#June 30th 2023

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was walking around my hometown at night with my cat in my arms. Someone handed me a Pokeball to put her in so I could use my hands again but when I did it, the person challenged me to a Pokemon battle.

#dream #text #June 30th 2023 #walking #hometown #cat #pet #animal #pokeball #pokemon #pokemon battle

[angelunderheaven]

Lord, make all my dreams come true, I can't make 'em my reality, I just can't. Please understand. I need your help, I need somebodys help, but there's no one around who'd care enough.

#just girly things #just girly thoughts #just girly posts #girly problems #dear diary #dear lord #girlblogging #female hysteria #dreams #childhood dreams #sad girl #pretty when you cry #whisper girl #whisper #lana del rey #ultraviolence #loneliest #abandoned #abandoment issues #girl interrupted #my post #june 30th 2023

[elkian]

So here’s a fun one.

There’s been posts on my dash over the years about how JRRT wouldn’t focus much on the “epic battles” in the Middle Earth books, because he’d survived those battles and they were awful and he didn’t want to give anyone the idea that he was glorifying them, supporting them. There’s been posts about how an accurate Hobbit movie, I think? would be a musical with Bilbo taking a post-picnic nap in the foreground, while a pitched battle is happening in the far back, too blurry to make out.

You know where this same phenomenon occurs?

Homestuck.

In the Author Commentary, Hussie even comments on the overall lack of large battles. We get John fighting Ogres in the first few Acts, we get [S] Make Her Pay, and so on. But our only glimpse of the Trolls’ Black King final battle is a narration over memory snapshots by Aradia, long after the fact.

The thing is that from the very first moment the readers encounter any troll, the story is long beyond that battle. The trolls winning is a foregone conclusion, even if that isn’t immediately obvious because the narrative is being built over time. Karkat - then only known as CG - even mentions having beaten their “NASTY 12X PROTOTYPED GIANT BLACK KING” in nearly a throwaway line as he exposits about the Reckoning, an event more immediately relevant to John.

The Black King fight is an important event - the trolls had to beat him to “win” Sgrub, to reach their reward (so close...). It really isn’t the kind of event that can just be handwaved... but it can be glossed over. Because they can’t have reached this point without doing it or breaking rules we didn’t even known needed to be broken yet, it’s just a past event for them.

An incredible team made a full animation for [S] Duodecim Rex Angelus that’s worth watching, and Hussie even apparently approved it as a viable depiction of canon events. So why did Hussie skip over this giant battle? Because that is, at the core, not what Homestuck in specific is about.

Homestuck is about a lot of things. God, it is about so many things all at once, and I will never fully plumb its depths, and that’s okay. I’ve been a pretty casual reader from the getgo and most all of my theorycrafting has been pretty base, and that’s okay, too, because there’s no wrong or right way to experience Homestuck imo. But my point here is: Homestuck is very often a story about stories. Meta is built into its narrative in a way I don’t see in much else. So when a storytelling decision or direction happens in it, it’s probably for a reason.

Fights in Homestuck have to have an explicit narrative meaning. John fighting the Ogres is a display of a lot of things: John’s new skill level, the abilities (and limitations) of the characters helping him, the inherent danger of this new world and the knowledge that things are only going to get tougher as it goes. Aradia beating Vriska bloody was a testament of Aradia’s renewed capacity for emotion, and also sets up some extremely important story beats down the line. The finale is the Finale, though truth be told I wouldn’t have put it past Hussie to PSYCHE us all out of that just to mess with us.

Anyways, no particular conclusion here, I just think it’s a really interesting trend.

#elk text #30th #June #2023 #June 30th 2023 #and we know HS deliberately references LOTR... #hs meta

[blueandyellowdiamond]

#Summer is Here #Sunshine #Selfie #Mirror view #June 30th 2023 #Pink

[irecordmywordle]

741

4/6

straw

#past wordles #june 30th 2023

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

okay to preface i am Very Excited for the movie and it looks really good so far, but i have to admit i’m not entirely sure i like the way they’re characterizing ballister? i appreciate how they seem to be tapping into a softer, more vulnerable side of him (showing him out of his armor, giving him a run-down lab, adding huge eyes to his design, etc), but tbh it seems to be just a tiny bit much? like he looks terrified in so many of the images we’ve seen so far, but the guy is quite literally a professional supervillian. and a knight. he knows his way around a battlefield, he wouldn’t be terrified by swords or a bit of fire. i’m just hoping they won’t babygirlify him too much you know?

(that being said i’m definitely still excited to see what they do with him! despite my qualms this is going to be a good movie y’all)

#nimona #nimona netflix #nimona 2023 #nd stevenson #ballister blackheart #i have no idea what tags y’all use but anyway yeah #don’t get me wrong i absolutely cannot wait for june 30th #but at the same time i do have. some worries #i’ll shove the rest of my qualms into a box and lock it for the time being tho bc i do want to enjoy the excitement! #my words #edit i made this post before realizing the trailer had come out #point still stands but for context i didn’t know they’d changed the plot to make him a framed villain instead of a professional one #edit 2 HA proved myself wrong. his characterization is fantastic and i love it #stop liking this 😭

[marijuanaragdoll]

Can’t believe Dr. Who named an episode after the best The Amazing Devil song.

#wild blue yonder #the amazing devil #dr. who #dr who #tad #dw #can’t believe dr. who named an episode after my number 1 song of 2023 #a song I’ve listened to 85 times between June 8th and November 30th

[mccoys-killer-queen]

Styx obsession, day -38: I'm gonna see Styx at the M3 festival in May! I think it'll be fun :)

Styx obsession, day 176: I've never been to Canada before but I just met Lawrence Gowan in an alley in Ottawa in the middle of the night and I know what underwear he was wearing and also when and where he bought said underwear

#this is literally my 2023 in a nutshell and i cannot stress this enough #december 30th 2022 i bought the m3 tickets and knew i was going to see styx but only knew like 6-7 songs MAX and didn't know anyone's names #except tommy's #and maybe dennis #5 days shy of a year later i can say i met larry in an alley in ottawa in the middle of the night and i knew what underwear he was wearing #while i was waiting in the alley behind the venue i was sitting there on bitchasscold concrete #looking at the lights on the balconies of the apartments across the tiny back street in front of me #and laughing at myself saying out loud ''what the fuck am i doing here ???'' #bc it was just so ridiculous to me how fast this shit happened #six months prior i didn't even know larry's name and had never been out of the country before #and there i was sitting there in the middle of fucking ottawa in the middle of the night in the fucking BITTER cold for Some Canadian Guy #btw yes it was exactly 176 days between the day my styx obsession started (june 7th) and the day i met larry (nov 29th at exactly midnight)

[iconicranboo]

RANBOO: *gets jumpscared* gotcha! you— whoooSIPYA PAYA YIPAPHHAHF

#ranboo #ranboo clips #iconicranboo #daily ranboo clips #icrb 2023 #icrb 2023: june #icrb: june 30th #icrb: fnaf

[electricea]

pride posts!

i thought of what i wanted to post this year for pride without just retreading on old ground and given that a year has passed, i thought it'd be fun to spotlight a few new m/m relationships that have come about since last year! so firstly, i'd like to spotlight @thenihilistofthevoid's Saburo - i admire how they're always in a plotting mood and you really get the sense that they're excited and engage in plotting - as a mun, you can't ask for much more than that and the times we do sit down and brainstorm, it's always amazing - plus it's always great seeing the tight bond these two have and how they'll defend each other to the bitter end!

#also i know june ends on the 30th #but i thought it'd be fun to just add a new day onto each new pride post #thenihilistofthevoid #( pride month 2023. )

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There was a holiday named Yzma Day where everyone had to dress up like Yzma.

#dream #text #June 30th 2023 #yzma #emperor's new groove

[femslash-friday-prompts]

[ID: High angle view of three diagonal rows of neatly stacked shiny gold bars. Two additional bars sit on top of the rows on the left side, angled across two rows. The bars have writing at the top saying: Fine Gold and another line not possible to read. At the bottom of the bars it also says: NET WT 1000g /END ID]

Prompt for - Friday 30th June 2023

This week’s Femslash Friday word prompt is: saving

#femslash friday #femslashfriday #femslash friday prompts #femslash prompts #wlw prompts #2023 prompts #2023 prompts: june #sorry for being late with the pic again #prompt: 30th june 2023

[blueandyellowdiamond]

=> Open Summer Weekend na Moteli Kamenec, Zemplínska Šírava

#Zemplinska Sirava #Motel Kamenec #DJs #Open summer party #Fresh Air #Dance #Music #June 30th 2023

[rabbitcruiser]

Jurassic Park was released on June 11, 1993 in the United States.

#Jurassic Park #released #11 June 1993 #30th anniversary #US history #travel #Albufeira #Vale dos Dinossauros #T-Rex #Tyrannosaurus rex #Centrosaurus #Portugal #original photography #Allosaurus #Pterodactylus #Troodon #LUGA #spring 2023 #summer 2021 #Southern Europe #free admission #vacation #tourist attraction #landmark #film #movie #Switzerland

[lancecharleson]

So you’re telling me it’s Pride Month AND Jurassic June?

Happy (and safe) Pride Month and Happy 30th Anniversary to one of Steven Spielberg’s greatest achievements 65 million years in the making!

#Pride Month 2023 #Jurassic June #Jurassic Park #30th Anniversary #Oh My God #These Dinosaurs are gay AND trans??? #Good for them... Good for them. #Life uh finds a way #Legendary #Film #Steven Spielberg #Amblin Entertainment #Universal Pictures

[summerskiesandmidnightsighs]

Hey so like I love you and I miss you already even though I saw you today and I know you're not going away forever and I know I'll see you soon but you're still going to be far away and what if it's not the same? What if it changes? What if we're not the same? What if we can't get it back?

And I understand why you're leaving and I know the love is still there and I know it won't be for long but. I'm just staying here. I promise I'll still be here.

#midnight sighs #i promise im fine #im just having feels rn #parter is working out of town for the summer #he'll be back on weekends its not like it even a big deal #Written June 30th 2023 #im just a little afraid #poetry #my poetry