Yep. Have another one.
okay this is actually pretty great
Final Smash: Act 5 Act 2
When someone asks a question like “what are Welsh things doing in this game,” Homestuck has trained me to immediately wonder “what were things from this game doing in Wales?”
You can’t separate the question “why is this legendary Welsh sword in this Sburb session?” from the question “why is a legendary weapon from a Sburb session cropping up in Welsh folklore?” Dave’s sword and King Arthur’s sword have meanings that are inextricably intertwined, somehow.
I can’t remember if there’s a good name for this mechanism somewhere in canon. For the time being I’m going to call it “resonance.” This “resonance” is the reason that some nameless ancient Greek looked up at this part of the sky:
and decided “That looks just like a man/horse! Oh, and the man/horse also likes archery.”
Resonance also explains why humans would tell stories about fairies that actually describe trolls fairly well on a number of points. Here’s the second paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for “Fairy,” with a few annotations:
Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously dead,
or some form of demon,
or a species completely independent of humans or angels.
Fairies are otherworldly in appearance but can be attractive to humans, not to mention attracted to humans. They are said to be ruled by a Queen, who is beautiful, regal, and seductive, but also powerful and dangerous, and whose husband is much weaker than her or else is absent altogether. They can be harmful or helpful (or both) to humans, and they sometimes steal human children to raise, whether out of love or malice or simply a desire to have them as a servant. Sometimes there were two distinct courts of fairies, one relatively benign towards humans and one relatively malicious. Within the context of Homestuck, many features of fairy folklore resonate with the things we know about trolls - in other words, resonance is my name for what’s happening when Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother is replaced by the big bad wolf who’s swallowed her whole.
Resonance is this:
Sburb uses ‘hyper flexible mythology’ tailored to each player group to help them realize their destinies; a sword in a stone pillar called Caledfwlch derives its meaning from the mythology of the “real world,” not from a story one of Dave’s consorts told him or from any other source within his session. But the Earthly myth about Caledfwlch? That isn’t inherently meaningful either - it’s bullshit, crafted from elements that rose from the abyss of some storyteller’s consciousness - and it contains truth despite that. It’s yet another mobius strip puzzle.
Sburb uses the Arthur story as part of the ‘hyper flexible mythology’ it tailors to Dave, but what is true in the Arthur story is true because Dave inspired it. Hephaestus the denizen is influenced by Hephaestus in our mythology, but our mythology’s Hephaestus was influenced by some ancient storyteller who spun a tale of the ultimate craftsman and had a ray of Light strike him when it was time to give his creation a name… (“Hephaestus, that sounds right. The forge-god is named Hephaestus. And his forge is.. in a volcano? Yes Im Completely Certain Of That Suddenly”)
Please click for FULLVIEW! A Grimdorks commission (!) for John-windything-egbert, who wanted John carrying Rose. I was half way through the Davesprite/Jade pic at the time, and now I feel like they’re similar and could be a set, though I think I like this one better! Gosh, but I love drawing Grimdark Rose! Commissions info here; All my commissions money’s getting donated straight into the HS Kickstarter.
Happy birthday John and congrats on the 4th Homestuck anniversary!
holy fuck~ this guys art is amazing, why doesnt this have more notes?
And all the gods and all the worlds began colliding on a backdrop of blue
Wow happy 4/13 everyone!! Their day is ending, I imagine that if all had gone well they’d be running home to their guardians.
I be killin’ ‘em, killin’ ‘em
Like murder everydayI don’t usually like Dave cosplay but hot damn
Why is this person’s eyes red? Is there any chance that this person worships the devil?
The character they are cosplaying, Dave Strider, is a human with naturally red eyes.
So this is one of those cosplayers? Dave Strider is a human in Homestuck, I do remember that. Why are Dave’s eyes red? Red eyes usually is a sign of Satanism, Devil worshipping and Evil. Does Dave collaborate with “Lord” English, encouraging Gamzee to make women have children? Or does the non-gray people in Homestuck have an entirely different Satan to worship? Why is there no God in this comic. Why doesn’t anyone just think “Hey, I should go to Church. Maybe if I pray to God, we can beat the devil. God Will help us through. God will love us with all of our hearts. God will not let “Lord” English and Gamzee get to us. As long as God is with us, we will be Holy. We will not spend an enternity in Hell. “Lord” English and Gamzee will not put their devlish, satanic ways into my body. I will fight them.” That is what SHOULD happen in the comic. The characters need to carry a bible with them. Perhaps thats why everyone in this webcomic is so troubled, because they do not have God in their lives.
ok you know what
talking shit about a webcomic is fine as long as you aint hurtin no one
but the millisecond you attack a cosplayer, its too fucking far
they are doing this for fun not to impress you, or abide by your religion
the kids in the comic arnt bible-thumpers because they are writen as real teenagers
with their own minds and belifes and you have no right to come into our fandom and try to force your religion down our throats and say that the plot should be the plot of the motherfucking bible
Dave Strider has red eyes, its a genetic disorder
Rose lalonde has Purple eyes, its a genetic disorder
Dirk Strider has orange eyes, its a genetic disorder
Roxy lalonde has pink eyes, ITS A MOTHERFUCKING GENETIC DISORDER
Most to all of the characters in this comic have abnormal eyes
because it show characterization, and makes them unique
If you really want to be a bible humping brainwashed fool
go out on the streets and make a fool of yourself there
because right now
right now right here
you are attacking kids
you are attacking this cosplayer, the artists, the writers and readers of the fandom
this fandom is my family
no one
fucks
with my family
so get the fuck out
slow clap
starts clapping with you
stands up and starts applauding
