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TA: ii notiiced you havent been onliine iin ten hour2. ii2 therapy fiinally workiing?
TG: this guys hate mail is fucking ruthless
EB: sollux... you noticed. what were you doing at the devil's sacrament?
TG: fr. is therapy not working sollux
TA: ii wa2 waiitiing for YOU. 2tart po2tiing or el2e
TG: im cocked in for my pesterchum shift boss
TA: cocked iin
EB: cocked in.
TG: its illegal to bully people with dickslexia so have fun in jail
EB: you could have said "dick-sex-ia" but you didn't. bad post.
TG: your dads a bad post
#source: @willgrahamscock#this is an actual conversation that could have happened in headbrain between the three of us btw#this type of shit happens on the fucking daily#homestuck#incorrect homestuck qutoes#incorrect quotes#mod dave#sollux captor#dave strider#john egbert
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vriska serket therapy session
this is probably (easily) the worst thing i have drawn for this blog
#vriska serket#mod 8#daily vriska serket#vriska#daily vriska#homestuck#vriska homestuck#homestuck vriska#rose lalonde#rose#rose homestuck#homestuck rose#dont quote me on that im sure ive drawn worse#blood tw#fantasy blood
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#home#homestuck#life#people#friends#pack#family#love#libertad#quote#quotes#daily life#illustration#life quotes#poetry love#book quotes#bookworm#bookstore#grey#blue#realise#reality
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Dream travel 😍😍
#life lessons#student life#half life#second life#life is strange#lifestyle#life quotes#real life#still life#home & lifestyle#life#life style#daily life#homemade#homedecor#homestuck#homedesign#homeinterior#work from home#homeideas#welcome home#make money from home#homebrew#home decor#home improvement#home#home design#homestyle#old home#love quotes
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I am autistic in a way that women find very attractive, and not in a way that women find very disquieting.
I am autistic in a way that women find very attractive, and not in a way that women find very disquieting.
I am autistic in a way that women find very attractive, and not in a way that women find very disquieting.
I am autistic in a way that women find very attractive, and not in a way that women find very disquieting.
#daily affirmations#lifestyle#life#life quotes#motivation#motivating quotes#english#literary quotes#literature#lit#bbc merlin#donald trump#andrew tate#homestuck#podcast#andrew tate podcast
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i know may 23rd is traditionally ancestor night and it’d be cool to bring that back but it would be fun to have one of those weeks too. you know the ones
#probably one of the several days/one week equals a quote unquote day bc daily stuff is really stressful lmao#hrmm maybe there's a way to spice it up a bit#homestuck#homestuck ancestors#meowbius double preacharound week........
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I am a broken vase joined with golden glue
I may look fancier but I am not brand new
You will see the cracks you will see the edges
You will see those knotted and those burned bridges
If you look closely you can also see the gaps
Looks like they were never meant to be filled perhaps
Mosaic feelings and scattered hues
Having all these flaws can still be your muse
If beauty and beast was ever real
I am a wounded beast safe In beauty's seal.
-Colourless
#my writing#spilled ink#relatable quotes#spilled thoughts#lovely#daily life#sad thoughts#midnights#dream#dreamers#letters#night#moonlight#gold#safe love#homestuck#hope#love#heartbreak
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One of those lists of shitty/daily/character/homestuck/gimmick accounts*
*Some of the links aren't there because otherwise the post wouldn't save :/ If you know any others (especially ones that are active) go ahead and tell me about them so I can add them too! (Thank you all so much for the additions already!!)
@shittyjadedaily - You are here!!
Friends!! (We have lore) :D
@dailycaliborn My archnemesis, we play pony town together!
@shitty-yiffy-daily Discord penpal from another timeline!
@shittyjunedaiiy June!
Go Follow them now! They updated recently!!
Multi: @your-nerd-alert (Daily beta kids & trolls(?)), @dyke-stuck (Land of transfems and lesbians), @queer-quadrants (Rarepairs), @autisticaradiamegido (Lots of Aradia), @exilestuck
Ships: @dailyjadekat, @semifrequentdavetav, @consistantaranep, @rajiroxygen, @dailyfefnepz, @biweeklydavekat, @dailysolkat, @dailykatnep, @dailyvrisrezi, @dirkuu-daily, @rosemarydiely, @vativrisrezi,
Single(s): @dailycrappymspaintdavestrider, @dailypolishstriders, @ask-lilcal, @ask-sollux (Text posts), @autoresponderdaily, @daily-joey-claire, @eridoodles-daily & @fight-me-fuckboy, @shittyroxydaily, @shittyjunedaily (June), @kanayatherainbowdrinker (Text posts), @i-give-people-tavrisprite, @findgamzee, @cherubsdaily, @badlydrawnkankri, @crappykarkatvantas, @nepeta-daily-doodles
@carcinoarmageddon (EarthC revolving around Sollux & Karkat, updates slowly, April)
Daily Reblogs: @vriskaserketdaily (Reblogs & original art), @daiily-2ollux (Reblogs & original art), @janecrockerdaily, @dirkstriderdaily, @jakeenglishdaily, @dailyrosemary, @alphasesh, @dailygrims (Reblogs & original art), @dailyarasol
Other: @incorrect-hs-quotes, @lowqualityhomestuckedits, @grub-karkat-in-strange-places, @homestuck-screenshots-daily
They updated earlier this year!
Multi: @midnight-stuck (Midcrew & Felt(?), June), @shipstucks (Rarepairs, June)
Single(s): @shittydirkdail (May), @daily-fiamet (May), @jadeinplaces (May), @ask-jadeharleyy (May), @askultimatedirk (May), @stuck-in-the-bubbles (May), @ask-another-jade (April), @shittyvodkamutinidaily (April), @nepetablog (April), @casanovasaqueduct (February), @feltfreaks (February), @shittydavepetadaiiy (January),
Daily Reblogs: @fillmyquadrentslanddwwellers (rp & reblogs, may), @dailyjudeharley (February), @dailyvriskas (Feburuary),
Last Updated 2020-2022
Ships: @shittymituladaily (2022), @askmeteorbros (2022)
Single(s): @jadeharleydaily (2022), @shittystriders (2022), @shittyjanedailyy (2022), @ask-unapologetically-homestuck (2022), @shittykanayadaily (2022), @shittysolluxdaily (2022), @shittyhandmaiddaily (2022), @shittyrosedaily (2022), @shittytavrosdrawings (2022), @shittyfeferidaily (2022), @karkatvantasdailybutshitty (2022), @shittyeridandaily (2022), @shittydirkdailyy (2022), @shittycronusdaily (2022), @askthattimeguy (1 post in 2022), @fishyaskblog (2022), @shitty-ghostaradia-daily (2022), @ask-that-one-lonely-kid (2020), @dailyvriska (2020),
Uh yeah they're probably dead...
Single(s): @askdavechick (2014)
Daily Reblogs: @daily-betas (2019), @dailyprospit (2019)
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Webcomics at Day 100 #5: Bob and George
Pages read: 4/1/2000 – 4/5/2002; 718 pages (including author’s commentary)
Reason for selection: Bob and George was a pioneer of the ‘sprite-based’ comic genre, where video game sprites (or custom sprites) are used in place of original character art to reduce the artist’s workload. B&G is also famously meta, almost entirely disregarding the fourth wall.
Original run: 4/1/2000 – 7/28/2007; daily updates with 2658 total pages. Completed before Homestuck began.
Content warnings: homophobia and mild ableism (comic), cultural insensitivity, centrism, and severe ableism (author’s commentary)
Overall thoughts:
‘Now, there is something to say of the nature of creativity. How creating a fictional world makes you akin to a creator god. You could say that, sure - if you were fucking nuts. It's a fucking story. It's not real. I don't give a fucking dick's shit how many readers there are, how fucking huge it is - every fictional world is exactly that, fictional.’ – John S.
‘The jokes are bad, the art is plagiarism, and I firmly believe the only people that can appreciate this comic are 14 years old or younger.’ – Cesar R.
Some people on the internet like to spend large amounts of time talking about things they hate, and both of the above quotes come from Bob and George reviews on blogs dedicated to discussing webcomics the authors think are bad. I don’t personally have much respect for the Avowed Hater, but I cannot express how much I love these quotes.
However. I think this webcomic rules.
Here’s a brief overview. David Anez invents two characters – the titular Bob and George – in middle school. Aged 20, at the turn of the millennium, he decides to make a webcomic about these characters, despite having no idea how to draw. He plans to start on April 1, 2000, but can’t source a scanner by then, so begins making placeholder comics using 8-bit and 16-bit sprites from Megaman games, telling a potential audience that the comic isn’t ready yet – meaning that from day one, Megaman knows that 1. he’s in a comic created by an author, and 2. he’s not supposed to be the main character.
Months later, Anez sources a scanner and begins to draw Bob and George. They’re two college aged brothers who are also a superhero-supervillain duo. By this point the strip already has readers, and they don’t like this format as much. It’s also more difficult for Anez to make, so he returns to the Megaman sprite comics, but also edits some sprites into representations of both Bob and George, who become characters transported to the Megaman universe from another dimension. The story cycles through ‘retellings’ of the first six Megaman games interspersed with original storylines, dimension hopping, time travel, predestination paradoxes, alternate versions of characters, fan created characters, at least two characters who are explicitly the author, and other characters reading the comic they’re a character in. It goes from a simple story about George passing the days at his summer job before college, to a huge, whirling, spiraling mess of continuity and temporality.
In July 2007, after just over seven years, Anez brings the story to a conclusion, goes through the archives to add author’s commentary to each and every strip, and then… disappears. He focuses on his day job and his wife, and he never does another internet project again.
I genuinely love amateur art. I think Anez can be too self-deprecating in his author’s commentary – because he’s right, the jokes can be repetitive and don’t always land, the hand drawn art is ridiculous, the characterization is inconsistent and the ideas are unoriginal, but art can be all those things and still be meaningful. ‘I could have made this’ should be a compliment. It should mean: this makes me think I could create; you have achieved something and have inspired me by doing so, because this is within my grasp, too.
Unlike Cesar R. above, I don’t think sprite comics are plagiarism – these are firmly transformative works. Anez rearranges the Megaman sprites, gives them dialog and puts them in situations, and recaps and expands on the game storylines. He credits Capcom with the sprites’ creation, and wrote a homage to the games, not a substitute for them. However, due to the copyright issues, sprite comics are famously un-monetizable. Some original-art comics were occasionally able to turn webcomics into income, but even when Bob and George was at its peak of 25,000 daily site visitors, Anez wasn’t able to sell character merchandise or books and could only source small donations via PayPal. In this way, he sits among hundreds of big name fans who have created wildly popular fanfiction and fanart that’s almost entirely unpaid labor.
Anez’ author’s commentary is sometimes highly problematic but gives fascinating insights into his process. On October 19 2001, Anez included the Author - an established character - in the day's comic, wearing a helmet for the first time. In the author's commentary, he states that 'the Helmeted Author was never intended to be a new character' and that the helmet's inclusion was necessary due to artistic limitations with the sprites. However, the Helmeted Author stuck around and became a separate and important character. Similar instances recur in the commentary, where an accidental continuity error or an out-of-character moment ends up being folded into the overall story, becoming smooth and seamless in retrospect despite being entirely unplanned. It’s an open and honest look into how serial narratives work in practice.
An ice cream joke followed immediately by a self-deprecating joke is pretty standard issue for this drivel. Seriously, look at yourself. You're reading a sprite-based webcomic with Megaman characters, and they were just arguing about the merits of ice cream. I can't believe you read this stuff. Hell, I can't believe I wrote it. That being said, it's a fun way to waste your time, isn't it? – David Anez (author’s commentary for 10/23/2001)
Relevance to Homestuck: [ooc – vague spoilers for the entirety of Homestuck]
Bob and George feels like a rough draft for a LOT of things Homestuck would end up doing in (relatively) more artful, complex ways. It’s often painfully explicit about what it’s doing, hammering its own themes and experiments into the ground via the small amounts of dialog there’s space for instead of advancing a plot – but it’s the earliest webcomic I’ve personally looked at that’s actually testing what the medium is capable of. Anez begins with a simple four-panel strip, and primarily sticks to this style throughout, but from early on he thinks that some strips would look better animated and that the fourth-panel punchline format is a ‘severe restriction’, especially with battles.
As time goes on he begins to experiment with art size, style and aspect ratio, animate part or all of some strips, include interactive strips where readers can click through the panels at their own pace, and include panels in the wrong orientation or that aren’t physically connected as they should be – all elements that would become hallmarks of Homestuck. Characters even comment on the change in panels, and in art style (such as their own change from 8-bit to 16-bit to 32-bit sprites). In commentary for July 2nd 2001, Anez says, ‘I suppose these comics are my non-animated contributions to the infinite canvas nature of webcomics, huh?’
B&G never reaches the extremes of Homestuck, but it’s still a multimedia story. It recaps its own storylines, celebrates its own anniversaries, and folds fan contributions into its main arcs. Prominent fan creators have custom sprites made of them which are included in panels, including the Second Party arc, where a character ‘interviews’ fancomic creators and references their work and their activity in the forums and chatrooms. As such, to have a complete understanding of B&G, it’s necessary to also read prominent fanworks, and to understand its surrounding community – much of which is no longer archived. ‘Subcomics’ are differentiated and elevated from officially-hosted ‘fancomics’ which are again differentiated from fancomics which didn’t make the cut, and a hierarchy based on official recognition is born in the community, not unlike the elevation of Homestuck fanartists to official contributors.
B&G is similar to Homestuck in themes as well as form. From early on it asks questions about the meaning of ‘reality’ and an ‘official’ or ‘canon’ timeline, and explores ideas of what it means to have free will (or not) when you’re a character in a story, you know what’s going to happen next, you’ve met the guy who wrote it, and that guy may or may not be dead. It’s about physically two-dimensional characters who are in both a video game and a comic, and continually blurs the boundaries between those mediums. In both comics, an author – born in 1979 – has grown up witnessing the birth of technology that is going to change everything about how the world operates and break down our interactions with physical space and time, and they’ve made weird, longform, and often technically ‘bad’ art exploring what that means. These comics are holding hands as two links in a chain of a broader artistic movement.
Continue reading? I cannot WAIT to read the rest of Bob & George.
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Maybe in Baby Is You, Toby Fox's infamous mpreg homestuck rock opera that I quote to myself on a nigh daily basis (which such lines as "too bad ash ketchum im gary motherfucking oak and im hungry for babies so get shovelling", how could i not really) t4t davejade real and the reason she doesn't show up is she is the father
#baby is you#i spend a concerning amount of time thinking about baby is you#i havent even finished homestuck#me: trying to be somwhat normal#brain: they promised to be eachothers' BABYMOMMYBABIES#but now they're caught in their liessss#fingers in another person's pies#guilty of another persons scabies#me: -_-#homestuck#toby fox#davejade
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All Homestuck References, Similarities, and Contrasts in the Dream SMP
I have compiled a list of all the Homestuck references that I’ve found in the DSMP. These DEFINITELY weren’t intentional, as the only CC that I’ve seen talk about Homestuck with any understanding was Jack Manifold, and he only just knew about it. I believe there are probably more that I’ve overlooked, so if you find any more, please tell me!
Homestuck and the DSMP are both multimedia creations that had lots of viewer influence and became something much bigger than originally planned.
Homestuck is known for how extremely long and crazy it was. The same can be said for the DSMP since a lot of nonsensical shenanigans occur, AND there is SO much footage and perspectives and non-lore of the DSMP that I HOPE there isn’t a person who has watched ALL of it (like Tubbo’s daily 10 hour streams…).
Dave and TommyInnit similarities: brother problems, red baseball shirt, disc motif, blonde, combined with a bird in another universe, related to a crow in some way (philza and davesprite), creepy puppet (Lil Cal and Uncle Nasty), Eburnean Tommy AU is BASICALLY just Dave (white hair, blank expression, dead Tommys everywhere)
Terezi has Dave make tons of money doing “business” stuff. Tommy had a “business” brand going on at multiple points mostly because of Schlatt influence (Business Bay, Business Boys, InnitInc, Camarvan, The Big Innit Hotel).
Caliborn and TommyInnit similarities: Tommy talks exactly like Caliborn, they both cause most problems that occur, they both hate lovey-dovey stuff that is barely even lovey-dovey, they both have a complicated relationship with women that is seen as misogynistic (Caliborn is actually misogynistic while Tommy has Said Some Things), they both have a relation to That Green Thing (Doc Scratch and Dream), Annoying At FirstTM, both have an affinity for a puppet doll they both recognize as extremely creepy (Lil Cal and Uncle Nasty), Tommy has made his own “Homosuck” via writing a terrible fanfiction of himself, Tubbo, and Molly and (presumably) drawing pictures for it.
TommyInnit is basically the Davekat lovechild, and it really LOOKS like it if you imagine the demon Tommy design. BUT he is what I’d say is a fair mix of Dave, Karkat, and John. -Dave: motifs and situation -Karkat: brashness, loudness, and mannerisms -John: Protagonist-ness, humor, morals, and role in the story. Tommy also takes Caliborn’s personality, pretty much making him the chaotic neutral Caliborn.
In TommyInnit’s quote book, he mentions throwing a frog into a volcano, something that happens in Homestuck. On top of that, during this section, there is some very religious subtext akin to the frog in Homestuck.
Bro’s death is a lot like Wilbur’s (TommyInnit’s “bro’s”) death. Bro is stabbed through the chest with his own sword by Jack Noir (someone with crow motifs). Wilbur is stabbed (usually fanonly portrayed as being stabbed through the chest) by his own sword by Philza (someone with crow motifs).
Ranboo is basically a cherub. The mechanics of his character perfectly align with the mechanics of a prepubescent or malfunctioned cherub. They go to sleep, the other side wakes up and takes over the body. One side only wants good and for everyone to get along, while the other side has done despicable things. There’s also red/green and black/white motifs (though, the black/green motifs are assumed to be the “good” side for Ranboo rather than white/green). Ranboo’s cake can also be seen as his juju. The only thing is that cherubs do not have enderman traits like Ranboo does.
Badboyhalo is basically Kankri. Badboyhalo looks strikingly similar to the Sufferer. Neither swear. They both are tied to religion (BBH—the egg, Kankri—himself). But, I don’t think Kankri has an obsession with his best friend, and BBH’s typing “quirk” is more like Aradia’s.
Dream looks similar to Doc Scratch. Both are antagonists. Doc Scratch is basically a “mask” for Caliborn. Doc Scratch pretends to be nice and accommodating to Damara like Dream was to Tommy even though they were both clearly holding them prisoner. Doc Scratch and cc!Dream both uh, shouldn’t be around children.
Jack Manifold resembles Sollux because of the red and blue motifs, short hairstyle, and Jack’s old IGN being Thunder1408 (thunder sorta like lightning sorta like Sollux’s telekinesis/lightning attributes). Jack Manifold was also sent to hell which led to a complicated death count, sorta like Sollux being half dead.
Dirk writing Homestuck and Wilbur writing the DSMP.
I like to say that Minecraft was the IRL Sburb-that-wasn’t-Sburb because it first became public in 2009 not long after 4/13 and was released again in November 2011 not unlike some other sandbox game centered around crafting.
In Minecraft, a person creates a world to begin, but in Sburb, they create the world to end.
Both stories have a “lives” system, an afterlife system, a revival system, and “ghosts”. The characters can interact with each other in the afterlife in both.
Both stories have a “paradox space” system. The DSMP universe acknowledges that there are other “worlds,” “servers,” and “universes” that don’t include the DSMP. There is also time travel as seen with Karl that also shows us there was a history to the DSMP world. Homestuck, obviously, has its paradox space of different universes and all their instances.
Both stories have a “canon.” Homestuck’s canon is The Alpha Timeline, and anything that doesn’t fit in that mold gets destroyed. The DSMP also has a canon, but it’s seen more as a fourth wall breaking joke. If something that’s not supposed to happen happens, they will just retcon it. We don’t know if the DSMP has a multiverse where things happen differently, and if it does, we don’t know if it gets to stay or if it gets destroyed. Even with these differences, both stories use the word canon in silly situations.
It is worth noting that there are “alternate universes” of the DSMP where the characters do not seem to have a recollection of the DSMP or things prior and are more of a separate entity than the DSMP timeline. For reference, a DSMP character’s timeline usually spans the whole of the CC’s career. But, these alternate universes are not called “the DSMP,” and don’t really count.
Karl doesn’t seem to affect the canon with his time travel. He is a spectator that can interact with the story when he time travels, and nothing he does will change the future or past. There isn’t anything like this in Homestuck, but there is the compliment, with John who can time travel and fully reroute the story.
Both stories have a “scratch” where the world is reset, and the characters reappear with no memory of the world before.
Techno’s false name was “Dave.”
Both have a character whose hair generally covers their eyes in most designs, has dyslexic symptoms, is obsessed with bees, and their aspect is doom (Tubbo and Mituna).
Both fandoms have babied the character described above before they finally snapped out of it.
The Ultimate Weapon Sburb symbol juju reminds me of 4/4 SBI.
Both fandoms strive on AUs, headcanons, and versatility of character design.
Both fandoms have an instinctive reaction when they hear “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
The fandoms of both are famously known for being extremely annoying.
Both Andrew Hussie and Wilbur Soot have used AO3 to make, basically, a fanfiction of their own work. Both of these “fanfictions” are dubiously canon.
Wilbur was born in 1996, the same year John and Jane were born, which makes Wilbur just slightly younger than the two.
Tommy makes an appearance on the QSMP using other people's accounts, and when he makes these appearances, he basically appears as c!Tommy (he references DSMP events in the context that he was there). In QSMP fanon (which is basically canon unless proven otherwise), Tommy is the god of chaos. The Tommy from the DSMP appears in the QSMP as a god. So, Tommy died, became a god, and he went to another universe. Quite possibly, he died, went godtier, then found a way to escape to another universe before the DSMP restarted or "scratched." Which probably means the QSMP is the new universe that was created when winning the game.
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GT: Just found a head chog can anyone help she is just a baby
#submission#homestuck#incorrect homestuck quotes#Jake English#Mod Nepeta#//im going to incorporate head chog into my daily vocabulary
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The Puritanical Eye
An absolutely amazing article that discusses many observations I've had on the direction of mainstream media, and the reaction of audiences to mainstream media, over the past few decades. A choice quote:
The current state of cultural and material decline plays an important role in the shift toward Puritanism in media and art, in consumer appetite, and in the political posture of the State. That is to say, with the compounding crises we are bombarded with (everything from climate disaster to rampant racialized police violence to genocide) as a part of our daily lives under late capitalism, the need for escape, and indeed, the need for that escape to be completely unchallenging and non-confrontational, has become imperative. Moreover, as control over our own material realities becomes less and less feasible, the last lone place we believe we can exercise agency is within the landscape of that which we consume. This has resulted in the consuming public approaching all media and art with a moral imperative — that which we consume must be perfectly virtuous, sanitized of all problematic or complicated ideas and depictions, because it has become the stand-in for our very realities, our very political action as citizens; consuming has become our praxis.
I also love this takedown:
In 2022, The New Yorker organized a roundtable of critics tasked with examining the absence of sex scenes in mainstream Hollywood cinema. Paradoxically, despite The New Yorker’s critics expressing a longing for sex scenes in films, their stance is not too dissimilar from that of those audiences who reject such scenes today. For example, on the sex in Verhoeven’s Benedetta, Alexandra Schwartz says, “It felt superimposed, like a point was being made rather than it being anything integral to the movie”. Words that seem to confirm what Verhoeven has asserted about the drift towards Puritanism in American cinema today, and its indifference or impatience toward the kind of stories and images that have always interested him throughout his career. [...] The issue is that the presence of sex that is not easily digestible and sanitized for these viewers, sex that can not be swallowed whole or viewed as morally correct in some way, is therefore automatically seen as “anti-art”, as without having meaning, as alienating.
The article ultimately states that this Puritanical backlash against "morally impure" art is the final solidification of capitalist commodification, rendering the body consumable once any challenging or uncomfortable elements are sanded off. What concerns me most is how so many of the voices crying out against "degenerate art" today are from young people.
I expect old, conservative fuddy-duddies to espouse such reactionary stances. What are the youth up to today? The chief virtue of young people is their collective anti-establishment bent, capable of challenging the entrenched status quo. Yet I now see many young people, self-professed left-wing radicals, who joyfully and with earnest energy attempt to enforce the mainstream capitalist conception of art via policing morality. It's like Squid Game or Hunger Games (a lot of Game titles): Works that ostensibly challenge the injustices of the capitalist/entertainment system, but which are themselves mass-produced, mass-appeal, mass-marketed works of media.
The independent nature of the internet wrested a significant chunk of creative control from big studios, and much of the most original and avant garde artistic endeavors being made today are made by a single person or small group of people in some niche online corner: the videos of Jon Bois, Andrew Hussie's Homestuck, and web fiction similar to those I highlighted in my previous post, to name only a few.
Yet if the people, not even those in power but random online people gathering with enough numbers, are going to start inflicting moral artistic imperatives on each other even outside of government or big studio influence, what is the point?
This issue extends even past the moral. Simply look at the financial state of many artists and authors online who require Patreon donations for financial security, or the YouTube video creators subjected to the whims of the almighty algorithm. These creatives are forced to generate content of certain popularly-appealing specifications at a certain (usually accelerated) rate in order to remain afloat. Though YouTubers at least have the excuse of being under Google's big business yoke, those relying on Patreon are being forced to dance like grinder monkeys simply at the behest of their readership.
Researching RoyalRoad prior to posting Cleveland Quixotic, I often saw reviews of popular works that described the work being a "Patreon Trap"; i.e., the author constantly outputs content but the story only ever moves at the most glacial of paces, allowing for a constant stream of monthly donations as readers are strung along expecting something to finally happen. The term "Patreon Trap" denotes it's as much misery for the reader as it is for the writer. Yet, the practice continues. And so many of these webfics turn into million-word monstrosities. For all the hand-wringing about capitalism, the systems it inflicts upon people, and its propensity to push cheap and valueless consumption, when free from big business control, why do we only inflict systems potentially even more insidious practices that are even more conducive to valueless content on ourselves?
Another great quote from the article:
Indeed, the market asserts that what we’ve loved before we’ll love again, and that not only will this recursive posture lead to certain profit, but the halo of nostalgia that comes along with it will generate an extra boost in capital to boot. The drive to capitalize on the childhood favorites of those who now have spendable income and drive a large portion of the market means that most of our media is based on children’s artifacts from 30 years ago, and franchises originally made for children.
The phenomenon of nostalgia described here is possibly also a byproduct of the eradication of the avant garde. If there are no artists who are capable of pushing contemporary tastes in new directions, even if imperfectly at first only to be refined later, then contemporary tastes will simply continue in a state of inertia, recycling "what made me happy in the past" (nostalgia) and emphasizing the conservative and reactionary nature of most media.
Anyway, read the full article, there are many more insights I didn't touch on in this post.
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i think this is my favorite homestuck reference, i quote it almost daily
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Self-discipline 👍
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Pinned Post!
Names: I use the names Kris, Juno & Atlas! However KJ or Moss are good as well.
Main pronouns: He/It [Alt ones in pronouns page below]
Main Fixations & Interests: Chonny Jash, Undertale/Deltarune [also UTY]
Secondary Fixations: Homestuck, Splatoon, Stanley Parable, TH/MM songs, Vocaloid & various small things I don't talk about enough here to mention
-I'm 21 & a trans guy + I'm Pan & AroAce
-I run the HMS Incorrect Quotes, HMS Daily Headcanons, CJ Lyric a Day, CJ-versary & Jash Updates blogs! And prolly like 50 more cj related blogs in the future lol.
-Also have an Alt where I just post random stuff & art WIPs if anyone's for some reason interested in that : @starfall-calamity
-I'm chill with asks & DMs but I am a bit awkward so keep that in mind lol.
-I mainly post goofs, art or just random things on my mind.
Main art im proud of atm!
Chonny Jash quizzes I've made!
Pronouns page thing
Other places I [occasionally] exist:
Pinterest | Insta | Twitter
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