#but then flash forward to now

[rosestthorns]

Groin cramps are the worst. Feels like my body is like "Yeah yeah upper abdominal lower abdominal cramps, whatever. We really gotta focus on this area tho"

Like

Holy fuck

Thank the gods for heating pads

[vantablackdraws]

Delicious Things

[apparently-artless]

⋆⋅☆ BNHA S07E09 ★ HAWKS ☆⋅⋆

↳ dedicated to Eva (@hokusu)

[possession1981-moving]

JINSOUL Birth (2024)

[valhallavalgrace]

hint hint I'm currently working on an ask about Leo's powers but I did feel very inspired to do a flash-forward fanart of protective valgrace in battle ft fire powers... he'll get there, I promise

[bamblrr]

SHRIMP CHECK

You have reached a SLOUCH REMOVAL checkpoint. Do NOT resist.

friends don't let friends develop back problems

[bylrndgm]

JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (2020) // JULIE E OS FANTASMAS (2011) 1.01 - Wake Up // 1.01 - Enfrentando Fantasmas -> Julie meets the Band.

[r0semultiverse]

Hey, Jake & Jack fans, is this anything?

Both men imprisoned (literal & metaphorical).

Both offered an out from their current predicament by an outside force (arguably in the case of Brain Ghost Dirk).

Both have loose ties to Lord English visually.

Yellow initial glow & Gamzee involvement too.

Sometimes a guy just needs to explode (same pose too).

Both dual wielding weapons.

That same said weapon type (for Jack Noir) having killed Jane Crocker.

It's really looking like Jake is going to do her in.

I would also like to point out that we've had interactions involving these three (Jane, Jake, and Brain Ghost Dirk) before that consisted of similar topics & themes.

Brain Ghost Dirk implying that he's just there as moral support, a manifestation of Jake's powers, and as a coping mechanism. Jane also talking about ruling an empire with him while talking down to him, similar to how she saw and/or still sees him in Beyond Canon's Candy timeline. Jake also being uncertain about doing anything to harm her despite all the bad things she's doing.

Brain Ghost Dirk going away tells us that Jake's more hopeful than he's ever been. This is the moment where he is the most sure of his decisions than he's ever been in his life, whatever those decisions may be in regards to Jane and how to handle this situation.

He is probably going to shoot Jane down, quite literally. I would also argue that after all this time, the lad isn't beating the Lord English allegations. We might as well have a parallel of him killing Jane much like how Jack Noir killed her right before he got possessed by Lil Cal & given some of Lord English's immense power.

Alternatively maybe we'll get to see what the power of hope or hope bullets can do to someone whose done so much wrong & come so far off the deep end in terms of moral wrongdoings. Maybe with every shot that hits her, she'll begin to be swayed to the side of good & start to self-reflect.

I'm still not fully convinced that Gamzee actually cured Tavros' peanut allergy, I mean just look at the panel.

This could absolutely be interpreted as Jake injecting his hope power into the epipen and by proxy injecting both his power & the epipen into his son! If younger Jake is strong enough to defeat Grimbark Jade, then adult Jake might just be strong enough to defeat a peanut allergy is all I'm saying! In fact, now that I'm rambling about it, this seems like the more likely outcome is Jake's hope power swaying or (in the very least) confusing Jane mid-fight. Hope bullets, they would look cool & would be pretty strong!

The power of believing in others & wanting things to change can be a strong tool indeed, Mister English.

If there's one person who still believes in changing Jane's mind (or bringing her back to proper canonicity depending on how you interpret the recent lore), it would be Jake English, the believer.

Okay, maybe this is something! Tally ho!

[chaoticas-hell]

So Im rereading the part in TRK where the monsters are at Exites and Andrew just subtly admits twice that he basically has a crush on Neil (and has talked about said crush with Bee) and Neil doesn't understand and still continues not to understand until Andrew spells it out for him in TKM

[plant-cell-park]

what if i just died on the spot from this whole episode huh

[homestuckreplay]

New Favorite Homestuck Page Dropped????

(page 1073 – ‘[S] Jade: Pester John.’)

First of all: This page is everything to me. It is a spiritual successor to my (previous?) favorite page, ‘WV: Ascend’, in the way it explains and ties together a lot of disparate things such that a bunch of individual events suddenly become one coherent story. Also, the closest we’ve gotten to two of the kids meeting in person!

I love that this flash lets us enjoy how breathtaking Prospit and Skaia are at the beginning, before kicking the plot into gear. Some other aesthetic moments really stand out, too. The transition from Rose’s house (on fire) to Rose’s house (covered in snow), the moment that Jade’s Prospit tower and her Earth tower are superimposed to look like one structure, the golden light filtering through Jade’s dream window turning to blue, and the moment that Jade’s island meteor leaves the bounds of the cloud-vision, becoming a cloud itself as it descends onto Prospit, are all stunning. And every flickering back and forth between waking and dreaming Jades or worlds is a reminder of how interconnected these worlds are, multiple characters crossing this boundary in both directions.

Here, we get an explanation of how Jade’s powers work. As I understand it, when an eclipse happens on Prospit, its moon (and by extension Jade’s tower) passes in front of Skaia. When this happens, she sees visions through portals in Skaia’s clouds that could be from any time in Earth’s (or the universe’s?) past or future. It’s possible for these visions to physically impact Prospit, which is why it’s dangerous for Jade to be outside during the eclipse. Jade can see visions while awake through Bec (p.980), as Bec is originally from Skaia.

Jade is doing the equivalent of lucid dreaming, able to consciously impact the world on Prospit, but only able to impact Earth via her dreambot. John sees some visions, but only as shapes made out of Skaia’s clouds, not through the cloud portals. Jade can also see the shapes made out of clouds, but these are secondary. John’s seeing the clouds could be because simply because his dreaming self lives on Prospit, or specifically because he’s outdoors/sleepwalking on Prospit, or because he’s sleeping within the Incipisphere – it’s uncertain.

John’s visions, importantly, ARE still accurate predictions. This flash incorporates ‘[S] John: Wake up.’ (p.651), in which John sees his dad, a cake, Gushers, a harlequin, the green slime ghost, and Harry Anderson. Almost all of these tie into the mental breakdowns John later has in his dad’s room (p.948, 979) and subsequent experiments with alchemy. So if John can wake up, and now that he’s had this realization about the harlequin graffiti in the waking world he seems like he’s ready to see it in dreams too, he’ll have access to the same powers as Jade. Given that John is often presented as the most clueless character, that would be a really interesting shift.

Speaking of John waking up! The John-Jade pesterlogs from page 169 and 293 are appended to this page, with links for convenience (the first time a pesterlog has appeared beneath a major [S] page). We now know that these happen while Jade is asleep. The only other April 13, 2009 pesterlog between these two is on page 652, immediately after this page, and that conversation makes PERFECT sense now. Jade knows about Nannasprite because one of her cloud-portals showed John’s current adventure, Jade was ‘confused’ about the meteor near her house because it 'landed' on Prospit (and far-past Earth), not current Earth, and John needs to ‘wake up’ so that he can see Jade’s visions too, and they can discuss them with equal knowledge. Jade’s a little frustrated in that conversation, because she knows John was so close to waking up, but now she’s not sure when it’ll actually happen.

The meteor impact as seen on Prospit in this flash is I think identical to the meteor impact on Earth years in the past (p.757) – but we know it’s Prospit, because Jade’s golden tower is there in this version. It appears that Bec was within the Skaian meteor that impacted Prospit, and rose unharmed from the lava pool in the most badass possible way. It’s uncertain whether there are two Becs – one on Prospit and one on Earth – or if he just teleports between them at will. I wondered for a moment if Bec being pure white was a link to the white of Prospit citizens, but that would have implications for all the kids and guardians that I don’t think are true, so I think that’s coincidence.

The simple white spirograph Bec is guarding (on Prospit) is the same that appears at the end of ‘WV: Ascend’, another link between these flashes. It looks like a video game powerup – something hovering in the air that Jade could jump and pass through, and she’d get a success sound and glow for a moment. Bec is stopping Jade from taking this (on Prospit), and from entering the frog statue (on Earth), and I don’t know what his intentions are – trying to protect Jade from danger, trying to keep Jade from something that might help her, or just following orders as an agent of Skaia without thinking? Jade has already had one Strife with Bec to retrieve something he’s guarding – will she get a second, perhaps more dangerous one? What exactly is the white spirograph, and what is hidden inside the frog temple? Is what’s inside the frog temple still there 413 years in the future, now guarded by the Aimless Renegade instead of Bec?

Bec guarding the frog statue from robo-Jade is – I think – one of only two new glimpses of Earth in this flash. The other is Dave’s house, fading from its current fiery sky to a dreary gray day, mirroring Rose’s house fading from ‘on fire’ to its snowy flashback from page 441. I hope this means we’ll see a flashback to Dave’s birthday soon too. Also worth mentioning again is Dave’s ‘sometimes i dream that [Lil Cal is] real and hes talking to me and i wake up in a cold sweat and basically flip the fuck out’ (p.419). John has a malevolent imp entity in his room that clearly affects him while asleep and awake (p.1049) so if there’s a dreaming Dave somewhere in the incipisphere, is it possible he has a Cal equivalent? In fact, could a dreaming Rose have a wizard equivalent? Is Jade able to wake up within her dreams and see visions because she’s the only one who doesn’t have an unpleasant entity haunting her room? Is this because of Bec’s protection?

Also, if we are getting a Dave flashback, that means that Jade’s visions can be in the future or past of her linear time, AND in the future or past of the narrative, which is fun for an already fourth wall breaking character. It got me thinking about the two glimpses of Jade we got in Act 2, and about how one was a narrative psycheout given to us by the author (p.665), and the other was an in-universe psycheout for John himself, almost seeing Jade for the first time in person but waking up before it can happen. I am imagining Jade climbing in and out of the narrative like it is her own personal set of monkey bars and that’s a fun image to me.

I was doing some wild theorizing about waking vs dreaming Jade during my fourth or fifth watch on this, and I even considered that John is the only friend Jade’s able to communicate with while dreaming, seeing the others as people within her visions but not realizing they’re her friends. But I think Dave’s monologue to Jade disproves this, his ‘do you even know if you are [asleep]’ suggesting he’s talked to dream Jade before. So theory discarded, but I really want to figure out the difference between Jade’s waking voice and dreaming voice, such that it’s possible to place any Jade pesterlog as waking or dreaming. Here’s what we know about all ten of her existing pesterlogs.

Page 110 (John) – Confirmed to be waking Jade (p.827).

Page 169 (John) – Confirmed to be dreaming Jade (p.1073).

Page 293 (John) – Confirmed to be dreaming Jade (p.1073).

Page 382 (Dave) – Confirmed to be waking Jade (p. 835).

Page 442 (Rose) – Unknown. I believe this is waking Jade, as she has just mailed a package which is known to be on Earth. Jade seems to speak more concretely while waking and more vaguely while dreaming; I believe she is giving information from a recent dream.

Page 652 (John) – Strongly implied to be waking Jade due to their simultaneous awakening (p.1073).

Page 829 (Dave) – Jade is out of her room and exploring, no clues towards waking/dreaming state.

Page 838 (Rose) – Seen from waking Jade’s perspective.

Page 859 (CG) – Seen from waking Jade’s perspective.

Page 1000 (John) – Unknown. I believe this is waking Jade, as she says she’s ‘never had any sort of feeling’ about the trolls, suggesting that she’s not aware of them in her dreams.

> Jade: Continue to blink and shake head in perfect unison with John.

[t-u-i-t-c]

"Genba! You finish it."

[pinofdnp]

baby both arms cradle you now

[trainingdummyrabbit]

days since ive cried about that cat: 0

category 6 Hero event. afflicted with images and visions but its literally just what happens in-game but more concentrated so i cant do anything ABOUT IT...

fuck dude what do you even do!!! its rolling grass and warm breezes and a hand grasping onto the sleeve of someone you love. that kind of comfort you can only get as a kid tucked into bed; lights on in another room; familiar voices through the cracked door. cupping fireflies in your hands; excited to run; but more excited to bring them to someone; to show them too.

and in context; in contrast; it turns into the childish plea of an 'i wish;' 'i remember;' 'i wish.' this too; starting with the warm reminiscience of their days of running. you dont have to look. we know. we dont have to look yet. such a simple melody; a stumbling little dance on stage; a child's recital.

and through its outro; finally meeting each other in the eyes.. the slow, staggered cobbling of the vocals, the percussion, as if to painstakingly stand upright once more; pushed on and on with more certainty; more momentum; the force of a wheel that cannot stop. as more and more voices raise, a supporting choir, pushing it forward-- until all that remains is the simple reality of it. one simple voice, the petering out of the instrumental into quiet, a single dragged out note; an ember rising and burning out.

the entire thing still holding itself to the same structure a play would; containing itself in the image of the stories they so loved. much the same, ending their conflict through the same means.

[blackbackedjackal]

Imma be totally real with ya'll but I do not enjoy the process of puppy training. I absolutely LOVE the outcome but the constant micromanagement of behaviors is so exhausting, especially when it's something like a herder that will test the limits soooooooooo much. Not to mention having to tell the people around you that they also have to enforce the training and they're not as dog ADHD as you.

[vargaslovinghours]

Happy Vargasversary! Only one meme this year, but I do have a few Vargas-themed online dolls and Picrews for your viewing pleasure lol

I’m so sad about Flash!! It’s just not the same with Ruffle, at least there’s Flashpoint. Anyway, pretty sure I made this Scriabin before the shutdown haha

I can’t find this one, which is such a shame! I think it’s a total classic :0 Something something computer Scriabin haha, there’s no long hair option! Wires are a good enough stand-in

Had to do it the other way around too of course. Don’t tease him! (Do tease him)

Kitty!Edgar! Being able to add things like his glasses, goatee, striped “shirt”, even his bangs! So many lovely options 💕

Feeling normal, covered in blood. I always love when Makers include the Red String, it is Excellent ✨

Rinamaru‘s Anime Avatar Creator, THE maker GOAT to me ♥ Got a sequence of Edgar newly face-cut-up, with the bandaid on his nose, and then “fully” healed hehe

Ladyverse!Jake and Edgar! ♥ I think I was going to make Scriabin as well but there weren’t enough features that’d suit him so these two got the feature instead ♪ I can’t find this one either, I think it’s a Picrew though...? Update: Smol found it!! Thank you!!

Smol also made the boys with one of her fave Picrews! For only really knowing Vargas from my incessant talk (lol), I think she captured them quite lovely :D

I also had to give them a go of course haha, I’m very happy for the option to remove eyes lol