i dont remember where i heard it now but there's this mantra of "there are no good fandoms, only good friends". i hold it very dear. but if you're young, its hard to tell the difference
yugioh is an incredible game bc itll be like "this is the eviscerator dragon, it has 8k attack and goes back in time and kills your opponents parents, its worthless" but also "this is a funny cat that says meow and searches your deck and it shut down the game for 5 years"
we should all recognize "this is not a political game" as a dogwhistle, a marketing phrase to let the gamers know "its okay to buy this one, we wont challenge your worldview with this one"
i hate having to specify that i like homestuck (the webcomic that in practice very few people like) and not homestuck (the collective hallucination that most who claim to like homestuck actually like)
"this looks like an NFT" is such an unconscionably terrible thing to say about art people cared about making btw like. its both horrifically mean and also usually wrong, exposing both needless cruelty and art illiteracy
letting hbomberguy join my game development studio and every time he suggests "make this cutscene a gameplay sequence" without reasonably weighing the labor necessary to do so i turn on the shock collar
the effects homestuck has had on our world and the ideas it is allowed to manifest are so arcane that in 200 years it will be a field of study akin to economics, looking for patterns in data that match against the core text of the world
the homestuck epilogues dying on the hill of "none of these characters are actually friends beyond their capacity to also be romantic interests" was a fucking hate crime
thinkin about how homestuck sets rose up as a witch and jade as a seer, but then jade is the witch class and rose is the seer class.
"what else can you say about rose/jade"
nothing. ive tricked you
are we supposed to be rooting for the viewer in this image? hey, real quick, are we supposed to be rooting for the viewer in this one- hey, this is important, stop looking vacantly into the upper right, i know its hard with live2d but- its really important, are we supposed to be-
twitter is tumblr 5 years ago and the fact that theres a thread going around thats both memeufacturing AND the human pet guy discussing death of the author is like. you could not express this in a more hamhanded way
i used to say this about kinnie shit all the time and now i gotta say it about comfort characters too dont let your identity get wrapped in something you do not have tangible control over. at best, youre setting yourself up to be easily manipulated
homestuck dot com has only existed for 2 years and its fully broken counltess times and its only art like 33% of the time, dont trust capitalists to preserve art
homestuck fans have been blowing memes like goncharov out of the fucking water when it comes to getting deeply invested in shit that they made up and isnt real for decades now
its weird how often homestuck will present a system of identification with the ideal interaction being "break this system over your fucking knee" and fandoms are just like "so thats the system huh, better engage with it as intended"
extremely fucking funny to have homestuck trend for the first time in recent memory and its this
homestucks good. youre correct that you dodged a bullet
i literally spent like. 2 hours trying to explain to someone that equius dying is fine because 1. death means something different to the narrative of homestuck than it does in other stories and 2. he is a tertiary character
people are always theorizing about "what trolls are like" but like
GG: so you are like bugs, like bees or ants or such, but with horns
GA: I Guess So
is a real exchange from the comic
i think that if hussie really wants canon to be fake then wp should produce homestuck comics other than homestuck^2, with as few strings attached as possible. maybe like. hire out artists and writers to do short oneoff comics that are arbitrarily canon or not. call it "paradox sp
epilogues fans are always so eager to drop the "you just didnt get it" line, like. no i got it it just sucks and is stupid. its like a magician shitting on the stage and wiping their ass with the rabbit in the hat at a child's birthday party
season 5 of breaking bad takes place in 2010. with this knowledge, i am proposing an edit to the tv show where the shot where walter jr answers the phone from walt at school, he is wearing a homestuck shirt.
the wisest shit anyone ever said was "there are no good fandoms, only good friends", think about that shit while youre wishing for homestuck renaissance or home22tuck or whatever you want to call it
a lot of my core friend group - the ones i talk to every day, the ones i trust most of all - share almost none of my interests. they can engage with me about it, sure, but it's not like everyone i talk to is as insane about homestuck as i am. but we're still friends.
heres my hottest take: despite the questionably-handled presence of motherhood as an embedded theme, homestuck does not actually have a single fucking mom friend in it, and the closest to actually achieving mom friend-hood is karkat
bitches will be like "i like tomboys" and the tomboy in question is a feminine anime girl, but with chin length hair and tsurime eyes and if youre lucky, a twentieth of a personality trait on a good day
legitimately want to see validate reach their stretch goals not just bc they deserve it but i also want to see what a fishing minigame looks like in renpy
she ra and steven universe ending right as homestuck rears back up is so funny bc the same thing happened with gravity falls and also steven universe again
no cartoon can live while homestuck survives and homestuck cannot survive while cartoons live
i think vriska deserves the spamton treatment. no more drama. no more cycles of violence. no more discourse. just goofs and gags and being a general nuisance. put her in a terrarium with some enrichment and we can call it a day
man ive been compressing my fuckin dread about dirks pesterquest route but i really hope its just "hang out with dirk" and not fucking. ultdirk horse shit
how come so many aranea fans are like "actually yes her being a bookworm blabbermouth nerd was the ideal state, and her going apeshit was just a weird anomaly in her character" when her going apeshit is what makes her anything at all
for real cannot recommend krita enough, like. it's free, its open source, its animation tools get better every day also they said nfts will forever be off the table explicitly.
it's not like im devoid of friends in fandom, either - there's tons of people i trust and have fun with like friends, but if youre expecting shared fandom to be a replacement for shared friendship, of course youre going to have this problem. because it just cant bear that weight.
thinking about trans girls vriska and roxy as parallels to each other, a thief of light absorbing this horrible idea of femininity from shitty pir8 romance novels and a rogue of void building her idea of womanhood from nothing other than herself
lin manuel miranda used his image to support promesa, a bill that resulted in over 200 public schools closing in puerto rico under the guidance of us-appointed members calling for budget restraints also he rhymed island with island 3 times in a row on the moana soundtrack
i held my tongue long enough, teens online being anti-pedophilia and grown men being white nationalists arent even remotely comparable and its worth asking what people making this comparison gain from it
not doing cherubs for pesterquest is absolutely a missed opportunity. like, mspar's friendship thing with callie's absolute adoration for everything, and like. caliborn in general? its an act of homophobia
checking out of the iconic wlw ships tournament because vrisrezi and pearlina lost to fucking sam/carly from icarly and cait/vi from arcane.
this is literally like my 9/11. dont hmu
growing out of this mindset over the last 10 years from teenagerhood to young adulthood to just normal adulthood has been successful largely because i stopped caring about shared interests - and shared identity, but thats a whole other matter - as a basis for friendship