Daily Karkat

W E L C O M ET O T H E S H I T P O S T I N Ginspired by solluxdaily

[dailykarkat]

help me find the funny

[dailykarkat]

I haven’t been on tumblr in years, what did I miss?

[dyscomancer]

You know what? We all like to hee haw about Homestuck being bad and everything, but I legitimately was never as happy and enthralled with a work of fiction as I was when Homestuck was consistently updating

[dyscomancer]

I think we lost ourselves in the prevalence of cringe culture at the time and didn’t appreciate just what a marvel of modern storytelling Homestuck really was while everyone was busy laughing at the kids who painted themselves grey. 

If you think about the sheer enormity of it and the attention span of the average person, it is an honest to god miracle that Homestuck found any traction at all; but it did, because it told an interesting story about relatable characters in a completely alien setting and did so with unique, pioneering storytelling methods.

[dyscomancer]

I honestly think that Homestuck should be widely hailed and praised for being the first story to properly use chatspeak and the widely misunderstood nuance of how people communicate on the internet. This is very appropriate, because Homestuck is a work that cannot exist in its entirety anywhere else except for the internet. 

Anyone who has been on the web for more than a few years can tell you that there is a lot of subtext to text-only communication. We had to develop this subtext because it’s difficult to convey emotions without the use of audible speech. As silly as it sounds, the difference between “:3″ and “;3″ is huge and should be noted for anyone trying to understand how people on the internet ‘speak’ to each other.

Homestuck got that. The late 2000s/early 2010s were brimming with a bunch of corporate attempts at storytelling that tried to relate to kids with onslaughts of l33tspeak and dropping hundreds of instances of “omg” all over the place. Kids and teens aren’t stupid, they can very easily tell something is inauthentic. 

Homestuck wasn’t like that. It was entirely authentic. It was written by someone who had first hand experience with not only the surface level of the internet’s communication stylings; Hussie knew about the intricacy that could be found in such simple things as capitalization, italicizing, bolding, changing colors, emoticons, and line breaks. He used that to make each and every individual character feel real in their chat dialogue, which is ordinarily a medium that some perceive to be counteractive to emotional communication.

[dyscomancer]

I could go on for ages because I unironically adore this comic, but basically what I’m trying to say is that Homestuck’s greatest asset is a sense of authenticity that is very clearly perceivable by the target audience. Maybe that will fade over the years, but for someone who was 14 in 2009, it was perfect. It was one of the first times I felt that a story was written for me, a person who mostly grew up fucking around on the internet.

We can talk about the plot, simple even in its complexity. We can talk about the aesthetic appeal of the comic. We can talk about the cosplaying community, the music, the interactive panels, the plot twists, the drama, everything. All of this contributes to HS being an incredible piece of work, but it would not have been the same if the characters spoke in speech bubbles or audibly. 

Homestuck was a pioneer of how the internet could not only carry stories told in other mediums, but how it could be a unique storytelling medium of its very own. I think that’s amazing, and I think it should be appreciated.

[technofantasia]

[dailykarkat]

I just activated your primal instincts by reblogging this

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[thewomenandthechildren]

It’s time to activate it…

Bites The Dust! now this entire post will be reversed!

[aliiiiiiice]

[avocadosfromfigaro]

[kittensnax]

Past me is an idiot and future me is a bastard I only exist in the present

[nice-homestuck-reference-bro]

haha like, is this like that part in homestuck where karkat argues with himself through paradox time?

[kittensnax]

how many fingers do you have

[nice-homestuck-reference-bro]

Ten?

[kittensnax]

how many do you intend to keep

[valtsv]

y'all make vagueposts like you're writing the latest SCP wiki entry

[valtsv]

"* **** *** ** *** **" can i get a security clearance? can i PLEASE get security clearance???

[valtsv]

[dailykarkat]

[dailykarkat]

what is the first page that comes to your mind when thinking about the best one? mine is this [S] Make Her Pay

[dailykarkat]

4/13

[coolxatu]

fuck myer briggs fuck astrology

if you ask someone who their top 3 favorite homestuck characters were you literally know everything about them

[coolxatu]

if they dont know what homestuck is then you know theyre a normal human being

[hipstercanada]

everyone put ur top 3 homestuck characters in the tags

[dailykarkat]

[shittyidea]

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[achtung-babey]

Jokes on you I read Homestuck

[berryunderscore]

This is ridiculous.

Credit to The Huss™ and Bob Ross.

[confusedbyinterface]

[berryunderscore]

[confusedbyinterface]

the plot thicken…

[berryunderscore]

You survey this bullshit unfolding from behind your FENESTRATED WALL. It’s obviously a massive waste of time.

[confusedbyinterface]

Now facing SOUTH, you pause to marvel at the beauty of your office wall mural celebrating the works of Andrew Hussie. You had it commissioned some time ago by a promising young artist. Best $11,000 you ever spent!

[berryunderscore]

You figure as long as you’re chilling at your computer you might as well see how that new MSPA story is going. You haven’t looked at it in a while.

[dailykarkat]

I don’t know why i got so many followers in the past few days but i’ll start posting and aswering asks again

[eudaemaniacal]

Dril is homestuck. I am shaken to my core

[not-terezi-pyrope]

Well ye he was literally a writer on Hiveswap

[theorigamiphoenix]

I can’t tell if this is serious or not, because it’s plausible yet absurd.

[not-terezi-pyrope]

I’m utterly serious.

On the subject of Dril’s identity, wikipedia says:

Jacob Bakkila, one of the writers behind the similarly absurd and popular Horse_ebooks Twitter account, claimed to have been hired for a project by the person behind dril.[5] According to Bakkila, dril’s author is a graphic designer who lives somewhere in the New York metropolitan tri-state area.[5] John Herrman and Katie Notopoulos at BuzzFeed speculated that dril may be a collaborative project or that Bakkila himself was behind dril.[5] Bakkila denied the rumor that he was dril, but said dril was “a friend” and that dril had contributed to the Horse_ebooks sequel, Bear Stearns Bravo.[6]

At some point, people apparently made a connection between Dril and somebody called Paul Dochney, at least partially due to a linkedin page which shows Dochney’s contributions to Bear Stearns Bravo. Apparently there were further connections as well, to do with old accounts and comparisons of artwork, etc. I’m not up to scratch on the precise details of that, but an old tumblr reblog from 2014 from somebody claiming to know Dril also lists his name as being “Paul”. Why is this relevant to Hiveswap, you ask? Here’s part of the Hiveswap credits:

In addition to this, it’s worth noting that one of the 205 twitter accounts that @dril follows is Cohen Edenfield, the lead writer of Hiveswap.

Also, I spoke to somebody who did audio effects work for Hiveswap shortly after the Act 1 release, and while they seemed to not be entirely privy to the details they also brought up a connection. Now that we know that Dril is working with Hussie for certain and is a contributor to the new SBaHJ book, I think it’s pretty much confirmed to be legit at this point.

Here’s more discussion of the dril connection on reddit from after the Hiveswap release.

[mspaprophet]

The MSPA Prophet Origin Story

I am writing this on February 20th, 2013. I do not know when, or if, I will ever post it. But since you’re reading it now, it can only mean one thing: the MSPA Prophet is dead, and it is now safe for me to tell the world how I knew when updates were coming.

Keep reading

[imploder]

HOly fuck