#badly drawn feferi

[worstdrawnfeferi]

glubglubglubglubglub

GLUB!!!!

[poorlydrawnnepeta]

Hey nep nation sorry for the absence please take a fefnep for twitter as a sorry

[the-worst-drawn-feferi]

CC: W)(at is t)(is place...?

[horriblydrawnhomestuck]

CAN I ASK FOR A FEFNEP!! catfjsh glub glub

CC:)(e)(e)(e!

AC: :33 <meowvelous!

[poorlydrawnvriska]

Happy international emo day from Vriska and @the-worst-drawn-feferi !

[shittydrawnsollux]

CC: W)(ile everyone was getting you water and all that good stuff I went back to me )(ive and grabbed you a blanket, sorry its not your favorite colors but it s)(ould keep you comfy all the same! 38)

-@the-worst-drawn-feferi

TA: ehehe thank2 ff iidont miidn about thw colour.

TA: ...

TA: but., hm.

[badlydrawnjohn]

[555-95472]

so two different people have asked me about #18. Favorite Beta troll? and it was already getting long, so. here we go 🎉

i won't sugarcoat my garbage opinions here: its eridan fuckin' ampora. welcome to my ted talk on why i love this terrible idiot.

so for context. i read homestuck when i was 14 and it like 6-12 months before my egg would crack. i was starting to be drawn toward male characters in a way i had never before. and my favorite types of characters were (still are?) under-discussed secondary characters with big "i can fix him" energy. so, naturally, eridan really caught my eye.

i liked the contrast between his tactical skill and his interpersonal ineptitude. b/t being kinda badass and being truly pathetic. b/t his attitude of supremacy and his endlessly deep self-loathing. and, yes, i definitely woobified him Big Time back then.

now coming back to the fandom like 13 years later, i see something more? those contrasts still draw me, but now i think about him in terms 1. what it means to be Villain in homestuck (both in his actions and his beliefs), and 2. erisolsprite

since this became an Essay, im putting the rest below the cut

tldr: examining eridan as a villain shows that some Really interesting choices were made in his creation and show how effectively he fills his narrative role. while erisolsprite forcibly hands someone else's perspective to an endlessly self-centered character.

with regards to villainy, in 2011 we had a totally different perspective on timelines and doom and free will and shit? looking back. and its so clear that eridan Had to be what he was, both narratively and meta-narratively?

what got me thinking about it was actually kanaya's sylladex releasing the matriorb? her fetch modus only releases objects when its The Right Time. and The Right Time was for eridan to fucking destroy it. and i realized that shit would've probably been pretty fucked if they got to the condesce with the matriob (something she wants Badly) and feferi (the heiress she was meant to kill).

narratively, eridan was predestined to destroy the matriob, and had he done anything differently, it would have doomed them. and i know this is the case for literally every decision, but idk something about that perspective hits different for eridan, who acts on his worst impulses and almost never has a positive impact on anything

like, goddamn, his classpect is prince of hope, and his planet is wrath and angels. people talk about whether or not he fulfilled his mythical arc or whatever? but it seems like LOWAA was meant to push him to that place of furious tension and volatile fear. it needed to happen and his planet made it so.

(plus i think there's some really interesting post-canon au stuff to explore with eridan learning to redefine prince of hope from "i destroy with my conviction" (meaning "i kill with magic/science") to "i destroy my conviction" (meaning "i deconstruct the things i once considered my core beliefs"))

and meta-narratively, eridan is Useful and also pretty interesting? imo there needed to be some representation of what the expected hemocaste beliefs of alternia were like. specifically someone representing the intersection of hyperviolence and bigotry that forms that backbone of their culture. eridan, as a war-tactic-obsessed seadweller, does a really good job of that.

but what twists him into something more is his role as an orphaner. in homestuck, eridan is the voice of his society's most violent and genocidal beliefs, and he is uniquely placed in a position to enact them. but he doesn't.

if eridan's bigotry is thought about as a narrative necessity for the arcs of other trolls (♋, ♉, ♐, etc.), it becomes more clear that some really clever choices were made to show a complex version of that (while still not overshadowing how Terrible he is). eridan is meta-narratively given infinite opportunities to do unspeakable violence that he Does Not Take. which serves to both undermine how dangerous he is, and to call into question the depth of those beliefs.

and with all that in mind: holy shit erisolsprite. eridan joined in mind and memory with sollux, a powerfully psionic goldblood who grew up in the shadow of helmsmanship. erisolsprite is so united in their self-loathing that they find unshakable common ground (as opposed to sprite-sploding like others do). its arguably The most stable relationship we see eridan have and the most stable sprite made of 2 trolls, and thats so wonderfully fucked up.

for eridan specifically, who is almost defined by being self-centered, he suddenly has the full memory of growing as sollux, who lived his life in the shadow of his own doom and was endlessly willing to sacrifice himself for others. eridan is literally is shoved into sollux's shoes and given memories of every previous step, all while sollux is still wearing those same shoes.

and while being erisolsprite definitely Sucks Ass, i can't stop thinking about how much that would affect eridan (Positively) if he ever got out of the sprite. tbh im also curious what sollux would walk away from erisolsprite with, but thats a post for a different time. i could go on, but it would probably just turn into a fanfic about it

ok my eridan rant is over. i hope this made sense. thank you for coming. here's a little bonus lowres eridan 💚

(also i havent played pesterquest yet so idk anything about that. ive been meaning to but its dubiously canon so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[badlydrawnjake]

Is there a badly drawn Meenah or Feferi blog? I kinda wanna make one!

OOC: i believe there is- but definitely don't let that stop you! as far as i know doubles and splinters are both welcomed and encouraged in the badlydrawnhomestuck community :D

[ask-pirate-fox]

Yarghh mateys! welcome to me very own ask blog!

Aye welcome any asks, just please keep it PG-13 for the most part though aye am an adult animatronic. I do house a ghost kid though, but that be a complicated story....

Aye use he/they pronouns and swap between using "I" and "aye" to refer to myself!

drawings vary in quality and quantity hahah. Think of this like a fnaf version of the badly drawn homestuck stuff I've got going on over at @poorlydrawnvriska and @the-worst-drawn-feferi . It is not directly tied to it, but crossovers are more than welcome <3

this blog is mainly run by mod Fin!

[wolvesbaneandbuttercups]

Get to know us on our neocities!

minors block the #after bark tag plz, we are 19 and would rather minors not engage in posts not meant for them

#my art is how I tag my art

mostly reblogs, occasional original posts

MOGAI blog: @rabid-opossumwolf--mogai

agere blog: @foxkitregression

Kettu's sideblog: @xx-hyper-cryptid-xx

badly drawn Vriska (ran by Vriska): @poorlydrawnvriska

the worst drawn feferi: @the-worst-drawn-feferi

poorly drawn Cronus: @poorlydrawncronus

Ask Foxy: @ask-pirate-fox

ask chara and asriel: @ask-chara-and-azzy

system's trollsona sideblog: @crypticawoo

dancestor of our trollsona sideblog: @therianthropicapothicary

error and ink troll kismesis blog: @bastards-kismesis

Ask chara and asriel: @ask-chara-and-azzy

main fandom containment: @sansyuri (undertale, sans); @fivenightsatyuri (fnaf); @fagdykevriska (homestuck

[worstdrawnfeferi]

- Cool, )(u)(?

Getting t)(is t)(ing to work underwater was a problem, t)(ough!!! Anyway, )(i everyone!!!!

[swimmingtrickster]

I keep seeing the badly drawn homestuck blogs and I'm thinking hmmm what if I made one of my own of like feferi or some other idk whatever not taken or doesn't have enough of

[the-worst-drawn-feferi]

CC: )(APPY N--EW Y--EARS/SW--E--EPS!! GLUB!

[badlydrawnfeferi]

Canon divergent Feferi drawn badly.

Same fish, a little different story. Some lore under the cut.

(other blog: badlydrawnrufioh)

Given this is Homestuck we're talking about these should be a given, but just in case.

Depending on the nature of a question certain upsetting topics might be discussed or alluded to: death, gore, past toxic relationship.

This Feferi is based on an AU I'm working on, and, like I said, the fish is the same, but her story goes a bit differently.

I'm not willing to share everything here, though. I mean, where's the fun in me spilling everything right away? But the important things you need to know are: she's alive, on the meteor, and has a pretty big existential crisis. (And she's still dating Sollux).

And for AU reasons, some answers I can give, and some I might refrain from sharing. But then again. before I actually post that AU, most will likely be forgotten, lmao. So I guess it'll depend on my mood, sorry.

[poorlydrawnvriska]

AG: Man, look at all these chumps, drunk out of their fucking thinkpans

AG: so glad no anons have spiked mine

CC: You smell drunk.