#johndirkkat

[gemalawashomestuck]

Writing a new AU. My mouse broke in protest but nonetheless, I'm 730 words of outline (way more than normal for this stage of plotting) in anyways. It's JohnDirkKat and a mix of angst and comedy. PLEASE ask me about it, it's weird soulmate bullshit and only the cherry on top of the weird fun shit piling up in my drafts. Or maybe I'll just reblog this with deets unprompted, it's too much fun not to get into.

[iknaenmal]

Johndirkkat for ship bingo por favor

Hi tumblr user @yoyoflu,

I had never, ever considered this ship but here u go!

Tell me a homestuck ship and ill do the ship bingo!

The best things abt this bingo is that its gonna expand the horizons and help me discover ships that might or might not become my otps

[laurasauras]

2021 Fanfic Year in Review

Personal Update:

so 2021 was a year! like most people, i feel like a whole lot and also nothing at all happened. prior to looking at my summary, i thought that i'd had a quiet year because of being 1/2 aimless 1/2 newly employed, but it turns out that it was actually my second most productive year in terms of word count. i just put out a bonkers amount in 2020 so it felt like less 🤷‍♀️

Overall summary:

January:

Fics/chapters written: 3 Featured fic: Knight of Spades o Pairing: DaveKat; lots of pale relationships o Rating: E o Word count: 95k o Status: Unfinished o In a sentence: Meteorstuck AU that becomes aware that it's an AU, with a huge focus on Davekat and Dave<>Rose

February:

Fics/chapters written: 1 Featured fic: Heavy in Your Arms o Pairing: DaveKat o Rating: T o Word count: 18k o Status: Unfinished o In a sentence: Dave hires a professional cuddler (Karkat) to deal with the fact that he is cripplingly touch-starved.

March:

Fics/chapters written: 6 Featured fic: Lethe o Pairing: DaveRose o Rating: E o Word count: 22k o Status: Completed o In a sentence: After a one-night stand, Rose discovers that she's pregnant--she calls Dave to help her through it.

April:

Fics/chapters written: 10 Featured fic: The Chemistry of Love and Hate o Pairing: DirkKat; JohnDirkKat o Rating: T o Word count: 12.5k o Status: Completed o In a sentence: Dirk and Karkat are in an intense, high-school rivalry over John's affections.

May:

Fics/chapters written: 13 Featured fic: The Road is Bumpy and Karkat's Ass is Fat o Pairing: Davekat o Rating: E o Word count: 3k o Status: Completed o In a sentence: Karkat rides on Dave's lap a roadtrip because there aren't enough seats. Dave would feel bad about how turned on he is if Karkat wasn't making it worse on purpose.

June:

Fics/chapters written: 6 Featured fic: Misery Loves Company o Pairing: DirkJohn o Rating: E o Word count: 5k o Status: Completed o In a sentence: "jackin each other off and bonding about trauma, just Guy Things amiright" (prompt by @theyoungphoenix )

(part two)

[fiiery2weg]

TT: sugoi

EB: what he said

CG: DOKI DOKI.

[gemalawashomestuck]

A, N, R, T, Y for fandom meme!!

Ooh, thank you! Here we go-

A: Current OTPs/OT3s/OT(X)s

So, I'm mostly gonna talk about Homestuck since this is on my Homestuck blog. My OTP has been, since 2018, Johndave- though, Dirkjohn is a close second because it's genuinely amazing. My favorite 0T3 (though, I have a lot of poly ships I love) is generally JohnDaveKat (ever since I started to love Davekat, and Johnkat was a big ship of mine when I was new to Homestuck). For a quick non-homestuck aside, Gladion/protagonist for Pokémon sun and moon is amazing, and if ANYONE who is familiar with Fossil Fighters follows me, Rupert/protagonist. If y'all know this one hmu because I literally don't know anyone who does. For those who don't know what fossil fighters is, it's Pokémon but dinosaurs and sincerely underrated.

N: Three things I wish more people in my fandom(s) did.

Homestuck strikes again! Frankly I wish more Homestuck people would like, write their thoughts out. Tell me about those headcanons. Hit me with the crackships, the analysis, the essays. For everyone who does this I love you platonically. More seriously, I wish people would chill out a little - I don't mean about like, being wild about ideas or enthusiastic or "cringey", I love all of that - I mean, about headcanons and interpretations and opinions. Like June and John or fem or enby or masc Roxy or liking post canon vs not (for anyone wondering, I have...really mixed opinions on post canon). People really need to cool their jets sometimes. But on a lighter note, the third thing (that frankly applies to every fandom) - poly ships. Y'all are sleeping on poly ships. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but I really think people are missing out here.

R: Something I ship that I don't think anyone else ships.

Hooo boy do I have some ships for you. Starting with the big 0T3 that I sincerely think like ONE other person likes and there is absolutely no fic for on A03: John/Dirk/Karkat. Dirk/Karkat in general is ignored as hell but the combination of those three? Nothing. Nada. Zip. There is no content. I also have a big poly pile that I know nobody else is on (all non-incest combinations of John/Dave/Jake/Dirk/Karkat/sometimes Hal at once) but that's specific enough that I'm not surprised nobody's run with it. In any case, I have a good number of drafts for both in the works.

T: Hard and fast headcanons I'll die for.

This one's actually kind of difficult because so many of my headcanons are flexible and subject to change between AUs. Even my gender/sexuality headcanons are very flexible and it generally depends on what I think fits the character as they are in a specific AU (for instance, I usually headcanon Dave as bi, but in my fic Still as a Statue he is in fact gay). But, there are some I really love:

- Dave and Karkat know some ASL, which they learned from the Mayor. They use this to talk sometimes just because they can. Dave taught Dirk, who uses it's reliance on body language/facial expressions to try and get the hang of actually emoting in conversation. This is mostly because I'm learning ASL right now and project like a motherfucker on the Striders.

- MLP is a show Dirk watched when he was little, and it's sort of a comfort thing for him, so when he's down he'll watch an episode or two to cheer up despite claiming not to like the show overall. He got Roxy into it when they first met, but she didn't really hold on to it the way he did. Also, he probably started liking it because of the robot Minihoof, who I headcanon was in fact left to him by Alpha Dave.

- John loves oldies and classical music. His dad used to play oldies and classical all the time and he loved the music but didn't really admit that. He can absolutely play a few on the piano, and he has a good singing voice but isn't really into singing.

- Aranea has a fucking amazing singing voice and absolutely nobody knows. Like, she could be the singing star in a rock band and absolutely fucking nobody is aware of this. Vriska also has a great voice, but cannot sing on key to save her life- she is a great electric guitar player though.

- The beta kids all game together. They complain about each other's picks, but they stream to each other and voice chat while they play (and meet up to play if applicable) and do pvp and multiplayer and google tips for each other and all. They're just friends who game.

Y: My secondhand fandoms that people I know are in.

- Minecraft in general, but also dream smp.

- Unnus Annus.

- The Magnus Archives.

- Genshin Impact.

- Hades.

- There's one more but for the life of me I cannot remember.

[gemalawashomestuck]

gonna hit you with homestuck for the ship ask meme cause i'm not sure what your other fandoms are!

Oops, I may have misunderstood that ask game and assumed it was 'send me a question for this fandom' instead of 'send me a fandom and I'll answer them all', my bad. In any case, I'm happy to go with it.

My other fandoms (that I'd answer this for) are/include Hollow Knight, Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Magnus Chase, Pokemon (games and anime), Warrior Cats, Game of Thrones, Twilight, How to Train Your Dragon (books or movies), Pendragon, Fossil Fighters (Original and Champions), Wings of Fire, Battlestar Galactica 2004, Invincible, and the MCU. Can't really think of more at the moment, heh.

That aside...

- Lowkey OTP

Probably Dirkjake, I don't actually talk/post as much about it compared to other ships but it was one of my BIG ships going in to HS for the first time and I was genuinely upset by how much it got shafted by Dirk's splinters, the time skip, and literally everything else. I'm still pretty invested in it, honestly. Johnkat, Arasol, JaneRoxyCallie, and others could also qualify for pretty much the same reason.

- Highkey NOTP

The big, obvious suspects are there - all the gross shit and things like Dirkroxy or Tavris that are just...no. Other than those, Nepkat just...bugs me. I don't like it. Similarly, Jakejane. I don't think there's anything strictly wrong with it as of canon proper, but from the off I could not stand it.

- [Softly] Don't NOTP

These don't bother me much, I just...don't enjoy them, or at least rarely enjoy content of them (there are a couple exceptions). They include Davejade, Johnroxy, and Johnvris - for some reason I've never been able to really enjoy or resonate with any of them, even though I really don't have anything against them.

- Highkey OTP but I'm Scared of Saying it Because It's Not A Very Popular Choice

Honestly, I don't really have any that I avoid because they're unpopular, as I enjoy crackships and rarepairs quite a lot and I'm open about that. So instead, I'll just mention some of my rarer/weirder ships: Dirkkat, Roxnep, Davesol, Roseradia, Johndavesprite, Jake/Brobot, JohnDirkKat...I've got plenty.

- Highkey OTP and Anyone On My Tumblr Knows It

Dirkjohn and Johndave, hands down. Johndave was my first and still is my biggest Homestuck OTP, Dirkjohn is my biggest rarepair and second only to Johndave in how much I love it. I will talk and post about these all damn day. I'd also add JohnDaveKat, I don't find all that much content for it but I'll die on the hill that canon would have been better if JohnDaveKat was canon.