Question: Hey hiveswap team and @skullmandible, confirm Lanque as a trans boy yes/no? In Meat, the story blasts through at a lightning pace, but the characters we love get thrown into the background as the story concerns itself more and more with Dirk and Calliope. 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. Although dogfighting is a felony in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, it continues to occur in every part of the country and in every type of community. 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. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. As Zhens, who also goes by Z, crusade grows, she continues to grapple with the responsibility that comes with inspiring such a snowballing movement. Please enter a valid email and try again. Its not that I think people should, its that everyone already knows they should, he said. "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---." The self-ingratiating, self-referential, over-indulgent drivel that poured onto the page? If you dont write often and consequently dont think of story length in terms of word count (what are you, a normal person? He doesnt let characters act like their nature would suggest, and instead manipulates them to fulfill some larger purpose. ships, god tier classpect theories, and vriska seem to be the biggest controversies. Back then, fans popularized in-character discussions where fans could roleplay characters through an online chat. Homestuck fan here, Point 1: Homestuck is 'problematic' in the way that many people are beginning to dislike. 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. I'd never had a Fruit Gusher. In her article, How Twitter can ruin a life Emily VanDerWerff tells the story of an anonymous writer turned enemy of the internet, and how just a pseudonym and a birth year gave people on Twitter enough fuel to bully the author out of writing. Post-Scratch Troll society is not presented as good. The back half of the comic focuses on (in the most charitable definition of the word focus) the fight to stop Lord English. It was a joke/was supposed to be weird/the character doing the thing was supposed to look bad for it. But Hussie questions those practices as a form of fandom, and redefines what the word really means today. 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. This fits in with the medical model of ableism, described on stopableism.org as: The power to change disabled people seems to lie with the medical and associated professions, with their talk of cures, normalization, and science.This enormous crime that they do to Tavros is never critiqued or addressed as problematic in any way; instead it is brushed off as being perfectly acceptable, like every other instance of ableism in Homestuck. Because automatic fire is inaccurate. And then they win the third time, after John rewrites the story to make that happen, and finally get to go to a new universe and live happily ever after. 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. Oops. I can come to my own conclusions. 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, Yeah, I get it. Homestuck feels like a glorified, expensive, vaguely ornery version of my childhood game. Homestuck itself. or have experienced the same thing? Sure, I guess. Hussie built a career by spinning dramatic and bumbling tales of the onslaughts of online life. The solid sales performance also lifted the food retailer's profit margins. Homestuck tends to congregate in large groups that can cause problems at conventions. "Babyed or harassed"? God I cant stand moral guardians like that. This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. Calliope isnt the protagonist to Dirks antagonism, they are equal and opposite forces that corrode the narrative from different directions. Originally the Black Queen of the trolls' incipisphere, after exile to Alternia and took the title of Banished Quasiroyal. WebRead MS Paint Adventures. I expected good arguments and I see the same one used 3 times in a row. 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. 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. Alternia, at least at first, is a dark joke about our real-world society. WebThe implosion of Silvergate Bank has a lot to do with the fact that it was crypto's bank of choice. We are currently experiencing a system-wide issue with a delay on all activations. Fuck you. 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. 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. The very same iteration of Vriska that is also 13. Yeah, we all have seen that one before. I perhaps havent heard from Jane fans because they dont really exist, but you get my point. About number 12, according to ARquiussprite, they are there for some reason. The fact that they changed it is what's wrong. Im all for fair criticism, but this aint it. If you have an argument other than deformed kids (which I just said they shouldn't have), go ahead and try to change my mind. By doing this, Andrew Hussie and his collaborators admit to writing fanfiction of their own story. Rufioh, dead 19 year old hitting on aradiabot, aka aradia as a permanent dead 13 year old. Web1. So here's the deal: I've got a podcast that generally covers internet oddities. Sometimes it is presented as pretty damn funny, but it's blacker-than-spades humour. Johns relationship with Terezi, which really only existed in the last 50 pages of the comic, was apparently always the better option? Peachy is a better joke anyway (because fruits). Please attribute any perceived bias as poor phrasing on my part, rather than a statement of opinion. (EVRYTHING IS CANON. What video games and movies dont depict correctly is the insane recoil automatic fire causes. On the damn writing team. The only challenge to his control over the story is presented by Calliope, the dead, all-powerful sister to Lord English I mentioned earlier. 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. So, Hussie himself condradicted well, himself. Be prepared. I dont know what to say or think about any of this at this point. Please explain. When it was met with backlash, whatpumpkin changed his answer to spades/snowman, You know what? 13. Oh, and all troll sex is incest by human standards. We apologize for this inconvenience, & our engineers are working diligently to get this resolved ASAP. The NSFW route, hes a complete douchewad, bullying Lynera and trying to pressure you into drugs and sex. 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. I saw a lot of promise in Johns relationship with Roxy. 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. Many fans were already disappointed with the comics canon ending. Yet hes made multiple, incredibly racist characters that are heavily based on disgusting caricatures and stereotypes. She, like Dirk, and like all authors, decides what is relevant and what isnt. 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? Ill get upset of my own accord. Character development is important, but youre not a good author if your story is just 100 thousand words of characters dicking around and having repetitive conversations. Sprouts' operating income surged 20% to $62 million. When I did that I had a problem with the paginate laravel 8 UI getting messy and somehow it happened. The outfits Jade is wearing is her outfit she wore when she was 13, implying her age in the art. This magic carpet ride of analytical post-epilogue Homestuck fan content has left you feeling exhilarated and yet hungry for more. Given the comics exponential trajectory it set for itself early on, it had to get this meta at some point. I don't agree with the original doc, but yes, OP wrote a terribly annoying post. 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. As your cursor (or thumb) toggles feverishly between the two links, a third option beckons. MSPA is an epic sprawling online webcomics creation by Andrew Hussie (and supporting artists.) There was some controversy when homestuck first came out. Unless you believe the existence of these controversies is a matter of opinion, as I'm willing to firmly disagree with you on that matter. When I read that, I remember scoffing. 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. WebPhillip Faraone/Getty Images. Im not even going to get into their relentless support of ikimaru, the terrible treatment and handling of canonically gay characters, the overall grossness of the quadrant system, Another epilogue has been released as an official fanfiction, some of the tags are jokes, some are not, and im personally not at all interested in finding out which is real and which arent. 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. An exciting plot is all fine and good, but no one is buying into that if your characters are nothing but paper puppets, acting in any way that moves the plot forward. As long as he is in a certain proximity of the storys events, he not only becomes the narrator (literally already been done), but the author himself, capable of willing events into the story simply by narrating them to himself. I feel like you had "better" things to say than I did. Its impossible to talk about Hussies sentiments toward his following without discussing the following itself. Even considering the medium of the text itself, its a remarkably online object. March 3, 2023. Hes just a cis man. The impressive thing is, these couldve easily just been throw-away, cheap, forced, gags. 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. The music from this one little animation tells the story just as much as anything on screen does. Dividend Yield. Oh don't worry, I always planned to cover PEACHY. Who the fuck writes in second person? And then Obama shows up. I know that Im asking questions, and sometimes thats good enough. So to that end I'd like to know what events caused the biggest splash with fans. To him, a reluctant cult leader will withdraw from the spotlight and rarely address their followers. And finally heres the part that really seals the deal. The language used might seem lamentable to a young person today, but much of Homestuck is a product of its time. So, no matter how much the story frustrates me or how disappointed I get, I feel like I have to look at it in some way. Why didn't you bring it up then? This process, known as review-bombing, has been used for both good and bad causes. The same can be said for any cultist.. She takes her time, narrating with a kind of dry, verbose voice. Still, I think after a bit, writers that stick with it eventually realize these early influences never leave them. Also this sexual line of chixies (just grab my bulge and deepthroat it). Half of his comments are "N-NO, YOU?" Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is the latest product to feel the review bomb burn. Yeah, honestly the content of these docs probably says a lot more about the author of them they they do anything about Andrew Hussie. Firstly, there is no total concensus within the text or with the characters. 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. She rapes Jake and then marries him because they had sex. To beat the game, they have to interact with the game worlds characters, and with a disgruntled group of internet trolls. By the time I was up to date with Homestuck, it was a fair ways in and even then I didn't really participate in the fandom so no event is too big or too obvious to mention. Press J to jump to the feed. I don't think writing off Hussie as a person for his work is at all fair. 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. His comic, Homestuck, published under the website MS Paint Adventures, followed a group of teens who accidentally brought about the end of the world with a copy of a video game. 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. In case it matters, I live in Europe and I have seen like 6 or 7 black people in my entire life. The fact that Jewish people are often depicted as having horns as a negative stereotype is a fact i didnt know until this lovely anon brought it to my attention, so that adds onto the antisemitism presented by hiveswap/friendsim! 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 can only say that theyre interesting to consider if you happened to have read them. It is easy to wonder how connected the two things are, and to wonder why one of the very, very few disabled characters has to also be a social outcast. As far as controversies contained within the fandom go, there's only one big one that I can think of. He forces Jake to admit he loves him just to get the satisfaction of embarrassing him and destroying his heart, and he consistently and purposefully misgenders Roxy. And in this one Mituna himself just kind of sexually harrasses Meenah. Ill give credit where credit is due, and then some. Time to be controversial here. According to the definitions posted above, ableism occurs when society considers the non-disabled as the standard for living, and the disabled are marginalizedand Tavros is constantly marginalized as an other throughout his presence in Homestuck. Its upsetting to read either way. No one considered it a slur yet. This Mo Black guy seems to know what hes talking about, you think. The Google docs had like 2 or 3 good points and the rest is just bullshit. But mainly I was relieved to see the protests happen, because it answered a more fundamental question I had before starting on this story, which was wondering whether the country had any real fight in it., And while the writer says he saw this nation-wide spark as a very positive development, he wondered if this was even a story that needed telling anymore., In the end, he decided it was. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. This doesn't excuse every instance, but Homestuck generally invites its readers to think critically about what's being said. Hell no. It seems selecting it will save you from having to look at this awful parody gag FOR ANOTHER GODDAMN SECOND. WebHomestuck 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. From a human perspective, she's an unmistakably gay character. The Meat/Candy dichotomy is one Hussie developed for himself long before the release of the epilogues. Like the story isnt coy about it. 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 figure of revolution in the eyes of Hussies story is in fact, an influencer. While the kickstarter itself was controversial due to how much money it raised, despite Hussie having never made a game before. 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). Sure, their bodies didn't change, but don't you dare say ghosts don't mature mentally. to clarify my stance im a big homestuck fan im a big fan of toby foxs work im criticizing people who think homestuck is "too problematic" but think toby is "good and clean and safe" hes just as fucked up as the rest of us /pos. As both of the characters are canonically gay many people consider it erasing their sexuality to put them in heterosexual pairings in fanfic. At time of publication, there are roughly 57,000 works of fanfiction dedicated to the series on Archive of Our Own. This is silly on a few levels. It aims to find out the shortest path during a salesman visiting cities below illustration. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. (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. i have the moral authority. To start, the music created in the making of, and parallel to Homestuck is simply incredible. Also feel free to send me ideas of things youd like me to cover! Im a shipper at heart I mean I like reading well-developed relationships. Pyscholonials doesnt give in to hopelessness. As he comes to better understand and accept himself for who he is, the homophobia fades from his vocabulary, he opens up to people, and allows more of his vulnerabilities to show though. 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 than to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. So what fills that vacuum is rampant speculation. Buckets, apparently someone threw one at a Karkat at a convention. I think one of the most impressive things about the webcomics music is how much of it there is (a lot of much there is, thats how much). In the final act of Homestuck were told the artifact defeats Lord English, and were told he dies after getting sunk in a black hole. Agreed. Some of my other favorites among Homestucks ten main albums and many more side-releases include Unite Synchronization, Derse Dreamers, I Dont Want to Miss A Thing, At the Price of Oblivion, and Showtime. 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. Hearing that person use the word r*****ation made me so uncomfortable because r**ard is a slur and shouldnt be used no matter what. It also has an unprecidented degree of fan interaction laced throughout the comic, with readers being invited in through suggesting actions, names, and other content; producing art and music; and headcanons later 'canonised' or 'debunked'. Maybe it would help if I knew what "AAVE" is, though. Thats how obsessive preoccupation works, and its an accelerator of these forms of online cultism. Damara speaks in broken english, and her japanese is straight from google translate. On a scarier note, fans have even gone as far as to find Hussies brothers social media accounts, according to those who posted it. OK, so who cares how old they were when they died? Elwurd falls into the predatory lesbian stereotype. Wi-Fi 6E is the latest Wi-Fi technology that provides faster speeds, lower latency, and improved overall network performance. Like who? But it's also a prime example of the hidden insolvency that exists across much of the banking sector. But each one is again key to understanding the story being told, fully integrated into comic. This caused such a huge blowup in the fandom that Hussie eventually changed the line to "I feel so peachy". This is not so much directed at you, fiveforchaos, but since this sort of misconception comes up frequently I figured I might as well step in. Rather than being a swapped preference, it is a more exacting preference. 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. On revolution, telling stories, and logging off. Music is so integral to the experience of Homestuck Id argue the story doesnt work without it. The end credits and post-end credits content were released in the style of Snapchat posts. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. and the other half is him being completely oblivious to what the original poster means. At this point in the web-comic, they fix Tavros. Enjoying or creating 'problematic' media does not equate to endorsement. Homestuck is two or three biggish novels' worth of illustrated text, And then it turns out the game is like a universe reproductive system, with the win state being to make a new universe. 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. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Her "whole deal is being a lesbian"? Dividend Yield. The character doesn't exist though, the author made them say it. 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