#so dont harass them for being a homestuck or anything

[meowmeowmeowimacat]

"man remember when we were all like "likes dont do shit" and "reblogs > likes? that was so dumb lol"

the above is a stupid opinion to have, and here's why:

i will start by saying that this is probably fine for blogs which get an absurd number of notes on all their posts. my issue with this ideology is for the smaller blogs, the ones that rarely get over 20 notes. take this post, for example. this nepeta is wonderful. i love the scrunchy and scrungly style op drew her in. however, op has long since deactivated, and i was only able to see her because of the ONE OTHER (not deactivated) BLOG WHICH DECIDED "yeah ok ill reblog that nepeta" and wasnt deactivated themselves. as a person in a fandom which was popular over a decade ago, theres probably thousands of art pieces which have been lost to time. i mourn them even if nobody else is going to.

i wonder what enderzone is doing today. how have they changed over the (at least since @ciefable reblogged this) 11 years and 6 months since posting this nepeta? do they ever think back to their time from being a homestuck? are they still in the fandom?

im probably being melodramatic about all of this, but thats how i feel after getting into archiving old fandom pieces.

tldr: reblog small artists because in 15 years everyone else but you couldve deactivated and you are the only proof that their art ever existed in the first place

[meraki-sunset]

DONT EVEN FUCKING TELL ME WHAT TO FUCKING DO BTW SINCE ITS JUST MY GODDAMN OPINION ANYWAY AND THAT THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE THAT BECAUSE OF HOW FUCKING USELESS YOU ARE ABD HOW YOU DONT KNOW THE STORY ANY BETTER COMPARED AND HOW FUCKING MUCH OF A COLD HEARTLESS BITCH YOU ARE TOWARDS CHARACTERS WHO HAVE FEELINGS TOO

I’ll humor you for a second and last time, before I disable the anon messages.

You’re entitled to your own opinion. Like I said before, you can love Homestuck and detest my AU, you’re in your right to do so, just like I’m in my right to not like certain bits of Homestuck and make an AU for fun. I don't intent to change your opinion. People having a different opinion than you, it’s not an attack on your person or opinions, relax.

In your multiple messages that I will not display here, you say that I hate you, hate the creators of homestuck2, hate the original comic, hate myself, hate the characters, among other things.

I do not. I was really sad to learn the homestuck2 team was being harassed by people who were unable to separate life from fiction and not see they were harming real people over fictional characters. I do not hate you, or the characters, or anything or anyone you so fiercely say I do. But you seem to be doing the same thing that was done to the writers of homestuck2, attack real people over fiction.

You hating things with a passion, doesn’t mean others do too, you see red and determine everyone do so. I’m not here to fight, I'm not your enemy, I do not hate you, I have better things to do.

You expresed in very angry caps that i’m being hearthless towards characters who have feelings too. Characters don’t have feelings, they’re not real. The people who write them have feelings, and they express them through the characters. The people who read the stories have feelings and connect to the characters because of it. The characters are a bridge between creator and reader. The feelings we experience when reading are real, but the characters are not.

I’m telling you this with honesty. No irony, jokes or ill intent. There’s more to life than fiction. I believe you might be out of touch with reality to send so many messages to a stranger defending your favorite story from her AU comic that has absolutely no impact on the original source or on you.

Go outside, have an ice cream, don’t be mean to others, take care.

[fefairys]

I cannot fucking stand Mituna myself. I hate him so much actually. I guess it's mostly irrational but I dislike him for the same reason I'm not a big fan of Tavros; I hate that they exist to be Hussie's disability punching bag and that's reflected in how the people around them treat them

see but i dont think thats what mituna is, really. thats not how i interpreted what i just read, idk.

here is what we see:

meenah expresses surprise that latula and mituna are still together, because she thinks he sucks, and latula says "he's more than the terrible shit he's always saying, and also i feel like he kinda needs me" and meenah is like "well ok then" basically lmao and thats that

in the next dancestor flash, meenah has a couple conversations with mituna wherein she calls him "the worst" and says she "doesnt know how latula deals" because of all the inappropriate things he says. mituna calls her a "wader" which makes kankri come in and start talking about how mituna is "bad representation" for existing. then meenah defends him and says "vantas youre being a shit dont talk about him like that"

THEN cronus takes his anger out on him and verbally abuses him, blames mituna for ruining his chances at romance or whatever, cuz, yknow, he's terrible and we are supposed to think he's terrible, while he just stands there and says "im sorry", until meenah comes and defends mituna again and calls cronus out for being a shithead.

and then, when aranea gives her exposition on mituna, meenah says something like, wow that was genuinely interesting for once, thanks!

like she sees him as a person who deserves to be treated with respect, but she cant just ignore when hes shouting obscenities and sexually harassing her either. its complicated. like at the very fucking least, he is given some defense by the pov character of these sections.

how i see it is that the narrative is not particularly trying to Say anything about mituna (or tavros for that matter) or what they are "deserving" of or viewing them as "punching bags", i think it is just showing some fucked up shit for the spectacle of it without taking any sort of solid stance.

like, who do we see actively treating mituna badly? meenah, kankri, and cronus. i dont think i need to explain how those three are like. absolutely not "people we are supposed to agree with" NO ONE in homestuck is "person we are supposed to agree with on all things" and i think that trying to ascertain how hussie feels about how people should be treated, or ascertain any of hussie's opinions by looking at the things the homestuck characters say, is not going to work out.

even the homestuck book commentary where they speak in their own voice is a mixed bag of sincere and insincere statements CONSTANTLY. it is often very hard to parse when they are being serious and when they are trolling. so like. i dont know man. maybe hussie IS an ableist asshole who thinks disabled people should just, like, get over their disabilities and stop being so weak. i guess who is really to say.

i do think that regardless of how they actually feel, the jokes are distasteful and shouldn't be made. it certainly makes me uncomfortable.

tl;dr: i dont think that mituna and tavros are necessarily "disability punching bags". i think everything in homestuck is mostly just A Fucked Up Spectacle that we are supposed to ogle at and not take moral lessons from one way or the other. regardless of the intent, the content is distasteful and makes me uncomfortable and its valid to be upset about the treatment of these characters.

[hope-on-claws]

THE RoTH DNI LIST

Last updated 18/12/24 (dd/mm/yy)

General DNI

- Endogenic systems (Comfort reasons), we have had bad experiences and no longer wish for them to interact with us

- Anyone under 17, current friends are ok, everyone else is to DNI

- Anyone, and I mean ANYONE who is pro harassment, you are an asshole if you think that harassment is ok

- Paras / Para Supporters, even if you are Anti Contact, most Paras will be triggering to us so please don’t interact if you are ok with these things

- Israel / IDF Supporters, I dont have to say anything

- Blatant Misinfo spreaders, this involves anything, and yes, I wont skimp out on either sides of syscourse if youre just saying straight bullshit

- Anyone glorifying and/or posting about their ED or SH, both are HEAVILY triggering to us and you will be blocked on sight if you do this

- Proship, or anything involving shipping, this makes us uncomfortable VERY quickly, Selfship is excused in most circumstances

- Radqueers, and this only because we don’t know much about them + others not liking them

- TransIDs, get a grip, you are not “TransAsian” or “TransAutism”

- Transmeds, please for the love of god, don’t interact, these people probably piss us off the most

- NSFW blogs, WE ARE BODILY A MINOR (17) even if we sometimes make nsfw jokes, that isn’t an invitation for you to interact (We do check accounts FYI)

- Supporters of Lolicon / Shotacon / Similar things

- White Supremacists, Nazis/Neo-Nazis, Zionists, etc. Yall are icky as shit

Specific DNI

- Active Wilbur / Shelby participants, it’s very stressful for us when talked about, and this more for Shelby fans due to bad experiences (see next)

- People who refuse to see introjects for who they are, and not just their source, this goes with the previous one as we have had targeted harassment for having Wilbur introjects

- Very specific but if we find anyone who follows or is friends with VF Complex or CoW Sys, STAY THE FUCK AWAY (names shorted for privacy)

- Astro the Therian supporters, gross, yucky, shoo

- Supporters of “we-do-not-owe-you-misery”, for more info, check this post ⬇️

- Overly political blogs, yes America is fucked, yes fuck Trump, that’s all you’ll get in terms of politics from here

- Stray Kids fans, time and time again, we have had bad experiences with SKZ fans and we do not want them to interact with us any longer, please do NOT interact

Thin Ice

(Harassment rule still applies)

- People who tell endos specifically to “fuck off”, it doesn’t bring a nice vibe to your blog (/gen)

- Anti Good Faith Labels (eg. Lesgays), Gender and sexuality is a broad spectrum, and there’s no written rules to what can and can’t be a gender or sexuality. Even if it doesnt make sense to you, it makes sense to the person with the label

- Anything heavy themes of cannibalism, it’s a bit iffy with us, but brief mentions are ok (HABIT has the exception to this, He’ll happily talk about it)

- Slurs, as I briefly mentioned before, we are uncomfortable with slurs being used on us, the only exceptions are if we are friends + we know you can reclaim them

- High amounts of arguing / discourse, this is VERY stressful for us, even if we are not involved, please limit this when possible

- Anyone using “Sysmed” terminology, because of its roots with Transmeds, it does not sit with us right and makes us uncomfortable when people call themselves/others “Sysmeds”

Thin Ice (ext. Fandoms)

- Homestuck, we personally haven’t looked too deeply into Homestuck, but we generally just get uncomfortable for whatever reason, this is only a light entry

- Harry Potter, and for 2 reasons, we don’t care about it, and J.K Rowling, so for that, be extra cautious

- ANYTHING Sanrio related, we have had extremely bad experiences related to those who are fans of Sanrio, most of which being extremely toxic people, this is a borderline DNI

- Extreme superfans of certain Animes, this includes MHA / My Hero Academia, JJK / Jujitsu Kaisen, BSD / Bungou Stray Dogs, One Piece, and Demon Slayer. We (for whatever reason, can’t explain) feel weird around these specific fandoms, and we don’t know exactly why we feel this way.

[obsidians-moods]

~Welcome To The Party~

Ello I'm Obsidian and welcome to my corner of the internet. I'll do mood/aesthetic boards, headcanons & possibly drabbles if Im feeling up to it so feel free to send in requests!

I will list the fandom's im into to help with requests. If I dont know the fandom or dont know it well enough I might not do your request, its nothing against you I just dont want to mess anything up.

~~Rules~~

First and foremost, don't be a dick. I don't tolerate anything anti LGBTQ+, Racist, ect. So I can and will block on sight if i see that shit.

2. Like I said I will do Mood/Aesthetic boards, Headcanons & if im feeling up to it drabbles for fandoms i know. Please do not harass me if I don't answer your ask. I would rather not bullshit things I am not knowledgeable in so to avoid any fandom drama or un-nessicary hate, im just gonna delete asks I don't know anything about.

3. I have a life outside this blog so answering asks will be whenever I get around to them. Sometimes it'll be rapid fire while other times its going to be spotty. Don't like it? Deal with it. There are plenty of blogs like mine out there so you can go send them stuff.

4. I have the right to refuse to do headcanons for ships I do not feel comfortable with. I will not judge who you ship unless its illegal shit then im going to have a problem. Otherwise more power to you, but I'm not gonna answer asks im not comfy with.

5. On the topic of illegal shit, if i catch anyone being gross as shit in my ask, I will block you on sight, i do not care if its over fictional characters I do not vibe with that shit.

~~Fandoms~~

Baldur's Gate 3

Black Butler

Resident Evil

Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel

Noragami

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Stranger Things

Homestuck

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Pokémon

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Castlevania

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Creepypasta

Umbrella Academy

Undertale

Stardew Valley

Sanrio

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Deltarune

Legend of Zelda

Fallout

Final Fantasy ( 7, 8 & 15 )

Spiritfarer

Danganronpa

Harvest moon/Story of Seasons

RPG Maker games

[sammygender]

things about homestuck i have discovered in my reread

terezi is my favourite character and will always be

caliborn is fucking HILARIOUS jesus christ somehow i forgot this (he hasnt got to the misogyny yet that part gets kind of less funny)

dave and karkat kind of ARE that good, regrettably. i feel like we all go through a davekat phase upon first reading and then gradually we get over dave and karkat and move onto other, better pursuits, like vrisrezi fanfiction or space player meta. rereading tho man they are excellent… not the most compelling characters of COURSE and really more like babys first analysis in terms of dissecting them, but man they are funny, man their emotional arcs are vivid and well written, man they are hilarious together also (penis ouija. yeah that was funny). coming out as a dave and karkat fan once again

homestuck in general but especially the start of act 6 is INCREDIBLY funny. for some reason i thought act 6 was less funny and more like plot-heavy which i guess it kind of us to an extent cause most of it is now Relevant all the time but oh my god the alpha kids are a trainwreck and its so funny

on the subject of the alpha kids. last time i properly read homestuck i was like 14. i had never experienced being the same age of the alpha kids and now looking back its insane. that is LITERALLY what being 15/16 is like. the romantic chaos the constant miscommunication the way this group of best friends just somehow have so many fucking problems with each other??? and the COMPLEXES. my god

appreciating roxy more this time round than i ever did before she rubbed me a little the wrong way first read i think maybe bc everyone heralded her as like The Unproblematic Alpha Kid when like oh my god she is a fucking MESS but when looking at her through that lens shes fantastic

jade harley should be mean more often. every PASSWORD FUCKASS interaction was an absolute delight. man she should get more page time

vriska is indefensible when u first meet her its so hard explaining to people that shes like The Fucking Best when she spends most of her intro mocking the guy she paralysed for being paralysed. sadly, she still IS the fucking best.

did i mention terezi pyrope is my favourite character ever in anything

i still cant pay attention to anything exile related i'm sorry. i just look at the pretty pictures and skip through it quickly as possible. if they dont have complex psychology and fun conversations idc sorry im a bad hs fan

calliope is both a delight and so wrong like all of the time. reading her i see where all the fandom misconceptions come from. ur not meant to take her word as 100% serious when she says stuff like male/female classes or whatever!! she sees everything through this incredibly binary 2 choice lens like caliborn bc thats literally the life she lives. this is also extra funny i guess considering shes literally kind of meant to represent the hs fandom

LIL HAL <33333333

sorry that so much of this is about the alpha kids im part way into act 6 now

dirkjake so far have not had a single interaction and iirc they never do??? fascinating storytelling since we still have a perfect picture of their dynamic

terezi is characteristically being stupid about vriska again, because she is complicatedly and unwittingly in love with her

DAVEREZI FOR THE FUCKING WIN MY GOD. THEYD NEVER WORK ENDGAME BUT THEY ARE SO FUNNY TOGETHER LITERALLY BFFS. no romance tho just vibes

does rose get confirmed as a lesbian later in the text or is that just a fandom interpretation cause ngl i have seen people harassed over bi rose which is kinda crazy anyway but would be even crazier if its not. an actual canon fact

LE SIGN IS UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO MEAN TOO BAD HES GAY YOU OBTUSE DUNDERFUCK from roxy compared to poor dirk calling the word gay antediluvian. man just wants to like jake in peace

honestly everything alpha kid wise is insane lets just. put it there

I MISS VRISKA

terezi is my favourite also have i said that already

[4lph4kidz]

hey i know im like. a stranger on the internet whos on anon, but im sorry that people are so shitty and i wish you werent having such a hard time. for what its worth i love your blogs and its posts, and as some whos had homestuck as their hyperfixation for 8 years i love how you interpret the story and characters and its always fun to look at them through a different lense (especially jake i love how u see him). im not saying this all in hopes of making you post or anything, you dont even have to reply to this. i just want you to know that your input on topics IS valued and that i hope something really awesome happens in your new year, whatever that might be for you

thanks! i appreciate it. i'll be fine. i think my post was too dramatic and i'm sorry about that, but yeah, this stuff has very much discouraged me from participating. it's not fun any more. i'll still be around, might still share art and stuff, but i frankly do not feel comfortable being met with such frequent hostility and i'd rather. not. open up any more opportunities for harassment. it's not worth it.

[vriska]

hey i think its fine to dislike rosemary but i think its still kinda shitty to try and trash other peoples ship by calling one character a shitty partner lol? you dont have to make up reasoning like that nor do you have to use the epilogues and hs2 to try and back it up. you can just say you dont like it and go instead of virtue signalling by posing rosemary fans as people who like "problematic" ships.

First of all. I never said Rosemary is problematic, not once did I say it was problematic or that people who liked it were problematic. I said I don't like it because Rose is a shitty partner. That is not "trashing a ship", that is an opinion. I think she's a shitty partner because instead of helping and being there to support Kanaya, she chose instead to get drunk on the meteor and would've done so again if Vriska hadn't intervened for them. Her turning to drinking, while she had her reasons, was not a good thing. It was never supposed to be a good thing. And a good way to showcase Kanaya and Rose overcoming adversity together as a couple to show the strength of their relationship would've been to have Rose decide after it upset Kanaya, to quit drinking with Kanaya there to support her through it. Instead Rose does nothing. Kanaya does nothing. The issue isn't handled with the care and delicacy it deserves and is simply hand-waved away. Also to be clear:

BEING A SHITTY PARTNER =/= BEING A SHITTY PERSON

Secondly, I said you're free to disagree with me disliking rosemary, me blogging about disliking rosemary on my own blog does not at all effect you or stop you from shipping it. I didn't put it in the tags, I didn't harass people for liking it. I stated my own opinion ON MY OWN BLOG and you're still free to disagree with me, but coming into my blog and accusing me of "making up reasoning" or acting like I'm not allowed to use a source like the Epilogues (that Hussie himself helped to write) and HS2 (That Hussie also gave his blessings to be made) is fucking stupid.

Even if Hussie himself didn't write or create them personally, he still said it was okay for these people to take these characters in these directions. I don't agree with them. I think Rose and Kanaya and every other character in them was given a shitty hand, but they still exist and it shows us a side to rosemary that you're unwilling to acknowledge.

They're not your perfect uwuwuwu pure lesbian beans who can do no wrong. They are characters in a story and they were written in this shitty way. Rose is a piece of shit for cheating on Kanaya and lying about it for 15 years. She's a shitty partner for leaving Kanaya behind to fuck off with her Ecto-dad (But this one is slightly more dubious because there was some manipulation going on). But these things still happened, these events were written with the expectation that this is the continuation of Homestuck, this is where these characters end up. Even if they weren't canon, I'd still dislike rosemary because I just don't like how much Kanaya got shoved back behind Rose. And you're still just as free to disagree and think their OG homestuck narrative was compelling or nice to see. But that's your opinion and this is mine.

TL;DR I don't like rosemary and I stand by the fact that I think Rose is a bad partner to Kanaya. Also stop throwing around buzzword terms because it makes you look like an idiot, at no point was anything I was doing "virtue-signalling" and never did I say anything about rosemary fans being problematic. But I do think you're a pissbaby who just wanted to start shit with me because I don't like your ship<3

[davethot]

Aysha is homophobic but more so in the realm of being lesbophobic. Remember that she completely removed all Rosemary interactions from Pesterquest for more Davekat, decided to push for Yiffy the cuckhold child to be forced into the narrative during Lesbian Visibility Day and has made sure to demean any positive Rosemary interactions in lieu of Davekat which she is solely invested in. Her being transphobic more relates to her poor handling of Jade (dog dicked sex fiend isn't good transfem rep)

You do realize you sound fucking insane right???? This is literally what I’m fucking talking about when I mentioned people in my og post about hs2 pointing fingers and giving someone a really harsh label such as LESBOPHOBIC because they didnt quite handle a lesbian couple EXACTLY how you would have.

First of all i want to mention that Aysha is non-binary poc and is married to a woman. This doesnt exempt her from possibly writing some shitty things, but its good to have perspective here. Shes not some cishet white person writing these characters.

So are you going to ignore the literal thousands of pages of the original comic where we had a PLETHORA of Rosemary interactions??? And absolutely no davekat? And if you remember Kanaya was still having hang ups with Vriska, so it only made sense that that was explored a bit in Pesterquest rather than jumping straight to Rose and Kanaya cuddling on a couch and spewing gay poetics at each other. Like I genuinely dont know what you fucking want.

Also i would like to point out that romance wasnt even the fucking focus of Pesterquest. Dave and Karkat’s interactions were barely anything more than characters mentioning them and them being in the same place together for one single ending and mspar implying that they had a feeling they were supposed to be good friends. Tbh it sounds like you and the people who often have this complaint are way more fucking obsessed with what’s going on with Davekat than Aysha or the rest of the team will ever be. Maybe you should redirect your efforts into creating more wlw content for Homestuck since you think the new team is so lesbophobic for portraying two grown ass women having some marital problems (and acting like that cant happen in the real world with real people literally every day).

You and tons of other people fucking love to point to Kanaya and Rose’s issues in hs2 and preach that it’s suddenly lesbophobic that theyre not happy go lucky 24/7. Again, Davekat didnt even fucking happen in the og comic. We had one flash where Dave rests his head on Karkat’s lap and they’re playing hopscotch on a poorly drawn dick on the ground, meanwhile Rose and Kanaya had comfortably been together for Awhile at that point. I just don’t understand how Dave and Karkat finally having a semi-functional and happy relationship in hs2 is promoting lesbophobia. Also we didnt even get to see the comic FINISH!! We dont KNOW what exactly was going to happen with Rose and Kanaya, and we arent going to for a long fucking time because it’s people like you who are perpetuating this narrative of the team and that theyre horrible awful people because they did two fucking things you dont agree with. It’s honestly fucking exhausting. And you know I can throw this right back at you right? Like, pretty homophobic of you to only be focusing on wlw ships and invalidating Davekat, one of the only healthy relationships PERIOD in Homestuck, not just a healthy mlm relationship. Like, pretty shitty of you anon :/ kind of homophobic of you fr.

And this isnt even mentioning the genuinely nice interactions we have seen with Kanaya and Rose in Homestuck 2. Everyone’s really fucking eager to forget that in meat Kanaya was wistfully looking out at the stars missing her wife and told Dave she’d do anything to get her back, esp since it’s implied that Rose was being manipulated pretty heavily by Dirk. But no, according to yall that never happened and Aysha + the rest of the team are just spitting on all wlw folks.

Also again I feel like youre coming to insane conclusions. You think it was a purposeful move that Aysha and the team introduced Yiffy on lesbian visibility day??? Like???? Also pretty lesbophobic of you to invalidate a child born from two women. Like hm pretty shitty of you anon. Rose and Jade explained why they did what they did, and tbh, again, we could have had more information if people like you didnt indirectly harass the creators and cause it to go on indefinite hiatus.

As for the Jade dog dick thing, I have multiple friends who are trans women who have issues with people blowing it out of proportion. Its important to remember that every trans woman is going to have a different opinion on this, and we shouldnt invalidate any of them, but at the same time what one trans woman says about it isnt the end all be all of the situation. Some trans women think this portrayal is transphobic, while plenty others think it isnt, and that people are making way too big of a deal out of it. Therefore I’m going to leave it at that. Personally I dont know if how Aysha and the team wrote Jade is transphobic and its not for me to decide. However, my trans friend would like to be quoted saying this:

“People claiming that the writers intended for Jade’s dick to be the driving force in her emotional and sexul appetite shows someone’s willingness to ignore Jade’s actual reasons for doing these things that she STATES in the actual text. All in favor of projecting their own transmisogynist reading onto the writers.”

This probably ended up being longer than my og post lmfao but fr anon im sick of people like you. Even if you didnt directly contact the creators of hs2, you’re literally the problem here. I wish you and others would stop throwing around these terms like lesbophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc, because it literally makes those words lose meaning. Someone writing a lesbian couple having marital problems, especially in the context of Homestuck, is not fucking lesbophobic. And i hope i helped you understand that by throwing the terms back at you because tbh, im sure youre a good person with good intentions, and I would never seriously call you homophobic for this. But i hope you can have some fucking perspective and stop targeting marginalized authors and creators moving forward. Its embarrassing fr.

[synodicatalyst]

one of the bad things about the homestuck epilogue to me is that now i have to put up with people talking about how homestuck is inherently awful bc of its 'problematic elements' like yes it has bad shit and hussie is evil but the stuff they talk about isnt like a central part of the comic and a lot of it is pretty easy to miss if you dont play the friendsim or skipped parts of openbound or were an archive reader

 like idk what 2 say about that bc the criticisms are legitimate (yes meenah’s relationship w/ vriska is bad and wrong and yes there are elements that are pedophilic even fi they werent intended that way) but when ppl say anyone who likes it is racist and a pedophile and ableist etc… like. ugh. idk. sorry to vent in your inbox todays just been super shitty

oh yeah, i definitely understand this - yesterday i was linked to a callout post that called homestuck “irredeemable” due to its “lesbophobia/homophobia, misogyny, ableism, racism, anti-Semitism” (etc.) and it’s pretty frustrating! not that calling out these things is bad - but it’s like, as your resident Gay NB Dude of Colour who has LITERALLY written essays and talked on a podcast about the racism in homestuck, and how we should treat it / whether it’s still “okay” to like it even despite the Bad Things, it’s almost… horribly dismissive and condescending seeing people circulate callout posts and tell homestuck fans about how problematic homestuck is as if we aren’t the people who are the most aware of it?

Like, an example of a criticism I saw was that “a character’s lesbianism is treated like a fetish” - in obvious referral to an andrew hussie formspring comment from 2011 (? or 2010 maybe i cant remember) and it’s like……. oh my god… are we just going to ignore the fact that homestuck has a genuinely groundbreaking number of lgbt characters (all of them), develops natural arcs for its characters outside of their identities, provided many people with positive lesbian representation literally absent from like everywhere else, did it ORGANICALLY and NATURALLY somehow despite the fact that andrew hussie is a (probably) straight white cis man - owing to the fact that the development and increase in LGBT representation was specifically in appreciation of the fanbase it gathered? are we ignoring the fact that andrew has fucked up multiple times but current homestuck projects like friendsim, and even the epilogue, are actively including and centering the voices and work of real life wlw, women of colour, trans people, etc. as a SPECIFIC point of the fact that like, andrew KNOWS he’s made these mistakes??? this isn’t me being an andrew hussie apologist because i dont even fucking..trust him or anything. but the lack of context surrounding Why Homestuck Is Bad, Actually is horribly stupid

i literally do not know how to break it to people that actively shaming and calling out a piece of independent media that has been significant to the lives of many lgbt poc and is currently working actively to rectify its mistakes is not like… Specifically Cool and Woke. on a basic level, i can understand the concerns of these people but they show a lack of nuance and understanding of growth and genuine value for the people they’re supposedly Standing Up For. i can’t stop them from doing as such but i sure do find it annoying. especially since posts like these lead to people calling out and harassment of people who are fully aware of the mistakes the work possesses. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HALF THE SHIT IS PLACED OUT OF CONTEXT OR IS COMPLETELY OUTDATED (LIKE THE KANAYA THING. LIKE, THEY LITERALLY GOT ACTUAL LESBIANS TO WORK ON ELWURD’S ROUTE TO SHOW THAT LESBIAN CULTURE IS A THING ON ALTERNIA)

homestuck is actively antifascist, makes a point of ridiculing homophobia and misogyny especially that of the gross reddit brand (via caliborn), and lots of people - lgbt teens especially - found a home in its narrative, because it both represents them and portrays a growing up narrative that is scarily fitting for the current day. it sure does have its issues but where the fuck else am i going to get my vriska fix. SHOUNEN ANIME?? i think not

sorry for just like, unleashing my Frustrations in response to your ask anon, but i hope this sort of resonated with your own grievances. I’m sad to hear that your day has been bad, so i hope you wake up tomorrow feeling refreshed… here is jade harley

[dyonoi]

Davekat is one of the ships I'm not as into because it's ruined by the fandoms Biphobic nature. Dave and Karkat are both into girls and it's totally Normal for them to want to eventually date Jade too when they're older and mature, and it doesn't make them less into each other because you think it makes them Less Gay. It just didn't work out this time, in this timeline. Keep hating Jade Harley for getting into your sexy ship.

have you ever considered that a huge chunk of people in the homestuck fandom, especially on twitter/tumblr are...in fact lgbt themselvesdid it ever occur to you that youre sending this shit to actual bi people

im unironically gonna pull out the NO U card here and say the idea that bi people "cant pick" or are naturally drawn to polyamory and/or promiscuity and equating poly to bi is infact biphobic here. not to say real bi poly people dont exist or are doing anything wrong but this concept is often a negative portrayal of bi people in media

let me tell you my own experience here so that MAYBE you can understand someone elses perspectiveback in the midlate 2000s in highschool i dated a bi guy called brennan. i obviously had no problems with this, but in the lead up to this my friends had a whole discussion with me and basically told me not to date him. because he was bi. basically what it boiled down to was "theres double the chances of him cheating on you, you have to look out for him being friends with ANYONE" and "hes probably a manw***e." i dated him anyway for around 4 months before i found out he was cheating on me with 2 other people at the same time. the response i got from everyone was "I TOLD YOU SO" and i internalized this shit for years.

fastforward like 2-3 years and im in a relationship that im still in to this day. im a committed person when it comes to relationships and i am straight up monogamous. so thoughts of being bi were pushed down since i was 16 because i thought admitting to it or even exploring the idea would make it come across like i was less into my bf and an affront to him, that i would potentially wander off or be unloyal because i internalized that all bi people would be secretly unhappy unless "they had both" and that it would come across that way. it took me a ridiculously long time to be able to realize i could admit to finding some girls hot while staying monogamous

so...dave and karkat being bi AND monogamous is important to me. not just because of personal stuff, but also cause ive literally written multiple fucking essays about how its so crucial to karkats character and elevates him from "character i enjoy" to "incredibly well written and compelling character writing that im very invested in, and likely the only vehicle to his actual happiness." as for dave, it just straight up goes against his existing character and sometimes saying "this doesnt add up" is a legit reason not to like something. i find the argument that poly is something that has to happen as a byproduct of them "maturing" and that monogamy is inherently immature in contract is pretentious and condescending as fuck

i dont know how else to explain this multiple fucking times. all this is completely divorced from jade, and this would still stand if it was john, terezi, jane, tavros, obama, or whoever the fuck else in her place. though now the epilogues made it even WORSE in my mind because of the fact that she sexually harassed them for years and people are conveniently ignoring that but thats besides the point

and this idea that i think that bi people in het relationships arent "gay enough" and thats why i hate djk is... incredibly STUPID, considering thats the arrangement ive been in for a large chunk of my life.

im very sorry that i dont fit your neat little one-dimensional narrative that davekat shippers hate jade and are biphobic

anyway if you wanna ignore all of karkat and daves long standing characterization regarding this, and wanna ignore jade (and i wanna make clear here again- i do not hate her, i hate what she did, but it makes me find her WAY more interesting. i LOVE character flaws and think theyre extremely important and honestly jade needed more of them) and everything she did... have fun lol

[println-archive]

warning for tumblr user epiphanct

disclaimer: most of what happened between us was on now deleted quotev/quizazz accounts and my old blog that i deactivated after getting stalked by someone irl. all the screenshots i can give are from our email conversations, but i can get some testimonies from people who knew her about how she treated me in public and what i told them at the time it all went down. 

(@stillwritinghaikus & @sadcryptid knew me and eli most of the time, but @gafou was there towards the end and can say what they were like the few times we all hung out also only contact these ppl off anon, they don’t all want to be involved too publicly but agreed to be included as character witnesses to who eli is-- there are other people but i don’t have ways to contact a lot of them because we fell out of touch over the years)

anyone who has followed me for long or knows me knows i still deal with panic attacks, issues in relationships, issues with self worth, and nightmares because of a bad ex-girlfriend.

me and eli (i think that’s what they’re going by now and i believe they use they/she pronouns now) were best friends and on-again off-again since 2013 up until some time in 2017. consistently from 2014 until 2016 (i tried to detach from them in late 2016 so we talked significantly less and i would ignore them when they got angry or anything), they emotionally abused me. 

tw for incest, daddy kink, and emotional abuse under the cut-- don’t harass her about the things regarding incest or daddy kink because most of that is from when they were 13-15, i’m only including it because its a testament to what type of person they are and something that is available in our email chains to prove. i was complicit in a lot of the incest rp/kink but at no point was i legit into it, i just never called them out on it and i went with it

we met when they were 12 almost 13 and i was 13 (i think) on our first accounts on quizazz (now quotev), a quiz and story-making website, because they spoiled fred dying for me in a post about harry potter. 

from then we started talking and eventually became best friends. things were mostly normal and healthy overall for the first year until i got into my first relationship w/ someone. they started to get possessive of my time and over me but i thought it was normal and it pretty much was especially when i found out why-- they confessed to having a crush on me. i got permission from my S.O. at the time to be poly and date both of them but eventually i dumped my S.O. for eli alone. it was around when we became exclusive (when they were 13 and i was 14) that things went from normal messy teenager dating to controlling my entire life

they would get angry when i went to sleep, saying that i had to stay up for them or giving me the silent treatment the next morning if i went to sleep when they didn’t want me to. they didn’t limit asking me to stay up to when they were unstable either, most of the time their reason was that they wanted to rp. they would snap and withhold affection from me if i went to sleep on accident or my mom took my laptop away so i would go to sleep. at some point it reached the point that i was missing days of classes in a row because i was sleep deprived and throwing up in the mornings from stress and lack of sleep. i told them this and they still didn’t stop.

they would also control what i posted on my blog or what i had my layout look like on quotev, because if they didn’t like what it was they would claim we had nothing in common and should break up or they should unfollow me or they should block me. most notably, when i made a sideblog for taylor swift posts at some point i started spending most of my time on that blog because taylor swift was a hyperfocus at the time. i switched that blog to my mainly active one and made it a multifandom with a focus on taylor swift, and they got mad at me for posting so much taylor swift. to placate her, i changed it so i only posted taylor swift in my queue and then, finally, i just ran a multifandom blog and avoided reblogging anything about taylor swift more than two or three times a week. i need to emphasize here: i never tried to make eli talk to me about taylor swift after they made it clear they didn’t like them, i didn’t talk to them about it and i didn’t require that they interact with my posts or anything. they just didn’t want me to post about my interest. this also happened with pokemon and homestuck, but to a lesser extent-- the fight was over once i changed my layout from having art for them, i was still allowed to post some.

we broke up sometime in late 2014 for good, but they still made all of my decisions. they were possessive and called me theirs, they didn’t like it when i liked girls who weren’t them, and only let me show affection for them. i was allowed on relationship other than eli, and only because they approved of her and set me up with her. in the end, we broke up because, with eli’s manipulation and forced dependence on them, i was still in love with them. then, within the month of breaking up with this girl, eli switched the script completely and would randomly go through bouts of anger where they would give me the silent treatment and vague about me for still having feelings for them.

they also made it very clear that they got to pick who i could and could not be friends with. most notably with my then best friend dani (@sadcryptid, dont message them publicly abt this). when they found out i was talking to dani in any capacity-- whether i mentioned her or posted something about her-- they would give me the silent treatment or yell at me about it extensively. this went on for YEARS (two? i think) until i ended up dropping dani for entirely unrelated reasons (we’re cool now). when, briefly after, i made friends with a girl who went by luna (who sexually harassed me so eli ended up being right but they didn’t know about that at the time), they lost their shit guilt tripping me into dropping luna too because they wanted to be my only close friend. another time my friend irl confessed to having a crush on me and eli made me talk to her less and said i was theirs

they also briefly shipped reylo and wincest, i have no idea if they still do but i know they did as long as i knew them, and shipped nico from percy jackson (a canon gay character) with their girl oc. (they had a whole breakdown when nico was confirmed gay, saying it ruined the books for them)

they also would give me the silent treatment whenever something good happened in my life-- when i got tickets for the nebraska comic con, or got to see taylor swift, they would give me the silent treatment or yell at me

they had an incest kink to the point of making up ocs to be their twin and older sister, only agreeing to human aus for michael/lucifer from spn if they were related in them (until they changed their mind to getting angry at me for suggesting them), and had a literal daddy kink-- not just into calling their partner daddy but to the point where they would propose rps where their self insert was the literal child of michael and they would have sex. 

they also liked professor/student plots, especially in harry potter with professor snape and their self inserts.

so here are the screenshots now, for your ref in the screenshots, they’ve gone by “mya”, “lottie/charlotte”, “wren”, and “matt”. they also have an oc other than the fake siblings that come up a few times named “juliet” and one named “holly” and one named “casey”. i know that the screenshots don’t have proof of everything i’ve outlined, like i said above most of it happened on accounts that have since been deleted or deactivated so i only have what i could find in my gmail.

i’ll add more screenshots as i find them

[pidge-the-shalashit]

Voltron Fandom Rant( long)

The Voltron Fandom. A fandom that in just a little more than a year, has become a heaping cesspool of hate, one of the shittiest and most vile fandoms, leaving other past problematic fandoms like Homestuck, Steven Universe, and Undertale in the dust (at this rate). Full of people yelling and screaming the words “pedophiles!”, telling others to harm or kill themselves, just constant back and forth bickering. And all over one thing, something that isnt even an important factor of the show, barely 5%. Shipping.

Every fandom has their ship wars, but nothing like this. In all the years I’ve been in fandoms, I’ve never seen anything as terrible as this. When you meet other Voltron fans outside the internet, you honestly dont know if they are gonna like you or judge you completely, cause you might ship something they hate. So far, being in the cosplay fandom, I’ve met mostly really chill and nice fans, luckily not running into one anti.

Just the other day, we got confirmed ages of the characters, something I thought from the creators we weren’t going to ever get. And tbh, I wish we didnt.

As much as I’m happy for the Keith x Shiro fans with Keith being confirmed 18 (tho some antis are finding ways around that to still claim its illegal or some shit), what about the others? Especially the Shidge fans. The Shidge fans now, from what I’ve been confronted with, are distraught, terrified, nervous, and we barely are getting consolation or support from the Sheith (Shance and Shunk too) fans that we supported against the antis. And I think thats a shame. Our ship is as valid, as according to the creators, even if Pidge is 15. As I’ve claimed several times before, look at ErenxLevi, and how much that ship is popular with twice an age gap. And even if the age gap makes you uncomfortable, you can always ship it in timeskip, AU, or aging up terms. Thats completely fine and okay, because they are fictional and not real.

I don’t care for Sheith, but I will stick up for any Sheith fan against the antis anyday. Because thats what we do, we stick up for each other even if we don’t like the ship..

I wish they never released the ages. Imo the only good thing that came out of those leaked pages was Pidge being Italian.

Anyway, moving away from that, you antis. I...don’t know even where to start with you bastards, You ARE the ones who have made this fandom such a vile and disgusting place, you ARE the ones who make people scared and bully those who don’t agree with you, you ARE the GALRA. You THINK you are protecting minors, throwing “FICTION AFFECTS REALITY” in every argument, think you trying to make everything your “SAFE SPACE”, but you are just bullies. That’s literally all you all are, bullies. Not just other fans, but you harass the cast and crew too. And if they don’t agree with you or had enough of your bullshit (@bext-k, you are amazing, I’m so sorry about the shit you get), they are your enemy too. The actually people that bring the thing to life that you CARE ABOUT SO MUCH OVER ANYTHING ELSE.

Voltron is a cartoon. That’s literally all it is. A FUCKING CARTOON. A cartoon by Dreamworks, based on the 80s dubbed Japanese anime, that was dubbed from 80s Golion. The fact you guys are wasting so much stress and energy, on this cartoon..it baffles me. It really and truly, does. There is just, so much more in life right now we should be wasting our energy on. There are countries out there, that which if they could right now, would bomb and destroy us all in war. Then...would all this stressing out over discourse still be on your mind? Or would you rather be focusing on saving your own life and your family?

Fandoms are supposed to be enjoyable, supposed to be a haven where you can happily share and talk to others that share the same love of something you do...but not like this. This isn’t fun. You shouldn’t be scared or be sad in a fandom over other fans treating you horribly and making you feel bad over something in the fandom that brings you joy. Shaladin shippers, ARENT PEDOPHILES. Sheith, Shidge, Shance, ALL OF THEM. ALL SHIPS ARE VALID, AS CLAIMED BY DIRECTORS LAUREN MONTGOMERY AND JAOQUIM DOS SANTOS.

Let this discourse end. Its going nowhere. But what am I, just one person in this crazy fandom. Maybe things will calm down as the show progresses, maybe another thing will come along that the antis will jump onto. But I just had to get this off my chest.

I won’t be leaving the fandom, since theres so many amazing people outnumbering the shitty ones, but just know, dont be scared. Dont feel you are a bad person for what you ship. You aren’t. And if you need anyone to talk to, come to me. This blog is a Shaladin safe place.

Sorry for the long post, but if you read this to the end, thank you for your time. And any antis that want to comment on this...go ahead. Just know your hate will get you no where.

[princesszelda-rekt]

i dont want to make any excuses for myself, but i would like to explain some stuff. i know what i did was wrong, and everyone deserves to know, i would reblog the post myself but i cant because im blocked for justified reasons. 

im not going to defend myself, but i would like to explain my behaviour. i am not defending myself, my actions, or anything.

i will be seeking professional help. im going to be working on making myself a more safer person to be around. please keep yourself safe, and do what you have to do involving me.

at a young age i was groomed, raped, and molested by an older family member of mine (from ages 5 to 12, and probably later. i suppressed a lot of my memories and it caused my DID), and being an avid homestuck reader and roleplayer, and with how the homestuck fandom was back then,it really normalized incest and pedophilia more than it already felt like it was to me due to my sexual assault.

i roleplayed it with friends because it made it seem like my trauma was okay and normal, that it was just a part of life. that it’s okay for adults to be involved with kids, and what i went through is something that a lot of kids went through. it was a bad coping habit, and as i got older i realized that its fucked up and it shouldnt have been normalized like it is in fandoms.

around the time i met cody, i met an adult while i was a minor who roleplayed bro strider (who was a comfort character for me) who manipulated me, controlled me, and tried to isolate me from everyone. he knew my age and my history of unhealthy age gaps. i thought everything was okay and that was normal, especially when he asked me to date him. when i started dating him he controlled me in ways like making me only roleplay with him, telling me if i roleplayed with others it was like cheating in a married relationship,  forcing me to choose him over my friends or he’d break up with me, telling me hed break up with me if i was asexual, and forcing me into a bdsm relationship. he forced me into situations and that i wasnt comfortable with due to my trauma, promising me his love in return.

he did a lot of things to me like forcing me to roleplay noncon (knowing it would trigger me) because it was his kink, and roleplayed him committing suicide when he was feeling guilty about me talking about my problems and how he made me feel. he roleplayed incest with me, sent me nudes, talked about having sex with others and more. he was extremely manipulative, he lied about having cancer to make me feel bad for him, and he wasnt seeking treatment, and told me he shouldnt be with me because he would never live a full and happy life taking advantage of my already unhealthy views on relationships, and trapped me in the relationship with him.

the relationship was toxic and harmful and it made me really unstable, it warped my views on things far more severely than they already were, and when i finally broke up with him after finding out he was cheating on me and forcing someone else into a bdsm relationship, i was feeling vulnerable and alone. with codys continued admitting of his feelings, and sharing similar interests, past trauma, and more, i leaned on him as we spent most of our time together. he knew how fucked up my boyfriend at the time was, and next to my boyfriend, i felt like cody was all i had. i talked myself into seeing age gaps so wide were okay, especially with how everyone i socialized with at the time was okay with them, and my ex and abuser telling me age gaps are okay, and just numbers.

i was afraid to talk about how cody and i were dating because yes, there was an age gap, but also my ex constantly harassed me with anonymous messages. suicide baiting me, trying to get me to talk about my life since i shut him out, mocking my trauma, telling me i deserved it, and throwing my sex repulsion in my face. he wouldnt stop stalking me until i put a statcounter on my blog and got his ip.

once i left my ex, i distanced myself from the awful side of fandoms and roleplay community that normalized unhealthy behaviours. i followed better people, and became educated on things my ex forced me into. the damage from my ex made me sex repulsed, and i was trying to come to terms with it. for a while i was in denial of it, trying to “fix” my sex repulsion, and since i was dating cody at the time he became the victim. i eventually accepted my sex repulsion and distanced myself from nsfw content and topics as it made me physically sick and uncomfortable to be around them.

i know it was wrong, i was dealing with my trauma in ways i shouldnt have. i was in a bad home environment and i had/have an abusive family, and it just made everything worse. i know my behaviour is wrong and im actively trying to become a better person. ive been unlearning all my coping habits slowly over time, and im actively finding healthier ways to deal with my mental illnesses.

theres no way i can fix the damage ive done, and theres no excuses for what i did, absolutely none. everyone deserves to know, and im doing my absolute best to better myself. i would reblog the post myself because it needs to be known. please, do not feel bad about unfollowing me, blocking me, or anything else you may feel the need to do.

this is not an excuse for my behaviour, just an explanation.