#double points IV

[scarlett-fever]

was overcome with the urge at like 1am to draw a bunch of total dramsters ive never drawn before/haven't drawn a lot. i get so alenowen brained like its always those three + izzy + maybe a harold if im feeling adventurous. 😭 they're my favs but like. i enjoy basically every character!!!

[sheprd]

took a crack at my own interpretation of grimmjow's second resurrection form from the mobile game.

[disco-archetypes]

SUGGESTION - The words have already left your mouth...

YOU - "I want to have fuck with you."

[ube-bluebay]

i have a problem

really long rambling in tags

[randomminty]

Yeahlow

[cccotard]

so.. ive been radio silent.. mb…

but ive been busy! busy making a film !!!!!!!!!

should be done in two-ish months but i have noo idea when itll drop so for rn heres some uncomped/flat progress shots!

[fjordfolk]

me before crufts: i don't think we'll show this year

me after crufts: maybe we'll show a little bit this year

[relaxxattack]

Hi i want to thank you for the QPR vs Moirail venn diagram. Its a rly excellent way of showing the difference. My gripe is about human romance, and how people will either 1- conflate it in a 1:1 ratio with Matesprit, or 2- claim it is “all the quadrants”. I personally feel both are false equivalency, and that the human romance is similar to both pale and red rom* and SO i was wondering if you agreed w that assessment, or if not, if you have the time to explain your thoughts on human traditional romance vs the quadrants (perhaps w another nifty graph)?

* which is why Rose’s destructive tendencies during sburb & her descent into addiction on the meteor were not addressed by kanaya, who feared palezoning herself like she did with vriska

OH MY GOD! YES!!!! why am i getting such great asks today?!

no, you're EXACTLY right. people are constantly conflating matespritship in those two ways; "all of the quadrants" being especially irritating (since Some humans occasionally argue, Occasionally in a kinky way, and i guess that means that they totally have all of kismesissitude covered?? :/).

matespritship is its very own thing. of the two interpretations above, i feel the idea that it's 1:1 to human romance is the closest to true. i mean, that's what they literally say in the comic, for gog's sake.

humans do not truly incorporate moirallegiance, kismesissitude, or auspisticism into their lives in any meaningful way. while it's possible for humans to sometimes have romances that might seem more like one of those than matespritship, they're considered abnormal or toxic-- and they often ARE, because humans do not have the same sort of biological drives or social understanding of these things that trolls do. humans do not understand the true needs and ramifications, or even the ROMANCE of moirallegiance. humans would be hard pressed to understand a kismesissitude in a 'healthy' way. i don't even need to mention how auspisticism flies over people's heads.

so, yes, humans only have the one quadrant. (and karkat vantas, i am sorry to say, is not going to "human date" anyone as the "solution to his quadrant problems". this would literally be the same as him trying to stick only to matespritship, and we all know exactly how that turned out.)

however! matespritship is not an exact 1:1 on human romance either. the direct quote from the comic is;

"[It's] the closest parallel to the human concept of romance trolls have." [x]

this is not really expanded on much in the text, honestly-- the intricacies of the social and biological traits of matespritship aren't shown enough for us to draw clear distinctions between them and human romance.

however, i think you're right that rose and kanaya are the best example we have of that-- despite them both aiming for matespritship, they have cultural misunderstanding quite often from some of rose's flirting, or even just her needs, crossing wires into a pale threshold that kanaya is weary of.

it's entirely possible that the differences between troll and human "hearts" might have made it difficult for kanaya to really connect with rose's problems and discuss them with her.

which might explain why when things go "better" for them in the retcon, they're portrayed reading a book on troll romance together:

it could be implied here that searching for a more in-depth understanding of quadrants actually helped rose with her ability to connect to kanaya-- and maybe, reading into it a little too hard here, this also could have been an opportunity for kanaya to work through her vriska-based hangups with the pale quadrant. that's entirely speculation on my part, though.

at the end of the day, we don't really KNOW enough about the details of quadrants for me to paint a clear picture of how matespritship differs from human romance. i mean, i could try, but it would certainly be more of a headcanon post than an analysis one!

[krittec]

I am personally all for no-phone concerts especially with the recent trend of people trying to have main character energy doing stupid stuff in the crowd during the show or shouting embarrassing stuff

HOWEVER

i am curious on how this will translate to potential new ghoul names. I wasn’t here for Papa Primo but, unless i’m wrong, names were simply given by the symbol that they were wearing and it isn’t that simple anymore with outfits

so looking forward to the medieval style game of gossip sharing stories about potential new ghouls to finally assign them a nickname

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

I have like five projects to finish, but god the allure of a double knit Magnus Archives scarf is so hard to resist...

[butch-bakugo]

Why are vetted accounts sending people stuff like this.

I mean it's clearly copy-pasted and sent to multiple people but this isn't even a donations ask. Imma guess the reason people aren't responding is because you're accusing them of not doing enough for Palestine and sending it to multiple people who you clearly don't check because I've been posting about and for Palestine since oct 7th when I learned about it.

Also yes he is looking for donations, you can check his account and find it. Why are you sending this guilt trippy stuff to people and accusing them of not caring enough? You don't know me? You send these to multiple people so your clearly not checking the account in question. This dose nothing to help you personally or the Palestinian cause, it just pisses people off and makes them question vetters.

[yuanwang]

save me asian ocs.. save me...

[mjrdm]

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[holdmymetaphor]

i dont typically post ~discourse for a number of reasons but as a non-binary person i have never liked the "i hate it when people only ask me, the trans person, for my pronouns, just tell me i look like a freak, or ask every single person in the room"

bc its like whoa, some of us want to look like freaks sorry. as someone who uses they only, i appreciate the effort. and actually, a good portion of the time, i get they'd without asking. i also think that "they" is getting used more and more often when talking about people colloquially (and people dont even realize).

for instance, i was watching a jerma compilation and he said "your mother comes in the room and they're like." like jerma, isn't some out and proud queer icon but he is using they in a way that seems subconscious and protective against assumption. like. i think thats really cool, as a future they mother.

ive also been is real life scenarios where we are in a room together (like a class room) and people reference other people (who don't look classically androgenous) using they pronouns.

the culture is changing, and has been changing, at least in the places i notice. do people use "they/them" as a noun to mean a non-binary person, because they dont know how else to call it? sure. but they use it and they mean it. we exist and people are saying it.

[suntails]

job market misery

[wikipediaboyf]

i plan to make mytho and rue ones at some point but!! heres some princess tutu ones i made with (this tutorial)