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I have some thoughts

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He is so loser I love he

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pretty sure my first real fandom was avatar: the last airbender (subsequently the dragon prince by proxy), and my latest fandom would probably be deltarune still

the similarities? bunch of idiot kids trying to save the world, hijinks included (but also with very serious undertones and themes)

tags: @tinywalkingheater @phoenixwithapencil @haunted-typewriter

New reblog game!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name your first fandom (or the oldest one you can remember), your current fandom, and something they have in common!

I'll go first - my first fandom was Pokemon, my current fandom is Date Everything, and they both inspire a lot of gijinka fan art :)

No pressure tags: @affocream-nation-lives @its-actually-ash @nostalgicmermaaiid @ir1s-th3viru5 @the-depressed-comedic-relief @teataoto @projectmoonlightproductions @theyhit-thefuckingvintagon @siraxolotthebald8d @dacraziegg @rateater2000

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something i reaaally enjoy about Kris and Susie's relationship, is that it seems to me that Kris is finding a new sibling in Susie, after Asriel left to go to university.

i didn't have anything to support this vibe i got from Kris and Susie, but with Chapter 4 there has been a lot of moments with Susie sharing something with Kris that they'd only shared with Asriel until now.

Of course we literally have Susie going to church with Kris while wearing Asriel's clothes, but we also have the diner scene, during which Kris and Susie can both draw with their breath on the window, something that we know Kris used to do with Asriel, ESPECIALLY after their parents' divorce.

I think whatever Susie means for Kris, she has specifically filled the hole in their life that Asriel left behind. And because of that, I think it's very compelling to see them as siblings who chose to be each other's sibling.

It is even more interesting to take into consideration Susie's family situation, of which we do not know any details aside from the fact it's probably bad, and her behavior around Toriel, who seemed to be the only adult who wasn't antagonistic towards her (aside from Darkners ofc). Susie even seemed to be ready to stay another night at Kris's house at the end of Ch4, no questions asked! And if we try to go to the school at the end of Ch4, she will say "Let's just go home"! She already thinks of the Dreemurrs' house as her home! As funny as it is to say Susie's last name is "Deltarune", i cannot NOT think about how "Susie Dreemurr" would make me soooo happy

but what makes this very compelling to me, is that Susie just, CANNOT be Asriel's "replacement". She's nothing like him, in every possible way. But that doesn't change the fact that she seems to mean just as much for Kris. So it makes it clear that Kris isn't just enjoying Susie's company because she reminds them of their brother, no, she's just a whole new sibling, with whom Kris can have a similar kind of relationship that they had with Asriel, if they want to.

of course my reading of their relationship is very biased, as i am a brother and i have a brother and we both relate a lot to Kris and Susie respectively, but I also think there is some actual things in DR making it a very compelling reading. I really really enjoy stories about chosen siblings specifically, and i think this is what is going on between Kris and Susie

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nintendogs🐶🍎

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And in the basement of that cabin is the American

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so it's them, right

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What was his deal with pigeons in this show???

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Have you ever had a fan cry when meeting you? I'm asking because I tend to cry when I get excited and if I ever get to meet you and im the first/in any way notable i might just have to jump off a cliff

/lh /genq

Yeah, it happens sometimes - I feel a bit bad cause people tend to be embarrassed, but it's honestly not a big deal. We all get starstruck in odd ways when we meet people who are important to us somehow, or are involved with something that is, and we all react in bizarre ways to it (to the point where I honestly think a good portion of it is physiological).

Obviously it's best not to get that deeply attached to creators or worlds (parasociality bad, boundaries good, idols always disappoint etc etc) but hey, we all do it. I once did a weird starstruck giggle in front of an editor I was working with because he casually mentioned he'd been a player in the first ever game of Deadlands back in the 80s. He did not create the game, he's not particularly well-known outside of the business side of TTRPG publishing, and he wasn't bringing it up as a brag, but because that game was formative for me growing up, I still had a massively starstruck moment completely out of nowhere. The human brain's a strange old beast.

Anyway, all that's to say that if you ever do meet me in person and end up having a little cry, that's chill and normal.

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Smitten and Hero are my favorite voices. (⁠◔⁠‿⁠◔⁠)

The voices just look exactly the same, they just wear different hats. Lmao (Totally not because I don't want to come up with designs.)

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mentally i'm past the 7 year timeskip.......

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My favorite spiritual 4D chess players, absolute icons.

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Real friends

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"So, Cloud…You were a SOLDIER: First Class, right? …Weird." "Really? What's weird about it?" "Nothing, just that you were the same rank…as the first guy I ever loved."

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thinking about lonely kids and empty rooms

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.