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scalematey · 2 months ago

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look i know lots of people have said this but i think one thing that homestuck does well when it can be bothered to is allowing women to be fucked up and awful and complex and bizarre. like. even when they’re not the protagonists. even when they’re unsympathetic. even when they’re ambiguously the protagonists. even when they decide to make themselves the protagonists. yeah anyway this post is abt vris

#homestuck #jone.txt #saw another kipperlily post and like i think the reason why im not gripped by KL is that the narrative affords her zero sympathy or even #tolerance for wacky bullshit. like let her be a bit insane #d20 has a rly bad case of protagonist snydrome #and its even lampshaded by tectonya in the seven #so for them to never acknowledge it is like… just very poor writing on the whole #i like the bad kids just fine but in a story/genre that comments on itself reflexively #it only seems to do so when its convenient and the subject of a bit #making the story lack meaningful self awareness #characters only develop when the players interact with them due to the improvised nature/lazy writing #which means that npcs etc are generally not afforded complex inner worlds unless theyre player driven #its a pov lock without any cognisance of the implications of that pov lock #idk #ANYWAY sorry not to derail my homestuck post #im just thinking abt why KL is a vriska-like who fails at vriska-ness #like she hits the tumblr sexywoman of being controversy generating (read: due to misogyny plain and simple)#but not the vriska qualities of like. actually being afforded a complex inner world by the story #its not rly that the IH stomped on the values of the story its more like #the values of the story are bad. actually #flop!

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