The Meat author, portrayed here by Dirk, is hyper-focused on moving the plot forward. The language used might seem lamentable to a young person today, but much of Homestuck is a product of its time. No, I am pretty sure that's because there's a sex "scene" that they didn't want children to see. She takes her time, narrating with a kind of dry, verbose voice. They treat the characters of Friendsim and of Homestuck as though theyre all actual adults and write them like that, and just ignore the fact that theyre all like, 13-14 (and BARELY older if they are save for Chahut). They dont have a concept of incest and I wouldnt be surprised if they werent bothered by age Gaps either with how impersonal their mating is. What was the point of Homestuck? And in this one Mituna himself just kind of sexually harrasses Meenah. 1. With the end of Adobe Flash on the horizon, hours of Flash content, much of it interactive, is going to have to be scrapped and remade. As such, sometimes fanon theories are presented with direct alternatives to prompt the reader to think about the worth of their own opinion versus someone else's, as well as present logical, but opposing, perspectives. And then, on Earth, sometime in the far future, these immortal snake alien things give birth to another alien who will eventually become the Lord English and he plays the game too. Maybe you watched a lot of Naruto, so your big project is filled to the brim with edgy ninjas and impractically sized swords. Ill get upset of my own accord. If it is morally wrong, I want explanations.). I didn't pick up on things like that when I first read Homestuck because I'm from England and didn't watch American 'real life' shows, ie, media set in our world or a variation of it, or listen to genres like rap, hip-hop, etc. Dirk is Homestucks ultimate villain. Toward the end of the story, Z and her best friend are forced to figure out what to do with the empire that theyve built that has become difficult to control a reality that Hussie himself is familiar with as a de facto leader of a fandom. Please/You're welcome: (para-kah-LOE) In Greek, the word for "please" and "you're welcome" is the same, making it all the more easy to learn. WebHomestuck is bad because the fandom makes it seem like Vriska genuanly got punishment for all the awful things she did by getting punched twice and feeling bad when in actuality she deserved to get killed off and never spoken about again. The fact that Homestuck isn't an anime makes them unpopular at anime conventions, despite things like video game and doctor who costumes being accepted in part because of their large numbers. Any art of a character on a body pillow has a 90% chance of it being sexual. Fanfiction that places Dirk and Kanaya in heterosexual pairings. I'm on the same boat here. Jake even blames himselflaterintheconversation, and John lets that slide. Homestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. Why pick them out? The character doesn't exist though, the author made them say it. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Damara speaks in broken english, and her japanese is straight from google translate. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. And then they have a kid who she abuses. Thewhirlwindofanarticledropsyou on a plush cushion of narrative airexactlywhereyoustarted,butolder,wiser,andaround whole20 minutesshorterontime. To him, a reluctant cult leader will withdraw from the spotlight and rarely address their followers. Its tempting the ask which one is canon and which one isnt: but thinking the answer through makes you realize thats not much of a question at all. And yes, they were still in a black romance together) until like Act 6 when John starts feeling black feelings towards Terezi and suddenly it's much more wholesome than literally any other example we'd seen until then. Point 4: Explanation and justification are not the same. Lynera is literally stalking Bronya, trying to control her relationships, and threatening those who get inbetween. Its not that I think people should, its that everyone already knows they should, he said. In some ways this was prompted Hussie took fan input while writing the original story and incorporated it into the final product. Im all for fair criticism, but this aint it. Why dont people who make posts like the original maker of that dig through their own garbage and get on their own case for the stupid stuff they did in the past? Its a contemporary text that carries the history of Hussies work and online life for better and for worse. Theres a bias inherent in that fact alone. The language is deeply rooted in the now, and leans into the internet vernacular with words like simp, e-girls, reply guys, and cringe. At one point, one of the protagonists moves from being a fan, to dating a member of the popular K-pop group BTS (which also happens to be one of the biggest, most influential fandoms of the moment). Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. It makes the story feel cyclical in a good way. Ive yet to hear from Jane fans who had to watch the character Ben Shapiro her way into supporting actual genocide of an entire race of sentient beings. After that page was posted, people (mostly from Tumblr) started a bit of an uproar, so Hussie retconned that page to say "PEACHY" rather than Caucasian. The music from this one little animation tells the story just as much as anything on screen does. Remember how Lanque is trans? WebRead MS Paint Adventures. true wait, what? Yes. Every single one of those tags appears somewhere in the story, including but not limited to: unhealthy relationships, graphic depictions of violence, transphobia, rape, major character death, and (may God help us all) eggs. Stelsa should only be written by someone Jewish. She, like Dirk, and like all authors, decides what is relevant and what isnt. You can't tell just from what karkat said. This translates into the way Meenahs character is written, being the younger version of HIC shes shown to be the sassy black girl stereotype. Question: Hey hiveswap team and @skullmandible, confirm Lanque as a trans boy yes/no? I remember having an unsettled feeling in the early days of the pandemic, Hussie told Polygon over email, seeing that probably hundreds of thousands of people were about to die due to a willful mishandling of the crisis, and the population appeared very listless, as if it was about to sit back and let that happen without putting up much of a fight., Hussie decided that the comatose feeling America was giving him would make a good foil for a much more outlandish, escapist sort of revolutionary scenario that examined what such a revolt might look like in this era.. N/A. In the first chapter of Psycholonials, Zhen, the novels main character, shoots and kills a cop. Yo! DISH network users facing authentication or login issues. The end credits and post-end credits content were released in the style of Snapchat posts. Accusations of certain characters beings Mary Sues. Mainstream content producers can afford to turn a blind eye to smaller copyright infringements (though they can and do take steps to stop them when they are made aware of them!) Hussie initially spoke to Polygon before the Sarah Z video, but agreed to follow up conversations after its release. Perhaps the epilogues are an attempt to have the reader live a moment in the life of Andrew Hussie. A subreddit for Homestuck and the works of Andrew Hussie. WebDreamWorks. but the stance that critical enjoyment is impossible because of those aspects that don't look good today is pretty flawed. I just had no idea until you told me just now. But I want it to be more than an audio FAQ, I want it to be a bit of pseudo-documentary on the fandom as well. N/A. No Disney-style moral to repeat to your children. I do. Okay, so the plot hole is also a cue ball and the whole story is pool and chess and I think blackjack. Cohen fucked up when making that "announcement". Moreover, it occurs over and over again, too. Dirk, though, happens not to subscribe to Uncle Bens mantras about power and responsibility. And thats always something worth giving credit for, in my book. You must have a lot of time on your hands to look into all that, don't you? A particularly long entry in a book series can get up to 200 thousand words. Homestuck is honestly a sprawling epic I mean, kind of. Please explain. But how much is that purpose worth? Dividend Yield. Characters can use special super-moves called Fraymotifs, a portmanteau of the words fray and leitmotif. The Homestuck Discord exists at https://discord.gg/homestuck if you want to chat with fellow fans. Heck, people are still debating troll genitalia). And then theres this game in the mail. Cyberduds. Oops replied to the wrong thing. The Bold Glamour filter acts as a reminder not to do the same when it comes to our faces. This is silly on a few levels. A confirmation hes referring to Kanayas lesbian identity as the fetish he remarked from above. He is best known as the creator of Homestuck, a multimedia webcomic presented in the style of a text-based graphical adventure game, as well as other works in a similar style that were hosted on According to the definitions posted above, ableism occurs when society considers the non-disabled as the standard for living, and the disabled are marginalizedand Tavros is constantly marginalized as an other throughout his presence in Homestuck. I feel like you had "better" things to say than I did. It's pretty long. Jake sees Jane and asks her if she is alright, and Jane responds by saying: "I FEEL SO CAUCASIAN". A member of fandom may have a good attitude for a while, but since their involvement is predicated on obsession or very strongly held feelings, that positive attitude can turn on a dime, and it can take very little to trigger extreme negativity. This can feel like mockery to some, and to some degree, it is but there is usually a point behind doing so. And she decides what gets put in front of our eyes and what doesnt. But each one is again key to understanding the story being told, fully integrated into comic. To beat the game, they have to interact with the game worlds characters, and with a disgruntled group of internet trolls. Perhaps youll click the first. Even considering the medium of the text itself, its a remarkably online object. Still, Hussie doesnt think every aspect of fandom is completely horrible. Some forms like writing fanfiction or creating fan art are a positive, fun activity. The result is probably one of the coolest pages in the whole comic, and one of the coolest things Ive seen done in fiction changing nothing but the size and color of the text. Rather than being a swapped preference, it is a more exacting preference. Like the story isnt coy about it. Usually it's individuals but I really want to spread the subject matter to be broader, and Homestuck is what we're doing the next episode on. I don't think writing off Hussie as a person for his work is at all fair. I tend prefer Jade when she has as at least milligram of agency, but, again, sorry I liked her in the first place, I guess. Yeah, we all have seen that one before. That having been said Alternia, at least to me, was supposed to be some kind of dark joke about society; I mean their Jesus upon the moment of his crucifixion started cursing everyone out because they're just so shitty. I thought we were more on the page of "Hussie is terrible because of recent incidents like the released emails between the moderation team and him", Man like almost every single criticism this person presents can be explained away with one of 3 responses.