#sbart au

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[image description: a looping two-frame gif split in half of two Tales From Riftdale characters. The top half is taken up by Stacy, depicted in a blood-stained pink hoodie with heart-shaped glasses. Stacy is crying, with one eye hidden behind her wiping away tears. A bouncing dialogue box reads "I mean I guess I'm glad I got you here in time, but this wasn't how I wanted this to go, I was hoping I could..." There is a blurred image of Stacy carrying a bleeding Clairvoyance underneath.

The bottom half shows Clairvoyance, depicted in a Sylph of Light costume and red glasses with green lenses. He has his hands on either side of his face and looks distressed. A bouncing dialogue box reads, "(pause) ... I died." There is a blurred image of Clairvoyance from the neck down underneath, showing a four-pronged claw bursting from his chest as he stares at blood on his hands.

Both of their mouths are opening and closing, with one person having their mouth closed at a time. The background of both images depict the Battlefield, though the pixels have been jumbled up. end description.]

the relatively finished version of this gif! i almost did more with it but i think this is enough fjdkalsf maybe i'll make a full scene w/ sprite swapping version sometime :P. i made the text boxes bob bcus i wanted just a little bit more movement and this was a fun way to do that! and while i wanted to add the image of clair dying from the beginning (the "full" text of this idea specifies that technically "clair's death is overlaid behind him, showing the wounds, him collapsing, stacy picking him up") i added the stacy carrying him image to clarify what she's talking about :)

anyway. making gifs is very fun so get ready for more of those lmao

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I drew chibis of my friend and my husband’s warrior of light from final fantasy xiv

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[image description: a looping two-frame gif split in half. The top half is taken up by Stacy from Tales From Riftdale, depicted in a pink hoodie with heart-shaped glasses. Stacy is crying, with one eye hidden behind her wiping away more tears. Dialogue in a box next to her, bordered with a similar pink to her glasses, reads "I mean I guess I'm glad I got you here in time, but this wasn't how I wanted this to go, I was hoping I could..."

The bottom half shows Clairvoyance from Tales From Riftdale, depicted in a Sylph of Light costume with translucent yellow sleeves added on and red glasses with green lenses. He has his hands on either side of his face and looks distressed. Dialogue next to him, bordered in a similar green to his lenses, says "What... I died?"

Both of their mouths are opening and closing, with one person having their mouth closed at a time. end description.]

i'm gonna schedule this so i'll be at work when it posts, but i've been having a good time fucking around with aseprite recently :3 found an old sbart dialogue idea and wanted to try my hand at something with it. definitely a first pass, but a good one for getting the idea on (digital) paper i think!

i still want to go in and add a background, plus the blood on clair's hands and stacy's shirt in my original dialogue that i forgot. i think next time i'm going to start with a bigger canvas instead of sizing up and probably do waist up shots instead of bust up for a more "homestuck feel." possibly with black text on white bg and color-coded frames instead of the color coded text. we'll see!

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it's 2:42 a.m. which means my nerves have calmed down to attempt to write something but not far enough that i can do it on a google doc

so have some sbart au stuff bcus i was thinking about smith waking up for the first time and having Feelings™ about it (update after finishing it: this isn't all of them but i also should probably go to bed bcus it's past 3 a.m. lmao)

Your eye snaps open.

The first breath you take isn't as shaky as someone would expect, but being shot for the... third? Time in your life takes some of the nervousness out of it. Even if something feels off about this time, like you...

This isn't a hospital room.

The thought makes its way into your brain before any of your others can catch up, flashing in the front of your mind like you accidentally hit the button on your squad car. The air tastes wrong, too much like sugar and not enough like sterilization, and your ears are free from the crowd of machines making sure you're still breathing. In fact, there's almost no sound at all in here, only faint music from what you presume is outside wherever you are. The sheets are so soft, too, not like any hospital bed you've ever stayed in. This bed feels like you're sleeping on a cloud!

You close your eye and take another big, deep breath. There's no one else in the room, you're pretty sure, which is a little concerning. Chief has been there when you woke up the last two times, is he okay? You sit straight up and start to pat your pockets to find your --

These aren't your clothes.

They look an awful lot like your clothes! You like the cool golden suspenders, and the pants look fancy but are pretty soft when you run your hands across them. Instead of a button-up shirt, you have on a sweater, also golden yellow with a big moon on the chest. Wait -- yellow. You're wearing yellow. You're wearing yellow! The sleeves are tinged a little gray where they brush up against your wrist, but you're wearing a whole outfit of yellow! When you stand up, the whole room is colorful, and looks an awful lot like your room back at your apartment, if the whole thing was washed in that nice pretty pink you picked for your messages.

"Good to see you up and about, kiddo!"

Your hands freeze above your pockets again. The voice sounds... so familiar, and so comforting, but you can't place who it is. You turn around to face the source and the sensation of not having to look down but up to meet his eyes is almost more disconcerting than the fact that the source of the voice is a man who looks like his skin is made of porcelain and is extremely, uh... rectangular! He doesn't seem to have a mouth until he smiles, and you can't tell whether his teeth are sharp or round in the short time it takes him to let out a bellowing, Fatherly laugh. You try to stumble out a few words, but nothing comes out, and he reaches out to pat your shoulder. "That's alright, don't stress yourself out! I just wanted to come check on you. I was a little afraid that ol' kiss goodnight wouldn't be enough to save you from certain death, but it looks like everything worked out."

Death. Certain death? You roll that thought around in your head and...

Well, you did see quite a bit of blood, didn't you? That Priest didn't miss this time.

"Where... am I?" you manage to ask.

"Somewhere safe! This is your room, after all."

It certainly looks like your room. You look up at the ceiling, at the stars you'd put up a few weeks ago, now yellow instead of green.

"Hey, why don't you get some more rest, son? I'll come back once I've checked in on the rest of your friends and we can watch the game while we wait for the party to start!"

You turn to ask him about your friends, he must mean Chief and the others, are they --

He's already gone.

You look out of the window and you are very, very high up.

You are very, very high up, and this is not the planet where you started.

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i promised sbart planet thoughts so while i wait until my brain is ready to take a shower, here are some of those, under a cut bcus i have a feeling this is gonna turn very rapidly to rambling lmao

(also, note: some of these thoughts were collaborative, and i'll try to note them! but a good chunk of this is just gonna be me spitballing ideas to get my brain to calm down so they're not "official" (as official as a largely community-driven au can be) to any particular sbart au discussion and open to workshopping in the future)

bart, as the page of space, gets the frog planet! and bcus he's Bart, we decided in a vc that he'd have the Land of Paint and Frogs. LoPaF is a bright, colorful planet, with aggressively colorful consorts and frogs that leave splatters of paint wherever they jump. i feel like it'd be almost rainforest like, with lots of nooks and crannies for things to hide in, and everything just seems... slightly off. nothing is quite the right color -- some of the trees are green, some of them aren't, but none of them seem... comfortable. like they're waiting for a fresh coat of paint, to make the obvious pun fjdklasfasd. even the waterways running through everything are all different colors, swirling like paint water left too long and beginning to separate. his quest -- besides the frog breeding -- would probably be something about "fixing" these colors and figuring out what all the plants and waterways and such want to be

i'm not sure what his consorts would be, but honestly them being ambiguous and many-shaped, so it's hard to really nail them down as any particular animal, feels very bart, esp if they're all various different colors

(also while i was researching this i saw that the wiki suggests that if anyone but the time player helps with the frog breeding, shit goes wrong, so while i still think clair hangs out to help, the universe accepts oculus "helping" by ordering around bart and managing to perfectly interrupt/ruin bart's plans in such a way that saves the frog breeding as the time and space player working together, and clair being around is just kind of a fun bonus)

chief, meanwhile, is a knight of doom, and we decided his planet would be the Land of Streetlamps and Deliverance (LoSaD, which is a delightful acronym for him fjkdsalfds). the entire planet feels like an endless, winding detective noir city block, with buildings that tower to always partially block any natural light. all of the streetlamps seem programmed to make everything feel dystopian, constantly flickering, broken, or more dim up close than they seem from far away. you can go inside the buildings, sure, but you probably don't want to unless you're prepared to ask seven different consorts where you're supposed to be going because all of them have very different ideas about how the building is laid out and all of them are partially right. sadness sits in the streets like fog -- easy enough to move through, sure, and easy enough to avoid, but if you sit and rest too long it starts to get to you. The benches for buses that will never come are especially prone to tripping this effect. LoSaD has no interest in making things comfortable for you, but there are plenty of dark corners to hide in if you need them!

(chief uses one of these to try to get christian, i think, but it doesn't quite land the first time, leading to a chase that ends with christian dead on his own quest bed and unfortunately (/j) returning from the dead)

his consorts i think would all be little gray turtles who are quite hesitant to talk to anyone and are suspicious of the world outside of their buildings. i'm not sure what his quest would be, or if he'd have any particular desire to complete it. i also think the entire planet follows a generally canon color scheme, i.e. grayscale and red, with most of the lamps shining white light, but lights inside and outside alike flashing red whenever anyone stands underneath of them and entire blocks flashing dark, doom green whenever chief does anything. smithsprite thinks it's all incredibly depressing

christian i've loosely assigned (with blessing) the Land of Grief and Alleyways (LoGaA). his land i think would be a sort of 50/50 split of cityscapes and large, open cemeteries. some of the cityscapes are centered around churches to the Genesis Frog, others skyscrapers to nonsense companies, and a few odd ones out are large altars centered around something with many, many eyes and no name. it's not unlike LoSaD in that the weather is always kind of dim, but LoGaA always seems on the verge of sunset, and while sometimes clouds roll over it never actually rains, and the whole planet seems to be struggling to breathe. the headstones don't seem to be attached to any particular grave, and digging them up reveals items or plain dirt more than it does skeletons, and even then those skeletons are incomplete. the cities are quiet and relatively empty for how many buildings there are -- where LoSaD has mazes all over its surface and inside its buildings, the buildings on LoGaA are full of open-concept floors and basic living quarters. the whole planet feels like there were supposed to be more people on it, but some of them just... didn't show up. christian manages to dupe all of them into doing and buying whatever he says, of course, but maybe there being less of them helped with that, who knows!

idk about a quest for him either, but i have a very strong feeling that something has happened to his denizen, and ideally he would be fixing it (maybe a coma?) but he is almost certainly not going to do that

i don't have solid ideas for anyone else yet, but i think clair's is the land of something and tunnels, just bcus like. it's clair.

stacy and becky's planets fit together, as if you can't have one without the other, and their quests are probably intertwined

smith's is probably a lot like chief's at first glance, but much brighter, and with yellows instead of green, maybe more open with parks and such? gray parks covered in red flowers fjkdalfds (smithsprite likes this one a lot better)

lucidity... hmm. i think lucidity's planet is split down the middle, but what's on each side i'm not sure? i just think you'd fly up to it and there's literally a canyon for an equator wide and deep enough that you'd need flying powers or a shit ton of grist on hand to get across unless you're prepared for a lot of rock climbing. her house/apartment/whatever it would be is situated in a tower high above the canyon, with drop offs on either side

oculus's planet is always watching, no matter who, what, or where you are, and there's always a tick-tock echoing in any silence that dares try and make itself at home there, a clock always reminding you that you're wasting time by standing around, and you don't want to leave time lying around for a thief, do you?

and these aren't planets, but i feel like the inside of the Prospitian throne room is like, a "man cave," with a balcony that has a grill on it that cooks things it shouldn't be capable of cooking; there are big comfy armchairs and all the drinks you could want in a fridge that's never empty and all of your favorite snacks in the cupboards that seem endless. you always feel safe when you're inside, and you can never seem to find the front door? you got in here somehow and Dad™ teases you about using the front door next time, but you can look out the windows on a golden, shining city while Dad™ makes your favorite burgers!

the Dersian throne room is simultaneously Your Room and a kitchen, depending on what Mom™ needs you for. her kitchen always smells delicious but it's not quite clear whether that's with dinner or dessert, not that it really matters because on Derse it's hard to keep track of time. the barstools are comfortable to sit on while you wait for Mom™ to give you instructions or a plate... until she's upset with you for something, and then you can't seem to get up no matter how much your lower back seems to ache. but that's only if you've done something wrong, sweetie, so why don't you come test out your Mom™'s new recipe? she's made your favorite!

(no one's ever been able to describe the inside of Their Room, their eyes glossing over when they try to remember what it looks like.)

alright i'm gonna go shower now 💙 but i'm very open to more suggestions or thoughts 👀 i can't promise all of this is Strictly Homestuck Approved bcus i'm also bending it quite a bit for the tfr aspect but it's still fun lmao

[thegempage]

i need to make more sbart au for like, my health

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[image description from alt text: A digital sketch of a young woman done in shades of pink. She is smiling at something to the viewer's right. Her hair is partially pulled into a ponytail and she is wearing a shirt with a thick collar from an unseen hoodie. end of description]

i just Know this piece is gonna take me seven thousand years bcus i'm not even fully done sketching the second of the three people in this piece, so have a lil preview of stacy since i think she looks cute : ) i still need to add sunglasses but i'm figuring out what shape i want her sunglasses to be in this piece so stay tuned for whenever this is done!!

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hmm. tempted to put off the other tasks i was hoping to do this evening to do a different silly and self-indulgent thing instead

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tbh i'm almost surprised no one's called me on my discord status but the joke is probably a little muddied in its attempt at being a dual reference lmao

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i have to go take care of things but understand that this means i will probably come back from doing tasks to ramble about fics i want to write and/or sbart au lands

currently thinking about poll for initiative and tales from riftdale to ignore the lording room purge waiting for me friday and saturday

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E6 + fistfight with god for Clairvoyance? :3c

[image description: two digital drawings of Clairvoyance, who is dressed in a tinfoil hat and a Sylph of Light costume. He is crying happy tears and gripping his braid thrown over his shoulder for comfort. One version of the image is done in a limited palette of reds and teals while the other is done in his regular colors. end description]

i ended up doing two bcus i liked this image a lot jfkdlsafdsjkl and cheated a little with his hat and teeth bcus i'm not particularly good at color theory and did not want them to blend in with everything else

thank you so much for the request <33!! esp bcus i've had the sbart au on the brain for......................... reasons and wanted to test out some scruffier clairvoyance looks!!

why is he crying? well : ) he's probably just happy to see someone for no particular reason!

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i have so much other stuff i want to do, some more time sensitive than others, but literally any time we talk about the sbart au i just want to draw actual art for it and i have been thinking about the Land of Streetlamps and Deliverance (and to a lesser extent the Land of Paint and Frogs) like, on and off all day and i aaaaahhhhhh

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i don't know if i never made the post or if i just can't find it, but i am going to Yell bcus i want to finalize some chumhandles and colors so i can make silly pesterlogs for the sbart au but i Cannot Think Of Chumhandles!

[thegempage]

my therapist let me ramble a little bit about homestuck and tfr this morning so i have been newly empowered to draw sbart au shit and write a few chumhandles >:3 i am powerful

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the real trouble with drawing the sbart au is trying to figure out how the fuck the page shorts work and, if i can figure that part out, is the way they work appropriate for the server