have some really cute rosemary
i love love love how rose came out in this
Thing i made on the notes app on my ipad heh
maybe ill continue it
Okay, so Iâve been pretty stressed lately so Iâm 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: itâs 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, itâs treated as just the path to a greater thing, it has no value but what it can get you to: âpure human romanceâ.
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).
Itâs used as a tool to get them to be physically close with eachother without revealing their true feelings. Thatâs not really moirallegiance.
The people that donât write Karkat as panquadromantic/panquadrant and just like to write him as vacillating do this so often, and it feels so much like theyâre 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, itâs 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 theyâre vriska or whatever other controvertial character you think of.
If the relationship doesnât 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, whoâs only flaws are: omg i dont feel beautiful, omg im so stupid, omg im a horrible person (theyâre not), etc. Then the potential for moirallegiance loses so much of its spark.
Iâm not saying that writers should stop writing those kinds of stories, again, itâs 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 itâs 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 otherâs 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 donât really know if I had anything else to add, but the summary is this: moirallegiance is undervalued and misrepresented most of the time. Itâs 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 theyâve 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.
i was bored in class so i started making this, if earth c had been the end and was happy ever afterđđđ
june is based off of this one pin of her i remember seeing that i really liked
Some doodles of these guys, red grey and black.
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Seriously though, the contrast between the two hands is so painful what the fuck happened to the bottom one đ
dave <> kanaya moirallegiance would be cute as fuck
Karkat vantas staring at the sunset with a sheep
I have no new ideas, so this is me playing with the preset procreate brushes as viscerally as i used to play with those wire things that you could move wooden blocks around on
small wip doodle thingg enjoy
she/her ⢠page of rage ⢠i like drawing and writing, and homestuck >:} (i don't reblog much) ⢠turning 18
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