#Pipeorgankind

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Pipeorgankind

Album: coloUrs and mayhem: Universe B Composer: James Roach Leitmotifs: Showtime, Warhammer of Zillyhoo, Explore, Black, Doctor, Lifdoff, Harlequin Characters: June Egbert, LoWaS

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[S] [A6A6I4] ====>

[S] Heir of Grief: PLAY (From MSPFA "The Crow Strider AU")

[finchymcfinch]

sup party people i'm doing a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ult0Ms8HzsI

it also features pipeorgankind

yeah

[ghostedtea]

oh the places you'll go

[conceptofjoy]

[insufferablemod]

i need to keep rereading hs.....

[mmmmalo]

Do you think that pipeorgankind could be considered a funeral dirge? Likewise the scattering of fireflies, oil, candy dust as analogous to the scattering of ashes?

My working theory is that by completing the quest, John Egbert inadvertently cut off her transition at the knees - which is paralleled by the dead John Egbert (the Egbert that had to die) in order for John to retcon to safety

Unfortunately even though I reread the section with your thoughts in mind, I couldn't get out of the Calliope mindset of giggling about dicks. Roxy cracks a That's What She Said joke when John mentions the Huge Organ at play and I'm inclined to take the phallic humor seriously: both the pipes pouring oil on John and his decision to splash that oil all over the comic strike me as bukkake jokes. Especially since Alt-Callie (via Jade) describes the scattering of oil as an assertion of "mastery over his confining reality" -- retcon powers aside, that resonates with the story's engagement with feminist critique of pornography as a venue to assert patriarchal dominance. Like the time when Dirk (the GameBro > PlayBoy) offers to "annoint" Jane from shoulder to shoulder, introducing oil into what was supposed to be an image of knighting someone with a sword, the implicit suggestion of bukkake is affirmed when Jane take a "rain check" on the proposed splashing. We juxtapose this with Dirk asserting mastery over the confining reality of Jeanne Betancourt's Pony Pals by splashing his text all over it. In the same way way that Rose's quest to play the rain seems to be a ploy to have her embrace a traditional feminine role, I'm gathering that LOWAS is here presenting John with an abstracted ideal of masculine conquest.

On the other hand, part of the reason Dirk "The Gay Guy" Strider is the poster child of this line of thought is that the feminist critique of pornography above is often presented as a piece of homophobic/transphobic rhetoric, in which any instance of Masculine becoming Feminine is treated as a sexual violence. Hence my confusion with Grandpa/Jake, where scenes that seem to imply a history of assaulting Jade are also just calling him a f*ggot. So it does stand out to me that after the grand ostensibly patriarchal pornographic display, we see John walk by the wreckage of Dad's car, a symbol of death/rebirth from masculine to feminine... that bit of imagery makes me sympathetic to your funeral dirge reading.

At the end of the line John meets up with Roxy, and I can't tell if this is 1. the narrative's requisite heterosexual pairing as outlined in Wizardy Herbert, furthering affirming John as ascendant patriarch or 2. Roxy acting as the image of femininity with which John is merging, in line with the car imagery. Even the reference to the end of Con Air ("hello hummingbird") as they hold hands doesn't disambiguate it, since that movie had some implicit gay stuff going on too (eg Poe's prison buddy being a diabetic who gets his sugar through needles, making him overlap with Poe's "hummingbird" wife). Maybe it's a messy admixture of both -- we also see Roxy claiming Bro's highly phallic sword in this section, so perhaps John is likewise acting symbolically as the image of masculinity with which Roxy merges? I really can't tell

[doodlestuck]

what if you tried drawing john as he played pipeorgankind? the organ itself would be hard but ithink it could be fun to express all that emotion and agony

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[sicklyseraphnsuch]

something percolating in my head about john, his dad, and how it maps to both peter pan/jumanji plus how that all gets mixed with gender

because van pelt/hook - the villains of those "protag trapped as boy" were meant to represent their fathers - the boyhood bildungsroman of defeating your father to become a man

and what it means for john and his arc. that he did figuratively defeat his dad by taking on that quest for his denizen (stand in for dad). or maybe that he didnt defeat his dad bc the denizen lives? but he completed his planet's quest which signifies a made up sign post on the road to maturity -

running theory: john completed his quest and so cut off his transition at the knees? hmmmm hmmm i mean it would work to how beyond canon has him stuck as Him

but it also doesnt quite fit the scene of pipeorgankind hmmmmmmm

[bobcat-pie]

waitwaitwait. was it fucking... Pipeorgankind?? did i dream a vocal cover of pipeorgankind? but specifically that part of pipeorgankind where it's... ascending? (bear with me here)

except instead of staying hopeful, it just keeps on ascending and getting higher, only it kinda goes... evil? halfway through. The bit of the dream-song i'm remembering sounds kinda hopeful at the start then it shifts in a female-powermetal-vocalist way.

damn i think i dreamt this really cool metal/classical song or whatever... it was mostly vocals/strings, but i didn't remember any words... i can't describe it because i'm musically illiterate... and when i try to sing it it sounds like i'm doing some wackass scales or something that get bent out of tune halfway through...

[gendertrickster]

placing my bets — thewertsearch's john s-tier moment will be pipeorgankind.

[shimshamshimsham]

alright gang time for favorite hs flashes lets fucking go

1. [S] [A6A6I4] ====> (Pipeorgankind)

2. [S] JOHN. RISE UP. (can you tell who my favorite character is lmao)

3. [S] Cascade

4. [S] Make Her Pay

5. [S] Prince of Heart: Rise up.

6. [S] Collide

7. [S] Terezi: Remem8er (will most likely raise in number once I finish my second reading of hs)

8. [S] Wake.

9. [S] Jack: Ascend

10. [S] Game Over (this was like 5th best at first but I kept remembering flashes I liked more . I'm so sorry game over 😭)

Honorary Mention: [S] Rex Duodecim Angelus

and that's it ! feel free to do ur own ranking in tha reblogs . that would be sick and awesome honestly ::::D

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

just realised we could change our current blog banner (pipeorgankind john egbert glowy hands) into something more relevant to our current interests (mellonear death note art) but also. we have had the homestuck banner forever....... what shall we do without it....... what if we miss it

[jeaninelatragedia]

top 5/10 homestuck scenes.

which one of you is stealing my typing quirk to send me anon asks. anyway this is by which ones i like the most i wash my hands entirely of objective judgement because then this list would be incredibly predictable.

10. WV?: rise up in Act 4.

9. unite + synchronize in Act 6 Act 3.

8. the ultimate bunny reveal and jade's letter to john in Act 5 Act 2.

7. the heir of grief moment in Collide in Act 6 Act 6 Act 6.

6. rose's ult self ascension in Meat Epilogues 18(?) (it's down so i can't fact check but i think that's right.)

5. Act 7.

4. the savior of the dreaming dead segment of Cascade in Act 5 Act 2.

3. john: rise up flash in Act 4.

2. the pipeorgankind flash in Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 4.

TEREZI: REMEM8ER ACT 6 ACT 6 INTERMISSION 5 PAGE 7959.

[clockyclockyclockwork]

^^^^^^

only christianity could make the pipe organ rizzless

[besthomestucksong]

COLOURS AND MAYHEM: UNIVERSE B: ROUND 1: PART 3