#c: tavvy

[whiskey-for-austin]

Austin's hands had reflexively come up to catch the stranger by her waist as she'd fallen into his lap, keeping her steady. He didn't move them yet though. "And yet you're still here," he pointed out, watching her with curiosity.

"I didn't actually mean to sit in your lap. More accidentally fell while trying to get out of the way of someone waving their drink around a little too vigorously,"

[divineerdrick]

Homestuck: Beyond Canon Upd8 for March 23, 2024

As James promised, we've got a second post for this month. No news or anything to go along with it, so let's just jump straight in!

Jane is evidently not handling things well.

Ah, good! We've got a link to the previous conversation. This can be very helpful for dealing with timeline shenanigans in the middle of pesterlogs. I just hope they're not too worried about our ability to put together where we are in the story. I mean if we've stuck around this long . . .

Jane's paranoia is building, but she appears to have not noticed Jake is spying on her. Still she seems somewhat overconfident in her abilities. To be fair, she has been dodging and surviving assassination attempts since childhood.

Wait! Jane on the moon? I thought that wasn't canon! Well, if anything on Earth C past the credits are supposed to be canon at least. I wonder if that means we might return to some of the sprite shenanigans?

Oh wow! This is a tirade and a half! The worst part is a lot of it is true. We know Jake wasn't the best parent for Jade, and we know now about Joey and Jude. But still, I got the impression Jake was much more in Tavvy's life than Jane was. And seriously! Forcing a premature pregnancy with Life powers? The hell! Worst part is when it comes to Homestuck's worst guardians, I'm pretty sure that only barely breaks top 5.

I'm dying! Jake is doing a Gamzee impression and Dirk can't take it!

Well that's a sentence I just read.

Jegus, Tavvy is still very much definitely in the running for worst childhood though . . .

Of all the things to say . . . No! No Jane! You don't get to claim any LGBTQ+ Allyship!

Still, although the Candy timeline is pushing things to an extreme, this is a side of Jane I don't think ever got considered. Jane has been training all her life to be a public figure, to be an Empress really. And as much as I love them, a bunch of idiot teenagers created a civilization and then just let it build for 5,000 years. From the previous iteration of beyond Canon, it seems the Exiles were the true guides until the kids returned.

And Jane saw a group of adoring, worshipful people greet them and knew she needed to step up. It just sucks she couldn't bring herself to truly include the Trolls in that.

Yeah, I'm with Dirk on this one. Wow! Jane blamed Jake for Dirk's death. Just, wow . . . And here I thought Jake was the one who never truly understood their friends.

All and all this was a really painful conversation. I think this one might have been worse than the one between Jade, Rose, and Kanaya. Why do some of the worst conversations in this story take place between Jake and Jane. From reading this, I'm really getting the impression they've always been more codependent than actually in love.

Oh fuck! That really fucking sells it!

I'm at a loss for words. I don't know if this is going to actually stick, or what Jake will actually do when I press, "Page of Hope: Rise up." but that was one hell of a way to realize an epiphany.

Wait, no! That's it! Like I get the reference but really! We're just going to open the door and leave it there!

Oh who am I kidding! How can I be in this fandom and honestly complain about an ending to an upd8 like this. Yes, I want it to keep going! Yes, I wanted a flash video to start! But how many times has this story kept me waiting? Let's just hope we don't have too much longer.

[cationicflood]

“I’m scared of you already, and I’m not even real.”

This quote from Brain Ghost Dirk never did get much follow-up, I think. Many of us certainly don’t think of Jake English as one of the scarier characters in Homestuck do we? One of the sillier ones maybe, or one of the more tragic ones.

So, for a change of pace I’m taking this opportunity to voice ideas about how Jake could be portrayed as someone to be respected and even feared in fanworks, someone who wields the kind of power that makes people think twice about getting into his bad books. And why not? The seeds for it are there, even if undeveloped. In canon alone we’ve seen him do the following at full power:

Destroy a sizeable section of Derse as angels coalesce out of the raw Hope he’s putting out uncontrollably

No-sell grimbark Jade’s Witch of Space / First Guardian powers

Make his mental image of Dirk real, complete with corny movie references the real Dirk would never use

(Possibly) copy Prince of Heart powers for said imaginary friend to use. [Inconclusive, might just be a Dirk-splinter thing.]

No-sell godtier Caliborn’s clockwork majyyks — the rainbow flashing aura so associated with god tier resurrections, mating cherubs, and especially Lord English

It isn’t much to go off of, but the sheer destructive power of Jake’s Hopesplosion, as well as how his power is able to hold its own with (and handily dunk on) the rawest energies associated with Space and Time themselves, seems to indicate there’s a wonderful, terrible, blazingly bright abyss at the core of the Page of Hope if you dig far down enough. The only catch seen so far is in how much control Jake had over his powers on both known occasions — none in the arc leading up to Game Over, and up for debate during the Masterpiece showdown against Caliborn. That only raises a question fanwork is free to explore: what happens when Jake finally gets a grip on this awe-inspiring power?

Post-canon furnishes something else interesting regarding Jake, in HS:BC’s second May 2024 upd8. In a fit of righteous rage where candy Jake finally gets to go off on candy Jane, he mentions that Tavvy Crocker has been free of his peanut allergy since he was 13, and the panel and pesterlog where he explains how it happened strongly suggests Jake’s desperate wish for his son to be cured of it came true. This is an unconscious use of his Aspect’s power just like the time he started glowing while dancing with candy John, but this one is long-lasting, and possibly permanent. Far from being mere illusion with solidity (as some might propose by citing Brain Ghost Dirk faltering in existence as Jake’s Hope field dissipated in the pre-Game Over arc), the implication is that Jake English has the potential to be a full-fledged reality warper just by believing hard enough in what he wants.

This is why I want to see the scope of Jake’s powers — the very potential that scared Brain Ghost Dirk months before Jake ever reached the godtiers — explored in fanwork. How does someone like Jake grapple with that kind of power, whether within his active grasp or eluding his reach in unconscious use?

Give me a Jake that has shades of Haruhi Suzumiya to him, able to change reality without him realizing it just by wanting something so hard that paradox space obliges.

Give me a Jake conscious and fearful of the danger he poses with his powers, fleeing into solitude on instinct because he’s scared of hurting others if he lashes out — because after all hasn’t he done it before? Couldn’t he do it again?

Give me a Jake who treats the awesome power of Hope as a godly nuclear deterrent, who keeps the peace on Earth C with the threat of unleashing all the terrible things his movie-and-comics-saturated imagination could conjure up.

Give me a Jake who revels in newfound nigh-unlimited power after so long feeling powerless, and who sets about remaking his corner of the world — or perhaps the entire world — in his image. And why not stop at just one planet? Why not go further beyond? Won’t it be a grand adventure, perhaps even The Ultimate Adventure?

Fittingly for one of his aspect, there’s endless possibilities to work with, so many ways things could play out.

[nolonger100daysoftavvyfanart]

Whenever i think of villain tavvy, i think of him as a dictator. maybe draw him as one?

Day 16: Direct descendant of the Condescension. Condescendant, even.

Its interesting to think about how Tavvy would view trolls considering that as far as we know the only ones he's interacted with are Gamzee and the Vriskas, which would give him a pretty negative impression.

In theory he should be as anti-alternian as his mother, but from what we've seen he's actually pretty comfortable and familiar with concepts like kismesitude; I'm guessing that's because of Gamzee's mentorship (Maybe that kind of upbringing would even makes him more like an alternian troll than the actual trolls on Earth C, come to think of it).

We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

[aelins-out-riding]

"I suppose the masks do make that sort of thing a tad bit more confusing than normal. My apologies... I didn't mean to stare."

"No, not that I'm aware of at least,"

[capribornio]

413countdown

Delta kids - Day 5: Videogames

You get headcanons for today because. I forgor this was happening lol.

Harry used to play AAALLL the dressing up web games when he was younger. He had a bookmark with a lot of sites, and he loved spending his afternoons deigning outfits. Some of his first sketches were copies of clothes found in the games, modified a bit according to his tastes. He still plays them sometimes for inspiration.

Tavvy loves indies RPGs. It's a bit of a rebellion for him, cosidering most brand games are all Crocker Corp. Vrissy finds really cool he does rebel a little in secret and extremely lame his choice of rebellion (<3=). She mostly plays co op games with Harry (it'supposed to be romantic but both of them end up flying into gamer rage at each other).

Yiffy plays first person online shooters with her gang. (The cool games, not that Crocker Corp bullshit). She's ruthless with the noobs.

On a not-Delta-kid, still Candy Earth C note, Meenah is SO angry at herself for not thinking about something as genius at making money as videogame lootboxes. She hates that it occurred to Jane first. (Then Karkat points out that actuallly, Jane got that from Earth B, where lootboxes where a Earth B Crocker Corp invention. Whcih means that, technically, it did occur to some version of Meenah first. Meenah goes back to be pleased with herself).

[di-daynamic]

@fluffbruary Day 12

Jace liked watching Clary sketch.

She always got this adorable furrow between her eyebrows when she concentrated. She always stuck her tongue out from the corner of her mouth as she tried to get a particularly tricky part. Her movements were so certain, so perfect, so graceful. There was always this one red curl that never stayed in her hastily done ponytail and hung tantalizingly down by her ear that she was too focused and busy to brush back.

She was always incredible, always bright, always incandescent, but never more so than when she was doing something she loved.

“Uncle Jace!” Max called loudly, ruining the introspective mood. He held up and shook the wooden sword in his hand - one of the pair Jace and Clary had spent days painstakingly making for their nephews. “Come and help me!”

Jace smiled ruefully. Romance was hard with kids around, which was why Alec and Magnus had dropped them at the Institute, declaring they were off for a romantic get away which included rarely found gems such as peace and quiet and no levitating children and no explosions.

Fortunately, Max hadn’t started his anti-gravity antics yet, because Clary would kill Jace when he started climbing to follow. He would probably start soon though, seeing as he’d clearly gotten bored of the colouring books and was restlessly walking around, horns bumping into everything.

Rafe looked up from where he watching and helping Clary paint. “Can I go too, Tía Clary?” He asked softly.

Clary reached out to ruffle his hair. “’Course, kiddo,” she said in the tender voice she saved for the children whom she wanted to protect: Emma. Julian. The other Blackthorns. And now their nephews. “I’ll save your painting so you can finish it later, okay?”

Rafe nodded vigorously, before snapping to his feet and rushing over as Jace corrected Max’s grip on the practice sword. “Me too, Uncle Jace!”

Jace chuckled. “No rush, Rafe. Grab your sword and come.” He walked them through some simple exercises and maneuvers he thought they’d be able to do – the same ones he’d done with his younger brother so long ago.

“Gah!” Max growled, swinging his sword wildly. “I’m a Shadowhunter! I’ll kill all the demins!”

Jace grinned. “That’s my boy.”

Rafael was much smoother in his movements – which made sense. He was a Shadowhunter. He had a natural instinct with weapons, and Alec had told him he’d spied on other Nephilim and trained by himself. Jace admired that sort of independence and stubbornness. It reminded him of himself, how much ever Magnus would hate that comparison.

“Uncle Jace, when can we see Tavvy again?” Rafe asked suddenly. He left his sword down next to his overnight bag and came over. Max tossed his randomly and skipped towards them.

“Max, keep your sword properly,” Jace chided gently. “If you get hurt, how are you going to be a little nuisance? Besides, it could get damaged.”

“Not a nuisance,” Max slurred petulantly, but he went and retrieved his sword anyway.

“Alec or I’ll talk to Helen and Julian,” Jace promised his other nephew in response to his question. “I’m sure you’ll get to see him soon.”

He cast his mind back and tried to remember. Right. They’d had only one playdate with the youngest Blackthorn after the whole Cohort-fake death-giants fiasco, and Magnus and Alec’s wedding. Max and Rafael were probably still worried about how Tavvy was holding up after everything his family had gone through. Jace knew he worried about Emma and Julian plenty, despite them seeming perfectly happy on their travel year.

Rafe nodded, satisfied. Jace directed him to the myriad of toys spread on the floor, nearly obscuring it. Sometimes he nearly understood Alec’s concern that they were spoiled, but nah. If he was saw something he thought his nephews liked, he’d buy it. If he took them out, he’d get them unhealthy stuff and ice creams to eat. He was their uncle. That was his job. It was Magnus and Alec’s job to be the boring dads.

“I want to build the Col-o-se-um,” Max enunciated carefully. Clary came up to them, and Jace slid his arm around her waist, lightly pulling her in for a kiss.

“Where did you hear of the Colosseum?” She asked curiously.

“Bapak talked about it,” Rafe answered as they scrambled around looking for materials for the project. “He said he was there when it started to crumble. He said it was very ‘siting.”

“And then Daddy called him a very big liar,” Max added.

“But then Bapak said he was a liar whom Daddy loved,” Rafe continued.

“And Daddy said he was lucky he did,” Max said, gathering the cloth from their short-lived knitting project and dumping it to the side. Jace wondered how that was going to go in the Colosseum but decided not to ask. He didn’t want to know. “And Bapak agreed.”

“And then they kissed,” Rafe made a face. “So many kisses.”

“I don’t see why Alec and Magnus had to go on a vacation to get their share of romance,” Jace complained to his fiancée. “They seem to be bringing every cliché ever to life.”

“Yeah, but they won’t get their peace and quiet with you around,” Clary grinned as he made a face, and went over to the boys. “You know, I painted the Colosseum once.”

“Really?” Max asked, wide-eyed. “Can we see it, Tia?”

“Yes!” Rafe said excitedly. “I want to see your studio, Aunt Clary!”

“Sure, later,” Jace interrupted. “Didn’t you want to make your own Colosseum first? To work, builders!”

They nodded in agreement, starting to discuss (read: argue) how they ought to begin the construction.

“I don’t know how you get them to always listen to you,” Clart said, smiling, as the brothers argued over the largest of the plastic multi-colored building blocks Jocelyn had given Magnus and Alec, which Clary and Simon had played with when they were kids. There was a ‘CF + SL forever’ scribbled on one of them, which at one-point Jace would have loathed and felt intensely jealous of, but now merely smiled at in fond amusement.

How things had changed in the years since he’d left his father and the foreboding mansion in Idris to the welcoming shores of New York: Max. Alec. Isabelle. His mother. Robert. Simon. Magnus. Jem and Tessa. Ragnor. Emma and Julian. Rafe and Max. Kit.

And Clary. Always, always Clary. His one constant in the world, his home, where his heart would be forevermore.

He thought about the seven-year-old he’d been when his father had first told him that parabatai was weakness, emotions were to be hidden, love was destruction.

He’d run at risky missions and self-destructive behaviour and death in his teenage years like flies going to amber: so attractive a prospect that all intelligent thought was out.

He remembered telling Kit that however much he thought otherwise, he didn’t want to die. He remembered looking at that fragile, orphaned, sarcastic, scared, defensive child and feeling a pang of commiseration, of old memory and a person he wasn’t any longer.

“Uncle Jace?” Max tugged at him worriedly when he was silent for a while. “You okay?”

Jace pressed a kiss to his head, carefully avoiding his horns. He exchanged a look with Clary, who smiled softly at him. “Yeah, Max. I am.”

[davekat-sucks]

Do you think that if the Omega Kids got the chance, they would play SBURB and end EARTH C?

I can see Tavvy would want to try, if only for the sort of a different reasons considering his home life. Which I don't blame him.

[pyrobot1cs]

theory that vrissy maryam-lalonde needs glasses because of her serket genes and that they would be square because of out of every group of four kids there’s one with Circle Glasses (Earth A: Jade, Earth B: Jane, Earth C: Tavvy) and one with Square Glasses (Earth A: June, Earth B: Jake, Earth C:… VRISSY!!) heart emoji

[happyhappybios]

Arided Deneba

This page contains mention of death, bullying and discrimination.

Danger scale: Calm

Key notes: Rainbow Drinker, Cursed, Baroness, Half-dead, Fiancee

(Symbol by @.gem-tavvy)

👻Arided's mood👻

🥀🖤⛓👻⛓🖤🥀 Arided's music playlist 🥀🖤⛓👻⛓🖤🥀

Name: Arided Deneba

Age: Before death - 30 sweeps (65 y.o.) -> Сurrent day - 60 sweeps (130 y.o)

Height: 6'7 (200 cm)

Blood colour: Jade

Wiggling day: 15 September

Symbol: Cygnus

Gender: Female (She/Her)

Orientation: Asexual Lesbian

Occupation: ‘The Granted Fencer’; Baroness

Place of residence: Сemetery - Mausoleum 

Lusus: MotherSwan (Small size; No longer lives with her)

Hobby: Fencing

Hemoloyalty: Before death, she was against the hemospectrum and tried to use her status as ‘Baroness’ to spread the message against the Empress. Currently, she would like to stay away from it as much as possible to not repeat the history

Fetch modus: Umbrella. All items turn into drops, she needs to catch one as she pulls that particular item

Strife specibus/Weapon: Saber/Swordkind

Troll Tag: deadlyFencer [DF]

Typing quirk: replace ‘o’ and ‘a’ with 💀

Typing quirk example:

[DF]: “Crying isn’t 💀 we💀kness. With 💀 help 💀f crying, y💀u c💀uld turn y💀ur p💀in 💀r h💀ppiness int💀 s💀mething m💀teri💀l 💀nd let it g💀. D💀n’t be 💀fr💀id t💀 cry.

Personality:

Arided is a gentle-looking troll with a soft spoken voice. She is a very calm, sweet and understanding troll, but melancholic and distant at the same time. She is a good listener, so she is always here to listen to others if they need it and share her wisdom with anyone who needs life-advice.

Before Arided’s death, she was an inspiring, successful jade in the troll community. She was a passionate, selfless, charming and proud role model for other trolls, showing off her bravery and determination in battles. Everyone looked up to Arided, respected and adored her. 

But she was too prideful to notice the first moves of her enemy, leading to her death…

After she gets back to life, Arided reflects on her past behavior and promises herself to not get involved in anything that will lead her to death again, trying to become more unnoticeable in troll’s eyes.

Likes:

Dark places

Goth outfits

Chatting with ghost-friends

Silver jewelry

Piercing

Being alone

Training her fencing skills

Swords

Dislikes:

Bright colors

Coffee

Desecration of graves

Prideful trolls

Hot weather

Glitters

Drones

Her Imperious Condescension (HIC)

Trivia:

Arided was hatched in the ‘Victorian era’ similar to human’s.

Arided has been cursed since her childhood. Her curse was being able to see and interact with the dead.

Whenever Arided is angry, excited or just simply bored, she always goes training her fencing skills.

The only thing that keeps Arided alive is her Rainbow Drinker power. That’s why she can’t simply turn off her glow.

Her parasol isn’t just a decoration, but a weapon as well.

Arided’s old hive was destroyed a long time ago, so she borrowed one of the mausoleums in the cemetery as her hive.

Relationships:

Matesprit - Proposed/Taken - 🌌The Last Night🌌

Dafira. Her heart will always belong to her beautiful fiancee. A lot of sweeps will pass before Arided could meet Dafira as a ghost and promise to never leave her side again.

Moirail - Open!

Kismesis - Open!

Auspistice - Open!

Out of quadrants

Friends - Ghosts. Ghosts always follow her whenever she’s alive or dead. She was afraid of them at first, but now she can’t imagine her life without them.

Children - Ghosty. Ghosty is a little white blooded wiggler that Arided is taking care of. Strangely enough, they fit into this spooky mysterious family.

Acquaintance - Phecda. Arided never interacted with other jade, but is aware of her and her daughter, Vulpec.

Acquaintance - Vulpec. Arided is so happy her kid has such a good friend!

Backstory:

Since her hatching, Arided was surrounded and followed by ghosts. 

As a kid, Arided was terrified by them. She tried to run away from them, hide from them and even ignore them, but each time they always came back to her as they seemed to know where she was all the time. Arided tried to tell adult trolls about it, but no one believed her, telling her she was lying. It caused Arided to get bullied by her jade peers when bad rumors quickly spread about her in the caverns.

The rumors lasted for a long period of time throughout her childhood and teenage hood. It got worse when Arided started to work as a nanny.

Arided was bad at taking care of grubs. Whenever she tried to cradle or feed grubs, they always cried in her arms. She had no idea what was wrong before much much later she realized it could be ghosts' fault.

Arided was exiled from caverns when she was 10 sweeps (21 years old) after she was seriously accused of hurting a hatched grub. She couldn’t believe how unfair and biased their judgment was towards her. Arided knew all of them just simply disliked her.

It sparked something rebellious in her.

She will prove to herself and jades that she is worth something outside of caverns.

And the first mission was to find a place to stay.

Arided went to the nearest town where she quickly found the job and bought her own flat. She worked as a waitress in the old bar for some time, while trying to find something more profitable. She thought about giving up on her goal a few times but as soon as she remembered her old peers laughing at her, it boosted her motivation even more. 

She is not going to give up so easily.

At the same time, Arided gets used to a company of different ghosts around her and her curse in general as it becomes a routine. She even made some ghost-friends during her life. 

It took her 2.31 sweeps (5 years) to get used to the town’s chaotic schedule and atmosphere. She finally felt at home here.

One day, she saw an ad in the newspaper about fencing lessons, the first lesson is free. Thinking hard about it, she decided to go there and see if it would stick with her as a hobby. And in the first lesson, Arided was amazed at how elegant and beautiful fencing is. 

She fell in love with it at first sight. 

Arided knew fencing was her thing.

Her destiny. 

She just knew it in her heart and obviously, she proved it in the lesson. She won in the friendly duel for the first time against another student, impressing everyone, especially the teacher. 

Not even hesitating, the teacher took her in their class immediately, seeing a talent for fencing in her. But because Arided didn’t have enough money to pay for full lessons, they made a good discount for her, so she could attend the lessons. It made Arided so happy and excited for future lessons.

And it was worth it.

She spent 4.62 sweeps (10 years) of training and polishing her fencing skills before she could enter her first National Fencing Championship, where her life changed drastically.

All her hard work and training paid off. She won the championship. 

All eyes were on her, bad and good. 

She quickly got a lot of proposals and invitations from a bunch of different sponsors and high class trolls. So much that she spent a week or two reading all of it.

It blew her mind. 

She didn’t expect such attention from other trolls, especially from highbloods. There was one highblood in particular who she thought would help her to reach a high status in troll society. Arided knew their influence goes beyond and above imaginable and fortunately they were interested in her. Feeling as it was her only chance to achieve a bigger goal, she accepted their proposal.

It took her 4.62 sweeps (10 years) to be fully accepted in high troll society.

Arided became famous in the circle of the highbloods as ‘The Granted Fencer’ and was promoted to her status as ‘Baroness’ after 2.31 sweeps (5 years) of serving the Alternia Empire Army. It wasn’t really necessary for her to do it as she could have gotten this status another way, but it was her personal decision.

She always represented middlebloods and lowbloods in the circle of high class trolls, not being ashamed to show her blood color. Arided pushed the narrative of lowbloods being able to be successful as well, but not all trolls believed in it, finding the concept strange.

But Arided is not going to give up so easily.

Meantime in the background…

…she met her.

Her future fiancee, Dafira Hegala, a lonely olive blood who worked as an assistant under a famous alchemist - Pr. Celbal Rasall.

Their first meeting was awkward to say the least. They met in the cafe where Dafira spilled coffee on Arided’s new costume and later dropped a piece of chocolate cake on her shoe. Thankfully, Arided wasn’t really angry at poor olive and forgave her on the same day.

Their second meeting was a sudden one. Arided was curious about the alchemy and went to Pr. Celbal Rasall laboratory where she met Dafira once again. She didn’t expect to see her again, but wasn’t opposed to the idea to get closer to the olive.

Their romance finally bloomed after it.

They both started to spend more and more time with each other, knowing more details about each other's pasts, likes and dislikes and so on. Each time on their ‘dates’, Arided fell for Darifa more and more, finding more reasons to love her.

Soon later, Arided asked her to become matesprits.

Darifa accepted happily.

But, their happiness didn’t last long.

Arided’s personal life was put on display by one of her high class rivals, shaming her to even date someone who is lower by class, status and caste. Her reputation wasn’t really ruined as she still had fans and allies who loved and respected her, but her dear fiancee got under the radar of some obsessive individuals who stalked and harassed her on a daily basis.

This is something Arided couldn’t forgive.

She started to use her influence to spread the message against the Empress at that period of time. Arided was tired of disrimination against lowbloods and middlebloods as she can’t longer watch her fiancee struggling under the troll society’s pressure and so decided to put an aggressive/hostile act towards her goal. Her support started to grow rapidly by the day…

...and no one knew how long it would take for Arided to start a revolution against Her Imperious Condescension.

But…

…she was too prideful and full of herself to notice the first moves of her enemy. 

Someone sent her a letter with an olive blood on the cover. It was the first time when Arided felt fear and despair. The more she read the letter, the more she felt sick to her stomach. The love of her life was held hostage by some stranger and if she didn’t come to the appointed place - cemetery - Dafira would die.

Of course, Arided came to the appointed place and was immediately attacked by a group of hired assassins. She fought proudly with them, but in the end she was stabbed in the back.

Arided died on the ground of the cemetery. All the thoughts were about Dafira and how sorry Arided was to let this happen, having no idea if her fiancee is alive or dead.

…

30 sweeps (65 years) later…

All of sudden Arided woke up from a long dead sleep. She found herself in the coffin and when she got out of it, she recognized the same cemetery where she died. Arided reflects on her past behavior, blaming herself for the trouble she caused for Dafira and promises herself to not get involved in anything that will lead her to death again. She gathered some information about the place, time and events that happened when she was dead and got even more confused. Sadly, she doesn’t really have a choice, but to get used to a new era of trolls and help anyone who needs it.

Later on, thanks to anon trolls, she adopted and raised a grub on her own before she finally met…

…her, once again.

[itsjustoctavianhere]

Little Auggie: Hey, can i have this?

Octavian: No.

Little Auggie *turning 2 degrees to the right*: Hey, can i have this?

Alabaster: Absolutely!

(Can be reversed depending on what Auggie wants)

WAIT WAIT LMAO SO TRUE

OK SCENARIO:

They are at the zoo and Auggie really loves the giraffe and asks Tav to buy a real one for her.

Tav says no but Al agrees, and Tav’s like: “you better not use your hocus pocus to steal that giraffe”

Al: Oh don’t worry I won’t! *proceeds to wink and Auggie*

Auggie: *understood what that means and smiles*

So the next day Tav goes down to the kitchen to get some morning coffee only to see Auggie riding a green figment of a giraffe which Al made using his magic while he is taking pictures.

And then Octavian proceeds to loose 10 years of his life span.

​on the other hand Octavian constantly buys really expensive things for August and for her future. And Al’s like… “this bar of soup costs about same as a Lamborghini”

Tav: Not really, the car was cheaper

Al:…what

Tav: it’s for her 18th birthday

Al: OCTAVIAN SHE’S 7!!!

[pjo-hoo-toa-freakazoid]

What if Octavian introduced Auggi to Al?

Who is Augustina & How he got his daughter Auggie

it didn’t really end good for Al :D

[whiskyarts]

Leggy UP  For that one trend on twitter

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Homestuck: Beyond Canon Upd8 for 2/10/24

We got our news post a little late and our upd8 a little early. I'm struggling today and behind on progress for everything, but I still want to read.

James is being a bit hammy, but he's teasing some good news. It looks like we'll be getting [S] pages in the future. Hopefully with more than one person and a slower upd8 schedule, they won't ever need to pause for them.

Kinda curious about the VTuber mentioned. I like watching people experiencing Homestuck stuff! It's the whole reason I started live blogging.

Now onto the upd8!

Looks like I might have been right about Yiffy potentially having something to do with that ominous red glow. Let's see what's going on.

Like all teens, the worst thing that can happen to her is public parental affection. Though Jade is laying it on thick! Where's Rose with a quip about contacting CPS? Although she'd be calling them on herself.

Not sure how I feel about the gag, honestly. It's pretty cliché, and Tavvy is right there. We don't know how badly Yiffy has suffered, but like Tavvy it's been real abuse and neglect. This comic does have a habit of trying to make child abuse a joke, though.

Kanaya is obviously still struggling, and I can't blame her. Yiffy is one of the most controversial aspects of this comic, supposedly handed down to us from on high by AH himself. One of the great complaints about the Epilogues is that it takes the characters in directions that were intended to challenge fans. But even then, the idea that even a Candy Rose would cheat with Jade to have a secret love child and hide it from her all this time is so fucking out there. Everything about it feels wrong.

And then, of course, they get into a silly dare and name her Yiffany Longstocking Lalonde Harley!

But I'm not saying things that haven't already been said a million times. It's always felt like one of AH's epic troll moments, like the ones I both love and hate in the original work. And I hoping it will eventually pay off to something.

Looking at the text here, Yiffy's color could definitely be the red. Hah! Pepis.

Yiffy's mind is also on Kanaya it seems. We're also getting a sense of her attitude much more clearly now. I'm kinda getting Susie vibes.

Oh wow! They're actually calling it "The Yiffy Reveal" in universe!

Wow! Wow! Fucking wow!

The fuck!

I think my jaw just splintered the floor at my feet!

Rose used her power. She actually used her fucking power! And not only does she believe this will all be fortuitous (it's practically fated since it gives us a set of four kids), but that fortune would dictate Kanaya's eventual forgiveness.

She didn't just decide on, "Easier to get forgiveness than permission." She believed it inevitable, so that made it okay!

The fuck!

We're digging a little into Jade's adult life now. And yeah, it's just as bad as we probably imagined it was. Doesn't justify them going behind Kanaya's back, but you can understand her yearning.

That . . . that oddly makes sense. It still seems wrong, but it's the kind of backward logic that might occur on Candy Earth C. I don't know if AH had this explanation as part of Yiffy's backstory, or if it's writing we can attribute to one team or the other. But it's an actual explanation for how we got here.

Still not enough to pay off the trolling yet.

How . . . Tavvy, what were you doing?

Yeah, no. I'm betting right now Kanaya is feeling a lot more forgiving towards Jade and a lot less forgiving towards Rose.

That's Meenah's symbol, so we know who to expect a call from next time at least.

Of course a lot of attention is payed to the captchalogued corpse in Jade's possession. Did she find Dave's body and is still not dealing with it? Has she considered her taxidermy tradition dealing with it enough? Is this somehow another corpse considered fitting for the Harley traditions?

Tune in next time!

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;; tag dump - PRIMARY MUSES pt. 1

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Here, Have my GamTav Scenarios since I have nothing better to post:

1- Tavros goes over for Gamzee to help him walk with his legs for the first time. Then he's like

TAVROS: dO YOU THINK I CAN DO THIS?

and Gamzee shushes him dramatically

GAMZEE: DuDe.. DuDe DuDe BrO mY mAn.. BrOtHeR i KnOw YoU cAn ThRoUgH tHiS bItCh.

Tavros turns with a new confidence then falls face first to the ground. Gamzee stares into the void completely out of it. Tavros gets up still confident as fuck and walks away.

2- Tavros back on alternia tells Gamzee the time he saw a paper bag that was flying in the wind, and how

TAVROS: iT REALLY FELT LIKE IT WAS ME,

and Gamzee nodding a long with Tavros subconsciously recreating Firework by Troll Katy Perry.

TAVROS: lIKE, dO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE A PAPER BAG, dRIFTING THROUGH THE WIND,

GAMZEE: WaNtInG tO sTaRt AgAiN?

TAVROS: yEAH EXACTLY,

3- Gamzee finding nicknames for Tavros.

GAMZEE: TaVdUdE tAvBrO bRoRoS bItChMaN fUcKrOs.

TAVROS: mAYBE THE FIRST THREE, i DON'T THINK BITCHMAN IS REMOTELY CLOSE TO MY NAME,,

GAMZEE: DuDe EvErYoNe HaS a LiTtLe BiGaSs TwInKlE bItChMaNiNg..

TAVROS: hUH,,, oKAY,

GAMZEE: HmMm..

GAMZEE: TaV rOs.

GAMZEE: TaVeR.

GAMZEE: TaVvY?

TAVROS: aW, tHAT ONE IS CUTE,

GAMZEE: TaVvY tAvStEr.

TAVROS: }:)

GAMZEE: TaVvY tAvBrO bRoRoS tAvDuDe It Is.

GAMZEE: i'M THINKING OF CALLING YOU BACK, iN GAMZBRO,

GAMZEE: WoAh!!

TAVROS: mAYBE,, eVEN DUDEZEE?

GAMZEE: HoLy MoThErFuUuUuCk!!

TAVROS: aND I CAN TRY GAMMY,

GAMZEE: LiKiInGgG aLl ThEsE wIcKeD mEmOrSeLs YoU cReAtIvE mAkInG hErE.

TAVROS: wELL, tHEY'RE JUST YOURS BUT, wITH YOUR NAME, rEALLY,

TAVROS: jUST SWITCH IT AROUND, aND NOW WE HAVE MATCHING NICKNAMES,

GAMZEE: YoU'rE vErY cLeVeR.

TAVROS: tHANKS DUDEZEE,

GAMZEE: HeHeHeHeHeHeHe No PrObLeM dUdErOs.

Karkat cameo

KARKAT: I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO PUKE.

4- Gamzee admitting he never brushes his teeth or hair which runs a chill down Tavros's spine to which he's surprised he can subconsciously get.

Next time on the meteor Tavros has a bunch of combs and fang cleaners

Gamzee, nervously sweating

GAMZEE: WhAt'S uP mY dOgG.

Tavros, holding up the items

TAVROS: lAY DOWN, gAMZEE, i SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS SOONER,

GAMZEE(SoFt SoBbInG): OkKaY.

5- They light fireworks inside the meteor which then causes multiple equipment to burn.

TAVROS: tHE COLORS WERE NICE, gAMZEE WAS RIGHT,

GAMZEE: kInDa FoRgOt WhAt I'm DoInG hErE..

KARKAT: YOU WERE BLASTING TROLL KATY PERRY AND LIGHTING FIREWORKS IN THE DAMN TECH ROOM. SOLLUX IS GOING TO KILL YOU.

SOLLUX: ii am goiing to KIILL YOU!!!!!

GAMZEE: RuHoH.

TAVROS: iT'S RUFIOH,

TAVROS: nOW RUN!!!

GAMZEE: I cAn'T rUn.. I'm ToO sLoW.

TAVROS, who's watching GAMZEE run next to him: bUT YOU'RE RUNNING?

GAMZEE, who sees the world in slow motion: Oh, OkAy ThIs Is JuSt SpEeDrUnNiNg.

TAVROS: aCTUALLY-

SOLLUX: come fuckiing BACK here

TAVROS: nEVERMIND SPEEDRUN!

6- Tavros, Gamzee and Aradiabot having a dance party in which Feferi joins in.

Vriska tries to shut it down to which she gets punched by Aradiabot, they continue dancing with Tavros stopping midway trying to see if she's okay but then shrugs it off.

And Gamzee's dancing looks like this!

7- Final scenario is Gamzee and Gctavrosprite on earth C, Gctavrosprite after confessing to Gamz - they go together in Roxy and Callie's house and spend time watching movies and doing shit they used to do in their childhood.

GAMZEE: AnD tHiS oNe We WrOtE wHeN yOu WaNtEd To TaLk AbOuT mEgArOnGaReX.

GCTAV: iT WAS SUCH AN UNDERWHELMING FIDUSCARD, i NEEDED IT AT THE TIME,

GAMZEE, smiling: YoU wErE a SwEeThEaRt BaCk WhEn..

GAMZEE: GlAd ThAt GoOdNeSs Is SwIrLiNg iN tHeRe StIlL.

GCTAV: i'M GLAD TOO,

GCTAV: i'M VERY GLAD TOO,