xem-ity

[xem-ity]

there’s only one ending in deltarune BUT you get to pick which ship becomes canon

[xem-ity]

FUCK ITS LET PAPYRUS SAY FUCK DAY ISNT IT

[xem-ity]

my first post to hit 1k notes! wondrous days are upon us

concept i've seen people talk about that i think would be very interesting if it was canon

[xem-ity]

Hey im jerking off on your arts(quite literally), can we be friends?

i was unsure how to feel about this but. i mean. what purpose did drawing those old men like that serve...

[xem-ity]

the best unseen part of drawing sillies on the internet is having to give everything a file name. it seemed like itd be too big of a choice at first and then i realized it does not matter at all so now i just like let my hands type it for me

artists reblog with the silliest file names from your artwork

[xem-ity]

me ordering at fast food store: yeah just a small kebab. no sauce. y-yeah, none, thanks. no pickles, no. right just the meat and fries.

and then i pick up my order go outside and kill myself

[xem-ity]

so basically 2016 undertale aus were the point this whole time

Actually just following on from that last post but I think the final theme of Deltarune is going to be about the power of stories and games. It's meta-narrative on so many levels, with stories of stories being retold with things like Lord of the Hammers and Dragon Blazers. We see that people are forging over the prophecy with a new story. We see people overriding games with more games. The dark world's themselves are explicitly gamified within the narrative, and we are even starting to see dark world's within dark worlds, and dark world's being reshaped by the power of will. At every layer of Deltarune we are seeing stories being retold and the power of games and stories to reshape the world. The power of interpretation and free will. From the most meta-layer between the player and Gaster right into the depths of the dark world. The game is telling the same kind of story at every layer.

[xem-ity]

do you think like the romans would like understand any part of this

[xem-ity]

[xem-ity]

I'm obsessed with the way you color. Could you ever spare us mortals a piece of your knowledge as to HOW you cook this good

Mkay , i actually barelly possess enough competence to explain things to people, and I do the guy on one layer, so usually I panic and repaint stuff till my back turns to cooked shrimp BUT LET`S TRY

THE "T U T O R I A L" feat. Mr.Tenna

I really do hope it`ll explain something at least

[xem-ity]

nose nuzzle champs '97 ....

[xem-ity]

SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE METTATENNA/SPAMTENNA FICS.... PLEASE... ILL LIKE.... DRAW THEM HOWEVER U WANT... ART EXCHANGE...

[xem-ity]

i totally understand this view of floweys character but as someone that’s always struggled with empathy and caring for others in the emotional way other people do i think flowey absolutely can lack empathy and love and still be capable of being good to others.

i don’t think the point ever was that he feels nothing at all, but that he’s unable to feel for people. i really resonated with flowey’s retelling of the realization he couldn’t find it in him to love his parents anymore, not for lack of trying.

flowey’s lack of empathy is meant to parallel the player and how as much as you try you can’t really love the characters of a game. you’d rip everything away from them in an instant if it meant finding out more about them, but you do prefer to keep them happy, which is less love and more fascination or curiosity. maybe even fondness, but not love. that’s the way flowey sees the world too. that’s why he feels so alone.

i do believe anyone could end up in flowey’s place going through what he did, but being unable to truly love people is part of what makes him so tragic and interesting to analyze, and what makes the parallel between him and the player so striking.

i dont know abt yall but i personally never trust flowey when he says he has No Feelings...

there's a kind of religious romanticism in monster culture that wants to believe souls contain your compassion, but humans explicitly disprove that, making monsters question whether a soul even requires those qualities to exist in the first place.

flowey adheres to the traditional monster belief, and given how monsters emphasize this idea of love, hope, and compassion being integral to the wholeness of a monster's soul, he probably internalized that and thought his absence of such qualities meant he was different. broken.

flowey may emphatically insist he has no emotions or compassion whatsoever, but that simply doesn't align with the reality we observe. i mean, hello??? the guy is EXCESSIVELY EMOTIONAL. HIGH OCTANE EMOTIONAL. HE EXPRESSES A LOT OF EMOTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME!!!

flowey is also an incredibly unreliable narrator, especially when it comes to himself and that's really just a direct result of the immense trauma he's been through.

it's no surprise flowey would latch onto this idea of being "soulless" as a way to explain his new, jaded worldview. if he has no soul, no real emotions, then it rationalizes why he feels so disconnected, so incapable of caring about anything or anyone anymore.

but the reality is, flowey isn't truly so devoid of all love and feeling. what he's experiencing (to me) is more like a self-imposed emotional numbness, a defense mechanism to shield himself from further pain. 

his "soullessness" is less an objective state of being and more a way of framing his loss of hope, his inability to feel the same compassion he once did. he clings to his lack of soul as an attempt to explain and validate his despairing worldview in a reality that no longer includes chara, the one person he truly cared about. 

and honestly.... if flowey truly was so bereft of all the compassion he had "as asriel", like he so adamantly claims, how would we reconcile that with moments like this?

seems pretty compassionate to me.

and while we're on the subject, i must say that asriel's request for us to view him and flowey as separate people is unhealthy and should NOT be taken at face value, just as we ought not believe many of the claims flowey has made abt himself. this scene to me just seemed like asriel was trying to absolve himself of the guilt tied to his actions as flowey, which isn't necessarily a narrative we should support. to read them separately would be a disservice to flowey's arc and development.

in a sense, asriel is right, in all his innocence he could never behave the way flowey does. yet another aspect of flowey is that Anyone under comparable circumstances could become Him, even one as kind and gentle as asriel

and though flowey doesn't fully believe or accept it (just yet), the game does a brilliant job of reminding us that despite EVERYTHING, it is still him.

[xem-ity]

“yeah man i don’t really like care for deltarune that much it’s fine but i’m only really playing it for the undertale characte-“ i was then shot 57 times

[xem-ity]

toby fox is such a good storyteller when it comes to suspense and relief. it’s like he was made for this one specific purpose he’s that good

i was thinking about sans and the theory that he comes from deltarune, and how toby managed to keep the suspense of not knowing that for years. he planned it all the way back in undertale, giving us clues we had nothing to do with at the time, the idea that sans came from somewhere else rather than the undertale world was in our minds, but we had nothing to associate it with.

then chapter 1 of deltarune dropped and just seeing sans exist in this world, suddenly things started feeling plausible. the simple act of him being there made the clues fall into place, but everything was still fuzzy enough that we weren’t really sure.

then come chapter 2 and we see the way he interacts with toriel, and the theory becomes so much sadder. if he really did come from deltarune, then he lost everything he knew (except maybe his brother, but we don’t even know that). in undertale, after learning toriels name at the end of the pacifist route, he immediately starts calling her “tori” as a nickname. it seems a little odd to have a nickname already for someone you just learned the name of, but it makes sense if he came from a world where he knew her without the door as a barrier.

then, chapter 4.

chapter 4.

spoilers from here on out because there is a moment in chapter 4 that any theorist needs to experience blind.

we get some more sans shenanigans during the first light world segment, and maybe even a bit of evidence he can teleport? (then again maybe he’s just walking between rooms like rouxls) but nothing really special.

the real first kicker is being able to look inside his house later on, when it begins to rain. everything inside seems just as it is in undertale, almost exactly it seems, though it is “a bit messy”. how papyrus would allow this is strange and very intriguing, but that’s for another post.

however, the moment i really wanted to talk about is at the end of chapter 4. after the adventure is over and you’re overloaded with feelings. you walk out of the church, mind full of theories and ideas about what’s going to happen next, and susie says that “it smells nice, after the rain”

then the first chord plays

the first chord of a melody you know, that you know

you’re transported back, in time, in place, your vision becomes distant. no way toby did this. you immediately understand the implication, immediately understand what has just been all but confirmed. for so long you’ve theorized about what the “somewhere else” in “it’s raining somewhere else” means. it might’ve been deltarune, but it might’ve been something else entirely.

the substance of the “sans came from deltarune world” theory hinged on just one extra clue. one single connection between the two worlds and the two sanses. that’s what created the tension and suspense behind the theory.

one single chord, and it was like a rubber band snapped. the release of 10 year old tension was unlike anything i’ve ever felt playing a video game.

toby fox u are a god, a genius & i cannot wait for chapter 5.

there are still theories to be resolved, and i know toby will release all of that 10 year old tension by the end of this game.

[xem-ity]

im legit at prom and checking my tumblr. i think i understand what they all meant..

[xem-ity]

sorry to all my non deltarune followers and people who don’t like tenna for all my tennaposting

it’s not even in the tumblr sexyman way for the sake of New Tumblr Sexyman that i like him, he feels more than that. it’s his silly mannerisms, those fuckass 3D sprite animations, whorish allusions, emotional honesty straightforwardness (both the good and bad that comes of it). his main work motivation is more selfless than spamton’s, entertaining and making people smile. it seems he took a lot of pride in being a happy place for kris during rough times in the family likely when toriel was drinking and fighting with asgore. being an old TV left behind and to be replaced. it all made me sympathetic. i genuinely wasn’t sure about him at the beginning but the more i see the more i care and want the best for him

he stole my heart like spamton did but i think the appeal of tenna that sets him apart from spamton is that he’s just a kinder person. of course he’s not perfect but i mean i think you could show tenna warm affection and he would genuinely welcome it instead of not knowing what to do / getting uncomfortable and worming his way out of it / changing the subject like i think spamton would. but that’s what makes spamton so great in his own right, is his own little character quirks

also there’s endless potential in the technological physical intimacy you could get with hi (feed abruptly gets cut off)