One thing I really like about Dirk Strider is that a significant portion of his character development is about becoming humble and maintaining humility. For most stoic-masculine-manheroes, there is some point in their story where they lose control or have to deal with a humbling experience, but often after that the plot’s like “ok you showed you can be decent, go ahead and take center stage again, it’s all about u bud.” For Dirk, the narrative has p consistently not done that–Roxy, a feminine and people-oriented person, was crowned the leader, and Dirk frequently has to rely on others and focus on compassion and patience in order to grow
And I think that’s a v good message–often times in stories, masculine traits are painted as superior, hero-worthy, ideal, while feminine traits are nice but mostly supplementary and simply convenient to have around. Homestuck turns that on its head v purposefully, and we see how more feminine, empathy-oriented traits can be very powerful and important! For Dirk (and characters like him), I think this represents a more difficult challenge than would be traditionally presented to warrior-princes like him–I doubt it’ll be a one-time, “now I’m a better person” transformation, but rather a lifelong check-and-balance that he needs to learn how to maintain in order to have a healthy mind and meaningful relationships…but that’s a much more poignant story to tell, and one the world needs more of
It’s going to be two pages of MEGA links to .mkvs of the 28 episode Homestuck: Act 7 anime.
it’s going to be a worm that destroys your computer forever and deletes your internet
it’s going to blow up your computer and put a curse on you and everyone you will ever know for eternity
hes using the kickstarter money to hire a very strong man to come into every one of our houses and crush us to death with our couches
hussies gunna summon the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse with the html and end this shitty planet for good
It’s going to be two feature length films of the entire cast of homestuck reenacting Gone With the Wind but instead of hiring actors, hussie will be voicing various sock puppets.
3000 bees.
we’re finally gonna be thrown into sburb
I don’t understand, what is the significance of HTML pages?
So if “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is be believed, you can fiddle duel the devil for your soul. My question is, does it only work with fiddles, or any contest? Saxophone duel? Guitar shred-off? Can you challenge the devil to a rap battle when he comes for you?
Even though I play piano I want to see someone fight for their soul with the tuba.
The Devil went back to Georgia and his thoughts were dark and cold That Johnny kid had screwed him and he still needed a soul. When he came across this young man blowin’ on a tuba and playin’ hits And the devil took one look and said “You know what? Fuck this shit.”
“Kid, I know you won’t believe this, but I play the tuba too “And if you wanna wager, well I’ve got a deal for you “If I’m the better tubist, then I get to take your soul “If you’re the best, you get this horn here, made from solid gold.”
The boy replied, “My name is Hans, and though it may be wrong, “Your bet’s pretty intriguing, so I guess I’ll play along”
Hans, clean out your spit valves, and get ready for a show, Two tubas feudin’ face to face; pick up your horn and blow. ‘Cause if you win, you get a brand new tuba made of gold, And if you lose the Devil gets your soul!
(Oompah music intensifies)
The Devil opened up his case and said, “I’ll start, I guess.” And fire puffed out from the bell as on the valves he pressed He raised the mouthpiece to his lips, it made a wicked BLART And a band of lederhosen demons joined in with him to start
(Roll Out the Barrel plays with extended tuba solo)
Hans looked the Devil in the eye, once he finished his piece, Said “That’s okay, old man, but just you get a load of this!”
The Devil bowed his head, because he knew he can’t compete. He dragged that heavy tuba down; it crashed by Hans’s feet. He turned away from Hans and as he retreated he said, “Forget this crap. I’m gonna try telemarketing instead.”
(Tuba outro)
@hamstergal you are amazing and owe me 1 clean monitor.
:(((
Fiddles are historically associated with the devil not through any Christian imagery, but because older European folk tradition held that several uber powerful water demons, known as nock, nikyr, necks, etc, were insanely good fiddle players.
In Norway, for example, the violin known as the Hardanger fiddle was played initially by the creepy otherwordly beings, like the hulderfolk, the trolls, as well as the nock. There are equivalents in other European cultures.
These beings were known as preternaturally skilled fiddle players, the nocks above all others. So some people would make a deal to learn the fiddle from the nock, or have their children trained. The only problem being nocks usually needed life or blood sacrifices to learn their skills.
So as Christianity was introduced, the water demon nock was conflated with the devil. Because other stories of nykyrs, nocks, etc were generally sacrificing a human to appease treacherous tides, which was the pinnacle of terror.
The devil knows the fiddle, because the ancient tradition is that if you can win your freedom from the nocks, they will honor this pact.
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