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[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

another thing i tend to think about with this. i also just think in chapter 5 there's a theme of care and dependency. the flowers have extreme guilt over being taken care of by asgore. flowery conceptualizes himself as weak and useless. in the dark world, his fantasy, he tries to return the care given to him to asgore to "make up for" asgore taking care of him when he should've died decades ago. it's an extreme example, but i also resonate with his feeling.

when your body or mind puts you in a situation where your reliance on other people becomes really explicit, you're trained by the world to see that as shameful or to see yourself as deficient. your efforts to ignore your needs just to avoid "being a burden," will leave you worse off. you punish yourself because of deeply internalized ableism.

regardless, even by virtue of being a living thing on this planet, you are already designed to need others. you have to listen to your body's needs even against a society that teaches you you shouldn't. you have to be okay with the fact that you have needs. sometimes your needs are different or are greater than the person next to you, and all you can do is listen to your body and turn to others when you need them. you're still a person when you need people.

when toby says this:

it's interesting to me how much he uses the language of deltarune to express this feeling. your hopes and dreams slipping away, and bitterness growing is literally the explanation we get for shadow crystals (and so wept the fallen star, making rivers with its tears. then, slowly, from the bitter water, something grew. it looked like glass). this is also the crushing feeling when you lose a sense of control when you're in pain, when you can't do things the way you want, the way you used to. but when you find yourself still able to fly, you do so because you've adapted. you've listened to your body. you've learned that listening to your body means changing the pace, letting yourself be cared for, letting yourself be helped.

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

He blooms a flower out of his nose when he’s happy! He has claws and fangs! In Toby Fox’s own words, he’s a giant, handsome apron-wearing older husband! He also has a very interesting and tragic backstory, having been in a loving relationship with a certain little mailman, only to get forcefully separated from him by The Horrors. He also witnessed the family who owned him (who he also sees as his family even though they don’t even know he exists) go through a divorce, and eventually they all stopped watching him, leaving him unplugged and alone for many years. He was also literally fated to die by what’s basically Deltarune’s version of the bible. He had both of his arms cleaved off! He’s been through so much, and I think he truly deserves to win this! Please, I’m sure it would make him so happy!

He’s also a fantastic dancer. Look at him go!

And then theres all the times that shes is shown love in the form of sharing meals or cooking. her loving toriels pancakes and ralseis dark cakes. Getting to cook with them for the physical challenge. The tea party with Gerson and Flowery giving her orange juice, Tenna giving her yogurt. Learning how to make a pie from Toriel.

And at the begining she didnt really know how to show kindness to others, and how throughout the game she develops by sharing the dark candy with Lancer, all the way to asking Ralsei to eat the yummy cake he made for them with eachother, to sharing Ice Cream with Noelle at the Festival.

was talking with @/3muske-tears about tenna and this image got beamed into my brain.

I like the concept of older husband apron-wearing Tenna

I like his fangs and claws (ゝω・´★)

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