Tag: dirk strider

miss-serket:

miss-serket:

Ok but I rly love how nerdy dirks interests are. Like, he’s way into anime, he loves rainbow dash from mlp, is into puppets, reads up on a lot of history, builds all types of robots and computers, and loves horses in general. And he’s just so open about all his nerdy interests while still trying to act cool. He’s such a geek. I love him so much.

this just in: i still love him

Dirk is Good. I’ll say though Dirk’s primary interest is Greek Philosophy and that one’s important because it’s like…built into the design of his character arc? So I wish the fandom focused on it more, it kind of falls by the wayside unless you read the Really Big Dirk fanworks like theatre of coolty and Detective Pony. 

The boy’s a nerd though. 

captoring:

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some-triangles:

naked-bee:

I finally finished it!  If you are interested in absurdist theater or
Homestuck, or both, you should check out this short film I made of one of my favorite Homestuck fics.  Enjoy!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7503099

OK.  OK.  So:

-The subtle clue re Dirk 3′s shirt iconography

-The actual construction of a miniature Damien Hirst horse-slices-in-lucite knockoff

-Dirk 1 dunking Dirk 4 out of the frame with his weird rigid puppet arm

-The Dirks taking it in turn to be Background Dirk and pointing out details of the set dressing like they were Barker’s Beauties on The Price Is Right

-The faint outline of “IT KEEPS HAPPENING” printed on the stairs

-Chair Hat

-The incredible plastic smugness of Andrew Hussie

-The fire from the fireplace floating untroubled out of the frame on the rising flood

-The fact that this exists at all

I am speechless.  I am speechless

It’s a fan project, of a fic, with amazing production values, and also calculatedly bad production values. The fic itself is an unmitigated torrent of ludicrous dialogue between four of the same person, except when it’s interrupted by an unmitigated torrent of even more ridiculous events. Horses are involved. People die.

I’m not sure it’s possible for a more Homestuck thing to exist.

homestuck was worth it for this to come into existence

a little late to the party but: jake, while being threatened with sexual assault and forced marriage, conjures up brain ghost dirk and asks him to help him, and also expresses a desire to go back home to his island (before the game) specifically mentioning the brobot as nothing more than a pest. that’s not … indicative of having a bad association with dirk is what i’m saying i guess.

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Ahahaha oh my god its true. I didn’t realize this, but BGD manifests immediately when Jake realizes talking to Jane simply will not work, and he feels physically threatened. And Jake immediately wants Dirk to help him, despite the obvious limitation of his not being real. 

And notice how he wants to go back to when he had to worry about the robot but he doesn’t say anything about the monsters that he also had to worry about?

Yeah. There’s an Ideal Time in Jake’s life, and it was when the Brobot was his biggest problem–not the monsters he had to deal with before Dirk sent it. 

Thanks for pointing this one out to me, because I had genuinely missed it. God Dirkjake so good and meticulously crafted, I fucking love Homestuck. 

EDIT: Also, Anon, I don’t believe in “late to the party” when it comes to Homestuck. There’s so much to unearth, consider and discuss with this comic and what’s coming next from What Pumpkin that I think anyone who’s willing to engage about it has a place and a voice. 

This being a perfect example :B You pointed me to stuff that I’m now genuinely considering editing into my articles or including in a future piece I write about Jake.

That’s genuinely valuable no matter what time span it’s in, and there’s nothing stopping the ship or our understanding about the comic from growing and evolving. Unless we choose to stop talking about it and thinking about it in new ways.

so you’ve talked a ton about dirk and his feelings for jake, but i think in a lot of ways jake is also a very difficult character to understand because he hides what he really cares about. what’s your take on his feelings for dirk? was he just overwhelmed by dirk’s intensity or did he really not care as much about dirk in return? or would it just take him longer to return dirk’s feelings?

I want to write about Jake at length someday–probably around the time I get to the point where adapting Dirk’s essays into video format is viable–but the basic breakdown is this:

Jake is in love with Dirk. The way he’s written makes it pretty clear he wanted Dirk from the start. Callmearcturus wrote a fantastic post breaking down the way Jake literally manipulated events so that Dirk, not Jane, would be the one to ultimately ask him out, which is readable here: http://callmearcturus.tumblr.com/post/150195543495/sorrydontknowman-replied-to-your-post-theory#notes

Beyond that point? Jake is in love with Dirk. He’s flighty and passive aggressive with Brain Ghost Dirk after years of dancing around the AR’s aggression and Dirk’s emotional distance, but all the boy really wants for all of the lead-up to Unite Synchronize is to talk to Dirk. He seeks him out. When he has to corpsesmooch Dirk’s head, his regret isnt about having to do it but about it not going how he imagined. After Dirk breaks up with him, Jake doesn’t talk about feeling uncomfortable with Dirk–he talks about how bad he feels for breaking Dirk’s heart and ignoring Jane.

He decides romance isn’t for him…when he thinks Dirk and all his friends hate him and is blaming himself for everything that went wrong. You know, the exact same way Dirk takes the blame for everything that went wrong himself and decides to stay away from Jake for his own good. Neither moment is particularly healthy for them. 

When Jake’s agency is well and truly compromised in every way when Aranea usurps his free will and exploits him for his powers, Dirk is who he turns to for protection. Jake summoning Brain Ghost Dirk is an understated visual storytelling moment in the same way Dirk’s lamp breaking when Jake kisses his head–it’s the moment where we see the full force of the one’s feelings for the other, and those feelings warp reality around their weight and make impossible things possible. 

Not only does Jake summon Dirk as his knight in shining armor, his Prince Charming if you will– but he summons a Dirk who calls himself Jake’s boyfriend (this is after they break up, remember?) and quoting The Princess Bride, an action movie all about a hyper-competent badass dude who does not just try, but succeeds at doing anything his beloved wishes, and which revolves wholly around the power of love, and performing dramatic feats in the name of that love. 

I. I don’t know what else to say there. That Brain Ghost Dirk moment seals the deal completely. That’s BGD embodying all of Jake’s fantasies at the time Jake needs it most, and the only other time we see Jake activate his powers is during the Masterpiece, when Dirk is the one who needs him to come save him. 

Dirk’s feelings aren’t one-sided. Dem bois are in love. That’s really all there is to say on the matter. I think I’d say Jake probably feels emotion a more low-key level than Dirk and that might have played into him considering himself unable to have those dramatic, romantic feelings–because, yes, Dirk is very intense about his emotions. But I think Jake’s hopesplosion moments make it pretty clear those feelings are absolutely there. He just processes and expresses them differently, which is fine, because that’s how it works in real life for plenty of people. 

There’s also an argument to be made that Jake hasn’t even had a chance to understand his emotions for Dirk outside of circumstances that were super stressful. He certainly flirted with Dirk a lot in the one pesterlog they really share, just before the AR’s creation–but after that, they’re either gagged by the AR situation or dealing with it’s fallout in the session. It seems pretty natural to me that would throw a wrench in Jake’s ability to understand his feelings in general, so who knows how he expresses his feelings now that they’ve had time to sort things out and reengage in a way that’s healthy? 

it is 4 days until valentine’s and let me fucking tell you

stormsbourne:

how much dirk strider loves jake english and how cosmically In Deep he is means so much to me. dirk is actually In Love with jake on a level I think a lot of people tend to discredit as a first crush, or they take him at his word when he cynically says maybe he only liked jake because he was the only boy around. (which is very untrue – dirk is in a bad place when he says that and is trying to distance himself from what he feels are his own fuckups wrt jake.) 

dirk has been in love with jake for at least 3 years of his life – he and jake are dancing around flirting with each other for the entirety of the dreambubble log. if it was as shallow or easy to dismiss as dirk later wants to believe I’m sure he could have handled it then. that’s not to say he didn’t put way too much pressure on jake to be The One – of course he did – but it does mean that dirk’s feelings aren’t shallow, false, or easily overcome. dirk strider is head over heels for that boy. dirk strider is so completely horrendously in love that he cannot be happy without some form of jake english in his life and when he decides to stay away from jake (because he erroneously believes it’s better that way and jake hates him now) he is in fact cosigning himself to a miserable existence where he is going to keep going in circles chasing himself about how he never deserved jake.

not that it matters since they clearly hook back up in the post-act 7 world but hey

the depth and breadth of dirk’s feelings for jake is heart-aching if I think about it too hard and I think it’s something a lot of gay people can relate to, especially tied up as it is with dirk’s fear jake isn’t interested or that he dragged jake forcibly into it. but dirk is In Love. he’s in love in a romantic epic sense and, in a way I think he probably buys into a little too much given his love of antiquity, an almost greek sense where love is a madness that consumes you. dirk is truly and deeply enchanted by jake english and he knows it and on some level knows that he can’t really ever be over it. 

jake loves dirk too, of course, but dirk is afraid that jake’s feelings can’t run as deep as his and never could. though I think this fear is largely misplaced (for understandable reasons), it’s clear to see where it came from. dirk is in love with jake on an almost cosmic, transcendent level. it’s hard to think anybody could ever return your feelings with that sort of sheer raw realness. 

they are so desperately, deeply in love though. 

they really are.

Anime Dirk would watch with his friends

Rose & Kanaya: Revolutionary Girl Utena. Dirk and Rose have ridiculously in-depth conversations about visual symbolism and growing up queer and toxic masculinity and predatory manipulation. Rose has to reassure Dirk he isn’t like the dudes at least twice but through subtle passive-aggressive barbs. Kanaya is sipping tea and sure there are great storms brewing in this conversation but it’s not gonna stop her from sewing this Rose Bride cosplay and having fun.

Jake: Hunter x Hunter. Dirk sees himself in Killua too much and cries a few times. Jake is floored and pokes some fun at him but then realises Dirk relates because of how much Killua loves Gon and figures out he’s the Gon here, then he’s crying too. They kiss and wear flower crowns and do couple cosplays. Jake loves the tiny shorts. Dirk does too. 

John & Roxy: Gurren Lagaan. Dirk complains a lot. John sprains his eyes from rolling them too hard. Roxy loves every second of it. They get so mad at each other it turns into a wrestling match and Roxy snapchats the whole thing for everyone and later asks Dirk if it’s weird she thought it was hot. Dirk grins and says ‘You can look but don’t touch.’ They hug and it’s great and John d’aws.

Jane: Evangelion. He spends about equal amounts of time complaining about the meaningless religious bullshit and trying not to cry about people loving each other but not knowing how to connect. Jane understands him perfectly on both counts just like she knew she would but he wasn’t expecting it would hit close to home for her too. They hug and it’s great and Jake cries when he hears about it later. 

Dave & Karkat: Karkat won’t watch anything thats not a high school romance shoujo, Dave only likes anime that’s shitposty, and Dirk only wants to watch sbahj with Dave anyway. They try to find some middle ground but it never happens. Then Rose sets them up with the Sailor Moon dub and they never stop referencing it for the rest of their immortal lives. 

Jade & Calliope: Dirk wants to get closer to Jade but he’s incredibly intimidated and worried about being weird because she’s Jake’s grandmother, so he’s super psyched when she corners him and is like “Hey I heard you’re a furry too” and he’s like “AM I” and she wants to show him this great show about furries is he free this afternoon.

He says he is and then suddenly he’s sitting on a couch and he’s psyched Jake is gonna be so happy with him and maybe he’ll break the awkward ice with Jade for good and then she loads up the show and it’s Sonic X.

Dirk looks sideways and Jade and Calliope look so earnest and happy and they already have drawing tools out because they like to draw fursona designs while they watch and Dirk has just committed to an afternoon marathon of Sonic X. He wonders if theres any horses in the sonic franchise. There’s not.