april13th2009

[april13th2009]

sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

#Vriska Serket #reminded me of homestuck tag #wow. two Vriskacore textposts in a row babey

[april13th2009]

the fact that op turned off rbs is very very funny to me. anyway i want this post on my blog too.

#vriska serket #reminded me of homestuck tag

[april13th2009]

I headcanon that Dirk has a mental red string evidence board dedicated to explaining the stairs gag from SBaHJ and he would totally blue screen if anyone ever lets him know that it’s just a reference about the time (times?) Dave got shoved down the stairs by his Bro

The worst kind of “it’s not that deep“ situation

#dave strider #dirk strider #bro strider

[april13th2009]

90% of sufferers quit right before they figure out how to give their suffering meaning

#reminded me of homestuck tag

[april13th2009]

Another hour later…

...well, first of all, it's an hour later, and they still haven't cleaned up Aradia's body? The disrespect, lmao

It’s the moment of truth, then.

What's going to happen to our spare Dave Strider?

Well, that's that experiment already ruined.

If he dies now, if won't be on his Quest Bed, so we'll never know if he would have otherwise revived. Maybe Terezi is trying to correct this before it's too late.

TG: hello TG: terezi TG: whats up GC: >:[

For a second, I was confused about how Terezi was able to talk to him inside a doomed timeline - but then I remembered how this is supposed to work. As soon as Dave travelled back to the past, he wasn't in a doomed timeline anymore.

But he was still doomed.

It's so fucked that you can actually see his head begin to fall off.

Regrets, Seer?

You don't need to answer. I'm pretty sure those are the first tears you've ever cried onscreen.

Terezi Pyrope is starting to care.

#I'D DIE FOR HER. TZ THE MOST CHARACTER EVER #undescribed #terezi pyrope #dave strider

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Fucking hell.

She can push and push and push, but she's never going to get the result she wants. All she can do is torture them both - and really, that's all she's ever done.

It's what a thief does. End this.

The game branded Vriska a Thief of Light. It's a simple descriptor - too simple, I think, to define the totality of a person. You can't describe someone's entire being with two nouns.

Yes, Vriska is a Thief of Light - but that's not all she is. There's nuance to her personality that Snowman can't understand, and perhaps Sgrub can't understand it either.

That's not the face of a girl who doesn't care.

Terezi slapped Vriska gleefully when she first appeared, but I think she's harboring a lot more affection for her Scourge Sister than she lets on.

You know what the worst part is?

Vriska is going to blame Tavros for this. She's going to blame Tavros for his weakness, and I don't know if she'll ever accept that it was her own choices that led her to this undignified end.

This is so much worse than anything I thought was going to happen.

No wonder Tavros hid on Prospit for the rest of the game.

#the scene ever!!! #tavros nitram #vriska serket

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She gave him a choice.

But I don’t think she was prepared for the consequences.

The problem is, she assumed that there wasn't a choice - that Tavros would do exactly what she'd do in this situation. Even now, she refuses to understand him.

Thief. Why not take control.

Even Snowman is confused.

I mean, I can understand why. As Vriska's Exile, Snowman has been keenly observing her - and what she's seen is a ruthless control freak, who manipulates losers like Tavros as easily as she breathes.

But an Exile station can't see inside Vriska's head. She doesn't just see Tavros as a loser, she sees him as her project - and from her perspective, all her plans for him are finally coming to fruition.

In Vriska's head, this is the moment Tavros finally snaps, accepts that her way is the right way, and drives his lance through her heart. The possibility that he'd still refuse to let her win is so unacceptable that she's willing to risk excruciating death to prove she’s right.

But she's wrong.

#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! #this is probably my favorite scene in the webcomic #the characterization.... #undescribed #vriska serket #tavros nitram

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GC: YOU 4SK3D WH4T 1T M34NS TO B3 TH3 S33R OF M1ND [...] GC: 1F YOU S33 WH4TS 1N YOUR M1ND CL34RLY 4ND UND3RST4ND TH3 POW3R YOUR THOUGHTS H4V3 GC: TH3N YOU UND3RST4ND R34L1TY WH1L3 3V3RYON3 3LS3 1S RUNN1NG 4ROUND CONFUS3D 4ND 4NGRY 4ND UPS3T

I was hoping that Terezi would start expositing on her own Title. Unlike the kids, she's had a full-length session of Sgrub to grow into her understanding of her own role, so she's able to speak with some authority on what it means. Let's see what she has to say.

GC: B3C4US3 TH3Y TH1NK R34L1TY 1S SOM3TH1NG H4PP3N1NG TO TH3M GC: R4TH3R TH4N SOM3TH1NG TH3Y 4R3 M4K1NG 3V3RY MOM3NT W1TH 3V3RY THOUGHT

This is, of course, completely literal. We've just seen Dave spawn an entire timeline from his thoughts, and it's possible that all divergent timelines spawn from people's decisions.

Through her understanding of Mind, Terezi essentially conjured Green-Suited Dave - and in doing so, demonstrated that her powers have real, physical consequences. They might not be as flashy as John's, but they're a lot more flexible.

GC: 1 4M NOT PSYCH1C, BUT 1 H4V3 TH3 S1GHT S33RS 4R3 M34NT TO H4V3 GC: 1T W4S MY ROL3 TO H4V3 1T

This seems to confirm that Terezi's intuition is, in fact, informed by her Title abilities. She doesn't have troll psionics, but she does have some sort of 'sight' granted by her Aspect. I assume this sight is what allows her to smell people's personalities and detect lies.

GC: FOR MY 3N3M13S, 1 W4S M34NT TO BR1NG 4BOUT TH3 1NH3R3NT R3TR1BUT1ON FLOW1NG FROM TH3 R34L1TY M4D3 BY TH31R OWN 3V1L THOUGHTS

Terezi has a prodigious understanding of the way people think. According to her, this means that she's meant to be a master manipulator, turning her enemies' thoughts and desires against them. I'm not entirely convinced that a class called the 'Seer' is intended to be used this way, but it's worked out pretty well for her so far.

Note also that she doesn't question the base assumption that her enemies are evil. To this trainee legislacerator, anyone who stands against her is evil by definition. This isn't the first time we've seen this attitude from her, as she also used it to justify the murders she committed as a Scourge Sister.

#aaaaa very good analysis #terezi pyrope

[april13th2009]

Happy (very late) 12th of April! :333

#undescribed #mituna captor #latula pyrope

[april13th2009]

it just so happens that today, April 13th, a young man is banging out the tunes

[april13th2009]

413

Definition: The numerals of the blind prophets.

Source 1. Source 2. Source 3.

[april13th2009]

lady liberty ♎ [photo reference]

#undescribed #terezi pyrope

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Yippee 413! This is going to be my first 413 since starting the comic :)

#Adrien says stuff

[april13th2009]

Mituna?

ID: Mituna Captor's talksprites from the second Openbound game. End ID.

ID: All of Mituna's Ministrife sprites. Most notable is the one where he is helmetless and revealed to have fluffy hair covering his eyes, as well as the one where he is dressed up as a bumblebee. End ID.

#i love democracy

[april13th2009]

what are some common character misconceptions that you often see get thrown around in the fandom?

#sigh. going with Mituna but that's just me playing favorites #(also tbf I thought the Dave capitalism thing was only ever implied like once for the sake of making a johnkat communism shipname joke?) #(like idk how seriously we were meant to take that) #(unless you count him manipulating the stock market on a planet inhabitanted solely by magical crocodiles. which. see prev assertion)

[april13th2009]

A digital drawing of terezi pyrope, looking up from below. She stands in the sun.

#terezi pyrope

[april13th2009]

A little known comics fact is that bad writing only happens to my faves. Everyone else acted like that because they suck.

#webcomics are comics...