#not dirkrose

[hal9000fanboy]

born to be used (mspaint, 2024)

[badshipshitblog]

his grip is a little tight, but it's kind of nice

[callimaricounty]

rose "im a lesbian except for incest" lalonde

[shippingforpros-homestuckedition]

can I request dirkrose?

I wasn't in the mood for drawing and it shows adijsaoejaspod =u=

[meowmeowmeowimacat]

stupid thing i made because of the newest upd8

[the-meat-machine]

rereading the epilogues and going insane about the dirkrose vibes all over again

dirk's palpable yearning to have someone by his side who understands what he's going through. all this stuff about how he and rose are "basically the same person". dirk taking her hand, thinking of her as beautiful, saying that they belong together. dirk explicitly positioning himself as a competitor to kanaya. and then the whole part at the end where dave wonders if dirk and rose are TOGETHER together and no one feels like they can fully deny that it's a possibility

like! god! these two!!!!

[xalicemadnessx]

i think this is how the latest update shouldve ended methinks

[davekat-sucks]

If this is confirmed to be the person in that test tube

Can we finally say DirkRose is canon after all of the denial from this moment?

[fakeboystuck]

tboy!Dave and cis!Dirk go out drinking on Earth C and Dave gets fucked up enough to tell Dirk everything Bro did to him. Dirk expects to be horrified but he just gets harder and harder as Dave talks about his abuse. Dave ends up going home early and Dirk spends a while thinking about what to do with this info.

Eventually, he decided to leave Dave alone for now, instead turning his attentions towards Rose, who looks just like him. He starts secretly drugging her with testosterone shots, spending several months getting close to her and building proper a father-daughter relationship. He brushes off her concerns about getting more masculine; it's just stress, plenty of women need to shave their faces, you're just getting older. Eventually though, Rose comes crying to him - Kanaya broke up with her because she's no longer attractive. It makes sense - she passes for male without any effort.

Dirk comforts her, and offers to let her stay at his apartment. Only a few months later, his "daughter" has become a broken tboy sex slave. He's only allowed to wear crop tops and shorts when he leaves the house, showing off his top surgery scars and pregnant belly. When Dave sees what his sister has become, he'll beg Dirk to do the same to him, again.

[kinkmom]

Dave just wants to give Rose some meat flowers. 🤗

And so does Dirk, vigorously.

Finally got the willpower to illustrate this lovely ask I got when I posted Rose's topless god-tier dress. Sorry for not including Kanaya. :']

De-flowering service: Twitter / Pillowfort

[badshipshitblog]

pulling his puppet into his lap, the ventriloquist momentarily forgets that he compells her speech, and falls for the reflection of himself in her perfect chrome

[superclem]

art lately

[hsderseweek]

Hold on to your butts.

[skunkbert]

(homestuck: beyond canon spoilers under the cut!)

so i'm reading the new beyond canon update, and...

hey chat. what are they cooking here. are you thinking what i'm thinking

[perfectlittlefreaks]

would any of you dorks be interested in working on a tiny derse zine?

all creatives are welcome, regardless of format or skill level writing or art or like fuck it music lol it doesnt have to be a ship but you have to be good w it being w ship content of this nature.

[the-meat-machine]

The thing about postcanon Dirk/Rose is that Ult Dirk needs Rose way, way more than Rose needs him. Dirk is trying desperately to convince himself, and us, and Rose, that Rose is in the same position he is. But she isn't, and I think on some level Dirk knows it.

This line really struck me in my Epilogues reread:

Kanaya loves Rose, but sometimes love just isn’t enough. Sometimes what you need is understanding.

Because, the thing is, this line isn't really about Kanaya and Rose. It's about Jake and Dirk. And it becomes obvious when compared with another line from later on where Dirk talks about his relationship with Rose:

We’re family. We belong together. And after years of micromanaging the inconsistent and confused desires of total imbeciles, wouldn’t it be a relief to have someone by my side who understood me?

So here's what I think is going on. Dirk feels desperately, desperately alone. His ascension to Ultimate Self-hood is making him aware of all sorts of dire shit. He's becoming aware of his status as a fictional character and the tenuous position of the "canon" he's from. He's "drowning in his own dismal persona", as he once put it in canon. And no one fucking gets it, least of all the man he loves.

Because it's clear that Jake could never, ever understand what Dirk is going through. He does not understand Dirk. Will not understand Dirk. Willfully chooses to avoid understanding Dirk at every turn. And Dirk is so, so tired of it.

And then Dirk starts to get to know Rose better, and… they just click. They truly are kindred spirits in many ways. They have similar senses of humor, similar interests, similar ways of viewing the world. And most importantly, Rose is ascending too. She will soon be in a position to understand what's going on at the same level Dirk does. She'll be able to understand him. And Dirk needs understanding so desperately.

But there's a problem, and that problem is that, while Dirk feels that he doesn't have anyone else who can understand him, the same isn't true for Rose. Because Kanaya does understand her. Maybe not completely. Maybe she'll never fully be able to grasp the metaphysical implications of Rose's ascension. But, importantly, she tries to understand, in a way Jake would never do for Dirk.

And so Dirk knows that, in order for his plan to work, in order to convince Rose to come with him, he has to prevent Kanaya from getting to her at all costs. Because no matter how much he tries to tell himself that Rose would feel the same way he does even without his influence, he knows that if Rose had to choose between him and Kanaya, she would choose Kanaya in a heartbeat.

So he prevents Kanaya from reaching Rose, manipulates Kanaya into telling Rose that she should leave her and go with Dirk. And he suborns Rose's will into his own. He does everything he can to make her part of him. Because in the end, the only way Dirk Strider can understand to not be alone is to gaze at himself in the mirror.

I'll leave you with a quote from Candy:

ROSE: There’s no one who understands me like you, Kanaya. No one who looks at me the way you do. No one who brings me back down to earth with ceaseless, brutal honestly like you. ROSE: I have no idea what’d I’d do without you. KANAYA: You Would Probably Do Just Fine ROSE: Yes, but I’d be very unhappy.