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happy 4/13 to all who celebrate :) they are the main characters to me

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #4/13 #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #also kind of fanart for #space solkat #stardust and solitude #(depending on how formal you're feeling with the titles) #if you look close enough at the outfits

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never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#i don't reblog stuff on here very often but THIS. this is fantastic and i need to have it bookmarked forever #worm poem

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karkat woke up four minutes ago

(based on this tweet, the bride and the ugly ass groom)

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #eridan ampora #karkat vantas #erikar #i am normal about them they mean a regular amount to me #the bride and the ugly ass groom

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gerry enthusiasts, how are we feeling

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #gerry keay #tmagp fanart #tmagp spoilers #he'd be the kind of guy to name his sourdough starter i think :)

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feeling extremely normal about 'chester' and 'norris', as you can see

#the magnus protocol #tmp #magnus protocol #tmp fanart #the magnus archives #tma #magnus archives fanart #if you notice a problem with the perspective or anything no you didn't #chester tmagp #norris tmagp #jonmartin

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gerry!! featuring dill flowers for protection against evil, gladiolus for victory, butterfly weed for letting someone go, and rosemary for remembrance

this was such a fun style study! i especially loved drawing the smoke, all those swirly interconnected filaments

#tma #the magnus archives #magnus archives #gerry keay #gerard keay #art noveau #prying open tumblr's mouth like a cat that got a plastic bag so it'll stop eating my image quality

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rotating this au in my mind again, thinking so very much about predeterminism and being doomed by the narrative and that one richard siken quote that ends with "there is no other version of this story"

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #the psiioniic #karkat vantas #sollux captor #solkat #the helmsman #bones #body horror #really just implied helm-typical body horror but tagging in case it's on anyone's blacklist. stay safe out there #o superman #zombie au #zombiestuck

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and i turned round and there you go, and turn the white snow red as strawberries in the summertime

#tma #magnus archives #the magnus archives #michael shelley #michael distortion #the distortion #the spiral #white winter hymnal #tma fanart #don't worry guys the red has more positive than negative meanings. it's color theory #implied blood

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he's safe guys, don't worry

(beloved gf @steph-is-asleep kept sending me baby karkats in imminent danger and i couldn't just sit there and watch!! had to be rescued)

50 notes and i do it

#grub karkat in strange places #homestuck #karkat #karkat vantas #didn't want to spam op with reblogs of each individual babykat so here they all are together #like a litter of kittens found in a cardboard box in the rain

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in no way shape or form is this an original thought *but* in planning my next writing project i'm thinking so much about how michael shelley and gerry keay, my beloved narrative tools, show the power of putting a face to something

like do we love them and hate gertrude robinson because fandom (in general) loves a Sad Pretty Boy and hates women? maybe! probably! i'm not trying to discount that. but also, michael and gerry are people with thoughts and goals and the ability to suffer, and Oh Boy Do They. we can latch onto and identify with them, we can think about their place in the world and the lives they could've had, if only— . meanwhile the whole idea of a cosmic horror is that it's beyond comprehension, we can barely conceptualize the damage that even one Fear could do at its full power, let alone all fourteen of them.

(and even though we do see what happens when all of them run rampant, it's still in smaller more digestible vignettes, often through the eyes of a statement giver or through the Eyes of jon himself)

so on paper, sacrificing one Sad Pretty Boy to save the whole world from The Horrors sounds like a great deal, and gertrude robinson is absolutely right to do it. but the threats she's saving the world from are inherently faceless, and so is 'the world' as an idea— we care about them in an intellectual, conceptual way, but the way we care about people with faces is so much more visceral and primal than that. the brain vs. the heart. like how it's easy to grow numb after a long description of wartorn fields and cities, until you read about the ash-covered doll left behind by a child or the scrawny dog scavenging a burned-out deli market. you know?

#writing thoughts #tma #magnus archives #michael shelley #gerry keay #this isn't super polished but it *was* rattling around my brain like a fly against a windowpane demanding to be let out

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briefly emerging from my state of hibernation to offer you this

#across the spiderverse #the spot #spot spiderverse #autism creature #those are his top surgery scars i can't not draw them

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“You love him, you do, and here’s the miracle: he loves you too. You are allowed to lick off the colour from his lips to listen to the hymns in his pulse to bask in the sunlight of his voice You are allowed to have him. You love each other, you do, and here’s the tragedy: it’s not enough. You are allowed to watch the sun swallow him whole and burn him up to stain your fingers to the bone holding him together to count the constellations in his eyes as they blink out You are not allowed to save him.”

— you can love him, but you can’t keep him ( j.p. )

#devastating! thanks :) #signpsi #the signless #the psiioniic #i know i'm physically incapable of not turning everything into a homestuck or tma reference (or both) but you see it right #it's them #words #poetry

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new fic!! if you've ever listened to mag54: Still Life and thought "i wish this had a meet-cute in it," you're my exact target audience with this one :)

DIRKJAKE 💥BIG BANG💥 RELEASE! “like real people do” Written By: acousticeel ao3, @acoustic-eel  Illustrated By: @angeldriod Intro tags: Strangers to Lovers, TMA, Fluff and Angst, Coffee Shop AU Adjacent, Taxidermy https://archiveofourown.org/works/45711073/chapters/115032874

#dirkjake #dirkjakeweek23 #dirkjakeweek #homestuck #djbb23 #homestuck fanart #the magnus archives #tma fanart #tma #might start posting more of my writing here who knows

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i can feel a hyperfixation on this AU brewing like an oncoming storm and. what if i wrote a fic, or even a series

zombie au!

(they are holding hands offscreen)

#homestuck #zombiestuck #signpsi #signpsii #the signless #the psiioniic #also yes i have been watching the last of us but correlation ≠ causation

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what if the supplementals at the end of statements are the closest thing jon has ever had to a journal? bc the Web and the Eye are semi-constant forces in his life even before he's aware of their influence, which could manifest as that fear of "anything i write down is a paper trail that could be read and used against me"— the idea that nothing is ever private, and the drive to keep control of your own secrets (by leaving no evidence) so they don't end up under someone else's control, or being used to control you. but the tapes are intended to be listened to, he knows there's an audience for anything he might say, and while that doesn't keep him any safer, i think he'd rather know he's being perceived (even by some anonymous listener in the far future) than be in the dark about it

#tma headcanons #jon sims #the eye #the web #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #jon is the type of person to have a password on his notes app that's a full paragraph with capitalization and special characters #and then when you open it it's just like 'grocery list: bread eggs toothpaste'

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dirk strider is for the autistic transmascs with eldest 'daughter' trauma

#not to gatekeep or anything but #homestuck #dirk strider

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regency era british eridan is out, mesopotamian eridan is in

Eridan will say shit like "😔 I was born in the wrong generation" but he means mesopotamia

#homestuck #eridan ampora #eridan #homestuck eridan #homestuck fanart #rip eridan you would've loved the code of hammurabi