Hi Friend

Episode 6 is finally done

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:07:14 -0500

Episode 6 is finally done

bored-and-confused: What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:47:53 -0500

What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my big summer blowout sale.

Commissions on the cheap because it’s summer!

I’ll draw….
Your OC
Your DND Character
Your favorite anime person
Pixel Art for your game/blog
A snail
JJ the Jet Plane staring wistfully at Thomas the Tank Engine
Furries
And much much more!

DM me with any inquiries/questions

There’s never been a more affordable time to make me draw something for you, so act now!

Just listen to these testimonials!-

“Gart’s drawings filled the void in my heart and helped me solve the meaning of life.”

“Every week my joints ache more than the last.”

“He drew my waifu and now I’m less lonely.”

“You can’t just make up testimonials like this Gart. It’s unethical.”

Those sure are some satisfied customers.

beejohnlocked: superblyboring: robotlyra: Me: watching What...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:03:29 -0500

beejohnlocked:

superblyboring:

robotlyra:

Me: *watching* What the hell is the point of th- OH MY GOD

I thought this caption was being over the top, but… they aren’t wrong

I was not prepared for any of this. But least of all, the fucking parachute.

gotsickofmyoldurl: chuckdrawsthings: the duality of cat for...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:27:13 -0500

gotsickofmyoldurl:

chuckdrawsthings:

the duality of cat

for those unaware of the recent meme development

the cat evidently changed her stance on banana

bored-and-confused: What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:27:41 -0500

bored-and-confused:

What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my big summer blowout sale.

Commissions on the cheap because it’s summer!

I’ll draw….
Your OC
Your DND Character
Your favorite anime person
Pixel Art for your game/blog
A snail
JJ the Jet Plane staring wistfully at Thomas the Tank Engine
Furries
And much much more!

DM me with any inquiries/questions

There’s never been a more affordable time to make me draw something for you, so act now!

Just listen to these testimonials!-

“Gart’s drawings filled the void in my heart and helped me solve the meaning of life.”

“Every week my joints ache more than the last.”

“He drew my waifu and now I’m less lonely.”

“You can’t just make up testimonials like this Gart. It’s unethical.”

Those sure are some satisfied customers.

What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my big summer blowout...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 05:50:50 -0500

What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my big summer blowout sale.

Commissions on the cheap because it’s summer!

I’ll draw….
Your OC
Your DND Character
Your favorite anime person
Pixel Art for your game/blog
A snail
JJ the Jet Plane staring wistfully at Thomas the Tank Engine
Furries
And much much more!

DM me with any inquiries/questions

There’s never been a more affordable time to make me draw something for you, so act now!

Just listen to these testimonials!-

“Gart’s drawings filled the void in my heart and helped me solve the meaning of life.”

“Every week my joints ache more than the last.”

“He drew my waifu and now I’m less lonely.”

“You can’t just make up testimonials like this Gart. It’s unethical.”

Those sure are some satisfied customers.

spectra-bear: My brother sent me the most blessed video of all...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 19:07:20 -0500

spectra-bear:

My brother sent me the most blessed video of all time

snarthurt: snarthurt: snarthurt: ok but seriously….. y’all can’t be… for real about thirsting over...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:09:07 -0500

snarthurt:

snarthurt:

snarthurt:

ok but seriously….. y’all can’t be… for real about thirsting over a fucking David Cage written character in twenty eighteen like have some self respect for fuck’s sake

if the room was released today there would be entire blogs dedicated to how sexy they thought the psychologist guy was

this guy

stop saying this is griffin mcelroy

ruinedchildhood:

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:22:57 -0500

ruinedchildhood:

lmaonade: suppermariobroth: There is a design parallel between...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:42:49 -0500

lmaonade:

suppermariobroth:

There is a design parallel between the Mario Bros. and the princesses traditionally paired up with them. The number of eyelashes on Princess Peach’s eyes - six - matches the number of curved segments in Mario’s mustache. Likewise, Princess Daisy has two eyelashes on each eye, which matches Luigi’s two-segment mustache. Whether this is a coincidence or a deliberate design choice is unknown.

i hate this blog for bringing this to my attention. i’m not going to be able to think about literally anything else ever again. i’m going to tell all of my friends about this every time mario is brought up at all. fuck you

oysternomicon: killer-queen-official: spoon-fresh: scareohead: slbtumblng:

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 13:38:14 -0500

oysternomicon:

killer-queen-official:

spoon-fresh:

scareohead:

slbtumblng:

Photo

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:39:18 -0500

its not a sexy outfit unless it has fingerless gloves

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:46:10 -0500

othernotebooksareavailable: theweirdwideweb: From the Wikipedia...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:06:45 -0500

othernotebooksareavailable:

theweirdwideweb:

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

A poem about loneliness

nextlevelwaterpanic: moby-grapes: so my friend is studying...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:06:11 -0500

nextlevelwaterpanic:

moby-grapes:

so my friend is studying abroad in germany this semester

Photo

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:27:07 -0500

cmder: jillsteinfuneralcity: heortewyrm: jillsteinfuneralcity: “people” with instagram ready...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:31:31 -0500

cmder:

jillsteinfuneralcity:

heortewyrm:

jillsteinfuneralcity:

“people” with instagram ready rooms arent human

what is this

people who decorate their living space solely based on how instagrammable it is. minimalism, fairy lights, some lame Breathe. Beautiful. wall decal, a single succulent on the nightstand. impeccably clean and empty, occupied by someone who’s personality is also empty

you can just say rich people

tramampoline: evitron: evitron: best moments in gaming journalism journalist gets real yakuza...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:48:08 -0500

tramampoline:

evitron:

evitron:

best moments in gaming journalism

journalist gets real yakuza members to play yakuza 3 and asks for their opinions on its authenticity

that’s it

highlights:

“What’s with all the fucking gaijin in this area?” “Dude, don’t say that, use gaikokujin, it’s nicer.” “Oh, shit, right. What’s with all the fucking gaikokujin in this area?”

“The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.”

all of them start dragging kiryu for his shitty cheap shirt for five minutes

“Shooting people sends a message.” “So does shooting anything.”

(after being told that massage parlors, mahjong, and hostess clubs were cut from the US version) “I feel sorry for the people who bought the American version. SEGA USA sucks.”

S: I don’t know any ex-yakuza running orphanages.
K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy.
M: You sure it wasn’t just a tax shelter?
K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.

omegapausestuck: revolutionaryduelist: zenosanalytic: revolutionarygays: thevriscourse: revolutio...

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:24:24 -0500

omegapausestuck:

revolutionaryduelist:

zenosanalytic:

revolutionarygays:

thevriscourse:

revolutionarygays:

revolutionarygays:

homestuck uses seemingly random things/concepts – the zodiac, a deck of cards, billiards, the magic 8 ball – as thematic elements so fucking cleverly it’s almost infuriating

the game over timeline failed because vriska was killed – much like in billiards, you lose the game if you pocket the 8 ball too soon

not to infodump or nothing but imho its even deeper than that, in that by act 7 the entire web of symbolism has been flipped

this is foreshadowed kind of obliquely by one, having chess and pool be exactly the same game in-universe, with sburb taking the form of a collosally complicated game of chess in multiplayer sessions, but taking the form of pool in a single player session, and two, having caliborn switch his king and queen’s appearance, but having them move as if they were the piece they appear to be

vriska appears to be the 8 ball and killing her appears to end their game prematurely, but shes actually the cue ball, and killing her causes a scratch in which she can be placed wherever is most advantageous for the opponent, and english is the 8 ball, and shoving him into the metaphorical pocket that is the black hole from the collapse of the green sun ends the game

what im getting at here is that i fucking h8 homestuck

holy shit

There’s also all the parallels drawn between Snowman(The Black Queen) and Vriska. And of course, while Snowman APPEARS to be an 8-ball, what is killing her circumstantially simultaneous with? A SCRATCH. From the perspective of Caliborn and his Session, it appears to be a victory, but it actually allows his opponents to reposition themselves to best win The Game(like vriscourse says).

It goes significantly deeper than this, since the cueball is also likened to an Egg visually and explicitly. Scratch’s cueball head is the egg from which LE is born, and Dave literally calls Grimbark Jade’s cueball an egg:

Which links the cueball to Homestuck’s pervasive traditions of Gnostic/Christian, Grecoroman, and Egyptian myth. In all of these stories (but in Gnosticism in particular as far as I can tell), there’s a consistent focus on Eggs as a symbol of both destruction and birth, best summed up by a quote from Herman Hesse’s Damien:

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.

(if that sounds familiar, it’s because it also shows up in Revolutionary Girl Utena, another story steeped in Gnostic symbols.)

And let’s not forget that the cueball/egg is also tied to another symbol:
That of Homestuck itself.

So symbolically, The Ultimate Juju/Story of Homestuck is at once three things:

1) It is the world that Lord English has created, that the bird (our kids!) must destroy to be born.

2) It is the cueball. Specifically, it is the IDEA of the cueball. Lord English successfully suppreses all cueballs that can hurt him in physical reality, but is ultimately beaten because he cannot stop the power of the IDEA of the cueball, manifested symbolically.

3) It is also, simultaneously, an egg–a symbol of inevitable change. Change, whether it be for himself or the world he created, is, of course, the only thing that Lord English cannot tolerate, so it makes sense to present eggs as a weakness for him.

I’ve written about most of this in my essay on Gnostic myths and how they influence Homestuck, which you can find here.

But one last note: Just as important as how it affects LE is what this means for the characters. Homestuck is arguing that none of its characters have been “born”, constrained as they’ve been within the “shell” of LE’s alpha timeline.

In Act 7, that egg seems to hatch, the shell of the world that constrains it cracking and splintering under the force of the bird’s will.

So what comes next for Homestuck’s characters, if this is meant to be the moment of their birth?

I’m looking forward to the epilogue.

this story is the gift that keeps on giving

bored-and-confused: More pixel stuff for my game.

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 21:49:05 -0500

bored-and-confused:

More pixel stuff for my game.

Hi Friend

Episode 6 is finally done

bored-and-confused: What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my...

beejohnlocked: superblyboring: robotlyra: Me: *watching* What...

gotsickofmyoldurl: chuckdrawsthings: the duality of cat for...

bored-and-confused: What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my...

What’s going on, I’m Gart and this is my big summer blowout...

spectra-bear: My brother sent me the most blessed video of all...

snarthurt: snarthurt: snarthurt: ok but seriously….. y’all can’t be… for real about thirsting over...

ruinedchildhood:

lmaonade: suppermariobroth: There is a design parallel between...

oysternomicon: killer-queen-official: spoon-fresh: scareohead: slbtumblng:

Photo

its not a sexy outfit unless it has fingerless gloves

othernotebooksareavailable: theweirdwideweb: From the Wikipedia...

nextlevelwaterpanic: moby-grapes: so my friend is studying...

Photo

cmder: jillsteinfuneralcity: heortewyrm: jillsteinfuneralcity: “people” with instagram ready...

“people” with instagram ready rooms arent human

tramampoline: evitron: evitron: best moments in gaming journalism journalist gets real yakuza...

omegapausestuck: revolutionaryduelist: zenosanalytic: revolutionarygays: thevriscourse: revolutio...

bored-and-confused: More pixel stuff for my game.

beejohnlocked: superblyboring: robotlyra: Me: watching What...