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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

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D4Y 200 // Vrisrezi i did for an art contest

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Cluttered sketchbook page is cluttered

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Karkat was probably fretting over Sollux all game since he was down to only one life upon entering the medium

#Then it turned out Sollux had a spare body #homestuck #karkat vantas #sollux captor

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more of this weird gross thing you all like

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Dave: Who wants a TOTALLY NORMAL apple with no drugs embedded in it?

#homestuck #dave strider #incorrect homestuck quotes #alchemy fail

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The in-story reason troll celebrities have the word troll added to their names could be that the empire has encountered multiple planets in its own galaxy (since the conquering other planets was limited to the range the HIC was allowed around her lusus) that have the same celebrities and those other versions have reached enough popularity in troll media that the distinction was needed

#homestuck

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One of the few things that are left of him is that he gets the urge to start shitty business ventures out of the blue

i know ocifying characters is bad but like when it comes to the makaras or damara can you really . avoid that without just writing racism 2.0

#rent a hammock buy my wares or some shit

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Thinking about homestuck's Mark Twain bit in relation to mocking prejudiced people while having the same biases as the subject of mockery and only differing on how it's expressed

#it happens a lot I mean and it's worth thinking about that so we can do better

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you are so very homestuck knowledgeable. when you have the time and should inspiration strike, please tell all your headcanons about oliveblood trolls.

ooo what a great question! for this one i think first we'd need to break down current stereotypes about olivebloods. there's actually not much that we're given about them tbh

according to the homestuck wiki, which is based on info from both the comic and more dubiously canon things like friendsim and hiveswap, the olive caste's two singular traits seem to be "wild animal" and "romance liker". both of these, obviously, are traits pulled from our wonderful main girl nepeta, who was the singular representation of the olive caste for a long time; alongside her dancestors. which is quite cute, who doesn't love nepeta?

the thing is though that i am one of those nitpicky people who likes to say, "well, hey now, nepeta isn't actually representative of her caste at ALL." in fact, none of the beta trolls are. i honestly feel like it should be assumed that just like the beta kids, the beta trolls are weirdos, and not really the 'norm' in their society.

nepeta lives out in the wilderness very specifically away from society in a way that is remarked on as being unusual even for someone of her color; and she does not even understand what role her caste would have given her in normal society. and i mean... considering aradia tavros and sollux are LOWER than nepeta, it doesn't really make sense for them all to have nicer houses than her unless she's unusual in her situation.

^ nepeta is in fact NOT a good representation of olivebloods.

which means... no, i don't think all olive trolls are romance obsessed wilderness girls, actually, sorry, hiveswap friendsim, i have to shelve you from my alternia analysis for now.

luckily, there ARE other olivebloods in the series!

first of all, the other leijons. unfortunately, none of them are really "good" examples either. meulin is from an entirely different planet, and disciple is from an ancient history perhaps even less representative of "normal" life than nepeta is. all we really get from them is stuff we already knew from nepeta-- the wildness, the relationship interest. with an added fact that both meulins seem to be somewhat bookish.

and so who does that bring us to? the final canonical oliveblood.

that's right.

troll will smith.

troll will smith is canonically an oliveblood. not only that, but he's a famous actor, which means he is basically a "model" for society- for what it looks like once you "have it all made". i would imagine this goes even more for alternia, supposedly a very movie-geared society.

the two troll will smith features that canonically exist on alternia are Fresh Prince and Hitch. in both of these films, will smith plays a character that is self-made and clever, a regular guy who is just skilled. it should also be noted that while a "threshecutioner" is a job with a heavy blueblood populous, greenbloods can also be one, and it's common enough that a show about it wasn't cut by the alternian dictatorship.

so therefore, what traits can we pull that all of these olivebloods (and equius lol) display to us?

olive trolls are lower class, but they're capable of working up through their connections

likely due to this, olive trolls are often clever and self made. they're likely quick-witted and sharp

they're good at their jobs! most olive trolls that are seen in the comic are very good with their respective practices (be it drawing, writing, bookkeeping, or melee fighting)

it's possible that olive trolls have a good intuition, and are fairly in touch with their own instincts. this would explain why some of them seem to fare better in the wild or in fights, and also why they are stereotyped as having a natural inclination for relationships. i think this is also a good transition ground between the impressive physical psionics of the castes lower than olive, and the emotional/mental psionics of the highbloods above them.

so, there we go. these are my olive headcanons! they're not comfortably well off or anything, but they're not wild animals either-- they're hard workers and skilled at what they put their minds to. probably usually working a nine to five and doing their best in life hoping to move up with a good quadrant or promotion. at least, in my headcanon anyway- no need to take this as fact!

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One could argue that it's because he's making efforts to not reveal too much about himself to the world

I love troll quirks. They're like "I need my favorite animal/letter/number/symbol/theme/thing to be the first thing other people will know about me"

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Alternian trolls have been conditioned by their environment to be the equivalent to doomsday preppers

#homestuck

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happy 2014

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Girls night out!

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[And what do you remember most? The line of the sea, seceding the coast? Fine capillaries, glowing with cars? The comfort you drew from the light of the stars?]

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[Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?]

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Thinking about how Aradia sometimes had to dig around to unearth the source of her doomed timelines and sometimes it was before the trolls even entered the game while Dave kept getting his own corpses thrown at him like skaia was asking him to scent it and point right away like a bloodhound

#homestuck