#HS 2020

[welleducatedinfant]

calling it now it’s gonna be a conan gray summer

[inseamajor]

happy 4/13 to the goat of all time :o)

[vacantgodling]

not to be weird and sappy on main, but frfr i'm so glad i have found a community of people who think my work is good

[nobumebungaku]

hoshi's spider and jun's limbo lyrics parallels (1/4)

[blackdragoncake]

Redrew sum fools

[detectivehole]

i’ve been here since the sam and max era, through the evil dead stuff, through the lupin, through the uhhh i can’t remember the other eras i know there was a bunch and now your oingo boingo posting

ive oingo boingo posted long before you were here by those metrics, anon. oingo boingo posting is actually one of the older traditions- im just having a moment rn

[pochapal]

So, putting aside any feelings about the work itself or potential direction changes, what is your opinion on the idea of Homestuck^2 being back, with a new team, and nothing from the old team, when the idea was that the old team was still working on it behind the scenes?

given the way things ended in 2020 i was under no illusion that anyone was still working on hs^2 - the "we're still working behind the scenes" thing was basically a lie since by that time literally nearly all of the team had either jumped ship or was pushed out by a hostile fandom - so it is sincerely a surprise that a) people are working on it again and b) we're actually getting new content for it. i would have put hard money on homestuck^2 being forever dead and even said as much several times this year alone (i still stand by a lot of what i wrote in this post on the matter) so i was completely and totally unprepared for a version of this thing to crop up from the grave.

the fact that it's a wholly new unconnected team is absolutely the only reason that hs^2 is back. everything that happened with/to the old team was a bridge that can't be unburned. i worked through my feelings about what happened to the original hs^2 crew some time ago so i'll be brief: i was absolutely in love with the new, interesting, and challenging direction that team was taking not only hs^2, but homestuck canon in its entirety, and i will always be deeply saddened that their vision was killed before its time and will never be able to be visualised.

the story we will be getting both is and isn't homestuck^2. it will naturally be building off the same frameworks and ideas of the epilogues and what came before it, but it will not end up in the same place. this new team is working under a different outline towards a different goal and i will try to appreciate this new hs^2 for what it is (albeit with a very very veeeery cautious optimism) but the hs^2 i fell in love with died in 2020. the story i am writing about and responding to died in 2020. i am sure this will be a fun ride but i can't help but be wistful about what could have been, and i am unable to ignore the specter of the cruelty done towards its predecessor that hangs over this project. i wish them the best and i am looking forward to it but it isn't the same and it won't be the same and i wouldn't want it to be the same anyway. that moment in time and that creative vision is in the ground and to pretend otherwise would be playing with ghosts. i am interested in seeing something alive.

i really and truly hope things work out better for this new team and they learned from what killed the last attempt at this. more than anything else i would hate for history to repeat.

[sunflowervolvimp3]

When bb and vampy are laying in bed facing each other, and both just holding one another, they were talking about their day but bb is so so sleepy she’s using all her energy to keep her eyes open and she’s just looking at vampy and running her thumb up and down his cheek slowly. Trying so hard to stay awake cus she wants to spend more time with him since she was at work all day but eventually her eyes are just to heavy for her and she closes them 😔 and vampy is just bursting at the seams like he fucking can’t she’s his BABY and he just pulls her even closer and puts her face in his neck cus he knows she likes to sleep like that 😭 kissing her head one million times 😞

Harry can tell Y/N is about to fall asleep.

She's been resisting the pull of rest for the last forty-five minutes, fighting valiantly against the drag of her eyelids as she's relayed her day to him. Her speech has been drifting in and out of coherence for the last fifteen minutes, her words falling off the edge of her tongue like a rock off a cliff— quickly plunging further and further down, until out of sight completely. And yet, just when Harry thinks that she's finally dropped into a chasm of sleep, her even breaths stutter, and she begins her story anew, her topics drifting like her speech.

"And there was this other customer today," Y/N stifles a yawn against Harry's shoulder as she moves her thumb slowly and evenly over the stubble on his cheek. "Who threw a fit because we were out of cream for their coffee. They said—" another yawn interrupts her speech. "—that milk didn't..."

Her voice trails off again, just as it did two minutes ago. Harry suppresses a smile, rubbing her back in time with her breaths. "The milk didn't what?"

"Hm?" Y/N's eyes flutter open again, although not quite to the same degree that they were before they fell shut. "It didn't taste the same. And I reminded them that...it's milk, not cream, so of course it...doesn't..."

Despite the warmth spreading through Harry's immortally frozen chest as he watches his lover battle her exhaustion, he hates to see her deny herself of her needs. He can't help but think that she wouldn't be so resistant to things like sleep if he could participate in the human habit with her. If he were to fall asleep first, Y/N would have no trouble curling into his side and closing her eyes without argument.

It's crossed Harry's mind once or twice to fake it. He's an excellent actor— he's had to be, to survive two centuries pretending to be mortal. He's sure he'd have no trouble closing his eyes, evening out the breaths he doesn't actually need, and lying still enough to convince Y/N that he's lost in a sea of sleep. But the idea plants a seed of discontent in his chest. He lies to his love so much, and so often. He can't bring himself to weave another deception at her expense.

"Angel," Harry keeps his voice low, barely a whisper echoing around his bedroom. "You're exhausted. Go to sleep."

As expected, this statement of truth is met with stubbornness. "Not tired."

Y/N can feel vibrations roll through Harry's chest as he fights back laughter. "You can barely finish your sentences, love. You can tell me more about your shitty customers in the morning, over breakfast. But for now, you need some rest."

"Don't wanna," Y/N tugs herself closer to Harry by his shoulders, inhaling the tobacco and vanilla scent of his cologne as she does so. "Barely saw you today, H. Wanna keep—" Another stifled yawn. "Talking."

"You know you undermine your arguments when you can't even open your eyes to make them, right?"

Y/N blinks her eyes open, unaware that she had let them fall close again. "They're open, asshole. Maybe it's yours that aren't open."

She feels one of Harry's dimples appear under her thumb as she strokes his cheek, and knows that he's laughing at her. If she had more energy, she'd push him away. But it's late, and despite running cold, being pressed tightly against his body is still the most comfortable place to rest. The only thing missing is—

Harry gently guides her head to rest in the crook of his neck, and the sigh of content that falls from Y/N's lips seizes his undead heart like a vice.

"My eyes are open. Which you would be able to tell if you could do the same."

Y/N hums in acknowledgement of his response, but doesn't form a counter argument. Instead, she lets her hand fall from her lover's cheek to his chest, too tired to note the unnatural stillness where his heart should beat.

"That's a good girl." Harry's lips press to the top of her head as her breathing evens out for the final time that night, and she finally drifts off the edge of consciousness. "Sleep. I'll be here when you wake up."

Despite not being awake to hear this promise, Y/N knows that it's true.

[kmoneymartini]

yall I was rewatching paiges senior year documentary thing and I felt her pain at the end of the season with not being able to finish strong.

my brother played high school baseball and was a D1 prospect for the class of 2020. He played only a few games before covid shut everything down and he was devastated, id never seen my brother cry until that day and I had never thought I would feel that level of pain for another person. My brother was depressed for a while in covid and ended up giving up on baseball because he couldn't finish his education strong enough in college to continue. He could have been a great MLB player if he tried but he couldn't. It all came down to that last game when he didn't know it was the last time he'd put on that jersey. Seeing Paige after finding out the news took me right back there and even tho I don't know her I felt it and it still hurts watching it the second time around 😭 anyways that's my 2 AM yap

[hermitcraftx]

i miss technoblade

[oflgtfol]

i was talking to my therapist last week about how i'm kinda excited but also equally apprehensive about starting grad school this fall because yes, i so so desperately needed a gap year otherwise i think i literally would have killed myself and/or had a breakdown big enough to land me in the hospital, and even beyond that i just needed to figure out a more concrete plan of what i'm going to do with my life in general -- while all of that is true, and i'm glad i took the gap year for it, i'm also apprehensive because i genuinely feel like an entirely different person than i was even at this exact point in time last year, nevermind anything earlier than that. it's only been a single year of me being out of school but my life has changed so dramatically, mostly for the better, and my whole personality has flipped on its head, it's just going to be so fucking weird going back to the same school, the same campus, potentially seeing my old friends around. augh

[shartfinz]

redraw of something I made in 2020 (the og is very bland and not worth posting)

(also vote on my ship poll :3)

[snixxxxxxxxxx]

she's pretty, witty, and i feel gay

[chthonicthemeter]

Every time I see those posts like "for you I'd peel this pomegranate 🥺🥺" it's like. For me you better wipe down that countertop please. I can't have fruit eroticism with someone who is sticky.

[ohmytiredheart]

I love how while everyone is talking about the Reddit and Twitter migrations, there are the people like me sneaking in from Instagram pretending we know what's going on

[gracefullou]

Harry said he suggested the hiatus on his bta, either 2016/17, not sure, if anyone remembers correct me. Then he said he wanted to sing the whole song on an interview before fine line got released, December 2019

2017 is still 2 years after the hiatus. My bad then if he said it before fl. Still, he was portrayed as the professionnal one who despite struggling in the band stayed till the end of tour to suggest the hiatus unlike Zayn who received so much hate despite saying how much he was suffering mentally. Harry said he suggested the hiatus bc they were exhausted and needed a break but he literally signed his 3 albums solo contract A DAY after its beginning in a yacht with the likes Ellen and Kendall Jenner also his solo schedule is almost as exhaustive as it were in 1d (he's been touring for 3 years now not to mention his movies) so we know it wasn't the real reason behind it. I'm tired of anons playing the gullible to try and subtly (they think) defend him. It's a tale as old as time. The poular one (not by talent or charisma but choice from the higher ups) thinks he's too good for his band and wants to go solo, finds the opportunity and takes it. Only that man is a coward who wants everything. That man didn't even tell the truth to his bandmates so that in case he fails, he has a backup. He wanted ot5's support for his solo career so he didn't tell them either. I would've loved if he said that the band was in a permanent hiatus then the way he had no problem saying it in a Variety article in 2020 i think (i'm not sure which year and which magazine but i'm sure this one was after that pussy song's success) he would've saved us a lot of time, the same goes with him wanting to sing the whole song and not wanting to share his personal songs with the others bc believe me fandom's reaction to these statements would've been sooo different. And now he's mentioning 1d left and right as if he didn't ignore the band's existence for years, as if he didn't keep telling those unfunny Zebra jokes and that ringo joke on SNL, as if he didn't ignore Liam's existence at that Jingle Bell Ball, as if him/ his team doesn't waste a chance to insult Louis ( Variety ignoring Louis' existence in the band in that HS interview and a lot of things that happened during lockdown that i honestly don't remmember really well now you can look for it if you want. Idc if you think it's not him bc he personally chose to associate himself with Ash London and going as far as saying they're friends and he attended her wedding, he chooses to keep that stylist assistant who made fun of Louis' voice, he chose to say someone's mom about Jay even though it was a recorded interview and they could edit that bit out for him, back in the day he chose to stay silent and laugh along when Nick made fun of Louis....). If you're on stan twitter and can't see what a piece of shit HS is in the year of 2023, then there's no hope for you. And in 2023, the reason behind that band's hiatus is so very obvious for the ones who want to see and not live in denial.