dave strider transgender womanhood

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and from the perspective of a transfem egg ralsei reading, it's like; flowery is trapped in this cage of masculinity and misogyny in his attempts to appeal to a masculine and misogynistic authority figure, and this leads to his eventual death, but he still wishes in some part to become something that he isn't fated to be, and he's immediately flamboyant beneath his thin mimicry of the the more outwardly masculine rudy. and this, even this, is too much for ralsei, too much to look at, so much that they cannot see that he, too, is at the mercy of his fate. even this flawed suggestion of self-actualization feels like too much to bear.

i want to do a more proper analysis of this because it interests me as a potential read, but i feel like ralsei's hatred of flowery is being read as a very direct "because he sucks," and while i don't think it's inaccurate to say that he sucks, i don't think that's why ralsei hates him. flowery is a reflection of ralsei who projects self-actualization very confidently, and ralsei tragically sees this as shameful and thusly feels a strong sense of shame regarding their own want for self-actualization. but it's ironic for the reasons described, too; flowery reflects ralsei in a lot of other ways, devoted wholly to the lightners above himself, trapped in a masculine archetype that he seems to take on largely for the approval of an authority figure who doesn't like that he's become a person, unable to truly break free. ralsei doesn't recognize this because they see only that desire for freedom they feel so ashamed of reflected back at them, but his ending is a reflection of what their ending could be if they let their own fate consume them; in the end, only a simple object. it's interesting to me that in the end, for reasons ralsei cannot identify, ralsei finds themselves crying for his sake.

Man this store has a weird playlist, it's all Weird Al songs but with the lyrics switched out for ones that aren't funny.

whenever i interact w older mutuals i imagine them being like damn not this kid again fml And then they drink like seven beers

thinking about toriel trying to encourage kris out of the house this day. and carol calling before hand, confirming noelle is going to go. thinking about how this isn’t the first time carol has had this horrible phone call

thanks thomas 

nice one dumbass