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although i don’t like vriska much, i do like that she’s a female character who’s allowed to be irredeemably awful in genuine ways. she’s a villain, not because she’s killed so many people (terezi has too), but because she is horrible to her friends in ways that people relate to and take real offense at. she’s interesting to me as a polarizing character and i kind of love that so many people love vriska for being this horrible, messy person who fucks up. that’s a type of character love that is usually the domain of bland white guy characters, so i like seeing it, even though she’s not my personal favorite.

and another thing i love is that vriska sets the boundaries for troll culture. if everything she’s doing should be acceptable under alternian culture, why do people feel so uncomfortable with it? why are the trolls so unanimously agreed that vriska has crossed a line (or several)? it throws an early light on the fact that alternian culture is the result of false manipulation, and not just trolls being biologically ruthless. this is then highlighted more explicitly by terezi discovering that it’s difficult for her to kill vriska, even though culturally it shouldn’t be. vriska causes everyone to confront their boundaries and question what behavior they are actually comfortable with.

and she’s still doing that, not just to the characters but to the readers. although there were complaints (which i agreed with) that vriska’s dreambubble return made her death less poignant, her closing speech about ~being herself~ caused lots of debate among the readership about whether we were meant to take that sincerely, or whether it was a sign that vriska still hadn’t changed. it forced us to choose a side regarding how much of this behavior we could really accept, even in the service of “the ends justify the means.” vriska prevents the characters from reacting passively to the situations they’re in, and she prevents the fandom from reading passively, without pausing to examine our own reactions. she is a universal antagonist in all directions. she is a really great character.

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Pouring one out for all my Homestuck homies

They’re not dead but I think they wish they were

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me, naive, 4 pages into the epilogue: haha I don’t remember dirk being like this but it’s been a while I guess

me, exactly 5 pages later: oh god

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there are two wolves inside of you. one likes the epilogues writing and basic plot. the other hates what happened to the characters and how it hurt real people. you are a homestuck.

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wow this epilogue is uh

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every time I think about dirk I feel like maybe he’s not quite as bad as we make him out in canon but uh. wow he really is huh.

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broke: thinking about the candy vs meat symbolism

woke: thinking about how adorable roxy & calli making candy together is

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GOOD night for real this time

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listen idgaf if you don’t like homestuck. i stopped caring about homestuck proper years ago. me and my people took. the characters we wanted and then developed them into better, less shitty characters. the true definition of our city now. andrew hussie’s homestuck means nothing to me. all i care about is the people’s homestuck.

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dave and aradia would be friend in almost any humanstuck scenario and you cannot change my mind

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alpha dave would instantly throw down with Bro right? I cant be the only one to think this?

oh yes for sure. alpha dave is not a very confrontational person but he Will Not Hesitate if it’s for a good cause

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Hal can you post the links please? I’m lost

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T0fYoFGqmJzzXXhufnePvwqdwddzmp1LtV-IXSNOm0A/preview#

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@ the many people who have asked what Andrew hussie did refer to this post —>

https://rockshitship-sprites.tumblr.com/post/117523533077/andrew-hussie-is-genuinely-a-shitty-person-and-i

Its not Perfect. like I wouldn’t say writing mom lalonde as neglectful & abusive is inherently problematic and some of the other stuff listed is a bit of a stretch but yeah hussie Has Done Some Shit

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@ the many people who have asked what Andrew hussie did refer to this post —>

https://rockshitship-sprites.tumblr.com/post/117523533077/andrew-hussie-is-genuinely-a-shitty-person-and-i

Its not Perfect. like I wouldn’t say writing mom lalonde as neglectful & abusive is inherently problematic and some of the other stuff listed is a bit of a stretch but yeah hussie Has Done Some Shit