[Image Description: Strong Sad, Strong Bad, and Strong Mad from the Homestar Runner internet series dressed as the Nailmasters from Hollow Knight. Strong Sad is dressed as Sheo, Strong Bad is dressed as Mato, and Strong Mad is dressed as Oro, the distinctions only indicated via Strong Sad wearing Sheo's paint-stained apron and each brother having an emblem resembling the menu icon for each Nailmaster's respective Nail Art on the clasp of their cloak. Strong Bad and Strong Mad are both holding a nail, with Strong Bad resting his confidently over his shoulder as his free hand is on his hip and Strong Mad holding his by his side, while Strong Sad is holding up a paint brush. The background consists of abstractly streaked grey and white with a brown "floor". End ID.]

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I've been meaning to do some more Homestar Runner art for a while anyways, and with my recent fixation I figured I could combine the two because both properties have a trio of prominent brothers. Of course there are distinct differences between the two families--namely the Brothers Strong looking so wildly different from one another and often being physically if not always emotionally close, whereas the Nailmasters would be completely identical if not for Sheo's added apron and are located at considerable distance from one another especially in Oro's case, but there's enough similarity on an individual level for me to have made it work.

Strong Sad is Sheo here, as he seems to be the most outwardly sensitive and creative of the three Strongs (though tbh they're all creative, Strong Sad just has the highest combo of both skill and sincerity). Strong Bad is Mato because they both seem to be the most enthusiastic about their narrative purpose--Mato is proud to be a Nailmaster and wants to pass that teaching onto a student, while Strong Bad is both a troublemaker and always tries to come off as "bad" in the "cool" sense, a badass if you will, in desire if not in full execution. And of course, Strong Mad is Oro, not because they were both the last ones to get matched, but because they're both outwardly tough while inwardly soft (Oro's reluctant acceptance of the Delicate Flower paralleling with Strong Mad's deep friendship with The Cheat and genuine love for his younger brothers). And something that I didn't realize while working on this that makes this even more fitting: the Godhome fight where Oro and Mato finally come together and, even if only in a dream, make amends and fight side by side as the brothers they are. In one of the earliest HSR toons that is now apparently taken off the site, Marshmallow's Last Stand, the whole plot was Strong Bad and Strong Mad challenging Homestar and Pom Pom to a tag-team fight. :3

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The Brothers Strong and other Homestar Runner concepts © Mike and Matt Chapman The Nailmasters and other Hollow Knight concepts © Team Cherry Artwork © PuppyLuver Studios

so...willow. willow is mastermind in action. it’s a love potion bubbling, an aphrodisiac seeping through your veins as you follow the red string of fate to your lover, your soulmate, your predetermined destiny. it’s the pull between fate and control. ‘wherever you stray, i follow.’ is this your choice, or are your feet merely following the path set for you by the alignment of the planets and the fates and all the stars during your birth? you find yourself trapped in a box of your own making, trapped in the clutches of fame, of patriarchy. you’re a doll on display in a white wedding dress. ‘i’m begging for you to take my hand / wreck my plans.’ are you the hunter or the hunted? a witch or the bewitched? ‘wait for the signal and i’ll meet you after dark.’ can you escape your fate, and will he come with you? was it your fate to escape it all in the first place?

Been hearing from multiple people I know and trust in the fandom that apparently people have been botting that hottest man poll that everyone’s been yelling about? And that kylux fandom specifically is the one guilty of it

And honestly I’m extremely disappointed in anyone who thinks that’s appropriate. These are supposed to be fun and you’ve gone and ruined it for everyone participating AND made all of us look like assholes in the process for being unable to be normal about a harmless, just-for-fun poll

Hope you’re proud of yourselves. Genuinely pathetic behaviour. I expected better from the fandom I’ve called home for nearly 10 fucking years

sometimes when i see takes about the radiance being innocent/kind or whatever i just think abt how you can just dreamnail so many things she's touched and learn how most of them--even hatchlings literally just born--are terrified and suffering.

Obsessed with the thought of Armadillo going 👁️👄👁️ when Step tells them to leave them alone. PLEASE this blue blorbo was SO READY to pick Sidestep up and feed them soup they called them family and made gentle and caring gestures around them I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't I can't

OMG GUYS AFTER ALL THIS ROLEPLAYING I HAVE AN OFFICIAL CRUSH ON CASTOR

I've been playing of ULTRAKILL these past few days, bit by bit. I found it surprisingly forgiving, given that I can't aim for shit.

have you heard The Garden by Crane Wives? Because I think it’s a very paracold song (it specifically makes me think of your ‘love me like a fawn’ fic).

(this is Sal btw, asking from main cuz Tumblr still doesn’t let you ask from sideblogs lol)

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oh my gosh, i have heard that song but i hadn't thought of it as paracold for some reason... i actually put it on the little fanmix i made for minotaur-asterion's skepticold fic, "i'll show you where the garden grows"

(i have a bit of an expanded paracold playlist that i put "canary in a coal mine" on, though >_>)

but omg i hadn't been thinking about it at all in the context of "love me like a fawn" which. yeah. i can 100% see it now. *___* thank you so much for pointing that out to me, it works shockingly well.

I can’t believe there are still Dean supporters. Like, did we not all watch him take advantage of Rory and cheat on and belittle his wife?

Oh, don't worry, it's easy, just gotta do THIS SHIT thirty more times! Because yanno it ain't enough to just remove the floor, nah gotta have 5 billion HP on the boss too!

Who is the target audience for this, because it's not me.

After a day of "well, this isn't too bad," I've now run into the situation where my money ghost only forms in the same room as the Laser Asshole, who now apparently is allowed to do two units of damage at a time.

alright, y'all, big day today. so let's mix it up: share one song from your spotify wrapped along with one sentence from your nanowrimo project. I'll go first:

trample out the days by orville peck

He keeps expecting it to hurt less, to wake up one day and be able to talk about what it’s like to shape yourself around a person and then suddenly find that space hollow, feel yourself melt into the emptiness left behind, become something formless and ill-defined without that person to outline your edges; about how it feels to die at your own hand and still have to exist on earth, spending each day staring at those same hands.

would you guys be mad at me🐀.. if i subjugated everyone😔 to stupid unironic romancy whamseph art? 👉👈

i remembered to sit on the throne before leaving this time.

trivial pursuit

Maybe the rewriter is actually firming up the thematic narrative arc. The question that put Reggie over the top on a game he rigged was geography based which, as we see earlier, is Archie's tough category.

Whether he is shouting or enunciating the word "questions" or not.