When you meet your ancestor and he’s kinda soft and gentle and you think he’s kinda weak, but he holds you in his arms like you’re frail and breakable and tells you he loves you with all the truth in the world, so you think it’s okay maybe that he’s a little weak. Maybe love requires weakness, you think.
This is an unnecessarily deep caption for what’s essentially a shitpost lmao
IDs under cut!
[ID: Three images done digitally, showing Karkat Vantas and the Signless from Homestuck.
The first image shows Karkat looking at the Signless, who’s off panel, but represented in a small bubble. Karkat looks somewhat annoyed. He asks, in all caps, “Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just want to go apeshit?” The Signless, shown in the bubble, smiles at him, appearing somewhat confused.
The second image shows Karkat being held up by and close to the Signless, who’s snuggling his head against Karkat’s. Karkat continues to appear annoyed, while the Signless smiles contentedly. Both are blushing slightly. The Signless asks, “Aren’t you tired of going apeshit? Don’t you just want to be nice?” There are so many hearts surrounding these two, because the artist loves drawing hearts around tender scenes.
The third image shows Karkat and the Signless again, a continuation of the previous image, Karkat being held closer by the Signless, who’s giving him a big ol’ smooch on the cheek. Karkat is now desperately trying to claw his way out of the Signless’ grasp, expression angry, though more so from annoyance than actual anger. Karkat yells out, “STOP!! FUCK YOU!!” And underneath is written out a little “Smooch,” with another heart drawn next to it.
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Could you talk about sandor? Like about the trackers, not communicating about any boundaries between Sophie etc etc
-nash<3 (the one who asked about the Grady and keefe one)
Nash! Hello again! Absolutely I can, thank you for your patience with me as I got to this, I've been busy recently and answering more involved asks has gotten bumped down my list of priorities :)
There's this one category of relationships, which I can't remember the specific name for, but they're a category of relationship where one person has recognized, legal authority over another. A parent has legally recognized authority over a child, for example. This doesn't mean that everything within said relationship is authoritarian, but there's a recognized hierarchy and acknowledgement that children aren't adequately equipped to care for themselves for many years.
Sandor and Sophie fall into that category as well, I would say. He was assigned to her, and he occupies a position she has to listen to, at times. There are things she can't argue, or that are very difficult to argue and must be agreed upon by him to change. She can't ditch him or leave him because she wants to. She has to listen to certain orders--or at the very least, is supposed to.
All of which brings me to your ask. He has recognized, legitimate authority over aspects of her life, which means we end up with him doing things she's not always happy about or comfortable with. Does this mean he shouldn't do them? No, he serves an important purpose in her life and sometimes uncomfortable things need to be tolerated for their benefit. Sophie not liking him being with her through Foxfire when he was first assigned to her doesn't mean he shouldn't have done it or was in the wrong for doing so.
But does that mean Sandor is doing things the best possible way? Also no. For example, the trackers. The ones hidden in her clothes where she doesn't know, and it was shown to make her a little uncomfortable. Instead of removing trackers who serve a purpose, Sandor could inform her of where they are, provided they discuss and agree upon their necessity so she doesn't try to take them out. if she does, then the natural consequence is she no longer gets to know where they are, as they serve a necessary purpose and she violated the terms of their agreement.
The same principle applies to her boundaries. Sandor necessarily has a more personal access to her life given his job, but that doesn't mean he's free to violate any and all boundaries. This is another case where they could discuss the necessity of his actions and find a compromise agreement between the two of them so his job still gets done while Sophie is as comfortable and involved with the arrangement as possible.
This is generally the approach I have to their relationship. He has authority over aspects of her life, and for good reason. He's shown genuine care for her, so I don't think anything he does is intended to domineer and rule over her life, but out of a place of concern to complete his job. Does this mean some things Sophie isn't always thrilled about? Yes, but that's how things are sometimes. They could absolutely work on more clear, agreed upon boundaries and arrangements to strengthen their relationship further, but Sandor takes his job seriously and Sophie understands the importance of it, so I think they're already in a pretty good place.
I kinda focused on Sandor and Sophie's relationship more than Sandor himself, but I hope that still counts for your ask! I sure wish I could remember the specific name for that kind of relationship, but alas, it eludes me
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In like a month and a week (okay that’s optimistic, fine, a month and almost two weeks lol) I will fully be able to afford the laptop I've wanted for MONTHS and genuinely I feel like I'm staring at such a bright future now. Maybe I'll be able to play SSO at more than 10fps... maybe I can play Sims at higher graphics settings... maybe I can, idk, get more than those two games or even just all my Sims expansion packs because I'll have 8 times the storage space... maybe I can have large spreadsheets open without breaking my laptop... or even two medium-load programs open at the same time.... the possibilities are truly endless
At least one laptop store had BETTER fucking do like a back to school sale or something. Cmon just give me 20-25% off. It's all I ask (I don't NEED the sale I could still afford it but it has been on frequent enough 20-25% sales that I will NOT buy it full price that would just be stupid)
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I discovered Richard Siken’s poetry a while back and I don’t believe I’ve ever read something so raw and beautiful. Every one of it is a fucking masterpiece like jesus fuck i. am. in love.
Scheherazade was the first work of Siken’s that I read and I just knew that I couldn’t leave it there. His words coiled around my heart and stayed there, rusting in my blood.
I’ve had a distaste for poetry for a good bit of time (you can thank school for that) but i do remember the first time i fell in love with a poem was when i read ‘The Raven’ along with most of Poe’s work.
The next significant one to come after Edgar Allan was My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, months after my unexpected interest in poetry. I'm not quite sure why i remember it so distinctly.
I’ve read more since then, some of it downright terrible and some, like these, stay.
“So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
-Robert Frost
A single word,
you turn my heart into a beating grenade,
The metallic circle of death clinging to your fingers,
winking as my flesh catches flame.
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