hunger and shit

Gregor really did all that shit in flip flops

in order to truly get rid of misogyny in fandoms we need to treat girl characters the same way we treat guy characters. Say you’d hit her with your car. Say you want to see her crying and trying and failing to keep her emotions hidden. Say you want her to get worse. Say you want to chew on her like a squeaky toy. For feminism

every chapter of deltarune has a secret npc who only appears if you leave and re-enter the room 1225 times while you have a bagel in your seventh inventory slot and the npc is a sentient doorknob and when you talk to them the music cuts out and they’re like “who’s that whispering in the trees, it’s two sailors and they’re on leave, pipes and chains and swinging hands, who’s your daddy, yes i am” and then within four hours there’s a thirty minute long video on youtube titled “ASGORE IS FRIEND??? DADDY THEORY EXPLAINED” and it already has 100,000 views and then a year later people call the next chapter disappointing because it was focusing too much on developing the main characters instead of explaining the doorknob guy

Deltarune fandom really showing its ass with its constant obsession with fan characters that don't even exist (gaster) and theorizing about their existence while not sparing a second thought to character(s) who are actually hidden, implied to exist, and have a tremendous impact on the story: whoever raised Susie.

Like maybe I'm going crazy here but the constant conspicuous absence of any adults in Susie's life is, like, obviously pointed to. She iirc mentions moving a lot, living in different places when she was young. Doesn't call her parents when she's staying over. Food insecure from *waves hands* everything. Like whether she's in the foster system, fully homeless, or just has very neglectful family is up in the air, both stated and unstated. And yeah that doesn't have the same metanarrative speculation element as "guy who basically doesnt exist" but it's just one more little point of how the fandom doesn't really give a shit about the racialized girl main character in favor of men.

my undertale theory is that when sans shook frisk's hand there was no whoopy cushion and he ripped ass loud as fuck

tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"

you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.