this is an unapologetically self-indulgent johndavekat AU I’ve been developing with @auxanges, where dave and karkat are competing to become the knight to a certain heir to the throne. who will win john’s heart? dave?? karkat??? both???? (the answer is both)
@auxanges is writing a fic based on the concept so there will probably be more content related to this cheesy as fuck AU soon
Love it when a fic author is like “so if my other fic was vanilla, this fic is 110% (complex mixture of ice cream flavors and toppings)” and you look at the tags and shake your head slowly like “oh, my sweet summer child.”
Once you discover Homestuck xeno kink there’s no going back.
When you calibrate your ‘vanilla’ to ‘hermaphroditic bug-alien tentacle-wangs’ it throws off the whole scale wrt kink in other fandoms.
sometimes you remember ‘vanilla’ actually has stricter parameters than ‘no one actually dies for real during the actual sex act itself’ and get sort of confused about what other people are doing with their friday nights
on a totally unrelated personal homestuck classpect note that no one but me will be interested in
if i played sburb i think i’d be a doom player
either seer or mage
for:
– rules
– restrictions
– systems
– systematically doing things
– what has to happen/what will happen
– weird brain shit
how blindfolds and restriction of vision are associated with helplessness and captivity but represent reclaimed agency and identity for terezi…
how dare you induce homestuck related emotions into my cold flesh prison in November 2016. how dare you
Don’t they represent blind justice? As in she should make the work of justice despite if there are feelings or familiarity with the person being judged? Didn’t she go blindfolded again when she decided to kill Gamzee, regardless of her personal conflictive feelings about him, to do parcial and detached, pure justice?
things can mean more than one thing at the same time
yes the blindfold was yet another notch for terezis already pretty heavy handed lady justice incarnate parallels.
her disability was a huge part of her identity. terezi becoming seeing again stripped her of a very essential part of herself. when she dons the blindfold and goes after gamzee its a reclamation of who she was before her abuse and downward spiral as well as a hit back against her abuser. the blind justice schtick was part of her identity and sense of self as well so. layers.
also, note that the symbol of justice is a woman with sword, scales, and blindfold — not a blinded woman. it indicates a choice to do justice without prejudice, not a lack of a choice. terezi choosing to reclaim her disability foreshadows her choice to devise the retcon and to use her mind powers (which literally focus on seeing choice!) to create a more just timeline, therefore furthering the blind justice symbolism, her abuse recovery, her personal development, and the upcoming plot.
So one of the Gr8 Frivolous Mysteries of Homestuck, in my experience, has been “How are Dragons Connected to Mind?”, and I think I might have an answer. I’m actually kind of surprised I’ve never seen it suggested before as I’m hardly the first, or even the hundred and first, HS fan to read the DIscworld books.
Anyway, I just finished reading Guards! Guards!(I don’t have much to do out here so I brought a load of books, and I figured I’d get the Vimes stories out of the way), and here is what Terry Pratchett, through the dramatis personae of Tubal de Malachite, had to say about Dragons:
Yette draggons are notte liken unicornes, I willen. They dwelleth in some Realm defined bye thee Fancie of the Wille and, thus, it myte bee thate whomsoever calleth upon them, and giveth them theyre patheway upon thys worlde, calleth theyre Owne dragon of the Mind…
and then there’s a bit about how they may yet be a force for good, given a Summoner of decency, though given that Noble Dragons in that book are an allegory for tyrants and unbound passions, one can draw their own conclusions on the possibility of this.
Like Vimes does :] His response to reading this:
A realm of fancy, Vimes thought. That’s where they went, then. Into our imaginations. And when we call them back we shape them, like squeezing dough into pastry shapes. Only you don’t get gingerbread men, you get what you are. Your own darkness given shape…
And of course, in the book, they lie sleeping in a pocket of L-Space, Library-Space, the distorted and fantastical reality brought into being by the mere existence and agglomeration of Books; quite Literally, a Space of Imagination :] :]
So this isn’t Homestuck itself saying this, obviously, it’s Discworld. But, Homestuck’s a pretty referential work and Jack Noir and his band of miscreant civil servants(one fat, one small, one supernaturally competent) bear certain similarities to the original crew of the Night’s Watch as we meet them(and, being the Guardians of Derse, are themselves a sort of Night’s Watch, in a sense). But but, I don’t know if Hussie ever read the Discworld books and I’ve never seen any obvious evidence from his work that he did so I don’t think you can say, definitively, that he took this idea of Dragons and the Mind from Pratchett and ran with it as an incredibly subtle, plot-insignificant nod to a series of fantasy-satire-but-no-seriously-sincere-fantasy books.
But but but I do think that’s an interesting idea to run with, and one that might occur to anybody, naturally, thinking about Dragons. To make an exceedingly broad and over-confident claim,
Dragons are the Quintessential Unknown-Populating Monster of the “Western Canon” and have been for centuries. Whenever Europe’s looked at someplace it didn’t know and wracked its imagination to fill it with something, giant fire-breathing(or toxin-spewing, or petrifying, or death-gazing) serpents(or birds) have been near the top of the list. In a very real sense it can be said that the natural habitat of Dragons, is the Mind.
just moving along like everyone else 