#is homestuck still relevant?

[bloobydabloob]

Holy shit I love your Dirk interpretations, it's so true and I could talk about this shit forever. I feel like another part of his character that people seem to forget (along with Roxy for some reason) is that he's from the future in solitude in an apocalyptic wasteland. I just see that part of his character always removed which is disappointing because I feel like that's a pretty big part, especially regarding his themes around technology, his brother's theme of Time, his own isolation, and how he plays in the vastness of the universe and spacetime.

Art I drew related to the subject because I like to respond to asks with art.

But absolutely. I certainly understand where the lack of discussion over his isolation + upbringing comes from, considering a majority of the fanbase that I have seen builds their ideas based on their own version of postcanon. I’m not entirely sure how that would be fixed, but certainly even in the somewhat recent past I would see a lot more content regarding his upbringing both literally and symbolically. I don’t have much to add regarding the things you’ve mentioned, because they just are what they are. Dirk being confined to a singular room left to him by a father figure he never met, in a future where the only other person left on the planet is someone he cannot pursue a relationship of because of himself, with purely 3 robots to keep him companion, one being an exact replica of his own brain who is *also* trapped inside a pair of glasses, is about as literal as it gets to me.

The contrast to me involving the flooded, organic world in comparison to the little speckle of Dirk’s apartment packed with the dude and his technics is not only a representation of his isolation and entrapment within himself, but also of his lack of control. I think his obsession with & themes of control are a direct product in the case of Dirk specifically *of* this kind of upbringing. His themes of technology are also related to his themes around control. So much of his character is actually revolved around this to me like so much. Dirk is so deeply disconnected from humanity in every way and so much of his character + symbolism is based around that.

It doesn’t even have to be about the symbolism or anything though. It’s just pretty *interesting* in the literal sense that he lives in the middle of the ocean in the future. There’s not only a lot to theorise on to do with his young life there, but on how it might affect him in the way he acts for the rest of his life. The latter part is probably what I see mentioned the most by people talking about Dirk regarding this, I’m surprised I don’t see more discussion on the former too though. I really ought to actually talk more about Homestuck stuff on here. I will do it myself.

Roxy & Dirk’s relationship is largely ignored though because there is a narrative a certain demographic spreads that Dirk resented and blamed Roxy for her interest in him, and thus too many people believe that their relationship was or would continue to be an abusive one. Realistically, I believe it’s important to acknowledge that the way Roxy treated Dirk regarding his homosexuality wasn’t right while still acknowledging the obvious amount of respect and admiration Dirk had for Roxy. I mean we have a huge piece of dialogue from their post trickster mode conversations on the quest beds from Dirk purely stating how he feels about Roxy that people completely ignore somehow. I think this usually happens to characters that are women though. I know everyone says it, but it is true. Jane gets the exact same treatment of boiling her down to solely her negative aspects. The things I see completely mischaracterising both of them are horrific.

I mean how much more explicit can it get that their relationship is obviously very important to Dirk? But I digress. I think the best or I should say “most interesting” interpretations of their relationship usually come from DirkRoxy shippers actually.

I would be interested to hear about Dirk’s relation to his brother’s theme of time though. I don’t have any thoughts on this and I don’t recall ever hearing anyone talk about it before. If you or anyone else would be willing to enlighten me I’d be thrilled.

[autisticaradiamegido]

infinite aradia megido glitch (working 2024) (not patched)

day 153

crisis on infinite aradiabots

[catman-draws]

How do you break this kind of news

[bananonbinary]

Homestuck really was that good. It's an absolutely transformative experience that changed the way I perceive and interact with both media and the medium of a story. For whatever issues exist in Homestuck, Hussie's grasp on character voice really is unmatched, and I can only hope that my writing can carry an ounce of his creativity.

big samesies. there's a lot of things that i feel a little frustrated about, mostly i think because it was written over such a long time and what hussie wanted from the story changed more than once over that time (homestuck is a little bit unusual like that i think, in that it is not at all meant to be read episodically like most webcomics, making early installment weirdness and late idea introductions a lot more pronounced)

but no matter how frustrated i get by certain parts it always completely fades away when i remember how much joy the thing brings me as a whole. the characters, the themes, the exploration of the medium, it's all so so so good.

[thatlittledandere]

XEFROS? HELLO??? FUCKING DERSE AND RAGE??? XEFROS????

[fisherrprince]

*Shakes you like a marionette* THANK YOU! You get it! I've been trying to tell people for -so long- that ARR (and post) is purposely taking its time to build up the characters, the story, the -entire world- that you're going to spend the next who-knows-how-many-hours/days/weeks/months exploring and adventuring and experiencing and -feeling- through! It might not be "the best paced", but god damn it if I still don't love all the random asides and non-plot moments that just -shapes everything-

(BANGS GAVEL)

LET THEM COOK!!!

[aligatorrageinator]

Sometimes the takes are so bad you gotta scan the tag in bursts, taking a second to doodle the correct [to you fiction is subjective yadda yadda] dynamic inbetween rounds.

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Dave: damn this burger is fat

Terezi : YOU KNOW WH4T 3LS3 1S F4T ?? YOUR LUSUS !!!!

Dave: . . . i don’t ha-

Terezi: Y34 1 JUST R3M3MB3R3D TH1S 1S 3MB4RR4S1NG

[breadsmyth]

I tumb

[straycalamities]

sorry for homestuck on main 2023 but man watching [S] Cascade for the first time is something id give up things to have again

[red-elric]

its gotta mean something that disc two of homestuck was fucked up by terezi and had to be repaired by doc scratch and then disc (cartridge) three was fucked up by caliborn and had to be repaired by john right. like ahdjsh the discs mean so many things. disc two being literally scratched like the record scratch and healed by DOC scratch and also the corruption being caused by terezi while she was talking herself into blaming vriska for everything and murdering her and how she was kind of WRONG about a lot of it but also just the fact that events between disc two's repair and the insertion of disc three were all coming up in lord english's favor. doc scratch repaired the disc and it was always going to benefit his master's plan. but then also the hubris of caliborn fucking up the third disc when things were already going his way, as one more abstraction in how he brings about his own undoing. and also just the fact that it was JOHN, ALONE, who was able to repair the problem there. it was his quest and his power used to retcon the game over, and like. realistically, aranea caused the timeline to be doomed when she manipulated things to come back to life, that was it. getting the ring back probably would have fixed everything, even without vriska, even with rose and terezi both being somewhat out of comission. but terezi did the same thing again and let herself get carried away about vriska, this time in the opposite direction, and meddled until there was a stable timeline with vriska alive in it. undoing what she did when disc two was scratched in a much more active way than john probably would have left to his own devices (because john definitely doesnt have the same regrets about vriska as terezi does). and maybe it even means something the way act seven and end of act six felt cheap and unresolved, though it probably doesnt bc [obligatory hussie hates the fans]. idk tho just thinking

[captainvio]

you are so real for all the davesprite on your blog 🤝

So true I fucking love Davesprite.

[charliesinfern0]

CITRUS CITRUS IM SO EXCITED!!!!! :D

[thegempage]

i would say "i'm not gonna explain myself" but that gives me anxiety so instead i will <3 except it won't make much sense so

anyway this is about bart panicking bcus he's unknowingly starting The Smithuation™ (he just thinks he fucked up in a regular way) (smith is also there. he is not feeling any better)

Bart was a dead man.

He had been since the beginning, really -- one does not get lugged around town as the hostage of a man with a reputation for killing his hostages out of frustration with particularly high hopes about their survival -- but this had just sealed the deal.

It wasn't as though he'd ever been secretive about the kind of person he was. Bart was a delicate man, one with a heart that yearned for artistic prowess and wilted under distress. He'd survived this long by being good at hiding and an expert at packing the things he'd witnessed in boxes that he never planned to open. Christian knew this (he'd smacked Bart over the head for it, even, and Bart's hands had never fully recovered), and he was sure Oculus knew it, considering he knew everything else about Bart. So why, exactly, were they expecting him to carry a corpse back to their little base?

And not just a corpse! A corpse that was much, much taller than him. A corpse that was much, much taller than Bart who was also a policeman. The corpse of a policeman who was much, much taller than Bart who he definitely knew the name of, and whose partner may not hesitate long enough upon seeing this man DEAD for Bart to get an explanation out. And even if he could explain himself, what was the other policeman going to say? "You were hiding in near apartment the entire time, knew the Priest was going to kill my partner, and waited until after I left to find a place to bury him to come out with explicit orders to steal his body? That's fine, I'll let you hide here until they come to kill you." Unlikely.

But if he returned to Christian without this body, Christian wouldn't hesitate at all.

Maybe that would be easier. Christian knew, clearly, where to shoot to kill.

(He also knew where to shoot to not kill, his meager survival instincts reminded him. He flexed his fingers.)

His phone went off.

justifiedCutthroat [JC] started pestering ascendantArtist [AA] JC: Where the fuck are you bart JC: i know youve got wor$e than noodle arm$ but even you shouldnt even be taking thi$ long. AA: Oh, Christian! Don't worry, I'll be on my way soon, I'm simply figuring out the optimal way to carry this body back without being accosted by the imps. AA: They've started to reappear in the building outside, you see. [smile] JC: I forgot how much i hate texting you somehow JC: dont make u$ wait much longer, oculu$ is getting pi$$y. justifiedCutthroat [JC] ceased pestering ascendantArtist [AA]

God. He was fucked. He was absolutely fucked. He was --

Drip. Drip. Drip.

The sound was coming from the other room. He was bluffing, mostly, to Christian (there were imps, yes, but they'd run from the gunshots), but they all were dripping with some otherworldly liquid that reeked of alcohol. Maybe they were coming back to get Bart or, worse, take the body for themselves! He couldn't -- he wasn't that stupid. He tried his best to gather the body into his arms, as gruesome as a blood-soaked corpse being carried bridal style was, but this man was quite lanky and much heavier than he looked, and --

Drip. Drip. Drip drip drip drip drip drip DRIP!

Something was hitting his head. Something that felt like it was supposed to be wet and instead just sent shivers of death down Bart's spine, and he didn't even think about what he was doing as he spun around, trying to put his arms up in front of his face and knocking --

He threw the body into the sprite that lived here.

He threw the body into the sprite that lived here and the sprite absorbed the body.

Bart wasn't sure whether he or the newly created sprite started screaming first.

Bart was a walking dead man, and in front of him was the floating, ghostly form of a man who had, moments before, been dead.

The newly created sprite looked at Bart, his left eye covered by a flask that was leaking liquid down his cheek, and began to cry, staring at his blood on Bart's hands.

Bart crumpled to the ground.

[h0peful-gh0stt]

guess who’s back on mspaint and probably never gonna finish this lmao

surprise it’s me

[tagohd]

I'm supposed to be making a Hollow Knight-inspired song, but I keep ending up playing Deltarune music instead. Maybe it's just because of the time of year? It is Deltarune season, after all.