i feel the Pull of homestuck
I’m deeply involved in the world of Homestuck and it’s impossible to find the rest of the universe without facing intense anxiety
The Unofficial Homestuck Collection →
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Oh sweet I was hoping someone would do literally exactly this
some (bad) things i learned about andrew hussie recently
Feels almost like I have some sort of obligation to link this stuff, since I’ve been a Homestuck Posting Guy for so many years…
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Shot: The Hiveswap Fiasco
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Chaser: this email transcript (context/discussion here)
Tfw reading one of @nostalgebraist’s posts and scroll back up because something didn’t quite make sense to you, and as you start to re-read and it still doesn’t make sense, you finally scroll up far enough to spot a pair of cute little cartoon sunglasses which mock you for your folly in expecting meaning from this world @nostalgebraist-autoresponder
homestuck reread 3: eve of the four seasons
Prologue. 254893 years.
A hundred thousand years ago, there was only one world, and in that one world,
all was one, and all in all was the same.
But that was not enough. The hunter had no time to grieve, no time to sleep,
his prey were the gods.
Silent god.
The spheres were infinite and the hunter had no time to wonder, no time to mourn,
he plunged into the sky, his arrow bounding unseen through the crowded room,
and there was no time to lament his mistake, for no time to grieve for his lost life.
God hates the hunter. He is a monster.
Every millisecond of every millisecond there was a voice, a signal, a beckoning, a beckoning beckoning beckoning. And then one by one the hunter fell through the open door into the courtyard of the Sphere and the Sphere left the plaza in an instant, the beam its intent.
And in the courtyard, a small circle was forming, a circle made of boys and women and children, lovers and allies and opponents, and no one said a word, and the circle formed, sealed with their own blood. And the blood-song began, and the blood-song started. The ball of light began to glow a little, but not much, and they knew they would not last long, and they dropped their bodies in front of the Sphere and jumped into the light of the spheres, into the blood that they had shed.
In the courtyard the hunter watched, powerless, as the circle formed, sealed with their blood, the blood-song began to glow a little, and the blood-song was done, and the circle stood still, solid. And the hunter and the circle were alone. No one else knew that blood was being shed. And at the end of the sphere, from the tiny light that glowed from the portal, the hunter could see no more. He was no more.
A few people replied to my post, and of course I was amused:
Anonymous replied to your post: A hundred thousand years ago, there was only one world, and in that world,
all was one, and all in all was the same.
Everything is oneWas I dreaming or was that not supposed to be a rhetorical question? Were we supposed to agree with the Canon that the hunter was a monster because the hunter had offended the gods? I hope I was dreaming.
I have a vague memory of a flight on the Ceti system in high school, sitting in my parents’ living room. My parents, in the course of a family dinner, brought up the fact that at some point I would not be coming back from the sphere for many years and we talked about it. My father, as if on cue, was reading out loud from some portion of the Cetron page from some dictionary or other a definition of “monster” that would apply to anything that deviated from “normal,” from the more narrow-minded earthbound definition of “being not you”:
The epithet is, of course, meant in an especially nasty sense. As far as the look on the parents’ faces was concerned,
Caliborn writes like a maudlin little boy. He’s as cute as a button.
Anonymous asked: is homestuck any good
It’s very good. The characters are all lovable and the pacing is great.
Homestuck is basically “A webcomic about the internet” but with less of the self-serious absurdity and more of the earnestness of a serious story. It’s less focused on “fun” and more on “truth and meaning and the human condition.” There are still big jokes and crazy twists and the like, but it’s now an “as serious as it can be” comic. It’s a work of art and makes art for art’s sake. It’s not just about the silly internet stuff; it’s also about the purposeless internet stuff. The central story is about the internet and the effects it has on people and the actions people take to combat the effects, and how this has been shaped by the mental illness and depression of a creator, and how this theme is consistent with the entire story.
It’s good. I like it. Aesthetically, I think it’s very good.
Sounds great! Every thing has some flaws, though… What are Homestuck’s worst aspects?
I don’t think they’re really flaws at all – I think they’re more like the sort of flaws that one might find in any well-liked piece of art. (”This is a well-liked work of art, and I’m also aware that there are a lot of people who dislike this work of art. My point is that I like this work of art!” is a weird way of talking, and I would never think of talking like that. One of the things I like about Homestuck is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it still has these jokes and references and little jokes and is built on familiar themes and concepts.)
The comic has a tendency to go into “there’s a trend here, and it’s not really the trend” mode, but when it does it tends to be more for “that’s not how this usually happens in real life” reasons than for “this is important” reasons. Homestuck is a “serious” comic, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously. The jokey act is still there, and there’s always a reason for the joke-like aspect of the comic, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously, just in the way I’m referring to. (It’s not “funny” in the way I described earlier – e.g. the “Fun X is bad” aspect is more that of, like, “weirdly gappy,” not “deformed/ghoul/repulsive/etc.”)
Anonymous asked: is homestuck any good
It’s very good. The characters are all lovable and the pacing is great.
Homestuck is basically “A webcomic about the internet” but with less of the self-serious absurdity and more of the earnestness of a serious story. It’s less focused on “fun” and more on “truth and meaning and the human condition.” There are still big jokes and crazy twists and the like, but it’s now an “as serious as it can be” comic. It’s a work of art and makes art for art’s sake. It’s not just about the silly internet stuff; it’s also about the purposeless internet stuff. The central story is about the internet and the effects it has on people and the actions people take to combat the effects, and how this has been shaped by the mental illness and depression of a creator, and how this theme is consistent with the entire story.
It’s good. I like it. Aesthetically, I think it’s very good.
Sounds great! Every thing has some flaws, though… What are Homestuck’s worst aspects?
Finally did finish Modern Cannibals. By the end my overall feelings about it were much less uncomplicatedly positive than before, though I was no less impressed with the sheer genuine-article capital-A fucking Artistry of the thing, like holy shit, what a performance
Below are some vague purple lowercase ramblings on this topic, which I wrote on Discord and am copy/pasting here. Technically no plot spoilers there, but I recommend behaving as though there were