For a short while myself I vowed To teaching sin and spreading doubt Of all things noble, all things fair. But not for long ... mankind I wrenched Too easily to my fell will. The flame of faith, too easy quenched, Left me triumphant, but without An object worthy of my skill. To mislead hypocrites and fools... What profit was there for me there?
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myampgoesto11:

David Szauder: Failed Memories

#art #magic is real #salt and swear i am up to no good #incomprehensibly in love with the trickster concept #but even more in love with its origins #how it was originally a seemingly fun and very throw away type of easter egg #how it was a wink and a nod at fannon and fandom incorporated into the story just for fun but still outside of canon #but everything changed when the fire nation attacked #and suddenly not only was it canon but it seemed like it had always been canon that it was always important element of the story #and that is really what i love about homestuck the most #how it constantly takes and challenges any medium it choses to #and how it subverts and ultimately revolutionises the very concept and idea of storytelling #i love that this is a story that could only ever work at this exact point in our history as a species #that it could only ever be told the way it is and that it's utterly impossible to describe to others in a casual manner #i love that it's live storytelling i love that it knows its audience #that it interacts with that audience and appeals to it and in turn lets that audience influence the story #that it literally allows the audience to play the story #and to not only read it but to see it and hear it and explore it in every way that they can #i love that it's incomprehensile and utterly confusing and yet so complex and serious and rewarding #and that this story gets away with things that no other medium or story ever would #i love that this story had a page that looked like it was a flash with a box underneath not to be read until you had watched the flash #and that said flash never loaded and only when you had lost your patience and clicked the box would you be told #that there is no flash #literally no other audience would allow for this level of general fuckery within its media #and yet it works here and it does more than work it delights #and there's just so much to this that it deserves to be explored deeper and more thoroughly #because it's an entirely unique and never before tried method of storytelling that may never work for anyone else ever again #and if i have any regrets it's that i wasn't there at the start #because i would give everything to experience this live from the very beginning as it grew and turned into what it is now #but i am so thankful that i am here at all

enoqi:

Hasami Scissors by Reno ()
#art #magic is real #all they ask is why i wear these glasses and all i can tell them is hell it's good fashion #as odd and misplaced as that tag may seem sage francis' song good fashion is the most appropriate and accurate dave song i've ever heard #meanwhile this gives me really intense dave on lolar feelings #which are made worse by the fact that i spend hours reading theories yesterday #one of which was bladekindeyewear's very convincing argument for dave's imminent future heroic death #which i want to hate and ignore so badly but the evidence for it is almost overwhelming #and i am completely traumatised and still crying about all of this because i have so much love for dave strider #if this happens i will be pretty much broken for the rest of my life #but i am clinging to the fact that i don't think everything he says is quite accurate #but more importantly to the fact that roxy lalonde exists and a mother will do whatever is best for her children #whatever anyone's predictions for the end of this story are i firmly believe that roxy is going to save the day #or at the very least she'll save dave #because i can't imagine an ending where one of the beta kids doesn't make it #nor do i think hussie would be so cruel to the fans #so i have hope that roxy will prevail #'a mother will do whatever is best for her children' is hands down one of my top five favourite moments/quotes from hs #you just wait.. my girl roxy is going to save the day all of the sudden and then apply lipstick femme fatale style #(i may be in heavy denial but i will not accept any more dead daves under any circumstances)
#art #magic is real #every witch is a nuclear physicist at heart #i think my heart may have started bleeding while looking at this image because more doomed timeline harley feelings?!? #at this point i might start needing a tag for a character who gets maybe a two line mention in the whole of the text #but it absolutely kills me because the exchange is #tg 'cant finish the game with a dead heir and witch' tt 'we don't know jade is dead for sure' #because they don't fucking know for sure and it utterly kills me because rose of all people doesn't know for sure #when rose would have an inherent intuition about these things #and because dave is always inherently wrong about everything and especially jade #because whenever dave makes any concrete statement about anyone but especially jade you know 100% it's going to be the opposite #so this leaves a very huge potential for jade being alive in the doomed and collapsing timeline #and a thousand and one painful reasons for the kids not knowing #so what if jade actually connected what if she made it into the medium #but simply had no way of contacting the other members #because her entire island was under assault from a million meteors and the destruction would have been immense #or more disturbingly and slightly more likely given jade's memory problems early in the game #what if she just couldn't remember #who she was and where she was and what she was supposed to do #given the time limits she wouldn't have a prototyped sprite and she wouldn't have had her guardian #it would just be her and the ruins of her home scatterred across a broken island #little jade with coloured bands around her fingers #that she would sense were important were there for a reason #that she wouldn't take off even as her body grew thin and pumpkin vines coiled around her legs and bruised her skin #as dead leaves settled in her hair and animals made her their home #even the imps would leave her alone because what point would there be in tormenting someone so lost #until dave decides to go back because it's been four months for him and he has to stop john from being stupid #and as he leaves the whole timeline fades out of existence along with bright and chreeful jade with her fingers wraped in colours #and i wouldn't even be having these thoughts but dave is always 100% wrong about jade and rose would know #so this is the most heartbreaking timeline of them all

Here at the Light Emporium we sell light.

Bottles of light.
Fluorescent lights and
streetlights and the light that falls
across the faces of your neighborhood buildings
at seven a.m. on a large march early spring
morning.

Purple and Green. Red and Black.
White lights — the ones you get when a car
is catapulting towards you at forty five miles
an hour. The near-death light. The DMT light.
All the ones that you can imagine — here: in little
glass vessels. Organized with the Dewey
Decimal System. 423 if you want to learn the language of
light. 700s to master the art of it. And 900: the history
of light, from the moment it was separated from
the darkness.

Buy them. Eat them. Stir them into your
morning coffee. Inject them straight into your
veins. Do you want to become the light? Here,
come to the Light Emporium. Where our sole
purpose is to give you everything
that takes away the dark corners that
keep you awake at night.

— “The Light Emporium,” Shinji Moon (via commovente)

enoqi:

Fly Away Now || by 古戈力 ()

iheartmyart:

Exhibition for Fuco Ueda, Uturou Kiku, June 1-15, 2013 at 上田風子 展 LOWER AKIHABARA

norhuu:

Just something fun: The image on the left is a picture I did about a year ago. The one on the right is the same image revised for my AP portfolio. I’m pretty happy with the improvement margin, and I hope I can make the same growth in the next year!

Also, this is from before I got into homestuck, so when I saw Prospit Jade for the first time I kind of lost my shit with excitement.

shenaniganswillensue:

by_contraomnes

#art #magic is real #salt and swear i am up to no good #i am beyond fascinated rn about trickster mode as an actual existing game constuct #an exploitation and a cheat but still a construct that was built into the game nevertheless #and about all the ramifications of activating that cheat within the game #because even though sburb appears to be a very open sandbox type game #it is actually very ridid and strict and inherently contradictory and paradoxical #especially when it comes to the kind of game behaviour that it does and does not allow #but i love that it was built in and that it exists and that it functions in such a bizzare and childish manner #and it brings me back to hussie's jokes (? is anything ever really a joke) about the troll universe #and how it was created by the squiddle players of a sburb game and #when you think of the alpha troll session and its supreme failure it somewhat makes sense.. i think #actually none of this makes sense #but the point is this makes me think of the other sburb sessions #the ones we don't know or hear about #and about all those other players stuck in mostly dead and doomed sessions #and how it's a certaintly that at least some of them would be able to go into trickster mode #so what are the chances that a doomed glitched session might also allow a player to enter both a grimdark state and trickster mode #because as terrifying as each is individually the two combined would be.. well this photoset in essence #add to that a dead session a god tiered player who can't die by either a just or heroic means and so continues to live on an deteriorate #and you have yourself a truly terrifying candy coated horror story

celticivy:

gaksdesigns:

Steampunk Kitty

This just made a lot of people happy