason or another they have to. they're doing it because that's who they are, flaws and all. and i could listen to it forever

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Lovelace: Okay, tell you what: do something for me. Just... count to ten. Without glitching. Prove to me that you can do something right, and I'll leave you alone.

Minkowski: Hera, you don't have to—

Hera: Be quiet, Commander.

(a beat)

Lovelace: That's what I thought.

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i come late but I come bearing the time honored tradition of tag-team quoting dumb shit