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Never have I read something in English and not understood a single word
Absolutely obsessed with this tweet
Today I decided to look for my most popular art piece from the past and redraw it. And that piece waaaaas...
DAVEKAT BEDTIME
Seriously, as of posting this, the original work has exactly 299 notes on it.
That’s 1 away from 300, and it’s the highest number any of my posts have achieved! (the only one even close to it was a crack post of Davekat using one of those “draw the crew” templates and the only other one to break 100 was yet another Davekat post with some Rosemary on the side)
While this is disheartening, I hope that with little things like this I can grow my online presence so i can share my art and comics and stories with the world!
Drawing has always been one of my greatest passions even if I’m not as good at it as others.
I HOPE YOU WILL ALL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ME!
Love you and happy holidays
~Illy
(PS: I have plans for a little Christmas piece (and possibly a comic to go with it if I can finish in time) that will go out preferably when it hits midnight, signaling the shift from the 24th to the 25th)
I was bored...
Yeah I used a draw the crew template, so what? It’s fun to mess around with.
Oh hey finished this cute double date request Wouldve been done sooner but i got sucked into Red vs Blue and watched all 15 seasons because i have no life
I imagine that Karkat would constantly fall asleep reading his romance novels
I'm not dead, guys! I'm just a mentally unstable adult who decided that making a cute davekat lyric video would be a good idea 🤠
It'll take time... But I'll finish it
Every year without fail 4/13 comes along and without fail my dash is FULL of Homestuck. I can’t help but be impressed with the dedication of Homestuck fans because they never fail to hit the anniversary no matter how many years go by, and that kind of dedication is hard to see except for outside events like HP fans on September 1st. But the real impressive thing is I have never interacted with Homestuck, have never followed someone for Homestuck, but like some kind of sleeper agent pandemic my dash is full of Homestuck from users I NEVER suspected were interested in it. They reveal their true colours and I am helpless to do anything but be bombarded
The Values of Moirallegiance
Okay, so I’ve been pretty stressed lately so I’m just going to ramble about how I view moirallegiance.
The first thing I want to talk about is how: MOIRALLEGIANCE IS ROMANTIC. Too often I see people describing it as the bro quadrant, legitemately, unlike how whichever character calls it to enrage Karkat in the comics. What really ends up bothering me now though is this: it’s so oftenly used as a midway point between just friends and matespritship.
Never mind that it concerns a totally different part of the human (or i guess troll) experience, it’s treated as just the path to a greater thing, it has no value but what it can get you to: “pure human romance”.
This is especially prevalent in davekat fics, wherein they are both so concerned about their own queerness regarding sexual attraction, suddenly have no problem being romantic with each other (again, with moirallegiance being treated as if it was the friendship quadrant).
It’s used as a tool to get them to be physically close with eachother without revealing their true feelings. That’s not really moirallegiance.
The people that don’t write Karkat as panquadromantic/panquadrant and just like to write him as vacillating do this so often, and it feels so much like they’re just projecting human experience onto it (which in the end I understand, I do not guilt any writers for doing this because I do find it interesting anyways most of the time, it’s just in the ideal portrayal of it I see it differently).
I think this also ties into the fact that, moirallegiance is about learning to be a better person. What happens in most fanfiction is that: all the characters are saints unless they’re vriska or whatever other controvertial character you think of.
If the relationship doesn’t require the pacification of a highblood rage, it mostly just turns into a cesspool of vulnerability that never ends in any of the characters progressing (unless they reveal their insecurities, which are then validated and reaffirmed).
Since there is such a fear of writing imperfect, actually imperfect and not Mary Sue insecure characters, who’s only flaws are: omg i dont feel beautiful, omg im so stupid, omg im a horrible person (they’re not), etc. Then the potential for moirallegiance loses so much of its spark.
I’m not saying that writers should stop writing those kinds of stories, again, it’s not anyones responsibility to satisfy my prticular hc about it, and I know how important those kinds of stories can be for other people. But if anyone were to ever write a pale romance novel, to make it really interesting the characters would have to have a myriad of flaws.
I also think it’s interesting to see it tied into kissmessitude more. Pitch romance is also one of the ways that characters build each other up: they are confident in each other’s potential and will push their kissmessis into being better through competition. Moirallegiance is a way to do that, but through confrontation.
While kissmessis take an indirect approach to bettering their partner: goading, attracting them to a goal, making the other jealous, moirallegiance makes one come face to face with the obstacle.
I don’t really know if I had anything else to add, but the summary is this: moirallegiance is undervalued and misrepresented most of the time. It’s treated as a relationship wherein both prtners have to constantly reassure and cheer up the other, and not a relationship where they tackle the mistakes they’ve made, the roots of all their actions, what drives them, really (and what makes them sad or anxious too). It saddens me to see moirallegiance, a direct window into the characters psyche, being used as the midway point to matespritship, when they are actually seperate and distinct end goals of romance.
This was based off this one post:
i wasn’t able to draw anything today (exam tomorrow😔🙏, so i come bearing offerings of times past
a little idea i had for what i would look like as a sprite lol
this is what i dedicate my time in class to guys,
be grateful
small wip doodle thingg enjoy
was it necessary to tag absolutely everything? Yes
more comic sneak peak, try and guess if he's laughing or really depressed XD
at this rate, i'll take a week or two to finish this comic, so look forward to it hehe
working on another comic in the middle of class lol, ill make it more consistent this time, these boys are gonna have a talk about the gender bullshit
The meteor is extremely boring
Unshaded version
I welcome you to the most inconsistent comic ever made (it's for fun guys, i was not prioritizing quality😔). I am extremely nervous posting this, like my hands are trembling XD (it's cheesy as fuck).
Anyways, enjoy 30 panels of davekat:
DAVE: were doing this
DAVE: were making this hapen ----------
Oh my god, i fucking did it.
I don't know if it's a bit ooc, but it's basically a more peaceful au after they arrive at Earth C, where they end up together and build a happier life 😔.
davekat wearing skirts (to battle??)
These outfits literally make no sense whatsoever, but they look cute anyhow, so it compensates
sneak peak for the comic i'm working on hehe
