There’s No Benefit To Being Liked By People Who Will Take Advantage Of You 💜

my piece for "March Madness: A March Eridan Zine", a zine we did on a private discord server. pls check out the full zine here! <:

was high af ngl

有点太多东西了，我在想jetsetradio x captors的事情

Oh my god Wisconsin's governor just used a line item veto to secure school funding increases every year through 2425. He struck out a line so it now reads "through the 2023-2425 school year". He's allowed to do this lol

I SAW THAT I HAD TEN GIMMICKS AND I WAS LIKE, OH, DID THEY REALLY RETURN THE DRAWING SHIT, AND THEN I SEE, FUCK, *THIS*.

I love beefish... I am actually really happy with this edit tbh, a lot better than the Davekatsprite^2 I did. It may be because Erisol is easier to work with :pensive:

Erisolsprite for Anon (but mostly for me atp lmao)

Ok, this kind of breaks my heart, and I feel like it’s exemplary of something that I think is one of Hussie’s greatest strengths as a writer. Well, two things.

The first thing is that he has this incredibly strong grasp on the fact that for the people sad things are actually happening to, they are not dramatically resonant or bittersweet or poetic. They are just sad. 

When Vriska and John meet in dream-bubbles, Vriska doesn’t consciously think about how heart-wrenching it is that, in death, she’s meeting the one person that she kind of tied her hopes of redemption to, only for him not to remember any of the stuff they shared that she remembers as meaningful. She’s just a little sad about it, and a little unsure, and trying to make the best of it all. 

And just recently when Dave sees Dirk for the first time and we all went batshit trying to figure out what tender, tragic things might be going through his head, and then his reaction is basically “DO NOT WANT.” He’s not thinking about the godforsaken tragedy of it all, he’s thinking that he’s upset and wishes he wasn’t. Like real people do tend to react to stuff at first.

Which kind of brings me to the other thing I wanted to talk about. Which is that Hussie completely and totally gets that he doesn’t need to spell out what a character is feeling. He understands the power of audience empathy and he uses it to his advantage. When presented with an opportunity to make it crystal clear to us what a character is feeling, he will leave it vague almost every time. 

And not only that, but when he does tell us how a character feels (as above) he keeps it general. He understands that he can tell us that WV feels sad, and we understand immediately that sad is a severe understatement of how WV must be feeling, without needing to be explicitly told. Hussie implies, rather than states, and he leaves it up to us to understand and imagine based on our comprehension of the characters involved and the situations they’re in.

What he expects of us is to fill in the blanks and flesh out the story with our own emotional reactions and with our empathy. He asks us to participate on an individual level in constructing the emotional resonance of the story, by embellishing it for ourselves as we go. 

Not gonna share the whole thing but look at my human stuck designs I made for a project

love your art style!!! where do you stand with arasol?

i stand with the arasol nation always and forever

i hope you guys are enjoying my lil seb/hal mental breakdown in real time

because i just realized that the moment lil seb disappears from the story is the same panel where caliborn banishes the house juju to the void, implying that lil seb got caught up in the banishment, meaning hes floating around the furthest ring somewhere

guys i think

maybe this is

huge