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GEE FRISK HOW COME YOU GOATMOM LETS YOU HAVE SO MANY PARENTS

based on this

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"I agree op" "what op said" my name isn't op it's emily

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listen to me, deltarune fan. i am looking at you directly in the eyes. repeat after me.

the darkners aren't actually "less real" than the lightners are. the dark worlds aren't "less real." because deltarune is a video game and all the characters and setting itself are fictional.

but even peeling back that meta layer, there is a straightforward narrative being set up.

the distinction made between darkners and lightners is one challenged directly by the text by susie, famed challenger-of-the-status quo.

you are supposed to agree with susie when she says this. if darkners' feelings didn't matter we wouldn't be harping on them so much. don't you guys care about seam's nihilism, about lancer's relationship with his father, about queen's desire to help noelle, spamton's garbage life, tenna's abandonment issues, or ralsei's own tragic lack of self worth??? aren't we supposed to care about these things?????

if we weren't supposed to care- if we really were supposed to think of darkners as just objects- then deltarune's doing a pretty bad job at telling us that, considering the amount of thought and care weaved into the dark worlds.

the distinction between lightners and darkners, by its very nature, is one that, frankly, must be abolished by the end of the story because any narrative where one group is "inherently" subservient to another should probably work on fixing that

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ok 5 hours before i need to wake up do i go to sleep or not. mutuals and followers decide

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fat characters getting redrawn as buff fat by fanartists trying to make them hot just pisses me off ngl

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Red sentences are true. Lies cannot walk on them.

Yellow sentences are electric. They will shock you.

Green sentences are alarms. If you read them, you will have to debate against me.

Orange sentences are orange-scented. They will make you smell delicious.

Blue sentences are filled with water. Swim through if you like, but if you smell like oranges the piranhas will debate you.

Also, if a blue sentence is next to a yellow one, the water will also electrocute you.

Purple sentences are slippery. You will slide to the next one. However, the slippery soap smells like lemons, which piranhas detest.

Purple and blue are safe.

Finally, pink sentences. They don't do anything. Read them all you like.

How was that? Understand?

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just remembered i looked up rouxls kaard and read his wiki page way before i played deltarune because the idea of him was so funny to me

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https://deltaruneboards.net/index.php

the unofficial deltarune message boards are so fun i've been customizing my profile for the past 30 minutes

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oh neat there's a banner contest i've already got a few ideas

the unofficial deltarune message boards are so fun i've been customizing my profile for the past 30 minutes

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i think i'm ready to go to the actual message boards. do i dare

the unofficial deltarune message boards are so fun i've been customizing my profile for the past 30 minutes

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the unofficial deltarune message boards are so fun i've been customizing my profile for the past 30 minutes

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being my mutual means we’re in a parasocial relationship automatically

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I have found that many people who have not had a trans female or trans feminine experience often have trouble wrapping their brains around the concept of trans-misogyny, so I will offer the following two anecdotes to help illustrate what I mean by the term. Once, about two years ago, I was walking down the street in San Francisco, and a trans woman happened to be walking just ahead of me. She was dressed femininely, but not any more feminine than a typical cis woman. Two people, a man and a woman, were sitting on a doorstep, and as the trans woman walked by, the man turned to the woman he was sitting next to and said, “Look at all the shit he’s wearing,” and the woman he was with nodded in agreement. Now presumably the word “shit” was a reference to femininity — specifically, the feminine clothing and cosmetics the trans woman wore. I found this particular comment to be quite telling. After all, while cis women often receive harassing comments from strange men on the street, it is rather rare for those men to address those remarks to a female acquaintance and for her to apparently approve of his remarks. Furthermore, if this same man were to have harassed a cis woman, it is unlikely that he would do so by referring to her feminine clothing and makeup as “shit.” Similarly, someone who is on the trans masculine spectrum could potentially be harassed, but it is unlikely that his masculine clothing would be referred to as “shit.” Thus, trans-misogyny is both informed by, yet distinct from, transphobia and misogyny, in that it specifically targets transgender expressions of femaleness and femininity.

The second example of trans-misogyny that I’d like to share occurred at an Association for Women in Psychology conference I attended in 2007 (for those unfamiliar with that organization, it is essentially a feminist psychology conference). One psychologist gave a presentation on the ways in which feminism has informed her approach to therapy. During the course of her talk, she discussed two transgender clients of hers, one on the trans male/masculine spectrum, the other on the trans female/feminine spectrum. Their stories were very similar in that both had begun the process of physically transitioning but were having second thoughts about it. First, the therapist discussed the trans masculine spectrum person, whose gender presentation she described simply as being “very butch.” She discussed this individual’s transgender expressions and issues in a respectful and serious manner, and the audience listened attentively. However, when she turned her attention to the trans feminine client, she went into a very graphic and animated description of the trans person’s appearance, detailing how the trans woman’s hair was styled, the type of outfit and shoes she was wearing, the way her makeup was done, and so on. This description elicited a significant amount of giggling from the audience, which I found to be particularly disturbing given the fact that this was an explicitly feminist conference. Clearly, if a male psychologist gave a talk at this meeting in which he went into such explicit detail regarding what one of his cis female clients was wearing, most of these same audience members, as well as the presenter, would surely (and rightfully) be appalled and would view such remarks to be blatantly objectifying. In fact, in both of these incidents I have described, comments that would typically be considered extraordinarily misogynistic if they were directed at cis women are not considered beyond the pale when directed at trans women.

—serano

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Behold, the most ambiguously overpowered Darkner in Deltarune

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The Tumblr Experience

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I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon