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i find it so funny when people read homestuck and come away from it with the idea that hal was evil because 1) he wasn't and to assume he was kind of detracts from his character and at that point you're just doing yourself a disservice 2) even if he was it would've been fine. he's allowed to be evil. at that point he deserves it

#Did I steal this point last episode? Yes.

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“One reading of Doc is as a manipulative devil-creep in the model of many fictional characters who fit this description; he’s a fairly recognizable and traditional presence in the story, when viewed that way. A less traditional reading centers on his role on a metatextual level, as a nefarious, all-knowing, profoundly evil alt-author presence. A guy who has the full powers of the author, who essentially IS the author with certain dark authorial impulses greatly exaggerated, while functioning as a character in the story who can speak to and influence other characters in support of an evil agenda. (That is, the summoning of yet another, even more satanic alt-author being into the comic.) Viewed this way, his conversations with other characters take on a different quality. Normally, the author remains a disguised presence and influences the thoughts of characters with an unseen hand, simply by writing their thoughts directly into their heads, their words into their mouths. This alt-author is essentially doing the same thing, but as an actual character and a known presence to those he influences. He whispers in their ears, gets them to do the nasty, terrible things that are latent within their nature to do, which I as the unseen author easily could have done myself through a conventional writing process. But I outsourced that dark influence to this guy, thus establishing him as a narrative construct in the story on the same level as, but at odds with, the actual author. This surreptitiously lays the groundwork for a future point of tension: a narrative war between an Idiot God and a Genius Devil. Which, admittedly, when the shit finally hits the fan, mostly reads as one buffoon’s struggle with a figment of his imagination, in the form of a wrestling match with a floppy, inanimate puppet. It’s actually the perfect metaphor signifying the creative rocess behind this comic.”

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Andrew Hussie

Homestuck Book 4: Act 5

#doc scratch #homestuck

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Honestly, saying "let's talk about Wizardy Herbert for a half hour before we talk about Dirk & Lil' Hal" and then saying "let's talk about our poll results before we talk about Dirk & Lil' Hal?" Kind of an Andrew Hussie move.

This week's episode is live.

#seriousbuspod #serious business #homestuck #wizardy herbert #ARquiusprite #lil' Hal #Dirk Strider #Roxy Lalonde #Andrew Hussie

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#a reminder to vote in our poll before Monday

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did i ever share the iliad by homer but it's homestuck. i called it homerstuck

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#misha collins #serious business #homestuck #fashion #hats

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#Jokes on you we're not gonna either way

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rest in peace tavros nitram you would've loved fairy type pokemon

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VIZ MEDIA LOST PUBLISHING RIGHTS TO HOMESTUCK🎉🎊

#YOOOOOOOO

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reblog to let it break containment btw

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I always thought it was funny how “Casey” was kind of abducted by John and left that other Salamander for no explainable reason

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i had a realization

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#these are all correct

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“The first few acts of homestuck are so boring and slow it only gets good when the trolls come.”

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hold on everyone i have a terrible idea

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new episodes coming soon