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I honestly think the original ah lads not again post is the funniest

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Bipedal so fucking stupid. You look at a cat or a dog lying down and you're like "hell yeah that looks exactly right. that looks so comfortable." Human lies down and looks like Peter Griffin Death Pose.

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marine iguanas are very special . you should know this

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practice in selfishness

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seen a handful of people equate deltarune to massachusetts and I feel the need to spread the new hampshire agenda as someone who was born in the same city as toby fox because nothing so whimsical could ever take place in mass

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(hit the image limit multiple times, check the notes for the full conversation)

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Lol. Lmao, even.

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I'm not very plugged into deltarune or undertale- why're people he/him-ing Kris?? (If you don't mind explaining, feel free to delete)

unfortunately this IS going to be a long answer because I kind of also have to talk about undertale to give you the full context here. Undertale, the predecessor game to deltarune, features a silent protagonist named Frisk. Frisk is a nonbinary character and uses exclusively they/them pronouns, but because they are a silent protagonist--i.e. a backstory-less, personality-less blank slate that the player can project themself onto--there were significant debates when undertale first came out about whether the they/them pronouns used in game dialog were frisk's canon pronouns or if they were placeholders and frisk's gender was intended to be up to player interpretation. (it's not uncommon in RPGs to have a genderless or gender-neutral silent protagonist--link legendofzelda for example was allegedly specifically designed to look more androgenous when the games made the switch to 3d so that female players could project onto him just as easily as male ones.) In response to those debates, Toby fox, the writer and developer of undertale, clarified multiple times that frisk's pronouns are NOT up for interpretation; they are nonbinary and use exclusively they/them.

And then there's deltarune. kris, the protagonist and player-character, is, like frisk, a specifically nonbinary character. But they're also kind of a bait-and-switch silent protagonist. for the majority of the first chapter of the game, kris is presented to you, similarly to frisk, as a silent protagonist--a player-insert character who can be projected onto. HOWEVER. arguably the central point of deltarune, which the game spends the next 3 chapters making INCREDIBLY clear to you, is that kris is NOT actually a silent protagonist. kris is a fully-fledged character with their own wants and feelings and relationships and an entire personality, but when you as the player take control of them, you are explicitly robbing them of all agency. they become that emotionless, silent blank slate AGAINST THEIR WILL because you are forcing yourself on them.

despite this literally being The Entire Point Of The Game, people with no reading comprehension whatsoever have decided that kris's pronouns are up to their personal interpretation. Again, i need to stress how much the literal entire point of the game is that absolutely nothing about kris is up to player interpretation and in fact kris actively resents and in some cases literally tries to physically hurt the player for attempting to force them to act according to the player's will. For some reason these people do not think this applies to their pronouns. even though we had the exact same debate almost ten years ago about frisk and toby told us MULTIPLE TIMES what the correct answer is.

tldr these guys can't read and/or hate nonbinary people. that's really the long and short of it. And it's specifically he/him and not she/her because kris is weird and at times openly violent whereas Frisk was constantly getting she/her-ed because their story was about nonviolence and love, which people assumed were feminine traits. tldr for the tldr it's good old fashioned transphobia and misogyny with a healthy dose of dogshit reading comprehension. what else is new

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I actually passed away quite a few years ago, but I'm a very private person and never told anybody.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

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this is actually like my third or fourth rodeo so i sort of get it but sort of dont

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*looks at books* too tired for you *looks at films* too tired for you *looks at art supplies* too tired for you *eyes fall on tumblr* oho ho

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i was at an event last night in california and i went to the bar to order wine bc wine was like, a thing, and i looked at the menu and saw i was completely out of my depth bc idk any wine names, so i turned to my right and there was a man in a gorgeous suit standing at the bar beside me and i said “do you know anything about wine?” and he said “a little, yes!” i told him i liked white and dry wines and asked if he’d order for me. he asked the server for two glasses and had one poured for each of us and then he clinked his glass on mine but he didn’t take a sip, he just watched me taste mine and then he asked what i thought and i said “it’s pretty good, but like i said, i wouldn’t know.” he laughed and told me to have a good time & i walked away. fifteen minutes later i found out he’s the winemaker.