Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. 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. The creative director and lead script writer for Hiveswap, literally ships dersecest as stated in his interview. Incest - all trolls are biologically "related" Incest isn't a problem for them. WebPoint 1: Homestuck is 'problematic' in the way that many people are beginning to dislike. They eventually date in Candy, but it turns into a lopsided, unhealthy marriage and subsequent that prevents him from fully processing the fact that he is trans. So to that end I'd like to know what events caused the biggest splash with fans. Taken from this page , here is a brief overview of ableism, how it impacts persons with disabilities, and its negative role in society. I asked Hussie if he thinks everyone should just log off. Dirk uses his position as the author to berate characters he doesnt like. He doesnt let characters act like their nature would suggest, and instead manipulates them to fulfill some larger purpose. 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. It did, by the way. Why else would he made the prison comment? I saw a lot of promise in Johns relationship with Roxy. Jade was one of my favorite characters. Flipping and flipping with no ending or proper resolution in sight. To start, the music created in the making of, and parallel to Homestuck is simply incredible. They show up literally once in the background of a page and a few times during the final fight(s). But how much is that purpose worth? The [Online Poisoned] often even joke with self awareness about their bad internet habits, but [they] just keep doing it, Hussie said. The majority of the story, other than the epilogue they are minors. 36.87%. Dirk, though, happens not to subscribe to Uncle Bens mantras about power and responsibility. Volume 18 comes with a developer warning, showing fully that theyre aware of how fucked up this is. Doesn't that make you the racist one here? It loosely correlates with my past experience of presiding over a big fandom and watching it spin out of control, using much more fantastical elements like revolution and global conquest as the backdrop. We did investigate it. Gross Margin. Hussie initially spoke to Polygon before the Sarah Z video, but agreed to follow up conversations after its release. After around the half-way mark she stops being important, so I was excited to see if she gets any big moments in the epilogues. The video, predictably, provoked speculation over the true timeline and events surrounding the games development. 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. Take for example this moment early in the comic, with one of the four original kids, Dave: And compare is with a similar moment much later in the comic with a different character, one of the Trolls, Terezi: The music in the later combines Terezis Theme with the song from the original and the main melody from Crystalanthemums which at this point has been associated with her and her rival Vriska for some time now. Hussie built a career by spinning dramatic and bumbling tales of the onslaughts of online life. WebWi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. A disruption in narrative events. Her "whole deal is being a lesbian"? Not every country has black stereotypes that are the same. I wrote in second person. Vriska and Terezi were close friends during their childhood, who on Alternia formed the Scourge Sisters, Team Charge's FLARP rivals. 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. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but Please explain. MS Paint Adventures by Andrew Hussie. This can feel like mockery to some, and to some degree, it is but there is usually a point behind doing so. With some of the claims, I doubt the author has even read homestuck, because they are clearly missing the context of the scenes. The sexism accusations over the most passive class (Muse) being female. Z decides to launch a new brand, and to rebrand her own image by making a clownsona, and then roll out new content to the public as a way of turning the page on whatever she was up to before. But theyre also very upsetting in general. The back half of the comic focuses on (in the most charitable definition of the word focus) the fight to stop Lord English. 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. Except, https://www.homestuck.com/story/386 has this to say: EB: that's fine, you are entitled to your opinion, i am just saying that being a white guy who is a rapper with a ventriloquist doll is not cool by any stretch of the imagination or by any definition of word cool, ironic or otherwise. Don't say we didn't warn you. Sure, their bodies didn't change, but don't you dare say ghosts don't mature mentally. Question: Hey hiveswap team and @skullmandible, confirm Lanque as a trans boy yes/no? If a character uses a slur, the fault falls onto the character, not on the author (at least in my eyes). Here's a post discussing it. If you dont write often and consequently dont think of story length in terms of word count (what are you, a normal person? But, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. https://www.homestuck.com/story/5571 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5701 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5732. The counterargument to this is that John, the only character who is 100% confirmed to be canonically straight is very frequently paired with Dave and Karkat. The largest, most active Homestuck community. Will they ever cease? Cohen fucked up when making that "announcement". We really would be here all day if I summarized the story in earnest. In a video published in April 2021, Canadian YouTuber Sarah Z delved into the history of Homestuck and Hiveswap, with a focus on the turbulent development cycle of Hiveswap. But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. For the Beta Kids, it's Jade, for the Trolls it's Vriska, and for the Alpha kids it's Dirk. 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. Anarchist. Wait, Meenah is black now? The first Game of Thrones book is just shy of 300 thousand words, and the longest book in that series is just over 400 thousand. She rapes Jake and then marries him because they had sex. He's an asshole and I can't stand him. Which is a lesson Jake needed to learn in the comic more generally, to be fair, but not while hes an abuse victim. Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Its a contemporary text that carries the history of Hussies work and online life for better and for worse. After all (Vriska)'s whole personality changed. What is the cost? But I strongly recommend it! Yeah, honestly the content of these docs probably says a lot more about the author of them they they do anything about Andrew Hussie. In addition to music, most pages at minimum combine text and images, but gifs and Adobe Flash animations are common. He is, by my estimation, the most interesting part of either epilogue, anyway. There was some controversy when homestuck first came out. They all have the same mother (Grub). 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. Homestuck is two or three biggish novels' worth of illustrated text, With the source of his partial-paralysis being Vriska, he is tormented by her and others on occasion for his disability. Media analysis, fiction, and the art of writing the perfect story. The character's sue like traits and abilities get them through non important bits, but fail them when they need them most. Post-Scratch Troll society is not presented as good. 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. WebPhillip Faraone/Getty Images. Please/You're welcome: (para-kah-LOE) In Greek, the word for "please" and "you're welcome" is the same, making it all the more easy to learn. And she decides what gets put in front of our eyes and what doesnt. I appreciate OP for trying to throw stuff like this back in the face of the people who make it because seriously. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. The outfits Jade is wearing is her outfit she wore when she was 13, implying her age in the art. WebRead MS Paint Adventures. Oh come on, he jsut made a joke. $24.00. I mean it is a book, so it technically is porn? There's just about one for every group. The few legitimate criticisms that arent nitpicks or blind virtue signaling arent even all that damning. Besides, I covered my opinions on incest above. Also, (controversy incoming) in my honest opinion, as long as you don't have children, there's nothing wrong about incest. A federal prison will be our emerald city. When I logged in every post I saw on the issue was complaining about how more people were complaining about people complaining about the Caucasian thing than there were people complaining about the Caucasian thing. Submit fanart, cosplay and discussions of all kinds! Two friends who realize they see each other as something more I live for that kind of stuff when its done right. 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? why are you playing with those dangerous girls?". Because automatic fire is inaccurate. Or Faygo. Rose and Roxy. Please check your email to find a confirmation email, and follow the steps to confirm your humanity. Homestuck fan here, Is this. Here appears another symptom of ableismthat of the view that persons with disabilities need to be fixed in order to fit in with normal society. Never read that, so I can't judge it. Sprouts' operating income surged 20% to $62 million. Set aside time just as you would for reading every novel, but be prepared to set aside much more of it. Regardless, the intense gaze of the man in the thumbnail dares you to go on and see what the hell this is all about. But maybe that's just my take. 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. I will just go ahead and read through the Google Docs about Hussie being terrible and comment every time I have something to say. And thats about how Ive come to regard all fandoms now.. Do trolls even have races? We were weirdly concerned with fundamental narrative principles at the time, more so than little kids had any right to be. I'm not really interested in Thermian arguments; trolls aren't real, Hussie created them that way for a reason. She spends extra time on characters feelings and their conversations with each other, much to the annoyance of Dirk. 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). Cool post though :). The NSFW route, hes a complete douchewad, bullying Lynera and trying to pressure you into drugs and sex. Conspiracy theories, outright fabrications, connecting dots on whatever precious facts are known to paint whatever picture the theorizer wants to paint. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but that wasn't enough to save it because in today's high-rate The implosion of Silvergate Bank has a lot to do with the fact that it was crypto's bank of choice. And then, on Earth, sometime in the far future, these immortal snake alien things give birth to another alien who will eventually become the Lord English and he plays the game too. Id post a sample here if reading my old work didnt literally set me on fire. But, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. As your cursor (or thumb) toggles feverishly between the two links, a third option beckons. 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. Many fans were already disappointed with the comics canon ending. 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. 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!) OK, but how is that racist? (Talking about sniffing Marvus) So, we are kinkshaming now? 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. 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. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. And then theres this punch-card based, bit-wise inventory system that they exploit to make whatever they want in the game. 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. I honestly don't feel qualified to say. 1,362,830. All my pieces are addressed to the reader directly, though some admittedly more so than others. Ardata literally has a red room esque set up, where she tortures trolls that she has caged in her hive. Towards the end of the main story, the comic introduces (and fails to develop) the idea of the Ultimate Self: characters with full knowledge and the full lived experiences of every character that has ever existed. Im more interested in what the story has to say about authorship generally than I am in the particularities of Dirk as a villain, though. But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. Our more overpowered characters fell to the wayside so we could tell the stories of characters who had to face a conflict or struggle to get what they wanted. Hussie didn't make John and Karkat et al drop the r word to say anything about them, that's just a word he himself used to use, so his characters did too. Or perhaps the second option catches your eye. 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.. I just had no idea until you told me just now. 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. 164 Followers. As for Karkat using "autistic" as an insult did he really? Tavros treatment in homestuck is also disgusting, in all honesty. But I am going to assume you mean the timeline Davesprite came from. OK, I don't think I can say much about basing lesbian characters on bi people, because I am not an expert on that, but none of that even matters. If not for the fact they made her into a Jewish stereotype. After the epilogues to the story released in April 2019, the story stands at just over 1 million words. 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". To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. They're not human. 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. ALL trolls have horns. N/A. 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. 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. 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 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. People cared more about her being a lesbian than they cared about her being a gross stereotype whos main priority is money and business!! 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. Hussies Psycholonials, a visual novel released in the spring of 2021, follows Zhen and Abby two girls who must figure out what to do with a mess of a revolution and empire that they themselves prompted. 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. Yet hes made multiple, incredibly racist characters that are heavily based on disgusting caricatures and stereotypes. Homestuck feels like a glorified, expensive, vaguely ornery version of my childhood game. 15 jan 2023 08:41:30 And then his dead sister, Calliope, from another timeline where she becomes super strong, shows up to try and stop him. Below, Karkat (in the gray text) mocks Tavros (in the brown text). He who is without sin may cast the first stone. Ever heard of that? But I want it to be more than an audio FAQ, I want it to be a bit of pseudo-documentary on the fandom as well. 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. When people say BUT TEREZI MAKES FUN OF HERSELF, it is not really a valid defense of the blind jokes, because of who is actually making those jokes. Even worse, Hussie confirming dersecest to be a canon ship in a doomed timeline in the most recent homestuck book, which is better explained in this post. "The Help" became the most-watched movie on Netflix over the past week, according to their US trend bar. At time of publication, there are roughly 57,000 works of fanfiction dedicated to the series on Archive of Our Own. There are some aspects of Homestuck that deserve a deeper analysis and deconstruction than I can give here. No idea who that is, I covered incest above and I am 24, so what's your point? Sure, each panel is a webpage connected by links, but almost every panel only has one link, and thats to the next panel. It is compelling, funny, genre-busting contemporary art. Hi. Pyscholonials isnt about Andrew Hussie and it isnt a Homestuck sequel. Hussie saying that Kanaya's lesbianism is considered a fetish in troll society isn't Hussie saying that he considers lesbianism a fetish. Point 1.5: Many of the arguments presented in the document hinge on the idea that inclusion means approval (see Point 1). My praise of Homestucks music is really part of another thing I like about the comic. Well, sure! How to read Homestuck 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. So, Hussie himself condradicted well, himself. 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. 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. Still, he said that the text works as a thematic followup to his entire experience with building a fandom. 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. Fueled by this power, Dirk plans to leave the comic entirely to head to a place where his thoughts and his actions always have weight, regardless of what is canon and what isnt. And then the four original kids make their game unplayable so they reset their entire universe so they can have a chance at winning. and i think its mostly to do with homestucks treatment of femininity vs masculinity in a way that is not typically done This applies to the treatment of Mituna, who due to the overexertion of his psychic powers received brain damage that altered his personality. Toward the end of the story, Z and her best friend are forced to figure out what to do with the empire that theyve built that has become difficult to control a reality that Hussie himself is familiar with as a de facto leader of a fandom. And when she tries to get better she says fuck it and focuses all this on the player instead. In both the SFW and NSFW route, there was no mention of him being trans. The interesting thing about that controversy is that for awhile on tumblr there were more people complaining about people complaining about the Caucasian thing than there were actual people complaining about the Caucasian thing. Homestuck 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. I think it's the perfect example of the dissonance between Hussie and the fandom. newsletter, Streamers have to become increasingly savvy, what people think they know about them online, information around topics like mental health, like writing fanfiction or creating fan art. I'd never had a Fruit Gusher. 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. March 3, 2023. Chances are Hussie changed it in part because he wasn't really feeling the joke in the first place. Vriska herself is a huge controversy (i.e. Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. Smarter bloggers have tried and failed. Hussie suggests the personal allegorical elements in Psycholonials are more like points of inspiration. This story is about Z after all, not himself. In this sense, fandom itself, with examples like Homestuck, was the precursor to the asymmetrical relationships that have come to characterize so much of online life. I say this not to deride bi women but to state that it is uncomfortable to base the character who's whole deal is being a lesbian to the point her name phonetically is L word to be based on a bi woman. And then that ability comes in handy when the eight kids and the original players lose the game again. 36.87%. Delorosas constant rape was considered unapologetically trashy romance and porn. The proposal, which was passed 6 to 1 by the St. Paul City council, will have to be approved by the state legislature. N/A. Also feel free to send me ideas of things youd like me to cover! About 8,000 pages. Commedia Doll'Arte Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom. 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. On revolution, telling stories, and logging off. Sure, I guess. Troll society is vastly different from human society. DISH network users facing authentication or login issues. He would commandeer a handful of characters, and I do the same. According to multiple reports, many users of DISH network services are facing issues during the authentication or login process to the companys platform. 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. Enjoying or creating 'problematic' media does not equate to endorsement. Imagine flipping through one book that size. In any case, for Tavros and Terezi, I will discuss separately their problematic treatment both inside the web-comic and in the fandom. As are the characters. By doing this, Andrew Hussie and his collaborators admit to writing fanfiction of their own story. People have clamored for us to produce high quality cosplay-ready horns for years, ever since I began working at WP. N/A. 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.