Yammerings - Buddhist Style

Those fuzzy pedipalps and them giant eyes and…Gragh. Spiders are such precious little things…

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I just realized that this was a horrible idea because Kanaya needs to be a dwarf. Or maybe it’s a grand idea. I can’t tell.

…though I won’t use that I’m tempted to draw it. Dwarf Maryams. Just…Maryaming about with beards. Outsiders can’t tell that they’re actually mothering them to death because dwarf women look just like dwarf men save for breasts (which you typically can’t see due to how they dress).

MARYAMS WITH THEIR FASHIONABLE BEARDS.

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And it might be the literalist in me, but I personally see the hemospectrum arranged by height, the more royal trolls being elves, at the very end being a very loud and irate Hobbit. The kids, being outside the spectrum would be maia.

I myself didn’t really want to make any Maia really. Which is part of why there aren’t any currently devised. I wanted to deal more in the less powerful races of Middle-Earth. The things I am most touched by and can relate to.

The reasoning for why certain people ended up where they are depends…Meenah became Numenorean because Numenor is an island and there are very heavy mariner themes with that culture. They are skilled at what they do in that regard and just very regal in general. The people of Numenor were also notably very desirous of better things. Not just wealth but eternal life and this ultimately is why the island was thrust under the waves. They got too envious of the Elves and attacked Aman.

Aranea was made a Noldor because she just seems like she would fit as an Elf. She’s rather knowledgeable and concerned with stories. Like. That is basically what Aranea feeds off. The ability to tell stores to people. Noldor was picked in specific because the Noldor Exiles can be highly passionate and very unpleasant. They’re essentially the closest the Elves have ever come to being evil being involved in the three Kinslayings among other shit. The Serkets and Nitrams were placed there to give Aranea a family and families are very important. In fact I needed families to even pick her names in some cases.

The Maryams ended up in Rohan due to just how passionate those people are. They’re very concerned with their freedom and while they might not be regal they’re very artsy and intelligent in their own fashions. Having in particular a great oral tradition. And shieldmaidens. They got them. It’d make for an interesting environment for both Porrim and Kanaya. The Vantases admittedly are here mostly because I can’t separate the Maryams from them. Also can you imagine Karkat and Kankri on horses?

CAN YOU?

Blonde Kankri on his dashing steed pissing off Porrim while Karkat whines to Kanaya about god knows what. Maybe the fact that he thinks everyone’s love poems suck ass.

Jane and her fellows got put as Hobbits because they seem much more homely. Jane and John exist to be the normal characters. The ones we can relate to best. Hobbits also aren’t entirely unadventurous or hateful of knowledge beyond family trees. Tookish strains in particular are known for producing rather odd Hobbits. Ones who venture into the Old Forest and so on.

The Striders are based on a joke as I said and because it is just fun to imagine this huge line of Dirks and Daves. Dwarves are, like the other prominent races, rather fond of music and tales. They also craft weapons more fantastically awesome than most races. And hate when people know them as they truly are. Dwarves are secretive.

Roxy and Rose ended up as Silvan Elves because Rose is one of the more knowledgeable peoples in the story. She’s the Seer of Light and Elves are basically the “WE KNOW STUFF AND LIKE TO STUDY” race. They like such things more than sex. Which is still awesome don’t get me wrong, but we could instead be studying history or languages and writing really terrible wordy stories. Roxy also seems to like writing. Elves also really like drink. Most things in Middle-Earth do it seems, but with the Elves we know that they are basically horrible party animals. Who may develop drinking problems. I mean BIlbo got the Dwarves out of Thranduil’s halls because one of his guards stole some wine and got piss ass drunk to the point of passing out.

Krack, you bastard, you’re going to have to wait on details about this new thing. It is too late and things are still in greater flux than Middle-Earthstuck.

All you shall get now is that mutant blooded Mindfang became troll Muhammad with tits somehow and Prince of Space Kurloz blew up his planet thereby ending any chance for them to win their game.

Oh dear god, Kraken wants to hear more about Middle-Earthstuck…Well first off we’re very far from anywhere near even done with just details and planning. The most developed thing we have so far is Aranea because for whatever reason she is my go-to girl for nerdy crossover bullshit I assault RP clients with.

One day I got bored and bloodswapped Aranea into being mutant red. And then I wasn’t pleased with the lack of backstory for the character I am currently assaulting MSPARP with. So I swapped all the others the same number of spaces.

But then I had to swap their classes. And then quirks. And then more personality change crap. Then interests.

I still wasn’t pleased though because we ended up with males as tyrian bloods in societies under matriarchal rule.

and now i am creating the basics of a beforus ruled by a tyrian karkat that is the knight of life and rewriting what beforus is

I just wanted to have a non-serious stupid bloodswap to run around on MSPARP with. I JUST WANTED SOMETHING SIMPLE.

That’s honestly why I have a pre op trans* Porrim that I use in RP and such. Because it is the worst fucking thing ever for me. I basically thrive on tragedy of all kinds to get through shit. My life is very characterized by pain for myself so pain ends up being the focus of a lot of what I write or think. I want my favorite characters to suffer because I suffer and I want to explore just what that suffering means. Also to know that other people are going through the same thing so I can scream at a fucking wall and cry and punch kitten plushes before passing out in a heap of “god my life sucks but at least it’s not just me”. Not being alone means a lot to me.

This horrible pain conga also makes their successes all that more heartening for me to see.

Granted I also want to see nice happy people and shit too. Really it depends on my exact mood and the depiction of a particular thing that decides whether or not it helps.

Though on the subject of cisgendered people trying their hands at it…Really that depends on just how they treat the subject and whether or not they get it. They often don’t so…

I hold my hopes that one day I’ll find one (meaning just a trans* character in general as opposed to just specifically a Homestuck headcanon) I like written by someone who isn’t part of this themselves. Because really I’d love for someone else to get it so much that they could pull it off in a convincing and respectful fashion. Like wow maybe they can get me. That’d be a great feeling as opposed to supportive people who don’t quite get it and end up upsetting me in some fashion due to not getting it.

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