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oomf said she looked a little bit space age... i think she needs black tights but i understand having normie outfits is simply the timeline aesthetic

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hello dingo-- re: the search bar, homestuck dot com is down again and searching "behemoth" in the unofficial collection only showed me page 4004 which does not say anything about christmas.

what works is going to mspaintadventures dot com/ newindex.php?search=6_2 (6_1 is acts 1-4, 6_2 is act 5, and 6_3 is act 6) and using control f to find it! i was able to find two mentions of christmas-specific behemoth leavings this way, and three others (one in 6_1. there were no instances found of the word behemoth in 6_3)

@ the other anon i hope this is helpful to you!

yeah the old homestuck site has its own crude but very functional version of the search if you guys ever need it :)

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when was behemoth leavings that doesn't ring a bell

page 2567 when karkat describes troll christmas traditions

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homestuck having a single poop gag in it

same people who hated marvus for the clowndiaperfest ig

ok it's been too long since i read friendsim to comment objectively on whether or not the marvus diaper stuff was funny or not but let me be clear this is not me saying any and all poop jokes are funny

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I've never been able to think deeply about homestuck besides I like watching that guy go, I wonder why they did that. So it's refreshing to see your takes compared to others who are like 90% vitriol or make up things just because they don't like a guy

im about to be nearly 30 years old i dont have the time remaining on this earth to be engaging with stuff based on the negative emotions it makes me feel. i am here to like things

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why do so many of the people who are too stupid for homestuck seem to take specific umbrage with the throwaway "behemoth leavings" joke. like homestuck having a single poop gag in it is their own personal D-Day

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got jumpscared by the fused roxy hair bc i reread uzumaki recently

GET SCARED

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hey did you ever get into rotmnt

i don rly watch cartoons no

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wait okay i feel stupid as hell but… why are we saying Vriska *retconned* anything?? i know we’re seeing Jane and Jake on the ship when they previously were thought to be in wherever Catnapped takes place but why does that have to be something Vriska did? HOW would that be something Vriska did? then there’s John’s letters burning up, and… honestly i don’t understand what’s going on there but assuming Vriska’s blastoff set them on fire, where does that = retcon? this is a genuine question because i’m sure i’m just missing something obvious but i don’t Get It

to recap:

Vriska's journey is immediately preceded by Calliope and Karkat agreeing that rewrites and retcons "are a little amateurish", so the fact that things are immediately changed about the timeline is set up as an ironic subversion. James Roach even lampshades the fact that things are different now in the monthly check-in that came with the update.

the exact meaning of the burning letters is not clear, but it happens with the exact same flash of red that changes the colour of the planet Deltritus, indicating that Vriska's presence is changing things. the fact that the ship pulses with strange energy as Vriska passes through it and Jane and Jake appear right after this phenomenon is really only icing on the cake

we can see that the update is about Vriska's journey, we know that Vriska has just come into possession of some new powers that have a much higher level of influence on the cosmic level than Vriska has had before, and even if we didn't yet know what those powers were her journey within the Plot Point has already set us up to expect that they will have something to do with shaking up our expectations and/or subverting the kind of narrative influence we previously understood the Thief of Light to have.

Jasprose's last appearance was on page 666, collaborating in some way with Davepeta on Jane and Vriska's simultaneous therapy quests. so the idea that the two characters' arcs would be intertwined in such a way had already been seeded before Jasprose appeared in this addendum

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who else getting sucked right back into hell this 4/13

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What happens if hemera has both eyes open. Does everyone explode.

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lime-bloods needs a new pinned post (i have a pretty clear idea on what it's gonna be i just need to find the time to write it all) partly because of how heavily my previous "definitive understanding" of homestuck leaned on the essentialism aspect LOL. obv i think to understand homestuck you do need to engage meaningfully WITH the essentialism but my current approach is a lot more focused on questioning it rather than accepting it as straight up truth. + i've already talked about this in longform over on the other blog but i do also think this has something to do with the different philosophical approaches that homestuck + the epilogues take. cus in homestuck i still genuinely believe that the ultimate self IS presented as a good thing but the epilogues take a deliberately more nuanced position... this is all something i'd be able to approach more intelligently if i did a reread though

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It bugs me a lot when people say that Homestuck 'had gender essentialism as part of its worldbuilding' as if it's some accident of misogyny and not a very deliberate thematic choice. Been thinking about this since your Terezi and more recently Roxy gender posts.

the IDEA of essentialism is obviously quite present in homestuck's worldbuilding and it would be unrealistic to say andrew hussie's treatment of the topic is perfect and infallible but yes there is a degree of imagination and reflection that a reader should be expected to exercise when they engage with those kinds of themes and a lot of readers just don't want to expend the energy doing so. and this is not unique to homestuck like you guys don't have the time to hear about the stupid shit i have to go through trying to engage with anyone about doctor who on a serious level but considering classpect is basically institutionalised essentialism homestuck fans are obviously quite motivated to take such essentialism seriously hahaha

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ok the scalding homestuck confessions blog fully is just bait they played their cards too early

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truthfully i dont gaf about any of them but the i do like their collective vibe. like yeaahhh we basically dont like each other Lol,

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Homestuck confession blogs never work because they just became a hub for shipping wars and brain dead takes from people who read the comic thru shitposts and vibes. Tailor made to piss you off

i mean if these people really felt in their hearts of hearts that they knew what the fuck they were talking about i guess they'd just make their own post on their own blog. it's just so sad that they put themselves in this anonymous echo chamber where nobody will never be able to tell them how stupid and wrong they are. (succession voice) can we get them out.......