#best non vriska

[sludgewolf]

Here they are! The best non Vriska!!

[minrya]

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[thewertsearch]

EB: i would like to be culturally sensitive, but i wish it didn't have to be like that for you. […] AG: Well, thanks John. That's nice of you to say. 8ut let's face it, it doesn't fucking matter anymore, since our whole race was wiped out! […] AG: […] we'll never actually get to come of age and enter troll society, and see if we got what it takes. AG: 8ut that doesn't mean we stop growing up! AG: I think the game knows it's always gonna 8e played 8y kids, and it always rigs it so they enter right around the cusp of sexual maturity, whatever the race is. AG: Which kinda makes sense, since if they succeed, they've got their whole lives ahead of them to do whatever the hell they're going to do in their universe, like start repopul8ing and whatnot.

Vriska thinks that Sburb Players are always kids, because the game wants to give them more time to live in their universe. I'm a little skeptical, and not just because it de-canonizes my Homestucksona.

With the scale of what we’ve seen so far in the game, I didn’t expect a paltry concern like human lifespan to matter. With access to cloning, time travel and brain duplication, rejuvenating one's body would be trivial for a non-ascended Sburb Player, let alone a god of Life or Time.

AG: I really think how successfully they mature is tied to success in the game. It challenges the players in all the ways they need to 8e challenged to grow, which is different for every individual, and veeeeeeeery different for every race.

If Sburb absorbs the cultural standards of its Players, then I’m very happy we didn’t see the Quests that the game tailor-made for the Alternian Empire.

That would explain why we’ve never seen any troll Consorts, though. It's because they were conquered.

AG: I don't think we were so hot at that aspect of the game. In fact, I'm sure we were quite awful. Hell, even I wasn't that gr8 at it! I actually just kinda fell ass 8ackwards into the god tier, to 8e honest.

I wouldn't put too much stock into Sburb's idea of 'growth'. Its primary purpose is to propagate reality, and it's probably designed to mold you into someone well-suited to that task, regardless of your own desires. Your happiness and personal fulfillment is a secondary concern, at best.

Listen to what Sburb has to say, if you want - but take it with a huge pinch of salt. I doubt it has your best interests at heart.

AG: 8ut what really gets me is this didn't even occur to me until just now, while I was sitting around thinking a8out it. […] AG: That was why the game split us up into two teams. AG: It knew as we came of age, we'd pro8a8ly start killing each other. AG: So it just provided the stage. Red team vs. 8lue. It was so simple! All we had to do was what we were naturally inclined to. It might have worked out 8etter for us.

I don't agree with this take on the teams, either.

My interpretation is pretty much the opposite of Vriska's. I’ve always believed that the game pretended to split the trolls into teams, in order to trick them into joining one single cooperative group. If we assume propagation is Sburb's primary goal, then it must have concluded that this arrangement increased their chances of victory. In other words, the trolls are better together.

Plus, Sburb has never even hinted that the game can or should be played competitively. I think Vriska's just searching for reasons why everything's gone so wrong, and she's fallen back on Alternian conditioning again. Successful trolls kill, so her team must have failed because there weren't enough killings.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

How would the others feel/react to karkat and eridan being moirails?

Or tav and gamzee being moirails? or kanaya and aradia being moirails! (I don't remember if you had mentioned them in your re-write) or equius being the auspistise of dave and tavros??

idk I like to explore the relationships and feelings of the characters

haha i'll save erikar for last because it's the funniest one

Kanaya and Aradia are pretty much a no-brainer to people - they're both fairly calm and collected already, so while they are serving to curb each others' worst tendencies (Aradia's recklessness and Kanaya's willingness to stop caring about people she doesn't like), they're really chill and overall not a wholly unexpected development once Kanaya's moirallegiance with Vriska falls through. they're girl best friends. girl married. they confer with each other about who to kill. when they finally do agree on murdering someone's ass Watch Out. Since neither of them particularly need the moirallegiance - it helps, but it's never going to be an emergency measure for the two of them, unlike the other highbloods - it's kind of deemphasized for them both, and they tend to gravitate more towards their flushed partners. also, do yall think about how kanaya fights the undead and aradia communes with ghosts. the spooky wlw vibes

gamzee and tavros, meanwhlie, garners a kind of "oh god, of COURSE it's those two" response. They rank among the two most disliked members of the team, with Tavros's blatant weakness a mirror to many other characters, who have insecurities about being weak - and with Gamzee's facade as the super chill clown at odds with their society's insistence on death, murder, and violence. However, finding true acceptance in Tavros, Gamzee would probably drop the act, which ironically lets him make more genuine connections and friendships with the rest of the team; meanwhile, having the super scary clown by Tavros's side makes Tavros much more comfortable with standing up for himself and asserting his own independence, because if he doesn't, gamzee will probably start killing people talking to gamzee makes him feel braver because gamzee genuinely believes in him and likes him.

dave/tavros/equius is just treated by the rest of the team as Extremely Funny. Dave's friends won't stop giving him shit over it. however, tavros and equius keep getting people who go "nice work" and "congrats man" because a stable and healthy auspicetism like they have is super rare. dave is in hell

pale erikar is definitely one of those things where, once it DOES happen, everyone around them is like "oh god, it was so obvious all along." like, the people on their team were vaguely aware that the two of them were buddies, but Karkat was always privately embarrassed by how often he talked to eridan (canonically, All The Time), and nobody fucking listens to eridan anyway, so for the longest time, their friend group kind of shrugged and assumed they were platonic friends, and any weird vibes they might've picked up to the contrary were just Karkat and his vascillatory too-many-feelings nonsense because he's got such a big bleeding pusher.

In fact, the only person on the team who seems to notice they've got a pale something-something going on is gamzee, but gamzee has a palecrush on karkat so he's deliberately not telling anyone and trying to keep them apart lmao. feferi like unironically notices that eridan and karkat talk so much that eridan has nothing left to talk about with his actual moirail, but doesn't connect the dots that eridan is having an emotional affair (i'm sorry feferi you deserve better HAHAHA)

once it DOES happen, there's kind of a vibe of "wait, really, karkat? THAT guy?" because their relationship - on the outside - reads as incredibly non-traditional. it's implied that insults and death threats are, like, just how they regularly talk to each other (after karkat threatens eridan's life and thrashes him verbally, eridan goes "haha i can always count on you for some good ironic banter, nobody else gets our sense of humor ^w^"), and karkat can basically calm eridan down just by saying hello, whereas eridan keeps karkat calm by saying the most bizarre, hostile, unempathetic shit anyone's ever heard (imagine the "are you like, legit sad?" post). they both have MASSIVE insecurities about appearing weak to other people, so all of their feelings jam stuff happens so far out of the public eye that people genuinely think it never happens at all.

the only thing, publicly, that changes about how they already hang out with each other is that sometimes they'll make out... which you are generally not supposed to do with your moirail. actually everybody on the meteor (besides the humans that don't Get It) are like bro... you two are NASTY. more of karkat's vascillatory, cant-keep-his-quads straight nonsense. Eridan's down for anything as long as he's getting attention, so he's a pretty enthusiastic partner, but then afterwards he's always like "this is why you can't get a concupiscent date :///// you keep doing shit like this w/ your moirail. you have problems"

like that's one of the funniest things about pale erikar imo... it's that 90% of the time it's KARKAT who needs calming down. eridan's always on the verge of a murderous breakdown, but what that means is that he's also really good at hanging on without breaking, and it's actually super rare that he needs to be pulled back from flying off the handle (esp. as compared to sober!gamzee and equius). karkat, meanwhile, is always on a hair fucking trigger, so the biggest change the friend group sees is actually in karkat, who's so much more chill to be around now that his insecurities about weakness are being patched by having the team's ultra-strong sea dweller at his beck and call. and like, yeah, having karkat as his buddy makes eridan much less desperate for companionship with other people, which makes him more tolerable, but he still mostly sucks to be around, he's just less in-your-face about it. so people put up with the grossness of the vascillatory stuff, and cringe of it being ERIDAN of all people, because they're like, well, he's making karkat happy.

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Homestuck 2 updated early this month, and we're Yiffy now. It's a Valentine's Day miracle!

Yiffy was one of the most interesting characters in HS2, because literally everyone treated her like shit constantly. Jade's giving her daughter a smooch but also Jade sent her off to a boarding school explicitly because she was embarrassing to acknowledge and also Jade named her child Yiffy Longstocking on a joke and never bothered to change it. In the epilogues, Rose acknowledged that nothing in Candy was "real" and she was joining the rebellion basically for the luls, and one some level Jade and Rose don't think Yiffy is a real three-quarters-human person, and I think they think of her more like an OC in a game they like.

Well, that was my read of HS2, lets see how HSBC handles her.

Oh, this visual is great. Kanaya is so pissed off she's turning into the Ancestor art style in real time. She also kind of looks like Batman, here.

No doubt if your POSSE OF PUBESCENT PUNKS back at school could see you now they'd throw up laughing.

I am suddenly way more interested in Yiffy's gang than I am in half the HS1 cast. What kids join a gang led by a dog girl named Yiffy Longstocking?

Engineering that reprieve might be just about the only real solid your no-show non-mom has ever actually bothered to do for you.

Oh thank christ, there was a part of me worried that Yiffy wouldn't resent her parents for being the second-worst parents in HS2. This is the most interesting thing in the sequels, I think.

TAVVY: ,,, And also, everyone knows you exist now,,, instead of just me,,, TAVVY: And our moms

TAVVY: Wow,,,! YIFFY: TAVVY: You know, i was almost kidnapped,,, once,,, TAVVY: My mom removed the window, after that, TAVVY: Which, um, sucked, TAVVY: Though, i guess you'd know, uh, about that,,,

Oh, interesting. Tavvy knew about Yiffy this whole time? Actually, this and Yiffy's description of him via narration earlier imply they grew up together. I guess that makes sense, since he's Jane's kid and Jade inexplicably put Jane in charge of Yiffy, but he never told Vrissy about her secret sister? That's a bit fucked up, dude. Yiffy's not saying anything (and I hope she doesn't for a long time, until she has something meaningful to say), but her text color is Dave's red, even though she's not related to Dave. Or she is and HSBC is going to retcon HS2's most hated plot point somehow.

Pepis

Look at this ARRANT BEAVIS double fisting those cans of pop

"ARRANT BEAVIS" is a great Homestuckism

The Sylph has been slow boiling, you can tell.

Interesting that Yiffy refers to Kanaya as "The Sylph". I don't know what else she'd call her, I suppose, but Yiffy of all people being the one to mention Classpect is odd.

You've only been around this earth for 15 years, but it's a self-evident fact that there are no useful authorities. Gifted with unimaginable power, their concern only stretches so far as to manhandle those dependent on them, and tangles into ineffectual deadlock the instant it meets a challenge worth addressing. Potential killed for the sake of comfort. True kindness is real, but only for those that bare teeth and break skin. Why should these disingenuous, bystanding, spineless, SELFISH adults get anything they want?

Fuck yes, Yiffy hates all the HS1 characters. I've been hoping for this, she has more beef with them all than even Tavros, and it's a bit of Vriska energy this comic has needed that neither actually Vriska really provides.

Yiffy being the best thing about HS2 was maybe a hot take before, but hopefully it isn't now. She's great.

JADE: and of course you arent obligated to ever forgive me but... i dont want to lose you too! JADE: i love you kanaya JADE: youre my family KANAYA: You Fucked My Wife

This is the best update in the entire comic.

KANAYA: And Though That Travesty Of A Name Is Undoubtedly An Incomprehensibly Offensive Piece Of This Particular Puzzle KANAYA: What I See Is Not An Explanation KANAYA: But A Glossing Over Of The Worst Detail ROSE: Jane.

Yeah, HS2 kind of glossed over Rose/Jade putting TrumpHitler in charge of their literal child. I could copy/paste this whole conversation but basically Kanaya is pointing out that there's like fifty plot holes in Yiffy's backstory and it makes no fucking sense at all and are they going to retcon her to being Jade/Dave's ecto-kid?

ROSE: You've managed to exhume the solemn cadaver of my mother's memory and make her the star of another argument. KANAYA: As If You Ever Bothered To Bury Her ROSE: What does this have to do with anything!? KANAYA: What I Am Doing Is Demonstrating That I Have No Intention To Mediate This Situation KANAYA: Or Pacify It KANAYA: Or Even Be A Little Bit Nice Right Now KANAYA: So Perhaps Youll Actually Take Me Seriously For Once

This is the well-earned sass we've been waiting for since Yiffy's reveal.

ROSE: But more than anything else, I took her up on it because it felt oddly ROSE: inevitable. ROSE: Anyways, ROSE: Deep down, I knew it didn’t matter. ROSE: However we handled it. ROSE: Whatever hurt we caused. ROSE: It was never that serious.

Man, I'm glad that I'm live-blogging and put my read of the situation up as I went because I fucking called it. Yes! I am capable of retaining information when I read instead of staring at the screen slack-jawed.

ROSE: I knew you would forgive me. KANAYA: Rose KANAYA: When Did You Stop Trying JADE: yeah rose!!!!! JADE: what the fuck!!!!

Oh shit, Candy Rose is evil?

JADE: b-but i just dont want things to get even worse!!!!!! KANAYA: Then stop pretending that my feelings are top priority KANAYA: AND TRY BEING HONEST FOR ONCE JADE: WHAT DOES IT EVEN MATTER!!!!!!! KANAYA: Excuse Me? JADE: you heard me! JADE: you were wronged kanaya! JADE: the truth cant change that JADE: saying it just fucking hurts more JADE: what does that accomplish? JADE: its so embarrassing, would you even get it if i had?

JADE: you have no idea what its like out there JADE: how traumatizing dating regular citizens was JADE: imagine trying to love someone who already knows every available detail about you JADE: who has *opinions* on what happened to you as a child JADE: who assumes youre indestructible JADE: newsflash it fucking sucks!!!!!!! because no matter how nice they were JADE: they didnt want to know me JADE: they wanted to date the god of space

I have no notes, this is great and I'm thrilled everyone is mad now.

JADE: so everyone could lecture me again on how "bad" my "boundaries" are? ROSE: (I did that one time.) JADE: you want bad boundaries JADE: do you know how many people would be waiting outside public bathrooms to talk to me about their problems? JADE: this one guy randomly started apologizing because they cooked their hamster in the microwave! JADE: and they looked so sad... i had to hug them and say it was ok JADE: but it was not ok! JADE: they murdered their hamster! Rose: Ugh... JADE: and their other hamster killed itself KANAYA: JADE JADE: out of loneliness!!!!!

What the fuck, this is amazing.

The art here is great, by the way.

JADE: millions of people told me they loved me JADE: but i was never a real person to them JADE: i couldn't let that happen to yiffy too KANAYA: What JADE: i had to save her kanaya! JADE: give her the chance to grow up as a normal kid with a normal life

Jade she's half-dog and she's named Yiffy Fucking Longstocking, that ship has sailed. How are people not going to know she's your child?

Oh, okay. She wears a hat. Sure.

This art is so good!

KANAYA: Even If I Didnt Want Her KANAYA: She Was Already Here

*Makes a note in my "ominous foreshadowing lines journal*

What. Why does Jade have a Frankenstein in her inventory? What's that about?

And that was the update. Honestly? Banger, easily the best HSBC update yet. I could, and if I didn't have DnD in five minutes perhaps would (and perhaps still will!) write a whole essay on this. Phenomenal. A+

[doomsdaydicecascader]

What makes a good transfem headcanon to you? And the same about transmasc hcs?

i think it would be better to elaborate on what makes a bad headcanon, so i'm going to start by drawing a fine line between "headcanon" and "reading", because "its my headcanon" and "this is a reading of the text" convey two totally different things, and honest to god? headcanons are a complete nonsequitur to me. they have as much bearing on my interpretation of a text as any given kinnie stimboard, like. at best it gets a "thats cool", at worst i think less of you for letting "i want this character to be like me" overtake your critical thought

if you've ever seen me argue about someone's dumbfuck insistence upon their headcanons, you'll notice it always kind of comes back to "i want this character to be like me" at the cost of everything else. i've met a non-zero amount of people who thought i was transmasculine because i care so much for transmasculine reads on jane crocker, and "i want this character to be like me" so often takes precedent on reads like this. but i think "i want this character to be like me" kind of takes away from what makes art valuable - they arent exactly like you, but you can still find that commonality, that generality in there.

notably this is an entirely different discussion from representation - making fan art of a headcanon or reading the text through the lens of a specific identity is not actually representation, and representation is meaningful - unless you're in a very specific situation, where your source material plays close to the surface with fandom, getting stories from marginalized people and cultures told is totally different from making fan art of a headcanon, and the blending of these two ideas is like, 100% of why headcanon talk gets so toxic! because "i dont think it's cool to read a canonical trans woman like vriska serket as a trans man" then becomes a position of aggression against the headcanon holder, and not the existing position of "trans women are men"

like, ultimately a good headcanon is good writing - it enhances what is there. and in this sense, i should absolutely acknowledge that i'm very lucky that i clicked with homestuck in the ways i did, while being who i am. like. it's a very lucky position to be in, where i can say "vriska serket is just like me for real" and have the ways where vriska is just like me for real be textually supported.

[vriskaserketdaily]

a fankid you say?? tell me more pleaseee.

i've actually talked about her before here and here!

tldr they end up adopting a grub as old ladies and their daughter grows up to be a normie prep against all odds (chronic "raised by grandma" syndrome)

spider dragon is The Baby of the extended family network of my postgame au, because . . . most of the people who were going to have kids did so in their late 20s/early 30s and not in their mid-50s(? who fucking knows how troll lifespans work point is vriska and terezi are gleeful old hags & loving it) which means she has a lot of older cousins and second cousins(? children of cousins) close enough in age for her to consider them cousins. unfortunately being surrounded by old people means she's a nerd from birth. and because she's a troll being raised by Literal Gods/Actual Alternian Trolls instead of a lusus like normal ppl, she's already somewhat isolated from other kids her age.

it turns out the reason no lusus would take her as a grub is that spider is a teal-cerulean cusper; a natural variation in troll genetics that only becomes a problem in cases where they're so smack in the middle of blood colors that no lusus of either caste will bond to them (or, worse, when a lusus of each caste bonds to a cusper---the two lusii will attempt a fight to the death on sight, which is obviously very upsetting for all parties involved). she doesn't have cerulean mind powers, nor does she have whatever psychic gift teals can develop (smellovision?). on alternia, she would have probably died or been culled for being a mutant, but on earth C she pretty much lives a normal life because 1) kanaya didn't know cuspers were a thing until spider dragon came along (& doesn't cull healthy grubs on principle) and 2) earth C does not have much stratification along the hemospectrum, if any.

spider only became aware of her cusper status as an adult. vriska and terezi were both like "huh, that explains a lot," and never brought it up again. spider also only became aware of how unusual vriska and terezi's relationship is as a teenager and young adult---it's almost like the serket-pyrope relationship is beyond quadrants compared to normal troll dating. very odd to find out that not only are your parents gay by human standards, but also by troll standards. as if uncle karkat hasn't been trying to explain that literally every time they get together. someone has to give this young troll a proper education of romance, discretely arranged in four non-overlapping emotional spheres. she probably still has some of the helpful charts he made for her tucked away somewhere.

anyway she is a private school kid because of course vriska's daughter is getting the 8est education money can buy, and of course terezi's daughter is going to an ivy league school with an excellent law program. never mind that she majors in history. it's fine. terezi's not disappointed at all that earth C's best mind just went into alternian studies instead of criminal law. it's. fine.

[croaker-explained]

dropping by to say hi, I loved the Kermiad, and I've been off Tumblr for a bit, what on earth is going on with the Croaker and his roommates atm? You seemed like the best person to ask.

thank you! I plan on having an in depth explanation with a proper timeline of the roommates in my part 2, but this is the rough explanation (which became a tad longer than expected)

Kermit's been in communication with the coven for about a month or two total, but moved in finally after the fight at dennys was supposed to take place. He never arrived at dennys because his mother brought him to an evangelical church, and got him in church therapy. he left a little over two week ago during the night in secret.

selection of the covens rules:

no non-MCR music, it impedes the spirit of gerard way in athena

no italian food allowed (if you are caught youre punished)

sage will drive you one way, but youre on your own on the way back

Our cast:

athena (mydarlingathena)- thanfiction-esque. Is possessed by gerard way, is a vampire and drinks milton and sages blood. Athena the vessel is responsible for kermits invite, not gerard. Eats flies [children of the rot] harvested from the carcass in the closet. Sleeps in a bed

sage (minuseyes) - big into cannibalism and raw meat. Older sibling to Milton. Makes art and likes french poetry. Was athena's first convert and manages the budget. She spends all the money on meat and incense. Has a job, owns the car. Sleeps on the counch

[ham]milton (lifedoesntdiscriminate) - a struggling theatre kid trying to repent and become emo. The second convert that had to be broken by Athena, and tastes better than sage. Some guy really wants him in an apple costume. Originally seemed the most normal, then turned out he was lying about being an orphan. Runs the etsy. Sleeps in the closet.

recap:

Croaker has struggled since moving into the apartment, because there is a deficit in blankets and he has had to sleep under athenas bed in a cold room (or gerard way) without a blanket. Kermit dissapeared, and the croaker couldnt find him anywhere, even when he broke back into his mothers house.

When the three roommates did their "roommate bonding activity/ritual" tmj took this oppurtunity to masturbate, but jerked off too loud and caught their ire. This is when athena said she had to break him. Tmj since then has had to clean up the whole apartment (-the closet), clean with his toothbrush [he doesnt own one, so he used miltons], and is being sleep deprived by athena.

around this time, he also revealed his dark eve kin, and was assigned mentally sound by his tharapist.

a lot of the roommate deal came to a head when kermit was fed fly cookies as punishment, which he did not take well. This caused him to do vriska mode and piss all over the counters. Sage is punished for the consequences of kermits revenge -- a dead fly (the angel) on the countertop athena coveted disappeared. Sage is moved to the closet and milton takes the couch.

after convincing, tmj enters the closet of the rot, which smelt so bad milton would always be on the verge of vommiting. She observed a 24h moment of silence because of how foul it was. There was another bag in the rot bucket. This according to milton, was "kermits proxy". Kermit the frog was inside the bag. Tmj discovered miltons blog and learned they stole kermit and went "crime mode". He did something to milton. We do not know what happened. At this point in time, kermit is in rough shape, with the damage done by equus tmj to his eyes exacerbated by maggots.

there are images of the rot on milton and kermits blog, and it is an astronomical amount of maggots. The apartment is generally very unclean, and has an extreme mold problem.

Edit: since writing this, Kermit stabbed athena to kill gerard way, athena and sage burned tmj's kermit plushie at a local graveyard, and have been evicted from their apartment. Karmit has returned to his mothers house, bringing milton with him.

[davekat-sucks]

The new update is majorly pissing me off. Why the hell do they write Davepeta like that? I mean, I don't like the character. But the writing is so OOC. It's weird. And all the cutesy talksprites are not it. The cashgrab aspect of the whole project is showing itself yet again. Davekat and Davepeta, the fan favorites despite their questionable narrative relevance. I have my money on the whole Meenkat arc being a setup for Dave to save Karkat from the terrible abuse of Meenah. The Knight saves the Knight and they ride off into the sunset to set the example of moral and healthy endgame yaois. Whatever makes the money.

And fine, I know running projects is hard or whatever. But typos in the dialogue? Come on, get a proofreader. The game itself is shitty too. I had to reload a couple of times because I tapped something and it took me to some inner workings screen. Annoying.

Just, eurgh. The Vriska and Tavros bit was pretty okay, though. And the art was nice.

Davepeta is only here for representation of gender neutral non-binary. Nobody gives a shit about Davesprite or Nepeta as individuals as they try to work together in mind, body, and soul to figure shit out. Instead, they are here just to say HEY LOOK! NEPETA IS ALIVE AND FUSED WITH A DEPRESSED SPRITE WHO IS NOT DEPRESSED SPRITE ANYMORE BECAUSE OF HER GENKINESS HELPING HIM BOTTLE IT UP AGAIN! SO IT'S ALL OKAY NOW!!!! Plus they continue to exaggerate on Nepeta's playfulness despite there is times she can be serious. Would they really go to say the MEENAH is the one abusive? Or are they going to say this because she tried to groom him years back? It ain't escaping the fact that according to Patreon posts, THEY FUCKED. Plus, nothing on screen or even in Patreon posts had shown Meenah abuse. At best, it is trying to set up that Karkat will move on from Meenah to go be with Dave and Meenah will support him because they are besties. That kind of cliche crap. And yeah, I noticed the typos there. They really had to rush this in. No doubt since the flash game is a VISUAL NOVEL. Not an actual game. Japanese players may have accepted this as a genre, but they should know Westerners don't accept it. Even a walking simulator is more of a game because it involves actual movement and exploration. Not many of these guys who sit down to read shit like Higurashi, Umineko, Fate/Stay Night, CLANNAD, or any other long visual novels. Which is unironic considering they had managed to tolerate Homestuck of all things. And watching the anime adaptation of said visual novel does not count. I'm still shocked people are still giving them any money. None of the stuff here in Beyond Canon is worth one damn cent.

[boygemz]

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this is my log where i'll mostly talk about being nonhuman!

⭐my name is peri/vriska/serket and my pronouns are he/it/clawself :3 also, i am a minor.

⭐im peridot, vriska, and i am also a koraidon and a drake. i identify with the terms nonhuman and fictionkin mostly. this isnt roleplay! (also i am chill with doubles, but iffy about sourcemates)

⭐i want this blog to be a safe space for all you freaks and weirdos and social outcasts and whatnot! (yes even you)

⭐keep in mind i have low empathy, a massive ego and am a bit of a contrarian because i have o.d.d.

⭐posting on the internet makes me really REALLY anxious so bear with me.

⭐bigots and zionists arent welcome and neither are people who argue in bad faith (but i would Love to participate in actual civil discussion of course). i am always learning more and changing, so please correct me if i get something wrong.

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i dont really think dnis work, all i will say is that i will block how i like and i will try my best to respect others' dnis. check out my about on my website if you are really curious about my opinions on internet controversies. some important ones here:

i am pro endo

i am not on either side of proship or antiship discourse

i am a male lesbian, so obviously i support contrary identities!

i dislike radqueer and transid and will stay away from it

i am pro non contact, non offending and recovering paraphiles

i ask that mature content blogs do not follow me.

My other 'kin blog, focused on my trollian: co8altclawz

last upd8ed 9/4/24

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this is my log where i'll mostly talk about being nonhuman!

my name is peri/vriska/serket and my pronouns are he/it/clawself :3 also i am a minor.

im peridot, vriska, and i am also a koraidon and a drake. i identify with the terms nonhuman and fictionkin mostly. this isnt roleplay! (also i am chill with doubles, but iffy about sourcemates)

i want this blog to be a safe space for all you freaks and weirdos and social outcasts and whatnot! (yes even you)

keep in mind i have low empathy, a massive ego and am a bit of a contrarian because i have o.d.d.

posting on the internet makes me really REALLY anxious so bear with me.

bigots and zionists arent welcome and neither are people who argue in bad faith (but i would Love to participate in actual civil discussion of course). i am always learning more and changing, so please correct me if i get something wrong.

blog tags and extra stuffz

i dont really think dnis work, all i will say is that i will block how i like and i will try my best to respect others' dnis. check out my about on my website if you are really curious about my opinions on internet controversies. some important ones here:

i am pro endo

i am not on either side of proship or antiship discourse

i am a male lesbian, so obviously i support contrary identities!

i dislike radqueer and transid and will stay away from it

i am pro non contact, non offending and recovering paraphiles

i ask that mature content blogs do not follow me.

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[homestuckexamination]

For the asker about the limits of cerulean mind control, it seems that when it comes to non-troll species, the best they can do is to force them to fall unconscious like Vriska did to Jade or Aranea to Jane. It's unknown whether it's due to having spent little time practicing on other species or if it's possible to supersede that if they practiced as much as Aranea did on ghosts. Purple chucklevoodoos can affect humans, tho, like Gamzee did to the kids, as purples are assigned as subjagators.

Note: This is about Humans, specifically. Trolls can control Carapacians. Vriska controls CD to lead DD to the MEOWMEOWMEOW code.

[homestuck-fanauthor-coalition]

@myusernameisstolen

It is when the battleship Condescension crashes into the ocean, largely intact and still possessing the best anti-psionic shielding in the whole Empire, that Feferi Peixes realizes her friends might have a chance at surviving the Vast Glub. She and the loyal Eridan Ampora break into the nearest airlock and start culling their way to the bridge - it’s easier than Feferi thinks it should be, the adult crew distracted and dying from the world-breaking cries of her lusus. There are fewer and fewer obstacles as they reach their destination; every troll aboard appears to have been trying to evacuate before inevitably succumbing, flooding the exits and leaving the interior paths clear. There is only one troll still standing when they reach the darkened bridge, the viewscreens all turned to static - a tealblood, choking and bleeding from every orifice in her head.  She shakily raises her gun, but Eridan is quicker, taking her down with a single bullet. He isn't immune himself, not this close - but he is high on the spectrum, and strong, and more accustomed to Gl’bgolyb’s murmurs than most. He sways slightly, but his aim is true. Feferi spies the prone form of her ancestor, the Empress, Her Imperious Condescension - the adult fuchsia, barely conscious from head wounds sustained in the crash, raises herself onto her hands - Feferi thrusts her culling fork down onto the nape of her ancestor’s neck, pinning her to the floor. She grabs a hatchet from a fallen oliveblood before the choking Empress can reach for her weapon. Feferi slams the axe down - five, six, seven, eight, nine times, before the elder royal’s head rolls free of her shoulders.  Feferi stares down at the bloody scene, breathing heavily.

Chapters: 1/?

Rating: Mature

Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings; Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Category: Gen; Multi

Fandom: Homestuck

Relationships: Feferi Peixes♥Sollux Captor; Sollux Captor♦Aradia Megido; Sollux Captor/Aradia Megido/Feferi Peixes; eridan ampora♦karkat vantas; Aradia Megido/Feferi Peixes; Nepeta Leijon♦Equius Zahhak; Sollux Captor & The Psiioniic | The Helmsman; Feferi Peixes & The Psiioniic | The Helmsman; Feferi Peixes & Karkat Vantas

Characters: Feferi Peixes; Eridan Ampora; Aradia Megido; Aradia Megido's Lusus; Tavros Nitram; Sollux Captor; Sollux's Lusus; Karkat Vantas; Karkat Vantas's Lusus; Nepeta Leijon; Equius Zahhak; Kanaya Maryam; Virgin Mother Grub (Homestuck); Terezi Pyrope; Vriska Serket; The Psiioniic | The Helmsman; Gamzee Makara; John Egbert; Dave Strider; Rose Lalonde; Jade Harley; Tinkerbull (Homestuck)

Additional Tags: Past Rape/Non-con; Brutal Murder; Blood and Violence; Graphic Description of Corpses; Post-Apocalypse; Alternate Universe; Trauma; Cannibalism; Survival; Helmstrolls (Homestuck); Past Sexual Abuse; Medical Torture; Tags May Change; The Vast Glub (Homestuck); Alternate Universe - No Sburb/Sgrub Sessions; Alien Cultural Differences; Psionics; Mental Health Issues; Casteism | Hemophobia (Homestuck); Empress Feferi Peixes; POV Third Person Omniscient; Past The Psiioniic/The Dolorosa; Body Horror; Non-Consensual Body Modification; Non-Quadrant Troll Romance (Homestuck); Quadrant Confusion; Other Additional Tags to Be Added; Revenge; Alternian Empire (Homestuck); Alternian Language (Homestuck)

We would like to give our good friend Liyuna_Bass a very warm welcome back to the Coalition! We missed you!

[thewertsearch]

Ask Comp 13/05

@garnetduodecim asked: I always assumed jack spent the first 4 hours in the troll session, before destroying prospit, destroying Aradiabots, there were A LOT of them.

Maybe one of the Aradiabots got in a lucky shot, and was able to tag him with a weaker, non-God Tier variant of her freeze ability. That'd certainly at least delay him.

@morganwick asked: So, you were talking about Aradia "injuring" Vriska (post/704357246751113217) and comparing Vriska to a fairy godmother character (post/722100305374986240)?

@manorinthewoods asked: Serendipity Gospels is by Tamsyn Muir??? Really? Um, that's… hoo. That was one of the fanfics that I didn't end up liking. Might need to revisit that. Side note: 'Doc Scratch's School for Supernaturally Gifted Adolescents' feels more like something Locked Tomb-esque to me. So that's really… ah. ~LOSS (3/5/24)

I do wonder how similar the Gospels are to TLT's writing style.

Actually, can anyone confirm at what point the fic will be safe to read? I could just wait until I'm reading panels from after its publication date, but if I can check it out before, I will.

@abysswarlock asked: Ooh I’ve had this hypothesis for a while now but you just said something that made me lock in my guess that your classpect is Prince of Doom

The classpect wheel continues to turn!

I'm married to Doom for at least one of my 'sonas, but my Class is still up in the air, since we know even less about them than aspects.

@manorinthewoods asked: As a sort of Part 2 to that sylladex comment - how do you think the Sylladex works? Do you think that Homestuck will go into more detail about Sylladices, or do you think they'll fade into the background as different aspects of the magic system come to the fore? ~LOSS (24/4/24)

I think the latter is a lot more likely. Most aspects (lol) of Homestuck's magic system are there to serve the story first and foremost. As much as I'd love the comic to turn into a treatise on Sburb deeplore, it really doesn't feel like something Hussie would be interested in doing.

The story won't really suffer without, say, a detailed explanation of every facet of alchemy - I just really like speculating, because I'm all about shit like that.

@heliotropopause asked: What are your thoughts on Homestuck's translation convention(s)? As an example, take page 2251, line "Arrivederci, Megido.": Is she writing in something close enough to Earth English to scan as such to the reader, no translation necessary? Is Vriska saying a word in Troll Italian, which gets translated to Earth Italian? Is she expressing a sentiment in her usual language that's best translated as the word "arrivederci" as it's used in English? Has Doc Scratch secretly been translating all cross-species communication we've seen so far?

Vriska's arrivederci seems diegetic to me. If we inherited English from Alternia, it makes sense that some of our other languages might come from there too.

tl;dr: Troll Italy is real 🇮🇹

Anonymous asked: im not one to dip my toes into The Vriscourse but this one piece of analysis i really liked is that vriska is jealous of tavros, that hes had a much easier life compared to her and that hes allowed to be more of a wimp while she has to be the toughest fuck alive or else shell die

It's only one piece of the Vriska-Tavros puzzle, but it's an important one. She'll refuse to acknowledge it to the end, though, because the idea of being jealous of Tavros is disgusting to her.

@obscureaeguran asked: Are there any current theories of yours that you want to be wrong about?

Confident as I am in my Vriska death theory, I don't actually want to be right.

I really like Vriska's character, and I want to see her grow past the worldview that's preventing her from finding peace. I just don't think that's likely, given her current trajectory.

Anonymous asked: 'In what universe are 13-year-olds the people most qualified to make universes?' well per the beta version of homestuck (when hussie wanted to make the whole thing in flash before deciding against it) they were all going to be 10 instead, i think this is the much better option!

How young can we go, anyway?

AU where the Homestuck Babies aren't sent to Earth at all, and just start playing immediately.

@manorinthewoods asked: Have you played Deltarune? ~LOSS (9/4/24)

I have! I was actually replaying it on day one of the liveblog - hence the several references I made to it at the time. That feels forever ago, now.

@bladekindeyewear asked: Jade changed pretty drastically as a person after her dreamself died, if you think about it— demanding Feferi stop using her quirk in chat, standing up to the trolls for the first time, getting angry, to such an extent that Karkat was so surprised that it turned his opinion of her around completely in a single conversation. Even forcing a password system to keep talks linear instead of using cloud visions to do everything out of order. This doesn’t just feel to me like dream Jade being a “different individual”, it also feels like a metaphorical confrontation between her NEW self and her OLD self…

I think it's both.

Jade's been through a lot in the last couple of hours, and she really isn't the same girl who died on Prospit.

Being an oracle of Skaia's visions led to disaster. They showed her that John's Dream Self would awaken, leading her to believe she was finally going to meet him, but neglected to mention that she'd die the moment he opened his eyes - or that Prospit would die alongside her.

As a result, the new Jade seems to have made a decision to completely reject all prophetic information. She'll supply the minimum possible intel to her past self, and no more.

It's clear her Dream Self's death was a catalyst for a pretty dramatic shift in her worldview. She's angry - at the trolls, at herself, and at the world that betrayed her trust. She's tired of being jerked around, and her tumultuous emotions are making her rather testy. Basically, she's sick of all the bullshit, and she won't take it from anyone anymore.

Jadesprite has experienced the same catalyst, and has also come to mistrust the clouds, but for different reasons.

Jade rejects prophecies, in part, because she doesn't want to be deceived - but Jadesprite rejects them out of sheer hopelessness. She just doesn't care anymore.

They both have the same trauma, but they're dealing with it in very different ways - and at this point, I really do consider them to be different people.

And then on a metaphorical level, Jadesprite represents the 'silly', absent-minded childhood self that got Jade into this mess.

I think this taunt from Karkat hit very, very close to home for her, and I'm sure she associates the traits he described with her idyllic days on Prospit. It's part of why Dream Jade is such a perfect target for her fury.

@spyril4132 asked: i beg to differ on the entry item similarities only applying to prospit. iirc, rose shatters a bottle, and dave hatches an egg; both involve breaking open some sort of "shell", and neither are associated with a larger object, which could be seen as similar types of items. (while jade does break a piñata, she does so by shooting it, not by splitting it apart)

It's true that Rose and Dave's object's have some physical similarities, but John and Jade are both summoning the same tree, which feels like a much stronger connection.

Rose and Dave's entry cards also summoned auxiliary items, but they were different - a cabinet and bird, respectively. From where I'm sitting, the link between the two Prospit items does seem unique.

@skelekingfeddy asked: what herptiles would sally and sahlee have as their consorts? i feel like a monitor lizard would fit for one of them…maybe losas has like, turtle or tortoise consorts, what with their long-livedness and the wise sagely vibe and all.

I was thinking pretty much the same thing for Sahlee. Let's say they're Galápagos tortoises, because the Sage gives me Oogway vibes.

For Sally's Consorts, I'm going to get really funky and say they're a type of pterosaur.

@sparten4ever92 asked: The HS version of Megalovania is slept on way too much, the Vriska guitar adds so much to it that the UT version just doesn't have. @sanctferum asked: Finally, MeGaLoVania by Toby Fox (feat. Joren "Tensei" deBruin on guitar)! Would you say that Tavros had an…unpleasant chronological progression? (btw I do love the bit of Spider's Claw that plays during the Vriska segment, which is (obviously) unique to this Megalovania) also, the audiovisual style of homestuck flashes is just really cool imo @mimescantscream asked: You have no idea how long we've waited for the Megalovania

This version of Megalovania was a great choice for Aradia's finest hour - or at least, her finest hour so far.

It's moments like this which are why I decided to stop listening to the albums in advance. If I hadn't first heard Aradia's Megalovania in this flash, it wouldn't have hit the way it did.

@elkian asked: MEGALOVANIA TIME BAYBEEEE! Also, let's go back to that theory you had about Aradia getting more alive, because you NAILED it. @iris-in-the-dark-world asked: i am so excited to see aradia again and finally as herself :33<

She's fucking BACK, baby!

Seeing Aradia smiling for real after all this time is genuinely heartwarming - and with her time-stop attack, she's almost unkillable. It'd take some absolute nonsense to take Aradia out of the picture again, and I think she'll be sticking around for a long time. Hopefully forever.

@grippingtraverse asked: notice any similarities during megalovania between aradia vs. jack & sans vs. player? 0u0

The best I can come up with is that Aradia and Frisk are both time travelers whose signature color is red.

Or maybe Jack is the Frisk analogue, since he's the one wiping out all life in the session, and Aradia is the last foe he faces.

@captorations asked: please consider, with this new information about aradia, what it could mean for her literary descendant dulcie septimus. please also keep considering this as you continue and see more of aradia. i am very normal about both of these characters

Ooh, they do have similar vibes, don't they? They're both doomed, they're strongly associated with death, and they both have a cheerful side that comes out when you don't expect it to.

@duorogue asked: "You have to give Nepeta some credit. The literal first thing she did after this traumatic murder was log into Trollian and report on Jack’s activities." To be fair to her, when I have a bad nightmare the first thing I do is log onto discord

nepeta hopping on mic at 2am to complain about the hat man (the hat man is doc scratch)

@absinthe-and-alabaster asked: when the writ keeper was introduced as fifth exile you mentioned that it was a little fucked up how the king was the only prospitian that was preserved - i just wanted to remind you that no, he wasn't ! on page 1974 we see all the other prospitians that were exiled with the white queen on her ship (including ms paint!) WQ just left them to go wander the desert

I'd actually forgotten about that. So much happened during the Act 4 ending that it completely slipped my mind. I even missed Ms. Paint!

Anonymous asked: Hey, as you noticed, the Dave Coin Split is a plot hole. We've never seen the timeline split because of someone's choice before. Compare to John flying to the seventh gate, there weren't two timelines based on his choice, the timeline only changed because Dave came back from the original timeline and changed it. And of course, like you said in the tags, Terezi shouldn't have been able to communicate with Doomed Dave, including to tell him the result of the FL1P. Have you noticed any other plot holes or things that don't seem to make sense?

While I see what you're saying, it might not necessarily be a plot hole! Certainly the Dave Coin Timeline was created in a different manner to Davesprite's - but that might just mean there are multiple ways to split a timeline, or that there are certain requirements that must be fulfilled for a decision to spawn one.

Because of things like that, it's hard to tell whether something's actually a plot hole, or if it'll eventually make sense in light of later reveals.

This is particularly true for aspects of the plot involving time travel, like the one you just described. Like, remember before I learned about Doomed Timelines, when I thought Davesprite broke Homestuck's predestination rules?

Anonymous asked: You said "God Tiering is just another way to inhabit your Dream Self," so do you think the things that Dream Selves can do (such as Jade growing extra arms) can be done by God Tiers?

I never really thought about that!

I think it's definitely possible. God Tier bodies can fly the same way that Dream Selves can, so other powers might transfer, too. Maybe the only reason Vriska, Aradia and John aren't shapeshifters is because Jade hasn't taught them to how to dream up extra limbs.

She might be one of the only Dream Selves who've learned how to shapeshift this fluidly. Logging thousands of hours on Prospit has its perks!

[madam-melon-meow]

Are you interested in a humanstuck/monsterstuck no sburb au? Do you slowburn Pepsicola and Vriskan? Does 300k+ words sound like heaven? Have i got a fic for you!

"Dave, are you alright?" Kanaya asked. He looked at her, snapping his finger-guns and smirking.

"You know me, I'll be cool as a cucumber. A little forest fire can't cramp my style." He flashed a glance towards John, who was still standing near Tavros, accepting a congratulations from Gamzee. "John might be a little rattled though."

"Worried John's sick bars will attract Gamzee's attention?" She teased, waggling her brows exaggeratedly. "I have to say, it was fascinating to watch the two of you get so passionate about the art form. Probably for the best you decided to battle via proxy, as the heat might have gotten a tad too intense if you and Gamzee had gone toe-to-toe once more."

"You should leave the matchmaking to your shipping friend," he responded, shaking his head. "Gamzee ain't my type. Too lanky, for one thing, what with all the shapeshifter noodling the dude likes to do. And, he makes me too squeamish. Makes it hard to get to know the guy." Hell yeah, played that off great.

Kanaya laughed knowingly. "I suppose you prefer your amorous targets to have a bit more substance to their form, hmmm?" She gestured loosely in John's direction, the motion unfocused. "A certain strapping young lad, a long-time friend to boot, seems to fit your specifications to a T."

Oh fuck. How did she know?!? He kept that shit on lock, he was absolutely certain of it. He couldn't risk letting his feelings slip. John still called Rose a homosexual, there was no way he'd ever be interested in him.

"Did Vriska feed you some hella illegal gossip from spying on my brain?" He blurted out, remembering the vampire's supposed powers, and the hells of non-platonic thoughts he'd had for John while crawling towards him on the Egbert's kitchen floor, which he'd done in full view of her. Stupid .

"I knew it ," Kanaya exclaimed triumphantly. "And no, Vriska hasn't said a thing. I used my sibling powers to ascertain the obvious, if I might be quite frank."

"Man, I liked it better when we were joking about me liking Gamzee," he muttered. "At least I'd have a chance if I was actually into the guy."

Get him to shapeshift into John, an intrusive thought stabbed into Dave's brain. He repressed it- coolly.

"What, you don't think you'd have a chance with John?" She asked, a little too loudly for a sober person. He winced, squirming at the question, not ready to lay it all bare and justify the mental hoops he'd been jumping through every time he thought about it. Especially not at a party full of people who probably had super-hearing.

"Kanaya, he doesn’t even know I’m bi, if we’re being real, I'm a double-edged sword and all- but I got a sheathe." he replied, exasperated. "I’m pretty sure he thinks Vriska is the coolest thing since ice pops- hell, you might have some competition if you aren't careful."

"Wha- competition?!? " She sputtered, her face flushing. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Now he had the upper hand. He snickered, rolling his eyes. "Sibling powers. Duh. You keep making moon eyes at her. Big ass fucking goo-goo-ga-ga-mommy-give-me-milky shit, but, y'know, blood instead of milk." He gestured at the vampire, who was chatting with the dudes rocking animal limbs. "She’s not so bad, aside from morally, if you're waiting for your big bro’s blessing."

Will Kanaya finally make a move? Read The Good, The Bad, and The Alternative to find out!

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dni: basic, gamz33 kinnies (mew know what mew did ^ò^ó^), anti homestuckies, anti self shippurra, cringe cultfur enthusiasts and anyone of the sort, anti shiftfurs, anti altpurrhumans, anti therians, steven univfurse fans, coffin of andrew and leyley fans, danganronpa fans, anti objectum, non troll lesley gore fans, anti lesley gore, if mew dont know lesley gore, if mew hate vriska but defend eridan or gamzee, gamzee likers, eridan likers

meow fandoms r homestuck (duh? im nepeta!!), omori, and fnaf!!

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meow tagz: art - doodles, talking - meow!!! mrow!!! mrrp!!!, reblog - regurgitated hairball, asks - [S] Nepeta: Answer their inquiries, furiends - meow best furiendz <3, quadrant stuffs - shipping wall, crushes - same as quadrant stuffs + dear diary

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