you had to be in book tumblr in 2016. six of crows. the raven cycle. all for the game. the song of achilles. ari and dante. the goldfinch. reece king is in every edit of these books. the worst takes on every single subject you have ever seen. REALLY incorrect quotes. balls to the wall fancast.
People don’t like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn’t be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they’re basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it’s just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like “we’re using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can” and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
Just found out my facebook birding group is public because my cousin (a lawyer who is not into birds) casually said to me “saw you couldn’t identify a willet the other day… pretty embarrassing”
yeah guys its looking like he got runned over and beated up and belly flopped in a pool and tore his acl his achilles tendons are gone anvil fell on his head air got sucked out of his lungs run over by a steamroller till he was flat dragged behind a horse piano crushed him set on fire bear mauled him for his picnic basket drank poison crashed a car into a wall that looked like a tunnel blowed up by tnt shot out of a cannon fell off a cliff for a long time and hit the ground with a big puff of dust and electrocuted and theres no remains
