maybehesclawstrophobicYou … You’ve gotten your heart broken too?
katie-wants-donut
halfwaytothestart
eclipseisminetocommand
I call this one “I should be working but instead I’m combining dead memes”
halfwaytothestart
halfwaytothestart
Chloe is back to her usual mean self, but I feel like she really admires Marinette and Adrien’s kindness to her and others.
(Honestly it’d be the coolest concept if she was the first one to “accidentally” figure out their identities. Imagine her respect for them)
halfwaytothestart
megupic
Some tdp doodle of the kids im probably gonna stan, can’t wait till it airs!!
yaboybokuto
thanatos-nightshade
Netflxi’s She-Ra is an excellent example of how you do a show without heteronormativity or cisnormativity.
It’s just… not there. No one assumes that since Glimmer is jealous of Bo and Perfuma when they got to the ball together, it must be because she has a crush on Bo. It goes without question that Glimmer is legitimately jealous just because Bo’s been her only friend for years. No one bats an eyelash at two girls simmering with tension cutting up a dance floor. During the prom episode there was zero drama over ‘finding dates’, and the ‘make-over’ sequence was played for fun dress-ups and laughs, with no protests over Catra just opting to wear a suit, or ‘jokes’ about a muscular woman like Scorpia wearing a gown (which she looked amazing in). No one has said a SINGLE WORD about girls trying to get boyfriends, or vice versa. Characters get starry-eyed (for a variety of reasons, and often just ambiguously) over other characters regardless of gender, and no one finds it the least bit inappropriate or even noteworthy.
There is zero reference to anyone needing to uphold some kind of pretense of masculinity or femininity. Zero time is spent exploring anyone’s insecurity over their looks or styling or how ‘attractive’ they are, either. There isn’t even an awkward sideways glance when Sea Hawk announces, via song ‘some say I’m a man, what I know for certain is that I’m Sea Hawk’, when most shows would take the opening to offer up some sort of dig on assumption that he was ‘accidentally’ discrediting his masculinity. The awkwardness in the sequence is reserved for the fact that he keeps trying to sing his self-styled ‘shanties’ in the first place.
I mean just look at some of this stuff:
(Sea Hawk flirting with Mermista)
(Adora and Glimmer, chilling in a hot tub, no feet apart because no one cares who’s gay)
(Mermista blushing because She-Ra thanked her)
(Catra’s ball outfit)
(Scorpia’s)
(Bo fanboying over Sea Hawk)
And there’s WAY more than just that (but most of it would be too spoiler-y). So yeah it’s wonderfully relaxed and wholesome.
ruinedchildhood
angst-in-space
that Writer Mood when you squint and glare at a sentence because something’s not right but you don’t know what
philsterman01
flattri
In the beginning of DELTARUNE, as you may know, your Wonderful Creation is “discarded” by someone. What if I told you I could use the Power Of Language to prove who that is?
That’s a bit of a change in voice, isn’t it? One speaks in ALL CAPS, and the second speaks in proper capitalization. That seems very… intentional, doesn’t it?
Well, what if I told you that change in voice is even more distinct in Japanese?
In the Japanese version, Gaster (or, at least, a person who is presumed to be Gaster) speaks exclusively in kanji and katakana, a combination that is very odd. However, the mysterious second person speaks in kanji and hiragana, which is, well, how you would normally write. (However, it’s worth noting that in UNDERTALE, and in the “surface world” portion of DELTARUNE, kanji is used very sparingly - the game is written mostly in hiragana and katakana alone, with a few simple kanji here and there. This person’s “normal” use of kanji is actually a bit unusual in that respect.) On it’s own, this difference seems similar to the English version.
But that’s not the only difference.
See, in Japanese, Gaster uses the second-person pronoun “anata”. This is a formal pronoun, which is fitting for him, as he seems to be very polite (at least in his “survey”). However, when the second person says “your name is..” they use the much more informal pronoun “omae”.
In addition, Gaster speaks very formally and politely in general, ending a lot of sentences with “desu”, and ending all of his requests with “kudasai” (please). However, the second person speaks using informal language, for example, opting to use the informal “dekinai” rather than the formal “dekimasen”. Compare directly to Gaster, who DOES use the formal “dekimasu”.
You know who else uses the pronoun “omae” when speaking on a plain black background, using informal language, and using kanji liberally?
Chara.
ruinedchildhood