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dumbpointyanimeshades:

rose and mom make tumblrs

the only person mom is following is rose and she likes everything rose posts because she has no idea how to do anything else, like an embarrassing parent on facebook, except it’s on tumblr

and ofc rose thinks this is her being all…

becca11389:

ahpoordogsbody:

stapit-rahn:

Can someone, like, explain Homestuck to me?

a 13-year-old boy and his friends play a cool new video game that yanks them into another dimension before sterilizing the planet with a storm of meteors

theyre thrust into the role of typical rpg protagonists in a rich “individually tailored hyper-flexible mythology” but it quickly becomes apparent that the “game” is using them to facilitate some higher purpose. one of the kids abandons her “quest” and begins tearing the world apart in search of clues.

during their adventure they’re contacted by aliens from another universe, in a completely separate timestream — they can see the kids’ entire past and future, up until the last few minutes of the game, when “the sky goes all weird” and theres the sound of a record scratch. at that moment something was flushed out of the kids’ game session and into theirs, preventing them from claiming “the ultimate reward” and sending them into hiding on a remote asteroid.

at first they harass the kids, blaming them for their predicament — mysterious messages the kids have been receiving since childhood turn out to have been authored over the span of half an hour — until an avenue for escape presents itself and they reluctantly start to work together.

a huge chunk of the plot is driven by characters’ differing reactions to predestined events. with characters inhabiting two separate axes of time, ontological paradoxes become commonplace; cause and effect are inextricable and the narrative freely jumps around to follow the threads between them. this can be bewildering if youre not paying attention (“are you taking notes? get a fucking pen.”)

the story follows a classic adventure-game format, with each panel preceded by a “command” — in the early days of homestuck these were suggested by the readers — and followed by a few paragraphs of text. at first the commands are addressed to a single character (“John: Retrieve mail.”), but later we find more general commands applying to multiple characters in different ways (“Enter.”), or to the plot itself (“Descend.”). the format proves to be malleable: one character discovers a computer terminal on a post-apocalyptic planet that allows him to command the story’s protagonist. another character assumes the role of narrator for a while, taking up residence in the website’s banner, and the commands become his monologue. he keeps a scrapbook of panels from the story, allowing the reader to sift through them interactively and explore little tangents to the main plot.

images and phrases are recycled into a rich internal vocabulary of callbacks: a paragraph of purple prose written as a throwaway joke resurfaces as a prophetic nightmare (dreamt in morse code). words are milked mercilessly for their meanings, puns become plot points; a peculiar turn of phrase might hint at a vast secret being assembled behind the scenes. the kids’ actions and words at the start of the story establish synchronicities that resonate throughout their adventure: impaled birds, werewolves, characters missing an arm and an eye.

thats what homestuck is

also the author is a graphomaniac and updates his webcomic practically every day. its been running for nearly 3 years and is 4500 pages long — each of those “pages” could be a single image, or an image with five pages of text underneath, or an interactive Flash game that takes half an hour to fully explore. its a weird experiment that doesnt really stand alone as a polished piece of fiction; the author has been using it to explore innovative storytelling devices and plot concepts. homestuck is the fossilized excrement of that learning process.

read homestuck. if youre not intrigued by the end of act 2, stop reading homestuck. and im sorry theres so many semicolons and emdashes in this post.

If any of you are even mildly interested in giving Homestuck a try, read this.

askvegasandgang:

cooldude104:

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isneezeandmycatpurrs:

bellastarkideve:

ok lets see if that thing with glasses chicks suddenly becoming super weird feminine when they whip off their glasses works

woop

well that was anticlimatic wait

wait

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

What that is dumb and does not happen.

Look, check it out.

See, not much diff-

Wait, what-

the fuck.

You guys are being dumbs

That does not happen in real life watch

See I told you

Wait a

who am i

you guys this is straight up bullshit

i’ll prove it to you all right now ok

you see, like i said, it’s total bull—

…oh what the hell…

the FUCK kind of GYPSY MAGIC SHIT is THIS?!?!?!?!?!

…….

hey boys~*~*~*~ wonk~*~*~*~*~

omg jeannine you win

Huh. You women and your woman problems.

Good thing I’m a dude and don’t have to worry about that kinda crapola

Wait wtf

You guys are amateurs

let me show you how this is done

ah shit I had them on the ”genderfuck” setting

…

well, that works too

okay you amateurs

 let me show you how it’s done

I’m now River Song

shhh spoilers

What the hell?

I wonder what happens when you put glasses on?

Ok, so far so good…

IT GOT EVEN BETTER

SCREAMS

LOVE IT! 😀

I laughed my ass off! :DD Awesome!

This never gets old

((BRB DYING))

maravis:

A horror movie trailer:

a frat boy and his girlfriend are vacationing on a beach in the deep south. after some late-night swimming they find that they can’t relocate their motel, and end up in a small farmhouse.

it seems to be abandoned, inside they find an aged photo of a man and…

nightmareloki:

althelamp:

Today Yesterday, there was a kid near Adventureland who was about 4 years old or so. he was a wearing a princess crown, had a princess wand, the autograph book was princesses, etc. and there was a grown man teasing him about “being gay”. A grown man.

Peter…

theworstpersonintheworld:

Some people hate Homestuck because they think it’s about a boy who just stands around in his bedroom. I will not try to tell these people that they are wrong, but at least with my help they can easily lie to their friends by pretending that they have actually read…

egelska:

lokimarepreg:

egelska:

lokimarepreg:

i don’t think you guys understand making fun of illidan used to be my greatest skill

i was the very best that no one ever was

no fangirl was safe

i’m really good at cyberbullying kael’thas

high five

sometimes when i…

pockytardis:

omg so yesterday i put a salt line on the pathway to our front door because i was fucking around and my brother was pretending to be a demon

and today we ordered pizza and the salt line was still there

and my brother went outside to sign for the pizza

and the pizzaman…

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gallydix:

guys im actually making that amv
i already have the first…