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This piece of shit will haunt me until I grow old and die of Alzheimer’s

Prince of Heat Damage

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I like to think that Dave strider is a black man who repeatedly gets confused for a white guy and he doesn’t usually clarify so it only makes things worse

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Fartknockas

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The effort difference is clear, i think I’m a liar!

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Welcome to my princess party.

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Roxypool part two… the UNfinished!

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What they don’t tell you about being a Jake fan is you will lose your mind, body, and soul to that thing with three teeth and dots for eyes.

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Something about Jane Crocker and the myth of black excellence.

My thoughts are still kind of bare bones and disorganized so bear with me here (pun intended) but the condesce being coded as black to a degree and starting Betty Crocker on her own could be something that Jane admires about her and Betty Crocker as a whole. I think it’s pawssible to interpret it as falling into the myth of Black Excellence and/or Black Capitalism and Jane being a believer in it, the idea that black people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and save the community by playing the game of capitalism. Since the condesce is proof to her that it was pawssible, even if it only really helped manifest wealth for Jane and ended up hurting people in the long run.

I DUNNO I JUST THINK ITS AN INTERESTING READ!!! And also a bit of why I purrsonally see her as black.

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TL;DR; this but unironically

Non white homestucks tend to have better readings of homestucks than the opposing party does but you didn’t hear that from me.

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Maybe I’ve been too xitterbrained (because any discussion about race and/or ethnicity related topics and homestuck is godawful on that app) but whenever you talk about race related headcanons it feels more like ethnicities turn into stickers that you sort of just put onto characters and not much more than that (often without people thinking of the strange implications that may come with it.) Sure, you’re allowed to do whatever you want all that time but I would really like it if people put more thought into it!

I think there’s a lot of potentially intriguing headcanons ways to read a characters story putting them in the context of another race. I really enjoy African American John/June primarily because I think it would be neat to explore his story through the reading of him having the Upper Class Black Experience. I really like the Strilondes from the perspective of them being second generation immigrants but also heavily disconnected from their own cultures. Hell, even just headcanoning characters based on their regions is something I enjoy. (I.E; Dave being latino because of him being from Houston, making Jade Carribean due to her being on an island, making Rose Carribean as well due to her being from New York and the state having a lot of immigrants, et cetera, et cetera.)

but Some people don’t have any thoughts on it beyond “Roxy needs to be Black!”, “Making The Striders the Token White Boys Would Be Really Funny!”, or “Hussie Intended For Them To All Be White!” which drives me up a wall. I think that we could explore these characters in ways that don’t just fall into this and nothing else (or the people who are strangely defensive about reading them [especially the Striders] as anything but white.) and it would be awesome if more people did. Everyone get woker now!!!

Non white homestucks tend to have better readings of homestucks than the opposing party does but you didn’t hear that from me.

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Non white homestucks tend to have better readings of homestucks than the opposing party does but you didn’t hear that from me.

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My deaf Jake English meta

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@homestucklineup

jade (by other mod)

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dirk the character

dirk's core motivations come from being inadequate. on one hand it's because he's not enough his friends-- he's too neurotic, he's too emotional, but he loves them to death (as he literally says about roxy) and would give anything for them to enjoy talking to him. on the other hand—and this is what this meta will mostly focus on—he's inadequate compared to his older bro (alpha dave). to dirk, alpha dave cannot be a real person-- he's more akin to a fictional character, a completed NARRATIVE. alpha dave made a space for himself in the world-- he was massively successful, had fans, and orchestrated massive plots to fight the condesce all while carving his own creative niche in the world. most importantly, he was the only source of guidance as to "what to be" dirk had.

by definition dirk cannot access any flaws a!dave might have had, because he didn't-- in a well-written story, any flaw is only part of the "character," and it's not like dirk ever really knew a!dave anyway. i think he adopted this mindset for himself and too began viewing his entire life as a story, in which he's a character and not a person. partially because it literally is— alpha dave prepared this apartment for dirk because dirk was destined for something greater, e.g. sburb, and dirk spent sixteen years waiting for his own story to begin. but there's one critical problem here. dirk cannot be enough compared to alpha dave. alpha dave is an IDEAL dirk constantly measures himself up to and at every turn fails-- suddenly, when he's trying to place himself in the hero role he thinks a!dave had, nothing he does is adequate. even normal human flaws become akin to sin. his interactions with his friends just remind him of that-- he can't live up to roxy's desire, he can't seem to get jake to love him, and this complicates things with jane too. he doesn't think he'll be enough—not for his friends, and not for the story that lays ahead of him.

his solution is to turn to the machine. he creates the autoresponder, thinking that is the most "ideal" version of himself—the character that he's been waiting for—and has it talk to his friends instead. but this doesn't work either. if hal is the perfect version of himself, then what use does dirk have in the world? plus, he's completely fucking insufferable-- does that mean dirk is, even at his best, awful? if hal ISN'T the perfect version of himself, that means that dirk's best solution-- the one he's been trying at since he realized this flaw--the machine fails.

dirk spends the rest of sburb, at least i like to think, unlearning some of these ideas. he meets dave in person. he has long conversations with his friends (also in person!) who he . he spends time deconstructing himself as a character and as a person instead.

which brings the real point of this essay: ultimate dirk.

postcanon dirk, who did ALL THAT, learns that actually he was CORRECT— there's been an audience watching him and all his failures this entire time—he IS a character, and so far he's been almost utterly meaningless. he doesn't fight the condesce. he gets decapitated thrice. he fails to save the game over timeline. the one thing he tangibly does, unite synchronization, is barely done by him (arguably hal). this realization undoes every piece of character growth that may or may not have happened. and now his timeline is thrust into irrelevance, precisely because this audience no longer cares about postcanon. so he takes up the role he thinks he was always meant to—he becomes a character. and because he's failed his entire life in becoming the hero, he opts to become a villain—the way he knows that beta dirk, his "previous" version, was to dave—and puts dave in the hero position alpha dave was in before.

dirk is the worst version of himself when he, instead of actually TALKING to the people he's around, holes up into himself and interprets everything through his own narrative. this habit which he had to unlearn is both literally and meta-textually the fucking epilogues. which is also a creative work that he's trying to carve his own space in the world through. the epilogues are dirk's sbahj. dave's story is about leaving beta dirk's shadow, and dirk's story is about imitating alpha dave—still his only point of reference—still dirk's most coveted narrative. this is where his obsession with narrative and relevancy comes from and this is what fundamentally makes ult dirk compelling as a character to me!! anyway how are we doing

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Baby’s first dirkjake yaoi