I honestly don't feel qualified to say. Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom. Homestuck has three characters with definite disabilitiesTavros, Terezi, and Solluxthough for the purposes of this article, I will focus on Tavros and Terezi as, ever since Sollux has become blind, we simply have not had much screen time with him to merit analysis at this point. Im not sure how much there is thats truly positive about those things, but there is plenty which is negative. But Hussie was ready for something new, and in his words, anti-cult.. N/A. There is no denying that. I mean it is a book, so it technically is porn? This applies to the treatment of Mituna, who due to the overexertion of his psychic powers received brain damage that altered his personality. A decade in the future, long after our heroes win the game, and long after our heroes have left Homestuck itself, John is confronted with a choice: he can use his powers to return to canon, fill the plot hole, and stabilize the story, or decide to continue living his life, canon integrity he damned. In case you don't know what I am talking about: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ojLmFm-WUrCZ7fXALowpiAW7jklCfq14n0Zz1ECdsX0/mobilebasic, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z_pA2pfbnyXjxMx4PZm_LNbRSO3cZuZJ2jOOD1RpE0o/edit. It aims to find out the shortest path during a salesman visiting cities below illustration. In Candy, shes this pushy, horny, clueless woman with alarmingly dubious ideas surrounding consent, who pushes her friends away and pressures Dave in marrying her, preventing him from living out the fact that hes gay. Who the fuck writes in second person? Okay so later John says nominally Jake is indeed not at fault for being abused but appreciate for a moment how a story about kids playing a computer got to this point. 1.4K Takers Personality Quiz. Likewise Mindfang's joyous rape-and-murder spree of a memoir is discussed in text (And it's never graphic. And then theres this game in the mail. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. She is secure in who she is, complete with her disability, without the desire to be fixed or normal. Despite this small, impressive moment, Homestuck is, overall, extremely ableist and disrespectful toward its disabled characters, and real persons with disabilities. Homestuck feels like a glorified, expensive, vaguely ornery version of my childhood 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. 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. It is compelling, funny, genre-busting contemporary art. I do. WebHomestuck has three characters with definite disabilitiesTavros, Terezi, and Solluxthough for the purposes of this article, I will focus on Tavros and Terezi as, ever since Sollux has become blind, we simply have not had much screen time with him to merit analysis And in this one Mituna himself just kind of sexually harrasses Meenah. Vriska. The mock content warnings that show up at the beginning of the epilogues are not mock anything and are entirely legit. $24.00. Media analysis, fiction, and the art of writing the perfect story. 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. ), 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. 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. Do trolls even have races? I think it's the perfect example of the dissonance between Hussie and the fandom. They're not human. The only challenge to his control over the story is presented by Calliope, the dead, all-powerful sister to Lord English I mentioned earlier. To him, a reluctant cult leader will withdraw from the spotlight and rarely address their followers. As both of the characters are canonically gay many people consider it erasing their sexuality to put them in heterosexual pairings in fanfic. Or you read a lot of Twilight and now you cant escape allure of urban fantasy erotica with alarmingly dubious ideas surrounding consent. From $14.00 End Pose Print. Id Id tell you more about them, but the comic doesnt at all bother to develop this cool idea in the slightest. Asaresult, the narrative remains incomplete and unstable, and the relevance of key events is questioned all together. While its about revolution, its told in a refreshingly modern and relevant way. Also, Hussie's author commentary say that it is "probable" for her to be autistic. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Calliope and Dirk at times fight for control of the narrative, Dirk engineering the story to fit his purposes, and Calliope trying her best to let events play out as they would naturally. At time of publication, there are roughly 57,000 works of fanfiction dedicated to the series on Archive of Our Own. 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. Can't say I ever noticed. The interactive story of Homestuck strung out to epic proportions it is over 8,000 pages long and ran from 2009 until 2016. It makes the story feel cyclical in a good way. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but that wasn't enough to save it because in today's high-rate (Talking about sniffing Marvus) So, we are kinkshaming now? 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. I like my complaints like I like my inception, always going one level deeper. (But please, don't jsut say that "it's morally wrong" and then not explain how. The alive version of this character is cute, but mostly useless. Oh, and all troll sex is incest by human standards. Why else would he made the prison comment? He is, by my estimation, the most interesting part of either epilogue, anyway. A federal prison will be our emerald city. In real life, if they have the option to choose their rate of fire, professionals like to stick to single-fire mode. And then the four original kids make their game unplayable so they reset their entire universe so they can have a chance at winning. Due to fans arguing over the race of characters Hussie put in a joke in which one of the characters (jane) says "I feel so caucasion" when she's in trickster mode. You can purchase the interactive fiction on Steam. Homestuck is honestly a sprawling epic I mean, kind of. Homestuck actually so sensitive to changes in the Internet that continuing the site as intended has proved to be somewhat of a challenge. Also, others tormented Tavros as well? Attempts to defeat him with conventional weaponry are doomed to fail because he is already here. I asked Hussie if he thinks everyone should just log off. But theyre also very upsetting in general. I couldn't even tell he was meant to be trans. I came to regard that fandom as being pretty close to a cult. Sometimes it is presented as pretty damn funny, but it's blacker-than-spades humour. Thewhirlwindofanarticledropsyou on a plush cushion of narrative airexactlywhereyoustarted,butolder,wiser,andaround whole20 minutesshorterontime. Energy transfers to keep her alive are sexual now, I guess You get assaulted by a lot of trolls. But then, homosexuality in a society where bisexuality is the norm is kind of a different thing. According to multiple reports, many users of DISH network services are facing issues during the authentication or login process to the companys platform. She spends extra time on characters feelings and their conversations with each other, much to the annoyance of Dirk. Maybe the Twilight fan found a way to elevate the themes and feel of YA urban fantasy to an older audience. 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. I've been dealing with this stuff for years--just this very small, specific subset of the law in question--and I still ask our legal counsel for clarification or confirmation fairly often, because it's not always straightforward. People cared more about her being a lesbian than they cared about her being a gross stereotype whos main priority is money and business!! 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. If a character uses a slur, the fault falls onto the character, not on the author (at least in my eyes). Even if you make the argument that karkat and vriska are technically adults now, we only saw that in the epilogue. Still, I think after a bit, writers that stick with it eventually realize these early influences never leave them. 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. Hi. The Homestuck following was (and is in many ways still) very involved with the project. You can't tell just from what karkat said. 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. Personally, whatever his previous works may have been, I think he's done a wonderful job creating a wide variety of strong female characters. Homestuck is the longest and most well-known & loved of the MS Paint Adventures. Especially assholes brazen enough to supply your own thoughts to you with a subtle perspective shift from first to second person. And then they play it. From $23.00 Dance Shirt (White) *LAST CHANCE* Brunetto-4%. what better profession is there in this world? than to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. Its not that I think people should, its that everyone already knows they should, he said. March 3, 2023. (EVRYTHING IS CANON. Her "whole deal is being a lesbian"? 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 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. What the actual fuck are you talking about? 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.. Defending? In response, the YouTuber made a video about their threat, which according to the legal document shared by the Sarah Z cited false, speculative claims, propelling the matter even further into the public theater. No, I am pretty sure that's because there's a sex "scene" that they didn't want children to see. I don't think writing off Hussie as a person for his work is at all fair. It does not mean animosity is what is taking place here. Constantly seeking out fetishistic situations and sexualizing characters in a fantasy story as well reading straight up bullshit from in-between the lines. A cryptid leader leaves a major vacuum of content, direction, messaging, personal information, all the stuff a frenzied cultist craves. Because that's how they are treated on Alternia. Please keep in mind, the characters of friendsim are all minors. It can be a turn in the story they dont like, the way a fictional character is treated, or the way other members of fandom they disagree with are behaving. To start, www.stopableism.org is a great resource for learning more about what ableism actually is. WebThis process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. 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. It is not a document promoting real-life rape and murder. Like how Vriska, a character who spent the entire comic inserting herself into important story events in a quest to become the most important character of the narrative, ends up trapped in Candy, locked away forever from canon. What is this threat? Its also an allegory for what Im doing presently with Psycholonials. But how much is that purpose worth? Feferi's weight. 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". No idea who that is, I covered incest above and I am 24, so what's your point? Be prepared. 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. Haha, the gif is actually still on the server at: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/scraps/CAUCASIAN.gif. The comics before Homestuck, particularly Problem Sleuth, were largely based on community inputs, and I believe certain parts of Homesutck initially were as well (this was before my time). that's all i'm saying. ya. And the world ends. But I am going to assume you mean the timeline Davesprite came from. March 3, 2023. Quite a bit of it, has, unfortunately landed on rachel, who if I recall correctly, is in charge of a lot of the business decisions, or at least enforcing them.
