#Heinousbound

[davekat-sucks]

Given its been a few months since the last NIGHTFALL Upd8 I guess I'll bring it up here since who knows whats going on with that. XP

ever since the Comic got picked up again after that... what, 8 year break? The writing definitely improved (though I'll admit the original did grow on me a good bit after the first couple pages. Def had the spirit of ACT 1 Homestuck.) but the way its treating Something like Spider8reath and honestly, Vriska on the whole, Is kind of what I'd want if we absolutely needed more vriska (Which we don't.) In official material. Everyone calling her out on her bullshit (which she still sometimes slips into, though she is obviously trying to improve.) while still making relatively good use of her (even if a rather blatant flaw I've noticed with NIGHTFALL is that the Kids and Vriska just... aren't making effective use of their god powers.) and actually making what Relevance she does have to the Narrative be intriguing and not all consuming. The last panels updated are even about John getting a Vriskavention in the same way Karkat tried to stage the Troll Girl intervention back in... what? Act 3 of HS? No, that had to be ACT 4. Nightfall is probably (at this point at least, barring some proper old Fanfic) the best depiction of Red Spider8reath We've had in a good long while. Also the original characters in the Comic aren't absolute shit. *cough* like some other webcomic I know of. *cough.*

Taking all that into account, why is it a shitty ass spin-off fancomic of Homestuck that was started back in 2015/2016 then had like an 8 year hiatus get better writing and better pacing than basically all of Act 1 of Beyond Canon? Even with a "Fuck the fans" Motive which I wholly believe they have, both because they admitted it and because... well no shit, sherlock. That doesn't excuse just how TERRIBLE it is in a vacuum. Thats not to say if it was better written it would be good Homestuck, because it wouldn't. But it could at least be taken seriously as a piece of media, and possibly even enjoyed as... its own thing, without having to both share the Political Opinions and Fetishes as the entire writing staff. I can take a good laugh at myself and the rest of the Fandom. It can be annoying sure, but as long as we all understand the joke isn't that we're all shit and horrible people and rather we're all fucking NERDS who NERD OUT over this convoluted and extremely flawed thing called HOMESTUCK than its all chill, right? Even if the joke doesn't always land and *is* done at our expense. Hell, if they really wanted to do this properly, they could have pulled a Starship Troopers and basically remade Homestuck using the Mad and nonsensicle ramblings of an Intern who they made read Homestuck for them and take detailed but shitty notes. Really embrace that "We don't give a shit and want to make a satire but we don't even know what the thing we're satorizing actually is and what we think the source material is entirely wrong." Schtick. Obviouslly telling us after the fact instead, because Fuck Us I guess.

Idk man, how you read the NIGHTFALL fan comic? Any thoughts on how it handles the idea of a "Dubiously Canon Sequel Continuity" if you have? Otherwise, I guess I'll lay out the final question as: What stories (be it webcomic, VN, Ect.) would you say are the most worthy inheritors of Homestucks Legacy? Assuming they're in any way at least inspired by Homestuck. Vast Error is certainly up their to be sure, in regards to being a more literal successor (in so far as the story, cosmology it uses, ect. if not in the literally a sequel sense) at least. Though I've certainly read plenty of other things that carry on that original... spark. Even if sadly most got discontinued early on, or have since gone silent. (Shoutout to the Homestuck Fandom. The real one. Gone, but not forgotten. A truly creative and overwhelming force while we were in our prime. We may be scattered to the winds with some us holding onto whats probably false hope but you never know. Maybe something of Value can be recovered from this shitty fire that can't really eat away at cheap plastic. Perhaps, in a few years time, Roach, Whatpumpkin, and Hussie's collective thumbs won't be able to hold up their collective weight against WET GRASS and someone more deserving who actually gives a shit can pick up the IP for cheap and we can return to our roots. Otherwise we'll be stuck as pre-Friendsim shitty drawings made in MSPaint about to do a pirouette off a fucking handle in a blank void with a poorly drawn firearm on a oddly realistic depiction of a tree stump nearby.)

Nightfall, Heinousbound, Be The Sea Dweller Lowblood, John Ruins a Wedding, and The Felt (Mayonaka comic) are ones that I can think of that is close to being part of Homestuck legacy.