what i learned today while tallying homestuck statistics:

theenglishmanwithallthebananas: theenglishmanwithallthebananas: Dave has no idea how to end a conversation. I mean, I knew he just never shut the fuck up, but i’m trying to tally the number of conversations and in acts 1-4, and dave has had like, 8, total. cause whenever someone else says goodbye he just keeps talking at them until…

oh my god THE MENTAL ACROBATICS dave has to get through to justify and comes to some kind of acceptance for his brother’s creepy puppets. no. no dave it’s not ironic or cool it’s creepy and uncomfortable.

t34lbloods: i can’t believe that one of the factors in dirk turning out more decent & human than bro is that he looked up to dave strider so much

chazzerpan:

terezi i dont believe u read a book about human romance i think u read something else

archetypalboner: t34lbloods: do you get the feeling that alpha rose and dave’s decisions to leave their kids a ton of alcohol and a lifetime supply of orange soda respectively was just a series of passive aggressive dares that got out of hand #no rose i am literally actually going to leave him nothing but orange…

menderash: tbh hands down, my favorite writing in all of homestuck definitely has to be dave strider’s character arc. like. the insufferable hipster prick we knew for years slowly realizing that his ironic detached coolguy persona is actually a defense mechanism in response to years of physical and emotional abuse and that he’s actually a…

4000z:

He’s sensitive.

daveactualstrider: mmmnnn guys………………….. dave finally won a rooftop beatdown. 

apiphyte: apiphyte: I love this post because it just makes me think about Dirk saying “there’s no other way out of it, you’re going to have to decapitate me” over the most mundane things like everyone is living together on the new planet and everyone is waking up in the morning, making breakfast and having…

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