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[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

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[bloobydabloob]

Holy shit I love your Dirk interpretations, it's so true and I could talk about this shit forever. I feel like another part of his character that people seem to forget (along with Roxy for some reason) is that he's from the future in solitude in an apocalyptic wasteland. I just see that part of his character always removed which is disappointing because I feel like that's a pretty big part, especially regarding his themes around technology, his brother's theme of Time, his own isolation, and how he plays in the vastness of the universe and spacetime.

Art I drew related to the subject because I like to respond to asks with art.

But absolutely. I certainly understand where the lack of discussion over his isolation + upbringing comes from, considering a majority of the fanbase that I have seen builds their ideas based on their own version of postcanon. I’m not entirely sure how that would be fixed, but certainly even in the somewhat recent past I would see a lot more content regarding his upbringing both literally and symbolically. I don’t have much to add regarding the things you’ve mentioned, because they just are what they are. Dirk being confined to a singular room left to him by a father figure he never met, in a future where the only other person left on the planet is someone he cannot pursue a relationship of because of himself, with purely 3 robots to keep him companion, one being an exact replica of his own brain who is *also* trapped inside a pair of glasses, is about as literal as it gets to me.

The contrast to me involving the flooded, organic world in comparison to the little speckle of Dirk’s apartment packed with the dude and his technics is not only a representation of his isolation and entrapment within himself, but also of his lack of control. I think his obsession with & themes of control are a direct product in the case of Dirk specifically *of* this kind of upbringing. His themes of technology are also related to his themes around control. So much of his character is actually revolved around this to me like so much. Dirk is so deeply disconnected from humanity in every way and so much of his character + symbolism is based around that.

It doesn’t even have to be about the symbolism or anything though. It’s just pretty *interesting* in the literal sense that he lives in the middle of the ocean in the future. There’s not only a lot to theorise on to do with his young life there, but on how it might affect him in the way he acts for the rest of his life. The latter part is probably what I see mentioned the most by people talking about Dirk regarding this, I’m surprised I don’t see more discussion on the former too though. I really ought to actually talk more about Homestuck stuff on here. I will do it myself.

Roxy & Dirk’s relationship is largely ignored though because there is a narrative a certain demographic spreads that Dirk resented and blamed Roxy for her interest in him, and thus too many people believe that their relationship was or would continue to be an abusive one. Realistically, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that the way Roxy treated Dirk regarding his homosexuality wasn’t right while still acknowledging the obvious amount of respect and admiration Dirk had for Roxy. I mean we have a huge piece of dialogue from their post trickster mode conversations on the quest beds from Dirk purely stating how he feels about Roxy that people completely ignore somehow. I think this usually happens to characters that are women though. I know everyone says it, but it is true. Jane gets the exact same treatment of boiling her down to solely her negative aspects. The things I see completely mischaracterising both of them are horrific.

I mean how much more explicit can it get that their relationship is obviously very important to Dirk? But I digress. I think the best or I should say “most interesting” interpretations of their relationship usually come from DirkRoxy shippers actually.

I would be interested to hear about Dirk’s relation to his brother’s theme of time though. I don’t have any thoughts on this and I don’t recall ever hearing anyone talk about it before. If you or anyone else would be willing to enlighten me I’d be thrilled.

[doverstar]

can't express accurately how happy it makes me that c.s. lewis did not leave room for many interpretations in narnia. it's christian and you can't get around it. susan chose to care more about worldly things than what matters and he said what he said. the lion is Jesus. evil is evil and good is good and people have to choose. and that makes some readers angry because it's nearly impossible to ignore and they want to ignore it. they want it to be something else and they can't make it something else without making it not narnia. love that. that is doing it right

[paperfen]

Torbek says to keep yourself safe, but theres more art below the cut! CW: Scars and discussion of surgery

Fun Fen Fact! Some back surgeries require surgeons to go through the abdomen, and although newer research is showing the complications of doing so, I don't think feywild witchlight doctors really care about that! :) In my own personal headcanon (hehehe) I say that Torbek has quite a large scar on his back and a thin long scar on his abdomen where the tubing of the witchlight was pulled through and grafted to his body tissue and possibly organs. Each of the scars that has a witchlight tube connected to it constantly seems infected and angry. Both because Torbek messes with his tubes a lot and because his body is still aggravated by the witchlight. The only scar that has healed somewhat cleanly is the scar on his front, which will probably eventually grow fur again in time once Torbek stops picking at the scabs (so me fr). The notch in his ear is from him ripping out the tag that was once in it. His right paw is more or less permanently disfigured and discolored, being the dominant hand that he would use for combat and therefore being the most witchlight-manipulated. The visible veins of witchlight on his right claws glow and pulse, sometimes entirely seeming to disappear. I really really really wish I knew how his canisters work I want to know their mechanical secrets so BADLY!!! I'm only up to ep 34 im dying to learn the secrets of the Torbek I also find it extremely amusing that I did the lineart for the warning but not the lineart for the actual piece that the warning is for LMAO

[yanderespamton78]

AJDJSOAJW I MADE MY SPAMTON PLUSH THE DEFRAG OUTFIT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm so normal. About. This comicc

Yes

Defragmentation by @zarla-s go read it if you haven't rjkwsjdkdhkash

[poisonhemloc]

I wish killing Michigan (Intercept the redguns) kept all the mts you slaughter as smoking wrecks, like they do with acs. Not the rest of the game, just. This mission.

Each wave keeps coming in to try and kill you and they’re tripping over each others bodies and trying to dodge behind the smoking wrecks of their comrades

Michigan drops in and there’s dozens of his men already dead on the ground and I think he knew he's not walking away from this, and neither are they if they don't hunker down and shut up somewhere since Raven shows no signs of stopping, and then they all follow him in anyway

and at the end of the fight when Walter congratulates you through gritted teeth Raven's just standing surrounded by piles and piles of smoking mechs.

[bobombun]

I keep seeing people talk about how to politely tell your guests to leave, and one thing I see people say is to offer [specific food/drink], but to me that would signal that you want me to stay longer (not counting hosts giving you doggy bags of leftovers or gift food to take home). Therefore,

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Seasons 1-3 » T-shirts

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

[wolves-in-the-world]

it remains so so fun to me that near the end of the cross my heart job (with a kid in danger and very personal stakes) nate tells eliot to take someone's gun with them in the ambulance and eliot doesn't even hesitate.

my memory's a little hazy, but… big bang job aside, last dam job aside, does eliot even do that? pick up a gun without immediately taking the ammo out, and with the possible intention to use it? I really don't think he does.

and we don't even see how it goes. by nate's count the villain's got one more contingency plan in place and we don't even see what it is. we skip straight to the hospital like nothing much happened. and maybe it didn't.

I do think the team would look more rattled if eliot flat out shot or killed someone in front of them. and, y'know, I like and respect the spirit of the canon, the rules they like to follow - that the good guys pretty much win, that nobody drops the idiot ball, that no innocents die on their watch, that the team doesn't outright kill anyone - so I'm inclined to say nothing big happened in the time we missed. but sending a warning shot past someone's ear, or even just shooting out some tires, might not be that big.

and sitting in that ambulance with the gun in his hand keeping an eye out for dangers, running through possibilities, his hands shaking slightly with the possibility that he'll have to do what he's good at again, because nate told him to, and because it's for a good cause, and if he can save a kid to help make up for it all he will--

that, to my mind, is very possible.

and that [mean voice] is what's so fun to me.

(and if he was calm in the moment? if he was focused and methodical and nate's order and the kid's life in the balance carried him through the situation until he had time to unpack what it meant later? that's almost worse.)

[suja-janee]

I love Lucy Maclean, she’s such a sweetheart

[kashmimo]

[mintjeru]

it probably wasn't the smartest decision to start an ongoing 1000+ chapter webnovel when i know it'll consume my every waking thought but here we are

open for better quality | no reposts

[demonslayedher]

I finished posting the unabashedly educational Sword Fic.

It includes a detailed (but hopefully beginner-friendly) explanation of all the steps of making a Nichirin blade from a sunny mountain like Mt. Youkou, a touch of swordsmith and metalworker folk lore (including demons), meta about what must make Kimetsu no Yaiba's swordsmithing methods different from real life methods, some character exploration for Haganezuka and his polishing method, vocabulary and additional resources in the chapter notes, and hopefully, an endearing, silly POV character to learn this all through.

[stopper-my-heart]

Heartstopper S1E5

Obviously these little finger taps are adorable, but have you noticed:

Charlie's and Nick's elbows seem to already be touching before Charlie moves to tap Nick's hand. (And if they weren't before, they certainly seem to be after.)

We don't actually see Nick move his pinkie away, so it's possible that he just...didn't, and left it there, resting against Charlie's hand.

Even if it's unlikely that Nick left his pinkie there for the rest of the period, it seems very likely that they're leaving their arms pressed together.

[bumfuzzled-bee]

NOT AN ASK, I JS LOVE UR LIL OJIROS MWAHMWAH ART AMAZING

Thank you !! I’m glad people still enjoy my lil guys. Have this gif I finished <3