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thinking about deltarune and undertale as parallel stories, thinking about chara and asriel's sacrifice ultimately allowing everyone to go free, thinking about the prophecy calling for a human and a monster hero specifically, thinking about "love finds its way to the girl", thinking about deltarune's commentary on iterative metafiction, thinking about the unused intro with susie begging kris to wake up, thinking about the prophecy ending in tragedy in order for the worlds to be SAVED. thinking about kris having a SAVE file already at the beginning of our game.

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"May I have your name?" the faerie said.

"William," she said with a smile.

"Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!"

"Thank you," she said.

"To win it back, you must- what?"

"I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."

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God Ragatha always being belittled and made to feel guilty for not being perfectly demure and well-behaved and facing backlash for just being herself. And then people hate her for doing what she was told to her entire life. And then she finally does what they tell her to do and then just give her mortified looks for it. Making Ragatha feel guilty for expressing negativity like her mother all over again. Girl could start hallucinating her mother’s face over everyone else’s and it’d make perfect sense for her state of mind. She’s been haunted by her mother and shaped by her mother and is now trying to be a mother to her own adult peers because being a woman is fucking insane.

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Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

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My business cards got here and they look amazing! If you ever run into me in person, you might get one…!

Credit to @raptorials / @rassicas and Icy for the art! <3

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So, wait. Okay. Wait.

So the name 'Ralsei' originates with 'Ralse', the name of a character meant to represent Toby in a video game made by one of his brothers in RPG Maker when they were kids, and predates UTDR entirely.

But then 'Ralsei' becomes 'Asriel', named for Azrael, the Islamic angel of death.

But THEN, 'Asriel' breaks down into 'AS' 'RIEL', in canon named by Asgore by combining the names 'Asgore' and 'Toriel', meaning that Toby must've derived the names 'Asgore' and 'Toriel' FROM 'Asriel'.

But then the name 'Toriel' is, itself, a joke on the word 'tutorial', since she's the tutorial character in Undertale.

We don't have a definite, confirmed reason for Asgore's name, but there's a few explanations out there ('Aegros', 'Sage or Murderer', etc).

Regardless HOW THE FUCK DOES TOBY GET ALL OF THIS OUT OF. RALSE. How does someone come up with THIS LEVEL OF INTERCONNECTED WORDPLAY.

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there's a lot to shit on kojima for but I gotta respect that

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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

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stop being silly in front of me

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Continuing my recent trend of throwing household objects at fruit…

I think you’ll really Dig my patreon page

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So, you may have noticed I've been a lot more open about my physical appearance lately.

I've just been thinking.

I guess I just feel like it's important to make myself visible as a person who exists, an intersectional identity, a pre-HRT trans person, a disabled person, all of these things that sort of get lost in translation when you present online purely as a constructed identity.

I feel like right now, with what's going on politically, it's important to reinforce the idea that I am who I am, and that people like me aren't going anywhere. And I just...want to be able to take pride in my appearance and my body, as much as I'm able to control it before I can start on hormones, with things like my hair color and the tattoo.

I'm not just a funny squid robot. I'm not just a V-Tuber, just a funny internet anime person. I'm a human being, who has suffered and strived and worked like hell to be where I am. And I'm not going to let anyone take that from me or minimize it. Especially not myself. Not now, not anymore.

On that note...

UCSD Graduation!!! Ya girl is a DEGREE-HAVING BITCH.

I worked for TEN YEARS of medically mandated part-time education, getting fucked around with and lied to by academic advisors that led to me wasting literal YEARS taking unnecessary classes, but I FUCKING DID IT. Fuck you Marianne fuck you Annie fuck you that entire rotten side of my family that wanted me to rot in a group home, I got there, I amounted to something, and it's thanks to my dad who you hate so much, and you can NEVER take that away from me.

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WHY IS EVERYTHING HAPPENING AT ONCE

PLEASE I NEED NEWS TO STOP COMING OUT I CAN ONLY HANDLE ONE THING AT A TIME

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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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pssst check yo PO box

Well, you did it. You did in fact do the thing. You put a pipe bomb in my mailbox.

Thanks! <3

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So I made another stupid bet with the internet. And now I have to drink another bottle of Tabasco.

I am in great pain.