#quite proud of the alt text on this one lol

[flockofteeth]

its dangerous to go alone. here, take these bilbies

[pbscoreart]

Hello everyone! My name is Jackson Joy and I am an aspiring children’s illustrator and writer. I’m proud to announce that I am opening up my commissions again and this time, they will be open for quite a while! Frankly, I’m looking to make art my full-time career in the future!

I would really appreciate y’all sharing this around! Reblogs would help me out a lot and please, don’t worry if you can’t commission me right now. There are other ways to support an artist you like!

For examples of my work, you can look at this blog I’m posting from or here on my Instagram! I would describe my work as very warm, nostalgic, and bold with a hint of weirdcore/dreamcore.

Commission Prices and Rules:

Pricing: almost all of my artwork will be digital and done in a square format (2048 x 2048 pixels). If there is a different canvas size you’d like, please let me know!

- Sketch (black and white): $15

- Line art (no color): $20

- Line art and color: $35

- Background (line art only): $25

- Background (with color and line art): $35

- 3 panel comic (line art only): $40

- More than one character in a single piece: extra $5

What I will draw:

- Original characters

- Popular characters from books/tv shows/movies

- Animals/pets

- Monsters/cryptids/mythological creatures

- Backgrounds/settings/liminal spaces

- Robots

- Spooky themes (nothing with too much gore or explicit violence)

What I will NOT draw:

- NSFW art (I have nothing against it, I just don’t have an interest in drawing it)

- Complicated architecture (look at my art style…LOOK AT IT lol)

- No bigotry of any kind

- Realistically rendered art (again, look at my art style homie lol)

- No themes containing abuse or assault (especially, in regards to children)

- No HEAVY gore or violence

For any commission requests, please send them to pbscoreart@gmail.com or DM me on Instagram @pbscore! Payment will be accepted through P4ypal, V3nmo, or C4shapp but that will be discussed privately between the client and myself.

If there is something here that I have not listed that you would like clarification on, feel free to bring it up in your email! I am more than happy to spitball ideas with you.

*NOTE: image descriptions are in alt text

[momestuck]

Epilogues: Candy, ch 29-38 (Epilogue 7)

Hoo boy, she’s back. *rubs hands together, cackles*

...actually having read the chapter that’s not a lot to get excited about. content note that this epilogue features a physical assault turning into a sexual assault, and then its aftermath and further violence, in chapters 32 and 37.

also like heavy depression and ennui in general

Chapter 29

...is so short it fits entirely on my screen.

Whatever alt-Calliope has been waiting for, hanging about on the asteroid, is here. Not ‘the Prince’ (i.e. Caliborn), but... someone.

Not Vriska either, we can presume, given the use of ‘he’ pronouns.

Chapter 30

Jake, laying it on rather thick, goes to Jane with bad news. Her father is apparently dead, having (supposedly) taken a bullet rocket for ‘the human president’ to save him from one of Karkat’s assassins. There is no body to dispose of, because his body was destroyed.

This has ‘obvious ruse to cover a defection’ all over it to me, but Jane wouldn’t see that I guess.

Jane takes this the prompt to escalate her war against the trolls to full-blown genocide - total war of extermination, shouting like a cartoon villain. Gamzee, the only troll present... jokingly calls this xenophobic - and turns it into a flirt.

Jane decides now’s the time to stop this whole hateflirting thing, and has her guards take ‘this troll’ off her bridge. To be executed with all the other trolls, presumably. Though he’s not dead on-screen yet.

It’s a very strange mix of cartoon-villain ridiculousness, ordinary ridiculousness, and like... the word genocide.

Chapter 31

Back to John and Vriska, with pretty much no time having passed. John gets her up to speed. Her reaction is predictable...

(VRISKA): ...

(VRISKA): ...

(VRISKA): That’s...

(VRISKA): Th8t’s the........

(VRISKA): Stupidest *F8CKING* thing I’ve ever heard!

Also she’s the (Vriska) in this scenario, because Vriska Lalonde was ‘here first’ lol

Anyway, Vriska confirms very definitely that Lord English is not dead, she was indeed on the battlefield, and she’d prefer to get back there. John brings her up to speed - by this point he’s blaming himself for the decision that broke ‘cause and effect’; everyone got what they thought they wanted and it turned out to be a horrific catastrophe.

As if things couldn’t get any worse, Gamzee - who is not, it seems, dead - shows up. He attempts to set this incandescently angry Vriska on the course of “redemption”...

Chapter 32

This chapter features Vriska beating the absolute shit out of Gamzee for... a whole lot of paragraphs. I guess everything Gamzee was all just setup for this.

This features a lot of named moves, like European-style Uppercut and Reverse Hangman. Probably a wrestling thing.

Which, well, I thought this was just going to be a fandom-catharsis, what if Vriska (avatar of People Who Like Vriska) fucked up Gamzee (avatar of Those People Who Like Vriska Dislike) really fucking hard, but I reckoned without V ‘lick the troll’s armpit’ and her sense for the perverse. tl;dr: Vriska beats the shit out of Gamzee, Gamzee gets horny for it, starts licking her foot; Vriska goes and starts a hate-makeout with him.

The existence of kismesisitude really fucks with any concept of telling someone to go and get fucked, huh. Literally no fucking clue what to make of this at this point.

Chapter 33

Rose comes to talk to John. At this point, it’s very clear that things are far from the rails of ‘canon’, whatever that means anymore.

It’s nice to have Rose back, to say some longwinded philosophical bullshit. She talks about happiness, by way of her wizard fanfiction: in short the implication is that knowing one is in ‘heaven’ destroys (the ability to enjoy) it.

ROSE: But that isn’t me anymore.

ROSE: I am blind against the veil of this world.

ROSE: It’s all ambrosia to me.

ROSE: I don’t care if it’s not true. I care even less if it’s not canon.

ROSE: I have a beautiful wife who I love more than I thought possible, and a daughter who I am immeasurably proud of.

ROSE: It can all be senseless, ephemeral noise that dissolves in the void. A whisper swept up by the wind before it’s uttered.

ROSE: I’m still grateful to have felt this way.

Glad someone isn’t miserable.

The chapter ends with a hug as the bombs go off, and John deciding ‘finality’ was always his to decide, now they are no longer part of ‘the story’.

Chapter 34

Back to Vriska Lalonde and Harry Anderson. Vriska’s involved in the war, although not taking it all that seriously at all. Apparently this Vriska is having a kismesis with Tavros, although rather tame compared to the Alternian version.

They have a fairly inconsequential conversation and then Vriska catches sounds of Gamzee, and goes to investigate... and comes face to face with (Vriska) hatefucking Gamzee, I guess.

Homestuck... was a mistake?

Chapter 35

Vriska POV chapter.

She’s having a meltdown over having just made out with Gamzee. This includes dwelling briefly on her own Awful Childhood:

She remembers the shame and excoriation of her childhood—the fear, the pressure, being coerced to do awful things to undeserving kids. All that embarrassing effort she spent trying to emulate her ancestor. She threw every bit of herself into the role, but in recent years reflecting on the charade has only made her cringe.

If this is going to be going through the same beats as Gamzee’s joke “redemption arc”, that would be something.

Anyway, Vriska furiously demands Gamzee not tell anyone - Gamzee, meanwhile, is starting to feel, more and more, that ‘he was taken advantage of’, that what just happened was sexual assault - that he’s outright feeling unsafe as a result.

I am really fucking lost as to what this is all “saying”, at this point. Is the point that, by making Gamzee out to be so reprehensible, we inclined not to sympathise when he’s sexually assaulted? To like, look out for those we hold to be disposable, to recognise that even shitbags can be harmed?

Perhaps there isn’t a conscious point.

Regardless, Vriska is so desperate to brush over what she’s done that she chokes him to death. He’s not a ‘real’ God tier, so she can just do that. Unfortunately for her, Vriska Lalonde is there to bear witness.

Chapter 36

Back to John, who is contemplating existentialism. Only for... Jake to arrive, having finally fled his horrific abusive relationship with Jane.

Love that letter J.

Anyway John is so apathetic now that he can barely bring himself to care about Jake more than ‘a sim stuck in a pool’, but he does manage to get shaken out of it by realising there’s a kid stuck in the equation.

Jake’s question... was I a bad person? Jake says he’s so used to letting other people control him, he never took responsibility when it mattered.

John makes a token effort to encourage Jake to look to the future - and Jake suddenly brightens up in a way that’s clearly suggesting something is still very much up. He invites John to dance.

It’s all a bit much huh.

But it’s enough to convince John that even if this Roxy isn’t ‘real’, he still ought to make up with her.

Chapter 37

Vriska [Vriska Lalonde] and (Vriska) [Vriska Serket] catch up, which means the text colours and the character prompts are quite difficult to distinguish.

Vriska Serket laments that John is an idiot, but holds power that the rest of the cast could never hope to have (his retcon powers etc.). Vriska Lalonde is dismissive.

Vriska Serket reminisces about the awful shit she’s done in her life - to Tavros, to Terezi, to the other Vriska who was, for a while, happy in the dream bubbles. She tries to convince Vriska Lalonde that this is bad, and not to be like her. She’s not very convincing.

But utlimately... they come round to talk about Terezi. Not by name, though.

(VRISKA): May8e that’s why I h8’d my ghost self so much?

VRISKA: Why?

(VRISKA): 8ecause I just had a sense.

(VRISKA): On some level I knew she was right. She was happy and honest with herself. And that’s what made her...

(VRISKA): A version of myself who was actually worthy of someone I cared a8out.

(VRISKA): Don’t get me wrong, we had a nice time for a few years living on that meteor.

(VRISKA): It was a good, sta8le pale relationship. 8ut that’s all it was.

(VRISKA): We couldn’t really connect in a deeper way 8ecause I was still... the way I am, I guess?

(VRISKA): Layers and layers of armor and defenses.

(VRISKA): And I had some mysterious feeling that weak ghost version of myself was always meant to form the kind of connection with her that I never could, 8ecause she didn’t have any of that stuff getting in the way.

At that point it comes out that Vriska Lalonde nicked John’s phone, giving Vriska Serket the chance to finally... well first read back their entire conversation, and then at last to text her.

Chapter 38

God this particular Epilogue is going on a bit huh! There’s only two chapters left for the final one.

There is also very little room for any sort of ‘resolution’. Of relationships, maybe... we might get to see Terezi and Vriska reunited at last. But the war and so on... are not going to be wrapped up in three chapters, though they’re not the point. The metaphysical weirdness is unlikely to receive much of an explanation.

It’s going to be a bittersweet ending, at best...

Anyway we open with Roxy, looking forward to meet up with John again. It’s nice to finally get a little Roxy POV.

John tries to explain his whole theory that the ‘candy’ choice has basically robbed everyone else of choice. Roxy meanwhile is rather back to her old self - perhaps she never left it. She won’t have any of it. She wasn’t acting like a doormat to John because of some metaphysical non-canonicity bullshit - that was just where she was.

JOHN: i just kept wanting to find ways to make everything make sense, you know?

JOHN: but maybe it just fucking doesn’t.

ROXY: i know we became grownups in a world built specifically n cosmically for us

ROXY: so i get wanting to find a pattern in everything

ROXY: but not everything has 2 b that deep

so then they move on and we finally learn a bit about where Roxy’s been at that’s not filtered through John’s perspective. It turns out that Roxy is our putative nb character I guess:

ROXY: i had all these conflictin thoughts abt how to be me in the first place

ROXY: like what it meant to date a beautiful skull alien

ROXY: sexualitywise and genderwise and person in generalwise

ROXY: for a while there i didnt know if i wanted ppl to think of me as a woman at all

But ultimately... she just drifted apart from Callie, and it wasn’t something she felt comfortable talking about with John.

I’m not going to just quote this entire chapter, but there’s some compelling, truthful stuff about Roxy’s self-conception around gender, how it changed when she got pregnant... obviously my experience of transness is in some ways quite a different one, but still.

Roxy speaks of like, the future to come, that she’s expecting to change in many more ways yet, that it doesn’t matter if it’s the ‘most true’ path, but it’s the one she’s on... it sounds corny summarised like that, but it feels a lot more real than Jake’s whole thing.

end of epilogue 7

so adulthood huh... adulthood is a fuck. being human in general is a fuck. fucked up that we gotta be a bag of seawater with a subjectivity and all that.

we’re moving to the end here. the struggles... the war and so on... it’s not really about that, they’re just set dressing. the point is just, what it is to live in a world as fucked up and pointless as this one, I guess. classic existentialism jazz. (editor’s note: bryn has not read an existentialist philosopher in her life, and the extent of her knowledge of the subject begins and ends with the videogame NieR: Automata.)

the struggles within that cycle...

[onlyrogue-a]

Tell us about your favourite faceclaims for this queen! Is Zoey Deutch one of them?

Weeeeeelllllllllll– Rogue faceclaims is actually a sore spot for me since my own hunt was a NIGHTMARE and I’m still not 100000000% happy with my final choice because I’m so anal about being as close as possible and the fact my current fc is blonde with brown eyes sends me up a wall if I think about it too long. But I also had exhausted my resources and myself and she’s the closest to what I was thinking of sooooo. (My current fc is Car.lson Yo.ung btw)

I’ll start with saying that no Zoey is not. She’s fairly close but she’s not quite in the family of face type I look at for Rogue. It’s SUPER DIFFICULT to decipher looks of comic characters sometimes because soooooo many different artist draw them and the variations in shit like face shape and profile can be staggering, like to the point if they weren’t in their costume you wouldn’t know it was them. You have to find the common denominators and then also take personality and like, vibes and what kinda face speaks to that. It’s a BITCH. 

(a collage of a selection of Rogue by various artists from the 80s to now)

Personally when I look at things for Rogue in terms of look and personality I tend to look at the 80s as it’s the era where her character and essence is the clearest since it’s when she was made and she was written exclusively by her creator.  I also look at X-Treme X-Men for that same reason.  I do this because with like, literally every character and especially women over time their looks get softened and beautified to make them more visually/sexually appealing at the expensive of their uniqueness and individuality. Even in this at lot of those 80s ones are very kind to her as they’re from after she turns good. It’s a complicated time to look at for visual reference on her though since some artists genuinely didn’t get the memo she was 17 for a bit there.

  Overall her face has been like fairly consistently drawn as very square sometimes even small. Her nose is small, a bit broad and kinda buttony. Her mouth is kinda wide and poutier over time ( I mean, she’s a girl in comics so… ). Her eyes seem more on the large and downturned side. Along with this it’s important to remember she’s a reformed rock loving gearhead brawler from extremely rural Mississippi. If Rogue’s nose hasn’t been broken at least once I’d be amazed and she’s overall gonna have a very endy, rough look. The modern comics have really stripped away a lot of her visual personality and also just u know, her non-Basic White Lady shit. Rogue is VERY proud of being blue collar and loves the alt scene and is you know...a biker and shit. The bitch listens to metal while showering...... let her wear a studded collar again Marbel :/

To me women with face’s in the same rough shape family as Car.lson Yo.ung, Li.ily Ja.mes and Anna Paq.uin work the best like on a purely capturing something close 2 what I can decipher of her drawn facial proportions and people like Carlson and Anna I especially like because they’re very clearly gorgeous but Carlson’s face can come off as REALLY harsh/mean or like super soft and feminine just depending on the fucking angle which is like the Rogue Vibe, and Anna’s got the gap teeth along with the rest which is also a really big Rogue Vibe for me. But I also have problems with all of them so like, they’re certainly not perfect. My ideal fc for Rogue would be someone who’s got that face shape, has a more biker/grunge/messy bitch aesthetic, brown hair and light eyes (ideally green), is pretty but also got a lil something like gap teeth or resting bitch face or a broken nose and tattoos since we’re going for the holy grail. 

LOL THIS IS A WHOLE LOTTA SHIT THAT IS NOT AT ALL WHAT YOU ASKED FOR REALLY BUT THE FC TOPIC FOR ME IS REALLY ROUGH. Sorry for the fucking text dump and thanks for coming to my ted talk.

TL;DR: I DON’T SUPER HAVE ONE BC IDK MANY ACTRESSES AND NONE OF THE HOT BIKER/GRUNGE TYPES ARE YOUNG ENOUGH SO I SETTLE FOR CAR.LSON YO.UNG AND ANNA PAQ.UIN BC I MEAN, SHE’S THE OG. ( also pai.ge hath.away for a bodyclaim bc yall KNOW rogue is SHREDDED  )