a homestuck blog

main is socrates2point0h

[bittervalentine]

hey yall jsyk im probably not gonna be using this blog much anymore. kinda fell off the homestuck wagon. i still may rb hs stuff on here sporadically but not only a daily basis like i used to lmao. if yallre interested in seeing me bloge abt other stuff my main is socrates2point0h and my general fandom blog is stars-n-kites. been getting rlly into the adventure zone lately. hell yeah. peace ✌️

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[kimquatz]

i put tinykat in tomodachi life

[soriastrider]

day 4 - films and tv. can't go wrong with princess bride :)

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

wtf i had a dream last night that i was obsessed with learning about man-made objects that had wound up in space one way or another and every article or infographic displayed the bounds of space, as in the outer edge of the universe and the only thing beyond that was king tut? like it would either just be his name or a graphic of the sarcophagus staring back at me from the black void

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

HOW CAN THIS POSSIBLY BE HOMESTUCK

[wagamaggot]

[iris-in-the-dark-world]

[shiftythrifting]

Most Baffling shirt I have ever found

Found this gem at value village in Toronto, naturally had to buy it. Cursed knowledge of homestuck doesn’t make it any less confusing.

[wcender]

[workdailylog]

Nepeta with Jake and Dirk

11/21

[soriastrider]

woe, jakeler be upon ye

[r0gue-of-r4ge]

still peak character design im afraid

[it-foll0ws-me]

Egbert is easily one of the characters of all time

[neostellarjpg]

[neostellarjpg]

homestuck gradually exaggerating and pushing against gender roles, especially in the nuclear family, is such a fun joke within the comic but also speaks a lot to the kids' struggles.

dad and mom form the groundwork for it. their designs are so archetypically "male and female" it's like looking at a bathroom sign. and then you're like oh, mom has a bronzed vacuum, that's pretty weird. oh, dad has an account on an app entirely dedicated to fatherly figures whose main interests include pipes and fedoras and formalwear and shaving, that's a pretty funny exaggeration of manhood. then you get to bro, who is basically an experiment to see how far you can push the "messy and irresponsible prankster" archetype of the big brother until the audience actually recognizes his actions as abuse and not sibling banter (you can push this incredibly far, it turns out). then you get to the trolls' parents, who are literal animals and monsters. and by the time you reach the alpha kids, 3/4 of them don't even have monster parents around and, for the most part, grew up completely alone. and then there's the whole meteor and ectobiology thing, where none of these characters technically had parents in the first place but still, in a weird way, have relatives...

homestuck gradually warps of the idea of family to the point where it is barely recognizable to the viewer, and even then, you can feel how important family is to these deeply lonely children. in the case of trolls, "true" family (notably, defined by genetic relation) is basically understood by their culture as a fairy tale. despite this, they cling desperately to the razor-thin connections they have to their ancestors, even if those connections lead them down a path of suffering and self-hatred. and even when these kids are completely isolated from "birth", they still manage to repeat the sins of their guardians in a twisted infinite time loop of causality and generational trauma, across timelines and across universes.

[sonic-oscillator]

i hope the homestuck anime gets a million investors and then production goes completely sideways in a new unprecedented way. i hope it runs a thousand seasons and they're all terrible. i hope it stays dark forever. i hope the worst isn't over, and i hope you blink before i do. i hope i never get sober.

[sicknastyjr]

Vivziepop really should voice vriska if only for the fact it would be the single most polarizing thing ever and would piss off almost everybody in some way which is what I believe vriska's legacy boils down to

[twinkydots]

I get the urge to draw Bro Strider as shitty as humanly possible, but I can't help but think of how Dave needs to be broken out of his illusion and see that his brother is abusive and typically that kind of stuff happens when the parent and child have a lot of genuine good times and the good times fool the child into thinking the bad times aren't actually that bad.

It's more interesting to me if Bro Strider was genuinely trying his best but is just not at all suited for caring for a child (plus the puppet mind control). We look at Dirk and he admits he has no interest in children and solving social problems is very hard for him.

This could be a chance to explore how being Neurodivergent the way Dirk seems to be ties into how effective of a parent someone can be, and what unique challenges that presents when it comes a child's emotional needs. One of Dave's complaints is that his brother seems like a robot, but when we see Dirk, we see that's just how he is. He's very monotone and flat in the face, robotic, almost.

Not only this, but we can SEE in the apartment and when we're exploring Bro's things with Dave that Bro Strider absolutely adores Dave. He gives him the only bedroom and takes a shitty futon. He saves every comic he's ever drawn and quotes them back to Dave. This doesn't excuse that his behavior was wildly off of the rails and he went way too hard trying to prepare Dave for the game + forgetting basic shit resulting in neglect.

But I think stories like the Strider and Lalondes' are far more interesting if you don't view abusers as just a black and white evil and that's it. This is the chance as the reader to dissect the reasoning behind how and why someone winds up in the abuser role. These are things we should take the chance as a silent observer to think about imo

[redstonedust]

say what you want about homestuck but you gotta admit: absolute fire soundtrack for a webcomic, a media type that by all definition has no reason to have a soundtrack in the first place.

[docileroamer]

Oh you know

[butchfemmespuffy]

its really funny to think now about how the art circles homestuck originally came up in were virulently anti-ip and generally scoffed at the idea that the originator of a piece of art had any say in what other people did with it, resulting in homestuck's distinctive collage art style and willingness to include things like the con air soundtrack and jpegs of copyrighted movie posters. this is really funny to think about now, for no particular reason

[maretriarch]

oh shit lol