#homestuck hot takes

[vexwerewolf]

Actually if you want an even more controversial Homestuck hot take:

Feferi's not the uwu guiltless softgirl a lot of people make her out to be

Her lusus is her responsibility, and yet she offloads the horrific task of killing other trolls' lusii onto her moirail because she wants to keep herself morally pure and her hands clean. See, technically, Eridan killed all those guardians, not her! Nevermind that it was to keep every troll in the galaxy alive, a duty that rightfully should've been hers.

Does that entitle Eridan to her love? Of course not, nobody's entitled to love. But I think it's really telling that the moment her lusus is dead, she pale-dumps him. The frustration she felt with Eridan had clearly been building for a while, and a moirail's whole purpose is to regulate their partner's behaviour and cultivate their emotional maturity. Yes, he's a difficult person to talk to at the best of times, but he's also a thirteen-year-old raised in a turbofascist civilization, and specifically in a culture that's even more turbofascist than the rest of that civilization. It may sound harsh and unforgiving to say this, but that's something the prospective monarch of Alternia should be prepared for if she's going to pick a moirail.

Even if Feferi dumping him the exact moment she no longer needs him to enact mass murder on her behalf is just a coincidence, it's a pretty fucking awful one. If it's not, she was deliberately stringing him along and potentially even stunting his moral growth so that she had a pet killer on hand to maintain her own imagined moral purity.

Also, while her aspirations to reform Alternian society would certainly make it less of a hellscape, we have a test case for what it would look like, and it sucks. The dancestors come from a society run by pre-Scratch Feferi and while it's clearly less murdery and fascist than Meenah's regime, at least Alternia is a fascist dystopia on purpose - Beforus manages to replicate a lot of its flaws (and, crucially, none of its strengths) simply through benevolent incompetence. It treats the physically and mentally disabled as invalid in both senses of the word. It managed to produce twelve of the most unhinged and monstrously dysfunctional teenagers in the history of the multiverse - arguably even worse than their counterparts from Alternia. Kankri's pompous criticism of Beforan society is played for laughs but... uh, no, that place legitimately sucked.

Every Alternian and Beforan troll is deeply flawed, but I feel like some of them get a pass that they don't deserve, and number one on that list - I would say even surpassing the unironic cries of "Vriska did nothing wrong" - is the naive hereditary monarch who's too much of a moral coward to personally perform the one task she must do to ensure the survival of her species. In almost every other troll's case, we can make the excuse of "they had no choice" but Feferi did have a choice, and she made the fucking wrong one, which was to fob the responsibility off on someone else.

[ouroblorbos]

series of daves & kats

they are so [convoluted mess of emotions somewhere between romantic and platonic but they don’t really think about the specifics of their relationship too hard they just enjoy each other’s company] to me. do you understand.

[gl1tchypyr0]

homestuck hot take

All of the kids deserved at least one scene of being genuinely happy and not having to pretend to be interested in something they don't actually care about

Yes I'm looking at Eridan specifically but it also sort of applies to the others too

Like Vriska? Full of anxiety and being forced to fit a mold, was she really happy on her planet or was that just her trying to show off and act like it's just another day of FLARP for her which has the mental associations of feeding her lusus speaking of which she also states she had to deal with on her planet as a sprite.

They were all Children. They all deserved at least One Scene, WITH DIALOGUE OF THEIR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS about not having to pretend anymore and experiencing this lil thing called Serotonin amongst all the trauma they've had to deal with in that comic. Yes even if they do fucked up shit in the comic. They still deserved a scene that lets the readers know explicitly deep down: they're just kids growing up and growing up is hard and no one understands.

[boobstrider]

I'm afraid I've yapped too close to the sun.

[thewertsearch]

@chaosorchestrator asked: I didn't particularly care for equius on my first read through, and he's still not among my favorites by any means, but I actually have a lot of feelings about the way his relationship with nepeta seems to have changed during the game. If you compare the first dialogue we see between the two of them to the way they talk to each other in Seek the Highb100d, there's a huge difference in the way he treats her. He's much more willing to meet her halfway on a lot of things, and he's not nearly as bossy with her. It's far from perfect, but you can tell that he's trying, and that's a huge improvement. Sidenote Equius says that Gamzee is prone to violence as a result of being the highest blooded land-dweller, implying that the violet and fuchsia bloods aren't expected to be as unstable as purple. @morganwick asked: So what's your final verdict on the meowrails, the nature of their relationship, and how they reflect moirallegiance in general? Anonymous asked: Wondering if your understanding of nepeta and equius' rekationship has deceloped, if your thoughts have changed in any way about their dynamic or what it means?

If aquatic highbloods aren't naturally prone to violence, that paints Eridan in an even worse light than before. If that's even possible.

Anyway - yeah. If the Meowrails were introduced with their Seek the Highb100d dynamic from the start, I'd have liked them a lot more. It's hard to tell if their dynamic actually changed in canon, or if Hussie just quietly retconned their weird early stuff.

Speaking of their final interaction - to be totally honest, it didn't really give me moirail vibes at all.

Nepeta wasn't trying to pacify Equius, nor did she seem to be fulfilling any rigidly defined 'role' in his life. They just came off as very good friends, and their relationship was much better for it.

My final verdict is that the Meowrails are a genuinely great pair - when they're not being the Meowrails.

[crandairy-juice]

jade with a lil updo doodle. also jades signature color should be a warmer, more neon green imo

[a-cat-in-toffee]

ideal humanstuck dynamic the most annoying douchebag in the universe and guy who Really doesnt wanna be there

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

DIRK: Do you ever see a “hot take” and you’re like, ohhhhh critical thinking is a learned skill and OP has not put in the practice. 

JANE: Do you ever see a “hot cake” and you’re like, ohhhhh yum.

[firefa]

"man, act 5 can't get any worse" doc scratch:

[ozuzo]

I really do wonder why people can't call their headcanons a headcanon instead of pretending their projections/preferences are textual in any way in the source material?

I seriously don't get trying to rewrite canon when you can just... play around with it!

[borzoilover69]

I’ve said this on twitter but I’ll say it here, Jane and Jake became incredibly dislikable later in homestuck because they are the most openly flawed (excepting vriska) and it means the homestuck fandom has to think twice about them to understan, which the homestuck fandom doesn't want to do.

Majority don’t get Jane because they’ve never been in a strict but loving family that endows you with values you find incredibly hard to let go of. You wouldn’t get it.

Jane resonates more with people from incredibly strict religious families or conservative families, individuals who are genuinely nice but trapped because of the world views they grew up consuming and the struggle to break out of them. Stop saying she’s boring.

Also something that pisses me off a little is how people hold up the “i liked you better when you were drunk” as a reason to hate jane, and don’t consider the context at all. 

Yes she did say that, it was insensitive and out of line for her to do so, however she immediately apologizes. You have to consider it from Janes shoes.

You’ve been dealing with a friend that has taken advantage of your good merits you were pressured into to vent about his significant other rather than communicate to him himself. You finally snap and give him the rightful fuck off that he needs, and tell your best friend. 

This best friend decides to hint that they might romantically pursue him because you don’t care anymore, an incredibly insensitive move to try to lighten your mood. So you call her out and because you’re still at your limit you make a bad call, which you’re immediately called out for and immediately apologise. 

Janes response was reasonable. She is a teen girl who has lost so much to a game she was so excited to play, and not just that, can’t be taken seriously by her friends as an actual person. And yet the fandom continues to give her flack for it.

[hyenarena]

the only difference between the lego batman movie and holy musical b@man is the character thats obsessed with batman throughout it.

also using homestuck quadrants to define relationships in media is just so right and correct and accurate

[cyber-corp]

2023: The year of all time

This felt like the first year post-COVID where things really kicked into high gear for me personally. My new year's resolution was that I would go out and have fun for once.

And had fun I did.

I did some voicework reading for a story podcast, I went to a bunch of amazing concerts (nothing beats seeing Weird Al for my birthday!), and I sorted out a bunch of RL stuff and put a neat little bow on it. Thank goodness.

But fuck all that sappy shit: Here's a small collection of things I really enjoyed this year!

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: An excellent sequel to a seemingly unfollow-uppable first film. Takes everything from ITSV, and amps it up to twenty with a stunning visual style, a sonically fitting soundtrack, and a meta-commentary on the nature of Spider-Man's character and whether they really deserve all the tragedy thrown at them.

Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe: The guys who made Pud did another show, this time with funding from the Australian Government! While stripped back in its setting, they continue to provide the same stupid bullshit that put me into laughing fits as they did with their Netflix show. Haven't they done well.

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off: I think when people heard about "An animated Scott Pilgrim show with the live-action cast and Edgar Wright producing", they did not expect "A proper dissection of Ramona Flowers' character and her motivations, as well as her own journey of forgiving the Evil Exes. Also lots of yaoi." Scott Pilgrim continues to dominate as the premier "guy learns not to be a shithead" franchise.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Live in Accor Stadium: The Peppers prove their pertained power as performers by playing the purest psalms in their prospectus from the past 35 years (eugh, what a mouthful). Flea came out, did a 30-second handstand, waved and said hello to the moon and then got up some people littering in the crowd. Their life is more than just a read-through.

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You: I had absolutely no clue who Caroline was before I listened to this album. I now realise that she might just be the person that pop needs right now. A soaring collection of songs destined to become classics down the line, like a greatest hits compilation that doesn't exist. We're all on Caroline's island, and we ain't leaving.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: I kept my eye on this game as it was developing, and it was absolutely worth it to see it come through in the end. Satisfying gameplay that requires you to learn how to combo to progress, an addicting artstyle inspired by Y2K, and the soundtrack. Holy fuck the soundtrack. I just can't get enuf.

Weird Al Yankovic - TUROTRSIIIVT: Man, what a title. Emu Phillips come out swinging with jokes I did not expect, and then Weird Al comes out aggressively swinging, with all the songs you don't know him for. He then did a polka melody of his parodies, did a ritual halfway through, and then ended the concert on a high note. Only the best from Strange Alfred.

Doctor Who 2023 Specials: That bastard David Tennant returning led me down the rabbit hole known as watching Doctor Who, and did it ever pay off more than these specials. A trans woman saves the day and the Doctor realises he's bi, black, and needs therapy. A magnificent close on a chapter of one of the greatest sci-fis ever, and a bright step into the future.

The Hyperfixation of the Year award goes to none other than

Homestuck, everyone's favourite webcomic! Everyone's.

And I think that's partly because I joined this website to begin with. I probably say this all the time, but leaving Reddit was probably the best decision I could have made at that time. As much as I reminisce, the communities I was in began to get a little stale. Same jokes, same shitposts, a different day. Tumblr in some strange way, is not that. It feels less like a big communal website and more like a collection of small towns spread across a large spot of land. Calm and village-like, you know?

So to all my mutuals, my followers, to the people that liked and reboggled my stinky posts, to all that offered mealworms and crickets in my askbox, thank you. "Gecko Boy" might just be a silly lil joke in the grand scheme of things, but it's a fun joke to play into.

Whatever comes next year, I know I've got the energy to keep going. Have a good 2024 everybody. <3

[oregano-gremlin]

tbh i think dirkuu is really funny but Sexy Caliborn pisses me off. he's a four foot tall green sans either get with it or get lost

[umbreonstuck]

feferi peixes sprite for @caprikitti

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Important reminder that Dave and Karkat are both the knight class which means they are both GENTLEMEN

They value CONSENT

And a ton of other gentlemanly things that I can’t think of rn because I’m tired