yeah nothings working and our futures looking bleak and i said

The inherent eroticism of hating yourself so much it borders on narcissism

For day 2! (Dirk’s) problematic fave

And then they kissed

Polls like this have been done before (possibly even by me lol), but we have more options now, so...

Dirk Selfcest Poll

Dave Selfcest Poll

Bros only. You're not invited.

tfw your sorta brother slits your throat. 

almost at the end now! we either have one or two chapters to go, it depends how carried away i get with the finale. i WILL finish this in the next week! :D (gotta work on some original stuff next week for real, i am motivated!)

Spurn My Natural Emotions is like ...

what if we looked at how fucked up bro strider was after living an entire lifetime with a psychotic puppet who fetishised innocent affection whispering in his ear and laughing at everything he did?

what if dirk could look at the person who had abused the bro he had always wanted to meet, and it was like looking in a warped mirror?

what if dirk needed bro to be better to prove that he himself is capable of being better?

what if dirk loved his own potential, refracted in someone who knew the worst of him?

what if dirk's body held both of them hostage, but it was worth it?

(what if dirk got a bro who earned dirk's belief in unconditional love, who would never stop making up for the fact that he hadn't been there at the end of the world with him)

what if the answer was love?

read it from the start here or check out the latest chapter here

Bro Strider x Dirk Strider with swords, blood, red and orange for anon!

x x x / x x x / x x x

do it yourself

target audience reached — i LOVE the kids. stridercest has such a special little place in my heart... how do you feel about hal? how about davejake? dirkhal? brodirk? so many options.

Hal is so yes, you're telling me theres an AI that mimics the cool guy who made it but he also talks about his feelings like the little freak he is? yes, yes, the only AI I will endorse. DaveJake? I read a REALLY good fanfic one time where Jake was just dating dirk to get to Dave and it was... mwah, delicious, it was all kinds of fucked up and I am HERE for it. DirkHal is close to selfcest and that is a flavour I love. Confront your emotions big boye~ confront them carnally >:D BroDirk is also just an interesting flavour of selfcest, comparing it to DirkHal would be unfair, as they are both excellent flavours of the homestuck selfcest spectrum. imagine seeing yourself as an alternate universe teen, so fragile and vulnerable in emotion, and he reminds you of your younger brother... the one you have inappropriate feelings for... >:DDDDD

My conclusion to all of this is that, the boys shall be shipped I DO NOT CARE WHO.

yo. never done this before but no time like 2022 I guess. we’re desperate lol

we’re a strider-heavy proship system looking for other systems with striders, irls, kinnies, or just fans. we have dirk, dave, bro, hal, alpha dave, davesprite, and some others.

we’re stealth about this not gonna lie but if you seem cool we can give out our discord, or might make a temp just for this.

we roleplay if you’re down to do that, and if not we’re literally just looking for people to talk with this about. you can dm us on here and we’ll go from there I guess?

Ooh! BroDirk? You can answer this privately if you want idm

>:3! i don't mind answering publicly, so that's just fine! this is definitely not by biggest stridercest ship, but i wouldn’t turn my nose up at it and have in fact been keeping up with a certain brodirk hanahaki fic...

What made you ship it?

for this particular ship, mostly listening to people talk about it and reading fics where they interact. bro and dirk never talk in canon, obviously, so there wasn’t some big spark of a moment where reading homestuck i went ‘oh no bro and dirk should definitely kiss, actually.’ the dave + dirk conversation ABOUT their respective bros is super interesting, though, and can bring a lot of context to this ship that i think definitely has merit. i am just often a fan of striders and patching them together in interesting ways.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

there was a post a while back someone made about how characters in homestuck are reflective mirrors of one another and i think that that is one of the strongest contenders for why i like bro/dirk. it’s a little like haldirk in that way, right, in the way of doppelgangers and doubles, but like. but it’s also...

HUFFS.

dirk can see the quote unquote worst version of himself and have SO many complicated feelings about him and maybe, possibly still find it in himself to love him? like, god, that’s so fucking compelling. and MESSY. what a DISASTER. i love it.

also, hindbrain answer: age difference hot.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on this ship?

you know im not sure what would count as popular/unpopular on a niche ship with a controversial character like this, especially when my reading tastes are so varied. like ive read things where dirk tops (i think u wrote one of those actually maybe) that i adored and i’ve read things where bro would NEVER allow anyone else to top that i was like ‘yeah no that tracks, i’m into it.’

i think i like bro best when acknowledging him as fundamentally wounded, even if he would not care to acknowledge it himself. like i dont mind fics where he’s treated as one dimensional (i have written some myself) but he’s infinitely more interesting as part of a pair when he is COMPLICATED and FUCKED UP and i LOVE THAT FOR HIM

bro would've abused dirk so good. nobody gets it. dirk would turn out so fucked up. the idea makes me DROOL.

must draw dirk x bro art, must draw dirk x bro art, must draw dirk x bro art, must draw dirk x bro art, must draw dirk x bro art, must draw dirk x bro art, must draw..

Summary: Bro proposes a fun new game to Dirk. Dirk loses.

For Stridercest Week 2022, Day 3!

(roxy icon anon reveled) thank u for permission bless u and ur art as a strilondepilledhead i live for ur designs and au. the way u write brodirk/b!dirk is amazeing i love a good sex puppet decsent into madness

thank u so much

im infinitely fascinated by looking at b!dirk as ....... a dirk.