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THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:50 pm
by classpectanon
Please keep all Dirkcourse in here. Dirk can obviously be mentioned, and even discussed, in other threads, but quarantine all Dirkcourse in here.
Thank you.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:52 pm
by warren
starting this off:
Dirk? yes or no.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:00 pm
by rubs juice
warren wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:52 pm
starting this off:
Dirk? yes or no.
absolutely not
vibes: rancid
behavior: toxic
head: off
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:02 pm
by warren
rubs juice wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:00 pm
warren wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:52 pm
starting this off:
Dirk? yes or no.
absolutely not
vibes: rancid
behavior: toxic
head: off
i raise you this: a character does not have to be a good person to be a good character and i for one quite like the role hes taken ...a twisted fucking cycle path
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:04 pm
by Skyplayer
Its a meme for Vriska but Dirk really did nothing wrong.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:08 pm
by rubs juice
Skyplayer wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:04 pm
Its a meme for Vriska but Dirk really did nothing wrong.
besides being a controlling and manipulative person and ruining a perfectly fine relationship with jake, he had to be pushy and put his own desire to have a smooch from jake on top of jake's willingness to do said smooch, which was the first sign to me that he was kind of irky (irky dirky)
but yeah i suppose he's not a bad character, he's just a bad person; I actually like him a lot as a villain. Not a lot of people brush off his actions as all correct and good as they do with vriska anyway, so there's not enough dirskourse to go around like that
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:22 pm
by Sciencejoe
Though an unexpected twist, being able to literally micromanage his friend's lives and the course of their hero's journey fits Dirk perfectly. Always toiling in the shadows, always shutting himself off (still doing it when he's a literal god), always manipulating however he can, all so he can do what he firmly believes is the best thing for everybody. A part of me would be willing to believe his (not-so?) subtle pride in the matter is unintentional, but the rest of me knows better. Dirk just didn't grow, and what he's done will most likely mean death at worst and never being forgiven at best...once again, all because of his confidence in his own justification.
But he's right, Act 6 did suck.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:23 pm
by Darth_Energon
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Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:24 pm
by Skyplayer
Nah, Jake is terrible, poor Dirk :c
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:26 pm
by KnightOfRage413
Oh yeah, the person who legally changed their name to Dirk Strider. I have a reply to that tweet that keeps getting likes despite having made it forever ago.
Spicy Dirk Take: I liked his character pre Epilogues and the Epilogues kind of made me not like him as much.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:27 pm
by Sahxyel
Dirk went from being fairly boring to actually interesting and is still one of the only directions for a character I like post Act 7. I understand his point from a meta position though I feel like the only user command we've seen in Homestuck^2 appropriately marks my feelings about his direction.
Honestly Aranea would be a better narrator for a story. Dirk and Altcallie suck.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:32 pm
by barexamkind
orange man bad
but also hot?
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:33 pm
by warren
barexamkind wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:32 pm
orange man bad
but also hot?
all that needs to be said on the situation
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:38 pm
by barexamkind
warren wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:33 pm
barexamkind wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:32 pm
orange man bad
but also hot?
all that needs to be said on the situation
ah i see you are cultured as well
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:41 pm
by warren
barexamkind wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:38 pm
warren wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:33 pm
barexamkind wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:32 pm
orange man bad
but also hot?
all that needs to be said on the situation
ah i see you are cultured as well
arguably we have bad taste. but i didnt even like dirk until he went all twisted cycle path...........
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:48 pm
by vanico
Sahxyel wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:27 pm
Dirk went from being fairly boring to actually interesting and is still one of the only directions for a character I like post Act 7. I understand his point from a meta position though I feel like the only user command we've seen in Homestuck^2 appropriately marks my feelings about his direction.
Honestly Aranea would be a better narrator for a story. Dirk and Altcallie suck.
I agree with you, Aranea would have been a better narrator.
RIP Mr. Stop Making Homestuck
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:51 pm
by Eromancery
Honestly? Dirk's kind of tragic.
This is a guy who spent his whole life trying not to become a bad person despite the universe seemingly telling him he had no choice.
And then it turns out, if he wants him and his friends to continue existing in a way that is narratively relevant (so not cotton candy nuclear family fascist jane bara karkat hell), he HAS to. He HAS to be the villain for all of his friends to be the heroes. And he's willing to do that because he's a guy who thinks nothing of self sacrifice. If he has to have his head cut off to defeat Jack, so be it.
So yeah
Dirk: Tragic
Villain? I guess
Orange text is annoying to read on a white background? Very.
1.5/5 hats, just to keep it real.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:55 pm
by barexamkind
Eromancery wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:51 pm
Honestly? Dirk's kind of tragic.
This is a guy who spent his whole life trying not to become a bad person despite the universe seemingly telling him he had no choice.
And then it turns out, if he wants him and his friends to continue existing in a way that is narratively relevant (so not cotton candy nuclear family fascist jane bara karkat hell), he HAS to. He HAS to be the villain for all of his friends to be the heroes. And he's willing to do that because he's a guy who thinks nothing of self sacrifice. If he has to have his head cut off to defeat Jack, so be it.
So yeah
Dirk: Tragic
Villain? I guess
Orange text is annoying to read on a white background? Very.
1.5/5 hats, just to keep it real.
extremely agree on the tragic part.
Speaking of tragedy, what are our thoughts on Princes' seemingly always destructive destinies and their potential connection to the Prince Hamlet archetype of destroying whatever they held dear?
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:57 pm
by Eromancery
barexamkind wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:55 pm
Speaking of tragedy, what are our thoughts on Princes' seemingly always destructive destinies and their potential connection to the Prince Hamlet archetype of destroying whatever they held dear?
As it turns out when your cosmically given story role is "break stuff" you tend to break things including the things you hold close to you.
Re: THE DIRKCOURSE THREAD
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:04 pm
by barexamkind
where is the clown emoji i so desperately require
I meant the fact that they always end up wrecking everything almost indiscriminately as if they don't have a say in it. Do they just have less control over the pull of their role than other aspects? They seem to consistently fall into the exact role that they are described as having in-comic, more so than the others at least.