It's a silly argument but it exists nonetheless. What was the point of Homestuck? Following the incident, What Pumpkin, Hussies former Homestuck production company (which he has since left), threatened to sue Sarah Z. Homestuck is honestly a sprawling epic I mean, kind of. So here's the deal: I've got a podcast that generally covers internet oddities. In case it matters, I live in Europe and I have seen like 6 or 7 black people in my entire life. In this passage, the narrator (or author, Andrew Hussie) describes Tavross experiences in the game. Maybe the epilogues are in part supposed to make us feel what its like to have to balance plot-driven meat with fluffy, character-driven candy and, even after years of practice, to still feel like youve come up short. EDIT: Let me clarify here. Cool post though :). As underage drinking is a touchy subject for myself personally im not very inclined to go through the route in detail but, underage drinking. Not in the game, so I don't care. We apologize for this The lesson here is that an abuse victim needed to learn to take life into their own hands sooner. Personally, whatever his previous works may have been, I think he's done a wonderful job creating a wide variety of strong female characters. Reading Homestuck is no easy feat, and will take a large amount of time. hating her or not hating her and liking her as a character and oh my god can we please stop talking about Vriska). Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! Troll society is vastly different from human society. Homestuck is also filled with blind jokes. Okay, so the plot hole is also a cue ball and the whole story is pool and chess and I think blackjack. I still maintain that any album with a song entitled Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitlers Water Apocalypse is a good album by default on principle now and forever. Its completely immune from in-story time logic, existing in exactly one place for all of time. Defending? The largest, most active Homestuck community. The epilogues were poorly received among some fans for a variety of reasons. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. In the first chapter of Psycholonials, Zhen, the novels main character, shoots and kills a cop. Or is Nepeta actually autistic? According to multiple reports, many users of DISH network services are facing issues during the authentication or login process to the companys platform. Elwurd falls into the predatory lesbian stereotype. And then his dead sister, Calliope, from another timeline where she becomes super strong, shows up to try and stop him. 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. This Mo Black guy seems to know what hes talking about, you think. And then theres Cronus, a 19 year old, hitting on his dead descendant who is also 13. I will just go ahead and read through the Google Docs about Hussie being terrible and comment every time I have something to say. DISH network users facing authentication or login issues. They post in the most inappropriate moments, for example, a tragedy happened, and all of a sudden a K-Pop post pops up in the replies not once but many, many times. 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.. Obviously, this sort of mockery is considered ableist. As Zhens, who also goes by Z, crusade grows, she continues to grapple with the responsibility that comes with inspiring such a snowballing movement. Ardata literally has a red room esque set up, where she tortures trolls that she has caged in her hive. While its about revolution, its told in a refreshingly modern and relevant way. Webwho were victoria winters parents. Oh, and all troll sex is incest by human standards. 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. Even considering the medium of the text itself, its a remarkably online object. Point 1.5: Many of the arguments presented in the document hinge on the idea that inclusion means approval (see Point 1). On a scarier note, fans have even gone as far as to find Hussies brothers social media accounts, according to those who posted it. In my case, that thing I tried to copy when I started out was Homestuck. Y'know, Homestuck at its core is a comic about being extremely Online [laughs] in a way that I think a lot of things in both the webcomic and the traditional comics base before and even since haven't touched as well. There are some aspects of Homestuck that deserve a deeper analysis and deconstruction than I can give here. I just had no idea until you told me just now. Could things have been done differently for better effect? All that being said, and the despite the two months its been since the epilogues first came out, I dont think I have an opinion on them that can be reduced to I liked them or I hated them. (Talking about sniffing Marvus) So, we are kinkshaming now? I don't see it. To him, a reluctant cult leader will withdraw from the spotlight and rarely address their followers. When users affected by the problem try to access the DISH network system, all they get is a System is currently In real life, if they have the option to choose their rate of fire, professionals like to stick to single-fire mode. The back half of the comic focuses on (in the most charitable definition of the word focus) the fight to stop Lord English. I had no idea what Tab was, for example. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. And the world ends. 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 1,362,830. WebHomestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. You have a staunch policy of trusting pretentious assholes on the Internet. Ending: I love Homestuck. Streamers have to become increasingly savvy about the need to defend personal boundaries without provoking the ire of fans. Yes, Vriska did that. This applies to the treatment of Mituna, who due to the overexertion of his psychic powers received brain damage that altered his personality. Damara speaks in broken english, and her japanese is straight from google translate. And then the four original kids make their game unplayable so they reset their entire universe so they can have a chance at winning. that's all i'm saying. Troll Jewish would have been a great addition! Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. Hussie suggests the personal allegorical elements in Psycholonials are more like points of inspiration. This story is about Z after all, not himself. Maybe that Naruto fan now makes kick-ass, empowering, shonen-like stories. He would commandeer a handful of characters, and I do the same. By the time I was up to date with Homestuck, it was a fair ways in and even then I didn't really participate in the fandom so no event is too big or too obvious to mention. I dont know. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. So, you are saying I can't write about people who are not me? So, Hussie himself condradicted well, himself. Not formally, and nowhere near as dangerous as more conventional cults can be, but close enough to draw meaningful comparisons. I think a lot of new authors start out by aping works they admire. A disruption in narrative events. While the "fat!Vriska" joke is still prevelant in the fandom, Vriska tends to be portrayed as fairly skinny in the fanart, and it's Ferferi who's often drawn as fairly chubby (as is Jane, but she's a bit less controversial). Habitat for Humanity calls this sweat equity, which is a required part of the program participants must gain hundreds of hours of volunteer work by helping build homes. This one seems more like a short story than opinion dressed up like hard-hitting analysis, but maybe it will make for a welcome change of pace. According to multiple reports, many users of DISH network services are facing issues during the authentication or login process to the companys platform. I like my complaints like I like my inception, always going one level deeper. We did investigate it. 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. what better profession is there in this world? ), heres an approximation of just how insane that is: new writers are advised that the first book the try to publish should be around 6070 thousand words. Its digitally illustrated and lets you click through like you would in a narrative game. There are pages that break the style of the website, pages that change the CSS are common, and there are pages that change their formatting to fit different content. To start, the music created in the making of, and parallel to Homestuck is simply incredible. When I did that I had a problem with the paginate laravel 8 UI getting messy and somehow it happened. to clarify my stance im a big homestuck fan im a big fan of toby foxs work im criticizing people who think homestuck is "too problematic" but think toby is "good and clean and safe" hes just as fucked up as the rest of us /pos. Hussies apprehension of fandom and the wild projections that come with presiding over one seem appropriate given how public comments on his work ignite controversy within the fandom. (As he puts it, its about the things its about.) The story presents a modern path to revolution in which the catalyst for the overthrow of an imperialist system is not the military strongmen of old, but a young woman with social media savvy. It seems to be about storytelling, social justice, and some character from a fairly popular piece of Japanese animation you may or may not have heard of? What do you think? Characters can use special super-moves called Fraymotifs, a portmanteau of the words fray and leitmotif. Homestuck is two or three biggish novels' worth of illustrated text, Rather than experiencing outright suffering due to ableism, as Tavros does, the depiction of Terezis character is ableist without being as blatantly so. Hussie initially spoke to Polygon before the Sarah Z video, but agreed to follow up conversations after its release. This caused such a huge blowup in the fandom that Hussie eventually changed the line to "I feel so peachy". Like I oughta. 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. Perhaps the epilogues are an attempt to have the reader live a moment in the life of Andrew Hussie. But the comic you included in the docs is dumb and makes no sense to me. In some ways this was prompted Hussie took fan input while writing the original story and incorporated it into the final product. The "r-slur" being used is true. All of them are real. Small business owner, political organizer, and professional writer based in the Puget Sound area. (But please, don't jsut say that "it's morally wrong" and then not explain how. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. She rapes Jake and then marries him because they had sex. She spends extra time on characters feelings and their conversations with each other, much to the annoyance of Dirk. The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything and are entirely legit. But then again, being straight is also like a fetish to trolls. But how much is that purpose worth? "The Help" became the most-watched movie on Netflix over the past week, according to their US trend bar. And thats always something worth giving credit for, in my book. If it is morally wrong, I want explanations.). In the spirit of using the Internet as a medium, the epilogues were released in the style of an AO3 post. Sure, I guess. But there are uncomfortable aspects to it. The character doesn't exist though, the author made them say it. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. So its not that Im saying fandom is all bad, instead Id just say that the appearance of anything positive about fandom should be treated with suspicion, and as if it could become destructive at any moment for any reason. 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. The only challenge to his control over the story is presented by Calliope, the dead, all-powerful sister to Lord English I mentioned earlier. and this is the code I use "Index.blade.php" They're not human. Hussie saying that Kanaya's lesbianism is considered a fetish in troll society isn't Hussie saying that he considers lesbianism a fetish. Yes it is. Oops. This is silly on a few levels. On the damn writing team. WebHomestuck has never shied away from cartoonish gore and bloodshed before, but ironically, what the epilogues lack in pictures they make up for in graphic content. Anarchist. The game never mentions it. The impressive thing is, these couldve easily just been throw-away, cheap, forced, gags. I don't think writing off Hussie as a person for his work is at all fair. Take later. Energy transfers to keep her alive are sexual now, I guess You get assaulted by a lot of trolls. Every bit of it is there in order to prepare the troll kids for the game. Homestuck itself. And then theres this whole other universe filled with aliens, Trolls, who already played it. It is problematic in that it presents characters with unlikeable traits in a positive light, problematic in the way it jokes about very serious subjects like abuse and murder, problematic in that it includes discriminatory language throughout the text, problematic in that oodles of teased ships are 'creepy' due to the age and/or percieved age and/or other factors Problematic like The Iliad, like Hannibal, like The Wire, like, The Shining, Lolita, Dracula, and so many other pieces of classic media.
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