#problem sleuth death

[th3rabbit]

redrew some old art

[pagecambelldaily]

day 2. celebrity crush

[beepotatoe]

After a long time, I decided to post the art with them, which I once posted on my other social network

I suck at backgrounds lol

(And yup, these are their humanizations(?))

[couldtheycatchkira]

[lesbianchuckmcgill]

ya llegaron las pippppppppshas.

[rat-fanatic]

Death Pumpkin!!!

[couldtheybekira]

[godawfulhomestuckships]

Pickle Inspector x Death

Possible shipname pulled from my ass: Candy land (Board game)

Alternative: Imagining a life after death

[myckicade]

Here's what's rolling around in my skull. I'm probably just pissing in the wind here, but it's not like I'm not already drenched on this subject.

See, I trust Mr. Jenkins & Co. I trust them in the sense that I don't trust them at all.

(Please know that this doesn't involve pacing and such things, but just... It.)

There are too many kooky things for me to accept what we have seen as 'Door: Closed'. The thing that I keep coming back to, though... The fucking land burial. I've read more than one quote from Mr. Jenkins stating that Izzy is his favorite. Now, I've done my own characters dirty a time or two, but to take away the rite that they have earned? Nah. Unless Izzy had a wish that only Ed (or whoever) knew about, it's not adding up. And that grave marker... Something about the shape of it, the construction, it's tickling at my brain. Factor in Ed's passive reaction to the suggestion of revenge, the shot going in on the left side, and the fucking seagull, and I'd like to call bullshit on the whole thing.

And, if I want to get super daffy-doodles about it, did we see Izzy get put in that hole? Did we? Hm? (I know this is a long-shot, but it's fun for me to point out).

Again, I'm sure this won't amount to a hill of beans, but something about this just doesn't feel right. It could be the Denial Stage, buuut. These guys know how to play the con, so I'd be very interested in Finding Out.

[couldtheycatchkira]

[dingodad]

actually this is such an interesting moment to evoke the problem sleuth game of life thing cus now that i think about it the whole joke there was that ace dick was going through the motions of marrying and having kids and doing all these inane side quests while the actual story was moving forward outside of it. oh my god and the whole thing took place inside this localised bubble created by hooded death. wtf

[rabidpomeranians]

Also this is death's table from problem sleuth and what looks like a universe frog's eye. I had to stick this gif in photoshop to pull june's frame so might as well go through them all.

[godawfulhomestuckships]

its your lucky day, im giving YOU an awful ship.

death x pickle inspector

diehard

Gonna be honest, we did NOT expect problem sleuth but we'll accept it! We're not sure if were gonna make problem sleuth characters x everyone in hs and start a new thing for PS only (or PS x MNC???? awful) so let us know what we should do in the comment thingy!!

Candy land (Board game)

Book of alter egos

Imagining a life after death

Yeast fermentation

Aconite poisoning

[lime-bloods]

god. even the fact that Problem Sleuth ends with an off-handed suggestion that its villain will be forced to play games with Death forever and ever and ever is a perfect roadmap to Homestuck's ending

[elenamillefiori]

one thing that makes me particularly hopeful about june's transition in beyond canon is that in all likelihood we are going to get TWO distinct storylines out of it: one for meat june and one for candy june.

the last update had laid down the foundations of candy june's transition by putting on fragrant display her unwillingness to face her actual life as an adult who has to decide for herself who to be and what to do, as someone who has a personhood rather than a role to play and responsibilities rather than a quest to follow. she is so attached to the comfortable oppression of sburb that not only has she let it alienate her from everybody who was dear to her, she even reacts with palpable RELIEF (bordering on the villainous) at harry giving her an excuse to get back in the game, even if it's because he's decided he would rather fuck off into a hellhole adventure rather than have to deal with her.

meat june, on the other hand... is a corpse. this obviously puts her in a way different position, but it's ironically one that has a much clearer path to her coming out. despite being 20 years younger, this june has reached the logical endpoint of her candy counterpart's hyper-identification with the sburb narrative and has been consumed by it, getting killed in the progress of fulfilling her predestined role. her only hope for coming back to life is as a sprite in the new session, a literal sburb game piece; being thrust into this new state of being could very well be the triggering event for a serious, much-needed identity crisis. in addition, there's the matter of what she's been up to as a corpse: we don't have much explicit information about what the furthest ring/afterlife's like these days but presumably it now contains the noir city where catnapped and the hyperbolic helltier chamber take place in (the sprites who were left in the incipisphere are there, vriska reaches it through a pinhole in calliope's black hole, jasprose's fenestrated walls are connected to it...) so that also offers another avenue for meat june's personal journey to develop, especially given the connection between the problem sleuth characters living there and the vision of the table-and-chair from when ace dick played the game of life in death's bubble.

part of the reason i hope it turns out this way is that candy june's transition seems like it's shaping up to be a delicious mess, a story about a deeply traumatised trans woman cracking out of her egg right as her dysfunctional coping mechanisms have turned her own family and friends against her and are threatening to push her into a villainous role as dirk's counterpart, nominally benevolent yet just as destructively attached to the narrative, but it's also one that given the state of media discourse and the fandom would VERY easily be read in VERY bad faith ("oh snap john is transitioning but she's EVIL that will surely show all those trannies june truthers classic hussie trolling"), so showing off a more sympathetic transition narrative right alongside it could give the team enough cover to explore it fully.

anyway this is how grimdorks can still win (candy june and rose bond over being shunned and over their shared attachment to The Narrative so they get together; this development weirds THE FUCK out of the other characters and also generates absolutely radioactive wasteland levels of discourse from the worst people you can imagine)

[phylliecheesesteak]

My Cap. Barnacles Headcanons

-I say he's 37, but he could be anywhere from 36-41

-Strongest on the Octopod

-The epitome of dadbod

-Gay

-Cross eyed (got it from this post)

-Regular polar bears would stand at about 10 feet tall bipedally, but if we're talking in Octonauts size, he's probably around 6'5. Tallest on the ship.

-Barnacles' name is Barnaby. He chose this name after being adopted. Barnacles is just a nickname.

-He started getting called Barnacles by Prof. Natquik, because Barnacles got caught up in a nasty snowstorm when he was 17, fell in the ice and nearly drowned and froze to death (one of his MANY near-death experiences) and somehow ended up in the Antarctic at Natquik's research station. He was covered in barnacles by the time Natquik found him, and when he said his name was Barnaby, Natquik thought the name was just too perfect. It stuck, and now his name to everyone is Barnacles. He doesn't even say Barnaby anymore.

-Barnacles won't say how he managed to get caught in that snowstorm. Actually, he wont speak of anything before he met Natquik.

-Barnacles and Bianca aren't related. They say they're twins, but that's because they coincidentally have the same age-Bianca is older by a whole month, but they both celebrate 2 weeks after her birthday and 2 weeks before his together. Barnaby's last name is

-Barnacles is in fact adopted, and got adopted when he was 17. He only got one year of being a cub scout. He hit a HUGE growth spurt when he was 17, so Natquik and his adoptive family met him when he was 6'3", and Professor Inkling met him when he was 6'5" just a year later.

-I headcanon that he's from an Inuit tribe, then was sent elsewhere. He knows what happened, but never talks about it. Like I said, chronic secret-keeper.

-He was too scared to hit Bianca, so she started calling him feather paws.

-His adoptive last name is Finnley, and his middle name is Nanuq (ᓇᓄᖅ) which is the Inuit word for polar bear. almost every male polar bear of his bio family's sleuth has the middle name Nanuq.

-Before he was adopted, Barnacles was declawed. This is why we never see him pull out claws in situations where it would very much be helpful and or necessary.

-Barnacles has been in FAR too many near-death situations, and EVEN MORE how-the-fuck-did-you-survive situations. He's seen shit, I know it.

-Barnacles does not swear around the Octonauts, because somehow, Professor Inkling always hears. He only dares to cuss around Natquik, because Natquik's authority will override Inkling's authority every. single. time.

-even then, it's still very little.

-Barnacles told the claustrophobia story VERY sugarcoated. He was in that hole for a week with a broken tailbone. He only survived because one of his fellow scouts, Bowie, tossed him hot water bottles so he didn't freeze or dehydrate, and because Bianca brought him food regularly.

-on that note, his adoptive parents are..less than present. They forgot to help Barnacles for an entire week before Bianca had to ask the other scout's parents to help get him out. Bowie's parents in particular gave the Finnley's a good, long lecture.

-Barnacles is never caught without his hat because that's where the barnacles were, and now he has ugly, patchy scars on his head that he is absurdly ashamed of.

-His birth name is Sesi, but he's the only one who knows that. He came up with Barnaby on the spot when Natquik asked his name.

-He's trained his voice to sound more neutral, but his inner dialogue has an Inuit accent. Sometimes it slips out, particularly in front of Inkling, Bianca, or Natquik.

-He has way more health problems then one would assume-Kwazii and Tweak are trained to be captains in his stead just in case anything happens, and Peso is often asking them both to be ready when he has one of his worse days.

-One of these problems include heart problems, and because hot cocoa is often used as caffeine for the octonauts, Peso has repeatedly urged the Captain to stop drinking it. He never listens.

-he has a short torso and awkwardly long arms and legs, for some reason. He looks fatter because of it, which makes him insecure.

-Natquik and Professor Inkling both serve as his father figures.

-He chose each of the Octonauts to be Octonauts because they reminded him of old friends from his birth tribe. He sees potential in them, but when he sees just potential and no past reminders, he'll make them an agent-Paani, Ranger March, Tracker, Natquik, Calico Jack, you name it.

-Barnacles makes sure to have contact with each of the members' parents when they join in case something goes wrong.

-Barnacles always tells someone else to sound the octo-alert because he doesn't like the noise it makes. He has time to prepare if he tells someone else to press it.