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Hundred faces

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another Deltarune thought: although it seems screamingly obvious on a thematic and conservation of detail level, the primary obstacle for Dessknight is a logistical Morton's fork: if Dess is agentic and able enough enough to carry out Plan Roaring, then why doesn't she just return to the Holiday family? why doesn't she even let Noelle know that she's still alive?

conversely, if Dess is absent from her family because she was mentally crippled by her transformation into the knight, then how is she alert enough to aura farm and put on a show with Kris for the Fun Gang? if Dess is physically or metaphysically crippled, then how can she transport Undyne out of Toriel's House, across the Light World, and into the Shelter in Chapter 3? why the seemingly divided motives?

I want to be careful with how I phrase this because I don't want to sound like a Game Theory host, but I want to return to my reading - in the vein of my previous post about the fourth wall in UTDR - that the Underground of UT is subtextually what DR's Dark Worlds are textually, and that UT Monsters are subtextually what DR Darkners are textually.

more explicitly stated, DR Darkners have assumed the role of "fantasy creatures existing at the mercy and discretion of real people" previously occupied by UT Monsters. (whereas as @darkveracity has pointed out, DR Monsters are a stand in for a different kind of flesh and blood human - Kris being an adopted child and the only human in a town full of Monsters is about race).

of all the meta-aware characters we've seen in Deltarune, only one has anything like an agentic plan to transcend his finite status:

* I * JUST NEED * THAT LITTLE, * [[SOUL]] * Y O U HAVE

in the context of Deltarune alone, Spamton's impromptu plan to steal Kris's soul seems as random and impossible as the man is pathetic and dangerous. Spamton is the archetypal copycat whose desperation to imbibe the genuine qualities of others only ever betrays the lack of the genuine within himself - he rips off Mettaton and Swatch as easily as he scams Tenna for show-biz know-how and passes off the insights of his insider contact as if they were his own.

upon meeting Kris and the player, upon his final realization that he'll need more than Mettaton's artificial body to become a real boy, he puts himself on a collision course with a power he can neither overcome nor understand, and he finishes burning his life down in the process.

however in a wider context, Deltarune is meant to be played after finishing Undertale, where stealing souls for power is obviously taken seriously as a key part of the games metaplot:

* If a monster defeats a human, they can take its SOUL. * A monster with a human SOUL… * A horrible beast with unfathomable power. * (It's an illustration of a strange creature…) * (There's something very unsettling about this drawing.)

taking this possibility more seriously than Spamton has any right to pose it, what would happen if a Darkner were to claim a Lightner's soul and usurp their level of existence?

by analogy to UT and with consideration for Spamton's expectations, they would both be capable of escaping from the Dark World and possess incredible power. depending on the Darkner's nature, they could potentially unite a Lightner's monster magic with a Darkner's nightmarish creepypasta powers.

even more importantly than that, we can guess that such a being's will would be inconsistent and divided between its warring bottom lines:

* Frisk, when Chara and I combined our SOULs together... * The control over our body was actually split between us. * They were the one that picked up their own empty body. * And then, when we got to the village... * They were the one that wanted to... * ... to use our full power. * I was the one that resisted.

* If the Knight's only goal was to hurt people… * They would have acted sooner, right?

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WHAT!!!!

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the choctaw vampire hunters in sinners, photographed by eli joshua adé, smpsp.

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come follow me

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komeiji sisters

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touch

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making a dialogue collection for deltarune toriel called "shut the fuck up you just hate women"

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new name and housekeeping

i am changing my name from narukaminigga to gork. I am currently entering a period of game development, meaning I will be limiting my tumblr to promote projects of mine. Everyone will still remain on my followers lists, and mutuals will be maintained. Thank you for the understanding, and I hope to be successful in my endeavors.

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whatever go my. deltarunes

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i wear my heart on my sleeve

i hold my knife in my hand

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its hard to understand what a successful ceasefire with Israel would even look like. before Al-Aqsa Flood, Israel continuously barraged Gaza with air strikes. i did a search for ` "Israel" "air strike" ` narrowed by the date range 1/1/1970-6/10/2023 (ie. immediately before the war) and the most recent i found was an article about an air strike campaign in April of 2023. Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa, attacked Muslims praying during Ramadan and expelled them from the site. then some rockets were fired from Lebanon, and then Israel carried out a sustained bombardment campaign of Lebanon and Gaza. in Lebanon they bombed a refugee camp. in Gaza they bombed everything. hospitals, homes, farms and fields, military and training camps (Al Jazeera, 2023, click).

it's alarming that this was not considered an act of war. but it wasn't, because it was not abnormal for Israel. before that i find articles from 2022 (Le Monde, 2022, click), 2021 (Reuters, 2021, click), ... forever into the past. that's just air strikes. it doesn't include rockets, or jackboots. if you could negotiate a ceasefire with Israel, how would you even know if you succeeded?

there is no concept of peace with Israel. it will destroy everything around it or be destroyed itself.

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100lines your Toukomaru

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“YOU”

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In the rain 🌧️

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A coworker of mine found this truly bizarre presentation on the “30 year vision” of a huge multinational corporation, and it honestly reads like some kind of absurdist vaporwave shitpost. If you’d like to see the entire thing in all its original glory, you can find it here.

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i heard about the killdozer guy but what about the rooftop koreans?

During the LA riots in 1992 the LAPD abandoned minority neighborhoods, leaving the locals to fend for themselves. Some Korean families posted up on the roofs of their buildings to protect their businesses with guns. Without any other context, they've become something of a right-wing gun culture meme. Y'know, the whole "model minority defending their property against the savage hordes with glorious firearms" sorta thing, you can see the marketing appeal.

(And I do mean marketing quite literally, there are tons of Roof Korean merch churned out on Internet shops).

The thing is, this is a somewhat whitewashed version of events. Racial tensions had been inflamed between the local black and Korean communities recently, most intensely by the killing of Latasha Harlins by a Korean store owner, Soon Ja Du. Du accused Harlins of stealing juice even though she had money in hand to pay, initiated a physical conflict, and then shot Harlins in the back of the head when she was trying to flee the store. Du received a suspended sentence for manslaughter: five years' probation and 400 hours of community service, plus a $500 fine and Harlins' funeral costs. The killing is widely seen as a contributing factor to the 1992 riots, especially with regard to Koreatown being targeted.

As for the actual defensive actions by the "Rooftop Koreans," in practice it was kind of a disaster.

What's more, if you talk to the actual Koreans who were out there that day, they don't see anything to celebrate about it. If anything, they found the abandonment to be a wake-up call with regard to their standing in society: Second-class and fully expendable.

But because of the sanitized version of history that became a meme, you can guarantee every time there are mass protests and riots, some douchebags are going to run in, drop their pants, and start furiously cranking their hogs, moaning "we need roof Koreans!" for the duration.