#that sort of thing being homestuck

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

[tmos-time]

my own gemstuck design thoughts are resurfacing after. checks notes. five years lmao

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 60

shapes time

[tyranitarkisser]

Nurse Mituna?! Do you trust her....

[goosessideblog]

Thinking about A Square being returned wrong. Mirrored. Irreversible

A Sphere fucks up, and puts him down in the wrong direction, wrong side up. It's not like he remembers, but A Square certainly does. When he wakes up- it's too late.

The third dimension never phased him, but what about something so intrinsic as your own body, flipped the wrong way? The world becoming upside-down, having to relearn to navigate the places you called home. And it's such obvious proof of the third dimension, but what if it's all in your head? No one can tell with your features being confined to a corner, you can only try to explain the distress you're going through, but if you try you'll certainly be deemed a madman.

We know his knowledge changed him, but what if it changed him physically? In a way he can never return from? He could've passed it off as the strangest dream, denied it's truth, lived the rest of his life at peace, but how do you disprove something so concrete? Would he think himself insane too, after a while?

Someone let me access a two-dimensional being i have a hypothesis that needs to be tested

[trans-clown-catgirl]

homestuck fans investigating possible new contrived explanations for why drawing incest is actually ok and completely ethical

[jaypgartifacts]

october is coming. which means, of course, that it is time for the horrors. tfw the dream self must confront the Nightmare Self

[kayforpay]

yknow I keep thinking this but where equius' insane STRENGTH probably was the only thing keeping him from being immediately culled for being such a freak, horuss' probably almost Got Him culled

like neither of them can independently control it to any real degree, but for equius that meant he didn't often have to Fight because he could just kinda flick someone away and be done with them, so even though he was completely beside himself obsessed with the castes and just being generally insane about it, he never really faced much direct risk

horuss, though, lived in a totally alternate world. people can't just walk into a beforan's house, smash them, and take over because they like the view, but that's to his disadvantage. he had to wear a suit at all times that severely limited his natural abilities to be desirable enough to not live in a facility. horuss is a borderline cull-case and from what I remember, every one of his friends fully knew that too, and used it to shame him

[dorkofspace]

I love the idea of Minecraft smps but there’s so much lore that it’s too much for my little pea brain to handle

[veganhamsalad]

Amnesty please I have a sad backstory

[exaltior-a]

Being a lil cray cray about Dirkjake is so fun I'm laying in bed giggling to myself thinking of them beating eachother up. Romantic.

[godsfavoritescientist]

I have a draft saved somewhere talking about my classpect headcanons for everyone, I really need to finish that sometime so people can see where I'm coming from when I say "fidds is a mage of rage". I have Ford down as a prince of light, stan as a thief of time, and bill as a lord of hope, but I think those are a liiittle bit more self explanatory

[sparkerinparadise]

oh btw im a maid of heart, sorry to be cringe or w/e. this is the ONLY part of [redacted] i still like interacting with, sorry

[feathered-thing-system]

Hi I'd really appreciate it if in servers where there's like roles for things you're comfortable with like dming and flirting and stuff if you... don't call me pet names as you're telling me off for typing things in brackets because it's maybe annoying for screenreaders but you don't know because you don't use one and derail my discussion of how I as a physically disabled person with stigmatized mental health disorders experience ableism, especially when you ALSO have the "ask before calling me pet names" role!!!! I don't care if it's force of habit!!!! Eat shit!!!!! You can call me babes if I can type in brackets till a person with a screenreader tells me to stop! (To be clear, I'm not replacing letters i just type things in brackets like this). I was trying to talk about my experiences as someone who's infantalized because I don't speak while I'm in front and I have meltdowns and I need soft comfort items and I'm in a wheelchair!!! People never directly talk to me. They infantalize me. And you derailed it!!!!

Edit to say: additionally. I understand why my messages might be annoying for someone with a screen reader and would be happy to adjust for them. But I resent the implication that typing my messages in brackets like this: (This is an example message) is equally as inconsiderate to screen reader users as typing like this: (th1s 1s 4n 3x4mpl3 m3ss4ge) (plaintext: this is an example message). I wouldn't be typing the same as terezi homestuck in a public space like that for a number of reasons but I do in fact do my best to make my posts and images as comprehensible as possible for folks relying on screen readers

[dykepaldi]

homestuck was so perfect for autistic teenagers bc it took characters being sorted into categories and having Attributes to its absolute extreme. forget four hogwarts houses, every character has their associated colour their zodiac sign their associated animal their dream planet their god tier class and aspect their typing quirk their pesterchum handle their weapon their planet of x and y, as well as each of them having a handful of other very quantifiable Personality Traits and Interests (e.g. this one is a clown this one is angry this one likes fashion this one is just rufio from hook for some reason) and THEN they all also have their respective ancestors and dancestors(?)(plucked that word from my memory) who have all of those things as WELL

and god not to mention the fucking quadrant system

as a 13-15 year old autistic kid i didnt even need homestuck to have a plot i just happily made a big big spreadsheet of character attributes in my brain

[vexwerewolf]

Should I read homestuck

tl;dr: no

actual answer: yes, but with some extremely important caveats.

Firstly, because Adobe shitcanned Flash, you can now no longer experience Homestuck in the form it was intended upon release... unless you download the Unofficial Homestuck Collection. This act of unbelievable, nay, saintly generosity by Homestuck's most dedicated fans allows you to experience Homestuck as it was intended - as close as is humanly possible.

"As close as is humanly possible" is the key phrase here. One indelible part of the original Homestuck experience was UPDATE! Homestuck would sometimes go weeks or even months (and later, years) between updates. I wasn't on Tumblr back in the day, but at the peak of Homestuck, even if you knew nothing else about it, you'd know when an update dropped because Tumblr's net traffic would increase something like three to fourfold. People would go apeshit bananas about whatever new revelations the Huss would drop on us.

You also need to realise that Homestuck is a product of its time and while its takes on sexuality and gender identity was pretty progressive (for its time), Huss did use the r-slur a bunch.

While we're on the subject of the author, Andrew Hussie (of whom my current understanding is that they have not changed name but go by they/them nowadays) is, in the most diplomatic possible terms, a very unique person. They are, at times, a visionary storyteller with genuinely fascinating ideas. At other times, they come off as kinda spiteful towards their readers.

Without meaning to dip into spoilers, some story beats seem (in my opinion) almost intentionally calculated to upset, irritate or mock certain fans. It never rises to the sheer vicious contempt that Steven Moffat had towards Sherlock's fanbase, but it does leave a bad taste in my mouth whenever I go back.

Additionally, and this is where a sort of birds-eye-view spoiler is unavoidable, the story suffers from the Game of Thrones pitfall of repeatedly increasing its own complexity by adding new plot threads without resolving existing ones, eventually leading to fatigue on the part of both the reader and the author. The arcs of a lot of characters just straight up get abandoned, while a couple of characters take an unnecessarily large amount of screen time.

There's one character in particular that the author openly states within the narrative (the author exists within the world of the story. It's... a whole thing) that they favour, and whose behaviour the story is warped to accommodate. You'll know exactly who I'm talking about almost the moment they show up.

Another reason I say that it's not really possible to read Homestuck as it was originally intended is because a lot of the shit that happens in it fits into the zeitgeist of the internet at the time any individual update was written. There's a whole section in the late middle third that is inextricably and very specifically tied to how it was like to use Tumblr in 2012.

Additionally, a lot of things have soured with time. There was the whole Hiveswap debacle (it was first announced in 2012. We got the first act in 2017. We got the second act in 2020. We do not even know if the third act will ever come out.). There were the legal threats. There were the Epilogues and Homestuck 2, which were... how do I put this? Not universally liked. There's been nearly a decade of discourse since Homestuck ended, and a lot of things haven't grown better with age.

All of that being said.

You should read it.

I cannot express to you just how big an impact Homestuck has had on internet culture. Even people who claim to hate Homestuck unconsciously use slang that it invented. Its unique ideas on storytelling, character design and narrative chronology have, in both subtle and unsubtle ways, changed the way millennials and Gen Z tell stories.

A lot of people were inspired to tell stories because of Homestuck - one example I always give to Lancer players is that Kill Six Billion Demons started as a comic on the MSPA forums (before it was homestuck.com, it was MS Paint Adventures), so Homestuck is in an indirect but demonstrable way responsible for the existence of Lancer. The sunglasses that Gideon Nav from the Locked Tomb wears have been explicitly stated by Tamsyn Muir to be Dave Strider's. Toby Fox made music for Homestuck, and worked on large parts of Undertale while living in Andrew Hussie's basement.

We also know someone in the Bluey creative team is a Homestuck, because...

There are subtle but direct references in Bojack Horseman, Hazbin Hotel, Steven Universe, Adventure Time - and those are just the ones that it's easy to prove! In a more general sense, I think there's a lot of cartoon series, movies, games, etc. that would either be very different or wouldn't exist if Homestuck hadn't happened.

It's certainly influenced my work.

I think, being very cautious to manage your expectations, that you should read Homestuck. At the very least, a lot of things people say on Tumblr will start to make, if not sense, a different kind of nonsense.