[karkat voice] you know it’s actually pretty convenient that your species is also nocturnal since if it weren’t the conflicting sleep schedules would get irritating real fast.
[rose voice] what? oh, no, humans are diurnal. dave and i are just disasters.
hiii i just wanted to say that you have the best blog on tumblr right now homestuck is over and its so hard to keep the fire alive but your blog is just magical and wonderful and whenever i see you on my dash it brings all the excitement back. your daily hc posts are such a shot of creative happy energy in my day!! and you reblog so much great art and your fic is so good... homestuck lives on as long as you do uvu
shoutouts to that shitty anon who sassed me about dirkjake this morning I deleted ur ask in a fit of pique but screenshotted it to drag u in private and I just gained 10,000 dirkjake power levels so I’d like to invite you formally to eat my ass on this, the day when u smugly sassed me about them roughly 12 hours before they would become irrefutable glorious happy canon
HAHAHAHA eat shit thank you & good night!!!
wow I’ve never seen something so beautiful or savage
there’s a lot i could’ve drawn from that update but the thing that got to me a lot was dirk and jake, peacefully hanging out in a small workshop, maybe by the ocean.
jake is free to leave whenever he needs his own time, but sometimes he’ll stay late into the night, sending silly snaps and listening to dirk tinker
me: theyre just sitting in rooms together and hanging out also dave expressed discomfort with polyamory earlier on in comic idk what straws you wanna grasp at just let two men be in love they dont need a woman to make that love “better” and jade doesnt need a man in her life to have a thrilling story arc conclusion
Davekat shippers: also ship rosemary
Davekat shippers: love the rosemary wedding
Davekat shippers: gleefully reblog the wedding pics and fanart
Davekat shippers: make posts about how happy they are that rose and kanaya got married and how they're happy and that we have two women happily married
Davekat shippers: We would have liked some davekat content tho-
Asshole: whY DO YOU HATE LESBIANS
funny enough, i was doodling this comic right before we were hit by that upd8 vid, and i forgot all about it. its prob not even relevant anymore but here u go
me: theyre just sitting in rooms together and hanging out also dave expressed discomfort with polyamory earlier on in comic idk what straws you wanna grasp at just let two men be in love they dont need a woman to make that love “better” and jade doesnt need a man in her life to have a thrilling story arc conclusion
a davekat shipper: wow I wish we’d had literally one shot of davekat by themselves without jade there
an affronted het: *offended gasp* are you saying you HATE jade harley???????????
rose: Here is one of many phallic monuments Dave erected to woo Karkat… and over here you will see exactly where I made out with Kanaya for the first time, and I was too fucking gay to ever pick up my lost shoe. Anyone else have any wholesome landmarks to the healing power of gay love to share?
dirk, trying to remember if his crusty, decomposing disembodied head is still rolling around in the remnants of jakes house on lomax somewhere: No.
4/13 me: rage-filled bitter, sad, scorned salt baby
10/25 me: clear skin. shining eyes. my childhood youth and wonder has returned. happiness and bliss is in my soul. I am successful. valued. the sky is shining and the stars twinkle just for me. I am at peace.
instead of tossing a bouquet at their wedding, rose and kanaya tossed the shoe from the staircase into the crowd, and instead of tossing it over their shoulders at a random person, they threw it directly at dave and karkat
there is so much in this vid oh my GOD OH MY GOD there is SO MUCH
BUT the thing I keep coming back to is jake’s ass. just jake on tv being a reality star being totally happy with his body and confident showing it off and not feeling like people only like him for his looks and owning his own hotness and smiling so broadly and so happily
and it’s making me so emotional and happy and existential and proud
like i’m having these feelings about jake’s fucking ass, guys
fuck im so riled up with feelings right now I need to see every character’s snapchat app so i can analyze the icons by every person in relation to everyone else and read them like fucking tea leaves omg someone save me from myself
this is the most pure ask out of all the ones ive received tonight im crying
imagine dave and karkat sneaking back to the overgrown meteor ruins post 5,000 year timeskip and just walking together through this place they called home for so long and reminiscing about all the hopes and dreams they had at the time and comparing what they thought would happen to the reality and just being nostalgic af, and no one knows where they went and theyre not answering texts (or snaps except for one pity snap dave sends to john because you can’t just drop a streak like that, man.)
They find their old room and dave kinda laughs and flops down and karkat sits next to him and dave is teasing him about ironically snuggling up for old times’ sake and he takes his glasses off and waggles his eyebrows and karkat huffs this sigh like you know it used to take me ages to get you to do that, this isn’t actually very nostalgic at all!!!
and dave pulls him in and laughs and is like whatever man close enough and then they both make sure their phones are fucking off and make out for hours because they like to kiss and are in love
dave would text karkat “do you love me” and karkat would respond with like a genuine sincere assurance thats like a rare sweet moment thinking that hes honestly doubting or worrying or something but then daves like “ok good just keep that in mind” and sends him shrek yaoi
Tbh Dirk and Jake are clearly depicted to be happy and physically close with each other in the ending. It is clearly stated they are comfortable with each other’s direct presence. There’s no underlying sad subtext here they’re just happy. They’re allowed to be happy, yo.
this one time at not-band camp ;; dirk/jake ;; explicit
Jake English loathes Summer Camp. He hates absolutely
everything about it, except for this one peculiar, sharp boy who won’t
stop staring at him before quickly looking away.
Alright, I was always going to say something about this at some point.
I’m going to ramble out an EXTREMELY LONG SPIEL on Dirk and Jake’s relationship. I just want to say, before I do: If you read Dirk as an abuser or he reminds you of your abuser or physical violence, even in slapstick, is a trigger for you, then I completely understand. That’s ok. It’s totally reasonable for it to bother you, and I don’t want any of what I’m about to say to come off as an implication you’re not allowed to feel the way you feel about Dirkjake.
What I AM going to argue against is this enormous expectation that everyone read it that way, and minimize what is an incredible complex, mutually passionate, and unfortunately mutually toxic due to several extenuating factors.
The bottom line is this: Dirk and Jake’s narrative is one about growing up and being in love with your best friend, as a boy, specifically. I don’t specifically mean cis boy, just going to lay that out there–just, someone socialized to internalize certain ideas about their own identity as being related to boyhood. I read Jake as ultimately nonbinary, so this isn’t me trying to shut down trans headcanons.
What I’m arguing is that this is a story about toxic masculinity. Toxic masculinity is a major theme in Homestuck, along with many other societal narratives that it argues ultimately hurt us: Compulsory heterosexuality, troll ideals of violence, in some cases quadrants, etc, etc.
And I’m going to explain why I think it’s important to read each individual interaction of theirs complexly, and think about their situation as a whole, to understand why it so happens that yes, Jake genuinely just does like fights, and that part of their relationship doesn’t necessarily read as inherently problematic.
You can feel free to think differently if you feel strongly about this, of course. If you’d like to hear my argument, though, I’ll put it under the cut–this is stretched enough.
man just imagine how insecure karkat probably was meeting up with everyone again and worrying that dave was going to want to go and live with the humans somewhere and how much anxiety he probably had over being so sure after being trapped with him for 3 years dave would leap at the opportunity to put some distance between himself and karkat’s shit
and then nope
karkat gets to work just literally making a replica of his own damn hive and dave is just standing there fidgeting like yeah man… that’s cool… i can dig it… glad you have a place to stay… nice youll have a real bedroom again instead of a weird ass laboratory with a bed stuck in the corner… it must be sweet to have an idea of a home you can go back to that makes you feel nice and nostalgic instead of… yeah no nevermind
and karkat is just like ??? do you want to … stay??? with me? still? and dave is like no i mean i dont need to STAY stay like im sure i can find a place like most likely john will let me sleep on his couch or something your probably looking forward to a break from me and i couldn’t blame you so hey i’ll figure something out
and karkat is just shaking his head like dave this fucking hive has like 12 extraneous rooms i was a particularly self indulgent idiotic wiggler look at this fucking floor plan you can just pick one. dave is like ok but, whhaaat if i pick the one youre using. and karkat throws his hands in the air with this overdramatic exasperated sigh and blusters about how annoying it will be to have to keep sleeping on a human bed to hide how relieved he is
they dont acknowledge any of it until really late that night and they both cant sleep because theyre separately wound up for different reasons and karkat is nervously going on about how like sorry if things are weird he was literally a wiggler when he built this place the first time and it seemed logical at the time to just remake it but it’s probably weird for a human, fuck its kinda weird to him and he MADE the place, so dave shouldn’t feel bad if it’s TOO weird and he’d rather go live with the humans or whatever in a proper human home
and dave is just quiet for a second and is like well, actually, this has been pretty sweet and probably the only thing i need for some place to feel like home to me is for you to be there too??? and karkat is like oh………………………. my fucking god….. you need to warn me before you suplex my fucking heart like this
and then they cuddle a lot and go to sleep LIKE IM GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW BEFORE I WRITE ANY MORE SELF INDULGENT WORDS LMAOOOOOOOOOOO g’night yall
imagine: dave and karkat being too shy to kiss in front of everyone
..at their wedding.
its so bad everyone has to start fucking chanting to get them to do it
after like 30 minutes of chanting karkat summons the memories of every romcom kiss hes seen and like dramatically dips dave in the most cheesy way and kisses him but immediately loses his balance and they both crash into a pile on the floor
Hi, you’re amazing. I love your drawing. I know you can’t take all requests but, please could you maybe do Rose x Kanaya?
I’ve always thought like ‘when do imma try rosemary’ and receive this message, so I finally try this. Though….English is not my mother tongue…I think there would be some weird expression and error something. actually that’s why I barely try making comics. anyway thanks a lot!<3
