#Rune Lalonde

[mary-su-is-ruining-my-life]

thinking about uncle dirk

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

God tier brain storms, nothing finalized yet

[cryptidcraab]

Mothshade- u have at least 2 anxiety disorder. This is the davekat of it and you should know that. I love it. I'm a davekat shipper. But this is like, the Big Mac. This is the main one.

Akorune- you are bad and terrible I hope the shaving cream strikes you down. This isn't entirely a morality thing it's just also a bad ship.

Nikkan- ah. Dread. Do you perhaps also play god where you shouldn't just to have some control over the horrors you can neither brave nor stop? Oh also love you they need more content

Nanori - you want to live in a big city, but also in a studio Ghibli countryside. Pick one, dunkass.

Trezerecul - you are VERY SAD that you cannot kill SO MANY government officials, and you want to be associated with religious imagery but you aren't. Also you really like friends to lovers.

TeRune- yeah that's actually just really cute but you need to get off the Internet. We all do but especially you.

TM/Nikkoi - you want your area to be messy but cute. You look around, it's just messy.

Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

[thewertsearch]

Frankly, Kanaya, this is probably a blessing in disguise. I don't think you want to see what's about to happen.

You slip into the fabled blackdeath trance of the woegothics, quaking all the while in the bloodeldritch throes of the broodfester tongues.

Ok, this spiel is a lot less funny now.

You advise the members of your Complacency not to be alarmed, as they chronicle the event in tomes bound in the tanned, writhing flesh of a tortured hellscholar, with runes stroked in the black tears bled from the corruption-weary eyes of fifty thousand imaginary occultists. But they fail to not be alarmed. This is because, as is now painfully obvious to anyone with a brain, you have basically gone completely off the deep end in every way. You have officially gone grimdark.

Rose Lalonde has left the building.

But whatever's left behind will honor her wishes.

[roxykisser]

through altercations known only to me rereading my lalonde wizard post has made me think about what class each of the kids would play in dungeons and dragons, so i’m subjecting my 2 followers to it.

john: fighter. i’m sorry but i can’t see him picking anything else besides maybe like… ranger. he mostly sticks to the default subclass but jade probably made him try rune knight at least once for a one-shot. he found it too complicated but relented to branch out into more subclasses afterwards.

dave: i’m torn between rogue and hexblade warlock. mayhaps some sort of cursed multiclass of both. he seems like the type to look up game guides to get the most broken character build possible and make up a backstory on the fly but he ends up actually quite attached to his pcs.

rose: probably a warlock. my first instinct was wizard, but i think she’d enjoy the flavour of warlock more, considering her gothic tendencies. she started out with the great old one patron but then discovered homebrew and became unstoppable. that one player who sends 10 pages of backstory, but it’s actually enjoyable to read

jade: the dungeon master. she’s the one who can most reliably engage all the players in the game without overcomplicating the plot and probably excels in juggling everyone’s game preferences. though when she does get to play she probably has no set character type and just makes a character depending on what strikes her fancy that day

jane: my first instinct was a city ranger build, since that’s probably the closest you get to a detective in dnd, but hear me out.. paladin. the strict code of oath. the angsty backstories. the heroic persona. jane spent a lot of time pre-game playing damsel in distress. i think she’d enjoy playing the knight for once. she probably tries it just to try it at first but ends up liking the mechanics so much she just sticks to it

dirk: right. we have a few options here. the first one is specifically cavalier fighter, because they get a mount. obvious choice. but for some reason he also strikes me as someone who would play sorcerer. it has some of the most fiddly mechanics in the game and it’s one of the closest classes we get to not-newbie-friendly in dnd. he’d like the challenge. then he looks at the set up of the rest of the party, sees they have no healer, and begrudgingly picks cleric/druid

roxy: is there really a question here? she would play wizard. she might branch out into warlock for a one-shot or something when she sees rose play it but she would probably prefer the versatility and sheer volume of wizard spells. i swear opening the wizard spell list is like spinning a wheel of fortune every damn time. also it means she gets to have a familiar and obviously she would make mutini (i mean, excuse me, moutani)

jake: i’m imagining his character creation went a little something like this: “So which class will let me do some pistol action?” “well, technically any of them, if you have the right proficiency!” “Okay but are there any that are like, really good at it?” “i mean… there are gunslingers and technically artificers…” “Great! i’ll play that then” before jade can explain gunslingers are actually sort of really complicated to play, especially for newbies. eventually he switches to bard

bonus: terezi plays barbarian. you can’t convince me otherwise.

[vriskadyke]

objectively best name changes for trans homestuck kids

disclaimer i don't headcanon literally half of these, and for the ones i DO headcanon i don't always think they'd change their name. but i am exhausted and i must set the record straight on what it WOULD be if they did.

JOHN EGBERT: june - it's a classic for a reason.

DAVE STRIDER: beth, dana, or robin.

ROSE LALONDE: rune or thorn.

JADE HARLEY: bec.

JANE CROCKER: fox or james.

ROXY LALONDE: roxx.

DIRK STRIDER: dash. i'm so srs if you name a tgirl dirk anything but dash i am going to stare at you bewilderedly.

JAKE ENGLISH: lara.

these are the official determinations. if you start naming jade josh i'm going to feel ill. that's my cousin's name and is not allowed

[tipsytentacles]

I think pinned posts can be quite nice, so here’s mine.

🪞~ Name: I couldn’t tell you! I find it hard to connect with real names but anything deriving from my username (TT, Tipsy, etc) is welcomed. Rune, Rosebot, or Jasprose would be welcomed as well.

🧷 ~ Likes: Lalondes, Homestuck, organization/sorting, archival, theming, writing, women, yuri, transgenderism, dykeishness, emojis (they r little pictures. what the hell), depravity, debate, pondering, musing, etc etc

✂️ ~ Dislikes: yaoi, stridercest(it’s boring. sorry), people who act like shipping incest means you’re suddenly oppressed or ultra-woke (you just like thinking about siblings kissing, it is not that deep), ineptitude, media illiteracy, blah blah

🗃️ ~ Read Homestuck for the first time about three years ago, been my special interest for about two. Surprisingly, the Lalondes are not even that high in my favorite Homestuck characters, I’m just enamored with the relationships woven between them and I think they are quite fun to explore, especially in a sort of oedipal way, teehee.

🧮 ~ Other pairs I may rarely reblog here apart from Lalondeshipping: Ult Dirk+Rosebot, Transfem Dave+Rose, Maryamcest, Serketcest, Rose+Terezi, Vriska+Kanaya, Vriska+Terezi, maybe occasional Jasprose+Jane and Rosemary.

💉 ~ WHAT DO MY TAGS MEAN?!?!?!? i barely know but here’s some hints

🧬𝚑𝚢𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚕 𝚗𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔🌐 = reblog

🕰️𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚗⌛️= queue

🖌️𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚢📷 = art

📖𝚕𝚒𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢📜= writing

🗃️𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚛🏷️= save for later

📓🖋️= post by me

🔏𝚘𝚙𝚞𝚜🕯️= creative work by me

🚧🔒= discourse or a post not even tangentially Lalonde related

i should make a carrd but this shall do for now

[magicalgirlmelee]

Magical Girl Bracket

Written list under the cut

Polls will be posted later this week

Madoka Kaname from Puella Magi Madoka Magica vs. Valerie Amaranth from Magical Warrior Diamond Heart

Arisugawa Himari from KiraKira☆Pretty Cure A La Mode vs. Sora Harewataru from Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure

Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail vs. Cocona Cocomine from Flip Flappers

Yugi Muto from Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters vs. Ahiru from Princess Tutu

Zatanna Zatara from DC Comics vs. Koyuki Himekawa from Magical Girl Raising Project

Ben Tennyson from Ben 10 vs. John Constantine from DC Comics

Doremi Harukaze from Magical DoReMi vs. Momoko Akatsutsumi from Powerpuff Girls Z

Andromeda Shun from Saint Seiya vs. Max Owen from Magical Boy

Luz Noceda from The Owl House vs. Jem from Jem and the Holograms

Momozono Love from Fresh Pretty Cure! vs. Ruru Amour from HUGtto! Pretty Cure

Mari Maya from Samurai Flamenco vs. Madoka Aguri from Doki Doki! Pretty Cure

Tinker Bell from the Pixie Hollow movies vs. Ryuko Matoi from Kill la Kill

Flora from Winx Club vs. Aelita Schaeffer from Code Lyoko

Himeno Awayuki from Pretear vs. Amu Hinamori from Shugo Chara!

Danny Fenton from Danny Phantom vs. Ayumu Aikawa from Is This is a Zombie?

Luluco from Space Patrol Luluco vs. Homura Akemi from Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Ichigo Motomiya from Tokyo Mew Mew vs. Undine Wells from Sleepless Domain

Marinette Dupain-Cheng from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir vs. Chocola Meilleure from Sugar Sugar Rune

Shirayuki from Snow White with the Red Hair vs. Myoudouin Itsuki from  Heartcatch Pretty Cure!

Adrien Agreste from Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir vs. Dante from Devil May Cry

Minami Maki from Majitora vs. Alear from Fire Emblem Engage

Sally Yumeno from Sally the Witch vs. Talia from Lolirock

Korra from The Legand of Korra vs. The Guardian of the Veil from W.I.T.C.H.

Kiana Kaslana from Honkai Impact 3rd vs. Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon

Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena vs. Steven Universe from Steven Universe

Atsuko Kagari from Little Witch Academia vs. Meimi Haneoka from Saint Tail

Anne Boonchuy from Amphibia vs. Adora from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Laura from Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure vs. Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena

Star Butterfly from Star vs. the Forces of Evil vs. Hoshina Hikaru from  Star☆Twinkle Pretty Cure

Chibiusa Tsukino from Sailor Moon vs. Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho

Rose Lalonde from Homestuck vs. Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura

Iris from Lolirock vs. Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon

[weaselishmcdiesel]

i cant even remember what fandoms im in hang on

not taggin anyone bc im scared of everyone <3 anyone can hop on tho!!

Tagged by @mariyekos

Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

Tagging @imglowinginthedarkness , @pineflowerart , @theorigamiphoenix , @doggosage , @rachell-redacted if y'all haven't already and wanted to?

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

TT: Dave, you need to be able to do this. Do you know whether or not it’s better for your notes to be easy to read, or more difficult to decipher?

TG: i mean id think they should be fucking easy to read

TG: i however write my notes in the olde Nordic Rune Alphabet

TT: Actually, notes should be a little more difficult. Try writing out, then typing your notes in a hard-to-read font. When something is more difficult to decipher, the more slowly and systematically we learn it. 

TG: oh legit??

TG: DUDE THE RUNES ARE WORKING

[averageriot]

How big is gap in the time between when you were alive and dead? (what time is it now?)

TERESA: 1T5 B33N M4YB3 H4LF 4 SW33P FOR M3. DUNNO 4BOUT 3V3RYON3 3LS3 THOUGH, 1 TH1NK HOP3S B33N H3R3 FOR M1LL1ONS OF SW33PS HON3STLY.

RUNE: …. it has been three years since I ascended and made my way here. at least that’s my perception of what time has passed.

ALPHA:  I'ma Be Real Chief I’ve Got No Fuckin Clue. [He shrugs.]

REMY: I’m… not really sure how long it has been since… I don’t keep track of time. Sometimes, it feels like everything is so long ago, a distant memory. Other times… It feels like a fresh wound, burning every nerve of my existence. Zora… She… She makes things easier.

MESTEK: -^v- Bold of you to assume I know that. I’m a technical genius, not a chronal genius.

ZORA:  … I honestly don’t know. I stopped caring a long time ago.

[mary-su-is-ruining-my-life]

happy mothers day

^ the kid is rune lalonde from my fan adventure btw

[kalopsic-lagomorph]

Miscellaneous thingys

[limeade-arcade]

Another doodle page surfaces.

Individual images under the cut.

@trickstercandy

[tomatograter]

hey dirkjake guy , what makes you so interested in dirkjake so much ?

if I were to answer this with total accuracy we would be here all day and i’d have to hand you a 60 page peer reviewed thesis but since I don't have that time and i’m assuming you also don’t; There’s a LOT of things to work with if you read dirkjake as more than just… a vehicle for dirkcentric character angst. And they’re pieces actively embedded in the story! That matter! I like building fanwork around a textual basis and these two quite literally go as far back as being part of the guardians setting up SBURB beta in Act fucking 2. You can mine motifs until you’re dead. Here’s a contained, though by no means complete, list of things I particularly like about them:

1) Dirk and Jake both have highly imperfect experiences with their own gender/sexuality, partly out of societal pressure and partly because the story has decided what they ought to be. You've got two gay characters who are both a man in the WRONG way; Dirk overcompensates masculinity so hard he thinks of himself as too brash, imposing, damaging, nearly sizzling arsenic. Jake is expected to be the most perfect dude that has ever Het'd and fails in every feasible way because its not who he's comfortable being. He's not a wife-hunting casanova, He's just kind of a blatant useless fruit. Each of them thinks the other has it together and is doing sooooooooo much better than themselves, though.

I like that even though the adoration is mutual, the relationship is not smoothed out. It's not perfect from the get-go, and it's easier to make it awkward before making it good. We see them at their most immature, they have plenty of flaws, and they're extremely self-sabotaging in the way that isn't "cute" (or romantically convenient) but rather realistically concerning. I like seeing them working through it & maybe relapsing & putting in the effort to be better. They mean a lot to each other but have no idea how to go about it without putting on a show, it's comical to the point of being endearing. 

...And they're still the one person that makes the other feel like more than just a sum of poorly stitched frankenstein parts. 

2) Moving onto The Cringe Axis Of Relevance: Dirk and Jake are inextricable from the overarching plot and cyclical nature of Homestuck itself, Dirk as a motivator and Jake as a escapegoat. You could technically “pin” the “blame” of more than a dozen game changing plot events on them, and sometimes they’re not even aware of it. Beta Jake is HIC’s bastard child, a Dirk splinter is a core component of LE, Jake Harley translates the ancient runes in the frog temple containing the game code & is the one to release SBURB worldwide, eventually going on a time-displaced quest to get the game in motion; Ultimate dirk, funnily enough, is trying to do the exact same thing but much more shittily after borrowing one of Jake’s company ships and copying jadebot’s schematics for the purpose of making a robot daughter to forcefully restart Homestuck, The Webbed Comique, after its over. (Mom lalonde was Grandpa’s assistant & vaguely familial protégé, if you remember. Funny how that works!) And this is just like, in the text. Rose in the candy postscript directly drops it: 

I guess plagiarism is a backwards form of flattery :/

Alpha Jake in turn ends up flooded with promises of giving LE’s his first defeat, kickstarts a thousand little conflicts throughout act 6, brings dirk back to life with a kiss, sends the bunny back in time in the box (he was jade’s secret penpal that far back!), eventually only knocks caliborn on his ass because *Dirk* gets hurt in a fight, then it turns out davepeta is his sprite and actually the one fated to defeat the final boss, and that’s just the major stuff. Alpha Dirk & his dastardly AI-self messily usher the alphas into a new session, we only discover what the hell is up with alpha earth through dirk’s 20 page pesterlog gifted on jake’s birthday, Hal’s existence partly relies on Jake’s unending support- and so does Brain ghost dirk’s existence, for that matter. In big-scale and small-scale stuff alike, they’re tied up.

3) Overabundance of referential motifs: Homestuck is practically a big collage of character-relevant media. You can talk about things like some of jake’s favorite superheroes being similar to dirk, or how dirk and jake’s romance is jokingly compared to the Princess Bride via their planets/personalities/BGD literally quoting the movie and acting out the same sword movements, or how they both have a thing for artisanal puppetry, or how dirk is a history buff while jake is a time-displaced verbal oddity, or how Dirk's concerns with narrative philosophy and clean logic make him squarely Apollonian in certain lit terms & that is perfectly opposed by Jake's haphazard Dionysian approach! Or how Grandpa has an orange-lit room of knights and a replica of Iron Man’s armor (widely known for his fragile heart) to stand in for Dirk while Jake has his knight genre movie posters and dreams up dirk to serve the same role, or how the brobot, built with jake’s help, eventually has a nervous conniption and rips his heart out so it can be used as a battery - and while the moment is reminiscent of aradiabot's blue blood breakdown, the heart is actually the same kind grandpa had installed into jadebot; as both were created to protect someone dearly beloved.

Funny how that works x4

Or just how like, Jake fantasizes about Avatar while kissing a poster but mentally he's having an elaborate dream of putting Dirk in the role of the movie's lead to prove how Awesome And Perfect life can be. Or how brain ghost dirk tells jake he looks good when he's feeling like shit and jake, in turn, says his gay little prince outfit looks pretty sweet and not dumb at all, in a sort of covert pep-talk system covering for both of their masculinity hang-ups. That works too.

4) They're the only ship I can confidently compare to Shrek, the Movie, and make that into insightful commentary.

And lastly:

[ask-oppositestuck]

I DEMAND TO SEE A CLOSE UP OF ROXY! ((whoops sorry ignore my last ask please

there she is!!! there she i

((you can drag her around your dash and it looks like she’s floating!))