#SO CALLIOPE IS GOOD IS WHAT UR SAYING

[peachesofteal]

i just stumbled across ur blog and binge read like everything! ur writing is so so so so good! what inspired u to start writing and do u have any tips? i want to start writing too but don't know where to actually start 😅

love, calliope

I'm so happy you've enjoyed my writing and I know I say that a lot, but it means so much to me that people take time out of their day to send me little notes. It's easy to feel discouraged when writing sometimes and knowing you all are here and I'm a tiny part of your lives through writing really matters to me.

I don't have an answer for what inspired me to start writing, to be honest. I like to blame on overactive imagination and these made up stories I see in my head like movies.

Anyway, as far as tips go:

Just start. I see Neil Gaiman say it all the time, but write your junk. Keep writing it even if it's bad, eventually it will turn or you'll build something from it, or there will be pieces that aren't so bad and you can use them.

Frame a story in your mind and get it out, even if it's just the scenes you really want to write, or bullet points of how you want it to go.

Read! Reading will only improve your writing.

Personal preference for me but: outline. I like to outline so I know where I'm going, otherwise I tend to get a little lost. Not everyone uses an outline, and that's great too. You'll need to find what works for you!

If your name is truly Calliope, you're named after the goddess of epic poetry, I have no doubt you'll craft great stories.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Calliope: i have a bit of a confession to make. this has been weighing on me for... qUite some time now.

Calliope: even thoUgh i know i am regarded as beaUtifUl, sometimes i feel as thoUgh i am not.

Calliope: beaUty isn't something often associated with my kind, and i often find myself qUestioning whether I am truly compatible Under descriptors sUch as "beaUtiful" or "pretty" or even "cute".

Calliope: it makes me feel... wrong, so to speak. that, in a sense, i am less for not being as pretty as a human or a troll.

Calliope: this is a rather long-winded way of saying, or perhaps rather asking... what is it yoU see in someone sUch as myself?

Roxy: alr callie listen

Roxy: beauty standards rnt smth that should be defined by "convention" or the "aesthetic"

Roxy: being beautiful isnt abt fitting in or conforming or evn anythin to do w/ physicality in the 1st place

Roxy: thats a rlly shallow way of looking @ it

Roxy: in truth callie what defines beauty is so much more than "i think ur very cute and kissable"

Roxy: its ur personality and ur traits, good and bad

Roxy: the things that make u beautiful r impossible to describe in one sitting ofc

Roxy: but to name a few

Roxy: its waking up and seeing u alr awake and u greet me w/ a gm

Roxy: its staring at u talking to u abt the mundane and ur so interested and fascinated by me. by us.

Roxy: its the sugar in ur voice, filled w/ the most genuine love ur capable of giving—which is a hella lot—and the joy u give others that's more potent and lasting than any magical artefact

Roxy: beauty isnt just looks callie. beauty is love. beauty is joy, and creativity, passion, determination, kindness... evn ur flaws, callie, all of this mixes together 2 make... you.

Roxy: i love you every day for being you, and even if you don't feel beautiful, ill still love you and ill always want you by my side.

Calliope:

Calliope: i

Calliope: sorry i'm jUst speechless, i...

Calliope: thank yoU.

[pesterloglog]

Roxy Lalonde, Karkat Vantas

Page 116-118

ROXY: sooooo

ROXY: do u want pancakes

ROXY: i can make pancakes

KARKAT: DO YOU THINK HE’S OKAY?

ROXY: who

KARKAT: DAVE.

ROXY: idk you know him better than i do

ROXY: actually i think u know him better than anybody might know anybody??

ROXY: you guys are like the real fuckin deal

KARKAT: I GUESS??

KARKAT: WAIT, WHY THE FUCK AM I EVEN ASKING? HE’S OBVIOUSLY NOT FINE.

KARKAT: ARE ANY OF US? ARE YOU?

ROXY: not rly

KARKAT: EXACTLY.

KARKAT: KANAYA BARELY EVEN TALKS, CALLIOPE WON’T LEAVE THEIR CABIN, JADE JUST FLOATS AROUND LIKE A CREEPY BALLOON THAT’S MOSTLY MADE OF HAIR.

KARKAT: THE REALLY FUCKED UP THING IS I MIGHT BE THE MOST OKAY OUT OF ALL OF US, WHICH IS HOW YOU KNOW SHIT HAS REALLY GONE GLOBES UP.

KARKAT: ALL OF YOU LOST YOUR FAMILY. I JUST LOST SOME PEOPLE I SORT OF KNOW.

KARKAT: AND THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, AND THANK GOD FOR THAT.

KARKAT: FUCK, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW IT WOULD HAVE SHOOK OUT IF JAKE HADN’T SHIT HIMSELF ONSTAGE?

ROXY: prbly way less smelly

KARKAT: I DON’T KNOW WHY I LET DAVE TALK ME INTO IT. JESUS CHRIST.

KARKAT: NOTHING GOOD HAS EVER COME OF ME BEING IN CHARGE OF JACK DICK.

KARKAT: TO BE HONEST, I THINK JANE WINNING THE PRESIDENCY MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE BEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME?

KARKAT: EVERY TIME I’VE EVER TRIED TO "LEAD" ANYTHING IT’S BLOWN UP IN MY FACE.

KARKAT: DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN I WAS A WRIGGLER I SERIOUSLY THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO BE THE GUY TO LEAD ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO GLORY?

KARKAT: I LITERALLY FOUGHT PEOPLE FOR CONTROL OF THE TEAM, AND WHAT ENDED UP HAPPENING WAS LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FRIENDS BESIDES KANAYA DIED.

KARKAT: ACTUALLY, SHE DID DIE!

KARKAT: FUCK!

KARKAT: I’M ZERO FOR ZERO!

ROXY: ur kinda an intense dude anybody ever tell u that

KARKAT: NO.

KARKAT: MY POINT IS, THIS IS THE BEST POSSIBLE SCENARIO FOR ME. I DON’T EVEN LIKE EARTH THAT MUCH.

ROXY: well ur lucky i guess

KARKAT: NO, I’M NOT--FUCK. I’M NOT TRYING TO BRAG ABOUT IT!

KARKAT: I’M JUST SAYING, DON’T WASTE YOUR SYMPATHY ON ME.

KARKAT: AGAINST PRETTY MUCH ALL ODDS, AND DESPITE ME NOT DESERVING ANY OF IT, I ENDED UP GETTING PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING I WANTED.

KARKAT: OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

KARKAT: SOMETIMES IT ALMOST FEELS LIKE WHATEVER SLATHERING MONSTROSITY OF A COSMIC HELLBEAST THAT PUT ALL THIS SHIT INTO MOTION...ACTUALLY LIKES ME?

ROXY: fucked up if tru

KARKAT: WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A LITERAL UNIVERSE-SHATTERING WAR FOR THE CONTINUATION OF OUR RACES, AND DAVE AND I JUST SPENT THREE YEARS CLIMBING UP EACH OTHER’S NOOKS AND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES. AND I GUESS ALSO SAVING PARADOX SPACE.

ROXY: so what ur saying is love can bloom even on the battlefield

KARKAT: I GUESS.

ROXY: so...u want pancakes?

KARKAT: YEAH. OKAY.

[sammygender]

things about homestuck i have discovered in my reread

terezi is my favourite character and will always be

caliborn is fucking HILARIOUS jesus christ somehow i forgot this (he hasnt got to the misogyny yet that part gets kind of less funny)

dave and karkat kind of ARE that good, regrettably. i feel like we all go through a davekat phase upon first reading and then gradually we get over dave and karkat and move onto other, better pursuits, like vrisrezi fanfiction or space player meta. rereading tho man they are excellent… not the most compelling characters of COURSE and really more like babys first analysis in terms of dissecting them, but man they are funny, man their emotional arcs are vivid and well written, man they are hilarious together also (penis ouija. yeah that was funny). coming out as a dave and karkat fan once again

homestuck in general but especially the start of act 6 is INCREDIBLY funny. for some reason i thought act 6 was less funny and more like plot-heavy which i guess it kind of us to an extent cause most of it is now Relevant all the time but oh my god the alpha kids are a trainwreck and its so funny

on the subject of the alpha kids. last time i properly read homestuck i was like 14. i had never experienced being the same age of the alpha kids and now looking back its insane. that is LITERALLY what being 15/16 is like. the romantic chaos the constant miscommunication the way this group of best friends just somehow have so many fucking problems with each other??? and the COMPLEXES. my god

appreciating roxy more this time round than i ever did before she rubbed me a little the wrong way first read i think maybe bc everyone heralded her as like The Unproblematic Alpha Kid when like oh my god she is a fucking MESS but when looking at her through that lens shes fantastic

jade harley should be mean more often. every PASSWORD FUCKASS interaction was an absolute delight. man she should get more page time

vriska is indefensible when u first meet her its so hard explaining to people that shes like The Fucking Best when she spends most of her intro mocking the guy she paralysed for being paralysed. sadly, she still IS the fucking best.

did i mention terezi pyrope is my favourite character ever in anything

i still cant pay attention to anything exile related i'm sorry. i just look at the pretty pictures and skip through it quickly as possible. if they dont have complex psychology and fun conversations idc sorry im a bad hs fan

calliope is both a delight and so wrong like all of the time. reading her i see where all the fandom misconceptions come from. ur not meant to take her word as 100% serious when she says stuff like male/female classes or whatever!! she sees everything through this incredibly binary 2 choice lens like caliborn bc thats literally the life she lives. this is also extra funny i guess considering shes literally kind of meant to represent the hs fandom

LIL HAL <33333333

sorry that so much of this is about the alpha kids im part way into act 6 now

dirkjake so far have not had a single interaction and iirc they never do??? fascinating storytelling since we still have a perfect picture of their dynamic

terezi is characteristically being stupid about vriska again, because she is complicatedly and unwittingly in love with her

DAVEREZI FOR THE FUCKING WIN MY GOD. THEYD NEVER WORK ENDGAME BUT THEY ARE SO FUNNY TOGETHER LITERALLY BFFS. no romance tho just vibes

does rose get confirmed as a lesbian later in the text or is that just a fandom interpretation cause ngl i have seen people harassed over bi rose which is kinda crazy anyway but would be even crazier if its not. an actual canon fact

LE SIGN IS UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO MEAN TOO BAD HES GAY YOU OBTUSE DUNDERFUCK from roxy compared to poor dirk calling the word gay antediluvian. man just wants to like jake in peace

honestly everything alpha kid wise is insane lets just. put it there

I MISS VRISKA

terezi is my favourite also have i said that already

[hotofwar]

I found a song that I thought suit Kratos and Faye, Good Enough by Evanescence. Just imagine Kratos realizing he's in love with Faye.

Oh man i LOVE that song! But if im honest i always thought it was about an unhealthy relationship- the way it seems to convey some sort of dependace- after all thesong is called "Good enough", I always understood it as "this is just the amount of good that i need to stay- the bare minimun, despite eveything this is good enough to stay together" idk im probably reading it wrong tho :V BUT i do have to say, the line at the end "So take care what you ask of me... Because I cant say no." DAMN I LOVE THAT LINE- but i do see it as some sort of unhealthy devotion to someone- like, "you might ask me to hurt myself and i'll do it because i love you"

GOSH IM SORRY IF IM BEING MEAN OR RUDE OR RUINING IT- i just cant see it, i always saw Kratos and Faye's relationship as something a lot more healthy- and i relate this song to unhealthy relationships too much UGH.

Btw, just cuz ur ask made me think of of evanescence and the songs that could work with kratos... My inmortal could work very well for kratos remembering Lizandra and Calliope (u know since in a way they are always with him- not only in the ashes he wears but Kratos is incapable of forgiving and forgetting what he did).

[fefairys]

caliborn, in my au where calliope was named caliborn and caliborn doesnt exist, is good

skSKFKFK OKAY?

[kii2me2ii2]

actually "happy ending" cals both living on earth c or whatever dont have seperate bodies. I don't like it.

[ceabu]

Hey so. I wonder what ur take is on Kanaya and gamzee (not as a ship) in ur personal canon. Do they dislike each other? Did murder stuck still happen?

that depends on the au.....i dont have one ( 1 ) single canon idea so their relationship differs hmm

meteor gang au - there was no murderstuck there. cant say i thought much about where other characters are ( dont think i will unless someone will ask and i will be forced to pull stuff out my ass on the spot cuz i fucking suck at coming up with background ideas(??) ) so their relationship is good here! gamzee is sober and kanaya is happy for him. she offers him tea whenever she sees him getting the nervous twitches.

green babies au - murderstuck did happen there but the trolls along with the kids figured out gamzee was being mind controlled and succeded in killing calliborn. then they all went through the door and got a new start. karkat and gamzee are raising baby calliope, and kanaya and rose had little babygrub. they usually spend like a day a week together cuz the girls like playing together but there is some kind of tension between karkat and kanaya because back in the game kanaya didnt believe gamzee was mind controlled and didnt really help. she also tried to make some of the others give up because ‘‘ That’s Just How Highbloods Are. We Need To Accept That The Laid Back Gamzee Is Gone. He Is Out Of Sopor And We Have To Put A Stop To Him Now.’’ but then calliborn was defeated. and gamzee came back to them ( to karkat ) and spilled everything that hes been through. karkat kept shooshing him and petting his hair, all the while staring daggers at kanaya. so yeah, in this au things are kinda tense and karkat expects kanaya to apologise but gamzee doesnt care. he wont go out of his way to make friends with her but he can kinda see what she meant. he doesnt like thinking about what happened in the game much. plus babygrub is cute and he likes when he and karkat are asked to babysit

commander♦️subjugglator au - in this au things are kinda complicated lol. they did kill lord english but gamzee was still in the fridge after the battle. karkat asked ( begged ) the others to help him look for him but not a lot of them agreed, and those who werent sure got influenced by those who said it was a lost cause ( vriska, kanaya, dave, nepeta ) feferi was the one who said she’ll help because even tho she and gamzee didnt interact much she still saw him as a friend. they searched for a long time ( karkat on land and feferi underwater ) eventually feferi saw the fridge at the bottom of the ocean and pulled it out. gamzee was not in the greatest shape and it took a very long while for him to get better. ( we’re talking like....A Very Long While ) fast forward ===> feferi became empress and made karkat the commander to her army. gamzee has the whole church at his back and they work together to bring other planets down. feferi gave them a whole planet for themselves which they can rule however they want. now the relationship between gamzee and kanaya......its not great lol. gamzee is upset by what happened but thinks that maybe he would have done the same ( he wouldnt ) but he doesnt like dwelling on things like that. says it was in the past and hes not affected by it anymore ( thats a lie ). karkat on the other hand is very hostile and wont think twice before raising his sickle at her.

[spije]

scp omega-k but significantly stupider part 5: crime

“They should have read more yaoi” you say. you then throw your wheelchair out the window and then jump out the window. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING” says june as you wheelchair away at extremely high speeds. “oh my god our platonic daughter casey is going somewhere without supervision when we are supposed to be monitoring her health this is not good nevermind this is fine this is normal I’m proud of her I’m going to go buy an nft” says dave. he then spends 50 hundred thousand million hundred twenty dollars on a monkey nft. “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” says june.

you are on your way to the scp headquearters. on your way there you see a bunch of your neighbors who also died and survived from it. it’s pretty epic that this can happen now.

but there’s a problem... you forgot to

you are now dave from homestuck. you just bought an nft. people dont die anymore. this is pretty sick and rad in your opinion considering you’re a god and dont have to worry about your friends dying anymore. yeehaw. (you are also texan.) your friend rose is pestering you.

pesterlog:

rose: dude i just saw your name appear on the blockchain stop buying stupid nfts

dave: i can do what i want with my money. climate change isnt going to kill anyone anymore

rose: ur an idiot *slams face on desk*

dave: omg did it hurt

dave: did your cells die when you did that. did they signal to your nervous system that you died

rose: dave this is serious business calliope is messaging me that the world is in danger

rose: because of the nfts

dave: because of the nfts

rose: buy me a coffee haha we . did the thing where you have the. to buy me a coffee where did that originate from again

dave: rose are you drunk

rose: no

(rose is definitely drunk... on coffee...)

dave: you know you should feel ashamed of yourself. the stupid ape yacht club died for your sins they died for you to have that coffee and what did you do? you desecrated their name. they are out there terraforming thousands of acres of land to farm coffee beans and you denounce them like this

rose: you realize that’s the problem right? that they are terraforming thousands of acres of precious land that fostered life after life after life, thousands of years of wonderful existence, evolution, and people,being bought up and flattened like rice in the name of selling to freaking starbucks. whose side are you on? this joy and wonder existed before the planet even had a name and it is bit by bit being destroyed. before the earth turned 13. are you willing to sacrifice that? will you only care when the life they destroy in the name of coffee next is yours?

dave: why does it matter if the earth turned 13

rose: you are missing my point. the ape yacht club “died for your sins” sure but you know who else did?

dave: nobody because nobody dies anymore

rose: but

dave: no nfts are literally so cool biological sister you have no idea it’s a non fingible token you can store it on the blockchain. what were you doing looking at the blockchain anyway? if you hate nfts?

dave: i am going to bed

[TG stopped pestering TT

it is 3 pm. you’re going to bed because you are so sick and rad and have so much bitcoin. you cry yourself to sleep knowing everyone you care about hates you. it’s their fault they dont see that you only support this stuff ironically. etherium has been crashing lately but hey buy low sell high amirite???? you bought so many stocks in etherium... you’re going to get such a good grade...

you are chloe. you just watched morbius. it’s morbin time. you morb into the scp foundation, and you are going to break the company but first you want to check out the creatures.

you go over to the enclosures and realize how horrible it is that they are trapped in the enclosures with nothing but a laptop with netnanny on it that blocks them from looking at youtube. you free all of the scps. so fricking epic. you and the scps listen to emo together and then you destroy the scp base. that’s one base down. your plan, the total destruction of the scp foundation, is far from over.

[davekat-sucks]

Top 3 John ships are pretty quality! so what's ur opinions on them? (JohnRose, JohnVris and JohnRoxy?)

JohnRose aka Grimdorks The OG human OTP in the Beta Kids next with DaveJade. Karkat's shipping chart has been right all along! Their interactions with them are sweet. It's nice of Rose to play along with John's silly stuff, showing a different side of her from her usual calm, elegant smart self. John does think highly of Rose too. She's the first on his mind when there's trouble or need advice. A classic childhood friend ship. Normal young protagonist boy is nice and good friends with people. Has the one childhood friend who can be like the girl next door, that knows him for longest time and happy to be with him. She knows his good and bad & loves every bit of him. Unfortunately, normal boy is oblivious to her feelings unless he is told directly. Can be cute, if not stressing at times that she should be direct to help him get the message. If Homestuck had focused only on those 4 kids, JohnRose and DaveJade would have inevitably the end game. It may have been that too, considering Vriska making her last post before dying during one sweet, sad moment. JohnVris aka Spider8reath Another that could have been an endgame couple. The song "I Remem8er You" was made for JOHNVRIS not Vrisrezi, in response of their other song "Do You Remem8er Me?" John and Vriska really have been carrying for most of the Sburb session, which is probably what Vriska had planned in mind. But never expected to get close with a human like this. He doesn't judge her harshly and tries to see the bit of good. Which makes Vriska reflect on herself on the actions she done with her friends based on what she had believed in and lived through. In contrast to JohnRose, their dynamic is like the usual ones you see in anime. Normal average kid gets pulled in by a wild, crazy girl who has no regard for him and others as long as she takes center stage. Despite her attitude to him, she does develop feelings for him. Normal dude tries not to mind her decisions and tries to go along with it. For his case, it goes well for him. He still acts nice towards the bitch, which makes her embarrassed. Someone as dense and kind as him would try to be nice to a 8itch. John and Vriska was another that Hussie had in mind. Some could say it is Hussie self inserting briefly to get himself together with his spider waifu Vriska. But I say that it is more of pushing Vriska into the spotlight while trying to keep the kids involved. Ridiculous, but it oddly worked, I think. There could have been a way for Rose to move on from her unrequited feelings from John as she gets close with Kanaya. JohnRoxy aka Roxygen A way to apologize to JohnRose fans, but making the Lalonde be open with her silliness, albeit in a drunk manner. Love at first sight, she immediately clicks with John. She knows that John has firsthand experience with Sburb and trusts him. John is also nice to Roxy and does want her to meet with Rose for a good mother-daughter-sister reunion. He is a nice boy that thinks of the family first. Which is why he would make a good dad. Alpha Kids writing was bad in Act 6, doesn't help when Roxy is stuck with Calliope as she tries to get through to be a part of it. Calliope even says no to Roxy and Rose meeting briefly. I don't care if it's against some lore about Void and Light players meeting. JUST LET THEM HAVE A REUNION YOU HEARTLESS BITCH!!!! Not even Act 7 or retcon had really saved the Alpha Kids. What is there to say about the mess of Epilogues and Homestuck^2? Though I do like the idea of John being the good dad and Roxy being like a traditional good mom. I can accept Harry Anderson as their son. Whichever three you ship John with, they are all good. John's Heirem is the best kind of harem.

[thewebcomicsreview]

Homestuck 2 has updated! Christmas is ruined!

Previously, on Homestuck 2: Literally nothing happened, and a non-trivial portion of the patreon supporters gave up and quit. Can this update pull a Christmas miracle and right the sinking ship of Homestuck 2? Probably not, but let’s find out! 

We’re back in Candyland, having completely skipped over Karkat and John talking about Dave’s apparent death, because this comic is only interested in long conversations when they’re boring and not about anything at all. That’s alright, I got the gist of it.

When Karkat is finally gone, John still doesn’t move. It isn’t as though he has nowhere else to go, since there are quite a few places he might attempt to make himself useful, for better or for worse.

So, it appears to be morning now, meaning that John’s son has been missing in a war zone for almost 24 hours and I guess John literally forgot Harry existed?

Prediction: This conversation is going to end in some variant of “Where is our son?” “Oh shit!”

ROXY: hey john can u do me a quick solid

ROXY: actly idk how quick itll be but its definitely solid

ROXY: harry anderson says i just missed u being here but could u skip back on over?

What.

So, I went back and checked, and apparently nowhere is it explicitly said that Harry Anderson was also looking for the Vriskas, so I guess he....stayed home? Which makes sense, I suppose, but maybe a “Stay here I’ll go look for them” would’ve helped. I wasn’t the only one who thought Harry was out looking for Vriska too. 

ROXY: sup

ROXY: follow me

ROXY: well were just going to my room so i guess technically u know the way

JOHN: haha ok.

John follows, trying to shake the ominous feeling he got from what she’d just said. He’d been in and out of this house a lot in the past few days. Why should this be any different?

Is Roxy....horny? Is the solid she’s looking for John’s dick? I mean, that’d make her saying Harry wasn’t available kind of weird, but I think this framing is a fake-out.

...

What the fuck is that lamp, Jesus Christ it’s awful. Just a cat’s asshole, facing the door.

ROXY: r u kiddin me rn egbert

JOHN: i’m not? unless you were, in which case yeah lets say i was also kidding.

JOHN: oh my god, i’m sorry, i don’t know why this making me freak out.

ROXY: i remember our past boot knockin with fondness but that is a situation im not interested in revisiting

Oh hey, it was a fakeout. Good job, Homestuck 2. You successfully implied something just through the art. Art which, by the way, looks a lot better than the last chapter. There are backgrounds and everything. I wonder if Chapter 15 was rushed out due to Hiveswap and that’s why it was so weak?

He’s almost embarrassed by how relieved he feels. So what if his ex wife wanted to hook up? Shouldn’t that be a situation he could navigate? Don’t people like to find solace in human physical connection during dire times? Why did the idea of it make his mind white out in panic more than, say, any number of the traumas he just experienced?

I’m not the biggest fan of the way the narration is going JOHN IS AFRAID OF SEX WITH ROXY LIKE HE’S A TEENAGE VIRGIN AGAIN (LIKE IN HS1!) AND IT DOESN’T REALLY MAKE SENSE PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IT’LL BE IMPORTANT LATER, but okay, noted.

ROXY: u said ur house is gone??

JOHN: yep.

JOHN: completely.

ROXY: jeez

Heh. I like Roxy, still. 

JOHN: so i just sat there, watching, trying to figure out why watching my house burn down felt like i was being released from prison.

If this comic actually uses the phrase “home” and “stuck” in the same sentence I’m turning this blog around and we’ll go right back to Winnipeg.

ROXY: aight then no wind bending just use your mangrit

Roxy flexes, the corner of her mouth pulled up into a familiar grin. John feels his guts, so recently calmed, twist up into knots again. Her eyebrows shoot up and the smile loosens. He must have shown something on his face.

ROXY: ok or just like push when i push

ROXY: we both got sick muscles

ROXY: no other adjectives necessary

I feel unqualified to talk about how hard Roxy is pushing the June Egbert thing.

....Is that the fucking portal from Hiveswap under a tarp? Also hi Candy Callie, appearing in HS2 for the first time. One of the Calliope’s is nonbinary, I think, but I honestly can’t remember and I think it’s Meat Calliope? 

JOHN: do i get to know what that big thing under the sheet is?

ROXY: hmmmmmm no

JOHN: oh ok.

JOHN: are you sure? i mean, it seems like a pretty prominent feature of the room.

JOHN: space.

JOHN: wherever we are.

ROXY: and a totally mysterious n COMPLETELY inconspicuous feature it will have to remain for now

ROXY: we r kinda in a hurry here fyi

ROXY: and by that i mean

ROXY: we are in precisely the amount of hurry that means im excused from having to a that specific q rn

JOHN: right, sorry.

JOHN: i will pay no attention to the object behind the curtain.

ROXY: u catch on fast egbert

Oh thing HS2 has not been great at is that it has a lot of plot mysteries that are supposed to keep us enticed but they don’t really get implanted into the audience’s head (Remember Vrissy mysteriously collapsing that one time? Probably not, she did it off screen and the boys kind of laughed it off). This one’s hard to miss.

JOHN: so... this is all downstairs?

JOHN: it seems like you had a lot of work done.

ROXY: well no not x actly

ROXY: were in the old meteor

It’s kind of weird how this meteor keeps popping up like this. 

CALLIOPE: besides, hUman divorces are even more fascinating than i had ever imagined, and being able to witness yoUrs in motion was an honoUr.

This is an unexpected but not unwelcome direction for Callie to have gone.

CALLIOPE: ah right, right. yoU're probably a little cUrioUs as to where the dickens we are.

CALLIOPE: how much do yoU know aboUt black holes?

Oh, wow, we’re going right there, then. This does seem like a bit of a reaction to complaints HS2 wasn’t shmoovin’ enough, but maybe I’m reading too much into it.

CALLIOPE: no, i mean, what if oUr whole WORLD was inside a black hole.

JOHN: ok.

A’ight, that got a laugh out of me

JOHN: ugh, i fucking KNEW it!

JOHN: i'm so sorry.

JOHN: i'm so sorry that i put the earth inside a black hole everyone. ):

I like this conversation a lot. 

ROXY: iirc at least part of y u got so weepy was the fact that u couldnt believe a version of earth existed where ppl got 2 watch more mcconaughey films than you

JOHN: listen.

JOHN: i simply don't think you all appreciated the gift you were given.

Quite a bit, in fact.

ROXY: ur not gonna enter a weird time vortex and change the trajectory of a little girls life with the power of love

JOHN: aw.

Roxy and John have a good dynamic. 

CALLIOPE: bUt Upon her departUre, the rift closed for good. as far as i can see, there's simply no way for Us to commUnicate with the world oUtside the black hole.

CALLIOPE: i woUld certainly be very sUrprised to find oUt that anyone had managed sUch a thing!

JOHN: ...right.

John’s phone has very good coverage, since he was able to talk to Terezi in the epilogues, as we’re being subtly reminded of here with that ... before the “right”. I wonder if it still works after alt-Calliope left.

CALLIOPE: oUr exclUsion from the overarching coUrse of events which governs all reality means that oUr existence here is liable to dramatic and violent Upheaval.

CALLIOPE: to pUt it another way, becaUse nothing in here "matters", we are likely to be sUbjected to things which are a bit bats in the belfry, for no reason other than it's totally insignificant to the wider canon of reality.

CALLIOPE: and mUch thoUgh i am personally titillated by some of the conseqUences of this predicament, it is a degrading way for Us to live. u_u

Okay, so we are now being explicitly told that living in the black hole is fucking with the characters and is part of the reason they make such baffling decisions, like Rose not telling Kanaya about Yiffy, or naming her daughter “Yiffy” in the first place.

CALLIOPE: we need yoU to free vriska from the clUtches of oUr misgUided friend jane, and bring her here, to the singUlarity.

ROXY: weve been calling it the plot point

CALLIOPE: yes, the plot point is a key part of oUr plan

CALLIOPE: as far as we have been able to sUrmise, the only remaining method for escaping oUr grim confinement depends on leveraging the UniqUe properties of this location to create an event of sUch catalcysmic proportions that it simply cannot be contained within the black hole any more.

CALLIOPE: something SO dramatic, so hyper-relevant, that it becomes ontologically impossible for anyone to ignore it.

CALLIOPE: for that, we need an individUal of sUfficient narrative cloUt, so to speak.

CALLIOPE: and to liberate her, who better than the embodiment of the aspect of freedom itself?

So, the plan is literally for Vriska to be such a Huge 8itch that the black hole itself gets sick of her and yeets Earth C out of its own event horizon to freedom.

This is actually a great plan. 

And that’s Hamsteak. This definitely feels like a bit of a reaction to complaints about HS2, but hey, I dig it, I guess? Definite improvement over the last chapter.

[readbythestarlight]

c2e131

How we feeling everyone? Are we ready for the possibility of everything going absolutely and horribly wrong? I know I’m not!

Sam

Sam

SAM

NO

This man

SAAAAAM

OH MY GOD

"I have a mirror where is it?!" Sam

I hope he was planning on a haircut anyway

The things this man will do to horrify his friends

"That was despicable" he says of his friends (mostly) doing his best to keep him from destroying his hair

[[MORE]]

"Do we still do years!?" mood

Matt did you just call them Vox Machina

Yeeeeesssss Yasha time to prove yourself baby!!

Oh dang Matt that’s a cool way to make sure the rest of them get to be involved

I have a feeling that (if) she loses the lesson will be that her strength comes from her friends and that she doesn’t have to do things alone? Something along those lines

Damn Liam don’t hold back xD

They’re gonna kill her in the first round omg

I love how they’re still so proud whenever she remembers to rage

Thank Kord for that tho

Travis’s just literal YELLS of delight when she goes reckless lol

S: "what’s my backstory"

M: ":) here’s ur backstory u little shit"

Travis just SHOUTING is literally the best part of this

He’s having SO much fun and is so happy for Ashley it’s adorable

RIP storm Laura

I thought for sure she said 66 and I died

Sam is truly the most chaotic man I’ve ever seen

Oh my GODDD YES GIRL

Sam’s antics are so funny

Go Yasha go Yasha go Yasha come on girl

YES it’s about time

I’m having some emotions

Oh thank gods Wentsforth is okay at least

I’m still worried as fuck about Yussah though

Something tells me he’s not on Darktow?

JESTER

he asked you NOT to

I’m gonna be emo about Fjord and Vandrin now

"No spoilers please" oh I love him instantly

Hot springs before they gk to a nice frozen wasteland of doom, good call

Oh I hope he’s not upset

Okay good

I’m glad that went over well

Yeah y’all should definitely warn Essek? And you should definitely like? Call him? Now?

"Do you think you could work alongside your abuser?" THANK you Beau for straight up calling it like it is

I really really really don’t want them fighting alongside Trent

And also they should kinda consult Essek about this? He’s not gonna want to fight alongside them

Also yeah listen Beau’s right the concern isn’t about you killing him it’s about him preying on and distracting you through your trauma

"You may be under scrutiny. Ikythong could know about our involvement with you. He could be coming. Maybe we could help though. Where are you now?"

Oh boy poor Essek

"This is challenging tidings. Um. Then I cannot stay here long. I am at the outpost. If you still need my help we should leave soon. Soon."

Oh babe.

CALLIOPE ARE YOU UP

ARE YOU UP

CALLIOPE ARE YOU UP

god he’s the best little brother

Okay okay they made it to Eiselcross at least

Now just get to my boy

Oh NO that’s too far

I was hoping we’d get into a fight this episode just to save my stress levels but at this point it’s looking like that will be next week

Literally my only consolation rn is that Matt won’t send them into another huge battle with no spells if he can help it

Aw Fjord! He seems upset :(

HOT BOI

“Friends, please, enter.”

Y’all listen to Essek in this

Trent isn’t to be trusted here

Caleb apologizing for putting Essek in danger like Caleb babe </3

He was already in danger

Oh SHIT I’ve been waiting for Essek to find out about the eyes on Caleb (and Beau but obviously mostly Caleb)

I should write fic about that actually

Seriously though guys please listen to Essek on this one

E: “I am jealous... of the bravery and confidence you have in such things. I am still a coward.”

C: “Coward? You’ve dared much.” (Okayokayokayokayokay)

E: “I have done everything for myself, and when any of it came to bear I have done everything I can to hide and flee. I am more than happy to go and put my life on the line for this cause, but there is something about that man and what he could bring upon me and those he—he may very well be coming anyway, but if you want to work with him I may have to work independently, maybe follow. I feel I would make this messier than it needs to work. I’m not saying I’d leave you alone, but... you’d have to work separately.”

Thank god Fjord thanks for seeing reason

“Would you mind terribly taking off your shirt?”

Caduceus that’s Caleb’s line

For real tho guys plz listen to Essek and don’t ask Trent for help

“One person that we can trust—“ they trust Essek again and I’m CRYING about it

OmG I can’t breathe

Hot boiiiiio finally going on a trip with the gang! Sure hope nobody does horrifically!

“We are going to stick with you. We feel we can trust you more.”

Like a small hit to the heart and also making him feel warm and fuzzy on the inside y’all I’m crying

“I am thankful for the trust you put in me and I hope to... make this up to you. ...Anyway I’m bad at such discussions. Shall we?”

My BOY

Dagen makes nine

Prayer circle for next week guys I can’t lose a second purple fave in this campaign

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

The Skaian Bride

Caliborn: SO, IT IS DOWN TO YOu, AND IT IS DOWN TO ME

Roxy: *steps forward*

Caliborn: IF YOu WANT ME TO KILL MY SISTER, THEN PLEASE, KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

Roxy: let me explain-

Caliborn: THERE’S NOTHING TO EXPLAIN. YOu’Re TRYING TO KIDNAP WHAT I’VE RIGHTFuLLY STOLEN

Roxy, *gently stepping forward*: mayb we can reach an arrangement.

Caliborn: THERE WILL BE NO ARRANGEMENT, HuMAN PERSON, AND YOu ARE KILLING HER WITH EVERY STEP

Roxy: but if we can’t get no arrangement, then we’re at an impasse

Caliborn: I’M AFRAID SO. I SAD AS IT MAY BE, CAN’T COMPETE WITH YOu PHYSICALLY. BuT YOuR WOMAN HEAD IS NO MATCH FOR MY BRAINS

Roxy: ur that smart?

Caliborn: LET ME PuT IT THIS WAY: HAVE YOu EVER HEARD OF EINSTEIN? HAWKING? STRIDER?

Roxy: ye

Caliborn: MORONS.

Roxy: srsly? then in that case, i challenge u to a battle of wits.

Caliborn: FOR MY SISTER?

Roxy: yeah

Caliborn: TO THE DEATH?

Roxy: sure y not?

Caliborn: THEN I ACCEPT.

Roxy: sweet. then pour the juice.

Calliope: don’t i get some say in all this?

Caliborn: NO

Roxy, *pulling out some powder*: sniff this, but don’t touch.

Caliborn: I SMELL JACK NOTHING.

Roxy: what ur not smellin is called iocane powder. it don’t smell or taste, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadlier poisons known to man, troll, or cherub

Caliborn: HMM.

Roxy, *pouring the powder into the juice behind her back*: alrite, where’s the kill juice? our battle of wits has begun. it ends when u decide and we both drink, and find out who’s rite and who’s ded.

Caliborn: BuT IT’S SO DAMN SIMPLE. ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DIVINE WHAT I KNOW OF YOu. ARE YOu THE SORT OF HuMAN WHO WOULD PuT THE POISON IN HER OWN GLASS OR HER ENEMIES?

CALIBORN: NOW A SOMEWHAT CLEVER PERSON WOuLD PuT THE POISON IN THEIR OWN GLASS, BECAuSE THEY WOuLD KNOW THAT ONLY A TOTAL CHuMP WOuLD TAKE WHAT’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE. uNLIKE YOu, I’M NO CHuMP, SO I CAN CLEARLY NOT CHOOSE THE DRINK IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE. BuT YOu MuST HAVE KNOWN I’M MORE CLEVER THAN THAT, YOu WOuLD HAVE COuNTED ON ME BEING SMARTER THAN SuCH A SIMPLETONS TRICK, SO I CAN CLEARLY NOT CHOOSE THE DRINK IN FRONT OF MY HANDSOME FACE

Roxy: soooooo…… u’ve made ur mind then?

Caliborn: NOT EVEN CLOSE. CAuSE IOCANE COMES FROM ALTERNIA, AS EVERYONE KNOWS. AND ALTERNIA IS POPuLATED ENTIRELY BY CRIMINALS AND BACKSTABBERS. AND SCuM LIKE THEM CAN’T BE TRuSTED AND THEY KNOW IT, LIKE YOu AND ME. SO I CAN’T TOuCH THE DRINK IN FRONT OF YOu.

Roxy: truly, u have a dizzying intellect -_-

Caliborn: WAIT TIL I GET GOING! NOW, WHERE WAS I?

Roxy: troll land

Caliborn: YEAH YEAH ALTERNIA I KNOW, SHuT uP. ALTERNIA, SO YOu MuST HAVE SuSPECTED THAT I WOuLD EASILY PARSE OuT THE POISONS ORIGIN, SO I SuRE AS SHIT CAN’T TOuCH THE DRINK YOu GAVE TO ME

Roxy, *antsily*: ok now ur just stallin

Caliborn, *laughing like a lunatic*: YOu’D LIKE TO THINK THAT WOuLDN’T YOu MISS SMARTY PANTS? YOu’VE BEATEN MY BRuTES, WHICH MEANS YOuRE STRONG FOR A HuMAN. SO YOu COuLD HAVE PuT THE POISON IN YOuR OWN CuP AND MAYBE GOTTEN BY ON YOuR STRENGTH TO SAVE YOuR SORRY ASS. SO THE DRINK IN FRONT OF YOu IS NO GOOD. BuT YOu’VE ALSO BEATEN CROWBAR WHICH MEANS YOuRE NOT QuITE AS STuPID AS YOu LOOK BECAuSE YOu’VE DONE SOME STuDIES. AND IN LEARNING ALL THAT CRAP YOu MuST HAVE LEARNED HOW MORTAL HuMANS REALLY ARE SO YOu WOULD HAVE PuT THE POISON FAR AWAY FROM YOuR MuG, SO OBVIOuSLY MY DRINK CAN’T BE WHAT I PICK!

Roxy: ur tryin to get me 2 tell u somethin, it’s not happenin

Caliborn: uNFORTuNATELY FOR YOu, IT HAS WORKED! YOu GAVE EVERYTHING AWAY! I KNOW WHERE YOuR WEAKSAuCE POISON IS!

Roxy: then pick already jeez!

Caliborn: I WILL, AND I CHOOSE OH SHIT WHAT’S THAT BEHIND YOu?

Roxy, turning around: huh whats what?

Caliborn, *switching the cups around*: DAMN I COuLD HAVE SWORN I SAW SOMETHING. WHATEVER. HEHE.

Roxy: whats so funny?

Caliborn: ILL TELL YOu IN A BIT. I MADE MY CHOICE, YOu DRINK FROM YOuRS, AND I DRINK FROM MINE.

Roxy: cheers bro

*they both drink their juice of indeterminate poisoning*

Roxy: u guessed wrong lil man

Caliborn: AAAHHAHAHHHAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHA!

Caliborn: YOu ONLY THINK I GuESSED WRONG YOu SIMPLE BITCH! THAT’S WHAT’S SO FuCKING FuNNY! I SWITCHED THE GLASSES WHILE YOuR BACK WAS TuRNED!! YOu ABSOLuTE FOOL!!! YOu RuBE!!!!

Caliborn: YOu FELL VICTIM TO ONE OF THE CLASSIC BLuNDERS! THE MOST FAMOuS IS”NEVER GET INVOLVED IN A LAND WAR IN SKAIA.” BuT ONLY SLIGHTLY LESS WELL KNOWN IS “NEVER BET AGAINST A CHERuB WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE!!!”

Caliborn: AAHAHHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAAAAAAA

Caliborn: *DIES*

Calliope: thank yoU for that. he was getting rather obnoxioUs.

Roxy: no prob bob

Calliope: to think all that time yoU poisoned yoUr cUp and risked dying jUst for me

Roxy: o no they were both poisoned. I just spent the last few years building up a tolerance for poisons

Calliope: ......

Calliope: roxy, what the hell?

[nunc-flore]

have some concept playlists !!

chill in various moods and genres!

chill in classickal [ when music gets so good u wanna straight up eat it ]

chill in celthicc [ breeng thy begpeipe lass ]

chill in archaic [ enjoy your symposium lads ]

chill in swing [ feelin pretentious today? i got u fam ]

chill in techno [ when the world sucks. no exceptions. ]

chill in arab [ beautiful tunez from the lands of the sun ]

chill in lo-fi [ beep boop bzzt? ]

chill in medieval ballads [ smasheth thou instrumenth, brother]

chill in funk [ funk up lads]

chill in indie [ your raw tenderness starter-pack]

don’t chill in punk [ oi! oi! oi! ]

chill in 80s bops [ what is technicolor if not a digital rainbow ]

chill in norse [ Heill þú farir! heill þú aftr komir! heill þú á sinnum sér! ]

chill in soul [it’s not the waking it’s the rising // nina cried power]

chill in 70s wood-chopping jams (still a stub) [chill, man]

chill in opera [ angelic crowds chanting "he needs some milk" ]

chill in jazz (still a stub) [ sweet music playing in the dark ]

chill in 20s-to-50s music that's not jazz nor swing nor soul [dance and drink like it's the 20s y'all (please stay clear of all the nationalism and the crippling sense of collective doom, thank you) ]

chill in yeehaw [ april is the cruellest month, ain't it? ]

chill in ye olde shanty [ a-hoy captain! ]

and many more, as time goes by!

actual concept playlists

summer indie - guitar themed tracks about life and death and all that’s in between

ingenium voluntatis - r e d  y e a r n i n g  but make it existential. it starts well but something happens. probably society and its non-sense rules. 

the apocalypse and other related catastrophes, merrily told by yours truly - the world is ending and shit is going down. but is it? are you certain this is the world and not some other unnameable thing? are you already dead? is it the apocalypse you dreamed, the one you’ve been waiting for, or is it too slow-boiled? deathly, rotting acceptance of the end of times, with a hint of child-like storytelling.

gotta go FAST -  it’s 34°C. the streets are a desert. you’re 20 minutes late. run.

daydreaming on main - can we stay like this forever? lost in a neo-classical painting, full of celestial things, and symmetry, dreaming away.

dreamy drum pop - is it a dream? are you in love with a dream, in the street of some ancient, modern city, following their shadow? or are you just having a bad case of hypotension? we may never know.

an evening in beige - cruelly posh but in a classy, bitter, hollow way

ready for the lazarus pit, shaka-brah! - a collection to sell your soul to a demonic entity of your choosing to. mostly dark techno, but with a classical twist.

chillin! - or the "dude put on some good music" playlist - when you’re chilling with laid-back pals and they ask you to put on some music and you need a quick, safe, society-tolerable playlist to hit shuffle on and leave there

sweet music playing in the dark - jazz n stuff, some old gems. also, the songs quoted by Almost (Sweet Music) by Hozier.

time. - feel the flow of endless thing going by. the clock is ticking, but what the hell is time, anyway?

audiobooks!! - it’s what it says on the tin, my dudes. including: macbeth, metamorphosis, orlando, the call of cthulhu, iliade, the time machine, the tell-tale heart, the black cat, dr. jekyll and mr.hyde, pride and prejudice, black beauty, treasure island, the phantom of the opera, de profundis, frankenstein, carmilla, beowulf, dracula, the raven

fuck this, keep running - from society. from civilization. it’s just you and your ideas against the world, kid. let’s go give them hell. they will never take us alive. 

oh gee golly what a disaster - oh, this is bad. //  that's so sad alexa play this playlist

a witch in the woods - in the throat of the forest, whispered chants and incantations. it’s the voice of the survivors, the ones that escaped the pyre. hush now and dream.

till the end of the world and back - it’s ride or die. the cavalry's here and it's here to stay. 

italian oldies - italian culture. every italian i've ever met knows every single one of these by heart somehow.

:))))))) - am i happy? am i on the edge of a mental breakdown? have i gone completly insane? gee golly! who knows

stars, who am i? - did someone say existential crisis?

personal hyperuranium - my happy, serene place. when everything is too much close your eyes and listen to this. 

young punks, get off my lawn - wreaking havoc with ur gang  / girl gang.

self torment - me @ myself: why r u like this

razzle dazzle jazzle - you like jazz? 

knightess in a shining armor - heroines with swords, here’s to you

playlists inspired by stuff!

songs to be a flamboyant asshole to - swag walk. i blame anthony jantony crowley for this. 

the mad prophet - loosely inspired by friedrich nietzsche’s theories

the star traveller - laugh hard, run fast, be kind // inspired by the thirteenth doctor

getting to it, that's not the hard part. it's letting go. - i left my heart, 3 friends, and 37 gold bars in the sierra madre // inspired by Fallout New Vegas - Dead Money

pew-pew // (i'm three ounces of whoop-ass) - "Another female operative broke into my house and attacked me." "What did she want?"  "Dinner." | a killing eve playlist

les mis, les amis - those brave fellows. honestly, squad goals.

prince(ss) of verona - inspired by a theatrical performance of Romeo and Juliet, in which the prince of verona was. well. she was powerful.

can't stop, won't stop - healing boost of healthy, uplifting electro music comin your way! ispired by Overwatch’s Lúcio Correia dos Santos 

chloe eliz4bet2 price m0od - hella punk but also hella sad // inspired by chloe price, from life is strange

rachel amber mood - hey i've just met you and this is crazy but heres my number so let's burn down a forest maybe // inspired by rachel amber, from life is strange

musical journeys!

a Comedy. | a musical journey. - someone falls from grace and gets thrown into the world. lands in a forest. confused, resolves to survive at any cost. killing, stealing, partying, fleeing, living. eventually, with time, discovers a gentler, happier way to live. they still throw the best parties. doing no harm, taking no shit.

calliope bae gimme a hand wouldn't ya: a musical journey - a tale of poets: young tragedies and cursed gods; laughs and fights; transcendental roadtrips and hellhounds; parties and their aftermath.

[evilroselalonde]

Homestuck characters and their hugs- rated by me

insp by @karixx-png

i am so touch starved writing these is giving me heart palpitations

John- strong. definitely lifts people up when he hugs them. really good at hugs probably has the most practice. when he’s sad he drops all of his weight onto you tho but even thats kinda nice cause you get to wrap him into ur arms  9/10

Rose- rose is..... trying. its the thought that counts? but like, she’s way to stiff for this to be a good hug. she does get the emotional bit down though! shes probably better off going with a good natured pat on the head tho 4/10

Dave- needs a hug thats for sure.. i think he would be too flustered to maintain a proper hug for long. he appreciates them! he just doesn’t know what to do with his hands and its nice but its... alot. good with those one armed side hugs tho! 5/10

Jade- JADE GOOD HUGS!!!!! LIFTS PEOPLE UP SPINS THEM AROUND AND SQUEEZES YOU SO TIGHT!!!!! BURIES HER FACE INTO YOUR SHOULDER AND YOU CAN FEEL HER SMILE!!!! 10/10

Jane- good professional hugs! definitely one of the more comfortable, natural, huggers! it comes really easily to her! literally the best person to hug when ur sad, she does that really nice thing where she rubs up and down your back with her nails. she also always smell good. i want jane to hug me so bad 10/10

Roxy- ANOTHER GOOD HUGGER! good combo of a jane and jade hug! more for casual cuddling as opposed to a hug tho! likes to drape her body over people like a cat 9/10

Dirk- desperate hugger.  you already have to be pretty close to dirk to get a hug out of him, and one of you is probably going to be crying when it happens. bad at initiating but once it is he tooooooootally just sinks all his weight into it and just grabs onto you. probably cries. 7/10 the hug isnt really all that gr8 but you feel v emotionally relived after it all

Jake-  another one of those bone crushing huggers! jakes hugs are always him basically squeezing the life outta u. good for the short term! not sustainable tho  also very talkative but if you like pet his hair he’ll get real quiet real quick 7/10

Aradia- in theory she would be a good hugger! not to good at it in practice tho! all the potential is there tho, she is very strong and soft! needs practice but getting there 7/10

Tavros- very medium hugs? theyre not bad for sure! and he puts the effort in! he’s just v akward about it 5/10 medium

Sollux- i cant see Sollux ever giving out hugs too willingly. if you were really close maybe? he kinda just leans on u with his arms next to you. not a good hugger. thats okay tho he listens to u about whatever u need to say and helps things make sense. still not a good hugger tho 2/10

Karkat- if ur gonna hug karkat he will probably start crying! and then get mad at himself for crying so be prepared for him to mush his face into your shoulder. very clingy he’s gonna hug you HARD . very hug shaped though, fits in ur arms nice. comfy. 8/10

Nepeta- TACKLE HUGS!!! she WILL jump on u to hug u.  then u gotta move around with a nepeta clinging to u like a back pack. very nice tho, very comforting weight 7.5/10

Kanaya- hugs always start stiff with her. give her a second and she’ll relax dw! after that she is a very firm hugger, not in a bad way tho! makes you feel safe. if ur close she’ll probably hum while she hugs you 9/10

Terezi- if u hug terezi and she likes you ur in this for the long haul. you have a troll permanently attached to u now. deal with it. that said terezis hugs r good! a little tight but good! she comfy 8/10

Vriska- i dont think vris would be one for physical affection! maybe if she was really feeling up to it and liked you enough she’d sling an arm over your shoulder or give a quick squeeze! but long term hugs nah 3/10

Equius- damp. 1/10

Gamzee- i would not hug him. ?/10

Eridan- desperate hugger. always seems to hug u for a little to long. not the worst tho. 4/10

Feferi-  hugs u a little to hard at first but thats okay! she evens it out quickly! very talkative! likes if u play with her hair when u hug her! not good at sitting still but she usually ends up patting your back! 8.5/10

BONUS!

Calliope- very light hugs... likes when u hug her firmly tho. shes very.... boney... to say the least. so not very comfortable but the effort is there! better with her words! 4.5/10

Calliborn- no 0/10

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

I wanna hear abt ur ocs owo 👉👈🥺

AAAA omg bless u you’re a peach <3

I would love to tell you about my OCs I’m like Charlie It’salwayssunny over here I’ve got boxes full of OC stuff I’m just dying to talk about. I’ll put everything under a read more so anyone that’s not interested can just skip past here cause I’m about to get RAMBLY okay let me tell you about my beloveds

Okay so by far my favorite creative project right now is my novel that I’ve been planning on & off since January of 2019, the working title is Villainous, it’s like the most refined and likely to actually go somewhere of all my story ideas and I swear this thing holds my entire soul

The actual story is a play on the classic Career Woman RomCom setup except her name is ~Magnate~ and her big city career that never gives her time for love is ~Supervillain~

unfortunately I don’t have any art of her or any of the other characters yet because good super designs are difficult to nail down, but I’m working on it!

Anyway Magnate is amazing and a bit of an ass and I like her so much <3 She’s a big time supervillain that uses the high tech gadgets she creates for your standard robberies heists kidnapping the mayor the usual. Her parents were shitty white collar criminals that on top of being totally uninvolved in their daughter’s life embezzled from their numerous charity organizations, leading her to be suspicious of anyone that calls themselves a hero + giving her a whopping case of trust issues and a loose grasp on ethics, cuz hey, morality may be a ruse but the power and prestige sure aren’t. She's worked hard and climbed the ladder and made a name for herself as a kickass supervillain, and she plays cool and dramatic but underneath all the bravado she’s just an endearingly awkward nerd who wants a friend, which is where the next character comes in~

So for plot reasons Magnate joins up with another even more infamous supervillain to get a spot as his right hand woman in his plan for world domination, and she’s fine and everything’s business as usual until she’s told that she has to work with another person he’s recruited for her part of the plan to do biochemistry stuff synthesizing the compounds they need while she engineers the tech components, and so enters best boy Dr. Bodhi Bright who crashes into her carefully curated life and ruins everything in the nicest way :)

listen, I LOVE this guy he’s weird he’s a weirdo, just a chill funky lil dude with the most incomprehensible moral compass on Earth. Because of their job he and Magnate have to spend a lot of time together forcing Magnate to actually socialize for once beyond hurling quips at her nemesis, and right of the bat Bodhi completely throws her off her game vis a vis her supervillain image with just his whole deal. He’s this sweet polite guy who’ll talk about a death ray in the same casual tone as the minutiae of city parking, he’s new to the villainy thing and he just thinks Magnate is cool. Bodhi thinks he’s just good at reading people but he actually has minor latent empathic abilities which let him pick up on Magnate’s bravado and so he’s just...not intimidated by her at all. He completely circumvents the whole ‘big evil supervillain’ thing and just talks to her like they’re normal coworkers. And it’s not like they can just find somebody else to replace him so Magnate’s forced to respond and build an actual relationship and rapport with someone for the first time in ever. So they get closer and become actual friends, Bodhi starts calling her ‘Meg’ because Magnate kind of sounds like Margaret, and she lets him. Meg shows him the ropes of villainy, and just sort of learns to be a person again through working & developing this friendship with him, remembering what it’s like to be genuinely happy and excited about her everyday life and care about more than just her job, to open herself up to care about other people at all, and this is a romantic comedy so of course as the story progresses they fall in love and just—GAH I love their relationship so much they're so good for each other I could talk about them forever and I’m literally writing a book about it so like yeah they’re great. my darlings <3.

Here I’ve got some memes to give a better impression of their dynamic

I've only really got one other important character left to talk about aside from Meg & Bodhi's boss (he's literally the worst & the major antagonist for the book that's all that needs going into for now otherwise this thing is just going to reach unwieldingly more rambly and specific heights) and she's the secondary antagonist, superhero extraordinaire and Meg's nemesis AmaZing (get it? like amazing? except it sounds like amazon? cuz she's a lady superhero—) in a shocking turn of events this woman is the best person out of any of the people here and also the most well adjusted, she is also a very interesting character to me and I could probably pull a whole other book out of her character if I wanted to. AmaZing’s real name is Zoe Amison, before she was a hero she was a professional ballerina with a kickboxing hobby that she used to keep in shape, her first night out I think she was just straight up dressed in her costume for Firebird or something. She has superhuman strength and agility, her powers manifest with these bursts of golden sparks and arcs of electricity which she can direct as a close range weapon, basically she’s very good at the big punchy aesthetics. She’s known as one of the best superheroes in terms of like who they are as people, she tries to help rehabilitate the supervillains she fights, including Magnate, even though most of them have none of it, any money she gets from her hero work she donates back to the community so she can contribute more than just punching muggers, and she does a lot of activism and charity events on the side. She makes most of the money she needs to eat and whatnot in the cornerstore she inherited that her family’s owned for generations, and she lives in the apartment above the store with her girlfriend because YES she’s a lesbian YES her girlfriend is trans YES they are disgustingly in love and YES they own a cat named Petal together. (Her girlfriend’s name is Callie (short for Calliope) she’s a nurse and patches Zoe up when she gets hurt on the job)

And there is so much more I could say about this thing but that’s about all I can muster right now in terms of like a basic overview of these characters. Thank you so much for this ask dude this was so fun to do!!