I always get the urge to do these big, detail intensive plurk threads when I'm out and about all day, and then by the time I'm home I'm too tired or else I've psyched myself out.
I wanna do this one REAL BAD because it's about something that just came up in VR but also a lot of people have opinions about it so I'm like UH, I. HANG ON LET ME GET MY SOURCES. But then also.... I get spooped
Same.... the Epilogues are just, DirkJake Divorce Fever and ofc as soon as Homestuck^2 hit it was like SURPRISE! They have not stopped being disasters about each other even a little.
Dirk specifically has an issue (I'm about to plurk about this in more detail but) where he... genuinely, wholeheartedly puts the entirety of his emotional needs and fulfillment on his partner and expects that to not only work out for him, but effectively fix him? As a person?
But, due to his bizarro land idea of masculinity and sexuality... he can't even say that part to them. He just expects all of this to be communicated and fulfilled effectively without having to be said. Partially because saying it is fucking terrifying and partially because "you construct intricate rituals etc"
Dirk's intense fear of abandonment and rejection butt right up against his inability to sacrifice even an iota of the image he holds himself to lest everything he ever valued be destroyed and he as a person who meant or represented anything cease to exist
looks bad, Todd