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at the dawn, I woke, I was alone
Fanart for Pure Effervescent Enrichtment (chapter 5 specifically) on ao3 by @landofchaosandbloom! This fanfic is so cute and funny and single-handedly turned me into a Dovekat truther and I love it a lot.
So what is homestuck about?
four 13yo internet friends play a video game with cosmic stakes that sucks them into another dimension. over a chat client, they meet a set of twelve alien kids who played the same before them and gradually realize that the cosmos operates on a system of self-closing timeloops and narrative inevitabiilty that's pitting them against an immortal demon bent on destroying the universe
to be clear, this is how i'd give a casual synopsis, which is usually what people who act like explaining homestuck is really difficult are ostensibly trying to do. if i was, like, describing homestuck's themes in a more analytic register, i would be more inclined to focus on how it's a multimedia hypertext fiction bildungsroman deconstruction with several layers of metanarrative that's ultimately focused on the experience of growing up queer and online in the 2000s through the frame of gnostic allusion, pop culture bricolage, and the author-audience relationship as seen through the lens of said author's idiosyncratic quasiplatonist theory of fiction
Can that be explained for someone who doesnโt know all the jargon? Not trying to be insulting, I just donโt know what a lot of that means.
main difficulty phrases/parts:
bildungsroman
gnostic allusion
pop culture bricolage
idiosyncratic quasiplatonist theory of fiction
so first of all i want to be super clear that, like, this 'jargon' is not simply obtuse for its own sake, but just like any specialized topic with centuries of theory behind it, literary analysis has developed its own vocabulary with which very specific and complex concepts can be communicated succintly
that said: a bildungsroman is a type of coming-of-age story that puts a lot of focus onto a certain notion of 'growing up', a somewhat romanticized vision of the transition from 'childhood' to 'adulthood' with a strong focus on the emotional maturation of the protagonist. when i say homestuck is a 'bildungsroman deconstruction', i mean that homestuck is, in some ways, an entry into this genre, but takes pains to highlight, interrogate, and sometimes outright reject a lot of the underlying philosophical assumptions that go into defining it.
gnosticism is a dubiously historical (as in, it is an exogenous post-facto grouping made of faiths and interpretatins of christian doctrine that is often described as though it is a coherent and continuous religious tradition) constellation of beliefs mostly bound togeher by a focus on personal enlightenment in the face of an illusionary or deceptive world and by a quasidualist cosmology separating an invisible, omnipotent divinity and a lesser, malevolent or flawed creator divinity ('demiurge'). homestuck is full of gnostic allusion, from the surface-level aesthetic incorporation of gnostic vocabulary and concepts (the monster yaldabaoth, a character's username being gardengnostic) to a more thorough thematic engagement with the ideas of materiality being a deceptive shroud over an immaterial 'true world', or malevolent/absent creator divinites emanating forth from higher-ranking ones.
bricolage is an artistic technique focused on repurposing and melding existing objects -- 'pop culture bricolage' here is me saying that huge parts of homestuck rest on the recontextualization and incorporation of both "low" and "high" cultural objects, aesthetic, visual, and narrative elements from stuff like saw, starsky & hutch, the sims, dungeons & dragons -- allowing plot beats and images (sometimes, literal, jpeg images) from all these pop culture works of art to form loadbearing parts of everything from indivdiual panel composition to story arcs.
the 'quasiplatonist theory of fiction' here is a reference to the beliefs about art and fiction that hussie expresses, with varying degrees of facetiousness, through homestuck and outside of it. i call it 'quasiplatonist' as an analogy to platonic idealism, because a central element of it is the notion of the 'pure', immaterial, 'essence' of a character being separable from their depiction in the work and the circumstances of that work's creation, and i call it idiosyncratic because hussie's take on it is very singular and leads to some very strange conclusions.
playing around with his design ๐
anybody else been listening to The World Is To Dig?
& what do u think about it?
I didn't love it at first tbh but listening to it a few times it's really grown on me...
I still don't love every single song but What You Get, In the Dead Mall, What the Cat Dragged In, They Might Be Feral are all like... GOOD good imo. and I like Wu-Tang and Overnight Sensation too
(I think the only song I'd probably skip on future listens is Telescope?)
oh my god I forgot about Character Flaw
which contains one of my favoritest TMBG lyrics maybe ever:
do you guys think they thought of the title for Letโs Fall In Lava bc it kinda sounds like letโs fall in love. and then went from there or what
anyway I like that song too
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anybody else been listening to The World Is To Dig?
& what do u think about it?
I didn't love it at first tbh but listening to it a few times it's really grown on me...
I still don't love every single song but What You Get, In the Dead Mall, What the Cat Dragged In, They Might Be Feral are all like... GOOD good imo. and I like Wu-Tang and Overnight Sensation too
(I think the only song I'd probably skip on future listens is Telescope?)
oh my god I forgot about Character Flaw
which contains one of my favoritest TMBG lyrics maybe ever:
anybody else been listening to The World Is To Dig?
& what do u think about it?
I didn't love it at first tbh but listening to it a few times it's really grown on me...
I still don't love every single song but What You Get, In the Dead Mall, What the Cat Dragged In, They Might Be Feral are all like... GOOD good imo. and I like Wu-Tang and Overnight Sensation too
(I think the only song I'd probably skip on future listens is Telescope?)
anybody else been listening to The World Is To Dig?
& what do u think about it?
listening ๐ง
Davekat Fan Swap 2026!! -- SIGN UPS CLOSE APR 24
Welcome to year SIX of the DAVEKAT FAN SWAP, a fanwork exchange event hosted by the Davekat Thirst Federation (DTF) discord server! We would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who's participated with us in past years, and an eager welcome to any newcomers who are ready to try it out!!
You don't need to be in the discord to participate, but if you're an adult looking for a community to discuss davekat with, we'd love to have you join! (Discord invite link, 18+ only: https://discord.gg/wGqTQmN)
THIS SWAP WILL BE: - Davekat-centric - Open to the public - 18+ - Accepting both fanfiction + fanart
WHAT IS A FAN SWAP? Offer: You tell us what you are willing to create. Request: You tell us what you want to receive. Match: Moderators will match participants based on offers and requests. (That means you will only create based on what you have offered, and receive what you've requested.) Create: You submit your work by the deadline. Receive: You get a work!! Hooray!
SIGN UPS ARE OPEN!!!!
Important dates at a glance: (use the links to convert to your time zone) APRIL 24TH @ 11:59PM ET - Sign ups close. MAY 1ST @ 12PM ET - Assignments are sent out. JUNE 9TH @ 11:59ET - Assignments due!!!
Visit the collection page below to view the full list of rules and FAQs. Then click the sign up button to get going and submit your prompts and offers. https://archiveofourown.org/collections/davekatfanswap2026/profile
the best part of this post is undeniably that it was made by toby fox
i just log in my old account just to tell you that met two amazing bands like blonde redhead and boards of canada due your fics was such a bless, really. also, i read you were getting into built to spill and it was very exciting because i love them too. i wanted to ask: what do you think about modest mouse's and arcade fire's music? do you like them?
thx for reading, hope to see more of your works (fics or about your oc's lore), and of course, your musical taste!
hey, thanks so much :]
I'm so happy to hear you got into blonde redhead I've loved them for sooo long. boc too... geogaddi has been my faithful friend for like 20 yrs at this point lmao (& I keep finding random boc remixes of music randy got me into too hah)
I honestly had never heard annnyyy bts before this year but oh man. there is no enemy is my fav so far although I like a lot of individual songs from other albums too...I just really vibe with a lot of their songs I guess <3
as for arcade fire & modest mouse, I put both of them on my OC Enid's playlist so yes I think it's fair to say I like them both haha. I've seen modest mouse live once actually, that was really cool, Isaac played the guitar with his teeth at one point lmfao. (here's a few of my favoritest modest mouse songs, been listening to them a little more again since I got this ask so thankz hehe)
everyone loves neon bible and I do think it's probably arcade fire's best album start to finish, but I have a soft spot for a lot of the suburbs as well, and ofc funeral is an all-timer. and I really liked reflektor personally. it's just got a vibe yk?
anyways thanks again for sending me this, it's fun to talk abt music, I hope you are doing well~ ok byebye
stay out of my nightmaresโ
stay out of my dreamsโ
youโre not even welcome in my memories
hindsight
Fic writers & fellow Ao3 users I have a question-
Do you like it/is it correct Ao3 etiquette to comment on a fic you liked even if itโs like, from 2005 and from a fandom long dead? Iโve been tossing and turning about this because I donโt wanna accidentally like, bring back middle school trauma for sonicfan420 on a random Tuesday.
ALWAYS COMMENT
for context, AO3 was launched in 2009. if youโre reading a fic from 2005, itโs specifically because the author wants you to have access to it. I myself have something like 15 fics that I re-uploaded to AO3 from other sites. I know other writers have more. AO3 is an archive; itโs not social media. your Instagram rules of engagement donโt apply.
old fics are on AO3 for you to read. enjoy them!
please comment! the archive emails us to let us know if someone leaves a comment no matter how old the fic is it will get seen and appreciated!
Especially lately when i have gotten so many bot comments, when a real human being shows up it is SO EXCITING
Getting comments on older fics is almost better than comments on new fic--it's a thrill to know something is still appreciated after so many years.
And we can turn off email notifications if we decide we DON'T want to hear from you, but still want it available for you to read and enjoy. So please don't be afraid to leave a comment if you want--if we want to hear your thoughts, we will, and if we don't, you won't be bothering us in the slightest. And when we're ready to hear them, they'll be waiting for us!
If you can see the fic, you can comment on the fic. Older fics deserve love, too!!!
Also remember that, not just email notifications, but authors can completely turn off commenting on a fic if they really don't want you to comment! If an author is so embarrassed by a fic they don't want to hear about it (but can't bring themselves to delete it), they have that control.
If you are able to comment on a fic, the author decided to allow that when they didn't have to. THEY WANT COMMENTS.
It's worth noting that some people turn off emails while still wanting to receive comments! I personally have email notifications off because the spam comments got relentless enough that I was just constantly getting barraged with emails. I don't get comment emails, but I check my comment inbox on AO3 regularly, and it's exciting to refresh to new comments!
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