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thetinymm · 5 months

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How come not one reminded me of the magic that is the soundtrack of homestuck. Specifically, Cherubim, my brain is so happy. How dare it be so... Good.

#Hussie why #homestuck #album #cherubim #it fuqin slaps so hard #i need to buy and download it all with my adult yet poor people money

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beescake · 2 months

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PLEASE PLEASE MEGADUMP THE ARASOL!!! PLEAAASEE MR BEESCAKE I AM ON MY KNEES BEGGING YOU

HFHGHD GLADLY aaa i’ve been adding notes to it here and there for months but just hesitant to post it bcs im 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂

also this is just my own takeaway of the events, it doesn’t necessarily comply to the Ultimate Truth of Canon-Alignment or represent the actual facts of what hussie intended! v sentimental smh but hopefully its still interesting to read

i love when characters inform each other by proximity, it's one of my fave things to see in media :') it feels even more significant when two characters deliberately choose to stick together, so that when one operates, you can tell the other is similarly aligned in associative solidarity.

sollux is a keystone of this trope — whoever he aligns with is a wordless statement, a nod of approval. this stood out to me bcs the main four humans were alr friends by default, but once you reach hivebent you realize the trolls can actively choose who they want to hang out with.

and as we all know, after assessing every troll's biases/loyalties, sollux is the only one who maintains his selective preference for innately Good 👍 people.

aradia is such a beautiful character honestly, she evokes such incredible feelings in me. she might not have been consistently written with care but the best parts of her character are truly stunning. i think it's easy to remember sollux as the self-sacrificing one bc he's so open about it (and his friends frequently react to his Moments) but when you compare him to aradia, it's always struck me

how much more. raw it is

to be so alone as an agent of time, having to orchestrate immeasurably harrowing events nobody understands or gives a fuck about

with your role painted in the story as one who must tend to the needs of the narrative, responsible to match every next note

because when you're given the capabilities, it becomes your duty to carry it out.

it becomes expected of you to keep experimenting and arranging the machinations to work for everyone, dusting off hundreds of necessary failures to keep going

and having to be so unwavering in your drive knowing miserably that there's no one who can help you but yourself.

or alternatively: to make things fun! so other people won't think twice about letting you go off on your own.

sure she's had some very good buds, notably thanks to Team Charge v Team Scourge antics.

and yet, at the end of the day, the one friend that kept choosing her time and time again was the friend with the highest standards.

i can see why people like to define arasol as moirails/matesprits but surprisingly i find the nondescript, unlabeled aspect of their relationship more straightforward to understand.

there's no shortage of people who would accommodate sollux. most of the surviving trolls are his oldest friends bcs he’d chosen them well. his transparency with his feelings had built him strong friendships that won’t falter or break, regardless of how much of a dick he can be. they’ve already seen and accepted him at his worst, and they still like him for who he is.

contrast that with aradia, who'd been so approachable, friendly and reliable in her exchanges it was super fun to talk to her. but the moment she became depressed, all her connections broke down.

her friends became hesitant to interact with her (until she became god tier, “happy” and amicable again) because her gloom and resignation didn’t serve them. she dealt with it alone.

there’s def something of note here abt the disparity between the way male & female characters are written+perceived in homestuck (esp parallel arasol with davejade) but i won’t go into that lmaoo

with this in mind i like to think of sollux as a gift to her, a loyal companion given to complement and commend her resolve. she's capable of doing so much alone but hussie took the time to build her and sollux's relationship as one of a unit; a set.

the ambiguity of their status does complicate things, but i do believe it makes sense with their characters. aradia's relationship with romance is a rocky one, the dubious stringalong equius had with her is a pointed reminder that her feelings of attraction are ultimately controlled by the author writing her.

unlike the other trolls who can openly address and own up to their crushes, aradia had romantic emotions forced upon her (especially when hussie implies 'she kissed equius back on her own volition'). and it seems like her character is so intrinsically neutral abt attraction that even when forced by the almighty powers above, she's unable to retain it wholly.

however, looking back to pre-game when she could actually "choose" her own feelings, she did have a crush on sollux.

their soft spots for each other were so obvious to the point where other people could see it.

taunting aside, when vriska comments on their unit as bf/gf it actually informs the audience that arasol's relationship is romantic in nature despite not aligning with the quadrant system.

even while dead, aradia could still describe her care for sollux, expressing that she would like to see him happy. if they had more time to explore their relationship on alternia, it's possible they could've settled in a quadrant once they grew older.

but going back to the lack of labels, their dynamic was affected once more when aradia became god tier.

to me, her ascension was both the perfect culmination and possible closure of her character. it's the light at the end of her journey toiling through countless of timelines where she had to actively assess and participate. that's why it's cool to see her being silly and having fun giving guidance, passively exploring and watching other people do their parts.

and yet the joy of her freedom makes it hard to explore further introspection. if we take her by her word, she'd already come to terms with the hurt she's been through and forgiven those involved.

i can't help feeling attuned to how impersonal and detached it can be, to devote and meld your identity so completely with your designated position as Maid of Time until you've become hard for your old friends (and even some readers!) to personally connect to.

idk post-canon but i assume there’s some degree of similarity to be bridged here with aradia's god tier and how the hs2 humans' Ultimate forms was described as a consolidation of all their possibilities. since aradia's classpect is inherently of service to Time, going god-tier may have elevated her beyond personhood with the "game construct" possessing her entirely. sollux doesn't realize the extent of it bcs he's still mortal, but a part of him may have subconsciously understood this.

i think there is a core aspect to aradia that was lost to the dehumanizing glory of god tier — a core aspect that may have contained an element of why sollux enjoyed talking to her in the first place.

to him, aradia hadn't just been a nice girl, she was a cool girl. despite not having much in common, he's still willing to chill next to her so she's not alone while she does what needs to get done.

back on alternia, they held a mutual and equal-level regard for each other that could've definitely settled into something permanent. but now, he's placed himself in a position where he can be kept around or left behind at will. the parameters of the relationship are largely in aradia's court, so any label she suggests to identify their relationship with he's likely to accept.

but that's why it's so difficult to label it. because god tier aradia may not necessarily Want quadrants or relationship labels. rather than the initial romantic attachment, their commitment to each other had evolved into one fundamentally of companionship.

no label? ok fine. no matter what, he still thinks she's a good soul worth latching on to. the best, actually. aradia > everyone else.

even if it gets stilted at times. there's an unexpected struggle to connect when sollux's go-to default for talking points is his feelings about things, and aradia may not want to talk about emotions all the time.

not to mention god tier aradia became an observer, especially of chaos. but sollux's avoidance of involvement comes partially from his innate pressure to get involved if something goes wrong. and he can't always tell when something goes wrong, because aradia doesn't mind if things go wrong anymore.

it's a non-negotiable preference that causes them to take the occasional time apart, a new boundary that wouldn't have existed before the game and aradia's god tier.

but just like how his friends tolerated his moods, sollux accepts aradia as she is. with no quadrants, their connection doesn't break down because there's no implicit romantic expectations to be disappointed by or resentful over.

sometimes when i see hs content that deliberately distances sollux from aradia, i assume this is the dissonance people might have felt. people might find it "easier" to be cynical about them bcs of this strange tension.

but idc lmao. grab that shit by the neck

lack of easy resolutions and cleanly tied ribbons is pretty standard of homestuck and imo it doesn't make arasol's dynamic any less incredible. with the right affection and consideration, there's still so much potential to develop the nuance of their relationship outside of the popular quadrant-based depictions.

hs has a lot of really great character compatibilities but the way aradia and sollux are in their own special orbit is why i can write this much about them in the first place. it's that frail innocence between first loves that makes it so sweet to me, two kids who grew up too fast playing guesswork without being clear where they're going.

ultimately i do think you're meant to feel a little tragedy for just how much they care for each other, even if they can't quite establish it in simple terms.

maybe they keep taking breaks to progress their own paths. maybe they remain as anchor partners while seeing other people. but even if you decide to separate them, they're still (awkwardly) texting each other updates all the while. and when they reunite it feels like coming home.

and well. more than anything, i like to believe that they do want to be exclusive.

they're just afraid. after all, they're still learning how to love, beyond the projections of the foursquare quadrant system they had inadvertently distanced themselves from since young.

they might not have everything figured out, but they'll get there eventually if you just hold them together and write them there.

optional post-canon segment:

one of the limitations of main hs is that (monogamous) relationships are often written as the go-to solution to wrap up character growth; it's an easy "patch" to imagine characters getting their happy ending because they have a partner, and those who don't end up with someone don't get that closure (most notably jade).

hs2 reaffirms this by suggesting that aradia's character cannot progress without letting sollux go, because happily settling in a relationship automatically locks your potential.

that pathetic panel of sollux staring emptily into the sky is still my fave hs2 spoiler ngl i find the impact of their parting so emotionally provoking precisely bcs they were written in original hs to be each other's forever, coming back together again and again

but now, they're subject to the decisions of the post-canon authors who might choose to deviate from that.

it's not new for them to part, but now there's an underlying worry that her dropping him off this time might be the last time. while i think the prospect of shattering their stability to make them grow separately sounds fun on paper, no amount of me desperately hoping for a good execution is gonna guarantee it

idk. i guess prediction-wise im expecting sollux in classic dramatic-hs2 fashion to tell dave to back off aradia LMAO. otherwise it's just gon be sollux and karkat pathetically watching aradia and dave from a distance swimming in their unresolved feelings for narratively-powerful time players smh obvs it sounds corny as hell but who knows its still plausible

srsly tho i hope they take the opportunity to develop arasol's relationship in a fresh direction that doesn't hurt me too badly...... and i hope they force sollux out of his comfort zone. i like watching him struggle :-)

#sorry if this isnt fully accurate heh its just my personal impressions/feelings #despite best efforts to simplify my annotations the wall of text still ended up massive #there's also a comparison i wanted to make abt characters who “broke up” from romantic expectations losing a lot of what they had before #dave(sprite)/jade‚ karkat/terezi‚ dirk/jake etc = which is why i think arasol was rescued by hussie on purpose. arasol endgame truth #ngl there mightve been more moments that shouldve been mentioned but i have no memories of... limited cloud storage #long post #ask #anon #homestuck #arasol #aradia megido #sollux captor #arapostings #2024 #vioart #not disqualifying acespec/qpr reading i think its also possible :]#if anything i dont understand fanon killing off aradia for their sollux ships haiyaaa why is this trope so damn popular #every time i open a slkt fic and aradia is dead i go outside and burn a tree. global warming could not come sooner #slkts who treat aradia like dvkts treat jade…. i punt u football style

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maretriarch · 3 months

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feeling grateful for meulins kaomoji and annoying tumblr fangirl reaction gif quirk. They could never make me hate you.

#why is there no ascii troll. bcs hussie hates me specifically

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carolinemartinart · 1 year

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2023 is the year we embrace all of our cringe, and that includes homestuck. i don’t make the rules.

#homestuck #vriska #vriska fanart #d8 #homestuck fanart #andrew hussie #why did i stop making art in this style #this is actually p cool #vriska serket

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shoegazingmonad · 6 months

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Andrew Hussie made Doc Scratch like little girls because 1. He was projecting and 2. He couldn't handle the fact he had written a character whose existence is just. gay as hell. Imagine being made to host another man inside you until your death and having the personality of the only dude he (unknowingly) loved and being dressed in his sister's outfit (which is literally his but with a suit jacket) and calling him Master. But you, the guy made to host him will never actually meet him for he will only appear when you die, and even if you were to be present at the same time as him (in a singular timeline) he probably wouldn't give a shit since he'd be too busy chasing his sister to the ends of the universe trying to kill her. The Man you were created for, to make the world in his fucked up patriarchal image and to give up your life to forward his goals; will never acknowledge your efforts or devotion. even if you were changed beyond recognition to fit his ideal partner in both crime and love his damned tyranny knows no end

#homestuck #doc scratch #lord english #They're toxic doomed yaoi and Hussie was a coward for trying to say otherwise #you know the yaois crazy when he's got DS as his initials and the other guys last name is English #ramblings #actually I think this is why I like ult dirk quite a bit because he's much like Doc but Human and with Feelings

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nekropsii · 1 year

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I'm curious, what's the bigotry you see in the classpect system?/gen

Rage was very specifically made with the Makaras in mind, especially Gamzee, and the symbol is just Juggalo paint. Gamzee's religious obsession to Insane Clown Posse is a racist stereotype against Black men- specifically about their alleged "religious devotion to Hip-Hop/Rap", which was a much more popular myth back during his conception. Rage being fitted for Gamzee specifically is an excuse for Hussie to perpetuate the "Angry, Violent, Unstable, Drug-Addled Black Man" stereotypes as well, alongside several other things. It's all packaged nicely under the label of "Ragebound" to make people not think about that too hard.

Rage as an Aspect can be retrofitted into something that is not a violent Anti-Black stereotype- easily, in my opinion- but as it stands, it's pretty fucking gnarly. I know I have a whole post about the Anti-Blackness stored in the Makaras somewhere, but it's basically all of the first negative stereotypes you can think of and then some, and Rage is a vessel to perpetuate it in a way that you can brush under the rug if you're thinking of the characters and lore from an ignorant and purely Watsonian standpoint.

#this is why you do not listen to hussies grandiose rambles about the metatextual meaning behind what characters are doing and why #she is probably covering her ass. theres always a much more simple reason... and its always much more damning #homestuck #homestuck meta #homestuck analysis #homestuck classpect #classpecting #rage aspect #gamzee makara #kurloz makara #rage.pdf #gamzee.pdf #nekro.pdf #nekro.sms

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obscenicon · 2 months

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why do homestuck fans struggle so much with the very basic storytelling premise that some characters are minor and only exist to serve a specific purpose and then fade into irrelevancy. genuine question

ive seen many people complain that hussie was "biased" towards vriska or karkat or terezi because they... got more screentime and narrative focus than nepeta or feferi or eridan? yk, characters that pretty much just existed to do one thing and then die? because they were side characters and not main ones?

i get that these characters interest people and have layers that can be fun to pick at despite their incredibly limited screentime. but what i dont get is people arguing that fucking nepeta shouldve had equal or greater screentime to karkat or vriska.

characters are tools to tell a story. they are not independent real living people who all deserve to have equal weight and development. sometimes all theyre there for is to push the story forward in a handful of ways and then die. thats literally just how characters work

#also yall realize that homestuck would be. Bad. if nepeta or eridan had the same screentime as a main character #homestuck is already bloated and if fucking equius became a main character it would be even worse #this is why fanfiction is awesome #you can write your own version of what homestuck would be like if that happened #without complaining that hussie didnt further convolute their already deeply convoluted story to push a minor character to the forefront #wa wa wa #🍔

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gardengnosticator · 5 months

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the best way to approach composing critical analysis of homestuck is not to ask yourself "what does this part of the story contribute to the narrative?" but "would 2009, somethingawful forum crawler andrew hussie find this part of the story funny?"

#“why does the comic make such cruel jokes about fat vriska?” because hussie finds mockery of fat people funny

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adrianasunderworld · 2 years

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In the Headmistress Rosehearts au, she has done many awful things to Yuu and the students ranging from mean and uncalled for to down right cruel and inhumane. As far as a Miss Yuu is concerned, I feel like we overlook how judgemental Mrs. Rosehearts could be to her. All she would see is the only girl, surrounded by boys, with a house all to herself, and assume some funny business is going on. There's a good chance she'd slut shame the hell out of Yuu. Whether or not Yuu has any relationships to any of the students is irrelevant. Mrs. Rosehearts won't hear of it and places all these extra strict rules onto Yuu. Guests are prohibited at Ramshackle. Yuu is not allowed to be alone with anyone anywhere, she must always be in at least groups of three or with a staff member. A dress code specifically for her. One time Mrs. Rosehearts caught Malleus and Yuu outside the dorm late at night for one of their night talks and immediately jumped to them meeting to hook up. Riddle is not allowed to hang out with her anymore because, "she's one of those girls."

#twisted wonderland #miss yuu #twst yuu #headmistress rosehearts au #idk why i just feel like she'd unironically call yuu a hussy

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vliezy · 9 days

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Logical brain: you dont have any connections in hollywood, you cant script write, you can barely finish watching most tv shows...

Unlogical brain: haha homestuck screenplay go brr

#why am i like this #what am i doing #homestuck #andrew hussie #screenplay #writing #scriptwriting #netflix adaptation #animated series #hivebent #pesterquest #friendsim #homestuck 2 #homestuck epilogues

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spiderbitesandvampirevenom · 1 month

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cant believe im watching people muckraking allison fucking bechdel over a dumbass tumblr poll about whether her or hussie wrote better queer media. you people will start flame wars over anything. especially when you're trying to say she's less problematic than Andrew Motherfucking Hussie. what planet am I on did we all forget like everything hussie has done like. ever

#spinning my web #like holy fuck lmao #this just in: allison bechdel said something stupid 7 years ago #she also works with trans activists *now* so...#do we wanna start pulling out the hussie receipts?#to be clear: i dont give a shit #bechdel is just some gal. hussie is just some person.#why are you guys actually getting up in arms over this

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fasttiger · 2 years

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homestuck book signed by Andrew Hussie found at my local used book store

#homestuck #andrew hussie #why did I find this and why did I recognize it immediately lmao

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maretriarch · 8 months

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Ive said it before but I'll stop saying it when I stop being mad about it but the fact that there's no homestuck anime figures is a crime against The Grind and i want to go to hussies house and bang on his windows yelling WHY DO YOU HATE MONEY until he shoves a vriska figure out the mail slot to get me to go away

#every goddamn ham and egger anime with 400 fans can shit out 20 figs per year but hussie had to burn his ip with the viz merger or whatever #multiple years james roach has posted about like getting fans to put terezi as a write in candidate for a nendoroid figure like staff knows #i know hussie hates homestuck and rightfully so but like doesnt he want to leave money for loved ones when he dies or smth why doesnt he #just milk it for all its worth with merch do it godzilla make the people happy

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planet4546b · 11 months

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not to post about homestuck in 2023 but got to the act 5 eps of homestuck made this world and good fucking lord is the conversation about vriska so fucking insane in retrospect. heated high stakes fandom debate about if a character is objectively moral when the character in question is a fucking 13 year old girl who is actively being manipulated by an adult. why was there a question about this

#pers #homestuck #<- jic anyone needs it for blacklist!! i wont be posting like. A lot but this podcast is so good #but like. WHY WAS THERE ANY QUESTION.......#its so vile that like hs is so concerned with the internet and the types of interactions people have online #and doc scratch isnt considered in that framework when he is an adult manipulating multiple children. like #instead hussie just talks about how hes an evil author or whatever. WHAT!!!!#also i dont remember if the trolls are 13 or 16 at the start and i dont care enough to check. im pretty sure 13??

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