#incorrect pesterquest quotes

[hivequest]

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

NEPETA: :33 < sorry i cant hang out i furgot how to mimic human like behavior

DAVE: i mean if you wanna just loom in the corner like some kinda creature thats cool

JADE: yeah we dont want you getting left out!!

[somnambulant-snowball]

[image descriptions part 1:

ID 1: Skylla is sulking in a jail cell, saying, "one time I dreamt I got sent to death row because I had a countryish mullet instead of a gay alt one".

ID 2: Tyzias confides in Stelsa, "one time I dreamt a law was passed that made it illegal to say 'I'm gayer' when someone came out"

ID 3: Dave says, "one time I dreamt I met the patron saint of the gays". Nepeta does a cute pose. he continues, "she looked a bit like the Cheshire cat, but with green, red, and yellow stripes." Nepeta, now with stripes, does a threatening pose. "she could shapeshift into a human," he says as she transforms into Jade.

ID 4: Elwurd says, "one time I dreamt me and my entire class full of girls had to prepare and present an assembly to the school about Women's day". in her flashback, Bronya and Kanaya are with her in the library. she continues, "each person had to say what women are, i.e. powerful, strong, independent," while Chixie is shown at the microphone. Elwurd goes to the mic and narrates, " when it was my turn I said, 'women are gay,' and walked away for the next person to get to the mic". Kanaya says, "I mean you're not wrong". / end of IDs part one.

text source: one-time-I-dreamt on tumblr]

part two will be in the reblog!

[kitkat-the-muffin]

@felix-the-lemon-king I stole your idea but with Homestuck

Sequel… kind of?

[zeemczed-blog]

On Pesterquest, The Aftermath of The Homestuck Epilogues, and Why Homestuck Appeals To Us Still.

It's 1 AM, I'm exhausted and can't sleep, and I'm gonna bullshit a little. Ramble incoming, please read past the break if you still care about Homestuck, ignore if you don't, yadda yadda yadda.

Homestuck started out intriguing, it got better, it got wilder, and then it just kinda... broke under its own weight. And that was deliberate. Hussie delighted in this. The entire theme of the work in the end was breaking. Breaking the 4th wall. Breaking the premises. Breaking character arcs. Showing how stories break characters just by containing said characters.

Then came the Epilogues, and the Huss tried to break us. The fandom itself.

And... by all accounts... shit didn't work. We saw his clumsy attempt at satirizing the very nature of the fandom that we'd created (we, not he, as fandom is always the work of the fans, not the original creator of the work) and kind of collectively flipped him off.

Because we're Homestucks. We're already self-effacing to a ridiculous degree, but we know what works underneath us, we know what works underneath the plot, we know why we're here, and it's not for Hussie's masturbatory themes.

It was the worldbuilding and the characters.

That was it. The plot became negligible, because the creator didn't treat the plot with respect. We were just there for the character development, and when that went south (particularly in the Epilogues), we collectively said screw that, we're doing it our way. We wrote our own stories, our own epilogues, our own fanventures and AUs and fucking everything else imaginable.

We said, collectively, FUCK THAT, WE'RE PROTECTING WHAT WE LOVE IN THIS WORK BY TAKING IT FROM YOU.

Now, what does that sound like?

The ending of Pesterquest.

We're locking away OUR collective versions of the main cast, so they can be happy, or whole, or at least logically consistent, or at least not running in the opposite direction of the character development that everything SCREAMS they should have (looking at you, Jane).

So.

With that in mind, in 2023, what is Homestuck now?

What do we treat it as?

Commedia dell'arte.

It's a group of strong characters that can be put into almost any story. A nigh-universal cast, diverse and interesting, with built-in relationships and chemistry that can be savored or jettisoned as the plot requires.

But that's the kicker.

We have plots we care about.

And thus, we have transcended the original work. And with it we have helped the characters ascend. We have protected and guarded them, and they will not be remembered as characters from a webcomic that "used to be good".

Keep writing, Homestucks. Keep drawing. Keep spitting out incorrect quotes (which might as well be fucking correct at this point), scribbly comics, podfics, and fanventures that eclipse the original in all but word count.

Because, by all accounts, we're winning.

(Disclaimer: Yes, this includes the crew that are working on Hiveswap; it's pretty obvious they still Care About This Shit, and it doesn't share Huss' incredibly nihilistic late-game BS. I am including every HS creator EXCEPT The Waste of Space in here.)

That is all.

[loathsomespider]

to be clear this is not an attack on you and i enjoy your work. you dont even have to answer this if its too rude or presumptuous in your opinion. but i think its funny seeing your "definitively, if its the source material, they would fucking say that" post while knowing how you feel about the weaker parts of homestuck and also the uh. the epilogues. again this isnt supposed to be an epic own gotcha moment i think everyone is allowed to contain multitudes and shit. im just also a bit mischievous and part of me wants to be the little wondershowzen puppet going "But can we discuss the contradiction"

ah too bad you wanted to be a silly little gotcha puppet but i was thinking about this too! hold my hair back im forming this idea in real time so im about to start just vomiting the fuck up a bunch of half-formed ideas. (this is the second time today ive used this analogy)

the thing is that while i dont like the homestuck epilogues at all, there's no denying that it is largely, in-character, in broad strokes. it's a story which relies on every character being their worst possible self, sure. it is, in a lot of ways, a very public, very messy relapse. it gets at some really ugly parts of what the characters are, and that's just not what i want from homestuck.

it's part of a larger trend of hussie trying really hard to Make Dramatic Art and Tell Stories With A Point that i think really plays against what theyre good at, like. you see this with psycholonials too, just this idea of storytelling where nothing good ever happens and every character is not just flawed, but unbearably, noxiously toxic. and yknow, that's fine too, its literally not an invalid goal for a story to have.

its just not what i really like about homestuck and to a lesser extent problem sleuth. like, as messy as my feelings are about psycholonials, i still think fondly of zhen as a character even if she is the worst person to ever exist.

its like they took "dave being abused by bro came out of nowhere, the rooftop strifes dont really feel textually different from the other guardian strifes" all the way to heart and way overcorrected.

but all that to say, the worst possible self-hood apple hasnt fallen too far from the tree. and that's not strictly an invalid thing to tell a story about. it's just not what i want out of homestuck. and the tangible difference there, imo, is that puts the onus of not liking it on me, rather than hussie, cephiedvariable and ctset. they set out to do something, i didn't like what they did, i had an extended mental breakdown about it that i am still feeling the ramifications of even now, but at some point, the world continued to turn.

i hope you can kind of sense this feeling in bdth - while they aren't really in the running to be main characters or anything, rosebot, pesterquest rose, and candy rose are all real in burning down the house. i may be taking jane in a different direction, but that different direction is still in terms of hs2 jane. hell, tavros crocker gets a cameo in the walkaround

and yeah, this is to emphasize the contrast bdth jane against post-canon jane, but in order for that contrast to mean anything, those parts of the character have to have meaning enough to be rejected, which is the real point im getting at. it sort of drives home that i'm not just *really fucking up* at writing jane, too, which is actually more important than youd think.

ignoring the textual parts of a character you dont like because it conflicts with what you want the character to be (an image that you construct and maintain on your own, unintentionally) is a great way to wind up doing bad characterization of that character.

and yknow, sometimes that's fine! if your reach never gets beyond making an incorrect quotes blog, that doesnt matter. who give a shit. besides me, historys most notorious hater, who will seethe about a bad character take for weeks on end. (but i am the exception, not the rule)

if you're really swinging for the fences as i tend to do, at all times, even when i would be best suited not to, it just doesnt sit right to me to drop bits of a character you dont like just because you dont like it. when youre writing, its there specifically to be played with. and again, "playing with it" here still encompasses rejecting it and doing something different.

and yeah, different authors are going to focus on different parts of a character, but then youre getting out of the scope of this post tbh. but i think its worth remembering that nobody ever wants to make something bad on purpose. even intentionally making something bad on purpose is something you would want to succeed at, you dont want to fail at making something bad on purpose, etc. etc. this is stupid.

tl;dr its not actually that contradictory imo

[rosemary-is-in-pesterquest]

hey i just wanna say that i saw one of those ‘homestuck incorrect quotes’ instagram accounts (the ones that just get funny posts from tumblr and put pesterquest sprites on them) repost your count von count rosemary post without credit and like crop out your username so it looked like they made it so like im just wondering if you have an issue with that or if they asked you for permission etc

I just saw rn and hmmmm

I’ll just say I made it in the comment sections (Idk why they didn’t give me credit BUT whatever)

[unitedunionofdave]

[respawningjupiter]

Mspa Reader: Relationship status?

Gamzee: Waiting for a miracle

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[Based on this post]

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[knights-unwelcommentary]

Dirk, after getting his hair wet through shenanigans: I can no longer keep this terrible secret, so I’ll just say it now.

Dirk, in a dishonored samurai voice: I. Am. Short.

Dave: dude literally everyone already knew that

[hivequest]

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Kanaya, telling Sollux about Pandora's Box: And Hope Was The Last Thing To Leave The Pandoras Box

Sollux: makes 2en2e have you meet ed

[somnambulant-snowball]

[ID: Rose narrates, "a few days ago a coworker asked me to explain Hanukkah and I asked her if she knew what a menorah was." Jade thinks for a moment before saying, "like the northern lights?" Rose continues, "I'm simultaneously haunted by and wild about this concept now. instead of aurora borealis, menorah borealis." Jade is grinning wide and repeats, "menorah borealis". / end ID

text source: witchofdunwich on tumblr]

happy Hanukkah, y'all!

[kitkat-the-muffin]

You all seemed to really like this post so I made a few more

These are all screenshots from my group chat with friends

(Warning: the Gamzee one contains graphic imagery that may disturb some people)

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

The climax of Pesterquest and/or Homestuck^2, probably

MSPA Reader: Are you my friend?

Ultimate Dirk: To have friendship requires you to love someone and be invested in your shared happiness and these things: friendship, love and happiness, they’re all so… small.

Ultimate Dirk: I think there was probably a time where I had joy, where I experienced fleeting happiness or anger or fear, but God, it’s just been so long. I used to spend my days considering the nature of time and existence, maybe that brought me joy once, but… unlike everybody else who ever thought about those questions, who ever pondered the meaning of it all, I - and you may find this hard to believe, but - I solved it. I saw the fullness of time. I pondered eternity and was the first person and only person to successfully visualize its treacherous arc.

Ultimate Dirk: You can’t possibly conceive of the length of eternity. I have. It’s maddening and hopeless but it’s this burden we’re all saddled with from the moment of our creation. It’s a finish line that, by its definition, will never arrive. It stretches forever and ever, it’s too ambivalent to even taunt those trapped behind it. It is the cruel price of existence, and it is too horrible to bear once you’ve seen it. Existence, life, is… horrible. To exist, to live is horrible.

MSPA Reader: I don’t think I wanna hang out with you anymore. I think I’m gonna take off. And… you can continue wallowing in your sadness and your oblivion, seeing nothing but the negative and I’m gonna go on my way, and I’ll tell you what, if we ever meet each other somewhere in infinity, you can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong.

[unitedunionofdave]