Point 2: Homestuck is INTENTIONALLY challenging. I don't agree with the original doc, but yes, OP wrote a terribly annoying post. Like the story isnt coy about it. It wasn't even that funny! Dont try to make me part of some angry mob. Question: Hey hiveswap team and @skullmandible, confirm Lanque as a trans boy yes/no? Hussies Psycholonials, a visual novel released in the spring of 2021, follows Zhen and Abby two girls who must figure out what to do with a mess of a revolution and empire that they themselves prompted. Time to be controversial here. At times it is as if the text is saying that since Tavros is not normal because of his disability, he is not normal to society in general, as well. And then the four kids and their parents, Jane, Roxy, Dirk, and Jake, swap places, so the new kids are their parents and the parents are their kids, but the original four leave before theyre erased from existence and meet up with the original players from that other universe. Id post a sample here if reading my old work didnt literally set me on fire. A weekly roundup of the best things from Polygon, By submitting your email, you agree to our, Andrew Hussie, the reluctant cult leader, on life after Homestuck, Sign up for the Given troll reproduction, it seems to some people as though the only reason they're given them in the comic is to sexualize them for a human audience. Brown, who has worked with survivors of sexual assault as a therapist and social worker, believes that the movie glorifies " predatory behavior." In fact, its this difference in writing style, more than any in-story actions, that drive the main thrust of the rivalry between these two. If you have an argument other than deformed kids (which I just said they shouldn't have), go ahead and try to change my mind. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. How can any story even get written then? Im not sure how much there is thats truly positive about those things, but there is plenty which is negative. The fact that Jewish people are often depicted as having horns as a negative stereotype is a fact i didnt know until this lovely anon brought it to my attention, so that adds onto the antisemitism presented by hiveswap/friendsim! And then they have a kid who she abuses. Its completely immune from in-story time logic, existing in exactly one place for all of time. 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. I have no official connection with the work. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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. And she decides what gets put in front of our eyes and what doesnt. Sometimes it is presented as pretty damn funny, but it's blacker-than-spades humour. Dividend Yield. I just had no idea until you told me just now. Leitmotifs will appear again and again in comic in recurring scenarios, creating something more than a callback, but less than full force beat-you-over-the-head-with-it thematic synergy. 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. The largest, most active Homestuck community. While weve seen characters manipulate time before, Lord Englishs control over all of time in all of its forms is so absolute, his presence in the narrative is already guaranteed. Theres a bias inherent in that fact alone. Also this sexual line of chixies (just grab my bulge and deepthroat it). Im not sure if fondly is the word Id use here, but I can regard it. But I strongly recommend it! Buckets, apparently someone threw one at a Karkat at a convention. Please explain. This event kickstarts her own story and accelerates the development of her own personal politics. 1.4K Takers Personality Quiz. ._1W1pLIfaIb8rYU6YeTdAk6{margin-right:6px}._1H6Meh6ZAemKxOJDOEasfK{border-radius:50%;box-sizing:border-box;height:20px;margin-left:-8px;width:20px}._1H6Meh6ZAemKxOJDOEasfK:first-child{margin-left:0}._30vlMmCcnqKnXP1t-fzm0e{display:inline-block;margin-left:-8px;position:relative} I'd never had a Fruit Gusher. I understand the logic of HIC's quirk and presentation, but I DO think there is value in talking about the harmful stereotypes which she is made from. As Zhens, who also goes by Z, crusade grows, she continues to grapple with the responsibility that comes with inspiring such a snowballing movement. The proposal, which was passed 6 to 1 by the St. Paul City council, will have to be approved by the state legislature. Then again, depending on the atmosphere of any given moment in fandom, there may be at least as many simps projecting absurd deification fantasises on the leader.. (EVRYTHING IS CANON. Ill get upset of my own accord. As long as he is in a certain proximity of the storys events, he not only becomes the narrator (literally already been done), but the author himself, capable of willing events into the story simply by narrating them to himself. Gross Margin. Andrew Hussie! Hell, a lot of the stuff they accuse the story of, the story itself pokes fun at (such as all the accusations of pedophillia, something that Doc Scratch was openly considered creepy for in-universe) This really just feels like someone who was trying really hard to find bad things to say about the series. Meanwhile Roxy, who is heavily implied to be straight is often paired with Jane and Callie. Here appears another symptom of ableismthat of the view that persons with disabilities need to be fixed in order to fit in with normal society. Maybe the Twilight fan found a way to elevate the themes and feel of YA urban fantasy to an older audience. The story feels like a retelling of the hell-year that was 2020, but Hussie started drafting the story back when everyone was just starting to be stuck inside for the first time. That'd apply if the author was using it in dialogue for a particular reason, to say something specific about the characters, and not just because it was in the author's own regular vocabulary. But maybe that's just my take. WebA tale about a boy and his friends and a game they play together. Very much like a guy with a fat fetish isn't too likely to reject a thin girl by saying "Sorry, I am just this HUGE chubby chaser, so I must decline Not that any of this changes how we view Kanaya. At its peak, the comic entertained roughly 600,000 readers a day, and inspired one of the most robust cult followings of a generation fans filled convention floors with cosplays of the characters and filled online forums and websites like Tumblr full of fan art. Thats no way to handle an issue like this. true wait, what? While many people inside the Homestuck fandom thought this was an excellent and humorous reward (especially considering they got all the other rewards below it as well) people outside of the comic fandom didn't get the joke and thought it was an example of Hussie being and egomanical jerk. For the Beta Kids, it's Jade, for the Trolls it's Vriska, and for the Alpha kids it's Dirk. As it goes in the story, she was drunk driving, and after the cop gets physical with her, she grabs the gun from his holster and shoots. WebMarch 3, 2023. He forces Jake to admit he loves him just to get the satisfaction of embarrassing him and destroying his heart, and he consistently and purposefully misgenders Roxy. Web1,362,830. Is this. 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. Something went wrong. 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. The Candy author on the other hand, represented by Calliope, cares little for if whats happening on screen is important or not. Sure, their bodies didn't change, but don't you dare say ghosts don't mature mentally. Also, Hussie's author commentary say that it is "probable" for her to be autistic. I don't really care and didn't know about this before I skimmed this but you seriously didn't notice Meenah and HIC talked stereotypically black? And then theres Cronus, a 19 year old, hitting on his dead descendant who is also 13. Homestuck is two or three biggish novels' worth of illustrated text, It loosely correlates with my past experience of presiding over a big fandom and watching it spin out of control, using much more fantastical elements like revolution and global conquest as the backdrop. In a personal sense, this story is an odd fusion of two allegories. Energy transfers to keep her alive are sexual now, I guess You get assaulted by a lot of trolls. About number 12, according to ARquiussprite, they are there for some reason. Article continues below advertisement. There is no denying that. The 10,000 dollar donors for Hussie's kickstarter. I wouldnt be the snarky, nitpicking college kid with a blog if I didnt start that snarky nitpicking on Reddit and among fans complaining about, say, how retconning [S] Game Over totally ruined the emotional impact of the story up until that point. WebWell, another problem: Homestuck isnt really hypertext fiction. The epilogues were poorly received among some fans for a variety of reasons. Id Id tell you more about them, but the comic doesnt at all bother to develop this cool idea in the slightest. 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. Hussie suggests the personal allegorical elements in Psycholonials are more like points of inspiration. This story is about Z after all, not himself. 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. Im a shipper at heart I mean I like reading well-developed relationships. March 3, 2023. Asaresult, the narrative remains incomplete and unstable, and the relevance of key events is questioned all together. OK, but how is that racist? Not good porn, but porn it is. So what fills that vacuum is rampant speculation. The alive version of this character is cute, but mostly useless. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but that wasn't enough to save it because in today's high-rate So here's the deal: I've got a podcast that generally covers internet oddities. Is it a bad joke? 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. While he declined to be quoted directly, he feels that the video missed important contextualization that he had intended to provide to the YouTuber in a conversation. I expected good arguments and I see the same one used 3 times in a row. I don't think people give the tumblr community enough credit for how much creative content it produces, but they are right that the SJW side can get a little over the top. 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. The single most respectful moment in Terezis portrayal is when she has the opportunity to have her blindness cured. Can't say I ever noticed. Media analysis, fiction, and the art of writing the perfect story. In this passage, the narrator (or author, Andrew Hussie) describes Tavross experiences in the game. https://www.homestuck.com/story/5571 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5701 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5732. A particularly long entry in a book series can get up to 200 thousand words. 1,362,830. Turns out you cant just kill your entire cast and replace them with slightly different versions of the same characters we havent really had the chance to know. However, even then, Hussie thinks, a distance from the leader could possibly lead to an even more insatiable fandom. The paradoxes are explained via a Universe space that allows them to be such. The self-ingratiating, self-referential, over-indulgent drivel that poured onto the page? We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. Welcome to Alternia. Anyone who presides over something popular is forced to play the role of an informal cult leader, which is what it felt like throughout most of Homestucks run, and even well beyond. He said, Some online personalities will revel in that role, and actually start behaving like a true cult leader. Point 3: Homestuck is not delicate or child friendly. This has of course produced some backlash within the community. What Pumpkin, unlike Hasbro, is not a media giant with multiple branches and properties under its wings; it's a (very) small business with a very direct relationship between items sold and revenue made. I don't see it. It's a violent as hell culture created for a single purpose: victory. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. But if you want me to be more upfront about casual forth wall disintegration than I already have, I can humor you. The fact that Andrew Hussies Homestuck is terrible is an immutable fact I am stating for the record. The Bold Glamour filter acts as a reminder not to do the same when it comes to our faces. It is a subversive work of fiction that plays with the concept of creation on multiple levels. Fuck you. Its not that I think people should, its that everyone already knows they should, he said. It does not mean animosity is what is taking place here. Even worse, Hussie confirming dersecest to be a canon ship in a doomed timeline in the most recent homestuck book, which is better explained in this post. Sure, each panel is a webpage connected by links, but almost every panel only has one link, and thats to the next panel. And finally heres the part that really seals the deal. Jade was one of my favorite characters. 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. Hi. 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). When I read that, I remember scoffing. Dirk, though, happens not to subscribe to Uncle Bens mantras about power and responsibility. Kismessitudes really were just abusive relationships (we never saw a healthy example, the "dead ringer" of a black romance, Spades Slick and the troll's Black Queen, has BQ stab Slick in the eye and cut off his hand and Slick later shooters her. DISH network users facing authentication or login issues. The content vacuum created by a cryptid leader results in overwhelming conditions of parasociality, and the projections of personality, morality, and biographical data onto the blank-slate leader can get ludicrous, and often pretty spiteful. Wait, not having a shirt on is sexual now? No idea who that is, I covered incest above and I am 24, so what's your point? Don't say we didn't warn you. The interesting thing about that controversy is that for awhile on tumblr there were more people complaining about people complaining about the Caucasian thing than there were actual people complaining about the Caucasian thing. Or is Nepeta actually autistic? So the patient reader will forgive me for not putting more effort into recapping the story. People dissect drama around his work and become amateur reporters on matters internal to his company. Firstly, there is no total concensus within the text or with the characters. And in this one Mituna himself just kind of sexually harrasses Meenah. This is basically what I did, and these two ideas mix together in the narrative., Prior to releasing this story, Hussie struggled to pinpoint what his brand was as the creator of Homestuck. N/A. The player is driven to suicide due to a callout post from cirava after they accuse the player of copying them, Theres a legit slave owner character that the fandom insists on defending no matter what. On the other hand, Terezi Pyropethe second character with a disability in Homestuckis blind. Apparently some things Hussie produced in the past were fairly misogynistic/racist, and there's some debate over what Hussie's current opinions are. I welcome it. WebIts likely that managers who say, bring me solutions, not problems dodge complaints and criticism to avoid time-consuming conflicts and tiresome tension. After all (Vriska)'s whole personality changed. Post-Scratch Troll society is not presented as good. At the end of Candy, Calliope declares that Dirk must be stopped because unlike her, he introduces bias to the narrative. WebHomestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. 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 Reminder to message me @colorfulconstellations if you would like to apply to be a mod! In Meat, the story blasts through at a lightning pace, but the characters we love get thrown into the background as the story concerns itself more and more with Dirk and Calliope. But the comic you included in the docs is dumb and makes no sense to me. In a video published in April 2021, Canadian YouTuber Sarah Z delved into the history of Homestuck and Hiveswap, with a focus on the turbulent development cycle of Hiveswap. Hes not. Oh don't worry, I always planned to cover PEACHY. Half of his comments are "N-NO, YOU?" Shraddha Walkar, Nikki Yadav: Why the coverage of crimes against women is problematic; Shraddha Walkar, Nikki Yadav: Why the coverage of crimes against women is problematic When such murders are headlined with the term live-in, the choice of the victim to cohabitate with a partner takes precedence over the criminal act of the offender How the hell do people extrapolate that?