Itβs *MY* birth month and *I* get to make March Eridan into March EriKar π€
Also bonus doodles.
needed electrolytes urgently so I resorted 2 table salt in water @ the applebee's. i Know he would do this, constantly, even with those crank type dispensers
HELP A BROKE DISABLED WOMAN FOR A WHEELCHAIR
Hello! Someone recently reached out to me and said they could give me an unused wheelchair if I pay for the shipping! unfortunately I don't currently have a job so I can't make money any other way.
$10 an hour for art like the ones down below! I have zero boundaries for what I will and will not draw, other than political!
Ok, this kind of breaks my heart, and I feel like itβs exemplary of something that I think is one of Hussieβs greatest strengths as a writer. Well, two things.
The first thing is that he has this incredibly strong grasp on the fact that for the people sad things are actually happening to, they are not dramatically resonant or bittersweet or poetic. They are just sad.Β
When Vriska and John meet inΒ dream-bubbles, Vriska doesnβt consciously think about howΒ heart-wrenchingΒ it is that, in death, sheβs meeting the one person that she kind of tied her hopes of redemption to, only for him not to remember any of the stuff they shared that she remembers as meaningful. Sheβs just a little sad about it, and a little unsure, and trying to make the best of it all.Β
And just recently when Dave sees Dirk for the first time and we all went batshit trying to figure out what tender, tragic things might be going through his head, and then his reaction is basically βDO NOT WANT.β Heβs not thinking about the godforsakenΒ tragedyΒ of it all, heβs thinking that heβs upset and wishes he wasnβt. Like real people do tend to react to stuff at first.
Which kind of brings me to the other thing I wanted to talk about. Which is that Hussie completely and totally gets that he doesnβt need to spell out what a character is feeling. He understands the power of audience empathy and he uses it to his advantage. When presented with an opportunity to make it crystal clear to us what a character is feeling, he will leave it vague almost every time.Β
And not only that, but when he does tell us how a character feels (as above) he keeps it general. He understands that he can tell us that WV feels sad, and we understand immediately that sad is a severe understatement of how WV must be feeling, without needing to beΒ explicitlyΒ told. Hussie implies, rather than states, and he leaves it up to us to understand and imagine based on our comprehension of the characters involved and the situations theyβre in.
What he expects of us is to fill in the blanks and flesh out the story with our own emotional reactions and with our empathy. He asks us to participate on an individual level in constructing the emotional resonance of the story, by embellishing it for ourselves as we go.Β