wanted to challenge myself by doing a drawing on only one layer and without using a sketch beforehand :] i'll upload a process video later in case anyone is interested
My brother in Kankri you forgot to link both the ToS and the application page for your discount commissions post
that is so strange because i very very vividly remember adding the links but i guess tumblr wants me to embarrass myself forever! anyways, big big thanks for letting me know anon 💕
i had the most infuriating interaction on twitter. so i want to have more productive and interesting conversations about homestuck now. tell me things you find unique or interesting with homestuck's writing/characters/themes etc! or tell me criticisms you have about it, its character choices or writing choices, etc! (pls dont come in to just say act 6 is bad or vriska did nothing wrong etc ! you can have those opinions but i want to spark conversations and debates around new and interesting topics or topics that don't get brought up as much!!) ALSO PLS NO HS2 i just want to talk about Homestuck as it is because i think there's still so much to dissect and explore!
hello! this is for the thoughts on homestuck! i think it's interesting how you can read the beta kids as the different troubles a kid could face growing up and, frankly in my opinion, john is no exception. i feel like his upbringing is emblematic of like... you can grow up in a good community in a happy household with a loving father and still not come out of it okay because it's not that simple. he reads SO clearly to me as that experience kids have with mental illness- you don't know what's going on other than there's something wrong with you, because nobody saw any reason to tell you anything else was a possibility. not to mention when you consider it in the transgender context. it's all the little unfortunate side effects of the classic suburban lifestyle that pile up on top of each other- by all means you should be happy, but here you are, just as discontent as all the rest of your friends.
...looks at the big textblock and starts sweating. john makes me feel a lot of emotions if you couldn't tell. i just think he's neat.
yes!! i hardly ever see true analysis of june, especially in early acts, which is wild because she is literally the Main Character. and there is really so much to explore with her, especially when it comes to her emotional struggles and connections with people.
SORRY I WENT OFF A BIT...
june has got to be one of the most heavily autistic coded characters in homestuck, which is saying something bc almost all of them can be read as some form of neurodivergent/mentally ill (or both). but june, specifically, is interesting because, as you said, she had the most "normal" upbringing of all of the kids, both alpha and beta, and by far has the hardest time making connections with people. she has a tendency to derail conversations towards her interests ('shitty' movies) and it often feels like making connections of events to her movies helps her process and relate to those events. she often takes people at their face value, and struggles to pick up on sarcasm or tone through text, and is very gullible because of it (terezi tricking alt june to fight her denizen early, then not taking dave or davesprite seriously until the last minute – she either believes everything someine tells her or nothing, depending on her pre-established notions of the person).
all of these make genuine relationships and connections difficult to build with june. the theme of loneliness with her is Extremely prevalent throughout the comic, even in the snapchat epilogues. she is like the manifestation of undiagnosed autism in children (especially young boys who are trans and dont know it yet). she has a caring dad and a 'good life' but her struggle to make irl connections and that feeling of knowing Something is different about you (or something is "wrong" with you) but not understanding what it is... i feel a lot of that is why june resonates with people.
this is not even going into detail about june's trans coding (be it intentional or not on hussie's end, a good portion of the kids have very real trans coding that i wish more people would appreciate cough cough jake, jane, eridan, the zahhaks.... cough cough cough) or her role in the narrative as both a breath player and a main character... it all paints and extremely compelling picture of this character and i really wish more people would appreciate her!!
sorry for da word wall... june also makes me feel a lot of emotions 🥹
i had the most infuriating interaction on twitter. so i want to have more productive and interesting conversations about homestuck now. tell me things you find unique or interesting with homestuck's writing/characters/themes etc! or tell me criticisms you have about it, its character choices or writing choices, etc! (pls dont come in to just say act 6 is bad or vriska did nothing wrong etc ! you can have those opinions but i want to spark conversations and debates around new and interesting topics or topics that don't get brought up as much!!) ALSO PLS NO HS2 i just want to talk about Homestuck as it is because i think there's still so much to dissect and explore!
ok this one specific thing has been stuck with me for a bit but.
heart as a class is represented by fuschia. (theres already a lot to that considering no fuschia bloods have that aspect but its still intrinsic to their positions of power and innate selfishness due to their royal lifestyles but thats not what this is about so MOVING ON.)
NEPETA is the trolls' heart player. nepeta is also, very specifically, the anti-hemocaste troll. even karkat is a bootlicker for the empire at the start, and feferi loves her princess life (and beforus shows that her way of ruling was still harmful overall, if decently intentioned) and wants to keep the caste system.
NEPETA specifically is AGAINST the system. and as a heart player, had she gone godtier, she would be dressed in fuschia. the color of royalty. nep is a lowblood, she oppposes the caste system, and she would wear the robes of a royal. not even including the fact that heart is all about understanding the self and personal beliefs/biases, so theoretically aknowledging her position against the system and doing something about it could be whats needed for her to god tier, making the fuschia outfit even more symbolic.
i have never even thought about that but that's such an interesting observation!! i feel that not many people explore the heart aspect deep enough beyond dirk and his relation to it is very unique given his class as a prince and how princes specifically interact with their aspects. most people approach nepeta's relationship to her aspect as almost purely manifesting through her shipping stuff but i feel like thats so reductive 😭 it definitely is a part of it but there is so much more to it than that!!
i really love how the trolls' classpects can be so close to their blood colors or, as in nepeta's case, almost the opposite. i think nepeta having a fuschia aspect is especially interesting given that feferi/the piesces are all life players! god tier'd feferi would be dressed in greens and browns, the colors of lowbloods and the lime green of mutant bloods. interesting how the life aspect in general is respresented with lime green, the blood type that was quite literally hunted to extinction at the condesce' orders (also a life player). we never even get to see a live limeblood (not counting calliope, she's not a troll) and yet their color is the one of life. such interesting connections
i had the most infuriating interaction on twitter. so i want to have more productive and interesting conversations about homestuck now. tell me things you find unique or interesting with homestuck's writing/characters/themes etc! or tell me criticisms you have about it, its character choices or writing choices, etc! (pls dont come in to just say act 6 is bad or vriska did nothing wrong etc ! you can have those opinions but i want to spark conversations and debates around new and interesting topics or topics that don't get brought up as much!!) ALSO PLS NO HS2 i just want to talk about Homestuck as it is because i think there's still so much to dissect and explore!
i had the most infuriating interaction on twitter. so i want to have more productive and interesting conversations about homestuck now. tell me things you find unique or interesting with homestuck's writing/characters/themes etc! or tell me criticisms you have about it, its character choices or writing choices, etc! (pls dont come in to just say act 6 is bad or vriska did nothing wrong etc ! you can have those opinions but i want to spark conversations and debates around new and interesting topics or topics that don't get brought up as much!!) ALSO PLS NO HS2 i just want to talk about Homestuck as it is because i think there's still so much to dissect and explore!
i didnt realize violetblood chilchuk would be so divisive 😭 i talked abt it a bit already on twitter but the basic idea is that he would be Very divorced from his cast, living like a 'commoner'. i feel if he was born into riches, he would not be interested if it meant having to kill or separate himself from the rest of society (ie he would not feel like he's superior to other trolls, especially not enough to justify killing them). i was a lot more interested in staying true to their personalities AND their dynamics/relationships to others! i feel chilchuk, as a violetblood in alternian society, would have similar struggles with connection and showing open care for his party due to feeling othered as the only highblood (who very much does Not act like a highblood). i feel it opens up some really interesting ways to explore their relationships with each other! i wanted to avoid basing their casts entirely/mostly off of their fantasy races bc im sorry but to me it's just a little boring ;_;
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