#off topic: homestuck

[yogoblog]

my piece for @bloodlineszine: serket edition! sometimes when you do a whoopsie, what can you do but say... my 8ad?? and also perhaps peruse the full zine, as penance? 🕷️😅

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

throws up and dies i hate them

[lucabyte]

transfem loop + siffrin... you agree

i does agree.... i does in fact ... write a 7k word essay on the subject..... if you would like to perhaps click that link and read it if you were not already aware...... kisses u on the forehead......... sorry its that long but i had to cover all of my bases you know how it is with textual analysis when you're trying to draw a distinction between "headcanon" and "reading of the text" because those are different things.... to meeeeeeee.......

[stridersshitpost]

Hi, I have a genuine question. What started your hyperfixation with the Striders and why is Bro Strider is your favorite

HAII SPEFLO(⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

A few years ago i discovered Homestuck thanks to my ex partner. He was obsessed with Dirk Strider and so i was even without reading the comic. I liked the character and when I discovered that there was a older version of him i was like "oh the glasses dude but older" and i got OBSESSED because his fanarts and stuff looked so cool. I ended reading the comic only because of bro and some trolls (Ending a little disappointed because he appeared in only few pages)

I haven't started reading the comic until 2018 because there were no updates on the website I was reading it. (In these times i had no idea how to speak english, the spanish site had half comic translated when the actual comic was already finished so i decided wait)

Since there until now, he was one of my main interests.

Nowdays i look back and im not really sure why i was like that with bro, besides he likes "saw" i was like DAMN.

With Dave and Dirk i felt like some kind of "damn he's so me" Yk? but with bro, well, all the fanarts mini comics n shit people do of him. I never enjoyed the "canon" bro but dont really mind about it. The fanon was the one that called more my attention and i enjoyed a lot how people make him look like one of these cool big brothers.

I've been on this shit of liking em for probably 5 years and I still haven't gotten bored, mom, it was never a stage. /inside joke

[rg11]

theyre so Yaoiful

[electricabsolution]

i just found this note i made so presenting the stardew valley romanceable NPCs classpected as if they were in a 12-player SBURB session:

[badlydrawn-halstrider]

Hello. Hope you're having a wonderful day?

Maybe it's not a right place to ask, but what happened to White from SBURB ?

Off-topic answering post.

Mod Maks/Hal9k here.

This is ask blog that I have for fun, I have my main blog — @hal-strider9k where you can ask questions that not related to this ask blog. I've wanted to make this blog "anonymous" but there's not need for that as I see.

White From SBURB is a russian fan comic that takes place in Homestuck setting but have it's own characters and plot.

WFS had gone into hiatus for 2 months 'cause I was having a lot of work on myself due to New Year and Christmas events and my laptop had died so I got a new one (I'm second beta in comic and one of co-authors) and other colleagues had their own problems with studying and holidays, yadda yadda. Don't worry, we will be back around February with new update.

[isopodretina]

i cant stop editing this one image of scott the woz like last night i made three and i was giggling the whole time unable to stop giggling i stayed up until three in the damn morning giggling

the og

the non homestuck

really?

[imodekurita]

was gonna post this a lot earlier.. then i forgot to ..

tehe tavros redesign

[tunas-spriting]

Can I get a sprite edit of Gamzee with a grunge (Kurt Cobain-esque preferably) kind of look? Maybe black hair tinted with purple or pink, and glasses? The facepaint doesn’t need any change!

hows this?

[devxoid]

Do you like H^2 ? For the homestuck Ask thing, you bored artist :P

eheh this might be obvious considering my recent art but yes i do.. i have a love hate relationship with ult dirk as a character but i don't rly take the postcanon stuff that seriously as a sequel. it's just like deranged fanfic to me i think the widespread hate is just bc people take it way too seriously

the epilogues were a fuckin slog to get through and to this day i still haven't fully read candy. but hs2 is silly enough for me to have fun reading it :3 ty for the ask!!

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

another pin for my bag !!!

[mmmmalo]

i recently reread openbound's transcripts for fun and have been left with a lingering question. *jerry seinfeld voice* what's the deal with beforus?

if alternia is meant to be a race-mixing tranny nightmare hellscape then what does that make beforus? it's told to us as the antithesis of all things alternia but hasn't actually solved all of its complex caste hierarchy problems, just painted them in a new but still bad light. we know little about its government or if it has clown police too but we do know that as empress feferi overcorrected hard, trading out violence for infantilization. feferi is the least overtly black-coded of the peixeses (i'd even argue that she isn't black-coded at all when you consider the way hussie writes the rest of his "black" characters), so does this mean that beforus = nonviolent = white? purging a society of blackness makes a utopia? and considering that alternia's black ruling class makes up a small percentage of the population anyway does this mean homestuck secretly reinforces the 13/50 stereotype???

not that it worked i guess because a lot of the alpha trolls still committed horrific acts of violence against one other and then all died anyway. something something one drop rule.

and then there's kankri, who complicates things, as he is best at. he talks at length about non-cis blood colors. he drops terms such as polyblooded, transblooded, cool-identifying physically-warmer hues, and so on that imply a much more complex relationship with race than alternia has. so is that the end goal? beforus is actually pro-miscegenation, and the only way to achieve true harmony is actually to subscribe to white replacement theory? (granted the way he talks about these things was brief and likely not widely accepted, but the fact that there are words for transblooded trolls at all means that, at least, the idea is out there.) the alpha trolls glaringly don't have a limeblooded friend after all. were they similarly eradicated like they were on alternia or are kankri and co. reverse racist?

I don't believe there are meaningful differences between Alternia and Beforus, as far as references to irl racism goes. To me it's the difference between Horrorterrors and Squiddles: the latter is a defanged abstraction of the former, but both still represent an insidious Other laying siege to the Plumbthroat > Redneck > White. The Duttle illustrates their shared roots in the black tanglebuddy.

Your equation of "nonviolent = white" is one pathway into the gendering of races: blackness is the categorically masculinized sexual aggressor, whiteness the categorically feminized victim. Hence in Sburb's grand chess game, white is doomed to be "mated" (and thereby annihilated) by black, a sexual subtext made text by red/black Caliborn's Freudian slip wrt lime/white Calliope. On Alternia, themes of miscegenation are woven into troll sexuality. In Openbound, you can see that Porrim's feminism is implicitly anti-black, vilifying as it does Latula's black-coded speech affectations. Both can be regarded as manifestations of sexualized racial anxieties that the narrative adopts as a structuring device at various levels. I find the in-story depiction of Alternia as a corruption of utopian Beforus to be an act of misdirection -- as you note, neither planet has lime bloods.

Regarding Kankri's talk of... transhemicism? first I should say be wary of mapping blood strictly to race. That's definitely part of it, but it can also refer to transsexuality by way of Alternia/Beforus's gendering of race, or identification along an adult/child paradigm by way of Kankri's emphasis on age disparities between castes. This age paradigm CAN also feed back into gendered racism, since motherhood's been rendered categorically white, making childhood black by contrast -- GIRLS RULE AND BOYS DROOL, and all that. But it's good to maintain awareness of the distinct facets.

Regarding Feferi, her and Meenah's status as world matriarchs is inflected by the above. Following our first iteration of BLACK MATES WHITE with WV, we're treated to an exploding can of TAB, BROWN liquid erupting from the PINK can being an early seeding of the black-childhood and white-motherhood dichotomy, the fatal violence of the birth again underscoring anxieties of white genocide. The Peixies, being matriarchs, share their fuchsia blood color with TAB packaging... I suspect the carbonation burst of TAB turns their constant glubbing (bubble noises) into a threat of explosion, especially since GLUBGLUB the Horrorterror represents a constant threat of genocide. At any rate, even if Feferi doesn't appear black-inflected in the manner of Meenah, she's still seems to be playing a role in the story's broader racial framework.

[aslangloom]

I love act 6 so far LFMOSKJI

not giving any context

[clownmoontoon]

Respectfully, Ur like the opposite of people who keep their caps lock off. It always feels like I’m reading a very happy Karkat in the tags of everything u reblog.

hAHAHAHHAHDLKAKLJSDKSJLD THANK YOU <3<3

omg i must reveal my secret i actually RARELY use the capslock key so if u see me caps im prob pressing the shift key down the whole time sdlksDSDJSD

bUT ITS IDEAL FOR QUICK CHANGE AND thIS THING I DO where some words are lowercase bUT THEN GO UP SDLKJJSD

OH KARKAT MY ANCIENT FANDOM BELOVED

[coloursofaparadox]

im listening to a playlist i made like 8 years ago and getting sappy abt my friends rip me