#so far i’ve liked

[ssahotchnerr]

📇back again

Mabel Mackenzie Madeleine Madeline Madison Mae Magnolia Maisie Maple Margot Maria Marie Marigold Marina Marley Marlowe Mathilda Matilda Maude Maxine May Maya Melanie Melina Melissa Melody Meredith Mia Michaela Millicent Millie Minerva Mira Mirabelle Miranda Mollie Molly Monroe

Nadia Nadine Nancy Naomi Nell Nevaeh Nicola Nicole Nina Nova

Octavia Odelia Odette Olive Olivia Onyx Opal Ophelia Ottoline

Paisley Patience Patricia Payton Pearl Peony Petra Peyton Philippa Phoebe Phoenix Piper Polly Poppy Primrose

Quinn

Rachel Raine Raleigh Ramona Rebecca Reese Regina Reilly Remy Renee Rhiannon Rhoda Rhonda Ridley Ripley Robyn Romilly Rory Rowan Roxana Ruby Rue Ruth

i’m still loving odette — odette hotchner 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 that could be a top contender

[bisclavaret]

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

[endermagpieart]

What do you mean I’m a bit late for Janus’ big day? Of course not, how could you say such a thing! I definitely didn’t forget all about it in my absence and only get reminded in the incorrect quotes video live chat; that’s not like me at all ;]

Anyways I decided to dress our sassy snake in some different outfits I think he’d like. He seems like the type to get all dolled up on his birthday and it goes with Thomas posting pics in outfits inspired by the sides on their appreciation days!

@thatsthat24

[chloesimaginationthings]

would love to see any drawings/ur design on jeremy fizgerald (if u have any)!! /nf

Been working on a design, can tell me what yall think!

[lochlot-moved]

guyysss they don’t call it a curse for nothinnnn

[royaltea000]

Would you rather have a twink dad or lesbian daughter

[ghcstao3]

ghost who is a great cook but hates the food preparation aspect of it—which is why he rarely ever properly cooks for himself. because for whatever reason, despite his skills with knives out in the field, somehow he’ll always end up maiming his hands when trying to prep ingredients for a meal.

then soap who is a shit cook but does not have the tendency to leave blood in food, so ghost is quick to recruit him for that side of things. he’ll provide soap with ingredients and instructions for how he needs things to be, then says tell me when you’re done. soap does as told, ghost doesn’t get injured, and everyone is happy.

like in work, they have a functional, (mostly) efficient system. and hey—this way they both get a nice meal out of it.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

If I had a nickel for every time a danmei had a good white/light green character with an “evil” dark color/red character as their husband, I would have— a lot of damn nickels. Why does this keep happening??

[coffeeandtoastforbreakfast]

It’s all going up into flames…bright, white flames…

[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.

[pokeberry5]

something like tim convinces himself that robin has to be a Boy™ and then steph becomes robin and shatters that conviction and all his repressed gender feelings come spilling out, but actually letting go of that conviction isn’t all that easy

if there's no homoerotic tension between you and the manifestation of your alter-ego that you’ve constructed in your mind, do you really have identity issues?

closeups + refs (leyendecker) + bonus:

[floweroflaurelin]

Chipping away at this massive WIP while I watch tonight’s episode and it’s really getting there 👀🍎

[swordmaid]

they saw u from across the room and they really liked ur vibe (they’re gonna rob you later)

[blazing-dynamo]

So you know how we’re all reading the EDAs on that crappy pdf torrent / archive that’s been going around for over a decade (that’s when I first got mine)?

I, simply, cannot read poorly formatted books. I absolutely cannot.

So I’ve been creating new ePubs of the books for use in eReaders. I’m having a blast doing it.

If anyone wants them, or really any of the out of print DW books from that torrent, let me know, and I’ll put that book at the front of my queue. I’d love to help the fandom out with my ADHD super power to enjoy tedious monotony, as long as it relates to my hyperfocus.

See also my Listening Order post lol.

EDIT: linked it here since the post with the link isn’t being reblogged as much. EDIT 2: If you'd like to help, or just hang out, I made a Discord for the project. DW eBook Preservation Society

EDIT 3+:

EDAs updated: 31/74

VNAs updated: 2/84?

[girlmetamorphed]

“dostoyevsky would’ve HATED to see the babygirlification of his characters” well if he was so against it then why would he make raskolnikov tall, thin, mysterious, miserable and socially inept ? don’t piss me off now

[shima-draws]

WAIT

ENHANCE

OH

OH NO.