DIRKJAKE💥BIG BANG RELEASE!
"Bound in Ink and Iron"
Written By: @4lph4kidz Illustrated by: lieurarts on instagram
Intro tags: Fantasy, Curses, Magic Mirrors, Royalty, Secret Identity

DIRKJAKE💥BIG BANG RELEASE!
"Bound in Ink and Iron"
Written By: @4lph4kidz Illustrated by: lieurarts on instagram
Intro tags: Fantasy, Curses, Magic Mirrors, Royalty, Secret Identity
majorly sick of people just conflating jake's whole romance deal with just him being aro (disclaimer: i am aromantic.!!! & also bear w me here)
that's not the reason jake decided to avoid romance!!! she straight up was like "i am never going to be in a relationship ever again because apparently all i do is fuck then up" & that was INCLUDING platonic ones (see: jane!)
aromantic jake works fine as an interpretation but i'm so so so sick of it being a "jake said he doesn't want relationships = jake aromantic" instead of "jake said he doesn't want relationships = he thinks that he just is straight up Not Good Enough to even try, and catastrophizes really really bad"
like genuinely there's OTHER supporting evidence for jake's aromanticism that isn't ignoring the *actual point* of jake's relationship evasion. recall how she was like "hm might as well date dirk it seems like it's been leading up to that", which is a VERY AROMANTIC THING (and something i myself have done before!!!)
idk idk i just. jakes important to me and a lot of the times i see people interpreting her in ways. that i don't think are right but idk fucking webcomic
DIRKJAKE💥BIG BANG RELEASE!
“Temple of Dorks”
Written By: @/BabyKumaBear on twt, @/babykumab3ar on insta
Illustrated by: @/GilliansDead on insta and twt
Intro tags: Established Relationship, Action/Adventure, Indiana Jones References
i didnt have time to do the other prompts but its getting hot outside
(guy who only knows homestuck, learning about how christianity works) so god has splinters. like dirk
Tried finding a cool sweater for all of their colors! Some sweaters were more fortunate than others.
Hadnt drawn the beta kids yet :)
ok one last posting indulgence. i'm working on the next chapter of my fantasy AU fic and i think i want the people's input on this vital issue:
i'm not going to keep apologising for a mildly salty take but like... i have really bad anxiety issues and it got to the point where i stopped posting altogether because i was so afraid of and upset by the idea of being viewed negatively (and deterred by some actual negativity that was directed my way) but idk. i gave it some thought and i've realised i don't really care very much about being disliked by random strangers on the internet actually. legit criticism is one thing but i'm not going out of my way to be a dick or anything. and even if i piss literally everyone on this website off, i will still have the two irl friends that i have trapped in the discord server equivalent of the bathroom from saw and they (apparently willingly) will listen to my nonsense
Ngl dave and karkat are absolutely two of my favourite characters of all time but I cannot stress how aggressively disinterested I am in anything the fandom has to say about them any more
Like yeah these are fucking good characters but it’s taken as a given that they’re everyone’s most favorite special boys who can do no wrong and that’s how you get the incredibly fucking bland post canon davekat situation. I’m still mad about how people reacted to that. These guys were jerks once
Don't get the wrong idea here, i do actually like davekat? i do see it. its not vitally integral to the narrative the way that some people can make it out to be but i like both characters and how they bounce off each other and i think being together could be a good thing for them. The thing is its like a natural law that the minute a ship becomes the most popular in any given fandom (especially m/m pairings) it is doomed to be vaguely annoying and/or widely misunderstood. sorry.
may i ask what hsmtw is?
Homestuck Made This World - it’s a media criticism podcast. I do recommend it but note that its less about discussing the content of the story and more critical/academic in nature. a lot of time is spent contextualising of the comics creation which I think is worth knowing about the further we get away from that time period
Apologies. Literally I’m having a bad day at work and want something mild and inconsequential to grouse about. Don’t take it to heart