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realizertech · 3 years

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weaselbeaselpants · 4 years

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I see a few ppl reblogging some posts and rants and also following me as of late so let me just say this:

I am NOT an “Anti”

I don’t think shaming ppl for the things they like/blocking people just on the basis of their interests is productive, helps people who are actually hurt by the media, or is a good means of criticism.

And ftr, I do believe in boycotting - refusing to buy from a company or person because they use your money to fund bad shit - but there is a difference between that, and calling anyone whose ever liked said thing awful. ((Ex: If I were into Harry Potter I would not disown the entire series. However, I would not buy, follow, or support any funded Potter stuff until I know for certain that JKRowling is being dumped, which doesn’t seem to be the case. As is, she’s still profiting so I would be buying from fans rather than anything official now.))

I hope that makes sense.

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jkrowling-official · 2 years

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@god ratio

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thunder-the-ranger-wolf · 5 years

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Y'know what's fuckin dumb? Aside from the fact that I can't fuckin sleep.

The warcats fandom takes certain things as gospel even if it doesn't make sense.

Exhibit A: Willowpelt and her supposed sins, Darkstripe and Greystripe.

Aside from the fact that Willowpelt is stated to be a first time Queen in the original series, who was her mate? They say Tawnyspots but that makes no sense. How is a cat sick enough that he has to retire early to the elders den able to get with a young, obviously attractive warrior? Better yet, how does he get it up for said young and obviously attractive warrior?

He doesn't.

And even if that were stated in the books, where the fuck did Greystripe come from?

Also, Sandstorm's parents. Brindleface and Redtail? Fuck that. She's brown. Neither of them have a brown spot on their body. Brindleface was also said to be a first time queen in the original series.

Also, we never truly get confirmation of who Ashfur's father is but Whitestorm is too good a cat to have his name and his fucked up parentage dragged through the mud like that. He would be outside playing with his kits and letting the whole world know they were his.

It's all headcannons but I see it pop up everywhere, even the fucking "official" family tree and I just... What.

It's like how jkrowling said dumbles was gay waaaaay after the fact. Not everyone takes that as gospel.

And half of it is the fuckin su susaan missing kits project which was also scrapped so I never know what's canon and what isn't.

There's a difference between what an author thinks would be cool if might have planned for a character and what ends up in the finished product. But the lines are so blurred in Warriors that trying to figure out a family tree for anyone who was born in the first arc is a giant headache and trying to keep it incest-free doubly so.

I think I'm going to make the Clans do what WindClan did in Tallstar's time. The loners and rogues can stay as long as they contribute.

#warrior cats #warriors #family trees #willowpelt #sandstorm #tawnyspots #redtail #brindleface

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yolon3rwolf · 4 years

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I'm tragically brain dead when it comes to the Twilight series. I don't want your opinions or problematic or whatever. I just want brain dead consumption.

Also I hope smeyers pulls a jkrowling and makes someone gay officially. Like can you imagine? Of course Edward knows Alice is pansexual. Bella just never made time to learn about it cuz she was too busy constantly trying to die. 🤷‍♂️

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Hi Kitty :) hope ur doing good. I’ve been thinking, would DGM art from Hoshino count as canon? Or is canon specifically just for story related things?

I might ruffle some feathers with my answer on this, so fair warning. ^^;;

There is a difference between Canon and Word of God. If you’re unfamiliar with the difference:

Canon is short for canonical and refers to the work as a whole. In this instance, for DGM, canon would be the manga and (to some extent) the anime series.

Word of God is what fandom calls any information given to us by the creator(s) (and for DGM, that would be Hoshino).

Fandom can argue over and over again until its out of breath and blue in the face about what is or is not considered canon. Some people argue that Word of God should be counted as canon material, but I don’t believe it should–at least not in absolute terms.

I consider canon material for DGM to be the manga and, to a lesser extent, the anime. Anything in fanbooks, interviews, or social media is not canon. Now, I can already hear everyone screaming at me saying “But, Kitty! Hoshino said it! It must be true!” So hear me out.

The separation between Word of God and canon starts to get murky when you move from one author to multiple ones–specifically when you get into movies and television, which has multiple people working on a single project.

Hoshino mostly has control of her manga. (I say mostly only because editors can have a final say in some aspects of censoring, but there is no telling what she might have had to change due to those circumstances.) But the anime is different. It has a producer, directors, artists, etc. who are all interpreting Hoshino’s original canon work. And those interpretations can differ from the original canon.

“Wait!” you say, “What about fanbooks! And her insta! Hoshino has control of those!”

And I agree; she does. But there are two big reasons why I don’t consider Word of God to be canon.

1. Not everyone has access to Word of God. If you were to pick up a movie or book and consumed the media beginning to end, you would be satisfied. You’ve completed the story arc. You move on. I know it’s hard to believe in an age where internet exists and we have access to creator’s twitters/tumblrs/instas/FBs, but it was not always the case. And again, not everyone will follow every single creator that they’ve consumed media for.

Which means that a person’s canon will differ if they have or have not consumed Word of God content. If you consider Word of God as canon, then someone who is not following every single person who has worked on a TV show/movie/book, doesn’t have the whole picture. Where as if you consider canon only to be the source material, then we’re all working with the same deck of cards.

Specifically for DGM, I’m betting most people don’t know about the Reverse Novels. Some people in the DGM fandom consider these canon, but it leaves out a large swath of fandom who has never actually encountered them or even knew of their existence. The trouble with the Reverse Novels is that they were not written by Hoshino, though they were authorized by her. Also, they’re in Japanese (obviously) and never received official translations. It’s almost impossible to find them now, let alone get a translation. The same holds true for the fanbooks. How can we count a second hand source as canon when it’s not accessible to the majority of the (non-Japanese speaking) fandom? And how can we trust that the translation is correct?

2. Word of God frequently contradicts Canon. If any of you have follow JKRowling’s twitter, you might know what I’m talking about. Word of God is unreliable, and can completely come out of the blue. It can contradict canon events and even make you question what the author was thinking. But there’s another part of Word of God that makes it difficult to pin down–when there are multiple creators.

This usually happens with big movie/TV franchises. Multiple writers/producers/directors/etc. all putting their own spin on canon. And sometimes, actors even get sucked into it. (C’mon people, we all remember what happened to the V L D fandom. The cast and crew are still getting harassed by fans to this day. It was a nightmare.) What Word of God amounts to then is headcanons that are given clout because someone is working on the project. But as we all know, no one has the same headcanons as someone else 100% of the time, which leads to contradicting information and shouting matches about who is right and who is wrong. And this leaves fandoms in chaos after the face, squabbling over ship wars and other dumb things.

With Hoshino, again, we see less of this. But one instance came to mind with some official merch a year (or was it two?) back. The infamous KandAbs poster that came out after Hallow debuted. Hoshino wrote a post on her previous insta about how she didn’t approve of the poster, which had hella Yu//en vibes. The incident was the reason she deleted her first instagram account, but has since remade it (thank goodness). But this illustrates the issue with Word of God contradicting canon. An official poster was seen as an official stance, then decried by the author. What are we supposed to believe then?

Taking Word of God as canon comes with a host of problems. I’m not here to tell people that they can’t enjoy Hoshino’s insta, or take what she says to heart and call it canon if they want.

All I’m saying is that I don’t want people arguing over what is or is not canon when it comes to Word of God information. You can consume and enjoy that content. You can consider it canon in your own view of the works. But I will not call it canon.

#dgm #personal #reply #anon #this got longer than i thought it would #also i'm a bit bitter from the V L D fandom still #so that might taint my view a bit #but here we are

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4n0th3rm3 · 5 years

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Who has control over a story? Or: presidency as a metaphor for authorship

So… I have read the meat part of the Homestuck epilogues and I have to say, I am impressed. I have to admit that I was initially wary of the experience because the first opinions I’ve read on tumblr have been controversial, to say the least. But before I talk about the epilogue itself, I have to make some things clear. I haven’t read Homestuck in my formative teenage years. I started reading it when I was 18, so I had a lot more distance to the main characters and their experiences than I would have had if I was younger. This was also an age when my English could have been considered „good“ enough to even understand what was going on since it’s not my mother tongue. Additionally, I was just starting my degree in literary studies, so the interest in narrative structure has always been on the forefront of my reading experience, so that’s what I’ll focus on in my analysis. And hoo boy does Homestuck deliver in that regard.

First of all we have to ask: in what situation are the epilogues written? Homestuck is „officially over“, the fans are more or less satisfied, the „canon“ is supposed to be finished and can now be looked at in its entirety. This is not only important for the creators of fanworks, but also for Hussie himself. In a lot of ways, when a work is canonically finished, the author has distanced themselves from the story and the writing process. So how to write epilogues, when you have given up control over the narrative? It’s at this point that Hussie decides to make the problem explicit in the work itself: he changes the medium. What has been a narrative element in Homestuck before now becomes once again necessary for understanding the story. By changing the webcomic format to an Ao3 fanfiction format he shows the reader that these are indeed „tales of dubious authenticity“.

Now, finding the tone for the continuation of a finished work can be difficult (and we have to keep in mind that Homestuck has been over for three years). When we take a look at the Harry Potter series, where lots of fans were disappointed by a seemingly overly saccharine epilogue, we see how much can go wrong in the fans’ opinion. Actually, Harry Potter is also a good example of the consequences it has for a work of art and its fanbase when the author tries to uphold their control over the narrative after the work is finished — it can be disastrous (case in point: jkrowlings borderline surreal twitter presence). The expectations readers have are repeatedly mirrored in the epilogue itself:

And all of us are definitely the „devoted fans“ who show up to any new content, even if it’s bad. But is it bad? Whether there is too much meat (brutality, tragedy) or too much candy in it, both will be unsatisfactory. This is a thing that Rose, in the process of becoming a aware of the whole canon herself, comments on:

Even before the epilogues, Homestuck has always had lots of both, it varied in tone and regularly switched between tragedy and comedy, most often depicting tragedy through the lens of comedy. That was one go the things that made it unique. The way that Karkat reacts to the fact that Jade didn’t know that Obama was a real person shows how important the framing of events can be:

How comedy and tragedy are received respectively is very subjective to the reading experience. The reactions of the characters to canon and post-canon events mirror different fan behavior. Take for example Calliope, who seems to obsess over overly saccharine fantasies, mixed with gore and pornographic content:

The way it is framed here, it seems to sum up the fanfiction side of the Homestuck fandom pretty well. It frankly reminded me of the times when a lot of the fandom was pretty obsessed with the dark and horny parts of Homestuck - and unapologetically so. I mean, remember the 4chan „raids“ on Tumblr? That’s what they had to say about the Homestuck tag:

Now, please keep in mind that I haven’t read the candy part yet, so if Calliopes behavior is directly referring to it, it partly goes over my head at this moment. That the different perspectives and reading experiences can clash with each other and even canonical events itself is shown in John's own discomfort at the reunion with his friends:

It reflects on the way that the whole of Homestuck has been perceived by the readers not only while it was running but also after it has ended. Looking at a story after it’s been finished and at the sum of all its parts leads to some problems - for the author and the creators of fan works alike. From a distance and after three years, everyone is „stuck somewhere in the harrowing nexus between canon, post-canon, non-canon, outside canon, and fanon.“ Or as Rose puts it:

Rose realizes at this point that, much as we, the reader, the characters (especially Rose and Dirk) have also become readers of their own, their whole story. This forces them, much as us, to confront every aspect of every character that has been written in the Homestuck canon, what Dirk then calls the Ultimate Self. How do you for example characterize a person like Dirk when you know how different aspects of his personality play out in different scenarios? I mean, Bro is very much a character that exists in the Homestuck canon and — shitty as he is — shares Dirk’s genetic information. Dirk on the other hand is a person who has always tried to overcome the negative aspects of his personality that are realized in other versions of him. The convergence of personalities that happens when the characters become readers of canon themselves is in Dirk’s case as much a tragedy as it is for us, who have also seen the positive potential of his character. ultimate!Dirk then goes — in the manner of an overly sarcastic megalomaniac — from reader to narrator:

So it’s not surprising that looking at the whole of canon itself, different characters show different reading behaviors. This is as much true for Dirk as it is for every single reader, especially every creator of fan works. We take the elements that are given to us and try to create something from it. In one way or the other, by interpreting a story, everyone tries to take hold of the narrative. This is especially true for a story like Homestuck, where the interaction with fans and fan culture have been a central element of storytelling and has lead to the inclusion of multiple contributors to the work itself.

In ultimate!Dirk’s case, it is made very explicit how his particular perspective influences the narrative structure. The lines between reader and author blur even further than before:

But not only ultimate!Dirk and muse!Calliope, who tries to take the narrative away from him, have conflicting views and agencies, other characters also start framing actions and people in a certain way. It’s no coincidence that Hussie decided to make an election the setting for the epilogues. In meat, Jane runs for presidency and is then rivaled by Karkat, who decides to take a stand against her „xenophobic“ views. While Karkat says:

It quickly becomes clear, that a lot of what we think about Jane in the meat epilogue is framed on the one hand by ultimate!Dirk’s manipulative narrative that influences the behavior and events, and on the other hand by Dave and Karkat’s political campaign. (Both of whom don’t leave their house very often and have probably not spoken to Jane in a long time.)

We think that Jane is xenophobic because ultimate!Dirk and Karkat tell us she is. Not to say that Jane doesn’t have some problematic views, but she seems to be far from a fascist dictator.

It mostly shows how politics is very much about presenting a certain narrative to your potential voters. And whoever controls the political narrative has a hegemonial perspective on cultural narratives as well. This is an idea that has probably been best presented in the texts of the philosopher Walter Benjamin. In his essay „On the concept of history“ he remarks on the way a ruling class presents history and historical events as a legitimization of their power, and ultimately concludes that historical methodology is also a question of politics and questioning narratives that are presented to us. In 1940, when the essay was written, it was the conflict between fascism and socialism that influenced Benjamin’s work, but today his ideas are just as relevant.

By presenting the election and conflicting narratives (ultimate!Dirk vs. muse!Calliope, Jane vs. Karkat and Dave) side by side, Hussie builds a bridge between those two. It is not only that the text is a metaphor for the current political climate, it is a metaphor for the way that current behavior in general is shaped by controlling narratives. We live in a time when fake news and callout culture are two sides of the same coin: especially in America, these two intersect more and more, in political campaigns and online. Not to say that this kind of discourse isn’t developing in Europe as well, it’s just that the American one seems to be central for the discourse and views that shape sites like tumblr. On Earth C, in the „post canon victory state“, we can see these methods of political strategy developing from the very beginning.

This becomes especially clear as Vriska comments on Hussie’s behavior (as in: Homestuck-character Hussie): „not to mention your flawless defeat of an obstructionist, hectoring, orange man, who for reasons you cannot begin to comprehend seemed to be obsessed with you.“ While the whole world sees itself confronted with the weird views of a megalomaniac orange man (Trump), so does the readership of Homestuck: Hussie and Dirk’s text are both orange and are a constant obstacle for the fans who try to take hold of the narrative, to make their perspective the right one.

Actually, ultimate!Dirk’s perspective is skewed by numerous biases, mostly concerning women and gender issues. Jade is repeatedly called „bitch“ in a derogatory way and Kanayas behavior is framed as being „hysterical“. Roxy’s transition goes straight over his head, he can’t read her intentions because he is blind to gender issues that don’t fit his limited understanding of the concept of gender. He reminds me of a member of the alt-right, shutting women out of conversations and disregarding their opinions. This quote especially:

This sounds like it’s ripped straight from an alt-righter defending his free speech while at the same time trying to shoehorn his dubious political intentions in. In contrast to that, muse!Calliopes way of telling the story seems to be fairly neutral.

So it’s no surprise that the people he tried to shut out before (women and trans people) are realizing that his narrative behavior is trying to manipulate them and they take action. Especially Terezi seems to be immune to his narrative manipulation:

The moment that they break the hold ultimate!Dirk has over the narrative, they are beginning to feel like the old „canon“ characters.

Up to this point, we had to look at genuine character moments through the lens of an unreliable narrator. Homestuck has always been a parody that got unintentionally serious, so I think we have to look at the epilogues the same way: genuine character moments under the layers of parody, commentary on fan behavior and politics.

Ultimate!Dirk ultimately fails to create a cohesive narrative, one that favors only one perspective. This is reflective of the way Homestuck has been written and perceived these last ten years. He has to fail, because the author has lost control and interpretative hegemony over Homestuck canon — no one has it.

That is why it’s so important that the voice of the epilogues is not only Hussie’s voice, but was written in part by Cephied_Variable and ctset. While Hussie was responsible for writing the dialogue, the surrounding prose is entirely in the hands of fans. It’s a decentralized narrative that refuses to acknowledge one perspective, one reception as the right one.

And much like the kids in the juju, we are now stuck in a place outside of canon, after Homestuck ended. And it just happens that everyone is starved for new content: We all wish we had brought something to read. Be it the epilogues or fanfiction, we are all stuck in a place that no longer really affects the narrative:

And look at me, how I desperately try to take hold of the narrative in this long ass meta post. This is what Homestuck means to me and this is my perspective, my narrative.

#homestuck #upd8 #homestuck epilogue #homestuck meta #andrew hussie #long post #sorry this got like reeeeaaaaaally long #but if you want to read my hot takes on politics and authorship be my guest #(please be my guest)

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