#brain ghost dirk

[dirk-strider-and-splinters-daily]

DAY 6

#homestuck #dirk strider #dirk splinters daily #lil hal #brobot #ultimate dirk #bro strider #brain ghost dirk

[meoware]

Inspired by a conversation with a friend.

#myart.png #homestuck #roxy lalonde #jake english #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk

[shittyjakeenglish]

Day 173

postcanon/epilogues. oh hes? hes not okay is he??

#eyestrain #we had dirk angst yesterday its only fair to make jake suffer today #goddd postcanon jake makes me so sad #i very much see brain ghost dirk as more jake's idea of dirk than dirk himself #so i LOVE to draw him looking fucked up when jake is. mentally deteriorating #dirkjakeweek24 #jake english #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk #dirkjake #homestuck #day 173

[iongenesis]

Ult Jake and his two weed smoking brain ghosts

In my head ult Jake is like so hopeful it circles back into being delusional. He just simply wills shit to happen because of his crazy hope powers hence the two brain ghost dirks. If I did this on my iPad I prob woulda given him like a army of bg dirks. He would use them as puppets to do his bidding and what not evil villain shit~

#homestuck #jake english #ult Jake #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk #ultimate Jake English #dirkjake #< sorta #if ya squint #did this on magma so that’s why the lines look like I have had 7 coffees

[insufferable-homestuck]

i like to think he felt it

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #hom3stuck #homestuck doodles #3ds.comic #dirk strider #hs dirk #brain ghost dirk #jake english #hs jake

[clay-pidgeon]

im rly proud of this one.

#krill miscellaneous #my stuff #homestuck #caliborn #caliborn homestuck #calliope #calliope homestuck #jake english #aranea serket #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk #homestuck textposts

[poh4k03e]

biblically accurate page of hope

#brain ghost dirk #homestuck #page of hope #prince of heart #dirk strider #jake english #bgd #hs #godtier #HOPE FIELD BOOM #what i do with my time and 5 drops of motivation #poki's art cove #aranea serket #what have you done #game over homestuck #game over

[assholepants]

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why Dirk's splinters always end up being manipulative and abusive. Because, as another post on here mentioned, when you look at the actions of Dirk himself in homestuck proper, he's actually just a sweet kid who is very hard on himself and cares about his friends.

Everyone is well aware that one of Dirk's major character motifs is control. But pretty much all of the examples we see of Dirk, himself, being controlling, are all directed inwards, as he attempts to maintain a frankly unhealthy level of self control. There's lots of little examples but the most glaringly obvious one is his reaction to Calliope's juju lollipop. It's also evident in the way he insists on taking person responsibility for his splinters, despite having little to no influence over them, and in many cases, having never even met them.

So what happens, if you take a guy who maintains unhealthy levels of self control, and take away his sense of self?

Because all of Dirk's splinters are well aware that they are not the 'Original' so to speak. Even Bro, I think, is aware that he is not a protagonist in the narrative. It's pretty heavily implied across cannon that the guardians have a certain level of awareness of the game, to varying degrees, and that they are aware that their role is Guardian to the protagonists. The splinters know they're not the 'true' Dirk, and so a huge part of their identity exists outside of the realm of their control.

And I think that's where issues start to come in. The nature of the existence of these splinters forces them to build a sense of self that is defined by other people. And so their attempts at self control can never be fully internalised like Dirk's, and end up as manipulation and abuse of the people they have constructed their identity around.

Brain Ghost Dirk is fundamentally Made Of Jake. Jake is a core part of his sense of self, because he literally doesn't exist outside of Jake's mind. So in order to maintain self control, he manipulates Jake.

Lil hal manages to get involved in a lot of different things, but all of these actions boil down to manipulating Dirk's life. Because his entire sense of self is Dirk. So in order to maintain self control, he needs to control Dirk. I think Dirk was right in that hal was dangerous, but I think he was wrong to think that denying him a physical form would be safer. I think if hal had been allowed to have a physical body at an earlier stage, he could have begun developing his own identity, outside of Dirk, which would lessen his reliance on control over Dirk's life.

Bro is like. The reason I'm making this post basically because I can't stop thinking about it. Obviously Dave is the subject of Bro's control issues. Bro is aware he is not a protagonist in the narrative. His function is to Be Dave's Guardian, and so his sense of self is firmly rooted in Dave. But it's done in such a different way to how we see the other splinters behave. Dirk is a really fucking smart kid, and so his splinters generally tend to be pretty good at calculated manipulation. But Bro isn't particularly calculated as far as we can see. He's kind of a fucking mess. His abuse is far more physical and impulsive and far less wordy. He's controlling Dave, moulding him into the kind of protagonist Bro thinks he should be. But it's not elaborate and calculated. And THAT'S where Lil Cal, and by association, Caliborn come in.

There's obviously huge amount of debate and like 172784 different theories about how much influence Caliborn had over Bro, and how much responsibility he holds for Dave's abuse. Personally, I think Bro would have always ended up manipulating and abusing Dave in some way, in the same way that BGD manipulates Jake and Lil Hal manipulates Dirk. The underlying cause of Bro's abuse comes from the same control issues as the other splinters and I think it does a disservice to Dirk, as a character with flaws, to insist that Bro's abuse was 100% down to puppet manipulation. But I do think that Caliborn influenced the method. The random violence, the Saw style psychological horror, the impulsiveness, the obsession with sex and masculinity. All very Caliborn methods.

What I'm interested in is if Bro knew what Cal was. I think it's very easy, and completely plausible to say that he came across this puppet due to Paradox Space Is Just Like That, and fell under its influence without realising it. But if he's a Dirk splinter I just don't buy it. He doesn't allow himself to fall under the influence of Calliope's Juju, so why should his splinter fall under the influence of Caliborn's?

It sounds counterintuitive but stick with me, I think Bro allowed himself to be influenced by the puppet, because it gave him a sense of control. Being a guardian made him a side character. Side characters are often much less developed than the protagonists. In the case of homestuck, they don't even get to have a face. How do you form a coherent sense of self without any development from the narrative? He can channel that into controlling Dave, but at the end of the day that doesn't allow him any more agency than the other guardians. Bro knows he can't be a protagonist. But allowing himself to be influenced by the puppet places him in proximity to the main antagonist of the entire comic. And Caliborn influences EVERYTHING. He's woven through every part of the narrative, his existence sends ripples through every action we see.

Characters that are influenced by Caliborn tend to be integral to the shape of the narrative. Gamzee being an obvious example, but also those who communicate with Doc Scratch, like Vriska and Rose and even the reader themself. I just think it would be interesting if Bro knew what Lil Cal was, and allowed himself to be influenced by it anyway, in an attempt to gain even a little more control over the narrative, and by extension, himself.

#Welcome to my Bro Essay #homestuck #Bro strider #Dirk Strider #Lil hal #Brain Ghost Dirk #Homestuck meta #tw abuse #Also I know Cal isn't technically Caliborn's Juju but you know what I mean

[exaltior-a]

Jaketier Dirk hasn't left my mind since it was first conceived. Holy shit like dude... Oh my god. I feel like I'm not articulating how fucked up it is. Die and come back wrong but the wrongness is your boyfriends misconceptions about you. And you're permanently mentally linked to him. If he stops believing in you, you stop existing. The unbalanced dynamic. The codependency.

#homestuck #dirkjake #jake english #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk #jaketier #jaketier au #im literally so obsessed with it

[takendruid]

angst comic after the most recent events of Homestuck 2

Listen- I know that meat and candy were the same timeline before John made the decision to or not to kill Caliborn, however I don’t know the amount of time between him making that decision and when Dirk kills himself. I drew this literally before finding out that Jake and Dirk had like,, hooked up but let’s just pretend they hadn’t actually gone on a proper date at all or talked about how they felt. Also who knows how much Dirk would have influenced them actually going on a date because he sure as fucking hell already had control of the other people at that point before he died.

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #dirk strider #homestuck dirk #hs dirk #homestuck jake #jake english #hs jake #brain ghost dirk #dirkjake #Fuck homestuck 2 Jane Crocker #takendruid art

[soriastrider]

that one meme

original:

#dirkjake #dirk strider #jake english #brain ghost dirk #brain ghost dirk strider #homestuck #my art #dear god why are kisses so hard to draw lol #i even drew on top of the photo for part of this #which i dont normally do #and it was still painful #i just wanna draw them being cute why must it be so hard... #anyway #undergrad is finally over so i can draw again yay #there shall be more dirkjakes :3c

[bundleofstyx]

tada, fanart of @crazyexdirkfriend 's fic we were something !! it uh. it affected me. you should read it i think

versions without noise and without text under the cut :>

#excuse to spread my bgd looks a little fucked up propaganda #art #illustration #homestuck #hom3stuck #painting #digital art #digital painting #digital illustration #dirk strider #jake english #aranea serket #brain ghost dirk #hs #homestuck epilogues #hs^2 #hs2 #queer artist #trans artist #hey dont ask questions about the perspective :D you dont wanf to do that :D

[meoware]

When they're in the prison cell with evil Jane

#myart.png #homestuck #jake english #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk #dirkjake

[cringefail-clown]

Does this au change anything about brain ghost dirk?

bgd is here alright! since hes dirks splinter given "physical" form by jakes hope powers, hed still exist since im tb theyre still best friends and also still had some feelings for each other. hes mostly popping up to bother jake and giving him emotional crisis lmfao (since hes as much a manifestation of jakes own thoughts and feelings as he is dirks splinter, homeboy got some ammo to really drive the point across)

#homestuck #dirk strider #brain ghost dirk #jake english #turnabout au #homestuck turnabout #ive had a blast writing out this convo honest #starting to really enjoy writing in jakes voice idk if its bad or nah #hes just such a fun guy #also... considering the implication that mind players can probs see heart players splinters as seen with terezi #and hals a mind player in the au #weve got some potential for bgd and hal meetup fellas #food for thought

[lesbocrocker]

#jake english #brain ghost dirk #hal strider #aranea serket #jane crocker #homestuck

[dirk-strider-and-splinters-daily]

could you perhaps... do the dirk spliters in one of the saw traps.. i wanna see how theyd react to being stuck in one

DAY 90

#homestuck #dirk strider #bro strider #brobot #lil hal #brain ghost dirk #lil seb #dirk splinters daily #saw trap #i have never seen these movies but this felt about right. i like to think the guy on the other side of the bars is jake btw #the trap is called the shotgun carousel #also dirk would've 100% spent way too much time studying these traps in case he ever found himself in the situation