#davepeta sprite

[clawsomebeats]

davepeta fans we are so back

[artbyifer]

Homestuck Secret Santa 2024

@homestucksecretsanta

@davepepsispriteisprite

Ahaha got you again, which is perfect given what we like🤗

So my computer's been wonky so at first I did some pixel art but then remembered the size restrictions so then I tried to work on my computer anyway but then it does so I whipped this out but I promise that there will be more Davepeta coming! 😝

Distressing realization: my troll designs mean that human/troll hybrids come out looking like humanimals (appropriate), and I have to carefully thread the needle that they don't look like racist caricatures too (not at all appropriate) :/. Will have to work on it.

[chivalry-ramu]

[ahogettena]

haven't posted in almost a week sry about that btw

but heres a davepeta based on my au neppy and dave designs :3

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[dirksawesomesprites]

davepeta sleeping with baby dirk also sleeping on top of them or just baby dirk crawled up sleeping in davepetas lap

[squash3d-c3phalopod3]

I told myself I wouldn't make something for 413, but.....Davepeta.

Zoomins + Ramble below cut!

So, some of you may be wondering why June is there. Well, 1) it's her birthday, and 2) I personally headcannon that when Davepeta eventually met June, they ended up bonding.

Eventually, Davepeta helped June figure out she was a girl, and a few days before the (dubiously canon) Rosemary wedding, June ended up coming out as trans to the rest of their friend group!

I don't have a great timeline after that, but i imagine it causes quite a few revelations, which i've considered writing about if i ever feel like it.

[libakarm]

meme ref

[airheadedharlequin]

baby davepetasprite

[syntheticcords]

Random sprites I made awhile ago bc I so don't keep forgetting to post (idea from my pookie tho 😋 <33)

[moldsporr]

Brorails (pesterquest edit)

[timeausterrors]

sprites are all done!! trolls next :>

[relaxxattack]

old ass homestuck here (been reading since 2013, read with it all the way until the end of act 7 but i consider that the true end and never plan to read the epilogues) but i gotta agree i didn’t care for the squared sprites when they first appeared late in act 6 and i really don’t like them much more years later. i found davepeta slightly interesting but at the end of the day they’re the only one who even stood out enough to even pay attention to and unfortunately looking at them was visually very unpleasant due to the constant color flashing.

random disclaimerrrr this is really just my personal feelings, i'm not trying to make a statement about what is "true" or moral or whatever. i want to stress that i'm not against people making meaningful interpretations of davepeta... i understand the appeal of a trans/plural character. it's just hard to feel like any of that was intentional?

power to hussie for making jokes; but it's kind of confusing sometimes to frequently see davepeta - what felt like a really obvious joke made at the expense of the audience - touted like they're the most genius, intentional, meaningful, well-thought-out character ending or trans representation

especially with nepeta in particular... i guess it's left pretty up to the viewer to decide whether or not she was really done dirty at the end, but. personally i still think she was done fucking dirty. the death -> fefeta -> davepeta pipeline was not very rewarding in my opinion. she also never had a choice in any of these? it was not a consensual fate. she wasnt allowed to explore her own identity or choose this, her identity was simply shafted once again after a long pattern of it being shafted and mocked

davesprite is a suicidal character who gets made to end himself. and i guess thats empowering as a metaphor for some trans people but for me it was like ??? physically absorbing another person and then ceasing to exist didn't relate to me heavily but maybe it does for others! i've heard some talk about it being plural too, which i can also see, but they don't act like that's at all intentional in the story. i've heard a lot of "dave struggles with not being the alpha dave so he gets to stop being dave! :)" but why does he have to? he was dave first and longer, shouldn't the meteor dave change his name? 'dave gets to finally stop being a boy and embrace being a trans girl' does she do that? or is her individualism taken from her and regifted to a catgirlboy that is not actually trans at all but textually stated to be identifying as half of one cis girl and half of one cis boy?

guh i am trying so hard to not sound invalidating to how other people feel empowered by this character. while also explaining how its Not for me. once again disclaimer i LIKE what people have done with davepeta it just feels like, strangely un-empowering to me for these two characters to have their agency taken away in such a manner.

rose's dead corpse who literally just watched the love of her life die in front of her face gets dug out of her final resting place and immediately starts throwing herself at every women in the vicinity

arquius in particular is one i see get completely nostalgia goggled too because every moment they were on screen was painful dialogue-wise; but these days arquius is thought of like a vehicle for hal and equius gender thoughts. which is a concept with merit because of course both hal and equius have stuff going on gender wise and it makes sense to combine those but like. the character wasn't like that in canon and it never felt like they were meant to be like that. most of the time they were.. jokes. insulting jokes.

i get WHY its read a trans or plural narrative. just as a trans and plural person i did not read it that way or think that was what the author intended... and i find it a little uncomfortable in that regard

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now draw one of them lovingly holding the other

ok :3

[dirksawesomesprites]

isnt davepeta x meulin age gap and incest or am i stupid 🙁 no hate ily

uhm, i dont think so, in my opinion the kernelsprites dont have an age.... but thats my personal take. but also that request was for moirailagnece, which is plantonic. its just like being close friends, you can be friends with an age gap

thats my take on it

no hate back just tryna explain

[occasionally-drawn-sprites]

trick or treat!

[You receive a grandmothers home baking. And some candy.]