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the children yearn for more queen and tenna

how could i say no. tenna learns about youtube slop

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What if Spamton DID tell Tenna about the prophecy?

Tenna: Me and my freak boyfriend that prophesizes my death when he's drunk.

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Tenna is your uncle who you dont see all the time but everytime he comes over or you stay with him you can tell he was excited about seeing you the entire time. For some reason he seems way more invested in your wellbeing than even your parents, and obviously loves kids but no one in your family knows why he doesn't just have any of his own. Never married, hardly ever dated either, you sometimes overhear other relatives taunting him about it.

Then when you're like 14 and realize youre gay you kinda start wondering if he is too and spend years plotting the optimal interrogation of his romantic life to try and see if you officially have a gay uncle, but but you never actually ask him cause he's always too busy like baking you a cake or teaching you how to make origami and its not even worth it at that point.

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TENNA FANCAM TENNA FANCAM

DELTARUNE CHAPTER 3 SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!

what would I call this??? it's just videos of Tenna set to a song lmao. but you should watch it, it fits well. take my brain worms, boy

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I want every Tenna artist to name me the sexiest gameshow host personality from real life they can think of

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based on my friend @fruitsofhell 's headcanon that spamton would convince tenna to do increasingly risque things on the late night show in order to attract more viewers

bonus:

sighs. don't look at me

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@spamton-bin, Oh that's so interesting that you found him uncanny and creepy at first! In my experience I just found the juxtaposition so hilarious it instantly charmed me, but I can see that being a potentially intended effect that doesn't exactly go away.

And also, dang I didn't mean to imply he was all innocent. I certainly think he is a massive piece of shit during parts of this chapter, but I wanted to emphasize lighthearted aspects of his personality I've already seen people kind of ignore. Even when he is being a piece of shit its not as a heel turn, he is controlling and manipulative because of well-established anxieties and insecurities, not because the story nor his design was trying to misdirect and shock you. What I was trying to say about The One Sprite with his other expressions is that even when he does start acting crueler he never FULLY breaks from being his soft and goofy self (him lamenting he doesn't know how modern tech works, firing then rehiring everyone, the contracts obviously implying something abusive but also used mostly for jokes), he just has an angry side. A very angry side that begins to distort the initial rosy perception of him, but not one that defines him more than that perception. At the end of the day once he's in the castletown and you promise to care for him he is still just an idiot who wants to entertain people and feel wanted. He's just willing to hurt people to do it, a very human core that a lot of Tumblr Sexyman-types do not have lol.

It would be interesting to see if there is a serious and maybe unflattering answer as to why and how Tenna looks SO out of place. I personally take it as some representation of him controlling his appearance because he is the screen you view him through in a sense, like how he can manipulate his size. Meaning, yes, Tenna is actively trying to disarm you in a way so forced it can wrap back around to being uncanny. But I really like the idea of that not being something done out of malice but pure desperation.

I'm starting to reach the point of Tenna brainrot where I'm beginning to develop that critical eye for his fandom portrayal, bolstered heavily by him obviously having some Tumblr Sexyman Bait mixed into him, but as someone who is usually violently repulsed by true Tumblr Sexyman Bait I have been having a blast noticing how he subverts those tropes. For me right now the biggest tell of people focusing on him as A Tall Guy In A Suit vs the little goofster he is how softly they draw him, cause its also my biggest fixation with his design.

Tenna's has a uniquely soft and rounded character design for what he is - a CRT in a shiny suit rendered as an early CG model. Not only did Toby take that aesthetic in the direction of SNES pre-rendered sprites so that instead of being polygonal he would have that unnaturally smooth finish, but he also took the time to blast Tenna's palette with a bright lavender tint and no black outline. Then on top of that even, his CRT head is stylized to be as rounded as possible, and almost every pointed aspect of his character besides his nose has a soft taper just by nature of the lumpy, clay-like model he is. And these details serve a couple of goals:

First and most interesting to me, combined with the big cartoon gloves and coat-tails, Tenna's softness really helps sell him as a Rubber-Hose adjacent - and therefore old and nostalgic - looking character without it being too forced. Or even worse, trying to bluntly mimic the Rubber-Hose style in a way that would have made me furiously critical lmao. Literally the defining part of those designs that I see people mess up is how rounded and 3D the characters were. Besides oddities like Mickey Mouse and a few other super early characters' ears, characters of that era were overwhelmingly designed to make sense in 3D space. The style is sometimes referred to as the "center-line style" because on reference sheets you would see characters broken down into spheres with lines down the center to help portray depth.

This to say, if you want to get to the fundamentals of that style, an essence that can transcend the most obvious aesthetic tropes of pacman eyes and black and white, you make characters very tubular and *rubber-hose-y*. Tenna is very much that and in a way that dates him back to a nebulous essence of that old cartoon style, as well as making him distinctly a product of clumsy but adorable early CGI -- in a way harkening back to the early baby steps of 2D and 3D animation. (And fuck it, it kinda gives me digitized claymation vibes sometimes). Nevertheless, this collection of subtle and unsubtle visual motifs come together to make Tenna appear and feel old, charming, and most importantly, soft.

If Toby wanted to like really, really say "This guy is a TV cartoon" a far more obvious aesthetic to draw from would have been Hannah-Barbera type characters in the Modernist style, which uses economic design tropes that are so embedded in our idea of a cartoon you will find attempts at a rubberhose style accidentally using them, despite the styles being diametrically opposed. That gorgeous Hatsune Miku design for the vocaloid song people keep super-imposing Tenna over is a PERFECT example of the artstyle on a character who's design otherwise has nothing to do with it, emphasizing the focus on bold, flat shapes that often don't reflect any sort of real depth. Tenna could have easily been in a style like that, but no matter how many circles you may use in the design, they'll never be spheres, they'll never have that sense of depth and therefore almost tangible softness that Tenna's design has. Toby's artstyle, though not heavily related to either tradition, does rely a lot on flattened perspective and bold shapes in character designs, so it is very interesting to see Tenna arrive intended to portray an era aligned with those pre-existing conventions, but completely blowing them out of the water.

This because on top of evoking that nostalgia, Tenna is meant to evoke it with a specific kind of softness -- to make him as unassuming and friendly-looking as possible, almost unnaturally so. I don't think it's meant that the form is a distortion or facade of his normal self, but the fact that Tenna is the softess, puttiest thing in the entire canon so far implies there is a really strong reason why he's uniquely defined by these ideas. I mean we saw Tenna lose his cool and drop his silly act, and we got The Sprite - which is so gorgeous in its own way - Tenna's electronic themeing finally pulling some sharpness out of his design, made unnatural both by bringing attention to his inhuman parts and clashing so oddly with the soft rendering of his model. But even there the intention is not that Tenna is dropping a facade, that state was abnormal, and if the electronic in him was meant to conflict with his putty exterior you would maybe see more angularity on the TV in contrast to it. He coulda been a real ENA-like, if not by default then in that expression, but NOPE! It's all still cohesive!

In design, Tenna is constantly vying for Ralsei's spot of softest fluffiest guy around, and any aberration from that portrays him as being uncharacteristically harsh. He is defined by being soft, comforting, fun, nostalgic, and basically not anything that usually defines a Tumblr Sexyman. He's not particularly skinny by cartoon standards (nor curvy, I support you guys but we gotta be FR), he's not edgy, he's not secretly cruel (more just has the potential to manipulate people), and he doesn't have those toothy pointy design tropes that define a lot of those characters. He does for like, one sprite, and even then as I said its clashing in every way against his default personality. And I feel like when people forgo these aspects in his design, I can begin to assume they are doing so in his personality as well.

With constantly sharpened static teeth comes a more cunning character than he is ever portrayed to (successfully) be. Every time his suit is drawn to be more angular or his joints more defined, someone is forgetting his suit was primarily design to appeal to children, not parallel his old business partner. Obviously the only valid people in the Sharp Tenna Camp here are those who draw him in the Modernist TVA style (and everyone else cause this post is not that serious). But like as someone who actively has been studying why he doesn't give me the Tumblr Sexyman ick and being really delighted by how he maneuvers around all these tropes in a SUPER visually and narratively compelling way, I am a bit disappointed to see him just drawn like... as TV Head Tumblr Sexyman #9.

DONT MENTION HIM next to that asshole from Hazbin Hotel either OMFG! Tenna is my (and Kris') best friend from the corny gameshows, cease the slander!!

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Spamtenna divorce this, Dreemur divorce that-

I want to take a second to appreciate Tenna in his first boss fight very purposefully evoking the memories of the Dreemur family's fighting during the first (meta-)physical challenge section to try and upset Kris and convince them that they need Tenna's distractions. Transitioning into the second challenge where Tenna is all chipper again until he begins actually shaking in horror and/or rage as he realizes the theme of his stupid fucking ex is about to come blaring out of the speakers. God (Toby Fox) haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates his ass bruv.

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The UTDR wikis moved to independent hosting! Go support them go go go!

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I'm starting to reach the point of Tenna brainrot where I'm beginning to develop that critical eye for his fandom portrayal, bolstered heavily by him obviously having some Tumblr Sexyman Bait mixed into him, but as someone who is usually violently repulsed by true Tumblr Sexyman Bait I have been having a blast noticing how he subverts those tropes. For me right now the biggest tell of people focusing on him as A Tall Guy In A Suit vs the little goofster he is how softly they draw him, cause its also my biggest fixation with his design.

Tenna's has a uniquely soft and rounded character design for what he is - a CRT in a shiny suit rendered as an early CG model. Not only did Toby take that aesthetic in the direction of SNES pre-rendered sprites so that instead of being polygonal he would have that unnaturally smooth finish, but he also took the time to blast Tenna's palette with a bright lavender tint and no black outline. Then on top of that even, his CRT head is stylized to be as rounded as possible, and almost every pointed aspect of his character besides his nose has a soft taper just by nature of the lumpy, clay-like model he is. And these details serve a couple of goals:

First and most interesting to me, combined with the big cartoon gloves and coat-tails, Tenna's softness really helps sell him as a Rubber-Hose adjacent - and therefore old and nostalgic - looking character without it being too forced. Or even worse, trying to bluntly mimic the Rubber-Hose style in a way that would have made me furiously critical lmao. Literally the defining part of those designs that I see people mess up is how rounded and 3D the characters were. Besides oddities like Mickey Mouse and a few other super early characters' ears, characters of that era were overwhelmingly designed to make sense in 3D space. The style is sometimes referred to as the "center-line style" because on reference sheets you would see characters broken down into spheres with lines down the center to help portray depth.

This to say, if you want to get to the fundamentals of that style, an essence that can transcend the most obvious aesthetic tropes of pacman eyes and black and white, you make characters very tubular and *rubber-hose-y*. Tenna is very much that and in a way that dates him back to a nebulous essence of that old cartoon style, as well as making him distinctly a product of clumsy but adorable early CGI -- in a way harkening back to the early baby steps of 2D and 3D animation. (And fuck it, it kinda gives me digitized claymation vibes sometimes). Nevertheless, this collection of subtle and unsubtle visual motifs come together to make Tenna appear and feel old, charming, and most importantly, soft.

If Toby wanted to like really, really say "This guy is a TV cartoon" a far more obvious aesthetic to draw from would have been Hannah-Barbera type characters in the Modernist style, which uses economic design tropes that are so embedded in our idea of a cartoon you will find attempts at a rubberhose style accidentally using them, despite the styles being diametrically opposed. That gorgeous Hatsune Miku design for the vocaloid song people keep super-imposing Tenna over is a PERFECT example of the artstyle on a character who's design otherwise has nothing to do with it, emphasizing the focus on bold, flat shapes that often don't reflect any sort of real depth. Tenna could have easily been in a style like that, but no matter how many circles you may use in the design, they'll never be spheres, they'll never have that sense of depth and therefore almost tangible softness that Tenna's design has. Toby's artstyle, though not heavily related to either tradition, does rely a lot on flattened perspective and bold shapes in character designs, so it is very interesting to see Tenna arrive intended to portray an era aligned with those pre-existing conventions, but completely blowing them out of the water.

This because on top of evoking that nostalgia, Tenna is meant to evoke it with a specific kind of softness -- to make him as unassuming and friendly-looking as possible, almost unnaturally so. I don't think it's meant that the form is a distortion or facade of his normal self, but the fact that Tenna is the softess, puttiest thing in the entire canon so far implies there is a really strong reason why he's uniquely defined by these ideas. I mean we saw Tenna lose his cool and drop his silly act, and we got The Sprite - which is so gorgeous in its own way - Tenna's electronic themeing finally pulling some sharpness out of his design, made unnatural both by bringing attention to his inhuman parts and clashing so oddly with the soft rendering of his model. But even there the intention is not that Tenna is dropping a facade, that state was abnormal, and if the electronic in him was meant to conflict with his putty exterior you would maybe see more angularity on the TV in contrast to it. He coulda been a real ENA-like, if not by default then in that expression, but NOPE! It's all still cohesive!

In design, Tenna is constantly vying for Ralsei's spot of softest fluffiest guy around, and any aberration from that portrays him as being uncharacteristically harsh. He is defined by being soft, comforting, fun, nostalgic, and basically not anything that usually defines a Tumblr Sexyman. He's not particularly skinny by cartoon standards (nor curvy, I support you guys but we gotta be FR), he's not edgy, he's not secretly cruel (more just has the potential to manipulate people), and he doesn't have those toothy pointy design tropes that define a lot of those characters. He does for like, one sprite, and even then as I said its clashing in every way against his default personality. And I feel like when people forgo these aspects in his design, I can begin to assume they are doing so in his personality as well.

With constantly sharpened static teeth comes a more cunning character than he is ever portrayed to (successfully) be. Every time his suit is drawn to be more angular or his joints more defined, someone is forgetting his suit was primarily design to appeal to children, not parallel his old business partner. Obviously the only valid people in the Sharp Tenna Camp here are those who draw him in the Modernist TVA style (and everyone else cause this post is not that serious). But like as someone who actively has been studying why he doesn't give me the Tumblr Sexyman ick and being really delighted by how he maneuvers around all these tropes in a SUPER visually and narratively compelling way, I am a bit disappointed to see him just drawn like... as TV Head Tumblr Sexyman #9.

DONT MENTION HIM next to that asshole from Hazbin Hotel either OMFG! Tenna is my (and Kris') best friend from the corny gameshows, cease the slander!!

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Now don't TOUCH THAT DIAL, and don't STOP THOSE SMILES!! Because...

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creature comforts

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Yeah, this line shattered me...

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You know the thing about having basic human empathy, respect for other cultures, and caring about the environment as an American it makes you fucking hate your government as you listen and realize the damage your country has done to everyone. “You American hating leftist.” Dawg we are like factually the greatest evil on earth right now. If you wrote an evil empire with America’s current foreign and domestic policy in fiction it’d be called grimdark and ridiculous.