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She/Her. Early 20s. | Just another trans girl who's suffering from an UT/DR hyper fixation. (and may post stuff outside the fandom).

(SPOILERS FOR DR CH3-4, ISAT, and potentially more)

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November 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
The Hollow Knight Wiki plans to reverse the use of other localizations to gender characters unstated in English.

Doesn't make the original, indirect use of supposed leaked unverifiable documents any less baffling, but at least things are on the right track.
Wiki Mod: Just as a heads-up, we're making a bigger change overall starting tomorrow. Part of that will be to return to using the English language as our basis for genders/lack thereof as well as for pronoun usage on wiki articles. An official announcement and details will come out sometime tomorrow when I am not braindead. Goodnight [Cornifer Sleeping Emoji]
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Don't do harassment. But if you're curious, here's the reason why Phantom, Lugoli, Last Judge, ect have suddenly been gendered on the Silksong wiki, when previously they were unstated.
#Silksong #HollowKnight
A supposed anonymous rouge translator has decided to leak confidential information that supposedly confirms the genders of unstated characters to your fan wiki. You can't disclose or directly cite this info because of NDA. What do you do? Other Wiki Mental Gymnastics Even if we could trust this translator or know their motives, (which we can't,) using information we can't cite, that's only "verifiable" to us, even indirectly, is unethical and we shouldn't do it. Silksong Wiki Mental Gymnastics Don't share the document because of the NDA Indirectly use it to validate and cite one localization over another Don't mention the confidential unverifiable document in the citation Hope that the translator didn't lie to you Violate every principle of wiki ethics and believe the rest of the fandom will accept an unverifiable "just trust me bro" A supposed anonymous rouge translator has decided to leak confidential information that supposedly confirms the genders of unstated characters to your fan wiki. You can't disclose or directly cite this info because of NDA. What do you do? Other Wiki Mental Gymnastics Even if we could trust this translator or know their motives, (which we can't,) using information we can't cite, that's only "verifiable" to us, even indirectly, is unethical and we shouldn't do it. Silksong Wiki Mental Gymnastics Don't share the document because of the NDA Indirectly use it to validate and cite one localization over another Don't mention the confidential unverifiable document in the citation Hope that the translator didn't lie to you Violate every principle of wiki ethics and believe the rest of the fandom will accept an unverifiable "just trust me bro"
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Third, pointing to gendered languages like Spanish is fundamentally flawed. Like, the Outer Wilds devs have confirmed that the hearthians are an agender alien race.

However, when localizing it to Polish they just gave them all male pronouns because they didn't want to make neos.
Image Description For Polish, the first challenge we have encountered when translating Outer Wilds was the grammatical gender for use in Hearthian texts. In Polish, this affects not only pronouns, but also e.g. verb forms. Eventually, we have decided to use male forms, although for a moment we have toyed with the idea of inventing neuter forms – but these would be too unusual for the players.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Should we label the Green Princes twin-cests because the Portuguese localization says they're twins? Hell no we discard it in favor of the game confirming it's just some Soul Mate AU shit.
Two children born entwined, apart, Two children marked to rule
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
#HollowKnight
Apparently the Silksong wiki is using localizations from heavily gendered languages to justify labeling characters like Phantom as "female" and not "unknown" or "enby" because "we have a super secret localization guide we're not sharing or citing."

I'm sorry but what the fuck????
To big for alt text. See the following images for alt text. Can we stop using translations as a source for Phantom’s gender and just leave it at Unknown or something Latest comment: 20:48 9 comments 6 people in discussion I keep seeing translations being used to define Phantom as female on here and I want to say that in the German translation of Silksong Phantom is referred to with er/ihm/sein, which are masculine pronouns. If we allow translations as sources for a character’s gender, we should be adding “possibly male” to the list, no? Translations are wildly inconsistent for character genders because many languages don’t have neutral pronouns and it’s probably safer to stick to the text written in English, right? [REDACTED USER] 22:21, 3 November 2025 (UTC) We're in the process of reviewing and updating genders based on priority and accuracy of sources. We recently got a list of official genders that Team Cherry gave to the translation teams, which we are using as the basis if it's supported. It seems as if some of the teams were matching the "neutral" approximation of their language, while others were using the gender guide. If you want to talk about this more effectively, I recommend joining the Discord linked in the sidebar, where we have already gone through several waves of this discussion. [REDACTED MOD] 22:28, 3 November 2025 (UTC) "We recently got a list of official genders that Team Cherry gave to the translation teams" can this list be added to the page as a source then? Because currently there is litterally no evidence that the Spanish translation is any more accurate than the German translation, or the English dialogue Team Cherry themselves wrote for the journal. For the moment this decision reeks of transphobia so please add this supposed list as the source for Phantom's gender as soon as possible. [REDACTED USER] 17:50, 4 November 2025 (UTC) Yeah like if there's a gender list please show us you're just making it harder for everybody by not showing it [REDACTED USER] 19:08, 4 November 2025 (UTC) Yeah like if there's a gender list please show us you're just making it harder for everybody by not showing it Use it as a source please [REDACTED USER] 19:14, 4 November 2025 (UTC) It's unfortunate, but the Hollow Knight community does suffer from a transphobia problem, especially in regards to nonbinary or gender non-conforming characters. It took years for Vessels to be acknowledged as genderless, so I don't imagine this being fixed anytime soon for any Silksong characters. [REDACTED USER] 07:22, 4 November 2025 (UTC) The Hollow Knight Wiki respects the real-life right for expression of gender identity and gender presentation. The issue is when the information we use on the wiki NEEDS to have sources cited. There are several issues preventing us from simply using "they/them" for silksong genders. Again, we have discussed this at length on the Discord if you wish to converse there. For the time being, we have a system and are sticking to it. [REDACTED MOD] 17:56, 4 November 2025 (UTC) just cite all the times their pronouns are stated like you did for characters like sherma, pavo, and nuu. there is nothing stopping you from doing it other than transphobia. [REDACTED USER] 20:46, 4 November 2025 (UTC) You are no longer arguing in good faith. No decisions we make here are due to transphobia or any other personal judgement calls. [REDACTED MOD] 20:48, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Should we label the Green Princes twin-cests because the Portuguese localization says they're twins? Hell no we discard it in favor of the game confirming it's just some Soul Mate AU shit.
Two children born entwined, apart, Two children marked to rule
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Toby did mention at the start of the stream that his speech-to-text program might mess up the pronouns, (like it did with Napstablook and Papyrus in the previous stream), so the they/them pronouns for Buzinkai are probably the STT's fault.
Additionally there may be mistakes when referring to certain characters but I'm using speech to text so display my program I mean blame my program you see what I mean not everything I say get entered correct he If I slow down to correct things at all then I will only be able to say half as many things so if you see something that seems wrong just assume it's computer colon right
September 22, 2025 at 5:14 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
It was alright 10/10
#silksong
GAME COMPLETION PERCENTAGE: 100% TIME: 86 HOURS, 28 MINUTES, AND 44 SECONDS
September 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Whatever. Here's the director's cut version with the proper Noelle talk sprite instead of the bootleg one.
"Undertale (and Deltarune) helped dismantle the biases I had against queer people, which helped me accept that I was a trans girl. I don't know if I'd be the same person without it." Tiger Bear.
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Nobody would likely notice unless it was pointed out, but my anxiety-ridden mind can't help but torment me over such a simple fucking mistake.
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
I spent an ungodly amount of time trying to basically replicate/trace a cropped Noelle talk sprite. Even though I still fucked it up.
#undertale
#deltarune
"Undertale (and Deltarune) helped dismantle the biases I had against queer people, which helped me accept that I was a trans girl. I don't know if I'd be the same person without it." Tiger Bear.
July 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
I wrote a Suselle OneShot. Hope you enjoy it
archiveofourown.org/works/66897955
#Deltarune
#DeltaruneSpoilers
#Suselle
#ao3
#fanfic
Fate faced at the Festival. By TheTigerBear Summary: Love finds its way to the girl. Any other day, those words would’ve been exhilarating. Burning with excitement for what the future held. But after reading the final prophecy and the fate that awaited her, all those words did was fill Susie with dread. Because if she couldn't change fate, then the love that found her wouldn't last. With the Prophecy foretelling her love and her eventual fate, Susie struggles at the festival. Torn between her love for Noelle and the future she desperately wanted to change.
June 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Guess how this went.
It's an image of Deltarune's storage menu, showing an entire page filled with nothing but Rotten Tea.
June 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Started an aborted Weird Route, and I have a question.
WHERE DID NOELLE GET THE BOX???

#Deltarune
#DeltaruneChapter2
#SnowGrave
#WeirdRoute
Deltarune screenshot where Noelle (Anthropomorphic Reindeer person) is wearing a cardboard box with a robot face on it. (Also Kris and Queen are there and Queen says "Noelle Come Home I Made You A Battery Acid Pie" but that's not relevant.)
June 2, 2025 at 5:21 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Hey y'know what's FUN?

Realizing that after spending hours trying to perfect this stupid bingo chart you realize you didn't crop Susie's ultimate heal correctly!
Image of Susie, (a pixel art purple lizard monster girl) casting ultimate heal, (throwing out her hands Dragon Ball style to shot an energy ball of healing magic,) with the text saying "Susie gets better at Healing." below. There's a thin black line below Susie. A zoom in to a pixel art boot, with a thin black line just below it.
June 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
TIGERBEAR'S DELTARUNE CHAPTERS 3 & 4 BINGO:
HOT AND COLD TAKE EDITION
#Deltarune
#DeltaruneChapter3
#DeltaruneChapter4
It is a Deltarune Bingo table for Chapters 3-4. It's a 5x5 grid of Deltarune predictions. Some are safe predictions. Some are hot takes. Each square has an image but it would take too long to describe each. Instead the titles of each square in the bingo grid shall be given from left to right, from the top row downward. First Row. 1: Rudy enters critical condition. 2: Church Dark World. 3: Dess lore. 4: Learn about Suselle snowgrave scene. 5: More Suselle. Second Row. 6: Papyrus hangout delayed. 7: Gender funky Lanino & Elnina. 8: We enter sans’ workshop. 9: Berdly asks Kris to the festival. 10: Divorce lore. Third Row: 11: Snowgrave locks you out of Shadow Mantle. 12: God of Hyperdeath secret boss in Ch4. 13: Free space. 14: Nightmare Knight motif returns. 15: Susie gets better at Healing. Forth Row: 16: Multi-Knight. 17: Kris gender quiz question. 18: Catti in Ch4 Dark World. 19: IMAGE_FRIEND relevent. 20: Ralsei wears a hat around Toriel. Fifth Row: 21: Ch3 Flower Secret Boss. 22 Fighting makes Undyne lose an eye in Ch3. 23: Hints towards what Ralsei is telling Kris. 24: Ch3 affected by Ch2 Weird Route. 25: Mayor name reveal.
June 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
I think I have finished purifying my Deltarune-Spoiler-Safe Youtube Alt.
It is a screenshot of the YT watch later page, searching for Deltarune... It says "This list has no videos."
May 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
DELTARUNE IS WAITING
#DeltaRune #DeltaruneTomorrow
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
IS NEXT YEAR
2026
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Deltarune is not Tomorrow...

TOMODACHI LIFE ON THE OTHER HAND
#TomodachiLife
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream title.
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Well shit.
It's an image of Deltarune's storage menu, showing an entire page filled with nothing but Noelle, Susie, Kris, and Ralsei tea.
March 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Hey Azzypants fans...
I wrote Azzypants.
#ao3 #deltarune #azzypants #OnHold
archiveofourown.org/works/63537811
March 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
#deltarune #ralsei #kris #krisdreemurr #transgender #nonbinary
It's the "Man, HRT Sure Is Amazing" meme, but with Deltarune pixel art characters. Ralsei (Anthropomorphic goat-like monster who resemble's the Dreemurr's in Undertale) says "Hay I wanted to tell you I'm coming out as transgender" Kris (A Non-binary human teenager, who's currently blue and wearing armor) responds "That's great! as your friend I'll support you no matter what!" An implied time jump happens as it now shows Ralsei's sprite is just Kris's sprite, but with Ralsei's head photoshopped on. Ralsei says "Man, HRT sure is amazing." Kris responds, "why the fuck do you look like me"
February 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
tigerbears.bsky.social
Preparing a "Deltarune spoiler safe" YT alt account for Deltarune's release by regularly purging its search history of anything UT/DR related & clicking "Not interested" whenever a Deltarune video shows up.

That way, YouTube won't jump-scare me with Ch 3-4 spoilers in YT thumbnails!

#Deltarune
February 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM