A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:
I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.
Love that some of you are reblogging this. You looked at a picture of a guy with his head in a mailbox and went “yeah”
Can’t wait to see if everyone did something like this or if they had a normal reaction. I will keep you posted.
[ID: a photo of a pale person wearing a black t-shirt and jeans with his head in a mailbox /END ID]
Hello to everyone asking for an update!
The professor has said that he will put all submitted pictures into a powerpoint to be shown in class tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9th). I am very much looking forward to seeing the reaction from him and from the rest of the class. I promise to keep you informed.
Update: the professor saved my picture for last. I was told that I had “truly embodied the spirit of the assignment” and that I had gone “above and beyond.”
Also, to everyone who is worrying about whether or not I got my head out, I was gifted with a very small head, and while I got out just fine I would NOT recommend this if you have a large head or even a normal sized head.
forgive me father for i have opened a notification and read the message within to make the red dot go away and then forgot to reply for a month . it will happen again
AU: President Obama falls for part white house intern part rockstar Harry Styles. Obama surprises Harry in the audience of one of his shows and the affair blossoms from there.
everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -
enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.
and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends
non homestuck dont understand. if you have cosplayed terezi, sollux, or dirk at ANY point in your life you have bought shades from the same man. like its literally just one man whos making HUNDREDS of pairs of specialty cosplay glasses. it is literally JUST one man who makes those glasses on the entire internet
this one man controls the entire pointy anime shades supply. if he ever dies we are all thoroughly fuckt and left to make our own like animals
YALL HE FOUND MY POST AND RESPONDED
“homestuck keeps the lights on” im not crying youre crying
I figured I’d track down and link his etsy, so here you go:
Starting today there will be a brief hiatus while Hussie works on what everyone’s calling the Trollflash, as short of a couple frames in ‘[S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter’, it’ll be the first Flash animation to feature the trolls! There’s still a couple of lands and titles to be revealed as well as information on Terezi’s blindness and how the trolls eventually find the kids and figure out what’s gone wrong with their session, so this feels like 30 pages too early to be the actual end of Hivebent, but I guess we’ll see. Something as fast paced as ‘[S] Descend’ could definitely answer all those questions.
This update gives a lot of characterization to Karkat towards the end of his session, and since he was the first troll introduced, it feels good to circle back to him as the arc comes to a close. Late-session Karkat has a long conversation with early-session Kanaya via a memo, and then, Karkat and Terezi have a long private conversation, seemingly both late in their session. I think both these conversations have some really strong character writing, and hit some powerful emotional moments.
Homestuck has SO many great chatlogs but one that always sticks out to me is Dave’s late night ramblings to Jade, which she doesn’t read until the next morning (p.829). It’s pretty short compared to the lengthy chatlogs the trolls have, but back in October 344 words was still a relatively long Pesterlog, and it’s just Dave bouncing off himself, alternating between doing bits and openly wishing Jade was there to talk to. It’s a big moment of vulnerability for him but back then, I’m not sure the emotional response was the intent. I think these new troll chatlogs are more purposefully crafted to hit those emotional beats, like Hussie learning to lean into a strength they already had.
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