#and it don't stop

[nekropsii]

wait since when was hussie racist what

Since always.

[foyle-writes-things]

I started playing my Nancy Drew PAC (point and click) games again because I thought they might be lower stress (my adrenals hate me these days, and I love me an RPG, but can't handle combat rn) but high mental engagement....

Well, I mean, I was right.

I'm not stressed. I'm very engaged.

But I am also up at 2 AM still thinking about a puzzle i'm stuck on that I refuse to look up a hint for because....well, because.

[mmmmalo]

I’ve wondered if Slurquest would get me closer to understanding what exactly the deal is with Hussie’s earlier work And It Don’t Stop (abbreviated AIDS), but the only thing that’s really clicked is how Fozzer’s phrase “counter-revolutionary pap” draws a loose connection between the Ice Cream Man’s suppression of Stelth’s revolution and like, the Gamkar shoosh-pap? Insofar as both seem to abstractedly draw upon the image of breastfeeding a crying infant as a cheekily condescending analogy of racial subjugation.

But the raps are still opaque to me

[hawkeabelas]

you're allowed to say "sex" on the internet. See? I just did it. Sex. Sex sex sex. You don't have to say s*x or smex or Adult Fun Times or s3x or "spice" any other variation of self-censorship on tumblr dot com you can just spell out the word SEX i am going to scream until the heat death of the universe

[evilgoodguys]

he’d forgotten how much he missed that smile.

[girldraki]

[remindertoclick]

Hi everyone! Here's your Daily Reminder to Click for Palestine!

And if you can spare a dollar, donate to ANERA!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[captainjonnitkessler]

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

[hoofpeet]

14 year old artists listen to me right now (gripping you by the shoulders) STOP caring about your "internet presence" right naow. Draw slower and stop trying to boil your art down to an acceptable marketable brand

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[mmmmalo]

would it be wrong to read the core thrust of And It Don't Stop as "white rappers* naturally debase the revolutionary potential of rap by participating." like the ice cream man is technically skilled but his rhymes lack deeper meaning and he goes right back to his life at the end as if it didn't matter, when their cyberpunkish robot world might have changed.** and would it then transform the meaning of "white people acting black" in homestuck from an act of self-degradation to an act of violation. like equius would be mad at gamzee for being declasee but that's not what's ""really"" wrong.*** *except hussie, i guess. who is a weeaboo but his bushido code is the four pillars of hip hop. ** or would it maybe be more reasonable to read it as "dre shouldnt have wasted his time on eminem who sucks" ***sorry there's no question marks tumblr won't allow them.

Stelth seems to agree with you, but I don't know... the story bolsters the sense that Ice is an infiltrator by lamp-shading his design's resemblance to Solid Snake (he stops a giant robot, no less), and the way "And It Don't Stop" condenses to "AIDS" adds an uneasy edge to Stelth calling Ice "an epidemic", but both of those seem to escape the bounds of hip-hop gatekeeping and tap into a broader sense of racial paranoia (the disproportionate impact of AIDS on black communities led to widespread suspicion that it was a government-instigated genocide)

I disagree with your sense of Ice's rhymes being less meaningful. Both Stelth and Ice engage in attitudinal yin-yangs akin to those that Hussie would carry forward into Problem Sleuth and Homestuck:

On Level 1, Stelth denigrates a rhetorical woman as "overfed" but in the next line talks about how his presence makes women "feel their oats" (a term for happiness derived from well-fed horses). He lampshades his attitude shift into the appreciation of fat women with the inverted phrase "whatever boats your floats". A later stanza ends with the consonant inversion "Oxsar" instead of Oscar, another with "anti-Setimic" instead of Semitic, to similar effect. IOn Level 3, Stelth paints a portrait of his opponent as an intoxicated clown and follows with a stanza depicting himself in the same terms. Constant inversion.

On Level 1, Ice vacillates between gay thoughts and homophobia, first by establishing milk as woman (his happy spoon is his dick), then by saying he's undaunted by "non-dairy" ("God marryin' fairies"), only to declare himself "soy-intolerant" a few lines later. (There's a very Slurquest line calling soy "udder destruction", as though gayness entails the destruction of the true feminine.) The groove changes and Stelth weaves between mocking his opponent's pathetic gay sex (putting a "pawn" up a jester) and glorifying his own gay sex (inviting his opponent to wrap around his kingly pole like a womanly car crash). Rather than Ice's rhymes being comparatively meaningless, it seems like their rhymes are more or less equal stages for Hussie's juxtaposition games, alongside their rap's medium-standard assertions of sexual potency.

There are hints of racialized animosity between the two in the middle rounds: Ice describes his opponent's rhymes as "constipated", "toilet splatter", "fecal matter", etc, and positions himself as the cleaner. Stelth replies on Level 5 by first telling a rhetorical woman (implicitly Ice) not to "confer on what don't involve her", i.e. to step off, then by reasserting the power of brown that Ice disparaged: he makes the rhetorical woman (Ice) step in a bucket of shit. Stelth's retort retroactively colors Ice's lines as racial epithets -- and, like the "epidemic" accusation, it recolors Ice's claims of cleanliness with genocidal overtones.

So it seems to me that the central concern is not so much the "revolutionary potential of rap" and its despoiling so much as black fears of being targeted for extermination by bigots (ironically enough, Ice has several bars lamenting the hatred that seems to infect his peers) -- maybe those things are comorbid, idk, but I see more outright reference to the latter

[the-mspfa-200-favourites-project]

AND IT DON'T STOP

At this point, 16 MSPFAs into the way of 2017, we should stop and remember the past. Specifically, the past Hussian works! That’s right, the next MSPFA I’m looking at is that vaulted classic, AND IT DON’T STOP.

First off, let’s get this out of the way: the art is incredible. Of course, this is a given: It’s Early Hussie, and Early Hussie’s art has this grandiose, lopsided whimsy to it that is really appeal for me, in particular. But that’s a given. Honestly, I think the most impressive thing about this early showing from Hussie is like. How good the raps are? Hussie knows how to make it feel like one of the opponents our main protagonist is facing is a slightly subpar rapper, and basically this kind of feels like an excuse for Hussie to just. Bust out some raps they’ve been storing up for who knows how long. You can FEEL Hussie’s love for words and vocabulary in this comic, and I think that’s the appeal of thing, actually. Although Fair Warning: This is, very much, an early Hussian work, so go in with that in mind.

Anyways, I guess this review/notes taking session is short, but it’s good to look back on the past every now and again and find some of the things you’ve forgotten about. Now, if only there was an MSPFA Mirror for Humanimals…

[formlessvoidbeast]

newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

[heph]

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