#anyway. was thinking about homestuck again.

[brothfan1997]

was thinking about how people with flight or levitation abilities would naturally rest / position themselves under zero gravity conditions and look at this! nasa’s already done it!

if u ever draw ur superabilitied favs chilling they have to look like they r sitting at a stupid invisible typewriter

[slavhew]

r/offmychest My girlfriend washed my hair today

[corviiids]

THANKS @kimdokjafan you are so kind and generous. ok im cashing in the first of three blank checks to talk about faith trust and pixie dust (most recent chatfic) because the last two directors commentaries were too serious so let's do a silly one.

some p5r spoilers, and this is mostly about sumire, and it's long again. do i need to keep disclaiming that these are long? you should know me by now.

i had this written for a while before i started formatting it because i wasn't really sure if i should post it? i feel like silly chatfic is something people go to for predominantly lighthearted nonsense so i was like, maybe there's too much plot and dramatic misunderstanding and i should just keep this one for myself. but then i was like well nothing matters and maybe someone will have fun with it. it's kind of terrible how much fully or mostly completed fic there is my docs that just doesn't see the light of day lol. write for yourself etc but i like sharing! too bad it comes with the mortifying ordeal etc. anyway that was a tangent

potato counter is a neopets game. there's no deep lore i just like neopets. i guess in this universe ryuji doesn't play neopets? or maybe he's just never played potato counter specifically. i also have a different fic where ryuji DOES play neopets. it's about neopets and ryuji and goro talking on neopets.

i think this might literally be the first time ive written sumi in a fic because i haven't actually written that much fic for royal, like, now that im looking, literally almost none? and none that had a group dynamic. so it was kind of fun to find her voice for the first time in a silly groupchat like this. i was worried people would find her exclamation marks annoying but i personally thought it was endearing so i added it in there.

every time i do a gag where a character corrects their own typo i have to code more stupid little bubbles to make it happen but i think it's worth it. all the effort that goes into making tgis look as much like a real chat as possible

this obviously doesnt take place in the canon p5/r universe, but im imagining sort of a postcanon sumi personality where she's more comfortable being herself and isn't borrowing kasumi's brand of confidence, but she's visibly a really anxious person without that kasumi veneer. i also think in this universe sumire is a fairly recent addition to the friend group, and while everyone likes her a lot and she really likes them, i kind of wanted to emphasise that feeling of being in a friend group where everyone's established and you're sort of a plus-one? you don't really fit yet. part of that is her being new, part of it is her anxiety, part of it is just the kind of person sumi is where she's so polite and self-conscious she ends up taking herself out of things with her own good intentions. stuff like her interrupting the flow of an existing conversation by greeting everyone instead of jumping straight in because she doesn't feel comfortable inserting herself, which means everyone else stops to greet her even though that doesn't normally happen in a friend group, or making a point of thanking everyone for being invited to events while the others take it as a given.

idk i love that she feels a bit out of place with the phantom thieves in p5r. and part of that is a natural consequence of being a new addition in royal who can't be naturally integrated with an existing dynamic but i honestly feel like the writing team realised that and acknowledged it, and really leaned into it, and that made it work incredibly well for me. like, it's part of her character that she's sort of an outsider. it's not like p4g's incredibly clumsy integration of marie and subsequent attempt to shove her down everyone's throat as the canon love interest in p4ga (knife). sumi has that outsider vibe on purpose and it makes me really like her dynamic with the thieves as an individual

goro also feels slightly out of place in these chats, but his conversational style blends more naturally with the other thieves at this point and he even uses their codenames sometimes. i keep saying my chatfic series isn't a real Series because the lore keeps changing, but if we accept that they're all kind of following a General Continuity, assume this takes place some time after the last fic in which ren added goro to the groupchat and they made an effort to integrate him into their friend group. he's kind of there now and has settled into being the weird boyfriend. that's his role.

every time goro says something like "ren and i" assume it's the text equivalent of him talking to the group with his arm around ren's waist.

ok i got really fond of this silly running joke where sumi brings up the weather when she's feeling uncomfortable. she's so polite. i like this thread because setting it up meant i got to tie it off like this:

this just made me happy lol i liked writing this. i tried to use it to demonstrate that despite goro's abrasiveness he obviously knows sumire pretty well, he's attuned to her quirks and knows how to tell when she's having a bad time with her anxiety, so he uses her little weather habit to ground her.

i honestly dont think goro and sumire could be considered close in p5r and as much as i like the "royal trio" in canon they're not really... like... friends? with each other? they're both attached to ren, so it' more a V shape than anything else. but that said, i really LIKE goro and sumi's canon dynamic. he takes a really grouchy but politely attentive supervisory role to her during their few forays into the palace as a trio where he doesn't really know her well but clearly identifies her as a harmless little tryhard who needs some guidance and steps into that role grudgingly, and she immediately looks up to him despite being very wrong footed by his ruthlessness, which i find incredibly charming. i think given time they could be good friends, they just didn't get much chance to know each other very well in canon. so i tried to kinda do that here.

once goro stops being evil and joins the group they all kind of tiredly accept that his role is to occasionally push a cup off a bench while smirking and refuse to clean it up. emotionally, i mean.

wait i need to backtrack chronologically to talk about akeshu.

in this scene they're in the same room lol talking and snickering while typing. im trying to get at that vibe of the annoying couple who is flirting with each other, via you. you know? like ostensibly they're talking to you (sumire) but everything they say to you is part of their stupid game. sumi is incidental to goro and ren teasing each other about flirting with someone else, goro is reporting everything ren says because his boyfriend is so eye-rollingly foolish in a cute way. they're very tickled by how amusing and charming they are. gross. disgusting. sumire im so sorry for putting you through this

anyway here are too many of my favourite jokes from the fic

[aquared]

heres a little fun fact the felt trolls in my au dont have regular hemospectrum blood colors , theyre technically all mutants because their blood matches the canon colors of their hats

the only troll i can imagine passing off normal enough is doze his colors close enough to indigo

[waitineedaname]

the more character discourse i see in the mdzs fandom the more i realize not everyone engages with characters the way i do

[mispelled]

Bugboy !!

[mossflower]

loki season two has me screaming crying throwing up trying not to get dragged back into the mcu trenches

[archersartcorner]

When you meet your ancestor and he’s kinda soft and gentle and you think he’s kinda weak, but he holds you in his arms like you’re frail and breakable and tells you he loves you with all the truth in the world, so you think it’s okay maybe that he’s a little weak. Maybe love requires weakness, you think.

This is an unnecessarily deep caption for what’s essentially a shitpost lmao

IDs under cut!

[ID: Three images done digitally, showing Karkat Vantas and the Signless from Homestuck.

The first image shows Karkat looking at the Signless, who’s off panel, but represented in a small bubble. Karkat looks somewhat annoyed. He asks, in all caps, “Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just want to go apeshit?” The Signless, shown in the bubble, smiles at him, appearing somewhat confused.

The second image shows Karkat being held up by and close to the Signless, who’s snuggling his head against Karkat’s. Karkat continues to appear annoyed, while the Signless smiles contentedly. Both are blushing slightly. The Signless asks, “Aren’t you tired of going apeshit? Don’t you just want to be nice?” There are so many hearts surrounding these two, because the artist loves drawing hearts around tender scenes.

The third image shows Karkat and the Signless again, a continuation of the previous image, Karkat being held closer by the Signless, who’s giving him a big ol’ smooch on the cheek. Karkat is now desperately trying to claw his way out of the Signless’ grasp, expression angry, though more so from annoyance than actual anger. Karkat yells out, “STOP!! FUCK YOU!!” And underneath is written out a little “Smooch,” with another heart drawn next to it.

END ID.]

[quietwingsinthesky]

thinks about child-but-growing-fast amara and lucifer in the same room and gets ill.

[slavhew]

production / consumption

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

i think that the in universe explanation for nepeta not being dead in this post will have to be that she's like ":33< there was no dead tag though!" and then john pulls up his phone with homestuck the webcomic on it and is like "but you're a sprite here" and then nepeta is like ":33< ohh mew're purrobably going to kill me in the retcon" and john's like "ret-what" and then she just winks and then they never return to that thread of conversation

[cha1cedony]

I have to analyze a multimedia project (in the form of another multimedia project) for a class… Should I do the most embarrassing thing ever or

[red-elric]

rose and dave brainworms :)

[eggmeralda]

thinking about in 2013 when i almost became obsessed with homestuck bc i watched eridan's united states of wwhatevver and thought it was funny and then became obsessed with homestuck for like a week despite not knowing anything about it. but then i listened to the clash, changing the trajectory of my life forever, and my homestuck obsession-to-be never happened. jilted at the altar

[sparkerinparadise]

oh btw im a maid of heart, sorry to be cringe or w/e. this is the ONLY part of [redacted] i still like interacting with, sorry

[girlboysollux]

having weird/obscure interests is all fun and games until your family is trying to figure out what to get you for christmas