#I’m. very tired-

[human-rocket]

I’m aware I’m probably the only one that finds this shit funny but have yall seen that face puzzle filter on Tiktok?? 😭 It sends me every timeee

my art | ko-fi

[i-am-a-fan]

I had a vision

[so-many-ocs]

i’ve been writing for almost my whole life and i gotta tell you. if i only stuck with the stories people “wanted” to read, or wrote the things i thought other people would like, i would have quit ten years ago. go make some self-indulgent nonsense your soul will thank you for it

[shorthaltsjester]

when people think delilah just completely takes over and laudna has no control. when people think jester is just an uwu child who has been manipulated by every man she’s met. when people think vex is an empty husk of daddy issues without her brother by her side. when people think fjord is an arrogant asshole who doesn’t pay attention to the party around him. when people think scanlan saying that vox machina doesn’t care about him is an accurate assessment.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Laios's three Boy Best Friends. And yes, they hate him.

[thestuffedalligator]

And sometimes a tree that’s a little bit sentient gets chopped down. And sometimes a tree that’s a little bit sentient gets made into a chair or a log cabin. And sometimes it wakes up, lashes out, spindly chair legs kicking and doors gnashing like jaws full of teeth.

And this is fine. Chairs can be wrangled. Hungry cabins can be sated.

But sometimes — rarely — a tree that’s a little bit sentient gets turned into paper.

And sometimes — rarely — very rarely — that paper gets turned into a book.

And this is worse.

Because one day the book wakes up, understands what it’s become, and it seethes with hate. It hates what you’ve done to it. It hates that you’ve written your filthy language on it. It hates, hates, hates enough to set the pages ablaze. And without limbs to kick or doors to bite, it will sit and seethe and wait like a spider in its web until some poor fool opens it up and reads it, and it will work its wrath on its victim the only way it knows how.

It will try to drown you.

It will drown you in words until you don’t know to come up for air, unspool tendrilled sentences into your brain, make you choke on blossoming chapters.

Eventually you will forget to eat, to drink, to sleep.

Eventually you forget to breathe.

And you will love it.

And sometimes you survive this. And sometimes you’ll crawl away once the book has run out of words to say, and you’ll tell all your friends how good this book was.

You just couldn’t put it down.

And the book, its venom spent, coils in on itself like a spider tucking its legs in to die.

Maybe someday it’ll reawaken.

Because sometimes a tree that’s a little bit sentient becomes a book.

And it hates you.

And you love it.

[rystiel]

idk what we’re all calling the concept of fiddlestan working together but i’m calling my version the portal partners AU 🙏🏼

[toadalled]

Thinking about how trains call to each other in the rainy night like whales do in the inky black of the sea.

[juniper-clan]

Moon 16: Mystery Kittypet…

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[hello-eeveev]

I have to wonder if Essek’s heartbreaker comment wasn’t also based on picking up on Dorian and Orym’s pretty-intense-but-not-explicitly-defined vibes that were happening and going, “oh you are handsome and awkward and in love with a Liam O’Brien PC in Aeor? been there. make good choices!��

[bloobydabloob]

Holy shit I love your Dirk interpretations, it's so true and I could talk about this shit forever. I feel like another part of his character that people seem to forget (along with Roxy for some reason) is that he's from the future in solitude in an apocalyptic wasteland. I just see that part of his character always removed which is disappointing because I feel like that's a pretty big part, especially regarding his themes around technology, his brother's theme of Time, his own isolation, and how he plays in the vastness of the universe and spacetime.

Art I drew related to the subject because I like to respond to asks with art.

But absolutely. I certainly understand where the lack of discussion over his isolation + upbringing comes from, considering a majority of the fanbase that I have seen builds their ideas based on their own version of postcanon. I’m not entirely sure how that would be fixed, but certainly even in the somewhat recent past I would see a lot more content regarding his upbringing both literally and symbolically. I don’t have much to add regarding the things you’ve mentioned, because they just are what they are. Dirk being confined to a singular room left to him by a father figure he never met, in a future where the only other person left on the planet is someone he cannot pursue a relationship of because of himself, with purely 3 robots to keep him companion, one being an exact replica of his own brain who is *also* trapped inside a pair of glasses, is about as literal as it gets to me.

The contrast to me involving the flooded, organic world in comparison to the little speckle of Dirk’s apartment packed with the dude and his technics is not only a representation of his isolation and entrapment within himself, but also of his lack of control. I think his obsession with & themes of control are a direct product in the case of Dirk specifically *of* this kind of upbringing. His themes of technology are also related to his themes around control. So much of his character is actually revolved around this to me like so much. Dirk is so deeply disconnected from humanity in every way and so much of his character + symbolism is based around that.

It doesn’t even have to be about the symbolism or anything though. It’s just pretty *interesting* in the literal sense that he lives in the middle of the ocean in the future. There’s not only a lot to theorise on to do with his young life there, but on how it might affect him in the way he acts for the rest of his life. The latter part is probably what I see mentioned the most by people talking about Dirk regarding this, I’m surprised I don’t see more discussion on the former too though. I really ought to actually talk more about Homestuck stuff on here. I will do it myself.

Roxy & Dirk’s relationship is largely ignored though because there is a narrative a certain demographic spreads that Dirk resented and blamed Roxy for her interest in him, and thus too many people believe that their relationship was or would continue to be an abusive one. Realistically, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that the way Roxy treated Dirk regarding his homosexuality wasn’t right while still acknowledging the obvious amount of respect and admiration Dirk had for Roxy. I mean we have a huge piece of dialogue from their post trickster mode conversations on the quest beds from Dirk purely stating how he feels about Roxy that people completely ignore somehow. I think this usually happens to characters that are women though. I know everyone says it, but it is true. Jane gets the exact same treatment of boiling her down to solely her negative aspects. The things I see completely mischaracterising both of them are horrific.

I mean how much more explicit can it get that their relationship is obviously very important to Dirk? But I digress. I think the best or I should say “most interesting” interpretations of their relationship usually come from DirkRoxy shippers actually.

I would be interested to hear about Dirk’s relation to his brother’s theme of time though. I don’t have any thoughts on this and I don’t recall ever hearing anyone talk about it before. If you or anyone else would be willing to enlighten me I’d be thrilled.

[cloudabserk]

happy armand monday

[zishu-arts]

you heard of lesbian chodark now get ready for:

lesbian vicagent

[timethehobo]

Just needed something soft. Need post-romance companions to look at Rook all lovey.

[adrianfridge]

There’s two facets to asexuality that are both equally valid: “Asexuals can enjoy sex because libido is different from attraction” and “Asexuals should not be pressured to prove they’re ‘normal’ by participating in sex”

(And in before: please do not “ew sex” on this post. Sincerely, a very tired sex-favorable asexual)

[st-hedge]

Repost of the totk ganon art I made ft. Some blonde dude idk