homestuck nostalgia

HS sideblog because I don't want to scare my followers of my main blog。 You can read my pinned

[hs-nostalgia]

I created this blog because I am dealing with a big Homestuck brainrot, was a big fan in 2011 and I feel kinda nostalgic (that inspired the name of this blog), and I want to collect fanart and post but I feel too ashamed to reblog them on my main blog, so I created this blog.

[hs-nostalgia]

If someone finds this blog:

I don't care about fandom discourse

I REBLOG A LOT。 Sorry for spamming your notifications

Expect +18 posts/fanart hohoho

[metianull]

SPLATOON CHAMPION

[methvapes]

a joke

[kadiumz]

its snooseday!!!!!! (snoopy tuesday)

[sealycow]

Nathan Explosion is my headcanon Equius voice forever

[halfbloodtroll-blog]

Lol omg

[sushinfood]

this is absolutely perfect

[zomibom]

Homestuck troll kids doodle pack

(might make humans pack later)

Characters:

Karkat Vantas (Homestuck) Aradia Megido (Homestuck) Tavros Nitram (Homestuck) Sollux Captor (Homestuck) Nepeta Leijon (Homestuck) Kanaya Maryam (Homestuck) Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) Vriska Serket (Homestuck) Equius Zahhak (Homestuck) Gamzee Makara (Homestuck) Eridan Ampora (Homestuck) Feferi Peixes (Homestuck)

[mythicalcosmos]

Fulfilling a need for more Equius and Dirk content

From this post by @incorrect-hs-quotes :) As always go follow them! Edit: forgot to connect Equius' glasses

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Dirk you hardass let him in

-Mod Terezi

[waspik]

but anyway im leaving in the morning

[knights-unwelcommentary]

Thinking about how Tavros' animal communion powers might have made it really easy to get by compared to other trolls, at least before Vriska fucked him over

Maybe that's why he chose to live in a highblood area and make FLARP one of his hobbies, he didn't have many reasons to fear for his safety back then

[knights-unwelcommentary]

I mean, most trolls are implied to not have psychic powers or if they do, they're not as op as the beta trolls. They would depend on their lusii and battle prowess more than anything and it would be dumb to go against a guy that could potentially turn your lusus against you. In that scenario Tavros would be pretty much in the clear from most of the dangers of Alternia and only get in fights he seeked out himself

[telaraneas]

the irony of tavros is that hes actually incredibly powerful but because that power has afforded him the freedom to NOT have his psyche devoured by the horrors of alternia that has turned him into the single "softest" member of the group. i genuinely think this is part of why vriska has so many emotions directed at him in particular- she's jealous and bitter that he is ALLOWED to be a weak nice cowardly guy who likes to play games just for fun and has a good relationship with his tiny harmless lusus. the fact that he was ALLOWED to live like that is living proof that her experiences and suffering werent NECESSARY or Just How The World Works. so she HAS to put tavros through the wringer to force him to "toughen up" because clearly EVERYONE HAS TO GO THROUGH THAT because otherwise her entire worldview and coping mechanisms for her horrible horrible childhood all fall apart

[kimquatz]

A small snippet of the illustration I contributed to the @homestuckzineofficial Aspect zine for the Hope aspect! B) ✨✨ It was an honor to be chosen to draw for this zine and getting to draw my fave lil fish turd lmao. I’m so excited that it’s finally released and I hope y’all like it!!!

You can pre-order the zine HERE!

[whatpumpkin-deactivated20181222]

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[jhfkfghfgughu-deactivated201712]

at least uve got ur Pops

[bblookyyy]

doodles

[gertritude]

None of these are original or anything, but I wanted to post my epic early Homestuck opinions here

[roach-works]

hey i just wanted to say thanks for still expressing positive sentiments towards homestuck even after all this time. most BNFs aren't creating fanworks as much anymore (no one could maintain that intensity forever tbh!) but when they completely divorce themselves from that part of their life it's just... those creations brought a lot of joy, and it's extra sad when they feel the need to go scorched earth. i'm happy your works are still around and i really do wish you all the best going forward!

i think a lot of us abandoned homestuck because of two factors: the first was the collapse of the proudly sex-positive fandom space that let us be weird and creative without fear or shame, and the second was the fact that homestuck ended, then launched several epilogues, in a way that seemed specifically designed to mock fans for caring.

like, some very dark, sad, awful things seemed to happen to hussie, and he certainly did not have a good time with his own fandom. but from the perspective of someone in the audience, if a show i love turns on me and starts directly insulting me for loving it, caring for it, and hoping for the best, i get up and leave the theater.

'isn't it horrible to be the hero? aren't stories just prisons? isn't love ultimately meaningless? isn't hope the main driver of tragedy?' sure, fine. yeah. you're not the first man to ask these questions. they're big damn questions!

'aren't you stupid for sitting there and watching me ask these questions? because the answer is that i'm an idiot for asking them and you're twice an idiot for thinking that the answers might be worth the wait.' now you're just being an asshole to yourself, your story, and your audience. im taking my toys and going home.

homestuck was a brilliant, fascinating, unprecedented monument to storycraft... and it ended like a sandcastle getting kicked over by a toddler. that, to me, is the central tragedy of the piece.

[thewickedbohemian]

One idea for a potential solution (though I’m not sure what we’d do until then as since some if not all of the after-the-ending material wasn’t technically official as it wasn’t technically made by him, you can’t have an “unofficial sequel” try to make itself “here’s what actually happened” without acknowledging what we got being on the same level of canonicity if both are given any higher weight than any other given fanfic) is if Homestuck could be visual-media-adaptable at all, try to make a show that fixes the plot but has some of the plot threads added to fix things basically meta-symbolize why we’re fixing it for these reasons (y’know, the fixing having as much weird meta-resonance about the nature of fiction as the breaking)

[roach-works]

i politely but STRONGLY disagree: you can’t fix homestuck. it was finished in such a way as to deliberately break it and leave it broken and have that brokenness stand as a monument to the waste of it all.

you can not fix homestuck because it is, by its nature, on every level, a story about the futility of stories, and a story about breaking stories, and a story about how stories break the people inside them and outside them and trying to escape from them and watching helpless from outside.

in every act, from every perspective, the story breaks. it breaks the fourth wall. it breaks the timeline. it betrays its own premises repeatedly, it breaks promises, it subverts expectations and then subverts those subversions. it contradicts itself and laughs at you for expecting honesty. it sets characters up and drops them to shatter. it tells you that this time maybe you’ll kick the football and then it eats the football.

you can’t fix homestuck because it does not want you to. it would be like trying to fix a smashed egg with a dead chicken while the kitchen’s on fire. you’re trying to do something that’s too late, that’s always been too late.

like, this is the insane power of this fantastic, bewildering tragedy: it is so broken that it breaks your heart. ten years later you still want to fix it, and you couldn’t then and you won’t now. two vast and trunkless legs of stone lie in the desert and on their shattered pedestal is a dick joke that hates you personally.

incredible piece of work. 0/10 stars. 10/10 stars. and a fist full of penis.

[gooeytime]

roach as usual saying some very good things here, but did just want to quietly chime in to disagree with the previous commenter on a different point. to call the homestuck material that comes after the ending “unofficial” if andrew didn’t personally work on it is, i think, rather unfair. 

those of us who were asked to work on the new stuff did so under the express belief that we were continuing on the Real Story, as far as such a thing can even be said to exist. in planning our approach, we concluded early on that we weren’t interested in “fixing” things, but rather in engaging seriously with the story as it was when we inherited it. this made our jobs a lot harder, and in hindsight i think it could reasonably be called a doomed enterprise. but we tried to make something out of the ruins of what was, to look around us at the crumbling architecture and the smoking piles of garbage and see something worth laughing about.

one of the hidden purposes of the new homestuck stuff was, unfortunately, attempting to plug some of the big financial holes that had opened up in the wake of the epilogues. we didn’t find this out until after we had agreed to work on the project, but half of everything we made would get dumped straight into a huge black debt hole courtesy of a certain publishing company. i remember my colleagues telling me about it and all of us just screaming a collective “what the fuck andrew”. it was hard not to feel used at that point. i don’t think our faith in what we were doing ever recovered from that revelation.

and the amount of abuse and shit flinging was indescribable, it really was. i didn’t watch my coworkers endure every kind of weird and creepy parasocial behaviour under the sun for people to turn around and say that what we went through never even mattered because it wasn’t “official”. i loved homestuck so much. it was such a huge part of my young adulthood. working on it destroyed my life. i’m very happy and glad that all the terrible mistakes that were made haven’t totally destroyed people’s ability to enjoy the comic for what it was. but this mess can’t ever be fixed. 

look around you at the other people who loved this thing. sit together and watch the dying embers glow. listen to them. share your stories. they are the only things worth keeping.

[is-it-tavros-tuesday]

5/16/23: yes

[grim-kitkat]

Happy Holidays everyone and a happy new year