#i've 8een making art for two years now

[lunaticli8rarian]

"Jeez that 8ook was hard to read. I think I might need glasses"

[lunaticli8rarian]

oh you don't even know the HALF of it! i've read it twice now. cover to cover. it is one of the most cruel, poorly thought out, poorly paced, dropped f8cking 8all of a comic that makes me 8urn with anger that it's so f8cking popular only karkat goes to a convention 8eat it in terms of popular8ty on mspfa.

a lot of homestucks talked a8out the idea of handing off the story to the fans. crow strider would 8e my argument as to why that is an awful idea. why they are una8le to. cuz it's trash.

it ruins aspects and flattens them to singular gimmicks everyone has. a page is no different from a f8cking rogue. seers 8ecome worthless instead of some of the most well written women characters ever f8cking put into fiction. death 8ecomes meaningless. it's preachy and doesn't even know what it's preaching a8out. it kills off dad crocker as the ONE character who dies 8ecause apparently he's somehow the reason for why the candy timeline happens and why jade goes fash! 8ecause god for8id a rich well off woman 8orn into wealth raised 8y fish hitler have SOME 8ad tendency's implanted into her that she never addressed, no it was just her dad somehow.

it infantilizes several characters, INCLUDING LIL' HAL! who is now a misera8le f8cking stagnant existance of 8eing eternally 13 8ecause apparently a three year age difference turns you into a little 8a8y 8oy 8or8o sweetheart who needs to 8e taken care of 8y the main hetero couple. completely RUINING the wonderful dynamic he had with dirk showing dirk that it is in fact possi8le to stop h8ing himself. 8ecause shocker, hal is dirk. they're the same guy.

it f8cking ages DOWN nanna for no f8cking reason 8ecause 8eing old is 8ad i guess. it takes gamzee and then rewrites him entirely as a poor little victim who's eternally 8een 8rain washed instead of the cruel 8sshole plac8ted 8y drugs he was originally written as. half the characters existence feels like an o8lig8tion-karkat's wonderful arc where he slowly comes to value himself outside of 8eing what amounts to effectively a gr8 man, and instead come to love a qui8 calm life 8ecause that makes him happier, and instead of giving some grand speech and oh i don't know, 8eing the one to kill the 8ig 8ad, ends up just doing nothing that 8ig and going home afterwards cuz he cares more a8out having his future with his 8oyfriend and getting this over with than any glory.

and in the process of ruining the cra88y 8oys arc, STEALS ROXY'S ENTIRE THUNDER 8EING THE ONE TO SLAY THE CONDESE! you know f8ck having one of the trans characters, who've 8een forcefully oppressed and argua8ly suffered the most under condy, who had such a personal f8cking 8eef with her 8e the one to slay her. no let's make it the cra88y 8oy who 8arely even knows she exists and 8efriends her 8eforan version 8e the one to take her down. that's not the 8iggest dropped 8all ever.

let's take the alpha and doomed timeline system, an oppressive system forcing everyone into a single successful timeline or else it gets erased wholesale, upheld 8y the literal ceo of racism, the patriarch responsi8le for literally ALL suffering in every world and have him 8e killed 8y a trans girl and her three friends, two of which are girls, all of which were summoned 8y another trans girl, thus freeing everyone to an open future that can 8e whatever we want cuz it's not all predic8ted upon "well it HAS to make lord english exist" and can instead 8e ANYTHING they want it to 8e, and let's jut ruin all that.

let's instead cre8 this new timeline concept, an "a8solved" timeline. which is a timeline that's irrelevant and meaningless, using a metaphor that suggests they'll all suffer and die in a closed off pool that will grow murky and horri8le. accepting the horror that exists now and just continuing it on. the worst thing ever. a f8 no one should ever have. a doomed timeline you get to watch rot from the inside.

and to top it all off, a god awful art style with a clear favor8 in terms of faces. that after seeing for four thousand three hundred and one pages, unironically ruined my a8il8ty to make art, like a chaff grenade was shoved down my 8rain that i had to actively WORK to get 8ack 8ecause it was just that 8ad.

man i really do not f8cking like this we8comic. and of course, none of which to say what it does to the relevant to the convers8tion character. i just skipped that cuz, i'm 8ias'd. and its trashiness goes 8eyond even that. every last pixel of it makes me see red.

Posts that make me see red.