#hs2 lot

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 281

ill be honest w yall i dont remember most of hs2 or the epilogues and i will not be rereading to refresh my memory but i DID read today's upd8 specifically because i saw my guy and you know what

callin this one a win for the sollux enjoyers

#day 281 #year 4 #sollux captor #roxy lalonde #homestuck^2 #hes fucking gaming. #anyway heres hoping for more solroxy friendship momence #we have all known it to be true for so long that they would be friends its nice to have it acknowledged #also apologies in advance for anybody who is hoping for regular upd8 art but uh #i kind of dont super care about hs2s plot so im mostly going to be skimming it for shit relevant to my interests #ie sollux and aradia content #but congrats to james roach and the new crew lots of really cool and talented people from the looks of it #and as a fellow aradia enjoyer im very excited to see where mr roach and the team take her specifically lmao

[terraco-07]

There are so many times where I look at big Homestuck analysis and I just go "You made 90% of this up" Because it's true. The amount of times I read what's supposed to be deep meta textual analysis and it's just a bunch of made up shit parading around as faux intellectualism.

#homestuck #Upd8 #HSBC #Seeing a lot of stuff in this last update like this #HICU #HS2 #Rose Lalonde

[kayforpay]

finally, the caste for my astrological sign! please pick your favorite of these! troll will smith is added because he is on the olive caste mspa wiki page, because that's how I generally get the lists. apparently he's canonically an olive, who knew. anyway, please feel free to rb and tell me why you feel your pick should win, and so other people can also see and vote :o)

#kay talks a lot #homestuck #homestuck poll #nepeta leijon #meulin leijon #the disciple #konyyl okimaw #charun krojib #alfonz hs2 #troll will smith #polypa goezee #boldir lamati #I feel like this one will have the closest numbers out of all of them tbh #well MAYBE cerulean too #since vrisdata is so good #but I personally can barely pick between meulin and nepeta on a good day

[bonebabbles]

re: the tags on the post you just reblogged; would genuinely Love to hear your take on the themes of homestuck. because so many of its themes are at odds with each other and the reader that it truly does become an ouroboros by the end. and that’s fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time

I really can't phrase it better than "eats itself alive by the end," honestly. Once the Beta Kids scratch their session, you can feel how tired and frustrated the author is. It's like he starts hating his own work and how massively it blew up, when he never planned for it to be a project that lasted so long.

And thus it feels like he starts turning on his work's own themes.

Sburb (the game) was abusive and traumatic, but seemed to be trying to make the kids ""grow"" by some unknown philosophy. Figuring out what Sburb (or its creators) were trying to accomplish was a theme.

Only for the author to get frustrated at the idea of there BEING such a motive, seeming to suddenly pivot to Sburb just being a universe-generating mechanism

The theme about motives, being "pawns" in a greater game and uncovering the mystery, thinking critically about authority figures including the GAME ITSELF is unceremoniously discarded for a "Nothing matters actually" conclusion

Another theme was change and growing up, dealing with your mistakes as you make them. How even in a world with time travel, trying to use metaphysical shennanigans to avoid your fuckups just backfires. Eventually you have to face the music, and you'll be better off for it.

But then the author becomes brutishly cynical. The main casts' worst traits eat them alive on the trip to the new session, we learn the Beta trolls ruined their own playthrough and now painfully slog through their afterlives, the Alpha kids are aimless and trapped in a doomed session.

The theme about growth and facing your own mistakes becomes about stagnation and inevitability.

But honestly I think the most telling change in the author's mindset comes from looking at the Alpha Trolls vs the Beta Trolls.

Like, the way that the Alpha Trolls ALL got a full personality, several interactions with the main cast, and through fan input started evolving into characters that had little traits of the fandom at the time

Homestuck was always a story with a crass tone (and it's kind of incredible how quickly the lingo changed, making early HS look a lot edgier in hindsight than it was at the time) but it felt like there was a lot of love for how these characters had kinda been forged together.

Then you get to the Beta Trolls in a dream bubble, basically all tossed into a high-production walkaround minigame. Several of them just direct, joyless jabs at the audience, less of them relevant.

For me it's really the turning point on the themes, the later acts have always felt super dissonant from the early acts because of that

So in my mind I see it as two big "parts" and examine them together as what I feel was a weak synthesis.

#Homestuck #I didn't HATE the epilogues but they felt like more of a continuation of the themes in HS I'm less fond of #And somehow even more tasteless #I'm glad Hussie stepped down though. I admire a lot of his work but I think he should have stepped away a long time ago #I haven't been following HS2 btw. Just what they made before the harassment shut the team down and the new one took over #I wish them luck but I'm not really hopeful anymore with the brand mismanagement that happened for several years #BUT it still has a place in my heart #And sometimes I think it ends up shining through that I Liked Homestuck in my formative years lmao #Something about how art that resonates with you never leaves. Especially if it left you wanting.

[coolesthscharacter]

not to be that guy but i feel like the only reason latulas winning currently is because of hs2 which took dirk strider from being ‘guy putting up a cool front but he still does actually cool stuff sometimes’ to ‘comedy relief loserguy in anime cosplay’ which makes it literally impossible to vote for him vs latula because compared to her, a character whose only character trait is very similar (surfacewise) to how dirk was in homestuck, like obviously people are gonna pick latula even though compared to regular dirk shes kind of a loser because compared to ult dirk shes radical as hell and solos ez

(this isnt a criticism btw its an observation . i like figuring out trends in stuff im an analysis nerd. pls still vote for whoever you want)

#coolest homestuck character 2023 #cooladmin speaks words #i dont know if this makes sense I literally just woke up #i have a lot of opions about how hs2 ruined dirk but something i never get to talk about is how they established him as a villain but then #didnt know how to make him actually be a scary guy or whatever so they just gave up and made him be the most pathetic thing ever to exist #cause i guess writing engaging villains is too difficult or something lol #i mean i already didnt like that they made him a villain but if thryre gonna fo it at least do it well #same with how jane crocker shoulfnt have been a villain eithet but i can talk about jane for literal hours so dont get me started on her #justice for jane crocker #oh and also for dirk too . i forgot this was a dirk post

[r0semultiverse]

The implication that Terezi is stronger/immune/indifferent to Dirk's narrative writing/reality-warping powers is interesting. 👀

I am so excited for the new writers to explore her character more.

Hopefully this also means we'll be seeing more classpect & god tier power exploration as well!

#I say 'interesting' in a positive way btw just to clarify #I'm not sure how much is planned to be left of hs2 or how much was even originally planned to be left #but this is certainly something I'd like to see explored more or even more clearly explained in the comic itself #seems like Terezi is also being given a greater narrative purpose too #she's a really cool character so I'm glad to see her in the spotlight #not sure if the hs^2 ppl always had plans for her to play a bigger role but i'm glad we're getting a lot of this now #I wonder what's in that beaten up old wallet or if we've seen it before #maybe it was mentioned in the homestuck epilogues ? not sure #if anyone has any ideas plz let me know; would love to hear your thoughts! #mine #op #homestuck #homestuck^2 #upd8 #homestuck upd8 #homestuck spoilers #terezi pyrope #homestuck terezi #hs terezi #homestuck beyond canon

[gertritude]

revisiting some scenes in homestuck and the penis ouija conversation still stands out as being one of the funniest conversations in the entire comic

#i tried reading part of hs2 earlier and i couldnt do it #what do you mean theres serious relationship drama. where are the shipping grids #my other assessment from revisiting part of hivebent the other day is i forgot just how mean-spirited a lot of it felt like got damn #though i suppose that can describe quite a bit of homestuck

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

I'm pretty sure it was a calculated move on Malbonte's side, also he's not that unfeeling to those he does care for 👉👈

#knowing him he probably knew plague was an impressive enemy so he opt to side with the new guys instead #but i also like to imagine it took a lot of pride off him to succumb to someone after all the effort he put into the battle during v1 #personal rant #spoiler #romance club #screenshots #screenshots spoiler #screenshot #rc malbonte #rc hs2 #rc heaven's secret 2

[lovesfeline-eyes]

HS1 🌈

LOT (Love On Tour) 🖤

HH (Harry’s House) 🏠

((posting a little throwback from the harry concerts bc i miss him rn))

#personal #me #concerts #harry styles #love on tour #hs1 #Harry’s house #hs2 #hs3 #harry styles live #harry styles concert #hs1 concert fit #lot concert fit #lot fit #Harry’s house fit #girls with tattoos #girls with piercings #girls with glasses #girls of tumblr #concert inspo

[castlefics]

Narrator: The ice has melted-

Me: No, it freaking didn't! Shut up! 😭

#heaven's secret 2 #i still love him #but it's gonna take him a lot more than that #i love the scene but it could've gone better with mc being angrier #not getting all 'i miss you' #girl i miss him too but... urgh #romance club #heaven's secret #Malbonte #rc malbonte #hs2

[tibli]

no hate AT ALL to anyone who likes it, but i literally cannot be bothered to care about vast error bc. karkat is Not There

#homestuck #karkat vantas #hes my favorite little dude so like. id just be wondering where he is the whole time #this is also kind of why i dont really care abt fantrolls bc im attached to the canon characters only #and when i was reading the epilogues/hs2 i could not bring myself to give a shit about the omega kids #i think part of that is bc we didnt even really get a proper resolution w the original kid characters #before they introduced new ones. and a lot of things abt candy pissed me tf off #so they left a bad taste in my mouth #which sucks because like. theyre perfectly fine!! theyre fine!! #its just that im annoying abt this stuff

[meenah]

FYI to all new homestuck twitter people returning here (i have a lot of you following me now I think that's why my follower count suddenly skyrocketed)

don't tag things as homestuck 2/hs2 unless there is directly hs2 content within the post. most people have it blacklisted and will not see the post at all, you will lose visibility with it over any you gain by tagging it as such.

but also if it really does have postcanon or hs2 content in it please tag it as such so people can avoid it if they choose

#grace post #okay thankyou #i am only saying this because ive had a lot of hs2 blocked posts on my dash lately that upon opening. were not hs2

[frogsinajar]

Been thinking about her

#rose lalonde #rosebot #homestuck #homestuck 2 #hs2 #homestuck art #I love her #and I miss her #I have another piece but I dont think they go well together #so Ill post them separate #scopophobia #just to be safe #I should write some Rosebot shit #I think she had a lot of potential #my art #frogsinajar

[chaoticartistan]

stop being mean to jade harley my second or third wife

#hs2 #homestuck beyond canon #this might get me backlash so i will defend myself in the tags like a pussy #i agree that kanaya has the right to be upset and yell at jade for fucking her wife i've been waiting for that for a while #what i have an issue with is other readers being way too aggressive about jade and jade only #which like. you are allowed to be mean to jade i think #i just think some of you are being weird about it #one comment i saw on twitter said that yiffy was just jades emotional support kid and like. idont knooowww man that rubbed me the wrong wa #sorry if i am emphasizing too mucgh with fictional characters i do that a lot i just keep thinking #it'd be weird to say this about a real ass guy #“yiffy is MINE now fuck you jade!!!” ok dog whatever #should we not also be mad at rose? she definitely didnt do as bad as jade but i still think shes at fault a little bit!!! #for yknow. cheating on her wife ! #this post is a bad idea but i am posting it anyways suspect it to be deleted within a few hours when my senses kick inbye

[r0semultiverse]

Rose Lalonde Sprites & Edits

Use these for whatever you want, just give credit if you use these for anything!

#these are all the rips and/or edits I've made for the rosewheresheshouldntbe blog #I was gonna make more organized posts; but I'm honestly low on time & my phone won't have enough space & other issues #I know an organized post between edits & rips would have been better but yknow... time & procrastination #some of these are from beyond canon while others aren't; i'm just offloading a bunch of stuff before I go on semi-hiatus #my phone doesn't have a lot of storage space so that's why it's not full on hiatus & is limited but yeah #the candy & meat timeline one are all edited which is why some stuff may look a bit off; but the last one isn't edited just a new rip #since the old version was available on a blog; but not the new updated page art version #hs sprite edit #homestuck sprite edit #hs rip #hs2 rip #homestuck rips #hsbc rips #homestuck beyond canon #rosebot #rose lalonde #alpha rose lalonde #homestuck #hs rose #hs sprites

[soul-cairn]

meat rose being an ultimate seer of light is such a tragedy to me because she KNOWS everything that dirk is up to but she can't directly INVOLVE herself (at least not in the way dirk or alt-calliope do). she can only witness it, as a seer does. and in her absolute lack of control over dirk's control, she chose the only choice she's given: to give in, to become rosebot, to fuck off into outer space to play the game again with dirk and terezi. at least if she's choosing to do it, she is, in a way, regaining control.

of course, in order to keep that sense of control, she can't let anyone else know that she knows. not even terezi, who's in the same boat as her. so, when dirk is controlling the narrative, she plays dumb. she acts like she doesn't see it; she closes her eyes. because what other choice does she have?

#homestuck #rose lalonde #havent read the epilogues in a hot minute so i hope i remembered the subtext that a lot of this post relies on correctly #but i was rereading some hs2 pages last month and had a lot of thoughts about rose #please HICU more ♠roserezi development please .i think terezi can fix her #🦉