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skeksismars · 2 years ago

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Guys I've been re-reading homestuck for a couple of days now, I'm on ACT 5 and I have some thoughts, not on the comic per se, but on the overall experience of reading Homestuck again after years. First of all it's kind of underwhelming. I remember clearly everything that happens, so the novelty factor is out, and the pacing is much more quick now that my english level is way higher. When I started reading homestuck I was just delving into english and Homestuck was basically an english boot camp for me, I was reading it at an incredibly slow pace, with Google Translate at my side and even still a lot of expressions flew over my head, like "irons in the fire" et cetera. It took me months to get to ACT 5, months that felt like years; heck, it took me one month to finish ACT 1, but on this re-read I had finished ACT 2 on my first day! There is also the factor of the music and art; on my first read I was fourteen and I was just exploring my artistic capability and developing a musical taste, and the art and music of Homestuck touched me deeply. I remember trying to copy the blocky silhuettes of the characters and Calliope's drawing style and some OSTs of Homestuck moved me to tears to say the least: sburb's theme, LOWAS's theme made me cry when John "ascended" and CASCADE was a motherfucking ephiphany.

The second thing (this relates more to ACT 5 than the rest of the comic) is the shipping. As I was fourteen on my first read all the changing relationships between the trolls were incredibly entertaining and captivating, I was on the edge of my seat trying to understand if a character liked another and if they would start a relationship together. Now I'm 22 and I see it as it really is: just some teenagers exploring their feelings for one another, something that is wasted energy to be taken seriously and should be experienced with a bit of lighthearted fun. As such I can't be taken in the drama of it all and so another layer of the experience is taken away.

I have been able to experience some entertaining however, some things new and some brought back to memory that I am able to enjoy still. One of these latter things is the characters. I still love them dearly and I love seeing my favourites interact and go through their character developments: John's arc (I love his little outfits so much), John's dad is and will always be the GOAT, Equius&Nepeta's interactions, Karkat's whole thing. As I am still on ACT 5 I don't know how I'll feel on future arcs and characters (ex. the 3 years gap on the ship and all the drama there and the alpha kids & trolls). As for new things I love being finally able to understand the wholeness of Homestuck without the aid of a translation device, I can FINALLY read it wholly and understand its subtleties and tones. For example, I never understood the davekat and johndave ships, EVER. It was because the subtext completely went over my head! Now I can SEE that Dave had a massive crush on John goddamnit!!!! And Jade had a crush on Dave!!! And I can understand Vriska and Tavros' relationship better! The first time it just felt like a giant mess.

I also love being able to understand the characters' psychologies, because before, due to the language barrier, it was really difficult for me to understand why the characters acted like they did. Vriska's whole mess, Karkat and Sollux 's self hatred, Eridan's need to be loved and DAVE'S GAYNESS I swear I hated being out of the loop like that. I JUST DID NOT GET IT. As of ACT 5 it's still kind of clowdy, he has made a lot of dick and gay allusions in his rap and some trolls have called him out on that, Rose too, and he clearly has a massive crush on John, but he's so deep in the closet the signs are still very mild for my brain to grasp. If I didn't know preemptively that Dave was gay as of now I would not get it.

This is all I can think about for now, maybe later I'll update this post with other thoughts :)

Anyway this as been my experience re-reading Homestuck as a 22 yo adult. Peace out

#Homestuck #thoughts about homestuck

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homestuckstuff · 5 years ago

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Swimming hcs

Karkat: horrible at chicken, he’s too short to actually hit people and he’s terrified about falling. Managed to learn how to swim in six minutes and nobody knows how. Can be deadly silent when Marco Polo comes from all the droid scares he had, once just stood in the corner of the pool and Dave couldn’t find him for an hour.

Dave: good at chicken, will throw hands with anyone who try’s to win. He and John constantly find ways to cheat at Marco Polo. Got John to find karkat for him after an hour of searching. Probably threw his ice cream at someone by accident, gfdi Dave this is why we can’t have nice things. Karkat gives him his out of pity

John: cheats at Marco Polo but still cannot manage to find Karkat. He turns into wind so he can dash around the pool and tag people. Did chicken once and fell and hit his head on the concrete, refuses to play it again. Got dared to eat Dave’s floor ice cream for two dollars and did it, terezi calls him a floor licker. “Stfu terezi you were the one who dared me” tries to pull peoples feet and gets kicked in the face.

Jade: doggy paddles everywhere but still manages to be faster then everyone but Jake. Didn’t know you were supposed to wear bathing suits and just jumps In. She and Dave kill at chicken but her and Jake are unstoppable together, they’ve never lost a single match. Jade is s t r o n k, looks like she could kill a man by looking at him but she won’t.

Rose: doesn’t swim but wears a matching outfit with Kanaya and roxy that spelt fuck off please when put together. She wore the fuck part. Was goaded Into playing chicken and did it with John against terezi and Dave. She killed them on sight but when Jake and jade came against them John promptly got knocked onto the fucking concrete and everyone thought he was dead. Bought a squiddles themed sun hat and drew over it.

Aradia: doesn’t go in the water. She knows how to swim but she just doesn’t feel like it. Will grab pebbles and toss them at whoever’s Marco just to watch them freak out.

Tavros: doesn’t swim because of his mecha legs but his sits by the pool anyways. He and Gamzee did chicken and when tav fell in Equius nearly came for his head. Gets a water type fidusmon and floats across the pool until Vriska shoves him in. Equius Comes for Vriskas head.

Sollux: pulled a gamer move and didn’t touch the water, used his Psionics to make a whirlpool and then dragged eridan into it. Throws pebbles at John and eridan cause it’s funny

Nepeta: the water turns brown when she touches it cause she hasn’t taken a bath in years. Hangs out with Equius at the end of the pool and kills anyone who fucks with him on sight. Makes shipping charts out of the pebbles sollux and Aradia throw. Equius and her have a tea party together and invite Aradia and Karkat to it, they try to play eachothers wingman and fail miserably. At least their tea is good :,33

Kayana: didn’t swim either, wore the off part of the swim suits. Stole roses squidle hat and wore it all day. Bought rose some flowers. She and rose ate some donuts together and had a lovely time

Terezi: she went behind John and slapped his ass so hard that he turned into wind. Didn’t give John his two dollars when he ate the floor ice cream and he pushed her in the pool. She sat in the pool with Vriska and they got to play chicken with terezi’s cane. They slap jade in the face to win and they make her cry. Jake almost beats the shit out of them. Vriska says that whoever’s angry at them can fight them but literally everyone starts gearing up to beat her and terezi up. Vriska almost shits her pants and terezi apologizes for them. Jade gets to slap them both to make it equal but she doesn’t cause she’s nice.

Vriska: is glad that jade didn’t kick the shit out of them. Stole roses martini but turns out she can’t handle her alcohol for shit. Almost passed out in the water but John got her out of there. Wears a nic cage themed bathing suit and John is so jealous

Equius: sits with nepeta and plans to beat up anyone who hits on her. He keeps breaking teacups, nepeta keeps pulling out more. He refuses to talk about the party incident with Aradia.

Gamzee: his face paint doesn’t even wash off. He and Tavros are decent at chicken, he’s nervous about Tavros falling in. Freezes sopor into popsicles and c r o n c h e s on them all day long.

Eridan: turns out eridan can’t swim well. It doesn’t really come up until sollux drags him into that whirlpool and he gets stuck at the bottom of the pool. He can breathe, he’s just kinda.....stuck down there. Feferi has to drag him out. He tries to play it off like he was joking about being stuck at the bottom but no one believes him. Sollux begrudgingly apologizes and eridan almost cries.

Feferi: is the one who made sollux apologize. She races jade and everyone is terrified because they both look like they’re going to throw hands. Jade wins by a damn inch. They high-five and congratulate eachother.

Jane: has a cute ass one piece. Dave makes a joke about johns hot mom. She’s not real good at swimming. She and roxy are a decent chicken team. She tried to help eridan out of the bottom of the pool but he yelled at her. She refers to him as the fish bitch. Made the snacks for everyone.

Roxy: wore the please part of the outfit. She and John are real good at chicken. She, John, and terezi decided to ditch for a minute to go flying. She and John picked up terezi and flew around happily. Everyone else joined, none god tiers got carried around. They eventually land and turns out terezi isn’t too good with heights. She vomits and they have to give her some water. The rest of the day she watched movies and played chicken with her friends.

Jake: is wayyyyy too nervous around all these people. He loves hanging out with his friends but he really doesn’t know half the people here. He and jade swim around to try and defuse some stress. John tried to grab his foot but he panicked and screamed for him to go away. He and dirk moved inside so he could calm down. He comes out two minutes later and apologizes to John. John is Lowkey scared of him because of how tall he is. He spends the rest of the time trying to convince Roxy that he and dirk didn’t do anything weird.

Dirk: is nervous around the pool. He thinks it’s way too cold and doesn’t want to go in. Roxy pushed him in and he refuses to get out because spite. He and Jake are pretty good at chicken but dirk can’t really hold Jake up on his shoulders. He and Jake had a bonding moment and talked about why Jake was so nervous and why he freaked out. More tears were shed then they both would like to admit. Got revenge on roxy. He started a food fight and got a frozen sopor popsicle to the eye. He’s lucky his stupid glasses didn’t break

#homestuck #headcanons #swimming #rosemary #dirkjake?#davekat #roxygen

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nethiewrites · 7 years ago

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Kill Me: EriDirk (It's a really great pairing but Eridan obviously hasn't had enough happen so he needs to kill/be killed his/by his boyfriend) and Haunt Me: EquiJohn (I am the only person that ships this.)

I think this has been in my inbox for half a year and I’m SO SORRY I kept writing it, then forgetting about it, then writing some more, then forgetting. I’m very sorry.

Kill Me: EriDirk

(I…I couldn’t make it sad. I’m sorry.)

“Is this the right button?”

“No, that’s the menu. You’reopening the menu.” Dirk leaned over to tap the correct button on Eridan’scontroller. “This one. The A button.” Eridan scowled down at the controller.

“Why the fuck are the buttons A,B, then X and Y?” Dirk shrugged.

“Easier to keep track of?”

“Why not A, B, C, and D, or atleast A, B, Y, and Z?”

“Just because. Try the Abutton.”

Eridan pressed the indicatedbutton, and his character jabbed his spear forward in response. He blinked.

“Huh.”

“That’s your basic attack,” Dirkexplained, “B is the special attack. X opens the menu. Y is guard.”

“B ain’t doin anythin.” Eridancomplained.

“You have to hold it down for afew seconds to charge. Now-” Dirk grabbed his own controller. “Jump is up. Movearound with the other keys. If you fall off the edge, it’s an automatic death.”Dirk glanced up at the screen. “Uh, Eridan?

“Huh?” Eridan looked over athim, and released the B button as he did so. His little character in responsestopped charging and unleashed a giant ball of white flame. It flew on astraight past until it crashed into Dirk’s character, knocking him over theedge. Dirk rammed the buttons to try to recover but he was already falling.There was a sad *bloop* and the screen flashed to show him he had lost a life.

“Uh,” Eridan shot him a nervouslook. “Sorry?” Dirk stared back at him with a deadpan expression as hischaracter respawned. “Dirk?”

Dirk clicked his controller in acomplex combination. His little character uppercut Eridan’s into the air, leaptup after him, then slammed him down and offscreen. The screen flashed to showEridan’s lost life. Eridan scowled.

“That was childish.”

“We’re even.” Dirk leaned backon the couch. “C’mon, this time for real.”

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Haunt me: EquiJohn.

Equius unlocked the door to hisapartment and stepped inside to find his home had been turned to chaos. Papersflew around the air in a cyclone and his curtains whipped around the wall,threatening to be pulled free. Equius glared at the confusion in irritation,holding his hair back to keep it from flying around in the wind. A ghostly moanrose around him rising and falling in volume.

WhhhoooooOOOOOOOOooooo

“John,” Equius said.

WOOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOO

“John.”

WOOOOOOOOOOO

“Johnathan Egbert,” Equiusbanged his fist against the wall, just enough to avoid denting it, “ceasemaking a mess of my apartment this instant.”

The wind died down with a verynoticeable *huff* of annoyance. The ghostly voice sounded through the walls,but at a softer, more comprehensible level.

Aw, did someone have a bad day at his boring office job?

“It is not boring.” Equiuspicked his coat-hanger up set his coat on it. “I admire the order andstructure, and the contribution I make to society.” He began to gather up the papersscattered about. A gust of wind scooped them out of reach and up to stack onthe coffee table. Equius sighed and straightened them up, making sure they wereall in order.

Why do you have to work so much? I was booooooored!

The curtains shook again at thelast words. Equius rolled his eyes and headed into the kitchen.

“You could have listened to somemusic.”

All you have is classical! Ugh! You don’t even have a TV!

“Television rots the brain.”

So does having a perpetual stick up your ass.

“Language, John.”

Stick up your butthole.

“John.”

A whisper of breathy laughterswirled around the room. Equius sighed and grabbed a pan off the wall.

“Nepeta is coming over fordinner,” He spoke out loud to the air, “I will ask you to behave yourself.”

Hmmmm

Another breeze swirled throughthe room as John turned the request over in his head. Equius sighed again.

“And if you do, we can watch amovie tonight

Deal!

John chirped almost immediately.Equius couldn’t help a small smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

“It’s a date, then.”

Laughter echoed around thekitchen, then John breezed back him to plant an airy kiss on his lips beforevanishing. Equius blinked rapidly, then shook his head and turned toward hisstove to prepare dinner.

#EriDirk #fanfic #EquiJohn #Eridan Ampora #Dirk Strider #John Egbert #Equius Zahhak #Homestuck #ask meme #sorrowsstars

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shibae · 12 years ago

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kirrahe · 12 years ago