As I was writing this it very rapidly became an in-depth examination of the Mage Class(hence the delay, anon) Since I feel like that subject deserves it’s own post, and that hijacking this ask with such a lengthy tangent would be a bit unfair to Sir/Madam Greyorb Sunshades up there, I put all that stuff into its own draft, to be worked through later, and tried to keep general Class arguments summarized below 🙂
Hibernatingsunflower asked if I’d put down my thoughts on the Heart Aspect and, specifically, what a Sylph of Heart might possibly be like, so here we go 🙂
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The noble gases make a group of chemical elements with similar properties: under standard conditions, they are all odorless, colorless, monatomic gases with very low chemical reactivity. The six noble gases that occur naturally are helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), and the radioactive radon (Rn).
Comic idea I’ve had for a while. The alpha kids just dont seem as close as the beta kids.
(you guys all remember the lamps at the bottom? i feel like the fandom doesnt bring them up much)
karkat and sollux were basically best fucking friends with huge messy humiliating crushes on each other and i feel like somehow not enough people ever really got around to exploring the potential there even though it was one of the earliest and most obvious ships amongst the trolls
like. karkat, who already can’t separate his feelings for others into quadrants, is simultaneously envious of, worried about, and comfortable with sollux. he wants his friend to take better care of himself and wishes he would move closer so they could see each other more, but is also petty and rude and insulting in that way teenage boys so often are. he’s bitter that sollux is better at coding than he is, but also admires him for this fact, but also resents that such skill is wasted on a hot mess like sollux, but also wants the best for his good pal. meanwhile sollux teases the hell out of karkat because (1) he’s an insecure asshole to basically everyone and (2) he wants to push karkat to be better, which sollux knows he can be.
they know each other well enough that they are able to be at least kind of open with their genuine feelings, even if in a fairly roundabout way mixed with dark humor and deprecation of both themselves and one another. they’re basically always black flirting – sometimes as a joke, sometimes because they’re actually pissed at each other, and sometimes to cover the legitimate concern and affection they share. and no matter how vitriolic they get, they’re always reassured of their friendship because they’re just a couple of miserable, dorky 13-year-olds clinging to each other in the face of their uncertain but surely unpleasant fates at the hands of the harrowing world in which they live.
avengers infinity war is the same as homestuck game over. i dont know how. it just is
it’s because everyone just fucking died with no warning and when it’s all over and you see the death count and see these characters you thought were invincible and thought ‘well they can’t die they’re the main characters/our heros!’ but they did. and you’re left with just that. the high death count in characters you thought were invincible, and at the end when there’s no resolution or happy conclusion or anything on wrapping what just happened up you’re left speechless and wondering: what the fuck happens now.
So is that like… a fantasy Homestuck AU except people get better character development
Every generic fantasy HS au on the planet has some sort of fantasy Europe dueling Derse-Prospit kingdoms thing so let’s not do that. I was actually struggling to come up with a generic fantasy idea, but I just finished reading Beneath the Sugar Sky, so let’s do a Wayward Children thing! For those unfamiliar with that, the conceit is kids who wandered into another world Narnia-style and then ended up back on Earth, disoriented and confused.
This one actually stuck with me, so here are a few other thoughts.
I didn’t mention John. John went to a Nonsense world that was all fun and games until it wasn’t, and when he came back he did his best to forget. He’s always been good at that. He was happy to see his father. He slipped easily back in his life at home. Until one day one of those cracks opens up and he slips into a world that is definitely not made for him. That’s not surprising. More of these fractures are opening up. What’s surprising is that he makes it back, not too long after he fell through, and in one piece. He’s got a knack for it, it seems – for knowing where he came from and where he’s been; finding doorways, walking through them, and finding the way home again. So when kids keep disappearing, and they need to find the source of whatever’s breaking the walls between worlds, he gets dragged out of his denial to serve as their guide. As long as everyone’s with him, they can move between worlds without too much trouble.
Until he takes a turn even he wasn’t expecting, and they’re back in what they think is their world… until they get back to the home for wayward children and there are four other children with familiar faces living there. That’s when things start getting really complicated.
Some envision the structure of the worlds as a compass, or a set of axes. Either implies a center. There is a world at the center of all worlds, which inspires all the others. And one day, the most wayward of all children found her way there. Her name is Calliope, and she is telling herself a story.
Since I feel like that subject deserves it’s own post, and that hijacking this ask with such a lengthy tangent would be a bit unfair to Sir/Madam Greyorb Sunshades up there, I put all that stuff into its own draft, to be worked through later, and tried to keep general Class arguments summarized below 🙂
just moving along like everyone else 