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occasionally some really cool analysis shows up on /r/Homestuck.

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/u/MetaCrossing:

As much shit as you want to talk on Beta Bro, he knew what he was doing. Dave was clearly the most prepared Beta kid for Sburb, not to mention Bro CUT A FUCKING METEOR IN HALF. Yeah, the puppet/smuppet obsession was weird, and he was pretty abusive, but when it came down to the literal apocalypse, he was pretty cool, all things considered.

/u/cyanCrusader:

I mean they touch on this a lot with Dirk himself. Dirk has an insane amount of self-discipline, bordering on masochistic. He pushes himself to the absolute limit and has an amazing sense of self-awareness. He knows exactly how far he can push himself and always does so. Because of this, he’s easily the strongest and most prepared when they enter the game.

The problem is that Dirk is not nearly as good at reading other people as he thinks he is. So he pushes Jake well beyond Jake’s limits and never notices. He pushes Jake away because of the choices he makes. You can see it when he’s having RoboDirk train Jake. He’s an intense dude.

Bro does the same thing. He’s been raising and training Dave from day one to be ready for Sburb. If you look closely in Bro’s apartment, he has a bunch of newsclippings posted up on a board with string and stuff. Relating to Sburb and meteor strikes. Bro had quickly pieced together what was going on. He likely intended to enter Sburb with Dave and initiate his plan to beat the game. But during Dave’s entry into Paradox Space Bro realizes Dave isn’t ready yet, (which is also why he’s been fighting Dave so hard, also to test him) so Bro goes on ahead to try and beat the game for him. When it becomes clear that he can’t, he tries to reset the session, but again, he’s not an active player. So instead he tries to leave a clue for Dave to finish what he starts.

Of course, Dave never knew any of this, and was also a small child. Living in that sort of environment with no context or capacity to understand why your guardian is constantly beating the shit out of you and forcing you to basically constantly fend for yourself in a hostile environment is not healthy, to say the least. Bro did a great job raising an Sburb player. Sadly he fucked up the development of his “little brother” in the process. Learning to understand and trust others is a big part of Dirk’s character arc, and despite not being introduced until act 6, the groundwork for said arc is laid out as early as act 2.

And I mean, there’s also the fact that Bro literally grew up harboring an eldritch abomination, presumably being raised by it. That Bro was a functional adult at all is a miracle of sorts. Bro’s mind was undoubtedly corrupted by Cal’s influence. Bro was an abusive guardian, but I don’t think he meant to be. I think he genuinely tried to help Dave grow. Dirk’s character arc is all about doing what Bro never could. Be there.

u/zanderkerbal:

Wait a second. Bro raised Dave in a hostile environment to prepare him for Sburb. Bro had been carrying around Lil Cal for his entire life and probably had his personality influenced by him. Who else do we know who is part Lil Cal, and by extent part AR-who-is-Dirk-who-is-Bro? Doc Scratch. What did Doc Scratch do?

He raised the entirety of Alternia as a hostile environment to prepare them to play Sburb. He did the same thing Bro did to dave, but to an entire civilization. And what did we end up with? An entire cast of individually competent but socially dysfunctional characters.

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very much inspired by this

That smile is adorable 

(u/Chris_lsur_dude)

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THIS IS WHY THIS SHOW IS THE BEST SHOW

Some of the best screenshots of despair are irl.

OMINOUS

IS THAT A SHARK?

if you watch any video today it needs to be this one

I LOVE THIS NEWSCAST AND IM NOT EVEN FROM AUSTRALIA.

#like that little cage is gonna help ya

My favourite thing is when Australians are talking about their deadly wildlife

DYING RN

i cant wait

crying

omg

@celestialdisturbances

part of the reason the penumbra podcast is so Good is that anyone other show would have made peter the nb one, the one to refer to himself as a lady– he’s the flamboyant one, after all. and while i still think peter would look absolutely amazing in a skirt (and probably does wear them), it’s fucking cool that the narrative is like “being flirty and wearing a skirt doesn’t make you less masculine” while also being like “you can be as masculine as you want and still be a fucking lady, you nb hero” 

and both of those are Good things and i love it

A while back, somebody made a comment about how if Penumbra was a cable TV show, it would have been 100% no homo humor, etc.

My first thought was that, considering the Femme Homme Fatale aspect and consequent romance is a driving force behind a lot of the show, they’d probably just turn one of the main characters into a woman and be done with it. 

Only for the life of me I couldn’t decide which one would be turned into a woman.

Because on the one hand, Peter’s such a femme, and he does so many stereotypically feminine things, and he’s deliberately written to be the Femme Homme Fatale, and yet his are the arms that are being swooned into. He’s the one pulling Juno behind him during a fight. He’s the one who could totally escape but totally has to sacrifice himself to save his lady love. Archetypically speaking, he’s a very feminine character with a very masculine role in the story. (He’s also the taller of the two, which is almost exclusively reserved for the male lead.) Meanwhile Juno’s got the inverse thing going on, where he’s the surly manly anti(ish)hero, but he’s the arm candy, the archer, the psychic, the short one, the one who fucking talks to animals. An archetypically masculine character with a feminine role. 

Without making HUGE changes to the characters, it’s pretty much impossible for them to be anything other than nonbinary, and I love it. 

 As someone who enjoys slicing up stories into their component parts, it’s a lot of fun to examine. 

i love penumbra wikia

Thank the @penumbrabang discord for these

[ID: Three sketches of Peter Nureyev from The Penumbra Podcast. In the first, he stands in a kitchen, wearing an apron. The kitchen is on fire. In the second, he sits on a couch with a glass of wine. The living room is on fire. In the third, he reclines on a bed, wearing a t-shirt with the word “HOT” on it. The bed is on fire. Each sketch is in black and white, except for the fire, which is orange. /end ID]

season 2 of the penumbra podcast

[venn diagram with two circles overlaping in the middle. the left one says “being gay”. the right one says “doing crime”. the area between them that overlaps has an image of peternureyev from the penumbra podcast. peter is an asian man with dark, carefully styled poofy hair and glasses. he’s wearing a grey strapless top with black netting over it  and three necklaces.]

had to make this. inspo here.

*nureyev voice* jᵘno

this scene was funny but i thought it would be funnier as a manga panel

expression study that definitely wasn’t just an excuse to draw teeth, no sirree, for sure not that

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[id: Four digital drawings of Peter Nureyev from the shoulders up. They are not colored or shaded, but the linear fades from blue to purple as it goes down the page. He has long eyelashes, an undercut, a freckle under his right eye, and thin round glasses. He has snakebite piercings as well as several ear piercings, including an ear cuff that connects by a thin chain. In the drawing in the top left, he has his chin tucked next to his shoulder and he is laughing with a wide smile and his eyes closed pleasantly. In the top right, he is looking over his shoulder and grinning deviously. In the bottom left, he is looking backwards over his shoulder with his chin tilted up and a reproachful and haughty expression, his mouth open as though he is in the middle of saying something. In the bottom right, his chin is tilted up, his eyes are closed, and his teeth are bared in an expression of spite or disappointment.]