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The perfect word and also the perfect descriptor for what the repeated motif of "revolving" and "spinning" represent in deltarune. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilinx

Waugh describes the metafictional ilinx (thought she spells it "illinx" for some reason) as the "momentary destruction of reality" brought about by an adequately disorienting novel which enables the confusion of reality and unreality

The perfect word and also the perfect descriptor for what the repeated motif of "revolving" and "spinning" represent in deltarune. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilinx

This book is prettygood btw. self-deconstructing work of fiction does help us deconstruct social reality which is a very needed set of skills in any era but in this one especially. waugh does a good job explaining how metafiction goes about doing this. I'm not obsessed you're obsessed

they're turning me into a flesh ccube in the messages

don't worry guys i'm doing hrt and all that i just. haven't figured out the rest

ponies do sometimes in fact give me everything envy there's gender in there but there's also species and lifestyle

The point of W.D. Gaster is to serve as a reverse-allegory for game-development and more specifically ROMhacking; he has a set of in-universe metaphysical powers that allow the mechanics of game-development to be diegetically represented. Compare to SAVEing, a reverse-allegory for save files.

Allegory: Gaster's DELTARUNE::The demiurge of gnosticism Reverse-Allegory: Gaster's DELTARUNE::the fact that this is in fact a video game and everything in it was created from someone's imagination (dream, even)

The point of W.D. Gaster is to serve as a reverse-allegory for game-development and more specifically ROMhacking; he has a set of in-universe metaphysical powers that allow the mechanics of game-development to be diegetically represented. Compare to SAVEing, a reverse-allegory for save files.

Allegory: The characters within DELTARUNE have been shoved into particular 'roles' which explores the artifice of social roles in the real world Reverse-Allegory: A peculiar device exists in-universe that scaffolds dark-worlds in a particular way; our gameplay rules thusly 'represent' the device

The point of W.D. Gaster is to serve as a reverse-allegory for game-development and more specifically ROMhacking; he has a set of in-universe metaphysical powers that allow the mechanics of game-development to be diegetically represented. Compare to SAVEing, a reverse-allegory for save files.

If the point of an allegory is to represent in fiction an abstract concept from real life, its reverse is the contrivance of a fictional concept to be teleologically represented by a particular aspect of the fiction's artifice.