#jestinggenesis

[calware]

dear calware, I'm not sure how much you know on the topic of Doc Scratch, but I was wondering, why is the common consensus around him that he's like a creepy pedophile? after rereading his messages with Rose, he seems more tone deaf and weird than a fully on creep. is there something I'm missing?

scratch isn't "literally" a pedophile (or a hebephile, which is the accurate term for this situation) which we know because of this

but at the same time, that is still the Way he's written

(i'm sorry if this following explanation is confusing.... i really do not have the right wording to describe it) it's almost like a metaphorical representation. he's a child predator in every way but the actual sexual attraction. the way he's written references the behavior of actual child predators and is meant to signal to the audience that this is the Kind Of Character he is. it's a literary tool(?)to tell the audience that he is literally taking advantage of characters in various ways (as well as straight up abusing damara) while at the time comparing it to child sexual abuse

but if you do want literal actions on his part, he does Literally groom young girls and they are his targets for manipulation

also, directly from the author commentary (which. is not 100% serious at times. but i do think it sometimes offers some actual insight):

I know I just said a bunch of stuff about [DD] maybe being a creep. But look, this is just my OPINION here. I don't think he's actually being creepy about this. I think he has a genuinely parental attitude toward Aradia and wants to see her succeed in her violent and underhanded schemes. See how he wants them to conduct their business with efficiency? He's way too professional to go Full Doc on these girls.

Another peek at Rose suggests she's still at it with her creepy uncle, Doc Scratch.

Then you have a few beats of conversation which bring Equius to mind, such as the creep-factor

[Dirk and Equius] have this creepy-guy streak running through them, with strange or offputting interests, and seem to get a quiet kick out of making others uncomfortable through demonstrations of these fascinations. [...] I'd say these self-examined qualities are just drawn out, isolated, and inflated both for dramatic effect, and also as critical write-up of those qualities existing within many human beings in general, which I would like to think is grounded in a creative process involving a certain degree of humility about some of this bullshit. I like all these characters here, but that doesn't mean I think their unpleasant qualities are good. It just means I am harnessing and heightening those qualities for creating strong villainous portraits.

We start getting the sense that the entire purpose of this conversation, from Doc's vantage point, is just to passive-aggressively manipulate Rose into peering directly into one of his cursed testicles. Wait, my youth pastor is literally barking like a dog right now for some reason. Probably because I put him on a leash and tied him to a post in the backyard. I guess I fucked up again? I mean one of Doc's seeds.

Maybe it's fair to say I have a higher than average tolerance troubling content. But even I have to admit to shuddering a little when I read Doc's creepy lines toward Rose. I think Doc's creep factor toward girls is most likely channeling part of Caliborn's personality, which almost seems to revolve around his horrid attitude toward women. For Caliborn, this weird combination of wrathful misogyny, yet fixation and obsession with certain girls, is obviously central to the type of real-world profile he's meant to portray. But when his personality is more muted among the collective in Doc's head, those qualities come across as more "restrained," "polite," and "flattering," which arguably just makes it all creepier. The result is a creepy dude profile that also exists in the real world, sort of adjacent to the Full Caliborns out there. There seem to be many stripes of this kind of unfortunate male behavior, which all exists in a broader family of sub-Caliborns. The Docs, the Eridans, the Cronuses… They're all sketchy in different ways.

Doc sitting back just to "watch" is another creepy Equiusism. Remember that was a thing with him.

I wonder what Jade would think if she knew she had in her possession since childhood one of Doc's testicORACLES!!! Oracles. The word I meant to say was oracles, not anything else. Anyway, like I was saying, how would Jade react if she realized every time she played with one of her beloved toys, she was actually fondling this weirdo's plump, juicy oracle. I know you think my youth pastor may have something to do with this peculiar outburst, but you're wrong. I "dismissed" him recently, because he told me with great pride that I learned everything he had to teach me. I don't need anyone to keep me from shoving my foot in my mouth anymore, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know. Now let's watch this grieving teen receive a demonic message from an evil puppet's big fat nut.

bonus commentary from book 6 that has nothing to do with the post:

We're reaching a specific kind of story partition. Not the end of an act, but the end of a year. Also an end of "disc," which is a kind of meta-partitioning I just made up for the purpose of closing the book on two years of content, as well as being a good meta-device for introducing the Doc sequence we're about to get into in the next book.

"next book"...... sad

[moldwood]

isn't this that gay ass chicken you're in love with

the relationship between me and foghorn leghorn is strictly professional

[borzoilover69]

dear borzoi, what are some of your favorite homestuck ships other than dirkjake?

Dear jestinggenesis,

Hello! I don't often think about romantic relationships other than dirkjake, but i like a lot of other ships!

jakeuu: really funny dynamic of jake full knowing caliborn is evil and a bitch and batting his eyes at him like :"you want to bash me over the head with a metal pipe? do you reallly want to? promise?" and generally trolling caliborn at caliborns expense. parallel to

johnkat: friend leaders! really cute dynamic and one my friends are into :) i think john and karkat have a really nice dynamic before the meteor trip and its a shame we dont see more of them. i remember i saw a tweet like how karkat has the patience to explain stuff out to john, and john teaches karkat to lighten up and i was like oh word.. real!!

davejake: [ insert 3 paragraph elaboration how this is essentially canon to me that it happens post game because theyre both pricks that would hook up with each other. it wouldnt be good and its certainly not endgame but its funny as fuck for a multitude of reasons]

vrisrezi: vrisrezi and dirkjake enjoyers are same crowd and i loove them. i still need to draw them sometime.

honourable mentions that i dont have thoughts on but i really love: daverezi, davejade, rosemary, katnep, solkat, janeroxy (lesbian yaoi), callieroxy, jakeranea (REALLY complicated but real to me in the way that i think had it not been for the situation it was they wouldve dated for a short time and then ended up acting even MORE divorced about it than even john and vriska could. like they would be like divorced crazy interesting way.)

[mentally-retired]

i love homestuck but hussie is shit and made shitty queer rep

like 19 year old meenah who started dating 13 yr old vriska than when she was 16 or 15 she left her again for 13 yr old vriska

or amporcest being canon

or generally how hussie treats lesbians

also the 13 yr old queer relationships being sexualized

i love homestuck but hussie is a creep

edit: look at @jestinggenesis addition to my post :)

[cr4ck3d-w1nd0w]

@jestinggenesis

[val---ium]

HEY

just an fyi to my followers im made @jestingGenesis to a sideblog so all homestuck stuff is going to go there, if you are following me for my homestuck stuff follow there, im also going to be attempting to organize my posts more n stuff so like go follow jestingGenesis, or unfollow me idc

[calware]

dear calware, do you ever think about how davejade as a ship so deeply rooted in the narrative of homestuck to the point where the two died on top of eachother not to mention the litany of subtextual implications of then, but then the Fandom at the time so deeply and violently misunderstood God's gift to the yaois to the point where davekat got so popular it was made canon?

or is that just me

i do think about it jestinggenesis 😔 and then it was seen as cringe for the next few years for being a "straight" ship. i don't think they necessarily "should" have gotten together in canon but i definitely feel like it got a lot of undeserved hate and that davekat was overhyped in comparison

[moldwood]

dear moldwood, you are one of my favorite blogs on Tumblr. Please keep posting, I wish you well with future endeavors

this was so nice to open my inbox to!! :'))) i swear i get the nicest asks. thank you so much, i appreciate the kind words!!! i hope you're having a good time too!

(i will never stop posting, on my honor.)

[cr4ck3d-w1nd0w]

@jestinggenesis

The unaware bully