#homestuck scripts

[zan0tix]

JAKE AND TRANSFEMININITY: PART 1

IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THIS im gona make a series of posts about jake because. Im crazy and i like writing (will also help me with writing my scripts bc im bad at doing that but im good at yapping on social media lol)

This first post will be about Grandpa Harley because yknow he was the foundation for Jakes text later.

(Take these with a grain of salt bc this is skaianet archive stuff) but Its stated over and over that HIC in both universes Despised Jake because he was a boy and saw him as an annoyance. (The reason he is even named Jake is because HIC just swapped a letter from Jane to make a male name) and this started a pattern of jake being waved off and disregarded.

Already day fucking one as a baby Jake isnt doing gender right😭 his name is a reminder that he isnt what people want him to be.

So he left home and sought off to find adventure at age 13. His shitty home-life already left him with a fraught relationship to his autonomy and control over his life (Again skaianet archives grab that Salt) But he gets groomed and taken advantage of by an older man. I believe this only further Jakes feelings of helplessness and desire to exert power over something.

Grandpa harley would then proceed to try so hard to embody the Old most admirable western masculine archetype to a T. The wealthy globe trotting adventurer/entrepreneur/inventor with female lovers galore and nothing tying him down! A mans man who isnt afraid to get his hands dirty, wrestle a few animals. Wield violence to exert power and control (hunting animals) I see this as his outlet to exert autonomy and establish an Identity for himself but its at the expense of innocent lives. But its how you are seen as successful and powerful living under patriarchy and imperial capitalism.

Though while being this stereotype of old timey masculinity, he has this fascination with a specific brand of femininity. A delicately composed vision, a photoshoot, a performance. Something unachievable.

Its something he brings everywhere he goes. The blue ladies photos and imagery litter both his Hauntswitch house and Jades island house juxtaposing all of his Trophies (taxidermied animals that he obtained through overtly violent masculine means) With his self titled “Beauties/Daughters of Eclectica” (IF THAT ISNT THE MOST OLD GAY MAN THING YOUVE EVER READ. BUT ANYWAY)

Hussie always describes it as “Haha old man jake is horny for blue ladies” but i think the fact he views them as aspirational figures, and holds them in such high regard, Telling Jade that She should aspire to be like them and maybe one day she could take a place amongst them in their elegance and beauty I believe was him projecting; where he believes he isnt able to emulate them because he is a man so he tells jade to instead. (then we see teen jake who is living in more progressive times with his blue lady equivalents and he Directly attempts to Emulate them)

I think theres something more happening here guys nerm..

A. Claire was a Ballerina, A performer of a very traditionally feminine art that is calculated, asking for pin point accuracy with your body as the instrument. The fact he was her “Biggest fan” I assume he went to see alot of her performances and greatly admired her for her beauty and performance skills.

Ive said it before but I dont think he was attracted to her sexually, I think he wished he could be what she was. Embody a finely tuned image of femininity he was barred from ever exploring, so he was drawn to women who could do what he couldnt. And i believe he conflated his gender envy with attraction (teen jake does this too really hard but well get there later) because they didnt have the terms for gender envy or anything back then. Jake grew up in the 1920s. I assume he believed his feelings were average hetero attraction and not something deeper.

I feel like its an elaborate gag that Jake made himself into a straight up Caricature of the burly gruff Adventurer Man. His houses are overflowing with hunting trophies and weaponry like hes over compensating Its insanely comical when you know Really on the inside hes a gay man with a great affection and identification with the effeminate and is actually really loud about it but everyone brushes it off as “Haha what a kooky old geezer!” OBVIOUSLY ALL OF THIS FUNNY. Homestuck is a tragicomedy, everything is simultaneously one huge elaborate gag but also offering commentary on what its pointing and laughing at, in this case its cisheteronormativity (thats the same for an ungodly amount of cases with this work)

I find it tragic, poetic, and endlessly hilarious that his final moments were spent Roleplaying Heterosexuality with a doll He dressed up and put makeup on; made with his image of femininity, and he dies by his own gun, the same kind of weapons that he used to exert violence upon innocent animals in attempt to posture his masculine persona. The ones he arrived to earth with, he was pushed and destined to embody this image of masculinity because of the world he was sent to and the connotations of violence instilled into those weapons by society and reality by Lord English; a being his alt universe self played a great part in shaping. Who too wields a Gun as one of his signature weapons.

Blows smoke off the red hot irony pistols! 😉

PART 2 WILL COME SOON (will add link when it does)

[musical-posts]

A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name!

What will the name of this young man be?

A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name! What will the name of this young man be?

Melody: A,G,A,A,D,B,E,D,A,E,A,D,A,E,F,A,G,A,B,D,A,G,A,E,E,E,A,A,G,E,A,G,E,F,E,D,A,E,B,E,G,E,A,A,E,A,E,A,E,F,G,A,B,E

BPM: 132

Instrument: gayfish

author's note: ;)

[borzoilover69]

update.. my tablet is still broken!!! but i am getting a new one soon! bad news im also starting a new job soon so i can accomodate for it.

Also i'm working on producing at least five or so panels for hs2:oot i might be dropping those sometime this week or next week if im lucky i've been really excited to get working on hs2:oot lots of ideas stick around for that

much thanks to everyone who've supported me so far <3

[top-script]

me

[chrisrin]

half the song’s boards are preeettyy much done! (YIPPEE!!) later half is going to be more action-y and dynamic (MANIFESTING) so itll prolly take me longer but im on solid pace rn with it

[1pcii]

my fave alabasta shipping dynamics is pre-established zolu playing matchmaker (how successful they are? eehhhh) for pining namivivi

[post-script-clown]

Pitch Corrim

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[vriskaserketdaily]

Have you ever played minecraft? I think you would derive enjoyment from it.

when she says she's a "real gamer" she means she only plays games with a live-action roleplaying component.

[bleaksqueak]

see, ppl can say what they want about the resi 3 remake, but the remake got Mikhail perfect. Also i actually really love weird Puppy Nemesis lmao

[xi-off]

zoosmell pooplord

bet u werent expecting the WORLDS RANDOMEST TROLLSTUCK AU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not that theres much to it yet despite these portrait drafts bein like 8 months old)

[ludodraw]

Inspired by one rp I got to do in the dreambubbles.

[lucabyte]

unlocking my ability to draw fanart again is like ive opened pandoras box this is hell im way too busy to have more than one focus at a time. im sorry my ocs. <- really really wants to draw shadow the hedgehog. other things too but mostly that.

[thescrump]

geno horribly misunderstanding the concept of roommates and accidentally reinventing homestuck

[random-conspiracy]

The case of Rose Lalonde is extraordinary because she's ACTIVE.

You would expect her to be in line with the archetype of the "silent oracle". The one who knows but doesn't reveal too much, watches carefully and never acts. That's NOT the case. She's not the oracle. She's a TRUTH SEEKER, not a truth holder.

But she isn't in line with the opposite ideal either, the one of the naive truth seeker, the conspiracy theorist, the detective, the one that goes mad trying to find the end of the labyrinth, trapping 'emself in spiderweb of red strings.

You know what I mean, think 'about the guy from The Lighthouse reaching for the light.

Rose is ACTIVE but clever enough to keep her mind together, even when she's a cocky teenager ahshasa.

And now I know who she is! She's a very special kind of truth seeker nontheless: The one blading Ockham's blade through the the Gordian knot! What a wonder, what a marvel! Think 'about Helen Brand from Glass Onion destroying the box of riddles.

Not just someone who seeks for the truth, but someone who can SEE the truth. Behind each layer of bullshit and lies, pretentious mysteries and deadend enigmas. You can't trap her inside the labyrinth, she'd destroy the walls. The kind of person that would go straight for the prize in the Treasure hunt instead of following the clues.

But biy, oh boy. The hubris! Classic flaw of the tragic hero. A life of answers without questions and overconfidence above subtlety. No wonder she never fully understood Mom Lalonde. The perfect paradox, the perfect game: She was trying to shoot a fish in a barrel.

And that works in SUCH a way for her interest in psychology and the occult! Of course she was attracted by the Unknown under a pile of irony. She wasn't actually interested in the mystery by itself but by the pure practicality of knowledge, not the aqueous uncertany of void and imagination.

She's the death of all fairytales!!! Her ass can't take seriously any of this bullshit!!! She learned it just to mock it AND THEN use it to her favor!!! YOU LITTLE ARMCHAIR THERAPIST!!!

I know that Jade is the Wizard of Oz and all of that but Rose would absolutely discovered the wizard's secret AND PLAYED ALONG JUST TO FUCK WITH THE SYSTEM.

AND FALL INTO A WORSE AND EVEN MORE STUPID SITUATION BECAUSE OF HER HUBRIS, ROSE!!!

[gertritude-art]

@junederfluid​ thank you!  And I have never been a big “headcanon haver” when it comes to fictional media, but I did have various theories/assumptions that kept getting disproven by canon, such as:

most trolls have normal (or even similar) lifespans, but 1) lowblooded trolls just kept getting killed off by highblood ones and 2) ones like the grand highblood/the condense lived for so long because of sburb shennanigans (or for the condense at least, because of her life powers).  also simply for that rule of cool factor

the quadrant system was put into place as a form of social+population control, and trolls are most likely able to experience romance as humans do

in a similar vein, the story of the sufferer seems to indicate that an ideal troll world would actually allow for familial units / trolls raising each other instead of lusii?  they really never went into much about problems with alternian society aside from the violence issues huh

the hemospectrum is actually more like a color wheel that loops back around as opposed to having a start and an end

i forget if they ever go into detail on it, but i assumed that culling culture on beforus was actually pretty terrible and infantilizing...

i have seen no one else with this theory but when feferi was first introduced, i assumed that she and her ancestor were the only trolls with their blood color.  like that would have made sense, right???? plus it would have been an interesting thematic parallel with karkat being off-spectrum

[chrisrin]

the many flavors of dave strider