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homoidioticus

Love the banan, be the banan

#rat #joy

misterstevens

3 mice (oil on canvas 12″x12″)

redbubble!

#rat #joy

clungedestroyer

#cat #lick #vid #vic with vodka

dreamv-lle2

*rolls my third eye*

#vic

mightyhydrator

What baffles me the most about the Homestuck situation since Hiveswap isn’t the trash that’s happening in Homestuck2, that’s not even the worst stuff since then. It isn’t the absolute vitriol with which one of the writers for it hates the fandom. It isn’t how Hussie and Co. pay 0 mind to anyone or anything but themselves and the “point” in their writing, and even then completely refuse genuine engagement with said point.

It’s that last year, after 3 years of waiting for the promised content (hiveswap separate), we were granted something good and heartfelt. We were granted something that a lot of old fans came out of the woodworks for, something to finally come together for and enjoy. Something that made everyone feel nostalgic, sombre.

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ardenttheories

From what I can parse out of the interview Hussie gave us last year, part of our hatred of the Epilogues - and subsequently of Homestuck^2 - is “the point”.

He stated, some way down in the absolute wall of text, this paragraph:

Such is the nature of a cursed tome retrieved from a place which may have best been left undisturbed. It is also the nature of any creative inclination to reopen a story which had already been laid to rest - a reader’s desire to agitate and then collapse the bubble which contained the imagined projection of “happily ever after”, simply by observing it. There exists inherent danger in a reader’s eagerness to collapse that bubble, or to crack that tome. There is also danger in a creator’s willingness to accommodate that desire. It’s a risk for all involved. It should be.

In other words, that part of the experiment was to make the Epilogues something that people would want to read while simultaneously acting as a form of “punishment” for those that actually did. Homestuck was over; we’d had our happy ending. That, for us, should have been enough.

It was our own hubris, supposedly, that caused that happy ending to break. Had we been content to leave Homestuck as it was, had we ignored the siren’s call of the Prologue, we could have saved our beloved characters from the fate of Homestuck^2. It was entirely “our fault” for reading and for subsequently destroying our own happiness, because part of the point was to show that sometimes wanting something to continue beyond the ending will not give you the joy you seek.

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callmearcturus

These are both interesting posts but I would like to just point out

who fucking asked him?

This idea of “oh you gotta challenge fandom to help it develop into a better fandom” is so presumptuous and weird. Fandom is not for Hussie, it was never for him, and the sense of almost stewardship he exhibits in these quotes is honestly such a misunderstanding of boundaries.

I don’t know how many times i have to say it, but fandom is not an act of worship and its not a conversation with the creator. It’s a transformation of the media, and the creator has no place there. To call it “tone deaf” is an understatement.

joyfulldreams

It’s kind of completely insane to me that Hussie actually thought he had like, the right to do this. That this was his place in literally any capacity.

And moreover, the absolute paradox that is literally creating a piece of media specifically crafted to cause hatred and vitriol against the thing you make, to make people critical of authors and authorship, and then be fucking FLABBERGHASTED when people then get mad, hate it, and hate you for it, and take it out on you. To lambast anyone who even dares to SUGGEST that you created this piece of media out of malice, specifically to piss people off! When that was LITERALLY! THE! POINT!!!! AS YOU *SAID IT WAS*!!!!

If the fucking point was to force the fandom to be upset and then encourage them to process it and discuss things in a mature way….To not then tell literally everybody involved with the release of said media to maybe shut the fuck up for a while on twitter or whatever and give the fanbase the room they need to actually do the thing you said you fucking wanted them to do, as in “process the negative emotions constructively”, is INSANE?!Having the authors literally dictating to you everything you’re supposed to be feeling and admonishing you for feeling differently is about as fucking antithetical to that idea as you could ever have possibly gone?!

You fucked it up, you fucking idiots. You fucked it up so hard you don’t even know how hard you fucked it up, and you’re just going to keep patting yourselves on the back and sniffing your own farts because survivorship bias means this fandom that is literally a quarter of the fucking size are all where you want them to be and are saying the things you want them to say, and anybody who is not just doesn’t matter! Fuck em!

#homestuckv2 #wow

battlestar-royco

here have 10 pieces of writing advice that have stuck with me over the years

every character’s first line should be an introduction to who they are as a person

even if you only wrote one sentence on a really bad day, that’s still one sentence more than you had yesterday

exercise restraint when using swear words and extra punctuation in order for them to pack a punch when you do use them

if your characters have to kiss to show they’re in love, then they’re not in love

make every scene interesting (or make every scene your favorite scene), otherwise your readers will be just as bored as you

if you’re stuck on a scene, delete the last line you wrote and go in a different direction, or leave in brackets as placeholders

don’t compare your first draft to published books that could be anywhere from 3rd to 103rd drafts

i promise you the story you want to tell can fit into 100k words or less

sometimes the book isn’t working because it’s not ready to be written or you’re not ready to write it yet; let it marinate for a bit so the idea can develop as you become a better writer

a story written in chronological order takes a lot more discipline and is usually easier to understand than a story written with flashbacks

#advice #writing