Dave Strider - Blog Posts

Today I decided to look for my most popular art piece from the past and redraw it. And that piece waaaaas...

DAVEKAT BEDTIME

Seriously, as of posting this, the original work has exactly 299 notes on it.

That’s 1 away from 300, and it’s the highest number any of my posts have achieved! (the only one even close to it was a crack post of Davekat using one of those “draw the crew” templates and the only other one to break 100 was yet another Davekat post with some Rosemary on the side)

While this is disheartening, I hope that with little things like this I can grow my online presence so i can share my art and comics and stories with the world!

Drawing has always been one of my greatest passions even if I’m not as good at it as others.

I HOPE YOU WILL ALL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ME!

Love you and happy holidays

~Illy

(PS: I have plans for a little Christmas piece (and possibly a comic to go with it if I can finish in time) that will go out preferably when it hits midnight, signaling the shift from the 24th to the 25th)

All hail the manga collection that is growing too large for her bookshelf

Miku won't stand up anymore for some ungodly reason =_=

IT'S.... DAVESPRITE!!!

Also God Tier Dave with the regular beads

Thank you @memesncheese for indulging my nonsense with a guess! It made me very happy.

Now with that done it's time to iron these bois

It's time to play: WHO'S THAT POKÉMON!

Except.... it's actually... a Homestuck character

Meh it still works

I was bored...

Yeah I used a draw the crew template, so what? It’s fun to mess around with.

Ya’know... I’ve always wondered why they decided to put Arquiusprite into Lil Cal... I could understand Caliborn (because obvious reasons) and Gamzee but why the second most uncomfortable sprite (Calsprite triumphs 1st place hands down) in the comic

But with the bit about AR making it even easier to get into Bro’s head, combined with the best ways to mess with his mind, it just makes everything more depressing for the Strider brothers

I honestly wonder what the real Bro was thinking though everything that happened. But I genuinely believe the things he did for Dave were the real him. The very few times when Bro actually helped like when he split the meteor to give Dave just a little more time entering the game. I want to believe Bro really did love Dave, and tried his best while struggling under Cal’s influence. I want to know how things would have been without Cal. But most of all...

I want Caliborn to go die in a hole and for Cal to be killed with fire for all eternity.

No one messes with my precious Striders

Those boys really need some love

And therapy

Actually everyone in Homestuck needs therapy

Okay.

Okay wait.

Caliborn’s weird homogay crush on Dirk. Is a thing.

And then he got to spend years, years with Dirk.

And part of Cal’s personality knew

EXACTLY

how to fuck with him.

I take back everything bad I’ve ever said about Bro. The fact that Bro didn’t outright molest/murder Dave is a FUCKING MIRACLE. 

Magnets and rainbows all up ins.

The implications. I cannot deal with this. No wonder Bro wanted to train Dave so hard. No fucking wonder Bro was always drawing creepy-ass comics about “wanting to play a game.” No wonder when Davesprite prototyped him, all Calsprite did was laugh.

Caliborn was finally able to get Dirk to draw whatever he wanted for him. Whenever he wanted.

Truncated. Disjointed. Sentences. And fucking memes. Writing like there’s two people communicating the message.

I NEED TO FUCKING PUNCH SOMETHING.

So I wanted to draw a tiny Davesprite

Then I had this idea

Because tiny Davesprite is the most adorable thing in the medium

Oh hey finished this cute double date request Wouldve been done sooner but i got sucked into Red vs Blue and watched all 15 seasons because i have no life

I imagine that Karkat would constantly fall asleep reading his romance novels

Gahhhhh sweet precious DaveKat

I'm not dead, guys! I'm just a mentally unstable adult who decided that making a cute davekat lyric video would be a good idea 🤠

It'll take time... But I'll finish it

Sorry I'm late 😣

I'm basic 😜

[Homestuck] my fave character to draw expressions for <3

bonus, bc sometimes the sketches make me laugh more than the finished product:

smokin that shit that made youtube poop

" A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! "

Happy 413 everybody!! Take this art as my little celebration piece <3

Gift art for two friends of mine! (John, and Dave!)

(Yes, that's their names-)

i'm kinda tired right now, but wanted to make something for Dave's bday too! so here's a Wigglypaint.

cube-ifies them edit: i also made an alpha kids version! (< that's a link to it)

i’ve been very busy and tired lately, take this low effort dave doodle

working on a lineup, have the beta kids

(also, the new hdbc update?????? im going INSANE JUNE EGBERT JUNE EGBERT JUNE EGBERT)

The Values of Moirallegiance

Okay, so I’ve been pretty stressed lately so I’m 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: it’s 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, it’s treated as just the path to a greater thing, it has no value but what it can get you to: “pure human romance”.

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).

It’s used as a tool to get them to be physically close with eachother without revealing their true feelings. That’s not really moirallegiance.

The people that don’t write Karkat as panquadromantic/panquadrant and just like to write him as vacillating do this so often, and it feels so much like they’re 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, it’s 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 they’re vriska or whatever other controvertial character you think of.

If the relationship doesn’t 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, who’s only flaws are: omg i dont feel beautiful, omg im so stupid, omg im a horrible person (they’re not), etc. Then the potential for moirallegiance loses so much of its spark.

I’m not saying that writers should stop writing those kinds of stories, again, it’s 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 it’s 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 other’s 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 don’t really know if I had anything else to add, but the summary is this: moirallegiance is undervalued and misrepresented most of the time. It’s 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 they’ve 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.

This was based off this one post:

Still with a bit of art block, but this, this has truly inspired me

"Template" under cut:

some people have such little nuance Ó_Ò

some chapter 63 Old Dave doodles from your words destroyed my planet by unda, check out their fics i beg, they're amazing

i wasn’t able to draw anything today (exam tomorrow😔🙏, so i come bearing offerings of times past

a little idea i had for what i would look like as a sprite lol

this is what i dedicate my time in class to guys,

be grateful

A little sad rose lalonde missing her home for the first time...

was it really so horrible?

small wip doodle thingg enjoy