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HOMELESS FAMILY STILL NEEDS A VEHICLE
So my homeless family still hasn’t been able to replace the vehicle we lost due to an accident, right now we are in a motel but in a few days we'll be out on the street with a dead vehicle and from there? Well likely we'll lose it and everything in it we can't carry.
So we gotta avoid that! We need more funds to buy something livable and reliable and funds to stay out of the cold while we deal with this.
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HOMELESS FAMILY NEEDS TO REPLACE VEHICLE & SURVIVE COLD SNAP
My family got into a minor accident due to a blizzard, and while no one was immediately hurt it has left the vehicle we are living in damaged, and the price to repair it is going to be higher than getting something more reliable and can tow our camper, so before it dies on us completely, leaving us likely out in the cold we are trying to replace it, for something that can fit the three of us, is reliable & can tow we'll need about 7000 for the vehicle alone, this is ignoring a need for extra gas due to the cold alongside baseline survival costs.
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THE VAN HAS BROKE DOWN, THIS IS URGENT HELP
Homeless Family In Need To Evacuate In Search Of Political Refuge.
TLDR: Alberta, aka a part of Canada is turning into a right wing nightmare with separatists trying to turn it into a part of the USA, making it not safe for my disabled & queer family, especially as we are homeless and things like crackdowns on the homeless & police making homeless people disappear is on the rise, we need money to get to a safer part of Canada & moving expenses, especially with our need to fix or replace our vehicle is high, anything helps.
Here is a link to a longer post that will be updated with what part of needs/plan we are at
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Something we've been turning over in our heads is that LE isn't just a metaphor for patriarchy, he's also specifically a metaphor for the way that patriarchy shapes, defines, limits, and directs the kinds of stories we can tell. And by making Caliborn's ascension pretty directly AH's fault, Hussie is sort of saying "it's my fault that misogyny exists in my work, even if I am projecting that into the form of a fucked up little guy, even if it's ultimately because of cultural forces beyond my personal control, it's still my responsibility."
See the thing about Eridan and Feferi is they are a bit like sharks and dolphins. One of them is a lovely little smiley creature that makes chittering noises and does tricks and is overall very anthropomorphizable, and the other is a big nasty biting thing that you wouldn’t want in your entourage. Meanwhile Feferi is a nice young lady with sentiments about social justice that appeal to Homestuck’s exclusively (as far as I know) non-Alternian audience and very adorable mannerisms, and the other one is Eridan.
But then expert scientists start taking a closer look at the two species and start to spot some discrepancies with the general idea of what they should be. It turns out dolphins do all kinds of nasty things (ie: premarital sex, stockbroking, pyromania) and sharks are actually big softies who wouldn’t hurt a fly when you aren’t dressed up as a seal or making sensationalist blockbuster movies about them.
Similarly, upon closer inspection you realize that maybe Feferi isn’t really all that nice or even necessarily respectful towards lowbloods (re: conversations with sollux, VrIska, Jade) and that Eridan, despite having adopted his worldview because it puts him in a socially acceptable position of power, might not buy into those ideas and isn’t quite so awful or as much of a lost cause as first impressions might have him seem (re: conversations with Karkat, Gamzee regarding Sollux, requests for faulty doomsday devices, etc).
So naturally you as the reader get very excited about all these developments and start wondering oh boy oh boy, where will the story push these characterizations next, given that it’s already managed to tell us so much with so little? Who will remain true to their ideology, and whose will crumble? And then Eridan goes and does that. Sad! Oh well, there’s other tools of a genocidal regime to unpack. Sometimes the shark really is just a big nasty biting thing, and there’s nothing sinister lurking beneath the dolphin’s adorable trick.
But you, understandably, are a little pissed off by all this. You were eager to see all the secret nice and nasty bits of these characters come to fruition, and as the reader you’ve been denied your delectable prize. Plus, it seems not everyone has caught on to how things could have gone. So in your analysis you push things a bit, maybe to bring them justice or to make things clearer. Dolphins are actually murderous rapists who delight in stealing candy from small children, while your average shark is on par with Mother Teresa. Feferi’s plans for societal rehabilitation were tantamount to genocide. Eridan Did Nothing Wrong. And so on.
However, it’s important to settle on a few things at the end of the day. Bits of nuance are usually intended to make characters more similar rather than push them further apart. It might be more helpful to see what those similarities are pointing to and analyze them on that basis. Eridan and Feferi are both troubled little soldiers of a fascist state positioned very close to its head. Similarly, when all’s said and done, sharks and dolphins are both large marine predators with very sharp teeth who humans would benefit from not getting close to.
TG: shes the one who stocked thegod damn liquor cabinets in the firts place TG: i dont even think she ever had a drop in her life probably TG: so why else is she puttin it there it was like TG: a passive aggrassive dare for me TG: *aggressive TG: jut the sort of mind game she would play
That is weird. Rose can’t stand alcohol, and her Momsona clearly retains this trait. I'm not sure I buy Roxy's assumption that she's doing this to fuck with her, either.
Come to think of it, are we sure that this 'mom' is actually Rose Lalonde? She hasn't been named yet, and her activities seem awfully un-Rose like to me. Maybe that's just a cope, and Rose really is a shitty mother, but this just... doesn't seem right, to me.
TG: you sure you even want to play this thing TG: u know its just what the batterwitch wants you to do
Roxy knows what the fuck is up - but unfortunately, she doesn't really have a choice. The inertia of the Alpha Timeline will continue to drive them all forward, and there's (currently) no way to defy it and survive.
Plus, this universe is slowly dying, and meteors are en route as we speak. The kids have to enter the Medium; there's simply nowhere else to go.
GG: Not this again. TG: if you want to go ahead and be a chump jane its ur call im just saying […] TG: if you go thru with this ill have to add your porfile to my chump roll TG: which is like this real actual thing i maintain
Ahahahaha!
Holy shit, Roxy is fucking great. She reminds me a lot of Dave, but without the self-consciousness that typically characterizes his interactions. Roxy owns her shit - and as a result, her jokes feel a lot less forced. She's not trying to be cool and snarky; she just is.
GG: Have you even obtained your copy yet?? TG: um TG: heh TG: yes "obtianed" TG: suuure did GG: Through your various technologically crypotgraphic means, I presume? TG: oh you bet TG: hacked the SHIT out of those TIGHT mainframes and all
And she's a fucking hacker?
...no.
No, I can't. It's too early.
Sally, no! We haven't even seen her intro page yet!
Hold the phone. 11:10... you almost forgot! One minute until the empire's REBRANDING launch. You wonder if it will live up to the hype? Guess you'll find out.
You ride out another 60 seconds and... huh? Something happened to your BAKING CHEST. Did the logo just change?
No more hiding in plain sight, I take it.
Her Imperious Condescension, Empress-in-exile of the Alternian Empire and scourge of a thousand worlds, has openly declared her darkest, most reprehensible title yet.
Chief Executive Officer of the Betty Crocker Corporation.
It's just a fork instead of a spoon. Not the most awe inspiring logo you've ever seen, but who are you to judge? Aside from the future owner of the company.
...can someone take Jane aside for a second, and explain what usually happens to Her Condescension’s heiresses?
You try the broken switch again. Hey look, it does something now, toggling your trusty bowlbuster between a STIRRING SOLUTION and a POKING SOLUTION. Neat!
Well, Jane. Do you want to create something delicious, or start poking holes in people?
Because right now, you could go either way.
Nope, still nothing. You surely would have heard the truck pull up. You guess the empire wasn't able to coordinate the mail with its rebranding. Maybe the U.S. Postal Service is the one thing it doesn't have its gnarled claws in yet? (Another mental note: sink gnarled claws into post office when you take over.)
Jane, for god's sake, you do not want to go any further down this road. A villain arc would be bad enough, but a capitalist arc would be significantly worse. At least villains are cool.
In that instant, her empire was gone. Gl'bgolyb's swan song wiped out her entire race, save the Condesce and her lone heiress, leaving the empire nothing more than a galactic necropolis of floating tombs.
I think that this would be a very interesting setting to explore, as the dust settles.
Picture it. You’re an alien race, one of thousands that have been enslaved by these awful galactic conquerors for untold centuries. One day, with no warning or apparent explanation, every single one of them starts howling in unbelievable pain, streams of technicolor blood erupt from their eyeballs, and they die.
Once the celebrations have died down, how does the galaxy respond? How do you rebuild civilization around such an enormous, unexpected power vacuum? Do the former colonies unite, salvage what they can from Alternian infrastructure, and try to form a government of their own? Does the universe devolve into anarchy, with everyone fighting over the mountains of resources now unguarded?
What happens to your sci-fi setting, when your Evil Galactic Empire is just... erased?
She should arrive any minute now. When she does, she will find nothing but ruins and dust.
And, in the midst of all of this – what do you do if you’re the lone Empress, the last of the trolls? How long can you survive, when every single being in the galaxy would shoot you on sight?
If she cared to look closer, she would find a city of slain exiles, a man on the moon, and a pair of black lovers locked in a deadly dance.
A man on one of the moons, anyway. We still don’t know anything about Alternia’s pink moon – and, considering the dark significance of the Green Moon, I’m awfully suspicious of its sister satellite. Who’s living there?
But whether she looks or not, one thing will find her with certainty. A new employment opportunity.
The Condesce is fresh out of options, and has nowhere else to go - and if there's one thing Scratch likes, it's a woman who's out of options.
Why, though? What use is a dethroned empress to Scratch – or English, for that matter?
Anyway, the last of the twelve ancestors arrived a bit late. In fact, she would cross through her portal six centuries after the descendants had come and gone.
I would raise the girl to be groomed for her calling. My lessons would emphasize obedience, mastery of the clockwork majyyks, and being locked in a room.
So that's what's up with Fauxradia.
Megido, I am so fucking sorry. In a comic packed to the brim with terrible parents, you still managed to win the lottery. The absolute fucking jackpot.
You literally cannot get any lower than being raised by Doc Scratch.
TC: all my life i believed at a fuckin paradise to come what held the most baller, darkest of carnivals to join. TC: AND A PROPHECY TC: to tell all about a band of rowdy and capricious minstrels steeped in the good harshwhimsy. TC: THE MIRTHFUL MESSIAHS WERE FORETOLD TO BE CRASHING THAT FUCKING PIE STAND AND BRING THE HOLY RUCKUS. […] TC: I'M TALKING ABOUT THE VAST HONK, YOU BLASPHEMOUS MOTHERFUCKER.
I suppose I have to take Gamzee's cult a lot more seriously now - which means I should probably at least try to figure out what it is they actually believe.
It appears as if their doctrine is centered around some sort of prophecy, concerning a group of legendary figures known as 'mirthful messiahs'. They're fated to release the Vast Honk - and, in doing so, create some sort of Juggalo paradise.
We don't know any lore about the Vast Honk, but its name sets up intentional parallels with Gl'bgolyb's apocalyptic Vast Glub, as well as the Vast Croak, a holy sound emitted by newborn Genesis Frogs. Both of these sounds accompany enormous, galaxy-shaking cosmic events, so the Honk is presumably no different.
Alternia's First Guardian was 'corrupted' by a genome of the same name, presumably changing him from a standard Sburb NPC into the English cultist we all know and tolerate.
Could the Vast Honk be released by someone corrupted in a similar manner? We already know that Jade's Genesis Frog was spliced with some unknown DNA; it's terrifyingly plausible that said DNA was planted by Scratch, Gamzee, or English himself. There's a very real possibility that the Vast Honk will come from the mouth of Jade's frog.
TC: BUT NOW. TC: because of you. TC: BECAUSE OF ALL YOU AND YOUR FUCKING OUTRAGEOUSNESS. TC: you stole up all my miracles away by revealing at me how the wicked shit was really kicked. TC: LIKE SOME FILTHY FUCKING SCIENSTIFF WHO AT OLD TIMES WOULD BE RULED UNFUNNY WITHOUT EVEN GETTING HIS FUCKING TRIAL ON. TC: and now i don't know what to think about the spiritual fantasies i had.
Anyway, Gamzee can’t seem to reconcile his worldview with this pair of alien rappers who seem to cruelly parody his beliefs.
He’s always been dimly aware of his fictional nature, and as his mind begins to clear, it is forced to confront the possibility that this is all his religion ever was. A viral video and a meme.
For once, he doesn't think it's a very funny joke.
TC: I HAVE THE IDEA THAT YOU PUT IN MY PAN TO SIT THERE. TC: that the paradise planet TC: IS A FUCKING JOKE. TC: and the miracles TC: ARE FAKE. TC: pure fiction. TC: FALSE FAKEY FRAUDY CON JOBS FROM A BUNCH OF UNFUNNY NINJA HARLEQUIN BULLSHIT ARTISTS.
It would be remiss of me not to bring up the possibility that ICP are non-trivially involved with Homestuck's plot. I mean, Betty Crocker is now a key figure in multiple characters’ backstories, so fucking anything is possible at this point.
Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler could literally be the mirthful messiahs, and I have no idea what that could mean. I might actually have to listen to their albums to understand the comic.
i saw you mentioned that transfem!calliope was practically canon, could you maybe elaborate on that? (im not dissing your hcs btw im just confused on where its suggested in canon)
Hey so it took me a while to get to this just because I wanted to solidify some thoughts about it! Won't go into as much detail wrt my other posts, but we can at the very least start with her handle: uranianUmbra
Uranian is an old-fashioned term, generally used for gay men, though also used in different ways to describe other-gendered people or ways of being, occasionally used as a catch-all similar to how Queer is used today. Its history is complicated and occasionally uncomfortable, as a lot of queer history can be, but notably, one potential root of this idea came from Urning
Now obviously conceptions of gender and sexuality were a lot different then, and I don't want to simplify this, but in Homestuck, it's pretty undeniable that Calliope is a woman stuck in a man's body, and this is likely why Hussie used that very specific word in the first place: to foreshadow the eventual Cherubian Twist.
And not that framing: a woman trapped in a man's body. Cherubs (at least as we are told) have two equal halves who can predominate. But the framing of their entire dynamic makes it very clear that this is Caliborn's body, not Calliope.
Callie's ideal self, in Callie Ohpeee, her Trollsona, is positioned as something to be taken off to reveal her true self. She feels that she needs to conform her exterior to match her interior self, something Caliborn never has to do.
Hell, even as she goes to sleep for the last time, she removes her jacket to reveal Caliborn's shirt underneath. It's his body, not hers.
Not only that, but throughout the story, we see that Callie experiences something close to either dysphoria or body dysmorphia. She hates the way she looks, and affects an especially sweet demeanor in order to not scare people away. She sees herself as a monster because her body becomes the most hideous masculine monster the story has ever known! Literally Lord English.
And shockingly, even though it (in my opinion) handles it poorly, the Epilogues do give us a brief insight into cherub gender, where it basically illuminates that Aranea was kind of talking out of her ass about cherub reproduction, and that Cherubs have no actual biological sex or gender. Meaning that somewhere along the way, Caliborn and Calliope CHOSE their genders, likely influenced by the human and troll internet they were permitted. Callie perhaps forming her own gender in opposition to her brother. This also probably created the ouroboros through which gender became a thing in the first place but thats besides the point. Point is, Callie was likely not a woman until she chose to be a woman. I.e. transgender.
Now the epilogues took it in what I find to be a kind of boring direction, i.e. "well cherubs have no real biological sex so that means I have to be nonbinary now" which is just such a lukewarm take on the imposition of gender but whatever. Point is that Callie is transgender end of story goodnight!!!!!
i actually think it was very intentional and necessary for the society that has been manipulated since its inception by doc scratch, mr. misogyny himself, to have gender. and i also think that it was very intentional and necessary for gender on alternia to be used to represent a broad range of issues pertaining to misogyny. and while i don't think that homestuck is "about" one specific thing—because it's about a lot of things—i strongly believe that homestuck is a comic about misogyny given how prominent of a theme it is. i feel like i need to stress how important it is that gender was such a significant aspect of alternia's culture & how disingenuous it is to write it off as lazy writing
' why does alternia have gender and misogyny ' bc caliborn made it u stupid bitch . he loves that shit
helpful tools:
homestuck search bar (search for terms and it will show you where those terms appear in the comic)
directory of every character's dialogue
MSPA transcripts (including transcripts for the openbound segments)
ok here are some more i find useful
pov cam (UHC port) that lets you follow a certain character's point of view
typing site:homestuck.com into google will show you only results from homestuck.com (you can add in keywords after to refine your search) (helpful for finding panels on google images)
random homestuck quotes
flash storyboards (REALLY great alternative to taking screenshots of a youtube video)
Homeless Family NEEDS To Get Off The Streets As Canada Becomes More Anti-Homeless
As some of you may be aware, Canada is planning on expanding euthanasia to include "lacking social resources" (or something along those lines, I couldn’t find the exact quote), aka they're more willing to help the homeless commit suicide than give them housing. Me and my family are homeless in Canada, winter is here, we are stuck in a unreliable vehicle and while we have some money it isn't enough to get off the streets or to get a suitable vehicle while also keeping ourselves fed & gassed up for heat and mobility.
So I am humbly asking for assistance, I don't know how much in total will get us in a better situation, but ultimately every bit will help us.
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Help A Homeless Family Stay Sheltered
Me and my family have been homeless for nearly two full years, we were living in a truck but that recently broke down completely forcing us to downsize to a van, which while its cut down on the gas we use, it's exacerbating our disabilities due to lack of space and allergens.
We've found a hotel that will rent a room to us, with a cheap monthly rate. It's 690CAD per month, the room has two beds which enough for our family of three, along with heating, a fridge, microwave, and bathtub with a shower. It would let us mourn the loss of our previous home, and put together a plan to stay properly sheltered over the Canadian winter.
Thank you so much to anyone able to help, boosts and small donations build so much momentum.
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wait. fuck
roxy did not just live here. she fucking grew up in this lab.
SHE GREW UP IN A PLACE SHE KNEW WAS GONNA BE DESTROYED ONE DAY. WITH A LITERAL TICKING TIMER LEADING TO THAT DAY. SHE KNEW SHE WAS DOOMED
