#mod lore: i have never read homestuck

[baba-is-blog]

can you use your excellent powers to finally kill homestuck, my lord

HOME IS STUCK?

BABA NOT HELP

HOME IS STUCK IS POWER

[florencekinnie-slash-hj]

Heat waves is a fanfic, there was a piece of fan art from it in the image you posted.

Additionally, most of us in Minecraft SMP fandoms that have ships in them don’t ship the content creators. We ship their roleplay characters.

If you see somebody refering to a character, it will be referred to as “c!” For the DSMP, and “q!” For the QSMP. if they’re referring to the actual people, they’ll specifically write “cc!” Before. I know it’s really confusing because the characters are referred to the same names as their content creator usernames, but the two are not one and the same. I, personally, don’t ship RPF or any of the content creators together. I ship the characters that they play.

As for RPF, you have cc!s that are fine with it and encourage it, and you have cc!s that aren’t have have stated that numerous times. Most of the people that engage in RPF or ship the cc!s are respectful of the boundaries that the streamers have set up. You have plenty of people who aren’t (people who shipped cc!Tubbo and cc!Ranboo and how they acted towards the two is a perfect example), but that’s not the majority.

None of the cc!s (at least that I’ve seen) have an issue with their characters being shipped or written about. Cc!Wilbur literally wrote a fanfiction about c!Wilbur and c!Quackity, which you can find on ao3.

As for the post that you took a screenshot of, I don’t think that you even read the whole thing. If you did, you probably would have realized I was talking about characters and not the actual people. I’m going to give some context, because it’s important when it comes to that post.

Fred is a (technically) NPC from the QSMP. He’s not even played by a streamer. He’s played by one of the mods on the server that plays a bunch of the characters on the island just to fill those roles for the lore. It’s like if someone was controlling all the Minecraft villagers in the Minecraft world instead of them being pre programmed mobs.

I know a lot of this information is really confusing, but it’s really easy to judge a fandom from the outside without knowing any of the context or nuance inside of it. Especially since you’ll never see the faces of fans that are in specific fandoms. It’s really easy to demonize the actions of any fan group that you may not understand the culture/context/nuance of. I hope that if you read up until this point, you were able to understand at least a little bit of the nuance that goes into those of us in SMP fandoms.

This next part is to respond to these tags

I was referring more to young people in fandom who don’t understand general social etiquette when it comes to respecting other human beings. A lot of the people that were in fandoms that have bad reputations (such as Homestuck, Undertale, Hamilton, just to name a few) were young and inexperienced when it comes to fandom. The difference with Hamilton is that many of us didn’t understand that the characters we saw portrayed on the stage/in the music, were portrayals of the founding fathers. For me at the time, it didn’t at all register that the two were one in the same, because of how far removed they were from everything that we’d learn in history class. I saw the Lin Manuel versions of the founding fathers as their own characters, rather than slave owning rapists.

Younger people in fandom have under developed pre frontal cortex’s, and less life experiences than those of us that are older. For some, it may even be their first time in fandoms/fan spaces. I know that for me, I was surrounded by this entire culture of owo-ified founding fathers when I saw fanart/fanfic for Hamilton, and so I, as an inexperienced 12 year old, jumped on the train without critically thinking through any of it.

Most older people in fandom have horror stories of the things that they saw, or even actively engaged in, from their youth in fandoms. What makes the Hamilton fandom different is that the characters were based on real people.

This sounds, on a surface level, very similar to the the c!s/q!s and the cc!s in MCYT fandoms, but the difference is that the characters are characters, and that the only thing that is the same as the cc!s, the real people, is that they share the same username.

On top of all of this, I’m sorry if my initial reblog felt as though I was attacking you or your post. That was not at all my intention. All I wanted to do was to humanize the kids that didn’t/currently don’t know the weight of their actions. One day they will. (I also was just being silly when I wrote the things in all caps, but I know how sometimes in internet speak, all caps = yelling. I’m sorry if that is how it registered.)

[otherkin-host-club]

We’ve been getting quite a bit of Homestuck requests recently! And while it is fun filling them out, I have to admit, I’ve never read it.

...I know, it’s ludicrous to think that someone on Tumblr hasn’t read Homestuck, but personally, it never caught my attention. My interest has piqued now that I’ve done some research for this blog, but I’m still incredibly new to the plot and lore.

That explains why it takes longer for these requests to be completed, as I try my best to do thorough research on the source and characters. I’ll open mod applications for those who are more knowledgeable with it once we reach 50 followers, since Mod Tamaki has taken a hiatus and I’m not sure how familiar they are with Homestuck (and another mod would help speed up the process).

-Mod Kaoru