RE: trader balatro
| when i posted this on tumblr and someone said the drawing on the right had their hair type and they hadn't seen it in art before :,))
these are some seriously great roxys. these drawings are from way back in 2019 but i still like them a lot.

when i made these back then it was just because i hadn't ever made humanstucks before and i figured it was a good design exercise.
but after i posted them i was hit with a flood of responses and messages from black homestucks saying that they'd never seen the characters depicted like this or that xyz looked so much like them or someone they knew.

this really struck a chord with me because at the time i hadn't really seen too much of it either. as someone who's been in the fandom for about half my life now, before the "2019stuck" era seeing explicitly black interpretations of homestuck characters was always something of a special event. outside of the ubiquitous ambiguously brown jades and jakes the wider fandom had deemed acceptable homestuck art was typically lacking any concentrations of melanin.

and those "ambiguously brown" jades and jakes never did anything for me because they always lacked any real intent. in a way those characters were truly "aracial". these feelings were a part of what lead to me depicting roxy as black in pesterquest!