Tag: homestuck

classesandaspects:

sepulchritude:

I figured out the difference between the life and doom aspects:

two players encounter a tall fence that says “KEEP OUT”

the life player says “fuck you” and starts to climb the fence

the doom player waits until life is near the top and then says “dude, the gate is unlocked”

#AKA life hates restrictions and defies them but doom accepts restrictions and works within them #and they’re both little shits

tags from zenosanalytic.tumblr.com

#sepulchritude#Homestuck#Homestuck Aspects#Life Aspect#Doom Aspect#Good Thoughts#though I don’t think climbing the fence is the best example#climbing the fence requires accepting the fence and playing by its rules#that’s not what we see Feferi and Meenah do#they identify an obstacle then look for a way to bypass it completely#Stymied by The Game Fef goes outside it and cuts a deal with the HTs to preserve a chance for victory beyond life#facing Total Erasure Meenah exploits a glitch The Tumor to preserve existence beyond the terms of The Game#and both repurpose Death into a tool of preserving Life in the process#Jane’s a bit of a combo breaker here but I think that’s because:#1)The B2 stuff is just generally less developed attended and well put together than previous stuff#which may in part be thematic given what that bit of the story is about#and her story in particular got hit bad with this as AH’s interest gravitated more towards Roxy and Dirk#which isn’t to say Jake got off better; just that Jane was set up to be the main POVchar then abandoned#the story was never interested in Jake beyond a supporting character/plot device#and 2)Condy took a much firmer and more smothering hand in her life than in Fef’s or Beforan!Fef in Meenah’s#Jane didn’t want to break out of The System she wanted to take it over and remake it in her image#which makes the whole CrockerMaid thing particularly Ironic#though there are some similarities in Fef’s initial ideas about reforming the Culling system in that#but anyway still Good Thoughts#minitagrambles#zA’s Subrosa Quibblings#Homestuck Role System#appreciative reblogs

the signs as weird shit they did in d&d

aries: broke a temple on the first meet, which later became crucial to defeating one of the major bosses.
taurus: created a small army of tamed animals to fight for them.
gemini: exploited the rules to get a rocket pack for another player.
cancer: tried to boss everyone around but ended up arguing with themselves.
leo: made shipping charts. for everyone. killed wild animals and ate them instead of bothering to buy rations.
virgo: became a vampire. somehow convinced the dm to let them wield a chainsaw.
libra: took lawful neutral to new levels. licked everything as a free action.
scorpio: pushed taurus off a cliff. twice.
sagittarius: used a bow the entire time, even though they didn’t have proficiency with it.
capricorn: fucked around for most of the campaign. somehow became part of the main villain?
aquarius: kept killing all of the npcs, even though they clearly weren’t supposed to.
pisces: had civil conversations with cthulhu.

appl-juice42:

Happy 413.

My comic for the HS fan zine :’) I’ve started loving homestuck when I was the same age as the kids. Over the years I grew older than them, but now that Homestuck’s over, the kids are once again older than me (oh the irony). I’ve had a great time in the fandom, and I’ve met a lot of good people along the way so, thanks Homestuck.

Hope everyone had a good 4/13! Can’t believe Homestuck’s finally over.

(Ps: there’s more down below.)

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orestian:

let’s all just write our political opinions in the form of homestuck fanfiction in chatlog format as trolls with obnoxious typing quirks so it’s impossible to interpret without thorough knowledge of homestuck, SBAHJ, and homestuck fandom lore

deliverusfromsburb:

I quit writing Homestuck meta a long time ago, but I guess
the pre-4/13 fervor is infectious, because this popped into my head and
wouldn’t go away. So here’s some musings on Homestuck, the ending, and its
portrayal (or rather, erasure) of character identity and agency.  

Let’s rewind back several years and a few subsubacts, to the
meteor and battleship crews’ not so triumphant arrival in the combined session.
Two of the kids’ number have been mind-controlled and forced to work for the
Empress. Two have been thrown in prison. One has been banished to the outer
reaches of space. The rest have been divvied up and placed on various Lands,
given different tasks to be completed for the Empress. Even in beating SBURB
and winning the game they have no escape, because she intends to rule the new
universe they create… until it spawns Lord English and is destroyed.

Things look bleak. And things look even bleaker when Game
Over rolls around, and most of the cast gets exterminated. But wait! John
Egbert, Heir of Breath and leader of the Beta session, has gotten his hands on
a miraculous artifact supposedly useful as a weapon against Lord English. He
now has the ability to travel throughout time and space and to change things
that usually cannot be changed. While his friends get wiped out, he fights the
“tyrannous author” figure who has been telling their story wrong and wins.
Surely with his newfound abilities, he will set things right and lead them to
freedom.

Except.  Not really.

Oh sure, John “saves the day”. He uses his retcon abilities
to create a new timeline where everyone lives and wins the game. But is it a
victory? And did everyone really live?

I’m going to argue that the ending of Homestuck is a tragedy
where characters’ identities are frequently ignored or overwritten in order to
serve the utilitarian aims of the narrative (and Skaia). I do not make this
argument believing Hussie intended it. I think the dip in quality and coherency
at the end of Homestuck was the product of an author who was tired of his
project, had lost track of a bunch of plot points and characters, and just
wanted to be finished. But I do think its treatment of identity is drastically
different from the rest of the work and sends some disturbing messages about
how “happy” that ending really is.

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