pink alien queens with homophonous names lesgoooo
Okay, so Iâve been pretty stressed lately so Iâm just going to ramble about how I view moirallegiance.
The first thing I want to talk about is how: MOIRALLEGIANCE IS ROMANTIC. Too often I see people describing it as the bro quadrant, legitemately, unlike how whichever character calls it to enrage Karkat in the comics. What really ends up bothering me now though is this: itâs so oftenly used as a midway point between just friends and matespritship.
Never mind that it concerns a totally different part of the human (or i guess troll) experience, itâs treated as just the path to a greater thing, it has no value but what it can get you to: âpure human romanceâ.
This is especially prevalent in davekat fics, wherein they are both so concerned about their own queerness regarding sexual attraction, suddenly have no problem being romantic with each other (again, with moirallegiance being treated as if it was the friendship quadrant).
Itâs used as a tool to get them to be physically close with eachother without revealing their true feelings. Thatâs not really moirallegiance.
The people that donât write Karkat as panquadromantic/panquadrant and just like to write him as vacillating do this so often, and it feels so much like theyâre just projecting human experience onto it (which in the end I understand, I do not guilt any writers for doing this because I do find it interesting anyways most of the time, itâs just in the ideal portrayal of it I see it differently).
I think this also ties into the fact that, moirallegiance is about learning to be a better person. What happens in most fanfiction is that: all the characters are saints unless theyâre vriska or whatever other controvertial character you think of.
If the relationship doesnât require the pacification of a highblood rage, it mostly just turns into a cesspool of vulnerability that never ends in any of the characters progressing (unless they reveal their insecurities, which are then validated and reaffirmed).
Since there is such a fear of writing imperfect, actually imperfect and not Mary Sue insecure characters, whoâs only flaws are: omg i dont feel beautiful, omg im so stupid, omg im a horrible person (theyâre not), etc. Then the potential for moirallegiance loses so much of its spark.
Iâm not saying that writers should stop writing those kinds of stories, again, itâs not anyones responsibility to satisfy my prticular hc about it, and I know how important those kinds of stories can be for other people. But if anyone were to ever write a pale romance novel, to make it really interesting the characters would have to have a myriad of flaws.
I also think itâs interesting to see it tied into kissmessitude more. Pitch romance is also one of the ways that characters build each other up: they are confident in each otherâs potential and will push their kissmessis into being better through competition. Moirallegiance is a way to do that, but through confrontation.
While kissmessis take an indirect approach to bettering their partner: goading, attracting them to a goal, making the other jealous, moirallegiance makes one come face to face with the obstacle.
I donât really know if I had anything else to add, but the summary is this: moirallegiance is undervalued and misrepresented most of the time. Itâs treated as a relationship wherein both prtners have to constantly reassure and cheer up the other, and not a relationship where they tackle the mistakes theyâve made, the roots of all their actions, what drives them, really (and what makes them sad or anxious too). It saddens me to see moirallegiance, a direct window into the characters psyche, being used as the midway point to matespritship, when they are actually seperate and distinct end goals of romance.
ms paint doodle inspired by @/worklogdailyâs style, and bc i wanted to try it out, i like how this one came outt
i made this in class btw, to keep with the theme of doing this when you shouldnât lol
i dont know tumblr etiquette, ive been here for a month, so idk if tagging people is like,, normal?? idk XD
8r8k vriska doodle, i watched the [S] yesterday,,, pretty cool honestly hehe (i havent even read the end of homestuck T T its pretty sad, but i read what i could of hs two years ago and never continued,, i know everything that happens in the story, but i might do a reread soon)
anywaysss here is beyond canon and post character development vriska XD
I drew some fanart for a friend of mine:
a silent voice
finished spread, it was originally going to be all homestuck but the pearl inspiration struck so now im stuck with this, fuck
I donât know about other people, but iâve always seen the light aspect interpreted as the aspect of knowledge. I thought it made enough sense, Rose is a know it all that sees the future and Vriska⌠should have been able to make people unknowledgeable or something.
But, it makes so much more sense for light to be the aspect of luck, especially taking into account the new hsbc upd8s.
A common theme recently is the fact that Rose gets the future wrong. That implies either the malfunction of her powers, or the fact that she doesnât see the future plain and simple, but the most probable path.
Again, idk if this was already commonly accepted or not, but it made me think (i donât really remember a lot of homestuck, and i never even finished the main thing).
Vriska has always been more tied to luck than knowledge, and with the ability to steal the luck from other people, itâs so much more feasable for her to defy Roseâs predictions.
The fact that Roseâs seer powers are luck-based also makes the seer class more appealing. Since before, one could assume that the only thing they did was see the future, as thatâs what Rose and Terezi both seemed to be doing.
I think the characters inside the comic itself donât know what Roseâs classpect entails, except for maybe Rose herself. We all thought that she knew what was going to happen in [S] br8k, all the other characters probably thought so too, but she didnât know, she was placing a bet against herself, and making it come to fruition.
Thief of light is a really cool conceot once you get that, Vriska steals bets, she doesnât manipulate them, not directly, but her very existance contradicts the hopes and wishes for luck, for just this one thing to happen.
Anyways, these are just random thoughts about classpecting, iâd love to give my interpretation of classpects that we donât see in the comic. Iâm also excited to see what classpects the new gen of kids will have (omega kids? delta? idk).
I made a post about what insects the main 12 trolls would be, here's Karkat hehe. I didn't draw his legs, but they would probably be more beetle-like, less human.
As he grew, the plates that form his exoskeleton would molt and turn black.
she/her ⢠page of rage ⢠i like drawing and writing, and homestuck >:} (i don't reblog much) ⢠turning 18
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