#ceekari

[k25ff]

Based on feedback from @ceekari on the scoped vuvuzela, BEHOLD. A vuvuzela scope.

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[acavatica]

I just saw a friend refer to andalites as alien megafauna and now all I want is

moose andalites

I actually referenced moose to draw Gafinilan! Marco compared him to a Clydesdale, and I just... I just can’t accept that’s not a typical Marco exaggeration... 

[c-rowlesdraws]

I'm working on a reread of Animorphs (first time in 2 decades). I have a question that might be answered later in the books, can't remember for sure, but it's killing me now. What do Andalites do with their arms when they run? There's no reason for them to counterbalance with their arms like a human does. Do the arms just flap around? Do they keep their arms crossed so they're out of the way? Do they naruto run to better center their gravity?

Nothing I'm picturing looks right and every time Ax moves in book my brain is giving me ridiculous mental images, send help

good question! I feel like this is one of the very few places where my thinking is in tune with the official art. Here’s the inside cover to book 33, The Illusion, where we see Ax (or Tobias, in Ax morph?) holding his unsettlingly muscular arms kinda bent while he runs:

(also, can we just take a moment to fully appreciate this official art together, all of us? This is bananas. It’s a fever dream. These books are real and they were really published and you can read them for free.)

this illustration is actually pretty close to what I imagine: that they just kinda... tuck their wimpy little arms up close to their chest while they run, like kangaroos. 

It does absolutely look stupid, but that’s why I like picturing it. 

[boatboys]

My brain is gibbering over a hastings/babydoll character. (My memory is butts, so forgive me if there already is one and I missed them somehow.) That could play out some interesting ways. Not all necessarily *good* ways,but definitely interesting

we actually have a tiny little piece of AU written just for fun, where Rich is a Hastings/Babydoll and Liam is a very big, pretty SS mod!  Here’s the post with the cute art Roach did of Hasting/Babydoll Rich!

 The combination of Hastings and Babydoll means he has to eat a ridiculous amount, especially to fuel his aggressive libido, and because he doesn’t seem like he should need much food, he still managed to be pretty underfed during his formative years and ended up very food-motivated.  With good nutrition and a healthy environment he’ll eventually turn out very strong for his size, just, a very miniature little bruiser who needs to eat like a hummingbird.

[cronusamporaofficial]

hold up my guy, did you fr recognize a wholeass dude from just an arm and a leg???

nononono it's almost definitely not actually Evan, I just thought it was funny because he did fall through his and Katelyn's ceiling once while putting in an Ethernet cable in their old house hahahaha that was, I think a couple years ago and afaik the only angle we got of him halfway through the ceiling in their video was from above, not below

[divisioarts]

Zagreus in homestuck t-shirt

you asked for this

[rooksandravens]

So! I've still got a lot to do, but I wanted to share my progress. I've learned a lot about procreate during this, and will absolutely use different brushes next time.

I want the mushroom to be bioluminescent, so we will see how that goes hahaha..

[chikkou]

@ceekari said: The epilogue honestly just feels like being punished for caring about the characters. I know Hussie was making a point about too much meat or candy being bad for a story, but the way he went about it was unnecessarily hurtful. It’s like he wanted to make sure we knew being hit by a car hurts by actually hitting us with a car. We already knew it, we didn’t learn anything by him hurting us like that.

i cant say i agree tbh. i dont get the sense that he was trying to give some long-winded lesson on “meat” vs “candy” in a story, but rather, i think he was trying to make us consider our roles as readers engaging with a text, and to give us cause to really think about how we impact the story itself, even when its not deliberate.

i mean, in ANY work the reader is a crucial part of the experience, whether they are an active part of the text or not, but homestuck has always been a story where fan interaction had a very direct impact on the narrative itself. what we as readers say and do matters, and it has always mattered, in a way that it often doesnt in a lot of texts. we are part of the story, and we determine how it plays out, just as much as any other character. and thats made very clear when the epilogue gives you that timeless choice - meat, or candy? 

theres a lot i can say about that choice, but the crux of what i think hussie is really asking is this: what do you really value in this story? or any story, for that matter?  what do you really want to see? do you want whats true? or do you want whats easy? 

because the truth is, homestuck has always been a story of adversity and suffering. there were fun moments and sweet moments, sure, but it was always, at its core, a story of destruction and suffering, of fighting against forces that were unknowable and unbeatable. that is the reality of homestuck as a story. that is the truth, and the truth is what we get in the meat side. 

but focusing only on those polished, sweet, happy moments is simple. its a nice feeling. it warms you and makes you forget everything else. its easy. but its not true. when i say “not true,” i mean specifically within the context of homestuck - its not how things would ever go. homestuck is a long, uphill battle, and the characters in it are complex, difficult, and sometimes just downright terrible. they would never fall into those neatly packaged archetypes and AUs that we see so much in fanfiction. and i think thats what hussie really wants us to consider.

a lot of people wanted a happy ending for the characters, and thats a fair wish to have for a story youre attached to, but i think the epilogue is asking us to really be honest with ourselves, as active participants in this world - could that “happiness” ever be real? could we ever really be satisfied with that kind of an ending to a story like this? the ending where everyone settles down, spends all day going to restaurants and coffee shops, gets married and has babies in neat lines, one after the other - is that really true to the lives these characters have lived? or is it just the easy way out?

i think we all know the answer to that question, as difficult as it may be to accept. the epilogues arent meant to punish us. theyre meant to, after all these years, finally tell the truth.