#homestuck^2

[orangeno]

kankri and 2 karkats

[davekat-sucks]

not even homestuck 2's staff say "June" John is still John in the comic now and he is still John in questionnaires. Why does the fandom even pretend John is a girl at this point? They have completely ruined this fandom and it sucks because i still love these characters. I want more but not if the fandom is going to force the main character to be something he is not. June Egbert is worse than Davekat by all accounts.

If they aren't saying June because of the sequel not saying June either as to follow the meta narrative, that's a bullshit way to go about it.

June Egbert is worse than Davekat.

[kdonddundo]

Nepeta mini comic

[prokopetz]

It does, in fact, keep happening.

[lichtbogens]

Very old Jasprose doodle

[zoeritto]

[citric-crow]

[kocoloco]

Homestuck profiles!! :P

Realized I haven’t done much practice drawing the other trolls, even beta/alpha kids, so I’m doing mass production on drawing a bunch of them :P

Anyone’s welcome to use them if wanted!(credit greatly appreciated!)

Click here to see the 6 other trolls!! (Working on the humans next!

[alkalinefiction]

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

[exoid-the-locomotive-monarch]

>be a webcomic

>decent popularity and critical support from the fans at the start

>immediate drop in quality over next bunch of updates

>fans hate it

>gets so bad writers and artists are harassed to the point of leaving the team

>endless controversies between writers acting shitty on their personal Twitter account to fans to accusing discord mods of being 4Chan nazis

>comic loses half its funding 8 months in

>bimonthly updates 4 months in return to the sluggish once a month updates from the start

>pause 14 months into the comic’s intended 5 year run.

>announce a month later indefinite hiatus

>radio Silence for THREE YEARS AND NINE MONTHS

>be almost 4 year anniversary of the webcomic’s start, 17 days away to be exact

>drop 4 DOZEN pages

>new director

>new writers union

>new EVERYTHING even the title of the comic changed

>the “it’s so over” from the fandom supercharges back into “we are so fucking back”

>its name is enough to scare half this website into shock

>look at tags

[revolutionary-thoy]

Happy 413! I doodled some headshots of my favorite dorks

[meowcatmutie]

@413countdown day 3: ROBOTS!!!!!!!!!!!

i like the robots in homestuck!!!!!!!

[davekat-sucks]

Do you agree that some of the fandom ignores that jade grew up on a island ALONE for 13 years, had no actual human interaction, and learned how to use a gun? I feel like most the art I see of her is just "ohh cute doggy girl!!" but shes more than that. (also beyond Canon jade sucks beyond canon shouldnt exist)

Yep. They forget she grew up on an island alone for 13 years, learned to use a gun, only living friend is a dog with space powers, and the only time she is able to be close with people is only when she is asleep to see Prospit. And there's the fact that she had felt guilty for indirectly killing her Grandpa when she was playing with the pistols by the time she did enter the game. She really is a lonely girl. People only accused her as a bitch because of the moment she went Grimbark, forgetting she was mind controlled by The Condesce.

[kdonddundo]

[prokopetz]

this ask came to me in a dream and i must speak on its behalf: what do you think about homestuck beyond canon

I think it's too early for me to have a well-formed opinion at this point, for a very specific reason.

I basically agree with the majority opinion that the post-epilogue story which would eventually become Beyond Canon is characterised by a whole lot of spite toward its target audience. Where I differ is that I don't think this is anything new; a certain sneering contempt for their audience has always been a hallmark of Andrew Hussie's work, and it's present in Homestuck right from day one. At most, Hussie getting burnt out from the Hiveswap fiasco resulted in a text that's somewhat less willing to entertain the polite fiction that its readers are in on the joke, but that's not a change – it's just saying the quiet part out loud.

The interesting part is that this contempt isn't merely undirected bile: it's motivated by a particular stance regarding the purpose of fiction. Writing a story which invites emotional investment, then turning around and calling you a stupid baby for actually becoming invested in it is one of Hussie's favoured narrative sleights of hand, but it's not the Charlie Brown-esque football pull it appears to be – or, rather, it's not only that. Lurking under it is the insistence that fictional characters are, ultimately, objects: tools for exploring a narrative space. Ironic detachment is the only "correct" way to approach works of fiction, because when you emotionally relate to a fictional character (or, heaven forfend, actually identify with one), you are fundamentally committing a category error – like you've mistaken a hat for your wife.*

To what extent Hussie actually believes any of that, and to what extent it's just a very committed bit they're doing is a fair question, but that's not important here; sincere or not, the opening stages of (what was not yet) Beyond Canon are dyed in the cloth with it. Care of the comic has subsequently been handed off to a separate creative team who, to all textual evidence, don't buy into this notion of what-fiction-is-for at all, but they're building on a foundation that's steeped in it. What we're looking at now is a serialised narrative which disagrees with its own premise. I genuinely cannot imagine what sort of flower they're expecting to grow in the soil they've been given, and I don't think we're far enough in to draw any well-supported conclusions just yet.

All of which is a very complicated way of saying that I'm just here for the show!

* With apologies to Oliver Sacks.