It seems that whatever small ways I was able to control that brand, back when I still was interested in doing so, has since become dramatically overwritten by the preposterous hallucinatory projections of a zealous fandom.. Everyone ends up miserable, the worst version of themselves. Ending: I love Homestuck. Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! 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. Gross Margin. 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. Please explain. OK, but how is that racist? Energy transfers to keep her alive are sexual now, I guess You get assaulted by a lot of trolls. The few legitimate criticisms that arent nitpicks or blind virtue signaling arent even all that damning. Such a cool set of powers that only works in something like Homestuck. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. Homestuck fan here, 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. 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. Webit has some stuff that aged poorly and is very typical of the comedy and internet culture at the time that it was written. I didn't find many of the document's arguments compelling, but I also don't find this rebuttle compelling as it focuses very much on reacting more to the person/people writing than any points made. Banning from conventions. The way shes written is overly sexualized, more so with her Japanese highschool girl esque- outfits that other characters have commented on. The impressive thing is, these couldve easily just been throw-away, cheap, forced, gags. 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. The easiest example of this is Dave's HELLA toxic masculinity in the early game. 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. 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. Are you sure you aren't the one doing stereotypes here? Following the incident, What Pumpkin, Hussies former Homestuck production company (which he has since left), threatened to sue Sarah Z. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. What is the cost? Troll Jewish would have been a great addition! Possibly in a bid to avoid pulpiting to any fans, or even me the writer, he said he doesnt think his story is telling each and every person to cut themselves off. It was a joke/was supposed to be weird/the character doing the thing was supposed to look bad for it. Chances are Hussie changed it in part because he wasn't really feeling the joke in the first place. 15 jan 2023 08:41:30 Jade was one of my favorite characters. By the end of both epilogues, Rose, Dave, and Dirk ascend to their Ultimate Selves. https://www.homestuck.com/story/5571 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5701 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5732. Originally the Black Queen of the trolls' incipisphere, after exile to Alternia and took the title of Banished Quasiroyal. We were weirdly concerned with fundamental narrative principles at the time, more so than little kids had any right to be. And when she tries to get better she says fuck it and focuses all this on the player instead. Point 4: Explanation and justification are not the same. Oh yeah also you link to ipgd's post with Cool Dude and Stoner Lou, which, for context, is a direct parody of Shredded Moose--you really need that context to understand CDASL. Yo! But Homestuck isn't about fan inclusion for the sake of happy-fun-creating together, it's about WHY we might want to do that and a host of other things. 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. 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 Discord exists at https://discord.gg/homestuck if you want to chat with fellow fans. Especially assholes brazen enough to supply your own thoughts to you with a subtle perspective shift from first to second person. Homestuck is the full power of the Internet refocused into an artistic and storytelling force the likes and scale of which I havent seen attempted again. Theres a problem with activations getting backed up, & stuck in our system. Thats no way to handle an issue like this. She is the only female (and carapacian) member of the Felt, and is one of the three members whose name is not printed entirely in green, the "o" being printed in black to resemble an 8 ball itself. Pyscholonials doesnt give in to hopelessness. Press J to jump to the feed. People cared more about her being a lesbian than they cared about her being a gross stereotype whos main priority is money and business!! They show up literally once in the background of a page and a few times during the final fight(s). So Im almost made to feel bad for even entertaining John/Roxy as an idea in the first place if the results were to be this disastrous for everyone involved. As your cursor (or thumb) toggles feverishly between the two links, a third option beckons. Constantly seeking out fetishistic situations and sexualizing characters in a fantasy story as well reading straight up bullshit from in-between the lines. As underage drinking is a touchy subject for myself personally im not very inclined to go through the route in detail but, underage drinking. I mean the priests are fucking clowns for god's sake, that's pretty fucking blatant. Elwurd, who was allegedly based on the bi girlfriend of a male developer. From a human perspective, she's an unmistakably gay character. By doing this, Andrew Hussie and his collaborators admit to writing fanfiction of their own story. He is, by my estimation, the most interesting part of either epilogue, anyway. 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? WebPoint 1: Homestuck is 'problematic' in the way that many people are beginning to dislike. I feel like you had "better" things to say than I did. Having read the comic I plan to cover the humor and the format, as well as the relationship between Hussie and the fandom pretty extensively. Sure, their bodies didn't change, but don't you dare say ghosts don't mature mentally. WebThis kind of perspective on friendship in the internet age is a big part of why Homestuck is rather progressive in its views of interpersonal relationships the relationships among characters are never downplayed because of the medium that they happen in, and its a refreshing take in a world that is constantly tut-tutting the idea of talking to strangers. A first-time sci-fi or fantasy novel can be around 100 thousand. We apologize for this inconvenience, & our engineers are working diligently to get this resolved ASAP. As Dirk ascends, though, he gains full awareness of the story itself. Rose and Roxy. Maybe that Naruto fan now makes kick-ass, empowering, shonen-like stories. Weirdly, copyright law is an area of knowledge where people seem to feel completely sure giving their thoughts/opinions no matter how little research they've done on the subject. Dynamic Programming is a method of solving problems that represent a specific structure where a problem can be broken down into subproblems which are again similar to the original problem. I honestly don't feel qualified to say. 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. Im not even going to get into their relentless support of ikimaru, the terrible treatment and handling of canonically gay characters, the overall grossness of the quadrant system, Another epilogue has been released as an official fanfiction, some of the tags are jokes, some are not, and im personally not at all interested in finding out which is real and which arent. Can you imagine what my first attempts at writing looked like? He has on multiple occasions, appropriated AAVE while writing her. Wi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. 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. You can't tell just from what karkat said. 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!) And then theres this game in the mail. 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. Homestuck is honestly a sprawling epic I mean, kind of. and the other half is him being completely oblivious to what the original poster means. Gross Margin. Are many of them flawed? 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? So the patient reader will forgive me for not putting more effort into recapping the story. WebKate Mitchell. I can't fight that. 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. The key to defeating him lies instead in a magical artifact in the shape of Homestucks logo. Pyscholonials isnt about Andrew Hussie and it isnt a Homestuck sequel. WebDreamWorks. They also continually support gross artists, like Aeritus for example who has lots of merch on ffbf, and ships incest ships without much of a second thought despite being 27 years old. Also feel free to send me ideas of things youd like me to cover! There. Theres a problem with activations getting backed up, & stuck in our system. Its completely immune from in-story time logic, existing in exactly one place for all of time. Dividend Yield. Likewise Mindfang's joyous rape-and-murder spree of a memoir is discussed in text (And it's never graphic. but the stance that critical enjoyment is impossible because of those aspects that don't look good today is pretty flawed. Terezi wanted them to be "L1K3 4 Just more things: more plot, more dialogue, more mechanics, more characters, more questions, on and on and on and on until it just runs out of breath and falls over. 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. 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. Defending? All tags have a real use in the text. Eventually, she goes on to write a widely read manifesto; taking the reins of a militant revolutionary group that wears goth clown makeup. Wait, not having a shirt on is sexual now? Please keep in mind, the characters of friendsim are all minors. Be prepared. Whatever. Its a prime example of how even years after Homestuck and Hiveswap were completed the distance Hussie keeps between himself and his fandom doesnt keep his work from spiraling out into controversy. We apologize for this Still, he said that the text works as a thematic followup to his entire experience with building a fandom. Its a contemporary text that carries the history of Hussies work and online life for better and for worse. 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. But Hussie questions those practices as a form of fandom, and redefines what the word really means today. Its at this point that the epilogues diverge into two: a Meat timeline for the former and a Candy timeline for the latter. This magic carpet ride of analytical post-epilogue Homestuck fan content has left you feeling exhilarated and yet hungry for more. The game never mentions it. Is it a bad joke? Actually, my favorite thing about the webcomic: Homestuck is acutely aware that it exists on the Internet, and exploits that fact to its fullest capacity. 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. 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. 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 Throughout the course of Psycholonials, there are burning police stations, a revolution against the state, and a global pandemic all mediated through the eyes of a young woman whos trying to survive the fucked up world around her and while calling attention to its problems. This is that second one though. People have clamored for us to produce high quality cosplay-ready horns for years, ever since I began working at WP. And then theres genocide. Who the fuck writes in second person? WebFollowing the incident, What Pumpkin, Hussies former Homestuck production company (which he has since left), threatened to sue Sarah Z. Point 1.5: Many of the arguments presented in the document hinge on the idea that inclusion means approval (see Point 1). A disruption in narrative events. I think it's the perfect example of the dissonance between Hussie and the fandom. Agreed. I haven't seen a single person defend Zebruh. To beat the game, they have to interact with the game worlds characters, and with a disgruntled group of internet trolls. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. 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? Regardless, the intense gaze of the man in the thumbnail dares you to go on and see what the hell this is all about. N/A. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. What is this threat? Question: do thirteen year old girls have boobs? 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. 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. Technically, a lack of masking is a presentation issue a sign that a theater no longer cares but it can lead to projection problems, too. I mean it is a book, so it technically is porn? Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. About number 12, according to ARquiussprite, they are there for some reason. Its a story that grows up with the Internet itself, and, by extension, a story about the Internet, how it changes, how we change it, and how it changes us. Jake sees Jane and asks her if she is alright, and Jane responds by saying: "I FEEL SO CAUCASIAN". Attempts to defeat him with conventional weaponry are doomed to fail because he is already here. I appreciate OP for trying to throw stuff like this back in the face of the people who make it because seriously. It is the close button at the top right (or left) of your BROWSER WINDOW. It makes the story feel cyclical in a good way. Alternia, at least at first, is a dark joke about our real-world society. Heck, people are still debating troll genitalia). 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. I know that Im asking questions, and sometimes thats good enough. TSP problem is a classical problem since 1832 [from wiki]. 1. Theres the aforementioned not-finishing-the-story-ness I talked about earlier. First, Tavros Nitram is treated abhorrently in Homestuck; his disability (he is in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down) is oftentimes depicted in a hilarious way to try and make the audience laugh. Too bad the post is gone. So here's the deal: I've got a podcast that generally covers internet oddities. In Candy, everyone gets redemption arcs, and were told everyone lives happily ever after, but its the more brutal of the two options. MS Paint Adventures by Andrew Hussie. Johns relationship with Terezi, which really only existed in the last 50 pages of the comic, was apparently always the better option? Yes, Vriska did that. Hes not. To start, the music created in the making of, and parallel to Homestuck is simply incredible. And then that ability comes in handy when the eight kids and the original players lose the game again. Stelsa should only be written by someone Jewish. WebPhillip Faraone/Getty Images. And then the monsters came. And then they got in a rocket.. But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. Sometimes it is presented as pretty damn funny, but it's blacker-than-spades humour. Besides, I covered my opinions on incest above. Personally, whatever his previous works may have been, I think he's done a wonderful job creating a wide variety of strong female characters. The outfits Jade is wearing is her outfit she wore when she was 13, implying her age in the art. The [Online Poisoned] often even joke with self awareness about their bad internet habits, but [they] just keep doing it, Hussie said. The Meat timeline is obviously canon, because for Lord Englishs demise to make any sense, John needed to have gone back and plugged in the missing parts of the story. The character doesn't exist though, the author made them say it. Why pick them out? Dirk is Homestucks ultimate villain. Many fans were already disappointed with the comics canon ending. 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). It is compelling, funny, genre-busting contemporary art. Take later. Imagine flipping through one book that size. Peachy is a better joke anyway (because fruits). But, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again.
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