Give me just one more chance, one more glance, one more hand to hold!(Derse Dreamer, Page of Light, Taurpia)
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If you want a minor Season 1 musical spoiler, I posted a little preview up on Patreon, featuring music by Bryan Teoh, with lyrics and vocals by Ashe Wagner. Accompanying rough animation here by SmallBu!
Find it here on the Lackadaisy Patreon!
I have mixed feelings on broadway homestuck as a whole but they were cooking with Thirteen Years (One World Closer) when they had karkat ask if the stars on John’s world look the same as they did on his. Do you think he’d be happy to know that they do.
downloaded a vhs filter and now im kicking my feet and giggling
so i don't really know the etiquette of submitting posts to this blog but. i saw this today and it felt so very meowrails coded to me i just thought i needed to share it
thanks for the submission :3
if latula and mituna get to skateboard its only fair for terezi and sollux to rollerblade right
ik it’s not canon but everytime i think abt summerteen romance and how karkat wrote nepeta’s arc… MAN
IM GOING TO KILL MYSELF
If Prospit and Derse decide that they both are satisfied, transportalizers all shut down for good this time 😄 if I can’t go to your world when the game is through, I’ll still be horns over heels for youuuuuuuu
Is this what Freckle would look like with a bright enough light behind him?
i’m putting them all in the 1850s now. starting with these two for no particular reason
this might be a really specific niche that nobody cares about except me, but it doesn’t matter. i can draw whatever i want.
i’m not a huge fashion person so if things are off don’t be super mean to me
Tips for writing Dirk and Jake?
They're both simpler and goofier than they seem. Dirk and Jake are heavily emotionally oriented, but at the same time their emotions are downplayed by everybody (including themselves!) for the sake of keeping up a "respectable front." They're not very good at it tho. If you keep this logic in mind you'll prolly be okay giving them words to say.
Specially when put together, their quirks play off one another. Dirk is all modern and hyper specific lingo, internet poison, and a tryhard 'street' impression pulled from the internet and god knows what 00's tv serial he cobbled up together all by himself to sound # hashtag # cool.
While Jake speaks like a golden age actor playing a character, on a stage, with a transatlantic accent (this means a mix of american and british lingo that did not truly belong to either culture - it is, from conception to limited use then eventual death, a language made for Prestige Movies and to embellish the telling of Stories.)
Their characters are paired up like this because they naturally contrast with one another. The man from the future / The man of the past, neither of them fully being what they seem.
One thing a lot of people slip up on is the Language thing. Dirk sounds like a guy who's sprinkling hard words into his dialogue to seem smarter, knowledgeable, academic. Whereas Jake has an expansive and peculiar vocabulary (think like Rose's, here), but he doesn't care about 'sounding intelligent' so much as he cares about being LIKED or being charming, so with him it's about pomp and flair. You could say Dirk pretends to be limitlessly reliable while Jake pretends to be "A Himbo", but they know there's a limit to the act.
With both of them carefully crafting a persona they want to project outwards and be remembered by, they tend to adjust to the environment. If there's not a public to perform to, it's gone. Dirk is less playful and more technical-incisive if he's talking to AR and Jake really tones himself down at the end of Act 6 when he's just exhausted of being read wrong.
Them being friends for so long also influences how they speak to one another in contrast of everyone else; in dirk-jake conversations, both of them use a lot of bro-speak deliberately and almost excessively. It's a lot of Bro's & Dude's & Man's that serve to denote bestfriendliness or reassure that they're in the same brainwave.
Also, they cuss a lot, indiscriminately, and to great comedic effect. I see a lot of people being afraid if making Jake Say A Bad Word but this is nothing new to him. He often abruptly cuts off his charming old-timey thing to just sound like a normal regular dude who's gotten frustrated and it's that whiplash that makes the character. Jake can be pretty & abruptly mean if he wants.
Dirk keeps more of a leveled writing voice and syntax, even when he's arguing with himself, favoring readability over tone. He wants to communicate something with his long-ass texts, even if his explanations are too convoluted. When Dirk goes off the rails we're talking about metaphor- Like Dave, he enters a trail of thought and keeps adding to it sometimes, needlessly, as if he doesn't know just when to end a joke. (The "Bounce a coin off that ass" monologue, ex)
While Jake uses asterisks to *narrate his own actions* or EMPHASIZES important parts of his run-on sentences to show importance/tone/frustration BY MAKING THEM BIG. He uses periods to separate sentences more often than commas. When he does use punctuaction he can also exaggerate!!!! Not always, but often enough. If you see it happening too much edit it a little. (Jake also occasionally uses an emoji here and there though its very sparse so its more like a callback to how Jade does it. He learned from her, after all.)
Rereading their pesterlogs w/ each other and then with different partners (like dirk with jane, jake with calliope, how each of them talks to caliborn, etc etc) can help you pick on other useful cues and subtleties. They're generally more amenable and friendly to the girls. Also, dont skip the jake/hal conversations. They're crucial for characterization.
If comparing/contrasting is up to your speed, here are characters whose quirks sound similar to, compound to, or can help you write:
Dirk- Rose, Dave
Jake- Vriska, Jade
TL;DR: "intent" matters a lot to the things Dirk and Jake say, even when the text is riffing off it. Its more useful to think on /why/ they're saying this rather than "does this sound like enough lingo/oldtimey speak", because focusing too much on the latter is gonna make you end up writing nonsense.
(*All screenshots used in this post are from actual pesterlogs in Homestuck)
“were you the person who drew dirkjake eating bugs like shrek” - my legacy
before you ask, but this part isnt as relevant: fairy godmother would be aranea, if i had to cast a prince charming it’d be cronus for the shits of it, similarly farquaad is HIC/meenah. thank you for your time
"i want morally grey female characters" you fuckers could barely handle rose quartz
an ornithologist pointed a microphone at a bird sitting alone on a wire and caught the sound of the bird singing a song at a decibel so low that it would be impossible for another bird to hear it, meaning the bird was singing quietly to itself I love life
I like Tavros so far. He’s a dweeb
some personal cherub anatomy hcs i have from a bit ago cus i think its criminal that theres years of troll anatomy content but NOTHING for the cherubs.