WebHomestuck, Problem Sleuth, Sweat Bor and Helpful Jed. Dedicated fans even created a browser extension that notified you the moment new Homestuck content went up. Point is there are lots of the same character running around always. It is the close button at the top right (or left) of your BROWSER WINDOW. And then the four original kids make their game unplayable so they reset their entire universe so they can have a chance at winning. They're not human. The figure of revolution in the eyes of Hussies story is in fact, an influencer. It is compelling, funny, genre-busting contemporary art. 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. 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!) Who the fuck writes in second person? With the source of his partial-paralysis being Vriska, he is tormented by her and others on occasion for his disability. The 10,000 dollar donors for Hussie's kickstarter. When I said "Hussie created them that way for a reason", this doesn't mean "Hussie agrees with literally every awful thing in Homestuck" despite what some people seem to think that's what I'm saying. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but But the comic you included in the docs is dumb and makes no sense to me. The few legitimate criticisms that arent nitpicks or blind virtue signaling arent even all that damning. And then John implies that its maybe Jakes fault for letting it get as bad as it did? The "r-slur" being used is true. If you dont write often and consequently dont think of story length in terms of word count (what are you, a normal person? The text itself likens her to Daredevila blind superhero, where his blindness leads to superpowers. By the end of both epilogues, Rose, Dave, and Dirk ascend to their Ultimate Selves. He's an asshole and I can't stand him. When I was a kid, my brother and I would play a game Ive come to call And Then. When the question is sprung up and no one is correcting the fans till that point, you can tell its just an on the spot decision. Not every country has black stereotypes that are the same. It is not a document promoting real-life rape and murder. 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. 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. In a personal sense, this story is an odd fusion of two allegories. I think a lot of new authors start out by aping works they admire. It wasn't even that funny! Homestuck directly lead me to writing as much as I do now. 1,362,830. Thewhirlwindofanarticledropsyou on a plush cushion of narrative airexactlywhereyoustarted,butolder,wiser,andaround whole20 minutesshorterontime. 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, And then they have a kid who she abuses. Especially assholes brazen enough to supply your own thoughts to you with a subtle perspective shift from first to second person. 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 saw a lot of promise in Johns relationship with Roxy. The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything that is my mission, and that is why you can't fucking stand me. 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. When I speak of fandom Im referring to the activity which is more indicative of obsession, hyperfixation, the need for a sense of belonging to a greater movement, and starting to let that feeling shape your identity. It is a subversive work of fiction that plays with the concept of creation on multiple levels. 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? 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. A subreddit for Homestuck and the works of Andrew Hussie. Then theres this: i consider the kids a-racial. Terezi wanted them to be "L1K3 4 To beat the game, they have to interact with the game worlds characters, and with a disgruntled group of internet trolls. Fans still regularly obsess over questions and details of Hussies life and work. 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. Its digitally illustrated and lets you click through like you would in a narrative game. From a human perspective, she's an unmistakably gay character. 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.. Its at this point that the epilogues diverge into two: a Meat timeline for the former and a Candy timeline for the latter. N/A. 36.87%. The mysteries. But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. Elwurd, who was allegedly based on the bi girlfriend of a male developer. "Babyed or harassed"? As far as controversies contained within the fandom go, there's only one big one that I can think of. Hussie: lets go on this journey of discovery together. 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). WebFollowing the incident, What Pumpkin, Hussies former Homestuck production company (which he has since left), threatened to sue Sarah Z. Never read that, so I can't judge it. 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 then there are all the people who cant shroud themselves in secrecy. Pyscholonials isnt about Andrew Hussie and it isnt a Homestuck sequel. WebBut, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. The Homestuck Discord exists at https://discord.gg/homestuck if you want to chat with fellow fans. Doesn't that make you the racist one here? WebMuch of Problem Sleuth's success can be ascribed to an audience's willingness to accept that all the weirdness is just part of the joke, and the next logical step that we see in Homestuck, where the Internet itself becomes raw material for narrative, allows for an even greater expansion of possibilities. She also rapes Jake. (not sure on the proper wording for this, if theres better wording let me know and ill change it) As a result of his accident, he is constantly babyed or harassed by other characters. His comic, Homestuck, published under the website MS Paint Adventures, followed a group of teens who accidentally brought about the end of the world with a copy of a video game. In the first chapter of Psycholonials, Zhen, the novels main character, shoots and kills a cop. Please enter a valid email and try again. 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. 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. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, "Hussie is terrible because of recent incidents like the released emails between the moderation team and him". why you lookiing at my flaiir. WebIts likely that managers who say, bring me solutions, not problems dodge complaints and criticism to avoid time-consuming conflicts and tiresome tension. OK, but how is that racist? Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! The character doesn't exist though, the author made them say it. Meanwhile Roxy, who is heavily implied to be straight is often paired with Jane and Callie. The fact that they changed it is what's wrong. Im not sure how much there is thats truly positive about those things, but there is plenty which is negative. 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 3: Homestuck is not delicate or child friendly. 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. Any help is greatly appreciated! Oh come on, he jsut made a joke. So to that end I'd like to know what events caused the biggest splash with fans. But how much is that purpose worth? Is it racist? 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. Back then, fans popularized in-character discussions where fans could roleplay characters through an online chat. Webi do think there is a lot to say on why homestucks fanbase is (to put it bluntly) so transgender in such a specific and interesting way. With this particular screenshot its shown that shes portraying the thug stereotype thats more obvious with how shes talk. 36.87%. 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.. Peachy is a better joke anyway (because fruits). Time to be controversial here. why are you playing with those dangerous girls?". 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. Unless you believe the existence of these controversies is a matter of opinion, as I'm willing to firmly disagree with you on that matter. Given the comics exponential trajectory it set for itself early on, it had to get this meta at some point. In fact, you yourself just said that "Japanese highschool girl esque- outfits" are sexual. The Homestuck following was (and is in many ways still) very involved with the project. Sometimes it is presented as pretty damn funny, but it's blacker-than-spades humour. Wwwwowwwwwww. It's pretty long. The Meat/Candy dichotomy is one Hussie developed for himself long before the release of the epilogues. On the other hand, Terezi Pyropethe second character with a disability in Homestuckis blind. 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. As for Karkat using "autistic" as an insult did he really? Some may argue that this forces the comic to be perpetually out of date, but Id argue the opposite. I see that like "are you crazy? This has of course produced some backlash within the community. 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 Hussie said he returned to the 140,000 word long draft, cut the story in half, and tried to make it feel like something legitimately worth reading to anyone who crossed the full span of 2020s madness.. Hussie built a career by spinning dramatic and bumbling tales of the onslaughts of online life. In Meat, like in pretty much the rest of the back half of the comic, shes in a coma, her body puppeteered by other characters. but the stance that critical enjoyment is impossible because of those aspects that don't look good today is pretty flawed. 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. And when she tries to get better she says fuck it and focuses all this on the player instead. On a scarier note, fans have even gone as far as to find Hussies brothers social media accounts, according to those who posted it. Dogfighting is a type of blood sport in which dogs are forced to fight one another for the entertainment and/or profit of spectators. And then there is the matter of Tavross robolegs, which are built for him after the trolls time in their game session. Damara speaks in broken english, and her japanese is straight from google translate. 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. The proposal, which was passed 6 to 1 by the St. Paul City council, will have to be approved by the state legislature. 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. "Queer Eye" star Karamo Brown recently told INSIDER that he thinks the beloved film about a gay relationship, " Call Me by Your Name ," is "problematic as f---." 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). A hole in plot, if you will. Yeah, we all have seen that one before. 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. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/UsersCountIndicator.2ab8dda40f822a31d31c_.css.map*/to which I say yes. Cyberduds. Id Id tell you more about them, but the comic doesnt at all bother to develop this cool idea in the slightest. Read it on a computer. And, most problematically, they do so without his consent, waiting until he is asleep to forcibly cut off his legs and replace them with the robolegs. Maybe it would help if I knew what "AAVE" is, though. But Homestuck wouldnt be Homestuck if not for Hussies tendency to add more when in doubt, so here we are. Following the incident, What Pumpkin, Hussies former Homestuck production company (which he has since left), threatened to sue Sarah Z. 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. About number 12, according to ARquiussprite, they are there for some reason. 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. This is just a single example of how bootleg items (because yes, even if they're being made with love and sold with respect for the original creator, they are bootleg items) can directly influence a small business' decisions and bottom line. Hes not. I can say knowing how things turn out, when possible, is cool. OK, so who cares how old they were when they died? By doing this, Andrew Hussie and his collaborators admit to writing fanfiction of their own story. Even if you make the argument that karkat and vriska are technically adults now, we only saw that in the epilogue. This event kickstarts her own story and accelerates the development of her own personal politics. Everyone ends up miserable, the worst version of themselves. Smarter bloggers have tried and failed. In 2012, around 24,000 backers pledged roughly $2 million to help bring Hiveswap, a video game version of the Homestuck, to life. Some controversy came from the fact that two people donated 10,000 dollars to it to essentially have their fan characters get 1 panel cameos in the comic. The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything and are entirely legit. Please check your email to find a confirmation email, and follow the steps to confirm your humanity. Sprouts' operating income surged 20% to $62 million. Jake even blames himselflaterintheconversation, and John lets that slide. God I cant stand moral guardians like that. Whos fetish. 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. Dividend Yield. 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. 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. 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. This is not so much directed at you, fiveforchaos, but since this sort of misconception comes up frequently I figured I might as well step in. Anyway, were left to assume Lord English is defeated, but we never see it happen and we never see how it happens. SBaHJ is hailed as hilarious by being so INTENTIONALLY awful. Volume 18 comes with a developer warning, showing fully that theyre aware of how fucked up this is. As underage drinking is a touchy subject for myself personally im not very inclined to go through the route in detail but, underage drinking. Which is a lesson Jake needed to learn in the comic more generally, to be fair, but not while hes an abuse victim. Some of my other favorites among Homestucks ten main albums and many more side-releases include Unite Synchronization, Derse Dreamers, I Dont Want to Miss A Thing, At the Price of Oblivion, and Showtime. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Media analysis, fiction, and the art of writing the perfect story. Troll society is vastly different from human society. Asaresult, the narrative remains incomplete and unstable, and the relevance of key events is questioned all together. Homestuck is a product of its time, and even if it wasnt the characters presented are all socially inept children, so of course some weird stuffs Gonna come out their mouth. Oops replied to the wrong thing. And finally heres the part that really seals the deal. And he called himself on it too. 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 Google docs had like 2 or 3 good points and the rest is just bullshit. Every bit of it is there in order to prepare the troll kids for the game. 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. Are you sure you aren't the one doing stereotypes here? 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. 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. You have a staunch policy of trusting pretentious assholes on the Internet. If a character uses a slur, the fault falls onto the character, not on the author (at least in my eyes). Oh I just know this one will be worth the reading. Oh, and all troll sex is incest by human standards. As both of the characters are canonically gay many people consider it erasing their sexuality to put them in heterosexual pairings in fanfic. The largest, most active Homestuck community. And she decides what gets put in front of our eyes and what doesnt. umm?" used to say caucasian before it was changed to peachy). The only reason people are so attached to the original joke is because it was taken away from them. In a flurry of accusations, the video called out both the studios financial decisions and Hussies own creative work as it pertained to the release of the game. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. People cared more about her being a lesbian than they cared about her being a gross stereotype whos main priority is money and business!!
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