#theme discussion

[autonym-allonym]

During the interest check, we received some suggestions for themes! And now... you can vote on what we do :3 I would Like to do another zine after this one, but I don't have any concrete plans- so pick your top fave, as we may not do the others! Under the cut will be more thorough explanations of every au.

What theme should the zine have?

Aus/In every universe

Precanon-incanon-postcanon

Godtier shenanigans/heart themed

Fashion

Voting ended onAug 12, 2025

OUR THEMES:

Aus/In every universe: This would focus on putting dirkhal into different aus. These may range from general ones such as Medieval to specific ones like No Sburb! Plenty of opportunities for collaboration as well.

Pre-In-Postcanon: This would divide the zine into three sections: Precanon (Scenes before we are introduced to Dirk and Hal/early on in their story), in-canon (scenes in Homestuck and/or implied to have happened), and post canon (earth c and such). Following the epilogues and hsbc is not required. Provides clear structure for the zine.

Godtier shenanigans/heart themed: If you like thinking about how godtier powers work, this would be a great choice. Would give creators the chance to experiment with different concepts for heart powers and whatever classpect they headcanon Hal to have! Very loose theming, lots of freedom.

Fashion: Make these two dapper. Chances for creators to just have fun designing outfits, but is also loose enough to provide a lot of freedom.

[tomypleasingrpaesthetics]

I may be wrong here because I’ve been away for some of it but people really need to learn the difference between call out culture, bullying and shedding light on a problematic part of the community.

This started out as a cry to the rpc to stop making themes that aren’t accessible since many people deem looks more important than the content and it’s a problem. If people don’t use what’s seen as popular in the community, many people won’t RP with them. If that popular thing is problematic and it’s most of the resources currently available then that is not okay. End of story, we need to change as a community and not support it.

Now calling out is about specifically targeting someone and saying publicly why that specific person/people (if it’s a group doing the problematic thing) is problematic, most probably with receipts (evidence of the problematic thing and them being asked to stop but the problematic person/people saying no/giving excuses). But the point of a callout post is to discredit/give them negative publicity so they have no influence and no one wants to work with them ever again, no matter what they do. 

Bullying is when you use influence or strength to force someone to do something.

From what I’ve seen, no one has called out anyone specifically and said ‘you need to stop doing this problematic thing which is so bad no one should ever interact with you again.’ And no one is forcing anyone to do anything against their will. There is discussion happening (well there would be if people weren’t accusatory or dismissive or just leave their blog but moving on), with constructive criticism (from your consumers btw, which you’re supposed to keep happy because there’s no point of distributing your themes if no one uses them because they’re not what people are looking for so you have to adhere to the rpc’s wishes at least somewhat) and a solution, not bullying. You (the community) have been told that you’re doing something in not the best way and you’ve been asked to change it, that is all, it is not callout or bullying. If you do get called out then that’s because you didn’t listen the first, fifth, twentieth time you have been asked but you know what? You only have to change a few things then you themes will be used, you are not being seen as someone to never interact with ever again, it’s a problem with a simple solution.

[tomypleasingrpaesthetics]

@hailthehelpful I love how people are like ‘why are you talking about themes, why aren’t you talking about lack of PoC resources? Or something more important?’ Or 'why aren’t you being nice to me, I’ll listen if you’re nice’ Like we’re veterans at calling out the community on their problematic stuff and it’s the same excuses, different fight. We ARE fighting for more PoC resources, accessibility is important too, you can fight more than one battle this is just the flavour of the month. Also, no one owes you anything, especially since Raven is a PoC themselves, expecting them to do all the legwork and then be nice instead of you actually taking what has been said/suggested on board and doing something about it is wrong. Please refer to the many discussions had on racism and why people don’t have to be nice. Look through people’s tags before asking, they’re tagged for your benefit and things are being copied and pasted or not really answered because it’s the same thing every time one of our posts about problematic rpc issues crops up. This is not an isolated issue, many posts have been made on the issue (and others) it's just finally being heard. You do the work you expect someone to do when you ask them to educate you. You want to learn, look for the resources first

[sunraysoverthevalley]

NEW THEME IS SO PRETTY MY LOVE !! ❄️🤍✨

OMG I just saw this!! SO SORRY AND THANK YOU SM IZZY MY SWEET!!! 😭💕🫶🏻

This is for the winter type of theme, so I’m glad you like it 💞💞

[tomypleasingrpaesthetics]

@ihatefun replied to http://tomypleasingrpaesthetics.tumblr.com/post/155380231617/hailthehelpful-i-love-how-people-are-like-why Exactly, people are being so lazy like omg

[tomypleasingrpaesthetics]

Like I've legit gone to sleep and woken up and we're still talking about it...

[tomypleasingrpaesthetics]

Whilst we’re at it can we combat this blurred until hovered over bullshit. If I have to change something to see what’s there and it’s not for organisational or ‘I want you to see this first before you see anything else’ aka practical purposes then it shouldn’t be a factor.