#harleybert family shenanigans

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All In The Family

#give it up for paradox space's most fucked up family unit #her imperious condescension #jane crocker #jake english #meenah peixes #june egbert #jade harley #jade english #june crocker #jane egbert #jake harley #dad egbert #dad crocker #joey claire #jude harley #feferi peixes #homestuck #harleybert family shenanigans #my art

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In regards to that harleycrockerbert post, there’s something about how homestucks first real flash is there to describe the weirdly desolate, isolating feeling of the suburbs, with the audio of wind whipping down the street with chimes. I feel like that was meant to be a bigger theme somehow but got dropped

YES, EXACTLY! Like, that flash is the literal title card for Homestuck! It's notable that, whenever we see June/Jane's neighborhood, there's almost no one around. Just row upon row of near-identical houses, and besides from one possible neighbor, there is absolutely no "community" that exists there. All the kids, to one degree or another, grow up in a place of physical isolation. Dave being stuck on the top floor of a huge apartment complex, Rose being sequestered out in the middle of the woods, Jade on her island, but June's isolation is that particular American Suburban Desolation that's captured perfectly: a neighborhood, ostensibly for people to live in, but completely devoid of life. Even small details allude to this particular interpretation: why the hell does Dad Egbert have to constantly take his car to get more baking supplies? It doesn't take him that long to get back, but it's clear that a car is necessary for getting around in the suburban sprawl. The sort of archetypal nature of the tire swing, attached to a single, scrappy tree in the front yard. The continuing use of "can hardly be considered to be a proper [] at all!" applied to what would be considered normal for a Proper American Suburban Family. I could go on! And this is a much bigger discussion, but isn't it interesting that the game "Sburb" mainly functions through building up an endless, tumorous growth of the same housing, over and over again? One might even say that the goal of the game is to create a Sburban Sprawl so overwhelming that it makes a whole new universe, which certainly has... implications for the world beyond. I'd need to do a thorough reading of like, the Epilogues to see if that's actually conveyed/dealt with, but these continuing motifs of the suburbs never really leave homestuck even as it becomes more fantastical. I do kind of wish there was more textual stuff in the comic that dealt with that, but I think Egbert (and a lot of the kids) in Homestuck proper lack the necessary context and introspection at the time to grapple with the world that came before.

#thats not even to mention the isolation encoded into the very society of the trolls by Lord English #who also kind of created the gender binary in the first place by forcing it on a species which as far as we know didnt have a particularly #strong binary gender system in the first place #basically it all comes back to it being caliborns fault #but i tend towards the concept of sburb as #well maybe not a malignant entity but certainly not a benevolent one #meta #i gotta come up with a family tag for these posts because i find the harleycrockerengbert family to have such a fascinating dynamic #and history #asks #archaicequilibrirum25 #lets go with #harleybert family shenanigans

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Postgame Meenah and June to me have the vibes of a pair of cousins, one of whom used to beat the other up all the time until she got big enough to fight back. Now they get along fine but they still occasionally go out back to beat the crap out of each other for fun.

#ignore me im incoherent #like i love considering the peixes's as part of the harleycrockerbert family but i think all of june and meenahs interactions are so funny #meenah #june #harleybert family shenanigans

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Feferi drags Meenah along to a Harleybert family dinner for cross-cultural exploration and bc they're all technically family, and Meenah won't stop throwing forks at June the entire meal

#meenah #june #harleybert family shenanigans

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Honestly I could care less about the familial connections between the Striders or some such when June and Rose Coparent A Salamander For The Bit and Whatever In The Fresh Fuck Is Going On With The Harlinglishcrockerbertpeixes Family At Any Given Time are both going on.

#having June Egbert Meenah Peixes Jane Crocker the Condesce Jade Harley Jake English Feferi Peixes Dad Grandpa Nanna June/John Crocker #Grandma English and Dad AGAIN all in the same room for a cordial family dinner would perhaps be the funniest way for the universe to end #harleybert family shenanigans