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Greetings. This is my main blog, where I am to exist in a frantic haste to make a complete fool of myself.

I am :)

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Homestuck Titles I enjoy considering in relation to myself:

[??? of Doom+Light || PRINCE of MIND] - [LORD of DOOM] = For the Laughs and Gaffs and our Dastardly Pursuits

[HEART RECURSION]

[DERSE + PROSPIT] - I get both. Skaia said it's my turn on the moons.

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I am full of a endless need for violence and consumption.

My childhood dream was to get in a cramped submarine alone and go to the deepest parts of the ocean.

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As Deltarune gets progressively casual Vague Japan in Aesthetics, as Toby Fox maintains his position working around Hussie and Hussie's officially approved works [who freely allowed racial stereotypes, likely/or even deliberately purposefully in many cases, into his works that spanned from being just antiblack or whatever the fuck was happening with Damara and pisspoor handwaving representation of colonialism through Lord English that never gets touched on in any real meaningful way by the characters who are clearly written as very White due to the paradox of making "racially ambiguous characters" without thought that is always going to default to the creator's inclinations/most common culture in their works, which Toby Fox never seemed to learn the faults of as he keeps the yellow skin with Kris, where he regularly took inspiration from various cultures and religions for the sake of aesthetic or feeling of impact despite the characters themselves being ambiguously culturally christian besides Rose who maybe gets into weird occult shit but never comments on anything through that lense because 1. shes thirteen half the time and 2. i really dont think Hussie put that much thought into it all. Alongside everything regarding the trolls and the general attitude regarding Hussie and their copyright swaying attitude that even if you like Homestuck can admit it gets a little weird. (and why would they have to own up to it, rolling my eyes here, theyre well off, whats the point in addressing it themself beyond niche forum apologies when the fandom shills for them constantly and fights off any discussion about racism and antiblackness on their own ("always kinda thought the only Purple blood that I could remotely call black is Marvus (Idk it's just some HC I have)" "JUST SOME HC" and Marvus is obviously written with aave in mind) because fuck other peoples fair concerns am i right, lets all listen to only the Black folks who are Nice and Agrees with us and not question why most who point it out aren't around us, who needs a woke fandom anyway /Heavy Sarcasm) functionally. Like irregardless of what you say or think about modern times, all of that is Still Baked Into All Of It. Honestly most of this should be things most fans are aware of by now. They literally had a workshop over this, the current folks at writing with direct approval, and still ended up using various narrative excuses to avoid talking about the nuance without having to really truly change anything or god forbid address Gamzee properly - whos been flopped around as a joke since the start, used as a tool to fuck with fans, while also concealing it through a layer of "oh its just genius writing! see, bards are Utilized by their aspect and its kind of like a curse—" or "Gamzee is being controlled/cursed/and used in the STORY to further the STORY" or "no no Gamzee is just White Trash who just so happens to have a lot of stereotypes and its on YOU for recognizing the stereotypes, wow thats so racist of YOU. stereotypes that becomes more and more obvious over time like the chucklevoodoo bullshit that WORKS and isnt actual appropriation in the comic and is just normally named that! but this is still on YOU for recognizing pattern! that does not exist!" instead of accepting that things can co-exist and that yeah, Hussie was pretty fucking shit on that end in regards to purplebloods in general which is still HERE and then allowed to sit there as "culture vultures" while lowbloods remain predominately sympathetically white. Golly this is a lot but i really dont trust tumblr to be updated about any of this At All without even going into their past works] [we should really recognize that Hussie had an irony issue themself and that doing things as ironic jokes doesn't make it suddenly Okay or funny] AHEM. Ahem, Toby Fox's translation habits being centered on English/Japanese solely, etc etc.

All of this is to say: everyone should be really comfortable talking about Toby Fox's role in all of this even if he does not Personally choose every morning to be racist, xenophobic, or anything Of The Sort in the modern day. He is still White. He is still capable of perpetuating ideas, white supremancy, orientalism, complicity, and so on. Racism does not stop at "doesnt say slurs". No matter how much I see about people being endeared by his japanophilia, "haha he types brokenly just like someone learning english from japan!" ??, people calling him honorarily Japanese in youtube comments of the trailer, and general weeb status growing up — some things should Probably Be Talked About Here.

Am I saying he is being xenophobic to Japanese people through these actions? No. He could very likely be completely and utterly respectful in everything he is doing here. Maybe he can even do something interesting in talking about Asgore or the Holidays about appropriation; or maybe it is something entirely different like the theories of Asgore having those themes due to the presence of Carol that I have seen written about. Or maybe he is just genuinely Like That the same way Alphys is a massive weeb and isn't going to be portrayed negatively because Toby Fox's experience of the world, his life, heavily impacts his work in many ways he Does Talk About or mention, or can at least be picked up on in fascinating ways! Or ways like This.

But it does suggest a lot about other things, and what he is fine with being around.

But can we maybe sometime start thinking about why japanophiles are so common, why it appears as mutual and is so Popular, why Toby Fox has decided to treasure the culture so highly it is the only one he decided fits in his Vision of the game and only spoke to the studio dedicated Specifically to Japanese about translating Other Languages — and then decided the effort of speaking to other studios or teams who specialize for Said Other Languages who could speak and help explain things to him as professionals - must have been too much to do over All the years even if it would functionally just be rereading script and approving things or not based on research he Can pay Others to help with. "In the past I have looked into various options with my publisher, 8-4, but nothing has come of that yet." I wonder why. You should try asking other translation studios that. You even recognize maybe you should try alternatives after that. Do you not see how odd that looks from outside by anyone doing a brief google search of Who your brilliant translator is?

Maybe we don't have to be completely dismiss the idea of our favorite creators potentially being, as you guessed, kind of really White about things? Not someone who's going to be remotely vocal about it because he does not have to? The fact we don't have to claim "oh these people are so malicious and evil!" to point out any patterns or connections here? We're already having people defend Gooseworx for just blatant racism because its under the veneer of jokes, under the innocence of White ignorance, the fact that she is Indie as if that ever mattered when Indie gets you crossovers with fortnite and Indie gets Undertale entire Orchestras.

Like theres no need to defend anything here. The ship has already sailed. No one is going to be able to "cancel" Toby Fox or whatever just by discussing the fact he views Japanese Culture. Doing it so highly over others apparently that he neglected to learn enough to figure out that maybe he should not be making his main character Yellow Colored again (and while i have seen the concerns, i dont believe its yellowface, just unfortunate coincidences as he genuinely values Japan here too much to pull something like that in any way conciously) — avoiding having any complicated discussions or depiction of someone who is too far away from being White enough to be written. That the closest thing about Race written is about Monsters who do Not function the same way as anything irl in complete honesty and would, at best, just be another fantasy racism metaphor where being nonhuman is used to mask any depiction of things not being Black, or anything truly dark skinned, or any real world issue IF it was ever intended to be a Race metaphor and not something thats "no theyre Just monsters".

Like these can be a thing but can we at least recognize the downfalls of it all? It is OKAY to enjoy media. Can we talk about this without people getting defensive and Really wanting to white knight and idolize a guy they never met, never will, and who really isn't in anyway obligated to defend you back? Who is and was perfectly fine making friends with people like early brand Hussie and staying with them throughout the years without distinction, and who is probably more likely to completely ignore or see any issues with the lenses he views the world in than actually care? Your White video game creators don't have to worry about activism, I'm so sorry you have to hear this, but they do not have to do a thing once they make it big and we should maybe think about that and what we allow to be "the game that COMPLETELY CHANGED , ROCKED THE WORLD OF , online video game culture for... being more comfortably progressive than the usual loadout?"

Hm.

Like. I know it might seem a little hypocritical. I love Homestuck myself, which was way worse than anything Toby Fox wrote in his two games, but I can recognize that it doesn't exactly... ever needed Anything More than the base comic? It should have ended when it ended. There is no true point for a continuation besides doing overtly roundabout discussions utilizing a flawed basis that... kind of deserves to be set down? I obviously imprinted on the comic, I keep plenty of aspects I enjoyed close to me, but I would not mourn the loss of Hiveswap, Homestuck^2, or anything of that matter. Homestuck is a great comic as much as it is actually a pretty shitty comic that was pretty lackluster, stretched out, so full of metanarrative and irony that it's own subjects are retroactively weakened, and impeded in many other ways. Or, just simply, a watery soup that was compensated with a shit ton of addons because there was no true recipe in place and the cook lacked an understanding of what Tasteful is.

I just feel the need to say this because Toby Fox regardless had decided to voice act in a Homestuck Cartoon that continues to try and persist Homestuck through official-placating means.

Okay. Neat personal choice there.

You know. The animated pilot released directly onto Vizviepop's youtube channel. A creator who totally has no Blatantly Racist issues herself and would Never platform or draw fanart of people who've done and were known for their blackface! /Heavy Sarcasm again.

Which Toby Fox appears ambivalent about being next to.

Maybe there are some patterns here that not everyone is being comfortable with addressing.