#of dirkjake this YEAR

[choctalksalot]

i’m getting really comfy drawing in notes again tbh

companion piece of slightly higher quality (watch out there be brains splattered there)

#choc draws #homestuck #hom3stuck #dirkjake #i’m gonna use the hom3styck tag to look back on my 2023 art next year <3 #anyway #dirk strider #jake english #doodle #comic #cw guns #i actually don’t like how this one turned out at all i might remake it once i get procreate back hmmm #shrug! hits post

[bloobydabloob]

Happy Valentine’s Day people, I hope you’re having a great time with your partner (if you have one). My requests are also open, if you want a doodle for Valentine’s Day then hit me up.

Plus plus thank you very much for 100 followers, I appreciate it a lot. I have absolutely zero idea for what movie they’re watching… I vote Chappie because I like it.

#homestuck #dirk strider #homestuck fanart #dirkjake #jake english #hs fanart #Happy Valentine’s Day! #tumblr has been wonderful so far #I appreciate all of your love. Very kind #love is in the aiiirrrr #Shoutout to my boyfriend #he has been missing for a year. Come back to us brother #blooby posting

[zan0tix]

Hi tumblr user Zan0tix, I have to say that I love that you draw Jake as big and hairy AND fem. It's such a rare combination outside of mean-spirited caricatures, every time I see your Jake I get a big smile on my face. :)

Hi tumblr user HermitCyclop ^u^ here is a jake drawing for you 🫶

The transmisogynistic demonisation of these features is so maddening!!! I agree! Im glad that the intent (appreciating these features) of my jake design reaches you c:

GOING TO PUT IT UNDER THE CUT BECAUSE I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY. But jake english gender meta because i think about it Too Much and am taking this as an excuse to infodump abt it. 😁

The alpha kids and their specific defiance of both homestucks gendered narrative AND real life societal expectations are so fun to think about to me!! but since we are talking about jake, his specific defiance of both homestucks models of masculinity and femininity in the context of his queerness is like the reason he is my fav character.

He props himself up that he wants to be the adventure "hero" in the homestuck sense (the hardheaded blue femme fatale) and the western media sense (the hardheaded action man) yet whenever pressed to actually act on what he says he always refuses or obfuscates. Because really what he wants is to just be himself! I really love the alpha kids because they all just want to be Themselves, not be restricted and defined by what is expected of them, (all the characters have this but the alphas particularly really hammer this home for me)

The heavy emphasis on their beta selves, the heteronormative archetypes they embodied and what went wrong in their lives that manifest as fears in their alpha selves... im always thinking about it. How differently society affects queer ppls choices in life and then the fact that they all get a second chance and getting to watch them live out that second chance and realize their queerness and them all caring so much abt eachother and wanting to aspire to be better FOR the ones they love!!!!!! it always tugs at my heart strings to ponder😢😢

IM SO GOOD AT GOING ON TANGENTS MY BAD but basically. The alpha kids explicit queerness and how despite the comic itself protesting, they are all shown to be deserving of love (of all kinds) And as a person who super heavily relates to jake, his experience with his own identity (and dirks unending adoration and love for him and likewise jakes belief and admiration of dirk) serves to me as a reminder that yknow! We are all worthy of love!! Even if we dont think ourselves to be (this is just the message of shrek.) and there is always hope to be found in things improving!!!!

But in a text thats explicitly queer and not shy about letting its queer characters do wrong in realistic ways i think this message is incredibly powerful and certainly one of the best things about the comic in my eyes. And i love embracing that in my art of the characters! Drawing queer (but here specifically trans) characters all getting to be proud of themselves and their appearances makes me feel proud of myself alongside them and I think its wonderful to be able appreciate other trans peoples experiences and looks through it too!!

I specifically in homestuck fandom dont really see anybody but twinks (usually dirk or eridan LMFAO) portrayed to be fem in any manner 😢 when jake is the most explicitly feminine man in the comic. (I think the transmisogyny thats kind of rampant in this fandom means people dont want to consider those outside conventional attractiveness being feminine or transfem identities outside binary transwomen if even that😭😭) I am being the change i wana see in the world 🙏 The amount of transfem fat gay bear jake in the world increases by one every time i post

#hermitcyclop #daniel talks #my art #jake english #DONT LET ME TALK ABOUT JAKE ENGLISH I WILL NOT STOP. I COULD KPEP GOING BUT ITS MIDNIGHT AND I NEED SLEEP. #But thank you for the ask hermitcyclop you are the most dedicated dirkjaker mad respect 🫶 years in the game and still around.. you are cray

[offkilterkeys]

He’s like if we let men understand human emotion.

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #homestuck meme #dirk strider #dave strider #jake english #? #dirkjake #post breakup though SAD #lil hal #as implied by the red text #second meme is like over a year old haha #edited to have the lil cal one cause I wanna keep them together #lil cal #Strider-centric memes…

[relaxxattack]

#i need to know #this is a question i have gone back and forth on for years #homestuck #dirkjake #op

[dirk-strider-and-splinters-daily]

DAY 99

#homestuck #dirk splinters daily #dirk strider #jake english #dirkjake #happy new years gay people

[soriastrider]

dirkjake, star trek tng edition (day 3: retro/decades)

#google said stuff from between 20 and 40 years ago counts as 'retro' so i went with it lol #dirkjake #dirkjakeweek24 #dirk strider #jake english #homestuck #my art #bg is just yoinked from the tng enterprise bridge #oops tiny edit. i always see these things right after i post them asdjfdk

[exaltior-a]

dirkjake if they were parents is like. idk if they'd be /bad/ parents but theyd def have some WEIRD ass shit going on. every family board game would be unnecessarily intense. family fishing trips seem normal until you realise they're either grabbing the fish with their bare hands or stabbing them with swords. that kid would have the worst accent ever ever. can you imagine if one parent spoke with the most ridiculous dated vocab while throwing in normal modern speak and then the other spoke in perfect sentances and grammar but in 2010s coolguy diction.

#dirkjake #homestuck #jake english #dirk strider #theyre so fucking silly. #i just think there would be a lot of nonsense #and they might be bad parents depending on how well adjusted you make them #like if they havent really worked out their issues then theyre garbage parents but if theyre figuring things out theyd be okay parents #and if theyre in therapy for 100 years theyre good parents /lh

[oleandysprites]

derspit lovers, i have a soft spot for this piece since i put so much work into their outfits

dreamers inspired by @rumminov's works

parts - oleandy, deepseaspriteblog, mudkiplox, and a friend (for jake's scars)

separates under the read more

#hs #homestuck #jake #jake english #dirk #dirk strider #dirkjake #hs sprites #homestuck sprites #spritework #oleandy sprites #deepsea's like base shirts and pants and i think the dreamer moon too (and shoes) #and then i just went insane #these took SO long and i remember showing them off in a djbb server from previous years but the public should see these too #skaia sprites #i forgor my own tag

[gooseh0nk]

had a dream last night that i was at a katy perry concert in 2012 and she was opening her next song like taylor swift has been doing at her concerts where she brings up some obscure event in her life then starts singing but instead of singing after she introduced it she goes “but i want to dedicate this to homestuck!!!” and the crowd went wild then she says “THIS IS FOR YOU DIRK STRIDER AND JAKE ENGLISH” and started singing the one that got away

#it felt so real and i was also freaking out in my dream #im losing my mind ive been thinking about this for hours #i havent even heard that song in years #homestuck #katy perry #dream #dirkjake #jakedirk #jake english #dirk strider #the one that got away #goose.txt #gooseh0nk

[cryptar]

yknow i say im a huge multishipper but i wouldnt actually consider myself much of a shipper at all. just open to the idea of trying everything once. the term has typically romantic connotations and follows the assumption that i think, and want, these characters to be good for eachother.

I'm, personally, less interested in the prexisting chemistry than i am in the puzzle of figuring out what differing circumstances could potentially cause two characters who have seemingly nothing in common to become eachothers everything.

This could explain my favorism towards rarepairs and more convoluted dynamics, and my aversion to popular, fluffy pairings that have already been explored a thousand times over, there's no work for me to do there.

Not to mention that when a ship becomes too popular it starts cannibalising itself, and lots of good, interesting characterisations are lost in the sea of people bending characters into pre-orchestrated, saccharine dynamics. alot of which are usually downright fetishy in nature, particularly in mlm pairings.

I mean i would say being able to get ooc and self indulgent is downright mandatory for making a good fic, but there's only so many times i have to read a fic about a big, overprotective, manly-man top who does all the work and the shy, small, swoony, softhearted femme-wifey-bottom before it starts to just be lazy.

I actively have to go out of my way to search 'switch' tags if i want true-to-the-character, mutual emotional reciprocation. which i really, really shouldn't have to do as an ace person who actively skips through nsfw.

And it's not that popular wlw pairings aren't guilty of these problems aswell, but those tend to lean more into the 'soft lesbians who can do no wrong' stereotype, which always completely (butch)ers all nuisance that makes the ship worth shipping in the first place.

As well as that's if they're even the focus of the story at all and aren't just shoved to the side by the main mlm couple. mlw pairings can be culpable of both these things, with the added risk that you find out the author made a twitter post with the characters in front of the 'super straight' flag.

Though i also wonder if me being aspec plays any part as again; im not as interested in the romantic aspects as i am in the possible hurdles they may face throughout the potential relationship.

Anyone else feel like this?

#though its not that i hate popular ships. #ill read anything if i find it interesting #cryptic ramblings #ship discourse (but not really) #fandom critical #fandom crit #fandom #this is about fandom and shipping culture in general but some places i see this in are #homestuck #genshin impact #zhongchi #davekat #dirkjake #ittogorou #kavetham #< these are ships i actually quite like. im just not too fond of the fanon characterizations of #dirkjake has gotten far better over the years though #if you have any more leave them in the tags #yknow for someone who hates discourse i sure do talk about it alot #in my defense it's the people who get really pressed over their pairings #and become aggressive at differing opinions that I don't like #oh and #neuvifuri #kazuscara #longpost #xiaoven #thomato #kaebedo #chiscara

[mint-flavoredd]

♣️♥️Flash your Cards rom-com movie cover + doodles!! definitely give it a read!!!♦️♠️

#homestuck #dave strider #karkat vantas #davekat #dirkjake #dirk strider #jake english #Flash your cards #homestuck au #Cops and robbers #It’s iconic and the moment #Dave and Dirk are art thieves who have brother stuff they need to deal wirh #Karkat is an FBI agent who’s been stuck on their case for years #Jake is the rookie who is totally showing up Karkat on the case and he’s pissed about it #Dave tries to be more apart of the ‘family business’ by making a fake phone sex business to get closer to the man who’s on their case #It’s amazing #I headcanon the main song for the rom-com to be “I think I love you” by the Partridge Family

[poh4k03e]

My DirkJake BigBang illustration, ft. BabyKumaBear's fic, ZombRomCom!!

This is my first time doing something so big (as in the whole drawing and this fandom interaction with the big bang) so im really proud of it not ot mention i had lots of fun. Kuma is a great writer and i hope you guys get to read Kuma's fic! honor workin with u pal.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45733066  make sure to read it here!!

Note1: i wont stop complaining about the godamn tincan in the front and jake's gun holsters that took me an eternity to sketch and do the lineart. WHY?¿?¿?¿' Note: i think the colors saturated AGAIN but oh well

BONUS:

extra sketch i was gonna leave in the corner but was too tireed to finish so here u go. oh boy!!! :D

@dirkjakeweekly

#hs #homestuck #dirkjake #dirk strider #jake english #jade harley #she's like. 10 years old here #or 8 #who knows #ZombRomCom #babykumabear #dirkjakebigbang2023 #dirkjakebigbang #dirkjakeweek23 #dirkjakeweek #pumpkin patch #alpha kids #beta kids #zombies #zombiestuck #pokis art cove #poki's art cove

[eure-k-a]

HAPPY NEW YEAR DAWGS

#homestuck #homestuck fanart #hs art #hs fanart #dirk strider #jake english #dirkjake #hom3stuck #happy new year #new years #new years eve

[blinxbat]

I spent way too much time on this

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#this is how he found out he was bi #genuinely went into a fugue state while making this #i don't know what came over me #homestuck #jake english #dirk strider #jakedirk #dirkjake #jake x dirk #dirk x jake #edit #I was going to change the time and date to all 11's but that seemed too on the nose so I just did the year

[4lph4kidz]

Hey! Do you want to read about Jake and Dirk having a terrible time exploring a dungeon in their godawful broken Void session? Do you want to see their relationship break down in real time? Do you want to see the context behind this art by my wonderful friend @mildlycuriousdragon ?

I don't know how you're supposed to promo a fic okay! Just please consider reading the thing I wrote!

#jake english #dirk strider #dirkjake #homestuck #homestuck fanfic #zero post #zero writes #ok. i am going to crawl into a hole now! #jokes aside this is my first time writing in this style so. feedback is appreciated. lol #btw please don't bother my friend they aren't a homestuck. they are unsullied #also also it's been a tough few. months. years. and i'm really grateful for the kindness people in this fanbase have shown me #glad i've been able to get back into making more substantial fan works again. i was burned out for a long while #part 2 coming... when it comes!