#Calliope Kin

[jayesprite]

sprite edit of a callie (cherUb not troll) with themes of dreamcore and liminal spaces, especially of the poolrooms variety? instead of her normal palette the coloUrs were rlly pastel and faded and she had some kind of moss on her in patches, and with dark eyes like alt callie i think? the oUtfit was looser and more flowy too, with an open comfy loose jacket over a shirt with the space symbol on it, and lightweight loose pants that almost were like a skirt.

[hskinhome]

An aesthetic/moodboard for a Roxy and Calliope using themes of joy, fun, whimsy, light, and finding each other in every universe @gmanwhore

[skaiakin]

hi, i hope you’re doing well :p can i have a pendulum for if i’m kin with caliborn or calliope? thank you and have a wonderful day!

of course you can, thank you for the well wishes. so sorry about the wait, hopefully this provides some answers for you

calliborn kin , pendulum answered - no.

calliope kin , pendulum answered - hard yes.

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[hesbianvriska]

HEY. this is a canon call for my system ' s caliborn . aka theonky other member here

WHO HES LOOKING FOR: Calliope, though anybody else is appreciated to interact too! Just know he'll be anxious since he's not used to new friends.

Identifying information: There's not many specifics, but he'd like if the Calliope or anybody that interacts is nice and understanding enough. He'd also like to note that sometimes he makes rude jokes, but he's ok to refrain himself if you get uncomfortable! He'd also like to note that he's quite a bit different from source, but still types the same.

fyi, PLEASE dm with your intentions! it could be difficult to understand what youre tryna do if you arent sayin! thank you " B )

-dave, asking for caliborn

if you're looking for a cali8orn, consider checking out my friend @wet-towel-sys !!!!!!!!

[obscurekin]

Hello there I'm Calliope from Sandman, I'm looking for source mates and especially Morpheus himself, I am over 18+ I'm 24 to be exact... in my memories when I blessed Morpheus as I walked away. That blessing gave him the courage to reach out to me again and we started over, I remember so many little details but struggle to remember all of the big picture... but if you knew me, please feel free to reach out... 🎶

^^^

[serfuzzypushover]

wa HOOO homestucks am i right fellas!!

og under more

[dollbox02]

lol kin list in 2024

Kuranosuke Koibichi - Princess Jellyfish

Roy+Moss+Jen (combined) - IT crowd

Momo - CocoPPaPlay

Calliope - Homestuck

Jade Harley - Homestuck

Ryouji ‘ranka’ Fujioka - Ohshc

Cleo Lovedrop - Wet Moon (literally me.)

[otherkinotd]

Today's otherkin of the day is Calliope, who is trollkin 👹

-requested by anon

[edits4thosestuckathome]

@sodapops0lstice asks! -> “Could we ummm get a ummmm ummmm CALLIOPE icon with ska themes and if u can some how work it in the lesbian+agender flag ? Thank mew :3”

Credit if used!

[iridescent-moon]

Little doodle for my partner ♡

Texture image credit: Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash

[rosemarytrash]

tbh you seem like you kin Calliope (in a good way)

oh goodness no, not me. i kin rose (in a bad way)

[jayesprite]

epic personality swap

[hskinhome]

Hey, sorry, Roxy again hehe. I just need to check oonnneee last thing. Could I have a pendulum reading for whether I knew one Calliope or two? Oh, and if I can ask one more question, did I fall into a different timeline?

Strong no for knowing one Calliope. Weak yes for knowing two Calliopes. Strong yes for falling into a different timeline.

/Mod Eridan

[girlbowser]

How do you feel about the portrayal of plurality in Homestuck? Because it’s not good.

Cherubs are “supposed” to predominate over their other personality. With Calliope being portrayed as naive for trying to co exist.

Horuss is mocked for being a system. But I’d say it was a king fun of people who pretend to be mentally Ill on social media for clicks.

Then their are the sprites

okay so

i guess we're doing this

HOMESTUCK AND PLURALITY: A PRIMER

BECAUSE JESUS CHRIST THERES SO MUCH

SO SO SO MUCH

okay. so

homestuck is one of the best pieces of media of all time for plurality and i fuckin mean it. no shot do not pass go i have NEVER seen anything that is more built from the ground up to Support plural reads. like, to the point where it feels impossible to read homestuck without it.

as a work dealing with two huge primary themes of a) finding yourself/identity/growing up, and b) ideas coming to life, plurality is pretty much the Perfect intersection between the two of them. like.

take rose for example.

rose is plural and it's great.

when the doomed timeline evaporates, future dream rose does not actually "cease to exist." she ceases to exist as her own person -- her memories, experiences, personality, thoughts (or, as shorthand, her selfstuff) all flows back into rose prime. and that experience is just something rose has to roll with. one becomes two -- that other rose is still in her mind.

jade's plural and it's great.

when her dream self awakens as jadesprite, jade has a horrific argument with her. if you're plural i'm sure you understand. fighting with an age-regressed version of you, stuck in a traumatic past, who WONT FUCKING LISTEN -- we've all . been there.

she has involuntary barks, she can't stop seeing images of fire, she wants to go back to nonexistence but she doesnt want to die and it's torture,

and then in cascade, jade fuses with her.

dream jade is still in there. that part of her she has to grapple with is still real. her dog who she loves is in there, too -- but, yknow. woof

then grimbark gets forcefully introjected into her. i've seen a few fics play with the idea that the grimbark personality is still residually there (read ygtpoasu), but it's not a huge thing that's explored in the text. more backgrounded. but still! her crisis of identity is in there.

wanna know what's NOT backgrounded

tavros's plurality is like, a pretty big factor in his character!!!! it's one of the bigger points vriska uses to bully him with (because she's projecting because she's projecting because she's projecting, because she's also plural and kins mindfang), it's like. a big thing that he has to cope with and figure out.

kanaya suggested tavros treat his self-confidence as his own brain guy, like, completely sincerely. she genuinely thought it would help, and it sorta did!!!!!

and like

it is FAR from the only positive example of plurality in the comic.

like. look at sollux and aradia defending "alternate reality copies" of characters -- which can be pretty easily extrapolated to them talking about fictives

like. !!!!

i dunno, man. i think that homestuck is a DEEPLY plural story. you should read mtm and kgtac for more exploration of these themes. read detective pony too while you're at it. like.

i havent even TOUCHED on horuss or dirk or karkat here because there is just so much. there's so much! like ultselves. oh my god i completely neglected to talk about ultselves or cherubs or --

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but anyway here's The Screenshots from mtm

homestuck is, like, the single most fictive compatible fictional work i've ever read.

"oh im being sent to another universe as a brain ghost? that happened to my buddy dirk"

"oh im one of many incarnations of myself, and perhaps not even the most 'canon compliant' one? haha dream bubbles moment"

"ive been isekai'd into another world? lol sburb"

it. yeah. god. i could literally talk about this all day. but instead im gonna direct you to my ao3.

check out no metaphors and then scroll through the "multiplicity/plurality" tag on my page

and if youve got more specific stuff, send in another ask!

[rey-jake-therapist]

I was reading @tickldpnk8 's excellent meta about Desire, when something they said about Dream disapproving of Destruction's relationship with Ishtar the goddess of love planted a series of questions in my mind...

First question: how their function influences the Endless' love life? Why was Destruction drawn to a goddess symbolizing Love? Why did Dream disapprove it? Why did Dream neglect Calliope after she gave birth to Orpheus and why did he really severe his connection with them both?

Was it all just..... personal?

When I read that Destruction had a romance with the goddess of Love, my first reaction was to find it.... weird. What do Destruction and Love have in commun? At first view, not much even nothing... except maybe that destruction Can happen because of deceived love?

Dream is the romantic of the family, it's Destruction himself who states it in Song of Orpheus when he tells Orpheus he's just like his father. Dreams inspire the artists and the poets, so his union with Calliope, the poet's muse, probably made sense to everyone (except her sisters, who thought in their great wisdom that Dream was an asshole 😂). But Destruction and Love? Yeah I can totally see why it raised a few eyebrows in the Endless family. I mean, we know Dream in particular disapproved the relationship but Ishtar told her friend that her romance with Destruction ended because of "his family" not just her brother in law, so my guess is that she had to deal with vehement hostility, from everyone not just Dream.

Why would be that? My headcanon's now that the Endless feared that Love would be a bad influence on Destruction, because he would be less kin to do his job right since he would start seeing things differently, about humans, the love they can have for each other and the beauty of it. And I actually suspect that his relationship with Ishtar may have had him question his function indeed, and its necessity. Maybe it's really because he knew Love (he sort of dated it!) that he walked away from the Endless family and didn't choose anyone to succeed him? He knew that love would always end up destroyed but he didn't want this responsibility anymore?

(Please notice I'm mostly talking out loud here.... these are just some random thoughts and questionings....)

Now, Dream and Calliope. In the Wake, Calliope says Dream was basically the perfect husband until she became pregnant. It's often thought that their relationship was damaged by what happened to Orpheus, but the fact is that they started drifting apart long before that. Of course as humans it's tempting to think that Dream lost interest in his wife because she became a mother and he looked at her differently: that's what men often do, right? But Dream isn't a man and Calliope is a goddess; the product of their union was Orpheus, who represented "the supreme power of poetry and music to enchant all natural things". If I look at the evolution of Dream and Calliope's marriage purely on their respective function, the fact that 1. they had separate lives even when they were in love and happy 2. They drifted apart once Orpheus was conceived, both things make perfect sense!

It's often assumed that Dream "gets tired" of his lovers once the thrills is gone aka once the seduction phase is over. But I think it's oversimplifying and again, forgetting that Dream isn't human, he doesn't think like one. My current headcanons regarding Dream and Calliope are that,

They got married first because it seemed to be the perfect union regarding their respective functions. It doesn't mean they didn't love each other, but Dream has loved others before and after Calliope... she's the only one he married, and I don't think it's a coincidence.

They didn't live at the same place, Calliope visited Dream' realm only when she wanted: doesn't it reflect perfectly what inspiration does to us? Coming and going through our dreams, being absent sometimes for months even years....

Once Orpheus was conceived, it's possible that Dream's interest in the relationship faded because... His union with Calliope had filled its purpose. Yeah, I'm aware of how bleak it sounds, but again I'm thinking strictly in terms of concepts, which Dream and Calliope are.

The fact that Dream severed his connection with both Orpheus and Calliope is of course explained within the story told in the comics, but it also can find its roots in the humans'world: the vision that humans have of art, dreams and gods HAVE changed. They don't seem as intrinsically connected as (maybe?) they used to be, at some point science took over and humans kept believing in dreams, but in gods and mythology in general? Not so much. The divorce between Dream and Calliope, I think, symbolizes this dissociation.

I can't NOT also tag @writing-for-life and @poobtato on this big subject ;)

[arleniansdoodles]

Some very simple Atreus+Calliope sketches because I was craving the family feels loll

I don't have any writing updates for the moment, so I thought I'd share another snippet from the fic instead! It's from a poem of Calliope's that serves as a summary of each arc through her eyes; this particular section (below the cut) is a description of Atreus after their adventure in Greece!

I tried to write in the style of the Odyssey's English translation by Robert Fagles; if some things sound weird, let's just imagine it's because Calliope's young and still learning XDD

Upon my days,

How much has changed in such short time!

In Elysium I thought myself bound for ever and always,

But it was not so; I once prayed for my father to find me,

Stalwart and strong as he was to have passed through Hades many times,

And though my kin did come to retrieve me, 

It was not one whom I expected.

Atreus is he, steady of mind and strong of arm

With eyes that Selene herself, fair carrier of the moon, would envy,

So silver-blue and gleaming are they. And hair to match the flaming clay

That make our terracotta pots,

Or Helios’ own flame when the sun god’s chariot rises high in the heavens.

My brother hails from the frosty north, a land far from the heat of Greece,

With no olives and grapes to boast of,

But with raw beauty in the earth and lakes and mountains.

Many gods and creatures dwell there –  some my brother deems as his allies,

While others still are his enemies. It cannot be helped, I suppose,

For a god to go about his days without gathering a few foes.

But I may say with certainty

That Atreus may add one more ally to his list: I, Calliope of Sparta!

Though I know not what I am a goddess of, what my title is yet –

Greece and Rome combined have plenty gods to fill the ranks,

So perhaps I will find myself in Atreus’ house, discover my place and purpose,

Even as I learn more of his homeland, kith, and kin.