#this was unnecessarily sweet

[rotyolk]

MIKUVERSARY WORLDWIDE HOLIDAY LETS GOOOO

[theshy1sout]

Okay, so

I finally got my bf into reading Homestuck. I was on a phone call with him as he read it at loud, voice-acting and stuff, while I was drawing. Today he reached the Dave first appearance and he discovered Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.

You have to understand that I always thought that this comics was just a stupid joke that only Hussie understands and finds funny. Bc the moment I saw the page with the dog (you know which one) I left the comics and never looked at it again. Until today.

My boyfriend read every single page of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff in complete silence. I asked him what's wrong, and he said "This is extremely sad". I was confused so he started explaining to me how this comics is a way little Dave was coping with trauma of living with his abusive brother. I didn't believe that, so I started reading the comics again and you know what?

Imagine adult Dirk, being completely under Lord English control, going shopping with little Dave and destroying supermarket in frustration of not finding anything that Calliborn would recognize as a food, being arrested by police in process and leaving little Dave alone hidden somewhere in the shop.

Imagine little Dave being pushed from the stairs so many times by his bro, he drew a caricature of himself pushing his bro off the stairs in revenge. Or being regularly beaten so hard and often, so he drew comics in which his brother got beaten up, shitted on and even brutally killed.

Imagine little Dave being so hungry (bc of course brother didnt give him proper food) he literally threw himself at a Subway sandwich machine during idk a walk with his bro (probably) and tried to steal some food or even just smell the actual normal food and while doing so got abandoned by his brother. Again.

Of course we can't interpret this way every single page of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, but come on, if you start seeing it, you cant stop sensing that every single page is either a way Dave coped with a traumatic experience or a way he kind of got revenge on his brother in a way his brother wouldn't understand and notice and beat him up for doing so.

I searched internet for so long and can't find a single person who would interpret it this way. Am I wrong though??

It gets better. As we know, Dave from universe B also drew this comic. And we even got a directly explained to us interpretation: he started drawing it as a simple comic (probably to cope with the loneliness). Then when Batterwitch became a real danger and he saw that but couldn't react directly, he started using his comics as a way to show what Betty Crocker was really like. So we also had this two characters, one represented Betty Crocker and the second one represented society, and they had this very abusive relationship that had references to situations in real life in Universe B.

So my theory (or more like my bfs theory) is that Dave from universe A was using his comics for the same exact thing. He drew situations from his life in a unreadable for others way (and also no one taught him how to draw or write, and maybe later he kept the shitty format so it's unreadable and too shitty for his brother to read) to cope with trauma. We see in this comics that Sweet Bro is shaving himself above Jeffs face while he sleeps, a thing that Dave's bro could definitely do. We see some pages of Dave trying to understand sport, economy and politics in his own way, bc his brother of course didn't teach him shit. And we even got a page that might suggest that Dave was sexually molested by his bro. There are many scenes of Bro being abusive to Jeff or Jeff getting his revenge. We also have Geromy, a possible interpretation of John, and on one page Jeff (Dave) tries to come to Geromy's (John's) place to visit him, but he can't and he drowns instead (which is so sad???).

I could go through every single page with this interpretation. I think some pages being a foreshadowings for what is happening later in Homestuck is just an additional joke, Hussie loves having layers of meta twists and many unrelated things relating or referencing each other for no reason. I don't think the comics is Dave's unconscious traveling through time and revealing the future, bc if so then we would see every single page of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff being a foreshadowing, and they are not. I also think that the huge wink to the audience was the scene of Dave being pushed by his bro down the stairs and we see him falling with accompaniment of a little panel of Jeff saying "I warned you about the stairs, bro". For me this is a visible hint that this is what this page of the comics was about, it was a way of coping with trauma, it was Dave drawing his brother falling down the stairs and himself saying probably a line that his brother irl was saying to him a lot.

Dave drew his life. His own horror of a life and it was probably more terrifying than he revealed in act 6.

Do you remember the iconic "bro hug" from Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff? A hug from his bro, sth that Dave really needed and wanted, a simple hug that he was very nervous to asked for, he literally drew himself hugging his brother in his second comic, and then we have the very same scene of Davepeta and Arquius hugging (part of them was Dave hugging Dirk, even if artificial), and then we have the exactly opposite of the scene between actual Dave and Dirk, when instead of enthusiastic "we're doing it bro, its happening, were making it" it's Dave saying "fuck forgive me for what I'm doing, this is so messed up fuck" and it's not even full embrace like in his comic, it's awkwardly side by side hug when they didn't even sit on the same level (like in the comic or with sprites), no, Dave is lower, he's smaller, he's scared, he cant face his brother, he wants to but he can't and this is just aaaansnanbska dmnsksnsdkydykdky

Can someone talk about this comic more? This flashy shitty documentary of Dave's life drawn by idk maybe 8 years old Dave ? The more I read Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, the more depressed I am, cause this is so sad if I'm right about it. I really wish it was just stupid colorful comic without any deeper meaning, just faking to have one or sth....

Also I think Geromy is black bc either Dave didn't know how John looks like so he imagined him being somewhat similar to his fav president Obama or maybe he was just trying to make John's character as unlike John as possible so no one would suspect a thing. Or maybe he just imagine himself being friends with young Obama, who knows.

After editing this chaotic rambling I have two more things as a prove for my theory. One is picture above, and second is what Hussie said about Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff:

“SBaHJ is absolutely inseparable from HS, and has been almost from the start. If you don't understand this, then you don't understand HS very well. SBaHJ is like the mentally handicapped step brother of MSPA, requiring special attention, but no less cherished as a part of the family. It was originally intended as the chief source of in-house memes for dialogue, but this is ultimately a superficial purpose. Though it only has 20+ strips, it contains a pretty dense and internally consistent language of recurring symbols and typo-driven grammars, applicable as a rich sub-cognitive lexicon for highlighting elusive elements woven into the mythology of the story which tend to be shrouded in the unconscious.”

[loveswirl]

hate the response to kindness to attempt to turn it into a joke rather than showing any appreciation

[utilitycaster]

it's so funny to me that Lucanis remembers your favorite drink and there's a "consequences of your action" purple arrow situation and everything and then if you do not romance him this means precisely nothing. I want him to be like "and Rook, of course, you will be having tea from Manfred as per usual" to, well, spite me for picking Minrathous in this run.

[hanasinbloom]

Father of the Year™, everybody.

[indecisive-dizzy]

Been seeing some Eddie headcanons so here's one from me bc why not :)

I hc Eddie seriously prefers hot/warm foods over cold foods. He's the kinda guy who'd microwave his Uncrustable (for those who don't know, an Uncrustable is a pb&j completely wrapped in bread, like a ravioli and is most often eaten cold :) )

There's exceptions and he'd eat refrigerator cold things occasionally, like salad, bc warm salad is probably gross. Tho he'd have warm things in there, like chicken or something to balance it out.

He tends to pass on frozen foods, like ice cream. The only time he willingly eats ice cream is:

it's melted and is now a soup, or

Paired with something warm, like a warm brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream (similar to how he adds warm food to salads)

[rat-rosemary]

When you fucked up and you can see that the way you fucked up affected someone who is so so so kind hearted even tho you have told them that you were a dick and they did nothing wrong

[beingnotseeming]

sometimes maturing is simply utilizing the private post option LMAO

[oceanatydes]

I love them so so much :(

[elpsycongruent]

happy 15th birthday to my best girl!!! 🥰

[montembeault]

BOS @ MTL (04.13.23) — game 82 things

[gutshift]

the central thing you need to know about sera is that she is just...deeply insecure and lacks any kind of meaningful confidence in herself or her beliefs, and that's why she reads every minor disagreement or even someone believing differently than she does as an attack and rejection. she lacks the confidence in herself to say "i believe in the maker, and i'm secure enough in that belief that others believing differently doesn't threaten my own sense of faith."

[bell-wizard-art-archive]

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Cringetober day 3! This outfit probably could’ve been more complex if I had looked for more references, but tbh I just wanted to draw my dude in a funky fit. Some day I’ll actually make proper introductions to my characters, but for now here’s an out of context PNG to stare at

[deputyrook]

creating a bg3 companion OC to ship with Durge is something that can be so personal

[webbedphantom]

Mikan nervously opened the door to LeBlanc, the bell chiming overhead as she stepped into the little cafe. Sojiro raised his head and nodded a greeting, having recognized her from the clinic down the road. "I-Is Aaron here? Oh... I'm sure he's b-busy with his girlfriend but I just... I m-made some cookies and I w-wanted to give some to him. T-To thank him for... For being my f-friend..." As she said this she stared at her feet in embarrassment, but when she looked up, Aaron was standing at the base of the stairway up to the attic. "Ah, uhm! S-Sorry! H-Here you go! They're shortbread! D-Dipped in chocolate and sprinkles! H-Happy Valentine's Day!" She explained in a panic, gently setting the small tin of cookies onto the counter before turning on her heel and leaving.

He'd actually just been getting ready to leave. He still had about an hour or so before he was going to meet up with Makoto, but given how often trouble seemed to rear its ugly head at the worst possible times, he was heading out early to patrol the streets a bit, try to nip any trouble makers in the bud so they wouldn't interrupt their time together.

He slapped on his webshooters, slipping his hands into wire-laced gloves that helped him control his magic, and was about to summon his costume when he heard the bell ring. An odd sound, as according to Sojiro, they typically didn't get any couples until around lunchtime, and the regulars had already came and went, so who-?

Then he heard her voice, and a soft smile formed on his face. He headed for the stairs, peaking his head around the corner (not in a sneaky way, more like a "I'm a monkey who likes hanging off of things" kinda way) until she noticed him, and he went got down to meet her.

"Oh, uh- (Thank you!)" He replied, watching her set the tin on the counter. "But you really didn't have to-"

He had barely even started that sentence, and she was already heading for the door. Some might take offense to that, or find it odd, but he didn't pay it much mind. It's just how she was.

"Okay... Thanks again!" He called out to her. "And Happy Valentine's Day to you too!"

As she was making her way out, he approached the counter, opening the tin and grabbing out one of the cookies before taking a quick bite.

"Mhm!! (Hot Damn), these are good!!"

[llatimeria]

Just finished The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert (my dad likes to play audiobooks in the car on trips) and I didn't like it much (and there's quite a bit of Yikes in it, because frank herbert and the 1960s in general,) but the aspect I found most interesting was the concept of like. A world's subconscious desire to kill The Other.

In the book an investigator visits a small cultish town in order to investigate it for a market study after a few other researchers mysteriously died. he gets into a frightening number of "accidents" while he's there (like the former investigators) and starts believing that there was a conspiracy among the townsfolk and all of them were intentionally trying to murder him.

tl;dr, it turns out it actually was a subconscious yet intense phobia/hatred they had of The Outside they had as part of their personal traumas, childhood indoctrination into their local cult, and the LSD-like drug they were constantly on. They didn't mean the investigator any harm, if anything they were extremely welcoming, kind, well-meaning people, but this background radiation of fear and rage kept making them accidentally do things to kill him - mixing up insecticide and spices in his food, gas fumes being pumped in his hotel room after a botched maintenance job, a torn carpet tripping him off the railing of the balcony, and Many Other subtle attempts on his life that he just happened to avoid by sheer chance.

But all the townsfolk don't really think anything of it - the town doctor, especially skeptical, "diagnoses" him as "accident-prone" until the investigator begs and pleads with him for days after several brutal accidents in a row, and only then does the doctor start believing him but even then only comes up with the theory that all of this supposed malice towards the investigator is "subconscious" - later shown to likely be correct when the investigator himself, after overdosing on their special drug, "accidentally" shoves his colleague off a roof, killing him, but the investigator physically cannot see it as anything but an accident anymore. it simply doesn't reach his mind that he killed a former friend of his. it was just an accident. he just fell, all on his own.

the idea of A Town That Wants To Kill You, But It's Nothing Personal resonated with me from the perspective of being a disabled person, especially one in a generally welcoming, accepting environment. when you're disabled, not a lot of people will come to you bearing their ableism between their teeth. They'll be nice, insensitive maybe, but nice, and are often outwardly willing to accomodate you. But they also stick out their leg as you're walking along to trip you. They'll apologize, and you'll maybe even believe it, even though to you, from your perspective, it was obviously an attempt to harm you. You excuse it once, maybe twice, but after a point, you realize that this world, this community you have entered, is actively hostile towards you and everyone like you. so you start screaming it to the rooftops. you tell authorities that the world wants to hurt you, but they begin affixing labels to you like "paranoid" or "anxious". they know no one actually has it out for you, personally, after all. that would be ridiculous.

but you still keep getting tripped down the stairs. the rat poison and the sugar at your favorite coffee shop still keep getting mixed up, but only when it's your order. in the hospital, recovering from your previous "accidents", a nurse will still accidentally pump you full of saline instead of medicine.

after a point, doesn't the fact that all of these are "accidents", and that no one WANTS to kill you, just... stop mattering a little bit? Yeah, no one wants to hurt you, but they just keep doing it. They keep making stupid little mistakes. They know everyone like you who has visited their community has died or been seriously injured under suspicious circumstances, but the idea that they, themselves, could be a little bit at fault just doesn't even register to them. they don't even consider that they might have to change their ways in order to protect people like you. After all, you can't prepare for every "freak accident". Even when the solution could be as simple as "stop putting rat poison next to the sugar", every time it happens to you, or a person like you, it's just an "accident", that no one "meant" any harm, and "nothing could be done".

it doesn't cross their mind that a string of unfortunate accidents ceases to be accidents, but serious negligence. it can't cross their mind, because they're not the victims here. they only even begin to acknowledge something might be wrong when the victims are screaming in their face, day after day. even then, they come to the conclusion that even if you're right, and the community does want to kill you because you are Other, they won't immediately see anything wrong with that. To Them, the answer is clear as day: just become one of Them, and you'll be safe. They take care of their own.