#been thinking about that a lot lately

[hobbinch]

Hey so I think having childhood peers I was desperately trying to fit in with/befriend chanting "Broken" at me as sports trash talk for years of my life. Might have done something to my brain.

[theforestknowsmydreams]

i know it's barely 5 AM but what if i shaved all my hair off

[officialao3fandomlastforever]

Been thinking about books and the joy of reading a bit lately, and I just wanna share something with y’all about my current standard about some books. By talking about how my dad destroys some books. 

I know it sounds bad, but please, let me tell you about it. 

My dad loves mysteries. Thrillers. The occasional horror. He really likes crime procedurals. He also loves some good superhero stories and spy movies. He’s down for fantasy and sci-fi too. One of his favorite shows for a while was The Wire, then NCIS, then Law and Order. He enjoys movies like R.E.D. and Deadpool. He grew up with things like Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and for a while watched Game of Thrones week by week when it was originally airing. He’s seen IT, and isn’t overly queasy with some more graphic material. 

Knowing these, I’ll sometimes lend him a book. But usually, if there’s a book I think he’ll enjoy, I’ll try to buy him a copy for himself. Sometimes he’ll not enjoy it and set it down, never to pick it up again. But most of the time, he’ll read it to completion with a smile. 

My dad has been gifted many books over the years. My brother has bought him Halo and Warhammer novelizations. He’s read many different crime and thriller book. He’s read some classic detective stories. He enjoy Star Wars and Star Trek novels. He’s enjoyed all kinds of novels and enjoyed them all to different levels. 

But the thing that tells me he really, truly, is enjoying a book, is when he takes it to work. 

My dad works driving trains. He wears heavy steel toe boots and often comes home covered in muck and oil that paints his blue jeans black. He works late at night, driving out to where he needs to go before moving trains back and forth. He usually packs a book in his bag if he’s in the middle of reading it, and wants to keep reading it on his breaks. 

These books come home in okay condition. Pristine, clean, newly brought home books soon become dirty with the same muck and grime on my dad’s hands and clothes. Hardcovers editions lose their paper sleeves. They come home with dog ears and the occasional lunch or coffee stain. Sometimes there’s a tear. But they’re still readable. They’re still able to be kept and read again and again. They just aren’t in the same condition they were in before. 

The most recent book I’ve seen that’s received this treatment was a copy of “Killers of a Certain Age” by Deanna Raybourn, which I had gifted my dad from my Book of the Month club box in September in hopes he would enjoy it. Brand new hardcover. Crisp and clean. Still in okay condition, but is now covered in dirt and smells of oil and coffee, and the sleeve bent to hell and has a noticeable shoe print on it from where it probably accidentally slid off the book and onto the floor. Last I saw it, it was still in his car with a paper napkin sticking out of it that had a clumsily written “2nd read” on it. 

But that, in my personal, heartfelt opinion, is more than okay. 

My dad was enjoying the book so much that he brought it to work with him, wanting to keep reading. He couldn’t just wait until he got back. And he kept it in his car to read again. 

When dad doesn’t like a book, he puts it down and forgets about it. 

When my dad likes a book, he smiles as he reads. 

When my dad loves a book, he takes it to work on the trains with him. 

Its important to take care of your books so that they last and you can read them again and again. 

But I think sometimes, somedays, it’s okay if the book gets damaged and dirty. 

I hope any aspiring writer out there someday writes a book that is so enjoyed that dads take them to work clean and they come back looking just like dad. A story so enjoyed that it can’t be put down, even at risk of dirt and muck, wear and tear. A story so enjoyed that knowing it made their dad happy brings a smile to the kid that gifted it to him. 

A book so enjoyed, it stays in the car with a napkin book mark that says how many rereads we’re on now. 

[mothdruid]

but what if I just disappeared?

[strategypillar]

Teen hood

Another bundle of ocs drawings without context, but now medieval edition :)

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[stargatebarbie]

If you feel comfortable please tell me about your middle name in the tags too! I'm nosey and don't know what to do with my own middle name lmao

[gascreates]

a new star

[hatekawa]

some Raph sketches from earlier today

[solroskajan]

I couldn't run from the vuzi thoughts any longer sorry.

[erinstired]

Thrifty

[wikoymi]

So eepy

[codacheetah]

The Loop Dialogue Spreadsheet

RELEASE 1.0 BABY!!!!!!!

SHEETS LINK

WEB LINK (I don't recommend this one, but it's also here)

✦ WHAT IS THE LOOP DIALOGUE SPREADSHEET? ✦

As I'm sure you could guess by the name, this sheet is a compilation of (to my knowledge) all of Loop's dialogue in the game, sorted into tabs for easy access.

✦ WHAT DIALOGUE IS ON THIS SHEET? ✦

Currently, the sheet is divided into:

Generic dialogue - Dialogue for starting and ending a conversation with Loop, calling them, basic dialogue options

"What should I do next?" - Loop's advice regarding story progression.

"Let's talk about something..." - Optional conversations with Loop, relating to the "Behind the Scenes" achievement, also known simply as "loop chats"

"I had a question about..." - Loop's advice regarding sidequests

Predialogue - Automatic conversations with Loop preceding the regular dialogue options

Tutorials - Occasions in which Loop gives information to Siffrin in brackets.

Item interactions - Loop's reactions to using Souvenirs near them, as well as to using Your Dagger near them

Story events - Loop's introduction, Beginning of ACT 3, Loop hangout, Forgetting Mirabelle's name random event, ACT 5 Loop confrontation, and the Epilogue

(...plus the intro, where the key comes from)

✦ WHY USE YOUR SHEET? ✦

So you can be obsessive over Loop the same way I am (◕‿◕)

Also so you can take screenshots and see stuff you missed! Yippee!

Anyways, with that out of the way, thank you to anyone who has helped with this project along the way, ESPECIALLY @felikatze and his script project. 💖 You're free to copy anything out of this sheet without credit because, well, I didn't write any of this dialogue.

Fair warning ahead of time that this sheet contains unmarked spoilers for the entire game, including several optional achievements.

[taxinealkaloids]

behold hitherto unposted htn doodles! harrow+her terrible mentor, harrow+her terrible roommate

[bloobydabloob]

Holy shit I love your Dirk interpretations, it's so true and I could talk about this shit forever. I feel like another part of his character that people seem to forget (along with Roxy for some reason) is that he's from the future in solitude in an apocalyptic wasteland. I just see that part of his character always removed which is disappointing because I feel like that's a pretty big part, especially regarding his themes around technology, his brother's theme of Time, his own isolation, and how he plays in the vastness of the universe and spacetime.

Art I drew related to the subject because I like to respond to asks with art.

But absolutely. I certainly understand where the lack of discussion over his isolation + upbringing comes from, considering a majority of the fanbase that I have seen builds their ideas based on their own version of postcanon. I’m not entirely sure how that would be fixed, but certainly even in the somewhat recent past I would see a lot more content regarding his upbringing both literally and symbolically. I don’t have much to add regarding the things you’ve mentioned, because they just are what they are. Dirk being confined to a singular room left to him by a father figure he never met, in a future where the only other person left on the planet is someone he cannot pursue a relationship of because of himself, with purely 3 robots to keep him companion, one being an exact replica of his own brain who is *also* trapped inside a pair of glasses, is about as literal as it gets to me.

The contrast to me involving the flooded, organic world in comparison to the little speckle of Dirk’s apartment packed with the dude and his technics is not only a representation of his isolation and entrapment within himself, but also of his lack of control. I think his obsession with & themes of control are a direct product in the case of Dirk specifically *of* this kind of upbringing. His themes of technology are also related to his themes around control. So much of his character is actually revolved around this to me like so much. Dirk is so deeply disconnected from humanity in every way and so much of his character + symbolism is based around that.

It doesn’t even have to be about the symbolism or anything though. It’s just pretty *interesting* in the literal sense that he lives in the middle of the ocean in the future. There’s not only a lot to theorise on to do with his young life there, but on how it might affect him in the way he acts for the rest of his life. The latter part is probably what I see mentioned the most by people talking about Dirk regarding this, I’m surprised I don’t see more discussion on the former too though. I really ought to actually talk more about Homestuck stuff on here. I will do it myself.

Roxy & Dirk’s relationship is largely ignored though because there is a narrative a certain demographic spreads that Dirk resented and blamed Roxy for her interest in him, and thus too many people believe that their relationship was or would continue to be an abusive one. Realistically, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that the way Roxy treated Dirk regarding his homosexuality wasn’t right while still acknowledging the obvious amount of respect and admiration Dirk had for Roxy. I mean we have a huge piece of dialogue from their post trickster mode conversations on the quest beds from Dirk purely stating how he feels about Roxy that people completely ignore somehow. I think this usually happens to characters that are women though. I know everyone says it, but it is true. Jane gets the exact same treatment of boiling her down to solely her negative aspects. The things I see completely mischaracterising both of them are horrific.

I mean how much more explicit can it get that their relationship is obviously very important to Dirk? But I digress. I think the best or I should say “most interesting” interpretations of their relationship usually come from DirkRoxy shippers actually.

I would be interested to hear about Dirk’s relation to his brother’s theme of time though. I don’t have any thoughts on this and I don’t recall ever hearing anyone talk about it before. If you or anyone else would be willing to enlighten me I’d be thrilled.

[mascxdaddy]

pinning them up against a wall while i grind my bulge against their ass, making them so desperate that they try to arch their back so they can rub their pussy against my cock over our clothes