cant keep their quadrants straight

Big ass homestuck rant

Oof I'm gonna get some thoughts about homestuck and the epilogue out. At this point, homestuck is no longer something with a heart and soul, and no longer has writers and artists that actually care about it. All it is now is a political statement at best, and a cashcow at worst. Hussie(if he's still even involved) and his team of 'writers' are just beating a dead fucking horse (get it? Horse?). The fandom is basically non existent so I don't really know who they're writing for? But at some point in the main comic hussie started to pander and appeal to the Tumblr crowd rather than writing what he wanted to write. And that's still happening. The problem with that being that Tumblr sucks, no one is ever satisfied and you get called out for small mistakes. It's okay to write problematic things! It's okay to write what you want, especially if it progresses a story! I'm not personally a fan of shock value stuff, I like wholesome things, but it's so easy to avoid media. You don't need to harass the writers into writing the story YOU want. We've seen this with Steven universe and I guess y'all don't learn? Anyway back to the point. Hussie doesn't care anymore, its obvious. And that's totally okay! People are allowed to fall out of love with their work and its okay. But like, I think he's a bit susceptible to pressure and he feels like he needs to pass homestuck on to other people to keep it alive, but all that is happening is killing and ruining it. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain, ya know? Like, homestuck was an amazing and progressive piece of art in the time that it was written, but the world has moved on. Homestuck could have absolutely been part of the zeitgheist and could have been a pretty memorable thing but people just keep adding on to it and calling it canon? And even adding to it only to call it non canon? Like, people need to leave homestuck alone, it deserves a heroic death.

Okay now I'm gonna say some personal stuff. I stopped caring about hs when sollux left. I know ur like "why, he's just a character? He's not even important?" And like, he was tho? Like yes, I'm biased because he's my fav but also he was so important? He was the one who coded the trolls session, he died a bunch of times to progress said session, he pushed the meteor so that the game could be completed, he had excellent dialogue with the other characters and amazing chemistry with aradia and karkat and I feel all of that was thrown away. So much could have been done with him(and aradia, I'm still salty that she got the short end of the stick?). Could you imagine the kind of interactions he could have had on the meteor with the meteor crew? Also I'm never going to get over the fact that solkat isn't canon. Half of that being that I like the ship and half for actual good reasons. Let me elaborate. Sollux and karkat had the best chemistry, their dialogue was engaging and funny and it was very evident by their speech and actions that they care about eachother, not to mention their pitch-borderlining-on-red-borderlining-on-pale flirting. Plus with sollux's thing with duality and karkats general detachment from the quadrant system they could have worked so well for eachother but karkat never mentioned or thought about or even tried to message sollux ever? He cried over his dead body like twice and dragged him all over the meteor while he was unconscious because he didn't want gamzee to kill him? I could go on about the fandoms mistreatment of gam but I won't because it's been done to death and also this is about sollux right now. He's the only redeemable male character tbh, he just wanted to chill. Oof anyway, this post is long and I'm emotionally tired. If anyone reads this, I'm not mad. I'm not angry, or petty, or salty. I'm just sad, disheartened, and disappointed. Hs was such a huge part of my life, and was a massive influence on my development as a person, it shaped me as an artist, and it taught me how to write and develop a good and solid character. I'm so sad to see it in this state; a mere shadow of its former glory.

I know you're super into davekat but do you ship solkat in anyway? i think its super cute in any romance :0

Let me be real with you dear anon, solkat is probably my 3rd fave homestuck ship, and is probably the one I’ve had the longest? Like there’s the fact Sollux and Dave have a similar dialogue style with KK because they are both snarky assholes but there’s also the fact that after rereading their convos a couple weeks ago and with our new understanding of black romance, Sollux and Kk where def on a trajectory towards that quadrant before the game happened, like jfc Sollux sent KK a virus that knowingly would destroy his comp and just fuck his shit up in hopes of impressing his friend with his mad coding skills which he KNOWS this friend lacks but won’t admit to. (And then freaked out and felt horrible about it cause he knew he went too far and wasn’t ok with the implications he could have seriously hurt kk) Like goddamn that is black romance gold. Not to mention Kk’s repeated concern about whether he’s gone too far in his ranting and asking if they’re still friends, which is still so cute. And that’s just Canon speculation, I have a lot of feelings concerning the fact that Sollux would probably be one of the trolls best equipped to handle Karkat’s non-quadrant sexuality due to his own rapid vacillation of emotions and feelings, like they would both bitch constantly about what kinds of messes they are but as far as them switching consistently i think Sollux could roll with the punches fairly well even though it might take sifting through some massive drama first. It would honestly be hilarious knowing Karkat he’d probably build up his And Sollux as the perfect spades only for Sollux to show some emotional vulnerability and boom bam karkats getting them pale feels on. There’s also the fact they are both mutants but more importantly they are both mutants on the opposite spectrums of hopefulness? Like KK deals with his mutation by fantasizing about being so good the authority wouldn’t even care and by trying to climb some self appointed ladder of importance while Sollux is the doom guy. Like it was never really broached upon but I don’t think Sollux has a lot of thoughts about the future because he’s already asserted it won’t be anything good for him. He doesn’t try to fight the system or prove anything to anyone he just does what he’s good at in hopes of earning some bragging points. And I think that’s a really interesting detail of how their dynamic would maybe play out. That said idk if I actually see it as a sustaining relationship either? The thing about Sollux is when it comes to relationships he might give up too easily? Not because he doesn’t care but just because it’s easier to accept the relationship is doomed than to try tooth and nail for it to last only a little bit longer. I mean Aradias demeanor changed after her death and Sollux’ response was to try to move on from it and act like he doesn’t care, which was proven to not be the case when she blew up and he honestly cried. But yeah solkat is a goddamn good ship anon thank you for the ask.