I find the way Homestuck characters tend to attack themselves via proxies very interesting.
The best thing about this post is that everyone except John has some version of themselves or mental projection or something, and then John is over here getting his frustration out by yelling about a movie
No, see, that’s the thing. John IS talking about himself. Why do you think he picked John Cusack? John thinks he was the second dorky hero. He thinks he scampered around SBURB goofing off and getting into trouble. Davesprite and Jade both had to bail him out. He spent a good chunk of time following instructions from Rose and Jade and Terezi and Vriska, and those instructions even got him killed. Twice. While everyone else did cool stuff, he fell backwards into his powers and spent most of his time messing around. At least, that’s his vision of it. The Scratch becomes ‘operating heavy machinery’. I didn’t screencap that part, but he even complains about Cusack crashing a car, and in a few more panels John passes his father’s car in a dream bubble, which he crashed.
The other kids may have more direct ways of attacking themselves - at least their targets are clearly still them (save for Jake, I suppose). But John has always been the one to hide. His dreamself can’t wake up because he’s locked in nightmares. Jade tells him that’s why he always has bad dreams. He spends every intermission we see him in playing games and watching movies. He convinces himself that his father is a street performer so he doesn’t have to acknowledge the harlequins - and messages of self-hatred - that he has written on his own walls. He’s the one who treats SBURB as a game the longest, because it’s easiest. John isn’t ready for a self-hatred meltdown where he acknowledges he feels that he is useless, a runner up, dead weight to the team. The clown, the ‘terrible character’, the kid who keeps fucking up. But he can yell at a character on the screen with the same name, and for now that’s enough.
why in deathly hallows did they have everyone polyjuice themselves into harry when harry could have polyjuiced into a muggle and have been driven to safety away from the threat of death eaters who don’t know how to work things in the muggle world
who came up with these plans anyway
To be fair, all people of the Wizarding world are disasters. Voldemort used a super advanced curse of pure death to try and kill a baby
If you would like to know how my day has been, imagine that you’re driving on the interstate at 80 miles per hour, sandwiched between semi trucks hurtling along faster than you are. Suddenly you feel a tickle on your neck and realize that it’s a wasp, blown in through your open window and crawling along your collar. You don’t move. Your speakers are blasting Queen, and they’re too loud, but if you move your arm the wasp might be pressed against your skin and sting. You’re not afraid of the pain but you are afraid that the shock of it will cause you to lose control of the car. The wasp crawls up your neck and onto your face and under your glasses and now you’re afraid of the pain and you have to drive like that, perfectly still, while the wasp tries to climb over your eyelashes. THIS THING. CALLED LOVE. Very, very slowly, you roll your window down further, hoping the change in air pressure will dislodge it, but the wasp only clamps down harder on your eyelid and oh god it tickles. There’s nowhere to pull over—you’d have to change lanes. I JUST. CAN’T HANDLE IT. Finally you reach up toward your eye and gently coax the wasp onto your fingers. It clings to them tightly, smelling your skin, before you fling it as hard as you can out the window.
I wish there was a way to tell companies that I dislike an ad so much that I will actively avoid buying anything from them because of it
So slightly unrelated but still relevant, generally when I come across an ad that just really fuckin annoys me for whatever reason I’ll go into Google and just type different variations of “I hate ‘x’ product” like 5 times until googles algorithm picks it up an I never see an ad for that product again. It’s amazing.
matching icons for you and your dumbshit best friend who won’t believe you about canceling the world-ending video game you’re playing and is about to run a virus that will destroy his own computer
Apparently people really like seeing the Zelda enemies get rated so here’s Octoroks!
There’s, uh… there’s kind of a lot
Legend of Zelda NES / Link’s Awakening / Oracle of Ages & Seasons
Oh. OH. OOOOHHH. Look at that! Right outta the gate and they nailed it! These guys are the perfect blend of evil and cute. I wanna have one as a pet!
10/10
The Adventure of Link
Quiet. Reserved. Thoughtful. They write poetry and might let you see it if you ask nicely. But they also spam rocks like nobody’s business and honestly they need to tone it down
7/10
Ocarina of Time / Majora’s Mask
Dear god, these make me want to cry. It’s like someone tried to squeeze a nightmare through a playdoh spaghetti maker. Just looking at this thing is giving me radiation sickness
2/10
Wind Waker
Hm. Okay, still gross, but they kinda cleaned up. Maybe too much so. Sometimes you just wanna take a boat ride but these jerks just won’t leave you alone
4/10
Phantom Hourglass / Spirit Tracks
“K-kill me, Link… every heartbeat is an eternity of suffering…”
0/10
Skyward Sword
Goin’ back to that “mysterious” look, and I kinda dig that. They’re a bit introverted and that’s okay. But they’re also stealin’ that Deku Scrub style and I gotta dock points for that
8/10
A Link to the Past / A Link Between Worlds / Tri Force Heroes
Look at ‘em!! Devious but squishy. They’re like if someone gave sentience and spite to a water balloon— just the right amount of fun and lethal
9/10
Breath of the Wild
I kinda like these guys. A little cephalopodic for my tastes, but you know what? That’s fair. Octoroks are already based on—
colored up some recent-ish Animorphs sketches… give me weird aliens and I Will put too much thought into them.
1 - general anatomy and also thinking more about that dang hoof-mouth situation
2 - some homemade dolls for Andalite kids, made from wood and dried grass-stuffed fabric. Modern Andalites don’t seem to have much of a consumer culture, but these could also be from very rural areas. Also Gafinilan seemed lonely on a different sketch layer, so he’s here now too.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
