![]() I've since spent a lot of time thinking about it, and compartmentalized Hiveswap as something completely different from Homestuck. It's things like that that bother me about the Snapchat updates.Īnd in 2017, I learned Hiveswap has a similar problem. And after WV's entire character being how much he hates kings, a statement of intent, I don't think building 4 species-segregated kingdoms would go over well at all. I don't believe that after Dirk and Jake spent so much time realizing they were bad for each other, that they would just start living together instantly. I don't believe that Jane Crocker, heiress to Crockercorp as forced by the literal antagonist, who spends most of the comic as HIC's servant, would just build a new Crockercorp without question. I don't believe they'd just crack out the trickster lollipops again after Act 6 Act 5. I also don't believe for a second that Kanaya and Rose, especially with Terezi there, would have their wedding without Vriska there. I enjoyed the fluff of it - the Rosemary wedding is iconic, but. They were trying, but they're obviously not on the same level, in a way that makes sense when you learn it's written by fans, and Homestuck fans are often really bad at thinking about Homestuck in terms of themes and direction rather than character and ships. Along with becoming more and more cynical, slumping into a miserable depression brought on by various events which I've only truly shaken this year, I just don't think that the Snapchat updates were very good. I was less enthusiastic about more Homestuck by the end of 2016. I was 18, broke, my parents were mid-divorce, and a high school drop out with an unforeseeable future ahead. Homestuck had mostly ended, and the base around which I had built the last 5 years of my life was gone. I was moving into a house I had never been to before the first night I slept there. The house I made an ill-advised suicide pact with, to complete when Homestuck ended, long enough ago I thought that was an okay thing to do. ![]() The house I came back to after going out with my friends and loudly, badly singing the Midnight Crew song in the park. Literally the day after Act 7 launched, I was set to move out of the house that I had read all of Homestuck in, the house that I had tried and failed to input a name other than Zoosmell Pooplord for John, the house that I had a panic attack over Game Over in. All things fell into place and the last shitty twist, that in the deep web of chess and pool symbolism, Vriska was the metaphorical cue ball, and English was the 8 ball, cementing her as the hero of Homestuck, had resolved itself. It wasn't the climax of the story - the core emotional note of the story to me was always Terezi: Remem8er, not Collide or Act 7. I found Act 7 a satisfactory ending for the plot. ![]() I was still enthusiastic in April 2016, when Act 7 launched. I may be wrong, there's not really any reason stated, but sensors indicate it was a money thing - ipgd * said that Homestuck was in deep financial trouble after The Odd Gentlemen had embezzled almost the entire budget of Hiveswap for King's Quest, just months after PXS launched. Hold on - hold on I'm getting a report from the news room.Ĭorrection: they should have been about Jane, but not like that. The epilogues should have been about Jane. I was so very enthusiastic about more Homestuck in 2014, with the launch of Paradox Space, a space for Homestuck comics that use the characters in new, fun comics that maybe aren't super canon, but are generally pretty fun - it's still Homestuck, after all, and telling the story of John accidentally cutting off both harlequin arms resulting in a doomed timeline is fun! Jane sleuthing around trying to find her sandwich, that's good. I've been dreading the inevitability of more Homestuck content for years now. I talk about the epilogues in detail and there's a lot of really upsetting content in there, as well as some upsetting content that is unwarned in the epilogues, and also separate from the epilogues as I contextualize the world I lived in as Homestuck went to shit. If you want to experience the epilogues, the intent of this writing IS to spoil you on them - not in the Marvel way, where telling you the events is the spoiler, but in the traditional way. I had to reread the fucking trickster arc for this. And now that they're here, and I know how bad it gets, maybe I can explain why. The epilogues are only a few weeks old now, but I've felt their presence on the horizon for so very long, and I've never felt anything other than dread about their arrival. There's 3 other files exactly like this, trying to grasp which direction I want to go with this. ![]() I've been thinking about how to write this for maybe. While I'm leaving this up for posterity's sake, I don't necessarily stand by everything said here. The Homestuck Epilogues and what it means to grow up ![]()
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