#barzum

[digitalanthomancy]

I hope seedflap knows she has caused me irreversible clown psychic damage

[lepiosprites]

May be a weird request but since you’ve changed the way Lumith antennae work I’d like to see your swaps of the Hiveswap purplebloods updated with more shaped antennae

I would like to go back and update all my lumith swaps for hiveswap at some point since i've revamped their sprites since i did these swaps

[gorjek]

for the record i already have a ride-or-die intersex headcanon for a hiveswap character, but since there's always room for one (or two) more, i'll say that barzum and baizli are also intersex because of their purple and yellow motif. btw

[bugg-g]

theater kids

[pony-town-skinz]

barzum and baizli, the clown twins!! i had fun making these guys :o) i love their outfits <3

[mmmmalo]

any thoughts on barzum and baizli? i always say them as a representation of the clown gods given that their whole thing is the same as gamzee when he declares himself to be the mirthful messiahs - the alternate lower and upper case sentences that blend to gamzees quirk, the happy and sad masks, etc. any thoughts on this? i would say they align with whatever anxieties gamzee represents probably

I can add add one item to the Complementary Pair pile: Yin-Yang. Soleil, derived of the Cirque, means "sun". The wiki notes that Barzum is (in addition to a tilted Barnum, the circus man) a word for "darkness" in the language of Mordor: "ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul" becomes "One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them". And as best I can tell, Baizli refers to (in addition to Barnum's partner Bailey) the paisley, a curved teardrop shape popular in textiles. Combining a light (soleil) and dark (burzum) paisley yields the Yin-Yang.

In the context of Alternia racializing and gendering white and black, you might expect the twins to relate to that through their own representation of totality...? But I didn't really notice anything to that effect on this readthrough

[vriskasicons]

"could i have Barzum and Baizli Soleil themed icons, with circus themes? and possibly the trans flag thrown in there sometimes?"

Hello! Hope you like these. I gave them 8oth a trans pin to incorpor8 the Trans flag!

[homestuckexamination]

It's one of the olive signs, I'm pretty sure there's two trolls with that sign in Hiveswap era.

We also have two trolls born from the same egg, identical twins, with different signs.

Do note that the Twins' Signs are the same, but mirrored, so you could also argue it's the Same Sign in-Universe, even if they're two different ones in the Ezodiac. Specially considering how common Sprite-Flipping is in Homestuck as a gag.

I did go through all of the bg Trolls in the Olive Car in Hiveswap though, and I didn't se anything repeating at all, though. :o Though there's two Trolls who didn't have a visible sign, unless they show it moving during a cutscene or something.