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I'm testicles deep in Homestuck and pushing an agenda of Pale Tavros/Eridan

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Rare pairs.

Please, tell me all about Homestuck rare pairs, I'm on my journey to un-rare all the pairs, seeing as it is my life mission to un-rare the pairs, especially pale Eridan/Tavros, but the general goal is all the rare pairs.

All of them. (Yumeshippers are allowed, yumeshippers are pretty cool.)

This is basically a "Requests Are Open" post, so please, take a step onto my stage.

Each Request Filled will look something like a Drawing of the ship and then maybe a short paragraph of commentary from my end.

P.S. The closest thing you're getting to Pornography is by Caliborns definition, which is to say, smooching and cuddling, seeing as I have roughly the same skill when it comes to the digital arts.

Seriously, don't request NSFW please.

[kai-username]

Genuinely how it feels talking to my bro sometimes.

He insists upon "Triple T" being "a cool guy", he argues that people genuinely have been inspired by "Mr. Sahur" to pick up a pencil in favor of making prompt, all to make fanart(?) of him??? If that's true then I suppose that's great, good on Tung Tung "Triple T" Tung Sahur.

[kai-username]

Vriska <> Tavros

All the text of Homestuck shows that any relationship between these characters is inherently pear shaped, what with vriska's constant violence both physical and emotional towards Tavros, and his his seeming inability to return these supposed black feelings.

But look at it another way, what is a pale relationship?

"…[some trolls] would present a serious threat to society, or even to themselves. Such trolls will have an instinctive pale attraction to a more even-tempered troll, who may become their MOIRAIL. The moirail is obliged to pacify the other…"

-Homestuck p. 2401

The foremost pale relationship in this comic is everyone's favorite meowrails, Equius and Nepeta. A cantankerous highblood who could with ease destroy anything or anyone for any reason, aside from his beloved moirail of course, and a lowblood who's the sweetiest pea who ever lived and wants for nothing more than this highblood to maybe chill the hell out.

Vriska is probably the biggest crash out in the Alternia troll cast, forcing Tavros, for the sin of wanting the game they were playing to be fair, to walk off a cliff, using Sollux to kill Aradia because she used some ghosts to harass her once (genuinely that was the most disproportionate revenge I've ever seen), and blinding her best friend to get back for an exploded face and arm.

Homestuck p. actually some of these events are pretty far apart I'm not sourcing that

And Karkat theorizes that Tavros can't even feel black emotions. While being a shitty thing to say about someone (outside of an aro identity, which it wasn't, it was an insult) shows how absolute zero chill this guy is.

Homestuck p. 2296

Looks surprisingly similar I would say

Vriska harms Tavros as her twisted way of making him stronger, she wants for nothing more than for him to be safe, not under her protective wing, but by his own limitless power.

And Tavros is just a chill guy who wants his everyone to maybe stop killing each other for a bit please? They are in desperate need of an actual auspice, I vote Nepeta, she's a good friend to pretty much anyone, and unlike Karkat, wont spend entire sessions crashing out over petty bullshit

Tavros and her share an adorable rp and they are both upset when they can't team p. 2164

And she's even tried to rp with Vriska on multiple occasions p. 2792

This is hardly a healthy relationship, but this is Vriska "Situationship" Serket we're talking about here, she was doomed from the second she was born as a perfect copy of the literal coolest woman ever. (entire can of worms I'm not opening what with the idol worship/obsessive mimicry thing she does.)

Post script. if the murderstuck meworail event happened with tav<>vris they would dog walk Gamzee like Yuji and Nanami vs Mahito

Post post script This is all to say: Tav<>Vris art pls and thank you

I personally don't consider Tavris in any quadrant due to my interpretation of their interactions and how Vriska leaves me inarticulate when merely thinking about her due to my complicated feelings towards her, however I do agree on an Auspisticism between the two. I think Nepeta in an excellent choice, considering their other 10 options, she seems unbiased enough in order to fairly mediate.

Overall, good ships!

P.S. You get an extra Ashen art because I felt like it.

(In case it's not clear, Nepeta is facilitating a three way FLARPing session, Vriska is planning on retiring her Mindfang Character.)

[kai-username]

On Serkets and Pages.

I've been thinking about Serkets lately, mostly because I have a desire to understand Vriska rather than fall into the "Vriska Good" or "Vriska Bad" train of thought, and I realized that each and every Serket we see has a unique relationship with someone of the Page Class.

Allow me to start with the Original Serket, Marquise Spinneret Mindfang.

Mindfang is the Post-Scratch counter part to Aranea, making her a Sylph of Light, if what Dancestor Serket is saying is true about their Post-Scratch counterparts sharing Classpects (Even though Mindfang explicitly says that she takes fortune, "as I'd done so often to steal fortune from my adversaries?"), but ignoring that, that would mean that Darkleer would be a Page of Void.

The Marquise stuck her neck out for Darkleer after he refused to cull The Disciple, taking him under her protection for sweeps and keeping him in debt to her. She says that he had her admiration, "8ut the admir8ion he'd won naturally wore thin as he persistently 8emoaned his treason and 8anishment, and I was saddened to find this ha8it holding "STRONG" even now.".

She still seems to show genuine consideration for him, wondering if he still thought The Disciple's life worth his banishment, and even stating "Even if I came with 8oth intact I might have ripped one off and put him to the task just to halt to his 8lu88ering. Darkleer was always a skilled machinist and the work proved an adequ8 distraction.".

Along with Mindfang showing a desire to comfort Darkleer, even if it's just by simply distracting him for a little while, and having her mood be affected by his, she also trusts him with one of her most valuable snatches of loot, the Magic Cue Ball.

Sure, he, as a Page of Void, has the ability to mask its presence from Doc Scratch, but Mindfang still allowed him, trusted him, to keep it safe for her while she was away. And on top of that, she and he may or may not have had some.. pale leanings, perchance?

"So pacified, he listened to what I had to say, a8out my recent travails with the law, and Pyralspite," She describes his mental state after distracting him as "pacified" and then continues to tell him about the heavy situations she has been in, perhaps reminiscent of a feelings jam? All speculation on my end, of course.

Next, we, I, will discuss Vriska Serket and Tavros.

Vriska tries her hardest to toughen Tavros up, make him better, stronger, less weak, and more like the Summoner. Vriska emulates Mindfang as best she can, using her strife specibus, getting into a kismesisitude with Eridan, she studies Mindfangs Journal religiously, even when she was on her last leg when Aradiabot beat the life half out of her, Vriska tried to get Tavros to kill her, although likely to stop bleeding out and suffering, she still mirrors Mindfang at every turn she can.

Despite Vriska trying to toughen Tavros up, she still curb stomps his esteem into the ground, pushing him too far past his limits, trying to make him apologize to her for being crippled, and constantly talking down to him.

Vriska has a hatred for Tavros that never goes away, as stated in Karkat: Recruit Vriska, "AG: It's just a really special kind of h8! It never goes away and it doesn't make a lot of sense."

Vriska has a fluctuating attraction to Tavros throughout their interactions, seemingly more than just her emulating Mindfang, but most certainly facilitated by Mindfang.

Now, in all honesty, I'm running our of things to say about Vriska, so we'll move on.

Alright, on to our final Serket and Page duo, Aranea.

Aranea Serket is an information deposit that tries to take relevancy for herself, just like her Post-Scratch self, but unlike her Post-Scratch self, she is, and always will be irrelevant.

Aranea did one notable thing with all her time to shine, that being causing GAME OVER, due to trying to create a timeline without Lord English, and what happened to that universe? It got Retconned. It went horribly, horribly, horribly wrong, and it got Retonned.

Aranea points out and acknowledges Jake's attraction to her, it feels like a back and forth between the two, Aranea pointing out Jake's inner thoughts, or her impression of them, as she tries to not be invasive, and Jake fumbling and jumbling like a twat.

Their other most notable interaction would be when Aranea went to Realize Jake as a Page of Hope.

Just a few lines from this interaction, "ARANEA: I am here to shorten that journey for you. ARANEA: And in return for this favor, you will serve my needs."

"ARANEA: I can see every fault and fissure in your mind. My vision 8-fold sheds light on every injury you have ever suffered, whether emotional or physical. ARANEA: I can repair it all for you, Jake. JAKE: (Oh no...)

ARANEA: I can heal your mind. JAKE: (Oh n-n-n-)"

All this, while pulling him in for a kiss, to which he panics and struggles against her, causing this, "ARANEA: I'm sorry! ARANEA: There! See? ARANEA: I am respecting your personal 8oundaries. We don't have to kiss! ARANEA: Good grief, that went poorly. ARANEA: I only tried to kiss you 8ecause I knew you were attracted to me! ARANEA: I thought I was doing you a FAVOR! ARANEA: I don't know what I'm supposed to........"

And then she still forcefully Realizes him, he might not want her kisses, but his power is too important to her plan.

They don't interact much, but when they do their dynamic doesn't change too much.

I find it interesting how Aranea goes to a Page from a different session than hers, Mindfang has Darkleer, Vriska has Tavros, Aranea should've gotten Horuss, No?

During Araneas info dump about Horuss, she says that he frustrates her just as much as he fascinates her, but that's about it.

So many unique correlations.

[kai-username]

Trickster Mode!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone done Trickster Tavros with the Peter Pan Peanut butter theme yet? Well if not, I have.

Pepper Jam Eridan!!! There's more than one way to make PB&J!!! Eridan gave me so much grief when coloring him in...

Milquius.

[thiost]

YOU’VE HEARD OF EQUIUS X TAVROS BUT WHAT ABOUT ARQUIUSPRITE X GCATAVROSPRITE MAKE IT HAPPEN HOMESTUCK FANDOM

[kai-username]

I know this post is from 2017.. BUUUT

Have I mentioned how much I love the mutant sprites? They're tragically adorable.

[kai-username]

TavJake on Paper.

Take TavJake, take it, take it right now, here, I'm giving it to you.

Tavrosprite and Jake were such good friends and Jake even named his first born son after him!!! Tavrosprite tried comforting Jake the best he could when they were talking, Jake even called Tavros, "the one ray of light shining through the clouds in what has otherwise been an emotionally stormy game experience for me."

Hell, lets get the full speech he gave to Tav!

"JAKE: Hahaha oh tavrosprite. JAKE: You have always been the one ray of light shining through the clouds in what has otherwise been an emotionally stormy game experience for me. JAKE: Im so grateful that you found it in your ghostly bosom to drift over to lomax now and then to cheer me up. JAKE: Often enough to give me a real pickmeup when feeling blue over friend problems but just seldom enough to feel like a rare delight when you did."

And shortly after that, Tavrosprite said, "TAVROSPRITE: wHAT A BRILLIANT MIND LIKE YOU NEEDS, iS SOMETHING SIMPLER, TAVROSPRITE: lIKE LISTENING TO THE NICE AND FLATTERING WORDS, oF A REAL FRIEND, }:) JAKE: Maybe youre right! TAVROSPRITE: nOT RELATED TO THAT, hAVE i MENTIONED, TAVROSPRITE: yOU'RE ACTUALLY QUITE HANDSOME FOR A HUMAN, JAKE: Wow you think?? TAVROSPRITE: aLSO YOU HAVE A DASHING PERSONALITY, aND YOU SEEM PRETTY STRONG, aND YOUR VERY SMALL PAIR OF CREAMY LOOKING PANTS IS REALLY COOL,"

Matesprits or Moirails, take your pick.

I feel like interactions with them, would lead to unadulterated ego stroking for each other, that is, without a third party to tell them to shut up and burst their bubble, they bond with each other over their shared patheticness, and I find that sweet.

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Reblog if you don't use Generative AI to write fanfics/original fics or to create fanart/original art.

[kai-username]

Alright folks, lets have a chitty chat.

To start our discussion,

FUCK ALL OF YOU ASSHOLES THAT USE GEN AI TO "MAKE" ""FAN"" FICTION AND ""FAN"" ART OR EVEN JUST """"ORIGINAL"""" CONTENT.

First of all, you are NOT a fan if you use Gen AI! REAL art, real FAN content, is made with the joy and love in your heart. Where is the joy in just typing in a prompt? Where is the complete and utter LOVE and YOU, the FAN, feel? It's not there, I'll tell you that.

For the people who desire to make Original content, how in the WORLD can you just type something in and tolerate the SLOPPY and SOULLESS image, or text, before you? There's NO WAY that you can look at it, read it, EXAMINE IT, and feel satisfied with it! There's no way THAT is how you imagined it!

Your Original content is meant to be made with the image in your mind and the love in your heart, not to mention, ORIGINAL!!! AI does NOT make original content! It just takes from what its fed and pukes some of it out.

There was a time, that I went onto Archive Of Our Own, AO3, the glorious site of fanfic, full of fan works filled to the brim with love and appreciation, and do you know what I saw that day?

The last 3 pages covered in texts tagged with "AI-Generated work".

Three.

Whole.

Pages.

There was no love.

There was no thought.

There was no care.

The author themself, said that they "might read it lol".

Does that sound loving to you?

Does that sound caring to you?

Does that sound like they care?

AI DOESN'T EVEN MAKE GOOD CONTENT!!!

IT CAN NOT UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTERS INTIMATELY

IT CAN NOT IMAGINE THEM REACTING TO SCENARIOS

IT CAN NOT POSE THEM WITH CHARACTER AND FEELING.

"Oh, but Kai, disabled people-"

ELIZABETH KINNING, A MOUTH ARTIST WHO LOST THE USE OF HER LIMBS WHO INSPIRED-

JOHN CARTER, ANOTHER MOUTH ARTIST WHO WAS PARALYZED FROM BELOW THE NECK! HE DREW, PAINTED, AND WROTE.

SARAH BIFFIN, BORN WITH PHOCOMELIA, NO ARMS AND ONLY VESTIGIAL LEGS, SHE PAINTED, WROTE, DREW, AND EVEN SEW USING ONLY HER MOUTH!

CHRISTY BROWN, CEREBRAL PALSY, HE WROTE NOVELS AND DREW WITH ONLY HIS LEFT FOOT, HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY EVEN BEING TITLED, My Left Foot.

JONI EARECKSON TADA, BECAME QUADRIPLEGIC AT THE RIPE AGE OF 17, PAINTED WITH HER MOUTH AND USED VOICE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE IN ORDER TO WRITE BOOKS.

ART IS, HAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE ACCESSIBLE.

"Oh, but Kai, I have no artistic talent-"

I have been drawing for my entire life. I have no talent, but I do have skill. You can have skill. Everyone can have skill. People do not just walk this planet being instantly good at it, it takes time, and do you know how I personally spent that time, gathering my skill?

I spent it feeling pride and joy, I felt proud when I realized that my poses have become more dynamic, I felt proud when I realized my perspective has gotten better, I felt proud when I realized that my proportions have gotten better.

Now, I do realize this conversation has been Visual Arts focused, lets talk about writing.

I ALSO write! I wasn't good at it, I'm not the best right now either, BUT I have gotten better, and I haven't been writing an awful lot lately, so I must practice.

Writing can be dificult, you might not be able to spell things, we have SPELL CHECK and BETA READERS and EDITORS. Now you might have noticed that I spelt difficult wrong there, I used spell check to fix it, but you know what I did? I went back to make it WRONG again just to prove a point! I also started the second sentence with "nOW" because I held 'Shift' at the wrong time before correcting it.

Did you have a little laugh at me just then? I hope you did so you could see the beauty in Real, Human mistakes, experience the small joys in everyday life.

Creation is beauty, and you, the people, Create Beauty.

Have a beautiful life, everyone.

I am Kai_Username, and I approve this message.

[kai-username]

Solquius.

This is just based off of that one time I tried to join a game club to gain some friends, but I got nervous and my hands started sweating sooo muuuch and then the controller was so slippery and I felt so bad, I left 5 minutes after attending.

This can be whatever quadrant you please.

[kai-username]

EriGam.

Have at thou.

[kai-username]

Pale Gamradia on paper.

I like traditional art a lot! My pencil was sort of dull so the line art isn't too well defined.

I imagine it as Post Roboradia and Post Murderstuck.

In all honesty, they just appeared to me in a dream, but after thinking about it a little more, they really do fit!

To start, they never really had any control over their lives.

Aradia died young and then was compelled to act for the sake of their Alpha timeline, bound by fate and knowing it, temporal inevitability haunting her as she did her friends (though, a bit more literally in Aradias case.).

Meanwhile, Gamzee was doped up on Sopor Slime, sort of just floating through life, even after he gets sober he gets swallowed by his own Rage after Dave shows Gamzee how much of a joke he, Gamzee, is. And then Gamzee gets put under Lord English's servitude, and when he isn't busy coughing up gifts for his Master/Ward, he gets mind controlled by Aranea to do HER bidding!

I think that Aradia's new found love of life after getting resurrected would be interesting when combined with Gamzee's new found Clarity of Mind.

Aradia's love for the macabre combined with Gamzee's natural inclination towards colorful language, "TC: JuSt LeT mE sNeAk Up On ThIs BoTtLe Of FaYgO aNd SnAp ItS nEcK lIkE iM a FuCkIn LaUgHsSaSsIn." (Tavros: Rap with TC.), might also be quite merrymaking for the both of them!

[kai-username]

On Lejions and Zahhaks.

I find these lines of trolls interesting because I noticed something recently.

So we've seen Nepeta and Equius together in their Moirallegience, in fact, they're the go to example of what it looks like, they're the ideal, in short.

And then their Dancestors, Meulin and Horuss, we see snippets of theirs, largely inspired by their young Dancestors, and it is... not ideal, to say the least.

We've seen Nepeta and Equius be pale together, it's wholesome, they bond together, get frustrated at each other, but they ultimately love each other. Meanwhile, Meulin and Horuss are never seen directly interacting with each other, even during the Ministrife they don't even acknowledge each other!

Meulin doesn't even mention Horuss once in the Openbound we see her in!

Horuss is, as per usual, disrespectful when addressing Meulin, calling her a ridiculous Mid-blood. He can't even understand her!

It's dubious on whether or not Horuss was being reliable when stating that Meulin was encouraging toxic positivity onto him, due to said inability to understand her.

Over all, Meulin and Horuss don't talk about each other much.

Another thing about Nepeta and Equius, along with their Dancestors, is their typing quirks.

Nepeta and Equius:

:33 <

D-->

Meulin and Horuss:

(^•x•^) <

8=D <

When taking the ending character of their quirks and putting them together, Nepeta and Equius make <> a diamond, signalling their tightly knit relationship, meanwhile for Meulin and Horuss you get <<, a symbol devoid of meaning, or even a left facing arrow, which usually means "Go Back".

And as for the Ancestors, they reflect this disparity as well.

With the Disciple and Darkleer, Darkleer allowed the Disciple to live due to, presumably, a pale attraction, which led to him living an unsatisfactory life. Meanwhile we see nothing from the Disciples end.

With the Muckrake and Danklook, we see that the Muckrake has a pen with a Sagittarius symbol on the clicker bit, while Danklook has a suspiciously Olive colored bridge to his glasses.

Every instance of Meulin and Horuss are inherently doomed by the narrative, the Disciple was the closest confidant to the Wanted Mutant Leader of a rebellion while Darkleer was a loyal subject to the system that she detested and the executioner of her lover, Meulin and Horuss can't connect due to the language barrier, and even then Horuss inherently can't be happy in a relationship with a low blood due to many circumstances.

Every instance of Nepeta and Equius are inherently bound by the narrative, although we don't see the Muckrake and Danklook in action, we DO see those earlier hints towards each other, the pen and the bridge, Nepeta and Equius are shown actively bonding when on screen together, even when they argue and get angry with one another it's never bad.

[kai-username]

Pitch Rosefef

Drew this for a mutual in the Rarepairstuck discord who mentioned Rosefef.

[kai-username]

Yuri!!!

I don't know the ship name for them at all, in all honesty.

[kai-username]

The last two nights I woke up to yowling and an unidentified sound returning it outside my door. I don't know what's making that low rumbling noise, it's not human, I'm unsure what animal could make that noise, it was right outside my door, yowling, returning the low rumble. Last night I heard the yowling and rumbling of the creature, it went on for minutes before a wet noise splattered

and then the yowling stopped.

There was no rumble.

It all stopped.

[kai-username]

Something I made as a gag.

[kai-username]

So I'm reading "John Ruin a Wedding".

I'm on page 462 and I'm starting to get reminded of something.