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What if there was a quadrupedal Homestuck alien, like a sphinx…. but instead of lion/humanoid it was dinosaur/humanoid.

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hello again!!! can i request this panel edit?

ms paint as my oc :3

ooooooh soch good fashion!

-C. Rox.

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quick info thing to be pinned on top

hello i'm jude (he/him only) and i'm here to post sprites and sprite edits of mspa stuff like those countless blogs. i post my own ocs here so be warned.

all my sprites are free to use, but mind to credit me somewhere!

i'm not currently taking requests, but it might be changed soon.

i'm not taking commissions or adopts either.

my other blog where i post normal art: @homestuck-species-phylogeny

you're welcome.

:)

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This is the first monthly prompt of my Homestuck Spriter's Discord (which you may have seen me mention in a few other posts). You don't need to be part of the Discord to participate in the prompt, but anyone is welcome to join (whether they are a spriter or not)!

The prompt is:

Make a set of sprites based on Card Suits EITHER: Hearts/Diamonds/Clubs/Spades OR Cups/Pentacles/Wands/Swords

This can be characters, new outfits, weapons, alchemy recipes, or whatever else your heart dreams of! There's a bonus challenge: if you finish one set, make a connected set based on the other!

If you'd like to join the Discord, this link will last 7 days, and next month another link will be posted!

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Got bored, made a species thing

Idk what to call them yet but I think they're neat

All of them have transparent glass-like torsos filled with anything from liquid to small objects to even small animals on rare occasions

The torso is able to break tho and when that happens it makes them Not Feel Very Good and it gets worse the more of their insides fall out (like the last poor fucker in this post. she is not having fun)

I'm still working out some stuff for these goobers but I wanna do stuff with em

Here is a base :3

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Another doodle of Woe for tonight,, I will probably finish this and slash or draw more of them tomorrow,, (Once again Wights belong to @lepiosprites !!)

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A new OC! this is Woe! they are a Wight, a sort of sad pathetic one at that. Soppy wet cat in a cardboard box all alone in the rain.

(Wights are not mine, I do not claim credit for the species they belong to @lepiosprites here on tumblr)

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So big file ahoy, but here's basically the official catyrs, and what could be considered npcs if I ever get the species off the ground.

This is a mix of characters owned by me and characters owed by @astralanarchist

Tumblr super cronched the image, so open it in a separate browser to see clearly.

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serenn cosphette - yet another fallen aethviran who was outcast for rebelling against seraphs, the highest aethviran caste, and against the will of the elders, the aethviran's guiding force. in its falling it loses his third pair of wings, connected to its eyes through body modification. due to this, he enters his fallen life completely blind, although not without the help of his service snake :]

we'll most likely be making a post soon about the aethviran fanspecies weve cooked up! we have LOTS to say about them and the way their culture works

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ocs i made of a homestuck fanspecies called the kobold there are 12 of them total like the funny little trolls and each of them is based on a different animal of the chinese zodiac

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a sprite for maudie procorvis this time, worlds best girlfailure

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then of course, i got to draw at least some glowans for artfight this year too. it's tradition <3

makko belongs to gh0stgarbage (@gh0stgarbage),

and ivalt tai gling + vroad tai fisar both belong to Sunshineara5 (@sunshineara5) :D

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Anyone remember my flipjam adventure? I finally did an update for it, with some guest art by @problemspritester! Read it here!

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Grazigazi society is largely maintained by the ERGATES, or worker-class, individual members of which, called GATERS - such as the WATERGATERS who ensure the island nation's access to freshwater - carry out all the functions necessary to keep any society operational.

The island of Grazigaki's isolated locale, however, comes with unique challenges peculiar to their sea-girt circumstances, which are handled by the race's two specialised organisational classes: POLIS, the political machine, and the GAMOS, or institution of marriage.

> Examine the Gamos.

One major concern for the geographically-constrained Grazigazi is that of maintaining genetic diversity, and it is for the purpose of preventing inbreeding that the Gamos was established. Members of the Gamos class are called GAMERS, and each fills one of two primary rules; the breeding gyne, or GAMERGIRL, and the Gamergirl's mated partners, called GAMERGATERS.

Because a gyne - WITHOUT GOING INTO TOO MUCH DETAIL - is capable of gestating the offspring of multiple mates at a single time, gamergaters outnumber gamergirls by a significant margin. But with this comes the risk of a genetic bottleneck, wherein too many of the next generation are mared by a single gyne, and therefore genetically incompatible with each other.

As such it is the role of the Gamos to establish a strict programme for the proliferation of the Grazigazi race. From each generation the Gamos assembles a caucus of gamergirls who are as genetically distinct from each other as possible, and for each gamergirl a retinue of gamergaters who are HIGHLY GENETICALLY DISTINCT FROM THEIR GAMERGIRL but CLOSELY GENETICALLY SIMILAR TO EACH OTHER - usually gaters who are related, if not familially then on a clan or tribal level.

Through this process, it is assured to within an acceptable level of confidence that individuals who are related are visually similar to each other and individuals who do not share ancestors are easily distinguishable, allowing for the process to be straightforwardly repeated generation after generation.

> Examine fruit quadrants.

"The problem is that when the subject of Grazigazi romance is broached, our overly obsessive troll intellects instantly assume the most ingratiating posture of admiration imaginable. In fact, so conditioned is our own understanding of romance that we cannot help but refer to them as quadrants, when in fact they are not quadrants at all! They are referred to as drupes." -Troll Charles Darwin

Because couplings - or rather, grouplings - or rather, DROUPLINGS - between Grazigazi are established by social order rather than through interpersonal reciprocity, each individual drupe sits somewhere on a sliding scale of GAMOS-FEEL from RAW to RIPE. A drupe's Gamos-feel can be determined by a variety of interacting factors - including but not limited to GRAPHICAL ATTRACTION, GAMOS-PLAY or its intersection with the LEWDONARRATIVE - but because it has no bearing on the reproductive process and pertains only to the interpersonal aspects of each relationship, it is not considered significant to the purview of the Gamos.

In fact, a mixture of raw and ripe drupes among the drouplings is often considered evidence of the Gamos working healthily and as intended, with raw drupes keeping the caucus of gamergirls satisfied and ripe drupes demonstrating the necessary prioritisation of genetic diversity over personal interests.

> Examine branches.

The Gamos is not, however, completely without social considerations. While similarity in genetics is the Gamos' primary criterion, it is possible for a gamergater to initiate a gater from outside the genetic group into the Gamos if the two genetically-unalike gaters are considered to instead be SOULS-ALIKE.

Beyond the fact that the two Grazigazi are considered to be similar to each other in spirit, the exact nature of each souls-alike relationship varies widely from droupling to droupling. It is common, for example, for two glorygaters to discover they are souls-alike in the heat of battle - in addition to the sprinkle of genetic spice this contributes to the Gamos, the establishment of such a drouple provides an official avenue for two families or clans to formalise bonds forged unofficially in wartime.

According to Grazigazi belief, the ideal souls-alike droupling is said to be JUST LIKE DARK SOULS. But if anyone ever truly knew what 'dark souls' actually were, this knowledge has long since been lost to the sands of time.

> Examine the Polis.

Efficiency of reproduction isn't the only issue pressing to a society so densely packed into a single small landmass, though - any form of widespread civil unrest could be potentially devastating to the agrarian nation. For this reason the Polis exists to maintain social cohesion across Grazigaki, and to this end works to include where possible all of the island's tribes, clans and social groups in all of the nation's important political matters.

While the inclusion of only select genetic groups and the incidence of ripe Gamos-feel among procreational drouplings are considered harmless side-effects to the reproductive process, if left unchecked these phenomena can easily lead to larger forms of societal exclusion and disharmony. Thus it is the Polis' job, among other projects, to remedy these problems, even counter to the stated aims of their counterparts in the Gamos.

As such, Grazigazi reproduction is in reality a complex and neverending game, with political interests on one side seeking to secure harmony and unity through the encouragement of raw Gamos-feel, and on the other side gametical concerns represented by gamergaters whose primary aim is always to KEEP POLITICS OUT OF GAMOS.

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I updated sofd guys 🥺

2/3 intro routes are knocked out now, just one left

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I updated sofd guys 🥺

2/3 intro routes are knocked out now, just one left

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This comic passes the Bechdel test.