#homestuck spoilers //

[prokopetz]

I'm always a bit taken back by Homestuck fans who treat classpects as something that has, like, real-world utility as a personality typing system, because – leaving aside for the moment the broader issues inherent to all personality typing systems – there's a fairly strong reading that classpects are bullshit, and meant to be understood by the reader as bullshit, even from an in-universe perspective. There's a suggestion which becomes increasingly prominent in the latter portions of the text that SBURB as a system has a shallow and mechanistic concept of personal growth, and that while it's able to identify images and themes that are emotionally resonant to its players, it fundamentally lacks insight into why they're resonant – it's just bashing tropes together like a kid making their Barbie dolls kiss, and can't tell the difference between an aesthetic preference and a deep-seated trauma. Heck, one of the comic's more consistent motifs is that characters who voluntarily make their classpect central to their self-image typically have something profoundly wrong with them.

[marsti]

hello gay people

[scriblesandbits]

Meowrails visit the beach and while they’re there they meet up with their weird clown friend 😄

[fanonical]

the funniest thing about the bisexual Obama debacle is that Homestuck predicted it a few years ago

[alkalinefiction]

Finally read the upd8tes........

[carcinogenetiicist]

I can’t get over this moment. Karkat’s two simple words encompasses their bond and everything they’ve went through with the humans in the candy universe. Karkat knows full well what the humans are capable of, and instead of chastising Kanaya; he greets her with open arms. It’s heartbreaking and so satisfying at the same time.

[i-lived-bitch-beatdown]

Edit: also Jesus is drawn by the amazing @wolfythewitch

[frogisanut]

-8ut I am actually sorry. For everything.

[juney-blues]

KANAYA: You Fucked My Wife

[kaleyourself4me]

[dave2olkat]

that's how that conversation went, right?

[prokopetz]

So: it turns out that – regardless of whether it was the original plan – what Homestuck: Beyond Canon's third writing team in five years is going with seems to be a cosmic battle between a godlike asshole who thinks transformative fiction has a moral obligation to engage in thematic and structural fidelity with its source material, and a godlike asshole who thinks transformative fiction shouldn't exist at all. It's an interesting direction, if an obvious one. In fact, it's so obvious that the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy is treading the exact same ground at the exact same time; it's going to be pretty fucking bizarre watching to see which of them – if either! – manages to stick the landing.

[ghostcola]

Babe, if your manga has...

A silly and friendly guy who receives god-powers symbolic of freedom. Also is a naturally gifted leader.

Themes of fate in it's story. Also includes the concept of fate in the story itself to tie into the lore.

An unimaginably valuable reward the main characters go through hell and back for.

A highly character-driven story jam-packed with quirky individuals with fun chemistry.

A talented machinist who wears cool sunglasses and creates both odd and wonderful contraptions alike.

A crazy word count and an absurd amount of pages, which turns some people away.

A super weak character who can be annoying at times but is loved by many fans. Has a character-arc about dealing with their insecurities.

Multiple racist fish-guy characters.

Comedy AND action.

A cute but also pretty cool art-style.

A thief with a tragic upbringing, being forced to provide for a blood-lusted, powerful, and oppressive entity that threatened devastation if not appeased.

Then hon, that isn't your manga...

That's HOMESTUCK.

(I hate how bad this turned out even though the intention was literally for it to be bad.) Also tell me your favorite edit in the comments. I was cackling and pissing myself the whole time I was creating this.

[scriblesandbits]

Auugghhh beforus headcanon doodles 😄😄😄😄 I could only be bothered to really color two of them lmao

I like to think that Pre-Scratch Fef like. Adopted Kankri because he wasn’t lusus compatible or whatevs. Being raised by overbearing, more than slightly coddling royalty is part of the reason why he’s. Like that. Also that Pre-Scratch Sollux was Meenah’s official (offishal) grubsitter

[libakarm]

[cobwebears]

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