#rereading Homestuck

[chessb0r3d]

Analysis so bad you don't even know what it's talking about anymore.

[oliverkingoftrash]

I present the perfect summer afternoon

Drink, snack, and entertainment.

[hamsterdads]

the girls ever <3

[rezeptkapziv]

I cannot fucking handle this anymore. Im going back. I have to go back.

[ynnu-64]

Doooooont know why they are in a box

[toypretend]

beta kids but i only read less than half of homestuck in middle school

[sureisbuddy]

0_0

[neostellarjpg]

[insufferablemod]

that one john vriska convo

[rosemarytrash]

top 5 homestuck moments for me, personally

[soggedupfrog]

Homestuck kid designs in 2024

[tehstripe]

this sequence of pages in act 5 is so striking to me.

in acts 1-4, jade is a mysterious, all-knowing figure who knows about sburb and how it needs to go, and shes very systematic about logging and remembering important things through the little bands on her fingers. even though shes just some goofy little girl, shes smart!! she knows whats going on and knows what she has to do, and shes been studying the clouds to make sure that she and her friends are ready. because honestly, what else is she going to do with her time? she's alone on the island, and this is her destiny. she's going to make sure it happens.

here, we're finally seeing a bit of her friendly and put together self image start to fall apart as she just gives up on keeping track of things. she's grieving the loss of prospit, shes just had her first ever nightmare, AND she had to deal with an obnoxious teenage boy (karkat), and she's reached her breaking point. and she just. gives up. forget the reminders, forget the systems, they aren't serving her right now, so off they go.

plus, we get this tidbit a few pages later:

jade always knew she was going to die. she had seen herself, stuffed and perfectly preserved as a thirteen-year-old. she must have known that it was coming soon, but that didn't stop her from going through the plan to play the game with her friends. personally i think she thought it was worth it if she could at least see her friends, hopefully keep them safe, and have some fun times with them right before she had to die.

i wonder if theres a part of her unsettled by the fact that she's finally faced something she didn't already know was going to happen. she no longer has the comforting clouds of skaia to tell her what's going to happen - she's as clueless as everyone else. probably MORE clueless than some characters, like the trolls, who have a window into her future that she can't see.

jade's realized that she doesn't know all of the beats of this story anymore. she might just grow up now, and that means she has to go forth into the unknown.

[heartaspects]

you're stuck to the ground you have to stay 💭

[poxxxum]

The space stretches out between you...

(Taken from the amazing fanfic Eleventh Hour by Le_Vi!! I haven't been in the homestuck fandom since YEARS ago and I'm diving head first into Erisol again. It's all thanks to @eyeonyou for being so amazing and pulling me back♡ Please everyone read this fic and melt together w me)

[turntechradiohead]

Rose refusing to confront what was happening to her during the early parts of the game by rebelling against her quest is really coming back around to her, and now she’s searching for that same sort of structure and purpose that the game tried to give her again now. She’s trying to find meaning in new problems with the old framework given to her that she discarded at the time, which is just narrowing her entire outlook on her future

Kind of like Doc Scratch in a way, she thinks that because she has these omniscient powers no one can outwit her, so she stops trying altogether. Because she’s accepted everything is the way that it is and at the end she will no longer exist, her actions now don’t matter anymore

[naridoodles]