#and i am saying ''this is dirk strider''

[simmonsized]

Thinking about the fact that holding the opinion "you can grow up with an abusive parent and love them anyway, and want them to change" was such a fucking stance to have five years ago that it got me dismissed as a "bropologist" and nothing more lol

[ccyanideapples]

Lift-off!

[post-cal]

this isnt related to the blog i just am thinking abt your drawing of Hal-If-He-Looked-Like-Bro. i think about it every day. i love it to death. i humbly request a redraw

Fun fact about the name for Hal Ambro it is just FULL of references.

[offkilterkeys]

i imagine you have a vault of unreleased content that you don't get around to posting for relatable reasons. if you do i humbly ask that you grace me with something. anything! close your eyes and pick a file? let fate decide. if you made it i'll like it, that's the point anyway

I’ve posted some panels or pieces of these but never the entire sequence on here I don’t think, so but this is one of the only substantial things I’d say I’ve kept in a vault.

I feel like compared to my newer stuff these look super rough, but they were really good practice.

These have pesterlogs that go with them but this post is already huge so eh. This was set to occur a couple hours after Caliborn’s masterpiece, so Roxy and Dirk are talking about Halquius’s heroic sacrifice/death. Davepeta and Dirk continue that line of conversation, while Roxy is pulled into an argument about self control as I bum everyone out by reminding them that Jasprose never actual stopped being an alcoholic.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Roxy: wehere's seasons greasons

Roxy:

Roxy: its that tmie of year agian

Dirk: It doesn't have to be.

Roxy: its not optional!

[orangegreenbracket]

ORANGE GREEN SUPREME FINALS

[ale-cart]

A real life interaction between me and my brother (I was Dave in this and YES I FELT BAD AFTER SAYING IT HSHSJS)

[itsmybirthdaythough]

Something something “borrowing the grief of the past and lending it to your future will devolve into a self-imploding cycle”

Okayyy ouroboros !!! - but on a real note, technology has only aided in my emotional confinement. Google photos likes to show pictures from years i don’t remember, filled with people who have faded from my life. I don’t want to see videos of my ex girlfriend giggljng at my cat, but i am happy to have experienced it once. I only needed to be in that memory once, why does it come back every year, every other month, or every couple weeks ?

I think people are crippled by their emotions in a sense, we live to feel through replication. If we know something will make us happy once, why not try for a second time ? Even happy emotions seem to be manufactured and cluttered with nostalgic ideals, and the cycle starts again when faced with a slight deviation from old memories.

Anywho, all my experiences feel like a rebound for the initial memory. Take what resonates ig

[manifestmerlin]

Why is it ALWAYS DIRK PEOPLE GET WRONG!!! OH MY GOD STOP MISCHARACTERIZING HIM AS A GUY WHOS OBSESSED WITH CONTROLLING OTHER PEOPLE THIS IS NOT ACCURATE!!! READ THE FUCKING COMIC RATHER THAN POST CANON CONTENT IM BEGGING YOU TO REALIZE THIS GUY HAS POSITIVE QUALITIES LIKE 'CARING ABOUT PEOPLE' AND MORE INTERESTINF NEGATIVE QUALITIES LIKE HIS OVER RELIANCE ON SELF SACRIFICE WITHOUT REALIZING THAT HURTS THOSE AROUND HIM!!

WHY IS EVERY ANALYSIS OF THE ALPHA KIDS 'Jane Jake and Roxy are so sympathetic and understandable and also there's Dirk who's evil and an asshole'

[knights-unwelcommentary]

Idea: The players getting their pictures taken for the first page of the newspaper when they arrive to modern Earth C

It's Dirk's turn and the photographer almost has a panic attack trying to figure out how not to offend a god by asking him to smile for the camera

"Maybe let's try a few more and choose the best one. We could change our approach? I'm sure our readers would love to see you smiling, sir." The photographer shows Dirk the picture

"But I am..." Dirk says, his words followed by a dense negative aura, face just as blank as it was when the session started

[opalescent-apples]

I have checked my ao3 comments. The readers crave a Dirk Strider oneshot... but what is he gonna be doing?

He's the tech guy for the vigilantes in this superhero AU I have...

I could write a meet cute, a flashback... something I guess...not sure though.

Anyway someone help. My only ideas involve taco trucks at this point and I'm getting desperate.

[theenduringsun]

welcome to america. your choices for leaders are man who openly supports genocide, collection of various fascists in a trench coat, and maybe one halfway decent individual who won't get elected because they're not part of the bipartisan hellscape. but you have a say in your democracy though :-)

[portrait-of-a-little-thing]

just read find a temple build a temple. i am in Shambles

[choctalksalot]

i think homestuck is pretty neat because all of the kids (and trolls, im using kids loosely) have this way of introducing themselves where they project an image of who they are/who they want to be, while also having a certain degree of self awareness on how much they actually embody that image. and under all of that a whole different version of themselves that they Actually Are that is usually a thousand times more lame, and more interesting because they're just kids. just a bunch of video gaming nerds. but by being those things, they're people, with flaws in places they may not expect and parts of themselves they misinterpret

so even on the things that they're self aware about, oftentimes they're also wrong about it to some degree, either by playing it up, brooding in in their flaws "i can't fix myself i am #brocken" style or closing their eyes to an underlying problem, sometimes being completely aware of it but burying it regardless

just. god !! it's so chewy. it's the basics of how any reasonably intelligent people would act and interact, i've seen it in media so many times, but there's something about how self-aware all of the kids are, how that awareness is still flawed, and how it reflects in all of their interactions that just Gets me so hard.

it might have something to do with how homestuck itself is a game about growing up. maybe it's how the narration itself embeds into the kids' perspectives and how it literally laser-shoots the image they each want to project into your head first through a mode of storytelling that is usually regarded as Correct And Trustworthy, then you get to pick and peel back each of the things they said. hold it up against their actions. the things their friends say, the things they themselves later admit, and it's still never a complete picture. nothing presented comes from a completely reliable narrator. not the characters, not even the narration itself. you have to break them down and deduce and discuss and still never have the full picture, there is always more to think about, there are always more layers to see.

they're all different degrees of aware in their self-perception and that awareness itself has different degrees of accuracy. sometimes that awareness is muddled through a separate perception of them through their ideals. it changes as they change. they understand, they repress, they dramatize and downplay and are so erringly knowing of themselves, it feels so real amongst all the utter bullshit that is homestuck itself. absolutely bonkers. real person-y thing that exists in every character everywhere to some extent but i've never been so aware of it

is layered. onion of mental illness. and when you look at them again you still see just a bunch of kids who played a game together. i think that's pretty neat

[grimstrawberry]

good night to aradia's dimples only

[shrimpwithglasses]

oh… so Dirk is basically off the rails crazy, huh. Just a full on psychopath. It’s genuinely unsettling. Especially the way he was talking about Rose… all that “my daughter; she is mine.” nonsense… like dude… I don’t even know what to say… he’s creepy…