#it's a mood that's b33n on my mind is all

[skrunglebeasts]

i was possessed and wrote this whole ass thing after reading about who was in the finals for @coolesthscharacter

TEREZI: TH1S H4S B33N 4 COLLOS4L W4ST3 OF T1M3. ROSE: Agreed. TEREZI: UNO ROSE: Swap card. Give me your hand. TEREZI: B1TCH TEREZI: DONT BOTH3R. YOU W1N ROSE: On two fronts. Looks like the poll lines up perfectly with the results of our little time waster. TEREZI: OF COURS3 TH3Y D1D TEREZI: 1M L34V1NG ROSE: Don't enjoy yourself too much. I'll be moving on to hand the win over to Roxy. ROSE: Not that she deserves it any more than I do, but I figure it'll be a kind gesture. TEREZI: H4V3 FUN W1TH TEREZI: HUH ROSE: What? TEREZI: DONT M1ND M3 TEREZI: 1 JUST SM3LL SOM3TH1NG FUNNY TEREZI: H3H3H3H3H3 >:] ROSE: Ominous. ROSE: I'll see you later. TEREZI: 1 WONT ROSE: Aren't we past blind jokes? TEREZI: Aren't we past typing quirks? ROSE: Don't… ROSE: Do that. ROSE: It's weird. TEREZI: TH4TS K1ND OF MY WHOL3 TH1NG TEREZI: L4T3R LOS3R

Rose and Terezi exit in opposite directions, not bothering to spare a backward glance. Terezi's chipper mood bothers Rose for only the briefest second before she puts it out of her head. The troll loves mind games.

As she steps into the next room for the final contest, she considers a dozen different metanarrative consequences of this sort of contest and what that means for the continuity of everything. When the contest ends does she disappear? Is she shunted into the ultimate self who's story will never be completed? What does it mean for her to have even gotten this far, beating out even Davesprite. Has the cultural gestalt really shifted so much that a sad ghost boy version of Dave is no longer appealing? And is shs to be considered seperately from each of the entities that embody her? What is she? Who is…

Wait.

A silhouetted figure stands against the lights of the inexplicable room. A single blue light shines from the head…

ROSE: Is that fucking Sans? SANS?: nope!!!

The figure steps forward from the convenient shadowing and reveals a familiar, red-clad troll with a messy mass of black hair. In her hands is a skull with a blue light shining from the socket that Aradia is using to obscure her face. Rose sighs, a bit annoyed Roxy hadn't made it here. Of course this is what Terezi thought was funny.

ROSE: Hello, Aradia. ARADIA: hi rose

Her chipper tone is punctuated by the sound of the skull hitting the ground as she tosses it aside.

ARADIA: funny, right? ROSE: A little played out, honestly. ARADIA: come on. you of all people shouldnt say anything about "played out"~ ARADIA: your post-canon arc is just copying the one i had as a starting point and recycling it ARADIA: not that i mind! ARADIA: i find it flattering ARADIA: after all my old story has good ARADIA: b0nes ARADIA: to build on ROSE: Make up your mind about how you're supposed to sound. ARADIA: hmmm ARADIA: n0pe 

Aradia puffs out a breath to blow some of her curling hair out of her face.

ARADIA: So did you have fun getting here? ROSE: Not really. ROSE: Your ancestor flirted aggressively with me, then got mad that I called her boring. ARADIA: yours was very nice and quite interesting ARADIA: shes both very cool and very much a dork ARADIA: i can see where you and dave get it ROSE: Hey. ARADIA: though you clearly take more after dirk so you got a higher percentage of dork genes ROSE: … ROSE: Moving on. ROSE: Vriska was Vriska about the whole thing and got upset that no amount of luck could save her from being the icon of Homestuck's ire. ARADIA: i dont think thats what it was at all ARADIA: maybe she was boring, too ARADIA: after all ARADIA: how can you find anything exciting about someone who has done nothing wrong? :) ROSE: … ARADIA: 0u0 ROSE: … ROSE: Okay. ROSE: Well. ROSE: Sollux didn't really want to interact with me and spent the whole time with headphones on and listening to a podcast. ARADIA: hehe, sounds like him ROSE: Davesprite was monumentally awkward and seemed to be in the midst of a breakdown about not being "really real" because Davepetasprite^2 was in the running. ARADIA: sounds like him, too ARADIA: first mistake of anything like this is attempting to apply any level of canonicity to it ARADIA: better to just calm down and enjoy yourself ARADIA: but i suppose he wouldnt be davesprite or any kind of dave at all if he didnt appeal to the sad boy loving demographic ROSE: Are you going to keep interrupting me? ARADIA: probably ROSE: I played Uno with Terezi. ROSE: That's it. ARADIA: neat! ROSE: Let me return the question: Did you have fun getting here? ARADIA: i did! ROSE: … ROSE: Any details? ARADIA: no ARADIA: ill leave those to your imagination ;) ROSE: That's a copout answer and you know it. ARADIA: youd be surprised ARADIA: a little goes a long way ARADIA: lets focus on the now ARADIA: how do you want to do this, rose? ARADIA: among the multitudes of possibilities, the many threads that spread out before us ARADIA: which do you wish to solidify as true? ROSE: Maybe I don't want to pick. ROSE: Maybe I also want that to be left to the imagination. ARADIA: then ill pick! ROSE: What ROSE: But ROSE: Your entire continued existence hinges on one fact and that is that you are a voyeur. A perverted observer who has no interest in dirtying your own mitts as you passively allow the narrative to continue on it's way. You do not intervene. You don't take action.

She screws up her face in baffled disgust and stabs one finger in the air toward Aradia.

ROSE: You don't choose.

Aradia's persistent, placid smile widens slightly. It still doesn't reach her eyes.

ARADIA: not choosing is a choice ARADIA: i think thats something youve always struggled with ARADIA: a lot of people do ARADIA: choosing no action at all is still an action ARADIA: existence itself comes packaged with the burden of existing ARADIA: by simply being you are acting ARADIA: your existence means nothing ARADIA: your actions are meaningless ARADIA: but they are actions nonetheless

She turns on one foot, kicking off to float up and rotate gently and slowly in the air, as if attempting a slow motion pirouette. The languid motion controlled and beautiful. It makes Rose want to throw something at her just to ruin the image in the same way a child wants to crack a perfect sheet of ice just to see it come apart. ARADIA: and my choice has always been pretty transparent ROSE: Bullshit. ROSE: Your motivations, your reasoning, your purposes. All of that has always been obfuscated. You hide behind platitudes and more plot critical figures, but you never seem to be willing to show your hand. No one knows what your fucking deal is. ARADIA: hehehe ARADIA: thats just plain wrong ARADIA: ive destroyed more lives to save a single session than you could imagine in both your attempts to break yours or to do whatever it is you were doing with dirk ARADIA: ive been a ghost, a ghost frog, a robot ARADIA: even in that period of time you say i only observed i still decided to fight lord english for the fun of it ARADIA: and i lived :) ARADIA: what happened when a version of you tried to attack lord english? ROSE: Mgh. ARADIA: theres a reason im here ROSE: And what reason is that? ARADIA: same as it ever was

Aradia floats up, arcing her back until she's hanging upside down, arms and legs hanging limply. She's still smiling. It still doesn't reach her eyes.

ARADIA: i mostly want to see what happens when this whole place breaks apart. :) ROSE: … ROSE: I want to kick your ass. ARADIA: then do it ARADIA: or dont ARADIA: either way ARADIA: i think youre gonna have a bad time ARADIA: CUE MY FIGHT MUSIC! ROSE: You motherfucker.

[catsandcataclysms]

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[purreau-blog]

MEET THE MUSE (repost, don’t reblog)

► Name ➔ KARKAT LEIJON ► Are you single ➔ REALLY DEPENDS HOW YOU DEFINE THAT.   ► Are you happy ➔ YES. ► Are you angry? ➔ HELL FUCKING YES.  BUT ONLY ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE WORTH IT. ► Are your parents still married ➔ I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT THIS QUESTION MEANS.

NINE FACTS

► Birth Place ➔ ALTERNYA ► Hair Color ➔ BLACK, WITH LEAVES AND TWIGS STUCK IN IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY. ► Eye Color ➔ YELLOW. ► Birthday ➔ THE TWELFTH BILUNAR PERIG33 OF THE SIXTH DARK SEASON’S EQUINOX. ► Mood ➔ PRRETTY GOOD.  TIRED. ► Gender ➔ MALE AND MASCULINE. ► Summer or winter ➔ SEASONS OF HIGH PLANT GROWTH DEFINITELY. ► Morning or afternoon ➔ NIGHT?

EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

► Are you in love ➔ WITH ANY CONCEPTS OR IDEOLOGICAL PRRINCIPLES?  YES.  WITH ANY PEOPLE?  HARD TO SAY. ► Do you believe in love at first sight ➔ YES. ► Who ended your last relationship ➔ I’M GOING TO HAVE TO REQUEST A DEFINITION ON “ENDED”. ► Have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔ SHRUG.  NOT THAT I KNOW OF SPECIFICALLY, BUT IF I EVER HAVE, I HOPE THEY WERE ABLE TO MOVE ON AND CONTINUE WITH THEIR LIFE. ► Are you afraid of commitments ➔ DEFINITELY NOT. ► Have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ YES.  SEVFURAL PEOPLE.  FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES.  NEPETA.    ► Have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ IF I KNEW THE ANSWER TO THIS, THEY WOULDN’T BE A “SECRET” ADMIRER, WOULD THEY?  I’LL SAY NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE. ► Have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ HUH?  

SIX CHOICES

► Love or lust ➔ LOVE. ► Lemonade or iced tea ➔ FUCKING HALF AND HALF. ► Cats or Dogs ➔ CATS, PAWVIOUSLY, BUT I AM NOT ANTI-WOOFBEAST. ► A few best friends or many regular friends ➔ TEREZI, GAMZ33, SOLLUX. ► Wild night out or romantic night in ➔ WILD NIGHT OUT OR IN.  ALL PERMEWTATIONS OF THE ABOVE. ► Day or night ➔ NIGHT.

FOUR HAVE YOU EVERS

► Been caught sneaking out ➔ NEVER B33N CAUGHT.   ► Fallen down/up the stairs ➔  YES, BUT I LAND ON MY F33T. ► Wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? ➔ YES. ► Wanted to disappear ➔ YES, AND I HAVE.  

FIVE PREFERENCES

► Smile or eyes ➔ BOTH?  EYES ARE MORE USEFUL FUR HUNTING, I SUPPAWSE. ► Fat or skinny ➔ NO PREFURENCE. ► Shorter or Taller ➔ STILL NO PREFURENCE.  I JUDGE PEOPLE BY THEIR FUCKING MINDS, NOT BY THEIR APPEARANCES. ► Intelligence or Attraction ➔ INTELLIGENCE.  DEFINITELY. ► Hook-up or Relationship ➔ DEPENDS.

FAMILY

► Do you and your family get along  ➔ MY LUSUS?  YES, WE GET ALONG VERY WELL, BUT HE DOESN’T LIKE MOST OTHER PEOPLE. ► Would you say you have a “messed up life” ➔ YEAH, BUT NOT IN A BAD WAY. ► Have you ever ran away from home ➔ YES.  I JUST DID RECENTLY. ► Have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ YES.  S33 ABOVE.  AND IT’S HAPPENED MORE THAN ONCE.

FRIENDS

► Do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ ...YES. ► Do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ YES. ► Who is your best friend ➔ TEREZI. ► Who knows everything about you ➔ I DON’T EVEN KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ME.  THAT’S PART OF LIVING AND BEING A FUCKING PURRSON.