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I stay neglecting RE6 Leon

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HELP!! I transmitigated into my own novel and developed Complex Feelings for the SCUM VILLIAN!!! 

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Be honest, are you a bad person in any kind of way? I've been finding out about gross stuff that a bunch of blogs I really liked did and I feel icky :(

yeah in most ways. Good luck out there

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Just discovered the queue, this thing is amazing

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i know people have already dissected pretty much all of Tenna and Spamton’s dialogue connections, but i wanted to point out something i noticed that i haven’t personally seen mentioned before, and how it may tie in to their relationship. this could just be me going “i’ve connected the dots!” here, but…

these are the only instances in the game where Tenna says this specific line, and it seems like an intentional reference in the writing to parallel these moments with each other. we know Spamton is connected to and knows that jingle, because he also quotes it in his Neo fight (in reference to Tenna and Mike). it seems like it was probably an ad they made together.

many people have pointed out that the Tropic of Love was probably a special place for Tenna and Spamton, and to me, this further implies that; it also implies that Tenna was thinking about/missing Spamton in both of these moments. (and yet still tries to pretend he doesn’t miss him at all ….. )

the other evidence that the Tropic of Love is connected to Spamton has been discussed before but i wanted to put it here for clarity!

the song that plays on the Tropic of Love is called “SOUTH OF THE BORDER!!” and is the only song in the chapter to be capitalized and have multiple exclamation points, similar to the way Spamton speaks.

(i’ve also heard people say that this song and the “KEYGEN” song — when Spamton flashes rainbow colors like the trees do on the Tropic of Love — share a leitmotif, and the first few notes of both do sound similar, but as far as i know this hasn’t been completely confirmed yet? correct me if im wrong)

the only other time the phrase “south of the border” is used in connection with Deltarune is Spamton’s dialogue in the description for the “Mr and Mrs and Spamton cutting board” on the Spamton Sweepstakes page, which also feels like a very intentional reference.

and Spamton does indeed cross out Tenna with a red marker on the below page, which of course you can find linked in the “Spamton engraved wedding ring” description. there’s an implication here that Spamton bought a wedding ring for Tenna, never got to give it to him, yet still kept it for years — we know other things found in the Spamton Sweepstakes have factored into canon, including which products and phrases they were linked on (Noelle’s blog posts, questions Spamton answered on Twitter, many hidden links)

(still don’t know what went down w Spamton and Mike tbh)

basically the point here is that the Tropic of Love was almost certainly some kind of romantic getaway or memento for them — and Tenna kept it in his special version of the game even after everything that happened. he still thinks of it fondly. he even goes there and uses it as a place to think, as revealed in a secret on one of the Sword Route game stages. Tenna kept his pipis, their old posters and Spamton’s phone. their shared motif still haunts almost every corner of TV World. Spamton still uses this motif to introduce himself (“HEY EVERY !”), a version that’s unresolved and can only be completed by Tenna. Spamton seems to allude to calling Tenna after their separation several different times in his dialogue, and not being able to get through (which just further proved in his mind that Tenna never cared for him at all; though the real reason he can’t get through is because they were cut off, because the connection between their dark worlds was presumably severed quite soon after he ran. neither of them could get through if they tried). at some point, Spamton just started calling out for him from the bottom of the dumpster, until he had to get it through his head that he was truly alone, that nobody would ever come.

(i realize this likely refers to several different people, but i would absolutely be willing to bet Tenna was one of them.)

they both care way more than they want to let on, and still can’t get each other out of their heads (after at least a decade apart, if the hidden mailroom dialogue means anything). and, despite all their obvious anger and resentment, despite falsely believing that the other abandoned them and never actually cared at all, they absolutely still deeply miss each other. (there are so many more instances i could point out that imply this but this post already took me way too long to put together! lmao)

i mean, famously bitter grudge-holder Spamton G. Spamton was overjoyed at the chance to reconcile when he realized that Tenna cares about him after all, that maybe he wasn’t only using him that whole time just to find out his secret. (“you really do care!!!”) and even after he got humiliated by Tenna yet again, Spamton wasn’t really even angry — more just disappointed and resigned. and Tenna, who thinks Spamton was just using him the whole time, that Spamton pretended to get a phone call just so he could abandon him at the very last minute, still keeps the gift Spamton gave him as his prized possession, still wishes Spamton could just be there for him at his lowest. i think all of this says a lot about how they actually feel about each other, underneath the fronts they’ve put up to protect themselves from the pain of realizing they both lost the one person in the world who might’ve truly loved them.

[as a last note: i do actually believe there is a chance for them to reconcile in the game if you keep Tenna in Castle Town. this is a Toby Fox game. the main themes present in his work are love, hope, and forgiveness — that even if you’ve been irreparably changed, even if you can never fully go back to who you used to be, even if you feel completely unloveable, there is still love for you. and i believe this will hold true for Tenna and Spamton both, two characters Toby clearly cares about a great deal based on how much he talks about them on social media, in newsletters, interviews etc, despite having initially been worried over whether other people would like them. i think these characters and their stories will be relevant to the overall narrative and themes of Deltarune; Spamton in particular still has many loose ends and connections to the deeper lore of the game. i do honestly think it’s that deep. Toby is currently making even niche pairings from ten years ago — like Burgerpants/Nice Cream Guy — canon after all this time (and has seemingly been planning to for nine years) because it will make people happy. he’s having Fangamer sell Tenna & Spamton plushies as a pair, in cuddly poses, and is drawing attention to that aspect in particular. if you think there’s absolutely no hope for their relationship… maybe, just maybe, there will be.]

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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"Florida native Neill Holland became a charter captain at age 18. In 2015, after traveling internationally for a decade, he returned to St. Petersburg, Florida, to resume his fishing charter operation with his partner Danielle Dawley. 

Time and again on their charters, Dawley and Holland came across derelict traps, also known as ghost traps. 

Ghost traps are fishing traps that have been swept away in storms and currents or simply abandoned over time. 

Once lost, these rusted traps often pose risks to coral reefs below and passing boats above — all while trapping and killing marine life that die long before they are pulled to the surface. 

Those decaying fish, in turn, attract more sea animals into the trap, starting the cycle anew.

After ghost traps continued cropping up in their day-to-day, Dawley and Holland founded Ocean Aid 360: a conservation organization that works with fishing industry professionals, community volunteers, and government agencies to find, retrieve, and recycle marine debris — including ghost traps.

Their most popular program? Ghost trap rodeos: fishing tournaments that reward entrants for salvaging abandoned fishing gear.

“We started in October of 2018 through a grant from NOAA, which enabled us to hold seven tournament-style marine debris events around Tampa Bay,” Holland told the Port Charlotte Sun in mid-July. 

“In that first year, our target was 15,000 pounds of marine debris. We ended up collecting 27,000 pounds, and had fabulous numbers of community members coming out to participate,” he said. 

“Since then, we’ve worked all over Florida and the Bahamas, with more than 60 event days and about 60,000 pounds of marine debris collected — including more than 8,200 derelict traps.”

The latest ghost trap rodeo — hosted on July 19 — pulled in 4,000 pounds of trash, including 128 ‘ghost traps,’ from the Tampa Bay. 

Two minutes into the event, Holland was already reeling in a ghost trap. 

“This is a textbook example of a derelict crab trap,” Holland told the Tampa Bay Times. “It’s been left out, and as you can see it’s pretty darn crusty and rusted.”

Holland estimates that 10% of all traps placed in the water become ghost traps.

“It’s a recurring problem here, and we really have to stay on top of it,” said Peter Clark, the president and founder of Tampa Bay Watch —  one of many local organizations that helped host the ghost trap rodeo competition.

“We’re helping to protect fish and wildlife, we’re taking marine debris out of the bay, and it’s a great project to get the community involved to help restore and protect Tampa Bay.”

-via GoodGoodGood, July 28, 2025

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People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see

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i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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"The horrible implications of having a soulmate!" "Imagine waking up and not knowing who you are and there's voices in your head!" "Wouldn't it be horrible to have to live in a body that's not yours!" "Imagine if you were pulled from a fictional world and forced to live an average humans life and pretend to be normal!!"

Oh no, what a horrible fate it would be to not be yourself.

Wouldnt it be just awful to wake up and not know who you are.

Wouldnt it just suck if you had voices in your head, just watching you live.

God, you people couldn't possibly imagine being plural, couldn't you? It's almost like all the terrible movies you've watched about systems had something against us, almost like they were demonizing us. Wow, interesting that you see this benign human experience as horrifying and institutional and you haven't bothered to actually look for and talk to people who have those experiences and realize that they're just normal fucking people. It's almost like systems really do exist and we're not freaks of nature just for having multiple identities and maybe some trauma. It's almost like this has happened time and time before and you people still don't seem to understand that being mentally ill isn't a nightmare!

What a fucking zinger!

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How to put a Ship in a Bottle

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May I introduce you to my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip which only got funnier when I got hearing aids.

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Antomology🐜

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@machikoasu submitted: Found these little mystery bugs huddling on a rose leaf at a garden center in the Kamloops region, however said garden center does import their plants from all around the Lower Mainland and southern BC.

Figured they're some sort of shield or stink bug, although INaturalist has been inconclusive.

Thanks for all your hard work, and I wish you many more bugs to smooch!

Thank you! My dream is to smooch all the bugs in the world. Spiritually, not physically.

Anyhoo these little fellas have me stumped? Did you ever get any suggestions on iNat? They don't look like any stink bugs I can find. I did find a few photos that look exactly like them with people asking for IDs both on Reddit and on Facebook, but the answers they gave didn't really make sense. One suggested stink bugs in the genus Chlorochroa, but I can't find any nymphs in that genus that look like these. The other suggestion was burrowing bugs in the family Cydnidae, but again, couldn't find a good match.

If anyone can find a good match with more examples somewhere, feel free to comment or reblog? No random guesses, please, that's not helpful.