#flashing gif under the cut

[ultimadoka]

celeste ♡ 18 ♡ they/them ♡

-> about + daily click <-

feel free to ask for my switch code, steam, or discord!

like + reblog spam = OK!

[PT: celeste ♡ 18 ♡ they/them ♡

about [link] + daily click [link]

feel free to ask for my switch code, steam, or discord!

like + reblog spam = OK! /end PT]

[front-facing-pokemon]

[sourtomatola]

Third-ish part to Light switched AU

All of you need to go thank @anangelcalledinquisitor for the ideas cause I had nothing for ideas until they gave me some. Both boys are suffering XD

Original parts of Light switched AU

Part4 | Part 5

Meanwhile, Y/n Be over here like: (flashing image warning)

[apparently-artless]

Ashiro Mina Headers + Icons (Kaiju no. 8)

↳ requested by Elena (@ashiromina)

[starflungwaddledee]

Has Morpho knight or the butterfly ever met Your Oc? Not like conversation wise but do they monitor them?

i would certainly say it's aware of her

who wouIdn't be?

[eatingyarn]

they made me and then they broke me

angst? don't mind me if i do! @exilethegame

i made also a small gif out of this under the cut, but there are flashing lights, so please be careful!

[localcryptic]

save a horse ride a ranger! or however the saying goes i wasn’t paying attention

(i wish this were just regular old cowboy ortega posting. it’s not. @b33tlejules sent me this image and i needed to recreate it so. bonus version under the cut 🤠)

BUT WAIT. IT’S A GIF TOO.

[eldest-of-katts]

Happy @mcyt-halloween to @juiceboxxjamie!! They said yes to shipping and to a high ~spookiness~ factor- so a scary fill is under the cut (warning, it flashes/flickers)! hope you enjoy!

And the flashing version below!

[disposablepapercup]

It's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake~!

Recipe:

2 eggs

3 cups of flour

1 cup of milk

1 tablespoon salt

sprinkles (to taste)

Recipe (revised):

2 eyes

3 cups insulation foam

1 bottle mouthwash

1 hibiscus (chopped)

painkillers (to taste)

[harleybird]

60th Anniversary Specials + Palettes

Inspired by this set and Montaigne's Complex album cover

Bonus 15 :

[galaxiesovertrees]

sprites for a cyber elf zero design I made !

gif/comparison under cut !

additionally, reference for the sprite frames was taken from here !

[captaincrungus]

yeah. yeah i blasted her with the emo beam. my bad

based off this gif i made in an hour w picmix like 2 weeks ago (warning its a bit flashy!!- figured id put it just under the cut 2 b safe!)

so anyways if u followed me bcuz of the drawings i posted last night then this is the quality of posting you basically just signed up 4 /j

[ix-c-999]

manager/manager headmate

we couldn't find a flag for the manager system role, so we made one for it!

pluralpedia defines a manager (link to page) as follows: "A manager is a system member who takes on the necessary and vital role of ensuring things get accomplished, generally being a personification of the concept of executive function. They often remember dates, appointments, medication, and other scheduling, and sometimes do more menial but important tasks such as cleaning, or delegate tasks amongst the system."

simplified flag:

flag blinkies under the cut:

[the-meat-machine]

On page 5714 of Homestuck, when Jane is bopping a bunch of enemies with the lollipop juju, the cherub-looking dudes turn into Lil Cal looking guys, with the red blood ones looking just like him and the green blood ones having green lipstick and cheeks + white bowtie, instead of red and black respectively. And, Jake's Caliborn-esque symbol turns into a Lil Cal-esque symbol.

I feel like this means SOMETHING about Lil Cal, but I have no idea what. Sending this to you because I consider you the Lil Cal Expert. This is absolutely haunting me.

For those who don't remember, anon is referring to this:

Okay, so, before you sent this ask, I hadn't thought too much about this. I figured this was just reinforcing the conceptual link between cherubs and Lil Cal by implying that Trickster Mode cherubs look like Lil Cal.

But I think we can go deeper. Specifically, I'd like to think about what it would mean for Lil Cal to be a juju that's patterned after a trickster-mode cherub.

Bear with me - I'm not sure how much of this is obvious and how much isn't, so I'm just going to go through everything.

Cherubs are connected with Lil Cal

This one is fairly obvious. From a Doylist perspective, Lord English's design deliberately draws elements from Lil Cal's design, and therefore cherubs in general resemble Lil Cal. And of course, Caliborn's soul becomes entangled with Lil Cal's. Even the name Lil Cal is a clear connection.

Cherubs are connected with Trickster Mode

Again, fairly obvious. It's Calliope and Caliborn's combined jujus that cause Trickster mode. All of the Zillyweapons the tricksters create are tied with ridiculous cherub lore. Et cetera.

In addition… I'm going to quote from Hussie explaining Trickster Mode to Caliborn:

Furthermore, [Trickster Mode] could only be seen as a boon from an asocial species. You never have to deal with other people. So if you lick a magic lollipop that flips a switch in your brain that says "all my problems are solved," I guess maybe that's fine for cherubs, but if you're a human you haven't actually solved anything. By the same logic it's not much of a boon to a human's physical journey either. Using an item that lets them start maniacally powering from point A to point B isn't doing them any favors.

This seems to imply that Trickster Mode would be a better power-up for cherubs, who generally don't have to worry about petty things like "fucking up all your interpersonal relationships in a drug-induced mania". It also implies that cherubs may be physically more able to handle Trickster Mode than humans, who seem to be exhausted once it wears off. Like maybe this is a cherub power-up that isn't really meant to be used on humans.

There's also the matter of the energy that tricksters draw on to fuel their antics… but I'll get to that in a bit.

Lil Cal, specifically, is connected with Trickster Mode

As noted in the ask, Lil Cal motifs show up in several places during the Trickster Mode arc. The cherubs in that one flash turn into Lil Cal lookalikes, Jake's skull symbol turns into Lil Cal's head - plus Dirk's Trickster Mode outfit is based on Lil Cal's outfit.

The implication here is that Trickster Mode cherubs look like Lil Cal. Or to put it another way: Lil Cal looks like a Trickster Mode cherub.

And maybe we could stop there. Cherubs, Trickster Mode, and Lil Cal are all connected, so making the trickster cherubs look like Lil Cal could just be a fun visual way to reinforce those ties in the reader's head.

But on the other hand… Lil Cal could, in a way, be an embodiment of cherub Trickster Mode.

Here's where we get more speculative.

Lil Cal has trickster-like traits

What little we know about Lil Cal's "personality" reinforces the impression of him as somehow trickstery. As Calsprite, he literally does nothing but laugh, all the time, always. As a puppet, he shows up throughout the comic, appearing and disappearing in a way that's almost playful and yet also deeply unsettling. And "unsettling playfulness" is pretty much the essence of Trickster Mode.

So far, so good. This all feels like even more reason why Lil Cal makes sense as a representation of a trickster cherub.

Let's go deeper.

the enigmatic forces presiding over all that is eternal (or, what if ALL the rainbow glowy shit is connected)

Here we're going to take a bit of a detour. Ok, maybe it's more of a full-on dialectical road trip. It starts, as all the best things do, with cherub sex.

Here's a quote from Aranea's explanation of cherub reproduction (typing quirk removed for readability):

While dueling in such a monstrous form, their energy is inexhaustible. The transformation taps into the cherubs' latent connection with the enigmatic forces presiding over all that is eternal, and permeating all those endowed with immortality. Normally this power is only accessible to them during mating. In this form, they are only able to be injured by one another, and are otherwise indestructible.

The important part here is that cherubs have an innate connection to a power that imbues immortality, and this power is visually represented as a flashing rainbow energy.

This force is also almost certainly the power underlying both Caliborn/Lord English's immortality and god tier resurrections.

I'll start with the god tier resurrections, because it ties directly in with where Caliborn gets his immortality.

Here's a comparison between the god tier clock and the stock image that it was based on:

Of note here are two changes that Hussie made: 1) The angels (or should I say cherubs) on top have much larger wings. 2) The animals flanking the clock face have been changed to have crocodile heads that resemble the heads of cherubs when they're in their mating form.

All of this is to say that the god tier clock has very deliberate connections to cherubs. This, combined with its apparent function (resurrecting god tiers who have died, conditional on their death being neither heroic nor just) suggests that god tier resurrections are fueled by the same "enigmatic forces presiding over all that is eternal" as mating cherubs. We also get to see that flashing rainbow energy again when it activates:

Caliborn's reward for defeating Yaldabaoth appears to be the god tier clock itself. When Caliborn destroys it, he absorbs the (rainbow, flashing) energy it emits, rendering him unconditionally immortal. As a cherub, Caliborn is the perfect recipient for this boon - he already has an inherent affinity for this sort of power thanks to his species.

Ok, so what does this all have to do with Trickster Mode?

You know what else is associated with flashing rainbow energy? That's right: Trickster Mode.

I know, this may seem like a stretch, but also bear in mind that the exact pastel rainbow flashing colors that the tricksters talk in (and that show up when Jake, Roxy, and Dirk transform) are also seen both when one of the cherubs transforms into its mating form and when a cherub hatches from its egg (compare the text colors to the colors around the red cherub below). So, we've got more connections to cherub energy here.

My theory is that Trickster Mode taps into the same well of energy that powers cherubs' transformations during mating. In this case, the point is less the immortality and more the "inexhaustible energy" that mating cherubs have.

This would track with Trickster Mode being a power-up that's much better suited to cherubs than humans - cherubs are inherently connected to this energy and are built to withstand it. It also would give an added dimension to the tricksters' obsession with sex and babies - they're imbued with mating energy!

Under this view, Trickster Mode would be "intended" as a power-up that would grant a cherub all the power and energy they normally can only tap into while mating, presumably without needing to transform into a giant snake or waste all that energy on a years-long sex battle.

If this theory was correct, it might imply that someone in Trickster Mode would be unkillable for the duration of the transformation. There's no proof of this, which is the main reason I consider this theory to just be speculation rather than something I think was definitely intended in canon. Still, there's also no proof that tricksters aren't immortal, and would anyone really be surprised if you tried to kill a trickster and they just grinned at you and kept on going? It seems like it would be in keeping with the trickster power set, is all I'm saying.

Lord English as a perma-Trickster?

Now, as I mentioned above, as of the end of Homestuck Caliborn already has forged a permanent connection to "the enigmatic forces presiding over all that is eternal", making him unconditionally immortal and also giving him some really annoying-to-look-at eyeballs. But that in itself still doesn't grant him all the power Lord English has. He doesn't seem to, for example, have limitless energy or the ability to shoot rainbow laser beams out of his mouth.

So here's where my theorizing becomes even more improbable. I don't really think this next part is an "intended" reading, but I still think it's an interesting possibility to consider.

Lord English inherits traits from most of the souls inhabiting Lil Cal - Caliborn most obviously, but also Equius's muscles, Gamzee's honking, etc. But here's the thing: Lil Cal - as in, the juju itself - is also an ectobiological component of Lord English. It's not unthinkable that Lord English could inherit traits from Lil-Cal-the-juju - which, remember, is patterned off of a Trickster Mode cherub.

So my theory here is that Lord English is basically in a permanent Trickster Mode-like state, thanks to inheriting traits from Lil Cal. This state could be what grants him his absurdly massive amounts of power and the aforementioned rainbow-mouth-laser abilities.

After all, what does Trickster Mode do? It flips a switch in your brain that tells you that all your problems are solved and grants you huge amounts of energy to go do whatever your id desires most. And what would Caliborn do if he had unlimited energy and no obstacles left to stand in his way? I think the answer is obvious: Fuck. Shit. Up.

Lord English is basically Caliborn's id writ large and given limitless power to spend fucking shit up for all eternity. And really, what more could a cherub dream of?

[hazelnootnut]

Thank you so much for the reception on the animatic I posted! Didn’t expect it to reach 300 views in like two days, that’s a little shocking but very much appreciated! 

As a treat, have some gifs I made from the video itself! I was going to put the still shots in but that would be a little too hard to pick from I think.

[id under the cut, since i’m not able to add alt text to posts using the old post editor; post consists of 10 gifs]

[gif 1 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove Holden from the game Our Life: Beginnings and Always. He flickers into different images, from abstract shapes, white poppies, a stick figure, and his Step 1 and Step 2 designs. The lyrics read "and so i wonder, hey, was it so". [end gif 1 id]

[gif 2 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove, sitting down on the ground. He stares, distraught, as a tear trails down his face. He flickers through a stick figure design, a rough sketch of himself, poppies blooming from his heart, and his Step 1 and 2 designs. Step 1 Cove looks up staring with tears in his eyes in the grass, while Step 2 looks at the camera with surprise. Step 2 is in a suit, referencing the Soiree moment. The lyrics read "no words left to be spoken. and as you left, i didn't stop to reach and grab your sleeve". [end gif 2 id]

[gif 3 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove, sleeping in his bed and in his pajamas. The gif flickers from a rough sketch, an overgrown field of poppies, binary text, and a Step 1 and 2 Cove. Step 1 Cove is sleeping in a sleeping bag, glasses put to the side as the MC's hand reaches for him. Step 2 Cove is sleeping in the bunk bed in the Roadtrip moment, but the MC's head is tucked against his chest. The lyrics read "it doesn't matter what day it is, or matter what i try to do. at the end i'm searching far, no matter what it is, for you." [end gif 3 id]

[gif 4 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove, in his pajamas, looking down at a bowl of strawberries, referencing the Patreon Moment. The bowl flickers into 20 dollar bills, X's and O's, and a scribble. On occasion, Cove flickers into the Step 1 version of himself. Step 1 Cove is sitting at a table with the MC, dolphin balloon tied to his hand and pretzel on the table. He smiles at the MC, whose face is hidden behind her own dolphin balloon. The lyrics read "when you left, the days turned to gray, every single place that i went to each day, it all stays the same". [end gif id 4]

[gif 5 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove, sitting down, with an astronaut helmet on his head. He flickers between a rought sketch of himself, a stick figure version, tiny hexagons, and his Step 1 and Step 2 versions. Step 1 Cove has a box imitating an astronaut helmet on his head, while Step 2 Cove has a fishbowl on his head instead. The lyrics read "with every day that passed, unknowingly, we were slowly going off beat. time ticking on, our love was gone, before i could even think". [end gif id 5]

[gif 6 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove, palm pressed to his face as he cries, a tear dripping down his hand and cheeks. It flickers into a rough sketch, abstract shapes, the sentence "i miss you" repeating over and over his silhouette, and Step 1 and Step 2 versions of himself. Step 1 Cove cries loudly, fist pressed his face, mouth open as he cries. Step 2 Cove hunches into himself, fist pressed to his eye with the other to his chest. The lyrics read "i'm wondering where the two of us will be, to places that we'd have to leave. to forget about it all and live our lives still standing tall?" [end gif id 6]

[gif 7 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove facing to the right of the screen, side profile in view. He cries, not knowing what to do. He flickers into abstract shapes, coloured lines of himself, a shark, and very briefly, into a Step 2 version of him, crying as well. The lyrics read "swear that you won't forget these memories". [end gif id 7]

[gif 8 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove and the MC back-to-back. He stares down sadly at a white poppy between his fingers. The gif transitions into him slowly turning to look at the MC with shock and sadness as she bows and walks out of frame, a tear falling down her cheek. The lyrics read "just passing by and walking on, your back to mind, we headed into the sun". [end gif id 8]

[gif 9 id start]: A gif of Step 3 Cove, clutching a white poppy in his hands. He blinks as tears fall down his cheek, and speaks something, before it very quickly changes into a Step 4 Cove. Step 4 is dressed in a wedding suit, holding a bouquet of white poppies in his hands. He cries, but he's happy. The lyrics read "then could it be that someday on the other side, we'd meet with our arms open wide?" [end gif id 9]

[gif 10 id start]: A gif of Cove, standing by the door of his house as he moves to close it. He has tears in his eyes, but he's smiling sadly but smiling all the same. He raises a hand in goodbye to the camera, presumably where the MC is. The lyrics read "cause it's you that i want to be here". [end gif id 10]

[starflungwaddledee]

For 💖🎀, what about Marx? Little cute creature concealing incredible magic and uncanny features! I think he could be so mean to her ❤️

oh... anon you are very big brained for this one. he could unfortunately be so so mean to her.... and he has such pretty pretty wings! she would be enraptured instantly.

bonus eye-anim version (cw eyes/flashing gif):