But understanding that Psycholonials is chiefly an anti-cult narrative should help point to how I view the Homestuck phenomenon. The mysteries. 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. The NSFW route, hes a complete douchewad, bullying Lynera and trying to pressure you into drugs and sex. Good job. There was some controversy when homestuck first came out. I don't think people give the tumblr community enough credit for how much creative content it produces, but they are right that the SJW side can get a little over the top. Yo! The Meat author, portrayed here by Dirk, is hyper-focused on moving the plot forward. But Homestuck wouldnt be Homestuck if not for Hussies tendency to add more when in doubt, so here we are. Question: do thirteen year old girls have boobs? Flipping and flipping with no ending or proper resolution in sight. He doesnt let characters act like their nature would suggest, and instead manipulates them to fulfill some larger purpose. 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. The only challenge to his control over the story is presented by Calliope, the dead, all-powerful sister to Lord English I mentioned earlier. 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. On revolution, telling stories, and logging off. What do you think? A first-time sci-fi or fantasy novel can be around 100 thousand. In a personal sense, this story is an odd fusion of two allegories. By doing this, Andrew Hussie and his collaborators admit to writing fanfiction of their own story. I asked Hussie if he thinks everyone should just log off. 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. But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. This applies to the treatment of Mituna, who due to the overexertion of his psychic powers received brain damage that altered his personality. He needs everything to be relevant, and if a few character motivations and arcs need to get bent out of shape for that to happen, so be it. The Homestuck following was (and is in many ways still) very involved with the project. The outfits Jade is wearing is her outfit she wore when she was 13, implying her age in the art. 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. 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. 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. However, even then, Hussie thinks, a distance from the leader could possibly lead to an even more insatiable fandom. Could things have been done differently for better effect? Theres a problem with activations getting backed up, & stuck in our system. The figure of revolution in the eyes of Hussies story is in fact, an influencer. Calliope isnt the protagonist to Dirks antagonism, they are equal and opposite forces that corrode the narrative from different directions. 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. Fuck you. Doesn't that make you the racist one here? The self-ingratiating, self-referential, over-indulgent drivel that poured onto the page? A member of fandom may have a good attitude for a while, but since their involvement is predicated on obsession or very strongly held feelings, that positive attitude can turn on a dime, and it can take very little to trigger extreme negativity. I remember having an unsettled feeling in the early days of the pandemic, Hussie told Polygon over email, seeing that probably hundreds of thousands of people were about to die due to a willful mishandling of the crisis, and the population appeared very listless, as if it was about to sit back and let that happen without putting up much of a fight., Hussie decided that the comatose feeling America was giving him would make a good foil for a much more outlandish, escapist sort of revolutionary scenario that examined what such a revolt might look like in this era.. This Mo Black guy seems to know what hes talking about, you think. Whereas Tavros was never given a choice, Terezi is, and she turns it down. I will just go ahead and read through the Google Docs about Hussie being terrible and comment every time I have something to say. So what fills that vacuum is rampant speculation. Cool post though :). Given the comics exponential trajectory it set for itself early on, it had to get this meta at some point. 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 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. 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. Homestuck is honestly a sprawling epic I mean, kind of. 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. How to read Homestuck To me, black is just a color. Every single one of those tags appears somewhere in the story, including but not limited to: unhealthy relationships, graphic depictions of violence, transphobia, rape, major character death, and (may God help us all) eggs. Andrew Hussie! Everyone ends up miserable, the worst version of themselves. Calliope isnt an unbiased narrator. 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. But Im not really sure Ive got much of a lowdown to give. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. If a character uses a slur, the fault falls onto the character, not on the author (at least in my eyes). 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). Yet hes made multiple, incredibly racist characters that are heavily based on disgusting caricatures and stereotypes. Homestuck is two or three biggish novels' worth of illustrated text, Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. The entire story was one long, continuous block that Ive long since forgotten, spiraling through whatever settings kids would love to live in: outer space, ancient Egypt, the woods, the African Savannah, the world of Pokemon, magic, whatever. Fluid analysis allows fleet managers to learn a great deal about the health of their trucks and how well the engines in those trucks are operating. Do trolls even have races? Both options ultimately leave someone somewhere dissatisfied. 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. This translates into the way Meenahs character is written, being the younger version of HIC shes shown to be the sassy black girl stereotype. It is problematic in that it presents characters with unlikeable traits in a positive light, problematic in the way it jokes about very serious subjects like abuse and murder, Attempts to defeat him with conventional weaponry are doomed to fail because he is already here. Banning from conventions. 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. Homestuck fan here, The Google docs had like 2 or 3 good points and the rest is just bullshit. Don't say we didn't warn you. Dividend Yield. 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. Music is even baked into the comics mechanics. By the end of both epilogues, Rose, Dave, and Dirk ascend to their Ultimate Selves. Rufioh, dead 19 year old hitting on aradiabot, aka aradia as a permanent dead 13 year old. 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 36.87%. EVERYONE IS DEAD). Even considering the medium of the text itself, its a remarkably online object. Anarchist. There. Even if you make the argument that karkat and vriska are technically adults now, we only saw that in the epilogue. Or perhaps the second option catches your eye. 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. After the epilogues to the story released in April 2019, the story stands at just over 1 million words. In both the SFW and NSFW route, there was no mention of him being trans. Where does this leave a generation that grew up online, many of whom were devout Homestuck readers? Come on, you disappoint. 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. Maybe it would help if I knew what "AAVE" is, though. Homestuck is the longest and most well-known & loved of the MS Paint Adventures. We did investigate it. (Talking about sniffing Marvus) So, we are kinkshaming now? I don't really care about homestuck drama, it is a product of its time as another comment said but.. OP seems vastly unaware of a lot of social issues to be "responding" to this drama. Im a shipper at heart I mean I like reading well-developed relationships. 36.87%. And then theres this punch-card based, bit-wise inventory system that they exploit to make whatever they want in the game. Still, he said that the text works as a thematic followup to his entire experience with building a fandom. The April 2019 epilogues are less a long-awaited conclusion to an epic and more the last spasms of a stream-of-consciousness-turned-webcomic that collapsed under its own weight years ago. I know that Im asking questions, and sometimes thats good enough. They treat the characters of Friendsim and of Homestuck as though theyre all actual adults and write them like that, and just ignore the fact that theyre all like, 13-14 (and BARELY older if they are save for Chahut). Oh that's what you meant. And then the four original kids make their game unplayable so they reset their entire universe so they can have a chance at winning. Remember how Lanque is trans? Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. Just don't think it's safe for your thirteen-year-old brother just 'cause the protagonist is the same age xDD. ALL trolls have horns. I expected good arguments and I see the same one used 3 times in a row. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but that wasn't enough to save it because in today's high-rate 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. The interactive story of Homestuck strung out to epic proportions it is over 8,000 pages long and ran from 2009 until 2016. Sprouts' operating income surged 20% to $62 million. But each one is again key to understanding the story being told, fully integrated into comic. I can say knowing how things turn out, when possible, is cool. Peachy is a better joke anyway (because fruits). I don't think writing off the whole webcomic as worthless because it's 'problematic' is smart either. Which is a lesson Jake needed to learn in the comic more generally, to be fair, but not while hes an abuse victim. Dividend Yield. Point is there are lots of the same character running around always. Or like how this first conversation between John and Terezi is way different knowing John spends his dying breaths bleeding out, poisoned, hate-fucking Terezi in the back of his dads Sedan. Hes just a cis man. 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? A weekly roundup of the best things from Polygon, By submitting your email, you agree to our, Andrew Hussie, the reluctant cult leader, on life after Homestuck, Sign up for the Are you sure you aren't the one doing stereotypes here? Delorosas constant rape was considered unapologetically trashy romance and porn. Wait, Meenah is black now? On the damn writing team. Then theres this: i consider the kids a-racial. Its upsetting to read either way. The proposal, which was passed 6 to 1 by the St. Paul City council, will have to be approved by the state legislature. Asaresult, the narrative remains incomplete and unstable, and the relevance of key events is questioned all together. So its not that Im saying fandom is all bad, instead Id just say that the appearance of anything positive about fandom should be treated with suspicion, and as if it could become destructive at any moment for any reason. But if you want me to be more upfront about casual forth wall disintegration than I already have, I can humor you. With some of the claims, I doubt the author has even read homestuck, because they are clearly missing the context of the scenes. He is, by my estimation, the most interesting part of either epilogue, anyway. Gross Margin. Not in the game, so I don't care. 164 Followers. The epilogues were poorly received among some fans for a variety of reasons. WebSnowman is the eighth member of the Felt. As for Karkat using "autistic" as an insult did he really? Maybe you watched a lot of Naruto, so your big project is filled to the brim with edgy ninjas and impractically sized swords. Can't say I ever noticed. Moreover, it occurs over and over again, too. This caused such a huge blowup in the fandom that Hussie eventually changed the line to "I feel so peachy". Up until researching this post, I did not know much about ableism, and Ive learned a lot, but I am super sorry if Ive gotten anything wrong in the process of writing this. A quick search on Reddit reveals dozens of threads discussing questions like What happened to andrew hussie? and other posts tracking the creators activity on social media platforms like Tumblr. The very same iteration of Vriska that is also 13. I'm part of the tumblr community and several others. Theres also the fact that the epilogues have no qualms about crushing aspects of the story the reader may have enjoyed. Cyberduds. Cohen fucked up when making that "announcement". She rapes Jake and then marries him because they had sex. 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. ), 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. It was meant to be a joke about the character suddenly having an actual skin color instead of a pure white one. It is the close button at the top right (or left) of your BROWSER WINDOW. To beat the game, they have to interact with the game worlds characters, and with a disgruntled group of internet trolls. What Hussie describes is a dynamic that we see play out again and again online. I like my complaints like I like my inception, always going one level deeper. Given troll reproduction, it seems to some people as though the only reason they're given them in the comic is to sexualize them for a human audience. Fanfiction that places Dirk and Kanaya in heterosexual pairings. Music is so integral to the experience of Homestuck Id argue the story doesnt work without it. No one needs me to tell anyone this, but stories can always serve as reminders.. That having been said Alternia, at least to me, was supposed to be some kind of dark joke about society; I mean their Jesus upon the moment of his crucifixion started cursing everyone out because they're just so shitty. Like I oughta. Why it matters: Silvergate had an unusually strong balance sheet but Maybe the Twilight fan found a way to elevate the themes and feel of YA urban fantasy to an older audience. 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. Ardata literally has a red room esque set up, where she tortures trolls that she has caged in her hive. The flaws of each epilogue reflect the flaws in Meat and Candy as narrative frames of mind. To start, www.stopableism.org is a great resource for learning more about what ableism actually is. As your cursor (or thumb) toggles feverishly between the two links, a third option beckons. N/A. But Hussie was ready for something new, and in his words, anti-cult.. 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. In the spirit of using the Internet as a medium, the epilogues were released in the style of an AO3 post. I wish more people could tell the difference between art and the artist. (As he puts it, its about the things its about.) The story presents a modern path to revolution in which the catalyst for the overthrow of an imperialist system is not the military strongmen of old, but a young woman with social media savvy. Ill get upset of my own accord. I'm not really interested in Thermian arguments; trolls aren't real, Hussie created them that way for a reason. Media can be challenging, but largely it offers a totally safe place for people to indulge, express and investigate ideas they would NEVER do in real life and therefore does NOT always reflect an individual's real life views. Wi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. Its also an allegory for what Im doing presently with Psycholonials. Oh don't worry, I always planned to cover PEACHY. Sure, each panel is a webpage connected by links, but almost every panel only has one link, and thats to the next panel. For the Beta Kids, it's Jade, for the Trolls it's Vriska, and for the Alpha kids it's Dirk. She spends extra time on characters feelings and their conversations with each other, much to the annoyance of Dirk. The protests began, police stations started burning down, and it all felt pretty surreal, because Id just spent a month writing about situations that looked a lot like this. And then John implies that its maybe Jakes fault for letting it get as bad as it did? For this specifically, theres nothing wrong with Mallek himself, its moreover how hes treated. People dissect drama around his work and become amateur reporters on matters internal to his company. Buckets, apparently someone threw one at a Karkat at a convention. Oh, and all troll sex is incest by human standards. And then theres this game in the mail. He would commandeer a handful of characters, and I do the same. WebWi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. And then that ability comes in handy when the eight kids and the original players lose the game again. 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. WebBut, there is still no ETA for everything to work normally again. Usually it's individuals but I really want to spread the subject matter to be broader, and Homestuck is what we're doing the next episode on. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. The few legitimate criticisms that arent nitpicks or blind virtue signaling arent even all that damning. N/A. Then again, depending on the atmosphere of any given moment in fandom, there may be at least as many simps projecting absurd deification fantasises on the leader.. It makes the story feel cyclical in a good way. In December of last year, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter proposed raising the citys sales tax rate by one percent in order to pay for street maintenance and parks. Perhaps youll click the first. 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. So, Hussie himself condradicted well, himself. It's not Hussie approving of such activities. ya. The [Online Poisoned] often even joke with self awareness about their bad internet habits, but [they] just keep doing it, Hussie said. What am I reading here? Stelsa should only be written by someone Jewish. 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. and i think its mostly to do with homestucks treatment of femininity vs masculinity in a way that is not typically done Was it really an insult? OK, but how is that racist? If you dont write often and consequently dont think of story length in terms of word count (what are you, a normal person? Yeah, I get it. At times it is as if the text is saying that since Tavros is not normal because of his disability, he is not normal to society in general, as well. 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. "umm that karkat is problematic? I didn't even know that there is a stereotype until now. Fans still regularly obsess over questions and details of Hussies life and work. 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!) TSP problem is a classical problem since 1832 [from wiki]. And when she tries to get better she says fuck it and focuses all this on the player instead. It is problematic in that it presents characters with unlikeable traits in a positive light, problematic in the way it jokes about very serious subjects like abuse and murder, problematic in that it includes discriminatory language throughout the text, problematic in that oodles of teased ships are 'creepy' due to the age and/or percieved age and/or other factors Problematic like The Iliad, like Hannibal, like The Wire, like, The Shining, Lolita, Dracula, and so many other pieces of classic media. Elwurd, who was allegedly based on the bi girlfriend of a male developer. In fact, you yourself just said that "Japanese highschool girl esque- outfits" are sexual. 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. Like who? Last year, the worlds S.U.V.s collectively released almost a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Artist and writer Andrew Hussie is a reluctant father of internet fandom. Mabye I am just dumb, but I didn't notice. There exists a possibility of me being a pizza. because their revenue is huge and governed by much more than direct sales. Hi. The same can be said for any cultist.. Homestuck is a product of its time, and even if it wasnt the characters presented are all socially inept children, so of course some weird stuffs Gonna come out their mouth. 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. Is it racist? While he declined to be quoted directly, he feels that the video missed important contextualization that he had intended to provide to the YouTuber in a conversation. The text itself likens her to Daredevila blind superhero, where his blindness leads to superpowers. But maybe that's just my take. "Queer Eye" star Karamo Brown recently told INSIDER that he thinks the beloved film about a gay relationship, " Call Me by Your Name ," is "problematic as f---." 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. https://www.homestuck.com/story/5571 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5701 https://www.homestuck.com/story/5732.