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Bumper sticker I saw on my walk today

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so, i'm thinking about homestuck, and it's reputation on the internet at large, and the popularity of the "every so often someone reinvents homestuck"/accidental homestuck reference/homestuck police meme

and to be clear for people who haven't read it, none of those memes are jokes, they're all genuine plot points. but some people fall into the pit of assuming everything is a homestuck reference just because homestuck is long. and it is, it's a 7000 page comic with several hours of flash footage and a couple mini games, and that's just the main comic not any of the derivatives or spin offs. but it's not just because it's long.

see, homestuck, at its core, is referential. homestuck is basically what happens when someone with a very good grasp of internet culture and character design sets out to make a piece of work that parodies every bit of internet culture there is. and honestly, in my opinion, succeeds! it parodies everything from action movie fans to tumblr subcultures to vine to the occult, it's impossible for me to list everything that goes into it. and its grasp of memes is unprecedented, like i have never seen any piece of work utilise motifs as well as homestuck, and i say that as someone who studies stuff like this. not to mention all the highly talented fans that got brought in to work on the art and music, most of which then went on to create their own webcomics and indie games. what we're looking at here is if someone built the pyramids using memes as bricks, filled them with genuinely emotional and compelling characters and story arcs, and then backed it up with gorgeous art and a musical catalogue literally in the four digits, both of which also make extremely good use of motifs

(people talk about toby fox's work on undertale as being the pinnacle of leitmotifs but i would like to point them to Descend which toby wrote in 2009 for homestuck, it's four and a half minutes long, and contains 25 distinct leitmotifs without any of them sounding out of place)

so it's a very good story, but also by nature, it's a little ridiculous, because of the nature of the source material feeding into it. which contributes to its reputation and why fans go so hard for it, but also why everyone who hasn't read it approaches it with apprehension - the fandom is large and intimidating and takes dumb jokes in stride. which i'm not here to make a moral judgement on, there's good and bad sides to that, as there is to the comic. but of course everything is a homestuck reference, because homestuck is an everything reference. for the most part, a lot of what people say are homestuck references aren't concepts invented by homestuck but rather popularised and contexualised by homestuck

but then someone makes a joke about betty crocker being an alien experimenting on human children and it really is hard to look anywhere else

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Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.

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Dragon lineage over generations

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I don't know who needs to hear this but please please please please please explore the settings. Of your phone, computer, of every app you use. Investigate the UI, toggle some things around and see what happens. You won't break anything irreperably without a confirmation box asking you if you really mean to do that thing. And you can just look up what a setting will do before touching it if you're really worried ok?

Worst case scenario you just have to change the settings back if you don't like what happened but it is so so so important to explore the tools available to you and gain a better understanding for how the stuff you use works.

Even if you already know. Even if you're comfortable with how you use it now. You don't just have to accept whtever experience has been handed to you by default and it's good for you to at least know what's available to you.

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generally not super into shapeshifter characters being revealed to have like a singular True Form. isnt it much more interesting to imagine a creature so fluid and ever-changing that even they cant identify any one body as the "true" self, or simply dont see the need to?

is this you? yes. this one too? yes. but then which one is the real you? define "real" define "you" theyre all me. even the ones that are someone else? especially those.

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Damn

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muzzled camilla hect courtesy of blood of eden

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o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

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I need to start NFL-posting on here so that you nerds can get caught up on all the stupid-ass jokes I can't reference because none of you watch american football. You guys don't even know about god peed that one doesn't even require context

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hey I'm sorry I stopped in the middle of that sentence my brain decided to flush its cache and I totally forgot what this conversation was

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"After receiving a tip about a family of Burrowing Owls on the eastern edge of Cheyenne, a photographer rushed to the location in late June. The owlets seemed nearly ready to leave their burrows. Over the years, the photographer has perfected a method using a GoPro on a small tripod, set to take a photo every 5 seconds. They leave the camera behind, allowing the owls to feel comfortable. The challenge lies in the long wait to see if the effort pays off. This shot was taken on June 28th."

📷 Peter Arnold