christmas icons of the remaining mid and highbloods to make your dash presence extra festive c: you can find the first six here (credit is much appreciated if you use, but not required)
dressing the way i do is so funny because everyone thinks i’m a weirdo except for literally every old woman i run into. they all adore my silly little hat and my awesome cloak and my big big skirt
“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”
The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.
The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.
They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.
She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.
There was a decent but ultimately forgettable fantasy novel I read a long time ago that had a single moment that stuck with me.
The protagonist has just won the world famous sword fighting competition in the big, rich capital and is talking to his mentor, and says something about being the best swordsman in the world. The mentor frowns and tells him that no, he isn't. He is the best swordsman out of the people that could afford to show up to this tournament. There could be a mercenary way out in the mountains, patrolling a snow encrusted fort's walls that could kick his ass and there was no way to know until he was already losing to the guy.
I think about that a lot, and how for every apparently dominant competitor, there might be a fucking ronin out there somewhere capable of destroying them.
i don't homestuckpost on here much anymore, but i do have to vent my frustrations as a fan of pink, obnoxious, scarf-wearing, transfem-coded characters:
the way they handled roxy lalonde in hs:bc pissed me the fuck off. roxy lalonde, much like the rest of homestuck, was heavily informed by the transfeminine perspective of her author, and thus has a *lot* of coding as a trans girl. when she was introduced the "xy" in her name was literally pointed out as "chromosomal," come the fuck on. but in hs:bc, you know how they decide to present roxy's gender? you guessed it, literally anything but a trans woman!!!! she can be a cis woman, she can be a trans man, but god forbid she be a reflection of homestuck's inherent transfeminine foundation.
roxy "chromosomal" lalonde. roxy "one of my character traits is that i mess with biology" lalonde. roxy "as an adult woman i created a replica of the young girl's room i wanted to have as a child" lalonde. roxy "my best friend is a transfem allegory" lalonde. roxy "i managed to defy physics to create motherhood through my own determination" lalonde. yeah that roxy lalonde. anything but a trans woman, i fucking guess!!!! siiiiiiiiiiiiigh
homestuck christmas icons to spread cheer on your tumblr dash c: the rest of the mid and highbloods coming soon!!! (credit is much appreciated but not required if you use)
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