Oh look, it was one of his dumb GLOBES. These things make it awfully difficult to navigate the foyer. We get it, granddad. You like to travel around the world going on adventures and stuff!
Lousy goddamn stupid globes.
In retrospect the characterization of Jake English is astonishingly consistent
At least half of why Act 3 is when I start really getting on board with HS is that it is when HS becomes … cute
I guess it was always kind of cute, but it gets more cute
It looks like you and Jaspers were having one of your sessions. You weren’t making a lot of progress though, because Jaspers was no doubt being characteristically recalcitrant. You possibly jotted this phrase down in your pad. It’s hard to remember though.
Like tell me a small child psychoanalyzing her cat is not the cutest concept ever
Blinking with one eye before the other is a thing animated characters do to indicate that they’re dazed or confused, and Vodka Mutini can do it twice as intensely since he has four eyes!
As noted ages ago by tumblr user ahpoordogsbody, the Green Sun appears briefly in Jade: Retrieve Package, long before it’s introduced as a plot element
I’ve joked around about this before, but let’s be 100% serious for a moment: for pretty much as long as I can remember I’ve gotten the sense that one of the main reasons my father had a child was in order to create a person whose young life he could vicariously live through to replace the absolute mess his life was from around ages 15-30
… and thanks to Homestuck I now can’t stop thinking of this as “my dad scratched his session and now he’s the guardian and I’m the player”
Homestuck, man. It’ll change your life
I intend to finish my Homestuck re-read eventually, just for the principle of the thing, but 1) I’ve been busy and 2) I’m finding that I have to actively push myself to read it
I think I’m just really tired of Homestuck, to the point that I have a hard time enjoying even the good parts of it. More precisely, I’m tired of Andrew Hussie
I’ve always thought HS was heterogenous and uneven, but the more I know about Hussie and his tendencies the less it feels “heterogenous and uneven because it’s a fascinatingly strange dreamworld” and the more it feels “heterogenous and uneven because it’s a collection of really interesting ideas and possibilities being juggled by the kind of internet dude who thinks ‘Team Special Olympics’ is a really funny phrase”
I think I may try listening to Let’s Read Homestuck because 1. I have never done so before and it seems pretty well done, and 2. practically speaking, that seems like the only way I’m going to get through HS again
I like a lot of their voices, though the guy they have playing Dave doesn’t sound the way I want Dave to sound, which may be a problem. (The narrator is also pretty grating, but he’s grating in exactly the same way the written narrating is grating, so in a sense it’s perfect)
Honestly, after the update we just got you’re still complaining? I mean, I do understand what you’re saying, but like, that flash was so cool that I’m starting to think that you are just impossible to satisfy when it comes to Homestuck.
No, you’re not wrong. I think getting the story back on a track I would approve of would be very difficult at this point, and Hussie shows no signs of movement in such a direction. I just keep reading because it’s easier than not reading, esp. when everyone else is talking about it
I think I’ll start tagging my carping with “#homestalgebra” (tag originally invented for my liveblog) so people can savior it if they want
I’m not sure I would recommend that per se?
For one thing, not everyone dislikes Act 6, and not everyone who dislikes it (or finds it not fully satisfying) dislikes it as much as I do. The conversation surrounding Act 6 is a lot like the conversation surrounding Steven Moffat in Dr. Who fandom (from what I can tell from the outside): there’s so much negativity toward a particular part of the work (“Act 6” or “Dr. Who with Moffat as showrunner”) that at times it can seem like a sort of consensus, but it’s not like there aren’t people who like the widely disliked thing, or like there isn’t a real conversation to be had about its merits. If I were to say “don’t read Act 6” it would be like saying “stop watching Dr. Who after Moffat starts running it” which might statistically be pretty good advice (since many dislike these things) but would deprive the advisee of a chance to judge the newer, different stuff on their own.
Also, Act 6 has some parts that even I like. You should at least read until Roxy Lalonde appears because you need Roxy Lalonde in your life. And it’s not like its badness is actively offensive or disturbing (well, mostly). It’s mostly just kind of overly long and tiresome and disappointing. At worst it’s a waste of some time. (And even then, a waste of some time that will let you understand innumerable internet arguments / fanarts / etc.)