#i'm glad it's not like that anymore lmao

[piko-power]

Every time I encounter a ship war with Sonic and Amy or Shadow, etc, I just smile to myself and believed that I'm the only smart shipper in the fandom because Sonic is bisexual and I'm the only person who knows that. 😎

[gale-gaze]

[ You have my devoted attention. ]

[bonebabbles]

re: the tags on the post you just reblogged; would genuinely Love to hear your take on the themes of homestuck. because so many of its themes are at odds with each other and the reader that it truly does become an ouroboros by the end. and that’s fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time

I really can't phrase it better than "eats itself alive by the end," honestly. Once the Beta Kids scratch their session, you can feel how tired and frustrated the author is. It's like he starts hating his own work and how massively it blew up, when he never planned for it to be a project that lasted so long.

And thus it feels like he starts turning on his work's own themes.

Sburb (the game) was abusive and traumatic, but seemed to be trying to make the kids ""grow"" by some unknown philosophy. Figuring out what Sburb (or its creators) were trying to accomplish was a theme.

Only for the author to get frustrated at the idea of there BEING such a motive, seeming to suddenly pivot to Sburb just being a universe-generating mechanism

The theme about motives, being "pawns" in a greater game and uncovering the mystery, thinking critically about authority figures including the GAME ITSELF is unceremoniously discarded for a "Nothing matters actually" conclusion

Another theme was change and growing up, dealing with your mistakes as you make them. How even in a world with time travel, trying to use metaphysical shennanigans to avoid your fuckups just backfires. Eventually you have to face the music, and you'll be better off for it.

But then the author becomes brutishly cynical. The main casts' worst traits eat them alive on the trip to the new session, we learn the Beta trolls ruined their own playthrough and now painfully slog through their afterlives, the Alpha kids are aimless and trapped in a doomed session.

The theme about growth and facing your own mistakes becomes about stagnation and inevitability.

But honestly I think the most telling change in the author's mindset comes from looking at the Alpha Trolls vs the Beta Trolls.

Like, the way that the Alpha Trolls ALL got a full personality, several interactions with the main cast, and through fan input started evolving into characters that had little traits of the fandom at the time

Homestuck was always a story with a crass tone (and it's kind of incredible how quickly the lingo changed, making early HS look a lot edgier in hindsight than it was at the time) but it felt like there was a lot of love for how these characters had kinda been forged together.

Then you get to the Beta Trolls in a dream bubble, basically all tossed into a high-production walkaround minigame. Several of them just direct, joyless jabs at the audience, less of them relevant.

For me it's really the turning point on the themes, the later acts have always felt super dissonant from the early acts because of that

So in my mind I see it as two big "parts" and examine them together as what I feel was a weak synthesis.

[hivepixels]

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[thelovesofmyentirelife]

me complaining abt witchtok lmao

remember when on witchtok (i've never even had a tiktok i'm just a witch and was whenever witchtok got super popular lmao) years ago all anyone talked abt was how deity worship+work is advanced and trickster deity this imposter spirit that constantly. one time I WASNT EVEN LIKE "THATS NOT TRUE" CUZ MAYBE THATS TRUE TO+FOR SOMEONE. I WAS JUST LIKE. "huh. that's not my experience. i was called to by a deity before i was a witch or even super in the know about all this stuff. so deity stuff was the first thing i did. it seems for y'all it's the other way around, but for me i wouldn't be a witch if i wasn't pagan. 99% of the witchcraft i do is devotional. " AND SO MANY TIKTOK WITCH PEOPLE COMMENTED YELLIN AT ME SAYIN HOW U SHOULDNT DO THAT BC ANY COMMUNICATION WITH A DEITY IS ADVANCED SHIT AND I WAS SPREADING DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION N HOW THEY WER GONNA HEX ME N SHIT. which ofc they didn't. or maybe since most of em wer self proclaimed baby witches it just didn't work lmao. but anyway now more recently i see those same witchtok ppl go back on that and be like "eh it wasn't that serious it's not advanced" and i'm like 😃🥴

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

Mark & Lona “The world’s a playground” Kimura Takuya

[honeycircuits]

Seeing the person that introduced me to selfshipping still being an anti after so many years makes my head and heart hurt

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

i'm kind of amazed how most of the stardew marriage candidates just want you to be their manic pixie dream whatever by agreeing with everything they like and plying them with compliments or praise or whatever (which is fine but a bit. Much) but for shane his romance is just you being there for him while he figures his own shit out... dunno why i never wanted to romance him before he's so good

[k-itsmaywriting]

By the remains of that day, we burned (2/2)

Relationships: Kaeya & Jean, Kaeya & Jean & Diluc, Kaeya/Jean Chapter Tags: Grief/Mourning, Pre-Canon, Jean has parental issues, Kaeya has issues, Everybody needs a hug, Sparring in lieu of conversation, Angst with a happy ending Words: 4,567

Part I | Interlude

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Kaeya is soaked to the bone.

The rain and wind thrash at his face as he runs against it - into his eyes, across the skin of his neck. His coat is heavy on his shoulders as he raises his arm above his head, where the raindrops glow against the surface of his Vision, ice-cold beneath his fingertips. He grips it so tight his hands numb - this gift, this curse, his anchor, and his betrayal.

It is there one moment, gone the next.

Read the rest here

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Steven Universe.. hit different and I don’t really understand why? Thinking about any of my other old hypefixations, I smile. But Steven Universe just makes me a deeply uncomfortable kind of sad that latches onto my brain like a leech and doesn’t let go for many hours. And I have no idea what it did to deserve that lmao

[wingfooted]

*grabs you by the shoulders and shakes you* YOU HAVE NO IDEA YOU ARE MY FAVOURITE PERSON RN NOT ONLY YOU LEAVE COMMENTS IN THE TAGA OF MY POSTS BUT YOU ALSO LEFT LOVELY LONG COMMENTS ON BOTH CHAPTERS OF MY FIC THAT WAS MAKING ME FEEL VERY SAD!! THANK YOU MAY YOU FORTUNE KISS YOU ALL OVER

Ahhhh! I'm so glad my silly little comments in the tags are something you enjoy! I am not always the best about stuff like that, but your SebaCiel posts are seriously next level, and I try to at least say something in my tags when I see a really good post (sometimes I'm still bad at it, but I figure sometimes is better than never -_-;;). Also I'm so glad my comments on your fic could help cheer you up at all! I saw you were feeling down about it and I was like, okay I gotta read this tonight, and it was so worth it! 💗❣️💕💖😻

[hall0wedwyrm]

thinking about getting back into posting writing on here... it was super fun before and it feels more casual than AO3 posting and I'm kinda itching to write anything atm...

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

I AM SO NORMAL. ABOUT YOUR WOMEN. DONT ASK WHY IM RIPPING THE CUSHIONS WITH MY FINGERNAILS. SO SO SO NORMAL. I WOULD COMPLIMENT THEM AND THEN SCREAM INSIDE. ESPECIALLY KILLER AND CROSS SXND BEJKWEJHCKL:

im normal

wawawa THANK YOU SO MUCH :'D <33333

if it makes you feel better i am just as sane and okay with my versions as well and i'm not haunted by their faces every time i draw them nuh uh i'm okay :)

[bonefall]

Your art is so gorgeous i wish i was good with color palettes like that *cries in forest cat corner

Pfff! The way I pick color is super easy and lazy, you can learn to do it too anon I promise.

Just don't "max out" the color you're picking. Like, if you're picking red, don't go ALLL the way to the bright corner. Go a little midway over the palette and pick a color there to start with.

Also, when you're shading, don't shade with a darker version of the main color. That's just another version of 'shading with black.' Try going around the color wheel to shade instead-- for example, if you're going to shade yellow, use orange. If you're going to shade orange, use purple.

And coloring the lineart is ridiculously overpowered. You can watch a sketch go from 0 to 100 by adjusting the color of the lines.

Just play around with it! Have fun! My art suddenly got a lot more fun and bright when I stopped being sooo concerned about perfect colors and clean lines. Use lots of layers and try lots of stuff, and don't spend too long fixing one thing that bothers you. Move onto the parts that spark joy.

[totalspiffage]

having to come to terms with the fact that youre a popular blog i think. youre just my sillyfunny mutual in my mind forever

I'm really not nearly as ""popular"" as I was when I consistently Made Shit don't even worry about it. Plus like who even wants that anymore and here of all places. I just wanna reblog shit and complain like everyone else here and being silly casual mutuals with people always delights me.