it’s good.

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[grimdarkauxiliatrix]

[doublelp]

[funkmasterfuma]

Hey I can make up random lies and various bullshit about Andrew Hussie, too. Please give me one bajillion dollars and your unwavering, uncritical belief in everything I have ever said ever.

[nekropsii]

rose is genuinely so funny. they both are, but rose doesnt get nearly as much attention about it. its that guy who has a blog.

[homestuckreplay]

yeah so act 1 of homestuck is just. what if you had the smallest most constrained life in the whole world and every tiny thing that went wrong like the mail being delayed felt unbearably painful and every routine action you took like walking to the kitchen to grab an envelope had the significance of a life threatening spy mission and then, finally, something Happened to you, and for the first time in your whole existence you were part of a world bigger than the fence around your yard

[laurenzuke]

being thirteen sucks

[plaidos]

i don’t care about ip theft and the homestuck team should really really stop banking on that argument considering they’re writing fucking homestuck.

[plaidos]

ya for real. the lamppost stuff is fucking insane like anybody who continues to work with or defend Gio after is just admitting that they think stalking is ok or even morally justified in the case of homestuck specifically.

[mspa-archive]

HOMESTUCK COMMUNITY ISSUES.

“In the following tweet is a comprehensive report compiled by over a dozen members of the Homestuck team in response to long-standing community issues. It addresses misinformation, how our team members have been impacted, and the steps we're taking to fix this.”

-HS Official Community Twitter Account

Homestuck Community Issues

Homestuck Community Issues All views expressed in this article are the opinions of its writers. The following report represents an extensive

The following is an official community made document tackling harassment, slurs, threats, racism, transphobia, and mentions of suicide, sexual assault, and child abuse in the community. Read at your own risk.

This does NOT condone harassment or unwanted contact toward anyone named.

[gayestcowboy]

my davekat contribution of the day

[gayestcowboy]

come a little closer

[gayestcowboy]

i put this up on inprnt if anyone is interested :3

[bootpoot]

happy womens’ day to the woman ever

[chomplicated]

[bootpoot]

wrong night @ the clurb

[gayestcowboy]

happy davekat new year

[gayestcowboy]

come a little closer

[nepurrrrta]

do you remem8er me yet?

[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.