#artists do this sorta thing right? /lh

[streetlightgoblin]

WAZZUP! I’m trying a new thing cause it sounds ✨fun✨

So let’s do a DTIYS! Anyone can join in! And I dunno when I’ll close it- so do it whenever :D just tag me if you do!

Change whatever you need or frankly want as long as the premise and characters are the same cause

Yeah why not

Featuring the @askhospilabnovela stars as I procrastinate on my part in it again

Secret hidden information time! Because I caaaaan! Aaaanyway

I’ll draw a little dude for my favorite(s)

Cause why not

Little dudes :D

Anyway if you wanna participate have fun! Aaaand thank you!

[fictionkinfessions]

(canon differences)

I think the big one for me is that my main kins are (were? for one bc dead?)... I don't know if 'performers' is the right word? One's a bard and the other's a magician, y'know what I mean? I... am neither and it's a hit-or-miss with having that sorta attention on myself. Like I too wanna do something artistic like that, but I don't think voiceover work fits *exactly* in their category.

what else...kinda going through the list in my head right now. Nonbinary but Differently. One is nonbinary & much more androgynous in presentation, the other I *think* may have been [nonbinary and] transmasc in their timeline, and then nb & still fem-presenting.

(there's also a difference I realized with family dynamics & healthy relationships with their family members but I am choosing to ignore those for my own sake /lh)

I don't know if I'm working things right 'cus I'm still trying to wake up right now, but um..yeah!

#🧵🕊💜

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[hms-no-fun]

have you ever put something truly hidden in godfeels? a code or something maybe. if yes has anyone found it? (fully expecting a :) here /lh)

"truly hidden" is a funny way of putting it. of course there's stuff i've hinted that people have either completely missed or wildly over/under/mis-interpreted. of course there's stuff i put in knowing full well that no one would have the context to understand until way way later down the line.

but is there anything hidden in CODE? something you could SOLVE? alas, as much as i enjoyed the classic ARGs --your i <3 bees, your LOST experiences, your i'm da joker babys (or whatever they called the one for the dark knight)-- i'm just not that galaxy brained. i gave dan brown, author of the davinci code, some credit in a previous ask, and i want to take a moment to really kick some dirt on that credit. because the man loves to hide puzzles in his books and like, idk dude, i guess that's cool? but he acts like cryptography or art history or whatever else can be coalesced into these enlightened knowledge bases that result in a sort of intellectual ubermensch (played by none other than tom hanks) in whose shadow we are meant to feel like dumb idiot babies. it's kinda the fiction equivalent of silicon valley guys who act like writing an algorithm qualifies you to solve world hunger. or like when neil gaiman just will not shut up about how magical and important and universe-shattering books are. yeah dude i'm reading one right now, but i am in fact still impoverished-

hold on what the fuck was i

oh right. i think this kind of thing can play a really fascinating role in a story IF the story is built to accommodate them (house of leaves might be a good example here). godfeels ain't that kind of story, and frankly i'm not that kind of writer. there are mysteries in this narrative, and there may yet even turn out to be honest to god investigations of those mysteries (but what the fuck would i know about that), but if i'm obscuring information i want it obscured for everyone. i don't like the idea of hiding some key piece of information (or, worse, a completely irrelevant piece of information) behind a puzzle of some kind, in part because EVERY TIME a story does this people always solve them way faster than the creators expected, and because in practice i was never the person who solved those puzzles, i just sorta marveled at other people figuring shit out and went "oh that's neat i guess." i can appreciate the ingenuity and the craftsmanship that goes into pulling something like that off, but deep down i always felt a little bit left behind by virtue of lacking any relevant expertise, or just plain not being fast enough on the draw.

there's a couple things that some people HAVE figured out that i've remained silent on. i know some creators are really cagey about this stuff and like to uphold an air of mystery about their work, and while i certainly respect that, i, uh, i kind of, ummm, well i kinda can't ignore how many of those fandoms turned into a fucking hate-filled cannibalistic viper's nest. and i just don't think there's anything particularly magical or mysterious about writing a good story. does it ruin the mystique of the pyramids to know they were built by human hands with extremely simple tools? i've never understood the "i don't want to know how the sausage gets made" attitude because even art made exclusively by one person was made through a process of conversations the artist had with their entire upbringing and the world they lived in. for instance i'm very upfront about how the direction of 3.1 changed in response to how much my own life fell into chaos during the summer of 2021 because, like, what's the point of pretending that it was ALWAYS the plan for things to go the way they did?

i prefer to demystify the creation process because i absolutely do not want people to trick themselves into thinking that i'm some kind of Adverbly Noun. i'm not. good writing, same as anything else produced by humans, isn't an alchemy of great minds. it's a toolset, a practice, a discipline, and while it's one that you largely must discover for yourself, one that can both feel as a writer and appear as a reader to be nothing less than something from nothing, it's imperative we remember that this is a magic trick. anyone can do it if they put in the work.

so yeah, i like to confirm when people are right about things UNLESS i feel that the textual reveal will be more impactful or fun without that confirmation swimming around. i've also broken kayfabe more than once to say, "no, you guys are completely off base" when it felt like the tack they were taking was so opposed to my actual intended direction that it would be harmful to let the possibility go unchallenged. i don't think this affects how readers address the text, because regardless of my own demystification efforts the text itself (if reception is to be believed) at least SEEMS to carry all its own water just fine. but if i said, yes, there is a secret puzzle that you can solve, that opens the floodgates and completely alters how the audience views the text. now they're constantly on the lookout for More Puzzles, so much so that they might not even be reading it as a story anymore. that's the last thing i want, because to some extent i think that's what happened to homestuck proper very early on, and that's why we now have at least two camps of homestuck fans who seem to remember COMPLETELY different comics.

there is stuff you can figure out contextually, right, if you're really observant. i think you can figure out with above average certainty, for instance, Where Lenore Is From if you read all her lines and look at the job she has... and have also read one or two other prominent homestuck fanworks. and if you've accepted that revelation, you might then be able to draw some other conclusions about this universe. but it's not ESSENTIAL information, you know? i don't want you to be able to figure out the entire plot of godfeels 3 this early on.

i know this was a long tangential answer to what you probably thought was a silly throwaway question but, well, that's me innit

[magicalgirlfia]

Okay I’m back with final jeopardy!

And I got to say that the whole monster thing has been hinted at since the very beginning and kinda sorta outright stated (ish) in an encoder message,so if I had to guess that would be his secret (which we probably won’t get to see,which again-makes me sad)

If he were to do the monster thing it’d probably be soon. Like I noticed a while back that his teeth looked sharper (still can’t tell if that’s an artistic choice though like the pointy nails),but like..you can see that his ears when he kicks the door in get noticeably pointy like when they weren’t 3 pages ago and then he puts his hood up and we don’t see his ears at all (which is actually really clever). I’m not sure if I’m the first person to notice it or not but hey-if he can turn into a monster I think that the most ideal time for that would be…idk…right now’oclock. /lh

Anyways logically Matt would die if I had to logic given that this is his fight more than anything. That’s how I would write it anyways.

Along with that it’s kinda obvious that gun probably wouldn’t work. It’s like Rock Paper Scissors. Rock beats Scissors,Paper beats Rock,Slime monster demon incarnation of your best friend before you accidentally erased his memories beats Gun.

And Edd? Uhh…he has superpowers but we don’t know where he’d stand in a battle with the doppelgänger.

Plus I’m pretty sure that there was a “right” answer and judging by the text in the original post and we just…didn’t pick it. And that scares me.

Just the general ominous-ness and the fact that we probably won’t see anything for a relative while generally fills me with a sense of dread because whoever created this AU feeds off our pain /lh (again)

There is no going back.