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This is a rant I've been meaning to get off my chest for a while, but the conception on Tumblr, AO3, and sometimes here, that Jake is capable of "teasing" Dirk, and all that implies, irks me deeply.
Let me be clear: Jake English is not self-aware. He, in Canon, never does anything resembling self-awareness, maturity, emotional boldness, or anything else that requires a spinal column. This includes apologizing to anyone, talking about his problems in a way that doesn't end up being selfish, teasing someone, particularly Dirk, or transitioning. (I maintain this especially; he does not have the boldness, maturity, self-awareness, or nerve to have transitioned his gender presentation pre-Act-6.)
He has an *understanding* of pranks, if we allow Paradox Space as evidence, but that's it. He makes *Tavros* look like a fully-roleplayed-into-Class-shift Lord.
You know what the popular Fandom perception of Jake, as a member of a DirkJake relationship, lines up with? *John*, before his main writing trait became a deep, all-consuming depression and repression thing.
Like, John’s original Act 5 and earlier characterization before his underreaction to his dad's death and the spiral that sent him down towards his current "transition would not save her" characterization is what people use for Jake (charming, funny, actually seems to have his shit together enough to maybe be transmasc (man, remember *transmasc John*?), and, most importantly, seemingly capable of dealing with the levels of vaguely sociopathic bullshit that an even-close-to-accurate Dirk would throw at him), but DirkJohn/JohnDirk is less popular, to the point of not having a consensus order, simply because Jake and Dirk are *coded* as liking each other.
I think a lot of people miss that DirkJake is fundamentally the Equius of relationships; Hussie isn't one of those writers that feels pride in finding pathos in the ridiculous, but spiteful glee and humor. He genuinely does not care if he accidentally touches people's hearts in a way that doesn't involve Dave, or *maybe* Vriska. The fact is, DirkJake is a joke relationship, which is spelled out very clearly in their conversation.
You know, their conversation. The one they have together. The time we see someone who is actual Dirk Strider, not Hal pretending, not Aranea co-opting a memory, not a Brain Ghost, talking to Jake. That time.
Yeah, that doesn't exist. DirkJohn has as much conversational basis as DirkJake.
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LESS! GAME OVER! "I FAILED"! LESS!!!
DirkJake is a joke, a long, subtle one being made on everyone who saw Dirk's affections and immediately wanted him to get together with his disabled(?) ongoing harassment victim. Hussie was having a lot of fun making it seem like Jake found it important in the Masterpiece, I'll tell you that much.
@thelifetimechannel/@geejaysmith/@clonerightsagenda did magnificently wringing blood from this stone, I really do mean that, their Alphas are genuinely written better than Canon for 3/4, but that's all it ever was; every DirkJake writer is the YouTube comments under [this video](https://youtu.be/B7bpv5xyrOY?si=wYTCFDHM5ZzOY8fp) saying Equius could ever have been more than what he was.
TL:DR
1, Jake is pathetic, and we should remember this.
2, Hussie is a jackass who hates us one and all for the sin of caring and everything he has done with this franchise since maybe EOY2 has had an ulterior motive, and we should remember this.
3, Most people who write longfics set in SBURBless AUs, whether normalcy or fantasy, and want to ship Dirk and Jake should really be shipping Dirk with John, since now that history of Dirk-Jake interactions that justifies the ship in-Universe is gone at the Author's leasure, John would have the dynamic they want, and they talk *exactly as much*.
4, If you want to trans Jake, [there's a sensible way to do that](https://archiveofourown.org/works/8619856), but there's no in-character way to make him transmasc.
5, Read DDOTA, I beseecheth of you. Like yeah the Striders are emotional to a kinda weird degree but apart from that they really got everyone down right.
#dirkjake#dirk strider#jake English#pistol pony rodeo#Alpha kids#alpha kids meta#Homestuck#Homestuck meta#hs meta#dirkjohn#johndirk#dirkjake meta#double death of the author#ddota#tlcstuck#equius zahhak#andrew hussie#hs fic#hs fics#hs fic meta#transmasc jake#jake meta#jake english meta#jakedirk#john egbert#dirk strider meta#Homestuck shipping meta#hussie
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I'm writing a fic where Hal god tiers and gets a body instead of becoming ARquius. I'm nowhere near finished, and it's already more than twice as long as my longest one-shot. This is going to be a monster of a fic when it's done
#the quicksilvers say#i have no idea how much of an audience there even is for a fic like this#but my hal meta is the most popular one ive done so far i think#so hopefully people will read it#tbh im writing it mostly to process my own shit#i relate to hal so much#for reasons i will probably talk about at some point#anway i also have more meta i plan to write#gonna do a jake meta and then tie that into my dirk and hal metas#probs gonna do one on the ableism and inaccessibility of hs#feel free to ask my opinions on stuff i have a lot of them#i say to the five people who follow me lmao#also gonna do a big meta on the plural vibes of hs at some point#that ones gonna be big tho#and also probs gonna have to explain plurality as part of it#n e way ive rambled enough#(picked dave as my avatar for a reason lmao)
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Anyways I had to rush a semi major assignment done in like. An Hour before it was due after trying and failing to work on it allll night and getting no sleep at all. Why? Because i was busy reading Alternate Universe by Unda and going insane thoughts in the tags.
#unlike the other two unda fics ive read#where the title is basically just a one off line from an early chapter#the title really matters here and not becahse it gets meta like mce!#also while i liked it a LOT im unsure if thisll be one i reread much. mce has that crown with like. a billion already.#i reread mce and reread it eight after#and occaisionally reread parta of dbdc but its a lot longer so that stalls out#au tho has a lot less downtime in it. once the plot starts realllly happening it doesnt stop and its reveal after reveal after reveal#so a bit emotionally exhausting#also unsure about hlw sollux and dave are so impkrtant... but not primary pov characters it causes some problems... ik for plot reasons but#like i love rose here. even compared to mce this might be the best rose of the three#but it causes some conflict between plot focus and story focus as time goes on from early where its all davesolkat but mostly solkat#to: rose is more important than both sol and dave agency wise#not bad just. a conflict there#anyways go read it if you havent. likely easy to get jnto for non hs readers actually#just some minor references and name stuff youd miss#totslly coherent plot wise#ALSO GETTING TO PREDICT STUFF WAS GREAT#I FELT SO SMART FIGURING OUT KARKATS SPECIES LIKE... CHAPTER 4 OR SMTH. MAYBE 3#EVEN IF THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN INTENDED
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headcanon/meta (???) since i’ve been thinking a lot about this writing my fic
But i just love the idea of Sydney being the type of person everyone had a crush on but she’s so in her head, emotional walls higher than the Eiffel Tower, awkward and a workaholic, that she can never tell if anyone does have romantic interest in her unless explicitly stated.
Sydney gives me Golden girl, Girl Next Door vibes. Just a kind hearted beautiful girl, funny, works hard and that’s attractive for most people.
In s2 she was the object of desire for not one but two handsome, young men. that’s insane! she inspires ppl to be better and do better.
Marcus: You push me
Carmy : You make me better at this, Calms down at the thought of sydney (*sighs*)
like i can just imagine sydney in HS, college, past jobs being blissfully unaware of all the people who flirted w her, tried to subtly ask her out but she declined (im busy; she doesn’t realize it’s a date).
While also simultaneously being a person who secretly desires a storybook romance but think it’s not in the cards for her bc no body’s interested or thinking people she likes don’t like her back or simply not letting herself be open to relationships bc she’s focused on her goals.
incredibly magnetic person while also repelling every chance at love bc she’s too in her head
idk while i’m writing this fic it’s hard bc sometimes i want to shake her shoulders and be like WAKE UP he likes you back.
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5 questions and 15 mutuals
ty for the tag @majorbaby and @transgayhawkeyepierce 💖
tagging: @beansterpie @professormcguire @kissing-monsters @undecimber-of-joy @v-e-l-v-e-t-g-o-l-d-m-i-n-e @rescue-ram @pigtailedgirl @assignedishmaelatbirth @creepydai @hetakiba @penguinhug @pomegranate @lyesander @partlyironic @charlesemersonwinchesteriii
Were you named after anyone?
Nope.
When was the last time you cried?
Hm, it's been a while. Might be the last time I watched the mdzs Safe and Sound animatic lol, which would've been a couple months ago.
Do you have kids?
Noooooo
Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Depends who I'm talking to, but often with certain friends.
What’s the first thing you notice about people?
lol idk, unless 'general physical appearance bc obviously' counts.
What’s your eye color?
green
Scary movies or happy endings?
this is a very arbitrary dichotemy lol, lots of horror movies have happy endings. I'm saying happy endings because scary movies is too narrow a category.
Any special talents?
no lol, all my talents are mundane or the usual nerd stuff like video editing/writing/etc.
Where were you born?
alberta 😔
What are your hobbies?
fandom, ie writing meta, writing and reading fic, and vidding; i'm into link to the past rando but only casually and as a viewer lol; singing and one day i will join a choir again.
Have any pets?
not currently. had budgies and hamsters and a dog growing up.
What sports do you play/have you played?
none really. I played badminton in middle school one year lol. went indoor rock climbing relatively recently and really enjoyed it, but not enough to take it up as a dedicated hobby.
How tall are you?
5'4"
Favorite subject in school?
hs: english (or choir if that counts lol. one of the choirs i was in counted for credits at least)
uni: gender and horror perhaps? canadian cinema was a surprisingly good course too
Dream job?
frankly, cashier in a world where full time is 20 hours a week and you can easily live on minimum wage.
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The facts taking place during BNHA second year: January, February & March
So, in order to write my fic, I spend much time observing canon scenes, comparing the manga and the anime version, take note of details, translations and info in them as well as finding out how are some things called.
Since what I noticed/speculated/found out can be of use for other fic authors I thought to share as well.
OBSERVATIONS, SPECULATIONS AND ASSORTED INFO:
You might notice a special focus on the Todoroki family as all their birthdays and statuses are listed. That’s because this timeline was originally meant to focus solely on them and then I included info about the other characters.
LEGENDA:
BNHA: “Boku no Hero Academia” manga.
EM: “Endeavor mission” (エンデヴァーズ ミッション) the short story included alongside Chapter 321 in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 35, 2021.
OAV 6: "Tabidachi” (旅立ち Departure)
HS: “Hawks: SOOTHE” (ホークス: SOOTHE Hawks: Soothe) the short story in Vol. “World Heroes”.
MOVIE 3: “Boku no Hero Academia The Movie ～WORLD HEROES MISSION～” [僕 (ぼく) のヒーローアカデミア THE (ザ) MOVIE (ムービー) ～ワールドヒーローズミッション ～ My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission]
TIMELINE (JANUARY, FEBRUARY & MARCH)
ENDEAVOR AGENCY ARC
JANUARY 1: New year’s morning. Midoriya Izuku/Deku leaves for his work study. Takami Keigo/Hawks goes to the MLA bases. Todoroki Enji/Endeavor ‘welcomes’ the students that will have their work study in his agency (Todoroki Shōto, Deku and Bakugō Katsuki) then deals with Starservant and receives from Hawks a book of the meta liberation army which Hawks uses to reveal the MLA future plans to him and how they plan to attack in four months. Hawks goes to the MLA bases and the League sees Endeavor’s interns in action through a video. [BNHA Chap 243-248 It could also be that it's on this day Shigaraki Tomura/Shimura Tenko has Garaki Kyūdai start modifying his body.]
EARLY JANUARY (ONE WEEK AFTER THEY STARTED THEIR WORK STUDY): Todoroki Fuyumi invites Shōto, Deku and Bakugō at her home where they learn of what happened to Shōto’s oldest brother, Todoroki Tōya/Dabi. Ending captures Todoroki Natsuo to get Endeavor to kill him. He instead freezes and the one saving Natsuo and capturing Ending are Shōto, Deku and Bakugō. [BNHA Chap 248-252]
PARANORMAL LIBERATION WAR ARC
AROUND JANUARY 6: Winter break is over. [BNHA Chap 253. Usually this is the date in which it ends in Japanese schools]
AROUND JANUARY 7: School resumes. The student go on ground Alpha to train with Yagi Toshinori/All Might as Aizawa Shōta/Eraser Head and Yamada Hizashi/Present Mic go see Kurogiri and gets from him the word ‘hospital’ which the Hero commission passes to Hawks while Garaki is still experimenting on Shigaraki. Meanwhile Class A shows what they learnt in their work study. Deku, Shōto and Bakugō show how they have improved working under Endeavor. Eri’s horn starts to feel weird and Aizawa decides he’ll start training her that same week. He then meets up with All Might and tells him Tsukauchi Naomasa wants him to delay seeing Akaguro Chizome/Stain. In the evening class A has a hot-pot party. [BNHA Chap 253-257 Usually this is the date in which Japanese schools resume lessons]
JANUARY 11: Todoroki Shōto turns 16.
AROUND JANUARY 14: Bubaigawara Jin/Twice asks Hawks to help him with his mission statement. Hawks has memorized how the Paranormal Liberation Front is organized. [BNHA Chap 258 One week has gone by from the hospital hint, one month from the formation of the PLF]
JANUARY 18: Todoroki Tōya/Dabi turns 24.
WORLD HEROES MISSION ARC
LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Flect Turn, leader of Humarise, gives a speech in the main sanctuary of the Humarise sect involving Quirk Singularity Doomsday Theory and the extinction of humanity before triggering a Trigger Bombs in a major city, with the result everyone who has a Quirk first goes Berserk and then dies, leading tot he distruction of the city and the survival of few Quirkless people which are then approached by Humarise members. At the same time Alan Kay, flees from Humarise taking important document with himself. After it Humarise broadcast to the world that they were the ones responsible for the bombing. [Movie 3 In theory in the anime this is presented as taking place bfore Fuyumi were to invite the boys in her own home but since the twim between the boys starting their internship and Fuyumi's invitation is solely of a week I assume it took place short after]
LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Endeavor tests Deku, Shōto and Bakugō to see if they can take part to the operation that's being organized by the World Heroes Association. The kids pass the test and are told they'll get special stealt new suits. [EM It takes place short before the mission in Otheon though it should take place before the first Trigger bomb exploded]
LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Endeavor, Deku, Shōto and Bakugō are at the airport about to leave for Otheon a small country in Europe when they argue for their seating places on the plane. Hawks, who's also at the airpost with Tokoyami Fumikage/Tsukuyomi as they're about to leave for America, reassigns their places so they can safely start their travel to Otheon. [OAV 6, HS It takes place short before the Heroes leave for the mission to Otheon. It's unclear if it's in the same day as when Deku and Co were tested... as it's unclear how long it took to create their new suits]
LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: The Heroes are searching for all the 25 Humarise branches all around the world but can't find any Trigger bomb nor Flect Turn. Alan Kay is still on the run, carrying a package he plans to deliver to prevent the destruction of the world. [Movie 3]
LIKELY STILL IN JANUARY: Rody Soul leaves his siblings to go to work. Stanleyk gives him the job to retrieve robbed uncut, untraceable jewelry. However Deku, Shōto and Bakugō stumble on the robbery and try to capture the thiefs. As the thiefs escape one of them managed to give the briefcase to Rody who's then chased by Deku. At the same time Beros, a Humarise agent, attacks Alan Kay while he's driving a car on the highway just as Rody is passing under it. By mistake Rody ends up picking up Alan Kay's briefcase and leaving behind his own. Deku managed to reach him and inspect his briefcase but to their surprise there are no jewels but documents. They're then encircled by the police and, as Rody escape, the police tries to kill them both, along with Berus who also attack them. They manage to escape but when Deku contacts Shōto the Otheon international news agency announces that Izuku is publicly accused of a mass murder of twelve people, notifying the entire nation that he is extremely armed and dangerous, resulting in putting him on the most wanted list. Deku and Rody goes in hiding and try to leave the country and go to Klayd. At the Otheon Police HQ, Endeavor complains to the Otheon Chief of Police with no results. His group discover Alan Kay is a defective member of Humarise who is now comatose. Shōto and Bakugō decide to reach Deku to Klayd. By night Rody dreams of his past. Rody tries to escape but he's attacked by a Humarise agent, Rogone and Beros. Deku saves him but gets injured and the two manage to escape and become frieds. [Movie 3]
THE DAY AFTER: Rody gets ahold of a nearby van and he and Deku travel on it. It's unclear if the travel lasts one full day or more but, if that's the case, during the night of that day Rody tells Deku about his Quirk. [Movie 3]
THE DAY AFTER: When Deku and Rody are close tot he border they're attacked by Berus again and by another Humarise agent, Sidero but Shōto and Bakugō save them. Inspecting the briefcase they manage to recover a chip and hid in Klayd. Humarise publicly broadcasts that they will detonate 25 Trigger Bombs in less than two hours. This causes mass panic while the Heroes try to prevent the bomb explosion. Meaniwhile Deku and Co hear Alan Kay's recording and discover Humarise's plan and how to shut down their bombs with a device created by Eddie Soul, Rody's father who was kidnapped by them. Rody drives a plane to take them to Humarise's true main base in time. Eventually they beat Humarize and Rody manages to stop the bombs. [Movie 3]
THE DAY AFTER: The leaders of Humarise are arrested and so is the chielf of police of Otheon. Deku, Shōto, Bakugō and Rody are carried to the hospital where Rody meets his siblings and Recovery Girl heals them. [Movie 3]
LIKELY THE DAY AFTER: Deku, Shōto, Bakugō and Endeavor are about to leave Otheon. Rody says bye to Deku first then goes to Stanleyk's to ask for a honest job and begins working as a bartender. [Movie 3]
MARCH: 3rd term final exam. [Usually held during the first full week of March]
MARCH (THE THIRD WEEK OF MARCH AROUND THE 25TH/26TH): Spring break starts. [Usually this is the date in which it starts in Japanese schools]
MARCH (THE DAY BEFORE THE PARANORMAL LIBERATION WAR): The students are told they'll go on a trip for their work study.
MARCH (END OF THE MONTH WHEN SPRING BREAK IS ALMOST OVER): Paranormal Liberation War. Endeavor attack Jaku hospital. Dabi tries to protect Twice from Hawks attack but Twice ends up killed anyway. Dabi seriously burns Hawks’ back. Endeavor fights along with other Heroes against Shigaraki and, with the help of Shōto, Deku and Bakugō manages to seriously burn him. Dabi and the rest of the league arrive with Gigantomachia and Dabi reveals his real identity to his father and brother and in a video that’s made visible to all the world. He then fights with Shōto and seriously burns himself, though he also manages to burn his brother. Endeavor manages to knock down Gigantomachia before fainting. Shiragaki, now possessed by All for One, Dabi, Toga Himiko and Iguchi Shūichi/Spinner flew. Gigantomachia and Sako Atsuhiro/Mr Compress are captured along with most of the MLA (Geten included). A clone of Yotsubashi Rikiya/Re-Destro goes to the Hero Public Safety Commission and is attacked. He however manages to kill the president and many of the people there before melting when Twice dies. On that same night Shigaraki attacks Tartarus with his Nōmu, kills all the guards and free all the convicts. Stain take possession of some documents and escapes on his own. Tsutsumi Kaina/Lady Nagant takes with herself Chisaki Kai/Overhaul and is asked by All for One to capture Deku. In exchange she is granted the Quirk ‘Air walk’. [BNHA Chap 258-297]
MARCH (THE DAY AFTER): Shian prison, Bagu prison, Kuin prison and other 4 prisons are attacked by Shigaraki Tomura, All for One and the Nomu. The convicts escape from all the prisons except for the one which was also holding captive Tobita Danjūrō/Gentle Criminal, as he refuses to escape and stop the others from escaping as well. [BNHA Chap 298]
MARCH (TWO DAYS LATER): Bakugō wakes up in Central Hospital. Shōto is awake and gets his classmates’ support. Endeavor undergoes surgery. Hawks and Hakamada Tsunagu/Best Jeanist discover Dabi got his info about Hawks from Takami Tomie. Civilians take arms to fight the Villains on their own. Yoroi Musha retires. Endeavor wakes up at the hospital and confront with his family, Todoroki Rei, who has left the hospital, included. They think back at their family’s past, and then Endeavor is pushed to fight Dabi. Shōto promises he'll do it with him. Deku, while unconscious, talks with the previous owners of One for All. [BNHA Chap 298]
MARCH (THREE DAYS LATER): Endeavor gives a conference which is witnessed by Dabi as well. People is told to move in shelters. [BNHA Chap 306]
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You mentioned being Italian, how did you learn to speak or at least write English so well? Your Japanese translations are also pretty good too! I want learn Italian so what would you recommend that would help learn to read and write another language?
Thank you!
The genuine answer? Fandoms. Really. I've been studying languages for most of my life (english since elementary school, french in middle and high school, german since hs and japanese since college) but so far I've only gotten truly fluent in the only language I didn't just approach from a textbook learning angle. My fluency probably also comes from speaking english the longest, but what really improved my proficiency was consuming and engaging with my passions in my target language. Something that I struggle a lot with is staying motivated in the long run. I tend to run out of steam after a while, and I lose all the progress I made. But fandoms feed on my passions, so engaging with them helps me find the motivation to keep going, while also making it less like a chore that needs to be taken care of.
I was a B1 until I graduated high school, but then I started reading copius amounts of fanfic and meta in english, and began writing my own. Reading taught me a lot of common new words I had never encountered before in my textbooks, as well as several idioms, and the longer I kept at it, the more stuff I assimilated into my vocabulary. I spent a couple of years just reading ff, not thinking I had it in me to truly begin writing in my second language, but then it sort of... Just happened. I got a fic idea late at night and wrote a 6k oneshot in one sitting during an all nighter. The fact that I was tired and inspired probably lowered my remaining inhibitions and temporarily muted that part of my brain that was self-conscious. But suddenly, english didn't seem so scary anymore. When I reread what I wrote the next day, after getting some sleep, it wasn't as agrammatical and terrible as I had feared, and that motivated me to keep doing it. I find that a lot of the time what stops us from improving is the fear of making a fool of ourselves. I also didn't comment on fanfic for years in fear of outing myself, and on the rare occasions I did, I always prefaced my comments with an apology for my english. But when you finally get in the mindframe that people don't really care about any mistakes you might make, it was really liberating. Honestly, just have fun! Who cares! Native speakers make tons of mistakes too! I can see that so clearly now.
This was around the time I got into Tokyo Ghoul meta and timidly approached my first analyses. Meta is fairly different from creative writing, but it also helped me improve because it taught me essay writing better than my english teacher marking my mistakes in angry red. When you're trying to explain a concept so that others understand it, rather than just to get a passing grade, you will attempt to break it down into easier concepts and pace it better, instead of just paying attention to SPaG. This also had the side effect of teaching me how to better sort my thoughts and get them across clearly, which has always been a struggle for me in spoken conversations. My thoughts tend to be messy, and I trip over my words a lot (in my native language too), but thinking about going from point a to point b like I'm writing an essay helps me a lot, personally.
The last step was joining a discord server in 2019. I can't stress enough how language is constantly evolving, and how slang and everyday language isn't something you can passively learn from textbooks or online courses. Those are only good as the foundation of your skills. They teach you the grammar and the basic vocabulary, but then you have to engage with real people, you know? I've always struggled to hold a conversation because I'm socially awkward, but discord is useful to me because it is a group chat, so there is less pressure on my end to keep a conversation going. Interacting with people from all over the world taught me to be less self-conscious about my skills, and meeting people of different age ranges taught me a variety of slang expressions to pass for a not-boomer myself, at least at first glance :'D
Moral of the story, do follow courses and use textbooks (those are important!), but also keep in mind those are not the be-all end-all of language proficiency, like school and academia tries so hard to teach you. If you find yourself hitting a wall and not getting any better anymore, take it as a sign your grammar is good enough to take the next step in your journey. So then, try to think of something you have fun doing. A hobby of yours. And then think of ways you can engage with it in your target language.
I had different phases in my life where I explored various things thay way. I got obsessed with a band in middle school and started watching and rewatching the videos they posted online, trying to understand everything they said. This improved my listening skills considerably. Years later I got really into WoW and I learned vocab by playing it and by looking for tutorials online. If you read a lot, consider looking for titles in that language you want to learn. Stuff like this. Listening to music, watching movies or tv series with subtitles (esp if the subtitles are in your target language too). All this stuff helps a lot! And the added plus is that for however challenging it might be at first, you'll stay motivated because it relates to something you already enjoy
#Fun fact I'm trying to apply my own advice to my german skills#And reading fanfic in german#It's been an interesting experience so far#And I can confirm it is helpful bc my vocab is much wider than it was two months ago#Tho depending on your skill level when you start out reading might be fairly challenging#So maybe try the other things first#Or reread something you've already read in your native language#Ali replies#Languages#Sorry if I got really rambley. I'm just a bit of a nerd about languages and I got excited
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Hey it's that anon again. y'know that one from like a day ago. or a few days ago I don't have a good sense of time. it could be 2030 for all I know
I think my most major like, post-canon take is that I'd probably sorta hate it if I were treating it as a real completely serious canon continuation of Homestuck. Instead I read it more like fanfic than anything, just slightly more Creator Approved than most fics.
Not to say I lack standards of quality for fanfic, but I am more open to certain character alterations and interpretations (there are still more than a handful I don't like in post-canon) because I am more cool with seeing it as someone else's vision of a character rather than them being "utterly ruined" in canon or whatever.
I think it also helps that I read all of Homestuck a couple years after HS^2 paused so I wasn't in the active fandom during all of that (I almost was! I originally tried reading back in 2011 but I fell off of it within 500 pages because I had bad taste) so I didn't actually have my opinion particularly swayed by outside influences and was just more willing to give it a fair reading.
My next most major post-canon take is that, as an epilogues and HS^2 liker, the most recent upd8 is quite literally the best I've actually felt about the writing in ANY post-canon content. I think even if I DISLIKED HS^2, I'd still be interested in seeing where it goes from here, after that.
Hi! I waited til I read all of HS2 to reply so I actually know what I’m talking about. I get you on the benefits of backreading, reading this thing in one go I cannot imagine waiting month-long pauses in between scenes, boy can you really feel them in the text (in a way that wasn’t true in the original comic.)
I don’t find that either the AH-lessness or the divisiveness of the postcanon stuff changes the fact that this is the de facto continuation of the canon storyline - it is the reason any of us are reading it. Them framing the epilogues as an AO3 fic doesn’t make them any less on homestuck.com, rejecting this continuation is an active choice you have to make as a HS reader.
Anyway reading HS2 I was surprised both by how little plot occurred (except in Candy, ironically -- oh my GOD I cannot believe Meat decided to do 3 more years of The Yard/Meteorstuck) and how overall unobjectionable it was? This comic’s just been a lot of really nice art and decently written character banter, and that’s essentially it. Then both took a shocking nosedive in ch15/16, the worst writing I’ve seen in all of HS/postcanon, which was so egregious that I think… if the New Team honestly cares about this project shouldn’t they at the very least go back and revise some of that? At least fix the numerous typos?? Instead we get Terezi offering wry meta commentary that this time she’ll “do it right”, which already communicates a dismissive attitude I’m not impressed by. But hey all we've seen so far is two new conversations, everybody loves Sollux, let’s see if JR can fanfic his way into a compelling story.
…Seriously tho anon, thanks for sharing your thoughts and I absolutely just used your ask as an excuse to bitch some opinions out. It remains true there’s nothing in HS2 that I like that hasn’t already been done or done better in fanworks, except drawing Jane looking extremely bangin I guess, but I haven’t sought that out, as a fan, so it’s like the gift I didn’t even know I wanted, and didn't want
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i am really feeling the lack of a place to talk (my current) fandom without the entire internet looking in this chili’s tonight
in other news: started actually reading HS! on my phone, so i’m using the official website. i know a bunch bc my ex gave me a literal powerpoint presentation (bless him /affectionate) and i gleaned stuff from occasional google searches and meta posts.
i feel like i am v much eyeballing the characters - their voices are probably not on point yet. it’s easier to base stuff on existing fic aus bc there the characterization is like - given in one novel-sized package? eh i’m still learning.
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December 31: WIPs and Ideas I'm Taking Into 2023
As the year is ending, I am considering what writing projects I will try to complete next year. Will 2023 be the year I finish my WIPs? Will it at least be the year I let go of WIPs I don't care about? We'll see.
Here are (most of) my current projects and ideas--T100 only because I don't feel brave enough to even address Star Trek or other fandoms. Let's see where I am at the end of 2023.
devil's gonna get me one of these days: Southern Gothic AU; ensemble and multi-pairing; vampires, ghosts, and secrets
Troped Madness Horror Round: Harper-centric, epistolary/found footage-y
Talk About Timing in Times Like These: Bellarke, Modern AU, exes to lovers, heavy on the bitterness
And They Lived: aka the Ark Sleeping Beauty AU, Bellarke with a lot of other stuff going on
A Watch With No Hands: parts 3 and 4, the continuation of my 2019 Bellarke Big Bang, Grounder Clarke, Arker Bellamy, canon divergence
The Poly Fic: endgame Bravenlarke, modern AU, what it says on the tin
Can't Be King of the World: aka my long (long) percolating Ark AU, ensemble and multi-pairing with a lot of Wells
Sky Village: canon-divergence with rare pairs, independent delinquent village feels
Blake Siblings Summer AU: ...this is a Pete & Pete AU, if I'm brave enough to write it
Slow Summer Vibes: one step up from a PWP, Bellarke in the heat of summer
Under the Western Stars: more Bellarke modern AU angst nonsense
Kiss the Ring: canon-divergent Becho, in which they are both brutal, ruthless leaders
Jonty Dual Timeline: part modern AU, part canon-divergence, heavily S3 inspired
Sequel to How I'll Spend Through Winter: more Bellarke UST and longing, this time in high school, some Princess Mechanic
Bellarke Bingo Love Potion: Bellamy runs an antique store. Clarke takes a love potion. There's magic involved.
Dawson's Creek AU: endgame Bellarke and Murven, and in the meantime, a faithful AU for no reason at all
Documentary History of the U.S.S.S Arkadia: expanded version of my Braven fic of the same name
Reality Bites AU: as it says; Bellarke
Dollhouse AU: also as it says, ensemble/Bellarke, Bellamy as Echo and Clarke as Ballard...sort of
autumnverse fic: eternal-autumn type universe with ghosts!
oh well you've got me under your spell: an old Bellarke HS AU I always wanted to continue
Bellarke Bingo Blast: trope-heavy Bellarke friends to lovers; embarrassing how many modern AUs are on this list
South: Murven road trip that I started ages ago and might continue?
Everyone Gets Married: mostly Jonty with some Bellarke, sappy romance stuff and perhaps some talk about the concept of marriage
Bellarke Beat AU: this is from 2016, enough said
Maya & Octavia Troped: canon-divergence, post S2
Miller/Bryan Troped: canon-divergence, sometime in S3; more a universe than a plot but like an exes thing
Bellarke Invents Soulmates: triple-timeline, reincarnation and soulmates (former Troped round)
Miller/Bellamy Road Trip: but also they're on the run from the law, danger and UST
T100 + 3% Fusion: Princess Mechanic; 3%-like plot but in T100's universe
Fantasy Heist: delinquents on a magical hunt to save one of their own, still working out the kinks on the universe. And the plot (former Troped round)
Kane/Luna Ark AU: exes and magic and hints of political intrigue perhaps; horror
Slasher: half-baked old Troped Horror idea, heavy on the tropes, and I suppose on the bloodshed
Camping Trip Meta Horror: some horror tropes in the woods
Tropical Horror: something about this island isn't right
Troped Horror 2022: the fic I didn't finish because I thought it was going in a bad direction. Only hints: another slasher, Octavia-centric
Party Fic: Indulgent, stylized, multi-pairing HS AU
Modern Band AU: Bellarke and other pairings, rival bands, minor genre/form experimentation
...I didn't specify but some of these are one-shots and some multi-chapters and if a multi-chap isn't started, I can only promise to start, not finish it in 2023
#ultimately i will prioritize what i want to prioritize and write what i want to write but#i am curious if any of these would have an audience so#lmk if you want to read any of these#the year 2022#2022: writing projects
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F.A.Q.
Q: Who're you?
A: I'm Cal. Autistic, transfem, Homestuck fan, other fandoms fan. I've been writing for a good eight years and have been intermittently drawing for longer. I'm a better writer, though.
Q: What can we expect from your blog?
A: Fan content: fic, art, meta posting. I'll keep reblogs to a minimum/topical. Primarily HS content, though.
Q: How can I reach you?
A: My main is @g0ji, Ao3 is @Synstylae. That's where I'll be following from.
Q: BYF criteria?
A: HS post-canon critical, June Egbert, Vriska sucks. If you disagree with these, feel free to follow me anyway, it's just text informing you of my opinions.
Q: Can I ask you relatively minor things as we delve deeper into this rabbit hole of questioning?
A: Sure, it'll go below the cut that's beneath us.
Q: Favorite HS characters?
A: Rose, Dirk, Terezi, Jade, Davepetasprite^2 in no particular order.
Q: Favorite flush ships?
A: Rosemary (lol), Junesprose, Jaderezi
Q: Favorite pitch ships?
A: Vrisdavepeta, Junerezi
Q: Personal HS classifiers?
A: Knight of Light, Derse, violet blood.
Q: Do you kin Rose Lalonde?
A: Would you like me to.
Q: How can anybody have asked you these questions if you had zero followers when you made it?
A: It's a hypothetical person who makes it more fun to talk about myself than baseless talking into the void.
Q: But you are talking into the void, you've just made a dialogue partner to make it more interesting to read, didn't you?
A: Yes.
Q: That seems masturbatory.
A: It is.
Q: Do you kin Dirk Strider?
A: Would you like me to.
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i am loving your dirkjake fic so far. your characterization of jake hits close to home for me? i sometimes feel like all the complexities he has in canon are hard to translate into fanworks but i think you are doing him justice and i just wanted to say it is very appreciated!
hooooooooooooly shit literally the best compliment to receive ever i'm foaming at the mouth thank you so much
100% most daunting part of writing a homestuck work was the jake writing (right next to jane) justtttt personally bc i didn't want to write over his issues / flaws for the sake of storytelling and more importantly writing dirkjake. idk how successful i was at that because with so much shit just going on in the story i wasn't sure if i was striking a good balance between character driven moments and plot points, so it feels great to hear that some of those complexities still felt present and hit home for you! thank you so much for reading and leaving me this lovely ask <3
i have like ten million jake thoughts inside my head at all times you have no idea so i am absolutely going to take this moment to go on a tangent under a read more
i love all the alpha kids so very dearly but out of the four of them i think jake is probably the one that makes me feel the most batshit insane (also how i feel about jade with the beta kids too) he's got all this layered shit going on in the comic. like i truly want to dissect him under a microscope.
i must credit tomatograter for a lot of the ways i read him as a character. if you haven't already, go read their dirkjake manifesto right nowwwwww it is full of delicious meta analysis.
i think that just due to the nature of dirk's popularity as a character and the amount of time spent in the comic that flush out his issues in canon and post-canon (specifically while handling those issues seriously-ish (?) and not getting into too much jokey or cruel territory, which is how i believe jake's issues are treated in canon and post-canon just in my humble opinion espppppp post-canon), a lot of dirkjake fanworks put dirk and his issues as sort of the front and center of the narrative. i find that a lot of works in the hurt/comfort category set up dirk as the one hurting and jake as the comforter by proxy. but this seems to extend outside the genre too like i just often see works that are a little more dirk centric and jake primarily functions as the "love interest" role.
when you write jake as the comforter, it’s easier to write him as more grounded, confident, and secure so he can be the vehicle for dirk to figure his shit out. but, i am first and foremost a jake enjoyer specifically because i think his flaws are SO FUN......... i like that jake is a coward. i like that he is so guided by fear and self preservation that it makes him neglect or hurt the people around him and cause problems for himself. a lot of people read this as jake being kind of a selfish person which i think is a sound argument sure, but i like the term self-preserving a little bit more because of the contrast it makes with dirk, who is so frequently cutting off his own head self-sacrificing for his own agenda. i like that he’s embarrassing and a crybaby (affectionate) and does a lot of cringe shit all the time. and i didn’t want to erase those qualities for the sake of "fixing" dirkjake.
there is a lot i could add here too about how i don't think dirk centric dirkjake stuff is bad either. the derse characters esp the striders are popular for a lot of reasons in the comic that i won't get into and i do honestly feel like people get hung up on their popularity just to be contrarian sometimes and it comes off a bit mean-spirited to me? all of that being said, ig sometimes i wish there was more of an attitude when interpreting characters meta relationships etc of if it's not for you, just leave it at that. no need to call it bad or wrong or cringe etc.
and god there is so much MORE i could say about how i personally do enjoy any and all readings of hs characters. i dislike subscribing to one kinda reading and even if someone writes or interprets a character like jake differently from me i still find it very interesting and enjoyable and fun! and i appreciate that there is a variety of writers and fans that interpret him in all kinds of ways, i think he's just an interesting character to explore in general? so all this being said i am very glad this reading hit home to you! but also i don't want my response to come off as... YES MY READING OF HIM IS THE ONLY CORRECT ONE bc what the fuck do i know... this is just my own reading for one particular story. i think it's good to have an open mind to all kinds of hcs. i'm a believer in the more takes the merrier, i like to see em all.
but anyways yeah i... don't really know how well i've done in portraying all these jake thoughts so far in the work but i guess those were just my intentions going into it? to balance them both out and keep the jake writing feeling authentic to those certain flaws. those are the things i really like to see explored in fanworks myself so i hoped to do the same!
for the first homestuck work i published i wanted it to be like a proper chaptered adventure au with some world building and an actual set-up, climax, conclusion situation just to try something new for me but in the future i would love to just do more jake-centric oneshots where i try to dissect his brain for a couple thousand melodramatic words and call it a day. now that's indulgence baby.
god but i could really go on about dirkjake as narrative foils for days but i won't. i already wrote an essay here and will leave it at that.
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Malevolent inspired brain worms that quickly spiraled completely out of control:
Kayne mentions listening in on the confrontation with the King from “up in the nosebleeds”, which like. What if someone else was there. And she got to actually yell at Arthur for a minute, like the casual self-insert she began as. “How do I begin to tell a man about meta-textuality when he can’t even identify what a genre is.”
But my particular worm-can (brain) is like. Hold up. Who is she, why’s she there. It can’t be you because you’re you. And I’m like, good point worms! (I can’t ever self insert for long, or else the worms escape their can.)
She’s… interested not in the players, but in the story. She’s powerful enough that she can be involved, but not so strong as to directly influence the narrative. She’s… a Muse!
This satiates the worms of the worm can, for all of a moment. “There’s 9 muses. Which one is she?” I decide on Terpsichore, because that was the only one I could remember that wasn’t Urania (astronomy) or Calliope (music). Surely she’s related to narrative? I am now compelled to check. Oh, she’s the Muse of dance, actually. This drives the brain worms into a tizzy, because she wouldn’t necessarily be interested in the narrative the same way some of her sisters would be, but oh! Oh! PARALLELS! Fuck yes the King in Yellow, heralded by dancers, in the original novel met/brought about by masquerade within the play, would be interested in Terpsichore. (In the interest of keeping some mystery, she now gives her name to Arthur/John as “Hickory”, reasoning that it at least rhymes. She tries to stay vague, but astute or classically minded readers can pick up on her mentioning multiple sisters and other Grecian tells.)
“”Hickory”” has a long and complicated history with the King, which is to say he would like her to dance for him alone and she can’t promise that. Her sisters have different feelings about it, because Urania would really like to study the Hyades (the dark stars of Carcosa), which necessitates at least sort of playing along with the King. Comedy and Tragedy have different outlooks as to how a relationship could turn out (as, in Greek theater, love and marriage is exclusively the province of comedy. Tragedy is about hamartia, hubris, and meeting messy ends. If I recall my hs drama classes right.) The King gifted her a necklace that is a literal star, one of the Hyades, set in gold, as a necklace, which like. That’s very nice! Very… shiny. Like a black opal. But not the best gift for the Muse of dance. And there are complicated feelings and otherworldly politics and also Kayne, who thinks this is all hilarious, hence why he dragged her along in the first place.
As you can tell this is very much spiraling out of any sort of purview of the podcast but also indelicately tied to it, so like. I preserve my thoughts here, amber to dig up by an enterprising fandom archaeologist. If you make Jurassic Park (the fic), send me a ticket, I’ll grab popcorn.
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what r ur fav hs fanfics 👁👁 im looking for recs
thank you so so much for the question anon i am a fanfiction sommelier but i rarely get to talk about my craft
godfeels, or: "i dreamed of feeling better" - long as shit but more than worth the investment. i dont stop thinking about june egbert ever because of this fic
Through Shadowed Eyes - i love love love roxy so much and i could spend hours looking at candy! roxy under a microscope which is why i really enjoy that this fic spends 170k words doing exactly that
to praise the mutilated world - vrisrezi................ (honestly everything ive read by this author is really good check them out)
and now my heart stumbles on things i don't know - vrisrezi again
you gut me in the bathroom - more vrisrezi
Stygian Blue - vrisrezi but it's more meta and existential
Omelette Route - i haven't actively anticipated new fic chapters the way this has made me in at least 5 years. i generally try to avoid reading unfinished stuff unless it's still updating regularly (which this is) and being up to date on pickle route reminds me why
I Know What You Think Of Me - the only time i've seen the tag "alternate universe - commercial fishing industry" as far as i can remember
Temporal Whiplash - short but really stuck with me for some reason
and i think that's it for now unless there's anything i forgot to bookmark. if anyone has additional recs pls do not hesitate to send them <3
#it was fun making this post i would not have paid any attention to the patterns in my bookmarks otherwise#the relationships i really like in canon are not equally represented here at all#ZERO rose dave siblingisms fics here even though thats maybe my favorite dynamic in hs#ask#anon#hsposting
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WIP game!
tagged by @largedenominationsplease
Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DnD campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!
okay so here's the thing. I've been using my google drive to write original fic and fanfiction since I was fifteen, so. This is gonna be lawwwwng.
FANFICTION
outer banks
Engineering School AU notes
home(where your heart is set in stone)
home outline
Jiara AUs
Jiara week
JJ's Lesbian Older Sister Meta
katie's bday smut
sincerity is scary outline
the Parcels of Tannyhill
bellarke
"I got a dog"
(She Returned) More Broken than Before
All These Words I've Heard Before
An Unexpected Guest
Begginings of wicken fic (YOIKES)
Bellarke fwp
Bits and Pieces and To Be Used
Clarke's Greek Pantheon Photography project
Dancing in the dark
devil's backbone - the civil wars
domestic!bellarke bc im trash
fire and stone (and a swingin trombone)
Hot Boys and Indie Music (Make for a Pretty Great Summer)
I have to tell you these flowers are for a dead person
I'm Hers and She is Mine
Library AU
Library crush - bellarke fic
more 30 minute fictions with the best friend
Museum!Bellamy
Rebel!Clarke hs au
Silent Warrior, Screaming Youth
SingleDad!Bellamy
so go ahead and make your mark on me
so go ahead and make your mark on me (REWRITE)
Soulmate Words
sweeter than sugar (colder than ice)
the Bellamy Thing
when the door sings closed
you held my hand (and called me darling)
fleeting hyperfixations
beth x benny
bones OC
jatp college au
jerin
shoni fic ideas
WayHaught
Z nation
Percy Jackson
PJO lesbian Athena thing
Solangelo??
Star Wars
Jyndor
Lex and Gage
Voltron
klance high school AU
shallura dancer au cause i have no self control
Voltron
Voltron AU#1
Young - The Chainsmokers
ORIGINAL WRITING
DnD
Cadogan Druhaven
other
A writer in venice throws his typewriter out the window one day
Ace and Arthur
Apparently sleep hates me
Ari and Mel
Band story
Blacksmith Boy
Brett and Nia
Calliope and Wren long
Castor and Pollux
Chance and Ezra
Denim and leather; Fire and ice
Draconic Novice
Draconic Novice Notes
Dystopian society
Elias and Charlie
Ellie and Aaron
Escape
For Ryn's Birthday
happy lesbians
Henry, Tial, and Ellia
Honos et Veritas
I don't know what this was supposed to be but it was gay
Isabelle the Ghost Whisperer
Kira and Nell
Kisae Dwellden
Kyto and Petr
Mark and Joanna start
Men of the Moors
Modern Magick
modern magick Development Journey
Modern Magick Trilogy Plot Outline
Modern Magick Worldbuilding
Modern Magick: Fire
Modern Magick: Water
Morgan and the Witch's son
Nell doesn't look like a mafia princess
Notes-Draconic Novice
Paige and Katie
Parker and Rae
pirates story
quarantine podcast
Reece tells Kai that Jason is alive and he starts to cry
Richard and Gabrielle?
Runaway Mage
Sign language zombie killers
Some of Us Alive
Stub
The first thing he notices about her is her left hand
The Four Suits
the hill that grew
the lindstrom sisters (bank robbers)
the Rider General
this is sad
This wasn't where he wanted to be
vegas motorcycle gang
Vyvinuly
wars beyond men
wars beyond men rewrite (? third person ?)
When War Comes
white-Collar Trash
wolves
so yeah
there's a lot lol
tagging: @jojameswinter @a92vm @jiaraisinthegoodplace @smileymikey and whoever else wants to!!
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