Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! I think one of the most impressive things about the webcomics music is how much of it there is (a lot of much there is, thats how much). Why pick them out? 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. Secondly, much of what the document draws attention to are things criticised within the text. Fanfiction that places Dirk and Kanaya in heterosexual pairings. 36.87%. But, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. Dont try to make me part of some angry mob. The [Online Poisoned] often even joke with self awareness about their bad internet habits, but [they] just keep doing it, Hussie said. No idea who that is, I covered incest above and I am 24, so what's your point? How can any story even get written then? Im going to pretend that sentence made sense, youre going to pretend I didnt just gloss over a ton of story development right there, and were all just going to move on. In Candy, everyone gets redemption arcs, and were told everyone lives happily ever after, but its the more brutal of the two options. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. 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. No one needs me to tell anyone this, but stories can always serve as reminders.. The music from this one little animation tells the story just as much as anything on screen does. Here's a post discussing it. The figure of revolution in the eyes of Hussies story is in fact, an influencer. ALL trolls have horns. 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 that's all i'm saying. Haha, the gif is actually still on the server at: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/scraps/CAUCASIAN.gif. 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. 2. But Hussie was ready for something new, and in his words, anti-cult.. Oops. And I have nothing. Never read that, so I can't judge it. WebHomestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. All tags have a real use in the text. WebPhillip Faraone/Getty Images. In her article, How Twitter can ruin a life Emily VanDerWerff tells the story of an anonymous writer turned enemy of the internet, and how just a pseudonym and a birth year gave people on Twitter enough fuel to bully the author out of writing. Obviously, this sort of mockery is considered ableist. Why didn't you mention that one? Is there anyone who can help me? 36.87%. The flaws of each epilogue reflect the flaws in Meat and Candy as narrative frames of mind. that is my mission, and that is why you can't fucking stand me. Jake sees Jane and asks her if she is alright, and Jane responds by saying: "I FEEL SO CAUCASIAN". As the community got larger, and Hussie wanted more control of the story, this eventually petered out, which did distance some of the older problem sleuth fans. WebThe plot of Homestuck is infamously convoluted but boils down to: four kids who know each other online play a video game together, inadvertently causing the apocalypse. An exciting plot is all fine and good, but no one is buying into that if your characters are nothing but paper puppets, acting in any way that moves the plot forward. WebWhy Homestucks Disaster of an Epilogue was so Bad 9,982 views Jul 7, 2019 330 Dislike Share Skooter 58 subscribers Omg I started this April this took me like 3 and a half months sksksskks. And then there is the matter of Tavross robolegs, which are built for him after the trolls time in their game session. A quick search on Reddit reveals dozens of threads discussing questions like What happened to andrew hussie? and other posts tracking the creators activity on social media platforms like Tumblr. true wait, what? Like the story isnt coy about it. Also, Hussie's author commentary say that it is "probable" for her to be autistic. Originally the Black Queen of the trolls' incipisphere, after exile to Alternia and took the title of Banished Quasiroyal. The character doesn't exist though, the author made them say it. Not good porn, but porn it is. Set aside time just as you would for reading every novel, but be prepared to set aside much more of it. The outfits Jade is wearing is her outfit she wore when she was 13, implying her age in the art. cough Cronus cough. Heck, people are still debating troll genitalia). The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything and are entirely legit. N/A. If Im Hussie, I use the epilogues to tie up lose ends and put the story to rest, not start this whole other tangent about what canon really means and how all your favorite characters are actually awful people. God I cant stand moral guardians like that. Are you sure you aren't the one doing stereotypes here? When I was a kid, my brother and I would play a game Ive come to call And Then. EDIT: I feel as though I should note that aside from controversies 11 and 7, I've attempted to portray these controversies as neutrally as possible (and my only opinion on 7 is that I think the female characters in Homestuck are very well written). Its a contemporary text that carries the history of Hussies work and online life for better and for worse. Below, Karkat (in the gray text) mocks Tavros (in the brown text). I don't see it. WebVrisrezi is the femslash ship between Terezi Pyrope and Vriska Serket from the Homestuck fandom. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. The character's sue like traits and abilities get them through non important bits, but fail them when they need them most. All throughout friendsim, theyve been joking about being too problematic for the kicks, trying to make light of their own faults. The epilogues were poorly received among some fans for a variety of reasons. Hussie built a career by spinning dramatic and bumbling tales of the onslaughts of online life. Sure, their bodies didn't change, but don't you dare say ghosts don't mature mentally. But each one is again key to understanding the story being told, fully integrated into comic. Still, he said that the text works as a thematic followup to his entire experience with building a fandom. But understanding that Psycholonials is chiefly an anti-cult narrative should help point to how I view the Homestuck phenomenon. Agreed. 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. Taken from this page , here is a brief overview of ableism, how it impacts persons with disabilities, and its negative role in society. 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. Its not that I think people should, its that everyone already knows they should, he said. People generally overlook when boys are sexualized, (examples, all the shirtless art of the boys of BNHA, the entire Free series, etc.). We were weirdly concerned with fundamental narrative principles at the time, more so than little kids had any right to be. It also has an unprecidented degree of fan interaction laced throughout the comic, with readers being invited in through suggesting actions, names, and other content; producing art and music; and headcanons later 'canonised' or 'debunked'. I honestly don't feel qualified to say. He forces Rose to consent to being kidnapped, then makes her wife, Kanaya, blame herself for it all. WebA tale about a boy and his friends and a game they play together. I don't think writing off Hussie as a person for his work is at all fair. Meat, like Lord English, is already here. Maybe the Twilight fan found a way to elevate the themes and feel of YA urban fantasy to an older audience. Fuck you. It would not be possible because the investment we'd have to make would be significant and the return shaky, because there is such a burgeoning fan market for hand-made horns. 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.. Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. To feel what its like to be faced with a behemoth of a story and to be forced to choose: Meat or Candy, one path or the other. Homestuck feels like a glorified, expensive, vaguely ornery version of my childhood game. She, like Dirk, and like all authors, decides what is relevant and what isnt. Half of his comments are "N-NO, YOU?" SBaHJ is hailed as hilarious by being so INTENTIONALLY awful. No Disney-style moral to repeat to your children. Cohen fucked up when making that "announcement". 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? Are many of them flawed? To me, black is just a color. The only reason people are so attached to the original joke is because it was taken away from them. I wish more people could tell the difference between art and the artist. These Fraymotifs stack when two characters use their own powers to create something new and even stronger, similar to how each characters leitmotif stacks in the music of the comic to bring the reader to higher story beats. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Maybe that Naruto fan now makes kick-ass, empowering, shonen-like stories. Gross Margin. Is it a bad joke? This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. Vriska. The Bold Glamour filter acts as a reminder not to do the same when it comes to our faces. 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). Hearing that person use the word r*****ation made me so uncomfortable because r**ard is a slur and shouldnt be used no matter what. While the kickstarter itself was controversial due to how much money it raised, despite Hussie having never made a game before. The largest, most active Homestuck community. There is no denying that. OK, but how is that racist? 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. why you lookiing at my flaiir. Being a recluse can suppress cultism in some ways (by not having someone at the top constantly throwing red meat to a hungry base, which inflames obsession and radicalism), Hussie said, but in other ways I think cryptid [sic] behavior can intensify cultism. WebMarch 3, 2023. Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! 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. 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). And then Obama shows up. 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. Feferi's weight. He didnt complete a draft until just a day before the first Black Lives Matter protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Take later. On Twitter, creatives, journalists, and anyone with a modest following agonize over what people think they know about them online, and trolls regularly obsess over personal information around topics like mental health. I dont know. There are some aspects of Homestuck that deserve a deeper analysis and deconstruction than I can give here. There's just about one for every group. Delorosas constant rape was considered unapologetically trashy romance and porn. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. The text itself likens her to Daredevila blind superhero, where his blindness leads to superpowers. WebKate Mitchell. WebAndrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979) is an American author and artist. Yet hes made multiple, incredibly racist characters that are heavily based on disgusting caricatures and stereotypes. Troll society is vastly different from human society. From troll call, right? Granted, this panel also depicts the fact that Terezi uses a cane to walk around, which is realistichowever, we rarely ever it in regular interactions with her. Press J to jump to the feed. While the jokes are not necessarily at Terezis expenseshe is usually the one making themthere is still the problem of a definitely not-blind author writing them. Because automatic fire is inaccurate. 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? The 10,000 dollar donors for Hussie's kickstarter. Homestuck itself. The solid sales performance also lifted the food retailer's profit margins. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Conveniently, two EMBEDDED HYPERLINKS have been placed within your line of sight, each fitted with an ATTRACTIVE THUMBNAIL to guide your ravenous eyes in their general vicinity. This can feel like mockery to some, and to some degree, it is but there is usually a point behind doing so. Oh don't worry, I always planned to cover PEACHY. Is it racist? But if you want me to be more upfront about casual forth wall disintegration than I already have, I can humor you. Will they ever cease? N/A. As of now, recordings of the content exist on YouTube and are embedded where the Flash animations used to be, but take it from me when I say its really not the same. Point 2: Homestuck is INTENTIONALLY challenging. ya. In both the SFW and NSFW route, there was no mention of him being trans. Vriska and Terezi were close friends during their childhood, who on Alternia formed the Scourge Sisters, Team Charge's FLARP rivals. https://linktr.ee/moblack, Pumpkin Party in Sea Hitlers Water Apocalypse, pages that change their formatting to fit different, this first conversation between John and Terezi. And thats the trimmed down version of the trimmed down version. Do trolls even have races? Moreover, it occurs over and over again, too. Whos fetish. The solid sales performance also lifted the food retailer's profit margins. N/A. The single most respectful moment in Terezis portrayal is when she has the opportunity to have her blindness cured. Some intentional, some not. Albeit, important, weighty fanfiction elevated by the very fact they exist on homestuck.com and not on myI mean someonesGoogle Docs account locked away somewhere, but fanfiction nonetheless. 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. And then one of the four kids, John, gains the ability to rewrite the comic itself. The creative director and lead script writer for Hiveswap, literally ships dersecest as stated in his interview. Copyright issues; unlike many, more mainstream content producers who kind of give convention artists alleys the big shrugaroo, Hussie, as a small buisness owner, is very strict about people selling fanmade Homestuck content. Sure, each panel is a webpage connected by links, but almost every panel only has one link, and thats to the next panel. Oops replied to the wrong thing. By the end of both epilogues, Rose, Dave, and Dirk ascend to their Ultimate Selves. Hell no. Especially assholes brazen enough to supply your own thoughts to you with a subtle perspective shift from first to second person. Since my social justice related posts seem to encourage more discussions than ones that do not rely on social justice critique, I figured I would use this next post to explore a very talked-about and controversial aspect of Homestuckits ableism. Regardless, the intense gaze of the man in the thumbnail dares you to go on and see what the hell this is all about. What is the cost? Imagine flipping through one book that size. Dedicated fans even created a browser extension that notified you the moment new Homestuck content went up. And then theres this gang war between these black alien mobsters, the Midnight Crew, and a time gang, the Felt, whos boss, Lord English is destined to destroy the multiverse. 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. It was a joke/was supposed to be weird/the character doing the thing was supposed to look bad for it. Still, I think after a bit, writers that stick with it eventually realize these early influences never leave them. If I release a book full of just Nazi shit but end it by saying "BTW these aren't my views I was writing as a character lol" I can't use that to cover my ass for writing a book full of Nazi shit. Dirk, though, happens not to subscribe to Uncle Bens mantras about power and responsibility. It is a subversive work of fiction that plays with the concept of creation on multiple levels. And then the four original kids make their game unplayable so they reset their entire universe so they can have a chance at winning. Flipping and flipping with no ending or proper resolution in sight. Homestuck is the longest and most well-known & loved of the MS Paint Adventures. And then theres this whole other universe filled with aliens, Trolls, who already played it. In addition, his disability is usually synonymous with the fact that Tavros is considered by the characters around him to be a loserTavros as a loser in his social circle, combined with his disability, make him a common object of ridicule. The Homestuck epilogues attempt to answer questions surrounding what canon is, and if the distinction between canon and Homestucks wealth of fanfiction is even significant to consider. About number 12, according to ARquiussprite, they are there for some reason. If not for the fact they made her into a Jewish stereotype. However, back when HS was being written, it was OK to say the word. And then theres this punch-card based, bit-wise inventory system that they exploit to make whatever they want in the game. Anyway, were left to assume Lord English is defeated, but we never see it happen and we never see how it happens. When I did that I had a problem with the paginate laravel 8 UI getting messy and somehow it happened. Please our crops are dying Cohen: yep! Calliope isnt an unbiased narrator. 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. The easiest example of this is Dave's HELLA toxic masculinity in the early game. Besides the sometimes-cane, she needs no assistance at alland while that is fantasticit would be preferable to see her use the sort of assistance that blind people typically use, instead of Terezi just being able to see everything that she licks. The implosion of Silvergate Bank has a lot to do with the fact that it was crypto's bank of choice. And then the monsters came. And then they got in a rocket.. His use of a wheelchair, for example, is frequently exploited as a weakness to make fun of. Copyright issues; unlike many, more mainstream (and powerful) content producers who kind of give convention artists alleys the big shrugaroo, a small buisness like What Pumpkin LLC, the company that sells Homestuck merchandise, does not have the luxury of being able to afford turning a blind eye to fan produced content, and is thus very strict about people selling fanmade Homestuck content. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but that wasn't enough to save it because in today's high-rate Point 1: Homestuck is 'problematic' in the way that many people are beginning to dislike. Defending? Homestuck has always pushed the boundaries in some regards but it is also a product of the inherent freedom of speech awarded to an internet based medium, failing to see this while reading though it is staggering honestly.
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