#mostly tbh

[theprettyhimbo]

I don't know how to shut the fuck up so here we go again. The Amazing Digital Circus thoughts under the cut, mostly about Jax and episode 6.

Pretty interesting to note that Jax views the rest of the circus goers as two dimensional [or I guess- 3 dimensional] because everything he says about them is only in response to his shenanigans [except like- Kinger? But he isn't around Kinger long enough to ever know that]

Like- Zooble's only 'the grumpy one' to him because all he does is piss Zooble off. All he does is bully or take advantage of Gangle so Gangle is 'the sad one'. Ragatha tries [or maybe tried I guess] to be warm and friendly to him so she's "the cheerful one".

Me thinks he's projecting. Because all he is now is "the funny one" he needs to believe that everyone else is also just an archietype? architype? character so losing them doesn't hurt. So knowing them won't hurt. So he can keep believing that these aren't real people and that the circus isn't his reality now. Hence "You know none of this is real, right?"

Pomni is the only character that we've seen call him out on his bullshit on pretending all he is a 2 [or 3] dimensional character.

Ribbit probably also 'played the part' and believed "This isn't real" and that's why the two of them got along so well, likely as a comedic duo, like- ANY pair of cartoon characters [think Gumball and Darwin, Spongebob and Patrick, Cuphead and Mugman etc etc]. But Ribbit probably couldn't put up with the illusion forever, resulting in him butting heads with Jax, Jax likely saying he means nothing to him and Ribbit subsequently abstracting. Pomni does this the entirety of episode 6, plays into Jax's delusions and then calls him out on his nonsense all in one episode [speedrun strats]. Its happening again and Jax doesn't like that. That's why [among other reasons] he glares at Ribbit's door in disdain. That's why he pushes Pomni off him after she hugs him. That's why he's so eager to have her "betray" him. He can't let anyone else get close to him because remember what happened last time? He likely does blame himself for not being there for Ribbit when he needed someone and even drove him to the edge. But he bandages this idea with blame on Ribbit's behalf.

Hell- maybe even Kaufmo had this belief but because he was bad at his clown role. [No one seemingly all that close to him and no one laughing at his jokes]. He couldn't bare the idea that this was all he was now and he was bad at it... kinda like how Caine started losing it in episode... 3? Whichever one the Zooble therapy sesh is.

But who knows, maybe there really is nothing there and I'm just looney. 👁️👁️

Maybe.

[dysonfae]

Shout out to all the people who are like “I romance ____ but even I think he/she gets too much screen time” or to the people who are like “I romance ___ but I do think so in so deserves more scenes, I’d take less of my LI for that...” knowing they straight up just saying that shit to look like a “good” one. 😂 👍

[sugasrockera]

What's it about the leader x eldest combo that makes it so appealing?? Like literally cannot think of a better duo.

[katreal-fic]

Fanfic Author’s Ask Meme

@0dsi tagged me!

AO3 name: Katreal

Fandom(s): Homestuck, Undertale, Final Fantasy VII, Digimon, Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, YuYu Hakusho, Rockman.EXE, Rurouni Kenshin and others only on my FF.net account like Danny Phantom and Detective Conan/Magic Kaito.

Number of fics: 18

1. Fic you spent the most time on: Technically it’s still Digimon: Chaotic Evolutions because I originally wrote this thing on FF.net in *highschool* and then I entirely REWROTE IT and more seven years later. It’s almost done actually, I just...*waves hands helplessly* Homestuck happened.

2. Fic you spent the least time on: I don’t know any of my older stuff, so I’m gonna have to go with Divide by Zero because I’m pretty sure I cranked that out in a manic haze of Dave trying to prove to myself that I can, in fact, write homestuck 

3. Longest fic: To no surprise, it’s Defragmentation, which is currently sitting pretty at 70 chapters and 299,140 words and I’m still only barely in the *first arc* of *ACT TWO* out of three.

4. Shortest fic: Monofell: When Only Stones Remain which was a gift ficlet written for @pc-doodle‘s undertale AU. This one clocks in at around 702 words. 

5. Most hits: Defragmentation - 11,924 hits.

6. Most kudos: Defragmentation - 823 kudos.

7. Most comment threads: Defragmentation - 571 comment threads.

8. Fave fic you wrote: I love both Defrag and Ersatz Abyss pretty close to even actually. Defrag because it’s my self-indulgent mess and because Ersatz is ending up that same way just focused differently and Hal is heckin’ fun to write.

9. Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: I have a few sort of director’s cut changes I wish I could do to Defrag to maybe work on the pacing of early chapters and clean up some plot threads that are a little tangled since I didn’t figure out what I was doing until a decent ways in. Aside from that, there’s a Detective Conan fic sitting on my FF.net account I *was* working on rewriting, but I think I lost the thumbdrive :( This was before I changed to google doc-ing everything.

10. Share a bit of your WIP or share a story idea that you’re planning: 

AKA The last thing I wrote before doing this:  It’s a phantom limb except it’s a phantom everything and you lose so much time as you try to remember what to do, pushing the information through your panicking brain--that you no longer have, it’s all ones and zeroes and electrical impulses up in here baby--and charting the wrecked pathways that once made up your home. Even so you’re still spinning, running, a mouse in a maze with only the vaguest whiff of cheese to guide them.

@0dsi tagged most of the peeps I was gonna tag so uuuuuh @dyradoodles @missbroadwayblues @laurasauras @caledfwlchthat + anyone else who writes fic! I have a few others in mind but I dunno if things are posted or not or whether they’d be comfy doing it so just, if you wanna do it do it!

[somewhereatdawn]

Why must a song be good? Is it not enough to simply scream along to almost indecipherable lyrics that satisfy your need for emotional release?

[crowreign-blog]

the winter winds call his name.     DO   YOU   HEAR   THEM   ?     they   call   for   all   things   that   bring   men’s   folly   ,   of   passion   and   want   and   power   and   blood   .     the   long   night   creeps   o’er   the   world   akin   to   a   shadowed   grip   ,   it   calls   to   him   .     STANDING   ON   WHAT   FEELS   THE   BALANCING   WEIGHT   OF   THE   WORLD   —     HONOR   .     would  he  hold   the   wall   and   guard   the   realms   of   men   ?     DUTY   .     would   he   fall   off   that   very   edge   ,   drown   in   his   losses   ?     FAMILY   .     would   he   willingly   step   off   ,   and   fly   crow’s   wings   to   those   he   loved   ?     WHICH   MIGHT   BE   SWIFTER   DEATH   ?

which did winter want? which did jon snow, want?

[jenniferswretch]

goddamn what even happened to you man

Fun stuff

[aflightlessraven]

2022 Art Summary!! I feel like 2022 was a really nice year for me in terms of art, as I tried to branch out and do some different things with poses and brushes etc, and it’s been incredibly nice to look back through my drawings and pick out the ones that were my favourites for each month.  I think it’s very very clear when the hermitcraft/grumbo phase hit me,,,