#and some homestuck thrown in

[4lph4kidz]

my friend got me a komaeda plushie for xmas & i came home from a work trip only to discover my father has decided to hang him from the ceiling in my room. i am so sleep deprived and dehydrated i almost threw up

[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Calm and gentle day at work rudely cut short by having literal shite smeared over my favourite hoodie

[chronotopes]

Not enough people stop and consider the fact that taz muir is Moirail Married to the mf who wrote striders edge

[silenthilllz]

hello im sorry if i scare you off with my awful timing of hyperfixating on HS again because it comes and goes but i dont usually actively look up content for it unless im reading fanfic, so my followers on here were usually safe unless it was 413 and thats the one day HS fans are like allowed to go crazy LOL

but,, ya know its not nice to get death threats over liking HS because I sure as hell dont send death threats to people who like things i dont like so I’d appreciate it if no one sends me that <3

[the-little-crow]

Listening to broadway homestuck at work sure is an experience. Not a bad one mind you, but it sure isn’t good either.

[nekropsii]

What a about Caliborn makes him so cool in your opinion?

Go keep track of his progression as an artist alongside his development as a character and think about how these are intrinsically linked. Ponder the fact that he is both at his most obnoxious and at his most amateur when trying to ignore his unique style explicitly brought on by his canonical learning disability and mimic others rather than truly be himself. Consider how his explorations of art are genuinely cool, not a bad thing, and how we get some really neat multimedia stuff out of it.

Caliborn may be a shitty little teenage wretch but the way he is portrayed as an artist and as a disabled person is both really good and very real. It comes from a place of love. His learning disability is handled with a degree of gentle care that you would not really expect from Hussie. The place Caliborn's art style ends up in is so fucking sick and I actually unironically love it. The technique he uses is really interesting. It's intentionally reminiscent of an Etch-a-Sketch, and I'm a little obsessed with it.

This is so fucking good. I mean this seriously. He's right - that is some Pure Art Skill.

I just love the way art is employed as a necessary component of his character arc. It's so neat. You don't see visual cues that intricate too often. Usually it's just in character design, but watching his entire art style and even his medium of choice change several times over is fascinating. You can really tell Hussie had a lot of fun with him. He's also just really, really fucking funny. Just about every sentence that comes out of his mouth is Grade A Absolute Fucking Gold, and I'm honestly obsessed with his dynamic with Dirk. This may get me thrown to the wolves, but I personally think Dirk and Caliborn have way more chemistry than Dirk and Jake. Maybe that's because we actually see Dirk and Caliborn interact on screen... Lmao.

Necessary Topic: I don't know why people hate him so much. Like, I understand hating his misogyny and fatphobia, sure, but those are deliberate character points and not just Hussie-isms. I see people act like Caliborn is indicative of Hussie, as if Homestuck-era Hussie wasn't, like, famously really fucking good at writing female characters and absolutely not a misogynist. Caliborn's a parody of Homestuck Anti-Fans - which is a term we really ought to bring back, god, anti-fans are absolutely still a thing and good lord they're everywhere - who really were just shitty little bigoted haters. Calliope, the opposite side of his coin, was representative of, essentially, "the best kind of Homestuck fan" - an ultimately sweet young teen girl who willingly dedicates almost all of her time to this piece of fiction she loves so, so much, who draws a lot of fan art for the joy of it all, has OCs that don't fit any of the design conventions in Homestuck whom she pairs with the characters in it for innocent fun. Someone who has a lot of theories and analyses, writes a lot of fanfic, and is genuinely just having a lot of fun. Everyone loves Calliope. Even the characters in Homestuck love Calliope. They just think she's the cutest, sweetest little thing they ever did see. Caliborn was the worst kind. He sucks on purpose. No one likes him. He is a total nuisance to characters he is by all means trying to impress. I love them both.

It's also just funny that he's a canonical Intersex Transmasc who is probably Gay and this has, like, no relevance to anything about him, really. So no one really talks about it. Gender Hilarious, Gender Nefarious.

[meraki-sunset]

In the au with the different spritefusions (Vrita, Equdan, Haleri, Tavlux) what would be the davepeta/jasperose equivalents?

Oooooooooooooooooh let me see.

Okay so in canon, the alpha session pre scratch has 4 kernels and the 6 elements thrown at them are 6 people. 5 trolls and an AI. Resulting in Arquius, Tavris, Erisol and Fefeta, all of which die in their timeline in diferent ways

Now for the diferent sprite fusion you're talking about, i used the exact same people from canon, but mixed them in a diferent order. Creating Haleri, Vrieta, Tavlux and Equdan. You can find the post about them HERE

Who most likely didn't exploded and followed Davesprite and Nanna to John's planet and survived te timeline's errasure.

Pic fo their Godtiers just for fun.

Now, Davepeta and Jasprose come from Post-Retcon, which means the 6 elements conforming the sprites are diferent this time around, forming, not only Jasprosesprite^2 and Davepetasprite^2, but also GcaTavrosprite and Arquiusprite (again).

SO! all i need to do is pick all the canon people/creatures from the Post-Retcon Sprites and mix them in a diferent way. Like this!

Giving us as a result something like this

The fussion of Davesprite and Lil Hal, ultimate self and ultimate Strider, would most likely romantically pursue canon Jade, like Davepeta did in homestuck, but more successfully. Also be an amazing sword master due to the knowledge from all timelines.

I mean, it would just be Cat-Equius, doesn't have the cool character develompent that Arquius had, but has nice guardian powers and he's not alergic to himself. Plus he's a cat like his moirail Nepeta

Oh boy, Tavrospersprite^2 has by default achieved ultimate self and is afraid of nothing, because he has knowledge of all Tavros and has learned all their lessons in a second. Will call Vriska a bitch and proceed to kiss Gamzee in one breath, to inmedialty go fight some villain and disappear like a Cheshire cat (isn't alergic to himself because he now knows it's in his head)

RosepetaSprite is a chill gal, and now has the habilities of drawing and writing, making her the ultimate autor. She's a little heartbroken about not being able to be with Kanaya or Karkat, because this timeline's Rose and Dave are dating them, but she won't let that bring her down

Ironically Rosepeta is now conected to the other three sprites. Tavros having the memories of her cat and guide, Equius being her moirail and Davar being a fussion of a copy of her father and of her doomed brother who wanted to see her again. She has some heavy back-up now.

[knife-moth-mc]

a non-comprehensive but pretty long list of specific things about the baby is you that i think are good or make it good art in some way

The specificity of “what the fuck are you doing on the ground writhing in pain”. I feel like a more normal thing to say would be something like “Are you okay???” It’s very This Gun That I Have In My Right Hand Is Loaded

The layered voices when dave denies being pregnant

The fact that john’s immediate next question after “who’s the father?’ is “who’s the baby?” as if that’s in any way a question that makes sense

Woooooo….. police sirens police sirens…… wooooooo……

John meowing fully unprompted

The extremely Homestuck-specific euphemisms throughout

“I’m not even born yet, that’s not fair!”

Karkat showing up out of absolutely nowhere

Karkat voice “I must be the…. mmmmmidwife.”

Karkat immediately interrupting the unfolding baby situation to sing a little song about his hatecrush on john

Rose’s VA’s ooc lines just kind of thrown in there at what initially seems like random but if you pay attention it makes a certain kind of rhythmic sense

The reveal that rose is pregnant being followed by a betrayed “Rose!” said by both dave and rose

“Suck that bitch’s dick!” “I’m going to—That’s not what I’m doing! That’s the opposite of what I’m doing!”

Hearts. And minds. And souls. And hearts.

The genuinely catchy sung section of the rose rap

The slant rhyme of serengeti with spaghetti

Dave basically turning to the camera to say “incest is bad” before immediately proposing to his sister

The pathos of rose’s confession that she lied about being pregnant, followed by dave’s extremely flat, emotionless reassurance

“Being pregnant might be against the rules of the MSPA forum but shipping us together is not, for some reason”

Bro showing up to provide a new conflict now that all the rose stuff is resolved

The conflict being specifically that he wants to eat babies

“He’s never tried to eat my babies before” implying that there were previous babies

Bro’s forbidden technique being just “words that rhyme with themselves” and then him almost instantly fucking it up

“Actually, a fight sequence was entirely unnecessary, so it was deleted, and what happens is that in the end, it turns out Bro was a robot, I mean… it was just complex, given the fact that this is a normally simple story about, you know, like a thirteen year old boy giving birth to his bre—best friend. It didn’t fit the archetypes, so I’m going to move on to the next song, and you can just… chillax a little bit.”

KC Green (the guy who made This Is Fine and I Guess and a bunch of other well-known images used as memes) being there completely unexplained to lead a sing-along. Like it makes sense historically but in the album itself it just kinda happens

Andrew hussie being directly addressed by name just to really drill in the fact that this is pointed commentary

The very confident implication that babies are a different species entirely

compiled because @420technoblazeit doesn't know how to appreciate this masterpiece

[davekat-sucks]

Hello, I want to add that most time players suck, by a lot. Seriously it’s laughable that theirs only like two successful time players in all of Paradox Space, Caliborn and Damara, and it’s the fact they doesn’t understand something laughably basic and Christian. Suffer now to be rewarded later. Sure we might forget because Caliborn is a funny goblin manlet but he suffered, suffered a lot (because he is a masochist) because he chose to play the hardest game of Sburb (Caliborn is a Fromsoft gamer) . And he was rewarded with the power to do whatever the fuck he wanted, the power to put himself on the path of suffering so he can achieve it, sure he did the opposite of ascending (like Mobster Kingpin) but it does give a idea what a time player’s storyline is supposed to look like. Our next case is Damara, a girl who suffered so much she DOOMED HER OWN SESSION OUT OF SPITE, the funny thing is due to her acting like John when he was retconing but still being bound to alpha timeline time travel bullshit she indirectly caused her own suffering.

Now our Beta set, absolutely fucking atrocious. Dave doesn’t seem to realize that going down the path of the hero would give him a understanding on why his life is so bad, and if he still think it sucks he could figure out a way to change it while still within alpha timeline because through sburb bullshit he’s probably the reason Bro is a possessed Mall Ninja. Aradia doesn’t DARE to step out of her role, maid or time, despite the fact that one is basically finding the right time to strike after observing everything and the other is being rewarded after suffering so greatly. You can argue her being alive is reward enough and the fact she influenced herself to being a robot is proof of my theory that time players eventually write their own past but is she seriously just going to bounce around aimlessly like some sort of ghost? Fuck that’s ironically sad, she was the most alive when she was dead.

Where was I going with this? Oh right, the only thing good to come out of the Alpha sets are the time players, so Caliborn and Damara beat Dave and Aradia in Time Fuckery

Lord English and The Handmaid/Damara really are the better Time Players out there. In the case of Epilogues and Homestuck 2/Beyond Canon, Dave and Aradia are still avoiding to be suffered or face the harsh situation that is thrown at them. Especially when they themselves, made direct mistakes that would lead to some consequences in the near future. We see this with Meat Dave as all he does is just use Karkat to distract him with love as they go along with Kanaya to go after Dirk. He is called out to be useless. Not taking part in anything about Ult Dirk or Alt Calliope. Davebot and Aradia are both relaxing and enjoying themselves as they watched JADE HARLEY suffer more by letting Alt Calliope take over. Aradia left SOLLUX in the Candy Timeline and doesn't think much of him all because he didn't want to stand by and watch the timeline fall apart anymore. Davebot believes that him leaving Jade was fine and that he should be gay for Karkat, that it will solve everything. Davebot may have reached Ultimate, but I don't think it's a reward in itself. Perhaps it is a suffering that he remains blissfully unaware until he acknowledges what he is doing is fucked. But he will never accept it or face it. And I'll be pissed if they try to say that Davekat by the end will be his reward for being imprisoned in a robot body when it was Dave himself who chose to KILL HIMSELF to ascend because fucking Obama told him so.

[cyber-corp]

2023: The year of all time

This felt like the first year post-COVID where things really kicked into high gear for me personally. My new year's resolution was that I would go out and have fun for once.

And had fun I did.

I did some voicework reading for a story podcast, I went to a bunch of amazing concerts (nothing beats seeing Weird Al for my birthday!), and I sorted out a bunch of RL stuff and put a neat little bow on it. Thank goodness.

But fuck all that sappy shit: Here's a small collection of things I really enjoyed this year!

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: An excellent sequel to a seemingly unfollow-uppable first film. Takes everything from ITSV, and amps it up to twenty with a stunning visual style, a sonically fitting soundtrack, and a meta-commentary on the nature of Spider-Man's character and whether they really deserve all the tragedy thrown at them.

Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe: The guys who made Pud did another show, this time with funding from the Australian Government! While stripped back in its setting, they continue to provide the same stupid bullshit that put me into laughing fits as they did with their Netflix show. Haven't they done well.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: I think when people heard about "An animated Scott Pilgrim show with the live-action cast and Edgar Wright producing", they did not expect "A proper dissection of Ramona Flowers' character and her motivations, as well as her own journey of forgiving the Evil Exes. Also lots of yaoi." Scott Pilgrim continues to dominate as the premier "guy learns not to be a shithead" franchise.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live in Accor Stadium: The Peppers prove their pertained power as performers by playing the purest psalms in their prospectus from the past 35 years (eugh, what a mouthful). Flea came out, did a 30-second handstand, waved and said hello to the moon and then got up some people littering in the crowd. Their life is more than just a read-through.

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: I had absolutely no clue who Caroline was before I listened to this album. I now realise that she might just be the person that pop needs right now. A soaring collection of songs destined to become classics down the line, like a greatest hits compilation that doesn't exist. We're all on Caroline's island, and we ain't leaving.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: I kept my eye on this game as it was developing, and it was absolutely worth it to see it come through in the end. Satisfying gameplay that requires you to learn how to combo to progress, an addicting artstyle inspired by Y2K, and the soundtrack. Holy fuck the soundtrack. I just can't get enuf.

Weird Al Yankovic - TUROTRSIIIVT: Man, what a title. Emu Phillips come out swinging with jokes I did not expect, and then Weird Al comes out aggressively swinging, with all the songs you don't know him for. He then did a polka melody of his parodies, did a ritual halfway through, and then ended the concert on a high note. Only the best from Strange Alfred.

Doctor Who 2023 Specials: That bastard David Tennant returning led me down the rabbit hole known as watching Doctor Who, and did it ever pay off more than these specials. A trans woman saves the day and the Doctor realises he's bi, black, and needs therapy. A magnificent close on a chapter of one of the greatest sci-fis ever, and a bright step into the future.

The Hyperfixation of the Year award goes to none other than

Homestuck, everyone's favourite webcomic! Everyone's.

And I think that's partly because I joined this website to begin with. I probably say this all the time, but leaving Reddit was probably the best decision I could have made at that time. As much as I reminisce, the communities I was in began to get a little stale. Same jokes, same shitposts, a different day. Tumblr in some strange way, is not that. It feels less like a big communal website and more like a collection of small towns spread across a large spot of land. Calm and village-like, you know?

So to all my mutuals, my followers, to the people that liked and reboggled my stinky posts, to all that offered mealworms and crickets in my askbox, thank you. "Gecko Boy" might just be a silly lil joke in the grand scheme of things, but it's a fun joke to play into.

Whatever comes next year, I know I've got the energy to keep going. Have a good 2024 everybody. <3

[soudakuwunmoment]

I've been thinking about him lately. Realizing his character is a lot more straight forward than I thought, and that when it comes down to it, he's honestly one of the characters i relate most to. There have been characters before him in Homestuck who dealt with self-hate, mostly Karkat and Sollux. and I'm not saying it was represented badly with them, but what I am saying is that Dirk represents it goddamn PERFECTLY.

His relationship with Hal is the most obvious example of this. It is made known that their feelings towards one another aren't friendly, purely because they HATE the feeling of having themselves reflected back at them. And yet, they never really express those feelings to anyone but each other. When they talk about it, it's a vicious cycle of trying to express their feelings then immediately being mocked for it under the guise of some fucked up form of "irony". The only chances he gets to express these feelings, it's thrown directly back in his face, challenged, mocked. There's no one to give him a healthy response, there's only HIMSELF, to say "I hate you just as much as you hate me."

Another example of this which is well known is Dave's Bro. When Dave reveals what Bro is like to Dirk, he's mortified because he realizes that he can see exactly how he would end up that way if left unchecked. And sure, Dirk is far better off than Bro was, having the other alpha kids and eventually the beta kids as well. He himself keeps himself in check by being so weighed down by his possible future self and all of his splinters. But realistically, is that enough? He never fully expresses how he feels about himself to his friends. He never talks about his issues because he feels that they can see his issues just as clearly as he can, and he doesn't want to become worse by burdening them with a conversation about it. Dirk as he is in canon doesn't TALK to anyone about his issues. How are people supposed to keep him in check if they don't know what's going on in his head? We see with Ult Dirk how easily someone that unstable can lose themselves in fear and confusion and hate.

But I think Dirk's relationships with his splinters aren't needed to see how little he cares for himself. Like, how many times does he decapitate himself again? It's not that he hates his life so much that he would rather be dead. It's more so that he sees his life as a playing piece in the game of SBURB. He takes his own life, not out of wanting to die necessarily, but out of recklessness. If his death can make a situation go as smooth as possible, it's his automatic play.

This means that one of the only two reasons he has ever taken his life was for the sake of making things easier for his friends. Why? Because they're why he sticks around. I mean really, we established how miserable he is. He sure as hell doesn't live for himself, and he sure as hell DOES live for his friends. He makes that clear every time he sacrifices himself.

What was the other of those two reasons again? Oh right. It was because he had no reason to live if he didn't have his friends.

And so i find myself thinking, "If he cares about his friends so much, wouldn't he want to keep them happy by staying around as much as possible, and, well, NOT dying?"

But that's the thing. He doesn't see it that way. He has expressed that he believes his friends only see him as a problem, and that they think of him as "toxic" despite no one thinking that about him.

If his friends don't think he's toxic, why does he think he is?

Think about who he opens himself up to.

One, Hal. Hal, who does absolutely nothing to make Dirk think he's anything but the lowest scum.

Two, Jake. Jake loves Dirk but he is AWFUL at expressing it. Dirk is a teenager, and he is in LOVE with Jake. Jake's opinion matters more than anyone, but Jake either gives him nothing or complains about his downfalls. In fact, when Jake DOES say good things about Dirk, it's almost NEVER to his face.

From Dirk's perspective, his friends are at best avoidant of him, and at worst hate him. It reminded me of my childhood, and how I only ever had people to tell me what was wrong with me. Believe me when I say that seriously fucks a person up.

So, in my Ideal Homestuck™ Dirk finds someone he can be open with and a safe environment where he has an eye kept on him by people who love him. Somewhere where he can be told when he does something good, and not be punished or scorned when he does something wrong, instead simply being guided by someone who understands he never got to be taught these things by a stable guardian.

[dash-n-step]

my controversial hs take (yes this is another random rant about davepeta)

disclaimer: do not take any of this too seriously, I'm mostly talking to myself and not really stepping into some kind of "hs discourse analyst" ring for a character I'm clearly just overly attached to, whatever nonsense I spout is probably not going to change minds nor be able to have my mind changed about, nor do I stand by any strong claim to properly remember the story or things said by characters

readers' discretion is advised

some people act like davepeta has, like, no history in the comic and like sure as the singular entity of "davepetasprite" they appear for about 10 pages, a flash and a bit in the epilogues, but it feels like having to explain object permanence to a child because they aren't just a singular entity, they were and very much still are Davesprite and Nepeta.

"it sucks davesprite's character just ends there" well, they're davepeta now and a big part within those "measly 10 pages" that some people love to point out being so short was explicitly about having BEEN davesprite and where they go from there, and further interacting with Arquisprite partly based on that history with Bro

"it sucks that nepeta didn't get to do much, davepetasprite is just catboy dave" Davepeta is more than just "Dave but cat puns", Nepeta's vibes are still going strong, you are undermining just how much Nepeta molds them and overestimating the way Dave acts. The very Strider bias you're pointing out happening is influencing how you see them come across. A big part that made the Davepeta/Arquius Reunion so different from the Dave/Dirk reunion was their Nepeta part and her relationship with Arquius as Equius.

Yes, it sucks that Nepeta was without a doubt shafted by the comic, and multiple jokes were made to make light of that fact, but, again, Davepeta is STILL a continuation of the characters they're made up of. It's a continuous timeline of the characters, them actualizing and becoming their own person didn't erase the things that got them there, from the silly to the dramatic.

People act like just because they talk about being connected to different versions of Nepeta and Dave that they didn't actively live through, that means that they're "UTTERLY DISCONNECTED" from the specific versions of Dave and Nepeta they were made from.

But the very things that make you like Davesprite and that make you like Nepeta STILL EXIST, they still went through all of that: Davepeta was there when Pounce died, Davepeta was killed by Gamzee when Equius failed to stop him, they were alongside Bro when he fought Jack and they were there on the ship: messing with John and failing to be a good mate to Jade (even if the Jade they apologized to about it was a different one).

Them concluding that they're now "their own person" growing from that isn't them saying none of that applies to who they are, but that they have a new perspective of reconciling with that past.

What's probably ironic about it all is that in dismissing Davepeta as a continuation of Davesprite, people (outside of story) are just putting on Davesprite the very thing he was talking about when people (in-story) refused to acknowledge that he was the "real dave", only as Davepeta they know they don't have to care about that anymore.

Everything from Nepeta and Davesprite being thrown to the side by the comic, to them forming Davepeta and being able to meet up with Arquius and Jade, accumulate in a lot of the themes Homestuck runs with from extremely early on, but you get some people who really truly just don't get it, to the point where I feel like I'm saying "to be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to enjoy Davepeta as a character", which is a shame cause they're a really silly and fun character who extends from two characters who were in some dark places, rather than subtracting them out of the comic.

[cyvonix]

Cyv Reads Homestuck - Act 5 Act 1 Wrapup

Just finished Act 5 Act 1. Holy FUCK. I actually need a moment to collect my thoughts. Might be a minute. Which is to say, no time at all for you, unless you want to simulate the experience of me writing this by walking away from the screen for a few minutes...

Hey, welcome back. Unless you just kept reading in which case you're ruining the sanctity of this whole thing. Shame on you. Anyway.

Act 5 has been a huge departure for Homestuck in a few different ways, and the biggest reason for all of them is our new focus: the trolls. The trolls and their bizarre world help introduce us to entirely new aspects of the story, and presumably prep us for what is to come in terms of both scale and content. This act is one of extremes, taking further steps toward both sides of the emotional spectrum.

On the one hand, things are sillier than ever. The strange and oddly beautiful world of Alternia, its incomprehensible culture, its boisterous personalities; it's all wonderfully playful in its execution, reveling in the ability to craft a whole new world from scratch, unbound by the expectations of our own reality. The characters we're introduced to, consequently, are equally fun to learn about and be placed in the shoes of. Seriously, all the trolls except Equius are a joy to read, each filling the role of a specific archetype that is simple to understand from the onset, yet developed into fuller personalities as the act progresses. There's practically a particular troll for every kind of person, and I can totally understand how such personal connections were formed from a fandom perspective. These motherfuckers BEG for it.

On the other hand, things have never been more dire, more dramatic, more unsettling. Firstly, in the interpersonal sense. This act struck me as one where, as opposed to the previous acts feeling very much like a story about children, it is explicitly a story about teenagers specifically. There is a much greater emphasis on the confusing and sometimes frustrating experience of existing as an adolescent around your peers, letting the determinant factors in how things progress be friendship, romance, jealousy, rivalry, and all the other angsty feelings you would expect from a cohort of this age range. And despite the alien world and any of the bonkers social rituals or mating practices thrown into the mix, these core emotions still come through as clearly as they would in human children, climaxing in often devastating displays of sadness and revenge.

Outside of mere sociality, the cosmic horror present in the world of Homestuck is also more pronounced than ever. With the formal introduction of characters such as Doc Scratch and Lord English, the stakes are raised even further, leading us to inhabit a world truly eldritch in nature, one where time loops and visions of the future can be ghastly and harrowing. Some are left destined for damnation, as we and they are both left simply waiting to see how their undoing will occur. The idea that many of these characters seem trapped within an inescapable path to their own destruction, that some timelines are preordained to be martyred for the greater good - it's all quite unnerving.

Knowing all of this, I can hardly imagine how it will feel once we refocus on our four main characters. Hussie has opened the flood gates in respect to the depth and seriousness the storytelling is permitted, and with the events of the fourth act providing so many world-changing developments to the kids, I can only imagine that they and this new storyline will converge in the biggest and most revelatory act yet. Because as much as I've praised this act, it admittedly did feel mostly like setup; the careful placing of pieces and recitation of instructions before they are all catapulted into something greater. For this, I couldn't be more excited. Once again, thanks if you read all of this, I appreciate it lots and would love to hear what you think. Here are some random highlights and unorganized thoughts of mine before I sign off:

My favorite troll from an aesthetic and relatability perspective is Nepeta, the beautiful perfect catgirl she is.

My favorite from a personality perspective is Kanaya, because she just seems to be a really sweet and caring person and I'm intrigued to learn any more about her. Maybe tied is Terezi, who I find a blast to read absolutely all the time and who also seems to be a pretty nuanced character despite first appearance.

My favorite from a storytelling perspective is Vriska, who I fuuuckin hate. ARGH. Can't stand u. But god damn you're written so well and are so interesting and I wanna know bout u.

On a somewhat related note, wow! [S] Make Her Pay! Cool ass animation this time around: lots of beautiful artwork, sick soundtrack, awesome set pieces. Wonderfully done.

The end of this act?? Omg???? The entire monologue section from Aradia was bone chilling, and led up to what was such a SHOCKING revelation to me in that the trolls created Earth I fucking guess????? idk, maybe other people had guessed it by that point and I'm just an idiot but absolutely no part of me even slightly guessed that that was what was going on and it was insane and awesome to learn.

The art overall kinda took a big step up this act, just wayyyy more panels that were detailed pieces rather than the representational sprite art. I dig it.

So so so curious what ungodly series of events leads to the kids causing a literal rift in time space

[apolloniccalligraphy]

huge stupid gay HOMESTUCK + ARCANA post

ill put a readmore right here when i have my computer

planet: DIFRENTIA [_im so clever_]

changes from canon:

* multiple fuschias CAN exist at once, given the sh33r size of the planet

* marriage is Kinda a thing, but only sort of, currently. marriage can be any quadrant, and married trolls are called 'bound'. trolls can have multiple bound partners in various quadrants. all in all, it's a newish thing.

* trolls CAN have children without the mother grub but it is extremely rare and, depending on one's blood caste/status, can be illegal

* even those allowed to have their own children are still required to contribute for the mother grub

* siblings are a thing and trolls that are close but not romantically interested in eachother will often declare themselves siblings

**TROLLS:**

pashah devrak [olive]

ilyaan devrak [definitely _absolutely_ 100% a normal rustblood dont question his horns what haha]

asrrah alnazr [jade]

luccio morasn [violet... _questionably_. why does he have two lusii?]

naddia satrin [fuschia]

muryel kokuri [de-clown'd purple] procur vollta [olive]

qaetor valdem [violet. probably. uhh.]

praeto vlasil [cerulean]

pontix vulora [purple]

valeis konsul [violet]

**ANCESTORS:**

- The Alchemists [Aiisha & Saalim Alnazr, jadeblood matesprits so dedicated to eachother one took the other's last name. noone is quite sure who took who's, but it sparked a trend in particularly devoted quadrantmates]

- The Huntress [Mohrga Eidotr, a deadly purpleblood hunter who's blood was said to run strangely violet. she was also rumoured to have two lusii, a ch33tah and a falcon, though noone is sure which was her original]

- The Merchant [Tasaya Devrak, a wealthy fuschiablood who made a deal with something dark, dangerous, and d33p within the sea. as a result, her daughter, Lishka, was lost to the sea, as were her brother and her brother's bound matesprite]

- The Seafarer [Pavhel Devrak, an oliveblood lucky enough to have a fuschia for a sibling. his sister made a bad deal with something under the sea, casting him into the waves]

- The Wayfarer [Ilyona Devrak, Pavhel's bound matesprite, a fuschiablood thrown to the sea in a terrible storm. normally this would be fine, being that she's a seadweller, but when the ship went down, the rushing currents threw her into the rocky seafloor]

- The Originator [?????? Valdem. a figure lost to time, hailing from a time lost. someone who was there at the beginning. at some point, they simply.. disappeared.]

LUSII:

Snakemom/Faust [Azrah]

Catmom/Pepi [Pashah]

Wolfmom/Inanna [Muryel]

Dogdad&dogmom/Mercedes&Melchior [Luccio]

Ravendad/Malak [Ilyaan]

Owlmom/Chandra [Nadiia]

NOW WHAT IF IT WAS MODERN? [TAGS AND QUIRKS, STRIFE SPECIBI, CLASSPECT/LAND]

ILYAAN

crimsonContagion

DAGGERKIND

CC: what ??

CC: why would you think that —

CC: i mean .

CC: i am absolutely NOT a mutant !

CC: my horns -

CC: my horns are a PERFECTLY normal shape , i don't know what you're talking about !

_Rogue of Blood_

Land of Herb and Conviction_

PASHAH

siameseFictions

RLLNGPINKIND

SP: whats going on?? O^O

SP: oi! are you bothering my brother?? ÒmÓ

SP: i'll kick your arse!! •==• Ò-Ó

_Maid of Hope

Land of Relic and Broken Bells_

LUCCIO

aristocraticMasquerade

SWORDKIND/CLAWKIND

AM: You know what?? ☺︎

AM: I think I'LL just caLL you JuLes!

AM: How does that sound? ;)

_Heir of Rage

Land of Battle and Beetles_

ASRRAH

serpentineVexations

icebladekind

SV: aawwwe how sweet （〃▽〃）

SV: ilyaaaan i think faaust likes you!! ɷ◡ɷ

_Bard of Void

Land of Ponds and Glow_

NADIIA

sightedStrigiforme

backswordkind

SS: Ah, hello. ☆

SS: It is a pleasure to meet you. ☆

_Maid of Mind

Land of Puzzle Boxes and Conundrum_

MURYEL KOKURI

gentleAsocialite

nothingkind

GA: no

GA: i dont trust you.

GA: so just leave.

GA: please.

_Heir of Void

Land of Shadow and Wood_

[minidoons]

man heres to hoping the swagdoons equality becomes more levelled soon cause maybe then twitter will become more bearable about swagdoons (or at the very least there'll be less mischaracterization prayge)

oh i didnt know that about femboy being a slur my bad, and yeah girlboy ash is >>>>> esp since hes been saying stuff about gender being beneath him so like either multigender or agender (or both even) i feel like fits him the most in terms of transing his gender

wanting ash to be the focal point of zamswagdoons is def a factor in the misinterpretation but the way its just so soft is so??? like toxicity purely centered on ash is also bad but like how do you interpret them as soft even aside from maybe like wish fulfillment or that thing where you want your blorbo to only experience good things or something... and yknow somehow it makes sense to me that they also made the uu!swagdoons image to me lmao like yeah it makes sense that level of misinterpretation comes from the same mind

idk maybe ppl should just learn to appreciate all sides of a ship more cause not doing that is how we get shit like. this.

Twitter will always be just a bit unbearable because I think they're always going to complain about boundaries till they fucking Die but yeah..Maybe the equality between Red and Ash will make them stop mischaracterizing them so badly you want to put down your phone and breathe It's ok, I think a lot of ppl don't know LMFAO. Sucks cuz it's pretty ingrained into modern culture but it's still smth that the porn industry uses. Tbh, I've always seen Ash as a girl but a boy but a thing because of his god complex. Like he's gendered but he's also not. He is inherently feminine but also inherently masculine. Everything all at once but he's pretty heavy on the fem side and the Void side. His whole thing of 'I'm too good for gender' just makes his gender all the more funkier. I think people should get more odd about Lifestealer's gender. Red is like if a dyke and a faggot had a baby (he's butch to me in the 1930's sense. But me referring to him as butch can be whatever People want. But he's def a transdude to me. More loser transmen) I don't understand ppl wanting their blorbos to experience good things so.. I read 'toxicity purely centered on ash is also bad' as Ash being the one purely toxic and was gonna say that I do enjoy Ash punching and killing Red and leaving him in a ditch but I think ur talking about him being the bearer of toxicity thrown at him so yea. The same level of misinterpretation comes from the same mind 😭 I think their main fault is that they look for complexity in a relationship when it's not there. Like in ZSD's case or UU!Swagdoons' case there's just not that much there either cuz they don't have a lot of screen time or it's just pretty clear-cut. I can get where some of their characterization comes from and agree with some of their other assertions they've made (Mostly relating to what Homestuck characters they think Lifestealers would be and them saying that Red would be Dave + Swagdoons is like Davekat) but like. Some of it is TERRIBLE. I get some of the stuff said about UU!Swagdoons and I have let myself be a bit funky with headcanons about them but GOOOOD Honestly tru There should be a rule where to ship characters you have to care about both of them and treat both of them like your child