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I think “don’t turn your back on the body” has the most shocking resolution when we find out for certain in Terezi Remember that all the bodies leave a ghost and the people we’ve been so invested in are actually not the ones we started with because they never came back to life, they just got reinstanced with the saved memories before everything went wrong and the original ones are still as dead as it gets. We are the ones that shouldn’t have turned our backs on the bodies, it’s us

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at your best, you are love 💙 | (based off a couple aaliyah fits ^_^)

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transmasc jade picking a name :]

(having fun with some comments I got here and on twitter. i think any name could be good though :3)

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i am sooooo deeply interested in alternian worldbuilding AS A VESSEL FOR HOMESTUCK'S THEMES... i think trying to find or invent worldbuilding for worldbuilding's sake is so counter to the spirit of homestuck. have you noticed i've been getting really into "the spirit of homestuck" lately. like im in a dickens novel

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cerebro is the helmet hes wearing ftr. but like the shape is similar & i presume since rose is a seer the connection has to do with cerebro being able to 'see' the entire world in search for mutants. im pretty sure this was intentional since the style looks like mr-foods

im also seeing destiny influences in there but i could be making that up -- if im right about that connection tho its probably relating destiny to roses control over light (fate, timelines)

i havent been keeping up with hs^2 but that rose design is so reminiscent of cerebro

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i havent been keeping up with hs^2 but that rose design is so reminiscent of cerebro

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I've been having a very difficult few years, and a very, very difficult past couple months, but it's always nice to have a place to come back to. Happy 4/13

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feferi and dave with a benz

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tz design is so specific bc she reminds me of my friend a lot :]

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Vegeta is the Vriska of trans men.

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Silly gcatavrosprite plushie now complete….

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can you elaborate on the reasons ? what criticisms do you disagree with?

criticisms i disagree with:

"they character assassinated jane" amiguita there was no character to assisnate.

"they character assassinated dirk" dirk is at his most interesting and likeable ever and is just about the only redeeming thing about these

"they were just written to spite the fans" if true tht would have been Epic, and Based. but they very obviously werent

"its too violent and sexual for cheap shock humour" did you. read homestuck, the web comic? what were you Expecting... also like it or not the sexual content isnt just random or gratuitous it is obviously trying to be a conclusion to the whoel coming-of-age theme of homestuck as a work.

"so-and-so is out of character" homestuck characters are malleable little dolls that can be rearranged to suit the narrative at a whim. this is true about all fictional characters ofc but it is like explicitly textually metaphysically true in homestuck

my criticisms:

the heavy-handed political messaging is fucking tedious and awful and so profoundly of its time in a bad way. its clearly a reaction to trump but it doesnt have anything interesting to say about him or fascism or racism or anything, really, except, um. Cheeto in the white house?. the whole Evil Jane plot is too stupid and contrived for the sake of the satire to take seriously but also its awful satire written by liberals who think fascism as invented in 2016 by the orange man

god can we fucking talk about how fucking embarassing the obama shit is. jesus fucking christ. for a start it's a callback to a running jhoke in homestuck that is straight up just super racist. and they decide to pivot from the joke being 'its funny that theres a black president', which is good, but they pivot it to 'obama seems so heroic and magical now that we're stuck with the Orange Man', which, admittedly, is better than Being Racist, but also sucks shit. he killed people amiguitas.

'post-canon' is cheap bullshit. like, the work makes a big deal about tryng to talk about What Canon Is, without ever acknowledging the concept of, like, IP law. claiming to just be a non-canon continuation like any other when it's made by people with the Official Exclusive Legal Rights just feels hollow and detooths any liberatory/deconstructive potential there. unironically my opinion of it would go up like tenfold if it had been actually published in AO3 instead of just joking about it.

in general i think that all of the attempt to deconstruct fiction or storytelling is rooted in a really weird and flawed model of storytelling. a lot of it seems to be taking an extremely long route to writing something bad on purpose and then saying 'see, if you wrote something like this, it would be bad'. Okay. i like deconstructive collapsing narrative shit in e.g. if on a winter's night a traveller because i think calvino has trenchant and interesting insights about literature and storytelling. i do think hussie also has those but they essentially dropped and explored all of them in homestuck and the epilogues just seem like an attempt to connect ohomstuck's disparate and contradictory approaches to Narrative into one overarching schemata and then crtiique that schemata, which i think is a doomed project that results in little of interest to me.

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How are we still having homestuck drama in the year of our lord 2024

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This is whether or not Homsetuck had anything to do with it (I was going to include hat as an option for each, but I didn't have the room)

Have a Homestuck poll you want posted? Go ahead and submit it!

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You ever see an absolutely terrible take and it just shakes you to ur core

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oh boy

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what if u drew pitch vriskan what then?

take this away from me before I spend any more time on it