John: brought those little popper things to throw at unsuspecting ppls feet. He is v frustrated to find that the trolls don’t jump at all bc they’re so used to hearing strange and sudden loud noises that this is baby shit to them. Of course, John simply takes this as a challenge to up the ante aka slip them into ppls shoes when they aren’t looking. “Hey uhhh Terezi why aren’t you wearing any shoes?” “I don’t know john, I just like to feel the earth beneath my humble feet”
Jade: lovesssss fireworks she found some old ones on her island once and tried setting them off but it was meh, these are so much better and everyone is here to share the experience with her! Helps Jane barbecue up some veggie burgers and some hot dogs for everyone and Definitely Does Not slip any of the scraps to the Becs. Nope. None. At all.
Dave: is decked head to toe in obnoxious USA gear. Has an American flag muscle shirt with an eagle dramatically superimposed in front of it. Has a head band with flags attached by boingy springs at the top. He is wearing red white and blue jorts and his regular sunglasses have been replaced by super shitty jpeg ones that spell USA. Karkat looks at him, utterly disgusted, and says Dave what the Fuck are you wearing. Dave. What the fuck. Also, those Strider boys sure do love sparklers because he and Dirk have All of the sparklers. All of Them.
Rose: as a light player, digs it. As someone who doesn’t want to be reminded of her land bc she didn’t complete her quest, not so much. But she has to be cool about it bc Kanaya has never seen fireworks before and fuck if she’s going to let her very Gay girlfriend, with whom she is in Lesbians, have her first fireworks soiled in ANY WAY. And if there’s a few fireworks that look like purple and green eldritch horrors,,,,it’s a coincidence. Maybe. Dave says hey rose uhh you didn’t have anything to do with those creepy as fuck looking ones did you. Rose flutters her lashes. Why, no Dave. Of course not. I have never ever done anything like that ever in my life ever. Smiles v sweetly.
Kanaya: first of all, is a little frustrated that apparently these “fireworks” are capable of multiple colors when they light up, but she’s not?? That doesn’t seem fair but whatever it’s Fine. Rose thinks she’s being sneaky about her anxiety around fireworks but Kanaya totally picks up on it and Very Subtly tries to comfort her. Ahem. Rose, I Understand That You Totally Do Not Feel Uncomfortable About This Situation, Wink Wink, But Allow Yourself To Feel Comforted By My Presence. Not That You Need It, Obviously. Your Human Emotions Are A Mystery To Me. (To those wondering if Kanaya winked physically or just said the word wink out loud, the answer is Yes).
Karkat: this is so stupid why do all the fireworks have colors. Where are the gray, nondescript fireworks. What if the fireworks don’t want everyone knowing their goddamn fucking business. “Dude, you might be overthinking this, they’re just fireworks” hey Fuck You, Dave, I don’t give a shit if they’re your MOTHER who I had HUMAN INTERCOURSE with last night even though she is SO MEDICALLY OVERWEIGHT. *whispering* (john did I do those “your human female ancestor” jokes right). John wipes away a single tear. Yes karkat, your “yo mama” jokes were great. They were perfect. I’m so proud.
Terezi: she absolutely did try to lick a sparkler. everyone watched, horrified, but she just sort of shrugged and went “meh”. She and Vriska are watching and feeling,,,a weird déjà vu kind of thing? Like maybe they’ve seen this before?
Jane: has been barbecuing up some good eats all day! She’s got veggie burgers for Roxy and Jade (and some snausages just in case), she’s got hamburgers for the trolls who actually prefer them as rare as possible because let’s face it, they’ve got the teeth of bloodthirsty carnivores. She has bratwurst for herself, hot dogs for Dave bc he’s a baby with no taste for fine food, and just a big assortment of stuff for everyone. Dirk helps cook and he’s got one of those weird anime girl aprons and it’s awkward for everyone involved.
Jake: burns himself on every single sparkler. every single one. Dagnabbit! These foolish things really are a trick to get going, aren’t they? Dirk just nods and agrees with him as he and Dave share nervous looks and hide their hordes of sparklers. Jake has successfully managed to burn every single finger and also a couple toes. Karkat laughs at him for being bad at this despite being unable to light any himself. They both receive pre lit sparklers and have a sparkler duel. It’s Bad. They smell like burnt hair for weeks after.
Dirk: Sparklers Georg, aka Dirk, who lights approximately 99,999 sparklers per celebration and is an outlier that should not have been counted, tells Jake uhhhh yes. They’re very tricky to light. You’re absolutely right and I am a Fool. He hides the 37 currently lit sparklers behind his back. Roxy begs him to put away his anime girl apron. Dirk. Dirk. Her titties. They’re so anatomically incorrect. You’re not even straight. Yes, he tells her. I know. That’s what makes it Ironic™. She throws her shoe at his head. John yells fuck! in the distance because there goes his secret poppers prank.
Roxy: definitely knew that john put the poppers in her shoes. Brought so many glow sticks and has to explain to Kanaya, no you can’t drink them. No I really don’t think that it will help you glow different colors. Please- oh god no. On the bright side, Kanaya’s tongue glows for the rest of the night. Watches the fireworks while sitting in a tree because Callie likes to feel tall.
Sollux: chills with Aradia in the back bc we all know that she loves to watch things blow up. Sollux kinda grumbles that it’s just a bunch of chemicals and science shit and it’s really not that impressive and I could probably do the same thing with my psiionics I’m just saying. Just putting that out there in case anyone wanted to know. Aradia smiles and pats his shoulder reassuringly. No one cares, Sollux. Just shut up and watch the fireworks.
And we say that the world isn’t dying.
And we pray that the world isn’t dying.
And just maybe the world isn’t dying.
Maybe she’s heavy with child.
Hussie’s art style is so weirdly unique to where I haven’t seen one person draw it quite the way he does and it’s weird because it’s so simple
And the other weird thing about that is that when you start/ plan to read homestuck the art style is one of the biggest turn-offs of the comic but as you get to the end you start to just like adore it and I want to see it all the time
I think what makes it so great is that his grip on anatomy and perspective is very very good – like, normally simply styles allow for more mistakes in that respect, but no, hussie’s art (the properly drawn panels, not the sprites) definitely exists in a realistic 3D space
But then everything is simplified down as much as possible, and stylised.
The style itself changed over time, starting with very thin and extended limbs
and ending up very round, with puppet-like limbs, and small bean fingers
in both cases you end up with an art style where no shading or lines are used, only block colour in a pixellated pseudo-mspaint style (since it’s not actually drawn in mspaint).
but i think what hussie grasps better than a lot of artists is how to make a character unique and iconic – both in their design and their personality/dialogue. he comes up with a set of simple rules and he sticks to them. not to say he creates simple characters, the characters themselves have a lot of depth, but the way they are expressed is always in one basic format that’s unique to them. they have typing quirks and language quirks and instantly recognisable silhouettes, despite the extremely simplistic format.
that post going around with the two canon pictures of rose is a good example. the range of headcanons for the homestuck kids covers just about the entire spectrum of the human race, yet no one is ever confused about which character they’re looking at.
and yeah hussie’s art doesn’t get enough appreciation
And like… one specific detail I’d like to point out is the fingers. Somehow, he can make distinguishable fingers without ANY LINES WHATSOEVER, and draw them in natural positions without it looking like a jumble of white or grey. Take, for example, the picture that made me notice this: the track art for Crystalanthology. (I’m on mobile so I can’t supply the actual picture.) Vriska’s fingers are overlapping each other and are all the exact same shade of grey, yet you can tell which is which and exactly how they’re positioned. I can barely do that with shading and lines (then again, I’m not the best artist). It’s such a small detail, to the point where I never really took note of it before, yet he does it so well
in fire emblem would dirk be the character who is autorecruited with jake like leon is with valbar, or would he be the character who is recruited from the enemy side by jake like guy is by matthew
cast your votes today
what if it’s one of those maps where there’s two NPCs on the map, one is inside the keep surrounded by enemy units and the other is outside the keep and joins up with your army to help the NPC inside. Dirk starts inside and Jake starts outside, Jake is like oh thank god an army! back me up I’m going in
Your commander is like what the fuck is this hold on but is powerless to stop him, he stays an NPC until he gets to Dirk and you have to back his damn fool ass up or he’ll rush in and get killed
meanwhile if you don’t get to Dirk in time he also rushes out from the other direction and also gets killed
you can only recruit them by defending jake until his NPC AI gets him to Dirk and they talk and then if your commander talks to them AGAIN they turn blue but most guides agree it’s better to just let them stay as NPCs and kill all the enemies in range of them so they’ll just fucking stay there. stay put. stop … doing things. STAY THERE
Flying through Storytelling 