#juneposting

[fleuraward]

NEW STYLE - PARADOX LIVE 4TH ANNIVERSARY

[gendertrickster]

[tomscottsredshirt]

ventriloquist? yeah she vent on my trilo till i quist.. i have 5 bombs up my ass

you're os fucking funny dude i love yoy

[airprime7]

If anyone in particular had anything to say on a post we reblog, we might tag it as #[name]posting. Also you will see words in their text colour and quirk (if they have one). We may come back and edit in links to posts with more details. Or not.

We are almost all trans, but it will be only mentioned below if that has caused a name change from our canon counterpart.

Just call us AirPrime if you want to talk to us/the account in general.

Let's do this in groups, in no particular order.

Homestuck Humans+:

Roxy: Roxy Lalonde fictive. she/they. #roxyposting Rose: Rose Lalonde fictive. she/her. #roseposting Jazz: Jazz Lalonde (Jasprosesprite^2) fictive. Cat :3. she/her, or any cat neopronouns. #jazzposting Dave: Dave Strider fictive. he/him. #daveposting Dove: Dove Strider (transfem Davesprite) fictive (also a bit of 「TIME PARADOX」 from Jojo's MSPaint Adventure). bird. she/her. #doveposting DS: Technically a Dirk Strider fictive (mixture of Dirk, Hal, and Brain Ghost Dirk's Katana. Also is glasses.) The DS stands for duelStands. they/them. #dsposting Kate: Dirk Strider fictive (transfem). Technically short for "Katana" but don't call me that. Middle name "Dirl". she/her. #kateposting June: June Egbert fictive. she/her. #juneposting Jade: Jade Harley fictive. dog. woof woof! she/her/it. #jadeposting

Homestuck Trolls:

Aradia: Aradia Megido fictive. Ghost and frog and robot and fairy god all at the same time. 0u~. she/her. #aradiaposting Sol: Sollux Captor fictive (also bits of 89P13 and 「YELLOW TEMPERANCE」 and 「NEVER SAY DIE」). he/she. #solposting Mituna: Mituna Captor fictive. he/any/she. #mitunaposting Karkat: Karkat Vantas fictive. he/him and she/her (undecided). #karkatposting Nepeta: Nepeta Leijon fictive. she/fur/it and other cat neopronouns. #nepetaposting Kanaya: Kanaya Maryam fictive. she/her. #kanayaposting Terezi: Terezi Pyrope fictive. she/it. #tereziposting Vriska: Vriska Serket fictive. she/her. #vriskaposting Eridan: Eridan Ampora fictive (goes by Eridan Eleven instead). she/her. #eridanposting

Other Homestucks:

Erisol: Erisolsprite fictive. Not actually at all like Erisolsprite. Different person from Eridan and Sol. he/they. #erisolposting Neproxy: Neproxy Leijonde (Nepeta and Roxy fusion) fictive. Probably the same Nepeta and Roxy from above. she/they/fur/any other cat neopronouns. #neproxyposting Altair: Altair Tascii (fantroll from my fan adventure Roguebent) fictive. he/him. #altairposting

Erfworld:

Jack: Jack Snipe fictive. NOT from Homestuck. he/him. #jackposting Wanda: Wanda Firebaugh fictive. Spooky. NOT from Marvel. she/her. #wandaposting

Others:

V: non-fictive; named for the Order of the Stick character. The "host" if we have one. they/them. #vposting Five: non-fictive; "V without the limit8ions." Draws elements from Vriska Serket, PL from Roguebent, and happens to share a name with Number Five from Umbrella Academy. any pronouns. #fiveposting Link: Link fictive (from The Legend of Zelda, specifically the Hero of the Wild). Nonverbal I've been told not to use that word; does not speak IRL, would use sign language if we knew any, uses emojis only online. he/any. #linkposting Fifth: ... Complicated. Technically a robot/ai version of June, and also her stand(?), but a separate person also..... Full name 「FIFTH OF BEETHOVEN」. she/her. #fifthposting

Possible (people we've felt present but haven't definitely recurred, might have just been our imagination):

Sherlock Holmes (RDJ version) Equius Zahhak Arquius Strihak Jotaro Kujo

Will update whenever. Maybe.

[seaswells]

happy new year!!!!!

[weezerfan-2001]

my outfit today was cute AND im cute AND i can name five songs :3

[m0thmancore]

@staff if y’all’re real ones you’ll change the June tab to July and leave it up for Pride Month Two because june didn’t june right this year

[littlethriftywalker]

[sixofhearts-homestuck]

actually trans day of visibility into april fools is kinda june egbert coded i think

[fleuraward]

so... that new collab, huh?

[gendertrickster]

so sad john egbert didn't have a tumblr she would've loved blorboposting about a real-life adult man

[tomscottsredshirt]

hey

shitass idot!!!! get megablasted dumbass!!!!!!!

ps. my stomach now really hurts from the fringe kimchi send 100 dollars for my rapid recovery

me omw to paypal you 30000 dolar and feet pics (i am madly in love with you)

your stomach watching you eat the fringe kimchi

[starship-prism]

Petplay is like the only thing keeping me sane rn.

[seaswells]

from sydney jewish museum :=)

[scalenetriangel]

do you love him

[eggrobo]

what r ur thoughts on metal sonic

God, he's so cool. Metal Sonic is an effortlessly sleek character. His design has aged so well. In both conception and execution, he's fascinating. If there weren't so many good Sonic characters competing for my attention already, he'd be one of my favourites.

Metal Sonic is the original not-Sonic. He was designed by Doctor Eggman to be this perfect weapon --- to take Sonic's finest qualities and not only turn them against him, but improve upon them. Machines do not tire, or sass you, or possess pesky little things like "free will". That's the idea, anyways.

Of course, Metal Sonic isn't really better than Sonic, is he?

He is a real threat. He can easily go toe-to-toe with Sonic. But he's only a simulacrum of the original. A copy. No matter how many times he fights Sonic, no matter how hard he or Eggman try to improve upon his programming, he'll never quite measure up. Sonic will always win in the end.

This ties in nicely with the environmentalist themes of the Sonic series. As a robot, Metal Sonic is undermined by the very things thought to make him an improvement. He does not have Sonic's level of free will, or his thirst for adventure, or his love of helping others, all of which empower Sonic to keep fighting when things are down to the wire. Sonic's speed is a natural part of him, whereas Metal Sonic is propelled by circuitry and engines, things particularly susceptible to overheating and self-destruction when ran at high speeds over a long period of time.

Metal Sonic was created to destroy Sonic, and yet, he never will be able to fulfill this purpose. He'll never be "as good" as the real thing. This leaves him in a bit of an existential pickle. He externalizes these feelings of existential dread by challenging Sonic, attempting to surpass and defeat him, and to prove himself superior to his progenitor once and for all. He pursues this goal with a ruthless vengeance. My favourite Metal Sonic content, though, is the stuff that approaches Metal from a more introspective angle.

"Reflections" from the IDW 2020 annual comes to mind immediately when talking about quality Metal Sonic content. I'm not breaking new ground with this take, but it's absolutely worth mentioning anyways. Written by Caleb Goellner with art by Aaron Hammerstrom and Reggie Graham, it's this incredibly striking little story with almost no dialogue. It conveys Metal's mental state and existential discomfort with being an inhuman copy of Sonic really well! Just thinking about it is giving me shivers. AAH.

LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT HIM! The poor little guy... er, I mean, the poor little evil killer robot.

Oh well. I adore the "guy who has identity issues over being not being Sonic" trope to no end. It gets me every time. A lot of my feelings surrounding Metal are amplified in the context of, say, Shard, who's this Metal Sonic trying to define himself and be a hero in his own right (despite that fact that he has a limited understanding of how to do that beyond copying Sonic). Now there's a poor little guy for you. But Shard is a can of worms that could deserve his own post entirely.

Anyways, I love Metal. He's a really neat dude with a lot of potential. I hope more Sonic writers moving forwards take advantage of the more introspective angles to his character. I always enjoy seeing that kind of thing explored in media. Thank you for the ask!