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Play The Roottrees are Dead, it is literally one of the best mystery games i have ever played.

I binged played both the base game and roottreemania in a single day.

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Horse Race Tests is not a Tragedy

(apologies to the people expecting Deltarune content, i’m going to talk about bouncy, crudely drawn horses for a second)

i know the ending looks pretty grim, but let me offer an alternative interpretation of the final race:

three horses stood against Jovial Merryment and Superstitional Realism; A Mysterious Figure, Garbage Bin, and Nighttime Knifemare.

first of all, i believe all the mutant horses/NightMares are a product of Cyan’s mind and represent some aspect of how she views her past failure(s).

Mysterious Figure obviously represents Superstitional Realism through their similarity in colour. Cyan thought that she finally found someone in Superstitional Realism who wouldn’t leave her behind in the dust like all the other horses. But she was wrong, Realism eventually outran her too (someone had to win the race after all. once Realism realised that Cyan wouldn’t be able to reach the carrots, she took them instead to end the race).

i see Garbage Bin as a representation of Cyan’s own self-image and self-worth. After so many losses, she sees herself as incapable and undeserving of any success whatsoever. she thinks she belongs, well, in the Garbage Bin. the fact that Garbage Bin is also the closest in colour to Cyan can support this too.

Nighttime Knifemare is the hardest one to interpret, but based on the very sharp sounding name, as well as the fact Jovial suddenly appeared for the last race, i’m going to go out on a limb and say that it represents how Cyan believes the other horses (besides Realism) think of her. Cyan believes that the other horses—just like herself—see her as worthless, that they hate her for taking up space on the track, that they don’t care about her.

the last race disproves all of these false beliefs. Realism returned: she didn’t leave Cyan behind. Jovial joined the race to save Cyan: the other horses do care about her.

and lastly, who won the race? it wasn’t Realism, who Cyan lost to on her last chance at a real win. and it wasn’t Jovial, the best to ever do it. it was little old Garbage Bin. against all odds, against her own best friend, against the best horse on the track, she got to the carrots first. all on her own.

Jovial and realism could disprove that no one cared about Cyan, but only Cyan herself could disprove that she is incapable of winning. and she did exactly that. the carrots in this race were cyan too. she found herself again :)

credit to @scarkissr for the inspiration to this Cyan

(i’m kind of tired, so forgive me if this isn’t 100% coherent)

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I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

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This might be a dumb question but how do you think the villain ranking system works? I'm assuming it's based on how much of a danger a villain represents, obviously, but do you think there are certain specific requirements that determine what category they belong into? Since we know that Toga, Twice and Spinner are C-ranked, Compress, Kurogiri, Magne, Mustard and Giran (for some reason??) are B-ranked, Muscular and Moonfish are A-ranked, and Shigaraki and AfO are S-ranked.

This is a pretty interesting idea. I think that there are actually several factors that play into one’s ranking. There may be other factors, similar to the bounties in One Piece, but here are the major ones I thought of.

1. How dangerous that person actually isThis falls under the idea of not only that person’s overall abilities, but how they use them and how willing they are to use them. Moonfish is a psychologically unhinged, death row escapee that is able to summon giant, metal teeth out of his head. Muscular is a physical powerhouse that required Izuku to go beyond full force in order to beat him. It’s why someone like Kurogiri is only B-Rank in spite of the Quirk he has. “Warp Gate” is very dangerous but he’s basically just glorified transportation for the League. It’s why Mustard, despite being a simple high school student, has a B-Rank by virtue of him basically being a living chemical weapon. this also applies to Dabi and Mr. Compress. While we don’t know their records, they have been shown to be very capable. What may also be a factor in this is the villain’s threat to society as a whole. For instance, Stain for taking heroes off the street in his crusade and Overhaul with his Quirk Destroying Bullets.

2. The crimes someone committedWhile not necessarily a good measure of how threatening someone may be, it’s still important to consider what they did. For instance, Jiran himself is not very dangerous, but he is a major black market dealer with strong connections to many criminals and deals in illegal equipment. This is where the idea of hero killing comes in. I think that killing heroes is considered a much more severe crime in terms of ranking rather than killing a civilian. Not so much in that life is more valuable, but that just goes to show how dangerous that person is. It’s why Muscular is an A Rank for killing two heroes and Magne is only a B-Rank despite Magne killing three people and almost killing twenty nine others. And why Sludge Villain, despite having a very good Quirk, is only D-Rank because he is just a petty thief.

3. Who they work withYou aren’t really going to care about some guy working on their own, but if someone is part of or even the leader of a specific group then that person would be much more valuable. It’s why you never see anyone in the League below a C-Rank despite never having much crimes to their name. Like Toga, who assaulted someone and is a murder suspect, Double, who is a thief going by his flash back, and Spinner, who seemed to just join the League straight out of the gate. Their connections to the League make them more dangerous and of a high value because they are part of the group and they may have some information on them. That or Giran knows how to pick them. Shigaraki himself, while not extremely dangerous compared to the others, is the protege for All For One and the leader of the League of Villains. For another example, Kurogiri is the right hand man of Shigiraki and is able to get the villains anywhere they need to go, making it very important he is removed from the equation.

That and having it be letters is an offsets to the numbers the heroes go by. Hopefully that answers your question.