February 2012
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Man, sometimes I look through the “my fanon john problem” tag and think, “Wow, I … kind of make John sound worse than he actually is … “
And tbh I think that’s true! But that’s also reactive meta blogging for you. We have a character whose flaws exist in tandem with his better nature and a fandom that tends to ignore the former and place a...
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Amanda thinks she has it all. An iphone, a macbook, a playstation 3, all the coolest things anyone could want. but then ONE DAY, she wakes up something isn’t right. Where her macbook once sat is a PC running windows xp. a nintendo gamecube is in the place of her ps3. she gets a call on a nokia flip phone from a friend who asks if she got her message about Green Day’s new album on...
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As an addendum of sorts to this post: When I talk about Rose and John as relational complements, I think it’s better to say that — ideally! provided their wires aren’t too crossed! — it’s about them being in positions to honestly appreciate each other’s differences and sometimes (of their own volition) decide … not so much to take a page out of the...
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candycorn-v4mp1r3:
or: Grimdark Jane
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And now to flip things a smidgen turnways:
John is an aries he is at least 40% blunt asshole
Haha, yes good!! And hey insofar as meaningless statistics are concerned, I’d say that’s a decent estimate of how much I
John is such a dick, I always imagine him to be a bit of a bully.
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an important survey
crowry:
do you find john egbert entertaining?
if you answered no, please go read this pesterlog and retake the survey.
(the correct answer is GOD WHAT A DINGUS)
Look we all like what we like, but if you can tell me with a straight face that the things coming out of this child’s mouth are never the least bit amusing I’ll be sorely tempted to entertain the notion that you have...
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Anonymous asked: Are you still running the "Ask Grimdorks" blog? I have't seen anything posted there in a while and I miss it! You have such a wonderful understanding of John and Rose's characters and how their relationship works, and I'd really love to see more. It's such a wonderful pairing, yet it gets so little love... =(
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Even if — presuming an established relationship — Rose and John were to eventually break up, I’m confident they would remain a united front on at least one long-term goal: to make Dave Strider’s life a little more miserable at various turns.
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Anonymous asked: are you a panda
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Watchsimonnormally:
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would you be interested in doodling john and rose going out to ghost-hunt and rose is secretly excited about it and carried a stack of occult books with her in one arm and a lantern in the other and lent john her mom’s vacuum as -the- ghost vacuum to use and she has a long black robe and he has ghostbuster pj’s from years ago and john just ends up holding out the...
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Hmmmrmmm earlier I saw some debate flying around my dash w/r/t nicknames and terms of endearment. I have a few words about this! They follow thusly:
“Baby”? “Babe”? “Angelface”?
Nay, I say.
Nay.
For clearly — c l e a r l y — the most beautous yet underappreciated of them all is “darling”.
Por. Ejemplo…
DARLING… IF...
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Whoops, gotta stop overzealously deleting junk mail before remembering that I can always unsubscribe.(!!!)
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Sometimes I give the media I engage with careful thought and realize all over again just how many fictional characters suffer from some form of emotional constipation.
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… Oh no.
I just realized,
John wouldn’t be able to have most variations on Kung Pao chicken.
:’(
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The Dynamic Excuse: Why Good Anatomy Aids...
comicartcorrections:
As a feminist-minded woman comic artist, I have come across a lot of complex and deeply-discussed reasons as to why women in comics look the way they do. One of the biggest excuses I get given is that it is an art style, that it makes the art dynamic, full of movement, full of tension and flow.
To that I say a hearty: Bullshit.
I’ve had the good luck of being a classical art...
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[bleh, this ran long and some of this has been better covered elsewhere i think, but it’s been good for gathering a bunch of my thoughts on this into one place. so fwiw, here we go!]
See, a lot (a lot) of what I love about grimdorks lies in how many of Rose and John’s character flaws are inverses of each other.
Rose is always always always on the lookout for an ulterior motive and...
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kodamahugs replied to your post: kodamahugs replied to your photo: “We’ve come too…
the fucking w thing man
Yeah! Rose Lalonde has a fake moustache. Rose Lalonde adopts Nepeta as her little sister. Rose Lalonde takes time out of her emotional breakdown to reassure Jade that she’s being a good friend. Rose Lalonde likes to pretend she is a wizard. When Rose Lalonde goes grimdark and is...
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Wow, so I’m still retagging/adding tags to a bunch of stuff and as I trawl backwards I keep being honestly confounded by how much of the chronology I’ve forgotten. Like, “Wait, I talked about that AFTER this other thing??” “I reblogged that how long ago????”
Not to mention past, um, gems like
“… oh. There was this one time I tagged something with...
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ubiquitousassassin asked: Schoolgirlstuck.
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triplefudgepackers asked: I think I found you through that awesome Rose/John ask blog you made, saw that you run it and then bam, I found your blog and followed it right away.
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saccharinescorpion asked: iiiii think it was that What if Comic about John and Rose v Jack, i was all "dang this is good! this person seems really cool!" and i was right! :3
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How did you find my tumblr? →
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john “MY DAD IS A BUSINESSMAN OH GOD OH FUCK OH NO OH NOOOO” egbert
john “sign me right up to fight an overlevelled boss” egbert
john “spend ridiculous amount of time re-enacting movie sequences in apocalyptic videogame” egbert
john “GUSHERS ARE MADE BY BETTY CROCKER?!?!?!?!’ egbert
john “what’s that vriska, you murdered lots of people? oh well i guess thats kinda normal for...
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/casually resolves to use some iteration of this... →
light “sick and tired of john egbert being reduced to the solution to [suitor of choice]’s problems — or everyone else’s for that matter — when he is actually kind of a huge if massively endearing mess himself” rises
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Anonymous asked: happy valentine's day :D
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ubiquitousassassin asked: I just wanted to take this very special day and tell you how I feel, lightrises. Merry Christmas... wait hold on something's wrong here.
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That moment when you realize Valentine’s is either almost or already over in various parts of the world.
/mentally p u l l s a t h a i r
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ttsg replied to your post: One of my fondest pre-teen memories was watching… Its special edition with the ugliest guybrush ever and the removal of Sam and Max? But yeah, hard to hate SoMI :)
I picked that up later, but nah, it was a dl of the VGA version run through ScummVM. Good times and being ridiculously proud of figuring out the idol puzzle almost right off the bat (while being...