#i should reread homestuck

[ynnu-64]

Doooooont know why they are in a box

[lamina-tsrif]

could i also please get a davekat with four :]

sleep overs !!!1!

[ragefear]

CROCKER JUMPSCARE

[soggedupfrog]

Homestuck kid designs in 2024

[tehstripe]

im doing a homestuck reread because its feb break and its been so long since i last dived in that i feel like its worth going back to read and see what i get out of it this time.

anyways im sure that with the number of people doing homestuck textual analysis out there somebody's already noticed this and had more interesting things to say about it but i DO think its interesting that dave is essentially a tutorial character for john+the readers early on (this is a snippet from their second ever pesterlog)

like you have dave telling john how very basic aspects of his inventory system works. obviously this is narratively useful at this point to tell the readers (who were literally inputting commands for what to do next) how the systems work, and its also common to express world-building and explanation via character dialogue.

but its also interesting that dave later splits into davesprite, who is literally a game construct that comes with some tutorial information programmed in for the Literal in universe game of Sburb.

something something metatextual layers blah blah unintentional foreshadowing. idk what it means i just think is a neat lil parallel.

[slavhew]

i draw myself a lot

[ghastlyaffairs]

Strife! Strife! Shoot the freaking imp!!!!!

[weaselmcdiesel]

i find your "katnep wouldnt work in canon" claim extremely incorrect!!!! they have shared interests and a themetaic connection. its just a shame that their dynamic wasnt explored much but their contrasting personalities are suuuch fanfic bait to me

You're definitely right about fanfic bait i think, i'm not the most clever when it comes to literary analysis so im listening to the podcast "homestuck made this world" and one topic it discusses is how the introduction of the trolls helped the comic breach YA novel status and how the fandom at the time was slowly shifting to accepting more shipping due to the new emphasis on character's interpersonal relations right. nepeta the character is also literally a representation of the shipping population of the fandom too so it's not unrealistic to think hussie wanted to push that ship (not to mention the disciple x signless haha)

unfortunately, i consider the ship near impossible due to the fact that karkat would have to go though a completely different char. development route to 1. learn how to reject/respond to nepeta's crushing instead of just ignoring her, and 2. somehow start liking her back? which idk it would require nepeta to be alive and i just dont know how that would look XD (thus why i draw them... in a completely different universe pahaha...)

but you ARE correct! not only do they share the interest in romance n would love reading romances together, but just like karkat nepeta really does care about the rest of their friends. even when she knew some sorta considered her weird or werent treating her nicely she would still be concerned for them. she WOULD support karkat when he felt like no one's listening to him when he just wants to help everyone. idk theres a lot there. imagine if nep survived after gam killed equius? and then saw karkat pacify gamzee like i wonder how she'd react to that

sorry for writing a lot im in love with them you must understand asdjf

[murderandcoffee]

what if I reread homestuck. what then

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Rose: A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Caliborn, with his head wedged under a loose floorboard: GET ME OuT OF HERE!

[femboy-catgirl]

every homestuck fan actually hates to a degree homestuck. we just sold our soul to Hussie thus homestuck is permanently part of our brain now

[thatnununguy]

been going through it recently

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Today’s davekat fans don’t realize how much Doc Scratch’s School rewired my brain

[soppsop]

i went into my old homestuck amino account and this is all incomprehensible to me now lol

i barely remember what a sprite is what was 14 year old me doing what does any of this mean

[puzzlewagon]

i should finish reading worm one of these days... im seeing so many posts about it and im getting interested again

[4x18hawkeye]

so are there any stray homestucks out in MASHland that have classpect thoughts on the cast?