Pretty Much A Giant Note To Self

I have no idea what I'm doing in life, but that doesn't stop me from fucking it up anyway.

[skellydun]

hell yeah.

[totogangordie-deactivated201605]

omfg

[punchdrunklove]

I’m coughing I’m laughing so hard I don’t know why this is so funny

[awesome22123]

Still think about this video sometimes

[afeelgoodblog]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

[shrewreadings]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

[squidificati0n]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!

[communistkirby]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!

[dsudis]

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!!

[mintchocolatechimp]

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▷ Written by Reddit user Aczom.

[archivist-bina]

Transcript from reddit:

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If you are interested in reading a comic about a squad of kids entering a fantastical video game, defeating the forces of darkness with the powers of light, and following the clear trajectory of a story laid out for them with a beginning, a middle, and an end, then I regret to inform you that this is probably the wrong comic for you. This is a comic where every time you seem to gain an understanding of the logical next step towards the completion of the characters’ goals you realise that the goals set for them to complete may not have been the goals they were supposed to complete in the first place, that the protagonist may or may not even be the protagonist, and that what they were supposed to do may have been to not do what they were supposed to do all along. It’s a story of wayward vagabonds wandering the sandy remains of a post-apocalyptic earth not so many years in the future, of gigantic snakes obliterating entire civilisations in an interplanetary dance of reproduction, of ornery aliens sending you spoilers from the future that turn the trajectory of your adventure into a subversion of itself, and of kids who would lose their lives again and again, eventually to become gods.

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At the beginning of the story, which is to say the point in the middle at which we arbitrarily begin watching the story unfold like a paper strip twisted around and stapled back onto itself end-to-end, we see the would-be hero of the story standing in his room. It is a young man by the name of John Egbert, a name that we catch wind of through one of the many bizarre abstractions present in the presentation of this story, and it just so happens that the day that we begin watching him is the day that he is celebrating his 13th birthday. I say this knowing that it technically isn’t true. Rather, he is celebrating the end of his 13th year of life. I make this distinction because the word “birthday” implies one of two completely untrue things, the first being that John Egbert ever had a birth to celebrate in the first place, and the second being that I as this story’s faithful narrator would allow the facts to be clouded by little inaccuracies and misnomers applied to things that they simply should not be applied to. You see, it wasn’t by the conventional method of human reproduction that John came to be like you or I. The way that John Egbert came into this world 13 years prior to the beginning of the story was by a rather unconventional method that wouldn’t take place until a few hours later, in a place where the meaning of the word “later” can easily be put up for debate and the notion of everything being in a cohesive chain of cause-to-effect relationships is a very counter-intuitive notion indeed. The way that John would reach this place to eventually begin his own life, setting in motion the events that would eventually loop back on themselves like one of many paper strips previously alluded to and allowing themselves to happen, involved a game that was to be played by him, an absurdly large cast of grey-skinned aliens, a number of temporally displaced duplicates of the relatives of some person or another, a skeletal being with a heart full of hate as well as the bright red liquid hearts are typically known for being filled with, and three of John’s closest, most distant friends. Closest figuratively and most distant geographically, in that order.

Though attempting to assign chronological order to anything that happens in this story once the happenings start to happen outside of any particular frame of reference such as one might find inside the belly of a gargantuan universe frog or an individual party’s incipisphere is a futile task, and assigning those happenings a descriptor like “series” is an act as misleading as referring to the birthday of a self-perpetuating ectobiologist, it’s with a dramatic flair indifferent to the spirit of such semantics that I call the installation of this game the first in a very long and very tangled series of unfortunate events.

[saveyourhelplessspite]

@drowninginredink

[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great

[alexaloraetheris]

[achillesinhighheels]

[origami-butterfly]

We can't live like this

[viralfrog]

[pancakemolybdenum]

heres refs of the bday suits!

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Homestuck

Sample Size: 16,700 stories

[homestuckhiveswap]

Is that Homestuck playing on the biggest screen of the biggest intersection of Times Square in 2023? Yes, it is.

We spent some money to pay our respects to the best webcomic. Enjoy!

[stickyfrogs]

Tiny has had an Exciting Adventure of Climbing and Hand-Taxi today!

(Voigt helped also!)

[pamesjatterson]

One of the worst feelings is when you feel a hyperfixiation slipping.. Like no.. Youre so sexy pls keep giving me happy chemical

[therainbowgorilla]

Girl help I'm losing my fixation

[rattle-my-stars]

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight

Losing my fixation

[awesome22123]

They give us Hazbin Hotel, they give us Helluva boss

Do I draw any of that, no.

But one Zoophobia short and ope here comes my goddamned tablet.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[betchawanna]

The Hague, Netherlands: Spanish street musician Borja Catanesi and the 68 year old dancer from The Hague mr Roland Parijs

[thatll-do]

imagine just playing your guitar and you come across the FUNKIEST grandpa

[1010ll]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CGUsXF8ABfj/

[thespianhauler]

[Drew some felts a while ago. I am like stupidly proud of Stitch’s hat.

[thespianhauler]

The very last chunk of my charm collection. There’s a lot of different artists here.

1st pic - Official Merch, used to be available at cons and the welovefine website. Single board acrylic charms, meaning one layer is covered in acrylic and the other is a bit textured and exposed to the elements. Still trying to find the other 2 charms.

2nd Pic - 3 inch double sided Godtier beta kids designed by 13specters  on etsy. Double board acrylic charm, meaning the image is fully embded in acrylic, with holograph foil on one side. They’ve got Alpha kids designs up for pre-order right now. https://www.etsy.com/shop/13specters?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=837410878

3rd pic - 3 inch double sided trickster beta kid charms by phillodough on etsy. Double board with holographic foil on one side. These guys are BIG, like tall and wide and beautiful colors, I’m waiting on re-stocks of Dave and John cause I NEED them. https://www.etsy.com/shop/phillodough

4th pic - 2 inch double sided charms from korokeshop on etsy. Same image just flipped on the opposite side, holographic foil on one side. While they’re the same height as the Xagave charms, they’re less wide, making them feel smaller than they are. I’ll get the rest of them eventually. https://www.etsy.com/shop/korokeshop

5th pic - Double sided clear epoxy charm, basically a double board charm with epoxy on one side giving the charm a slightly rounder look on one side, it’s a neat feel. Made by @k-iken, they also have stickers, just message them for purchase.

6th & 7th pic - Double sided charms, different images on sides A and B, double board acrylic. Designed by @bunnyknickers available on the online store and at their local conventions [not US based]. https://www.ecwid.com/store/bunnyknickers/   [Store is currently down due to con season, will be back up in the middle of August]

8th pic - Double sided glitter epoxy charm [and adorable button], 3 inch Psiionic having his coffee, designed by @dragonnova available for purchase at https://dragonnova.bigcartel.com/products

9th pic - Not homestuck, but they’re adorable and part of my charm collection so deal. They’re little Galra kits, double board acrylic charms, from left to right we have; Thace,  Throk [my giant baby <3], Antok, and Ulaz. Also designed by @dragonnova available on the same shot page as the Psiionic charm.

10th pic - My best friend bought me this cutie at a con <3 <3 <3, his name is Chunk and he’s a bull shark [his name is on the back but I can’t add anymore pictures here], he’s a double sided clear epoxy charm. Designed by @bytesizetreasure they’ve given 45 different shark species their own adorable renditions with individual names, and I’m gunna have all of them. Available on their etsy store https://www.etsy.com/shop/ByteSizeTreasure?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=468628499

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