homestuck reread #5: a5a2 part 1
we have finally made it out of the troll session and into the troll - human hybrid adventure that the rest of the comic will be. until more shenanigans ensue that is
look at this.... it reminds me of someone i know...... i love these two together theyre so awesome. john is sort of like if tavros had self respect
:D
that gif of the troll guys smile slowly fading away
ahahahaah this is so awesome
there have been a ton of narrative parallels in the comic so far but this one is so much more obvious than the others. maybe because it happened right after
YEAH YOU ARE!!!!!!! HE DOESNT EVEN KNOWWW
hmmmm
HMMMMMMMMMMM
john is now vriska coded. sweeeeet
this is so funny. bro does not care at alllll
dave why do you call women crazy. do you think thats chill
HI DAVE HIIII DAVE HI IHIHI HI
what could they be referring to.......?
😎
baby daveee
cool panel. he is in the pipes
okay so right now there is a ton of shit happening. theres a bunch of daves running around his planet making fucking bank and hes also working with terezi. john is talking to vriska about getting jade in. rose is talking to kanaya about how they arent actually gonna win the game so she wants answers. jade is..... asleep. again. whats new. but she will have more to do soon im sure. and the panels are getting way cooler! look
my sons are having a meeting about GIRLS.... half of yall arent even into girls 😹😹😹
its so funny how often he fumbles. like he wants SO BADLY to come off like this hyper aggressive badass leader guy who takes no shit from anyone but just. every conversation is him utterly embarrassing himself in front of people he values the opinion of. and you know what? he is all the more the based for that. we salute you karkat
i think this one is a game!!!
that was a game alright i walked around as karkat and talked to all the trolls then did the same thing as terezi and vriska . was fun got some cool easter eggs. also some "demon" destroyed prospit so now karkat is saying that no prospit dreamers are allowed to go to sleep
this shit zoomed in GODDAMN it scared me
look at her fucking stance. she looks like shes ready to do a cart wheel or something
this art is so good man
man. him too huh. maybe its the noses. or the shading
DO NOT SEND HIM THAT VIDEO DAVE . DONT DO ITTTT PLEASE
welp. its the beginning of the end here now. i cant even remember what makes him become... what he becomes. i just remember that this was a part of it, i think?
is this bars?
REAL.... dave does not miss
poor davesprite :( one day you will become half cat troll and work out all of your personal issues
heres a really cool panel to end this part on
i feel like my commentary was lackluster in this one... mostly because im just enjoying reading. taking it all in . i think the comic has really hit its stride at this point (hehe stride) and i am looking forward to revisiting whats coming up next :p
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sanguineterrain left this tag from my previous art post about bruce being 40s heartthrob coded and they are SO right!!!!!! can't stop thinking about it!!!!!
men don't know if they want to be him or own him
this man is a single mother
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One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".
The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.
He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.
So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.
Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.
It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.
How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.
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