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i am vivian, aka real subtle, the original "nice woman online". lets have fun, ok? problem soothe: problemsoothe.bsky.social neocities: https://magic-mirror.neocities.org/ ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/mimafromtouhou5

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · Sep 13

Vivian music thread

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 1d

a man wearing glasses is playing a video game on a computer screen .

ALT: a man wearing glasses is playing a video game on a computer screen .

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colossal stone head @colossal-head.bsky.social · 12d

welcome to san andreas. i'm cj from grove street / a land of gray crags, archtrees, and everlasting dragons

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 21d

im not backing down from this one. this is me bravely standing up for the truth

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 21d

vrisrosemary

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24d

keeps the witchhunters away! : )

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24d

its so fucking stupid that he smiles. its so stupid that hes constantly smiling and extroverted and loud and not even slightly clever at all. to these people dave is going to be a meme character with zero emotional complexity or tenderness or realism of any kind

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24d

"no dude u gotta just skip acts 1-4 and get to the trolls!!" "the fanart and fanfic is better!!" like not to exonerate hussie but no wonder the huss burnt out, like, how can you feel like your work means anything when people are proudly refusing to challenge themselves to engage

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24d

thank you! it is extremely precious and significant to me.

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24d

went 'er soldier? i barely know 'er! i also barely soldj 'er!

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 24d

i dont know what your experience with homestuck has been like but ive been a dedicated fan since 2010 and ive often felt like 'what the fuck webcomic are these hyperactive ferretbrains reading' with the fandom. but it feels further removed than its ever been and HSBC and the pilot worsen it a lot

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

its like he was written, drawn, and acted by someone who only knows dave strider through like 2010s memes about him. like his only attribute is "cool and arrogant kid", theres none of his weird pokerfacing internal tension, he can be such an understated character but we just get the caricature here

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

Yooooooooo They/he Gavin newsome?? 👀👀👀

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25d

Lol.

Alt text: A Twitter exchange. The first tweet is from Stephen Miller (@StephenM) saying, “Why do you think they posted this?” with a retweet of a post from the account Governor Newsom Press (@GovPres...) that says “STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST!” That tweet shows 3.8K replies, 2.5K retweets, 20K likes, and 658K views. Governor Newsom Press replies to Stephen Miller with, “because you’re a fascist.” That reply shows 512 replies, 1K retweets, 18K likes, and 110K views.

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

LEAVING ASIDE THE OBVIOUS LOGISTICAL ISSUES THERE LOL its such lazy and obvious bait to drive interest. the way dave is characterized feels like the way Caliborn writes him in Homosuck--smiling smug smirking Alpha Male who everyone wants to toootaally bone instead of like. poker facing insecure mess

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

A low point for me was like--there's a scene where John chides Dave for engaging in too many ironic shenanigans or w/e--but *nothing dave does is really all that ironic*, there's no time to show SBAHJ or dave's blog, so 'he is ironic' becomes just, a stated but undemonstrated Factoid about him

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

That's exactly it. The pilot showcases a bunch of the imagery but is so light on any actual substance that it becomes almost incoherent. They have to replace some of the more elaborate jokes with floppy one liners, and then waste limited screentime on terrible fourth wall breaks.

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

if this got greenlit they would need it to be a like -full- series, the complexity only scales and theyve already skipped so many things that are meant to be called back to later. time will tell, but im gratified to hear that the pacing issues were apparent from a semi outsider perspective as well!

real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

and we have no idea what their deal is or why we should care. just sloppy storytelling, all flash and no substance. i still really love and recommend homestuck, if you ever have a mind to read it ill send ya my copy of the Unofficial Homestuck Collection!

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 25d

a big part of homestuck is sort of like taking your time, reading supplemental stuff like dave's webcomic and rose's gamefaq and in-game texts like the gamebro article, sassacre book etc. theres no time for any of that in this pilot, its just 'four kids are there and playing a video game'

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 26d

i think this just ruined my day

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 26d

wow, the homestuck animated series pilot. fucking dismal. so much crunched into a small space that it loses all coherency, dialogue is severely dumbed down and then peppered with fucks and 2025-speak to seem lively. this was such a bad idea and the implementation was even worse than i imagined

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 27d

god gives his battles withoutest honor or humanity to his most honorable humans.

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 27d

rocko's ashen wings~ (rocko's ashen wings!)

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real subtle @realsubtle.bsky.social · 28d

Good news about the existence of Torako/Asagi yuri!

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 28d

i can't wait to be a useless piece of shit all day and play all these games
FUCK IM FALLING DOWN ALL THESE STAIRS
I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS BRO!
I TOLD YOU DOG!
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
I TOLD YOU MAN
I TOLD YOU ABOUT STAIRS!

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