#also prev saying:

[beescake]

yea i very much agree with ur take on sollux in his relation to older technology, u get it

please id love if youd share some more of ur analysis on his character (as well as ur art bc that shit is 👌👌👌)

either way, thanks for feeding my brain worms

im glad it resonated!! :') always happy to explore his character, he contains multitudes!!!

i think i may be out of sollux analysis for now, in the sense where i don't have anything new to add that hasn't already been covered in these posts? (please add if there's more...)

why i like sollux (lackadaisicallexicon, 2014)

comprehensive sollux status guide (syblatortue, 2016)

bioware machine (lime-bloods, 2016)

fridgestuck (LaureledEevees, 2017)

mary sue (3d-gla22e2, 2019)

favorite sollux trait (3d-gla22e2, 2020)

doom-bound static (gendertrickster, 2023)

however i will say there's another thing i really like abt him:

his Range!

he has a v flexible face.. even with his neutral expression, you cant help but read a tinge of melancholy/pensiveness to it.

he deters people from getting too comfortable with him by acting crude, but no matter how unapproachable he looks you can't help but wonder if he's ok. seems like he's never content with himself.

just like karkat, anger gives him purpose = something to care about & react to. without it he can appear aimless/uncertain.

it's especially interesting when you compare him to aradia, who despite having endured a lot of shit, ends up enjoying the freedom of expanding her worldview, riding the unpredictable tide of the narrative and observing the changes. sollux... doesn't.

he doesn't like watching major things progress in a way he can't predict. the lack of certainty actually overwhelms him.

and it's pretty clear why; imagine the only reassurance you get after unknowingly killing ur gf is that "it needed to happen". the only way to appease that sort of emotional turmoil is by intellectualizing those events as inevitable and out of your control.

(hs, A6I5)

when you’re just a tool for the author, trying to sit out is just feeble self-preservation until you’re needed again. if you’re not called on stage to help/assist in some way, it feels like your presence spells doom (either you or someone else will get hurt). so you avoid Events as best you can.

[c-kiddo]

looking at all the comparisons of the oldest to newest tmn arts again and honestly so sad that fjords nose got so straightened out like 😐 who gave him a nose job ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[somokoto]

is anyone there?

[skitskatdacat63]

And this too, is vettonso to me:

[fullscoreshenanigans]

The little bow of reflection and smile Ray makes as he briefly soaks in the last morning Emma and Norman will be able to carry out their routine as usual knowing the horror they'll endure before night's end.

He knows they'd both prefer the harsh truth over a pretty lie, would hate to think about other siblings suffering the same fate as Conny, Hao, Sadie, Susan, and so many more before them if there was even the slightest chance of being able to do something about it. It's part of what he loves about them; where he had the tendency to give up after years of learned helplessness and self-loathing, they would resolutely say "no" and escape the system they had been born into.

(they are better, they are deserving, unlike him)

He loves them so much he can't help but let some of his fondness show on his face as he savors Emma's reaction to seeing him and Norman, because if that isn't so incredibly her, to love so effortlessly and uninhibited, to live so unabashedly authentic.

It's part of what got him through a life he cursed and part of why he has faith if anyone will be able to do this, it'll be them.

[katabay]

Omar El Akkad's forward to the Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (trans. Yasmine Seale)

[gncrezan]

ATOC10 JUST DROPPED !!!! here’s a bunch of sketches from the past month or so cleaned up in celebration, until i get some more time to properly read it :)

[caluupin]

neuvi is meeting his peepaw rn

[turtleblogatlast]

My rambling is always cut off by the tag limits 😔

[taylortruther]

I also think there is a darker/negative side to “hothouse flower to my outdoorsman” - not only that he thrives in his own perfect conditions but that he cannot survive in more extreme conditions, while she can weather the elements much better (they obvi go hand in hand)

well yes that's the definition of a hothouse flower! they require controlled conditions because they cannot survive outside

[the-meme-monarch]

BATAYAN HEADCANONS yopee

according to this video by firaplays on youtube, batayan’s song you get after his kiss, male widow serenade, has backwards lyrics. from the contents of the put-forwards-and-then-translated lyrics, i think the song is the story of his first interaction w his yet-to-be husband. dude "take me to dinner first"ed his way out of being arrested

the picture of him you get after his kiss has this dog in it which i THINK is a pomeranian? i like to think he adopted it :] i was thinking of naming it Tao but @crypewstoast came up w the name Bugs and i think that fits better. all the Taos in other love-de-lic legacy games look like the exact same dog after all.

this one has barely any standing in-game but the guide book SEEMS to imply that the scrapped nurse and girl characters were going to be his wife and daughter, along w him owning a company that goes bankrupt. his story has since changed to be what it is in-game, so in my-friends-and-i’s reconceptualization of them, the nurse’s spouse was batayan’s sister, making batayan her brother-in-law and the girl’s uncle. maybe. they’re not together anymore but they also didn’t. legally separate. also merkoi, @crypewstoast ’s oc :]

last one comes from what i think is a glitch? where you give him the fbf classified ad and he says the same line twice, im interpreting it like he just Realized the dread of it all

[ante--meridiem]

To socialise or not to socialise, that is the question.

[moe-broey]

LIKE THE POTENTIAL PARALLELS BETWEEN ALFONSE AND TRIANDRA DRIVE ME INSANE. Alfonse, Not Even Fucking AWARE of The Situation, but knowing what kind of guy he is, he ABSOLUTELY is thinking behind that strong face "I Should Have Stopped It". Meanwhile. Triandra Did. She did very much Stop It (her father's abuse, which was MUCH more noticeable/readable as abuse than whatever Gustav had going on. By Killing Her Father. Which Alfonse ALSO had to do. Under different circumstances BUT STILL.)

[pocketgalaxies]

Why are you wearing white? It is a very str – I didn’t want to s...

[pikslasrce]

hello it is i, your very own russian tumblr psyop. blow up the nearest wall mart. for communism!