#I’m like legit attached to my fellas it makes me sad to see CONFLICT.

[randomalistic]

Spore was real fun but i advanced to the tribal stage and like … idk man… more like a god game now as opposed to “play as a little creature guy” game yknow. I’ll probably still finish it but …. Something was lost ……….💔💔

[claire-starsword]

as soon as dirk took over the meat route i was so infuriated by everything he said i ended up barely skimming 90% of the meat route and only reading it when it caught my interest. the repeated fucking outright abuse done to jake literally makes me so angry, the fact that they made jade into a horny plot device, and Oh Ny God jane is a fascist now? i am so fucking mad. i havent read candy yet. thats all

Just wrote my thoughts on Jane here, and to me she’s the worst part of this mess, I struggle to see how they got this from her character and even if the development made sense it would still be boring. Like wow, here comes Condesce 2: Now With Ten Times More Sex. 

(rest under readmore cause it got too long)

I ended up forgiving a lot of Dirk’s behavior because 1) any references to Detective Pony consume me with too much emotion to think straight, 2) it’s not like the narrative is defending his behavior, 3) I genuinely love the idea that the last step of characters ascending to godhood is an awareness of narrative structures and a loss of self. It’s a tragic but fantastic concept and the kind of thing I expect from Homestuck. 

Unfortunately instead of going interesting places it just destroyed any immersion I had in the story by portraying the characters as being just words any narrator can warp. Pour one out for Kanaya fellas, turns out she’s a fakey thing that can be turned into a hysterical wife or a useless sad thing or whatever the hell the plot needs with a flick of a wand. How dare you get attached to the fictional personalities and behaviors of a character, it’s all fake. Now pay attention to what really matters: the author’s ego represented by a few narrators and clever narrative tricks.

Lost track of where I was going but, Epilogue!Dirk is enjoyable if you want more meta on Dirk’s selves and Bro and their flaws, and kind of a good insight into an abuser’s mind at least in my opinion. If you wanted a closure of Dirk’s arc hinted in the original ending you got stomped on in the worst way possible. I’m sorry.

Oh, Jake. Jake. I remember being pissed when the credits came out on how Jake was treated as a sex icon despite previously showing discomfort on that, and how he was being punched around by Dirk again even though that was uh, literally everything that went wrong between them the first time! But then I thought hey, it’s okay, it’s just a little fun and memes and something for the Dirkjake shippers for credits. It’s all over now. The ending that matters are the last convos and Act 7.

Boy.

Boy how I wish it was over.

I legit don’t know what to say okay if you laugh at Jake’s treatment you’re wrong. I’m extremely sick of how Jake and Tavros are treated by both writers and fans as it seems to think bullying is funny as long as it is with someone who’s not smart, or if whoever’s doing it is cooler than you. Not that what happened with Jake in the epilogue can be called bullying.

It was so much worse.

Also have no idea when you sent this message and how much have you read by now so just pressing an F for you because if you hated Meat!Jade then Candy!Jade will be hell for you. Candy!Jade is my worst nemesis, it is likely a parody of bad love triangle fics but it is somehow worse. 

I’m conflicted about Meat!Jade because on one way I don’t mind Jade being overtly sexual as a sign of her social problems, and there are some good insights on her character sprinkled along the way, but in the end she’s too much a davekat satellite, I don’t get why they thought romance should be the focus on her character when in HS 99% of the time it was the boys who were too into her not the opposite.

Also she gets manipulated by someone else again in the end so yeah. This epilogue is only a rehash of old plot points. Even for those who weren’t offended by it I can’t understand how weren’t them bored by it.