#in defense of homestuck

[kabutoden]

listen i know i said they dont have godtier powers but au where they do. list. listen. are you hearing me. mage of time ceruleanblood with intense and volatile emotions and low emotive knight of doom rustblood. its doomed yuri. its timed yuri. ill love you forever but we dont have that. and we never will. duty. knowledge. resignation to fate. a single moment between enemies/lovers to last an eternity the scorpion and the fly..........

[charcarts]

late hamsteak day post of The 8itch Ever

[sohaoying]

chillin with cal

[nana2009]

karkat in the brazilian miku fit, made for yesterday's independence day :D

[cryptar]

yknow i say im a huge multishipper but i wouldnt actually consider myself much of a shipper at all. just open to the idea of trying everything once. the term has typically romantic connotations and follows the assumption that i think, and want, these characters to be good for eachother.

I'm, personally, less interested in the prexisting chemistry than i am in the puzzle of figuring out what differing circumstances could potentially cause two characters who have seemingly nothing in common to become eachothers everything.

This could explain my favorism towards rarepairs and more convoluted dynamics, and my aversion to popular, fluffy pairings that have already been explored a thousand times over, there's no work for me to do there.

Not to mention that when a ship becomes too popular it starts cannibalising itself, and lots of good, interesting characterisations are lost in the sea of people bending characters into pre-orchestrated, saccharine dynamics. alot of which are usually downright fetishy in nature, particularly in mlm pairings.

I mean i would say being able to get ooc and self indulgent is downright mandatory for making a good fic, but there's only so many times i have to read a fic about a big, overprotective, manly-man top who does all the work and the shy, small, swoony, softhearted femme-wifey-bottom before it starts to just be lazy.

I actively have to go out of my way to search 'switch' tags if i want true-to-the-character, mutual emotional reciprocation. which i really, really shouldn't have to do as an ace person who actively skips through nsfw.

And it's not that popular wlw pairings aren't guilty of these problems aswell, but those tend to lean more into the 'soft lesbians who can do no wrong' stereotype, which always completely (butch)ers all nuisance that makes the ship worth shipping in the first place.

As well as that's if they're even the focus of the story at all and aren't just shoved to the side by the main mlm couple. mlw pairings can be culpable of both these things, with the added risk that you find out the author made a twitter post with the characters in front of the 'super straight' flag.

Though i also wonder if me being aspec plays any part as again; im not as interested in the romantic aspects as i am in the possible hurdles they may face throughout the potential relationship.

Anyone else feel like this?

[mrusheronhiswaytotown]

It was their birthdays last week and I didn't forget about it! :-D

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Dave: your honor, my client is like lincoln

Terezi, visibly wincing: 1 SW34R T0 GOD 1F YOU S4Y 1N 4 C3N-

Dave: they've suffered massive head trauma

Terezi: ...WH4T TH3 4CTU4L FUCK 1S WR0NG W1TH YOU?

[jojotier]

canonically Egbert wouldn't be able to code in javascript because their ineptitude with stack modus implies that they wouldn't understand the relative path necessary to import ('require') modules of code to different files in the directory

[splickedylit]

*stands on a chair and yells* THEM!!!!!!

[legend-has-it-art]

those pitch gals

[realreadysetrose]

An anthology told in 3 Instagram stories

[shittyjakeenglish]

Jake witnessing this bean burning Jade at the stake.

um okay so i misread this one

Day 132 i guess.

its just too horrible for words. why would i do this?

[jayecrockerdaily]

020 - 07/06/2024

step 1: be mad step 2: draw tiny crockertier jaye step 3: ??? step 4: repeat if results not satisfactory

[rin-hanarin]

Clingy and possessive? Damn bro, get well soon.

[lucabyte]

i need to know if the people who are following me who are currently in the process of reading homestuck for the first time are doing it through the Unofficial Homestuck Collection because if you aren't please say so because um. Veteran homestuck here who wants to give you the best possible experience . please. <- guy who's prepping for an upcoming homestuck reread and as such has a whole list of reccomendations

[hajihiko]

hello. i forgot i sent the davekat ask. this was not about your homestuck past

it just made me realize the character parallels between short angry guy who loves his friends and wants to protect them, and tall "cool"/emotion-repressing guy who also wants to protect his friends!

sorry if i made you feel weird, i hope you have a wonderful day!

yeah I realised afterwards that I'd mentioned it on here before lmao I thought for a second you'd come from my other old blog .... It's all good I just got defensive lol sorry have a great day!