#yappington

Blowin ya chaste kisses. With the socks on, of course, to eradicate any homoerotic implications from this friendly homosociality between two strapping individuals.

Jesting aside, I am actually glad that some folks see something in my relatively un-serious AU. I have always been a sucker for the sea and its associations with vast isolationism, and if a man sees a good opportunity to ironically flip a cliche (Selkie AU), he gotta go for it. The Selkie is typically a romantic tragedy or romantic abduction, interchangeably, with the relationship being focal point of the story. O woe, Romeo and Fishliet. Shall the Fishliet abandon everything they knew for a creature of the land? For loveeeee?

It's good. It's classic. It's melodrama. But throughout all this, I found one prospect about Selkies painfully underutilized. Ferality. Wilderness. The Selkie is oftentimes just a fella with a fancy coat: Perfect speech and impressive ability to adjust living on an environment not meant for it. Perfectly harmless, almost idolizingly innocent. It's weaved in it's archetype: A mirage of a beautiful, naive, wedlocked bride.

But remember, folks, real seals are wild animals. Wild carnivorous animals.

So, while the role reversal is the primary idea (Selkie becomes the chaser), Dirk's wild behaviour is a very prominent thing I want to illustrate. Something clearly inhuman in the flesh of one. Literally (38 teeth, scarred, with different internal composition) and personally (An asocial, violent creature who's odd even in seal culture). Savage isn't the word, but benign is definitely not it either. He's entirely apathetic to humans as he is to the sea life: It's the conveniences humanity have that interests him.

It's why Jake's irresponsible treatment of him is what roots love in him. As an animal, he isn't treated with the distant respect reserved or with intrusive groping attention: Cheesy, but Jake treats him as if he were a person. In the period where he is being nursed to health, Jake gets him a personal plate, lets him claim the couch, watch TV, and above all, talk to him. Talk and talk and talk. As isolation is getting to Jake, Dirk, in turn, is starting to get overtly used to having company.

Dirk is not a wedlocked bride: Rather, he’s the one who’s gonna try to chain Jake down with him for a very selfish desire. A 180 flip in roles and goals of a Selkie. He is a wild, lonely, lonely animal who’s gonna drown Jake with him unwittingly in attempt for him to stay (steal Jake’s coat, if you will), and Jake is an idiot who’s active enabling and lack of discretion is gonna endanger himself.

the show I always planned to watch since the year it was released but I completely forgot, and now the fandom lowkey dead ergo I have no one to talk about it with

Oh yeah the ending got me and now to cope with it I'm gonna draw them being goofy and silly and not dead of course

Check out this GFM to help a family in neeed please!!

Makes a guy feel special asking his values like that. Thank ya, Callie. May the whimsy be within you.

Answering this question is a bit funny cause believe it or not, all the cast are dear to me. And thus paradoxically, none of them are a favorite of mine. Nebulous, I know. Not anything audacious enough to read.

Homestuck is a media where my perspective on a character had slowly stopped basing on their actions, and more so on their metanarrative role in the story. Makes it all easier to appreciate em, even redundant sections, but it does make personally engaging with them a bit difficult.