Ancestor Posting

Mun blog for @askcaptainmindfang I am normal about the ancestors

[signmind]

You found my sideblog.

Made a ooc space to reblog things. Didn't want to flood my art or my ask blog but I needed somewhere to scream about Homestuck.

I might come off as aggressive but really I'm writing stuff and not tone proofreading it because this is a blog meant for my ramblings and I don't write them for them to be seen by others.

If you want to interact or follow along with them you can though, but it's likely just going to be about random, insignificant gripes I have that I'll probably forget about as soon as I post about it, as well as talking about my webcomic.

Feel free to ask questions about Signless and Mindfang, or anything to do with the ancestors.

I only accept anon hate and death threats in haiku's wrote in Gamzee Makara's quirk, thanks! ========================

Sovereign Of The Sunken World MSFA |

[signmind]

I have hanged around with a group of people removed from Hussie for so long that stepping out to engage with the outer fandom has made me realise they still suck.

This is me referring to the fact that many in the fandom blame Damara, the fictional girl, for being a oversexualised depiction of Japanese minors and not, you know, the 30 year old author who sexualised one of his teenage characters to be represented that way.

[taffingspy]

*homestucks your pirate gaster*

[signmind]

I swear I will do artfights when I'm out of the webcomic making mines, even if the style is just going to be more simplistic this year I DO want to give some attacks.

[fearferi]

more panels from my fan comic, sovereign of the sunken world! we are finally out of the dream bubbles, and into mindfang territory. homestuck ancestors pspspsps. aranea so pretty...... god i love women

[signmind]

I need people to get crazier about the inclusion of Homestuck ancestors in my webcomic because not only is it rare for people to include them in any meaningful way, but because I am Insane about them.

[signmind]

Homestuck Official why did you give people barely two days to find a team and to make a game jam and as a reward you just get a 'shout out'.

Surely you made enough money from the makeship plushies and merchdrops to offer at LEAST a monetary reward for the artists.

[vetchtibbles]

despite everything, it’s still you (derogatory)

[vetchtibbles]

wait hey man wait whoah hey

[deadsprout]

i dont want to be in a fandom that critisizes the choices of fictional characters like they are human beings. i want to see THEORY and ANALYSIS and STORY STRUCTURE and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!! I WANT PARALLELS AND MOTIFS AND VISUAL CUES!!! They're not REAL they are TOOLS so stop acting like they are people who made bad choices and should be punished. of course they made bad choices!!! that shit is funny and cool to watch!!

[signmind]

My favourite thing is when people who already engage with a character in bad faith start quoting the character's dialogue at me as if it's some shocking revelation.

I've read those pages dozens of times over the years. I am already familiar with the quotes, the context surrounding them, and the difference between what is actually written and what the larger fandom who already disregard her project onto it.

[signmind]

DigitalHotelStuck is the SuperWhoLock of the 2020's.

[frigiddoctoratus]

draw handmaid x mindfang ship please

Hell yes. Right as I was considering doing it 8y my own volition.

[shrimplyghostie]

Friendly reminder that Dualscar is not a pirate but a naval officer.

He's a government worker I mean come on

[black-quadrant]

question for the homestuck oldies:

what character(s) did you resonate with most when you were first reading?

what character(s) do you resonate with most now?

[signmind]

Hussie on artfight is giving me veteran flashbacks of Hussie making a deviantart account around ten years ago to roleplay Caliborn.

[signmind]

I don't get why people place Mindfang in the same category as the Condesce, the Grand Highblood, or Dualscar.

Those three are the ones upholding and benefiting from Alternia's fascistic, genocidal empire. The Condesce is essentially sea-Hitler; the Grand Highblood enforces that regime through terror, and Dualscar/Darkleer abuses their position within it. Redglare doesn't apprehend Mindfang because she is a good person, she apprehends her because the clown who serves Sea-Hitler told her to. They are the architects and beneficiaries of the system and will do anything, even using a dragon to burn down rebellion ships, to enforce that authority. I always found it weird that in this context, people will root for a cop who serves under a nazi regime, over a pirate who goes against it and in future, will raise the sectarian revolt against it. What happened to ACAB.

Mindfang is a pirate who deliberately makes herself the antithesis of the Empire. She rejects its authority, lives outside its laws, and spends far longer rebelling against Alternia than the Signless was even alive. Calling her morally equivalent to the people running the empire ignores the role she actually plays in the narrative.

And then there's the irony of praising the Summoner as a heroic, god-favoured figure while downplaying Mindfang's contribution to deserving Tarturus, a place of eternal torment. The second rebellion only happened because she made it possible. Without her actions, there is no rebellion for the Summoner to lead.

You don't have to think Mindfang is a good person but equating her with the literal leaders and enforcers of Alternia's Nazi regime feels like a complete misunderstanding of her character and her place in the story.

Not to mention it's also weird that Handmaid is also seen to deserve eternal torment in Tarturus, when she was stolen as a child to be a slave by a canon groomer. Like, she has already suffered enough at this point.

[signmind]

I very much cooked with the script for the trailer for sovereign of the sunken world. Wish it had more hype around it because we worked our asses off to get it done.