#never run out of things to say

[poison-into-positivity]

one of the most egregious things about wwdits’ legacy is how people who have seen the show have reduced Laszlo to “guy with a funny voice who has a lot of sex” and ignore everything else.

“i like Laszlo because of the way he says new york citayyy~” okay well i like Laszlo because he is so deeply in love with his wife that when the people in his homeland didn’t approve of her he left forever and swore to never go back. I like Laszlo because he tricked his wife into going to England without him in order to raise a child that isn’t his, because he knew that the child needed him and that his wife deserved to chase her own dreams without being burdened by him.

“I like Laszlo because he’s regular human bartender Jackie Daytona” I like Laszlo because when he runs away from home he chases his deep-seated desire to find his own humanity again and pours his heart and soul into saving a high school girls volleyball team. I like Laszlo because he participates in modern traditions he doesn’t understand out of love for his human best friend.

“i like Laszlo because of ‘may I approach the bitch’ lol” i like Laszlo because when Guillermo confided in him and asked for his help, he agreed and kept his secret hidden even though it could’ve had dire consequences for him. I like Laszlo because he spends hours and hours working on a temporary sunlight cure just to go to the beach and dance in the sun.

“I like Laszlo because he fucks and sucks hahaha” I like Laszlo because he’s the glue that holds that house together. we are not the same

[zombiecowboy65]

Need to know more about freshman year Jeremy. Need to know why the freshmen avoided him and what Cody meant by not the kind of guy you wanted to get into an argument with back then, yk? Need to know about the careful lectures Rhemann sat him down for and how he ended up with Noah at that banquet. Need to know about how he felt when the officers finally remembered to tell him about Noah and the ride to the station and how long it took his family to come bail him out. Or was it Rhemann? Need to know where they were and how long it took them to get him help after , because he says he wanted to spiral out and feel nothing at all, so he didn’t stop there. Need to know how the conversation went with his parents where he “took Bryson down with him anyway”. Need to know about those 5 weeks in rehab and how alone he must’ve felt when he came back. Need to know more about how Rhemann welcomed him back with open arms when his family shuttered him out, need to know about him meeting Adi and the slow reception of him back into the Trojans after such a disastrous night

[bunnieswithknives]

The soul of Wicked is randomly inventing extremely elaborate relationships between characters who barely interact at all in canon. Also Fiyero is here.

[centaur-dreaming]

Jean not understanding why Renee saved him until he’s leaving the house in just his helmet and gloves and breaking every speed limit on his way to do exactly the same thing for Jeremy

[bvckbiter]

fandom talks too little about hylla and reyna. reyna killed her father when she thought he'd killed hylla. hylla dragged them out of puerto rico and found them sanctuary and employment on circe's island AND became one of circe's favorites. then when they got captured by blackbeard hylla also got them out of that situation by out-pirating literal immortal pirates. then in a span of three years, they split up, found their own ways to the amazons and cj, and became the leaders of their respective factions. when hylla's queenship was being threatened by otrera in son, she plotted a counter-coup and defeated an amazon queen who couldn't die two nights in a row in one-on-one combat, THEN led her cavalry to camp jupiter. (ik this woman slept like a corpse for a week afterwards). hylla used reyna as an absolutely ruthless bait-and-switch to capture orion, and all reyna said in response to that was, "bet." reyna carries insurmountable amounts of both guilt and gratitude towards her sister. even though they havent seen each other in a while, hylla still drops everything and does everything in her power to save her baby sister when she knows reyna needs her.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Why The Ending Sucks

Ok I figured it out. Hear me out:

The entire comic has a running theme best summed up as "who is controlling the narrative, and why are we listening to them?"

Hussie plays a caricaturized version of himself that he describes as "buffoonish" and "oafish". Caricature!Hussie is well-meaning, but a dumb idiot who's incredibly biased in favor of certain characters and in disfavor of others (the most obvious example being his "love" of Vriska, but there's also the way he constantly disparages Eridan). As a result, you have to be VERY SKEPTICAL and VERY CAREFUL when approaching Homestuck's narration, because even when the "best" narrator is at the helm, he's not 100% trustworthy and incapable of giving the readers an unbiased view of the story.

I say "best" because, importantly, Hussie isn't the story's only narrator. He and Doc Scratch explicitly fight over control of the story - Doc Scratch, the child abusing predator who engineered Alternia's fascist murder society, whose shaping of its history is explicitly described by character!Hussie as "fanfic". He is then killed by Lord English, who is described by Hussie as embodying the "toxically masculine" and by extension, the patriarchy, and Caliborn explicitly takes control of the story. John even grapples with Caliborn's version of events, calling out how sexist and misogynistic and shitty it is.

So if we're keeping score: control over the narrative is LITERALLY wrested away from Hussie (who was already struggling to be unbiased) by fascists, abusers, and the patriarchy. It's stressed multiple times that Caliborn/LE are responsible for literally everything that ever happens; the reason the Game Over timeline ends the way that it does is because the alpha timeline is, in essence, the narrative LE is telling: the forces of fascism get to claim the new universe, thereby propogating itself, while friendship dies and all hope is lost.

Who's in control of the narrative, and why are we listening to them?

There are other minor examples of this, too: Aranea is an exposition fairy, and she's biased as fuck and wrong ALL THE TIME about her own teammates. Karkat's explanations and rationalizations are constantly tinged with his own self-loathing and self-blame. Sollux and Meulin are both prophets as per their Mage class, but are both so bogged down by their own emotional issues that the futures they pick out are actively harmful. So on and so on. At nearly every turn, you have to interrogate who's telling the story, what their motivations are, and what they're overlooking or deliberately obfuscating.

So given that this theme is so prevalent, and so thoroughly weighted toward "well, actually, maybe you shouldn't take narration at face value and should interrogate it and come to your own conclusions," it would be Really Weird for the story to go "actually, you can totally trust the narrative now because everyone gets a happy ending".

So, I know that it makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist, but here's my genuine take on Homestuck's ending:

The ending is shitty on purpose because the viewer is intended to take it as a dare to refute the narration and make something better.

Why are we letting character!Hussie tell the story? He's a biased idiot. Why are we letting the various avatars of LE and Caliborn tell the story? They're fascist, misogynistic, predatory assholes.

And - because Homestuck is a story about life - why are we letting idiots, assholes, abusers, and creeps dictate the story of real life? The world is full of forces that would try to take control of the story and make everyone else play along, represented in microcosm within the text of Homestuck. We cannot let those forces win.

So please go out and do something kind and hopeful and loving in the world today. Thanks for reading.

[deoidesign]

One of my first digital pieces (2010) versus one of my recent ones (2024)

We all start somewhere!

[theglidingbat]

Matching couple's outfit but it's just Bruce in minhkhoa's cape

Bonus:

They are so annoying oh my god get a roommm

[essektheylyss]

I do find the uptick in folks who got upset that some of us felt like there wasn't enough follow-through on narrative consequences suddenly turning around wanting the Hells to be hunted by Vasselheim very funny, because I'm just like... so what I'm hearing is that you want your faves to be on the run from religious leaders because the choices they made had such massive ramifications and so aggressively spurned that religion it demanded exile if not outright execution, because it makes for a more interesting story with more interesting characters.

I understand the canary in the role mine now: you're jealous of me. You want what the Essek stans have.

[briskchips]

How in the WORLD do you find time/motivation to make all your cool animations????2?@?

In terms of time, I'm very lucky in that I get to work from home with a very flexible schedule, so I can plan out days to work on personal/fan art that won't obstruct my job (too much...)

In terms of motivation, hyper fixation is a cruel, bitter mistress and she has her doughy claws latched around my throat

[bunnieswithknives]

Spent the last billion hours inventing fictional foods and brands for my OCs to enjoy

[flyingbuddiies]

i hope taco permadies in the finale. i hope she’s a victim of circumstance. i hope she dies convincing herself its for the better. that it’s her final punishment. that there was no other ending than this. that if her attempts to apologize for all the hurt she’s done didn’t work, she’s fully irredeemable. that there is no other fate best-suited for her other than death, and that in life there is no further point for her. i hope she dies believing she deserves it.

i hope she never gets the chance to tell microphone she loves her. i hope microphone is eternally left in the dark. i hope she never discovers the true extent of tacos remorse. her guilt. i hope she is left in silence to only ponder about how taco felt, hoping and praying that she meant anything to her. even a tiny bit. clinging onto any fraction of hope that taco could possibly feel the same way she does.

i hope microphone never finds out she’s dead. i hope she is led to believe that taco moved on from her. that she never meant anything to her. that she wasn’t enough again.

[casualavocados]

I asked myself why I failed to notice. It was the first time we'd been apart that long. I found the birthday gifts you prepared for me in my room, from my 18th to my 21st. ...Shut up. I started to think about what you were doing back then. Were you celebrating my birthday all by yourself?

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 12

[luna-loveboop]

For those who don't have Twilight Princess but would like to know:

The move Twilight performed while fighting Dink is called the helm splitter. It's one of the Hidden Skills that the Hero's Shade, aka Time (but as a skeleton oof) taught him

This move is often an instant kill. It is harder against Lizalfos, so the goal is to quickly turn around and deliver a slash. He lands with his back to the enemy- which made Dink grab him from behind (and bit Twi's arm ouch). But it's one of the most powerful moves Shade taught him- he practically ripped out Dink's shoulder.

One of the art screenshots is not Lu, but art Jojo did of shade teaching him to do it. (Can confirm it was terrifying- bro stopped the blade an inch from Twi's head- after telling him it's called the helm splitter)

[puckinghischier]

I've literally fallen in love with Nico's eyes lately. Especially after some of the life videos from tiktok where it was filmed very close up. They are freaking eye-catching and exude such good energy at the same time!

i think nico has the true definition of puppy dog eyes

they’re so expressive and big and shiny and lovely

i’ve always been a brown eye lover, so his big, moony, kind, pretty eyes have always been a BIG thing for me

i always think about these pictures bc they’re just so on display and pretty and lovely and shiny and clear and perfect

[hellfire-fist]

We don't talk about Zoro canonically saying he'd follow Luffy to hell enough.

Do you know how intense that statement is? How much love and devotion you've got to have to say something so casually? It's redundant at this point, but Zoro really does put his captain first. You don't hear this, "I'd die for your dreams Luffy" a lot from other members, and do correct me if I'm wrong because maybe I'm too focused with ZoLu, but I can't even remember anyone other than Zoro explicitly say stuff like this in the manga/anime–MULTIPLE TIMES. Let's be honest, they're all ready to die for Luffy (for sure) but Zoro??? He's probably the only one who wouldn't even hesitate! Not even a millisecond. And Luffy is highly aware of it too! In the anime, he tells Zoro "now you have no reason to die" when he wakes up from his power nap. A lot of their scenes in Wano implies that Luffy trusts Zoro with his life more than anyone— and you know what else? That he wouldn't mind death because he knows Zoro would follow him even there.

The trust between these two is so damn magnified in canon, it physically hurts me to think about them.

ZoLu truly is the standard.