#perhaps homestuck. too

[norithedoggo]

"Come no closer, ghost. I've seen you, creeping through the undergrowth, stalking me."

[whamss]

Hrm you know I sort of think that people kind of miss out on the beauty of Kanaya having a "type" for "dangerous women" when they fail to account for the fact that Kanaya too is a dangerous woman. Like don't get me wrong, it's a very different type of dangerous. Kanaya is attracted to women with an impulsive, self-destructive kind of danger. Women who throw themselves into situations headfirst and a lot of the time will stumble out on the other side a little worse for wear (but they're effective, still, and that makes it thrilling). But like Kanaya has such a deliberate and relentless violence to her, a dangerous woman who keeps herself dormant until the time is right, but when she lets herself out she hits hard and fast (and she's also very effective, this is also quite thrilling). Things I've been rotating a lot, I think it's fun to view Kanaya's love for dangerous women less like she's a passive woman admiring and taking care of women she cannot control, and more like her enjoying the company of forces just as threatening and dangerous as she is, but a touch more chaotic in their methods

[soriastrider]

decorating him (wip)

[im-the-antonymph-of-your-mom]

short update where Yiffy is very relevant but doesn't do anything onscreen oughhh I feel fed yet teased

[khr-doodling]

some Byakuran and Uni because Colonello is turning out to be a lot harder to draw than originally expected

[seagullcharmer]

DAVESPRITE: you know what to do

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

hyperfixating on a rarepair with like no content someone get me out of this hell /hj

[brinnanza]

I don't really know anything abt homestuck but I was Assigned Dave Kin at the group chat and I do sorta feel like maybe this is a Harry Dubois sorta kin situation like oh that's not a great sign is it no one's kinning Harry Dubois if they're like doing great in life

[fdragon-art]

Day 46 (30 Days | Homestuck - Day 26) - Something IT SHOULD(sic) HAPPENED ("Held On By A Thread")

JOHN: ...no DIRK: ...? JOHN: i am the failure JOHN: it is me DIRK: ...I can't believe DIRK: That you're doing memes with me. DIRK: When everything I loved and cared for has been so completely destroyed. DIRK: Because I wasn't fast enough to be there for them. JOHN: oh, and you think i was? JOHN: i'm not sure who you're supposed to be aside from a kid version of dave's bro JOHN: but i was literally here right before it happened JOHN: and then my stupid zappy power made me disappear JOHN: so i couldn't have even helped my friends through whatever the fuck this was! DIRK: You don't get it. DIRK: I'm supposed to be in control. I'm supposed to be able to keep everything going. DIRK: But the moment it became important? DIRK: I wasn't. DIRK: I shouldn't have been goaded by Jake's possessed grandma, but I didn't think fast enough-- JOHN: wait. jade was possessed?? JOHN: how? DIRK: That's not important right now. JOHN: ...i guess so DIRK: I just...how could I have let this happen to them? DIRK: To Jane? DIRK: To Jake? DIRK: Especially to Roxy? JOHN: ...hey wait.

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JOHN: isn't that her? DIRK: ...holy shit, it is.

[lilygetshomesucked]

i,,, there's something here to me about the similarities between rose and dave. i mean on top of GG also noting that they both assume people don't ever say what they actually mean the way they do, the way they each apply this to their living situations is really interesting to me.

rose views everything her mother does through an ultra-cynical lens. she takes actions such as giving her presents (the cthulu harlequin doll thing on her couch or the horse Maplehoof that her mother tries giving her during their strife scene) and invents deeper reasons behind them so that they become ironic digs at her. CLEARLY this present is ACTUALLY a mockery of rose's interests, a subtle barb in a rosebush of thorns that is her relationship with her mother. but... those could be genuine attempts to connect, couldn't they?

on the other side of the coin, dave has put his brother onto a pedestal. dave, just as rose does, injects a potent amount of perceived irony into every aspect of his brother's personality and each of his actions. except unlike rose he does so with a MASSIVE benefit of the doubt. it is very apparent to dave that obviously everything his brother does is in pursuit of a super cool irony that dave just isn't ready to Get yet. he even has a running contest of one-up-manship with his brother just as rose does with her mother.

however, just as rose is very willing to overlook her mother's potential virtues to hyperfocus on perceived slights, dave is all too ready to disregard any of his brother's flaws, excusing all of them with "oh, he's so cool, this is so sweet, and even the things i don't think are cool MUST be cool, i just am not cool enough yet to Get It." i mean he goes to his kitchen and it's absolutely trashed, and yet he finds no fault in that!

this all also makes me so very interested in how these relationships are viewed from the other side! i don't doubt that rose's mother and dave's brother are similar to their daughter and brother, respectively. they're family, after all, and so i think to a degree there is a level of validity and credence to be given to how rose and dave interact with their families, but also because of the aforementioned reasons i think that there's some pretty big pieces of the picture we're missing here. there's not much more speculation i can do from here, but i really really hope we get to see more of their sides of the story because these dynamics are fucking FASCINATING to me

[sollux-captor]

im feeling so many ways abt late a5a2 homestuck (i just finished it actually) but the sufferer hit way different.

homestuck late a5a2 spoilers incoming!!!

adding this after writing way too much shit that im not fucking deleting: vent cw too

ok so my main thing that made me feel something (a rarity, like almost unheard of /gen /srs) was the signless' story. something about it just envoked feelings within me, i dont even know how to describe them

something about this fucking frame just made me feel... idk what. dread? pity? genuinely idk. obviously its not the whole "ouuuu tied up so hawttt" bullshit, idk i think the story combined with the music and imagery just made it to the farthest pits of my soul, and this point was the breaking/overwhelming point.

i almost want to sit thru all of it again just to try and figure it out. i want to feel that again to understand it. obviously if i read it again i wont feel anything cuz thoughts, emotions, and feelings are a rare experience for me.

i feel like the story felt like a metaphor for my life, not to get all emo and dark and edgy or whatever about it, im being completely level-headed and genuine with this.

fuck thats what it feels like's happening inside of me. i feel my compassion and love for others depleting, as its been for years, with the cards ive been dealt (not getting into that right now). ive been conscious of an eternal rage slowly growing inside of me, and these past few years i feel like the ratio of compassion vs. rage within me is leaning in a way that im just barely able to see how bad and scary it is. ive been subjected to a life of suffering in almost every place i could imagine, yet i always tried to stay a loving, caring person for the few individuals who bring about some light in this darkness.

yet i can see it happening before my very eyes. i see i am no longer who i once was, im worse, im violent and enraged all the time and its getting worse and harder contain with every passing day. its scary being able to watch yourself rot away into a bottomless pot of boiling rage.

torture and execution has always been the metephor ive used when describing how i live and feel inside. i think to see something so deep within me and something so relatable in front of me, written and drawn out as a story, i think that broke me.

[hivepixels]

a good rule of thumb is that if an artist has been on tumblr for over 6 years they probably were a homestuck. i still get whiplash seeing old hs art from big names like worthikids and shelby cragg lmao

SO AWESOMEE mimiadraws asianartiste timsel-fanarts sticksandsharks and japhers were huge inspos to me as a teen I LOOOVE THIS PIPELINE

[relaxxattack]

im extremely conscious of how im perceived online and sometimes im just like. man i wish people would try to discuss with me if they thought what i was saying was annoying or misinformed. but at the same time that would be so much more stress for everyone so i have to instead resign myself to the possibility of possibly being incorrect and very annoying LOL

heartbreaking when a take is really good and then i can't reblog it because i'm blocked by op. like oh okay i see i am not on your level

[transqifrey]

hey would anyone get mad if i suddenly got into dmmd in the year of our lord 2023

[offkilterkeys]

You draw tavros ugly and you need to stop. Or be better. Because your fucking bad at it.

Oh I’ve actually been working on that!!!!

Okay so basically like half a year ago I realized I didn’t like my art style and decided to do some Homestuck art studies as a means of getting better at like anatomy and stuff, and that’s where the Tavros on the left appeared from.

After I’d gotten the hang of it I started to reintegrate some of my old stylistic choices, as seen by the Tavros on the right. But honestly I felt meh about both of them cause neither of them line up with my previous portrayals/personal view of the character.

(Old art, circa about a year or so ago^ Shows I used to draw Tavros with less of a lanky body and more fat.)

So I finally decided to buckle down and get the character right and this was the result!

Now I’ll be the first to admit that it’s probably not perfect, but I’ve finally gotten to a point where I like how I draw Tavros again!!!!

The og Homestuck style has like, a lot of variation, and hero mode is honestly wayyyy more vast of a “style” than people give it credit for. Personally, I like to refer to each Homestuck style more by act/place it appears in comic rather than just blanked “hero mode” or “sprite mode,” because I like to integrate THOSE specific influences into my art.

With Tavros specifically I’d like to say the rounder shapes call back to the mixed sprite/hero mode that we see in Tavros’ introduction, as opposed to perhaps Sollux’s introduction panels, where his limbs are rigid and angular, and definitely more “hero mode,” which causes one to view the character as lankier/skinnier.

Either way, I’m still working hard at getting good at striking poses and not falling into “same body type syndrome,” as is often far too easy to fall into. In the past I found it difficult to draw skinny/lanky characters because I wasn’t super used to it, and as of recently I’ve been doing them wayyyy more but I still have an easier time drawing thicker/fatter limbs and stuff. If you’ve got any criticisms or the like, I’m happy to hear them!!!! Always looking to get better eventually :p

[zan0tix]

Said it on twitter but ill say it here too Homestuck instantly becomes 1 million times more engaging to talk about when you speak about it with feminists 😭

Homestuck features commentary on just about everything you could think of (again, hussie dumping her brain out into a piece of media so youre basically getting a capture of somebodys worldview, what they like, dislike, their media palette, cultural awareness, misunderstandings of the world etc)

specifically Misogyny is the biggest one in the whole comic and homestuck dives into how its shaped our storytelling conventions as a whole as long as stories have existed, with showcasing the tribulations the female characters go through and how hard it is trying to fit these roles that supposedly predestined for people like you, but really nobody can live up to that.

It points and laughs ofc but also shows how horrifying and dehumanising these narrative roles really are when applied to characters who feel and express like real people and not in a Corny Why cant the princess save herself #JustGirlbossItUp kind of way but in the “Oh these systems push people to try and conform to roles in attempt to fit in or be successful and that limits their personhood and expression of freedom and its been this way for hundreds and thousands of years and that fucking sucks” kind of way bc of homestucks on the ground level presentation style.

And it also displays how these things affect Everyone, but doesnt end up putting a special emphasis on or adding more depth to the men how so much other work does with multi gendered narratives when written with gender in mind.

Another video essay topic actually. Homestuck and misogyny perhaps.