Shadow-banned

Okay, so, looks like this blog has been shadow-banned by Tumblr. Despite all of the visibility settings being open, the blog doesn’t show up in searches, and none of the posts are showing in tagged searches, either. I’m not sure there’s much to be done about this. To that end, I guess I’ll try to be more active on Twitter and I’m looking into starting an Insta.

In the meantime, if it won’t clash with your blog, please consider giving our posts reblogs and not just likes. That way we can hopefully get some more eyeballs on things. This may be Tumblr’s way of punishing us for our past sins (of reblogging and posting NSFW fanart and fics >.>), but our artists have worked very hard on this content, and they don’t deserve to have all of their effort chucked into a dark void.

Panel 5 of Chapter 14

And then there’s this, the final panel of the chapter. It may not seem like a whole lot, but this panel was the culmination of years of writing. We didn’t exactly try to keep it a secret, and it should have been obvious to everyone if not by context clues then by the fic’s tags, but this is officially the first time we’ve acknowledged that Karkat is Hemogoblin. I can’t describe what a weight that is off my shoulders. There’s so much that I would’ve loved to have tagged Karkat on in the past, but we were adamant about not acknowledging the obvious until it was revealed in the story. Now if only John could figure it out... Drawn by the talented @cherryirises!

Panel 4 of Chapter 14

...I don’t know what actually to say about this one, other than I hope it took people by surprise. This is another by @cherryirises, and I will say that it was an absolute treat watching him try to draw purposefully bad. It is my desperate hope that people who haven’t read the chapter encounter this wonderful work of art and are extremely confused and/or disturbed by it.

Panel 3 of Chapter 14

This is, hands down, my favorite panel of the chapter. It took three people to make it come to life. @cherryirises did Dave and Dave’s art, which was originally done by BR and redrawn by cherry for upscaling purposes. The very lovely background, including the two background characters, was all done by the magnificent @jove-bluh​. Hot damn if they didn’t create a masterpiece. Let’s start with the background, which Jove created with an extremely impressive turnaround speed. I love how detailed everything is, and she absolutely knocked it out of the park on the background chars, one of whom is a fan-OC (I forget whose, but we promised we’d include your character in the background of a panel...it just took us half a decade -sweats-). Next, let’s take Dave himself. I love Cherry’s Dave, plain and simple. Such cockiness. Awesome design on the headphones, too. And then there’s the elephant in the room. I don’t know how BR and Cherry were both able to achieve such Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff perfection, but they did, and it’s horrifyingly beautiful. I can say without doubt that I absolutely, positively, 100% believe that this could’ve come from Dave’s hand. In fact, let’s get a close-up.

Magnificent.

Panel 2 of Chapter 14

Foreground on this one was @cherryirises and background was @jove-bluh. I like how pretty much the most important goal of this panel is to convey just how desperately Karkat feels the need to nurse his caffeine addiction. John is all excited to talk about movies and interact with his favorite person ever, and Karkat is just like, “If you give me that coffee in the next five seconds, I just might consider letting you live without putting your other arm in a sling despite the grave offense of not immediately handing the thermos over to me the moment you saw me. Possibly. Jury is still out.”

Panel 1 of Chapter 14

This one was done entirely by the very talented @cherryirises. Boy howdy did it take a good, long while to get that pose just right. I had to physically model it out before we settled on something we were both happy with, but as you can see, it was well worth it! I really enjoy this panel, because it’s just such a m o o d. I can just feel his hatred for existence emanating through the computer monitor. My favorite part has to be the Heir pajamas, because of course he’s dork enough to own branded Heir merch and actually wear it often, even if it’s actually low-quality, unlicensed product that is too big for his body. On the plus side, that means we get to stare at those ever so shapely hips.