#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.

[fanonical]

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

[alkalinefiction]

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

[carcinogeneticiist]

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.

[meowcatmutie]

♦ 4 u

[marsti]

hello gay people

[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

[dave2olkat]

that's how that conversation went, right?

[libakarm]

[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.

[cobwebears]

page 5641

[big-wicke-energy]

Homestuck Fan: I wish Jade and Kanaya talked more, they could be such good friends. Monkey's Paw: *Curls finger*

[carcinogeneticiist]

[meowcatmutie]

@413countdown day 5: best friends/worst enemies!!!!!

homestuck is great at having absolutely FASCINATING sibling relationships