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I've been having a very difficult few years, and a very, very difficult past couple months, but it's always nice to have a place to come back to. Happy 4/13

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feferi and dave with a benz

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tz design is so specific bc she reminds me of my friend a lot :]

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Vegeta is the Vriska of trans men.

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Silly gcatavrosprite plushie now complete….

#ADORBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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can you elaborate on the reasons ? what criticisms do you disagree with?

criticisms i disagree with:

"they character assassinated jane" amiguita there was no character to assisnate.

"they character assassinated dirk" dirk is at his most interesting and likeable ever and is just about the only redeeming thing about these

"they were just written to spite the fans" if true tht would have been Epic, and Based. but they very obviously werent

"its too violent and sexual for cheap shock humour" did you. read homestuck, the web comic? what were you Expecting... also like it or not the sexual content isnt just random or gratuitous it is obviously trying to be a conclusion to the whoel coming-of-age theme of homestuck as a work.

"so-and-so is out of character" homestuck characters are malleable little dolls that can be rearranged to suit the narrative at a whim. this is true about all fictional characters ofc but it is like explicitly textually metaphysically true in homestuck

my criticisms:

the heavy-handed political messaging is fucking tedious and awful and so profoundly of its time in a bad way. its clearly a reaction to trump but it doesnt have anything interesting to say about him or fascism or racism or anything, really, except, um. Cheeto in the white house?. the whole Evil Jane plot is too stupid and contrived for the sake of the satire to take seriously but also its awful satire written by liberals who think fascism as invented in 2016 by the orange man

god can we fucking talk about how fucking embarassing the obama shit is. jesus fucking christ. for a start it's a callback to a running jhoke in homestuck that is straight up just super racist. and they decide to pivot from the joke being 'its funny that theres a black president', which is good, but they pivot it to 'obama seems so heroic and magical now that we're stuck with the Orange Man', which, admittedly, is better than Being Racist, but also sucks shit. he killed people amiguitas.

'post-canon' is cheap bullshit. like, the work makes a big deal about tryng to talk about What Canon Is, without ever acknowledging the concept of, like, IP law. claiming to just be a non-canon continuation like any other when it's made by people with the Official Exclusive Legal Rights just feels hollow and detooths any liberatory/deconstructive potential there. unironically my opinion of it would go up like tenfold if it had been actually published in AO3 instead of just joking about it.

in general i think that all of the attempt to deconstruct fiction or storytelling is rooted in a really weird and flawed model of storytelling. a lot of it seems to be taking an extremely long route to writing something bad on purpose and then saying 'see, if you wrote something like this, it would be bad'. Okay. i like deconstructive collapsing narrative shit in e.g. if on a winter's night a traveller because i think calvino has trenchant and interesting insights about literature and storytelling. i do think hussie also has those but they essentially dropped and explored all of them in homestuck and the epilogues just seem like an attempt to connect ohomstuck's disparate and contradictory approaches to Narrative into one overarching schemata and then crtiique that schemata, which i think is a doomed project that results in little of interest to me.

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How are we still having homestuck drama in the year of our lord 2024

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This is whether or not Homsetuck had anything to do with it (I was going to include hat as an option for each, but I didn't have the room)

Have a Homestuck poll you want posted? Go ahead and submit it!

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You ever see an absolutely terrible take and it just shakes you to ur core

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oh boy

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what if u drew pitch vriskan what then?

take this away from me before I spend any more time on it

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if we’re being honest with ourselves the subtle grimace at the word “nook” is a much stronger sign that someone has read homestuck than if they use the word “abscond”

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coulkd yuo draw. dave strider from the hit webcomic homestuck written by andrew hussie in a tyler, the creator album tshirt please i am but a frail sickly victorian child

took this to mean "dave strider if he was cool"

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I think that instead of having sex, we should just empty all of our gametes into a big vat of soup and whatever happens happens.

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Long time no see!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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hiii hey hi . can you draw us a kanaya please :]

darling kayaya