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dirkology:

this is the best and worst status update i have ever made

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eye-heart-thefruknface:

Strider Strife by *StarrSHINee59

This is irony.

dropitlikeitshussie:

octopien:

einosaur:

Your name is Bro Strider and whoa nelly, does it seem like the perfect morning for a casual stroll along your beloved roof.

BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY BOOTY

SCREAMS AND CRIES YES YES EXCELLENT

coley-wog:

BRO: I got the shades and the ironic bib. That’s it. How the hell do you change a diaper? What should I feed him? You’re a hot mama. Help me out here!
NANNA: Hoo hoo! All right, all right, I’ll help you, you little charmer! <3
BRO: … I said the hot part out loud, didn’t I?
NANNA: ;B 

…Wanted to draw some Bronanna, okay? >_>;; 

(Source: janestrider)

Based on this.

Please note that none of the trolls is wearing his seat belt correctly and Dirk has his foot directly over the airbag; they’d better hope the don’t crash because if they do Dave’s gonna be the only survivor.

(really Sollux and Karkat ought to be in car seats, I think. Cronus has no excuse for the only-wear-the-lap-belt-and-sit-sideways routine, though.)

the-ones-that-come-true:

bramblepatch:

You do realize this was the man who went three rounds with Dave on a rooftop with live steel, during which extended strife Dave fell down several flights of stairs, right?

I mean I’ve long been a proponent of the view that Bro’s training methods were a necessary evil in preparing Dave for Sburb, but claiming he wasn’t abusive because you don’t believe he used corporeal punishment falls a little flat.

I’d say the reasoning is what falls flat—the question of if he was abusive gets weird, because Grandpa Harley.

Grandpa Harley was dead when Sburb (Beta) started, yet he’s definitely there in the Medium doing his job.

We do get through the post-Scratch actions of Jake a partial answer: The Frog Temple had transportalizers.

So…Grandpa Harley managed to make it back after doing whatever his job in the Medium was.  Probably a bit ahead of his death, because it seems like really bad timing to go on a date with a faded photograph right after getting info that might kinda be useful to give the other Guardians, and there’s some evidence that he at least knew about Nanna and Dad.

The odds, therefore, seem relatively decent that he was able to give some sort of heads-up to the other Guardians: Bro might well have been training Dave knowing he would need those skills.  (Donno about Mom and Dad here; might well be that they both used what methods fit to train their kids, and it’s just that Dave happened to be the one who didn’t need it concealed.)

The real question thus is: Would it be more abusive for Bro to, if he knew it was necessary, not trained Dave as hard as possible?

That said: Am I the only one who wants a crossover with Rurouni Kenshin, with Bro being the current holder of the title of Hiko Seijūrō, having been picked up from his meteor crater by the previous Hiko Seijūrō…?

To be honest, this is not a question I’ve ever been comfortable placing value judgements on, because I think it’s a situation where there’s a lot of explanations but not many excuses, and when it comes down to it I’m really not sure whether the ends justify the means.

I think it’s very clear that both Bro and Mom knew about the game ahead of time, and I think it had a huge effect on how they raised Dave and Rose. I think that John’s attitudes and behavior early in the comic demonstrate quite well that a mostly psychologically healthy kid is not an efficient Sburb player, at least not at low levels - and fucking around at low levels can have disastrous results later in the game. Whether or not not training Dave would have been dangerously neglectful, I don’t think there’s any question that Bro’s parenting methods left Dave with a lot of mental and emotional scars, and quite possibly some physical scars as well. There’s not really such a thing as safe levels of abuse. If you’re hurting the kid, you’re hurting them - and what gets me is that I suspect Bro understood this. In the Alpha timeline, Dirk openly questions his capacity to raise a child, and I would be very surprised if his beta counterpart did not have similar misgivings.

And I think there’s also an element of being screwed over by Paradox Space in the unfortunate circumstances of the Derse kids’ upbringing, beyond just the “needing to be ready for the game” thing. I really feel that the Derse guardians did not get the kids they were best equipped to raise. Dave spent his entire childhood seeking approval and getting rivalry instead; Rose craved a challenge but only received praise. Rose and Dirk are strategists, Dave and Roxy are innovators, and as guardians Bro and Mom didn’t really know how best to nurture kids who had such different basic emotional needs from them.

(Source: unpopular-hs-opinions)

You do realize this was the man who went three rounds with Dave on a rooftop with live steel, during which extended strife Dave fell down several flights of stairs, right?

I mean I’ve long been a proponent of the view that Bro’s training methods were a necessary evil in preparing Dave for Sburb, but claiming he wasn’t abusive because you don’t believe he used corporeal punishment falls a little flat.

tflnstuck:

and this, boys and girls, is why you don’t let bro strider in your house