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charmikarma · 1 year ago
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i'm crazy cuz sometimes i get so painfully nostalgic for the innocent wonder of early homestuck. like so nostalgic it makes me physically ill. and like i could go back and reread it again i guess, even though i just finished my reread a month ago lmao, but i would get to the "you have a feeling it's going to be a long day." page and i'll just cry instead. but anyway it's never the same when you know where it's going and like homestuck is not even that sad of a comic but the last few hundred pages still make me feel sad because they feel like an illusion because the epilogues pretty much disregard them. and like i love the epilogues but holy fuck do they sour those last conversations of homestuck for me. and also they're so depressing. and they make the note of desolation page i mentioned above so. like. like they put that page SO into perspective it hurts. wow what the fuck did i just type
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ex-january · 2 years ago
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You know I always wondered why we were told to open with a "Be not afraid!" but I think I get why now.
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swimmingferret · 2 years ago
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i still love how there is zero explanation or development with John stating he hates Vriska and thinks she’s way too dangerous to have around to suddenly kissing her ass so hard in the Retcon
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dedicatedfollower467 · 10 months ago
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i hate having a weird fic/au idea that i want to share in some capacity, while knowing it wouldn't make a good fic because it's ooc for the characters to talk about it, but i don't want to write about the events themselves, and also it's a headcanon/au that's not even REMOTELY implied by the canon but i find it interesting and i just wanna rotate it in my brain and maybe bounce it off a few other people to see new perspectives on it other than mine retreading the same ground for the five millionth time.
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acronycalrising · 2 years ago
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nice to know some things never changed. homestuck tag still mostly sucks el oh el
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birchbow · 30 days ago
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Chapters: 2/17 Rating: Mature Relationships: Gamzee Makara & Karkat Vantas, Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Karkat Vantas, Gamzee Makara, Lord English (Homestuck), Doc Scratch (Homestuck), Homestuck Ensemble, Calliope (Homestuck), The Felt (Homestuck), It's really a 'everybody is around doing things' fic I genuinely don't know how to tag this Additional Tags: Winter Soldier Pastiche, with everything that entails so read carefully!, Humanstuck, Urban Fantasy, Home-Brew Magic System Shit Don't @ Me, Time Shenanigans, Karkat Vantas Makes Bad Decisions This Is A Forewarning, Polyamory Negotiations, Hurt/Comfort, Lord English's Fun-Time Brainwashing Time-Travel Torture Gang, Aftermath Of...... Everything....., Past Torture(physical/psychological/spiritual/emotional--largely inexplicit but not entirely), Past Brainwashing, Possession, implied/referenced past rape/non-con, (sexually not described in detail and more explicity nonsexual Cal-flavored intimacy/tenderness), God Finds It Funny To Hurt You But Also Won't Let You Die, Let's be clear: plotty gamzee whump with a, Happy Ending
Chapter 2: The First Lesson
The video is of a man, dressed in pure white; white suit, white gloves, and some kind of blank, white mask.  It stretches down his neck and vanishes under the collar of his suit; it looks hard and slick, mirror-smooth, but it shifts with him like a second skin as he inclines his head to you. There’s no sign of eyes in his mask.  You can feel him looking at you anyway.
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calware · 6 months ago
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reading fics is so hard with my type of autistic pattern recognition and expectation because i will be reading a fic which is perfectly good and then be completely unable to finish it because chapter 3 has something that makes me say SHE WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT or THAT SHIT IS SO AGAINST ALL THE FUCKING THEMES OF HOMESTUCK INTERSECTING WITH THIS CHARACTER or whagever. and a lot of the time im sure its literally not even a situation where I AM RIGHT THE AUTHOR IS WRONG its just like a difference of interpretation but like. aughh.
no this is so real 😭 i don't know why but it bothers me a lot when something deviates into being out of character or out of line with the original text (not in terms of literal events ofc but like... the core ideas? idk) and i keep having to remind myself it's SUPPOSED to be transformative... though at the same time there are definitely moments that are just. she actually would not say that and it's clear the author just misunderstood the text
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rocketmantis · 5 months ago
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Knowing that TLT started life as a homestuck/umineko crossover fic--- "knowing", I say, like it's some kind of truth. We do have in red that Muir has read Umineko, and that there was a fic in progress after The Serendipity Gospels that had its serial numbers filed off so it could be submitted for publication. Rightly I should say that it was originally a homestuck/umineko crossover fic in blue, and then I'm taking that as given until someone denies it in red.
Spoilers for everything under the cut:
Anyway, knowing that, there are so many little things that are deeply hilarious once you have that framing in mind. It's more visible in GtN than the later books: gathering the heir candidates to an absent patriarch in his mansion on a remote island, cut off from the outside world. (Stuck, one might say, in the old family home.) Racing to solve the puzzle before the murders are finished. The corpses put in the furnace to obscure the time of death. Ianthe (Erika (Vriska)) is there.
Harrow and Gideon are Karkat and Dave of course, but they're also Battler and Beato... but maybe not the way around you might think. One whose whole family died, who forgot her oath and her love and even her entire self. She protects, for so long, the illusion that her parents are still alive and well and maybe even happy.
The other one is the golden child, the heir to the empire, the servant living unrecognized by her father. The narrator, the storyteller, the one who was forgotten, who believed so strongly that her love was one-sided and died even once that love was realized.
But then every meme is real. Harrow sees corpses under beds and invents exploding soup. The murders were done by a witch using magic. The number of people present is in doubt because every lyctor is two people sharing a body. Jod locks himself in his magically sealed study and presumably cries loudly about Alectoriche. There's no sign of Bern and Lambda yet, but I suspect it's only a matter of time.
I love it, to be clear. TLT is in dialogue with Umineko, it's a reaction and a response to it while not being only that; it stands strongly enough to be enjoyed all on its own. (Obviously so, given how well it has done.) But it's just... I said "god I'm so mad" out loud once I realized she made small bombs real, y'know? With enough love, it can be seen.
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cringefail-clown · 1 year ago
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at last, where doing it man where MAKING THIS HAPPEN
cringes jakehal fic rec list
just so were clear: some of the fics are unfinished, and havent been updated in a while. leaving a comment to let the author know that youre reading and youre enjoying it is fine, but dont be a bag of dicks and harass them over when the new chapter will be up. have some decency or else ill be inside your walls.
Heart by fawn_writes || rated T || 1/1 || 663 words - man its so good. short and sweet. jake comes by to witness the construction of hals new body while also reminiscing about the times he fought brobot and his untimely demise. a good sparkling of body worship. "Everything will be normal. They’ll manage to keep it normal. After all, Jake has enough of his own heart to share." - fuck, that lines so effervescent.
What he needs by fawn_writes || rated M || 1/1 || 1259 words - another banger from the same author. they be doing the horizontal tango, but nothings too graphic. healthy serving of body worship from jakes perspective, as well as his internal struggle with his apparent robotic attraction.
Dead Weight by squirtgunplay || rated M || 5/9 || 27337 words - oh that fic. oh my god. love me some zombie apocalypse au with existential horror sprinkled on top. hal and dirk are twins but with a twist in this one. theres mystery. theres injuries that make you incapable of moving around. theres ship of theseus discussion. its nourishing. its beautiful. jake and hals banter in this one is fucking amazing, and the author captures their characters so well. the relationship between hal and dirk is also very fucking good and heartwrenching and just ugh. stellar writing, the forth wall break made me laugh out loud, hal gets called a security camera (derogatory). theres graphic depictions of violence, so beware of the tags.
Tennessee Whiskey & You by MistLaFey || rated T || 5/? || 12217 words - major character death and graphic depictions of violence tagged, so beware and read the tags. no-sburb au. dirk fucking dies (its in the fic description so i dont feel like its a spoiler). beautiful exploration of grief, unhealthy coping mechanisms and trying to get back into the normal life when theres a big part of it suddenly missing. hal and dirk are twins. jake is not doing well. hal is also not doing well, but pretending he is. its heartbreaking and some scenes made my chest hurt. very good fic and i dont understand why it doesnt get more love. it deserves it. go read it, even just for the funeral scene, i got teary-eyed over it.
seconds by squirtgunplay || rated E || 2/2 || 18698 words - graphic depictions of violence and its no joke, presidential alert the girls are fightinnn!! but its also so funny and the authors so funny and its also really hot! no sburb au, hals a human and dirks twin. he gets kidnapped by a craigslist hitman jake who mistakes him for dirk. the banter is top game in this one. hal cant keep his mouth shut even in life or death situation. jakes a dork, but hes a deadly dork, and also cant keep his mouth shut about his personal problems. theres fistfighting and knifethrowing and hal gets a weapon put to his head at least twice and he thinks its pretty damn hot. theres banging in second chapter. what more can i say to sell you on this one. the characters are on point, the action is tense but its also written in a cheeky, fun way, smut is good, a npc gets unsubscribed from life. amazing fic, 10/10, will read it again.
I Think Therefore I AR by Taxi_Boy || rated T || 25/? || 30417 words - im saving the best for last. major character death. hal has to start the game and get his friends into the medium while dirk is missing, while also pretending to be dirk as to not raise their suspicions. im not going to say anymore about the plot, you just have to go and read the fic. genuinely my favourite jakehal - and homestuck in general - fic of all time. i love caliborn in this one. i cant wait to see what the author has cooked up for us in the future. its plainly genious.
these are only ao3 fics as i have no clue how tf you search other fanfic sites for a specific ship, but if you have any other recommendations feel free to add them onto this post! we all need some good jakehal fic recs in these trying times!
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unluckyxse7enart · 3 months ago
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Another Homestuck-on-the-meteor fic snippet I never finished, this time a chatfic centered on Davekat - specifically Karkat struggling with his quadrant and turning to Kanaya about it. Despite being about Davekat (only semi-directly) I think my favorite bits are all Kanaya's, lmao.
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-carcinoGenetecist began trolling grimAuxilliatrix-
CG: KANAYA.
GA: Yes?
CG: CAN I TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOMETHING?
CG: SOMETHING IMPORTANT?
GA: Well This Is Rather Unusual.
GA: I Don't Mind, But Are You Sure You Shouldn't Go To Your Moirail Instead?
CG: ACTUALLY...
CG: THATS JUST IT
CG: I CANT REALLY GO TO HIM ABOUT IT BECAUSE ITS
CG: KIND OF
CG: ABOUT HIM.
GA: I See.
GA: That Is A Conundrum.
GA: Very Well. My Auricular Sponges Are Open To What You Might Have To Say.
CG: SEE, THE THING IS
CG: I'VE BEEN THINKING LATELY AND
CG: I'M NOT SURE I WANT HIM TO BE MY MOIRAIL ANYMORE.
GA: Oh Dear.
GA: Well, Humans Aren't Exactly Well Versed In The Intricacies Of Quadrants.
GA: I Suppose An Inadequacy In Filling One They Aren't Familiar With Is Something Of An Inevitability.
CG: ER
CG: ACTUALLY, THAT WASN'T WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THAT.
CG: DON'T GET ME WRONG, HAVING A HUMAN TRY TO BE A SUCCESSFUL MOIRAIL WITHOUT BLURRING THE LINES IS AN ENORMOUS BULGE-BITING CHALLENGE
CG: BUT AS FAR AS HAVING ALIENS IN YOUR QUADRANTS GO, DAVE ISN'T... ACTUALLY THAT BAD OF A MOIRAIL ALL THINGS CONSIDERED?
CG: HE'S STILL HEAPS BETTER THAN GAMZEE IS, NOT THAT THAT'S SAYING MUCH.
GA: I See.
GA: Well, If It Isn't That Dave Is Being An Unsuccessful Moirail, As I Had First Presumed, Then What Is The Problem?
GA: Is It One Of Those "It's Not You, It's Me" Things That Your Favorite Movies Are So Fond Of Employing?
CG: KANAYA, FOR GOG'S SAKE DON'T MAKE ME SAY IT.
GA: Say What.
CG: THAT
CG: DAMMIT
CG: THAT I WANT HIM
CG: IN ANOTHER QUADRANT.
GA: Ah.
CG: DON'T "Ah" ME LIKE THAT
GA: Wouldn't Dream Of It.
GA: So?
CG: SO WHAT?
GA: Which Quadrant Do You Want Him In?
CG: WELL THAT'S
CG: KIND OF WHY I CAME TO YOU.
CG: I'M NOT SURE WHICH QUADRANT I WANT HIM IN.
CG: IF I'M COMPLETELY FUCKING HONEST, I'M NOT EVEN THAT SURE I WANT TO END OUR MOIRALLEGIANCE, EVEN IF FOR THE SAKE OF STARTING NEW IN ANOTHER QUADRANT.
GA: That Is A Real Problem.
GA: Have You Considered Seeking An Auspitice?
GA: Not That I'm Volunteering, Mind You.
CG: YES, KANAYA, I'M PERFECTLY AWARE YOU ARE VERY SELECTIVE IN WHO YOU'D AUSPITICIZE FOR, I DON'T NEED A REMINDER.
CG: AND WHILE I HAD CONSIDERED IT, ALSO CONSIDER:
CG: WHO THE FUCK *COULD* I GO TO??
CG: I CONSIDERED ASKING TEREZI, BUT... WELL, GIVEN HER HISTORY WITH BOTH OF US INDIVIDUALLY I HIGHLY DOUBT SHE'D WANT ANYWHERE NEAR US TOGETHER IN A QUADRANT
CG: I WOULDN'T TRUST VRISKA AS FAR AS I COULD THROW HER
CG: GAMZEE CAN'T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO SHOW HIS STUPID CLOWN FACE AROUND ANYONE BUT ME
CG: NOT THAT I'D TRUST HIM AS AN AUSPITICE EITHER
CG: WHICH LEAVES YOU AND ROSE WHICH
CG: YOU'VE ALREADY MADE YOUR STANCE CLEAR, AND ROSE AND DAVE WOULDN'T EVEN CONSIDER IT GIVEN THEIR WEIRD HANGUPS ON BLOOD TIES AND RELATIONSHIPS
CG: NO OFFENSE, BUT THAT'S HONESTLY A RELIEF BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WANT ANY HUMAN AS AN AUSPITICE NO MATTER HOW KNOWLEDGEABLE THEY ARE ON THE SUSBJECT. NOT EVEN ROSE.
CG: SO I HAVE FUCKALL IN THE AUSPITICE PAGEANT TO SELECT FROM WITH MY KEEN JUDGE EYE
CG: AND ON TOP OF ALL OF THAT THERE'S AN EVEN *BIGGER* PROBLEM.
CG: HOW THE BLISTERING BLUE HELL WOULD I EVEN BROACH THIS SUBJECT WITH DAVE???
CG: HE'S ALWAYS BEEN WEIRD ABOUT QUADRANTS.
CG: NEVER MIND I'M RELUCTANT TO ADMIT TO HIM THAT I'M VACILLATING IN THE FIRST PLACE...
GA: If You Don't Mind My Asking, Why Is That?
CG: Vacillation Is Perfectly Natural In A Quadrant Needing Auspiticizing.
CG: WELL
CG: I MEAN
CG: YEAH, I KNOW.
CG: BUT HE'S NOT EXACTLY FAMILIAR WITH THAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW HE'LL TAKE IT.
CG: HUMANS ONLY HAVE ONE 'QUADRANT', REMEMBER.
CG: WHAT IF THE MERE CONCEPT OF VACILLATION IS A DEALBREAKER FOR HIM?
CG: HELL, EVEN THE CONCEPT OF BEING MY MOIRAIL WAS ENOUGH TO SEND HIM OFF ON SOME BULGE-STROKING RAP TANTRUM ABOUT WHO KNOWS WHAT, I COULD BARELY EVEN LISTEN TO THE FIRST FIVE WORDS BEFORE TUNING IT OUT.
CG: IMAGINE MY COMPLETE AND UTTER SURPRISE WHEN HE ACTUALLY SAID HE’D THINK ABOUT IT.
CG: AND THEN *AGREED* TO IT.
CG: BUT HE STILL DOESN’T GET THE FINER CONCEPTS OF QUADRANTS AND IF *I* CAN BARELY RECOGNIZE WHEN I’M ABOUT TO VACILLATE THEN HOW UNDER THE BLISTERING SUN WOULD I BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN IT SO THAT EVEN A SHITTING WIGGLER CAN UNDERSTAND IT.
CG: BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE’S GOING TO GET LOST IF I EXPLAIN IT A LEVEL ABOVE THAT.
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!HOT! SINGLE TROLLS looking for CASUAL PAPS in YOUR hivestem!!!!
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Now that I have your attention, hey! This past month, our discord server had a fanfic gift exchange/competition! The fics can be found at https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HS_FA_Co_Writing_Competition_02_2024/works
Any reader can vote on the best in genre here!
There were 9 entries, running the gamut from classic Davekat to The Condesce finding Diamonds :0!!!
Our members submitted prompts they wanted to see fulfilled, and then wrote other members' prompts that they were randomly assigned. Members of the coalition can guess who wrote which fic before it's all revealed at the end!
Summary of the works below!
Bubble Glub and Flub: Jake, seeking a new experience in meeting with a sea-dwelling alien in the afterlife, attempts not to shove his foot too far down his own ignorance shaft.
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friends: Vriska sure has been 'hands on' with Rose's alcoholism recovery. It almost feels. Like she's paling at her. >:[
Karkat: Celebrate Troll Valentine's Day: You utterly fail to come up with a summary that would not be completely redundant in the face of the title's clear call to action. You are Karkat Vantas, and you are going to celebrate Troll Valentine's Day. At least, that's what you've just been told to do.
Kintsugi: The Rose-Tinted Quadrant: Rose has accepted Vriska's help with her disordered alcohol usage. Vriska intends to help her as much as she possibly can. And if that means butting into Kanaya's newly blooming relationship, well, it can't be helped. The universe is at stake!
Monte Cristo; Croque Monsieur: Shortly before the events of Homestuck^2, Sollux receives an invitation to a lunch date with Karkat. A ceasefire has been called for a single day, for some reason this day is important to Jane. The only problem is that Sollux and Karkat haven't spoken more than ten words to each other for nearly thirty years.
someglubby put me outta my fishery:
CC: stop glubbin to me -- colloquialCondescension [CC] blocked tonicandGin [TG] -- -- tonicandGin [TG] unblocked colloquialCondescension [CC] -- CC: W)(AT TG: u aint geftin rid a me TAHT eeasiely TG: WONK
the things you think you see in me: “I really can’t tell if you’re fucking with me right now,” you’d said. “But the point is, Rose already told me that she and Kanaya have some super special girls-only Valentine’s plan lined up and I’m sure TZ and Vriska are gonna be busy cuddling in a closet or whatever the fuck they do when they’re not around and we already spend all our time together and like, make out, or whatever, so pardon the fuck out of me if I thought it might be fun to do something that’s like a real date. Or whatever.”
Wearing The Pants: wishlist prompt: Vriska x John, "Wearing the pants" takes place on earth c. not epilogues compliant.
"will u b my valentine" 7x combob: Roxy tries to have a normal Valentine's Day. It's a pity that nothing about her is normal.
Thank you to the authors for participating! @arealpeople @madam-melon-meow @shadow-wasser @myusernameisstolen @askaniritual @wmb-salticidae @meowloudly15
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nekropsii · 9 months ago
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you've been posting hot takes for ages now so i need to know what was the post that finally did it for that anon. was it the dirkri post? the aroace kankri? the fanon davekat sucks? who knows...
It could be literally fucking anything. I've gotten spammed with anon hate calling me queerphobic for saying other real life people's genders and sexualities aren't my business. I've gotten an anon calling me a proshipper for... Not harassing people I guess? Despite the fact that I've made it very clear that that crowd makes me uncomfortable. I've been sent ableist rape fics for saying I don't like Cronus/CroTuna. I've been badgered and called racist many times for pointing out that Hussie is racist, providing proof, and showing how that manifests in Homestuck and their other works.
I cannot ever tell what really breaks the camel's back. People get mad and call people names for any reason. But this especially applies if they have critical opinions on something they enjoy, or simply do not agree with them, no matter how minor that thing is.
My best guess is that some people do not like that I tag my posts appropriately, lol. I use tags as an organizational tool for the most part, but I've noticed some people take someone maintagging any critical - or, god forbid, negative - thoughts, ever, to any degree, at any time, literally ever, like literally fucking ever, as a... Personal attack, apparently? This especially, ESPECIALLY applies to shipping. It's kinda lame. Just scroll past or whatever. You went into a main tag, where everyone posts any content of any kind. I do not post to tags specifically meant for positivity, I do not bother people who enjoy things I don't. I just sit in my corner and talk to the air. If people want to listen, that's their prerogative. If they don't, that's also their prerogative. There's untagged incest in the Homestuck main tags all the time, let me whinge for 5 minutes. Damn.
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strangeharpy · 1 month ago
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Fanfic Writer Interview Meme
Tagged by @redtailedhawk90 <3
How many works do you have on AO3?
I currently have 83, though that's about to go up by the end of this week... :3c
What's your total AO3 word count?
449,334. Jesus, almost half a million.
Your top 5 stories by kudos:
Out of This City - TAZ - an Angus character study.
nothing's changed since the witching days - 3rd Life - some fraught Scarian.
part-time soulmate, full-time problem - 3rd Life/Hermitcraft - Written with @lotsadeer, just some fun Mumscarian Mumbo angst.
Indelible Ink - TAZ - my Johnchurch soulmate AU.
Once, We Were Gods - Homestuck - a very old, very abandoned Beta OT4 fic.
Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
I got really overwhelmed trying to respond to every comment and ended up not responding to a bunch and now it feels awkward so I just don't respond and I feel bad about it. >.<
Do you write crossovers?
Technically yes? I mean, the Life Series and Hermitcraft are two things I often pull into each other, and I've written some crossover stuff for gift exchanges, but I'm more of an AU girlie (gender neutral) most of the time.
Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
I do, and it tends to vary a lot. I think most of the smut I've written has been Cass/AuDy though lmao
Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I'm aware of.
Have you ever had a fic translated?
Not that I'm aware of, though part of me wants to try translating something into German just to see if I could manage it.
Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I sure have! Co-writing is so fun and I want to do it more.
What's your all-time favourite ship?
Cass/AuDy is the ship that taught me what an OTP really IS. Like, I've had ships that I enjoyed and I thought they were OTPs, but no. Cass/AuDy will be with me forever, even as I kind of drift away from being as involved in the FatT fandom.
What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?
I don't know that I'll ever finish Arranged Candidacy AU. It's just too big and ambitious and I love the concept but I don't think I have it in me to do it justice.
What are your writing strengths?
I've been told my character voices are good. A comment I got that I think about when I feel bad about writing involves the phrase "(disgraced Merle Highchurch creator Clint McElroy gives up. "Yes, harpydora is the Merle person now")."
What are your writing weaknesses?
Pacing. >.<
What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?
I have a very silly idea for some musical!Beetlejuice/adult Lydia fluff that I want to write for Danielle. I just have to clear my plate first.
What's your favourite fic that you've written?
light up the way, hands down. It is still in the top five longest things I've ever written, and I frequently go back to it because I'm still pretty happy with all the character beats. It was so self-indulgent.
Tagging: Anyone who wants to do this too! Tag me so I can read it!
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erstwhilesparrow · 2 months ago
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sparrow's june-nov 2024 (subset of) mcyt fic rec list
i'm in the mood to make a fic recs list. let's have a fic recs list. this is pulled entirely from my bookmarks covering the last six months, and features empires, life series, hermitcraft, and dsmp. not in that order. i've done my best not to repeat authors within the list, and also i've done my best not to repeat works that have appeared in my other fic rec lists, but you should absolutely check out the other works of anyone who catches your eye!!
(as always, if you are on this list and you do not want to be, please let me know and i will remove you!)
DSMP
tune; small_lizard - Quackity/Sapnap/Karl, 3.8k oneshot. Quackity and bodies and trauma. A series of glimpses into Quackity's life with his fiances. Deeply, wonderfully heartbreaking. Trying to navigate life with other people, without ever really having the words to address how or why the navigation does or doesn't work. Hurts without ever needing to explain to you directly the hurt, and this too is about trauma. Very impressively done!
you may encounter the body; cryptofhoney (braveyoungcowboys) - L'Manberg prose poem, 1.1k words. A meditation on graves and ghosts and places and bodies, as conducted by L'Manberg. The first time I read this I could think of nothing to say except the lines of the fic itself again, because they are so lovely and so wonderfully-constructed. Will make you so so sad about histories and locations and graves. Also, cryptofhoney has a ton of really banger DSMP art/fic/poetry; highly recommend looking around!
Breccia; WheelCoveredInEyes - Quackity-centric, 2.5k oneshot. Foolish and Quackity train the slime army. Making a brand new kind of guy, ft. easter eggs from a wide range of excellent writers' words. A thing I love about WheelCoveredInEyes's work is the sense of... clear-eyed hope and care like a layer of bedrock. It is fundamental and inescapable and lovely and tender and deeply attentive to the particulars of a character's situation at the same time. I did not cover Homestuck or QSMP in this rec list, as those are not fandoms I am in, but holy shit can I vouch for WheelCoveredInEyes's other DSMP fic, Homestuck fic, and QSMP fic for these vibes. Brilliant stuff.
toxic clear down to the bedrock; mouseunderthemountain - Niki-centric, 2.1k oneshot. L'Manberg is in Niki's leg. She does what she can to manage, as everyone and everything drifts apart. This one's just truly so beautiful. The blurring of body and location and self, but also the specificity of what it's like to live in and with this place, after everything that's happened, what it's like to be in Niki's body. I described this fic once as feeling like it refuses to reveal all of itself to me at once; it's just going to tell me things that are true, and it's gonna hurt.
Empires SMP
Gem Dreams of Wizardry; changeableLandscape - E1 Gem character study, 8.9k oneshot. Covers the early days of Gem's Empires S1 POV. Honestly, I thought about making a rec list way back in like June specifically so I'd be able to put this one on it; it's so well-written and so fascinating. The insight into Gem's character (the insight into everyone's characters, actually), the attention to the details that are so easy to forget as later canon events loom larger in our minds, the space given to work and effort and wonder and travel. It makes me grateful to be in this fandom where we can go over the same events over and over and change what we pluck out as important every time.
the last and final translation of love; Ten_Of_Swords - E1 Sausage-centric post-canon, 1.1k oneshot, E-rated for gore. Sausage turns to necromancy to get Pearl back. Awful interactions with bodies and grief follow. The tangle of emotion presented so neatly in every sentence of this is stunning. The juxtaposition of unspeakable care and equally unspeakable, gory horror. The bone-deep ache of loss. The absurdity of still being alive. It's all there, and captured so cleanly. Ten_Of_Swords is a wonderful writer in full generality -- you should check out its other Empires and Life Series works as well!
and, for a beat, we think he's running; maikuria - E1 Sausage-centric roleswap, 4.2k oneshot. After that business with the demon, the Vigil decides it wants Sausage instead of Pix. Gorgeous stuff being done with work skins in this one, and on top of beautiful, thematically-coherent formatting, perfect characterization. The kind of characterization that picks out not just the essence of a character but all the ways they are strange and human and interconnected and a little funny. It feels like maikuria knows these guys, y'know? In the way only an author can know characters they've written and loved for a long time. (maikuria has a lot of excellent Empires S1 fic in general and I encourage people to look at all of it!!)
trying to kill the moon; hoorayy - E2 Pix/Oli roadtrip horror AU, 9.4k oneshot. Pix has a car and is on his way to nowhere in particular. Oli joins him. Things try to catch up with them. Hi, what's up, it's time to talk about the best Pix/Oli fic of all time. It's so good it made me forget I've ever written Pix/Oli; surely this is the only version of their relationship I could ever know about? It captures late summer golden light in a way I thought only cameras could. It captures the feeling of saying goodbye at the end of a beautiful day and realizing you can feel your smile hurting your face. It is so funny and haunting and beautiful. hoorayy has other great Empires and DSMP works as well! Highly recommend.
Like A Butterfly On A Pin; savannah_owl - E1 fWhip & Gem that is mostly about fWhip/Sausage, 1.7k oneshot. fWhip's down bad for the King of Mythland. Gem demands he sort his shit out before it goes sideways for all of them. You like vampires? <- said with a huge obnoxious grin. You like, specifically, vampires that are about desires that you can never entirely satisfy and desperate hungers set against necessity and morality? You like siblings who know each other too well fighting? You like loving descriptions of blood? Then I am shoving this fic into your hands and telling you to go read it now. Also! savannah_owl has SO much vampire fic for so many pairings across Empires, Life Series, and Hermitcraft; highly recommend 'em.
Hermitcraft
redstone signal fifteen; jibbingjibberish - S10 Etho/Zed, 4.3k oneshot. E-rated! Zed invites Etho over to test out his game-ified fucking machine! Really really fun redstone fucking machine shenaniganery, in, somehow, classic Hermit style. Delightful amount of attention paid to redstone mechanics (though I'll note I have no idea how close this does or does not get to being a build-able machine) and Etho's particular love of redstone machinery. Funny and charming and perfectly characterized.
Dusty Relics; MawoftheMagnetar - S9 Etho & Doc though mostly it's about Decked Out, 575 words. Doc's been investigating the artifakes Etho nabs for him from Decked Out 2. They're awfully good replicas, aren't they? Extremely fun-upsetting twist; don't worry, I won't ruin it for you.
slice of strawberry-flavored life; these_godforsaken_halls - Various Hermits and Lifers Animal Crossing AU, 6.8k oneshot. A glimpse into the lives of the employees and clients of Happy Hermit Housing! Listen, I think we don't give enough credit where it's due; writing hilarious, interesting, specific, well-characterized fluff is hard. And these_godforsaken_halls pulls it off with aplomb! Immaculate character voice, excellent bits, a sibling relationship that made me go, "Oh, yeah, this is genuinely how my brother and I talk to each other."
My Stupidest Intro Yet! | Hermitcraft 10; strifetxt - S10 Joel-centric, 1.4k oneshot. Hermitcraft Joel reckons with the fact that he is, at the time of this recording, the only active Joel around. Fun script-ish format of Joel making heartwarming discoveries about... himself? Truly so immeasurably charming. Joel voice so perfect I could see the video in my mind's eye. Had a grin on my face the whole time I was reading this.
Life Series
Of Love and Loyalty; Elycia7 - Martyn-centric character study, 1.2k oneshot. The evolution of Martyn's relationships and his understanding of these games from Third Life through to Limited Life. Look, when someone gets it, they get it. This person gets Martyn. Lovely and lyrical. I read it and clapped my real life actual hands and went, "Yep, that's Martyn!"
wait the worst is yet to come; glossyblue - Scar-centric Last Life AU in which you trade lives by making out. You ever read an AU that's just perfect for capturing the vibes and themes of the source material and then spinning them out into something wild and lovely? The blurring of death and violence and love and intimacy, the hilarity and the horror and the grief. All of it, right there! And Desert Duo is even kissing about it. It's gorgeous. (Also. Lots of great Life Series and Hermitcraft fic on the glossyblue account. Some of them made me laugh so hard I started coughing.)
choice and mercy; WolffyLuna - Double Life Scott & Cleo, 2.0k oneshot. Scott and Cleo talk about choice, death, and mercy, one night during Double Life. Really beautiful descriptions of what it feels like to have a limited number of lives and a really tender Scott & Cleo relationship that is sharpened and grounded by the ways they differ and tease and wordlessly understand. (WolffyLuna is an absurdly prolific writer who has almost certainly posted something somewhere in their extensive backlog that you will be interested in. Go take a look!)
and it's dark, and there is nobody driving; Sixteenthdays - Third Life Scott & Grian character study, 1.1k oneshot. Scott and Grian talk about making games for your friends. This particular game seems to have gone really, really bad. I love this one for how it translates the bright chipper friendly ways we know these people are/can be into the grief and exhaustion of a game where you kill your friends, taken dead seriously. Scott and Grian both feel so beaten-down and lost and trying to figure it out, and that vibe is conveyed so cleanly through the whole thing.
alternative solutions; soapflowers - Limited Life Scott & Martyn cannibalism, 311 words. Scott drags Pearl's lifeless body out of the water. He and Martyn eat her! It's a nice time. Do you like cannibalism and Mean Gills? Great. This fic is exactly that, with some really fun implications about death and respawn to boot.
Damn Yellow Composites; litbynosun - Secret Life Scar-centric character study, 1.1k oneshot. Scar goes back to Trader Scar's after the Secret Life finale. He takes care of his flowers. Extremely charming Scar narration. Extremely tender caretaking and attention to the mundane work of being alive in the world. Winding down, realizing you can tend to yourself and your surroundings, and also realizing you're alone.
something to keep you warm; codesandstuffs - Wild Life Tango-centric hurt/comfort, 2.8k oneshot. Three times Tango wakes up in Wild Life, and what he does after. Really truly the most impeccable Tango characterization. Delighted by the ways the details the narration chooses to linger on indicate the kind of person Tango is and the kind of history he's had. The mundane and the tender rendered beautifully.
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opalescent-apples · 2 months ago
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I love m/m ships, I really do. But sometimes I go through the Homestuck tag on ao3 and I have to say:
*Solkat* Oh shit what does this person think of Aradia
*Erisol* Oh shit what does this person think of Feferi
*Cronkri* Oh shit what does this person think of Porrim.
*DirkJake* Oh shit what does this person think of Jane.
*Davekat (also tagged Rosemary)* This person is going to make Rose and Kanaya into wallpaper aren't they.
Especially Erisol. All these ships have really good story potential (I adore davesolkat), and I've found some good writing about them. But sometimes? It's painfully clear that the authors don't care about women, or worse, outright loathe them.
I'm sick of seeing character exploration of Sollux be interrupted by slut shaming Aradia, or reducing Feferi to some bimbo stereotype.
I hate watching DirkJake be absolutely horrible together and yet still in character, but then seeing a sudden pivot to Jane being made into a caricature of herself. At least Roxy escapes a little bit, though she's still stuck there.
Hell, Jane even gets the short end of the stick in Gamkar fics!
I hate filtering for Rosemary and essentially filtering for the Davekat tag. I like both ships! Filtering the Davekat out is so fucking annoying. Sometimes I'd like to see Rose and Kanaya in the Rose and Kanaya fics. Let them be the disasters. Better yet, have Kanaya be the main character.
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the-meat-machine · 4 months ago
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Commentary on Playing House chapter 2 and 3, under the cut.
Chapter 1 commentary is here.
As a general note, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 were originally going to be one chapter, but I ended up splitting it up in order to meet the "one chapter per week" goal that I had when I started this fic. That goal basically immediately fell by the wayside, though. As early as chapter 3, I'd changed to to "well, a chapter every two weeks at least," and a few chapters after that it just became "whatever, the next chapter will be done when it's done". I do miss that quicker pace, though.
Anyway. Let's get on with the chapters.
Chapter 2
You know what I love? I love it when Caliborn is 100% right about something but no one can tell because every word out of his mouth is ridiculous.
In this chapter, Caliborn proposes a little light tonguing, and goes on and on about how it's THE TENDEREST. MOST PERVERSE. RED HOT SEXUAL ACTIVITY IMAGINABLE. This is obviously absurd.
Except. We later learn that cherub tongues are sex organs. So what actually happens in this chapter is that Caliborn basically shoves his dick down Dirk's throat and Dirk doesn't even realize it. Bet Dirk was kicking himself over that one later.
So yeah. Caliborn understood way better than Dirk did just how sexual what they were doing was. That said, he still doesn't understand it very well. My intention with this scene (and a lot of the following scenes) is that Caliborn's sex drive is awakening for the first time and he doesn't fully comprehend what's going on. Sure, he has his kinks, but he's never experienced what it means to be truly aroused before now. So he has a lot of little reactions where he's basically going "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT??" in response to the weird new feelings he's experiencing in his body.
What else about this chapter… oh right, this is also the chapter where it becomes explicitly clear that Dirk is a masochist who's getting off on Caliborn hurting him. Really, I think you'd have to be a masochist to want to date Caliborn. Anyway, this causes tension because Caliborn considers hurting your mate to be painfully vanilla and thinks it's really stupid for Dirk to want to mix that in with their depraved tenderness.
Honestly, a whole bunch of the tension in this relationship stems from the fact that these two are both wildly kinky in equal and opposite ways. And yes, I do actually consider Caliborn's tenderness fetish to be genuinely kinky. Cherub romance is "supposed to be" entirely based around deep, vitriolic hate -- a hate far more bitter than even troll kismessissitude. It's easy to laugh at Caliborn's fetish for shit that, by human standards, is the tamest of tame, but getting off on things like trust and affection truly is deviant for a cherub.
Chapter 3
You've performed extensive analyses on the musculoskeletal structure of his limbs in order to construct him a new prosthetic leg better suited to his cherub anatomy.
I think sometimes about how, in canon, Caliborn's robot leg wasn't made for a cherub, because when Dirk made it, he'd never even heard of cherubs and definitely didn't know Caliborn was one. So Caliborn ends up with this robo-leg that's shaped just like the robo-legs all the assorted human and troll robots in Homestuck have, and which clearly does not match his other foot. I think that would bug the heck out of Dirk once he realized.
CALIBORN: THE ONLY WRONG THING. IS THAT YOU KEEP TOUCHING ME WEIRD. DIRK: Me touching you weird didn't cause a growth to spontaneously appear in your guts.
The irony with this line is that, if we believe Roxy about WHY Caliborn's body started gearing up to make an egg, it turns out that it's because he's been spending a lot of time around someone he's got the hots for. So… yeah, Dirk, on some level, you touching him weird did cause this. Congratulations.
If you just tell him you're calling Jane in to poke and prod at him, he's either gonna blow his lid or think you're propositioning him for a threesome.
Let's be real, though: it would be a hell of a threesome. (Psst, I just read a great fic about these three recently. Check it.)
DIRK: This is all irrelevant. Jane isn't going to attack you, on account of she has actual manners, unlike some people I could name. CALIBORN: BUT IF SHE DID. CALIBORN: AND YOU. HA HA. "PROTECTED" ME. CALIBORN: YOU'D DO IT BECAUSE YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO DEFEND ME. BY THE CONVENTIONS OF HUMAN RELATIONSHIPPING. CALIBORN: AND ALSO. BY YOUR OWN SICKENINGLY SQUISHY HUMAN "EMOTIONS". CALIBORN: RIGHT????? DIRK: Goddamn it. DIRK: Yes, ok? In this absurd scenario where Jane goes feral and assaults you when you can't fight back because you're bound by the rules of a fucking children's game not to retaliate, that's why I'd defend you.
But I'm sure nothing like that would ever happen, say, for example, in the very next chapter :)
Yeah, you didn't really think that one would pan out. You're pretty damn sure at this point that he doesn't even have any sort of "scepter" to polish.
Caliborn not having a dick is my favorite thing tbh. I just fucking love the fact that this dude who's the very embodiment of toxic masculinity also has literally no idea what a penis is. Beautiful. Love some trans representation.
CALIBORN: I CHANGED MY MIND. I WON'T LET THAT CAKE HUSSY ANYWHERE NEAR OUR HOME. WITH THOSE DISGUSTING LIFE POWERS OF HERS.
The "no calling my friends bitches" rule appears to be very specific, since "hussy" doesn't seem to violate it. I guess Dirk is taking it one synonym at a time. Just you wait, one day the rule will include a list of terms a mile long and every time Caliborn wants to insult someone he'll have to wrack his brains to remember whether he's allowed to say "slattern" anymore.
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